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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20universities%20and%20university%20networks%20by%20enrollment
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This list of largest universities by enrollment in the world includes total active enrollment across all campuses, as well as off-campus study. The enrollment numbers listed are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students in active enrollment. The universities included below confer degrees of bachelor-level or higher, and either share a central board of governance and a single chancellor or president, or confer degrees with the same institution name.
Many of these universities, particularly those in the United States, are actually systems of separate university campuses, and may not accurately represent a comparable student body. For example, the enrollment listed for the University of California is the population of the entire student body in the University of California system, which is composed of several individual campuses statewide. All University of California campuses are entitled "University of California" and then denoted further by the campus location, such as "University of California, Irvine". Other states organize their public universities differently in ways that further complicate any direct comparisons.
Indicates if most or all students are enrolled in a fully Distance Learning modality
See also
List of largest universities in the world by country
List of United States universities by undergraduate enrollment
List of the largest United States colleges and universities by enrollment
List of United States public university campuses by enrollment
List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrollment
References
Universities
Largest by enrollment
Lists of education-related superlatives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HippoDraw
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HippoDraw is a object-oriented statistical data analysis package written in C++, with user interaction via a Qt-based GUI and a Python-scriptable interface. It was developed by Paul Kunz at SLAC, primarily for the analysis and presentation of particle physics and astrophysics data, but can be equally well used in other fields where data handling is important.
About
HippoDraw can read and write files in an XML-based format, astrophysics FITS files, data objects produced by ROOT (optional), and through the Python bindings, anything that can be read/written by Python (HDF5, for instance, with PyTables).
HippoDraw can be used as a Python extension module, allowing users to use HippoDraw data objects with the full power of the Python language. This includes other scientific Python extension modules such Numeric and numarray, whose use with HippoDraw can lead to a large increase in processing speed, even for ROOT objects.
See also
Java Analysis Studio (JAS)
ROOT
AIDA
References
External links
License
Data analysis software
Free plotting software
Free science software
Free software programmed in C++
Free software projects
Free statistical software
Numerical software
Physics software
Science software for Linux
Science software for macOS
Science software for Windows
Science software that uses Qt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI%20standalone%20enclosure%20services
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SCSI standalone enclosure services is a computer protocol used mainly with disk storage enclosures. It allows a host computer to communicate with the enclosure to access its power, cooling, and other non-data characteristics.
The host computer communicates with one or more SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) controllers in the enclosure via a SCSI interface which may be Parallel SCSI, FC-AL, SAS, or SSA. Each SES controller has a SCSI identity (address) and so can accept direct SCSI commands.
Implemented commands
The following SCSI commands are implemented by standalone enclosure services devices:
Note 1: The initiator needs to send a SCSI inquiry to interrogate the SCCS bit which says whether the SES controller has this command.
SCSI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DictyBase
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dictyBase is an online bioinformatics database for the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.
Tools
dictyBase offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database:
dictyMart - a tool for retrieving varied information on many genes (or the sequences of those genes).
Genome Browser - browse the genes of D. discoideum in their genomic context.
References
External links
dictyBase
Developmental biology
Model organism databases
Mycetozoa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXTU-LD
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KXTU-LD (channel 57) is a low-power television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, serving as the CW outlet for Southern Colorado. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Fox affiliate KXRM-TV (channel 21). Both stations share studios on Wooten Road in Colorado Springs, while KXTU-LD's transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain.
The station is simulcast in high definition on KXRM-TV's second digital subchannel. This signal increases KXTU's broadcasting radius; KXTU did not convert to digital until 2010, and even in digital, its coverage area is effectively limited to El Paso and Pueblo counties.
History
The station signed on as KXTU-LP on November 5, 1999, as a UPN affiliate under the brand of "UPN57".
When UPN left the air on September 17, 2006, KXTU switched to The CW, which was created by the merger of The WB (which had been available in the market by way of Denver's KWGN-TV) and UPN.
Unlike most other low-powered stations, KXTU is available to viewers on DirecTV and Dish Network, as well as on cable systems throughout southern Colorado. This is because under the retransmission consent portion of the must-carry rules, KXRM has the right to require cable and satellite providers to carry KXTU as part of the compensation for carrying KXRM.
On August 30, 2010, KXTU-LP flash-cut from analog to digital on channel 57. On October 27, 2010, it changed its call sign to KXTU-LD.
In early 2012, the station moved from channel 57 to channel 20 and rebranded from "CW 57" to "SOCO CW".
On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including KXTU-LD, to Sinclair Broadcast Group. The sale was completed on November 25.
On August 20, 2014, Sinclair announced that it would sell KXRM-TV and KXTU-LD, along with WTTA in Tampa Bay and WHTM in Harrisburg, to Media General in a swap for WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, WLUK-TV and WCWF in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and WTGS in Savannah, Georgia. The swap is part of Media General's merger with LIN Media. WHTM's sale of Media General was explored nearly two months earlier, and it was completed, nearly three months before the Media General/LIN deal was completed. The sale was completed on December 19. A condition of the sale maintained the station's affiliation with Sinclair's American Sports Network package of college sports.
News programming
Unlike its sister station, KXTU does not air newscasts, but during a breaking news event or weather bump, it simulcasts KXRM's coverage.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
SOCO CW
XTU-LD
The CW affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Antenna TV affiliates
Low-power television stations in Colorado
Nexstar Media Group
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Colorado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMVT
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KMVT (channel 11) is a television station in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate KSVT-LD (channel 14). The two stations share studios on Blue Lakes Boulevard North/US 93 in Twin Falls; KMVT's transmitter is located on Flat Top Butte in unincorporated Jerome County east of Jerome and US 93.
History
The station went on the air on June 1, 1955 as KLIX-TV, a sister station to KLIX radio (1310 AM). It has been a CBS affiliate since sign-on; however, in its early years the station carried programs from ABC and NBC. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
In 1957, Ogden, Utah, businessman Abe Glasmann purchased the KLIX radio and TV stations and KUTV in Salt Lake City. In 1963, Glasmann later sold the radio station, which retained the call letters KLIX. He rechristened the TV station KMVT. "MVT" stood for "Magic Valley Television" ,reflecting the area's nickname of "Magic Valley".
In 1965, KMVT became the first television station in Idaho to broadcast local programs in color.
Arthur Mosby and his Western Broadcasting Company of Missoula, Montana, which operated KMSO-TV (now KECI-TV) in Missoula, acquired KMVT in 1970. In 1984, control of the station was transferred to the Chapman S. Root 1982 Living Trust. The Catamount Broadcast Group acquired the station in 1998 and sold it to the Neuhoff family in 2004.
On December 31, 1983, prior to its official premiere during Super Bowl XVIII the following month, KMVT notably aired Apple Computer's critically acclaimed Macintosh computer commercial "1984" shortly before midnight, to ensure the ad would qualify for industry awards which were only eligible for ads that aired during 1983. Tom Frank, the director-operator at the time, said that the station may have been chosen due to its remote location, and its proximity to Sun Valley, which he described as being a "part time home of many in the entertainment and advertising business".
In September 2006, KMVT began carrying The CW on its DT2 subchannel, which was also seen on KTWT-LP (channel 43); in 2012, KTWT switched to MyNetworkTV (with CW programming remaining on the KMVT subchannel), then (after converting to digital operations on channel 14) to Fox. In 2014, KTWT became KSVT-LD.
On March 12, 2015, Neuhoff Communications announced the sale of KMVT and KSVT to Gray Television for $17.5 million; the sale was completed on July 1.
News operation
KMVT is the area's only full-powered television station, and the only one airing a full schedule of local news focused on the Magic Valley. Both of the market's low-power ABC and NBC affiliates serve as semi-satellites of Boise stations (KSAW-LD relays KIVI-TV while KTFT-LD repeats KTVB); although both outlets maintain local advertising sales offices next door to each other in Twin Falls, they serve mostly as Magic Valley bureaus for their parent stations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermont%20Sans%20Fil
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Clermont Sans Fil (formerly Bougnat Sans Fil) is or was a nonprofit association which operates a WiFi community network to provide wireless Internet access in Clermont-Ferrand in Puy-de-Dôme, France. The Bougnat Sans Fil website now indicates that Bougnat Sans Fil's is now managed by Noodo. The Clermont Sans Fil website has been replaced by a Japanese-language website.
References
Info Clermont, May 2006 – Le wi-fi à la conquête de Clermont
Modergnat mai 2006 – Jardin sans fil, l'internet démocratisé
Demain Clermont Avril 2006 – Zoom sur l’association Bougnat sans fil – Internet sans fil à la portée de tous
La Montagne 22 mars 2006 – Quand le sans fil s'en mêle : Si le Puy-de-Dôme recensait déjà 42 hotspots, dont 18 à Clermont-Ferrand, l'accès au Wifi n'en était pas pour autant gratuit! Mais quand "Bougnat Sans Fil" change la donne
External links
Clermont Sans Fil 2007 archive at the Wayback Machine
Sans Fil Consulted May 20, 2006
Wireless community networks
Clermont-Ferrand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamax%20C
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Megamax C is a K&R C-based development system originally written for Macintosh and ported to the Atari ST and Apple IIGS computers. Sold by Megamax, Inc., based in Richardson, Texas, the package includes a one-pass compiler, linker, text editor, resource construction kit, and documentation. Megamax C was written by Michael Bunnell with Eric Parker providing the linker and most of the standard library. A circa-1988 version of the compiler was renamed Laser C, while the company remained Megamax.
In the early days of the Atari ST, Megamax C was the primary competitor to the Alcyon C compiler from Digital Research included in the official developer kit from Atari Corporation, and the documentation covers Atari-specific features. The company advertised that Megamax C could be used on a 520 ST with a single floppy drive. The ST version includes the source code and assets for Megaroids, a clone of the Asteroids video game, written by Mike Bunnell with sound effects by Mitch Bunnell.
Technical details
On both the Atari ST and Macintosh, the size of a compiled module is limited to 32K of code, and arrays have the same 32K restriction. The limitation stems from a requirement on the Macintosh which was carried over to the Atari. This is despite the Motorola 68000 CPU in both machines having a 24-bit address range.
Reception
According to a review of the Atari ST version in Antic by Mike Fleishman, Megamax C compiled a small benchmark program six times faster than Digital Research's compiler. In a comparison of C compilers for the Atari ST, STart magazine wrote, "For a development compiler, Megamax C is, without question, the best available on the Atari. It will reduce your compile/test turn-around time by at least a factor of five." They also pointed out that the $200 price may be steep for hobbyists and students.
The compiler was used for development by Batteries Included and FTL Games.
References
C (programming language) compilers
Atari ST software
Classic Mac OS software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly%20changing%20dimension
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A slowly changing dimension (SCD) in data management and data warehousing is a dimension which contains relatively static data which can change slowly but unpredictably, rather than according to a regular schedule. Some examples of typical slowly changing dimensions are entities such as names of geographical locations, customers, or products.
Some scenarios can cause referential integrity problems.
For example, a database may contain a fact table that stores sales records. This fact table would be linked to dimensions by means of foreign keys. One of these dimensions may contain data about the company's salespeople: e.g., the regional offices in which they work. However, the salespeople are sometimes transferred from one regional office to another. For historical sales reporting purposes it may be necessary to keep a record of the fact that a particular sales person had been assigned to a particular regional office at an earlier date, whereas that sales person is now assigned to a different regional office.
Dealing with these issues involves SCD management methodologies referred to as Type 0 through 6. Type 6 SCDs are also sometimes called Hybrid SCDs.
Type 0: retain original
The Type 0 dimension attributes never change and are assigned to attributes that have durable values or are described as 'Original'. Examples: Date of Birth, Original Credit Score. Type 0 applies to most date dimension attributes.
Type 1: overwrite
This method overwrites old with new data, and therefore does not track historical data.
Example of a supplier table:
In the above example, Supplier_Code is the natural key and Supplier_Key is a surrogate key. Technically, the surrogate key is not necessary, since the row will be unique by the natural key (Supplier_Code).
If the supplier relocates the headquarters to Illinois the record would be overwritten:
The disadvantage of the Type 1 method is that there is no history in the data warehouse. It has the advantage however that it's easy to maintain.
If one has calculated an aggregate table summarizing facts by supplier state, it will need to be recalculated when the Supplier_State is changed.
Type 2: add new row
This method tracks historical data by creating multiple records for a given natural key in the dimensional tables with separate surrogate keys and/or different version numbers. Unlimited history is preserved for each insert.
For example, if the supplier relocates to Illinois the version numbers will be incremented sequentially:
Another method is to add 'effective date' columns.
The Start date/time of the second row is equal to the End date/time of the previous row. The null End_Date in row two indicates the current tuple version. A standardized surrogate high date (e.g. 9999-12-31) may instead be used as an end date, so that the field can be included in an index, and so that null-value substitution is not required when querying.
And a third method uses an effective date and a current flag.
The Cur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20Computer%20System
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The Entertainment Computer System (ECS) was an add-on peripheral for the Intellivision. It was Mattel Electronics' second attempt at creating a peripheral to upgrade the Intellivision into a home computer, and was rushed into production to appease the Federal Trade Commission after they began fining Mattel for false advertising following consumer complaints about the repeated delays in releasing the originally planned Intellivision Keyboard Component add-on. The ECS includes the Computer Module, Music Synthesizer, and additional hand controllers; each sold separately. Any Intellivision Master Component is compatible and a requirement to use the system. A second requirement is a cartridge plugged into the ECS, although any ECS or Intellivision cartridge will do; pressing anything on the Intellivision hand controllers will then bring up the three-option menu of BASIC, CARTRIDGE or MUSIC.
History
When Mattel Electronics originally released the Intellivision in late 1979, they advertised that the Intellivision — unlike its primary rival, the Atari 2600 (then known as the Atari VCS) — would be upgradeable to a fully functional home computer via a hardware add-on accessory called the Keyboard Component, internally sometimes called the "Blue Whale" or the "Intelliputer". Many potential buyers were excited by the notion (especially parents, who liked the idea of a machine that could be turned into an educational tool, or at least something more useful and practical than just a game-playing system), and many bought Intellivisions on that basis alone.
The planned Keyboard Component would have offered a 16kB of RAM (expandable to an unprecedented 8 megabytes), built-in cassette storage for programs and data (plus a simultaneous audio track that could be played under computer control), an optional 40-column thermal printer, and a secondary CPU to run all of these expanded features independently of the Intellivision's CP1610 processor. While the planned Keyboard Component was an ambitious design, it had reliability problems that proved difficult to overcome, and it was far too expensive to manufacture and sell. The Keyboard Component — originally planned for a 1981 release — was continually delayed and pushed back as Mattel's engineering group, headed by David "Papa Intellivision" Chandler, kept going back to the drawing board trying to find ways to overcome these problems.
Eventually, complaints from Intellivision owners who had chosen to buy the Intellivision specifically on the promise of a "Coming Soon!" personal-computer upgrade caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which launched an investigation of Mattel Electronics for fraud and false advertising. Mattel tried to claim that the Keyboard Component was a real product that was still being test-marketed, and even released a small number of Keyboard Components and a handful of software titles to a few select retail stores (as well as offering them via mail-order to any custo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan%20Kluay
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Khan Kluay (; ) is a 2006 Thai computer-animated adventure film set in Ayutthaya-era Siam about a Thai elephant who wanders away from his mother and becomes the war elephant for King Naresuan. It is based on the story Chao Phraya Prap Hongsawadee by Ariya Jintapanichkarn. The film took three years to make, and was released on May 18, 2006 in Thailand. In 2008, the film was released as The Blue Elephant in the United States on September 2, and as Jumbo in India in December 25.
Khan Kluay is directed by Kompin Kemgumnird, an animator who had worked on Disney films such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Tarzan and Blue Sky Studios' Ice Age. Produced by Kantana Animation, it was the first Thai 3D animated feature film and the first Thai animated feature film released since The Adventure of Sudsakorn, a 1979 cel-animated film by Payut Ngaokrachang. The film's sequel, Khan Kluay 2, is about Khan Kluay's two elephant children, another attack by the Hanthawaddy, and the choice between living with his wife or fighting the Burmese. An animated television series, The Adventures of Khan Kluay, was produced by Kantana Animation Studio and broadcast on BBTV Channel 7.
Plot
Characters
Khan Kluay -ก้านกล้วย: The title character and the main protagronist, was born in the wild. His mission is to find his father name is "Phupa", who is evidently dead and cremated. After he's King Naresuan's royal elephant his name is "Chaophraya Chaiyanuphap", and after he won of Elephant Battle his name is "Chao Phraya Prab Hongsawadee".
King Naresuan the Great (Black Prince) - สมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช (พระองค์ดำ): The King of Ayutthaya Kingdom, is the first human Khan Kluay befriends. He won Crown Prince Mingyi Swa in Elephant Battle.
Chaba Kaew - ชบาแก้ว: Is a pink elephant with a flower on her left ear. She is Khan Kluay's wife. She lives with humans since she birth.
Nguang Deang - งวงแดง: The main villian and the main antagonist, evil giant Burma Elephant. He is Crown Prince Mingyi Swa's royal elephant and the most powerful elephant of Hanthawaddy army. He killed Phupa, Khan Kluay's father.
Crown Prince Mingyi Swa - พระมหาอุปราชามังกะยอชวา: The secondary antagonist, crown prince of Toongoo dynasty, son of King Nanda Bayin. In the Elephant Battle he fight with King Naresuan and dies in the battle.
Phupa - ภูผา: The most powerful of war elephants of Ayutthaya army, is father of Khan Kluay, He dies in the war because he fight with Nguang Deang.
Saeng Da - แสงดา: The kind elephant, she is Phupa's wife and Khan Kluay's mother.
Bun Rueng - บุญเรือง: The strong elephant, after he is royal elephant of Prince Ekathotsarot his name is "Chaophraya Prap Traichak".
Sing Khorn - สิงขร: King Mahintrathirat's royal elephant, he is Phupa's friends.
Nual - นวล: The old elephant, she is Phupa's mother and Khan Kluay's grandmother.
Patchaniang - พัชเนียง: Evil elephant of Hanthawaddy army, he's Bun Rueng's enimies.
Prince Ekathotsarot (White Prince) - สมเด็จพระเอกาทศรถ (พระองค์ขาว): King Naresuan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DialIdol
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DialIdol is both the name of a computer program for Microsoft Windows and its associated website that tracks voting trends for American Idol contestants. The program allows users to automatically vote for the American Idol contestants of their choice using their PC's modem. The program then reports back to the main website, which keeps track of the results based on the percentage of calls for each contestant that result in a busy signal. DialIdol assumes that more busy signals means more callers are attempting to vote for that contestant. DialIdol was created during the fourth season of American Idol and was released to the public at the start of the fifth season.
Users can choose to vote equally for their chosen contestants, choose to keep certain contestants "safe" (by voting for their chosen contestant who is ranked the lowest), or choose to keep certain contestants "unsafe" (by voting for the lowest-ranked contestant who is not on their list).
In addition to American Idol, the software and website may also be used to vote, as well as track voting trends for, Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and The X Factor. In 2006, DialIdol also supported Celebrity Duets and Canadian Idol. DialIdol did not support So You Think You Can Dance season 8.
Notable Predictions
Season 4 Predictions
For its first ever prediction, in the final 6, DialIdol predicted that either Constantine Maroulis or Vonzell Solomon would be eliminated. Maroulis was eliminated.
In the final 4, DialIdol incorrectly predicted that Vonzell Solomon would be eliminated. Anthony Fedorov was eliminated.
In the final 3, DialIdol correctly predicted that Vonzell Solomon would be eliminated.
In the finale, DialIdol correctly predicted that Carrie Underwood would win.
Season 5 Predictions
In the final 16, DialIdol incorrectly predicted that Lisa Tucker would be one of the two female semifinalists eliminated along with Kinnik Sky. Kinnik Sky was eliminated, but Ayla Brown was the other female semifinalist eliminated. On the other hand, DialIdol correctly predicted that Gedeon McKinney and Will Makar would be the two male semifinalists eliminated.
In the final 12, DialIdol predicted that either Ace Young, Kevin Covais, or Lisa Tucker would be eliminated and that Melissa McGhee would make it through. Melissa McGhee was eliminated.
In the final 11, DialIdol incorrectly predicted that Elliott Yamin would be eliminated. Kevin Covais was eliminated.
In the final 9, DialIdol predicted a bottom three of Paris Bennett, Elliott Yamin, and Mandisa, with only Yamin and Mandisa considered to be at risk. All three were in the bottom three, with Mandisa being eliminated and Bennett being sent to safety before Yamin.
In the final 8, DialIdol predicted that either Bucky Covington or Ace Young would be eliminated. Bucky Covington was eliminated.
In the final 7, DialIdol correctly predicted that Ace Young would be eliminated.
In the final 6, DialIdol predicted that either Paris Bennett or
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync%20%28Unix%29
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sync is a standard system call in the Unix operating system, which commits all data from the kernel filesystem buffers to non-volatile storage, i.e., data which has been scheduled for writing via low-level I/O system calls. Higher-level I/O layers such as stdio may maintain separate buffers of their own.
As a function in C, the sync() call is typically declared as void sync(void) in <unistd.h>. The system call is also available via a command line utility also called sync, and similarly named functions in other languages such as Perl and Node.js (in the fs module).
The related system call fsync() commits just the buffered data relating to a specified file descriptor. fdatasync() is also available to write out just the changes made to the data in the file, and not necessarily the file's related metadata.
Some Unix systems run a kind of flush or update daemon, which calls the sync function on a regular basis. On some systems, the cron daemon does this, and on Linux it was handled by the pdflush daemon which was replaced by a new implementation and finally removed from the Linux kernel in 2012. Buffers are also flushed when filesystems are unmounted or remounted read-only, for example prior to system shutdown.
Some applications, such as LibreOffice, are also call sync function to save recovery information in an interval.
Database use
In order to provide proper durability, databases need to use some form of sync in order to make sure the information written has made it to non-volatile storage rather than just being stored in a memory-based write cache that would be lost if power failed. PostgreSQL for example may use a variety of different sync calls, including fsync() and fdatasync(), in order for commits to be durable. Unfortunately, for any single client writing a series of records, a rotating hard drive can only commit once per rotation, which makes for at best a few hundred such commits per second. Turning off the fsync requirement can therefore greatly improve commit performance, but at the expense of potentially introducing database corruption after a crash.
Databases also employ transaction log files (typically much smaller than the main data files) that have information about recent changes, such that changes can be reliably redone in case of crash; then the main data files can be synced less often.
Error reporting and checking
To avoid any data loss return values of fsync() should be checked because when performing I/O operations that are buffered by the library or the kernel, errors may not be reported at the time of using the write() system call or the fflush() call, since the data may not be written to non-volatile storage but only be written to the memory page cache. Errors from writes are instead often reported during system calls to fsync(), msync() or close(). Prior to 2018, Linux's fsync() behavior under certain circumstances failed to report error status, change behavior was proposed on 23 April 2018.
Performance controvers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ
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OpenVZ (Open Virtuozzo) is an operating-system-level virtualization technology for Linux. It allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, called containers, virtual private servers (VPSs), or virtual environments (VEs). OpenVZ is similar to Solaris Containers and LXC.
OpenVZ compared to other virtualization technologies
While virtualization technologies such as VMware, Xen and KVM provide full virtualization and can run multiple operating systems and different kernel versions, OpenVZ uses a single Linux kernel and therefore can run only Linux. All OpenVZ containers share the same architecture and kernel version. This can be a disadvantage in situations where guests require different kernel versions than that of the host. However, as it does not have the overhead of a true hypervisor, it is very fast and efficient.
Memory allocation with OpenVZ is soft in that memory not used in one virtual environment can be used by others or for disk caching. While old versions of OpenVZ used a common file system (where each virtual environment is just a directory of files that is isolated using chroot), current versions of OpenVZ allow each container to have its own file system.
Kernel
The OpenVZ kernel is a Linux kernel, modified to add support for OpenVZ containers. The modified kernel provides virtualization, isolation, resource management, and checkpointing. As of vzctl 4.0, OpenVZ can work with unpatched Linux 3.x kernels, with a reduced feature set.
Virtualization and isolation
Each container is a separate entity, and behaves largely as a physical server would. Each has its own:
Files System libraries, applications, virtualized /proc and /sys, virtualized locks, etc.
Users and groups Each container has its own root user, as well as other users and groups.
Process tree A container only sees its own processes (starting from init). PIDs are virtualized, so that the init PID is 1 as it should be.
Network Virtual network device, which allows a container to have its own IP addresses, as well as a set of netfilter (iptables), and routing rules.
Devices If needed, any container can be granted access to real devices like network interfaces, serial ports, disk partitions, etc.
IPC objects Shared memory, semaphores, messages.
Resource management
OpenVZ resource management consists of four components: two-level disk quota, fair CPU scheduler, disk I/O scheduler, and user bean counters (see below). These resources can be changed during container run time, eliminating the need to reboot.
Two-level disk quota
Each container can have its own disk quotas, measured in terms of disk blocks and inodes (roughly number of files). Within the container, it is possible to use standard tools to set UNIX per-user and per-group disk quotas.
CPU scheduler
The CPU scheduler in OpenVZ is a two-level implementation of fair-share scheduling strategy.
On the first level, the scheduler decides which container it is to give the CPU time slice t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Spence
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Frances V. Spence ( Bilas; March 2, 1922 – July 18, 2012) was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC (the first electronic digital computer). She is considered one of the first computer programmers in history.
The other five ENIAC programmers were Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Jean Bartik.
Early life
She was born Frances V. Bilas in Philadelphia in 1922 and was the second of five sisters. Her parents both held jobs in the education sector, her father as an engineer for the Philadelphia Public School System and her mother as a teacher.
Bilas attended the South Philadelphia High School for Girls and graduated in 1938. She originally attended Temple University, but switched to Chestnut Hill College after being awarded a scholarship. She majored in mathematics with a minor in physics and graduated in 1942. While there, she met Kathleen Antonelli, who later also became an ENIAC programmer.
Personal life
In 1947, she married Homer W. Spence, an Army electrical engineer from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds who had been assigned to the ENIAC project and later became head of the Computer Research Branch. They had three sons (Joseph, Richard, and William).
Frances Spence had continued working on the ENIAC in the years after the war, but shortly after her marriage, she resigned to raise a family.
ENIAC career
The ENIAC project was a classified project by the US Army to construct the first all-electronic digital computer. While its hardware was primarily built by a team of men, its computational development was led by a team of six programmers (called "Computers"), all women from similar backgrounds as Spence. Despite her importance as one of the original programmers of the ENIAC, the role that she and the other female programmers took on was largely downplayed at the time due to the stigma that women were not interested in technology.
Photos of the women working on the computer often went without credit in newspapers at the time, and when the ENIAC was completed and unveiled to the public on February 15, 1946, the US Army failed to mention the names of the female programmers who had programmed the machine to run such sophisticated calculations. This further contributed to the perceived disconnect between women and computing.
Frances Bilas and the other women were originally hired by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering to create the ENIAC, which was needed to compute ballistics trajectories as part of a team of eighty women. The Moore School of Engineering was funded by the US Army, and at the time they were hiring female programmers in particular due to the fact that many young American men were fighting overseas in World War II.
Bilas and her Chestnut Hill College classmate Kathleen Antonelli were part of a smaller team within the ENIAC team. In addition to their larger programming duties, they were also assigned to the operation of an analog computing machine known as a Di
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Cintra Wilson (born 1967) is an American writer, performer and cultural critic. Dubbed "the Dorothy Parker of the cyber age", she is best known for her commentary on popular culture which is often humorous and irreverent in tone. She contributed to the New York Times for its "Critical Shopper" series and is considered one of the 50 "most influential people working in New York fashion". Wilson is also a regular contributor to the Hartford Advocate for her political column "The C Word". Her books include Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style, A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease, Colors Insulting to Nature, and Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny. She wrote a bi-weekly column called The Dregulator, which critiqued the tabloid culture and was syndicated in a number of alternative weeklies. She was a frequent contributor to Salon.com from 1994–2007.
Life and career
Wilson was born on October 9, 1967, in Butte County, California. She grew up initially in Chico, and later in Marin County, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School. After dropping out of high school, Wilson went to San Francisco State University. She was an avant-garde playwright in San Francisco as well as a contributor to Frisko magazine and the San Francisco Examiner, where she wrote a weekly advice column called "Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain." Her first play, Juvee, based on her experiences in juvenile hall, was produced when she was 20. She lived in Los Angeles for a time (where she was engaged to musician Kevin Gilbert at the time of his death), and now lives in New York City.
She was a frequent contributor for Salon.com chronicling celebrity tabloid news and has provided frequent commentary on various award presentations, most notably the Oscars. She writes for the "Critical Shopper", a New York Times fashion column to which she frequently contributes and has been credited with bringing together "tremendous erudition and a singular approach to an otherwise disposable area of a newspaper". Wilson is also the creator and voice of Winter Steele, which was a puppet television series on MTV's Liquid Television in the early 1990s. Her column "The Dregulator" steadily evolved from a commentary on tabloid reportage to a purely political column called "The C Word" published by the Hartford Advocate, The Fairfield County Weekly and the New Haven Advocate. On December 6, 2010 Wilson wrote in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in "The C Word" entitled, "Julian Assange Isn't Doing Anything Worse Than What Our Government Is Doing".
Wilson was featured in Salon in 2008 for her political commentary on the then Republican Party candidate for Vice President, Sarah Palin, describing Palin as the "centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions – their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership." In her tradem
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Spoiler is a 1998 American action sci-fi film directed by Jeff Burr and starring Gary Daniels and Meg Foster. It takes place in New York in the far future.
Plot summary
In a futuristic, cyber-punk New York City, convicted felon Roger Mason (Gary Daniels) is serving a sentence and is locked away in a high security prison facility, where Cryonics are applied to some of the inmates, including Mason himself, to keep them in a state of suspended animation. Mason, despite all the security measures applied at his confinement facility, manages to escape repeatedly to see his daughter, which is the only reason why he's making attempt after attempt to break free. However, the authorities are able to catch him and bring him back every time to serve even a longer sentence as punishment for his attempts to escape. Since he's being cryonically frozen to serve his time for years at a time, he remains practically the same age while his daughter grows older normally. As more and more time keeps being added to his original sentence, his escape attempts become more of an obsession rather than a goal.
Cast
Gary Daniels as Roger Mason
Meg Foster as Woman #1
Bryan Genesse as Bounty #1
Jeffrey Combs as the Captain
Nicholas Sadler as Renny
Steven Schub as Phil
Stewart Finlay-McLennan as Lory*
Joe Unger as Clemets
Sarah Freeman as Maggie**
David Groh as Uncle Hutchy
Bruce Glover as the Priest
Jean Speegle Howard as Jillian/Jennifer
Willard E. Pugh as Bounty #2
Duane Whitaker as Sergeant
Arye Gross as The Attendant
*Credited as Stewart McLennan.
**Credited as Sarah Rayne.
Release
Spoiler was released directly to video in VHS format on 15 September 1998 in the United States and on 30 November 2000 in Germany. It has also been released on DVD on 12 March 2010 in Germany.
References
External links
http://www.new-video.de/film-spoiler-verdammt-im-eis/ (German)
1998 films
Films directed by Jeff Burr
New York City in popular culture
American science fiction action films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice%20%28software%29
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Apprentice is a program that assists in playing Magic: The Gathering over the Internet and maintains a searchable database of Magic cards. It was developed by Dragonstar Studios from 1996 to 1999 and based on an earlier program from 1995 by Tan Thor Jen. Christopher Warden, owner of Dragonstar Studios, acquired the source code for the original 1995 Apprentice, which was written in Visual Basic. It was then ported to Delphi by Mike Allen and after creation of the 1.0 port development was continued by Ryan Davis. The last release was in the version 1.4 branch and a 2.0 branch, developed by Davis, was promised in the future. However, Dragonstar Studios disbanded. In 2007 Apprentice 2.0 was open sourced on SourceForge. In 2012 Apprentice started being updated again, with a new website created.
Gameplay
Apprentice lacks a rules engine; the game moves forward by the players typing out their current actions. Apprentice simply provides an interface that can keep track of the current phase of the game; cards in play and their current state; and cards in the graveyard. There is no concept of card ownership; players may use as many copies of a card as they would like in decks they create. Cards which interact with sideboards such as the Judgment "wishes" or the Dissension split card Research/Development are not implemented directly, and are instead usually adjudicated by creating temporary new cards on the spot.
The old 1.46 is freeware and is downloadable without need for either charge or registration. The current version is free while it is in beta, pricing model of full version is currently unknown. However, when Dragonstar Studios disbanded, they did not release the Apprentice 1.0 source code due to the legal agreement between them and Wizards of the Coast. Hence, the 1.0 branch is frozen in time without the possibility of any future upgrades or bugfixes. However, the simple data format used to store cards has allowed new sets to be added and the registry of cards updated.
Apprentice was officially acknowledged and licensed by Wizards of the Coast, as it only uses publicly available rules and lists of cards.
Netdraft
Netdraft is the main program used by both Apprentice and Magic Workstation to support "drafts," a popular limited format. Netdraft hosts up to 8 players who may draft from any magic set. This includes out of print sets as well as the most recent set in the interval between the Prerelease event and the street release. Unlike the original Apprentice, Netdraft has been occasionally updated, and is currently spartan but functional.
Backwash
Apprentices usage was threatened with the proliferation of the "Backwash" program which allowed undetectable cheating; for example, the ordering of each player's library. This program threatened the viability of Apprentice in leagues where any kind of prizes were available. An update was created that allegedly allowed the staff to check for the use of such 'cheat' programs, however. Apprent
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Ruby is a hardware description language designed by in 1986 intended to facilitate the notation and development of integrated circuits via relational algebra and functional programming.
It should not be confused with RHDL, a hardware description language based on the 1995 Ruby programming language.
References
External links
Hardware description languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetfighter%20%28series%29
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Jetfighter is a series of 3D combat flight simulation computer games that was developed by Velocity Development starting in 1988. The player would fly a combat jet aircraft in the skies against enemy forces. The game boasted 3D graphics that were cutting-edge at the time of the game's release, and used real-world terrain. The games seldom sold well because they occupied an uncomfortable middle ground of game design - too much flight simulator for action game fans, as they realistically emulated actual combat aircraft, but too simplistic for the hardcore sim fans, who always preferred games more along the lines of the Falcon series. The series ended after the commercial failure of Jetfighter 2015. The later games had support for 3dfx Voodoo cards to run natively in DOS.
Jetfighter II was produced before the winner of the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition was announced; the programmers chose to emulate the YF-23 "Black Widow II" as the winning aircraft rather than the eventual winner, the YF-22 (which "entered service" in 2004 as the F-22 Raptor).
Games
Reception
In the United States, Jetfighter IVs jewel case version sold 270,000 copies and earned $2.6 million by August 2006, after its release in January 2002. It was the country's 75th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006. Combined sales of all Jetfighter computer games released between January 2000 and August 2006 had reached 450,000 units in the United States by the latter date.
In a 1994 survey of wargames the magazine gave Jetfighter: The Adventure two-plus stars out of five ("still an entertaining product"). Jetfighter II received three stars ("contemporary graphics and play value").
See also
F-22 (series), a series of combat flight simulators by NovaLogic
References
External links
1988 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
2K Games franchises
Take-Two Interactive franchises
Combat flight simulators
Video game franchises introduced in 1988
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Commando
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Time Commando is an action-adventure computer and video game developed by Adeline Software and published by Electronic Arts in Europe, Activision in America (United States and Brazil), and Virgin Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation version) and Acclaim Entertainment (Sega Saturn version) in Japan.
It was originally released for the PC on 31 July 1996 in Europe, the United States and Brazil, and was later ported for PlayStation and released on 30 September 1996 in Europe and the United States, and on 15 November 1996 in Japan. A Sega Saturn version of the game was also released in Japan on 5 March 1998.
Time Commando was re-released for modern computer systems on 6 January 2012 by GOG.com.
Story
At the Historical Tactical Center, the military, with the help of a private corporation has created a computer capable of simulating any form of combat from any point in history. However, a programmer from a rival corporation infects the system with a "Predator Virus" that creates a time-distortion vortex, which threatens to swallow the world if it is not destroyed. The player controls Stanley Opar, a S.A.V.E. operative (Special Action for Virus Elimination) at the facility who enters the vortex to try and stop the virus.
In order to accomplish this, Stanley must combat various enemies throughout different time periods. These eras are Prehistoric (featuring cavemen, saber tooth tigers, and cave bears), Roman Empire, Feudal Japan, Medieval, Conquistador, Wild West, Modern Wars (World War I and supposedly World War III), Future (Stanley's era), and finally, inside the main computer (Virus World), culminating in a showdown with the virus itself.
Gameplay
In each level, Stanley collects various weapons exclusive to the time period. Stanley has a small life bar that grows larger when the player picks up life power-ups. Along the same lines, Stanley has multiple lives. As the player plays through a level, a time bar, which counts the time until the virus completely takes over and the player dies, slowly fills. This bar can be emptied by depositing computer chips collected throughout the levels in various "orb pools," which resemble the vortex Stanley first entered.
Music
The music soundtrack was composed by Philippe Vachey.The PC CD-ROM contains two audio tracks:
Track 1 - "Time Commando"
Track 2 - "Rush"
Development
Adeline Software International's initial plan after the release of Little Big Adventure was to begin work on a sequel, but it became apparent that there was not enough time to complete it in time for Christmas 1995. Because of this, they decided to create a "quick, small, simple game" to secure a Christmas release. Work began on Time Commando with a focus on graphics but no planning on the actual gameplay. This development approach, along with Adeline's admission that making a small game is not in their nature, meant that the Christmas release date was missed, resulting in an actual release date of 31 July 1996.
The 3D engine used in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNTV
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MNTV may refer to:
Multiple non-transferable vote, also known as plurality-at-large voting, an electoral system
MyNetworkTV, a broadcast syndication service in the United States
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DWEB (99.9 FM) is a radio station owned and operated by Filipinas Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the Municipal Public Market, Brgy. San Antonio, Poblacion, Nabua.
Established in 1980, DWEB is the pioneer FM station in the province. It was formerly located in Naga from until 2010, when it relocated to Nabua. It used to carry a modern rock format during the 1990s and 2000s. It is currently part of the Bicol Media Network Group.
Incident
Two DWEB radio journalists were killed within a year. Miguel Belen was assassinated July 9, 2010, by an alleged member of the New People's Army. Romeo Olea, who was radio show host of "Anything Goes," was assassinated June 13, 2011, after receiving death threats for his sharp political commentary.
Franchise Issue
On February 3, 2022, the NTC Region V questioned the station for its current broadcast area when it was located in Brgy. Tabuco, Naga, Camarines Sur, according to its documents. It went off the air from February 12 to 18, when it returned on air as simply DWEB.
References
Radio stations established in 1980
Radio stations in Camarines Sur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Service%20Directorate
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The Israeli Computer and IT Directorate (, Agaf Ha-Tikshuv VeHaHagana BiSvivat Reshet) is the Israel Defense Forces body which charts the communication, wireless transmission, computerization, command and control over and defense of military and intelligence information in the IDF. The Directorate was created on March 3, 2003, on the basis of some functions previously held by the C4I Corps. The Directorate is also responsible for Cyber Defense in the IDF, a fact which has led to the name of the Directorate being changed to "Computer and IT Directorate" in May 2017.
Units
The Computer and IT Directorate comprises four main brigade-level units: the C4I Corps, the Operating Brigade (, Hativat HaHaf'ala), which deals with operational communications and electronic warfare, the Cyberspace Defense (, Hativat HaHagana Be'Saib'er), which is responsible for the telecommunications of internal IDF networks, and , an abbreviation for Unit for Telecommunications and Information Technology).
Lotem lists the following units:
Mamram (ממר"ם) – Center of Computers and Information Systems – responsible for managing military software and computer infrastructure.
Hoshen (חושן) – responsible for operating the army's communication systems.
Ma'of (מעו"ף) – Systems and Projects – responsible for planning and engineering telecommunication systems.
Matzpen (מצפ"ן) – Military Systems for Command and Control and management of logistics and human resources. The army's biggest software house that consists of the unification of Leshem (לשם) and Shoham (שהם) units.
Commanders
Aluf Yitzhak Harel (March 30, 2003 – December 20, 2003)
Aluf Udi Shani (December 21, 2003 – November 12, 2006)
Aluf Ami Shafran (November 13, 2006 – October 24, 2011)
Aluf (October 24, 2011 – March 28, 2016)
Aluf Nadav Padan (June 13, 2016 – February 4, 2018)
Aluf Lior Carmeli (February 4, 2018 - January 19, 2022)
Aluf Eran Niv (January 19, 2022 -)
References
Military units and formations of Israel
Israel Defense Forces directorates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCPM
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CCPM may refer to:
Concurrent CP/M, a Digital Research operating system
Critical Chain Project Management
Cyclic/collective pitch mixing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Night%20Football%20%28AFL%29
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Friday Night Football is an Australian sports broadcast series is currently airing on the Seven Network.
History
Non-weekend night matches of Australian rules football first emerged in the late 1970s/early 1980s with the night series, a knock-out tournament featuring teams from across the country and run in parallel with the league seasons.
The first Victorian Football League matches on Friday nights were introduced in 1985. At this time, these games were irregularly scheduled, and all matches featured North Melbourne, but by 1987, Friday Night Football was played on a more regular basis, and other clubs began to host the games.
Friday night AFL is generally played in Melbourne, at either the Melbourne Cricket Ground or Docklands Stadium, but Sydney, Adelaide and Perth will generally host a few matches each year. It is less common for the games to be played in Sydney, Brisbane or the Gold Coast in order to avoid clashes with the National Rugby League, which is more popular in those cities. As it is the most lucrative broadcast timeslot of the weekend, matches between the better-performing clubs are scheduled on Friday night to ensure the games are of high quality. As recently as 2014, however, the Gold Coast Suns have pushed to be featured on Friday nights in 2015, citing their improved form in 2014.
Seven's commentary team includes James Brayshaw, Brian Taylor and Hamish McLachlan, with smaller roles involving Wayne Carey, Cameron Ling, Tim Watson, Matthew Richardson, Leigh Matthews and Luke Darcy.
Broadcast history
The Seven Network, which broadcast football for around 40 years before losing the rights after the 2001 season, was the first Australian network to broadcast Friday Night Football.
Between 2002–2006, the Nine Network had the rights to the Friday night broadcast; as the network also had the rights to the NRL, during those years in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, where by the AFL match would be broadcast first live at 8:30pm, followed by Nightline (or a news update in 2006) and then the NRL match. This was reversed in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, where by the NRL match was broadcast first live at 8.30pm, followed by Nightline (or a news update in 2006) and then the AFL match.
The Seven Network regained the rights in 2007, and from 2007–11 generally showed the match at 8:30pm into Melbourne; this was a one-hour delayed telecast for most matches, but was a live telecast for matches in Perth and sometimes Adelaide. Other than Perth and Adelaide games, only sold-out matches were broadcast live into Melbourne. This was primarily to allow the popular Better Homes and Gardens to be broadcast in the primetime 7:30pm slot. As part of this rights agreement, Seven was expected to show AFL at an earlier timeslot in New South Wales and Queensland in an attempt to boost popularity in those states. Foxtel took this responsibility off Seven, showing the Friday night match live into NSW and QLD on its Main Event channel at no extra charge for F
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Leadership%20Network%20for%20Health%20and%20Social%20Care
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The National Leadership Network for Health and Social Care (NLN), before 2005 the NHS Modernisation Board, is a coalition of stakeholders in the English National Health Service (NHS).
Its purpose is to advise the Ministerial team at the Department of Health on issues of NHS reform. There are twice-yearly meetings with the ministerial team to review progress and set priorities. The Network has no executive power, but seeks to influence both government policy and the work of member organisations.
In April 2006 the Network issued a paper Strengthening local services: The Future of the acute hospital which considers the ways in which local acute hospitals will have to change and adapt given changes in the NHS as a whole.
References
External links
NLN website
National Health Service (England)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNHG
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WNHG 89.7 FM is a radio station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, broadcasting a Christian radio programming format as a simulcast of WGCP 91.9 FM in Cadillac, Michigan. Both WGCP and WNHG are owned and operated by West Central Michigan Media Ministries.
History
The 89.9 frequency the station was originally transmitting on was used by WEHB (East Hills Broadcasters) for a number of years, broadcasting (in mono) from a tower on the Aquinas College campus, with studios above the Intersection Bar. WEHB later moved to the original Blodgett Hospital on Cherry Street. WEHB was an eclectic locally programmed station, with an emphasis on jazz. The station broadcast circa 1977–1991, becoming "World Music" WBYW from 1991-1998 from a new tower atop the Plainfield Water Tower on East Beltline Ave in northeast Grand Rapids.
Way-FM
Until November 29, 2013, the station broadcast a Christian CHR/Top 40 format as WaY FM. WCXG's programming was repeated on WAYK 88.3 FM (now WCXK) in Kalamazoo and WAYO 89.9 FM (now WCXB) in Benton Harbor.
WaYFM targeted teens, young adults, and young families with modern music wrapped in a Christian worldview. Popular artists played on the station included Switchfoot, The Fray, Relient K, GRITS, Hawk Nelson, tobyMac, BarlowGirl, Daughtry, Casting Crowns, Family Force 5, Stacie Orrico, Skillet, and other various hip hop, pop, rock, and punk acts. WaY-FM consistently pulled strong ratings among teens (#2), young adults, and even persons and women 25-49 (usually placing in the top 5 or top 3 in these demos).
WaYfm is not to be confused with WAY-FM Network, the nationally syndicated Christian CHR network. Ironically, WaYfm's competitor station in the Grand Rapids market, the commercial WJQK 99.3 FM, previously aired some programming from the national WAY-FM network, notably the afternoon drive show "Total Axxess."
WaYfm started in Kalamazoo in 1996 when Cornerstone purchased a construction permit from Grand Valley State University for 88.3 FM. After deciding on the Christian CHR format, the management of the station opted to use CHRSN's programming until local listenership and financial support allowed them to program locally.
88.3 WAYK signed on at 5p.m. on February 3, 1997, to serve Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. A signal was added at 89.9 in Grand Rapids in late 1998, originating not too far from Cornerstone University.
Despite not being able to adequately cover areas to the southwest of Grand Rapids (due to a directional pattern designed to protect Hope College's student station, WTHS, a station in Holland, Michigan that also airs at 89.9 FM), recent Arbitron ratings for the former WaY FM format placed the station at #2 among all stations in the market with teens, and tied for 3rd place among females 12-24 (the station's core audience).
Cornerstone University announced in October 2013 that WaYfm network would cease operations on November 29, 2013. The 88.3 and 89.9 signals on that day began to simulcast sister station WCSG 91.3, and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith%20constant
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Hollerith constants, named in honor of Herman Hollerith, were used in early FORTRAN programs to allow manipulation of character data.
Early FORTRAN had no CHARACTER data type, only numeric types. In order to perform character manipulation, characters needed to be placed into numeric variables using Hollerith constants. For example, the constant 3HABC specified a three-character string "ABC", identified by the initial integer representing the string length 3 and the specified Hollerith character H, followed by the string data ABC. These constants were typeless, so that there were no type conversion issues. If the constant specified fewer characters than was possible to hold in a data item, the characters were then stored in the item left-justified and blank-filled.
Mechanics
By the FORTRAN 66 Standard, Hollerith syntax was allowed in the following uses:
As constants in DATA statements
As constant actual arguments in subroutine CALL statements
As edit descriptors in FORMAT statements
Portability was problematic with Hollerith constants. First, word sizes varied on different computer systems, so the number of characters that could be placed in each data item likewise varied. Implementations varied from as few as two to as many as ten characters per word. Second, it was difficult to manipulate individual characters within a word in a portable fashion. This led to a great deal of shifting and masking code using non-standard, vendor-specific, features. The fact that character sets varied between machines also complicated the issue.
Some authors were of the opinion that for best portability, only a single character should be used per data item. However considering the small memory sizes of machines of the day, this technique was considered extremely wasteful.
Technological obsolescence
One of the major features of FORTRAN 77 was the CHARACTER string data type. Use of this data type dramatically simplified character manipulation in Fortran programs rendering almost all uses of the Hollerith constant technique obsolete.
Hollerith constants were removed from the FORTRAN 77 Standard, though still described in an appendix for those wishing to continue support. Hollerith edit descriptors were allowed through Fortran 90, and were removed from the Fortran 95 Standard.
Examples
The following is a FORTRAN 66 hello world program using Hollerith constants. It assumes that at least four characters per word are supported by the implementation:
PROGRAM HELLO1
C
INTEGER IHWSTR(3)
DATA IHWSTR/4HHELL,4HO WO,3HRLD/
C
WRITE (6,100) IHWSTR
STOP
100 FORMAT (3A4)
END
Besides DATA statements, Hollerith constants were also allowed as actual arguments in subroutine calls. However, there was no way that the callee could know how many characters were passed in. The programmer had to pass the information explicitly. The hello world program could be written as follows on a machine where four characters are stored in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralized%20computing
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Centralized computing is computing done at a central location, using terminals that are attached to a central computer. The computer itself may control all the peripherals directly (if they are physically connected to the central computer), or they may be attached via a terminal server. Alternatively, if the terminals have the capability, they may be able to connect to the central computer over the network. The terminals may be text terminals or thin clients, for example.
It offers greater security over decentralized systems because all of the processing is controlled in a central location. In addition, if one terminal breaks down, the user can simply go to another terminal and log in again, and all of their files will still be accessible. Depending on the system, they may even be able to resume their session from the point they were at before, as if nothing had happened.
This type of arrangement does have some disadvantages. The central computer performs the computing functions and controls the remote terminals. This type of system relies totally on the central computer. Should the central computer crash, the entire system will "go down" (i.e. will be unavailable).
Another disadvantage is that central computing relies heavily on the quality of administration and resources provided to its users. Should the central computer be inadequately supported by any means (e.g. size of home directories, problems regarding administration), then your usage will suffer greatly. The reverse situation, however, (i.e., a system supported better than your needs) is one of the key advantages to centralized computing.
History
The very first computers did not have separate terminals as such; their primitive input/output devices were built in. However, soon it was found to be extremely useful for multiple people to be able to use a computer at the same time, for reasons of cost – early computers were very expensive, both to produce and maintain, and occupied large amounts of floor space. The idea of centralized computing was born. Early text terminals used electro-mechanical teletypewriters, but these were replaced by cathode ray tube displays (as found in 20th century televisions and computers). The text terminal model dominated computing from the 1960s, until the rise to dominance of home computers and personal computers in the 1980s.
Contemporary status
As of 2007, centralized computing is now coming back into fashion – to a certain extent. Cloud computing has had an important role in the return of centralized computing. Thin clients have been used for many years by businesses to reduce total cost of ownership, while web applications are becoming more popular because they can potentially be used on many types of computing device without any need for software installation. Already, however, there are signs that the pendulum is swinging back again, away from pure centralization, as thin client devices become more like diskless workstations due to increased
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20interrupt
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In computing, keyboard interrupt may refer to:
A special case of signal (computing), a condition (often implemented as an exception) usually generated by the keyboard in the text user interface
A hardware interrupt generated when a key is pressed or released, see keyboard controller (computing)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni%20Broadcasting%20Network
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The Omni Broadcasting Network was a small over-the-air broadcast television network in the United States (not to be confused with the Canadian broadcast system Omni Television). The company's motto was "Less Edge and More Entertaining". Omni's flagship station was low-power station KSSY-LP. The network's reach was reported as 50 million households, according to a quote in Variety.
History
The Omni Broadcasting Network was incorporated in 2001. Its parent company, OBN Holdings, produced films as well as television. OBN's target demographic was adults age 25 and older during prime time, and ages 8 to 13 on weekend mornings.
Broadcast operations began in September 2003. In December 2003, Omni announced affiliation agreements with 119 stations and cable systems, as well as the All Sports Television Network.
According to an Omni executive, the network struggled to get the funding necessary for new projects. OBN Holdings' stock was delisted in 2013.
Programming
Omni broadcast 60 hours of programming per week, 21 hours during prime time. The network primarily ran classic films, usually during late-night hours or on the weekends. Omni also offered a few original programs. One was "Thirteen O'Clock Theater", an umbrella title for old science fiction and horror films in public domain, shown at 1 AM. The network also showed older children's programming such as Birdz, (to meet FCC requirements for educational and informative programming requirements), as well as The MovieTime Showcase, The Flutemaster, The Mini-Movie Hour, and Wizards Tales.
The network also broadcast the 50th Anniversary concert of the Four Tops. This was the network's first original production, taped July 28, 2004, Titled From the Heart: The Four Tops 50th Anniversary and Celebration, the special aired in 2005, and starred musicians Aretha Franklin, Paul Rodgers, Dennis Edwards (of The Temptations), and Mary Wilson (of The Supremes), in addition to the Four Tops themselves. The special won the network a Telly Award.
Other original programs included The Vegas Variety Hour and The Adventures of Unit 28.
Former affiliates
The following were signed or pending OBN affiliates in December 2003:
Additionally, the following major network stations aired OBN's From the Heart: The Four Tops 50th Anniversary and Celebration special:
KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids, IA, channel 9
KTVF, Fairbanks, AK, channel 11
WCTI-TV, Greenville, NC, channel 12
WHP-TV, Harrisburg, PA, channel 21
WIVT, Binghamton, NY, channel 34
WKOW-TV, Madison, WI, channel 27
References
External links
Omni Website (Website archived)
Information on Omni Holdings
Television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloodNet
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BloodNet is a cyberpunk-themed role-playing video game video game developed and published by MicroProse for MS-DOS in 1993. An Amiga port was released in 1994 by Catfish and Teeny Weeny Games. An emulated version for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux was released in 2014.
Gameplay
The interface in BloodNet is standard point and click with some icon-based commands available from a drop down menu. The game features written dialog and puzzles, in addition to an open-ended travel system and random encounters. An alternate "cyberspace universe" is also part of the gameplay, where codewords are needed to travel to different "wells" (cyberspace locations). Role-playing elements are also present in Bloodnet: the player character and other recruitable characters for the player's party have number-based stats (such as Perception, Hacking, etc.), and combat is based on the player character's attributes and stats.
Plot
A mix of future tech and gothic vampire story, in the cyberpunk style, BloodNet puts the player into the role of a man named Ransom Stark, who must battle a vampire named Abraham Van Helsing who is attempting world domination and save both humanity and the cybernet. Ransom Stark was bitten by the aforementioned vampire, but is able to fight off the infection with the help of a computer grafted onto his brain stem. He must then embark on a journey to defeat the head vampire, Dracula, to stop the infection.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in February 1994 approved of BloodNet combining vampires and cyberpunk, non-linear gameplay, "interesting" characters and storyline, and streamlined interface. The reviewer said, however, that "the game as a whole left me vaguely dissatisfied", citing a lack of direction in the story and pacing, lack of detail in Cyberspace, "confusing and frustrating" combat, and an unavoidable repeating random encounter. He concluded that BloodNet was "a gem without polish". Dragon gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. Pelit rated BloodNet 82% in the February 1994 issue, with the summary of "beautiful graphics, great atmosphere, but almost everything could have done better".
BloodNet was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds Role-Playing Game of the Year award in June 1994, losing to Betrayal at Krondor. The editors wrote that BloodNets "script [...] is one of the most interesting to hit this genre, and the surrealistic aspects to the art style are definitely fascinating". Richard Cobbett of PC Gamer, retrospectively reviewing the game in 2013, gave it a negative review stating that it was confusing, dull, and tedious.
The One gave the Amiga version of BloodNet an overall score of 84%, stating that "The AI system is great ... with party characters volunteering for jobs, offering opinions and reacting to your actions. It's the best implementation of this idea I've seen." The One praised the rendered 3D-esque graphics, and also expressed their reliance on the manual for reference to items in the game, as they describe Bloo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity%20Broadcasting%20Network
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The Unity Broadcasting Network is an over-the-air religious television network. The company is headquartered in Booneville, Mississippi, and individual transmitter stations are located in Mississippi and Tennessee.
Programming
The Unity Broadcasting Network airs many local programs from various churches and Christians in the area. During times when locally produced programs are not aired the station airs programs from the Smile of a Child TV network and the Legacy TV network. Unity also carries Local weather provided by Mississippi Weather Media LLC. www.mswxmedia.com
List of Stations
Current Stations
W32EV-D 32 Adamsville, Tennessee
W24EP-D 24 Fulton, Mississippi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W39CA-D
Possible Future Stations
Channel 42 in Rolla, Missouri.
30 in Lexington, Tennessee (Construction Permit)
45 Humboldt, Tennessee (Construction Permit)
Former Stations
6 Selmer, Tennessee
W15CG 15 Pontotoc, Mississippi
45 Russellville, Alabama
46 Tuscumbia, Alabama
K38HE-D 38 West Plains, Missouri
W34DV-D 34 Booneville, Mississippi
Cable coverage
UBN's website lists that their translator on Channel 34 is carried on Comcast Cable 8 in Corinth, Mississippi, and their MySpace account says they are on channel 56.
References
External links
Official Unity Broadcast Network web-site
Television networks in the United States
Religious television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2005
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings%20%28advertisement%29
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Lemmings was a television commercial that launched the "Macintosh Office" by Apple Computer in the United States, in January 1985, a year after the introduction of the Apple Macintosh in 1984. It was aired during the 1985 Super Bowl, a year after the Apple Super Bowl commercial, 1984. The Lemmings commercial was a major failure, unlike 1984, and was widely seen as insulting to potential customers. Apple did not air another commercial during the Super Bowl until the Hal commercial in 1999.
The advertisement's name refers to an urban legend that lemmings periodically commit mass suicide. To the soundtrack of a whistled, discordant and down-tempo version of "Heigh-Ho", a long line of blindfolded office workers slowly makes its way through a dusty, windswept landscape to a cliff, where one by one they fall to their doom. A voiceover notes that the "Macintosh Office" will soon be announced. The last person in the line stops at the brink, uncovers his eyes and takes in the situation, as the announcer states "you can look into it". A second line of people is then shown, as the announcer continues, "or you can go on with business as usual".
References
Apple Inc. advertising
American television commercials
1985 works
Super Bowl commercials
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerra
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Computerra () was a Russian computer weekly publication. The first edition was released on December 21, 1992 and was published by C&C Computer Publishing Limited (Computerra Publishing House). Later, it received the online counterpart at [www.computerra.ru], which supplements the contents of the publication; due to the financial problems and lack of advertisement material, the issue 811–812 on December 15, 2009 was announced as the last issue to be published offline, with only the online version remaining active. The last issue cover lacks a usual cover image, with only the black rectangle instead and the words roughly translatable as "now you can shut down your computerra", as a pun on the shutdown image of Windows 95.
The founder was Dmitriy Mendrelyuk. The magazine was headquartered in Moscow. There are some other magazines founded by him like Business-Journal ().
The typical audience of Computerra magazine includes the working men 25–34 years old, who have high social status, high or medium income level, and use computers.
The difference of Computerra from the most of other computer magazines is that this magazine not only writes about computer hardware and software, but writes philosophical thoughts about life, "computer people" life above all.
Alexa.com traffic rank for Computerra.ru official website is 36,816 .
History
Editors-in-chief:
Georgiy Kuznetsov (1995–1998)
Eugene Kozlovsky (1998–2004)
Sergey Leonov (2004–2006)
Dmitriy Mendrelyuk (temporary in 2006)
Vladimir Guriev 2007–2008
Vladislav Biryukov
References
External links
Computerra website
old Computerra website
archive
Computerra Inside – editorial blog
1992 establishments in Russia
2009 disestablishments in Russia
Computer magazines published in Russia
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Russia
Magazines established in 1992
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Magazines published in Moscow
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Russian-language magazines
Weekly magazines published in Russia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E58
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European route E 58 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Vienna, Austria and ends in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It is approximately long.
Route
: Vienna - Fischamend - Bruck an der Leitha
: Bruck an der Leitha - / border
: / border (Start of Concurrency with E75) - Bratislava
: (Start of Concurrency with E571) Bratislava - Senec - Trnava
: (End of Concurrency with E75) Trnava - Nitra - Zvolen
: Zvolen - Vigľaš - Lučenec - Rimavská Sobota - Figa
: Figa - Tornaľa
: Tornaľa - Rožňava - Košice (End of Concurrency with E571)
: (Start of Concurrency with E50) Košice
: Košice - Michalovce - / border
: / border - Uzhorod
: (End of Concurrency with E50) Uzhorod - Serednje - Mukachevo
: (Start of Concurrency with E81) Mukachevo - Berehove
: Berehove - Bene - Vylok
: Vylok - Pyiterfolovo - Nevetlenfolu - / border
: / border - Dragușeni (End of Concurrency with E81)- Baia Mare - - Bizușa-Băi - Dej
: Dej - Bistrița - Piatra Fântânele - Poiana Stampei - Păltinoasa - Suceava - Ițcani (in Suceava) - Suceava
: Suceava - Botoșani
: Botoșani - Târgu Frumos
: Târgu Frumos - Iași
: Iași - Cotu Morii - Sculeni - / border
: / border - Sculeni
: Sculeni - Petresti - Ungheni - Pîrlița - Bahmut - Călărași - Straseni - Trușeni - Chișinău (Start of Concurrency with E581)
: Chișinău
: Interchange with M14, M21
: Stǎuceni - Gura Bodului - Entering - Tiraspol - Pervomaisc - / border
: / border - Odesa (End of Concurrency with E581)
: Odesa - Mykolaiv
: Mykolaiv
: Mykolaiv - Kherson - Nova Kakhovka - Melitopol - Pryazovske - Prymorsk - Manhush - Mariupol - Novoazovsk - / border
: / border - Taganrog - Chaltyr - Rostov-on-Don
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
E058
E058
E058
E058
European routes in Ukraine
E58
58
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskmate
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Desk mate or deskmate may refer to:
Tandy DeskMate, a graphical shell for a character based command operating system, either TRSDOS or MSDOS
Deskmate, a person sharing desks in hot desking
Deskmate, a co-office worker who is a situated at a neighbouring office desk
Deskmate, a student classmate with the same or neighbouring school desks
See also
Classmates (disambiguation)
Desk (disambiguation)
Mate (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Bomber
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is a 1999 arcade style action video game for the PlayStation, and the second game developed by CyberConnect. Silent Bomber is based on the classic top down shoot 'em up genre but with a twist: Instead of shooting the enemy, the player blows them up using bombs. In 2006, it was released for the PlayStation Network in Japan.
Gameplay
The player takes control of the protagonist, Jutah, whose mission is to attack and destroy the facilities and defenses of the colossal space dreadnought Dante. The player can either plant bombs simply where they stand, or by launching them using the lock-on reticle. Bombs that are launched at enemies also attach to their target. Bombs can then be detonated at any time at the player's discretion. This introduces the chaining element of gameplay, where the number of enemies simultaneously destroyed awards more points. Bombs can also be "stacked", and a larger number of bombs in the same place is more destructive. Jutah can set only a limited number of bombs at one time, so the set bombs must be detonated before more bombs can be set.
Jutah also has access to material liquids, which are enhanced bombs with special effects. Napalm continues to burn after it is detonated, damaging enemies within the flames. It is also more effective against biological enemies. Gravity forms a miniature black hole, sucking in nearby enemies. Paralysis temporarily disables electrical devices. It also does extra damage to mechanical enemies. Material liquids can also be stacked and chained with standard bombs.
Jutah can upgrade the number of bombs he can plant before needing to detonate them, the range of his bomb-planting hologram and his resistance to enemy attack by using E-Chips hidden throughout the levels. Jutah's E-Chips can be configured at any time to adapt his skills to different situations.
In keeping with arcade style tradition, many levels end with a powerful boss that Jutah must destroy or repel to move on through the game's 14 levels.
Plot
The game begins with Jutah Fate, a war criminal, being drafted into a covert military operation by his home planet of Hornet. Because of events that occurred prior to the game, he is largely devoid of emotions. The mission is to destroy a space cruiser, known as the Dante, that is threatening the planet. Also part of the mission are Benoit Manderubrot, a political criminal; Micino Tifone, a spy; and John Loss, an escape artist and member of an oppressed tribe. The operation is headed by CO Annri Ohara.
Upon arrival at the Dante, their ship is shot down by Dante's anti-aircraft weapons. Everyone lands on the cruiser unharmed, but Jutah is separated from the group. As the game progresses and Jutah is asked to destroy various parts of Dante, Jutah and Annri begin to develop feelings for each other.
Finally, Jutah reaches Dante's bridge, but finds that the crew was killed by its own defenses. A hologram of Benoit appears and reveals that it was he who killed the crew, and that he had take
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTOV-LP
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KTOV-LP (channel 21) was a low-power analog television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, which operated from 2002 to 2018. Last owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, its final programming was MyNetworkTV. It was functionally replaced by a digital subchannel of co-owned Fox affiliate KSCC (channel 38). The transmitter was located on Leopard Street in Corpus Christi. The "My KTOV" branding is still used on the subchannel.
History
Before becoming an affiliate of MyNetworkTV, KTOV-LP (on channel 7, the former K07UD) was a UPN affiliate beginning in 1999. It assumed the affiliation from KTMV-LP, a station that began carrying Tejano music videos in 1997 but remained on cable in KTOV-LP's stead when it picked up UPN.
Don Gillis and Fred Hoffmann started a third station, KCBO-LP "Coastal Box Office" focusing on sports and movies, in 2001. In 2004, the call signs and programming were switched between channels 7 and 21.
GH Broadcasting announced that it would sell KTOV-LP to London Broadcasting Company, owner of KIII (channel 3), in March 2012. The sale fell through in early 2013, after which GH declared bankruptcy, remaining as debtor-in-possession. In late 2014, the sale of the station to Corpus 18, LLC, a partnership formed by the noteholders of debt of GH and High Maintenance Broadcasting, owners of KUQI and a related business to GH, was finalized. On October 2, 2015, Corpus 18 agreed to sell KTOV-LP, KUQI, and KXPX-LP to Sinclair Broadcast Group for $9.25 million.
KTOV-LP's license was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 3, 2018; its programming is now seen exclusively on KSCC-DT3.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Texas
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in Texas
TOV-LP
Defunct television stations in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri%20Tarr
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Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1992 and 1996, respectively). Between her BS and MS/PhD, she worked full-time at the University of Massachusetts Physical Plant, attempting to introduce an automated system to help with the Plant's operations. After receiving her PhD, she joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member in 1996, where she worked on and led various projects relating to issues of software composition, morphogenic software, and aspect-oriented software development.
Her work on multi-dimensional separation of concerns was recognized as the Most Influential Paper at the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). She is chief architect for Governance of Software Development, an IBM Research initiative that ties together the tools for teams of developers with the planning and financial management aspects required by enterprises.
Tarr was the 2005 program chair of the Aspect-Oriented Software Development conference and was the 2006 general chair of ACM SIGPLAN's OOPSLA 2006 Conference.
References
External links
Peri Tarr's IBM Research homepage
IBM employees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamisama%20Kazoku
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is a Japanese anime series based on a series of light novels by Yoshikazu Kuwashima, which premiered May 18, 2006 in Japan across the anime satellite television network Animax. The original light novel series has concluded with eight volumes; however, a sequel light novel series titled was released on January 25, 2008.
Plot
Samatarou Kamiyama is the son of a god and must live in the human world with his family to learn about them, in order to become a better god when the time comes to succeed his father. His closest friend is Tenko, Samatarou's guardian angel since birth. One day he falls for Kumiko Komori, a girl who just transferred to their school, and decides to win her heart without relying on any of his relatives' godly powers, oblivious to the fact that Tenko herself has a crush on him.
Characters
Samatarou is the blue-eyed, blue-haired son of a god (kami) and a goddess (megami), who is studying humanity on Earth in order to be a better deity when he is ready to succeed his father. Samatarou is not human, evidenced by the fact that he mentions never having felt really hungry and by Tenko's comment that he should not be too strongly affected by pain when she punches him. Samatarou does not seem to have full control of his powers yet, although he is capable of communicating in telepathic/chibi form and he displays other abilities infrequently. Samatarou is generally kind-hearted, considerate to people and capable of acts of courage and determination, but he is easily embarrassed by his family's madcap antics and he is easily bribed with yakisoba bread. Before his crush on Kumiko, he seemed to be generally fed up with his life, where he got everything he wanted just by wishing it, and was lacking in resolve. Samataro's name spells out God which is Kamisama (Kami comes from Kamiyama (lit. God mount) and Sama comes from Samataro)
In Kamisama Kazoku Z, he becomes a "god", but according to his words, seems like it is only "an increase in duties".
Tenko is a pink-haired, pink-eyed angel that was summoned to Earth on the very day that Samatarou was born, to be his guardian and guide until he was ready to move ahead by himself. Since Tenko appeared in the form of a newborn, she has grown up with Samatarou and developed feelings for him along the way. This did not stop her from acting as Samatarou's conscience and occasionally punishing him for what she considered to be his misdeeds. Tenko tries to help her charge with his first crush, only to suffer conflicting feelings when she realizes her own feelings. Despite having considerable willpower and integrity, Tenko is in some ways as innocent as a child and lacks some knowledge of general human traffic. For instance, she was quite unknowing about the method of conceiving children and operated by the same explanation that Meme got; first boy and girl kiss, then the stork comes. A defining trait of Tenko is that, whenever she suffers an emotional extreme of some sort, steam visibly erupts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU%20shim
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A CPU shim (also called CPU spacer) is a shim used between the CPU and the heat sink in a computer. Shims make it easier and less risky to mount a heatsink on the processor because it stabilizes the heatsink, preventing accidental damaging of the fragile CPU packaging. They help distribute weight evenly over the surface.
CPU shims are usually made of thin and very flat aluminium or copper. Copper has good heat dissipation capacity but is electrically conductive. CPU shims should be non-conductive to prevent any accidental short circuiting. Aluminium shims are often anodized, which makes them non-conductive and improves their appearance (see case modding). It is also very important that the shim is the proper thickness. If it is too thick then the heatsink will not make contact with the CPU, resulting in poor cooling and possibly overheating.
Most shims are CNC manufactured, often using laser cutting. Cheaper ones may be pressed or stamped which could make them less accurate.
Usage
CPU shims are not common at all in OEM computers, but are used by some computer hardware enthusiasts who may use heavier heatsinks because they wish to have a cooler or less noisy system or perhaps to overclock the CPU for better performance. A heavy heatsink puts more pressure on the CPU and motherboard. Shims are very useful for people who often change CPU, heatsink or cooling solutions, or use a heatsink that is heavier than the CPU manufacturer's recommended weight.
CPU shims are nowadays largely obsolete because most modern processors designed for home users since the introduction of the Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 have an Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) which prevents the CPU core from being accidentally broken.
See also
Computer fan
Computer cooling
Thermal grease
Computer hardware cooling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2%20Hills%20Motorway
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The M2 Hills Motorway is a tollway in Sydney, New South Wales that is part of the Sydney Orbital Network and the National Highway west of Pennant Hills Road. Owned by toll road operator Transurban, it forms majority of Sydney's M2 route, with the Lane Cove Tunnel constituting the rest of the M2 route.
The M2 cycleway is located on the breakdown lanes of the M2 Hills Motorway.
Route
The M2 Hills Motorway connects directly with the Lane Cove Tunnel at the Lane Cove River in North Ryde and heads north-west through Macquarie Park to Epping, then West through Beecroft, Carlingford then through Baulkham Hills and Winston Hills onto the Westlink M7 motorway at Seven Hills. The motorway runs underneath the suburb of North Epping via twin tunnels known as the Epping/Norfolk tunnels.
Connection to M11 NorthConnex
The NorthConnex opened on 31 October 2020 and includes motorway-to-motorway ramps to and from the portion of the M2 west of Pennant Hills Road/Cumberland Highway. Connection between NorthConnex and the eastern portion of the M2 is via Pennant Hills Road and ramps on Pennant Hills Road.
Tolls
The M2 uses a cashless tolling system, where tolls are charged on the basis of vehicles being either Class A (which includes most private vehicles) or Class B (vehicles with two axles and are over 2.8 metres high, or vehicles with three axles which are over 2 metres high, or vehicles with more than three axles). Toll prices are updated four times a year.
Ownership
At opening, the motorway was owned by the Hills Motorway Group, which was owned by Colonial First State (26.7%), Abigroup (8.1%), Obayashi Corporation (8.1%), Mercantile Mutual, Portfolio Partners and AMP Limited. Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG) later purchased Obayshi's 8.1% share. In 2000, MIG planned to take over Hills Motorway Group but this did not eventuate. In April 2004, Transurban acquired Abigroup's 8.1% stake of the motorway. In February 2005, Transurban mounted a takeover bid of Hills Motorway for $1.8 billion. The takeover bid was successful and finalised in May 2005.
Separate to ownership, in January 2006, Transurban acquired Tollaust, which managed the tolls and operated and maintained the motorway. Tollaust was also owned by Abigroup. The acquisition was completed in February 2006.
The concessional tolling period ends in June 2048. It was originally planned to end in 2042, before it was extended to May 2046.
Interchanges
History
Castlereagh Freeway
Road approaches from Sydney's western suburbs were originally slow and traffic passed through Parramatta and to the city centre via Victoria Road and Western Freeway. Parramatta was bypassed in 1986, however peak hour traffic still clogged up Victoria Road and all western approaches to Sydney.
Proposals for an F2 Castlereagh Freeway were released in 1968. The freeway would branch from the Lane Cove Valley Expressway (F3) near Herring Road at North Ryde (now Macquarie Park), and head west towards the western suburbs as fa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Humsafar
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Radio Humsafar is a radio network providing South Asian programming to over 2 million listeners in several major cities around the world. Radio Humsafar's programming is broadcast in the United States, Canada, India, Australia and over the internet worldwide. It was launched in Montreal in July 2000 and is currently heard on radio stations across Canada, India, Australia and the United States. The station broadcasts family oriented programming with a mix of news, music, current issues, comedy shows, kids programs and talk shows 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The evening talk show hosted by Jasvir Sandhu is currently its most popular program.
Radio Humsafar can also be heard via satellite in North America using a DVB receiver via Telesat Anik F1 satellite.
Radio stations
Radio Humsafar owns Laval, Quebec-based radio station CJLV 1570 AM; that station carries a French-language full-service format, including oldies music, talk programs and news updates throughout the day.
On March 16, 2011, Radio Humsafar would pursue a second radio station in the Montreal area when it applied with the CRTC to operate a terrestrial ethnic radio station in Montreal, which would have operated at 1400 kHz with a universal transmitter power of 1,000 watts. On May 10, 2011, the application was withdrawn, for unknown reasons. Radio Humsafar would reapply again, this time at 1610 kHz, also broadcasting at 1,000 watts at all times; this application was approved by the CRTC on May 16, 2014. This station, whose call letters will be CHRN, will serve as a flagship for the Radio Humsafar network.
On October 21, 2015, Radio Humsafar received a license for a new radio station in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ontario, CIRF, which will broadcast on 1350 kHz.
References
External links
Radio Humsafar website
Canadian radio networks
American radio networks
Radio stations in Montreal
Multicultural and ethnic radio stations in Canada
Indian diaspora mass media
South Asian Canadian culture
Asian-Canadian culture in Montreal
Indo-Canadian culture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARV
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YARV (Yet another Ruby VM) is a bytecode interpreter that was developed for the Ruby programming language by Koichi Sasada. The goal of the project was to greatly reduce the execution time of Ruby programs.
Since YARV has become the official Ruby interpreter for Ruby 1.9, it is also named KRI (Koichi's Ruby Interpreter), in the same vein as the original Ruby MRI, named in honor of Ruby's creator Yukihiro Matsumoto.
Performance
Benchmarks by rubychan.de showed significant increases in performance. Benchmarks by Antonio Cangiano showed speed improvements over other Ruby VMs, with 1.9 on average four times faster than the original interpreter. All evaluations comprised a mix of mostly synthetic benchmarks.
History
YARV was merged into the Ruby Subversion repository on January 1, 2007. It was released as part of Ruby 1.9.0 on December 26, 2007, replacing Ruby MRI.
See also
Parrot virtual machine
Rubinius
Ruby programming language
References
External links
YARV home page Note: obsolete now that YARV is merged into Ruby
YARV: Yet Another RubyVM ... on Rails? - Koichi Sasada's RubyConf 2006 presentation
Ruby (programming language)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Sidecar
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The Commodore A1060 Sidecar is an expansion hardware device developed by Commodore and released in 1986 for the Amiga 1000 computer. It features a complete PC XT-clone system mounted in an expansion case which connected to the expansion bus on the right side of the Amiga 1000 computer, sitting beside it similar to a motorcycle's sidecar, hence the name.
The PC side of the Sidecar was built around an Intel 8088 processor. All I/O procedures from the PC side are performed by the Amiga. Software was included to allow data to be exchanged easily between the PC and the Amiga side of the system. The Sidecar was available with an internal hard disk which was accessible from both the MS-DOS and AmigaOS environments. This was the first hard drive produced by Commodore for the Amiga.
Video display and user input were performed through the Amiga's monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This allowed the user to control both computers simultaneously.
Characteristics
The Amiga Sidecar was a complete IBM PC XT system, with the exception of I/O devices and operations (which are handled by the Amiga). Specifications include:
Processor: Intel 8088 clocked at 4.77 MHz
RAM: 256 kB (expandable to 512 kB + 80 kB Dual Bus Memory)
Graphics Emulation: Dependent on Amiga settings. (can use real 8-bit ISA graphics cards)
Sound Emulation: Dependent on Amiga settings. (can use real 8-bit ISA sound cards)
One internal 5.25" drive bay (normally fitted with a 360K 5.25" floppy drive)
3 x 8-bit ISA slots (for using real PC cards)
Amiga 1000 Expansion Bus connector (for Amiga connectivity)
Additional slot for an 8087 numeric coprocessor
History
Early in its life, the Amiga was strong in entertainment and graphics software but lacked general productivity software such as word processors, spreadsheets and database software. These are the areas where the de facto business standard IBM PC excelled. Commodore's intent was to let the Amiga take advantage of PC compatibility to shore up its weakness in this category of software.
Bruce F. Webster wrote in the October 1985 issue of BYTE, after seeing the Amiga for the first time:
Webster, in September 1986, noted the Sidecar's announcement as fulfilling his prediction. Jerry Pournelle that month named the Sidecar his "number one pick of Spring COMDEX, stating that "it was eerie to watch Flight Simulator running as if on a PC and still see the famous Amiga bouncing ball in the background and a word-processing program running in the foreground".
The Sidecar was developed by Commodore Germany, as was all of the Commodore PC-architecture based development. It was relatively expensive and it required a non-trivial amount of desktop space compared to the Amiga 1000 by itself. The device was also taller than the Amiga 1000, which made it seem even more aesthetically disconnected from the main system.
Besides the high price and the aesthetic issues, other factors contributed to the Sidecar's lack of adoption. The Amiga 2000 provided i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M5%20Motorway%20%28Sydney%29
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The M5 Motorway is a motorway located in Sydney, New South Wales that is part of the Sydney Orbital Network.
The M5 route number comprises two connected parts:
The South-West Motorway is a toll road operated by Interlink Roads. Its southwestern terminus is south of the Roden Cutler Interchange in Prestons where the M5 meets the M7 Motorway and the M31 Motorway. The South-West Motorway's eastern terminus is located to the east of an exit junction with King Georges Road at Beverly Hills. The section between Hammondville and Beverly Hills is tolled under the M5 South-West tolls.
The M5 East is a tunnel from to that opened in December 2001 to connect with General Holmes Drive at Kyeemagh. The section west of Marsh Street is tolled since July 2020.
The M8 Motorway also runs roughly parallel to the M5 East and link the M5 at Kingsgrove to the St Peters Interchange along separate twin tunnels. Both the M5 East and M8 are tolled as part of WestConnex, separate to the M5 South-West tolls. This results in two separate tolls when travelling along the M5 between Moorebank and Kyeemagh.
The M5 cycleway is located on the breakdown lanes of the M5 South-West Motorway, and runs off-road parallel to the M5 East between King Georges Road and Arncliffe.
Sections
South-West Motorway
The South-West Motorway replaced the Hume Highway (Liverpool Rd) as the primary route from to the Sydney CBD. In the 1980s, the Hume Highway (National Highway 31) ended at Crossroads, just before Liverpool. This stretch of freeway (Campbelltown to Crossroads) was previously known as South Western Freeway, designated F5. It is important to note that the South Western Freeway is different to the M5 South-West Motorway. From then on, to proceed to the city, the alternatives were either Liverpool Road (then National Route 31) or Newbridge Road (State Route 54) via Bankstown. Both routes had many traffic lights and were and still are frequently heavily congested.
An initial stretch of the motorway was built and completed in February 1985 to link Heathcote Road at Moorebank and the Hume Highway at Casula, including a bridge across the Georges River near Casula. It was built as a single carriageway and included a traffic light controlled, at-grade intersection at Moorebank Avenue.
After years of proposals and political promises, a privately constructed and operated motorway – the M5 South-West Motorway – was built under a "Build-Operate-Transfer" agreement, which was awarded to Interlink Roads. The motorway was constructed on a publicly owned freeway reservation, between the existing road at Heathcote Road, Moorebank, to King Georges Road, Beverly Hills. It was constructed in two stages:
Stage 1: between Hume Highway and The River Road
Stage 2: between The River Road and King Georges Road, Sydney
Stage 1 and a portion of Stage 2 (The River Road to Fairford Road) of the motorway opened in August 1992, with the remaining portion of Stage 2 opened in October 1992. The motorway w
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KPHN (1360 AM) is a religious-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to El Dorado, Kansas, serving the Wichita metropolitan area. The station is owned by the Catholic Radio Network, Inc.; the KPHN broadcast license is held by Kansas City Catholic Network, Inc.
History
Early years
O. A. Tedrick received the construction permit for a new 500-watt, daytime-only radio station in El Dorado on April 1, 1953. The station signed on seven months later on November 16, 1953, from studios and a transmitter east of the city limits on US 54. Two years after launching, Tedrick transferred the station to the El Dorado Broadcasting Company, which featured additional investors, including other members of the Tedrick family.
After the June 10, 1958, tornado in which 13 people died, KBTO became the center of storm warning operations in the event of severe weather, activating a network of ham radio operators and spotters throughout the area. The station also attracted attention during the trial of Francis Gary Powers when it provided its listeners not only with international reports of the case but also with what Radio Moscow was saying on air, transcribed and recorded for 11 to 12 hours a day and summarized in a 25-minute evening program.
The early 1970s were a period of major changes for the station. A 1970 storm ripped the roof off of its transmitter building. The next year, it was sold to the Neosho County Broadcasting Company, owner of KKOY in Chanute, and the call letters were changed to KOYY on November 29. Neosho had other plans, too: that same month, the company was granted an FM station to broadcast on 99.3 MHz. Three months later, on February 15, 1972, KOYY-FM signed on the air with a 60 percent simulcast of the AM, carrying middle of the road music.
KOYY-AM-FM was sold in 1977 to Michael Horne and Guy Russell, owners of station KIKZ at Seminole, Texas, for $320,000. The Horne family sold its interest to Russell three years later. The call letters on both AM and FM outlets changed to KSPG-AM-FM in 1984, with the stations airing country music. This ended a brief period of fully split programming on the frequencies.
Sales in the 1980s and 1990s
The late 1980s and early 1990s would see a series of changing hands for KSPG and KSPG-FM, with the stations eventually being split from each other. The first transaction took place in 1987, when Gary Violet bought the pair from Russell for $425,000. Two years later, an agreement was reached to sell the pair for $1.1 million to Richard Smith of Columbus, Georgia. The deal, however, collapsed. In the meantime, Violet upgraded KSPG-FM, changing its frequency to 99.1 MHz at higher power and its format to urban contemporary; the AM also began broadcasting at night with 40 watts.
A second buyer appeared in 1991: New Life Fellowship Inc. of Wichita, paying $1.05 million for both stations. New Life, headed by David and Tammie Brace, was in the middle of a series of radio deals that would establish itself with a pre
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D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) is a digital voice and data protocol specification for amateur radio. The system was developed in the late 1990s by the Japan Amateur Radio League and uses minimum-shift keying in its packet-based standard. There are other digital modes that have been adapted for use by amateurs, but D-STAR was the first that was designed specifically for amateur radio.
Several advantages of using digital voice modes are that it uses less bandwidth than older analog voice modes such as amplitude modulation and frequency modulation. The quality of the data received is also better than an analog signal at the same signal strength, as long as the signal is above a minimum threshold and as long as there is no multipath propagation.
D-STAR compatible radios are available for HF, VHF, UHF, and microwave amateur radio bands. In addition to the over-the-air protocol, D-STAR also provides specifications for network connectivity, enabling D-STAR radios to be connected to the Internet or other networks, allowing streams of voice or packet data to be routed via amateur radio.
D-STAR compatible radios are manufactured by Icom, Kenwood, and FlexRadio Systems.
History
In 1998 an investigation into finding a new way of bringing digital technology to amateur radio was started. The process was funded by a ministry of the Japanese government, then called the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and administered by the Japan Amateur Radio League. In 2001, D-STAR was published as the result of the research.
In September 2003 Icom named Matt Yellen, KB7TSE (now K7DN), to lead its US D-STAR development program.
Starting in April 2004 Icom began releasing new "D-STAR optional" hardware. The first to be released commercially, was a 2-meter mobile unit designated IC-2200H. Icom followed up with 2 meter and 440 MHz handheld transceivers the next year. However, the yet to be released UT-118 add-on card was required for these radios to operate in D-STAR mode. Eventually, the card became available and once installed into the radios, it provided D-STAR connectivity. The June 2005 edition of the American Radio Relay League's QST magazine reviewed the Icom IC-V82.
JARL released some changes to the existing D-STAR standard in late 2004. Icom, aware that the changes were coming, delayed the release of their hardware in anticipation of the changes.
The Icom ID-1 1.2 GHz mobile radio was released in late 2004. The ID-1 was the first D-STAR radio that provided digital data (DD) mode operation. In this mode, data can be transferred at 128 kbit/s as a wireless bridge via the RJ-45 Ethernet jack on the radios. It was the only radio to provide this function until the release of the IC-9700 in 2019.
The first D-STAR satellite QSO occurred between Michael, N3UC, FM-18 in Haymarket, Virginia and Robin, AA4RC, EM-73 in Atlanta, Georgia while working AMSAT's AO-27 microsatellite (Miniaturized satellite) in 2007. The two experienced minor di
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WUGA (91.7 MHz) is a public FM radio station serving Athens and much of the northeast part of Georgia. It is a member of Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio network, but is operated by the University of Georgia, with studios and offices located at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the UGA campus. The transmitter is located off Walter Sams Road in Winterville, Georgia, southeast of Athens.
The station's programming consists of news and public affairs, classical music, jazz and folk music from GPB Radio, as well as locally-produced content.
On March 1, 2010, UGA announced budget cuts that, if approved, would have resulted in the end of locally-produced programming on the station. It would then have become a full-time relay of the GPB network. However, , WUGA remains operated by UGA, and during the early 2010s its operations were consolidated with WUGA-TV, a television station UGA owned at the time.
Translators
Since 1993, the station has operated a low-powered FM translator - originally W250AC at 97.9. It moved to 94.5 as W233CA on March 23, 2017. This "fill-in" transmitter was added to improve reception in the downtown Athens area, which can be poor due to terrain shielding and the main transmitter's relatively modest power (6,000 watts). The University of Georgia also owns a student-operated college radio station, WUOG (90.5), which broadcasts and transmits from another location on campus. The two stations' operations are entirely separate from each other.
There are two other supposed translators that are listed in the FCC database as relays of the station. However, these are licensed to Radio Assist Ministry, a religious organization not associated with GPB or UGA. They are not listed by GPB, or given a station ID on the air, making them highly questionable.
There was a third such translator, W300BF 107.9 MHz in Commerce, Georgia, which, under RAM, repeated WUGA. That repeater was sold to Athens Christian Radio, Inc. in 2007. FCC records show it switched its programming source to WMJE in Clarkesville.
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Rocket Science Games was a video game developer and publisher that created games for consoles and personal computers from 1993 to 1997. The company released Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm,
Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky, Rocket Jockey, and Obsidian. The Space Bar was the final game developed by Rocket Science. After the company folded, it was published by SegaSoft. Six additional games were never completed.
Rocket Science Games was founded by serial startup entrepreneur Steve Blank in 1993. The staff included auteurs of video game design, such as Brian Moriarty and Will Harvey. Despite heavy promotion of the company and its products, all of its games reviewed and sold poorly, and the company became a high profile failure.
History
Rocket Science Games (RSG) was an independent game studio founded by Steve Blank and Peter Barrett in 1993 to combine the creative forces of Hollywood and Silicon Valley into compelling cinematic videogames. Sega Enterprises and the Bertelsmann Music Group infused RSG with $12 million in funding in May 1994, thus becoming RSG's North American and European publishers, respectively. Staffed with some of the brightest rising stars of the computer, comics and movie industries, RSG created a huge buzz even before the release of their first titles and claimed to be on the verge of revolutionizing the video game industry using full motion video (FMV). Founded at the height of the FMV video game craze of the 1990s, their first three games utilized the technology heavily. All of them were commercial failures; Jeff Sengstack of NewMedia wrote that they "bombed miserably" and each sold below 20,000 units by 1997.
After the disappointing sales of their early games, RSG turned to SegaSoft to take over as the sole publisher for their titles in development. Sega canceled about half of the titles RSG was working on to reduce costs and speed up releases, with a noticeable negative effect on their quality. Rocket Jockey shipped missing local area network support that had been heavily promoted to the press and was even advertised on the box, but wouldn't be patched into the game for several months. Obsidian also suffered quality problems as it had several bugs present at the time of its release, including a few that prevented completion of the game. Despite pre-release excitement for both Rocket Jockey and Obsidian, neither did particularly well financially. Unable to secure additional funding, RSG was forced to close down in April 1997.
About a year before closing, in February 1996, RSG announced a partnership with CyberCash, Inc. to launch a virtual arcade service based on micropayments. CyberCash, a virtual currency company, would provide the financial infrastructure for the arcade and use it to jump-start their micropayment "electronic coin service". This announcement was heavily circulated by the media and, along with several other micropayment based services, was heralded as the
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A park system, also known as an open space system, is a network of green spaces that are connected by public walkways, bridleways or cycleways. The concept first emerged with the need to minimize fragmentation of natural environments and was referred to as "patch and corridor." In modern landscape architecture, the park system is collaborating with the idea of planning greenways, which run through urban and rural areas. These systems can serve the landscape through ecological, recreational, social, cultural, and healthful measures, and are designed with intentions of sustainability.
One of the earliest park systems, in London, came into existence by chance. As London expanded around former royal parks in the nineteenth century, St. James's Park, Green Park and Hyde Park became part of the urban area. This arrangement was admired in France and adopted for the nineteenth century re-planning of Paris by Baron Haussmann. It was also admired by Frederick Law Olmsted and used to create the famous Emerald Necklace in Boston. Another example is Ebenezer Howard's Adirondack Park concept. These green networks were part of the nineteenth century Garden City Movement.
In 1927, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission was formed to plan and acquire parklands along stream valley corridors in the then-rural northern and eastern suburbs of Washington, D.C. Over 33,000 acres (130 km2) are now protected in the Montgomery County, Maryland portion and provide welcome green space in this urbanized region. A major proposal for a park system was included in Patrick Abercrombie's 1943-4 County of London Plan.
The largest continuous urban parks system in North America is the North Saskatchewan River valley parks system in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which is in size and in length, and also includes 22 ravines, which have a combined total length of . The largest urban parks system in Australia is the Western Sydney Parklands, which is in size and in length.
See also
Greenway (landscape)
Landscape architecture
Landscape planning
National Park Service#National Park System of the United States
Principles of intelligent urbanism
References
Urban planning
Parks
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Oceania Broadcasting Network (also known as OBN, or by its call letters A3M-TV 7) Began operating in 1991.
Opening
OBN was officially opened by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV on September 29, 1991. It was the second TV station broadcasting in NTSC to operate in the Kingdom, initially running in direct competition against rival Tongan TV channel ASTL TV3, before the latter ceased operations in 1993.
Building
The building station was licensed to was supposedly leased by a unit of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After their property lease was cut short by the King, the Mormons were forced to relocate to Liahona. The building was then leased to a Chinese entrepreneur, who set up the Tong-Hua Chinese Restaurant. Tong-Hua inhabited the building for almost ten years, until they were also forced to relocate when the king granted a lifetime lease to TV 7. The original TV tower was attached to the part of the building where the spire once stood.
Christian influence
OBN started primarily as a Christian station, but later, at the king's request, expanded its programming to include other genres, such as news, sport and general entertainment.
Christian programming broadcast on a regular basis included:
Billy Graham Ministries
Hillsong Television
In Touch
700 Club International
Additional channels
In 1998, OBN expanded its operations with the upgrade of its studio facilities, the installation of two giant satellite dishes and a new tower, the tallest in Tonga. Three additional free-to-air channels were also opened to the viewing public, Channel 8 (a PAL version of Channel 7), Channel 9 (broadcasting CNN, and later BBC World & Fox News in NTSC), and Channel 10 (a PAL version of Channel 9). This is when the company started emphasising the OBN moniker, as opposed to TV 7. However, the station is perhaps still best known (and more popularly referred to) among viewers as TV 7. In 2000, OBN ceased to operate Channel 9, after the Tongan government revoked OBN's license for that frequency. The government then allocated Channel 9 for its own television station, TV Tonga. OBN later dropped Channel 10, broadcasting on Channels 7(NTSC) & 8(PAL) only.
Influence in Tongan politics
While originally distancing itself from Tongan politics, OBN seemed to change its stance when it went commercial. With the pro-government TV Tonga's outright refusal to air any program supporting the Human Rights and Democracy Movement during the 2005 civil servants' strike, OBN became an outlet for the voice of the strikers allowing a moral balanced and open freedom of speech unlike the government controlled station. Silenced by government in 2006 in an attempt to control the media in Tonga, the station is due to commence programming again in March, 2009.
Local programs produced at OBN
Check it Out!
Good Morning Tonga
OBN Tonga News
Pole 'o e Kuonga
Stars on Sunday
Tala 'o Tonga
External links
Open Encyclopedia: Tonga Publications and Media
Tonga on the Net - News Media i
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Sheri Forde (born Sheri Hargrave; June 18, 1968) is a Canadian reporter on Sportsnet Tonight, and formerly of The Sports Network (TSN), based in Toronto, Ontario. She has reported on the various Toronto sports teams. Forde joined TSN in 1998 from Calgary, Alberta. She moved to Toronto in 2002 to work for CFTO then went back to TSN in 2003. Originally from Brooks, Alberta, Forde has been working in the media since 1987. On November 17, 2015, her role at TSN was eliminated as a part of restructuring effort.
Sheri authored a first person account of the racist incidents she, her colleagues and her family have experienced as a mixed race couple.
Sheri is married to Duane Forde who works for TSN as a Canadian football colour analyst.
References
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Living people
1968 births
Women sports announcers
People from Brooks, Alberta
Canadian women television journalists
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The kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is a Monte Carlo method computer simulation intended to simulate the time evolution of some processes occurring in nature. Typically these are processes that occur with known transition rates among states. It is important to understand that these rates are inputs to the KMC algorithm, the method itself cannot predict them.
The KMC method is essentially the same as the dynamic Monte Carlo method and the Gillespie algorithm.
Algorithms
One possible classification of KMC algorithms is as rejection-KMC (rKMC) and rejection-free-KMC (rfKMC).
Rejection-free KMC
A rfKMC algorithm, often only called KMC, for simulating the time evolution of a system, where some processes can occur with known rates r, can be written for instance as follows:
Set the time .
Choose an initial state k.
Form the list of all possible transition rates in the system , from state k into a generic state i. States that do not communicate with k will have .
Calculate the cumulative function for . The total rate is .
Get a uniform random number .
Find the event to carry out i by finding the i for which (this can be achieved efficiently using binary search).
Carry out event i (update the current state ).
Get a new uniform random number .
Update the time with , where .
Return to step 3.
(Note: because the average value of is equal to unity, the same average time scale can be obtained by instead using in step 9. In this case, however, the delay associated with transition i will not be drawn from the Poisson distribution described by the rate , but will instead be the mean of that distribution.)
This algorithm is known in different sources variously as the residence-time algorithm or the n-fold way or the Bortz-Kalos-Lebowitz (BKL) algorithm. It is important to note that the timestep involved is a function of the probability that all events i, did not occur.
Rejection KMC
Rejection KMC has typically the advantage of an easier data handling, and faster computations for each attempted step, since the time consuming action of getting all is not needed.
On the other hand, the time evolved at each step is smaller than for rfKMC. The relative weight of pros and cons varies with the case at hand, and with available resources.
An rKMC associated with the same transition rates as above can be written as follows:
Set the time .
Choose an initial state k.
Get the number of all possible transition rates, from state k into a generic state i.
Find the candidate event to carry out i by uniformly sampling from the transitions above.
Accept the event with probability , where is a suitable upper bound for . It is often easy to find without having to compute all (e.g., for Metropolis transition rate probabilities).
If accepted, carry out event i (update the current state ).
Get a new uniform random number .
Update the time with , where .
Return to step 3.
(Note: can change from one MC step to another.)
This algorithm is usua
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The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network is a Pontifical Society of the Catholic Church which encourages Catholics to prayer and action as part of the church's universal mission. The Network provides monthly prayer intentions determined by the Pope. It is particularly inspired by devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and His compassion for the world.
Overview
Founded in 1844 as the Apostleship of Prayer and renamed in 2016, this ecclesiastic service became a pontifical work in March 2018 when Pope Francis approved the new statutes. In December 2020, the Pope constituted this Pontifical Society as a Vatican Foundation.
It is present in 89 countries with a membership of more than 22 million Catholics worldwide.
The International Director of the PWPN is Frédéric Fornos, SJ, who was appointed in 2016.
History: The Apostleship of Prayer
The beginnings
The Apostleship of Prayer was founded in 1844 in the south of France. The initiative was first proposed by a Jesuit priest, Francis Xavier Gautrelet, who at the time was the spiritual director of Jesuit students in Vals-près-le-Puy in the south of France. On the eve of the feast day of Saint Francis Xavier (2 December 1844), he outlined the idea to them in meditation. This initiative was later developed into the Apostleship of Prayer, which is now known as the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network.
The concrete practice that Father Gautrelet suggested to his students to keep this spirit alive was a prayer every morning to offer up the day.
Further developments
In 1861, Jesuit Father Henri Ramière provided a new dynamism for the Apostleship and framed this proposal in a missionary perspective: devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Father Ramiére formalized and structured the Apostleship of Prayer and is considered, after Father Gautrelet, a second founder.
The practices of the Apostleship of Prayer spread widely among local farmers and young Christians in the countryside around Vals-près-le-Puy. In just a few years, this prayer proposal gained popularity throughout France and reached millions of followers worldwide. Apostleship of Prayer groups formed in Catholic parishes and institutions while the original idea took on a visible structured form as an ecclesiastic association.
The Pope’s prayer intentions
Between 1890 and 1896, Pope Leo XIII became interested in participating in this immense network of Catholics offering their lives and their dedication to spiritually supporting the mission of the Church. He incorporated the Apostleship as a special mission of the Pope and entrusted the association to the Society of Jesus in the person of the Father General. He also began to commend a monthly prayer intention to the Apostleship of Prayer where he expressed his concerns and asked all Catholics to pray for them.
The 21st century: the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network
From 2010 onwards, a process of reflection and discernment commenced with national directors and coordinators looking to adapt the Apost
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An Abstract Agent Programming Language or Artificial Autonomous Agents Programming Language or 3APL (pronounced triple-A-P-L) is an experimental tool and programming language for the development, implementation and testing of multiple cognitive agents using the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) approach.
Overview
3APL was developed and is maintained by a team at the computer science department of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. It facilitates specification of cognitive agent behavior using actions, beliefs, goals, plans, and rules. It has been subject to at least 15 papers and conferences, and at least 4 theses.
Platform
The 3APL platform has a visual interface for the monitoring and debugging of agents being run therein, and a syntax-coloring editor for source code editing. It has been released as a Java-based software, which comes with some specification Java interfaces that can be used to develop Java-based plug-ins and libraries. These can be used to provide a visible representation of a virtual environment, for instance. A 3APL platform can also connect in client or server roles to other 3APL platforms across a network, to allow communication among 3APL agents on each platform. A lightweight version of 3APL for mobile applications, named 3APL-M "Toymaker", has also been released.
Language
The 3APL language is relatively simple. The syntax has basic boolean logical operators AND, OR and NOT, with IF-THEN-ELSE conditional statements, and WHILE-DO control flow loop structures. While temporary variables cannot be created except by calling plug-in methods or belief/goal conditions, iterative counter loops can be constructed using a combination of WHILE-DO loops, beliefs and capabilities.
A 3APL agent contains formal definitions of agent beliefs, capabilities, goals and plans. Specifically, there are six skeletal blocks that must be defined.
PROGRAM "agent"
BELIEFBASE {}
CAPABILITIES {}
GOALBASE {}
PLANBASE {}
PG-RULES {}
PR-RULES {}
The beliefs, defined using Prolog syntax, are used to remember information and to perform logical computations. Beliefs can be read by one another, edited by the capabilities, and read by conditional statements in the plans. The initial beliefs of an agent can be defined in its belief base.
BELIEFBASE {
status(standby).
at(0,0).
location(r1,2,4).
location(r5,6,1).
dirty(r1).
dirty(r5).
}
Capabilities define the prerequisites and effects of actions in a STRIPS-like format, reading preexisting beliefs, removing some using the NOT operator, and adding new ones by stating them.
CAPABILITIES {
{status(S1)} SetStatus(S2) {NOT status(S1), status(S2)},
{at(X1,Y1)} NowAt(X2,Y2) {NOT at(X1,Y1), at(X2,Y2)},
{dirty(R)} Clean(R) {NOT dirty(R)}
}
Goals are also defined using Prolog syntax, and new goals can be adopted during runtime. Initial goals are defined in the goal base.
GOALBASE {
cleanRoom(r1).
cleanRoom(r5).
}
Each goal ideally has associated goal planning rules, its PG rules, which serve as an ab
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Cybermorph is a shooter video game developed by Attention to Detail (ATD) and published by Atari Corporation as the pack-in game for the Atari Jaguar in North America on November 23, 1993, and Europe on June 1994. It was also distributed in Japan by Mumin Corporation as a stand-alone release. Taking place in a galactic war, the player pilots the morphing attack fighter TransmoGriffon to battle against the Pernitia empire, who have conquered planets on multiple sectors and whose regenerative robotic technology become entrenched into the planets. The player is tasked with recapturing critical pods, while facing against enemies and bosses, across five sectors in order to defeat the empire.
Attention to Detail were approached by Jon Dean in regards to the Konix Multisystem, working alongside Flare Technology on the operating system, development tools, and demos. One of the demos created by ATD was a 3D landscape, which was based on David Braben's Zarch. It became the basis for Cybermorph, as Atari liked the demo and approached ATD to produce demos for the Jaguar. Atari's testing department was tasked with designing levels and structures, while ATD worked with them to laid down the terrain and enemies in order to implement them into the game. Production proved challenging, as ATD were finishing the game while the hardware was being finalized.
Cybermorph divided critics; some found the pod-collecting gameplay to be dull and repetitive, while others saw it as varied and challenging. Its graphics were generally regarded as a disappointment given the Jaguar's capabilities, while the audio was seen as a bigger disappointment. The more positive commentaries tended to emphasize its gameplay rather than its audio-visual performance, while unfavorable comparisons to Star Fox on Super NES came up frequently in reviews. It was reissued in 1994 as a one-megabyte cartridge, with several features missing compared to the original two-megabyte version from 1993. By 1995, the stand-alone release had sold fewer than 2,000 copies. It was followed by Battlemorph (1995) on Atari Jaguar CD. In 2022, the game was included as part of the Atari 50 compilation.
Gameplay and premise
Cybermorph is a three-dimensional shooter game played from a third-person perspective. The plot takes place in a galactic war, where the Pernitia empire have conquered planets on multiple sectors and whose regenerative robotic technology become entrenched into the planets. The resistance developed new weapons to overthrow the empire but were intercepted and placed into pods scattered throughout various planets. The pods also contain information, supplies, and cryogenically suspended members of the resistance. The player is tasked with piloting the TransmoGriffon (T-Griffon), a morphing attack fighter prototype employing similar technology to that used by the empire, which is transported by interstellar cruisers and only usable on the planetary surface. It is also equipped with Skylar, an artifi
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Daniel J. Barrett is a writer, software engineer, and musician. He is best known for his technology books.
Writing
Barrett has written a number of technical books on computer topics. The most well-known are Linux Pocket Guide and SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide. His books have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Another writer named Daniel J. Barrett writes mystery novels. They are different people.
Corporate use of MediaWiki
Barrett, author of the book MediaWiki (), has received media coverage for his deployment of MediaWiki in corporate environments.
Gentle Giant
Barrett has been active in the resurgence of 1970s progressive rock band Gentle Giant from the 1990s onward. He created the official Gentle Giant Home Page in 1994, and though it began as a fan site, it was adopted by the band and is listed as the "Official Gentle Giant website" on the band's CD re-releases.
In 1996, Barrett compiled a 2-CD set of their songs for PolyGram entitled Edge of Twilight. Later, he also helped to coordinate the creation of the boxed sets Under Construction and Unburied Treasure.
Humor
In 1988, Barrett wrote and recorded the song "Find the Longest Path," a parody incorporating an NP-complete problem in computer science and the frustrations of graduate school. It has been played at mathematics conferences, incorporated into several YouTube videos by other people, and independently performed by a choral ensemble at ACM SIGCSE 2013. Computer scientist Robert Sedgewick ends his algorithms course on Coursera with this song.
Bibliography
Barrett, Daniel J., Bandits on the Information Superhighway, 1996, .
Barrett, Daniel J., NetResearch: Finding Information Online, 1997, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Polylingual Systems: An Approach to Seamless Interoperability, Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 1998.
Barrett, Daniel J., and Silverman, Richard E., SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2001, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Silverman, Richard E., Byrnes, Robert A., Linux Security Cookbook, 2003, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, 2004, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Silverman, Richard E., Byrnes, Robert A., SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, 2005, .
Barrett, Daniel J., MediaWiki, October 2008, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, Second Edition, March 2012, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide, June 2012, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Linux Pocket Guide, Third Edition, June 2016, .
Barrett, Daniel J., Efficient Linux at the Command Line, March 2022, .
References
American computer programmers
American technology writers
American humorists
American rock musicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loup%20Verlet
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Loup Verlet (; 24 May 1931 – 13 June 2019) was a French physicist who pioneered the computer simulation of molecular dynamics models. In a famous 1967 paper he used what is now known as Verlet integration (a method for the numerical integration of equations of motion) and the Verlet list (a data structure that keeps track of each molecule's immediate neighbors in order to speed computer calculations of molecule-to-molecule interactions). He received his PhD in 1957; his PhD work was initially conducted in the group of Victor Weisskopf at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and concluded under the guidance of Maurice Lévy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. From 1957 to 1993 he worked mostly on the physics of the liquid state.
He also wrote about the history of science. In his book "La Malle de Newton" (1993) he argued that Isaac Newton was an important transition figure between the medieval, mainly religious, world of ideas and the modern scientific way of analyzing physical problems. Newton had a foot in both worlds, as shown by the fact that his writings are not only concerned with mathematics and physics, but also theology and alchemy, a combination that might seem bizarre by modern standards. The publication of Newton's Principia in 1687 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (with the king's powers limited by an elected Parliament) were the key events that brought the old era to a close and ushered in the modern one.
His last book was 'Chimères et Paradoxes' (Ed. Cerf, 2007), an extended essay that touches on the philosophy of science as well as the history of science. Among other things, it considers how three great thinkers (Descartes, Newton and Freud) changed our world view.
Bibliography
L. Verlet: "Computer Experiments on Classical Fluids", PhysRev. Vol. 159, No. 98, July 1967
D. Levesque and L. Verlet: Molecular-dynamics and time reversibility. J. Stat. Phys., 72(3-4), 1993.
References
1931 births
2019 deaths
French physicists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley%20Canal
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The Dudley Canal is a canal passing through Dudley in the West Midlands of England. The canal is part of the English and Welsh network of connected navigable inland waterways and forms part of the popular Stourport Ring narrowboat cruising route.
The first short section, which connected to the Stourbridge Canal, opened in 1779. This was then connected to the Birmingham Canal system in 1792 via Dudley Tunnel . Almost immediately, work started on an extension, called Line No. 2, which ran through another long tunnel at Lapal to reach the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. This was completed in 1798 but significant trade had to wait until the Worcester and Birmingham was completed in 1802. In 1846, the company amalgamated with the Birmingham Canal Navigations and various improvements followed including the Netherton Tunnel. This was of a similar length to and parallel to the Dudley Tunnel but it was much bigger with towpaths on both sides and gas lighting. It was the last canal tunnel built in England.
Subsidence from coal mining was a significant problem for much of the life of the canal. The Lapal Tunnel was regularly affected and a section near Blackbrook Junction fell into mine workings in 1894. The route was restored but the short Two Locks Line nearby was abandoned in 1909 and the Lapal Tunnel suffered the same fate in 1917. Most of rest of the canal was abandoned in the 1960s but a committee was formed, later becoming the Dudley Canal Trust, and restoration took place culminating in the reopening of Dudley Tunnel in 1973. Lapal Tunnel remains closed and although the Lapal Canal Trust originally campaigned for it to be reopened, they have modified their plans to include a surface route following the conclusion of an engineering study.
History
The Dudley Canal was seen as part of a scheme to transport coal from coalfields near Dudley to Stourbridge where it would be used for industry. Limestone and ironstone were other potential cargos. A meeting was held in Stourbridge in February 1775 at which Robert Whitworth was commissioned to survey a route and the whole cost of the project was promised. The principal promoter was Lord Dudley and the route ran from Dudley to Stourton on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire. A bill was placed before Parliament in the spring but there was opposition from the Birmingham Canal Company and the promoters withdrew it. They then presented separate bills for the Stourbridge Canal and the Dudley Canal, both of which became Acts of Parliament on 2 April 1776 despite further opposition from the Birmingham Canal Company. The junction between the Dudley canal and the Stourbridge canal was at the foot of the nine-lock Black Delph flight.
Thomas Dadford, Sr. was engaged as the engineer and surveyor and acted in this capacity until 1783 after which he was employed more informally. The Act allowed the Dudley Canal Company to raise £7,000 and this had been subscribed by July 1778 but was insufficient to finance the work.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneydance
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Moneydance is a personal finance software application developed by The Infinite Kind, formerly developed by Reilly Technologies, USA. Written in Java, it can be run on many different computers and operating systems. Under the hood, Moneydance implements a double-entry bookkeeping system, but the user interface is geared towards non-accountants.
Moneydance implements the OFX protocol to perform online banking and bill payment. Other features include check printing, graphing and reporting, scheduled transaction reminders, transaction tags, VAT/GST tracking, budget management and tracking, file encryption, and investment portfolio management.
Moneydance has been localized into French, German, UK English, Norwegian, Greek (partially), Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. UK supermarket Tesco's "Personal Finance" software is based on Moneydance.
An open application programming interface (API) is also available, allowing people to write extensions to the program.
The application is scriptable in jython.
Releases
Moneydance 2008
Moneydance 2010
Moneydance 2011
Moneydance 2012
Moneydance 2012.2
Moneydance 2012.5
Moneydance 2014
Moneydance 2015
Moneydance 2015.2
Moneydance 2015.3
Moneydance 2015.4
Moneydance 2015.6
Moneydance 2015.7
Moneydance 2017
Moneydance 2017.2
Moneydance 2017.3
Moneydance 2017.5
Moneydance 2019
Moneydance 2019.1
Moneydance 2021
Moneydance 2021
Moneydance 2022
Moneydance 2022.2
See also
List of personal finance software
References
External links
2007 MacWorld Review
Accounting software
Accounting software for Linux
Java (programming language) software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20CAD
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Technology computer-aided design (technology CAD or TCAD) is a branch of electronic design automation that models semiconductor fabrication and semiconductor device operation. The modeling of the fabrication is termed Process TCAD, while the modeling of the device operation is termed Device TCAD. Included are the modelling of process steps (such as diffusion and ion implantation), and modelling of the behavior of the electrical devices based on fundamental physics, such as the doping profiles of the devices. TCAD may also include the creation of compact models (such as the well known SPICE transistor models), which try to capture the electrical behavior of such devices but do not generally derive them from the underlying physics. SPICE simulator itself is usually considered as part of ECAD rather than TCAD.
Introduction
Technology files and design rules are essential building blocks of the integrated circuit design process. Their accuracy and robustness over process technology, its variability and the operating conditions of the IC — environmental, parasitic interactions and testing, including adverse conditions such as electro-static discharge — are critical in determining performance, yield and reliability. Development of these technology and design rule files involves an iterative process that crosses boundaries of technology and device development, product design and quality assurance. Modeling and simulation play a critical role in support of many aspects of this evolution process.
The goals of TCAD start from the physical description of integrated circuit devices, considering both the physical configuration and related device properties, and build the links between the broad range of physics and electrical behavior models that support circuit design. Physics-based modeling of devices, in distributed and lumped forms, is an essential part of the IC process development. It seeks to quantify the underlying understanding of the technology and abstract that knowledge to the device design level, including extraction of the key parameters that support circuit design and statistical metrology.
Although the emphasis here is on Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) transistors — the workhorse of the IC industry — it is useful to briefly overview the development history of the modeling tools and methodology that has set the stage for the present state-of-the-art.
History
The evolution of technology computer-aided design (TCAD) — the synergistic combination of process, device and circuit simulation and modeling tools — finds its roots in bipolar technology, starting in the late 1960s, and the challenges of junction isolated, double-and triple-diffused transistors. These devices and technology were the basis of the first integrated circuits; nonetheless, many of the scaling issues and underlying physical effects are integral to IC design, even after four decades of IC development. With these early generations of IC, process variability and para
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWPX-TV
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WWPX-TV (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the northwestern portion of the Washington, D.C. television market. Owned and operated by Ion Media, the station maintains transmitter facilities on Blue Ridge Mountain east of Charles Town, West Virginia.
WWPX-TV operates as a full-time satellite of the main Ion station for the Washington area, Manassas, Virginia–licensed WPXW-TV (channel 66), whose offices are located in Fairfax Station, Virginia. WWPX covers areas of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, northern Virginia, central Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from WPXW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WWPX is a straight simulcast of WPXW; on-air references to WWPX are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WWPX does not maintain any physical presence locally in Martinsburg.
History
Channel 60 signed on October 1, 1991, as WYVN ("Your Valley News"), with studios located in a renovated barn on Discovery Place in Martinsburg. WYVN was the second Fox affiliate in West Virginia, behind Charleston's WVAH-TV (now a Catchy Comedy affiliate). Unusually for Fox stations in the network's early years, WYVN made a commitment from the beginning to local news and public affairs programming. However, owner Flying A Communications found itself in financial trouble due to the cost of the local news operation and poor ratings from competition with Washington, D.C.-based stations. Flying A Communications filed for bankruptcy in October 1992, and the station suspended newscasts in May 1993.
WYVN was forced off the air when Flying A went into receivership on September 17, 1993. A sale to WUSQ-FM owner Benchmark Communications, who would have converted the station to CBS affiliate WUSQ-TV, was worked out and approved by the station's bankruptcy trustee, but fell through at the last minute; the license was instead sold to Green River Broadcasting, who returned the station to air on September 24 while it worked out a financing plan. Having lost its Fox affiliation, WYVN soldiered on as an independent, and briefly attempted a return of local news from January through February 1994. The station remained unable to emerge from bankruptcy; the studio and equipment were sold to its creditors on April 1, 1994, and they locked out the staff and suspended broadcasting. Paxson Communications acquired the license out of bankruptcy for $1.9 million in late 1994.
The station returned again on September 1, 1996, as WSHE-TV, a Paxson station that aired the company's standard infomercial format, with religious programming in some dayparts. The change was made as a clean break with the troubled history of WYVN, but also to "park" a heritage call sign that Paxson had recently
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyblade
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Cyblade is the name of Image Universe superhero from Top Cow Productions. She is a member of Cyberforce.
Publication history
After her initial appearances in other comics, Cyblade was one of two properties to win the first Pilot Season in 2007, meaning Cyblade would appear in her own eponymous mini-series. The one-shot was written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, with art by Rick Mays, and the creative team stayed together for the mini-series. The series ran for a total of four issues, from October 2008 to March 2009.
Fictional character biography
Only fragments of Cyblade's past are known. Dominique Thiebaut was born in the fictional European country of Chalenne, supposedly somewhere near France. Her great-grandfather, Aubrey II, was the last king of Chalenne, and his only child was a daughter, Marie. Marie wed Col. Jean-Michel Thiebaut, who with Aubrey II's blessing became the first Prime Minister of the new democracy of Chalenne. The couple had two children, Alexander, who died of fever at age seven, and Patrick, Dominique's father. Patrick Thiebaut was less moral than his forebears, and more interested in money and power. He married a shy young woman named Claire, and the marriage was neither happy nor idyllic. She gave birth quickly, to a son whom they named Michel. Two years later, Claire died in childbirth with Dominique Aurore Marie Thiebaut.
In her early years, Dominique was spoiled and pampered. Her mutant powers manifested when she was attacked by gunmen at school. Many years later, her father and brother met with violent ends, which Dominique blames herself for not preventing. After their deaths, Dominique left Chalenne, and traveled the world as a freelancer. She studied to become a doctor, while simultaneously joining with freedom fighters in the Middle East. Eventually, she grew unhappy and ended both her role in the Middle Eastern conflicts and her studies to become a doctor. Eventually approached by Cyberdata, she joined them, and was transformed into the cyborg Cyblade. Her tenure as a Special Hazardous Operations Cyborg (SHOC) lasted until Dr. Corben, Heatwave, and Stryker left Cyberdata to form Cyberforce, which she joined as well. Dr. Corben revealed to her the atrocities she had committed while under the control of Cyberdata, which was done through a brain box. Being appalled at her past, she developed further trust in the doctor, allowing him to remove the device. She amassed a small personal fortune, both before and after her tenure as a SHOC.
Devil's Reign
During Heatwave's disappearance, Cyblade stepped up as leader, starting by organizing Cyberforce against an attack against a group of possessed teenagers. After they were dealt with, she found herself separated from her group and in the company of Elektra in Las Vegas. They travelled into the city intending to kill the 'Fire King' who was running the place for Mephisto. However, when she discovered this was actually Heatwave, she stopped Elektra and was captured as a result.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Macintosh%206500
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The Power Macintosh 6500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from February 1997 to March 1998 as part of the Power Macintosh family. It was introduced with speeds of 225 and 250 MHz, with two faster models at 275 and 300 MHz being added a couple of months later.
The 6500 uses the same "InstaTower" case as the Power Macintosh 6400, and is also internally similar. However, there are some differences apart from the faster processor: The 6500 has no RAM soldered to the logic board (the 6400 had 8 MB, which also explains its higher memory ceiling), and uses a different graphics processor. Models from 250 MHz upward also include video in/out capability, some of them with a hardware-accelerated Avid capture card. Some models also include a Zip drive. The Power Macintosh 5500 uses the same logic board in a 5200 style all-in-one case.
According to Apple, the Power Macintosh 6500 was the first personal computer to reach . This milestone was announced in conjunction with a three-day "technology fair" from April 4 to 6, 1997 at Walt Disney World, co-hosted by Apple and Disney.
The 6500 was discontinued in March 1998, a few months after the Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower was introduced.
Models
Introduced February 17, 1997:
Power Macintosh 6500/225
Power Macintosh 6500/250
Introduced April 4, 1997:
Power Macintosh 6500/275
Power Macintosh 6500/300
Introduced September 15, 1997:
All machines include a 12× CD-ROM drive and a 33.6 KB/s modem.
Power Macintosh 6500/225 Home Edition: 4 GB hard drive. $1,600 USD.
Power Macintosh 6500/250 Home Edition: 4 GB hard drive. $2,000 USD.
Power Macintosh 6500/275 Home Edition: 4 GB hard drive. $2,500 USD.
Power Macintosh 6500/275 Small Business Edition: 4 GB hard drive. 48 MB memory. Internal 100 MB Iomega zip drive. $2,800 USD.
Power Macintosh 6500/275 Creative Studio Edition: 4 GB hard drive, 32 MB memory, 512 KB L2 cache, Avid Cinema card, Apple Video System, TV/FM Radio System.
Power Macintosh 6500/300 Home Edition: 4 GB hard drive. 64 MB memory. $3,000 USD.
Timeline
References
External links
The 6400 Zone, a 6400 and 6500-specific resource site
Power Macintosh 6500 at apple-history.com
Power Macintosh 6500/225, 6500/250, 6500/275 and 6500/300 at EveryMac.com
6500
6600
Macintosh towers
Computer-related introductions in 1997
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTR
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LTR or ltr may refer to:
Science and technology
Learning to rank, an algorithm used in the construction of ranking models for information retrieval systems
Litre (or liter), a metric unit of volume
Load task register, a computing instruction
Logic Trunked Radio, a computer-controlled analog trunking radio system
Long terminal repeat, a DNA sequence found in retroviruses and retrotransposons
Other uses
Left to right, a group of writing systems
Letter (paper size)
Model 700P Light Tactical Rifle, a rifle manufactured by Remington Arms
London Turkish Radio
Long-term relationship
See also
"Left to Right", a short story by Isaac Asimov
Left-to-right mark, a typesetting control character.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Trybulec
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Andrzej Wojciech Trybulec (29 January 1941 in Kraków, Poland – 11 September 2013 in Białystok, Poland) was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist noted for work on the Mizar system.
Early years
His parents Jan W. Trybulec and Barbara H. Kurlus both were professional pharmacists who owned a chemists shop in a small town Szczucin near the city of Tarnów in the south-eastern Poland where they dispensed medicines. He went to high school in Ruda Śląska and then, on his own initiative, he transferred to a prestigious high school in Kraków, where he matriculated. He studied mathematics at the University of Warsaw, from 1964 to 1966 he lectured at the Chair of Geometry, in 1966 he graduated to the magister degree. Until 1967 he lectured at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw, from 1967 to 1971 he was an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, since 1971 he worked at the Institute of Library and Information Science of the University of Warsaw. In September and October 1973, Trybulec was a visiting professor to the All-Russian Scientific and Technical Information Institute (VINITI) in Moscow, then the USSR, where he invented the idea of machine-readability of a mathematical text. He earned the doctoral degree in 1974 from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences under Karol Borsuk.
Research work
Trybulec's first mathematical papers were in the various topological and metric space topics pioneered by Karol Borsuk. In parallel to his generic topological research, he also worked in computational linguistics and semantics of programming languages. Applying the framework of Tarski–Grothendieck set theory axioms, essentially the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory supplemented by the Tarski axiom with all the objects being sets and eliminated notion of class, together with the first-order logic of the Gentzen-Jaśkowski natural deduction, in 1973 he designed the formalization system Mizar consisting of a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant, able to mechanically check proofs written in this language. Although the first presentation of the Mizar system on 14 November 1973 at a seminar in the Institute of Library Science and Scientific Information was an ideology understood as a visionary speculation rather than research project, his idea was later developed by himself and his collaborators to the Mizar Mathematical Library (MML), a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems and the world’s largest repository of formalized and computer-checked mathematics. Since 1978 until his death, he had lectured as a professor at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Białystok, while in 1984-1985 hold visiting professorship at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Connecticut. He published a number of articles, mostly with the journal Formalized Mathematics dedicated to MML contribu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20panel%20%28software%29
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Many computer user interfaces use a control panel metaphor to give the user control of software and hardware features. The control panel consists of multiple settings including display settings, network settings, user account settings, and hardware settings. Control panels are also used by web applications for easy graphical configuration. Some services offered by control panels require the user to have admin rights or root access.
Computer history
The term control panel was used for the plugboards in unit record equipment and in the early computers of the 1940s and '50s. In the 1980s, the Xerox Star and the Apple Lisa, which pioneered the first graphical user interface metaphors, controlled user settings by single click selections and variable fields. In 1984 the Apple Macintosh in its initial release made use of fundamental graphic representation of a "control panel board" imitating the operation of slider controls, on/off buttons and radio-select buttons that corresponded to user settings.
Functionality
There are many tasks grouped in a control panel:
Hardware
Color
Color management
Computer displays
Brightness
Contrast
Color calibration
Energy saving
Gamma correction
Screen resolution and orientation
Graphics tablet
Keyboard
Shortcuts and bindings
Language and layout
Text cursor appearance
Mouse and touchpad
Power management
Energy saving
Battery usage
Display brightness
Power button actions
Power plans
Printers and scanners
Sound
Networking
Bluetooth connection and file exchange
Ethernet connection
Internet Accounts
E-mail integration
Social media integration
Wi-Fi connection
System-wide proxy
Security
Certificates and password management
Firewall
Filesystem encryption
Privacy
File indexing and event tracking
Data sharing
System
Login window
System information
Hostname
System time
Calendar system
NTP server
Time zone
Software management
Application management
System update configuration
Software sources
Different types
In Microsoft Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and Settings app are where various computer settings can be modified.
In the classic Mac OS, a control panel served a similar purpose. In macOS, the equivalent to control panels are referred to as System Preferences.
In web hosting, browser-based control panels, such as CPanel and Plesk, are used to manage servers, web services and users.
There are different control panels in free desktops, like GNOME, KDE, Webmin...
See also
Control panel (engineering)
Dashboard (business)
References
User interfaces
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDN%20Web%20Docs
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MDN Web Docs, previously Mozilla Developer Network and formerly Mozilla Developer Center, is a documentation repository and learning resource for web developers. It was started by Mozilla in 2005 as a unified place for documentation about open web standards, Mozilla's own projects, and developer guides.
MDN Web Docs content is maintained by Mozilla, Google employees, and volunteers (community of developers and technical writers). It also contains content contributed by Microsoft, Google, and Samsung who, in 2017, announced they would shut down their own documentation projects and move all their documentation to MDN Web Docs. Topics include HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Web APIs, Django, Node.js, WebExtensions, MathML, and others.
History
In 2005, Mozilla Corporation started the project under the name Mozilla Developer Center. Mozilla Corporation still funds servers and employs staff working on the projects.
The initial content for the website was provided by DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL. The site now contains a mix of content migrated from DevEdge and mozilla.org, as well as original and more up-to-date content. Documentation was also migrated from XULPlanet.com.
On Oct 3, 2016, Brave browser added Mozilla Developer Network as one of its default search engines options.
In 2017, MDN Web Docs became the unified documentation of web technology for Google, Samsung, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Microsoft started redirecting pages from Microsoft Developer Network to MDN.
In 2019, Mozilla started Beta testing a new reader site for MDN Web Docs written in React (instead of jQuery; some jQuery functionality was replaced with Cheerio library). The new site was launched on December 14, 2020. Since December 14, 2020, all editable content is stored in a Git repository hosted on GitHub, where contributors open pull requests and discuss changes.
On January 25 2021, the Open Web Docs (OWD) organization was launched as a non-profit fiscal entity to collect funds for MDN development. , the top financial contributors of OWD are Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Canva, and JetBrains.
In March 2022, MDN launched a redesign with a new logo and a paid subscription called MDN Plus.
See also
WebPlatform.org
References
External links
MDN at 10: The History of MDN
Mozilla
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Computing websites
Internet properties established in 2005
Wikis about programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Concert%20Hall
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Video Concert Hall (VCH) was launched in 1978 or 1979 on the USA Network and on Showtime, featuring an unhosted rotation of music videos. Often credited as being the precursor to MTV, Video Concert Hall was reportedly the most popular programming on QUBE, a cable television unit of Warner Communications. VCH, as it was often called, was created by radio and cable television executive Lloyd G. Crowe (Jerry Crowe) and Charles W. Henderson, a journalist who would later work for TriStar Pictures. Video Concert Hall was produced by Henderson-Crowe Productions and the company Video Concert Hall, Ltd. at studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Crowe and Henderson served as executive producers of Video Concert Hall, as well as other top-rated syndicated musical variety TV specials.
Billboard, the American magazine covering the music industry, said in a cover story that Video Concert Hall was the first-ever nationwide video music programming on cable television predating MTV by almost three years. Video Concert Hall creators Charles Henderson and Jerry Crowe are considered the "fathers" of television's music video programming.
Video Concert Hall ran daily on USA Network from 1978 to 1981 on a seemingly arbitrary schedule, appearing on early morning, daytime, late night, and early evening timeslots alike for durations ranging from one to four hours. Video Concert Hall was also carried on Showtime, the Satellite Program Network - SPN, and was seen worldwide on AFRTS (the Armed Forces Network) and frequently as video entertainment on commercial airline flights.
Video Concert Hall was also among the first advertising supported cable TV networks. Video Concert Hall was cited as among cable's 15 leading for-profit services in Fortune magazine's 1981 Fortune 500 issue.
The theme music for Video Concert Hall was the first thirty seconds of "Carouselambra" by Led Zeppelin.
Specific to no particular pop music genre, Video Concert Hall featured new wave music, punk rock, disco, funk, soul, and album-oriented rock.
Particularly important about Video Concert Hall is not only to note its historical significance in the evolution of music video television programming, but that it is also where artists such as The Police (with Sting), Split Enz, and Gary Numan were first introduced to the American audience en masse.
Notable artists
Among the artists who appeared on VCH are:
The A's
ABBA
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Blondie
The Buggles
Cameo
Chaka Khan
David Bowie
Alicia Bridges
Herman Brood
Chic
Tim Curry
Roger Daltrey
Devo
The Dickies
Dire Straits
Falco
Genesis
Gerry Rafferty
Iggy Pop
Joan Armatrading
M (band)
Madness
Nazareth
Gary Numan
Pat Benatar
Parliament Funkadelic
The Police
Rose Royce
Shooting Star
Sister Sledge
Spider
Split Enz
Stephanie Mills
The Cramps
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
The Sports
Squeeze
Styx
Donna Summer
Supertramp
A Taste of Honey
Pete Townshend
Village People
The Who
Ziggurat
Notable videos
Alicia Brid
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Grid%20Infrastructure
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European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a series of efforts to provide access to high-throughput computing resources across Europe using grid computing techniques. The EGI links centres in different European countries to support international research in many scientific disciplines. Following a series of research projects such as DataGrid and Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, the EGI Foundation was formed in 2010 to sustain the services of EGI.
Purpose
Science has become increasingly based on open collaboration between researchers across the world. It uses high-capacity computing to model complex systems and to process experimental results.
In the early 21st century, grid computing became popular for scientific disciplines such as high-energy physics and bioinformatics to share and combine the power of computers and sophisticated, often unique, scientific instruments in a process known as e-Science.
In addition to their scientific value, on 30 May 2008 The EU Competitiveness Council promoted "the essential role of e-infrastructures as an integrating mechanism between Member States, regions as well as different scientific disciplines, also contributing to overcoming digital divides."
EGI is partially supported by the EGI-InSPIRE EC project.
History
The European DataGrid project was first funded in 2001 for three years as one of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development series.
Fabrizio Gagliardi was project manager of DataGrid and its budget was about 12 million euro, with the full project named "Research and Technological Development for an International Data Grid".
A major motivation behind the concept was the massive data requirements of CERN's LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project.
EGEE
On 1 April 2004 the Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (EGEE) project was funded by the European Commission through the Directorate-General for Information Society and Media, led by the information technology division of CERN.
This 24-month project of the Sixth Framework Programme had a cost of over 46 million euro. The consortium included 70 institutions in 27 countries.
The LHC Computing Grid continued to be a major application of EGEE technology.
By 1 April 2006 the "in Europe" was dropped from the project name, but the acronym was kept as EGEE-II for Enabling Grids for E-sciencE. This two-year phase cost about 52.6 million euro.
The new name reflected a more global extent, such as a cluster of computers at the Institute of Microelectronic Systems in Malaysia.
By 2007 the EGI was supported by 36 countries.
A middleware software package known as gLite was developed for EGEE.
A third two-year project phase was called EGEE-III, running from 2008 to 2010.
On 30 April 2010 the EGEE project ended.
By 2009 the governance model evolved towards a European Grid Initiative (EGI), building upon National Grid Initiatives (NGIs).
Related projects
DILIGENT & D4Science
A project called Diligent
(DIgital LIbrary Infrastructure on Grid ENab
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasoft
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Fantasoft was a computer game company which programmed and promoted a number of shareware games with a primary focus on the Apple Macintosh platform. Fantasoft has been dormant since about 2005. It was founded by Sean Sayrs, Peter Hagen, and Tim Phillips. Fantasoft was created to develop, market, and distribute the shareware game Realmz, which was MacUser Shareware Game of the Year in 1995–96. Following the success of Realmz, Fantasoft created or marketed other Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platform games, most notably Spiderweb Software's early Exile series.
Developed:
Realmz
Final Star (canceled)
New Centurions
Published:
Enigma Software:
Squish
Peregrine (canceled)
Spiderweb Software
Exile: Escape from the Pit
Exile II: Crystal Souls
Exile III: Ruined World
Flying Mikros Interactive
Monkey Shines
Monkey Shines 2: Gorilla Warfare
Alien Attack
Jelly Software:
DOWN
Freemen Software:
King of Parking
Rain'Net
Bugs Bannis
The Alchemist Guild
Lance (canceled)
Coach Potato Software
CommishWare 99
Notes
Realmz review, Brian Rumsey, (Low End Mac Gaming), July 11, 2000
Rlmz.org Download and Play Realmz by Fantasoft
External links
Fantasoft Games website
Video game companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CppUnit
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CppUnit is a unit testing framework module for the C++ programming language. It allows unit-testing of C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification. It was started around 2000 by Michael Feathers as a C++ port of JUnit for Windows and ported to Unix by Jerome Lacoste. The library is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
The framework runs tests in suites. Test result output is sent to a filter, the most basic being a simple pass or fail count printed out, or more advanced filters allowing XML output compatible with continuous integration reporting systems.
The project has been forked several times. The freedesktop.org version at GitHub, maintained by Markus Mohrhard of the LibreOffice project (which uses CppUnit heavily), was actively maintained until 2020, and is used in Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Arch.
See also
List of unit testing frameworks
Further reading
References
External links
(freedesktop.org version)
C++ libraries
Extreme programming
Freedesktop.org
Unit testing frameworks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20analogy
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An image analogy is a method of creating an image filter automatically from training data. In an image analogy process, the transformation between two images A and A' is "learned". Later, given a different image B, its "analogy" image B' can be generated based on the learned transformation.
The image analogy method has been used to simulate many types of image filters:
Toy filters, such as blurring or "embossing."
Texture synthesis from an example texture.
Super-resolution, inferring a high-resolution image from a low-resolution source.
Texture transfer, in which images are "texturized" with some arbitrary source texture.
Artistic filters, in which various drawing and painting styles, including oil, pastel, and pen-and-ink rendering, are synthesized based on scanned real-world examples.
Texture-by-numbers, in which realistic scenes, composed of a variety of textures, are created using a simple "painting" interface.
Image colorization, where color is automatically added to grayscale images.
External links
Image Analogies at the New York University Media Research Lab
Image processing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20Radio
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Army Radio ( lit. IDF waves) or Galei Tzahal, known in Israel by its acronym Galatz (), is a nationwide Israeli radio network operated by the Israel Defense Forces. The station broadcasts news, music, traffic reports and educational programs to the general public as well as entertainment and military news magazines for soldiers. The network has one main station and an offshoot - Galgalatz (Hebrew: גלגל"צ) - that broadcasts (mainly English-language and Hebrew) music and traffic reports 24 hours a day in Hebrew. The staff includes both soldiers and civilians. As of December 2013, the station is no longer broadcast via shortwave to Europe. There is still a livestream feed on the internet.
History
Galatz started its transmissions on September 24, 1950, as a continuance of the Hagana transmission to the Jewish public during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Transmissions began with a trumpet blast at 6:30 p.m. followed by HaTikva, the Israeli national anthem. An improvised studio had been set up inside a former school building in Ramat Gan, with army blankets hung on the walls to muffle background noise.
In 1956, its status was defined by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority law (paragraph 48). The Israel Defense Forces was authorized to choose its programming for soldiers, but programs for civilians had to receive approval from the IBA. During the station's formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, it was headed by Yitzhak Livni. In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, Galatz was the first Israeli radio station to broadcast around the clock. In 1982, during the Lebanon War, the station collaborated with Israeli Educational Television (IETV). This wartime cooperation led to a daily news and interview show called Erev Hadash (, lit. New Evening).
Galatz was the first radio station in Israel to abandon the formal, somewhat stilted Hebrew that was normally used in the media. Its entertainment programs to soldiers were the first to use colloquial Hebrew on air. Its news bulletins use a more relaxed linguistic style than IBA's Kol Yisrael (קול ישראל, Voice of Israel) hourly bulletins. This presentation style proved particularly popular among two age groups: youngsters and senior citizens. In April 1983, the radio station broadcast an interview with historian Yehuda Bauer discussing similarities between the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide. Despite protests by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ron Ben-Yishai refused to cancel the program, leading to a diplomatic incident in Israel–Turkey relations due to Turkey's Armenian genocide denial.
For many years Galei Zahal broadcasts were mainly geared toward soldiers, including music programs conveying soldiers’ greetings and various broadcasts related to the IDF. The station was unique in that it incorporated soldiers serving in the regular army into journalistic positions, including reporters, editors, producers, news broadcasters, music broadcasters, musical editors, announcers, etc. Following the Yom Kippur Wa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami%20Antiques%20MSX%20Collection
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Konami Antiques MSX Collection is a series of compilations of MSX computer games released by Konami in Japan. The compilation was split between three volumes for the PlayStation between 1997 and 1998, each containing ten games. All thirty games were later compiled onto a single disc for the Konami Antiques MSX Collection Ultra Pack on the Sega Saturn in 1998.
Games included
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3
References
See also
Konami 80's Arcade Gallery - also titled Konami Arcade Classics and Konami 80's AC Special.
Konami Classics for Xbox 360
Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits - also titled Konami Arcade Classics in Europe.
Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced
List of Konami games
1997 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation Network games
Sega Saturn games
Konami video game compilations
Video games developed in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenius
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Ingenius can refer to the following:
Ingenius, the mythical British king.
InGenius, a now-defunct newsfeed service for personal computers, previously known as X*Press X*Change.
nl:Ingenius
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusterball
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Clusterball is a 2000 video game featuring futuristic sport gameplay created by the Swedish Company Daydream Software and published by Strategy First, RealNetworks and Daydream Software itself.
Clusterball began development in early 1997 as a research and development experiment at Daydream. It was the company's first fully 3D game, as its other projects were pre-rendered.
Gameplay
Clusterball is an action-sports game that plays out in a three-dimensional graphical environment. The player controls a sci-fi aircraft and maneuvers environments based on the Arctic, the Taj Mahal, Stonehenge and other locations.
In Clusterball, the player must collect as many balls as they can from the playing field then fly them through a ring in the center of the stage to collect points. Various weapons and power ups are strewn around the stages, enabling players to steal their opponents' balls or invert the controls of the other player, making movement much more difficult. The balls lie on magnetic ramps and the aircraft must slide on these ramps to collect the balls. As the player tows more and more balls, which create a tail behind the aircraft, the aircraft becomes gradually heavier, therefore more vulnerable to enemy attacks.
The game was designed to enable online multiplayer gameplay.
Development
Origins
Clusterball began as a research and development experiment at Daydream Software. Initially, it was spearheaded by company co-founder Jörgen Isaksson. The project derived from Daydream's worry, according to the team's Nigel Papworth, that the production pipeline used by its titles Safecracker and Traitors Gate was "too costly and time consuming to be a viable long term solution" for the company. Development began in early 1997. In designing Clusterball, the team sought to create a unique online multiplayer game without violence, as Daydream did not release violent titles. The company told investors in June 1997 that "feasibility study and research" was underway for a game codenamed Project 3, later revealed as Clusterball. A prototype had been created by that time to test the game's technology.
They settled on a combination of sports and flight simulator gameplay, with elements of racing and inspiration from the game Diamond Mine. The design was also driven by a desire among certain Daydream employees for "a game where you could fly around in a landscape and see very far" into the distance, according to the team's Matti Larsson. Clusterball was started concurrently with Traitors Gate and was developed side by side with that game. When asked how the team initially came up with the idea for Clusterball in an interview with Eurogamer, Daydream Software's Nigel Papworth responded with "We sat around and discussed what we thought were the greatest aspects of real life games and computer games, and concluded that ball games rule in real life, flight sims in the digital universe. The conclusion was to build a flight sim ball game!"
Release
The game was relea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiblioPage.com
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BiblioPage.com was an Amazon.com affiliate site with a database of books gathered from libraries across the world using the NISO z39.50 protocol for accessing bibliographic databases. The website used the YAZ toolkit from IndexData to access and manipulate bibliographic information.
The website was used by libraries to choose the best selection of books. By suggesting titles that libraries have purchased, the consumer was choosing only among the most relevant titles.
Similar programs that make use of public z39.50 resources are Emc2Library.com or ISBNdb.com.
References
External links
Official Website (2008 archive)
Library Of Congress WWW/z39.50 Gateway
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Book selling websites
Product searching websites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20FlexGo
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FlexGo was a technology developed by Microsoft to enable users to pay for using a full-featured personal computer based on the amount of time it used for, similar to pay as you go for cell phones. Another method of payment was a monthly subscription. It was introduced on May 21, 2006. IBM and other corporations were also adapting similar business models to expand into new markets. Microsoft began offering a Windows Vista based version of FlexGo in 2008.
FlexGo had two computing models, a pay-as-you-go model, and a subscription based model. Users would get full access to their PC once they paid. The PC would inform users as their time ran out, and would lock the user out if they did not pay to extend their time.
Goals
FlexGo's main target audience was those in third world countries or people with unsteady income. It had been featured under a topic on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech, Episode 57 "Vloggercon".
Microsoft wanted to give people the opportunity to buy their very first computer using FlexGo, and pay for only the time they would use it. Microsoft also planned to team up with telecommunication companies to allow internet access to become a pay as you go feature. The main targeted areas for FlexGo are India, Hungary, Vietnam, Slovenia, and Brazil.
References
External links
FlexGo Technology
Microsoft Original License
Microsoft Pitches Pay-as-you-go PCs
Microsoft Brings Vista To Developing World PCs
Microsoft initiatives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20Weather
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ITV Weather is the national and regional forecast shown on UK terrestrial network ITV, and is provided by the Met Office (except the Channel Islands forecast, which is provided by the Jersey Meteorological Department). Bulletins are usually broadcast after every ITV News and ITV regional bulletin; since March 2022, however, ITV Weather runs as a segment of the ITV Evening News, live from the news studio on weekdays. Emma Jesson is the longest serving forecaster after 30 years with ITV Weather.
National weather
The national bulletin launched on the ITV network on 13 February 1989, complimenting the previous regional arrangements whereby the separate ITV regional licence holders were responsible for providing weather forecasts themselves only for their regional franchise areas.
National weather sponsors
The national weather for ITV has had commercial sponsors from the outset, as listed in the chart below. ITV Weather on Good Morning Britain and its predecessors have always had a different sponsorship deal.
Regional weather
Each region has at least one dedicated presenter.
At weekends three presenters cover all of the 15 sub-regions and one presenter covers the national forecast. Currently the weekend hubs are grouped and recorded from the following:
Calendar (North/South opts), Granada Reports, ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround.
MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester.
ITV News Anglia (East/West opts), ITV News Central (East/West opts), ITV News London and ITV News Cymru Wales.
Millbank Studios in Millbank, central London.
ITV News Channel TV, ITV News Meridian (East/West opts) and ITV News West Country (West/South West opts)
Whiteley, Hampshire.
STV News Has a dedicated weekend presenter.
Regional weather sponsors
As with the National ITV Weather, the regional weather forecasts for ITV licence holders have commercial sponsors. These are currently:
Graphics
On 3 October 2016, new graphics were introduced on the National ITV Weather and across all ITV plc-owned regions. These graphics are also used on Good Morning Britain in their weather updates as well as regional news. STV introduced their own new graphics earlier in 2016.
On-air staff
References
External links
National Weather at itv.com
Anglia Weather at itv.com
Border Weather at itv.com
Calendar Weather at itv.com
Channel Weather at itv.com
Central Weather at itv.com
Granada Weather at itv.com
London Weather at itv.com
Meridian Weather at itv.com
Tyne Tees Weather at itv.com
UTV Weather at itv.com
Wales Weather at itv.com
West Country Weather at itv.com
STV Weather at stv.tv
1989 in British television
ITV (TV network)
Meteorological organisations based in the United Kingdom
Television news in the United Kingdom
Weather television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Klein
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Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician and whistleblower who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware at a site known as Room 641A to monitor, capture and process American telecommunications. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006. He wrote a book about the NSA and AT&T's cooperation in surveiling everyone on the internet and his experience in discovering it and trying to tell the public called Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It.
In recognition of his actions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation picked Klein as one of the winners of its 2008 Pioneer Awards.
For over 22 years Mark Klein worked for AT&T. Starting with the company as a Communications Technician in New York, where he remained from November 1981 until March 1991, he later continued in that capacity in California until 1998. From January 1998 to October 2003, Klein worked as a Computer Network Associate in San Francisco. Starting in October 2003, he returned to the role of Communications Technician, after which he retired in May 2004.
See also
Hepting vs. AT&T – The lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T for Mark Kleins' revelations
Jewel v. NSA
William Binney and Diane Roark
Thomas Andrews Drake
Perry Fellwock
Edward Snowden
Thomas Tamm
Russ Tice
References
External links
Klein's Declaration (unredacted), from the case Hepting v. AT&T - Electronic Frontier Foundation
ABC Nightline Interview with Klein
Wired coverage
PBS NOW | Whistleblower Mark Klein
PBS NOW | For Your Eyes Only?
Spying On The Home Front, Frontline, PBS
A Story of Surveillance, Washington Post, November 7, 2007
First Interview with the NSA Whistleblower at EFF
Wiring Up the Big Brother Machine ...And Fighting It by Mark Klein
Wired (2008) interview with Klein
American whistleblowers
National Security Agency
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer specialists
AT&T people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Debian%20project%20leaders
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This is a chronological list of Debian project leaders. Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open-source software primarily under the GNU General Public License, developed by a group of individuals known as the Debian project. The Project Leader is a role defined in the Debian Constitution, and is elected once per year by the Debian developers.
Leaders
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock, the first Debian project leader and the "ian" in "Debian", was an American software engineer. He founded the Debian project in August 1993, naming it after his then-girlfriend and later wife, Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian). He later started Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
He was the Chief Technology Officer of the Free Standards Group and elected chair of the Linux Standard Base workgroup, CTO of the Linux Foundation when the group was formed from the merger of the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs.
He left the Linux Foundation to join Sun Microsystems leading the Project Indiana making OpenSolaris distribution with GNU userland.
From 2011 until 2015, Murdock was Vice President of Platform and Developer Community at Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
From November 2015 until his death, Murdock worked for Docker, Inc.
Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is an American computer programmer, an advocate of the free software movement and author of BusyBox. He created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond and Software in the Public Interest.
He represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society at the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme in 2005.
He was the Debian project leader from April 1996 to December 1997, replacing Ian Murdock.
Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson is a long-time free software author and Debian developer. He wrote dpkg, SAUCE (Software Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), userv and debbugs. He used to maintain the Linux FAQ. He was the Debian project leader between 1998 and 1999. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm) was released during his term. He was also a vice-president and then president of Software in the Public Interest in 1998 and 1999. He was a member of the Debian Technical Committee until November 2014 when he resigned as a result of controversies around the migration of Debian to systemd.
Wichert Akkerman
Wichert Akkerman is a Dutch computer programmer who has contributed to Debian, dpkg, Plone and strace. He was elected for two terms as the Debian project leader and served from January 1999 to March 2001, and was succeeded by Ben Collins. He has also served as the Secretary to Software in the Public Interest.
Ben Collins
Ben Collins is an American programmer, Linux developer and system administrator. From April 2001 to April 2002 Collins acted as the Debian project leader. During his tenure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeline%20%28video%20game%29
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Lifeline, released in Japan as , is a 2003 survival horror adventure video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (and published by Konami in North America) for the PlayStation 2. Set in the near future aboard a space hotel attacked by unidentified monsters, the game follows the player as they direct cocktail waitress Rio Hohenheim to safety while searching for the player's girlfriend Naomi as well as the source of the monster infestation.
Lifeline's defining aspect is its voice user interface: the vast majority of gameplay is conducted by using the PlayStation 2's microphone to issue commands, which are interpreted by the game via speech recognition to control Rio and dictate her movements and actions.
Lifeline was released on January 30, 2003 in Japan and March 2, 2004 in North America; in Japan, it was optionally sold alongside the PlayStation 2 headset. It received generally mixed reviews, with praise for its innovation and potential but criticism for the low reliability of its speech recognition. However, Lifeline still sold well enough to be rereleased in Japan on September 25, 2003 under Sony's The Best budget range, and the game has maintained somewhat of a cult following over the years since its release for its innovative gameplay and the depth of its voice mechanics.
Gameplay
Lifeline is a survival horror adventure game where the player issues orders to Rio Hohenheim as she attempts to escape a monster-infested space station. The standout feature of Lifeline is its voice user interface in which the player speaks into their microphone to command Rio. The player never directly controls Rio, let alone any other character, at any point in the game; rather, they are required to tell her what to do at any given time, such as directing her where to go, advising her to examine or use objects, or ordering her what to aim for during a battle with a monster. Such spoken commands include "run", "stop", "dodge", and "turn left", among many others (approximately 500 commands exist), which prompt Rio to perform specific actions and progress throughout the game. To issue commands, the player must hold the input mic button (the O button on the DualShock controller) before speaking.
The player can access various menus which provide inventory insertions, detailed maps, and commands to unlock multiple parts of the station. By using the menus available, the player directs Rio in combat, solves puzzles, examines and interfaces with objects of note, and interacts with NPCs. During a battle, the player can order Rio to maneuver within the battle space, shift focus to certain enemies, or target specific body parts. Combat perspectives switch between first-person and that of nearby cameras, with the latter more suitable for encounters with numerous foes. Plot interactions are followed through at the player's general discretion, with Rio inquiring about which path of action to take.
In regular situations, the player can converse with Ri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20TV%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29
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Universal TV was a British and Irish pay television channel owned by the NBCUniversal International Networks division of NBCUniversal. It was devoted primarily to imported drama series, mostly from the United States.
History
The channel launched in October 1999 and was previously owned by the privately backed Sparrowhawk Media Group, until late 2007 when it was bought out by NBCUniversal. It previously licensed programming and branding from Crown Media Holdings, and was previously known as the Hallmark Entertainment Network and the Hallmark Channel (Crown Media had sold off their international assets in 2005).
Coinciding with the launch of Hallmark Channel HD, Hallmark Channel became 16:9 widescreen capable on 28 June 2010.
As Universal Channel
In June 2009, a memorandum leaked to the television trade newspaper Broadcast stated that NBC Universal planned to rebrand the Hallmark Channel as a Universal Channel in October 2009. The "Hallmark Channel" brand was licensed to NBC Universal from Crown Media (which operates the US Hallmark Channel) and was due to expire. An NBC Universal spokesperson denied such a rebrand would happen.
On 2 September 2010, Universal Networks International confirmed plans to rebrand the Hallmark Channel as the Universal Channel in the UK. On 18 October, the pay-TV channel and its timeshift and high definition variants became the Universal Channel, Universal Channel +1 and Universal Channel HD.
The Universal Channel gave UK premieres to cop show Rookie Blue and legal drama Fairly Legal in early 2011. It also aired Shattered, which stars Callum Keith Rennie as a homicide detective suffering from multiple personality disorder.
On 1 December 2010, Universal Channel launched a specific feed which targets Ireland. Universal Channel in Ireland airs localised advertising. The Irish feed does not include subtitles. TV3 act as the Irish variation's advertising sales agents.
On 31 July 2013, Universal Channel unveiled a refreshed branding and new slogan it launched on 5 August, "100% Characters". The brand reflected "that great characters are the magnets that draw viewers back to their favourite shows - week after week".
As Universal TV
On 3 May 2018, NBCUniversal unveiled a new name and branding for its Universal Channel chain, Universal TV, launching first on the United Kingdom feed. The rebranding was intended to make the network a "destination brand that celebrates world-class, high-quality, character-driven content".
Closure
In December 2019, BT TV announced that Universal TV would be leaving the UK market along with VH1 and that the channel will close.
The channel closed down its operations on 27 January 2020, with Sky Comedy taking its place on EPG guides.
Programming
Acceptable Risk
Bates Motel
Burden of Truth
Chance
Chicago Justice
Chicago Med (now on Sky Witness)
Community
Condor (now on Sky Max)
Conviction
Coroner (now on Sky Witness)
Departure (now on Sky Witness)
The Disappearance
The District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saru%21%20Get%20You%21%20Million%20Monkeys
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is a platforming video game published and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was released throughout Asia a year after the previous title Ape Escape 3. The game was planned to be released in the United Kingdom in late 2006. Ultimately, it was never released outside of Asia.
Plot
The game has two story plots to play. One is "Team Kakeru" referring to the main heroes of the series, the other "Team Specter" which refers to enemy Specter and the monkeys. Each "team" has their own plot, which involves the same Gameplay, but the story has changed.
In "Team Kakeru" mode, the story starts with the main heroes gathering in Tokyo. The professor's computer program in the form of the character "Chall", alerts them of the disaster happening in the city. It is shown that Specter has joined forces with an alien race, to take over the world once more. However, it's later revealed that the "alien race" are mutant versions of the breed "Pipotron" which take the DNA of the Pipotron Monkeys, and uses it to create other creatures to help dominate the globe. The player is left to destroy any of the Specter's Robot's and Monkeys and restore order to the world. Once Specter has been defeated, monkeys run wild throughout the city, and the game takes a turn in a different direction, and the player is left to save the globe from being destroyed by mutant creatures around the world.
In "Team Specter", Specter is on vacation and is alerted by the Piposaru that the monkeys have started to take over the world, without his permission. He is shown that someone has created a Specter impostor, and Specter goes to save the world, before he is defeated. Once the impostor is defeated, it's revealed it was a Pipotron called "Meta" and it can take form of any living creature. The Pipotrons used Meta to take control of the monkeys, and now that he is gone, the monkeys have gone wild throughout Tokyo, and mutant creatures have taken over the city. It's now up to Specter and his team to save the world.
Gameplay
The gameplay uses the action based gameplay from the party title Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed, and mixes it with the platforming ape catching of the original title. Players use different weapons to destroy machines, and creatures lurking throughout the city. Players also use Gadgets to defeat monkeys, and use the "Monkey Net" to catch them. Each mission requires a different goal. Sometimes is needed to defeat a boss, other times to defeat a set of Targets, defend certain characters or weapons that will help throughout the game or sometimes need to capture a set of monkeys. Each mission containing monkeys has up to 100 monkeys available for capture. The more the players capture, the more "Gotcha Points" get added to their total score, which helps to unlock certain items in various ways. Missions eighteen and nineteen differ from the rest of the game. It requires to solve virtual puzzles within a time limit. This is the only occas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent%20Radio%20Network
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The Accent Radio Network was a Rhode Island-based radio network from 2000–2016.
History
Accent Radio Network was founded in the summer of 2000 by James and Patricia Feijo and went on air December 4, 2000. The Accent Radio Network aired programming original to the network as well as syndicated programs including; The Laura Ingraham Show and Monica Crowley.
Programming from Accent Radio Network, which included some talk radio format programs, was carried by 18 affiliates located across the United States, mostly very small stations located in small markets. These affiliates were especially concentrated in Missouri (three affiliates), Utah (two affiliates), and the Southeastern United States (nine affiliates). ARN programming was available at no charge to affiliates. ARN also provided listeners in extended areas with audio streaming via the World Wide Web, consumer Digital Video Broadcasting satellite, and a Roku channel.
James and Patricia Feijo were hosts of a program on the network called HealthWatch which promotes a "God-centered view of health and healing." In May 2012, a U.S. District Court judge found that the Feijos had violated an injunction against making claims on their radio show and websites for the cancer-curing effects of natural products sold through their business, Daniel Chapter One. Jerry Hughes, the network's most prominent non-brokered host, died three weeks later on June 1.
Programming
Original programming on ARN included:
Daniel Chapter One Truthwatch, with Jim and Tricia Feijo
Straight Talk, with Jerry Hughes
Home-&-Garden Radio, with Michael Crose
Conceived in Liberty, with Jerry Hughes
Sunday Accents
In addition, ARN worked with several other networks that simulcast ARN programming, or ARN simulcasts their programming. Some of those networks include:
IRN/USA Radio Network
Business Talk Radio Network
References
External links
WWAB/1330 Lakeland
Religious broadcasting in Florida
2000 establishments in Rhode Island
2012 disestablishments in Rhode Island
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Radio stations established in 2000
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
Defunct radio stations in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aveva
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AVEVA Group plc is a British multinational information technology consulting company headquartered in Cambridge, England. The company started as the Computer-Aided Design Centre (or CADCentre) which was created in Cambridge in 1967 by the UK Ministry of Technology and Cambridge University.
It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Schneider Electric on January 18, 2023.
History
Early history
The origins of AVEVA start in 1967 in Cambridge, England, with the establishment of the CADCentre, as it was more commonly referred to, and later formally became. It was a government-funded research institute created by the UK Ministry of Technology, with a mission to develop computer-aided design techniques and promote their take-up by British industry. Its first director was Arthur Llewelyn, who initially contracted out the recruitment and management of specialist staff to ICL.
The centre carried out CAD research, and some of its early staff members, such as brothers Dick Newell and Martin Newell, went on to become well known in the worldwide CAD community. Dick Newell oversaw the creation of the Plant Design Management System (PDMS) for the 3D process plant design. He later co-founded two software companies – Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) which was known for its Medusa 2D/3D CAD system, and Smallworld with its eponymous Smallworld GIS (Geographical Information System). Martin Newell later went to the University of Utah where he did pioneering 3D solid modelling work; he was also one of the progenitors of PostScript.
CADCentre became a private company in 1983, was the subject of a management buyout in 1994 under the leadership of its first managing director, Dr. Bob Bishop, and became a publicly quoted company in 1996. It changed its name to AVEVA in 2001.
Acquisitions
On 21 April 2004, the company acquired Tribon Solutions, a global supplier of the "Tribon" naval architecture software for shipbuilding and marine design, for US$35 million. The acquisition was completed on 19 May 2004. Tribon was originally developed by Kockum Computer Systems (KCS) for designing commercial and naval vessels. KCS was spun off from Kockums shipyards as an independent company, later renamed Tribon Systems. The Tribon family of programs create a common set of databases containing the design details of the ship.
On 31 March 2005, the company acquired Realitywave, Inc., developers of a web collaboration and streaming platform, for £3.2 million.
On 30 March 2009, AVEVA announced the acquisition of iDesignOffice Pty Ltd, an instrumentation engineering technology company based in Melbourne, Australia, specialising in products for plant and marine industries.
On 3 June 2010, AVEVA Solutions Ltd, a wholly owned unit of AVEVA Group plc, announced the acquisition of Logimatic's MARS business from Logimatic Holdings A/S for £12.8 million. This acquisition was completed on 30 June 2010, and MARS products and services were merged into AVEVA's Ent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Internet%20Network%20Information%20Center
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The China Internet Network Information Center (), or CNNIC, is the administrative agency responsible for domain registry affairs of .cn under the Cyberspace Administration of China.
Founded on 3 June 1997, it is now a government department based in the Zhongguancun high tech district of Beijing.
Responsibility areas
Domain name registry service
CNNIC is responsible for operating and administering China’s domain name registry. CNNIC manages both the ".cn" country code top level domain and the Chinese domain name system (internationalized domain names that contain Chinese characters). As of April 2017, the total number of Chinese domain names was about 21 million.
As of January 2017, CNNIC only opened the CN domain to registered businesses, required supporting documentations for domain registration such as business license or personal ID, and suspended overseas registrars even for domestic registrants. CNNIC denied that it mandated existing personal domain names to be transferred to businesses. Trend Micro suggested this move was still not enough to stop modern security threats from the .cn domain.
IP address and Autonomous System number (AS number) allocation service
CNNIC allocates Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and AS Numbers to domestic ISPs and users. CNNIC is a National Internet Registry (NIR) acknowledged by the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC). In late 2004 CNNIC launched an “IP Allocation Alliance” which simplified the procedures for obtaining IP addresses.
Catalogue Database Service
CNNIC is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the state top-level network catalog database. This database provides information on Internet users, web addresses, domain names, and AS numbers.
Technical research on Internet addressing
CNNIC conducts technical research and undertakes state technical projects based on its administrative and practical network technology experience.
Internet survey and statistics
CNNIC has conducted, and continues to conduct, surveys of Internet information resources. CNNIC maintains statistics on topics such as Internet bandwidth in China, Domain Name registrations, and Internet Development in China.
International liaison and policy research
As the national Network Information Center (NIC), CNNIC maintains cooperative relationships with other International Internet Communities, and works closely with NICs of other countries.
Secretariat of the Internet Policy and Resource Committee, Internet Society of China (ISC)
CNNIC serves as the Secretariat of the Internet Society of China’s Internet Policy and Resource Committee. The Policy and Resource committee is in charge of tasks such as providing policy and legislation oriented suggestions to promote the growth of China’s internet, facilitating the development and application of Internet resources and relevant technologies, and actively participating in the research work of domestic Internet development and administration policies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Central%20Ohio%20Computer%20Association
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The South Central Ohio Computer Association is a non-profit consortium of 55 public schools located in 11 southern Ohio counties. SCOCA is a member of the Ohio Educational Computer Network. SCOCA services its member districts as both an Information Technology Center and an Internet Service Provider.
SCOCA AS Number AS36794
External links
SCOCA's Web site
Ohio Educational Computer Network
United States schools associations
Information technology organizations based in North America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebl
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PEBL may refer to:
Electronics
Motorola Pebl a former model of cellular phone
Software
PEBL (software) a programming language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFMK
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KFMK (105.9 FM) is an Austin, Texas radio station operating a contemporary Christian format as an affiliate of the K-Love radio network. It is licensed to Round Rock, Texas with an ERP of 4,500 watts from a transmitter site near West Lake Hills, and is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation.
Station history
As "Jammin 105.9"
KFMK was launched on November 25, 1998 as the Rhythmic Oldies-formatted "Jammin' 105.9", after initial signal testing and stunting as alternative rocker "The Planet 105.9", which began on July 7 of that year. From the inception it played mostly R&B, Classic Soul, Motown, and Disco from the 1960s and 1970s only. In 2003, the station gradually added more songs from the 1980s and 1990s to the playlist, while at the same time having the 60s and 70s R&B in heavy rotation. Even then it occasionally debuted new music, though this was rare in contrast to traditional Urban AC formatted R&B stations. With this approach, KFMK challenged KKMJ (mainstream AC), KAMX (hot AC), and rhythmic KQBT (later KXBT).
Finally, in 2006, KFMK revamped the playlist and dropped the 60s and 70s music altogether and instead played more music from the 1980s to present, more along the lines of a Rhythmic Adult Contemporary. This was done to accommodate the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning Show that aired on KFMK. On October 13, 2006, the station rebranded as "The New Jammin' 105-9" and dropped all on-air personalities, except for Kraddick. Part of the rebranding included former tweaking of the format and logo to a direction inspired by the "MOViN' format created by Alan Burns & Associates.
In the Fall of 2008, KFMK began playing current Rhythmic fare on weeknights and on weekend afternoons/nights, including current Hip-Hop product, trying to improve ratings. This failed, as the station was ranked #16 overall.
As "105.9 The Beat"
On September 15, 2009, at 5 a.m., after playing "Dance & Shout" by Shaggy, the station stunted for three hours playing rock using the “Planet” moniker (formerly used during its sign on in 1998), then segued into music of other genres, as well as airing "change" soundbites. At 9 a.m., the station officially flipped formats to a hip hop-leaning Rhythmic Contemporary station branded as "105.9 The Beat". The station dropped Kidd Kraddick's morning show, but kept airing Ryan Seacrest, most likely due to a contract issue (this ended on May 19, 2010). This was the fourth incarnation for "The Beat", as the branding originated on KQBT/KXBT (now KLQB) in 1998, before moving to KXBT (now KTXX) in 2007. (It was relaunched under Clear Channel's trademarked banner only a year after KXBT dropped it.)
On May 21, 2010, Clear Channel announced that it planned to move KFMK's Hip Hop format to the 102.3 frequency, where it has better coverage and a more powerful signal, starting May 31. Sister station KPEZ, known as "The River", which resided at the 102.3 frequency, moved its format over to the 105.9 signal.
As "Spirit 105.9"
On June
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20syntax%20and%20semantics
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The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java. However, there are some definite differences between the languages. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured, object-oriented programming, and functional programming, and boasts a dynamic type system and automatic memory management.
Python's syntax is simple and consistent, adhering to the principle that "There should be one— and preferably only one —obvious way to do it." The language incorporates built-in data types and structures, control flow mechanisms, first-class functions, and modules for better code reusability and organization. Python also uses English keywords where other languages use punctuation, contributing to its uncluttered visual layout.
The language provides robust error handling through exceptions, and includes a debugger in the standard library for efficient problem-solving. Python's syntax, designed for readability and ease of use, makes it a popular choice among beginners and professionals alike.
Design philosophy
Python was designed to be a highly readable language. It has a relatively uncluttered visual layout and uses English keywords frequently where other languages use punctuation. Python aims to be simple and consistent in the design of its syntax, encapsulated in the mantra , from the Zen of Python.
This mantra is deliberately opposed to the Perl and Ruby mantra, "there's more than one way to do it".
Keywords
Python has 35 keywords or reserved words; they cannot be used as identifiers.
and
as
assert
async
await
break
class
continue
def
del
elif
else
except
False
finally
for
from
global
if
import
in
is
lambda
None
nonlocal
not
or
pass
raise
return
True
try
while
with
yield
In addition, Python also has 3 soft keywords. Unlike regular hard keywords, soft keywords are reserved words only in the limited contexts where interpreting them as keywords would make syntactic sense. These words can be used as identifiers elsewhere; You can define a function or variable named match or case.
_
case
match
Notes
Indentation
Python uses whitespace to delimit control flow blocks (following the off-side rule). Python borrows this feature from its predecessor ABC: instead of punctuation or keywords, it uses indentation to indicate the run of a block.
In so-called "free-format" languages—that use the block structure derived from ALGOL—blocks of code are set off with braces ({ }) or keywords. In most coding conventions for these languages, programmers conventionally indent the code within a block, to visually set it apart from the surrounding code.
A recursive function named foo, which is passed a single parameter, x, and if the parameter is 0 will call a different function named bar and otherwise will call baz, passing x, and also call itself recursively,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20or%20Scare
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Truth or Scare is an American television series on the Discovery Kids network. The show aired from October 25, 2001, to January 1, 2003. It was hosted by Michelle Trachtenberg in a style similar to Maila Nurmi as horror host "Vampira" and Cassandra Peterson as horror host "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark." The series first aired on Discovery Kids as a part of the network's Scary Saturday Night Sleepover lineup. After the series ended, reruns of the show aired on The Hub until October 29, 2012.
Premise
In each episode, Trachtenberg appeared as the hostess/narrator telling the stories of famous hauntings and other paranormal phenomena in some sort of spooky goth subculture. The show's setting was in a styled library surrounded by props that relate to the episode's theme. She usually then said some short line or phrase. After that clips of the episode were shown, she then said something along the lines of "Next on Truth or Scare...". The show then continued onto Trachtenberg narrating stories about the topic while reenactments performed. She then explained some background information about the story. In between stories, commercial breaks are held, but before each break Michelle would give an intro to what the next story would be. The episodes themselves are actually documentaries that are presented to a younger audience (with most of the footage being intact), the most notable are the castle ghosts episodes which originate from the British documentary miniseries "Castle Ghosts of The British Isles".
Episodes
"Castle Ghost of England" - Myths and legends of ghosts that are associated with the castles of England.
"Dracula" - The evolution of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
"Wolfman: The Myth and the Science" - The legend of the werewolf.
"The Curse of Tutankhamen" - A legend of a curse on the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
"Castle Ghost of Ireland" - Past and present merge in the Ireland's castle halls of the world.
"Ghosthunters" - Modern "ghostbusters" investigate paranormal phenomenon.
"UFOs Over Phoenix" - The mysterious sightings of UFOs in Phoenix, Arizona.
"America's Haunted Houses" - People investigate reports of ghosts and mysterious happenings in America.
"Castle Ghost of Scotland" - Stories of Scotland's turbulent past tell of hauntings.
"Bigfoot" - The urban legend of Bigfoot.
"Night Visitors" - The Bell Witch; Mercy Brown vampire incident; Emily's Bridge; the Hammond Castle hauntings.
"The Bermuda Triangle" - The mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.
"Castle Ghosts of Wales" - Haunted Welsh castles.
"The True Story of Halloween" - The history of Halloween.
"Hollywood Haunts" - Hollywood's notorious sites for being haunted.
"Haunted Hotels" - Historic hotels that have a reputation for being haunted.
"Scare Me" - Some people avoid being scared, while others seek out the thrill of it.
"Real Witches" - The history of witches.
"Loch Ness Monster" - The myth of the infamous Loch Ness Monster in Scotland.
"Psychic Science" - The practice of psychics and mediu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHLV-TV
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WHLV-TV (channel 52) is a religious television station licensed to Cocoa, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located adjacent to the Holy Land Experience, a Christian theme park also owned by TBN; its transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida.
History
The station was founded August 16, 1982 as WTGL-TV by Good Life Broadcasting (WTGL stands for "The Good Life"). The station was initially a blend of family-type general entertainment programming such as classic cartoons, westerns, classic sitcoms and old movies, as well as Christian programming.
WTGL was at a severe disadvantage, since it was licensed in Brevard County. As a result, even though its transmitter was located as close to Orlando as possible while staying within of Cocoa (as required by Federal Communications Commission regulations of the time), Orlando only got a grade B signal. The market's second-largest city, Daytona Beach, barely got any signal at all. As a result, WTGL began dropping most of its secular programming by 1984, and by 1985 became an affiliate of the Clearwater-based Christian Television Network, becoming the network's second station alongside flagship WCLF in Clearwater. In the mid-1990s, a small amount of entertainment programming was added. The station would end its affiliation with CTN in the late 1990s, but it continued to operate as a predominantly religious station, changing its affiliations to the Total Living Network and Faith TV.
On December 12, 2000, after the FCC began to permit duopolies, Good Life Broadcasting signed on a second station, WLCB-TV (channel 45). WLCB aired a mix of Christian shows, public domain movies, public domain episodes of some shows, as well as low budget classic sitcoms, sports shows, and lifestyle programming. WTGL continued on with a mostly Christian format.
On September 28, 2006, it was announced that WTGL-TV had been sold to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Good Life Broadcasting continued to control the original WTGL's master control operations. The two stations shared a studio at the corner of Michigan Street and I-4 in Orlando until June 2007, when then-WLCB and the master control for what was then WTGL moved to the former studios of WKCF in Lake Mary.
In July 2007, WTGL's calls were changed to its current calls, WHLV-TV. This made the WTGL callsign available to the former WLCB, which officially took the WTGL calls in mid-September 2007.
Under the previous ownership of Good Life Broadcasting, then-WTGL-TV applied for a digital signal on channel 53, but the request was dismissed on account of the station's license being put up for sale (Good Life Broadcasting effectively moved the intellectual unit of the original WTGL-TV to what was then WLCB-TV, which today bears the WTGL call sign).
On January 22, 2009, WHLV's analog transmitter experienced a tube failure—the same problem which reduced t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Earnest
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Lester Donald Earnest (born December 17, 1930) is an American computer scientist.
Education and career
After receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1953, he began his career as a computer programmer in 1954 during a stint as a U.S. Navy Aviation Electronics Officer & Digital Computer Project Officer at the Naval Air Development Center (NADC) in Johnsville, Pennsylvania. In 1956, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Lincoln Laboratory to help design the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system.
In 1959, the focus of his career shifted to innovations within the field of word processing. During this time, he was responsible for developing the "first pen-based computer system that reliably recognized cursive writing" and the first spell checker. From 1959 to 1965, he was a subdepartment head at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts and Arlington, Virginia. While at MITRE, he received an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1960.
In 1965, Earnest became a lecturer in computer science at Stanford University and the chief administrative officer of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). Under founding director John McCarthy, he became involved with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet) startup committee. This association would lead him to the one innovation he has received the most acclaim for: the invention of the Finger protocol () in the early 1970s. In the late 1960s, Earnest continued to diversify the types of technologies he involved himself with. He made significant contributions in the fields of robotics through the creation of systems that coupled computer vision with prosthetic and vehicular applications.
Following SAIL's merger with the University's computer science department in 1980, Earnest left Stanford to serve as the founding president and director of Imagen Corp. in Santa Clara, California. He returned to Stanford's computer science department in 1985 as a lecturer and associate department chair before retiring as senior research computer scientist emeritus in 1988.
Accomplishments in computing aside, Earnest is also a long-time bicycle enthusiast. He has served as director and/or officer in several prominent cycling associations including the U.S. Cycling Federation, the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, and the Federation of Independent Associations for Cycling.
References
External links
Les Earnest's Homepage at Stanford
What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form
RFC 742 - Name/Finger protocol
Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud – Lester Ernest on RAI (1/4)
American computer scientists
Stanford University staff
1930 births
Living people
California Institute of Technology alumni
People from San Diego
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTMO-CD
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WTMO-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A television station in Orlando, Florida, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station has studios at the intersection of Sand Lake Road and Orange Blossom Trail in unincorporated Orange County (using an Orlando mailing address), and its transmitter is located on Lake Sparling Road in Pine Hills.
WTMO-CD is simulcast on the third digital subchannel of independent station WRDQ (channel 27, owned by Cox Media Group), as well as on translators WKME-CD (channel 21) in Kissimmee, and WMVJ-CD (channel 29) in Melbourne.
History
Until February 9, 2007, WTMO's primary signal (as WTMO-LP) was the WKME transmitter. Until early 2006 at the latest, it was located on channel 40, but moved to channel 15 shortly before WACX signed on its digital signal on channel 40. Based in Kissimmee, this signal is far enough away with a directional pattern towards Kissimmee, so it would not interfere with WCEU (now WDSC-TV), which also broadcasts on channel 15. As a result, channel 15's coverage area only covers Kissimmee, forcing WTMO to reach the rest of the Orlando area via cable. In late 2006, ZGS acquired WDYB, WMVJ, and the channel 31 license (then WPXG-LP) from Tiger Eye Broadcasting to expand WTMO's over-the-air reach. The station began broadcasting in digital on RF channel 31 on 10 August 2011.
On December 4, 2017, NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group announced its purchase of ZGS' 13 television stations. The sale was completed on February 1, 2018. WTMO is now owned by the same company that also owns nearby Universal Orlando Resort, although the resort is part of a different subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
News operation
WTMO produces its own noon, 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on weekdays and 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on weekends known as Noticias Telemundo 31.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Translators
21 Kissimmee
29 Melbourne
References
External links
Telemundo Station Group
TMO-CD
TMO
Television channels and stations established in 1992
TMO-CD
1992 establishments in Florida
TeleXitos affiliates
NBC LX Home affiliates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Forrest
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Apache Forrest is a web-publishing framework based on Apache Cocoon. It is an XML single source publishing framework that allows multiple types of data-files as input, such as various popular word processing and spreadsheet files, as well as two wiki dialects. Plugins are available to support additional formats, both for input as well as output (such as PDF).
Forrest was retired in February, 2020.
Forrest is not a content management system (CMS), as it lacks the full workflow and admin functions of a CMS. Its primary use is in integrating and aggregating content from various sources and presenting them in a unified format for human consumption. "Single source" is this context does not mean that it is restricted to aggregating from only a single source, but rather that the multiple output formats can be maintained whilst still only needing to maintain a single source document.
Trivia
While Apache Forrest has not seen a new release for 6 years and was started in 2002, the website still claims "Apache Forrest is fairly new".
See also
Apache Software Foundation
Apache Cocoon
Apache Lenya
References
External links
Apache Forrest website
Itay Verchik
Forrest
Web design
Technical communication tools
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