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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadetree%20Mechanic
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Shadetree Mechanic is a television series that was shown in the USA on TNN (now Paramount Network) for a total of 190 half-hour episodes, over eight seasons from October 4, 1992, to May 14, 2000. During each half-hour episode, Dave Bowman and Sam Memmolo demonstrate automotive repair and maintenance tips for backyard mechanics. Shadetree Mechanic was superseded by Crank and Chrome and Two Guys Garage which appear on SPEED TV and now Motorhead Garage on Velocity. During the mid-1990s, Shadetree Mechanic was also broadcast on some PBS television channels.
Shadetree Mechanic was produced by Cinetel Productions.
See also
Shadetree mechanic
Automotive television series
Spike (TV network) original programming
1990s American television series
1992 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronghold%202
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Stronghold 2 is a real time strategy computer game released in April 2005 in which the player develops a stronghold in the Middle Ages. It is the sequel to Stronghold, released in 2001, also by Firefly Studios.
The game engine was enhanced over the original Stronghold to provide full 3-dimensional graphics. Other changes include new military and peace campaigns and the addition of crime and punishment, allowing players to torture unruly peasants. A number of new characters were also introduced.
On October 5, 2017, Stronghold 2 was re-released digitally on Steam as Stronghold 2: Steam Edition. It is available as a standalone title or as a free upgrade for owners of the Stronghold Collection on Steam. The re-release includes the following new features and improvements: Steam multiplayer, 16:9 Windscreen resolution support, visual enhancements to the in-game textures, 6 new maps, the ability to share and download custom maps through the Steam Workshop, Achievements, and digital versions of the official art book and soundtrack.
Gameplay
In the game, players take on the role of a lord who rules over a medieval castle. With their available resources, players place buildings or features, including many different kinds of food production, industry, civil, or military buildings and defences. Available peasants automatically choose jobs whenever a building requires one, so player micromanagement is minimal; players mostly set up the various buildings in an efficient way while providing safety for their peasants. Military units are directly controlled individually or in groups, sometimes quite large with sieges or battles involving many hundreds on each side. One addition to the original Stronghold is the inclusion of estates that players can "buy" with their accumulated honor (gained by popularity, holding feasts, dances, jousting, etc.). Estates are semi-independent villages (without castle fortifications) that produce their own goods that owners can send via cart to their castle or allies.
The inclusion of fully 3D-rendered graphics allowed Stronghold 2 to include tower interiors as battlegrounds for units, and the ability to go observe castle inhabitants very closely, which is useful for the new features of waste and rat management. As in the original Stronghold, players can choose from several different play modes: Kingmaker, Siege, War Campaign, Peace Campaign, Freeplay, Custom scenario, and Multiplayer
From May 2014, the original version's multiplayer is no longer supported due to GameSpy shutting down their online servers however the 2017 re-release on Steam has full multiplayer support via Steam's online servers.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
According to Edge, Stronghold 2 sold at least 100,000 units in the U.S., but was beaten by its predecessor's 220,000 sales in the region. Total US sales of Stronghold games released during the 2000s reached 590,000 units by August
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleTap
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StyleTap is a Palm OS simulator/compatibility layer/emulator for the Windows Mobile/Windows CE, Symbian OS, iOS and Android operating systems. It emulates Palm OS 5.2 and earlier. Applications written for Palm OS show up as native programs and operate in the same way.
StyleTap works on the following platforms:
Windows Mobile 6 Professional
Windows Mobile 6 Standard
Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC
Windows Mobile 5 for Smartphone
Pocket PC 2003SE (including full VGA support)
Pocket PC 2003
Pocket PC 2002
Pocket PC 2000
Various OEM customizations of Windows CE 4.2 and later
Symbian S60v3
Symbian S60v5
Symbian^3
Symbian Anna
Symbian Belle (buggy - opening certain menus crashes the program)
iOS v3.x.x firmware/iOS4 (requires Cydia)
Android
See also
Windows Mobile
Symbian
Palm OS
Palm OS Emulator
iOS
Android
References
External links
StyleTap
PHEM: Palm Hardware Emulator, a port of POSE to Android
PHEM on Google Play
Pocket PC software
Symbian software
Windows Mobile Standard software
Palm OS
Android emulation software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Silent
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Team Silent was a development team within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (KCET), responsible for the first four games in the Silent Hill franchise by Konami released from 1999 to 2004. Later titles were developed by non-Japanese companies such as Climax Studios, Double Helix Games and Vatra Games. According to composer Akira Yamaoka, Team Silent consisted of staff members that had failed at other projects and originally intended to leave the company before the first Silent Hill game turned out to be a success. According to a Silent Hill: Homecoming artist, Team Silent was ultimately disbanded by Konami itself, because Konami wanted Western developers to make the games. KCET was merged into the parent company in April 2005.
Key members of Team Silent include:
Keiichiro Toyama: Director of Silent Hill. Left to join Japan Studio (Project Siren) in 1999 and created the Siren series of games.
Masashi Tsuboyama: Background designer of Silent Hill, director of Silent Hill 2, art director of Silent Hill 4: The Room. Left Konami to join Good-Feel.
Kazuhide Nakazawa: Director of Silent Hill 3. He later joined Kojima Productions.
Suguru Murakoshi: Drama director of Silent Hill 2, director and scenario writer of Silent Hill 4: The Room. He later joined Kojima Productions.
Hiroyuki Owaku: Scenario writer of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3, co-writer for Silent Hill.
Masahiro Ito: Background and creature designer of Silent Hill, art director and creature designer of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3.
Akira Yamaoka: Series sound director; producer of Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4: The Room. Left Konami to join Grasshopper Manufacture.
Gozo Kitao: Executive producer of Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3.
Akihiro Imamura: Lead programmer of Silent Hill, producer of Silent Hill 2, sub-producer of Silent Hill 4: The Room.
Takayoshi Sato: CGI Creator of Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2. Left to join Virtual Heroes, Inc., and later joined Nintendo in 2012 as a visual producer.
Akira Yamaoka played a major role in the Silent Hill film adaptation by overseeing and approving specific aspects of the movie throughout its production. Some of the original members (as led by Toyama, director of the first Silent Hill game) went on to create the Siren series, which has a similar atmosphere to the Silent Hill franchise.
In 2017, when asked if Team Silent would ever reunite, Yamaoka said he was not against the idea, but also said that "it's hard to say because everyone has evolved, and maybe the mindset has changed as well. Also, the technology and the games industry as a whole has changed as well. Even if we got back together I'm not even sure we could do something great so it's very hard to say at the moment".
References
Konami
Silent Hill
Japanese companies established in 1996
Japanese companies disestablished in 2005
Video game companies established in 1996
Video game companies disestablished in 2005
Video game development companies
Defunct video game compan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Transformers%20%28TV%20series%29%20characters
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This is a list of characters from The Transformers television series.
Autobots
The Autobots (also known as Cybertrons in Japan) are the heroes in the Transformers toyline and related spin-off comics and cartoons. Their main leader is Optimus Prime, but other "Primes" have also commanded the Autobots such as Rodimus Prime. They are constantly at war with the Decepticons. In the U.S. cartoon line, the Autobots were the descendants of a line of robots created as consumer goods by the Quintessons; the Decepticons, are descended instead from robots designed as military hardware.
Other terms for the Autobots are Autorobot (in Italy), Autoboterna (in Sweden), Kibery (in Ukraine), and Robotrikim (in Israel).
Main characters
Autobot Cars
Mini-Bots
Other Autobots
Dinobots
The Dinobots are a faction of Autobots who have dinosaur alternate modes. The first three were created in "S.O.S. Dinobots" while the later two were created in "War of the Dinobots". In the Transformers cartoon series Power of the Primes, they merge into the combiner Volcanicus.
Aerialbots
The Aerialbots are a faction of Autobots who were created from Earth-style aircraft by Vector Sigma following Alpha Trion's sacrifice. They are the Autobots' first combiners faction.
Protectobots
The Protectobots are an Autobot faction and the second of their combiner faction who are charged with protecting the humans, rescuing them, and enforcing the law.
Female Autobots
There are some Female Autobots in the group.
Technobots
The Technobots are an Autobot faction and the third combiner group. They were created by Grimlock at the time he had an intelligence boost and they act like scientists.
Throttlebots
The Throttlebots are an Autobot faction who are known for their speed and agility.
Autobot Targetmasters
The Targetmasters are Transformers who can transform into Weapons. The ones on the Autobots' side were created by the Nebulans that they befriended.
Autobot Headmasters
The Headmasters are transformers who are partnered with Nebulons in special robot suits that enable them to transform into the head of the Autobot.
Clonebots
The Clonebots are the Autobot's version of the Clonecons.
Junkions
The Junkions are an Autobot tribe race of scrap metal robots who come from the planet of the same name.
Decepticons
The Decepticons (known as Destrons or on occasion Deathtrons in Japan) are the enemies of the Autobots, and the villains in the fictional universe of the movie and cartoon Transformers toyline and related spin-off comics and cartoons. Their best known leader is Megatron.
Other terms for the Decepticons are Décepticans (in France), Distructor (in Italy), Bedragarna (in Sweden), Bedragoner (in Denmark), Shakranikim (in Israel) and Álca (in Hungary).
Main characters
Insecticons
The Insecticons are a race of Cybertronians who can turn into insects. They possess the ability to eat any matter to power themselves, create clones, sport weather-controlling abilities, and make use of cere
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletoon%20Retro
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Teletoon Retro was a Canadian specialty channel that was owned by Corus Entertainment that was based on the Teletoon programming block. The service was dedicated to broadcasting classic animated television programs such as The Raccoons as well as some live-action series.
Along with its French-language sister channel Télétoon Rétro, it was available in over nine million Canadian households as of 2013; together it had the most subscribers among the digital Canadian specialty channels.
Teletoon Retro was shut down on September 1, 2015, with Cartoon Network inheriting the service's CRTC license and some of its carriage agreements. That channel would later relaunch under Cartoon Network's own classic animation brand Boomerang in 2023.
History
Teletoon Retro started as a programming block on Teletoon. On November 24, 2000, Teletoon Canada was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a national English language category 2 specialty channel named Teletoon Retro. The channel never made it to air.
Plans to launch the channel arose again in 2005, when on October 25, Teletoon Canada was given approval again to launch Teletoon Retro. The channel was launched at 6:00 PM EST on October 1, 2007, across all major television providers with its very first program being The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show. To coincide with the channel's launch, Teletoon briefly relaunched the Retro programming block. A French language counterpart, titled Télétoon Rétro, which had been given approval to be launched at the same time as Teletoon Retro, was launched on September 4, 2008.
On February 4, 2013, the channel underwent a refresh with new graphics and bumpers created by John Lee, retiring the "television sets" era from 2009 to 2013. In addition, the channel also underwent a new logo, and the male announcer (still used on its parent network) was retired and replaced with a female announcer.
On March 4, 2013, Corus Entertainment announced that it would acquire Astral Media's 50% ownership interest in Teletoon Canada (owner of Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro, and Cartoon Network), along with several other properties. The purchase was in relation to Bell Media's pending takeover of Astral (which had earlier been rejected by the CRTC in October 2012, but was restructured to allow the sale of certain Astral Media properties in order to allow the purchase to clear regulatory hurdles). Corus's purchase was cleared by the Competition Bureau two weeks later on March 18.
On December 20, 2013, the CRTC approved Corus's full ownership of Teletoon Canada and it was purchased by Corus on January 1, 2014. The channel continues to be owned by Teletoon Canada, now wholly owned by Corus Entertainment under its Corus Kids division.
On March 1, 2014, a high definition simulcast of the channel was launched. The only two providers to carry it were Cogeco and Bell Fibe TV. Shaw Direct, SaskTel, Bell MTS, and Telus Optik
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20in%20Canada
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Statistics Canada conducts a national census of population and census of agriculture every five years and releases the data with a two-year lag.
The Census of Population provides demographic and statistical data that is used to plan public services such as health care, education, and transportation; determine federal transfer payments; and determine the number of Members of Parliament for each province and territory. The Census of Population is the primary source of sociodemographic data for specific population groups, such as lone-parent families, Indigenous peoples, immigrants, seniors and language groups. Data from the census is also used to assess the economic state of the country, including the economic conditions of immigrants over time, and labour market activity of communities and specific populations. Census data are also leveraged to develop socioeconomic status indicators in support of analysis of various impacts on education achievement and outcomes. At a sub-national level, two provinces (Alberta and Saskatchewan) and two territories (Nunavut and Yukon) have legislation that allows local governments to conduct their own municipal censuses.
The Census of Population gathers important data on a variety of topics, including:
Indigenous peoples
Education, training and learning
Ethnic diversity and immigration
Families, households and housing
Income, pensions, spending and wealth
Labour
Languages
Population and demography
There have been questions about religion in Canada in the national census since 1871. In 1951, when the frequency of conducting the national census changed from being collected every 10 years to every 5 years, questions about religion were still asked only every 10 years.
Questions on religion were included in the last census, which occurred in 2021, but it will not be included in the 2026 census as questions on religion are included in census years that end in “1”.
The census typically undercounts the population by ~2–4% because people are not at home, have trouble understanding the census, or census enumerators are unable to find the people.
History
The first census in what is now Canada took place in New France in 1666, under the direction of Intendant Jean Talon. The census noted the age, sex, marital status and occupation of 3,215 inhabitants.
French-controlled Acadia also took their own census from 1671 to 1755.
It is notable that section 8 of the Constitution Act, 1867 mandates that a national census must be done every 10 years, on years ending in 1 (1871, 1881, 1891, etc.). However, the section has been interpreted to mean that a census cannot be conducted beyond that 10-year period, but this does not indicate that a census cannot be conducted more regularly—such as every 5 years, as is now required of Statistics Canada by the Statistics Act.
The first national census of Canada was taken in 1871, as required by section 8 of the then British North America Act, 1867 (now the Constitution Act, 1867
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatholicTV
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The CatholicTV Network, commonly known as CatholicTV, is a Catholic television network based in Watertown, Massachusetts. CatholicTV first launched locally in Boston in 1955, making it the oldest Catholic television network in the United States. Today, it is distributed on cable television systems, internet television, and broadcast stations in sixteen U.S. states and the U.S. Virgin Islands and now worldwide.
CatholicTV broadcasts programming relevant to Catholic viewers, including live religious services, talk shows, devotional programs, educational series, entertainment, and children's programs. The network regularly presents coverage of liturgies and special events at the Vatican and during papal journeys.
As of 2016, the president of the CatholicTV Network is Bishop Robert P. Reed.
History
The first program of the Catholic Television Center of the Archdiocese of Boston was produced on the morning of January 1, 1955, when Archbishop Richard J. Cushing celebrated a Pontifical Low Mass in studios at 25 Granby Street near Kenmore Square in Boston. From that studio, equipped with three RCA TK31 cameras, the Center produced live and tape-recorded programs, and it purchased time from local commercial television stations to air the Sunday Mass each week. Live programs were transmitted to the broadcasting stations through a leased-line telephone connection. In 1961 the Catholic Television Center's studios became the temporary home of educational broadcaster WGBH-TV when that station's studios were destroyed in a fire.
In 1957 the Catholic Television Center acquired a license to operate its own broadcasting station in Boston on channel 38 in the new UHF range of television channels. The Center's station, WIHS-TV, went into service on October 12, 1964, with transmitting facilities on the Prudential Tower in Boston. It was the first full-time Catholic television station in the world employing a general entertainment format along with the daily and Sunday Mass. On July 27, 1966, Storer Broadcasting acquired WIHS for $2,276,513.16 and renamed it as WSBK-TV.
With funds from the station sale, the Catholic Television Center built an Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) system for distributing programs to Catholic schools, and it continued to produce live broadcasts of the Sunday Mass under the name Boston Catholic Television (BCTV). In 1970 BCTV moved into leased studios at 55 Chapel Street in Newton, Massachusetts.
In April 1983 BCTV began offering programs to home viewers several hours a day through its own channel carried by cable television providers, at first in Massachusetts, then elsewhere in New England, and also as far away as Montreal, Quebec. In addition to the Sunday Mass broadcast on conventional (over-the-air) television, weekday Masses were also presented Monday to Friday, originating from a chapel in the Archbishop's residence in Brighton.
In 2006 the channel adopted the brand name CatholicTV and the slogan America's Cath
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encash%20Network%20Service
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Encash Network Services, or ENS, is an independent switch network in the Philippines. It initially connected the ATMs of four rural banks. In its 30 months of operation as of May 2010, this network eventually expanded to more than 101 ATMs, targeting all rural banks and cooperatives. ENS is a member of MegaLink, which is interconnected with the other Philippine interbank networks, i.e. BancNet and Expressnet.
ENS was expected to provide a low-cost solution for banks and cooperatives who wish to implement ATM services compliant with global standards but cannot afford the costs of connecting to the three main networks.
ENS operates a switch-in-front architecture, connected to appropriate transaction authorization entities. These were to include Member Bank CA/SA systems, electronic money/wallet systems, and Visa or Mastercard. The switch network is geared toward accepting transactions using other front-end devices, e.g., POS. Thus, ENS presents both rural and commercial bank ATM cardholders with more access to ATMs.
On June 8, 2010, ATM withdrawals for the year reached one million, while ENCASH ATMs dispensed more than Php 3 Billion.
ENS launched the ATM portion of its interbank network on November 16, 2007.
See also
BancNet
MegaLink
Expressnet
Nationlink
ATM usage fees
References
External links
Encash Network Services website
Philippine Daily Inquirer article on the launch of the Encash Network Service
Interbank networks
Financial services companies of the Philippines
Companies based in Makati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newisys
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Newisys was an American technology company. At various times it sold computers for data centers (known as servers), and computer data storage products.
It operated as a subsidiary of Sanmina Corporation since 2004.
History
Newisys was founded in July 2000 by Claymon A. Cipione and Phillip Doyce Hester, both from IBM. It was originally based in Austin, Texas.
By the end of 2000, almost $28 million in venture capital funding was obtained from New Enterprise Associates, Austin Ventures, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
By 2002, they gave demonstrations of server using 64-bit AMD processors.
Another round of about $23 million funding was announced in November 2002, increased to $25 million in February 2003.
In July 2003, Sanmina-SCI (which had been a manufacturing partner) announced it would acquire Newisys for an undisclosed amount.
Newisys became an original design manufacturer for Sanminia.
In 2005, Hester left to become the chief technical officer of AMD until 2008, and Cipione also left to join AMD to become chief information officer.
In August 2005, a network-attached storage server product called the NA-1400 was announced, although shipments were reported to be delayed. It used an XScale 80219 processor from Intel.
In November 2005, Newisys announced an integrated circuit call the AMD Horus, which allowed servers to be built with large numbers of AMD Opteron processors.
In January 2006, the company acquired the block storage division of Adaptec, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In May 2007, the server portion of the company was shut down, leaving storage (developed in Colorado) as the main focus.
Newisys returned to the server market in 2013 by adding Intel based servers into their storage products.
References
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Computer storage companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdev%20Brisbane%20Ferries
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Transdev Brisbane Ferries, formerly Metrolink Queensland and TransdevTSL Brisbane Ferries, was the operator of the CityCat, CityHopper, and Cross River ferry networks on the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from November 2003 until November 2020. The network, operated under contract to the Brisbane City Council, formed part of the Translink integrated public transport scheme.
It was succeeded by RiverCity Ferries, who took over operations from 2020.
History
In August 1991, River Connections took over the operation of Brisbane City Council's fleet of Cityferries. CityCat services began in November 1996 with six vessels, each capable of carrying 149 passengers, with two further vessels added to the fleet in 1998. In December 1998 services east of Norman Park were withdrawn.
In November 2003, Metrolink Queensland (a joint venture between Transdev and Transfield Services) was contracted to operate CityCat and Cityferry services for seven years.
In 2004, when Translink was established, the first second generation CityCat (Beenung-urrung) was introduced and passenger numbers increased by 26%. Late 2004 saw the restructuring of the Cityferry network which included more late night services. In response to the 31% increase in demand for CityCat services in 2005, another second generation CityCat (Tunamun) was introduced.
In January 2007, services were reinstated to Apollo Road.
In 2008, Metrolink Queensland was rebranded as TransdevTSL Brisbane Ferries, to align with the TransdevTSL branding of Transdev and Transfield joint ventures across Australia. Also in 2008, three new CityCats (Meeandah, Wilwinpa and Ya-wa-gara) were launched and the Apollo Road wharf was reopened. In 2009 and 2010, three new CityCats (Mahreel, Kuluwin and Gootcha) were added to the fleet. Early 2010 saw the introduction of three express services during morning peak times. The second and third generation vessels have a capacity of 162 passengers.
In November 2010, a new contract for 10 years commenced. In December 2010 the joint venture was dissolved with Transfield Services selling its shares to Transdev.
All services were suspended on 10 January 2011 due to severe weather prior to the 2011 Brisbane floods. While the CityCat and ferry fleet escaped damage by mooring downstream at the Rivergate Marina or Manly harbour, much of the infrastructure was damaged or destroyed by the floods, causing services to be cancelled indefinitely. Partial CityCat and CityFerry services recommenced on 14 February 2011, using fifteen repaired wharves. Six of the remaining wharves opened using rescued and repaired pontoons on 18 April 2011.
In 2010, Transfield sold its 50% share in TransdevTSL, and all TransdevTSL operations including Brisbane Ferries became 100% Transdev owned. In March 2011, Transdev merged with Veolia Transport (parent of Veolia Transport Queensland) to form Veolia Transdev.
The upgraded West End was opened at the end of July 2011. A new terminal at Norths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned%20%28computer%20virus%29
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Stoned is a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the first viruses and is thought to have been written by a student in Wellington, New Zealand. By 1989 it had spread widely in New Zealand and Australia, and variants became very common worldwide in the early 1990s.
A computer infected with the original version had a one in eight probability that the screen would declare: "Your PC is now Stoned!", a phrase found in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks, along with the phrase "Legalise Marijuana". Later variants produced a range of other messages.
Original version
The original "Your PC is now stoned. Legalise Marijuana" was thought to have been written by a student in Wellington, New Zealand.
This initial version appears to have been written by someone with experience only with IBM PC 360KB floppy drives, as it misbehaves on the IBM AT 1.2MB floppy, or on systems with more than 96 files in the root directory. On higher capacity disks, such as 1.2 MB disks, the original boot sector may overwrite a portion of the directory.
The message displays if the boot time was exactly divisible by 8. On many IBM PC clones at the time, boot times could vary, so the message would display randomly (1 time in 8). On some IBM PC compatible machines or on original IBM PC computers, the boot time was constant, so an infected computer would either never display the message or always display the message. An infected computer with a 360K disk and a 20MB or less hard disk, which never displayed the message was one of the first examples of an asymptomatic virus carrier, which would work with no impediment to its function, but which would infect any disks inserted into it.
On hard disks, the original master boot record is moved to cylinder 0, head 0, sector 7. On floppy disks, the original boot sector is moved to cylinder 0, head 1, sector 3, which is the last directory sector on 360 kB disks. The virus will "safely" overwrite the boot sector if the root directory has no more than 96 files.
The PC was typically infected by booting from an infected diskette. Computers, at the time, would default to booting from the A: diskette drive if it had a diskette. The virus was spread when a floppy diskette was accessed with an infected computer. That diskette was now, itself, a source for further spread of the virus. This was much like a recessive gene - difficult to eliminate - because a user could have any number of infected diskettes and yet not have their systems infected with the virus unless they inadvertently boot from an infected diskette. Cleaning the computer without cleaning all diskettes left the user susceptible to a repeat infection. The method also furthered the spread of the virus in that borrowed diskettes, if placed into the system, were now able to carry the virus to a new host.
Variants
The virus image is very easily modified (patched); in particular a person with no know
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx/Pecos
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Oryx/Pecos is a proprietary operating system developed from scratch by Bell Labs beginning in 1978 for the express purpose of running AT&T's large-scale PBX switching equipment. The operating system was first used with AT&T's flagship System 75, and until very recently, was used in all variations up through and including Definity G3 (Generic 3) switches, now manufactured by AT&T/Lucent Technologies spinoff Avaya. The last system based on Oryx/Pecos was the Avaya G3 CSI running release 13.1 Definity software. The formal end of sale was February 5, 2007. Although widely believed to be a Unix-like variant developed directly by Bell Labs, that is not the case, as it is not based on any version of Unix.
Description
Oryx/Pecos consists of a kernel (Oryx), and the associated processes running on top of it (Pecos). The system is named for Pecos Street, which bounds the Westminster, CO campus of then AT&T's Colorado Bell Labs location, while Oryx was the last word alphabetically before OS in the office dictionary and the Oryx was purportedly the origin of the unicorn myth. The system is loosely based on Thoth (developed at the University of Waterloo) and DEMOS (developed at Los Alamos Scientific Labs).
Features normally found in commercial operating systems are not found in Oryx/Pecos. Such features include:
A documented API structure
Dynamic application execution capability where additional applications can be loaded and executed without a need to compile and link them directly to the operating system
A Disk-Operating System compatible with standard file systems used today
Dynamically-linked libraries
Memory management for strong separation of applications and operating system processes
A commercially available development package
There is one historical link between Oryx/Pecos and Unix: the authors of the above article proposed as a future development the implementation of a UNIX execution environment on top of Oryx/Pecos, and in fact, such a project was undertaken at Denver. However, that project never became an official product of AT&T or Lucent, even though it was completed successfully and introduced internally with the "Eli" version of Oryx/Pecos (5th release, or "E" release).
Persons working in large office environments and using AT&T, Lucent Technologies, or Avaya-branded telephones are likely to be using Oxyx-Pecos indirectly, but due to the narrow focus and proprietary nature of the operating system, it remains obscure. In 2005 Avaya discontinued the use of Oryx/Pecos as an operating system in itself, instead porting it to become an application that ran on Linux. The new incarnation is known as Communication Manager. Also in the early 2000s, the Definity One (later IP 600 and the S8100) was an earlier attempt to phase away from the OS. The Definity One ran on Windows NT 4.0 with a Linux emulator that also emulated the Oryx/Pecos system. Allegedly, according to administrators that used that specific system, it was a failure, and the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic%20associative%20memory
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For holographic data storage, holographic associative memory (HAM) is an information storage and retrieval system based on the principles of holography. Holograms are made by using two beams of light, called a "reference beam" and an "object beam". They produce a pattern on the film that contains them both. Afterwards, by reproducing the reference beam, the hologram recreates a visual image of the original object. In theory, one could use the object beam to do the same thing: reproduce the original reference beam. In HAM, the pieces of information act like the two beams. Each can be used to retrieve the other from the pattern. It can be thought of as an artificial neural network which mimics the way the brain uses information. The information is presented in abstract form by a complex vector which may be expressed directly by a waveform possessing frequency and magnitude. This waveform is analogous to electrochemical impulses believed to transmit information between biological neuron cells.
Definition
HAM is part of the family of analog, correlation-based, associative, stimulus-response memories, where information is mapped onto the phase orientation of complex numbers. It can be considered as a complex valued artificial neural network. The holographic associative memory exhibits some remarkable characteristics. Holographs have been shown to be effective for associative memory tasks, generalization, and pattern recognition with changeable attention. Ability of dynamic search localization is central to natural memory. For example, in visual perception, humans always tend to focus on some specific objects in a pattern. Humans can effortlessly change the focus from object to object without requiring relearning. HAM provides a computational model which can mimic this ability by creating representation for focus. At the heart of this new memory lies a novel bi-modal representation of pattern and a hologram-like complex spherical weight state-space. Besides the usual advantages of associative computing, this technique also has excellent potential for fast optical realization because the underlying hyper-spherical computations can be naturally implemented on optical computations.
It is based on principle of information storage in the form of stimulus-response patterns where information is presented by phase angle orientations of complex numbers on a Riemann surface. A very large number of stimulus-response patterns may be superimposed or "enfolded" on a single neural element. Stimulus-response associations may be both encoded and decoded in one non-iterative transformation. The mathematical basis requires no optimization of parameters or error backpropagation, unlike connectionist neural networks. The principal requirement is for stimulus patterns to be made symmetric or orthogonal in the complex domain. HAM typically employs sigmoid pre-processing where raw inputs are orthogonalized and converted to Gaussian distributions.
Principles of operati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20%28computing%29
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Mounting is a process by which a computer's operating system makes files and directories on a storage device (such as hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share) available for users to access via the computer's file system.
In general, the process of mounting comprises the operating system acquiring access to the storage medium; recognizing, reading, and processing file system structure and metadata on it before registering them to the virtual file system (VFS) component.
The location in the VFS to which the newly mounted medium was registered is called a "mount point"; when the mounting process is completed, the user can access files and directories on the medium from there.
An opposite process of mounting is called unmounting, in which the operating system cuts off all user access to files and directories on the mount point, writes the remaining queue of user data to the storage device, refreshes file system metadata, then relinquishes access to the device, making the storage device safe for removal.
Normally, when the computer is shutting down, every mounted storage device will undergo an unmounting process to ensure that all queued data was written to it, and to preserve the integrity of the file system structure on the media.
Overview
A mount point is a location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives. , magnetic media are still the most common and are available as hard disk drives and, less frequently, floppy disks. Before any of them can be used for storage, the means by which information is read and written must be organized and knowledge of this must be available to the operating system. The organization is called a filesystem. Each different filesystem provides the host operating system with metadata so that it knows how to read and write data. When the medium (or media, when the filesystem is a volume filesystem as in RAID arrays) is mounted, these metadata are read by the operating system so that it can use the storage.
Unix-like operating systems often include software and tools that assist in the mounting process and provide it new functionality. Some of these strategies have been coined "auto-mounting" as a reflection of their purpose.
In many situations, file systems other than the root need to be available as soon as the operating system has booted. All Unix-like systems therefore provide a facility for mounting file systems at boot time. System administrators define these file systems in the configuration file fstab (vfstab in Solaris), which also indicates options and mount points. In some situations, there is no need to mount certain file systems at boot time, although their use may be desired thereafter. There are some utilities for Unix-like systems that allow the mounting of predefined file systems upon demand.
Removable media
Removable media have become very common with microcomputer pl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri%20Adelman
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Uri Adelman (; September 3, 1958 – August 5, 2004) was an Israeli writer, musician, composer, computer expert, and professor at Tel Aviv University.
Biography
Adelman was born and raised in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, the 8th generation of a German-Jewish family hailing from Jerusalem. Adelman used the TAU's musicology department where he worked as a setting for his first thriller novel, Concerto for Spy and Orchestra. His second novel, Lost and Found, was a fantasy novel about Ashkenazi moshavnik Mossad agents, who alternated frequenting the Jerusalem Cinematheque with flying secretly to Cyprus. Written using short chapters and clear, direct Hebrew, the novels were bestsellers in Israel, culminating in translations to German, Greek and Japanese. Critics in Israel praised Lost and Found as "the perfect Israeli thriller", and his writing has received favourable comparisons with John Grisham.
In addition to 4 novels, Adelman wrote computer textbooks for the general public. He died from a heart attack in a hotel room in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, where he was writing his next thriller.
Works
Concerto for Spy and Orchestra (Hebrew: קונצ'רטו למרגל ולתזמורת)
Lost and Found (Hebrew: משוואה עם נעלם)
Tropic of Venus (Hebrew: בסימן ונוס)
The Graveyard Shift (Hebrew: שעות מתות)
References
External links
Bio at The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
1958 births
2004 deaths
Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
Israeli male novelists
Israeli male non-fiction writers
Thelma Yellin High School of Arts alumni
Hebrew-language writers
Jewish Israeli writers
20th-century Israeli male writers
21st-century Israeli male writers
20th-century Israeli non-fiction writers
21st-century Israeli non-fiction writers
20th-century Israeli novelists
21st-century Israeli novelists
20th-century Israeli Jews
21st-century Israeli Jews
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20diffraction
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Fiber diffraction is a subarea of scattering, an area in which molecular structure is determined from scattering data (usually of X-rays, electrons or neutrons). In fiber diffraction the scattering pattern does not change, as the sample is rotated about a unique axis (the fiber axis). Such uniaxial symmetry is frequent with filaments or fibers consisting of biological or man-made macromolecules. In crystallography fiber symmetry is an aggravation regarding the determination of crystal structure, because reflexions are smeared and may overlap in the fiber diffraction pattern. Materials science considers fiber symmetry a simplification, because almost the complete obtainable structure information is in a single two-dimensional (2D) diffraction pattern exposed on photographic film or on a 2D detector. 2 instead of 3 co-ordinate directions suffice to describe fiber diffraction.
The ideal fiber pattern exhibits 4-quadrant symmetry. In the ideal pattern the fiber axis is called the meridian, the perpendicular direction is called equator. In case of fiber symmetry, many more reflexions than in single-crystal diffraction show up in the 2D pattern. In fiber patterns these reflexions clearly appear arranged along lines (layer lines) running almost parallel to the equator. Thus, in fiber diffraction the layer line concept of crystallography becomes palpable. Bent layer lines indicate that the pattern must be straightened. Reflexions are labelled by the Miller index hkl, i.e. 3 digits. Reflexions on the i-th layer line share l=i. Reflexions on the meridian are 00l-reflexions. In crystallography artificial fiber diffraction patterns are generated by rotating a single crystal about an axis (rotating crystal method).
Non-ideal fiber patterns are obtained in experiments. They only show mirror symmetry about the meridian. The reason is that the fiber axis and the incident beam (X-rays, electrons, neutrons) cannot be perfectly oriented perpendicular to each other. The corresponding geometric distortion has been extensively studied by Michael Polanyi introducing the concept of Polanyi's sphere (German: "Lagenkugel") intersecting Ewald's sphere. Later Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling have carried out their own geometrical reasoning and presented an approximative equation for the fiber tilt angle β. Analysis starts by mapping the distorted 2D pattern on the representative plane of the fiber. This is the plane that contains the cylinder axis in reciprocal space. In crystallography first an approximation of the mapping into reciprocal space is computed that is refined iteratively. The digital method frequently called Fraser correction starts from the Franklin approximation for the tilt angle β. It eliminates fiber tilt, unwarps the detector image, and corrects the scattering intensity. The correct equation for the determination of β has been presented by Norbert Stribeck.
Historical role
Fibrous materials such as wool or cotton easily form aligned bundles, and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Sultan%20%28shore%20establishment%29
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HMS Sultan is a shore base of the Royal Navy in Gosport, Hampshire, England. It is the primary engineering training establishment for the Royal Navy and home to the Network Rail Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme and the EDF Energy engineering maintenance apprenticeship. It is expected that HMS Sultan will close in the near future, but "no earlier than 2029".
The site was originally RAF Gosport it was then transferred to the Royal Navy during 1945 as HMS Siskin (Hence a nearby school being named Siskin School) it was then renamed HMS Sultan on 1 June 1956 when the airfield side was closed down and a Mechanical Repair Establishment was moved here from the Flathouse area by Portsmouth Dockyard.
A Better Defence Estate, published in November 2016, indicated that the Ministry of Defence intend on disposing of HMS Sultan by 2026. It was proposed that Submarine Engineer Training would move to HM Naval Base Clyde in 2024, Mechanical Engineering Training to HMS Collingwood in 2025 and the Admiralty Interview Board to HM Naval Base Portsmouth in 2026. However, in March 2019 the Ministry of Defence announced that closure would be delayed to 2029 at the earliest.
First World War
No. 5 Squadron Royal Flying Corps between 6 July and 14 August 1914 with the Sopwith Tabloid, Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.1, Sopwith Three-seater and Farman MF.7 Longhorn
No. 8 Squadron Royal Flying Corps between 6 January and 15 April 1915 with the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2C, B.E.2A and B.E.2B
No. 13 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 10 January and moved to St-Omer on 19 October 1915, it used the B.E.2C and Bristol Scout
No. 14 Squadron Royal Flying Corps between 5 August and 7 November 1915 with the Longhorn, BE2C and Caudron G.3
No. 17 Squadron Royal Flying Corps reformed here on 1 February 1915 with the BE2C. It moved to Hounslow on 5 August 1915
No. 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 1 September 1915 with a variety of aircraft, it moved to St-Omer on 1 April 1916
No. 23 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 1 September 1915 and used a variety of aircraft until 15 March 1916 when it moved to St-Omer
No. 28 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 7 November 1915 with a variety of aircraft until 23 July 1917 when it moved to RAF Yatesbury
No. 29 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 7 November 1915 with a variety of aircraft. It moved to St-Omer on 25 March 1916
'B' Flight of No. 31 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 18 January 1916, staying until 1 March 1916 when the unit moved to Risalpur
A detachment of No. 39 Squadron Royal Flying Corps from 30 June 1916
No. 40 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here on 26 February 1916 with the B.E.2C and Avro 504 until 19 August 1916 when the unit moved to St-Omer
No. 41 Squadron Royal Flying Corps formed here initially on 15 April 1916 before disbanding on 22 May 1916. The unit reformed here again on 14 July 1916 with the Vickers F.B.5, Airco DH.2 and Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8. St
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Bartik
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Jean Bartik ( Betty Jean Jennings; December 27, 1924 – March 23, 2011) was one of the original six programmers for the ENIAC computer.
Bartik studied mathematics in school then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually calculating ballistics trajectories and then using ENIAC to do so. The other five ENIAC programmers were Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence. Bartik and her colleagues developed and codified many of the fundamentals of programming while working on the ENIAC, since it was the first computer of its kind.
After her work on ENIAC, Bartik went on to work on BINAC and UNIVAC, and spent time at a variety of technical companies as a writer, manager, engineer and programmer. She spent her later years as a real estate agent and died in 2011 from congestive heart failure complications.
Content-management framework Drupal's default theme, Bartik, is named in her honor.
Early life and education
Born Betty Jean Jennings in Gentry County, Missouri in 1924, she was the sixth of seven children. Her father, William Smith Jennings (1893–1971) was from Alanthus Grove, where he was a schoolteacher as well as a farmer. Her mother, Lula May Spainhower (1887–1988) was from Alanthus. Jennings had three older brothers, William (January 10, 1915) Robert (March 15, 1918); and Raymond (January 23, 1922); two older sisters, Emma (August 11, 1916) and Lulu (August 22, 1919), and one younger sister, Mable (December 15, 1928).
In her childhood, she would ride on horseback to visit her grandmother, who bought the young girl a newspaper to read every day and became a role model for the rest of her life. She began her education at a local one-room school, and gained local attention for her softball skill. In order to attend high school, she lived with her older sister in the neighboring town, where the school was located, and then began to drive every day despite being only 14. She graduated from Stanberry High School in 1941, aged 16. She was given the title of salutatorian on her graduation.
She attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College now known Northwest Missouri State University, majoring in mathematics with a minor in English and graduated in 1945. Jennings was awarded the only mathematics degree in her class. Although she had originally intended to study journalism, she decided to change to mathematics because she had a bad relationship with her adviser. Later in her life, she earned a master's degree in English at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Northwest Missouri State University in 2002.
Career
In 1945, the United States Army was recruiting mathematicians from universities to aid in the war effort; despite a warning by her adviser that she would be "a cog in a wheel" with the Army, and encouragement to become a mathematics teacher instead, Bartik decided to become a human computer. Bartik's calculus professor enco
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIOS
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VIOS may refer to:
Voice I/O System, Digital Research Access Manager for Concurrent DOS
ViOS, Visual Internet Operating System
Toyota Vios, a subcompact automobile
See also
Vio (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRN
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MRN may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Macquarie Media (ASX: MRN), an Australian media company
Michigan Radio Network, a satellite-distributed news service in Michigan, U.S.
Migrants Rights Network, a London-based non-governmental organisation
Motor Racing Network, the principal radio broadcasting operation of auto racing organization NASCAR
National Regeneration Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Regeneración Nacional), a political party in Mexico
Military
AN/MRN-1, an instrument approach localizer used by the U.S. Army Air Force during and after World War II
AN/MRN-2, a radio range set used by the U.S. Army Air Force during and after World War II
AN/MRN-3, a marker beacon set used by the U.S. Army Air Force during and after World War II
Science
Magnetic resonance neurography, a medical imaging technique
Median raphe nucleus, area within the brain
MRN complex, a protein complex involved in DNA repair
Other uses
Foothills Regional Airport, IATA airport code
Major Road Network, a proposed classification of local authority roads in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA%20%28computing%29
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Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis (AIDA) is a set of defined interfaces and formats for representing common data analysis objects. The project was instigated and is primarily used by researchers in high-energy particle physics.
History
The goals of the AIDA project were to define abstract interfaces for common physics analysis objects, such as histograms, ntuples (or data trees), fitters, I/O etc. The importance of the interface concept is that a variety of different tools with different implementations can all support a uniform interface: this encourages modular design in data analysis packages and enables users to use their preferred implementation of a certain functionality without having to re-write existing code.
An additional benefit of AIDA is the specification of an XML representation format for data objects, which can be written and read by AIDA-compliant applications. AIDA implementations exist for C++ (OpenScientist), Java (Java Analysis Studio) and Python.
Usage of AIDA interfaces can be found in the Geant4 examples.
As of 2011, the projects seems dormant, with last "recent news" on the project homepage dating from 2005.
References
External links
AIDA home page
"Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis - Component Architecture for Data Analysis Tools", G.Barrand, P.Binko, M.Donszelmann, A.Johnson, A.Pfeiffer
"AIDA - Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis, Andreas Pfeiffer", CERN/IT
Experimental particle physics
Physics software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s%20Line%20Reference
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An Engineer's Line Reference (ELR) is a three alpha, or four alpha-numeric, code used to uniquely identify a railway line on the main-line railway of Britain owned, or maintained, by Network Rail but official railway records retain the ELR codes for lifted branch lines and any structures such as bridge abutments, tunnels, viaducts, retaining walls etc., still maintained by the former British Railways Properties Board. Highways England's Historical Railways Estate group succeeded that organisation and further changes recently came about with the National Highways Organisation. Such structures are identified on records by the locational branch mileage and chainage and is repeated on the actual structure and therefore essential for reporting to site for works projects and maintenance, and most important, for any mishaps. In particular, bridge strikes are still prevalent by high-sided vehicles and Network Rail fix a metal plate to bridge abutments giving the bridge name, mileage & chainage, for emergency 'phone contact to Network Rail whether or not, the bridge carries track.
An ELR is formed of a minimum of three upper-case letters identifying the line, normally using acronyms or abbreviations of the names of the primary locations (junctions or principal railway stations) they connect. For example, XTD is the South Eastern Main Line running from Charing Cross via Tonbridge to Dover Priory, and VTB is the Brighton Main Line from Victoria to Brighton. To ensure uniqueness, and convey local geographic (rather than railway principal junction or station) naming convention, an ELR may be formed of commonly-referred nomenclature, e.g. NKL is the railway line between North Kent East Junction and Dartford Junction, but is more frequently referred to as the North Kent Line (hence, the ELR).
A mandatory requirement of an ELR is that the mileage within it must be unique. Where a section of track is made up of several pre-existing routes, or where a mileage changes or reversal is present, the ELR is suffixed with a single digit (1 to 9). For example, the East Coast Main Line route from London King's Cross station to Edinburgh Waverley station is formed of ELRs ECM1 (King's Cross to Shaftholme Junction) through to ECM9 (Edinburgh Waverley station) with intermediate ELRs of ECM2, ECM3, ECM4, ECM5, ECM6, ECM7 and ECM8.
As the mileage within an ELR cannot be duplicated, any main-line railway location on Network Rail owned, or maintained, infrastructure can therefore be uniquely identified by a combination of ELR and mileage. For example, EJM 13M 16ch refers to Plessey Road level crossing on the Earsdon Junction to Morpeth North Junction (hence the ELR of EJM). The bridge shown in the associated photograph is located at 112M 63ch on ELR MLN; this ELR has subsequently been superseded by ELR MLN1, Paddington - Bristol - Penzance (Paddington - Change of Mileage - Plymouth Station West).
As at 2020, there were a total of 1,595 ELRs on Network Rail infrastructure.
R
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Novacky
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George A. Novacky was an Assistant Department Chair and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, and an Assistant Dean of CAS for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Education and career
Novacky first received a mathematics degree from Wheeling Jesuit College in 1968. In 1971, he received his MA in mathematics followed by a PhD in mathematics in 1981. Both his MA and PhD were from University of Pittsburgh. Novacky's dissertation was Chromaticity of Extremal Graphs.
He was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Community College of Allegheny County from 1977 to 1985.
He has been a faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Computer Science since 1985. In 1993, Novacky received The Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Publications
Computers and Networks: A Laboratory Approach to Computer Literacy, published by McGraw Hill
Computer Applications & the Internet, co-author with Y. Khalifa. Published by Pearson, 2003
PDA Programming in C, co-author with Yasir Khalifa. Published by Kendall Hunt, 2006
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Pittsburgh faculty
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Wheeling University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20acoustic%20management
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Automatic acoustic management (AAM) is a method for reducing acoustic emanations in AT Attachment (ATA) mass storage devices for computer data storage, such as ATA hard disk drives and ATAPI optical disc drives. AAM is an optional feature set for ATA/ATAPI devices; when a device supports AAM, the acoustic management parameters are adjustable through a software or firmware user interface.
Details
The ATA/ATAPI sub-command for setting the level of AAM operation is an 8-bit value from 0 to 255. Most modern drives ship with the vendor-defined value of 0x00 in the acoustic management setting. This often translates to the max-performance value of 254 stated in the standard. Values between 128 and 254 (0x80 - 0xFE) enable the feature and select most-quiet to most-performance settings along that range. Though hard drive manufacturers may support the whole range of values, the settings are allowed to be banded, so many values could provide the same acoustic performance.
Although there is no definition of the function implemented to provide acoustic management in the ATA standard, most drives use power control of the head-positioning servo to reduce vibration induced by the head positioning mechanism. Western Digital calls this IntelliSeek™ which uses only enough head acceleration to position the head at the target track and sector "just in time" to access data. Previous seek mechanisms used maximum power and acceleration to position the head. This operation induced the familiar clicking vibration emanating from a seeking hard drive. Western Digital provides a demonstration flash movie illustrating just-in-time head positioning on their web site.
To provide best acoustic performance, some drive manufacturers may limit the maximum seek velocity of the heads for AAM operation. This degrades performance by increasing the average seek time: some head movements are forced to wait an additional disk rotation before accessing data because the head was unable to move to the target position during the first rotation due to velocity limits. For example, benchmark tests with SiSoftware Sandra Lite on a Samsung HD154UI (1.5TB, SATA300, 3.5", 5400rpm, 32MB Cache) hard drive showed no measurable performance impact for an AAM setting of 190, but the drive did become noticeably more quiet than the disabled setting (0). Selecting the most-quiet setting (128) caused average random access time to increase about 10% while quieting improved noticeably over the middle setting. On this drive, some quieting is available without performance impact, and even more quieting is available if some performance degradation is acceptable.
AAM operates independently of advanced power management settings. However, selecting lower head acceleration (quieter operation) uses less power, so energy-conscious users might prefer the most-quiet setting (128) for power management purposes.
History
INCITS (formerly NCITS) first standardized AAM in the ATA/ATAPI-6 specification.
AAM is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-570
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RP-570 is a communications protocol used in industrial environments to communicate between a front-end computer and the substation to be controlled.
It is a SCADA legacy protocol and is based on the low-level protocol IEC TC57, format class 1.2.
RP-570 stands for:
"RTU Protocol based on IEC 57 part 5-1 (present IEC 870) version 0 or 1"
External links
Details may be found here:
RP 570 Protocol Description
Overview of supported protocol features in RP 570
RP 570/1 Master & Slave OPC Server
Network protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleasby%20railway%20station
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Bleasby railway station serves the village of Bleasby, Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line, owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.
History
The station was opened on 4 August 1846 by the Midland Railway. The original station buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine. The station was taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, and by British Rail in 1948.
It is now managed by East Midlands Railway.
Stationmasters
George Williamson ca. 1857 - 1886
James B. Palmer 1886 - 1891
Job Frederick Fisher 1891 - 1898 (formerly station master at Bolsover Castle, afterwards station master at Thurgarton)
Arthur Edward Kind 1898 - 1899 (afterwards station master at Collingham)
Ebenezer Tagg 1900 - 1904
George Ernest Aiers 1904 - 1907(afterwards station master at Lowdham)
George Butler from 1907 (formerly station master at Lowdham)
George Stapleton ca. 1911
G.W. Jay ca. 1914
J.J. Williams from 1921
Mr. Holden until 1932 (afterwards station master at Ullesthorpe)
William George Dudderidge 1932 - 1936 (also station master at Rolleston Junction and Fiskerton)
Arnold Foster 1936 - 1942
H.J. Lane until 1947
F.W.E. Clarke from 1947 (formerly stationmaster at Widmerpool)
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern help points. The full range of tickets can be purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost as there are no retail facilities at this station.
Gallery
Services
All services at Bleasby are operated by East Midlands Railway.
The typical off-peak service is:
1 train every 2 hours to via
1 train every 2 hours to
The station is also served by a small number of trains between , Nottingham and .
References
External links
Railway stations in Nottinghamshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Midland Railway stations
Newark and Sherwood
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
Thomas Chambers Hine railway stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safaricom
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Safaricom PLC is a listed Kenyan mobile network operator headquartered at Safaricom House in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the largest telecommunications provider in Kenya, and one of the most profitable companies in the East and Central Africa region. The company offers mobile telephony, mobile money transfer, consumer electronics, ecommerce, cloud computing, data, music streaming, and fibre optic services. It is most renowned as the home of M-PESA, a mobile banking SMS-based service.
Safaricom controls approximately 64.5% percent of the Kenyan market as of 2020 with a subscriber base estimated at approximately 35.6 million.
In terms of voice market and SMS market share Safaricom controls 69.2% and 92.2% respectively.
Safaricom was formed in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya. In May 2000, Vodafone Group PLC of the United Kingdom acquired a 40% stake and management responsibility for the company. In 2008, the government offered 25% of its shares to the public through the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Safaricom was ranked as Africa's Best Employer, 67th in the World by the Forbes Global 200 list of the World's Best Employers. In March 2018, Safaricom was ranked as the #1 company to work for in the annual BrighterMonday Best 100 Companies to Work for in Kenya according to career professionals and job seekers.
As of 2020, Safaricom employed over 4,500 people permanently and over 1,900 people on contract. 75 percent of the company's employees were based in Nairobi, the Headquarters, with the remainder based in other big cities like Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru and Eldoret, in which it operates retail outlets. It has nationwide dealerships to ensure customers across the country have access to its products and services.
In November 2012, Safaricom partnered NCBA Bank and came up with a "revolutionary" banking product, M-Shwari, which allows M-Pesa customers to save and borrow money through mobile phone while earning interest on money saved tapping into an underdeveloped financial services market.
Michael Joseph served as the founding CEO between July 2000 and November 2010. He transformed the telecom from a subscriber base of less than 20,000 to over 16.71 million during his previous tenure. In his last full year as CEO, Safaricom posted a 37 percent rise in pretax profit.
Bob Collymore took over at Safaricom in November 2010, replacing Michael Joseph who went on to serve in the telco giant’s board as the Chairman. Collymore oversaw the introduction into the market of various mobile money products that have given the company leverage among its competitors. Collymore was also been at the forefront in leading the charge against regulatory efforts to clip the company’s wings due to its size and dominance. After a two-year battle with cancer, Bob, the longest-serving executive died on July 1, 2019, leaving behind a company with doubled user base and profits increased by 380%. Michael was appointed as interim chief.
Peter Ndegwa was appointed as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Law%20%26%20Security%20Review
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The Computer Law & Security Review is a journal accessible to a wide range of professional legal and IT practitioners, businesses, academics, researchers, libraries and organisations in both the public and private sectors, the Computer Law and Security Review regularly covers:
CLSR Briefing with special emphasis on UK/US developments
European Union update
National news from 10 European jurisdictions
Pacific rim news column
Refereed practitioner and academic papers on topics such as Web 2.0, IT security, Identity management, ID cards, RFID, interference with privacy, Internet law, telecoms regulation, online broadcasting, intellectual property, software law, e-commerce, outsourcing, data protection and freedom of information and many other topics.
The Journal's Correspondent Panel includes more than 40 specialists in IT law and security.
Each issue contains articles, case law analysis and current news on information and communications technology.
Special Features
High quality peer reviewed papers from internationally renowned practitioner and academic experts
Latest developments reported in situ by more than 20 leading law firms from around the world
Highly experienced and respected editor and correspondents panel
Online access to all 23 volumes of CLSR with embedded web links to primary sources
Contact details of all authors
A pool of expertise that can collectively identify the key topics that need to be examined.
External links
Elsevier.com - Computer Law & Security Review
Computer Law & Security Review
British law journals
Computer science journals
Works about computer law
Computer security
Elsevier academic journals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1701%20%28disambiguation%29
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1701 may refer to:
1701 (number)
1701, the year
1701 Naval Air Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm
Anno 1701, alternatively titled 1701 A.D., a real-time strategy computer game.
Commodore 1701, a Commodore 64 peripheral
Starship Enterprise, a ship in the fictional Star Trek universe which has the registry number of NCC-1701. Each successive Enterprise has an alphanumeric suffix running from A to at least J.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe%20Diem%20e-Learning%20Community
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Carpe Diem e-Learning Community is a charter school for grades 6–12 in Yuma, Arizona.
The school is unique, since students do most their work on computers. The school has their own website where students can listen to lectures from the teachers at the headquarters of the school and do their work at their own pace, achieving credits when the work is completed. The school maintains a traditional physical campus, however. Sometime in the 2015–2016 school year, the school was bought by Desert View Schools, and was subsequently renamed Desert View Middle and High School. In January 2020, the school announced its decision to abandon its high school and continue solely as a middle school. The current building is located at 3777 W. 22nd Lane, Yuma, AZ 85364.
External links
cdayuma.com – the school website before October 2011
carpediemschools.com – the school website after October 2011
mhs.dvsk12.com – the school website after 2016
Public middle schools in Arizona
Public high schools in Arizona
Schools in Yuma County, Arizona
Charter schools in Arizona
Buildings and structures in Yuma, Arizona
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20the%20Sahrawi%20Arab%20Democratic%20Republic
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The foreign relations of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) are conducted by the Polisario Front, which maintains a network of representation offices and embassies in foreign countries.
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is the government in exile claiming sovereignty of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara. The Polisario Front, the national liberation movement that administers the SADR, currently controls the area that it calls the Liberated Territories, a strip of Western Sahara territory east of the Moroccan Wall. It also administers the Sahrawi refugee camps at Tindouf, Algeria, where its headquarters are. It has conducted diplomatic relations with states and international organisations since its inception in 1973. In 1966, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 22/29 affirmed for the first time the Sahrawi right on self-determination. In 1979, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37 reaffirmed again the right of the Western Sahara people to self-determination and independence, recognising also the Polisario Front as the representative of the Western Sahara people.
Since the country is not widely recognised, the government has asked Independent Diplomat to serve its interests.
Recognition
. Of these, have "frozen" or "withdrawn" recognition for a number of reasons. Several states that do not recognise the Sahrawi Republic nonetheless recognize the Polisario Front as the legitimate representative of the population of the Western Sahara, but not as the government-in-exile for a sovereign state.
The republic has been a full member of the African Union (AU), formerly the Organization of African Unity (OAU), since 1984. Morocco withdrew from the OAU in protest and remained the only African nation not within the AU between South Africa's admittance in 1994 and (re-)joining the African Union in 2017. The SADR also participates as guest on meetings of the Non-Aligned Movement or the New Asian–African Strategic Partnership, over Moroccan objections to SADR participation. On the other hand, upholding Moroccan "territorial integrity" is favoured by the Arab League.
Besides Algeria, Mexico, Iran, Venezuela, Vietnam, Nigeria, and South Africa, India was the major middle power to have ever recognised SADR and maintained full diplomatic relations, having allowed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to open an embassy in New Delhi in 1985. However, India "withdrew" its recognition in 2000.
As with any fluid political situation, diplomatic recognitions of either party's rights are subject to frequent and sometimes unannounced change.
Bilateral relations
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has, since its proclamation established diplomatic relations with a number of states, mainly in Africa and Latin America, which have recognised its independence. In connection with the "freezing", "withdrawing" and resuming of recognition, similar changes have occurred at the level of diplomatic relations. SADR has stable an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVE
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JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.
JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite2.
As of 2022, the latest development release of JOVE is version 4.17.4.4; the stable version is 4.16. Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8.
See also
List of text editors
Comparison of text editors
External links
GitHub repository
JOVE Development FTP site
FSF Free Software Directory entry
References
Unix text editors
Free text editors
Emacs
DOS text editors
Software using the GPL license
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20TCP
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Compound TCP (CTCP) is a Microsoft algorithm that was introduced as part of the Windows Vista and Window Server 2008 TCP stack. It is designed to aggressively adjust the sender's congestion window to optimise TCP for connections with large bandwidth-delay products while trying not to harm fairness (as can occur with HSTCP). It is also available for Linux, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 via a hotfix.
Principles of operation
Like FAST TCP and TCP Vegas, Compound TCP uses estimates of queuing delay as a measure of congestion; if the queuing delay is small, it assumes that no links on its path are congested, and rapidly increases its rate. Unlike them, it does not seek to maintain a constant number of packets queued.
Compound TCP maintains two congestion windows: a regular AIMD window and a delay-based window. The size of the actual sliding window used is the sum of these two windows. The AIMD window is increased the same way that TCP Reno increases it. If the delay is small, the delay-based window increases rapidly to improve the utilisation of the network. Once queuing is experienced, the delay window gradually decreases to compensate for the increase in the AIMD window. The aim is to keep their sum approximately constant, at what the algorithm estimates is the path's bandwidth-delay product. In particular, when queuing is detected, the delay-based window is reduced by the estimated queue size to avoid the problem of "persistent congestion" reported for FAST and Vegas. Thus, unlike TCP-Illinois and its precursor TCP Africa, Compound TCP can reduce its window in response to delay. This increases its fairness to Reno.
Descriptions of Compound TCP can be found in a conference paper, an Internet-Draft, and a US patent.
Windows 2003 and XP x64
A hotfix is available that adds CTCP support to 64 bit Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
The following registry key can be set to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TCPCongestionControl
Windows Vista/2008/7
CTCP is enabled by default in computers running beta versions of Windows Server 2008 and disabled by default in computers running Windows Vista and 7.
CTCP can be enabled with the command:
netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp
or disabled with the command:
netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=none
To display the current setting for CTCP use:
netsh interface tcp show global
Parameter "Add-On Congestion Control Provider" will either have a value of "none" if CTCP is disabled or "ctcp" if it is enabled.
Windows 8 and up
Since Windows 8, Windows uses PowerShell command Set-NetTCPSetting to modify the congestion control algorithm. Around 2018, Microsoft moved from CTCP to using CUBIC in Windows 10 and the Xbox, because it was seen as very delay sensitive and also worked poorly in data centre, where delay variation was an issue.
Linux
CTCP was ported to Linux . A patch derived f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Transformers%3A%20Cybertron%20episodes
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The following is a list of episodes in the Transformers series, Transformers: Cybertron. It chronicles the adventures of the Autobots, as they battle the Decepticons and attempt to claim the four Cyber Planet Keys.
The series uses four pieces of theme music. For the first twenty-seven episodes of the series, "" by Shinji Kakijima is used for the opening theme and "" by Tomoka Issei is used for the ending theme. The remaining episodes use "IGNITION!" by CHINO for the opening theme and "GROWING UP!!" by Shinji Kakijima for the ending theme. In the English dub of the series, all of the original ending themes are removed, with the song "Transformers: Cybertron Theme" by Paul Oakenfold used for both the opening and ending in all episodes.
Episode list
Cybertron
Lists of anime episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshet
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Reshet (, lit. "Network") is an Israeli television broadcasting and production company. It was one of the two concessionaires running the Israeli commercial television channel, Channel 2 from 1993 to 2017, and is running channel 13 alongside RGE media group at the present. Reshet is considered one of the most successful television channels in Israel.
History
On November 4, 1993, it began broadcasting on the commercial Channel 2 under the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority. At that time three concessionaires were chosen: Keshet, Telad and Reshet. The three concessionaires received a broadcasting contract for one decade. They decided they would exchange among themselves the broadcasting days in a week so that one broadcast three days a week while the other two broadcast two days.
In April 2005, a decision was made by a committee of the communication ministry that by the end of the decade only two concessionaires would receive broadcasting contracts for the following decade. Of the four competitors (the fourth was Kan), Keshet and Reshet were chosen. Each of the companies broadcast 3 or 4 days a week and changed every 2 years.
In 2017 it was announced than on November 1, Channel 2 would be shut down and Keshet and Reshet - two of the companies who broadcast on the channel - were to be separated into 2 TV channels. Reshet announced and launched a rebranding campaign for its new channel, Reshet 13.
In June 2018, due to financial issues caused by the 2017 Channel 2 split, RGE's Channel 10 filed a merger with Reshet's Channel 13. As a part of the merger plan, Channel 10 News (RGE's news company) was to become a part of Channel 13, and some programs from Channel 10 would join Reshet 13. Channel 10 itself would stop broadcasting, and more than 100 employees would be eliminated if the merger goes through. In October 2018, Reshet announced that the merger was cancelled. Reshet's owners have since reconsidered the merger, and after a long battle with the Second Authority, the merger was approved, and was completed on 16 January 2019.
References
External links
Television in Israel
Channel 2 (Israeli TV channel)
Israeli brands
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Banijay
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo-N%20code
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Modulo-N code is a lossy compression algorithm used to compress correlated data sources using modular arithmetic.
Compression
When applied to two nodes in a network whose data are in close range of each other modulo-N code requires one node (say odd) to send the coded data value as the raw data ; the even node is required to send the coded data as the . Hence the name modulo-N code.
Since at least bits are required to represent a number K in binary, the modulo coded data of the two nodes requires bits. As we can generally expect always, because . This is the how compression is achieved.
A compression ratio achieved is
Decompression
At the receiver by joint decoding we may complete the process of extracting the data and rebuilding the original values. The code from the even node is reconstructed by the assumption that it must be close to the data from the odd node. Hence the decoding algorithm retrieves even node data as
The decoder essentially finds the closest match to and the decoded value is declared as
Example
For a mod-8 code, we have
Encoder
D_o=43,D_e=47
M_o=43,M_e=47 mod(8) = 7,
Decoder
M_o=43,M_e=47 mod(8) = 7,
D_o=43,D_e=CLOSEST(43,8⋅k + 7)
D_o=43,D_e=47
Modulo-N decoding is similar to phase unwrapping and has the same limitation: If the difference from one node to the next is more than N/2 (if the phase changes from one sample to the next more than ), then decoding leads to an incorrect value.
See also
DISCUS is a more sophisticated technique for compressing correlated data sources.
Delta encoding is a related algorithm used in lossless compression algorithms designed for correlated data sources.
Information theory
Data compression
Wireless sensor network
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Shimbiris
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Mount Shimbiris is the highest peak of Somalia. It has an elevation of above sea level. It is located in the Al Madow mountain range in the Sanaag region. SRTM data shows that its often-quoted elevation of is slightly low.
There is no vehicle access. However, visitors can stay in a tent.
See also
References
External links
Somalia Country Study
Mount Shimbiris
Mountains of Somaliland
Highest points of countries
Somali montane xeric woodlands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode%20%28company%29
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LiveCode Ltd. (formerly Runtime Revolution and Cross Worlds Computing) makes the LiveCode cross-platform development environment (formerly called Revolution) for creating applications that run on iOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and Browsers. It is similar to Apple's discontinued HyperCard.
History
LiveCode began as an expert IDE for MetaCard, a development environment and GUI toolkit originally developed for UNIX development and later ported to support Microsoft Windows and macOS compilation. Runtime Revolution Ltd acquired MetaCard in July 2003 and released subsequent versions under the Revolution brand.
MetaCard built on the success of its predecessor HyperCard. Both HyperCard and MetaCard utilized an English-like language that was arguably easier to learn than BASIC. Both RevTalk and HyperCard are development environments within the SmallTalk genre and have similar design attributes.
The language has been known by several names including Transcript, RevTalk and as of November 2010 "LiveCode". The entire product including the IDE is now officially referred to as LiveCode. The iOS version is available as of December 2010, with the Android and server versions under development.
The company is supported by a number of investors, including Mike Markkula who originally invested in Apple Computer, Inc. in 1976 and brought that company to market.
On 11 November 2009 in San Francisco, the company officially launched version 4.0 of the Revolution programming language (renamed LiveCode in November 2010), officially bringing the revTalk language to the web.
In late 2009, the company launched the RunRev Partner Program giving all people programming in the LiveCode language the opportunity to work more closely with the core LiveCode development team. This provision of dedicated Technical Account Managers is part of the continued development of the LiveCode language and is designed to make it even more accessible.
See also
LiveCode
MetaCard
HyperCard
xTalk
References
External links
Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor, a Runtime Revolution product (formerly Learn to Type released in 1995)
LiveCode Hosting, a LiveCode hosting service
Companies established in 1998
Companies based in Edinburgh
Software companies of Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales%20at%20Six
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ITV News Wales at Six is the evening news programme broadcast and produced by ITV Cymru Wales.
Overview
Wales at Six and all other ITV Wales news programming is broadcast live from studios at Assembly Square in Cardiff Bay, with a North Wales newsroom based in Colwyn Bay, and a political unit at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay. District reporters are also based in West Wales, Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea.
Jonathan Hill was promoted from news reporter and newsreader to a main anchor for the main evening news programme during February 1994. Andrea Byrne was appointed co-anchor on 14 January 2008 following the departure of Lucy Owen to rival programme BBC Wales Today. Hill and Byrne anchor alternating editions of the main 6pm programme as of June 2014. Kylie Pentelow took over from Byrne on 4 February 2019 for one-year. Ruth Dodsworth fronts national weather forecasts for ITV Cymru Wales since 2000.
History
From the launch of Harlech Television in May 1968, the company produced a full-scale bilingual news service - the only of its kind in the ITV network. The 6pm weekday slot for regional news was shared by two programmes - Y Dydd (The Day) in the Welsh language and Report Wales in English.
The launch of S4C in November 1982 signalled the end of Welsh language news from HTV, although the company continues to produce Welsh current affairs programmes, including the long-running Y Byd ar Bedwar (The World on Four).
Wales at Six replaced Report Wales as a full-length English language news programme on Monday 1 November 1982. HTV's news service was based at its Pontcanna studios until moving to the Television Centre at Culverhouse Cross in 1990. Wales at Six was latterly replaced by Wales Tonight in 1994 and 2005, HTV News in 1999, ITV Wales News in 2004 and ITV News Cymru Wales in 2013.
On 17 September 2013, ITV Wales announced it would launch a weekly 30-minute current affairs programme, Newsweek Wales, featuring interviews, analysis and a look back at the week's main news stories in Wales. The new programme, broadcast on Sunday lunchtimes, was launched on Sunday 22 September 2013. A previous plan to extend the weekday late bulletin to 15 minutes was scrapped.
On Saturday 28 June 2014, ITV Cymru Wales broadcast from its Culverhouse Cross studios for the last time. Two days later, broadcasting began from its new base at Cardiff Bay. As part of the move, Wales at Six was revived as the title for the main 6pm programme on weekdays, after an absence of 20 years.
References
External links
1968 British television series debuts
1960s Welsh television series
1970s Welsh television series
1980s Welsh television series
1990s Welsh television series
2000s Welsh television series
2010s Welsh television series
2020s Welsh television series
English-language television shows
ITV regional news shows
Television shows produced by Harlech Television
Television shows set in Cardiff
Welsh television news shows
Welsh television shows
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ITV News London is a British television news service broadcast on both ITV London, with live streaming on ITVX (through the ITV1 feed). It is produced by ITN.
History
London News Network
The programme launched on Monday 4 January 1993 as London Tonight, after Carlton Television won the London weekday franchise from previous holder Thames Television. London Tonight was originally produced by London News Network – a joint venture between Carlton and LWT designed to provide a sole ITV regional news service for the London area, broadcasting seven days a week. Its creation established a continuity between the once separate services and presentation of the weekend and weekday news, weather and sport in the region, previously provided by Thames News and LWT News.
The flagship programme, initially an hour-long and presented by Alastair Stewart and Fiona Foster, was supplemented by shorter London Today bulletins, launched on 4 January 1993 (LWT discontinued its own local news service the previous weekend). The main evening programme was reduced to 30 minutes a year later, while from 25 November 1996 to September 2002, a half-hour lunchtime edition of London Today was broadcast on weekdays.
In addition to regional news, London News Network also produced a wide range of regional programming for both Carlton and LWT as well as providing transmission services for both stations.
ITN
In 2004, ITV London owners Carlton and Granada merged, forming ITV plc with LNN being dissolved soon after. Production for all ITV London News programming remained at The London Studios (formerly known as the LWT South Bank Centre) until 29 February 2004, when it was taken over by the national Channel 3 news provider ITN and moved to their headquarters in Central London, making the region the only operation not to produce its own news programmes in-house. Around 40 jobs were lost with the closure of LNN, although the programme retained its own editorial team.
London Tonight was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in February 2009.
On 4 July 2012, ITV News editor Deborah Turness informed London Tonight employees a third of staff would be made redundant, with ITV News and London Tonight both sharing newsgathering and studios from 1 October 2012.
On Monday 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as ITV News London.
Former notable lead presenters include Katie Derham, Fiona Foster, Nina Hossain, Natasha Kaplinsky, Anna Maria Ashe, Donal MacIntyre, Mary Nightingale, Alastair Stewart and Matt Teale.
Notable on air staff
Faye Barker: Newsreader (2005–)
Sally Biddulph: Newsreader (2014–)
Duncan Golestani: Presenter/newsreader (2019-)
Lucrezia Millarini: Presenter/newsreader (2013–); Entertainment Correspondent (2010–2012)
Geraint Vincent: Occasional presenter (2017–)
Suzanne Virdee: Relief newsreader (2016–)
Charlene White: Presenter/newsreader (2008–)
References
External links
1993 British television series debuts
1990s British television series
2000s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Tomato%20in%20the%20Salad%20Kingdom
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is a video game by Hudson Soft originally released in 1984 for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, FM-7 and MSX Japanese home computers.
It was ported on May 27, 1988, to the Famicom, and February 8, 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. It was also released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on January 19, 2010, and in North America on February 8.
The characters are primarily cartoon-like anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables, though the game does contain some human characters, including Princess Tomato's sister, Lisa, and the villainous Farmies.
Plot
Taking the role of Sir Cucumber, a knight, the player is assigned by King Broccoli (now deceased) to defeat the evil Minister Pumpkin, who has kidnapped Princess Tomato. Early on, Sir Cucumber gains a sidekick, Percy the baby persimmon, who offers advice and helps throughout the quest (and always refers to Sir Cucumber as "Boss").
Gameplay
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom plays similarly to a text adventure, though due to the NES's lack of a keyboard accessory, the possible commands are represented by buttons which line both sides of the screen. The commands are fixed and do not change during gameplay. Primarily, the game consists of still screens, with the exception of the "finger wars", mazes and occasional animated character, such as the octoberry and fernbirds. Players can issue commands to the game's protagonist. While the player may run into difficulty determining which actions will advance the game, the only way to "lose" is by failing to defeat the end-game boss, Minister Pumpkin, in a final game of "finger wars".
Legacy
Princess Tomato makes an appearance in Super Bomberman R as a playable DLC character named "Princess Tomato Bomber". She was added in the 2.0 update released in November 2017.
See also
List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
List of Hudson Soft games
References
External links
1984 video games
1991 video games
Adventure games
Fictional princesses
FM-7 games
Fruit and vegetable characters
Hudson Soft games
MSX games
NEC PC-6001 games
NEC PC-8001 games
NEC PC-8801 games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Sharp MZ games
Sharp X1 games
Single-player video games
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in Japan
Virtual Console games
Virtual Console games for Wii U
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20language
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A command language is a language for job control in computing. It is a domain-specific and interpreted language; common examples of a command language are shell or batch programming languages.
These languages can be used directly at the command line, but can also automate tasks that would normally be performed manually at the command line. They share this domain—lightweight automation—with scripting languages, though a command language usually has stronger coupling to the underlying operating system. Command languages often have either very simple grammars or syntaxes very close to natural language, to shallow the learning curve, as with many other domain-specific languages.
See also
Command-line interface
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
Batch processing
Job (computing)
Notes
External links
A longer definition.
Programming language topics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20queue
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In computer science, a command queue is a queue for enabling the delay of command execution, either in order of priority, on a first-in first-out basis, or in any order that serves the current purpose. Instead of waiting for each command to be executed before sending the next one, the program just puts all the commands in the queue and goes on doing other things while the queue is processed by the operating system.
This delegation not only frees the program from handling the queue but also allows a more optimized execution in some situations. For instance, when handling multiple requests from several users, a network server's hard drive can reorder all the requests in its queue using, for instance, the elevator algorithm to minimize the mechanical movement.
Examples
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) in Serial ATA (SATA)
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) in Parallel ATA and SCSI
See also
Batch processing
Burst mode (computing)
Command pattern
Job queue
Job scheduler
References
Job scheduling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyttelton%20Harbour
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Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō is a major inlet on the northwest side of Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand; the other major inlet is Akaroa Harbour, which enters from the southern side of the peninsula. Whakaraupō enters from the northern coast of the peninsula, heading in a predominantly westerly direction for approximately from its mouth to the aptly-named Head of the Bay near Teddington. The harbour sits in an eroded caldera of the ancient Banks Peninsula Volcano, the steep sides of which form the Port Hills on its northern shore.
The harbour's main population centre is Lyttelton, which serves the main port to the nearby city of Christchurch, linked with Christchurch by the single-track Lyttelton rail tunnel (opened 1867), a two lane road tunnel (opened 1964) and two roads over the Port Hills. Diamond Harbour lies to the south and the Māori village of Rāpaki to the west. At the head of the harbour is the settlement of Governors Bay. The reserve of Otamahua / Quail Island is near the harbour head and Ripapa Island is just off its south shore at the entrance to Purau Bay.
The harbour provides access to a busy commercial port at Lyttelton which today includes a petroleum storage facility and a modern container and cargo terminal.
Hector's dolphins, a species endemic to New Zealand, and New Zealand fur seals live in the harbour.
Name
Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō is one of many places in New Zealand to have a dual place name, consisting of names derived from both European and Māori names for the area. The harbour was one of approximately 90 places to be given a dual name as part of a landmark Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the Ngāi Tahu iwi in 1998. Whakaraupō translates as Bay/harbour of in the South Island dialect of Māori. This name came from a swamp of raupō reed that grew prolifically in the vicinity of , or Governor's Bay, at the head of the harbour. Earlier sources give the Māori name as Whangaraupo, which has identical meaning to Whakaraupō, but uses the wider Māori spelling () of the word for harbour. The French spelling of Whakaraupo was Tapalabo. This was the name used in a chart published in 1840 from the surveys of 1838 by M.M Fournier and d'Ubraye on the Heroine captained by J-B Cecille. Captain Stokes of HMS Acheron, who led a survey of the harbour and surrounding lands in 1849, preferred to use the name Wakaraupo Bay to the then current English name of Port Cooper. However, Stokes' preferred name was not used when the harbour was officially renamed Port Victoria upon it becoming a Port of Entry in August 1849. The New Zealand Pilot of 1875, which is based on Stokes' survey, gives the Māori place name as Tewhaka, translating simply as 'the harbour'.
The harbour was given many different names during the early days of European settlement, the first of which was Cook's Harbour after early explorati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Haines
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Mark Haines (April 19, 1946 – May 24, 2011) was a host on the CNBC television network.
Early life and education
Haines grew up in Oyster Bay, New York, and resided in Monmouth County, New Jersey. His alma mater was Denison University, and in 1989, the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a member of the New Jersey bar association.
Career
Haines was a news anchor for KYW-TV in Philadelphia; WABC-TV in New York; and WPRI-TV in Providence. While at WPRO-AM in Providence, Haines took part in a 1974 reenactment of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. It is reported that Cary Grant considered Haines his favorite television reporter.
In 1989, Haines joined the newly created CNBC network. Haines was the host of the CNBC TV shows Squawk Box and Squawk on the Street. Haines was on the air when news of the September 11 attacks first broke in 2001 . Squawk on the Street was expanded from one hour to two on July 19, 2007, when co-anchor Liz Claman of Morning Call left to co-anchor Fox Business on the Fox Business Network. Haines also presented a financial segment prior to the market open each day on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Haines' longtime co-anchor on Squawk on the Street was Erin Burnett. On May 6, 2011, just weeks before Haines died, she moved on to CNN. With the loss of both prior hosts, Simon Hobbs & Melissa Lee filled in as co-anchors.
On March 10, 2009, Haines famously called the bottom of the stock market during the financial crisis, forever cementing his legacy with the term "The Haines Bottom."
Death
On May 25, 2011, Haines' wife Cindy reported that he had died the previous evening at his home in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter. He died of congestive heart failure due to cardiomegaly.
Just after the market opened on May 25, CNBC broadcast that Haines had died the previous evening. There was silence on the NYSE trading floor and CNBC presented a retrospective on his life and career. A special television program about his life and career aired on CNBC that evening.
Host shows
Squawk Box (1995–2005)
Squawk on the Street (2005–2011)
Morning Call (2006–2007)
How to Succeed in Business
References
External links
Mark Haines Bio on CNBC.com
Mark Haines Facebook Memorial Page
1946 births
2011 deaths
American television personalities
Male television personalities
CNBC people
Denison University alumni
New Jersey lawyers
People from Marlboro Township, New Jersey
People from Plainfield, New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
20th-century American lawyers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Dieterle
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Harold Dieterle III (born June 11, 1977, in West Babylon, New York) is an American top chef, best known as the winner of the first season of the Bravo television network's reality television series Top Chef. After winning Top Chef, he owned and ran three restaurants in New York City: Perilla, Kin Shop, and The Marrow. He closed all three in 2014 and 2015. In 2019 Dieterle opened a new restaurant, "Ten Hope," in Williamsburg.
His signature dish is spicy duck meatballs.
Early life
Dieterle attended West Babylon High School and then studied at the Culinary Institute of America, graduating in 1997.
Career
Dieterle's professional career began at Della Femina in the Hamptons for two years. That was followed by three years at Red Bar and two years at 1770 House, both in New York City. For almost five years, he was a sous-chef at The Harrison restaurant in New York.
In October 2005, Dieterle competed in and won the first season of Top Chef. Following his win on the series, he left The Harrison in early 2006 to plan the opening of his restaurant. His first restaurant, Perilla, opened in May 2007 in New York City. In 2010 he opened Kin Shop, a Thai restaurant. In a positive 2010 review of Kin Shop in the magazine New York, food critic Adam Platt called Dieterle "the original (and easily most talented) winner" of Top Chef.
In 2012, he opened The Marrow in New York City, which featured a mashup of Italian and German cuisine that was an ode to Dieterle's German heritage, and his wife's Italian heritage.
The Marrow closed in 2014 after less than two years. In late 2015, Dieterle closed his two remaining restaurants, Kin Shop and Perilla. Dieterle said he was taking a leave from the restaurant and hospitality business.
In 2019 he helped open a new restaurant in Williamsburg. Dieterle worked as a consulting chef at the restaurant named Ten Hope and put together the menu. Perilla alum Jim Handwerker works as chef de cuisine.
In 2016 Dieterle served as a consultant for the AMC TV series Feed the Beast, set at a fictional restaurant.
Personal life
On September 4, 2010, Dieterle married Meredith Davies in Atlanta, Georgia. They met at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado, in 2006, the summer after his winning season on Top Chef.
References
Top Chef winners
1977 births
Living people
American chefs
American male chefs
Culinary Institute of America alumni
People from West Babylon, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton%20Computer%20Festival
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The Trenton Computer Festival (also called TCF), founded in 1976, is the oldest personal computer show in the world. It is considered to be the first major fair for personal computer hobbyists.
It was founded 1976 at Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) by Sol Libes and Allen Katz with the assistance of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey (ACGNJ). The initial event drew a crowd of approximately 1,500, and featured lectures, vendor tables, and an outdoor computer market, all aimed at the amateur computer hobbyist.
By 1992, it had moved to the Mercer County Community College, and by 1999 it had moved to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, New Jersey. Attendance peaked at approximately 30,000 attendees per weekend around 1988, but by 2003, was down to approximately 10,000 attendees across the entire weekend. In 2005, TCF returned to The College of New Jersey to celebrate its 30th anniversary. In 2015, the event marked its 40th anniversary. In 2020, the festival was cancelled as a result of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey. The 2021 and 2022 events were held virtually.
References
External links
Official website
Computer-related events
Recurring events established in 1976
The College of New Jersey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBN%20Broadcasting%20Network
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PBN Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a Philippine media network. Its corporate office is located at the 3rd floor, Eesan Bldg., #32 Quezon Ave., Quezon City.
History
It was established by George D. Bayona on October 24, 1958, when the people of Legazpi and the province of Albay had only heard radio from faint broadcast signals from Metro Manila stations. PBN pioneered the broadcast industry in the Bicol region by operating the first cable radio station, "Radyo Balagon", under the banner of Bicol Wire Broadcasting System (BWBS), the parent company of what PBN Broadcasting Network, Inc. is today.
At the height of its popularity, Radyo Balagon, as it was fondly called by its subscribers, initially served 3,000 households in Legazpi and the neighboring town of Daraga. With the continuous increase of subscribers, its area of coverage was expanded to the 1st district of Albay via a cable-relay station in the city of Tabaco.
With the success of Bicol Wire Broadcasting System (BWBS), and although technology was still in its infancy in the 60s, Bicol Wire Broadcasting System evolved into People's Broadcasting System (PBS) with the establishment of 1960 DZGB-AM, the pioneer commercial radio station in Legazpi.
DZGB proved to be the first of a string of AM stations. Subsequently, a sister station purely dedicated to news and music was opened and named DZGM, the first AM station to adopt an FM programming of less talk and more music. On June 24, 1970, DZMD-AM was inaugurated in Daet, Camarines Norte. Two years later, DZMS-AM started broadcasting in the Province of Sorsogon. The household name of People's Broadcasting System became People's Broadcasting Network (PBN) to reflect its founder's intent to serve its fellow Bicolanos region-wide.
The declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972, was the darkest moment in broadcast history. All radio and TV stations nationwide were shut down and PBN was among the casualties. DZGB Legazpi was immediately allowed to resume its broadcast operation one day after the shutdown order, followed by DZMD Daet, Camarines Norte two days later and DZMS Sorsogon after a week.
In 1987, 97.1 DWGB-FM Legazpi aired its maiden broadcast. Barely six months later, it made history when it dominated the local surveys as the most listened-to FM station in the area.
With the advent of the 90s, the network began to consider a move to television. Realizing the need for a national network with a strong programming capability, PBN entered into and became an affiliate of ABC 5 (now TV5). On March 3, 1995, PBN's dream of operating its own TV station became a reality. Its local TV shows took Naga City by storm, and other local networks found it a worthy competitor.
Inspired by the huge success of DWGB-FM in Legazpi City, PBN decided to open another FM station in a more competitive market - Naga, on July 3, 1995.
With the establishment of PBN TV 5 in Naga, it was just a matter of time before the second TV station was opened. In June 1995,
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CNET Video is a San Francisco and New York based network showing original programming catering to the niche market of technology enthusiasts, operated by Red Ventures through their CNET brand. CNET Video originated as the television program production arm of CNET Networks in the United States, producing programs starting in the mid-to-late 1990s. It was CNET Networks' first project. Technology-themed television shows produced by CNET Video also aired on G4 in Canada. CNET Video is a 2012 Technology People's Voice Webby Award Winner. On July 24, 2013, CNET Video launched a new CNET Video+ app for iOS, Android and Xbox SmartGlass.
Shows
Current programming of CNET Video consists of short-form video shot in-studio or in front of a greenscreen and long-form video productions made of packaged clips or new content. All current productions are distributed as podcasts and most programming is available for download at CNET, on the iTunes Store and on the CNET Video app for platforms such as Roku. A 24-hour CNET channel can be found on Pluto TV channel 684 (this channel was added to the service well before the two became sister properties by the re-merger of Viacom and CBS in late 2019).
Adventures in Tech, hosted by Luke Westaway, is a show talking about technology products that revolutionized today's world, and why some did well, and why others did not.
The Apple Core airs weekly, hosted by Vanessa Hand Orellana, covering latest news, rumors, and reviews of "everything inside the world of Apple". The show is the sister show to Alphabet City.
Car Tech showcases standalone automobile reviews, and is either hosted by either Brian Cooley, Antuan Goodwin, or Wayne Cunningham. Past productions involving car reviews include the audio Car Tech Podcast from 2007 and Car Tech Live from 2009 and also hosted by Goodwin and Cunningham.
CNET On Cars, hosted by Brian Cooley since September 2012, reviews the latest automobiles with an emphasis on technology offered on each vehicle. It usually features 4 segments. These segments can be: a review of a car, Smarter Driver, Car Tech 101, Top 5, Car Of The Future or a segment from XCAR, usually by Alex Goy.
CNET Top 5 counts down current trends in consumer electronics, tracking popularity, usage, or demand of certain. gadgets. Hosted by Tom Meritt from 2004 to 2010 and by Brian Cooley from 2010 to 2012, Donald Bell from 2012 to 2015, the show will be Hosted by CNET Editor Iyaz Ahktar in 2015 after Donald Bell Leaves CNET.
Cracking Open, hosted by Bill Detwiler has him taking apart gadgets and checking out their inner workings.
Crave airs Fridays featuring CNET personality Steven Beacham providing a look at what is on Crave, The Gadget Blog
First Look features initial hands-on demos of gadgets by CNET editors. Past video reviews were featured on various podcasts under CNET's Crave brand.
Alphabet City airs weekly, hosted by Iyaz Ahztar, covering latest news, rumors, and reviews of "everything Google that we can pack
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Sufyan al-Thawri (; 716–778) was a Tābi‘ al-Tābi‘īn Islamic scholar, jurist, and founder of the Thawri madhhab. He was also a great hadith compiler (muhaddith) and was known as one of the Eight Ascetics.
Biography
Sufyan ath-Thawri was born in Khorosan. His nisba al-Thawri is derived from his ancestor Thawr b. 'Abd Manat. He moved to Kufa, Iraq, for his education and in his youth supported the Family of Ali ibn Abi Talib against the dying Umayyad caliphate. By 748 he had moved to Basra, "where he met ['Abdallah] ibn 'Awn and Ayyub [al-Sakhtiyani]. He then abandoned his Shi'i view." It is said that the Umayyads offered him high office positions, but that he consistently declined. He even refused to give to the Caliphs moral and religious advice and when asked why, he responded "When the sea overflows, who can dam it up?". He was also quoted to have said to a friend of his "Beware of the rulers, of drawing close to and associating with them. Do not be deceived by being told that you can drive inequity away. All this is the deceit of the devil, which the wicked qurra' have taken as a ladder [to self promotion]."
Ath-Thawri's jurisprudential thought (usul al-fiqh), after his move to Basra, became more closely aligned to that of the Umayyads and of al-Awza'i. He is reported to have regarded the jihad as an obligation only as a defensive war.
Ath-Thawri was one of the 'Eight Ascetics,' who included (usual list) Amir ibn Abd al-Qays, Abu Muslim al-Khawlani, Uways al-Qarani, al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym, al-Aswad ibn Yazid, Masruq ibn al-Ajda', and Hasan al-Basri.
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya relates in Madarij al-salikin, and Ibn al-Jawzi in the chapter entitled "Abu Hashim al-Zahid" in his Sifat al-safwa after the early hadith master Abu Nu`aym in his Hilyat al-awliya, that Sufyan al-Thawri said:
If it were not for Abu Hashim al-Sufi (d. 115) I would have never perceived the presence of the subtlest forms of hypocrisy in the self... Among the best of people is the Sufi learned in jurisprudence.
Ibn al-Jawzi also narrates the following:
Abu Hashim al-Zahid said: "Allah has stamped alienation upon the world in order that the friendly company of the murideen (seekers) consist solely in being with Him and not with the world, and in order that those who obey Him come to Him by means of avoiding the world. The People of Knowledge of Allah (ahl al-ma`rifa billah) are strangers in the world and long for the hereafter."
He spent the last year of his life hiding after a dispute between him and the caliph al-Mahdi. On his death the Thawri madhhab was taken up by his students, including Yahya al-Qattan. His school did not survive, but his juridical thought and especially hadith transmission are highly regarded in Islam, and have influenced all the major schools.
Stories of Sufyan ath-Thawri were also collected in Fariduddin Attar's Tadhkirat al-Awliya, a collection of Sufi hagiographies compiled in the twelfth/thirteenth century.
Works
Of his books, perhaps best known
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20The%20CW
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This is a list of programs that are currently, have been, or are soon to be broadcast on The CW. Some programs were broadcast on UPN and The WB and were moved to the CW when the networks ceased broadcasting.
Current programming
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Sports programming
ACC on The CW
Acquired programming
Children's programming
Upcoming programming
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Co-productions
Continuations
Sports programming
Acquired programming
In development
Former programming
Dramas
Comedies
Reality/non-scripted programming
Acquired programming
Daytime
Children's programming
See also
List of programs broadcast by The CW Plus – for programs aired by The CW's national programming feed for smaller markets
CW Seed — for information about The CW's digital platform
Notes
References
External links
CW
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Geo%20Services
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Global Geo Services () or GGS is a Norwegian seismic company that was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. GGS is a multi-client company. It has a library of seismic data in East Timor, Iran, Syria, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania. It is active in a new project outside Florida.
GGS owns 100% of Nescos, a company that produces a smart well system and a flow valve. Nescos products enable extraction of oil from wells that have been over-produced and are filled with water.
External links
Company website
Engineering companies of Norway
Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
Seismology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Chemistry
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Network Chemistry was a Wi-Fi security startup based in Redwood City, California. The firm was founded in 2002 by several co-founders including Gary Ramah, Rob Markovich and Dr. Christopher Waters and is backed by venture capital firms such as San Francisco-based Geneva Venture Partners, Innovacom and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA.
The company sold products such as RFprotect Distributed, a wireless intrusion detection system; RFprotect Endpoint, a laptop security product; and RFprotect Mobile, a portable tool for analyzing network security. The final product was RFprotect Scanner, a wired-side rogue access point detection and mitigation system utilizing patent-pending device fingerprinting technology.
Network Chemistry also created the Wireless Vulnerabilities and Exploits database, which is the result of a collaborative industry effort to catalog and define exploits and vulnerabilities specifically related to the use of wireless technologies in IT networks.
The wireless security business of Network Chemistry was sold to Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN) in July 2007.
External links
“Network Chem Gets $6 million” April 2005 article on RedHerring.com
American companies established in 2002
American companies disestablished in 2007
Computer companies established in 2002
Computer companies disestablished in 2007
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZI
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Dzi or DZI may refer to:
Dzi bead
DZI, a Bulgarian insurance company
Deep Zoom Image, computer image file format
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20to%20film
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Computer to film (CTF) is a print workflow involving printing of a design file from a computer straight to a film through an imagesetter. Designs are typically created in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW, however they can also be produced in AutoCAD, Inkscape and many other vector based CAD, design and desktop publishing software packages. An imagesetter is an ultra-high resolution large-format computer output device for CTF.
For multi-coloured printing, the image is broken up into multiple layers representing each of the spot colors or the CMYK process colors, this may be split manually by the designer or separated by software in the imagesetter itself. Each color is made into its own piece of film and plate. There can be 12 or more colors used in a single production run; however, 1-6 colors are typical.
From the imagesetter, the film is taken to the plate maker, where the film is laid on top of photopolymer plate material. A vacuum is then drawn to ensure tight contact between the plate and film, the plate is then exposed with UV light. The plate is then washed in a solvent solution, typically water, where the unexposed areas wash away leaving a relief. It is then dried and given a second and final exposure without the film for durability. The plate can then be fitted onto an offset, rotary or flexographic printing press ready to print the product. A printing plate can produce 100,000 impressions or more before showing signs of wear, after which a new plate can be made from the original film.
With advances in the technology of heat stabilization of polyester film, new-generation laser printer films provide excellent image registration and sharpness for multi-colour jobs.
Computer to film is being replaced by the more advanced computer to plate (CTP) technology.
Printing terminology
Print production
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Objects
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Service Objects is a contact and data validation company.
Operations
Service Objects provides multiple address verification products and email validation services via batch or real-time API.
In 2013, the company launched the DOTS Address Validation-US3 API, which automatically verifies, corrects, and appends address information to contact data records in real time. The DOTS Address Validation-US3 API utilizes the USPS CASS-certified address engine of over 165 million addresses to validate and cleanse addresses by correcting typos and filling in missing information. The API also appends addresses with carrier route and barcode digits for sorting and delivery.
References
External links
Technology companies established in 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nerve
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The Nerve could refer to:
The Nerve (magazine), a defunct Canadian monthly music magazine
The Nerve (radio network), an active rock music service from Citadel Media
KTUM, "107.1 The Nerve", a radio station licensed to serve Tatum, New Mexico, United States
"Bearded Billy"/"The Nerve", a 2004 episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
The Nerves, an American power pop trio based in Los Angeles in the 1970s
The Nerve, an investigative journalism and news website founded by the South Carolina Policy Council
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Space
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Deep Space may refer to:
NASA
Deep Space Network (disambiguation), international network of satellite ground stations
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, satellite ground station in California, US
Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex, satellite ground station in Spain
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, satellite ground station in Australia
Deep Space 1, spacecraft
Deep Space 2, two highly advanced miniature probes
Astronomy
Empty regions of the universe in outer space
Interstellar space
Intergalactic space
Other fields
Deep Space (film), a 1988 horror sci-fi movie
Deep Space (music), Saturday late night/early morning radio show on WGPR 107.5 FM in Detroit
Deep Space (collection), a 1954 collection of short stories by Eric Frank Russell
Deep Space (EP), an EP by Eisley
Deep Space, a video game company and subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment
Deep Space Industries, an American company developing and producing spacecraft technology
"Deep Space", a song by Blank Banshee from the album Blank Banshee 0
"Deep Space", a song by Sub Focus from the album Sub Focus
See also
Deep space exploration
deepspace, a German-Australian ambient music artist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Montana
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NBC Montana is a regional network of three television stations in western Montana, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. It is headquartered in Missoula, and serves as the NBC affiliate for the Missoula and Butte markets.
The network comprises flagship KECI-TV (channel 13) in Missoula; full-power satellites KTVM-TV (channel 6) in Butte and KCFW-TV (channel 9) in Kalispell; and low-power satellite KDBZ-CD (channel 6) in Bozeman. Most station operations, including news production, are based in Missoula, with bureaus in Bozeman and Kalispell.
The stations air the same programming, but KTVM and KCFW air separate commercials and legal identifications. KDBZ is a straight simulcast of KTVM. NBC Montana's reach is further extended by 25 translators in western Montana and Idaho.
The main station, KECI, began broadcasting in 1954 as KGVO-TV. Regional coverage became a reality in the 1960s with the installation of transmitters in Butte and Kalispell. The stations have been sole NBC affiliates since 1989. Sinclair purchased the group in 2017 as part of its acquisition of Bonten Media Group.
History
On March 11, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Mosby's, Incorporated, owner of KGVO (1290 AM) in Missoula, a construction permit for a new television station on channel 13 in Missoula. Construction began in November 1953 on the road to the mountaintop facility, the first of its kind in the state and at the highest elevation of any television transmitter of the period in the northwestern United States; while two stations had gone on the air in Butte and a third in Billings, neither built their transmitters atop mountains.
KGVO-TV began telecasting on July 1, 1954. Originally, the station was a primary CBS affiliate, owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS radio, but also carried programming from ABC and DuMont; it would lose DuMont when the network shut down in 1956. While the studios were originally at the transmitter site, owner Arthur Mosby purchased an American Legion hall in downtown Missoula that had been gutted by fire and renovated it to serve as new studios. On December 1, 1956, the station's studios moved from its transmitter location to its radio sister's studios on West Main Street in downtown Missoula and concurrently changed its call letters to KMSO-TV, representing Missoula's airport code. By 1957, KMSO had added a secondary affiliation with NBC. Mosby sold KGVO radio to Dale Moore in 1959 but held on to KMSO-TV until 1964, when Moore bought channel 13 as well; upon taking over, he changed its call letters back to KGVO-TV. Under Moore's ownership, KGVO-TV switched its primary affiliation to NBC in 1965, though it still carried some CBS and ABC programming. The transmitter was destroyed by fire in November 1966; the FCC permitted the installation of two interim translators to get the station back on air until the TV Mountain facility could be reconstructed.
Additionall
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QMC@Home was a volunteer computing project for the BOINC client aimed at further developing and testing Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for use in quantum chemistry. It is hosted by the University of Münster with participation by the Cavendish Laboratory. QMC@Home allows volunteers from around the world to donate idle computer cycles to help calculate molecular geometry using Diffusion Monte Carlo.
The project is developing a new application using density functional theory.
The project began its Beta testing on 23 May 2006. , QMC@Home has about 7,500 active participants from 102 countries, contributing about 5 teraFLOPS of computation power.
Workunits
In order to get results from home computers the work is split into "workunits". The time it takes to complete a workunit depends on the size of the calculated system and the speed of the user's computer. The target time is between 4 and 48 hours on a 2.4 GHz system.
This is a list of molecules recently tested:
1a Ammonia; 1 Ammonia dimer; 2a Water; 2 Water dimer; 3a Formic acid; 3 Formic acid dimer; 4a Formamide; 4 Formamide dimer; 5a Uracil; 5 Uracil dimer; 6a 2-pyridoxine; 6b 2-aminopyridine; 6 2-pyridoxine/2-aminopyridine; 7a Adenine; 7b Thymine; 7 Adenine/thymine WC; 8a Methane; 8 Methane dimer; 9a Ethene; 9 Ethene dimer; 10 Benzene/methane; 11a Benzene; 11 Benzene dimer; 12a Pyrazine; 12 Pyrazine dimer; 13 Uracil dimer; 14a Indole; 14 Indole/benzene; 15 Adenine/thymine stack; 16b Ethyne; 16 Ethene/ethyne; 17 Benzene/water; 18 Benzene/ammonia; 19b Hydrogen cyanide; 19 Benzene/hydrogen cyanide; 20 Benzene dimer; 21 Indole/benzene; 22a Phenol; 22 Phenol dimer
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
Quantum chemistry
University of Münster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weizenbaum
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Weizenbaum is a Jewish German surname. 'Weizen' means (buck)wheat, 'baum' is a tree. Notable people with the surname include:
Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008), German-American computer scientist
Zoe Weizenbaum (born 1991), American actress
See also
Weidenbaum
German-language surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKB
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TKB can refer to:
The MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base, commonly abbreviated as TKB.
Ting Kau Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge in Hong Kong
TKB, the TasKBuilder program for the RSX-11 computer operating system.
TKB (Tulskoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro / Tula Design Bureau) is the prefix for a series of weapons created by TsKIB SOO:
TKB-09/010
TKB-011
TKB-022PM
TKB-059
TKB-072
TKB-408
TKB-506
TKB-517
TKB-523
TKB-0146
TKB-0216
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PHP%20extensions
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This is the present list of all officially documented extensions for the PHP programming language.
.NET
Apache
BCMath
Brotli
Bzip2
Calendars
CCVS
ClibPDF
COM
cURL
DB++
IBM Db2
dBase
DBM
dbx
DOM XML
FileMaker Pro
filePro
GNU FriBidi
FrontBase
FTP
GD Graphics Library
Gettext
GNU Multi-Precision Library
Hyperwave
iconv
IMAP, POP3 and NNTP
Informix
Ingres II
InterBase
IRC
LDAP
Lotus Notes
mailparse
MCAL
Mcrypt
MCVE
Mhash
MIME Functions
Ming
mnoGoSearch
Mohawk
MS-SQL
mSQL
muscat
MySQL
Ncurses
ODBC
OpenSSL
Oracle
Ovrimos SQL
PayFlow Pro
PDF
PDO
Phalcon
POSIX
PostgreSQL
Printer
Pspell
QT-Dom
GNU Readline
GNU Recode
Regular expressions
Semaphores
SESAM
Session Handling
Shared memory
SMTP
SNMP
SimpleXML
Sockets
SQLite
Streams
Sybase
Token
vpopmail
WDDX
Win32 API
xajax
XML (Xpath)
XML-RPC
XSLT
YAZ
Yellow pages / NIS
ZIP
Zlib
Wjs
See also
Extension Categorization from the official PHP Manual
PHP software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartok%20%28disambiguation%29
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Bartók usually refers to Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer.
Bartok may also refer to:
Bartok (surname), other people with the name
Bartok (compiler), an advanced compiler being developed by Microsoft Research
Bartok (card game)
Bartok (film), a 1964 television film
Bartok, a fictional bat in the movies Anastasia and its prequel Bartok the Magnificent
Béla Bartók Boulevard, or Bartók for short, a major thoroughfare in Újbuda, Budapest, the continuation of the Small Boulevard on the Buda side
See also
Bartók Glacier, an Antarctic glacier
Bartek (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXT
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DXT may refer to:
Grand Mixer DXT, the credited inventor of turntablism
DXT, a family of implementations of the S3 Texture Compression algorithm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20Europe
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This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Europe, ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers. Data is for 2021 with a partial population of 2022 as statistics are released and is sourced individually for each airport and from a variety of sources, but normally the national aviation authority statistics, or those of the airport operator.
The tables also show the percentage change in total passengers for each airport over the last year. Lists of the rankings for every year since 2010 are also presented.
2020 and 2021 numbers are significantly reduced compared to 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused a significant reduction in passenger numbers and aircraft movements.
Evolution in graph
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2010–2015
Gallery
See also
Busiest airports by continent
List of busiest airports by aircraft movements
List of busiest airports by cargo traffic
List of busiest airports by international passenger traffic
List of busiest airports by passenger traffic
List of busiest city airport systems by passenger traffic
List of the busiest airports in the Baltic states
List of the busiest airports in the European Union
List of the busiest airports in the former Soviet Union
List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
List of busiest passenger air routes#Europe
A map showing the passenger turnover of the major European airports in 2018.
Busiest airports by country
List of the busiest airports in Argentina
List of the busiest airports in Australia
List of the busiest airports in Brazil
List of the busiest airports in Canada
List of the busiest airports in China
List of the busiest airports in Croatia
List of the busiest airports in France
List of the busiest airports in Germany
List of the busiest airports in Greece
List of the busiest airports in India
List of the busiest airports in Indonesia
List of the busiest airports in Iran
List of the busiest airports in the Republic of Ireland
List of the busiest airports in Italy
List of the busiest airports in Japan
List of the busiest airports in New Zealand
List of the busiest airports in Poland
List of the busiest airports in Portugal
List of the busiest airports in Romania
List of the busiest airports in Russia
List of the busiest airports in South Korea
List of the busiest airports in Spain
List of the busiest airports in Turkey
List of the busiest airports in Ukraine
List of the busiest airports in the United Kingdom
List of the busiest airports in the United States
Notes
References
Europe
Aviation in Europe
Busiest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHK
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AHK may stand for:
AutoHotkey, a programming language
Air Hong Kong, ICAO airline designator
Akha language of China and Myanmar, ISO 639-3 code
Allied High Commission (German Alliierte Hohe Kommission), for post-WWII Germany
Auslandshandelskammer, German chambers of commerce abroad
AHK USA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Identity%20Integration%20Server
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Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) is an identity management (IdM) product offered by Microsoft. It is a service that aggregates identity-related information from multiple data-sources. The goal of MIIS is to provide organizations with a unified view of a user's/resources identity across the heterogeneous enterprise and provide methods to automate routine tasks.
MIIS manages information by retrieving identity information from the connected data sources and storing the information in the connector space as connector space objects or CSEntry objects. The CSEntry objects are then mapped to entries in the metaverse called metaverse objects or MVEntry objects. This architecture allows data from dissimilar connected data sources to be mapped to the same MVEntry object. All back-end data is stored in Microsoft SQL Server.
For example, through the metaverse an organization's e-mail system can be linked to its human resources database to the organization's PBX system to any other data repository containing relevant user information. Each employee's attributes from the e-mail system and the human resources database are imported into the connector space through respective management agents. The e-mail system can then link to individual attributes from the employee entry, such as the employee telephone number. If an employee's telephone number changes, the new telephone number will automatically be propagated to the e-mail system.
One of the goals of the identity management is to establish and support authoritative source of information for every known attribute and to preserve data integrity according to predetermined business rules.
On IdM market of products MIIS stands out by implementing state-based architecture. The majority of competitors are offering transaction-based products. Due to this approach MIIS requires no software/drivers/agents/shims being installed on the target system.
Extensibility
The product is extensible through the use of the .NET Framework, which allows developers and network administrators to extend out-of-the-box capabilities and perform complex tasks.
Versions
Zoomit Via (pre 1999)
Microsoft Metadirectory Server [MMS] (1999–2003)
Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Enterprise Edition [MIIS] (Retired)
Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Feature Pack [IIFP] (Retired)
Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager Server 2007 ILM (Retired)
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 FIM (Retired)
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 [MIM] (Current)
History
MIIS has its origins in two Canadian companies' products, Linkage Software's metadirectory product LinkAge Directory Exchange (LDE) which Microsoft acquired on June 30, 1997 and Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired on July 7, 1999.
LDE was strongly email system oriented but traces of it and its field mapping technology remain through MIIS 2003.
After acquiring Zoomit Via Microsoft renamed it to MMS (Microsoft Metadirecto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Evans%20%28AI%20researcher%29
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Richard Evans (born 23 October 1969) is an artificial intelligence (AI) research scientist at DeepMind. His research focuses on integrating declarative interpretable logic-based systems with neural networks, and on formal models of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Previously, he designed the AI for a number of computer games. He was the co-founder, along with Emily Short, of Little Text People, developing real-time multiplayer interactive fiction. Little Text People was acquired by Linden Lab in January 2012 for an undisclosed sum. At EA/Maxis, he was the AI lead on The Sims 3.
He also designed and implemented the AI for Black & White, for which he received a number of awards.
References
British video game designers
Living people
1969 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20in%20spaceflight
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The United States National Space Science Data Center catalogued 157 spacecraft placed into orbit by launches which occurred in 1968.
The first crewed Apollo missions occurred in 1968. It was also the year in which Earth lifeforms first left low Earth orbit, during the successful Zond 5 mission, and the year that humans first left low Earth orbit, during the successful Apollo 8 mission.
Launches
Key
January
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October
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December
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Deep space rendezvous
Orbital Launch Summary
References
1968 in science
1960s in transport
1968
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRI
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RRI may refer to:
Radio
Radio Republik Indonesia, the Indonesian public radio network
Radio Romania International
RRI 1
RRI 2
Other uses
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
RepRisk Index, a proprietary risk metric
Responsible Research and Innovation, notion used by the European Union
Rights and Resources Initiative, an international coalition of organizations promoting land tenure reform for poor communities around the world
RRI Energy, former name of GenOn Energy
Road Routing Information within Integrated Transport Network data provided by Ordnance Survey
RRI Rhein Ruhr International, Consulting Engineers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20Rain
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Heavy Rain is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game features four protagonists involved with the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial killer who uses extended periods of rainfall to drown his victims. The player interacts with the game by performing actions highlighted on screen related to motions on the controller, and in some cases, performing a series of quick time events. The player's decisions and actions during the game affect the narrative.
Game developer David Cage wrote the 2,000-page script, acted as director for the four years of development, travelled to Philadelphia to research the setting, and intended to improve upon what was flawed in his 2005 game Fahrenheit. Composer Normand Corbeil wrote the score, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The game was released for PlayStation 3 in February 2010, PlayStation 4 in 2016, and Windows in 2019. It is considered one of the greatest video games ever made, receiving praise for its emotional impact, visuals, writing, controls, and music, though some critics faulted the controls, voice acting, and plot inconsistencies. Heavy Rain was a commercial success, selling 5.3 million units by January 2018.
Gameplay
Heavy Rain is an interactive drama and action-adventure game in which the player controls four different characters from a third-person perspective. Each playable character may die depending on the player's actions, which create a branching storyline; in these cases, the player is faced with quick time events. The game is divided into multiple scenes, each centering on one of the characters.
Holding down R2 moves the character forward and the left analogue stick controls the direction. Interaction with the environment is done by pressing on-screen, context-sensitive prompts, using the right analogue stick, and performing Sixaxis control movements with the DualShock 3 or 4. Also featured are difficulty levels that the player can change at any point during the game. A chapter-select screen offers the function of playing scenes over again. With PlayStation Move, the player wields either the motion and navigation controllers, or the DualShock and motion controllers.
Plot
The day after celebrating his son Jason's tenth birthday, Ethan Mars (Pascal Langdale) and his family go shopping. Jason and Ethan are hit by a car; Jason dies, and Ethan falls into a six-month coma. After he wakes from the coma, Ethan, blaming himself for Jason's death, divorces his wife Grace and moves into a small suburban house while experiencing mental trauma and blackouts. Two years later, Ethan blacks out at the park with his other son Shaun. When he wakes up, he discovers that Shaun has been kidnapped by the "Origami Killer," a serial killer whose modus operandi consists of abducting young boys during the fall season, drowning them in rainwater, and leaving an orchid on their chests and an origami figure nearby. Norman Jayden (Le
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katchalski-Katzir%20algorithm
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The Katchalski-Katzir algorithm is an algorithm for docking of rigid molecules, developed by Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir, Isaac Shariv and Miriam Eisenstein.
In 1990 Professor Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir, former president of the state of Israel, gathered a group of physicists, chemists and biologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, to discuss intermolecular recognition. One of the outcomes of these discussions was the Katchalski-Katzir Algorithm, proposed by Dr. Isaac Shariv, a physics PhD student at the time. The Algorithm was implemented in a computer program, MolFit, by Dr. Miriam Eisenstein from the department of Structural Chemistry.
It is a purely geometric algorithm, but some extensions of it also implement electrostatics.
The algorithm's first step is mapping the molecules onto grids, with each point of a grid being marked as either:
outside the molecule
on the molecule's surface
inside the molecule
The algorithm increases the surface contact and minimizes volume overlap. It is straightforward to compute such a score for a single alignment, but there are too many possible ways to align the molecules to simply iterate over them all.
To compute the scores for many alignments efficiently, fast Fourier transform (FFT) is applied to both grids. Having the grids in FFT form lets the scoring to be computed for many different alignments very quickly.
The Katchalski-Katzir algorithm is a fast but rather limited algorithm. It is usually used to quickly filter out the obviously wrong candidate structures. A structure may have good Katchalski-Katzir score (that is, fits well geometrically), but be a very bad fit overall, for example due to unfavourable electrostatic interactions or hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups facing each other. This is not a serious problem, as such structures can be filtered out later. A bigger issue is when a favourable structure is rejected by the algorithm. Some cases where this may happen include bad geometric fit being overcome by very strong attractive forces, or where the shape of the target changes because of the interactions (induced fit).
Programs that implement the Katchalski-Katzir algorithm include MolFit and FTDock.
See also
Convolution theorem
Molecular modelling
References
Molecular modelling
Computational chemistry
Geometric algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Teitelbaum
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Ruth Teitelbaum ( Lichterman; February 1, 1924 – August 9, 1986) was one of the first computer programmers in the world. Teitelbaum was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
Early life and education
Teitelbaum was born Ruth Lichterman in The Bronx, New York, on February 1, 1924. She was the elder of two children, and the only daughter, of Sarah and Simon Lichterman, a teacher. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. She graduated from Hunter College with a B.Sc. in Mathematics.
Career
Teitelbaum was hired by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania to compute ballistics trajectories. The Moore School was funded by the US Army during the Second World War. Here a group of about 80 women worked manually calculating ballistic trajectories - complex differential calculations.
In June 1943, the Army decided to fund an experimental project - the first all-electronic digital computer called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). The computer was a huge machine with 40 black 8-foot panels. The programmers had to physically program it using 3000 switches, and telephone switching cords in a dozen trays, to route the data, and the program, through the machine. This is the reason why these women were called "computers".
Along with Marlyn Meltzer, Teitelbaum was part of a special area of the ENIAC project to calculate ballistic trajectory equations using analog technology. They taught themselves and others certain functions of the ENIAC and helped prepare the ballistics software. In 1946, the ENIAC computer was unveiled before the public and the press. The seven women were the only generation of programmers to program the ENIAC.
After the war, Teitelbaum traveled with ENIAC to the Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground where she remained for two more years to train the next group of ENIAC programmers.
Legacy
In 2010, a documentary called, "Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII" was released. The film centered around in-depth interviews of three of the six women programmers, focusing on the commendable patriotic contributions they made during World War II.The ENIAC team is the inspiration behind the award-winning 2013 documentary The Computers. This documentary, created by Kathy Kleiman and the ENIAC Programmers Project, combines actual footage of the ENIAC team from the 1940s with interviews with the female team members as they reflect on their time working together on the ENIAC. It is the first documentary of a series of three, and parts two and three will be entitled The Coders and The Future-Maker, respectively.
Personal life
She married Adolph Teitelbaum. Marriage licence was issued on September 17, 1948.
Death
Ruth Teitelbaum died in 1986, aged 62, in Dallas, Texas.
See also
Kathleen Antonelli
Jean Bart
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTVC
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KTVC (channel 36) is a religious television station in Roseburg, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). The station is owned by Better Life Television, and maintains studios on Golden Valley Boulevard in Roseburg and a transmitter on Mount Rose northeast of the city.
KAMK-LD (channel 5) in Eugene operates as a translator of KTVC; this station's transmitter is located on Blanton Road.
History
The station began broadcasting on UHF channel 36 on July 18, 1994, under the call sign KROZ. It became a charter affiliate of The WB on January 11, 1995. It changed its calls to the current KTVC on September 4, 1998. 17 days later, the WB affiliation moved to cable-only KZWB, and KTVC affiliated with the then-new Pax TV.
In 2002, the station affiliated with UPN after the network moved from KEVU-LP. Under ownership of Equity Broadcasting, KTVC became an affiliate of Equity's Retro Television Network on September 16, 2006, when UPN ceased broadcasting. A newly created digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KMTR carries The CW, a network created by the merger of UPN and The WB, while KEVU-LP is affiliated with MyNetworkTV, a network from News Corporation, then-parent company of Fox.
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result, Luken Communications restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customised feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KTVC lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vows to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area.
KTVC was sold at auction to Better Life TV on April 16, 2009. Upon the closure of the sale, the station began to air religious programming from new sister station KBLN, including 3ABN programming.
The KTVC calls were previously used on what is now KBSD-TV in Dodge City, Kansas, from 1957 to 1989.
KAMK-LP history
KAMK-LP began as translator station K53EA in 1993, broadcasting The Box and later, MTV2. In 1996 K53EA began rebroadcasting KROZ which would change to KTVC. On January 1, 1998, K53EA became low power KAMK-LP. Calls reflected owner Gerald D. Kamp's last name.
The FCC has issued a construction permit to move its signal to channel 49, since all stations must abandon channels 52-69.
On January 30, 2012, KAMK-LP switched to digital as KAMK-LD channel 49, using a PSIP of 36.1, to match the PSIP of KTVC. (It is not related to KXOR-LP, a defunct Azteca America station in Eugene that broadcast on UHF channel 36, though that channel carried 3ABN programming in the past.)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTVC shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue%2021
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Rescue 21 is an advanced maritime computing, command, control, and communications (C4) system designed to manage communications for the United States Coast Guard.
Overview
Rescue 21 is designed to be more robust, reliable, and capable than the legacy system by using a modern radio system coupled with a TCP/IP network, and digital communication using VoIP. It was created to better locate mariners in distress and save lives and property at sea and on navigable rivers.
To address the limitations of the current communications system, the National Distress and Response System (NDRS), the Coast Guard has implemented a major systems acquisition program entitled Rescue 21.
Rescue 21 enables the Coast Guard to perform all missions with greater agility and efficiency. The new system will close 88 known coverage gaps in coastal areas of the United States, enhancing the safety of life at sea. The system's expanded system frequency capacity enables greater coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, as well as other federal, state and local agencies, and first responders.
When completed, this vital major systems acquisition will provide an updated, leading-edge Very High Frequency – Frequency Modulated (VHF-FM) communications system, replacing the National Distress Response System installed and deployed during the 1970s. Rescue 21 will cover more than of coastline, navigable rivers and waterways in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Remote sites in Alaska and along the Western Rivers are scheduled to receive modified Rescue 21 coverage by 2017. By replacing outdated legacy technology with a fully integrated system, Rescue 21 provides the Coast Guard with upgraded tools and technology to protect the nation's coasts and rescue mariners at sea. The name Rescue 21 is a reference to taking the Search out of Search and Rescue.
Rescue 21 was designed and is supported by General Dynamics Mission Systems out of Scottsdale, Arizona.
NDRS Technology
The National Distress and Response System (NDRS) was established more than 30 years ago as a VHF-FM-based radio communication system that has a range of up to along most of the U.S. shoreline. While this system has served the Coast Guard well over the years, it consists of out-of-date and non-standard equipment with many limitations. These include:
No direction finding capability.
Numerous geographic communication coverage gaps.
Limited interoperability with other emergency response services.
Single-channel radio operation, which prohibits the ability to receive multiple radio calls.
Rescue 21 technology
Rescue 21 will provide the United States with a 21st-century maritime command, control, and communications (C3) system that encompasses the entire United States. By replacing outdated technology with a fully integrated C3 system, Rescue 21 improves on the NDRS with the following enhancements: interoperability, direction-finding equipment with 2 degrees Root Mean S
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29
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Ovation is an American television network whose focus is on the fine arts and contemporary culture. The network is owned by Ovation LLC, which is made up of a joint venture of Hubbard Media Group, and the private-equity funds Corporate Partners II, Arcadia Investment Partners, and Perry Capital.
, approximately 54 million households (46.4 percent of those with television) had access to Ovation.
History
The channel was launched in 1996, mainly with spread-out coverage throughout the country and no satellite carriage, with its major coverage with the urban base of Time Warner Cable. Under this form, its carriage was limited, as cable providers did not see much popularity or requests for the arts-based network, as had been seen in the past with networks like CBS Cable, or former arts networks that went for a more broad-based focus, including Bravo and A&E.
On August 30, 2006, the network's assets were purchased by a consortium made up of the Hubbard family and The Weinstein Company. In June 2007, the network was re-launched, coinciding with its addition by DirecTV, which gave the channel full national coverage. In 2008, Ovation also became available on Dish. With the relaunch, Ovation TV claimed an "energetic" new look and a new primetime schedule revolving around "genre nights" dedicated to performance, people, and film. "TV" was dropped from its branding on March 1, 2010. The network launched in high definition in July 2010, utilizing the 1080i format.
The network's investment by The Weinstein Company would come into question in October 2017, when Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault and abuse allegations came to light. Two weeks after the first public reports, the network's board notified Harvey Weinstein on October 24 that he would be expelled from any further involvement in Ovation. Shortly after, TWC's interest in the network was fully terminated, saving Ovation LLC from the legal battle to come with TWC's bankruptcy.
Carriage
On December 18, 2012, Time Warner Cable announced plans to remove Ovation from its own systems as well as those operated by Bright House Networks (whose carriage agreements were negotiated by Time Warner). Time Warner Cable and BHN dropped Ovation at midnight Eastern Time on December 31, 2012. The two providers later reached an agreement to resume carriage of Ovation on October 16, 2013, reinstating the channel on TWC and BHN systems on January 1, 2014.
The network was carried on Dish until April 6, 2015, when it was removed from that provider at a nadir for the network where it originated little to no programming and had drifted towards carrying low-prestige Hollywood films out of format. Providers refused to renew the network under this guise, and by 2017, it had begun to acquire overseas and prestige product anew to avert the network's demise.
Programming
Ovation programming is a mix of original and acquired television series, films, documentaries and specials, targeting a multi-generational audience.
Current p
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Langston
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Michael Allen Langston is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee. In several publications with Michael Fellows in the late 1980s, he showed that the Robertson–Seymour theorem could be used to prove the existence of a polynomial-time algorithm for problems such as linkless embedding without allowing the algorithm itself to be explicitly constructed; this work was foundational to the field of parameterized complexity. He has also collaborated with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the computational analysis of genomics data and reconstruction of gene regulatory networks.
Langston received his doctorate (PhD) in 1981 at Texas A&M University in computing science. His dissertation was Processor scheduling with improved heuristic algorithms. He worked at Washington State University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe before taking his present position at the University of Tennessee. He has also served in the United States Army as a paratrooper and officer in the 17th Cavalry Regiment and as personnel database manager for VII Corps.
His honors include the Commendation Medal, U.S. Army, 1979; the Distinguished Teaching Award, Texas A&M University, 1981; the Distinguished Service Prize, ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, 2001; and the Chancellor's Award for Research and Creative Achievement, University of Tennessee, 1994 and 2014.
References
External links
Mike Langston's Homepage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Texas A&M University alumni
Syracuse University alumni
University of Tennessee faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Abuse%20Clearinghouse
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The Network Abuse Clearinghouse, better known as abuse.net, maintains a contact database for reporting network abuse. It makes entries from the database available (via Web, DNS, and WHOIS), and provides an intermediary service for registered users to forward complaints by e-mail.
In 1997, abuse.net started as an experimental service for users to send complaints to domain.name@abuse.net for clearing.
See also
Anti-spam techniques (e-mail)
Hacker (computer security)
news.admin.net-abuse.email
Phishing
Spamming
Cyberbullying
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry%20%28DHT%29
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Pastry is an overlay network and routing network for the implementation of a distributed hash table (DHT) similar to Chord. The key–value pairs are stored in a redundant peer-to-peer network of connected Internet hosts. The protocol is bootstrapped by supplying it with the IP address of a peer already in the network and from then on via the routing table which is dynamically built and repaired. It is claimed that because of its redundant and decentralized nature there is no single point of failure and any single node can leave the network at any time without warning and with little or no chance of data loss. The protocol is also capable of using a routing metric supplied by an outside program, such as ping or traceroute, to determine the best routes to store in its routing table.
Overview
Although the distributed hash table functionality of Pastry is almost identical to other DHTs, what sets it apart is the routing overlay network built on top of the DHT concept. This allows Pastry to realize the scalability and fault tolerance of other networks, while reducing the overall cost of routing a packet from one node to another by avoiding the need to flood packets. Because the routing metric is supplied by an external program based on the IP address of the target node, the metric can be easily switched to shortest hop count, lowest latency, highest bandwidth, or even a general combination of metrics.
The hash table's key-space is taken to be circular, like the key-space in the Chord system, and node IDs are 128-bit unsigned integers representing position in the circular key-space. Node IDs are chosen randomly and uniformly so peers who are adjacent in node ID are geographically diverse. The routing overlay network is formed on top of the hash table by each peer discovering and exchanging state information consisting of a list of leaf nodes, a neighborhood list, and a routing table. The leaf node list consists of the L/2 closest peers by node ID in each direction around the circle.
In addition to the leaf nodes there is also the neighborhood list. This represents the M closest peers in terms of the routing metric. Although it is not used directly in the routing algorithm, the neighborhood list is used for maintaining locality principles in the routing table.
Finally there is the routing table itself. It contains one entry for each address block assigned to it. To form the address blocks, the 128-bit key is divided up into digits with each digit being b bits long, yielding a numbering system with base 2b. This partitions the addresses into distinct levels from the viewpoint of the client, with level 0 representing a zero-digit common prefix between two addresses, level 1 a one-digit common prefix, and so on. The routing table contains the address of the closest known peer for each possible digit at each address level, except for the digit that belongs to the peer itself at that particular level. This
results in the storage of contacts per level, w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20network%20scientists
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This is a list of notable individuals who research complex networks, including social networks, biological networks, and semantic networks, among others. Individuals are categorized based on their background and training, or their area of focus.
Social and behavioral sciences
Peter Bearman
Ulrik Brandes
Ronald S. Burt
Noshir Contractor
James Fowler
Mark Granovetter
Dirk Helbing
Matthew O. Jackson
Helen Hall Jennings
Frigyes Karinthy
David Lazer
Zeev Maoz
John Levi Martin
James D. Montgomery
Anna Nagurney
Kim Rossmo
Tom Snijders
Duncan Watts
Barry Wellman
Douglas R. White
Harrison White
Computer and information sciences
Lada Adamic
Vladimir Batagelj
Randy Bush
Aaron Clauset
Anuška Ferligoj
Jon Kleinberg
Jure Leskovec
Filippo Menczer
Cristopher Moore
Aleš Žiberna
Physics
Réka Albert
Luís A. N. Amaral
Albert-László Barabási
Kevin E. Bassler
Dirk Brockmann
Kim Christensen
Raissa D'Souza
Ernesto Estrada
Michelle Girvan
Shlomo Havlin
César Hidalgo
Vito Latora
José Fernando Ferreira Mendes
Yamir Moreno
Adilson E. Motter
Mark Newman
H. Eugene Stanley
Alessandro Vespignani
Lenka Zdeborová
Biology
Uri Alon
Danielle Bassett
Caroline Buckee
Paulien Hogeweg
Trey Ideker
Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Bernhard Palsson
John Quackenbush
Olaf Sporns
Mathematics
Vincent Blondel
Béla Bollobás
Chris Danforth
Peter Sheridan Dodds
Pául Erdős
Frank Harary
László Lovász
Alfréd Rényi
Steven Strogatz
Mason Porter
Network Scientists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander%3A%20Europe%20at%20War
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Commander: Europe at War (CEaW) is a World War II turn-based strategy computer game. The game was codeveloped by Slitherine Software and Firepower Entertainment, and allows gamers to play either the Axis or the Allies. Commander features six scenarios, 50 inventions from five technology branches, and 12 different unit classes. A sequel, Commander: Napoleon at War, was released in 2008. Another sequel, Commander: The Great War, was released in 2012.
Release
The game was announced on May 28, 2006. A Mac OS X port was released in December 2007 by Freeverse. Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable ports were released in 2009. They were ported by Italian developer Impressionware.
Reception
Larry Levandowski of Armchair General said: "As a complete package, Commander – Europe at War, is a crowd pleaser. Strategy players at all levels of experience will enjoy this accessible game. Grognards looking for depth and historical accuracy may want to look elsewhere. But even grizzled veterans of the genre might fall for the game’s charms."
Neil Booth of PAL Gaming Network said that it's "[a]n excellent game for both hardcore strategy nuts and newcomers alike. An unassuming surface hides hours of ferociously addictive gameplay that's rivalled by few other titles."
Tuukka Grönholm of Pelit summarized: "Commander: Europe at War is a deep and fun strategy game that shines in multiplayer. The only problem is that Commander feels very much like Strategic Command, but it is not quite as good."
References
External links
2007 video games
Freeverse Inc. games
MacOS games
Matrix Games games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation Portable games
Slitherine Software games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Italy
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
World War II video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWWT
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KWWT (channel 30) is a television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, serving the Permian Basin area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KOSA-TV (channel 7, also licensed to Odessa), Big Spring–licensed CW+ affiliate KCWO-TV (channel 4), Telemundo affiliate KTLE-LD (channel 7.5) and Antenna TV affiliate KMDF-LD (channel 22). The five stations share studios inside the Music City Mall on East 42nd Street in Odessa, with a secondary studio and news bureau in downtown Midland; KWWT's transmitter is located on SH 158 near Gardendale, Texas.
History
KWWT signed on the air on December 5, 2001, as KPXK. It was a Pax TV affiliate until late 2005, when KWWT moved its cable-only The WB 100+ feed (which was established on September 21, 1998) to UHF channel 30.
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner announced the shutdown of both UPN and The WB effective that fall. In place of these two networks, a new "fifth" network—"The CW Television Network" (its name representing the first initials of parent companies CBS and Warner Bros.), jointly owned by both companies, would launch, with a lineup primarily featuring the most popular programs from both networks. In March 2006 it was announced that KWWT would be a CW affiliate through The CW Plus.
In 2011, KWWT signed on to carry college football and basketball games from the Southland Conference Television Network. The contract continues today. For the first 3 seasons the games usually aired on 30.2, though they will likely move to 30.1 for the 2014 season. Additionally, KWWT aired ACC Network basketball games during the 2011–12 basketball season.
KWWT remained a CW affiliate until December 29, 2013. On that date, KWES-TV (channel 9) took over CW rights and KWWT moved MeTV to 30.1 while adding Movies! on 30.2.
On July 24, 2020, it was announced that Gray Television (owner of CBS affiliate KOSA-TV and CW affiliate KCWO-TV) would purchase KWWT and sister low-power station KMDF-LD for $1.84 million, pending approval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Gray sought a failing station waiver as the Odessa–Midland market would not have at least eight independent voices after the transaction (KCWO-TV is licensed as a satellite of KOSA-TV despite airing different programming). In addition, Gray also announced that after the sale, KWWT would move its operations to the shared KOSA/KCWO facility in Odessa. The FCC granted the waiver on September 14. The sale was completed on September 30.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KWWT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, on June 12, 2009, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on its analog-era UHF channel 30. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the digital television transition in the United States (DTV) allotment plan on Apri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20open-source%20wireless%20drivers
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Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function (firmware, device drivers). This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network cards.
Linux
Status
Driver capabilities
DragonFly BSD
FreeBSD
Status
Driver capabilities
NetBSD
OpenBSD
The following is an incomplete list of supported wireless devices:
Status
Driver capabilities
Solaris and OpenSolaris
Darwin, OpenDarwin and macOS
Notes
References
http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/sb/CS-006408.htm
The SourceForge IPW websites (ipw 2100,ipw2200 and ipw3945)
The FSF website for the Ralink and Realtek cards
Kerneltrap for the list of OpenBSD drivers
The OpenSolaris website for the list of OpenSolaris and Solaris drivers
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014705/http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2084
https://web.archive.org/web/20060908050351/http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Rt2x00_beta
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html
rt2x00 README from cvs
https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/9/323
External links
Seattle Wireless Linux drivers
Seattle Wireless Mac OS drivers
wireless.kernel.org Wiki
Current Stable Linux kernel: Wireless
Open Documentation for Hardware, a 2006 presentation by Theo de Raadt
Free software lists and comparisons
Wireless networking
Wireless drivers
Linux drivers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompallier%20Catholic%20College
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Pompallier Catholic College is a Catholic co-educational secondary school located in the suburb of Maunu in Whangārei, New Zealand. It is one of nine secondary schools within the Marist network. Pompallier Catholic College is named after Bishop Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier who led the first group of Catholic Missionaries from Lyons, France, to New Zealand. The patron saint of the college is John the Baptist. Students of Pompallier Catholic College are colloquially known as Pompallians.
History
Pompallier College is named after Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier who led the first group of Catholic Missionaries to New Zealand, arriving in the Hokianga with Fr Servant and Br Michel a Marist Priest and Brother in 1838. He was the first Catholic Bishop of New Zealand; Bishop Pompallier of the Diocese of Auckland.
The school was founded in 1971 after fund-raising among Northland parishes. It started as a private Boys' Boarding School owned and administered by the Society of Mary. The school became co-educational in 1977, closed the boarding facility in 1981 and in the same year became a state-integrated secondary school owned by the Diocese of Auckland and administered by a board of trustees. An Attached Intermediate was opened in 1995 and Form 1–7 status was achieved in 1997. It is now known as a Year 7–13 state-integrated co-educational secondary school.
Controversy
In August 2012, principal Richard Stanton published an article in the school newsletter which opposed Louisa Wall's Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill, which would legalise same-sex marriage in New Zealand. A staff member was suspended, and later dismissed, for supporting a pro-gay marriage protest the students were having, due to the article written in the newsletter. Some students and parents also protested against the article.
Abuse
At least one priest who taught at Pompallier College is alleged to have abused children.
Father Phil Roberts, Society of Mary priest and former principal of Pompallier College in Whangārei and St Augustine's College, Whanganui, mentioned in the New Zealand Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care hearings in March 2021 as having abused children.
School structure
The school is divided into four houses. The house patrons have been chosen by students on the basis of their connection with Te Tai Tokerau and/or the Colleges Catholic and Marist charism. They are:
Tate Green house. Named after Pa Henare Tate
Aubert Blue house. Named after Sister Suzanne Aubert
Chavoin Yellow house. Named after Jeanne-Marie Chavoin
Colin Red house. Named after Jean-Claude Colin
Notable alumni
Simon France (1958-2023), judge of the High Court (2005–2022) and Court of Appeal (2022–2023)
Derren Witcombe (born 1978), rugby union player, All Black (2005)
References
Educational institutions established in 1971
Schools in Whangārei
Catholic secondary schools in New Zealand
Secondary schools in the Northland Region
1971 establishments in New Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Very%20Large%20Data%20Bases
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International Conference on Very Large Data Bases or VLDB conference is an annual conference held by the non-profit Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. While named after very large databases, the conference covers the research and development results in the broader field of database management. The mission of VLDB Endowment is to "promote and exchange scholarly work in databases and related fields throughout the world." The VLDB conference began in 1975 and is now closely associated with SIGMOD and SIGKDD.
Venues
See also
XLDB
References
External links
VLDB Endowment Inc.
Computer science conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW%20on%20TNN
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ECW on TNN, also known as ECW Wrestling, is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and aired on The Nashville Network (TNN, now Paramount Network). Created by Paul Heyman, the owner of HHG Corporation (parent company of ECW), it presented original ECW matches on Friday nights and was the only national television program in ECW's history. It debuted on August 27, 1999 - five years to the date that Shane Douglas threw down the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and rechristened ECW (then known as Eastern Championship Wrestling) as Extreme Championship Wrestling. The final episode aired on October 6, 2000. All episodes are available on WWE Network and Peacock (streaming service).
History
Origin
In 1999, Heyman signed a three-year contract with TNN in the hopes of expanding national awareness of his company. Prior to ECW on TNN, ECW shows were only televised via syndication. For its part, TNN added ECW to its "Friday Night Thrill Zone" lineup in an attempt to help build on the increase in teenager/young male viewership that RollerJam had brought to the network. Into 2000, the network claimed a vast improvement in the young male demographic on Friday nights due to ECW's addition.
ECW–TNN differences
Early signs of a rocky relationship between ECW and TNN came when TNN president David Hall implied that the program would be "toned down" from the usual ECW fare – which emphasized more violent matches and explicit content than that offered by the two leading professional wrestling companies of the day, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). On WWE's The Rise and Fall of ECW DVD, Heyman alleged that the requests from TNN to tone down ECW's content were excessive.
Another source of contention was the lack of original programming. Unsatisfied with the first TNN shoot, Heyman instead chose to air a compilation of promos and old ECW matches designed to act as an introduction to the company for those who had never before heard of it or seen it. ECW commentator Joey Styles said that "the network crapped on" this episode, and ECW wrestler Tommy Dreamer's recollection supported this assertion.
The network also had reportedly placed a great deal of importance on ECW retaining top star Taz. Initially, the company announced that he signed a lucrative deal to remain with the company. However, the deal fell through shortly thereafter and Taz signed a contract with the WWF just months after the show's premiere.
On Rise and Fall, former ECW producer Ron Buffone stated that TNN provided ECW with a very small budget to produce the program while simultaneously asking for high-quality production on par with WCW Monday Nitro and WWF Raw. Heyman and former ECW wrestlers also alleged a lack of promotion of the show by the network specifically and by its parent company Viacom in general.
The relationship between the promotion and the broadcaster was
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Rackoff
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Charles Weill Rackoff is an American cryptologist. Born and raised in New York City, he attended MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student, and earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1974. He spent a year as a postdoctoral scholar at INRIA in France.
Rackoff currently works at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in computational complexity theory. For some time now, he has been specializing in cryptography and security protocols. In 1988, he collaborated with Michael Luby in a widely cited analysis of the Feistel cipher construction (one important result shown there is the construction of a strongly pseudo random permutation generator from a pseudo random function generator). Rackoff was awarded the 1993 Gödel Prize for his work on interactive proof systems and for being one of the co-inventors of zero-knowledge proofs. In 2011, he won the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics for his various contributions to cryptography.
Rackoff's controversial comments on the 2000 memorial for the victims of the Montreal Massacre were reported in the Canadian media.
Selected publications
S. Goldwasser, S. Micali and C. Rackoff, "The knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems", SIAM Journal on Computing, 18, 1989, pp. 186–208.
C. Rackoff and D. Simon, "Non-interactive zero-knowledge proof of knowledge and the chosen cipertext attack", in Proceedings of Crypto 91, pp. 433–444.
C. Rackoff and D. Simon, "Cryptographic defense against traffic analysis", in Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, May 1993, pp. 672–681.
References
Living people
1948 births
Scientists from New York City
American computer scientists
American cryptographers
Modern cryptographers
Gödel Prize laureates
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows
Mathematicians from New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20Server%20Express
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Microsoft SQL Server Express is a version of Microsoft's SQL Server relational database management system that is free to download, distribute and use. It comprises a database specifically targeted for embedded and smaller-scale applications. The product traces its roots to the Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE) product, which was shipped with SQL Server 2000. The "Express" branding has been used since the release of SQL Server 2005.
Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB is a version of Microsoft SQL Server Express, on-demand managed instance of the SQL Server engine. It is targeted to developers, and has the following restrictions: up to 10 GB database size and only local connections (network connections are not supported).
Capabilities
SQL Server Express provides many of the features of the paid, full versions of Microsoft SQL Server database management system. However it has technical restrictions that make it unsuitable for some large-scale deployments. Differences in the Express product include:
Maximum database size of 10 GB per database in SQL Server 2019, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2012, and 2008 R2 Express (4 GB for SQL Server 2008 Express and earlier; compared to 2 GB in the former MSDE). The limit applies per database (log files excluded); but in some scenarios users can access more data through the use of multiple interconnected databases.
No SQL Server Agent service
Artificial hardware usage limits:
Single physical CPU, but multiple cores allowable
1 GB of RAM (runs on a system with higher RAM amount, but uses only at most 1 GB per instance of SQL Server Database Engine. "Recommended: Express Editions: 1 GB All other editions: At least 4 GB and should be increased as database size increases to ensure optimal performance."). Express with Advanced Services has a limit of 4 GB per instance of Reporting Services (not available on other Express variants). Analysis Services is not available for any Express variant.
Unlike the predecessor product, MSDE, the Express product does not include a concurrent workload-governor to "limit performance if the database engine receives more work than is typical of a small number of users."
SQL Server Express includes several GUI tools for database management. These include:
SQL Server Management Studio since 2012 SP1; before that, only a stripped-down version called SQL Server Management Studio Express is provided
SQL Server Configuration Manager
SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tool
SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio
The predecessor product MSDE generally lacked basic GUI management tools,
Features available in SQL Server "Standard" and better editions but absent from SQL Server Express include:
Analysis Services
Integration Services
Notification Services
LocalDB
SQL Server Express LocalDB announced at 2011.
This version supports silent installation, requires no management and it is compatible with other editions of SQ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis%20Gergorin
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Jean-Louis Gergorin is a French cybersecurity expert, strategy consultant, former diplomat, and former executive vice president of EADS—the giant European aerospace company that controls and has been subsequently known as Airbus.
He was at the origin of the Clearstream 2 incident in France; a significant occurrence in French political life from 2006 to 2010.
He was later found in this case guilty of slanderous denunciation, and use of forgery.
Education
Gergorin was educated at two top French schools, the École Polytechnique and École Nationale d'Administration. Gergorin was also a research fellow at the RAND Corporation and Harvard Kennedy School and is a graduate of the Executive Education Program at Stanford Business School.
Career
In 1973, Gergorin was cofounder and deputy head of the Policy Planning Staff of the French Foreign Ministry. From 1979 to 1984 he was Director of Policy Planning, reporting directly to the French Foreign Minister.
In November 1984 he joined the aerospace group Matra as Senior Vice President for Strategy, starting a close association with CEO Jean-Luc Lagardère that lasted until Lagardère's sudden death in March 2003. Between 1998 and 2000, together with Lagardère and Co-CEO Philippe Camus, Gergorin played a major role in the series of national and transnational mergers that led to the formation of EADS—the world's second largest aerospace company.
During his time at EADS, Gergorin served as Executive Vice President for Strategy, member of the executive committee, and as a member of the Shareholder's Committee (Board of Directors) for its Airbus subsidiary. In this final capacity, Gergorin was particularly active in the expansion of EADS in the U.S. and U.K. markets.
Strategy and Cybersecurity Consultant
On 26 April 2007, Jean-Louis Gergorin founded the company JLG Strategy, which provides strategy consulting focusing on the fields of aerospace, defense, and cybersecurity. In 2014, he founded and became a member of the steering committee of the French American Cybersecurity Conference. In November 2018, with Léo Isaac-Dognin, he published "Cyber, la guerre permanente", a book which offers a geopolitical analysis of both the main cyber incidents since the beginning of the 2000s and the stakes involved in the attacks. The book was reviewed in the French press at the time of its publication. He was invited to speak on these issues in 2019 and 2021 at the Word Policy Conference, an IFRI initiative; he also spoke at the Normandy World Forum for Peace in 2020 and 2021. In 2020, he joined the scientific committee of the International Cybersecurity Forum. From 2020 through early 2022, he co-authored four op-eds in the newspaper Le Monde with Bernard Barbier, former technical director at DGSE, and admiral Edouard Guillaud, former Chief of the Defense Staff of the French Armed Forces, about the current and future importance of cyber-related issues (e.g., the vital need for a national cyber strategy, the need to imp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay
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Decay may refer to:
Science and technology
Bit decay, in computing
Software decay, in computing
Distance decay, in geography
Decay time (fall time), in electronics
Biology
Decomposition of organic matter
Tooth decay (dental caries), in dentistry
Mitochondrial decay, in genetics
Physics
Orbital decay, the process of prolonged reduction in the height of a satellite's orbit
Particle decay
Radioactive decay
Optical decay, in quantum physics
Mathematics
Exponential decay
Psychology and sociology
Decay theory, in psychology and memory
Social decay (decadence), in sociology
Urban decay, in sociology
Entertainment
Network decay (channel drift), in television programming
Decay (DC Comics), a comic book character
Half-Life: Decay, a 2001 video game add-on
Deekay, a Danish production team
Decay (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in TNA Wrestling
Film
Decay (2012 film), a 2012 zombie film set at the Large Hadron Collider
Decay (2015 film), a 2015 American film
Music
how quickly the sound drops to the sustain level after the initial peak, see ADSR envelope
"Decay" (Ride song)
"Decay" (Biohazard song)
"Decay" (Sevendust song), 2013
Decay Music, 1976 music album by Michael Nyman
The Years of Decay, music album by Overkill (band)
In Decay, 2012 album by Com Truise
Other
Beta decay (finance)
See also
Weathering
Decomposition (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Skeen
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M. Dale Skeen (born c. 1955) is an American computer scientist. He specializes in designing and implementing large-scale computing systems, distributed computing and database management systems.
Life
Skeen earned a B.S. in computer science from North Carolina State University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley in distributed database systems.
He began his career in 1982 at the Computer Corporation of America in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before working as an assistant professor at Cornell University’s Computer Science department, during which he also worked as a technical consultant for Bell Laboratories.
Skeen then held a research staff member position at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
In 1986, Skeen worked at TIBCO Software in Palo Alto, California, becoming the vice president of research and principal inventor of “The Information Bus” data integration backplane.
Skeen co-founded Vitria Technology in October 1994 with his wife, JoMei Chang, and served as chief technology officer.
Vitria started as a business process management company and then developed operational intelligence products.
Skeen was interviewed in the press.
He has patents on the distributed publish/subscribe communication mechanism and three-phase commit protocol.
Skeen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2001 for “fundamental contributions in publish-subscribe communications.”
In April 2004 he became chief executive officer of Vitria.
Publications
"Business Vocabulary Management,” Business Integration Journal, July 2003.
“Real-Time Queries in the Enterprise,” Byte Magazine, Volume 23, Number 2, February 1998.
“Enabling the Real-Time Enterprise,” Byte Magazine, Volume 23, Number 1, January 1998.
“The Information Bus – An Architecture for Extensible Distributed Systems,” Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, ACM Press, Asheville, North Carolina, December 1993. With M. Pfluegl, B. Oki, A. Siegel.
“An Efficient, Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Replication Management,” Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing, B. Simmons and A. Spector, editors, Springer-Verlag, 1990. With A. El Abbadi and F. Cristian.
“Nonblocking Commit Protocols,” The INGRES Papers, M. Stonebreaker, editor, Addison-Wesley, 1986.
“A Formal Model for Crash Recovery in a Distributed System,” Concurrency and Reliability in Distributed Systems, B. Bhargava, ed., Van Nostrand-Reingold, Inc., 1987. With M. Stonebraker.
“Consistency in a Partitioned Network: A Survey,” ACM Computing Surveys 17, No. 3, September 1985, pp. 341–370. With S. Davidson and H. Garcia-Molina.
“Determining the Last Process to Fail,” ACM Transactions on Computing Systems 2, No. 1, February 1985.
“Increasing Availability in Partitioned Database Systems,” Advances in Computing Research 3: The Theory of Databases, Franco Preparato and Paris Kanellakis, editors, JAI Pre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget%20Forrester
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Bridget Forrester is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. She first appeared in 1992 as the infant daughter of Brooke Logan and Eric Forrester. The character was portrayed by actress Ashley Jones from December 2004 to January 2011 as a regular, but was dropped to recurring status and continued to make appearances up until February 29, 2012, when Bridget left for New York along with a few others. Since 2013, Jones has continued to make guest appearances on the soap.
Casting
The role was originated by various child actresses. Agnes Bruckner portrayed Bridget as a rebellious teenager from early 1997 to 2000. This was Brucker's first job as an actress, which she described as an "incredible experience" which taught her about the industry. In 2013, she said: "I was only 11 years old, and being on a soap opera, especially at such a young age for me, was basically a very important acting class, just because there were so many elements of working with different directors, memorizing your lines, working with different actors, really learning how to act on a set." Jennifer Finnigan portrayed the role from 2000 to 2004 when she was replaced by Emily Harrison who left the show after only a couple of months. Actress Kirsten Storms previously auditioned for the role in 1999.
In December 2004, two time Daytime Emmy nominee Ashley Jones (Megan Dennison, The Young and the Restless) took over the role of Bridget Forrester. In 2008, she spoke of her first day on set, revealing "I was so intimidated because I was working with Katherine Kelly Lang, and I had all these crying scenes", and also remembering that she felt on edge having replaced Finnigan. By June 2009, Jones had appeared in over 600 episodes of the series. Initially, she had only planned to remain in the role for only two years, but said: "I didn't see any reason to leave, and I didn't want anyone else to play Bridget."
Jones opted to be let out of her contract in December 2010 to focus on other projects. She returned in a non-contract capacity in October 2011. Having appeared last in early 2012, Jones returned to tape a four-episode appearance in May 2013. The actress noted that she "didn't want to go back for a wedding of funeral" because "this is too cool a character to come back and just sit in the background. That's not fun." Discussing a possible future return, she said: "This is a fun character the audience really responds to, so I'm open to whatever they might have in mind for her." In July 2015, it was confirmed that Jones would return to The Bold and the Beautiful for a short arc from August 7 to 12. In February 2016, it was announced that Jones who is also appearing on General Hospital would briefly return as Bridget from February 16 to 19.
In August 2018, it was announced that Jones would reprise the role. The actress returned on August 20, 21, 22, September 25 and December 25, 2018. In March 2020, she reprised the role for a th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20and%20object%20carousel
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In digital video broadcasting (DVB), a data and object carousel is used for repeatedly delivering data in a continuous cycle. Carousels allow data to be pushed from a broadcaster to multiple receivers by transmitting a data set repeatedly in a standard format. A set-top box receiver may tune to the data stream at any time and is able to reconstitute the data into a virtual file system. The carousel may therefore be considered as a transport file system or file broadcasting system that allows data files to be transmitted from the broadcaster to multiple receivers or clients simultaneously.
In a unidirectional broadcast environment, the receiver is unable to request the retransmission of any data that was missed or received incorrectly. Repeated retransmission of data allows the receiver to cope with random tuning to a channel at an unpredictable time, for instance as the user changes a channel.
The carousel cycle period generally determines the maximum time required for a receiver to acquire an application or specific datum. It is possible to reduce the access time for commonly used files by broadcasting some data more often than others.
An individual object carousel is also called a service domain in some documents. To be precise, a service domain is a group of related DSM-CC objects. In broadcast systems, there is no difference between an object carousel and a service domain except for the terminology: an object carousel is a service domain, and vice versa.
Usage and applications
Data and object carousels are most commonly used in DVB, which has standards for broadcasting digital television content using carousels. The standard format for a carousel is defined in the Digital Storage Media Command and Control (DSM-CC) toolkit in ISO/IEC 13818-6 and is part of the Digital Audio Video Council (DAVIC) DVB standard for digital video broadcasting. The specification provides support for a variety of communication models, including provision for interactive transport control of audio and video streams in a bi-directional environment such as a cable television video on demand system.
The DSM-CC standard specifies two types of carousel, a data carousel and an object carousel. The object carousel extends the more limited data carousel and specifies a standard format for representing a file system directory structure comprising a root directory or service gateway and one or more files and directories.
Files and directories are encapsulated in a DSM-CC object carousel in several layers. Objects are encapsulated in modules, which are carried within download data blocks, within DSM-CC sections encoded in MPEG private sections which are assembled from packets.
Carousel management
Carousel complexity can increase dramatically based on various factors such as the content type or the content filling algorithm. Generally the content of a transmission carousel is dynamic, based on a multitude of variables, such as duration of the carousel transmission, and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompsonia%20%28crustacean%29
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Thompsonia is a genus of barnacles which has evolved into an endoparasite of other crustaceans, including crabs and snapping shrimp. It spreads through the host's body as a network of threads, and produces many egg capsules which emerge through joints in the host's shell.
Taxonomic history
The first scientific description of the genus was Robby Kossmann's description in 1872 of Thompsonia globosa. Kossmann named the genus after John Vaughan Thompson, the Irish naturalist who had recognised the cirripedian affinities of the Rhizocephala. The type specimens had been collected by Georg Semper in the East Indies, on the legs of the crab Lybia tessellata. Eleven species are now recognised:
Thompsonia affinis Krüger, 1912
Thompsonia chuni Häfele, 1911
Thompsonia cubensis Reinhard & Stewart, 1956
Thompsonia edwardsi Coutière, 1902
Thompsonia globosa Kossmann, 1872
Thompsonia haddoni Coutière, 1902
Thompsonia japonica Häfele, 1911
Thompsonia littoralis Lützen & Jespersen, 1990
Thompsonia pilodiae Lützen & Jespersen, 1990
Thompsonia reinhardi Lützen, 1992
Thompsonia sinensis Keppen, 1877
References
Further reading
Barnacles
Crustacean genera
Parasites of crustaceans
Parasitic crustaceans
Endoparasites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Media%20Server
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Adobe Media Server (AMS) is a proprietary data and media server from Adobe Systems (originally a Macromedia product). This server works with the Flash Player and HTML5 runtime to create media driven, multiuser RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). The server uses ActionScript 1, an ECMAScript based scripting language, for server-side logic. Prior to version 2, it was known as Flash Communication Server. Prior to version 5, it was known as Flash Media Server. In February 2019, Adobe Systems Incorporated granted Veriskope Inc rights to further develop, resell, and extend distribution of the software product.
History
On March 16, 2002, Macromedia released Flash Player 6. This version included all the functionality for a yet to be released server called Flash Communication Server MX.
Version 1.0 was released on 9 July 2002 and included all the basic features that make up the product, including the NetConnection, SharedObject and NetStream objects.
Version 1.5 was released on 27 March 2003 giving the server HTTP Tunneling, Linux support and a free developer edition.
Version 2.0 was released on November 15, 2005. The server was renamed to Flash Media Server for this build to better illustrate what the server does; however, the version numbers were not reset. Version 2.0 brought support to stream the new video codec in Flash Player 8, On2’s VP6. However the Flash Player (as of version 10.1) can still only encode to the Spark codec. Version 2.0 also introduced edge-origin servers, an optional enterprise architecture that simplifies load balancing. The server side Actionscript runtime also received updates with support for XML, XMLSocket, SOAP and File operations.
Version 3.0 was released on December 4, 2007.
Version 3.5 was released on January 13, 2009. It also includes a free "development" server.
Version 4.0 was released on September 13, 2010 and introduced full 64-bit support, more secure multiprotocol streaming, IP multicast broadcast, multicast fusion, peer-assisted networking, enhanced buffer, absolute timecode, RTMP QoS improvements, simplified player development, faster switching with RTMP Dynamic Streaming and integrated HTTP server.
Version 5.0 was released on October 8, 2012.
In February 2019, Adobe Systems Incorporated granted Veriskope Inc rights to further develop, resell, and extend distribution of the software product.
Version 5.0.16 was released on March 1, 2020 by Veriskope.
Usage
Video on Demand, streaming video stored on the server to the flash client.
Real Time Communication, an application which requires collaboration between multiple clients, such as a chat room or multiplayer games.
Function
Adobe Media Server is a hub. Flash/HTML5 video based applications connect to the hub using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). The server can send and receive data to and from the connected users with live web FLV or HTML5 player installed. Connected clients can make Remote procedure calls (RPC) on the server-side and the se
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-DOS
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MSX-DOS is a discontinued disk operating system developed by Microsoft for the 8-bit home computer standard MSX, and is a cross between MS-DOS v1.25 and CP/M-80 v2.2.
MSX-DOS
MSX-DOS and the extended BASIC with 3½-inch floppy disk support were simultaneously developed by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation as a software and hardware standard for the MSX home computer standard, to add disk capabilities to BASIC and to give the system a cheaper software medium than Memory Cartridges, and a more powerful storage system than cassette tape. The standard BIOS of an unexpanded MSX computer had no built-in disk support, but provided hooks for a disk extension, so the additional floppy disk expansion system came with its own BIOS extension ROM (built-in on the disk controller) called the BDOS.
This BIOS not only added floppy disk support commands to MSX BASIC, but also a booting system, with which it was possible to boot a real disk operating system.
MSX-DOS was binary compatible with CP/M-80, allowing the MSX computer to easily have access to its vast library of software available for a very small cost for the time.
Boot processing
Once MSX-DOS has been loaded, the system searches the MSX-DOS disk for the COMMAND.COM file and loads it into memory. In that case, the BDOS bypassed the BASIC ROMs, so that the whole 64 KB of address space of the Z80 microprocessor inside the MSX computer could be used for the DOS or for other boot-able disks, for example disk based games. At the same time, the original BIOS ROMs could still be accessed through a "memory bank switch" mechanism, so that DOS-based software could still use BIOS calls to control the hardware and other software mechanisms the main ROMs supplied. Also, due to the BDOS ROM, basic file access capabilities were available even without a command interpreter by using extended BASIC commands.
At initial startup, COMMAND.COM looks for an optional batch file named AUTOEXEC.BAT and, if it exists, executes the commands specified in there. If MSX-DOS is not invoked and Disk BASIC starts, a BASIC program named "AUTOEXEC.BAS" will be carried out instead, if present.
Similarities and differences between MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
MSX-DOS1, much like MS-DOS 1.25, used the FAT ID value from the first byte of the FAT to select file system parameter profiles for its FAT12 file system instead of from the BIOS Parameter Block (BPB) in the boot sector.
On the MSX, there could be more than one floppy disk controller in two or more cartridge slots, and MSX-DOS could boot from several different floppy disk drives. This meant that it was possible to have both, a 5¼" floppy disk drive and a 3½" disk drive, and the user could boot from either one of them depending on which drive had a bootable floppy in it.
Like MS-DOS 1.25, the first version of MSX-DOS did not have subdirectories
Commands
The following is a list of internal commands supported by MSX-DOS.
BASIC
COPY
DATE
DEL
DELETE
DIR
ERASE
FORMAT
MODE
PAUSE
REM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20Assembly%20Language
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Variable Assembly Language (VAL) is a computer-based control system and language designed specifically for use with Unimation Inc. industrial robots.
The VAL robot language is permanently stored as a part of the VAL system. This includes the programming language used to direct the system for individual applications. The VAL language has an easy to understand syntax. It uses a clear, concise, and generally self-explanatory instruction set. All commands and communications with the robot consist of easy to understand word and number sequences. Control programs are written on the same computer that controls the robot. As a real-time system, VAL's continuous trajectory computation permits complex motions to be executed quickly, with efficient use of system memory and reduction in overall system complexity. The VAL system continuously generates robot control commands, and can simultaneously interact with a human operator, permitting on-line program generation and modification.
A convenient feature or VAL is the ability to use libraries or manipulation routines. Thus, complex operations may be easily and quickly programmed by combining predefined subtasks.
The VAL language consists of monitor commands and program instructions.
The monitor commands are used to prepare the system for execution of user-written programs. Program instructions provide the repertoire necessary to create VAL programs for controlling robot actions.
Terminology
The following terms are frequently used in VAL related operations.
Monitor
The VAL monitor is an administrative computer program that oversees operation of a system. It accepts user input and initiates the appropriate response; follows instructions from user-written programs to direct the robot; and performs the computations necessary to control the robot.
Editor
The VAL editor is an aid for entering information into a computer system, and modifying existing text. It is used to enter and modify robot control programs. It has a list of instructions telling a computer how to do something. VAL programs are written by system users to describe tasks the robot is to perform.
Location
Location is a position of an object in space, and the orientation of the
object. Locations are used to define the positions and orientations the robot tool is to assume during program execution.
VAL programming
Several conventions apply to numerical values to be supplied to VAL commands and instructions. Preceding each monitor-command description are two symbols indicating when the command can be typed by the user. A dot (.) signifies the command can be performed when VAL is in its top-level monitor mode and no user program being executed (that is, when the system prompt is a dot). An asterisk (*) indicates the command can be performed at the same time VAL is executing the program (that is, when the system prompt is an asterisk). If both symbols are present the command can be executed in either case. Most monitor commands and program instruc
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Reg'lar Fellers is a long-running newspaper comic strip adapted into a feature film, a radio series on the NBC Red Network, and two animated cartoons. Created by Gene Byrnes (1889–1974), the comic strip offered a humorous look at a gang of suburban children (who nevertheless spoke like New York street kids). Syndicated from 1917 to January 18, 1949, Byrnes' strip was collected into several books. Branding also extended to such items as baseball bats and breakfast cereal.
Publication history
While working as a sports cartoonist with the New York Telegram, Byrnes created his cartoon panel It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken which introduced the Reg'lar Fellers characters in 1917. He began Wide Awake Willie as a New York Herald Sunday page in 1919, and this too featured Reg'lar Fellers characters. With Reg'lar Fellers distributed by the Bell Syndicate as a daily strip in 1920, Byrnes changed the name of the Sunday strip to Reg'lar Fellers. At its peak, the strip was syndicated in 800 newspapers. It was imitated by other strips, notably Ad Carter's Just Kids.
Reg'lar Fellers had several topper strips on the Sunday page: Draw It Y'self (May 1, 1932 - Sept 2, 1934), Daisybelle (Sept 9, 1934 - 1940/41), Dizzie Lizzie (1940/41 - 1942) and Zoolie (Feb 6, 1944 - Jan 1949).
Characters and story
The characters include leader Jimmy Dugan, sidekick Puddinhead Duffy, Puddinhead's little brother Pinhead, Bullseye the dog and the gang's girl member, Angie Riley.
Collected editions and comic books
Cupples & Leon published four collections of Reg'lar Fellers reprints between 1921 and 1929. Two Big Little Books, from different publishers, were published during the 1930s. Reg'lar Fellers Story Paint Book was published by Whitman Publishing in 1932. One curious hardcover book published during World War II brought together colorful Reg'lar Fellers episodes of kids playing soldiers in backyards with black-and-white World War II combat photographs.
Reg'lar Fellers of America was an athletic organization founded by Clair F. Bee, the Director of Health Education at Long Island University. Reg'lar Fellers of America was planned to develop summer recreation for 12- to 15-year-olds through competitive sports, and Eastern Color Printing's Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics promoted the organization to the nation's youth beginning in 1940. Reg'lar Fellers remained in the title logo for the first 15 issues, which also displayed a seal with an eagle and a shield along with the words "Reg'lar Fellers of America". "The Official Publication of Reg'lar Fellers" was the cover blurb until issue 15; the title was shortened to Heroic Comics with issue 16.
In other comic books, Reg'lar Fellers was reprinted in Dell Comics' Popular Comics beginning in #9 (November, 1936), which also featured reprints of Dick Tracy, Tailspin Tommy, Winnie Winkle and other strips. Reg'lar Fellers next appeared in the first issue (April, 1939) of DC Comics's All-American Comics. Standard Comics publis
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