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"Shattered" is the 157th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, aired on the UPN network. It is the 10th episode of the seventh season.
The series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager, isolated tens of thousands of light-years from home. In this episode, a temporal phenomenon fractures the ship into sections that exist at different points in time, and Commander Chakotay must fight old adversaries to restore the ship to normalcy.
This episode aired on the United Paramount Network (UPN) on January 17, 2001, and was the first Star Trek episode to be broadcast in the 21st Century.
Plot
While Commander Chakotay is discussing with Icheb and young Naomi Wildman where to hide a special stash of cider from Neelix, the U.S.S. Voyager is struck by a chronokinetic surge from a rift in space interacting with the ship's warp core. Chakotay is struck with a blast of temporal energy. He regains consciousness in Sickbay where the Doctor has injected him with a chronoton serum to repair injuries from the temporal blast. As Chakotay talks with the Doctor, he finds the Doctor believes it is several years earlier. Chakotay goes exploring the ship, and discovers that various sections of the ship are experiencing different periods of time, a result of the chronokinetic surge. The chronoton serum enables Chakotay to see and travel between these periods, but not other members of the crew.
He makes his way to the bridge, which is currently set a few days before Voyager was taken to the Delta Quadrant and before he joined the crew. Captain Janeway immediately identifies him as a spy despite his pleas, and ordered to the brig, but en route, they pass through another time period, which Chakotay passes into but not his captors. During his exploration he finds that Engineering has been taken over by Seska and other Kazon, and though captured, he managed to escape due to his ability to travel between these time periods. Chakotay returns to Sick Bay and has the Doctor create more of the chronoton serum, then returns to the bridge, injects Janeway with the serum, and takes her to another time period to avoid capture.
Janeway is initially hostile towards Chakotay's actions, but he demonstrates what has happened to the ship and she becomes more trusting of him. They go to Astrometrics, which is set 23 years in the future and is staffed by LCDR Icheb and LT Naomi Wildman, both adults, who are surprised by their appearance, as in their timeline Janeway and Chakotay had died 17 years earlier. The two are able to provide Chakotay with details on the chronokinetic surge and suggestions for how to restore Voyager to normal, and Icheb alludes that he never revealed the location of Chakotay's cider stash. Later, they encounter Seven of Nine shortly after her arrival on Voyager, and her Borg knowledge provides a plan for restoring the ship to normal—if Chakotay injects the chronoton serum into the ship's organic gel-packs, al
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hertzberg
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George Hertzberg is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the cyber-demonic soldier Adam in the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hertzberg, who was born in Glens Falls, New York, has made appearances in several television shows, including 3rd Rock from the Sun and That's My Bush!, and wrote and produced the movie Too Much Magic.
Filmography
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996, TV Series) as David
Home Improvement (1998, TV Series) as Ed
The Pornographer (1999, University of Southern California - Graduate Film Program) as Tom
Too Much Magic (2000)
18 Wheels of Justice (2000, TV Series) as Police Officer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–2002; recurring) as Adam
Any Day Now (2001, TV Series) as Matthew Allen
That's My Bush! (2001, TV Series) as Yuppie
Providence (2002, TV Series)
All of Us (2004, TV Series) as Judd
Taken (2008) - Security Guard
Friday Night Lights (2008, TV Series) as Scotty Simms (final television appearance)
External links
Living people
People from Glens Falls, New York
Male actors from New York (state)
American male television actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20Library
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Crime Library was a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books. It was founded in 1998 and was most recently owned by truTV, a cable TV network that is part of Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System. In August 2014, Crime Library was no longer being updated. In February 2015 the site was taken offline.
Content
Crime Library contained an extensive collection of crime related articles, which were separated into categories: Serial Killers, Notorious Murders, Criminal Mind, Terrorists & Spies and Gangsters & Outlaws. Each category was then broken down into further subcategories. For example, within Serial Killers were the subcategories Most Notorious, Sexual Predators, Truly Weird & Shocking, Unsolved Cases, Partners in Crime and Killers from History. Crime Library also featured photo galleries. These may have had anywhere from 10 to upwards of 100 slides. Some photo galleries were focused on a specific case, while others were lists of crimes linked by a theme (e.g., "Baby for Sale," cases where a person was arrested for allegedly attempting to sell his or her child), or collections of unusual booking photos.
High-profile crimes in the United States were prominent on Crime Library, but the site also contained information about historically notorious characters from various countries, including United Kingdom, Australia and France.
All articles on Crime Library were written exclusively for Crime Library by dozens of commissioned writers, many of them true-crime authors, including Chuck Hustmyre, Katherine Ramsland, Gary C. King and Anthony Bruno.
Crime Library maintained social media features where readers could interact and discuss criminal cases, including a Facebook page, a Twitter account and message boards.
History
Crime Library was founded by Marilyn J. Bardsley in January 1998. Court TV, later truTV, purchased Crime Library in 2001, the same year The Smoking Gun was acquired by Court TV. Originally "The Crime Library," the name of the site was shortened to Crime Library in 2003 to accompany a redesign that changed the site's color scheme and layout.
Crime Library was managed by editor-in-chief Andy Brooks and managing editors Nastacia Leshchinskaya and Cora Van Olson.
As of August 2014, Crime Library was no longer providing updates on their website. As of 2015, the site is no longer accessible, but its content can be read at the Wayback archive of the site.
As of 2022, the website is accessible again under a new URL.
References
External links
Internet Archive Wayback Machine: Crime Library
Behind Crime Library, Personal Pain and True Horror
Inside Crime Library's collection of the worst crimes in history
Law enforcement websites
Online databases
Internet properties established in 1998
Internet properties disestablished in 2015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20monitoring%20interface%20card
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A network monitoring interface card or NMIC is similar to a network card (NIC). However, unlike a standard network card, an NMIC is designed to passively (and silently) listen on a network. At a functional level, an NMIC may differ from a NIC, in that the NMIC may not have a MAC address, may lack the ability to transmit and may not announce its presence on a network. Advanced NMICs have features that include an ability to offload CPU intensive processing from a system's CPU, accurate time measurement, traffic filtering, and an ability to perform other application specific processing.
Organizations often use a dedicated interface for all management traffic and thus create a management network. This is done to minimize the impact on production traffic, ensure the integrity of management traffic and it helps by measuring true production traffic not the traffic generated to the act of measuring traffic. This is a separate function from NMICs that are used for data collection and processing.
NMICs are typically used in intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS), lawful interception, flow analysis, network monitoring, and protocol analyzer systems.
Notable manufacturers include Endace, SolarFLare and Intel.
See also
Egress filtering
Flow analysis
Ingress filtering
Intrusion-detection system (IDS)
Lawful interception
Network monitoring
Network tap
Packet analyzer
SS7 probe
TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
TCP segmentation offloading
Unified Threat Management (UTM)
Networking hardware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%20Matson
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April Loraine Matson (born March 13, 1981) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her portrayal of Lori Trager on the ABC Family cable television network series Kyle XY. She was also featured on the Fox network television series Quintuplets alongside Andy Richter, and in the 2005 film short Forsaken.
Matson was raised in Lake Elsinore, California. She trained at the Elsinore Theatre and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; she also studied sketch comedy at The Second City troupe's school in Los Angeles. Matson has performed in numerous theatrical productions, a rejected pilot for MTV and several independent films. In 2003, Matson made a guest appearance on American Dreams.
She is also a singer, and had two songs featured in episodes of Kyle XY. The first song is called "Will You Remember Me (Lori's Song)" and was played in the season two episode "Does Kyle Dream of Electric Fish?". A non-acoustic version of this song is available on the Kyle XY soundtrack album. The other song is called "Right In Front Of Me," which was featured in the season two finale, "I've Had the Time of My Life." Matson released a debut album called Pieces of My Heart.
Matson recently played April Johnson on the Idaho-based web series The Gratitude Clan and Crystal in the 2015 mystery-thriller Primrose Lane.
Currently living in Idaho, she founded PLATFORM, a company designed for creative individuals to collaborate on ideas, in December 2015. She's also the office manager for AnchorPoint Accounting, according to her LinkedIn page.
Discography
Kyle XY Soundtrack- released May 22, 2007
14. Will You Remember Me (Lori's Song) (3:04)
Pieces of My Heart- EP- released May 10, 2008 on Myspace, released July 9, 2008 on iTunes
1. Pieces of My Heart (3:47)
2. Don't Crucify Me (3:41)
3. 99 Miles To San Francisco (Featuring The Brandon James) (3:22)
4. I Don't Want To Be Strong (2:44)
5. Dear Jeanine (3:23)
Filmography
Television
Films
References
External links
Article on April Matson's early career from the Scripps Howard News Service
April Matson Interview at DaemonsTV.com
American television actresses
1981 births
Living people
21st-century American actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen%20Carlton
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Colleen Carlton is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network, last portrayed by Tammin Sursok. The character was born during the March 5, 1992, episode as the daughter of Brad Carlton (Don Diamont) and Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland). After leaving the soap opera three years later, the character returned as a teenager in 2001, portrayed by Lyndsy Fonseca, who remained in the role until 2005. The following year, the role was recast with Adrianne León, who portrayed the character for a year until Sursok took over. Sursok exited the role in 2009, following the death of the character. In 2010, an uncredited actress reprised the role in a dream.
The character was portrayed as a "sweet Daddy's girl" who rebelled during her teen years. She was also notorious for her romance with J.T. Hellstrom, a relationship considered a soap opera supercouple. Viewers voted them onto top couple lists multiple times. The character's onscreen death in 2009 met with both positive and negative reviews from critics.
Casting
Colleen was born onscreen in 1992 and, after being portrayed by a string of child actors between then and 1995, the character left Genoa City for New York City with her mother, Traci. Colleen was rapidly aged to fifteen in 2001 when Lyndsy Fonseca assumed the role. In 2004, Fonseca was let go, as Colleen returned to New York to live with her mother. The Young and the Restless executive producer and head writer Jack Smith left the door open for Fonseca to return. "That means a lot to me," Fonseca said. "He's been really cool about that." Fonseca briefly reprised the role from December 2004 to February 2005. In 2005, Melissa Claire Egan screen tested for the role, and in January 2006, the role was recast with Adrianne León. Previously, Leon was recognized for her role as Brook Lynn Ashton on ABC's General Hospital. As her storyline on General Hospital diminished, executive producer Jill Farren Phelps told Leon to commence auditioning for other projects including other soap operas, and was soon cast as Colleen. Fan response to this news was negative, as viewers felt Leon would not fit in the role. Leon wanted to help the viewers with the transition. "Since I was leaving GH one day and airing the next as Colleen, it was a decision on my part to blend in her look with Brook's," she said. General Hospital also planned to write Brook out by scripting her new destination as the Carlton Music Academy in Genoa City. That plan was not followed through.
Leon was released from her contract in June 2007 and the role was recast with Australian actress and musician Tammin Sursok. In an interview with Soap Opera Weekly, Leon said her firing shocked her. "When I got the call, I asked when my last day was, and it had already passed," she said. "There was already a replacement. The whole thing was done and sealed." When she published the news on her Myspace page, she received a "flood of fan support." Rumors went arou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Treehouse
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The Treehouse may refer to:
A programming block on YTV (TV channel)
The Treehouse (video game) - a 1991 point-and-click computer game made by Broderbund
A medical marijuana Dispensary located in Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from my Father on How to Live, Love, and See - a book by Naomi Wolf
See also
Treehouse
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So-net
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is a Japanese internet service provider operated by , a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony.
Timeline
November 1995 - The operating company, Sony Communication Network Corporation (SCN) was established as a subsidiary of Sony.
January 1996 - launched ISP business.
November 1997 - Released PostPet DX mail software.
November 1999 - Became the first Internet service provider (ISP) to obtain Privacy Mark.
August 2001 - started ADSL service.
September 2001 - purchased WebOnline Networks, the operating company of "JustNet", from JustSystems.
October 2001 - launched "Harbot" service.
April 2002 - merged with WebOnline Networks, Ltd.
May 2002 - started optical fiber connection service.
March 2003 - started IP telephone service.
December 2005 - listed on the Mothers market of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
October 2006 - changed its corporate name to So-net Entertainment Corporation.
July 2007 - Established MotionPortrait, Inc.
August 2007 - Acquired So-net Entertainment Taiwan Ltd. as a consolidated subsidiary.
November 2007 - Relocated headquarters to Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.
January 2008 - Listed on TSE 1st Section.
July 2008 - Acquired So-net Media Networks Corporation as a consolidated subsidiary.
March 2009 - So-net Entertainment Taiwan Ltd. signed a capital/business partnership contract with Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (CHT).
February 2010 - Acquired the ISP business from USEN CORPORATION.
May 2011 - So-Net hacked from unknown IP address. Roughly $1225 in customer's redeemable gift points stolen.
July 2012 - Established So-net Business Associates Corporation.
December 2012 - Delisted from TSE 1st Section.
January 2013 - Became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
April 2013 - So-net launches Nuro Hikari, a FTTH service that provides 2Gbit/s internet. Initial markets include Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama in Japan.
July 2013 - Changed company name to So-net Corporation.
April 2014 - Integrated “bit-drive” business, the Sony Business Solutions Corporation IT solutions service for corporations.
February 2015 - Launched “So-net Hikari Collaboration”
June 2015 - So-net launches Nuro Hikari 10G, a FTTH service that provides 10Gbit/s internet. The service leads 10G marketing war in Japan.
July 2016 - Changed company name to Sony Network Communications Inc.
October 2016 - So-net launches nuro mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) operating on the NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank networks.
Services&Products
Comunication Services
IoT Products and Services
AI Services
Solution Services
Subsidiaries
Sony Biz Network
So-net Game Studio
SoVeC
So-net Entertainment Taiwan
Sony Network Communication Europe
References
External links
So-net
So-net Taiwan
Broadband
Fiber to the premises
Internet service providers of Japan
Sony subsidiaries
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications companies established in 1995
Web portals
Web service providers
Inter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20Q%20class%20%281901%29
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The NZR Q class was an important steam locomotive class not only in the history of New Zealand's railway network but also in worldwide railways in general. Designed by New Zealand Government Railways' (NZR) Chief Mechanical Engineer A. L. Beattie and ordered from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1901, they were the first locomotives in the world to be built with the wheel arrangement of 4-6-2. This wheel arrangement came to be known as the Pacific type after the voyage the completed locomotives had to make across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand. A few instances of the 4-6-2 wheel arrangement are known to have existed prior to 1901, but these were all reconstructions of locomotives that were originally built with a different wheel arrangement, thereby making the thirteen members of the Q class the first "true" Pacifics in the world. The Pacific style went on to become arguably the most famous wheel arrangement in the world.
Design
The Q class's design stems from the requirement for a locomotive similar to the UB class with the inclusion of a wide firebox to burn poor quality lignite coal from the South Island and the Waikato.
Originally plans to equip the new locomotives with a Wootten Firebox would have seen the "Camelback" configuration adopted.
Operation
In operation, the locomotives proved to be satisfactory rather than brilliant and they suffered from occasional gear problems. They were soon displaced from the most important and difficult work by members of the A and AB classes; in fact, later in life, they were re-boilered with AB boilers. An improved slightly larger 'Q' type was ordered from Baldwins in 1914, but classified AA due to their dimensions similar to the A class.
In a 1902 trial of various locomotives between Invercargill and Gore, the Q class with large fire-grate area "gave the most efficient results" of the larger locomotives.
Withdrawal
They saw out their final years working in Otago and the West Coast and the last Q class locomotive was retired in 1957. No examples of the class were preserved.
See also
NZR Q class (1878)
NZR A/AD class (1906)
NZR AA class
NZR AB class
NZR G class (1928)
Locomotives of New Zealand
References
Citations
Bibliography
External links
NZR Steam locomotives - Q class
1934 article on the development of the Pacific locomotive from The New Zealand Railways Magazine
Q class
4-6-2 locomotives
Baldwin locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of New Zealand
Railway locomotives introduced in 1901
Scrapped locomotives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Donaldson
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Joan Marsha Donaldson (23 April 1946 – 7 September 2006) was a Canadian journalist, and was the founding head of CBC Newsworld (now CBC News Network). She came to Newsworld from CBC's main network.
Biography
Born in Toronto, Donaldson first joined the CBC in 1967 as an editor with National Radio News. During her time with CBC Radio, she served as Senior Editor of The World at Six, Sunday Morning Magazine and various news specials. She reported from Viet Nam during the war, and later produced Michael Maclear's Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War, a series of documentary films on the conflict. In 1971, Donaldson went to CBC Winnipeg as the producer of the popular early evening news show 24 Hours.
Two years later, she returned to the network in Toronto as a producer on Newsmagazine and news specials.
After a five-year stint as a field producer on CTV's W5, Donaldson joined Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1975 as an instructor in Broadcast Journalism, in addition to teaching at the University of Western Ontario in the Journalism Program for Native People.
During the 1980s, she was married to Arthur Gelgoot (d. 2004), an accountant. The couple divorced.
Donaldson returned to the CBC in 1985 as Co-ordinator of Regional Programming, TV News and Current Affairs. She was appointed head of CBC Newsworld during its inception stages in 1987 and oversaw the launch of the new specialty service in 1989.
Death and legacy
In October 1990, Donaldson was hit by a bicyclist in Montreal. As a result, she had brain damage, had quadriplegia, and was in a coma for two years. Afterwards, she was unable to continue her career.
She was 60 years old when she died from complications of her injuries, in Victoria, British Columbia, 7 September 2006.
The Donaldson Scholarship is dedicated to her invaluable contributions to Canadian journalism.
External links
1946 births
2006 deaths
Journalists from Toronto
Academic staff of Toronto Metropolitan University
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Canadian radio journalists
Canadian television producers
Canadian women television producers
Canadian women radio journalists
People with tetraplegia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Jianxiang
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Huang Jianxiang (; born January 20, 1968) is a Chinese sports commentator and television host. He is one of the best-known sports commentators in China, formerly of the state-run network China Central Television (CCTV). He was fairly well received in his commentating of football, particularly at the FIFA World Cup, the German Bundesliga, and the Italian Serie A. Huang has also been a principal commentator for CCTV at the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996, 2000 Sydney, Athens 2004, Turin 2006.
Huang received widespread international attention during a World Cup commentary incident on June 26, 2006 when he commentated on the match between Australia and Italy, where he yelled passionately for several minutes in support of Italy. Huang's commentary resulted in widespread controversy and was criticized by his colleagues, online commentators, and some foreign media. He resigned from CCTV in November 2006. Since resigning, Huang has worked for a wide variety of Chinese satellite TV stations, including Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV, sports channel CSPN, and regional satellite stations in Ningxia, Xinjiang, Shenzhen, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Tianjin. He has also worked for LeTV.com.
Since 2013, Huang has been a host on the show Only You (非你莫属) on Tianjin Television, a game show-style program designed for people seeking employment.
Biography
Huang Jianxiang was born in 1968 in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia. He grew up in a family of football fans. His grandfather and his father were two early football fans in China. He became a football enthusiast in his school years. His family relocated to Nanjing in 1977. He attended the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, in Nanjing. In 1990, he graduated from the China Foreign Affairs University, receiving a bachelor's degree in foreign languages. He joined China Central Television (CCTV) in 1994 as a sports commentator.
Huang first appeared on CCTV-5, the national sports channel, with veteran commentator Li Weimiao, during the commentating for the 1995 Copa América. In 1996, Huang commentated on the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 1996 European Football Championship and the Asian Cup 1996. In 1997 Huang commentated on the 8th National Games of the People's Republic of China. In 1998, Huang commentated on the FIFA World Cup in France, the Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, and the African Cup of Nations held in West Africa.
By the late 1990s, Huang had established himself as one of the most prominent sports announcers on Chinese television. In 1999, Huang commentated on the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 in the United States. In 2000, he commentated on the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In 2002, he commentated on the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. In 2004, commentated on the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. In 2006, Huang commentated on the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany.
The World Cup Commentary 2006 Incident
The incident
On June 26, 2006(UTC+8 June 27 03:00), during the FIFA Worl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%20matter%20in%20South%20Park
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The American animated sitcom South Park has covered and satirized a large number of topics over the course of its run. South Park Studio's use of computer animation allows it to edit episodes in days, quickly commenting on recent events, including Elián González, 2000 U.S. presidential election, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the elections of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The creators also have engendered a mix of socially liberal and fiscally conservative viewpoints, espousing a libertarian ideology in both real life and on the show. However, the show's creators call themselves "equal opportunity offenders", and reject the notion that they are trying to put forth any consistent ideological agenda through the show.
List
Abortion
Abortion is heavily lampooned in South Park.
"Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut": Cartman's Mom attempted to get her son a "40th trimester" abortion, and finds out that such a late abortion is illegal, she says "Well, I think you need to keep your laws off of my body." Later in the episode, Mrs Cartman says "I should've thought of raising a child before having sex." She was later informed that she confused the word "abortion" with "adoption".
"Cartman Joins NAMBLA": Upon learning that his parents want to have another child, Kenny attempts to prevent the event of having a younger sibling. He attempts to give his mother morning-after abortion pills, tries to get her to drink liquor and encourages her to ride on an intense amusement park attraction in order to provoke a miscarriage. None of his attempts work, however, leaving the newborn child to become a miniature reincarnation of Kenny himself.
"Chef Goes Nanners": The substitute teacher shows that the class had participated in different debates, with one being "Pro-Choice vs. Cartman".
"Kenny Dies": Cartman attempts to get stem cell research (using aborted fetuses) legalized in a feigned attempt to save Kenny's life. It is revealed at the end of the episode he really wanted to use stem cells to clone Shakey’s Pizza.
"A Ladder to Heaven": Upon realizing that Kenny's soul is inside his body, Cartman decides to go somewhere where they "remove living souls from inside" of him. He then proceeds to go to an abortion clinic where he gets into an argument with the lady at the counter, stating that he can't live this way and demanding that they just suck Kenny's soul out. A couple walk in and upon hearing Cartman's rant, the girlfriend states that she "can't do this" and runs out. At that point, the visibly angry boyfriend throws a rock at Cartman.
"Woodland Critter Christmas": The mountain lion cubs are taught at an abortion clinic how to stop the Antichrist porcupine from being born. During the episode's final confrontation, they give Kyle an "abortion", expelling the Antichrist from his body so that Santa can crush it with a sledgehammer.
"Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina": The newly sex-changed Mrs. Garrison becomes convinced she is pregnant because she d
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%2065
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The GR 65 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network that extends from the French Prealps, across south central France, through the Pyrenees.
The French name for this GR route is the Chemin de Saint-Jacques and the Spanish name is the Camino de Santiago francés, because the GR 65 is an important variant route of the old Christian pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, one of several variants of the Way of St. James. In English it is the French Way, sometimes called The Le Puy Route or by its Latin name Via Podiensis, including its subtrails GR651 and GR652.
The GR 65 is part of the system of European long-distance paths known as E3 European long distance path.
The route starts in Geneva, Switzerland, and continues through France to La Côte-Saint-André (Isère), Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), Nasbinals (Lozère), Conques (Aveyron), Figeac (Lot), Cahors (Lot) Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne), and Aire-sur-l'Adour (Landes), to Roncevalles, Spain.
Camino de Santiago routes
Hiking trails in Europe
Hiking trails in France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espy%20Sans
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Espy Sans is a bitmap font designed by Garrett Boge and Damon Clark of LetterPerfect Fonts for the Apple Computer user interface group in 1992. The Espy family, consisting of Sans & Serif, Regular & Bold in discrete bitmap sizes of 8, 9, 10, 12 & 14 pt, replaced Apple's previous use of Chicago and Geneva in Mac OS 7.5 released in 1995. It was also used for the Newton PDA project and their eWorld online bulletin board service. It was later adapted for use in the Apple Guide help system and some versions of the iPod, particularly the iPod mini. Before the release of the Charcoal font used for Mac OS 8 and 9, it was a popular replacement system font for reskinnings of Mac OS 7.x, being included in system extensions such as Greg Landweber's Aaron extension.
See also
Apple typography
External links
Using the Espy Font at LowEndMac.com
Macintosh System Fonts at LowEndMac.com
Web Browsing with Espy at LowEndMac.com
Apple Inc. typefaces
Sans-serif typefaces
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206233
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The Nokia 6233 phone made by Nokia is the successor to the Nokia 6230i. It is a 3G/GSM/WCDMA mobile phone that runs the Series 40 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 UI on the Nokia operating system.
The Latvian operator LMT offered a "LMT 15" branded version for its anniversary in 2007, with the logo located just below the screen.
Features
The phone has two stereo speakers with surround sound. It supports a variety of music formats including AAC, MP3 and WMA files. The latest firmware is version 5.60. It has a camera which can take photos at a resolution of 2 megapixels (1200 x 1600), and videos at VGA (640 x 480) resolution, as well as MP3 playback, Bluetooth, infrared, radio, games and Internet access.
Nokia 6233 Music Edition
Dubbed "Music Edition", a special white colour version of the Nokia 6233 was sold in Asian Pacific regions. It supports A2DP Bluetooth profile, meaning it is compatible with stereo Bluetooth headsets, providing better audio fidelity. This edition was sold with a larger MicroSD card (512MB instead of 64MB) and a speaker dock with a USB connection to a PC.
Nokia 6234
The Nokia 6234 is similar to the Nokia 6233, but was made available exclusively to Vodafone subscribers. It can however be unlocked for use with other networks. It differs from the 6233 having a stainless steel front cover, Vodafone logos and Vodafone branded software.
Specifications sheet
Reception
Know Your Mobile gave the phone a positive review, saying it was "A terrific 3G phone that should appeal to business phone users".
References
External links
Nokia 6233 Product Page
Nokia 6233 Developer Device Details
Nokia 6233 Official phone support
Nokia 6234 Product Page
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Rating
6233
Mobile phones introduced in 2005
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy%20%28computer%20worm%29
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Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm (XSS worm) that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar. Within just 20 hours of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
The worm itself was relatively harmless; it carried a payload that would display the string "but most of all, samy is my hero" on a victim's MySpace profile page as well as send Samy a friend request. When a user viewed that profile page, the payload would then be replicated and planted on their own profile page continuing the distribution of the worm. MySpace has since secured its site against the vulnerability.
Samy Kamkar, the author of the worm, was raided by the United States Secret Service and Electronic Crimes Task Force in 2006 for releasing the worm. He entered a plea agreement on January 31, 2007 to a felony charge. The action resulted in Kamkar being sentenced to three years' probation with only one computer and no access to the Internet, 90 days' community service, and $15,000–20,000 in restitution, as directly reported by Kamkar himself on "Greatest Moments in Hacking History" by Vice Media's video website, Motherboard.
References
External links
Motherboard S01E03 Greatest Moments In Hacking History: Samy Kamkar Takes Down Myspace
An interview with Samy Kamkar
Technical explanation of The MySpace Worm
Darknet Diaries - Samy (Episode 61)
Computer worms
Myspace
JavaScript
Hacking in the 2000s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAII
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AAII may refer to:
Air Accidents Investigation Institute, a government agency in the Czech Republic
American Association of Individual Investors
Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
AutoAnalyzer II, see AutoAnalyzer#Commercialization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graz%20Entertainment
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Graz Entertainment is an American licensing and distribution company, run by Jim and Stephanie Graziano, which obtains and provides programming and licensing rights for children's television animation. They currently control Z Blade, The Attic, Goliath, Tom Thumb, and others.
List of licensed/distributed shows
The Adventures of Corduroy (1996–1997, co-produced with Benjamin Productions, Lin Oliver Productions and Viacom Productions, distributed by Paramount Television)
Conan the Adventurer (1992, Season 1 only; co-produced with Sunbow Productions, distributed by Claster Television)
Conan and the Young Warriors (1994, co-produced with Sunbow Productions, distributed by Claster Television)
Darkstalkers (1995, co-produced with Capcom, distributed by The Summit Media Group)
G.I. Joe Extreme (1995, co-produced with Sunbow Entertainment and Gunther-Wahl Productions, distributed by Claster Television)
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994, co-produced with Universal Cartoon Studios, distributed by MCA/Universal Home Video
My Little Pony Tales (1992, co-produced with Sunbow Productions, distributed by Claster Television)
Ronin Warriors (1995, distributed by CINAR [Canada]/Claster Television [USA])
Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles (1994, co-produced with Sunbow Productions, distributed by Claster Television)
Skeleton Warriors (1994–1995, co-production with Landmark Entertainment Group, distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting International)
Stone Protectors (1993, co-production with Sachs TV Entertainment)
Street Fighter (1993, Season 1 only, co-produced with USA Studios and Capcom, distributed by ADV Films)
The Tick (1994–1996, co-produced with Sunbow Productions and Fox Children's Productions, distributed by 20th Television)
X-Men (1992–1997, co-produced with Saban Entertainment)
See also
Sunbow Productions
MCA/Universal Studios
The Summit Media Group
References
American animation studios
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20H.%20Perlmutter
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Alvin H. Perlmutter, Director of The Independent Production Fund, has produced television programming for over thirty years.
Prior to forming his own company, Mr. Perlmutter served as NBC News Vice President and earlier as Director of Public Affairs Programming and Program Manager of WNBC-TV, New York. He is the recipient of six Emmys and five Ace awards for excellence in programming on cable television. Perlmutter has produced award-winning documentaries including: NET Journal, The Creative Spirit, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Native Land, The World of Abnormal Psychology, and The Emperor’s Eye: Art and Power in Industrial China.
Perlmutter is the president of Alvin H. Perlmutter Inc., which produces "Adam Smith's Money World" for WNET. He was the creator and executive producer of The Great American Dream Machine and other programs for public television.
Biography
Mr. Perlmutter graduated from Syracuse University. He is a son of the late Jennie and Fred Perlmutter.
In 1994, he married Joan Konner, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Konner and Perlmutter co-produced the documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.
He is President of Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc., a television production company and Chair
and CEO of Sunrise Media LLC, a television and educational news film archive. He has originated more than a hundred PBS documentaries.
American film producers
American television producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuoso%20Universal%20Server
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Virtuoso Universal Server is a middleware and database engine hybrid that combines the functionality of a traditional relational database management system (RDBMS), object–relational database (ORDBMS), virtual database, RDF, XML, free-text, web application server and file server functionality in a single system. Rather than have dedicated servers for each of the aforementioned functionality realms, Virtuoso is a "universal server"; it enables a single multithreaded server process that implements multiple protocols. The free and open source edition of Virtuoso Universal Server is also known as OpenLink Virtuoso. The software has been developed by OpenLink Software with Kingsley Uyi Idehen and Orri Erling as the chief software architects.
Database structure
Core database engine
Virtuoso provides an extended object–relational model, which combines the flexibility of relational access with inheritance, run time data typing, late binding, and identity-based access. Virtuoso Universal Server database includes physical file and in memory storage and operating system processes that interact with the storage. There is one main process, which has listeners on a specified port for HTTP, SOAP, and other protocols.
Architecture
Virtuoso is designed to take advantage of operating system threading support and multiple CPUs. It consists of a single process with an adjustable pool of threads shared between clients. Multiple threads may work on a single index tree with minimal interference with each other. One cache of database pages is shared among all threads and old dirty pages are written back to disk as a background process.
The database has at all times a clean checkpoint state and a delta of committed or uncommitted changes to this checkpointed state. This makes it possible to do a clean backup of the checkpoint state while transactions proceed on the commit state.
A transaction log file records all transactions since the last checkpoint. Transaction log files may be preserved and archived for an indefinite time, providing a full, recoverable history of the database.
A single set of files is used for storing all tables. A separate set of files is used for all temporary data. The maximum size of a file set is 32 terabytes, for 4G × 8K pages.
Locking
Virtuoso provides dynamic locking, starting with row level locks and escalating to page level locks when a cursor holds a large percentage of a page's rows or when it has a history of locking entire pages. Lock escalation only happens when no other transactions hold locks on the same page, hence it never deadlocks. Virtuoso SQL provides means for exclusive read and for setting transaction isolation.
Transactions
All four levels of isolation are supported: Dirty read, read committed, repeatable read and serializable. The level of isolation may be specified operation by operation within a single transaction. Virtuoso can also act as a resource manager and/or transaction coordinator under Microsoft's Dis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20read%20after%20write
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Direct read after write is a procedure that compares data recorded onto a medium against the source. A typical example would be CD burning software which reads a CD-ROM once it has been burned onto, effectively ensuring that data written is the same as the data it was copied from.
External links
Smart Computing Dictionary entry
Storage software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERA
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TERA is a shielded twisted pair connector for use with Category 7 twisted-pair data cables, developed by The Siemon Company and standardised in 2003 by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) with the reference IEC 61076-3-104.
The 2006 revision of the standard extended the characterised performance up to 1000 MHz.
The connector has a different footprint from the more common 8P8C connector.
TERA is also a useful interface for broadcast communications technology (BCT). This connector allows for cable sharing, permitting users to integrate video, voice and data services over a single cabling link.
See also
GG45 or ARJ45, a connector for high-speed Category 7 cable
References
External links
Networking hardware
IEC 61076-3
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleheader%20%28television%29
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A doubleheader is a term used by television networks to refer to two games involving the same sport that are shown back-to-back on the same network, even though the events do not involve the same two teams (three such games may be referred to as a tripleheader, this scenario occurring most frequently in regard to basketball). A doubleheader purposely coincides with a league's scheduling of "early" and "late" games. In North America, games usually start at the same time period in different time zones (Eastern and Pacific). The concept is less often extended to three games—a tripleheader—or, much more rarely, a quadrupleheader of four games.
American football
National Football League
National Football League (NFL) games played in the usually start around 1:00 p.m. or 4:00 pm Eastern Time, creating a 1:00/4:00 p.m. doubleheader in the Eastern Time Zone and a 10:00 a.m./1:00 p.m. doubleheader in the Pacific Time Zone.
The two networks that hold the rights to broadcast NFL games on Sunday afternoons – Fox and CBS – both typically air doubleheaders during the regular season (with the other network only being permitted to broadcast one game in a specific market; each network is given eight doubleheaders to broadcast during the season, and both networks are given doubleheaders during the first and final week of the season in order for games with playoff implications to have the most exposure), with restrictions applying to some markets in which the local team is playing at home that week. When combined with the Sunday night game on NBC, this creates a tripleheader (as was sometimes advertised by the league's radio partner, Westwood One, which carried three games in a tripleheader format).
Since 2006, Week 1 of the NFL regular season also features a doubleheader on Monday Night Football (which moved from ABC to ESPN concurrent with the change), with the late-evening game involving two West Coast teams. This alleviates a quirk in the NFL television contract where there is no Monday game in the final week of the regular season in order to allow all playoff teams to have an equal number of days off between the final regular season and first playoff game.
A daytime doubleheader occurred on October 26, 2014, when Fox was given the rights to broadcast a game between the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions at Wembley Stadium in London, resulting in Fox and CBS both being allocated doubleheader games on the same weekend due to the early 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time kickoff of the Falcons-Lions game, in addition to the regional games scheduled in the normal 1:00 p.m. Eastern "early" slot.
In 2015 and 2016 Fox aired an NFL tripleheader (9:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 4:25 p.m. ET) followed by Game 5 of 2015/2016 World Series at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Canadian Football League
The television rightsholders to the Canadian Football League (currently, TSN) have periodically aired doubleheaders and tripleheaders, usually on Saturdays and Sundays. Two Monday doubleheaders, the Labou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Financial%20Statistics
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The IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a compilation of financial data collected from various sources, covering the economies of 194 countries and areas worldwide, which is published monthly by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Methodology and scope
The IFS is the IMF’s principal statistical publication, covering numerous topics of international and domestic finance. It includes, for most countries, data on exchange rates, balance of payments, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, etc. Most annual data begins in 1948, quarterly and monthly data dates back to 1957, and most balance of payments data begins in 1970.
The IMF compiles the data from various sources including government departments, national accounts, central banks, the United Nations (UN), Eurostat, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and private financial institutions.
Accessing the data
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) International provides the macro-economic datasets free of charge for members of UK higher and further education institutions. In order to access the data, users have to be registered, which can be done here. Alternatively, the data is available to explore and download free of charge on the IMF data portal. In addition, the IMF offers an API based on the SDMX standard for automated downloads.
References
External links
International Financial Statistics online
About ESDS International
SDMX - Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange
See also
Classification of the Functions of Government
ESDS International
International Monetary Fund
Online databases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation
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AlphaStation is the name given to a series of computer workstations, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP. As the name suggests, the AlphaStations were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaStations comprise Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX), OpenVMS and Windows NT (with AlphaBIOS ARC firmware). Most of these workstations can also run various versions of Linux and BSD operating systems.
Other Alpha workstations produced by DEC include the DEC 2000 AXP (DECpc AXP 150), the DEC 3000 AXP, the Digital Personal Workstation a-series and au-series (codename Miata), the Multia VX40/41/42 and the Alpha XL/Alpha XLT line (a member of the Alcor family, which had swappable daughterboard with Pentium processor, to transform to a DEC Celebris XL line).
Models
From the XP900 onwards, all AlphaStation models were simply workstation configurations of the corresponding AlphaServer model.
Avanti family
Alcor Family
Noritake and Rawhide Family
Tsunami Family
Titan and Marvel Family
A variant of the AlphaStation 1200 was also sold as the Digital Ultimate Workstation 533au².
Some systems had one of the microprocessors deactivated, which may be reactivated with a license upgrade.
References
External links
HP AlphaStation range
Compaq Alpha System and Model Code Names (at archive.org)
FreeBSD/alpha 6.1 Hardware Notes
About NetBSD/alpha
The OpenBSD/alpha port
Debian Alpha system types
See also
AlphaVM: A full DEC Alpha system emulator running on Windows or Linux.
64-bit computers
DEC workstations
Advanced RISC Computing
Computer-related introductions in 1994
Compaq Alpha-based computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaServer
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AlphaServer is a series of server computers, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP. AlphaServers were based on the DEC Alpha 64-bit microprocessor. Supported operating systems for AlphaServers are Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX), OpenVMS, MEDITECH MAGIC and Windows NT (on earlier systems, with AlphaBIOS ARC firmware), while enthusiasts have provided alternative operating systems such as Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
The Alpha processor was also used in a line of workstations, AlphaStation.
Some AlphaServer models were rebadged in white enclosures as Digital Servers for the Windows NT server market. These so-called "white box" models comprised the following:
Digital Server 3300/3305: rebadged AlphaServer 800
Digital Server 5300/5305: rebadged AlphaServer 1200
Digital Server 7300/7305/7310: rebadged AlphaServer 4100
As part of the roadmap to phase out Alpha-, MIPS- and PA-RISC-based systems in favor of Itanium-based systems at HP, the most recent AlphaServer systems reached their end of general availability on 27 April 2007. The availability of upgrades and options was discontinued on 25 April 2008, approximately one year after the systems were discontinued. Support for the most recent AlphaServer systems, the DS15A, DS25, ES45, ES47, ES80 and GS1280 is being provided by HP Services as of 2008. These systems are no longer supported by HP.
Models
In approximate chronological order, the following AlphaServer models were produced:
Avanti Family
Sable Family
The AlphaServer 2100 was briefly sold as the Digital 2100 before the AlphaServer brand was introduced.
Mikasa Family
Noritake Family
Rawhide Family
Turbolaser Family
Lynx Family
Tsunami Family
Titan Family
Wildfire Family
AlphaServer SC
The AlphaServer SC was a supercomputer constructed from a set of individual DS20L, ES40 or ES45 servers (called "nodes") mounted in racks. Every node was connected to every other node using a Quadrics elan3 interconnect and the systems were designed and used primarily for high-performance technical computing. An AlphaServer SC45 supercomputer was still ranked #6 in the world as late as November 2004.
Marvel Family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praat
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Praat (; , "talk") is a free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics. It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It can run on a wide range of operating systems, including various versions of Unix, Linux, Mac and Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). The program supports speech synthesis, including articulatory synthesis. Its logo depicts a mouth over an ear.
Version history
References
External links
Free audio software
Free linguistic software
Linguistic research software
Free software programmed in C
Phonetics
Phonology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%203000%20AXP
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DEC 3000 AXP was the name given to a series of computer workstations and servers, produced from 1992 to around 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation. The DEC 3000 AXP series formed part of the first generation of computer systems based on the 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture. Supported operating systems for the DEC 3000 AXP series were DEC OSF/1 AXP (later renamed Digital UNIX) and OpenVMS AXP (later renamed OpenVMS).
All DEC 3000 AXP models used the DECchip 21064 (EV4) or DECchip 21064A (EV45) processor and inherited various features from the earlier MIPS architecture-based DECstation models, such as the TURBOchannel bus and the I/O subsystem.
The DEC 3000 AXP series was superseded in late 1994, with workstation models replaced by the AlphaStation line and server models replaced by the AlphaServer line.
Models
There were three DEC 3000 model families, codenamed Pelican, Sandpiper, and Flamingo. Within Digital, this led to the DEC 3000 series being affectionately referred to as "the seabirds".
Note: Server configurations of the Model 400/500/600/700/800/900 systems were suffixed with "S".
Description
The logic in Flamingo- and Sandpiper-based systems are contained on two modules (printed circuit boards), the CPU module and the I/O module, with the CPU module being the largest board. The two modules are connected via a 210-pin connector. The logic in Pelican-based systems are contained the CPU module and system module. The CPU module is a daughterboard that plugs into the system module and contains the CPU and the B-cache (L2 cache).
The architecture of the Flamingo- and Sandpiper-based systems is based around a crossbar switch implemented by an ADDR (Address) ASIC, four SLICE (data slice) ASICs and a TC (TURBOchannel) ASIC. These ASICs connect the various different width buses used in the system, allowing data to be transferred to the different subsystems. PALs were used to implement the control logic. The cache, memory and TURBOchannel controllers, as well as other control logic, is entirely implemented by PALs. Pelican-based systems have an entirely different architecture from the other systems, similar to that of late-model Personal DECstations that they are based on, with a traditional workstation architecture with buses and buffers.
Memory
The Sandpiper and Flamingo used proprietary 100-pin, 40-bit (32 bits plus 8 bits ECC) Fast Page Mode SIMMs with capacities of 2 MB, 4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB or 32 MB. These were eight-way interleaved, providing a 256-bit-wide bus to memory. The Sandpiper had two such eight-SIMM banks, for up to 512 MB total system RAM, while the Flamingo had four banks and supported up to 1 GB. In comparison, the Pelican was a budget architecture utilising eight standard 72-pin Fast Page Mode SIMMs that were protected with longword parity instead of ECC, with capacities of 8 MB or 32 MB, for a total of up to 256 MB RAM. These were two-way interleaved, for a 64-bit-wide bus to memory.
Expansion slots
The DEC 3000 A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20and%20Agriculture%20Organization%20Corporate%20Statistical%20Database
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The Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) website disseminates statistical data collected and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAOSTAT data are provided as a time-series from 1961 in most domains for 245 countries in English, Spanish and French.
About FAOSTAT
FAOSTAT is maintained by the Statistics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In working directly with the countries, the Statistics Division supports the development of national statistical strategies, the strengthening of Institution and technical capacities, and the improvement of statistical systems.
The FAOSTAT system is one of FAO’s most important corporate systems. It is a major component of FAO’s information systems, contributing to the organization’s strategic objective of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and disseminating information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture for development and the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. It is at the core of the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT). WAICENT gives access to FAO’s vast store of information on agricultural and food topics – statistical data, documents, books, images, and maps.
FAOSTAT Domains
Production The Agricultural Production domain covers: Produced quantities, producer prices, value at farmgate, harvested area, yield per hectare.
Trade The Agriculture Trade domain provides comprehensive, comparable, and up-to-date annual trade statistics by country, region and economic country groups for about 600 individual food and agriculture commodities since 1961. The detailed food and agriculture trade data collected, processed and disseminated by FAO according to the standard International Merchandise Trade Statistics Methodology (IMTS) are directly submitted by the national authorities to FAO or received via international or regional partner organizations. Data for missing reporters are estimated manly through the use of the data reported by the trading partners. The total merchandise trade value by country is annually updated according to the national publications on Balance of Payment and trade statistics and harmonised with the consolidated figures disseminated by the WTO-Common Data Set (CDS) on Total Merchandise Trade Statistics by countries.
Food Security Food supply data is some of the most important data in FAOSTAT. In fact, this data is for the basis for estimation of global and national undernourishment assessment, when it is combined with parameters and other data sets. This data has been the foundation of Food Balance Sheets ever since they were first constructed. The data is accessed by both business and governments for economic analysis and policy setting, as well as being used by the academic community.
Agri-Environmental Indicators Agri-environmental indicators (AEI) are indicators able to describe and assess state and trends in the environmental performance of agriculture to furnish
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Warren%20%28journalist%29
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John Warren (born 1937) is a retired journalist and the English language anchor of the CBC Parliamentary Television Network from 1979 to 1992. In the 1980s and 1990s he wrote a weekly column for the Ottawa Citizen newspaper called Commons Sense. Prior to his role as host of the Parliamentary Television Network, he was a CBC radio and television reporter.
Warren was elected president of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1977 and served as President of the National Press Club in 1986.
He graduated from Carleton University with a B.J. degree in 1960. His career in journalism began with the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix in 1958 after which he moved on to the Edmonton Journal, and later the Canadian Press. He spent a year as chairman of the journalism department at Mount Royal College in Calgary before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1965.
With CBC, Warren served as a reporter in Edmonton, Calgary and Regina before his posting to Parliament Hill in 1971. During his service in Edmonton he was elected president of the Alberta Legislature Press Gallery. He held a similar post in the Saskatchewan Legislature Press Gallery while in Regina.
With Robert Fife, he co-authored the best-selling book, A Capital Scandal in 1991. It exposed many of the lavish and little-known perqs and privileges enjoyed by MPs and Senators. He was suspended between October 1991 and January 1992 by the CBC, based on fears that he would promote his book on-air.
John Warren is the father of Gregory, Steven, Ken and Adrienne and grandfather of four girls. He enjoys extensive volunteer work in a healthy retirement life divided between Ottawa and an historic home near Prescott on the St. Lawrence River.
References
External links
Canadian columnists
Living people
1937 births
CBC Radio hosts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20F.%20Whelan
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Paul F. Whelan is Professor of Computer Vision at the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis, School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing Dublin City University.
Education and career
Whelan earned his Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours from the National Institute for Higher Education before enrolling in the University of Limerick for his Master of Engineering degree. After receiving his PhD in Computing Mathematics/Computer Vision from Cardiff University, Whelan joined the Industrial and Scientific Imaging Ltd to research and develop an industrial vision system.
Selected publications
Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation, Springer (reprinted Aug. 2001), 2000.
Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Irish engineers
Irish computer scientists
Academics of Dublin City University
Alumni of Dublin City University
Alumni of Cardiff University
Alumni of the University of Limerick
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Live%20Spaces
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Windows Live Spaces was Microsoft's blogging platform and social network service. The site was originally released in early 2004 as MSN Spaces to compete with other social networking services, and re-launched in 2006 as a part of a shifting of community services away from the MSN brand. Windows Live Spaces received an estimated 27 million (27,000,000) unique visitors per month as of August 2007. Despite being considered a useful messaging and communication tool, Windows Live Spaces has been criticized as not being as powerful as some of its alternatives. It was shut down in 2011 due to low viewership.
Features
Features of Windows Live Spaces included a blogging system, photo gallery, lists, friends, a guestbook, and a social profile. A Spaces page could be personalized with "gadgets", modules that enabled further customization, HTML code, and media playlists. Contact cards were also used in other Windows Live applications and services to summarize the recent content added to a Space. RSS feeds were available for content on a space.
History
Beginning
Windows Live Spaces began as MSN Spaces and was launched in early December 2004 with the aim of allowing its users to reach out to others by publishing their thoughts, photos and interests in an easy and compelling way. With this goal, MSN Spaces finds itself competing with similar services like MySpace and Yahoo!'s 360°.
As well as allowing users to share their thoughts, photos and interests, MSN Spaces users were given over 100 varied themes and several different page layouts to choose from when designing their MSN Space. Users also had the option to set access rights for visitors to their MSN Space based on the relationship between them (e.g. Friends, Family etc.). Visitors were also granted when their contacts' had updated their MSN Space.
Rebranding
On August 1, 2006, MSN Spaces became part of the Windows Live services platform, and was rebranded as Windows Live Spaces.
There were various, obvious differences between MSN Spaces and Windows Live Spaces, the most instantly evident being a redesigned layout engine. This allowed users greater flexibility in terms of the layout of their Space, for example, it allowed the ability to move the "Title and Tagline" module, where before the upgrade it was permanently fixed to the top of the page. The change also resolved some oft-criticised characteristics of MSN Spaces, such as the alignment of content on the computer screen.
As part of the rebrand and upgrade, the URL for all MSN Spaces members were moved to keep in line with the Windows Live branding. For example, a URL of thespacecraft.spaces.msn.com was moved to thespacecraft.spaces.live.com, with the old URL redirecting to the new one.
Closure
On September 27, 2010, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue Windows Live Spaces, and in partnership with Automattic, a free opt-in migration of user blogs to WordPress.com will be offered to Windows Live Spaces users. Beginning January 4, 2011,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qterics
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Qterics (formerly Broadcast Data Corporation and later UpdateLogic Incorporated ) is a company which has developed a system for datacasting firmware upgrades to digital television devices. It appears that UpdateTV is the only product the company, founded in 2003, has yet developed.
Products
UpdateTV
UpdateTV is a multipath worldwide distribution system which allows digital televisions to automatically receive firmware upgrades and software patches sent out via terrestrial broadcast, digital cable networks, and the Internet. The network and technology has been under development by UpdateLogic since 2004, was completed in 2006, first shipped in TV sets in 2008 by Sony Electronics, and is now shipped in TVs from Sanyo and others.
In the terrestrial case, the UpdateTV solution which works within the ATSC A/97 (Software Data Download Service, or SDDS) protocol, will be datacast by National Datacast on PBS TV stations across the United States. Major cable operators are required by contract to transmit the data such that the software upgrades are also passed to their customers. UpdateLogic works with content delivery network providers, or Internet service providers, to download the software update(s) to connected devices.
TV manufacturers work with UpdateLogic to schedule the network distribution of the software patch(es) and optimize the roll-out to ensure the TVs receive it. The upgrades are transmitted repeatedly every day over a period of many months, in part so that the update is not missed due to a power outage, being unplugged (such as to prevent lightning damage while a resident is away, or perhaps being in storage), or due to data corruption or data loss caused by interference or weak signal strength in rural areas or mountainous terrain - which only occurs in the terrestrial broadcast distribution. UpdateTV does ask the user to give consent to install the software on their TV. There is no charge to the consumer for installing an update.
Software updates for television sets have fixed issues with video resolution, format compatibility, channel changing speed, V-chip ratings, user interface, timer controls, and more.
UpdateTV is enabled on silicon chip set solutions from Broadcom, AMD, Zoran and others.
The UpdateTV network can deliver updates to many types of devices - not just television sets. Devices such as Blu-ray players, mobile/handheld TVs, set-top boxes and gaming consoles are capable of using the service - since they are connected to the Internet, a cable network, and/or a digital TV antenna.
Sale to Silicon Image
On May 6, 2014, Silicon Image purchased UpdateLogic for an undisclosed price. On December 4, 2014, Qualcomm purchased a 7% stake in the company for $USD 7 million. Effective on that date, UpdateLogic was renamed Qterics.
Notes
External links
Digital television
Technology companies established in 2003
American companies established in 2003
Companies based in Plymouth, Minnesota
2014 mergers and acquisiti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCTV
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NCTV may refer to:
National College Television, a campus television network from the 1980s
Niños Cantores Televisión, a Venezuelan regional television channel
Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid, the Dutch official counter-terrorism and national security unit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unix%20System
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The Unix System (, ) is a book by Stephen R. Bourne. Published in 1982, it was the first widely available general introduction to the Unix operating system. It included some historical material on Unix, as well as material on using the system, editing, the software tools concept, C programming using the Unix API, data management with the shell and awk, and typesetting with troff.
1982 non-fiction books
Addison-Wesley books
Computer books
Unix books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Datacast
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National Datacast Incorporated (NDI) was a pioneer in data broadcasting.
It was a for-profit subsidiary of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which had a minority stake in the final years of this subsidy. It handled datacasting on PBS TV stations throughout the United States. Services using ATSC digital TV included MovieBeam and UpdateTV. UpdateTV continues to be operated by its present owner, Qterics, leasing bandwidth to other companies for the purpose of automatic television firmware updates.
National Datacast was formed in 1988 based on PBS' early work in closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
It used NTSC horizontal line 21, which is at the end of the vertical blanking interval, and thus, potentially visible as blinking black and white bars at the top of the screen in the overscan area. This artifact can often be seen when viewing old footage on modern televisions or PCs that no longer crop the overscan area. Uniquely, NDI may also have used other horizontal lines in the vertical blank for other types of data transmission.
It ceased operations in 2015.
References
Public Broadcasting Service
Television organizations in the United States
Mass media companies established in 1988
Mass media companies disestablished in 2015
Technology companies established in 1988
Technology companies disestablished in 2015
1988 establishments in the United States
2015 disestablishments in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMIC
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NMIC may refer to:
National Maritime Intelligence Center
National Minerals Information Center
Network Monitoring Interface Card
Not Made In China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Management%20Unit
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The Power Management Unit (PMU) is a microcontroller that governs power functions of digital platforms. This microchip has many similar components to the average computer, including firmware and software, memory, a CPU, input/output functions, timers to measure intervals of time, and analog to digital converters to measure the voltages of the main battery or power source of the computer. The PMU is one of the few items to remain active even when the computer is completely shut down, powered by the backup battery.
For portable computers, the PMU is responsible for coordinating many functions, including:
Monitoring power connections and battery charges
Charging batteries when necessary
Controlling power to other integrated circuits
Shutting down unnecessary system components when they are left idle
Controlling sleep and power functions (On and Off)
Managing the interface for built in keypad and touchpads on portable computers
Regulating the real-time clock (RTC)
See also
Power management integrated circuit (PMIC)
System Management Unit (SMU)
System Management Controller (SMC)
References
"Desktop and Portable Systems: Second Edition" Edited by Owen W. Linzmayer
External links
Resetting the PMU on Macbook and MacbookPro computers - contains general information on the PMU
Apple Inc. hardware
Macintosh computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Management%20Unit
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The System Management Unit (SMU) is an advanced internal subsystem introduced in late 2004 with the iMac G5 and Power Mac G5 series computers. It manages the functions previously governed by the PMU (Power Management Unit) as well as additional cooling functions.
Overview
The SMU manages thermal and power conditions to optimize the power and airflow while keeping audible noise to a minimum. Power consumption and temperature are monitored by the operating system, which communicates the necessary adjustments back to the SMU. The SMU makes the changes, slowing down or speeding up fans as necessary.
Resetting the SMU may fix certain problems during troubleshooting.
See also
Power Management Unit (PMU)
System Management Controller (SMC)
References
Owen W. Linzmayer (ed.). Desktop and Portable Systems: Second Edition. .
Apple Inc. hardware
Macintosh computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20Cars
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Mars Cars is an Apple II maze game written by David Husch and published by Datamost in 1982. The game was released to the United States and the sole credit of the development of the game is David Husch.
Gameplay
The player maneuvers a car to collect four treasures—one in each corner of the screen—while avoiding computer-controlled Mars Cars (which look more like aliens than vehicles). Getting touched by a Mars Car results in loss of a life. The player's car is allowed to drive through and remove the barriers making up the maze, but Mars Cars cannot. When all treasures are collected, the player can start the next level by driving into the warp area on the right side of the screen. There are sixteen levels and four different type of Martians as enemy types: Clutz, Fire Bug, Hatcher, and Kamikaze.
The inside cover of the game also served as a two page manual for the game. The manual included a short explanation of the game's themes, ideas, and how it is played, written by David Husch.
References
External links
1982 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Datamost games
Maze games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Boy
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Computer Boy is a 2000 short film by Australian director Abe Forsythe. It is a parody of The Matrix. It gained a cult following after being released over the internet, receiving over 350,000 views on Ifilm. It was filmed in Sydney, Australia and uses many of the same locations as The Matrix.
It was never fully released, the film had an injunction put against it, forcing them to never really release it fully. The total production cost was rumoured to only have cost $2500.
This is the transcript direct from one of the hosts:
Metro has often been appalled by the bloated budgets of Hollywood blockbusters. Now an 18-year-old film-maker from Newtown has laid bare Tinsel Town's shameless profligacy by making his own version of The Matrix - which was rumoured to have cost more than $100 million - for $2,500(AUS)!
Forsythe, who has seen The Matrix three times, was inspired by spoofs of The Blair Witch Project and his own irritation at Matrix audiences who ooh-ed and aah-ed when they recognised chunks of their own city on the silver screen.
He admits he had to cut a few corners to bring Computer Boy in under budget. Besides writing and directing, he took on the role of Agent Smith, the character played by Hugo Weaving in the original.
"I played him as a mixture of Hugh Grant, Dr. Evil and Sean Connery," says Forsythe.
Morpheus, the mysterious cyber-guerilla played by Laurence Fishburne, is portrayed by Marcus Pointon.
The role of "Neo", played by Michael Falzon in a manner reminiscent of Keanu Reeves's character "Ted" from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure earned a Best Actor Award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Not content with paying homage to The Matrix, Forsythe aimed to enhance the original plot as well.
Cast
Michsrl Falzon as Neo
Marcus Pointon as Morpheus
Simone Chapman as Trinity
Abe Forsythe as Agent Smith
Marc Turner as Agent Kowalski
Brett Garten as Agent Jones
Daniel Peters as Cypher
Daniel Tobar as Tank
Andrew Brittain as Hobo
Alexander Hazelbrook as Spoon Boy
Justin Hazelbrook as Colour Book Boy
Sharyn Winney as Sheet Girl
Charles Falzon as Chuck
Ryan Tan as Asian
Miguel Sanchez as Bob/Oracle/Hobo/Juggler/Koala
Music
New Moon contains an ID3 artist tag of Sinister Sam.
Lenehan's downloadable version contains several incorrect ID3 tags, claiming the title is Computer Suite from Little Boy - Flight And Countdown (1968), an unrelated song Jean-Claude Risset; the ID3v1 comment field contains Copyright (c) Lance Lenehan. It's speculated that these tags were incorrectly generated by some sort of automatic song detection or ID3-labelling software as a result of detecting the phrase "computer boy". The official movie home page at the time contained references to Lenehan's old MP3 repository at mp3.com.
A post from April 27th, 2000 on Usenet newsgroup aus.films states that the film contains "...new music by Lance Lenehan as well as tracks by up and coming bands Sinister Sam and The Stud & Track House Band."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCN%20Corporation
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RCN Corporation, originally Residential Communications Network, founded in 1993 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, was the first American facilities-based ("overbuild") provider of bundled telephone, cable television, and internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network as well as dialup and DSL Internet service to consumers in the Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. areas.
, RCN claimed over 424,000 domestic customers and 130 cable franchises. RCN's network offered coverage to approximately 3.8 million people, making it the 11th largest provider of cable Internet access in the U.S. Its operations, as well as sister companies Grande Communications, and Wave Broadband are handled under affiliate Patriot Media Consulting.
RCN served in or around the following locations: Allentown, Boston, Chicago (limited coverage), New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C..
History
RCN (Residential Communications Network) was originally created in 1993 by developer David McCourt and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. Kiewit also owned MFS, a Competitive Access Provider (CAP). In a series of moves, RCN purchased C-TEC, the parent of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Telephone, while MFS spun off its small residential telephone operations to RCN. MFS was later purchased by Worldcom. RCN/C-TEC became a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) when the Telecom Act of 1996 passed.
RCN then began its growth as a cable TV overbuilder, constructing competitor cable systems in markets that already had cable service. Most of its systems were partnerships with power companies, which provided rights-of-way on poles. RCN featured "triple play" (television, internet, and telephone) service though for some time its voice operations were largely resold incumbent telephone company lines. It purchased existing US East Coast ISPs Erol's Internet, UltraNet Communications, Interport, and JavaNet. On the West Coast, it purchased existing ISPs DNAI and Brainstorm. In Chicago, it bought into the market by acquiring overbuilder 21st Century Telecom. In Washington, D.C., they formed a 50/50 joint venture with local power company Pepco named StarPower Communications in 1999; they bought out Pepco's stake in 2004, and rebranded StarPower systems to the RCN name.
In 2004, RCN declared Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and on December 21, 2004, the court canceled all outstanding shares of RCN stock traded under the "RCNC" and "RCNCQ" symbols.
In early February 2009, RCN converted to an all-digital network. With the transition, the company was able to use the entire spectrum for digital and high-definition television broadcasting, reducing the need to compress signals.
ABRY Partners, a private equity firm, acquired RCN Corporation for $1.2 billion in 2010.
Acquisitions and selloffs
In 1996, RCN bought much of C-TEC Corporation. On January 21, 1998, RCN paid $110.5M for UltraNet in Massachusetts and Erol's in Virgin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBB
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PBB as a three-letter abbreviation may refer to:
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, a German bank abbreviated to and traded as PBB
Parallel Building Blocks, an Intel multicore programming product
Partai Bulan Bintang or Crescent Star Party, an Indonesian political party
Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu, a Malaysian political party
Passenger boarding bridge or jet bridge, a connector that extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane
Pauls und Braunes Beiträge or Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Contributions to the History of the German Language and Literature), an academic journal
Philippine Business Bank
Pinoy Big Brother, the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother
Polybrominated biphenyl, a group of manufactured chemicals
Provider Backbone Bridges or IEEE 802.1ah-2008, a set of network routing protocols
Public Bank Berhad, one of bank perdagangan in Malaysia
Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, Indonesian abbreviation for United Nations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%20Pad
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The Pepper Pad was a family of Linux-based mobile computers with Internet capability and which doubled as a handheld game console. They also served as a portable multimedia device. The devices used Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies for Internet connection. Pepper Pads are now obsolete, unsupported and the parent company has ceased operations.
The original prototype Pepper Pad was built in 2003 with an ARM-based PXA255 processor running at 400Mhz, an 8-inch touchscreen in portrait mode, a split QWERTY keyboard, and Wi-Fi. Only 6 were made, and it was never offered for sale. The Pepper Pad was a 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations Awards Honoree in the Computer Hardware category.
The Pepper Pad 2 was introduced in 2004 with a faster 624Mhz PXA270 processor and the screen was rotated to a landscape format. The Pepper Pad 2 was the first Pepper Pad offered for commercial sale. The Pepper Pad and Pepper Pad 2 both ran Pepper's proprietary Pepper Keeper application on top of a heavily customized version of the Montavista Linux operating system.
The Pepper Pad 3 was announced in 2006 with as upgrade to a faster AMD Geode processor. The Pepper Pad 3 also used a smaller 7" screen for cost savings. Like previous versions, the Pepper Pad 3 had a split QWERTY button keyboard, built-in microphone, video camera, composite video output, and stereo speakers, Infra-Red receiver and transmitter, 800x480 7 inch LCD touchscreen (with stylus), SD/MMC Flash memory slot, 20 or 30 GB hard disk, 256MB RAM, 256KB ROM, and both Wi-Fi (b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0. The Pepper Pad 3 used a heavily customized version of the Fedora Linux operating system called Pepper Linux. Unlike the Pepper Pad 2 which was built and sold directly by Pepper, the Pepper Pad 3 was built and sold under license by Hanbit Electronics.
Support
Pepper Computer, Inc. has ceased operations and is no longer providing support or sales for Pepper Pad web computers or Pepper Linux.
Software
Pepper Pads ran Pepper's "Pepper Keeper" software and suite of applications. Pepper's software was designed to be easy to use, and offered many features later found in devices like the iPhone and Android. The Pepper Keeper's home screen provided large icons for launching applications including a web browser, mail client, chat client, photo viewer, music player, video player, games, and a scrapbooking application. Pepper offered an application store, automatic software updates, and a simple way to share photos, music, and files with friends.
The Pepper Keeper ran atop Pepper Linux, Pepper's custom version of the Linux operating system. Pepper Linux was ported to multiple devices including the One Laptop per Child.
Software ported to the Pepper Pad
FCE Ultra (NES emulator)
Adobe Systems/Macromedia Flash 7
Java
X11
GTK+
Mozilla Firefox
RealPlayer
Helix
Squeak
Hardware (Pepper Pad 3)
Mass: 2.1 pounds (985g)
Size: 29 cm x 14.9 cm x 2.3 cm (11.4" x 5.9" x 0.9")
Mainboard
AMD Geode CPU, 533 M
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20NEWS
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The Sony NEWS ("Network Engineering Workstation", later "NetWorkStation") is a series of Unix workstations sold during the late 1980s and 1990s. The first NEWS machine was the NWS-800, which originally appeared in Japan in January 1987 and was conceived as a desktop replacement for the VAX series of minicomputers.
History
1980s
Sony's NEWS project leader, Toshitada Doi, originally wanted to develop a computer for business applications, but his engineers wanted to develop a replacement for minicomputers running Unix that they preferred to use:
Initial development of the NEWS was completed in 1986 after only one year of development. It launched at a lower price than competitors (–16,300), and it outperformed conventional minicomputers. After a successful launch, the line expanded and the new focus for the NEWS became desktop publishing and CAD/CAM.
1990s
In 1991, Sony broadened the NEWS range with the 3250 portable workstation, reportedly described in product literature as a laptop but weighing 18 pounds and having more in common with portable computers, being "designed to be set up on a desk and plugged in". Featuring an 11-inch monochrome liquid crystal display with a resolution of and keyboard with "75 full travel keys", the machine was fitted with an internal hard drive and a 3.5-inch floppy drive. A SCSI port permitted the addition of other storage devices, and Ethernet, parallel and serial ports were provided, along with a mouse port and audio in/out ports for audio processing. In terms of its fundamental computing facilities, the system employed a 20 MHz MIPS R3000 CPU with R3010 floating-point coprocessor, offered 8 MB of RAM expandable to 36 MB, running an implementation of Unix System V Release 4 and providing an Open Software Foundation Motif graphical environment. In the United States, a configuration with 240 MB hard drive cost $9,900, with the 406 MB configuration costing $11,900.
Early PlayStation development kits were based on Sony NEWS hardware, with added Playstation hardware.
The Sony NEWS was unable to break into the U.S. market, where Sun Microsystems was dominant, and also did not fare well in Europe.
The NEWS platform was later used for video-on-demand applications, and for Internet server applications.
The NEWS division at Sony was dissolved in 1998.
Hardware
The Sony NEWS originally came equipped with a dual 680x0 (68020 or 68030) processor configuration running at 16-25 MHz. Later, the Sony NEWS was moved to the MIPS architecture, with MIPS III and MIPS IV microprocessors such as the R3000, R4000, R4400, R4600, R4700, and R10000. The fastest MIPS processors used in Sony NEWS workstations run at 200 MHz.
Both 680x0 and MIPS models share the same case, which has a large door covering a floppy drive and a 5.25-in expansion bay, which can house a SCSI tape or CD-ROM drive. The details of the door are slightly different: two windows for the 680x0 models, while the MIPS ones have a single large window. Also hidden by
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20International%2C%20Inc.
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Information International, Inc., commonly referred to as Triple-I or III, was an early computer technology company.
Background
The company was founded by Edward Fredkin in 1962 in Maynard, Massachusetts. It then moved (serially) to Santa Monica, Culver City, and Los Angeles California. Triple-I merged with Autologic, Inc. in 1996, becoming Autologic Information International Inc. (AIII). The combined company was purchased by Agfa-Gevaert in 2001.
In the early 1960s, Information International Inc. contributed several articles by Ed Fredkin, Malcolm Pivar, and Elaine Gord, and others, in a major book on the programming language LISP and its applications.
Triple-I's commercially successful technology was centered around very high precision CRTs, capable of recording to film; which for a while were the publishing industry's gold standard for digital-to-film applications. The company also manufactured film scanners using special cameras fitted with photomultiplier tubes as the image sensor, for digitizing existing films and paper documents. One such successful product of theirs using their precision CRT technology was their FR-80 film recorder introduced in 1968. It was capable of recording black and white (and later color as an option) digital imagery to motion picture or still transparency film at a maximum resolution of 16384x16384, making it an ideal system for generating either Computer Output Microfilm (COM), computer-to-film negatives for making printing plates, and other computer-generated graphics.
However, Triple-I is most notable for its commercially unsuccessful ventures; a number of one-or-two of a kind systems which included CRT based computer displays used at the Stanford AI Lab, an OCR system based on PDP-10's (two were sold), and The Foonly F-1 - which was used for movie special effects.
OCR Systems
Triple-I had a very ambitious OCR group which used their core film scanning technology, graphic displays, and a custom binary image processor (BIP); all interfaced to a PDP-10 timesharing computer with much custom software. Although it was continuously under development over a period of over ten years, only two actual systems were ever sold.
The first (circa 1974) was a paper-to-digital-to-paper system for reworking U.S. Navy aircraft maintenance manuals, which involved filming and scanning paper manuals, capturing the many diagrams in digital form, and reading the accompanying text. The second was a hand-print recognition system sold to the British DHSS in 1976, which captured data from benefit forms.
While none of the OCR research had any lasting impact, the use of PDP-10's directly enabled Triple-I's involvement with computer animation.
Computer animation
Triple-I's work in computer animation done by the Motion Pictures Product Group, is probably the most notable first from Triple-I, at least if measured by the eventual success of the technology. They created some of the first computer-generated special effects for major motion p
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elogium%20%28Star%20Trek%3A%20Voyager%29
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"Elogium" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 20th episode overall. The episode first aired on the UPN network on September 18, 1995. The story was written by freelancers Jimmy Diggs and Steve J. Kay, based on Diggs' experience while serving in the United States Navy. It was rewritten by executive producer Jeri Taylor and guest writer Kenneth Biller.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of the starship after they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant far from the rest of the Federation. In this episode, Voyager encounters a swarm of space-borne lifeforms, which mistake the vessel for a member of their species. The presence of the aliens induce a premature mating cycle in Kes (Jennifer Lien), causing her and Neelix (Ethan Phillips) to question whether or not they are ready to have children.
Taylor incorporated Diggs’ suggestion to name a character "Samantha Wildman" after an organ donor who saved his wife's life. The script was Biller's first work for the series and earned him a permanent spot on the Voyager writing staff after impressing the producers. The episode received Nielsen ratings of 5.7/9 percent, placing it in 87th position for the week overall. The episode was praised by the cast, and although director Winrich Kolbe was satisfied, he felt that Kes could have been taken further in the episode. Critics gave the episode a mixed response, lauding Lien's performance while criticizing the character dynamics and the message about women wanting motherhood.
Plot
On stardate 48921.3, encounters a cloud of space-dwelling lifeforms, and Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) takes the ship in for a closer look. The ship is soon drawn in and engulfed by the swarm of creatures, whose proximity disables the helm controls and shields. The crew endeavor to escape without harming the swarm, but when the creatures begin attaching themselves to the hull, they wreak even more havoc on the ship's systems. A version of the creatures as large as Voyager arrives, and the crew realize that they have been mistaken for another of the species; the smaller creatures are attempting to mate with the ship. When the larger creature attacks, Voyager adopts a position of submission, based on behavior the crew observed in the smaller members of the species. Losing interest, the smaller creatures detach from Voyager and allow it to leave.
In response to Voyagers exposure to the swarm, Kes (Jennifer Lien) begins eating abnormally, including insects and soil. In sickbay, she has a fever, a dangerously elevated pulse and blood pressure, and a tumorous growth on her back. She resists the Doctor’s (Robert Picardo) treatment and locks herself in his office, finally relenting only to explain to Captain Janeway that she's undergoing the elogium: the Ocampa mating cycle. This process only happens once and usually affects Ocampa between four and fiv
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Economic%20Cooperation%20Council
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The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) is a network of member committees composed of individuals and institutions dedicated to promoting cooperation across the Asia Pacific region, headquartered in Singapore. PECC has 23 full member committees Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Ecuador; Hong Kong; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; Mongolia; New Zealand; Peru; the Philippines; Singapore; Taiwan; Thailand; the United States; Vietnam and the Pacific Island Forum, one associate member: France (Pacific Territories), and 2 institutional members: Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC).
History
The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) was founded in 1980 at the initiative of Mr Masayoshi Ohira and Mr Malcolm Fraser, then Prime Ministers of Japan and Australia respectively. Its founding name was the Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference with the final word changed to Council years later. The Council brings together leading thinkers, and decision makers from government and business in an informal setting to discuss and formulate ideas on the most significant challenges facing the Asia Pacific. It regularly develops and advocates regional policy initiatives to aid in the stable economic development of the region.
PECC’s regional community building efforts led to the establishment of the official APEC process in 1989, the Council is one of the three official observers of the APEC process.
Participation in the PECC Process depends on a commitment to economic cooperation in the Pacific. PECC participants, seek to achieve increased, open regional economic cooperation and interaction, while recognizing both the realities of, and the benefits accruing from, global interdependence and continuing to encourage increased economic cooperation and interaction with other nations and regions.
PECC organizes an annual General Meeting to develop strategic perspectives to promote the Pacific Community. Participants in the PECC General Meeting are delegates from PECC member committees and observers.
There is a Standing Committee, the PECC's governing body, which consists of all of the full member committees, and two institutional members and invited associate member committees in a limited capacity. this SC meets once a year.
The Co-chairs are elected for 3-year terms, Dr Charles E. Morrison, President of the East West Center and Mr Jusuf Wanandi, Senior Fellow and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies are the current co-chairs.
Task Forces are the primary mechanisms for PECC work program. Each work group is composed of representatives from member committees and, where applicable, other invited institutions and/or individuals.
The PECC International Secretariat is located in Singapore.
General meetings
2017 PECC XIV, Hanoi
2015 PECC XXIII, Manila, Philippines
2013 PECC XXI, Vancouver
2011 PECC XX, Washi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercan%C3%ADas%20Bilbao
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Cercanías Bilbao (Basque: Bilboko Aldiriak) is a commuter rail network in Bilbao, serving the city and its metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías, as part of Renfe, the national railway company. It consists of three lines, named C-1, C-2 and C-3. All three of them start at Bilbao-Abando station, which is the central station of the city.
System
Cercanías Bilbao follows the same patterns as other Cercanías networks in the country, as Cercanías Madrid or Cercanías Barcelona. The network consists of three lines, all of them starting at Bilbao-Abando and linking the center of Bilbao with other municipalities within the metropolitan area. There are three lines, named C-1, C-2 and C-3; the first two follow the Estuary of Bilbao, and the C-3 reaches municipalities outside the metropolitan area. The network has connections with Metro Bilbao (rapid transit), FEVE (commuter rail), Renfe (regional trains), the tram and Bilbao's bus station, Termibus.
Lines
Service frequencies
As of October 2011, there are the typical service frequencies for each line:
Line C-1 - Trains each 30 minutes at early time in the morning and at late nights; trains each 20 minutes at peak times.
Line C-2 - Trains each 30 minutes at early time in the morning and at late nights; trains each 20 minutes at peak times.
Line C-3 - Two trains per hour early in the mornings at late at nights; up to three trains per hour at peak times.
Stations
Cercanías Bilbao serves the following stations:
Rolling stock
The rolling stock consists of UT 446 electrical multiple units built by CAF, each one formed by three cars.
Developments
These are the recent projects that have been developed or will be started in the network.
Southern rail branch (C-1 and C-2)
In year 2000 the network was renewed by the public company Bilbao Ria 2000, several new underground stations were opened in the city of Bilbao, a project that was called Southern rail branch (Variante sur ferroviaria).
This change implied the closing of Parke/Guggenheim and Bilbao-La Naja stations, on the line that run beside the river before that date. This cleared ground for the creation of new riverside avenues and the tramway. The tracks used for the new branch were used before for freight transport, these tracks were covered and a new avenue and the park of Ametzola were created on top of them. The stations on the new branch are:
San Mamés
Autonomía
Ametzola
Zabalburu
The former Bilbao-La Naja terminal station gave way to Bilbao-Abando, where C1 and C2 services arrive and depart now. Formerly this station was used only by C3 and long-distance services, to cope with the increase of traffic two new covered platforms were added to the station, increasing the number of platforms from six to eight. The remains of Bilbao-La Naja station can still be seen beside the Arenal Bridge.
The Ametzola area was a rail yard, that was dismantled to create new parks and residential areas.
Santurtzi station (C-1)
The new Santu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20site
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In programming, a call site of a function or subroutine is the location (line of code) where the function is called (or may be called, through dynamic dispatch). A call site is where zero or more arguments are passed to the function, and zero or more return values are received.
Example
// this is a function ''definition''
function sqr(x)
{
return x * x;
}
function foo() {
// these are two call sites of function sqr in this function
a = sqr(b);
c = sqr(b);
}
Assembler example
IBM/360 or Z/Architecture
* (usually) external call.... R13 usually points to a save area for general purpose registers beforehand
* and R1 points to a list of addresses of parameters (if any)
LA R1,=A(B) point to (address of) variable 'B'
L R15,=A(SQR) Load pointer (address constant) to separately compiled/assembled subroutine
BALR R14,R15 Go to subroutine, which returns - usually at zero displacement on R14
* internal call (usually much smaller overhead and possibly 'known' parameters)
BAL R14,SQR Go to program label and return
In some occasions, return is an efficient method of indicating success or failure. return may be accomplished by returning at +0 or +4,+8, +12, etc. requiring a small branch table at the return point - to go directly to process the case (as in HLL Switch statement).
BAL R14,SQR Go to program label and return (using offset on R14 as return address)
B FAIL (RET+0) - SOMETHING WRONG
* (RET+4) - O.K.
Conventionally however, a return code is set in R15 (0=OK, 4= failure, or similar ..) but requiring a separate instruction to test R15 or use directly as a branch index.
See also
Function inlining
Subroutine
References
Subroutines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swartz%20%28surname%29
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Swartz is a German surname related to the German word Schwarz. It may refer to:
Aaron Swartz (1986–2013), American computer programmer and activist
Aaron Swartz (actor), English actor and director
Arthur L. Swartz (1888–1940), New York politician
Beth Ames Swartz (born 1936), American artist
Bud Swartz (1929–1991), American professional baseball pitcher
Carl Swartz (1858–1926), Swedish politician
Charles S. Swartz (1939–2007), American filmmaker, researcher and academic
Clarence Lee Swartz (1868–1936), American individualist anarchist
Dan Swartz (1931–1997), American basketball player
Elsa Swartz (1874-1948), American composer
Edvard Swartz (1826–1897), Swedish actor
George Swartz (1928–2006), South African religious leader, Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
Harry Swartz (born 1996), American soccer player
Harvie S (born 1948), stage name of American jazz double-bassist Harvie Swartz
Jeffrey Swartz (born 1960), American businessman, former CEO of Timberland
Jerome Swartz (born 1940), American physicist
Joshua William Swartz (1867–1959), American politician congressman
Kit Swartz, American television news producer
Marc Swartz (1931–2011), American political and cultural anthropologist
Maud O'Farrell Swartz (1879-1937), American labor leader
Merlin Swartz (1933–2022), American Islamic Studies professor
Monty Swartz (1897–1980), American professional baseball pitcher
Norman Swartz (born 1939), American academic and philosopher
Olof Swartz (1760–1818), Swedish biologist
Oscar Swartz (born 1959), Swedish entrepreneur, writer and blogger
Oswald Swartz (born 1953), South African religious leader, Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
Reginald Swartz (1911–2006), Australian politician
Roberta Teale Swartz (1903–1993), American academic and poet
Shane Swartz (born 1975), American boxer
Tenille Swartz (born 1987), South African squash player
Tony Swartz (1943–2016), American actor
Swedish-language surnames
Surnames from nicknames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Effects%20%28studio%29
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Digital Effects Inc. was an early and innovative computer animation studio at 321 West 44th street in New York City. It was the first computer graphics house in New York City when it opened in 1978, and operated until 1986. It was founded by Judson Rosebush, Jeff Kleiser, Don Leich, David Cox, Bob Hoffman, Jan Prins, and others. Many of the original group came from Syracuse University, where Rosebush taught computer graphics. Rosebush developed the animation software APL Visions and FORTRAN Visions. Kleiser later went on to found Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company, which experimented with creating synthespians and made the animation for Monsters of Grace.
The company's original animation system consisted of a Tektronix display with a 1200 baud modem connection to a remote Amdahl V6 in Bethesda, Maryland, with rendering done on an IBM System 370, recording on an Information International Inc. (III) film recorder in Los Angeles, and final processing and optical printing completed back in New York. The V6 ran APL, and could render at a rate of one polygon per second. The company later built one of the first frame buffers and video paint systems (the Video Palette), acquired a Harris mini-mainframe computer, and a Dicomed 35mm color film recorder.
Digital Effects was one of the first companies in the world to produce "flying logos" for television and advertising, but they aggressively and rapidly expanded their capabilities to include motion capture, form morphing, raster effects, and so forth. Among their early works were historic animated sequences of Times Square, commercials for Scientific American, and a set of MTV-style demonstration reels. But they are perhaps best remembered for their contribution to the 2D computer animation in the 1982 film Tron — among other things, they were responsible for creating the main title, and for the animation of the Bit, including one that accompanies Kevin Flynn in his reconstructed Recognizer.
The name of the company has entered the popular language as a noun which refers to visual effects which are both synthetic as well as image-altering and which occur in the realm of both 2D and 3D graphics and animation. Besides pure 3D computer modeling and animation, digital effects include scene-to-scene transition devices, deformations such as morphing, and color manipulation.
References
Computer animation
Mass media companies established in 1978
Mass media companies disestablished in 1986
1978 establishments in New York City
1986 disestablishments in New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Productions
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Digital Productions was a computer animation company in Los Angeles, California, that produced advertisements and special effects for films in the 1980s.
The company was founded by John Whitney, Jr. and Gary Demos in 1982, following their departure from Triple-I. They received financial support from Control Data Corporation. Whitney and Demos felt that greater computer power was needed to produce effects such as those being made by Triple-I for Tron; Digital Productions became famous for using a Cray X-MP supercomputer to render their animations. The company referred to its animation as "Digital Scene Simulation."
Digital Productions first feature film project was the hyperspace sequence in the film, "The Ice Pirates" then went on to create 27 minutes of animation, in 300 scenes, for the film The Last Starfighter. Each frame of the animation contained an average of 250,000 polygons, and had a resolution of 3000 x 5000 36-bit pixels; they claimed that the imagery was 50 times more complex than the graphics in previous feature films. They estimated that using computer animation required only half the time, and one half to one third the cost, that would have been required if then-traditional methods had been used.
Other work done by the company includes effects for Labyrinth, 2010, and Mick Jagger's "Hard Woman" music video.
In 1986, Digital Productions was bought out by Omnibus Computer Graphics in Toronto for 6 million US$, who also took over Robert Abel and Associates (7.3 million US$) and purchased Triple-I's Foonly computer, all using money from Royal Bank Canada. Next year in May 1987, Omnibus Computers Graphics defaulted on its loan agreements and with 30 million US$ debt, closed its doors in October 1987.
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References
Computer animation
Visual effects companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site%20Selection
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Site Selection magazine, published by Conway Data, Inc., is the official publication of the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC). The magazine delivers expansion planning information to over 44,000 readers including corporate executives, site selection consultants, and real estate professionals. Site Selection is available in a bimonthly print magazine, or on their web site. The magazine is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia.
Staff
Publication staff includes Adam Jones-Kelley, President; Sean Laughlin, Chief Operating Officer; Ron Starner, Senior Vice President; Mark Arend, Editor-in-Chief; Adam Bruns, Managing Editor; Gary Daughters, Senior Editor
History
Site Selection dates back to 1883, with the Manufacturers Record of Baltimore. It was the top business journal of its day, with information about new plants and business expansions well into the 20th century.
During the 1950s, McKinley Conway purchased Manufacturers Record from the founder and merged it with his Industrial Development and Site Selection which subsequently became Site Selection.
Circulation
Site Selection has an audited circulation of approx. 45,000 corporate decision-makers:
• More than 44,000 c-suite manufacturing & corporate real estate executives;
• More than 2,500 government development agencies;
• Decision makers from more than 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies;
• More than 630 facility managers;
• More than 500 site consultants;
• Executives with more than 100 utilities;
• Representing more than 80 countries.
(Statistical information includes audited circulation and the publisher's own data.)
Awards
Site Selection has received multiple awards from the Magazine Association of the Southeast (MAGS) including the MAGS GAMMA Gold Award for Best Business to Business Publication, MAGS GAMMA Gold Award for Best Magazine Website and the MAGS GAMMA Silver Award for Best Single Issue.
Site Selection has also received several Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) in business communications, including the 2007 Apex Award of Excellence in the category of E-Mail Newsletters (SiteNet Dispatch) and the 2007 Apex Award of Excellence in the category of Magazines & Journals Over 32 pg.
References
External links
Official website
Business magazines published in the United States
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1883
Magazines published in Georgia (U.S. state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n%20Puerto%20doping%20case
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Operación Puerto (Operation Mountain Pass) is the code name of a still unfinished Spanish Police operation against the pro sports doping network of Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. It started in May 2006, which resulted in a scandal that involved several of the world's most famous cyclists and teams at the time.
Media attention has focused on the small number of professional road cyclists named; however, sportspeople from other disciplines including football and tennis have also been connected with the scandal, though not officially indicted. And among total number of athletes, fifteen had been acquitted by May 2007, while three had admitted doping or evidence of blood doping was found.
Timeline
Revelations by Jesús Manzano
In March 2004 in an interview with the Spanish newspaper Diario AS, Jesús Manzano exposed systematic doping in his former cycling team, Kelme. He detailed blood doping as well as the performance-enhancing drugs he used while on the team. The investigation and the allegations he made led to questioning of several members of the team in April 2004. These included Eufemiano Fuentes who was the Kelme team doctor, Walter Virú the doctor before Fuentes, and Alfredo Córdova who was working for but involved with Kelme in 2003. An investigation began into the practices of Fuentes in early 2006 by the anti-drug trafficking arm of the Spanish Guardia Civil.
Police action
On 23 May 2006, Guardia Civil arrested the directeur sportif of the team, Manolo Saiz, and four others including Fuentes, accused of doping practices with riders. Spanish police raided residences. In one, belonging to Fuentes, they found a thousand doses of anabolic steroids, 100 packets of blood products, and machines to manipulate and transfuse them. The Guardia Civil found a list naming other cyclists involved. Liberty Seguros withdrew their sponsorship, which left Würth as sole sponsor.
Suspensions
As more names leaked to the press, asked riders to sign a statement that they had never worked with Fuentes, while the team suspended Santiago Botero and José Enrique Gutiérrez, who had finished second in the 2006 Giro d'Italia. Tour de France organisers ASO considered withdrawing invitations to and Comunidad Valenciana. On 1 June, the director of Valenciana, José Ignacio Labarta, resigned.
Würth found a new sponsor, five Kazakh companies united under the name of the capital, Astana, and became Astana-Würth. ASO withdrew Comunitat Valenciana's invitation, moving riders to send blood samples to be analysed to prove their innocence. The Vuelta a España considered expelling the team.
After El País published details of Operación Puerto, Spanish riders boycotted the Spanish National Road Race Championships, which was cancelled after 500 metres. ASO wrote asking Astana-Würth not to take part in the Tour de France, which the team ignored. Jan Ullrich, linked to Fuentes by the newspaper, threatened to sue El País.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said Astana-W
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCT
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ARCT or Arct may refer to:
An Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto)
Agence de Régulation et de Contrôle des Télécommunications au Burundi, the Mobile Network Code authority for Burundi
187th ARCT or Airborne Regimental Combat Team, a name of the 187th Infantry Regiment (United States)
People with the name
Bohdan Arct (1914–1973), Polish fighter pilot
Eugeniusz Arct (1899–1974), Polish painter
See also
ARCT-021, vaccine produced by Arcturus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20Solar%20Oscillations%20Network
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The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) consists of a network of six remote solar observatories monitoring low-degree solar oscillation modes. It is operated by the High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy group of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK, in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, UK. They are funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
The BiSON has been collecting data continuously on solar oscillations since 1976, making it the longest running helioseismology network with data covering three solar cycles.
Team
Academic staff
Professor Yvonne Elsworth (Head of project)
Professor Bill Chaplin
Research staff
Anne-Marie Broomhall — Helioseismology
Andrea Miglio
Steven Hale
Technical staff
Mr Ian Barnes — Electronics
Mr Barry Jackson — Mechanics
Remote observatories
BiSON operates automated resonant scattering spectrometers in astronomical domes or mirror fed systems. The network was established in 1976 with two permanent stations; the addition of several more sites culminated with the addition of a sixth in 1992. The current sites are:
Mount Wilson Observatory, California, USA
Las Campanas Observatory, Region IV, Chile
Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
South African Astronomical Observatory, Sutherland, South Africa
OTC Earth Station Carnarvon, Carnarvon, WA, Australia
Paul Wild Observatory, Narrabri, NSW, Australia
See also
List of astronomical observatories
List of astronomical societies
References
External links
BiSON homepage
BiSON Data
Realtime BiSON Telemetry and Cameras
Telescopes
Science and technology in the United States
Science and technology in Chile
Scientific organisations based in Chile
Science and technology in Spain
Science and technology in South Africa
Science and technology in Australia
Astronomical observatories in Western Australia
Science and Technology Facilities Council
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Hanrahan
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Patrick M. Hanrahan (born 1954) is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.
His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization. He has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award.
Education and academic work
Hanrahan grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a B.S. in nuclear engineering in 1977, continued his education there, and as a graduate student taught a new computer science course in graphics in 1981. One of his first students was an art graduate student, Donna Cox, now known for her art and scientific visualizations. In the 1980s he went to work at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory and at Digital Equipment Corporation under Edwin Catmull. He returned to U.W. Madison and completed his Ph.D. in biophysics in 1985.
Career
As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios, from 1986 to 1989 Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.
He was credited in Pixar productions including The Magic Egg (1984), Tin Toy (1988) and Toy Story (1995).
In 1989 Hanrahan joined the faculty of Princeton University. In 1995 he moved to Stanford University. In 2003 Hanrahan co-founded Tableau Software and remains its chief scientist. In February 2005 Stanford University was named the first regional visualization and analytics center for the United States Department of Homeland Security, focused on problems in information visualization and visual analytics. In 2011 Intel Research announced funding for a center for visual computing, co-led by Hanrahan and Jim Hurley of Intel.
He was the doctoral advisor of Peter Schröder and Tamara Munzner.
Awards
Hanrahan received three Academy Awards for his work in rendering and computer graphics research. In 1993 Hanrahan and other Pixar founding employees were awarded a scientific and engineering award for RenderMan. In 2004 he shared a technical achievement award with Stephen R. Marschner and Henrik Wann Jensen, for research in simulating subsurface scattering of light in translucent materials.
In 2014 he shared a technical achievement award with Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys, for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book Physically Based Rendering.
Hanrahan received the 2003 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, for "leadership in rendering algorithms, graphics architectures and systems, and new visualization methods for computer graphics", and the 1993 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. He was inducted into the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Inaugural Class.
He received the 2006 Career Award for Visualizati
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Spatial%20and%20Graph
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Oracle Spatial and Graph, formerly Oracle Spatial, is a free option component of the Oracle Database. The spatial features in Oracle Spatial and Graph aid users in managing geographic and location-data in a native type within an Oracle database, potentially supporting a wide range of applications — from automated mapping, facilities management, and geographic information systems (AM/FM/GIS), to wireless location services and location-enabled e-business. The graph features in Oracle Spatial and Graph include Oracle Network Data Model (NDM) graphs used in traditional network applications in major transportation, telcos, utilities and energy organizations and RDF semantic graphs used in social networks and social interactions and in linking disparate data sets to address requirements from the research, health sciences, finance, media and intelligence communities.
Components
The geospatial feature of Oracle Spatial and Graph provides a SQL schema and functions that facilitate the storage, retrieval, update, and query of collections of spatial features in an Oracle database. (The spatial component of a spatial feature consists of the geometric representation of its shape in some coordinate space — referred to as its "geometry".)
Geospatial data features
The Oracle Spatial geospatial data features consist of:
a schema - MDSYS (as in "multi-dimensional system") - that prescribes the storage, syntax, and semantics of supported geometric data types
a spatial indexing system
operators, functions, and procedures for performing area-of-interest queries, spatial join queries, and other spatial analysis operations
functions and procedures for utility and tuning operations
vector performance acceleration for substantially faster querying and more efficient use of CPU, memory, and partitioning
support for parametric curves (NURBS) for mathematically precise representation of free-form curves that can be reproduced exactly for 2D and 3D data
a topology data model for working with data about nodes, edges, and faces in a topology
a GeoRaster feature to store, index, query, analyze, and deliver GeoRaster data (raster image and gridded data and its associated metadata) with virtual mosaics, raster-algebra operations, image processing, Java API, and GDAL-Based ETL Wizard
3-dimensional data-types and operators including Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs), Point Clouds and LiDAR data sets with Spatial R-tree indexing, SQL operators and analysis functions, and metadata for visualization
geocoding that converts location and address data into formal geographic coordinates from point addresses and address ranges, and supports reverse geocoding
a routing engine that creates fastest or shortest routes with driving distances, times, directions and turn-specific geometries based on commercial and publicly available street network data, and restrictions and conditions for advanced routing, such as truck-specific routing
Open Geospatial Consortium-compliant W
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon%20Hamilton
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Devon Winters (also Hamilton) is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Bryton James. The character, known at first as Devon Hamilton, made his first appearance on June 1, 2004. He was introduced as a homeless teenager who is taken in by the Winters family, the core African-American family within the series. Drucilla Winters (Victoria Rowell) sympathizes with Devon because she too was a product of the foster care system. Drucilla and her husband Neil (Kristoff St. John) raise Devon along with their daughter Lily (Christel Khalil) and legally adopt him in 2006.
Unlike most young male characters whose stories typically centered around romance and teen angst, the character of Devon became a vehicle for social and human interest stories, focusing on the challenges of having a drug addict for a parent, being a product of the foster care system, and deafness. While Devon has a consistent love interest, the romance was rarely displayed and severely undeveloped. In 2009, the character was involved in a controversial storyline in which he had an affair with Tyra Hamilton (Eva Marcille), a woman he'd come to know as his aunt, though it was later revealed that they are not related. The foster care, meningitis and deaf story arcs received critical acclaim for their social impact and earned James five Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series and James won the award in 2007. James also earned seven NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series and he won the award in 2009.
In 2011, the character would be written into more traditional soap opera plots starting with the revelation that he is the long lost grandson of the wealthy Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper). However, the plot twist would only bring him closer to his adoptive father, Neil. In 2013, Devon inherits the bulk of Katherine's billion dollar estate which turns his life upside. In 2014, Devon enters into an affair with Neil's young wife Hilary Curtis (Mishael Morgan). Devon's forbidden love affair with Hilary would mark the character's first major love story and would also solidify the character as a viable romantic lead. Due to the chemistry between the characters, the pairing of Devon and Hilary quickly amassed a very active fan base and as well as critical acclaim which propelled them to supercouple status. James earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016 and 2019; he won the award in 2020.
Storylines
The character is introduced in 2004 as a delinquent living out of group homes. The homeless teenager is fostered and eventually adopted by Drucilla Winters (Victoria Rowell) and her husband, Neil (Kristoff St. John). In 2006, Devon contracts meningitis and completely loses his hearing and he receives a cochlear implant to restore his hearing. Later Devon is implicated in the murder of Carmen Mesta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYPM
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WYPM (93.3 FM) is a non-commercial, public FM radio station that is licensed to serve Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by WITF, Inc., and simulcasts the NPR talk and news programming of WITF-FM in Harrisburg.
History
The Federal Communications Commission granted The Tower Realty Company a construction permit for the station on August 18, 1948, awarding it the WCUM-FM call sign. The new station was assigned to 102.9 MHz in Cumberland, Maryland. The FCC granted the station the authority to begin broadcasting starting on October 20, 1948, followed by its first license on November 2, 1951.
The station was sold several times between the late 1950s and the late 1970s. The first sale was made from The Tower Realty Company to Allegany County Broadcasting Corporation, effective April 1, 1959, then to Group "B" Broadcasting Company, Inc., effective July 1, 1965, then to WCUM, Inc., effective May 1, 1968, then to WCUM Radio, Inc., effective October 31, 1974, and then to Greater Cumberland Radio Broadcasting, Inc., effective August 19, 1977. The station's call sign was changed to WPVM on March 2, 1976, followed by a change to WJSE on October 13, 1977.
This station has broadcast a Country format since 1978. Greater Cumberland Radio Broadcasting, Inc. sold the station on June 30, 1982 to Community Service Broadcasters, Inc.
On November 1, 1982, the station's call sign was changed to WROG.
The station was sold to Tschudy Communications Corporation effective August 24, 1987, followed by another sale to Northeast Broadcasting Group on July 19, 1991.
The station was sold to Broadcast Communications, Inc.; the sale was completed on January 8, 2004.
On December 20, 2006, Broadcast Communications, Inc. was granted a construction permit by the FCC to upgrade the facilities of WROG from Class A to Class B; however, the corporation decided to change the station's community of license from Cumberland, Maryland to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. On July 30, 2007, the FCC granted the request, modifying the construction permit. The new allocation in Chambersburg was Class A.
On October 2, 2007, the FCC granted a modification to the construction permit requested by Broadcast Communications, Inc. to change the new allocation in Chambersburg from Channel 275 (102.9 MHz) to Channel 227 (93.3 MHz) to avoid requiring WRZO-LP on 102.9 MHz in Chambersburg to shut down and move to a new frequency.
On July 31, 2008, WROG broadcasting ended from its Cumberland studios. WROG fell silent and the owners of WROG began removing equipment ahead of the station's move to Chambersburg. Broadcasting Communications, Inc. filed a Silent Notification with the FCC on August 1, 2008, with an expiration date of February 6, 2009.
On September 15, 2008, Broadcast Communications sold WROG to WITF, Inc., for $875,000. The sale was completed on January 8, 2009. During the sale, the FCC granted the station a new license with the new facilities in Chambersburg effective December 2, 20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcel
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Comcel may refer to:
Comcel Colombia, a Colombian mobile phone operator, now Claro Colombia
Comcel Haiti, a Haitian mobile phone operator that operates a TDMA network in Haiti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Packet%20Transport
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Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT) is a Cisco transport protocol designed for use in optical fiber ring networks. In overview, it is quite similar to POS and DTM. It was one of the major influences on the Resilient Packet Ring/802.17 standard.
Protocol design
DPT is implemented as two counter-rotating rings. This means the network is composed of two completely separate rings of fiber that are both able to transmit data concurrently. This design provides for redundancy in case of a fiber cut or link failure, and increased throughput in common situations. DPT as opposed to POS or normal SONET/SDH is able to use both rings at the same time whereas POS only uses one ring under normal circumstances but switches to the second upon failure of the first. Cisco claims that DPT can run with double the bit-rate of POS due to this characteristic. DPT is not a PPP whereas POS is, this means that traffic between two nodes of a DPT ring does not affect intermediate nodes. With the introduction of DPT came the introduction of another Cisco developed MAC layer protocol, Spatial Reuse Protocol or SRP. The use of SRP in conjunction with DPT makes it possible for DPT to communicate with the physical layer.
Types of data in DPT networks
As with most other lower layer protocols, there are methods for communicating not only application data between the nodes of a DPT network. It is necessary for the nodes to be able to communicate control data between each other in case of a fiber cut or link failure so the nodes can forward traffic on the appropriate interfaces and maintain network connectivity. Both control packets, and data packets are transmitted on both rings in order to maintain connectivity and full bandwidth utilization in normal situations; but once a failure occurs, the control data will notify the applicable routers of the failure and all the routers will switch to using only their active interfaces for data and control packets.
DPT packet structure
The structure of a DPT Packet is quite similar to that of Ethernet. It contains a source and destination MAC address (both 48-bits long), a protocol type identifier (used for identifying the upper layer protocol contained in the payload), and a frame check sequence used to validate the data.
DPT topologies
Both DPT and SRP are independent of their physical layers. This means that the DPT protocol can operate above several physical mediums such as SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and others. As aforementioned, DPT is composed of two rings for fault tolerance and increased throughput. The method for switching between these two rings in the event of a failure is called Intelligent Protection Switching, or IPS. This ensures that a fiber cut or link failure (layer 1 error) will be rectified and IP traffic will be resumed within 50 ms. DPT also contains a "plug and play" feature which dynamically fetches the MAC addresses of neighboring devices which provides for very simple configuration with little to no setup prior to f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20Manager%20Subsystem
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The Session Manager Subsystem, or smss.exe, is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems, starting in Windows NT 3.1. It is executed during the startup process of those operating systems.
Session initialization
The Session Manager Subsystem is the first user-mode process started by the kernel. Once started it creates additional paging files with configuration data from HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management, the environment variables located at the registry entry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment, and DOS device mappings (e.g. CON:, NUL:, AUX:, COM1:, COM2:, COM3:, COM4:, PRN:, LPT1:, LPT2:, LPT3:, and drive letters) listed at the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices registry key. This can be used to create permanent subst drives.
The manager is responsible for starting the kernel and user modes of the Win32 subsystem. This subsystem includes win32k.sys (kernel-mode), winsrv.dll (user-mode), and csrss.exe (user-mode). Any other subsystems listed in the Required value of the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems Registry key are also started.
The manager is also responsible for doing any operations that are requested to be done at the start of a session. Commands listed in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\BootExecute, such as autochk and convert, are executed. These commands are run before services are loaded by later steps of the booting process. Any rename operations queued at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations. This is used to allow previously in-use files (e.g. drivers) to be replaced as part of a reboot.
Starting with Windows Vista, the Session Manager Subsystem creates a temporary instance of itself that launches the Windows Startup Application (wininit.exe) and a second Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (csrss.exe) for Session 0, a session dedicated to system processes. From here, the Windows Startup Application starts the Service Control Manager (services.exe), which starts all the Windows services that are set to "Auto-Start". The application also starts the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (lsass.exe). Before Windows Vista, these processes where started by Windows Logon instead of the Windows Startup Application.
Once the session is configured, the Session Manager Subsystem starts Winlogon (Windows Logon Application), which is responsible for handling interactive logons to a Windows system, either local or remote.
Operation
After the boot process is finished, the program resides in memory and can be seen running in the Windows Task Manager. It then waits for either winlogon.exe or csrss.exe to end, at which point Windows will shut down. If the processes do not end in an expected fashion, smss.exe may hang the system, or a bugcheck will occur. It also initiates new user sessions when needed.
The Local Session
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20system
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A biological system is a complex network which connects several biologically relevant entities. Biological organization spans several scales and are determined based different structures depending on what the system is. Examples of biological systems at the macro scale are populations of organisms. On the organ and tissue scale in mammals and other animals, examples include the circulatory system, the respiratory system, and the nervous system. On the micro to the nanoscopic scale, examples of biological systems are cells, organelles, macromolecular complexes and regulatory pathways. A biological system is not to be confused with a living system, such as a living organism.
Organ and tissue systems
These specific systems are widely studied in human anatomy and are also present in many other animals.
Respiratory system: the organs used for breathing, the pharynx, larynx, bronchi, lungs and diaphragm.
Digestive system: digestion and processing food with salivary glands, oesophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, intestines, rectum and anus.
Cardiovascular system (heart and circulatory system): pumping and channeling blood to and from the body and lungs with heart, blood and blood vessels.
Urinary system: kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra involved in fluid balance, electrolyte balance and excretion of urine.
Integumentary system: skin, hair, fat, and nails.
Skeletal system: structural support and protection with bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons.
Endocrine system: communication within the body using hormones made by endocrine glands such as the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, pineal body or pineal gland, thyroid, parathyroid and adrenals, i.e., adrenal glands.
Lymphatic system: structures involved in the transfer of lymph between tissues and the blood stream; includes the lymph and the nodes and vessels. The lymphatic system includes functions including immune responses and development of antibodies.
Immune system: protects the organism from foreign bodies.
Nervous system: collecting, transferring and processing information with brain, spinal cord, peripheral nervous system and sense organs.
Sensory systems: visual system, auditory system, olfactory system, gustatory system, somatosensory system, vestibular system.
Muscular system: allows for manipulation of the environment, provides locomotion, maintains posture, and produces heat. Includes skeletal muscles, smooth muscles and cardiac muscle.
Reproductive system: the sex organs, such as ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, mammary glands, testes, vas deferens, seminal vesicles and prostate.
History
The notion of system (or apparatus) relies upon the concept of vital or organic function: a system is a set of organs with a definite function. This idea was already present in Antiquity (Galen, Aristotle), but the application of the term "system" is more recent. For example, the nervous system was named by Monro (1783), but Rufus of Ephesus (c. 90–120), clearly v
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sssnake
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Sssnake is a video game for the Atari 2600 produced by Data Age in 1982. Its gameplay is similar to Centipede, except the player moves in the center of the screen and fires towards the top, bottom and sides.
Reception
In 1991, Digital Press included the game on a list of the ten worst Atari 2600 games.
References
External links
Sssnake at AtariAge
Sssnake at GameSpot
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
1982 video games
Fixed shooters
Video game clones
Video games about reptiles
Video games developed in the United States
Multiplayer and single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitointeractome
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Mitointeractome is a mitochondrial protein interactome database.
References
External links
Mitointeractome
Molecular biology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20stay-behind%20network
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The Belgian stay-behind network, colloquially called "Gladio" (meaning "sword"), was a secret mixed civilian and military unit, trained to form a resistance movement in the event of a Soviet invasion and part of a network of similar organizations in North Atlantic Treaty Organization states. It functioned from at least 1951 until 1990, when the Belgian branch was promptly and officially dissolved after its existence became publicly known following revelations concerning the Italian branch of the stay-behind network.
History
The history of the Belgian branch of the Gladio network starts in 1948 when Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and Minister of Justice Paul Struye gave the Staatsveiligheid (State Security Service) permission to discuss with allied intelligence services the organization of a clandestine stay-behind network. These negotiations mainly happened with Sir Stewart Menzies of the British SIS and representatives of the then freshly founded CIA. The explicit objectives of this collaboration were outlined in a top-secret letter from Menzies to Spaak:
The amount of influence at this early stage, accredited to the CIA varies from source to source. CIA did not yet have full authority over the Office of Policy Coordination, which directed U.S. covert action until 1952. During the initial negotiations Menzies proposed to keep the US out of the organization, but Spaak objected to further developments not being in a tripartite (Belgium–Great-Britain–United States) or multilateral setting. In the final report of the parliamentary inquiry there is little mention of CIA involvement, but investigative journalist Walter de Bock points, based on Pentagon documents, at the CIA's significant early organizational role and de facto control until 1968. Similarly, Colonel Margot complains in an internal note, dated April 8, 1959, about the influence of the US intelligence services on the Belgian branch of the Gladio-network.
These initial negotiations led to closer collaboration between the three countries' secret services under the name Tripartite Meeting Belgium. Following this meeting, the Belgian stay-behind network became operational, but it was not until January 4, 1952, that the first formal instructions for stay-behind operations were issued to Ludovicus Caeymaex (Staatsveiligheid) and General Etienne Baele.
Growing polarization between East and West and awareness of the need for continental collaboration led to the foundation in 1949 of the Comité Clandestin de l'Union Occidentale (C.C.U.O.), which contained Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Great-Britain. The C.C.U.O. laid the base for the formation of the NATO and coordinated the various stay-behind networks in the five member countries. Its functions were transferred to the Clandestine Planning Committee (C.P.C.), another NATO-organization in 1951, which was renamed in to Coordination and Planning Committee in 1959. The C.P.C. elaborated a plan for installing two taskgroup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend%20Finder%20Networks
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Friend Finder Networks (formerly Various, Inc.) is an American internet company founded in 1996 by Andrew Conru and Lars Mapstead. Its corporate headquarters are located in Boca Raton, Florida, with additional offices in California, New York, and Taiwan.
The company primarily deals in adult entertainment, online dating, and social networking services. Its flagship online dating services include FriendFinder and its various spin-off services (such as Adult FriendFinder, and other dating services targeting various territories and niche categories, such as the South America-focused Amigos.com, and Christian dating website BigChurch), as well as niche websites for alternative lifestyles, and adult webcam websites. In 2007, the company was acquired by the owners of Penthouse magazine, and adopted its current name. In 2016, the Penthouse brand was sold off.
History
FriendFinder was launched in 1996 by Andrew Conru and Lars Mapstead. After discovering that users had been using the service to seek sexual partners, he launched Adult FriendFinder as a spin-off, followed later by other spin-offs dealing with different regions and niches. Much of the company's growth without investment capital has been attributed to its affiliate program, with more than 500,000 affiliates to date.
In 2007, Penthouse Media Group purchased FriendFinder's parent company, Various, Inc., for $500 million. Penthouse later changed its name to FriendFinder Networks.
In 2008, the company filed for a $460 million initial public offering. Most of the money generated was to pay down $420.1 million in short-term debt and other obligations.
As of January 17, 2010, FriendFinder Networks had a negative net worth equal to $118 million, $32 million in cash on hand and $650 million in liabilities. The company had also indicated that it lacked existing cash or cash from operations to repay a $44.5 million debt that was due July 31. It has cautioned that, unless it can repay or restructure its obligation, it will face “a material deficiency in our short term liquidity.” With these shortfalls in mind, the company again announced an intention to make an initial public offering of stock, representing a 49% stake in the company, with plans to use the proceeds to pay down its debt and become listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The contemplated public offering, scheduled to reach the market on January 27, 2010 was delayed by FFN. On February 5, 2010, FFN announced its intention to indefinitely delay its contemplated IPO until market conditions improve.
In June 2010, FriendFinder Networks made a $210 million bid to acquire Playboy Enterprises. Hugh Hefner, who owned 70 percent of the voting stock, did not want to sell.
Bankruptcy, reorganization
In August 2013, FriendFinder was delisted from the NASDAQ because its stock had not traded for more than $1. On September 16, 2013, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
FriendFinder had not turned a net profit since at least 2008.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API-Calculus
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API Calculus is a program that solves calculus problems using operating systems within a device that solves calculus problems. In 1989, the PI- Calculus was created by Robin Milner and was very successful throughout the years. The PI Calculus is an extension of the process algebra CCS, a tool that has algebraic languages that are specific to processing and formulating statements. The PI Calculus provides a formal theory for modeling systems and reasoning about their behaviors. In the PI Calculus there are two specific variables such as name and processes. But it was not until 2002 when Shahram Rahimi decided to create an upgraded version of the PI- Calculus and call it the API Calculus. Milner claimed the detailed characteristics of the API Calculus to be its "Communication Ability, Capacity for Cooperation, Capacity for Reasoning and Learning, Adaptive Behavior and Trustworthiness." The main purpose of creating this mobile advancement is to better network and communicate with other operators while completing a task. Unfortunately, the API Calculus is not perfect and has faced a problem with its security system. The language has seven features that was created within the device that the PI Calculus does not have. Since this program is so advanced by the way the software was created and the different abilities that are offered in the program, it is required to be converted to other programming languages so it can be used on various devices and other computing languages. Although the API Calculus is currently being used by various other programming languages, modifications are still being done since the security on the API Calculus is causing problems to users.
What Does It Do?
The API Calculus is the main demonstration for modeling migration, intelligence, natural grouping and security in agent-based systems. This calculus programming language is usually used in various other program languages such as Java. In Java, a famous programming language used by various corporations such as IBM, TCS, and Google, the API Calculus is commonly used to solve equations and programs involving calculus.
Features
The API Calculus has a wide variety of features those similar to the PI Calculus but has new and improved features such as:
accepts processes to be passed over communication links
natural grouping of mobile processes is addressed
features calculus dictionary
includes milieu - a level of abstraction that is between a single mobile agents (combination of computer software and data that is able to transfer from one computer to another independently and still able to work on the most recent computer that data was transferred to) and the device as a whole. It is a very restricted environment that involves zero or many agents or other milieus that work closely together to solve computer based problems.
ability of grouping together hosts ( a physical node - connection point - or software program ) and processes ( computer program that is runni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20bomb%20%28software%29
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In computer software, a time bomb is part of a computer program that has been written so that it will start or stop functioning after a predetermined date or time is reached. The term "time bomb" does not refer to a program that stops functioning a specific number of days after it is installed; instead, the term "trialware" applies. Time bombs are commonly used in beta (pre-release) software when the manufacturer of the software does not want the beta version being used after the final release date. One example of time bomb software would be Microsoft's Windows Vista Beta 2, which was programmed to expire on May 31, 2007. The time limits on time bomb software are not usually as heavily enforced as they are on trial software, since time bomb software does not usually implement secure clock functions.
History
The first use of a time bomb in software may have been in 1979 with the Scribe markup language and word processing system, developed by Brian Reid. Reid sold Scribe to a software company called Unilogic (later renamed Scribe Systems), and agreed to insert a set of time-dependent functions (called "time bombs") that would deactivate freely copied versions of the program after a 90-day expiration date. To avoid deactivation, users paid the software company, which then issued a code that defused the internal time bomb feature.
Richard Stallman saw this as a betrayal of the programmer ethos. Instead of honoring the notion of share-and-share alike, Reid had inserted a way for companies to compel programmers to pay for information access (see Events leading to GNU).
Comparison of logic bombs and time bombs
The main differences between logic bombs and time bombs is that a logic bomb may have a timing function implemented into it as a failsafe if the conditions are not met in a certain time period (it may delete itself or activate its payload using the timing system), while time bombs only use timing functions to (de)activate themselves.
Time bombs, once activated, will unload their payload (which may be malicious) in a similar way logic bombs deliver their payloads to the target. The main difference between both time and logic bombs, and fork bombs, is that a fork bomb has no payload per se, and instead does its damage by continually replicating itself to deplete available system resources.
See also
Logic Bomb
Planned obsolescence
Scribe Time-bomb
Time bomb
References
Software licenses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Fenmore
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Lauren Fenmore is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, American soap operas on the CBS network. Introduced by William J. Bell, the character made her debut during the episode airing on January 25, 1983, portrayed by Tracey E. Bregman. In 1992, Bregman brought the character to The Bold and the Beautiful, resulting in her migrating there fully in 1995. In 2000, Bregman returned to The Young and the Restless, remaining on a recurring status.
The character was first married to private investigator Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) for two years. Much of Lauren's history on both soap operas revolves around her rivalry with villain Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown). They first fought over Scott Grainger (Peter Barton) in the early 1990s, with a love triangle forming around the three characters. The character was married to Scott twice and shares a son with him, Scotty (Blair Redford). Lauren has had numerous other storylines with Sheila throughout the years.
In 2007, the character supposedly killed a woman claiming to be Sheila in self-defense. Lauren also has a long-running romantic history with Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc), whom she married in 2005. They share a son together, Fenmore Baldwin (Max Ehrich/Zach Tinker). In 2010, Bregman portrayed dual roles as Lauren and Sheila's previously unheard of sister, Sarah Smythe, who was also killed by Lauren in self-defense. In 2013, after twelve years on a recurring status, Bregman was placed back on contract with the series. The actress has been positively received for her portrayal, which has garnered numerous Daytime Emmy Award and Soap Opera Digest Award nominations.
Casting
Bregman initially believed her role as Lauren would be brief, but after six months the soap offered her a contract and she accepted. On September 17, 1992, Bregman crossed over to The Bold and the Beautiful. She crossed over again on September 24, 1992 and departed on October 1, 1992. Bregman began making recurring appearances on the show on March 24 to April 5, 1993; April 28 to May 10, 1993; May 14, 1993; November 2 to 16, 1993; January 12, 1994; February 3, 1995; March 6 to 21, 1995; and May 29 to June 7, 1995. The actress left The Young and the Restless on October 13, 1995 and migrated to its sister soap full-time on October 17, 1995 until August 16, 1999. Bregman would later make a few guest appearances on B&B on July 5, 2002; May 17 to 20, 2004; January 22, 2007; October 31, 2022; and October 25 to 31, 2023.
After a return guest appearance on Y&R on June 15 to 26, 2000 and November 10 to 24, 2000, Bregman returned on a recurring status on August 24, 2001. In March 2013, it was announced that after twelve years on recurring, Bregman had been placed back on contract with the series. She was downgraded back to recurring status in November 2016.
Actress Caryn Richman briefly played Lauren during Bregman's maternity leave in 1991.
In 1985, Bregman became the first actress to be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20area
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Service area may refer to:
Rest area, a public facility, located next to a large thoroughfare such as a highway, at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel
Service area (computing), a hidden portion of the hard disk drive that usually contains drive's firmware and adaptive data required for normal operation of the device
Service court (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRI%20Nairobi%2091.9%20FM
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CRI 91.9 FM is a radio station in Nairobi, Kenya. It is part of China Radio International (CRI). It broadcasts in English, Swahili and Mandarin. It launched on February 27, 2006.
Programming
The CRI programme schedule includes "The Hot Pot Show" hosted by award-winning DJ Duggy Day is a music/entertainment programme which highlights the Chinese pop music scene, and showbiz world. Listeners can also hear about tourist attractions in China, and be kept up-to-date about happenings inside CRI's two official websites. Other regular programmes are "Music Safari" and "China Now".
References
External links
CRI Beyond Beijing
Asian-Kenyan culture in Nairobi
China Radio International
Chinese diaspora in Africa
Mass media in Nairobi
Radio stations established in 2006
Radio stations in Kenya
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaco%20%28web%20browser%29
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Abaco is a discontinued web browser for the Plan 9 operating system. It is a graphical web browser with support for inline images, tables and frames. It has a true multiple document interface inspired by acme's interface. It is a multi-threaded and modest-sized program.
History
, a web file system, and libhtml, a library to parse HTML, were written at Bell Labs as the backend for a new web browser. After the Bell Labs project stalled, Aki Nyrhinen wrote a simple frontend for webfs and libhtml called webpage which can render basic web pages and makes interesting use of the plumber to support hyperlinks. Work on webpage also stalled, and webpage has now been superseded by abaco.
Abaco, written by Federico G. Benavento, supports most of the HTML 4.01 standard, including frames and tables.
See also
Mothra – Another browser for Plan 9
List of web browsers
List of Plan 9 applications
References
External links
The Abaco website
Web browsers for Plan 9
Discontinued web browsers
Free web browsers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundances%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29
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Earth bulk continental crust and upper continental crust
C1 — Crust: CRC Handbook
C2 — Crust: Kaye and Laby
C3 — Crust: Greenwood
C4 — Crust: Ahrens (Taylor)
C5 — Crust: Ahrens (Wänke)
C6 — Crust: Ahrens (Weaver)
U1 — Upper crust: Ahrens (Taylor)
U2 — Upper crust: Ahrens (Shaw)
Urban soils
The established abundances of chemical elements in urban soils can be considered a geochemical (ecological and geochemical) characteristic, the accumulated impact of technogenic and natural processes at the beginning of the 21st century. The figures estimate average concentrations of chemical elements in the soils of more than 300 cities and settlements in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. Regardless of significant differences between abundances of several elements in urban soils and those values calculated for the Earth's crust, the element abundances in urban soils generally reflect those in the Earth's crust. With the development of technology the abundances may be refined.
Mass fraction, in mg/kg (ppm).
Sea water
W1 — CRC Handbook
W2 — Kaye & Laby
Mass per volume fraction, in kg/L. (The average density of sea water in the surface is 1.025 kg/L)
Sun and Solar System
S1 — Sun: Kaye & Laby
Y1 — Solar System: Kaye & Laby
Y2 — Solar System: Ahrens, with uncertainty s (%)
Atom mole fraction relative to silicon = 1.
See also
Chemical elements data references
Notes
Due to the estimate nature of these values, no single recommendations are given. All values are normalized for these tables. Underlined zeroes indicate figures of indeterminable significance that were present in the source notation.
References
CRC Handbook
From these sources in an online version of David R. Lide (ed.), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th Edition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida (2005). Section 14, Geophysics, Astronomy, and Acoustics; Abundance of Elements in the Earth's Crust and in the Sea:
R.S. Carmichael (ed.), CRC Practical Handbook of Physical Properties of Rocks and Minerals, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, (1989).
I. Bodek et al., Environmental Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon Press, New York, (1988).
A.B. Ronov, A.A. Yaroshevsky, Earth's Crust Geochemistry, in Encyclopedia of Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences, R.W. Fairbridge (ed.), Van Nostrand, New York, (1969).
Estimated abundance of the elements in the continental crust (C1) and in seawater near the surface (W1). The median values of reported measurements are given. Concentrations of the less abundant elements may vary with location by several orders of magnitude.
Kaye & Laby
National Physical Laboratory, Kaye and Laby Tables of Physical & Chemical Constants (2005). Section 3.1.3, Abundances of the elements, B.E.J. Pagel
Abundances in sea water (W2) and in crustal rocks (C2) from:
K.K. Turekian (1970) in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 4, 627.
For the sun (S1) and the solar system (Y1) from:
N. Grevesse, E. Anders, J. Waddington (ed.) in Cosmic Abundances of Matter, Amer. Ins
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20East%20Television
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Middle East Television (METV) is a Christian satellite television broadcasting network located in Limassol, Cyprus. Programming on METV includes a mixture of Christian programming, plus non-religious entertainment programs like The Red Green Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Lone Ranger and NFL Football.
History
On April 10, 1982, a Christian-based television station in South Lebanon, Hope TV, was donated to the Christian Broadcasting Network, and became METV. At this time METV broadcast from Marjayoun. In Israel, METV was known for broadcasting WWF wrestling but was not available on Israeli TV.
On June 5, 1997, METV launched its 24-hour programming broadcast on the Israeli satellite Amos 2. This increased the potential audience from 11 million to 70 million viewers with a signal now reaching all of Western Asia (except Yemen), as well as Afghanistan, Egypt, Greece, Libya, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In anticipation of the Israeli decision to pull out of Southern Lebanon, Middle East Television began searching for a new broadcast facility in May 1999.
On May 2, 2000, Middle East Television completed the construction of its new station and began its digital broadcast from Cyprus. METV was sold to a like-minded ministry, LeSEA Broadcasting, in July 2001.
In September 2016, LeSEA sold the station to Sid Roth's Messianic Vision, Inc.
Logo
The logo of METV, prior to the LeSEA Broadcasting purchase, used to be three cedar trees, in honor of the Flag of Lebanon.
See also
List of programs broadcast by Middle East Television
References
External links
Middle East Television (METV)
Television channels in Cyprus
Family Broadcasting Corporation
Evangelical television networks
International broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 1982
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeo
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Zeo can refer to:
Dodge ZEO, an electric concept car
Zeos, a home computer company
Power Rangers Zeo, a television series
Zope Enterprise Objects, a storage implementation in a Zope Object Database
A character in the anime Beyblade - see List of Beyblade characters#Zeo
Zeo, Inc., a company that made sleep products
Zamenhof-Esperanto object (ZEO), an object commemorating Esperanto or its creator L. L. Zamenhof
Zéo, a town and sub-prefecture in Montagnes District, Ivory Coast
Gardiehbey Zeo (born 1986), a Liberian footballer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniTRAX
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OmniTRAX, Inc. is a transportation and transportation infrastructure holding company based in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. It primarily owns or operates railroads, with a network of 25 regional and shortline railroads in 12 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. It is one of the largest privately owned railroad companies in the United States. The firm also invests in, develops, and operates ports, multimodal transportation terminals, and industrial parks.
History of the company
OmniTRAX was incorporated in 1986 as a subsidiary of The Broe Group, a privately held energy development and real estate company founded by Denver businessman Pat Broe in 1972. OmniTRAX purchased the Great Western Railway of Colorado that year in order to augment the value of Broe's industrial real estate developments in northeastern Colorado.
Initial expansion
OmniTRAX leased the Kansas Southwestern Railway from the Union Pacific Railroad in April 1991.
In June 1992, OmniTRAX purchased all the outstanding stock of the Chicago West Pullman Transportation Co., which owned the Manufacturers' Junction Railway at Cicero, Illinois; the Newburgh and South Shore Railroad at Cleveland, Ohio; the Chicago Rail Link at Chicago, Illinois; the Chicago, West Pullman and Southern Railroad in Chicago; the Georgia Woodlands Railroad in Warren and Wilkes counties, Georgia; and the Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. The Wisconsin & Calumet was sold less than a month later to the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad. OmniTRAX purchased the abandoned Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Cicero, which was adjacent to the Manufacturers' Junction Railway, and began developing it as a multimodal transfer center.
In October 1992, OmniTRAX purchased of track in Kansas and Oklahoma from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The main lines of track stretched from Salina, Kansas, to Osborne, Kansas, and from Marion, Kansas, to Scott City, Kansas. OmniTRAX formed the Central Kansas Railway to run on the lines. The Kansas Southwestern Railway merged into the Central Kansas Railway in May 2000, and then OmniTRAX sold the Central Kansas Railway to Watco in April 2001.
OmniTRAX purchased of track between Borger and Panhandle, Texas, from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe in November 1993. It formed the Panhandle Northern Railroad to operate on this track. Eighteen months later, in May 1995, OmniTRAX leased the Northern Ohio & Western Railway from the Sandusky County/Seneca County/Tiffin Port Authority.
Move into Canada
OmniTRAX moved into Canada in November 1996 with its purchase of the Hudson Bay Railway, which ran from The Pas, Manitoba, to the Port of Churchill in Churchill, Manitoba. OmniTRAX then purchased the port itself for C$1 in November 1997. As part of the deal, the Canadian government agreed to put C$34 million worth of upgrades, dredging, and repairs into the port, while OmniTRAX pledged to add C$45 million in upgrading the port f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UB-tree
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The UB-tree as proposed by Rudolf Bayer and Volker Markl is a balanced tree for storing and efficiently retrieving multidimensional data. It is basically a B+ tree (information only in the leaves) with records stored according to Z-order, also called Morton order. Z-order is simply calculated by bitwise interlacing the keys.
Insertion, deletion, and point query are done as with ordinary B+ trees. To perform range searches in multidimensional point data, however, an algorithm must be provided for calculating, from a point encountered in the data base, the next Z-value which is in the multidimensional search range.
The original algorithm to solve this key problem was exponential with the dimensionality and thus not feasible ("GetNextZ-address"). A solution to this "crucial part of the UB-tree range query" linear with the z-address bit length has been described later. This method has already been described in an older paper where using Z-order with search trees has first been proposed.
References
Database index techniques
Search trees
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20III%3A%20The%20DNA%20Factor
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Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor is a side scrolling and puzzle game set in the Jurassic Park movie universe. It was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii and published by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. It was coincided with the release of the film Jurassic Park III on July 16, 2001.
The two other games, Jurassic Park III: Park Builder and Jurassic Park III: Island Attack, are also released by Konami.
Summary
A cargo plane flying over Isla Sorna is struck by lightning, and upon crashing, the dinosaur DNA it stored is spread across the island. The player then assumes the role of either Mark Hanson (a photographer) or Lori Torres (an ace pilot), and must wander around the island in a side-scrolling format, collecting DNA and avoiding dinosaurs. In each level, the player's character has the ability to switch between a background and a foreground pathway. Switching between the two pathways allows the player to access weapons and DNA samples, or to avoid oncoming dinosaurs. At the end of each level, the player will use the DNA that is collected in a short puzzle game, in order to create more dinosaurs. Completing this minigame will unlock more areas for the player to explore. At the end of the game, the military bombs the island, and the player escapes on a small plane, wondering if dinosaurs should really have a place in their world.
Reception
The game was met with negative reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 48.94%, while Metacritic gave it 44 out of 100.
AllGame praised the game's graphics and sound effects, but criticized its "awkward" controls and wrote that the levels "are poorly designed and seemingly impossible to complete." AllGame also criticized the game's ability to switch between background and foreground pathways, writing "this just adds confusion, since swapping between roads can be tricky and the paths are oftentimes deceiving because of the limited screen size and resolution."
IGN praised its cutscenes, sound effects and music, but criticized its "sloppy game design," clumsy controls, and bad collision detection, as well as the game's background and foreground pathways: "Nothing casts a shadow, so you can't even tell if a DNA sample is hovering over the foreground path or lying on the ground on the background path."
GameSpot criticized the game for "disappointing" sound effects and music, and for sharing nothing in common with the film. GameSpot also criticized the game's background and foreground pathways, calling it "a confusing little gimmick that is mainly used to increase the amount of backtracking you'll have to do to collect the particles you need." In 2018, Zack Zwiezen of Kotaku ranked the game among the "worst" Jurassic Park games ever released, stating that it "looked and played awful when it was first released, and it hasn’t aged well at all."
References
External links
2001 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Jurassic Park video games
Konami games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%40Home%20Network
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@Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider from 1996 to 2002. It was founded by Milo Medin, cable companies Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), Comcast, and Cox Communications, and William Randolph Hearst III, who was their first CEO, as a joint venture to produce high-speed cable Internet service through two-way television cable infrastructure. At the company's peak it provided high speed Internet service for 4.1 million subscribers in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the Benelux nations (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). The company operated as four joint ventures, three of which were international. In 1999, the company acquired Excite. In 2008, @Home was merged into Ziggo.
History
The passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 enabled cable companies to start offering Internet telephony services to customers.
The company's first VP of engineering and later chief technology officer was Milo Medin, and the company got its start from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
In December 1998, Excite was in merger negotiations with Yahoo! inc in an agreement to purchase the Excite portal for a price between $5.5 billion and $6 billion. On December 19, at Kleiner Perkins prompting, @Home Network's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Jermoluk met with Excite's chairman and CEO George Bell, according to documents filed with the SEC, and a deal was hashed out for the purchase of Excite and its debt.
On January 19, 1999, @Home Networks acquired the Internet portal Excite. The $6.7 billion merger became one of the largest mergers of two Internet companies ever; the combined entity would marry the profitable high speed Internet network of @Home and expand its existing Home.com portal with Excite's money-losing search engine and Internet portal. The combined entity's external name became Excite@Home, however the stock symbol and regulatory filing records remained properly known as At Home Corporation (ATHM).
As a side effect of the deal, @Home's chairman and chief executive George Tom Jermoluk (also called T.J. for short) stepped down as chief executive officer, but remained chairman of the board, and Excite's former chairman and chief executive George Bell, who was the president of the Excite division of @Home, moved over as chief executive of the new Excite@Home entity.
The new Excite division took the existing @home.com web portal that was provided to subscribers of the service and merged it with the Excite portal. Along with this was the movement toward personalized web portal content, a concept now commonplace in all Internet portals today.
In just months following the merger, Excite@Home's Excite division purchased iMall for about $425 million in stock. Most significant of these was the purchase of the online greeting card company Blue Mountain Arts, Excite@Home issued 11.2 million shares, worth close to $430 million, and paid $350 million in cash. In addition Excite paid for sponsor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TELE%20N
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TELE N was a Venezuelan regional news network based in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo in the Zulia State. It could be seen in the entire Zulia State. Reporters and journalists for TELE N were: Ambar Simancas, Andreina Socorro, Ángela Romero, Daniel Pereira, Angélica Villegas, Grace Orta, Henry Ramírez, Hugo Sánchez, Jesús Ramírez, Joandry Monsalve, José Ramos, Juan Carlos Fernández, Juan Garcia, Julio Eduardo Torrents, Katy Ferrer, Mandy Perozo, Laura Ippólito, Dr. Patricia Lubo, María Eugenia Perozo, Mattew Bello, Tahina Villa, Zulbert Marín. After years of struggling, the station was sold and it is now operated under a new name and new administration by a Chavez-like party.
Programming
The following is a list of the programs saw on TELE N. These shows are news, information, and opinion shows:
Buenos Días Zulia - With José Ramos.
Sólo Estrellas - With Grace Orta.
Escápate - With Katy Ferrer.
Hablando con las comunidades - With Ángela Romero.
Noticias en Red - With Zulbert Marín.
En la Onda - With Mandy Perozo.
Telemarket
La Vida es Así - With Julio Eduardo Torrents.
Palabreando - With Andreina Socorro.
Historias Nuestras - With Ámbar Simancas.
A Punto - With Juan Carlos Fernández.
Joyas para tu Casa - With María Eugenia Perozo.
Noticiero Tele N - With Daniel Pereira, Angélica Villegas, Tahina Villa, Ángela Romero, and Mattew Bello.
Avanza - With Henry Ramírez.
Rueda de Periodistas - With Ángela Romero, Tahina Villa, Angélica Villegas, Daniel Pereira, and Mattew Bello.
Más Salud Más Vida - With Dr. Patricia Lubo.
See also
List of Venezuelan television channels
Defunct television channels and networks in Venezuela
Mass media in Maracaibo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INX
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INX may refer to:
• I -illuminate N- nominee X - Xavier(means bright in Germany language)
INX Network, the original name of 9X Media, headquartered in Mumbai, India
INX News, now known as NewsX
INX, the ICAO airline designator for Inter Airlines, a former Turkish airline
INX or InDesign Interchange, an older file format for Adobe InDesign software
Prelude INX, a Honda car model introduced for the Japanese domestic market in 1989
See also
INXS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotica
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Robotica, also known as Robotica Cybernation Revolt in Europe and in Japan, is a first-person shooter which was released for the Sega Saturn in 1995.
Plot
The game's events are set in the year 2877. In 2077, the world's peacekeeping unions, such as the United Nations and the European Union, collapsed after years of global tensions, forcing humanity to establish a planetary government in order to maintain order. A government operating as the World Silent Security Service, also known as the W.S.S.S., is established and world peace is restored. The WSSS takes control of both the planet Earth and outer space, establishing its headquarters on the Central Control Station Daedalus in earth orbit. The WSSS eradicates the control of all previous unions and organizations and unites the whole of humanity under its control for over 800 years. However, with all of its original creators gone by that point in time, humanity questions the justification of Deadulus's rule, and some begin to rebel against the government in the wake of its so-called archaic policies. The leading rebel group in this massive rebellion, the Reformist Faction, sends three elite pilots of the highly sophisticated Laocorn-class Assault Robots on a covert mission to destroy Daedalus. Once inside, two Laocorns are immediately destroyed, leaving the one survivor, the player character, to face Daedalus' massive robot armies and transverse vast, dark corridors in his quest to destroy Daedalus and to save humanity.
Gameplay
The player has to fight through thirty floors of the Deadalus space station to destroy the core at the top. The floors are randomly generated. For every floor of the station there is a key card in a random location, required to unlock the elevator to the next stage. A few floors require the player to seek and destroy the station's reactor cores. The player can also find floor maps and light switches for darkened floors, but neither are required for progress.
The player's mech-armor, the Laocorn, is equipped with four different weapons and a generator that enables the mech to perform several abilities. The weapons consist of an arm-punch, vulcan, laser gun and missile launcher, each of which is upgradable in power and ammunition count. There are kamikaze enemies that appear if the player stays too long on a floor that carry items that, if picked up, degrade whichever weapon they are armed with at that time.
The Laocorn's generator abilities are hover, allowing the mech to hover a few feet over energy grids; refresh, which replenishes the mech's energy; plasma barrier, which serves as a temporary shield; and the blaze laser, which destroys every enemy on screen. Each ability consumes generator energy, which can be refilled through pick-up items.
Reception
The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 7.125 out of 10 average, describing it as one of the best first person shooters to date. They cited the graphics, storyline, and most especially the deep
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Source
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Hot Source is an Australian children's television series which first screened on the Nine Network in 2003. The show had a number of presenters for various segments but Miranda Deakin and David Whitehill were with the show from beginning to end.
It screened at 4pm on weekdays and was aimed at the demographic of school-aged children to the age of fourteen. This show ran from 2003 to 2006 and also screened on Canadian and British television.
References
External links
Hot Source homepage
Nine Network original programming
2003 Australian television series debuts
2006 Australian television series endings
Australian children's television series
Television shows set in Brisbane
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobicents
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Mobicents is an Open Source VoIP Platform written in Java to help create, deploy, manage services and applications integrating voice, video and data across a range of IP and legacy communications networks.
In the scope of telecom Next Generation Intelligent Networks (NGIN), Mobicents fits in as a high-performance core engine for Service Delivery Platforms (SDP), IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) and Intelligent Core Network (IN).
History
Mobicents LLC, the original company behind Mobicents was created in 2004. It was acquired by Red Hat on June, 2007. After Red Hat sunsetted Mobicents in 2011, TeleStax was created to take over the leadership and Commercial Services around the Mobicents Platform.
See also
JBoss
JSLEE
Signalling System No. 7
List of SIP software
References
External links
Mobicents
Software using the GNU AGPL license
VoIP software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20South%20East
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The Great South East is a Queensland-based lifestyle program screening on the Seven Network which screened from 1997 until 2016. It was replaced by a similarly themed show The Great Day Out in 2017.
The half-hour-long program showcases tourist attractions in the south-eastern corner of the state surrounding the state capital Brisbane.
The shows were produced by 7 Productions Queensland and screened on Sundays at 5:30pm. They often aired alongside similarly themed Queensland lifestyle programs Creek To Coast and Queensland Weekender.
In November 2019, the Seven Network announced The Great Day Out had been axed, with the final episodes screening in early 2020.
It was hosted by Sofie Formica from 2004 to 2017 and had several reporters including Laurel Edwards.
References
External links
Official website
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
Australian travel television series
1997 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
2017 Australian television series debuts
2020 Australian television series endings
2000s Australian television series
Television shows set in Queensland
Television series by Seven Productions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSLEE
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The JSLEE (JAIN Service Logic Execution Environment) is a Java programming language API for developing and deploying network services. It was standardized in Java Specification Requests JSR 22 and JSR 240 by Sun Microsystems and OpenCloud (now Metaswitch) with the participation of more than 80 operators and software vendors.
The technical specification is designed so that implementations can meet the stringent requirements of communications applications, like high throughput, low latency, scalability, availability and software portability. Furthermore, it allows software developers to write robust components as it integrates the ACID properties of transactions into the programming model.
The JSLEE environment acts as an integration point for multiple network resources and communications protocols.
See also
Mobicents - Open source JSLEE Project
Parlay - Open API for the telephone network
Parlay X - Open APIs defined as set of simple-to-use, high-level, telecom-related Web services
Java specification requests
Telephony
VoIP software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20active%20Pakistan%20Air%20Force%20aircraft
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Below is a list of aircraft currently in active service with the Pakistan Air Force.
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! Aircraft
! Manufacturer
! Origin
! Class
! Role
! Introduced
! data-sort-type="number" | In service
! Total
! Notes
|-
! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="9" | Combat Aircraft
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|FC-20 Firebird
|CAC
|
||Jet
||Multirole
|4 March 2022
|20
|20
|J-10CE (20 delivered, 16 on order)
|-
|JF-17 Thunder
|PAC, CAC
|
|Jet
|Multirole
|18 February 2010
|149
|153
|JF-17A Block 1 (50)
JF-17A Block 2 (62)
JF-17B Block 2 (26)
JF-17C Block 3 (15 delivered, 35 on order)
All Block 1 and 2 JF-17s are planned to be upgraded to Block 3 standard.
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|F-16 Fighting Falcon
|General Dynamics / Lockheed Martin
|
|Jet
||Multirole
|15 January 1983
|75
|85
|F-16A Block 15 MLU (37)
F-16B Block 15 MLU (17)
F-16A Block 15 ADF (9)
F-16B Block 15 ADF (4)
F-16C Block 52+ (12)
F-16D Block 52+ (6)
|-
|Mirage III
|Dassault
|
| Jet
| Multirole
| 8 March 1968
|87
|135
| Several variants with extensive Project ROSE upgrades. All Mirage IIIs are planned to be replaced by JF-17s and J-10 Cs.
|-
|Mirage 5
|Dassault
|
|Jet
| Attack, Reconnaissance
| 1970
| 92
| 139
| Several variants with extensive Project ROSE upgrades. All Mirage 5s are planned to be replaced by JF-17s and J-10Cs.
|-
|F-7PG Skybolt
|CAC
|
|Jet
| Interceptor
| 2002
| 53
| 60
|
All F-7PGs/FT-7PGs are planned to be replaced by Block 3 JF-17Cs.
|-
|-
! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="9" | Trainer Aircraft
|-
|Karakorum-8 (K-8)
|Hongdu,PAC
|
| Jet
| Intermediate Jet Trainer
| 1994
|60
|60
|K-8 (12)
K-8P (48)
|-
|T-37 Tweet
|Cessna
|
| Jet
| Basic Jet Trainer
| 1962
|69
|73
||T-37B/C. 20 refurbished ex-USAF T-37 delivered by end of 2008 to replace older T-37 or provide parts. T-37 to be eventually replaced with K-8P. On 28 October 2015, the Turkish Air Force transferred 34 T-37Cs to the PAF, including spares.
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| MFI-17 Mushshak
| PAC
|
| Propeller
| Primary Trainer
| 1974
| 145
| 151
| MFI-17 Mushshak (115)
Super Mushshak (30)
Some MFI-17 Mushshaks to be upgraded to Super Mushshak standard.
|-
! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="9" | Strategic Airlift & Aerial Refueling Aircraft
|-
|Il-78
|Ilyushin
|
| Jet
| Strategic Airlift Transporter/Aerial Refueler || 2009 || 4 || 4
| Il-78MP. Dual-role aerial refeulers and freighters. Ex-Ukrainian Air Force.
|-
! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="9" | Transport Aircraft
|-
|C-130 Hercules
|Lockheed Martin
|
| Propeller
| Tactical Airlift Transporter || 1963 ||23 ||25
| C-130B (5)
C-130E (7)
C-130H (13)
All C-130s overhauled and upgraded by PAC.
PAF had ordered 7 ex-Belgian Air Component refurbished C-130H aircraft in 2019. By June 2023, it had inducted all 7 aircraft into its fleet.
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|Saab 2000
|Saab
|
| Propeller
| Transport, Training || 2008 || 6 || 6
| Also used to train aircrew for the Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C. Delivered in December 2008.
|-
| CN-235
| CASA
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| Propeller
| Transpo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUpdate
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XUpdate is a lightweight XML query language for modifying XML data. After some early enthusiastic development by a small team, the development of the standard faltered around the end of 2000 and it has never found widespread adoption. However, it has found a niche market of users not content to wait for the XQuery Update Facility extension of the W3C standard, XQuery.
External links
Last Working Draft, September 14, 2000
XQuery Update facility
XUpdate update O'Reilly article from 2005 summarising XUpdate development
eXist supports XUpdate via its XML-RPC API - XUpdate, XML:DB API - XUpdate and its REST API - XUpdate
Apache XIndice supports XUpdate
Sedna supports XUpdate via its XML:DB API
XML-based standards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteboarding
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Whiteboarding when used in the context of computing, is the placement of shared files on an on-screen shared notebook or whiteboard. Videoconferencing and data conferencing software often lets documents as on a physical whiteboard.
Whiteboarding sessions — both in-office and virtual — provide teams with a collaborative, creative environment for brainstorming new ideas and solving problems. Without a defined structure in place, however, these sessions can quickly unravel and get off track.
With this type of software, several people can work on the image at the same time, each seeing changes the others make in near-real time.
Electronic whiteboarding was included at least as early as 1996 in the CoolTalk tool in Netscape Navigator 3.0.
References
Collaborative software
Drawing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20Philippines
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De La Salle Philippines (DLSP) (incorporated as De La Salle Philippines, Inc), established in 2006, is a network of Lasallian educational institutions within the Lasallian East Asia District established to facilitate collaboration in the Lasallian Mission and the promotion of the Spirit Of Faith, Zeal For Service and Communion In Mission. There are currently sixteen Lasallian Educational Institutions in the Philippines. De La Salle Philippines replaced the De La Salle University System which was established under the presidency of Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC in 1987 as a response to the rapid expansion of Lasallian educational institutions nationwide. De La Salle Philippines is a member of a network of over 1,100 Lasallian educational institutions in 80 countries.
In line with the Lasallian Mission, the network holds various projects that improve educational communities for the youth, especially to those who are poor. Among these are the software training for indigenous peoples and the exhibit on people killed during the Philippine government's operations against illegal drugs.
Historical background
Early history
The history of Lasallian education in the Philippines dates back to 1905 when the then Archbishop of Manila, Jeremiah James Harty, an alumnus of a La Salle educational institution in the U.S., appealed to the Superior General of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Fratres Scholarum Christianarum) - FSC for the establishment of a De La Salle educational institution in the Philippines due to the very small number of Catholic institutions at that time. Archbishop Harty's request was rejected at first due to lack of funds, however he would continue to appeal to Pope Pius X for the establishment of additional Catholic educational institutions in the country.
From March to June 1911, nine De La Salle Christian Brothers from Europe and the United States led by Brother Blimond FSC of France arrived in the Philippines. Together on June 16, 1911, the Brothers established the first Christian Brother educational institution in the Philippines, De La Salle College, on Calle Nozaleda (now General Luna St.) in Paco, Manila.
Because of increasing student population, the Brothers transferred the educational institution to its present location on Taft Avenue in the Malate district of Manila in 1921.
De La Salle University System
During the 1980s, then President of De La Salle University, the late Brother Andrew Gonzalez FSC, Ph.D. introduced the idea of a multiversity because of the growing number of Lasallian institutions nationwide. His vision was to establish a system where the resources could be utilized to create a greater impact. The De La Salle University System was created in 1987, composed of De La Salle University-Manila, De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School, and the newly acquired De La Salle University-Dasmariñas and De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute in Dasmariñas, Cavite. A year later, the newly established
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACDA
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NACDA may refer to:
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abene
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Abene is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mark Abene (born 1972), American computer security expert and entrepreneur
Mike Abene (born 1942), American jazz pianist
See also
Aben (disambiguation)
Abéné, village in Senegal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind%20Closed%20Doors%20%281996%20TV%20series%29
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Behind Closed Doors was a documentary series hosted by Joan Lunden that aired on the ABC and the A&E Network from 1996 to 2001. Lunden took cameras to places that normally were off limits to the general public.
Some places featured included:
Up in the air aboard a U2 spyplane
Betty Ford Center
Behind the scenes of the New York City Subway
The United States Mint and Treasury
The WCW Powerplant
The USS Key West (SSN-722) and Navy SEAL team
The General Motors technical center in Warren, Michigan
Richard Tyler workshop
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20121007194233/http://www.locatetv.com/tv/behind-closed-doors-with-joan-lunden/1777069/episode-guide
1996 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
1990s American documentary television series
2000s American documentary television series
American Broadcasting Company original programming
A&E (TV network) original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization-on-demand%20holder%20idiom
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In software engineering, the initialization-on-demand holder (design pattern) idiom is a lazy-loaded singleton. In all versions of Java, the idiom enables a safe, highly concurrent lazy initialization of static fields with good performance.
public class Something {
private Something() {}
private static class LazyHolder {
static final Something INSTANCE = new Something();
}
public static Something getInstance() {
return LazyHolder.INSTANCE;
}
}
The implementation of the idiom relies on the initialization phase of execution within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as specified by the Java Language Specification (JLS). When the class Something is loaded by the JVM, the class goes through initialization. Since the class does not have any static variables to initialize, the initialization completes trivially. The static class definition LazyHolder within it is not initialized until the JVM determines that LazyHolder must be executed. The static class LazyHolder is only executed when the static method getInstance is invoked on the class Something, and the first time this happens the JVM will load and initialize the LazyHolder class. The initialization of the LazyHolder class results in static variable INSTANCE being initialized by executing the (private) constructor for the outer class Something. Since the class initialization phase is guaranteed by the JLS to be sequential, i.e., non-concurrent, no further synchronization is required in the static getInstance method during loading and initialization. And since the initialization phase writes the static variable INSTANCE in a sequential operation, all subsequent concurrent invocations of the getInstance will return the same correctly initialized INSTANCE without incurring any additional synchronization overhead.
Caveats
While the implementation is an efficient thread-safe "singleton" cache without synchronization overhead, and better performing than uncontended synchronization, the idiom can only be used when the construction of Something is guaranteed to not fail. In most JVM implementations, if construction of Something fails, subsequent attempts to initialize it from the same class-loader will result in a NoClassDefFoundError failure.
See also
Singleton pattern
Double-checked locking
Multiton pattern
External links
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr-133-faq.html
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
References
Software design patterns
Articles with example Java code
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20of%20Universities%20of%20Saint%20Thomas%20Aquinas
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The International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Spanish: Consejo Internacional de Universidades Santo Tomás de Aquino) is a world-wide network of universities inspired by the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Generally known as ICUSTA, it promotes academic exchange between students, professors and researchers. ICUSTA unites some 23 universities, with over 200,000 students on the five continents.
Mission
ICUSTA has as its main mission, to unite all the Catholic universities based on the intellectual, pedagogical and methodologic principles of Thomism, the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas, in order to create and to integrate university policies. This takes the form of increasing the interchange between students and professors, the development of joint plans between the various institutions and the sharing of information and programs.
History
ICUSTA grew out of a meeting in 1993 between representatives of the University of St. Thomas (Houston) and Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile. They were soon joined by the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome, and the Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia. In 1995 in Rome, a second conference was held which was attended by 12 universities. There a permanent international organization was established with bylaws and protocols for the accomplishment of the ICUSTA mission.
In the successive conferences additional members were added. The later meetings were in Manila, in 1997; in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1999; in Rome, in 2001; in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 2003; and in Barcelona, Spain, in 2005, Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia (2007), and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland (2009).
ICUSTA returned to the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomás in the Philippines in 2011 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of this great university in 1611. In 2013, the conference will be held in France at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies - ICES. In 2015, ICUSTA hold its biennial meeting for the first time in Africa at the University of St. Thomas of Mozambique for the 12th Biennial.
Members
See also
List of institutions named after Thomas Aquinas
External links
ICUSTA official webpage;
ICUSTA 2013 - 11th biennial conference
“El rector de la universidad Fasta visitó al rey Juan Carlos I”, La Capital, El diario de Mar del Plata, 13 May 2005 about the Barcelona Conference, in Spanish;
Lists of Catholic universities and colleges
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These%20Walls%20%28Teddy%20Geiger%20song%29
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"These Walls" is Teddy Geiger's second single. The single was released to radio in September 2006. The song was used by the Seven Network in Australia to promote the show Prison Break.
Official versions
"These Walls" (Album Version) - 3:43
Music video
In the music video for this song, Geiger puts on earphones attached to her iPod shuffle, plays a piano in a house, throws playing cards into a fedora hat, and starts singing. Then as the video progresses, water comes out of nowhere, and the walls of the house come down and she is seen outside on a field with a girl and Teddy is seen holding hands with the girl towards the ending describing a situation exactly similar to the song as having a broken heart.
Chart performance
2006 singles
Teddy Geiger songs
Columbia Records singles
Songs written by Teddy Geiger
2006 songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20TV%20%28season%2012%29
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The twelfth season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network between September 16, 2006, and May 19, 2007.
Summary
For the first time since season four, MADtv saw not just a change in cast members, but also a change in format.
On the cast member front, Stephanie Weir (who actually left at the end of season ten, but was in a lot of pretaped season eleven sketches), Danielle Gaither, and Frank Caliendo were gone (with Gaither being fired by FOX while Weir and Caliendo left on their own accord). In their places, Frank Caeti and Nicole Randall Johnson were promoted to repertory status while Lisa Donovan was hired, starting with the fourteenth episode of the season, then fired by season's end.
On the show's format front, the cold opening sketch was replaced by show announcer, Brian Fairlee, giving a preview of the sketches and guest stars that would appear in the episode. The sketches themselves became shorter, often shown in several parts so as to preserve the humor. A lot of political sketches centered on George W. Bush and his administration were nearly non-existent (barring the showing of a claymation short where Bush [voiced by Crista Flanagan] threatens to blackmail Santa Claus if Santa does not help him defeat his enemies). However, sketches with political undertones (such as "Steve Jobs' The iRack") and sketches that focused on the then-recent 2008 election, featuring Nicole Parker as Hillary Clinton and Keegan Michael-Key as Barack Obama would make up for the lack of Bush-related political satire. More focus was put on TV show and movie parodies, celebrity-based sketches, music video parodies, one-shot situational comedy sketches, and recurring character sketches. Animated sketches (mostly claymation, Monty Python-style cutout animation, and crude 2D Flash animation) also made a comeback after being phased out since season five (though seasons six, seven, eight, and nine had some semi-recurring and one-shot animated pieces, such as Shaq and the Super Lakers, Public Schoolhouse Rock, How Winona Ryder Stole Christmas, Chocolate Covered Peanuts, and Morbidly Obese Albert) with the appearance of the recurring sketch, "Celebrity Pets", a glut of non-sequitur shorts, "Weekly News with Toby" (featuring Frank Caeti giving a first grader's point of view of current events) and a three-part sketch called, Cartoon Network's Rejected Superheroes.
Notable guest stars this season include: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Eva Longoria, Seth MacFarlane (who, back when MADtv was starting out, was offered the chance to produce animated shorts for the show), the Los Angeles Kings, Tom Bergeron, Efren Ramirez, and Fred Willard.
Opening montage
The 12th season had a new title sequence with shots of the performers as they prepared for the show. The screen divides into three different live-action shots. When the theme music starts, the announcer introduces each cast member alphabetically. After the last cas
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