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Roughly Speaking is the sixteenth studio album by the Canadian rock band April Wine, released in November 2006.
The album was recorded without computerized modern digital recording techniques. Instead, the group employed the same type of audiophile quality analog recording technology it had used during the 1980s, including a 2-inch, 24 track master tape recorder and a state-of-the art half-inch 2-track stereo recorder. Members of the band, along with some other music fans, believe that such equipment can provide a more musically pleasing, or "vintage" type of sound.
The songs are all new material written by original frontman Myles Goodwyn, with the exception of one track, "Night Life", written by Willie Nelson.
Track listing
"Saw Someone (That Wasn't There)" – 3:59
"I've Had Enough for Now (I Wanna Go Home)" – 2:46
"Night Life" (Willie Nelson, Walter Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Myles Goodwyn) – 3:18
"Sheila" – 3:35
"You Don't Even Know (How I Love You So)" – 3:01
"I Am, I Am" – 3:23
"Life Goes On" – 3:26
"If You're Comin' (I'm Outta Here)" – 1:20
Personnel
Myles Goodwyn – vocals, guitar, organ
Brian Greenway – guitars, background vocals, harmonica
Jim Clench – bass, background vocals
Jerry Mercer – drums, background vocals
References
April Wine albums
2006 albums
Universal Records albums
Albums produced by Myles Goodwyn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Familia
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TV Familia is a Caracas based regional familiar, entertainment, religious (Roman Catholic) and cultural television network. It can be seen by those only living in greater Caracas on UHF channel 69. It can also be seen on Directv channel 117, Net Uno (8), Intercable (79) in Caracas, Guarenas, Guatire, and the Vargas State, and Sistemcable (4).
See also
List of Venezuelan television channels
External links
Official Site
Television networks in Venezuela
Television stations in Venezuela
Mass media in Caracas
Mass media in Venezuela
Television channels and stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Venezuela
Television in Venezuela
Spanish-language television stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Seconds
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10 Seconds is a television game show that aired on The Nashville Network from March 29, 1993 to September 24, 1993. After the last episode aired, the show went in reruns until March 25, 1994. The show was hosted by Dan Miller and announced by Don Dashiell. Miller and Dashiell were also the host-announcer team for Top Card, the quiz show that 10 Seconds replaced on the schedule following its cancellation.
Maingame
Two contestants, one usually a returning champion, competed in a game of identifying songs.
Nine categories were displayed. Each category was the clue to the title of a song, and each one hid a point value. The player in control chose a category, revealing how many points the category was worth. The higher the points were, the more difficult the song would be to identify. After a category was chosen, Miller would tell the players the year the song was released, the singer's music style, whether the singer was a man or woman (or in other cases, whether it was sung by a duo or group), and the song's peak position on the Billboard music charts; if the song was a country song or pop song, the contestants were told of the peak position on either of those charts, while if the song reached the Billboard Hot 100 its peak position on that chart would be revealed.
Once all that information was revealed, it was up to the opposing player to decide how long the player would have to listen to the song. The opponent would choose a number of seconds of music to be played, between 1 and 10 seconds. At that point, the player who chose the category decided to play that song or pass it to their opponent. The clip would be played; answering correctly won the points while failure to come up with a correct answer gave the points to the opposing player. A player could only give each number of seconds once per round. The player that's trailing get the next category.
Two rounds were played. In the first round categories were worth between 10 and 50 points, in five-point increments, and it was possible for the same number to appear multiple times on the board. In the second round, points ranged from 20 to 100, still in five-point increment, and in addition, the last category left on the board at the end of the second round was played for double its value for a possible 200 points.
Catch-Up round
In the third and final round, called the "Catch-Up Round", the trailing player had a chance to earn up to 400 points. A ten-second medley of three songs were played and the player had to identify the artist behind each song. Each correct answer was worth 100 points, and a bonus of 100 points was given if the player got all three. If the trailer was able to catch and/or pass the leader, the leader was given his/her own ten second medley to try to regain the lead and win the game. Whichever player was ahead at the end of the Catch-Up round won the game, an additional prize and played the bonus round for a chance at a cash jackpot.
Note: The Catch-Up round was not playe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAY-FM
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WAY-FM may refer to:
WAY-FM Network, a national, non-profit radio broadcasting network in the United States that primarily plays Contemporary Christian music
WAYM, the Franklin, Tennessee-based flagship station of the WAY-FM Network that goes by the handle 88.7 WAY-FM
WNHG, the broadcast handle of a group of radio stations owned by Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan known as WAY FM (Michigan)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20du%20sport%20%C3%A9tudiant%20du%20Qu%C3%A9bec
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The Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ; literal translation: Quebec Student Sports Network) is the current name for the organisation formerly known as the Fédération du sport scolaire du Québec (FSSQ; Quebec Student Sports Federation). RSEQ is the governing body of primary and secondary school, collegiate and university sport in Quebec. It also serves as a regional membership association for Canadian universities which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media. This is similar to what would be called a "college athletic conference" in the United States.
The RSEQ, which covers Quebec, is one of four such bodies that are members of the country's governing body for university athletics, U Sports. The other three regional associations coordinating university-level sports in Canada are Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Atlantic University Sport (AUS), and the Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CW).
The RSEQ was initially known as the Association sportive universitaire du Québec (FSSQ; Quebec Universities Athletic Association) when it was founded in 1971 with the reformulations of three university athletic associations spanning the universities of Ontario and Quebec. After the merger between the university, collegiate and high school governing bodies in 1989, the amalgamated association was named to the QSSF and then renamed RSEQ in November 2010.
As with all of Canada's provincial high school athletics associations, the RSEQ is an affiliate member of the United States-based National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).
Member schools
U Sports member schools
Since the 2017–18 school year, Bishop's has played football in AUS, but remains a member of RSEQ in other sports.
Non-U Sports member schools
Note: The following universities below are not members of U Sports, and are solely RSEQ members and participate in certain sports.
CCAA member schools
The RSEQ also oversees college sports in Quebec, and the following are members of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association.
Facilities
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(*Laval's PEPS stade extérieur has an official seated capacity of 12,257 although it has held a standing room crowd of over 18,000 and as such is often listed as having a maximum capacity of 18,000.)
(Data mined from the U Sports homepage's member directory and WorldStadiums.com. The members directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)
See also
Associations
U Sports
Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association
Leagues
Quebec University Football League
Hockey collégial féminin RSEQ
U Sports Women's Basketball
U Sports Football
U Sports Women's Ice Hockey
U Sports Men's Soccer
U Sports Women's Soccer
U Sports Men's Volleyball
U Sports Women's Volleyball
References
External links
Students
U Sports
U Sports basketba
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone%20Radio
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Cornerstone Radio is a broadcast outreach ministry of Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Michigan, which consists of four stations, each carrying separate programming:
WCSG FM 91.3
WaY fm
His Kids Radio
His Kids Radio started as a subscription-only SCA-based radio station broadcast via WCSG. The service broadcasts original Christian children's programming, such as a live phone-in show on Saturday mornings, as well as syndicated programs like Moody Bible Institute's The Sugar Creek Gang and Focus on the Family's Adventures in Odyssey. When the station was not airing special programs it would play Christian children's music, most of which was from Christian children's artists and musicals. "Night Light" was a six-hour period from midnight to 6:00 A.M. where the station played soothing instrumentals punctuated by comforting narratives of Bible verses. Special SCA / FM receivers were required to receive the programming; they were available from local churches and direct from WCSG for an initial receiver fee plus a programming fee of $14.99 per month. its programs can also be heard on stations across the United States, as well as the Sky Angel satellite service on channel 9750, and online at their official website.
In 2005, when His Kids Radio began streaming their broadcast online at their website, they also began offering Moody Wi-Fi Family Radios, which are specially programmed radios that connect to the Internet via a Wi-Fi network and stream His Kids Radio (or other Internet streams, via programmable buttons on the radio). At this time, His Kids Radio discontinued the SCA/FM receiver program and Sky Angel satellite programs in favor of the Wi-Fi radios.
When the Great Recession began in 2009, Cornerstone University Radio was forced to cut most of the funding from His Kids Radio, and the remaining funds only allowed for maintenance of the stream, website, and weekly programming updates. It ran in this "jukebox" mode for five years, when a plan was drawn up to revive His Kids Radio.
As of October 23, 2014, His Kids Radio was officially transferred to Keys for Kids Ministries in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and renamed Keys for Kids Radio. While retaining much of the long-form programming such as Adventures in Odyssey and Red Rock Mysteries, the music received an updated sound.
Mission Network News
Mission Network News (MNN) reports on the work on mission agencies and relief organizations around the world. The service is heard on over 800 radio stations worldwide, and via shortwave to Europe, Africa, the Americas and the South Pacific, as well as on the Internet.
External links
His Kids Radio Website
WCSG Radio 91.3 FM with streaming Internet broadcast
Keys for Kids Radio Website
Christian radio stations in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples%20Music%20Network
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The People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that serves as a network of musicians, activists, songwriters, concert producers, sound engineers, and others, who use music and culture to promote progressive ideas and values. Founded in 1977 by Pete Seeger and Charlie King, the organization has two gatherings each year, one in upstate New York in early June, and one in late January in various cities (usually on the east coast of the US, but sometimes in other locations). The gatherings serve to provide networking opportunities for artists and activists, offering workshops on various topics (environmental songs, women's songs, labor songs, etc.), a Round Robin where each participant can perform one song for all others, and a loosely structured "Songs of the Spirit" session where inspiring a capella songs are sung.
References
History of Peoples Music Network
Music organizations based in the United States
Musical advocacy groups
Music and politics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Sports
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Prime Sports (originally known as the Prime Sports Network (PSN), and also known as Prime Network or simply Prime) is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that were owned by Liberty Media, operating from November 1988 to October 31, 1996. While Liberty owned many of these networks, some of Prime's member networks were owned by other companies, and carried programming distributed for the group through affiliation agreements. As a result, Prime-affiliated networks had the right to select Prime Network programs to broadcast.
Each of the networks primarily carried regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate and high school sports teams (with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual network, although some were shown on multiple Prime networks within a particular team's designated market area), along with regional and national sports discussion, documentary and analysis programs.
History
Early history
The group's history traces back to the original Prime Ticket (now Bally Sports West), a Los Angeles-based sports network that launched on October 19, 1985. The channel was founded as a joint venture between Jerry Buss, majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings, and cable television pioneer Bill Daniels, who held a minority ownership interest in both professional sports franchises, which carried most of their NBA and NHL games on the network. Prime Ticket was headquartered in a small office building across the street from the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, then the home stadium of the Kings and Lakers.
Prime Ticket caught on with cable subscribers in Southern California as it was founded at the height of the Lakers' 1980s championship run, and later got a boost from the trade of Wayne Gretzky to the Kings in 1988. It was also unique among regional sports networks, in that it operated as a basic cable channel, instead of a premium service as many of the RSNs operating at the time did.
Within a few years, Daniels bought out most of Buss's shares in Prime Ticket and became the channel's majority owner. In 1989, Daniels partnered with cable television provider Tele-Communications Inc. to form a new group of regional sports networks. Prime Ticket served as the flagship charter network, joined by the Prime Sports Network (now AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain), an owned-and-operated outlet based in Denver, near TCI's corporate headquarters in the suburb of Englewood. The partnership also purchased Dallas-based Home Sports Entertainment and its share of Orlando-based Sunshine Network. HSE had been in operation since 1983, while Sunshine had debuted in 1988. These four networks formed the cornerstones of the Prime Network group, along with several others already owned by TCI. Prime quickly obtained rights to the Pac-10 Conference football and secured affiliation agreements with other major regional sports networks including Home Team Sports (Baltim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pria%20Viswalingam
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Anandan Pria Viswalingam is an Australian documentary and film maker. He is a Sydney-based producer, writer and director, known earlier for his work with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) network.
Viswalingam was born in Kota Bahru, Federation of Malaya in 1962. He was educated at a boarding school in England before emigrating to Perth, Western Australia. After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1987, his broadcasting experience began in radio, as a newsreader and reporter, specialising in politics and international affairs.
In 1989, he moved to SBS Television and worked in news and current affairs, where he presented and reported live-to-air programming. As well as anchoring the network's World News, he hosted Dateline, Tonight, Asia Report and Wine Lover’s Guide to Australia. Viswalingam is best known for presenting the A Fork in the Road travelogues from 1992 until 2005, including A Fork in Australia, A Fork in Asia, A Fork in Africa and A Fork in the Mediterranean. The program was SBS's largest international success, with the series repeated on Foxtel's Lifestyle Channel, as well as shown on cable television in Europe, Asia and Canada.
In 2001, he wrote, produced, directed and narrated Class, a four-episode documentary series for SBS that looks at the "slow death of egalitarian Australia". Also in 2001, he wrote and directed the four episodes of A Yen for a Dollar, a series which looked at Asian culture through the prism of business. This series aired on the ABC in February 2002.
In 2006, Viswalingam wrote, produced and presented Decadence, with reflections on modern life in the West, in six episodes of 25 minutes each.
From 2007 to 2008, he co-wrote and co-directed (with Stephen Van Mil of Animal Media) The Last Trimate—a one-hour documentary on the life of Birutė Galdikas and her pioneering study of Borneo's orangutans, which was narrated by Mel Gibson.
In 2008, based on the success of the SBS TV series Decadence, Viswalingam began work on a documentary feature film version, which was released to Australian cinemas in December 2011 as Decadence: The Decline of the Western World.
Viswalingam has written and directed episodes on all series of Coast Australia and Coast New Zealand for the History Channel and the BBC. He is developing drama projects in Australia and the UK.
References
External links
Pria Viswalingam at the Australian Film Commission
1962 births
Living people
Australian television presenters
Australian documentary filmmakers
Australian television directors
Australian television journalists
Sri Lankan Tamil people
Sri Lankan film directors
Australian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
Malaysian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
People from Kelantan
Malaysian emigrants to Australia
Malaysian people of Indian descent
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankarapuram
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Sankarapuram is a Town Panchayat of Kallakurichi district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
References
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/803437-sankarapuram.html
Cities and towns in Kallakurichi district
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPS/VM
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VPS/VM (Virtual Processing System/Virtual Machine) was an operating system that ran on IBM System/370 – IBM 3090 computers at Boston University in general use from 1977 to around 1990, and in limited use until at least 1993. During the 1980s, VPS/VM was the main operating system of Boston University and often ran up to 250 users at a time when rival VM/CMS computing systems could only run 120 or so users.
Each user ran in a Virtual Machine under VM, an IBM hypervisor operating system. VM provided the virtual IBM 370 machine which the VPS operating system ran under. The VM code was modified to allow all the VPS virtual machines to share pages of storage with read and write access. VPS utilized a shared nucleus, as well as pages used to facilitate passing data from one VPS virtual machine to another. This organization is very similar to that of MVS; substituting Address Spaces for Virtual Machines.
Origins
According to Craig Estey, who worked at the Boston University Academic Computing Center between 1974 and 1977:
Description
An IBM-based operating system, and quite like some DOS/VSE time sharing options, VPS/VM provided the user an IBM 3270 full screen terminal (a green screen) and a user interface that was like VM/CMS. Each user had an 11 megabyte virtual machine (with a strange 3 megabyte memory gap in the middle) and, from 1984 onwards, could run several programs at a time.
The operating system was sparsely documented but was written first by Charles Brown, a BU doctoral student, and John H. Porter, a physics PHD, who later became the head of the VPS project (and eventually Boston University's vice president for information systems and technology). Marian Moore wrote much of the later VM code necessary to run the VPS system.
Josie Bondoc wrote some of the later VPS additions, like UNIX piping.
Many MVS/VM programs ran on VPS/VM, such as XEDIT, and compilers for Pascal, PL/1, C and Cobol. These MVS/VM programs ran under an OS simulation program that simulated the OS/VM supervisor calls (SVCs). Margorie Orr supervised the OS simulation program development and maintenance. Some of the programmers who wrote parts of the OS simulation package, or maintained it were Margorie Orr, Timothy Greiser, Daniel Levbre, John Coldwell Lotz, and Paul Cheffers.
Michael Krugman wrote some of the early main utilities such as IFMSG, the JCL language for VPS, and also MAIL, the early email program. SENDMAIL, written by Francis Costanzo, implemented email, under the BITNET system.
Some pre SQL databases installed on VPS were FOCUS and NOMAD2.
Michael Gettes wrote an early and quick HELP system.
The file system was not hierarchical and originally each file had to have a unique 8 character filename. This eventually grew onerous and each user was given their own private directory.
Tapes and IBM disk files were supported as well as native VPS text files.
There was a very simple shell and no patterns were supported except for the PAW computer program, w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette%20Porter
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Bette Porter is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word and its sequel The L Word: Generation Q, played by Jennifer Beals.
Fictional character biography
Before The L Word
Bette is introduced as an affluent, Ivy League-educated lesbian of African-American and Caucasian heritage. She grew up in Philadelphia and was an art history major at Yale, where she began having sex with her boyfriend, Coleman. They both realized they were gay shortly after, with Bette developing a crush on her art history professor, Danica Palmer (Lifesize: 306). Eventually, she came out as a lesbian, and fell for her bisexual friend, Kelly. After Kelly rejected her advances, Bette grew depressed to the brink of suicide.
After graduation, Bette moved on, and dated Alice Pieszecki briefly. Bette once fingered Alice while they were at the opera Lakmé (during The Flower Duet). Though their relationship ended when Bette cheated on Alice, the two remained close friends afterwards.
Bette met her future partner, Tina, while Tina was on a date at the Bette Porter Gallery with her then-boyfriend Eric. An instant attraction formed between the two of them. Bette noticed Tina's right earring had fallen off, and Tina supposedly put it back on. Later that night, Tina returned to the gallery to retrieve the lost earring. Bette had kept it for her. While Tina was picking it from her hand, Bette kissed her.
The L Word
Season one
Though Bette and Tina's relationship appears to their friends as very strong, it is revealed that they are having problems and visiting a therapist, mostly due to Bette's career at the California Arts Center, her domineering attitude and her tendency to become verbally abusive when things do not go her way. At Bette's urging, Tina gives up her own career in order to have a child, leaving Bette as the sole breadwinner. Things are complicated by Bette's homophobic father Melvin flatly refusing to acknowledge Tina's baby as his grandchild, and Bette's difficult but improving relationship with her older half-sister Kit, a recovering alcoholic who has often let her down.
Tina, however, suffers a miscarriage, which takes a heavy toll on Bette, and when Tina decides to become involved in a charitable organization, Bette finds that their careers make it almost impossible for them to spend any time together. At the same time, Bette finds herself drawn to Candace Jewell, a carpenter temporarily working at the CAC who makes a pass at her despite knowing of her relationship with Tina. Bette subsequently begins an affair with Candace to fulfil her sexual desires. When Tina discovers the affair, she flies into a rage and, in the ensuing physical fight, Bette forces herself sexually on Tina, who eventually submits. Tina still leaves Bette and moves out of their house.
Season two
In the second season, Bette resumes her affair with Candace, but soon becomes desperate to make amends for her betrayal, and finds that her break-up with Tina is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina%20Kennard
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Tina Kennard is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word and The L Word: Generation Q, shown nationally in the United States. She is played by American actress Laurel Holloman. Tina lives in Los Angeles, California, and mostly hangs out in West Hollywood. She is the mother of Angelica Porter-Kennard and initially the life partner of Bette Porter. After she and Bette break up, the two become on-again-off-again lovers for the rest of the series, and eventually marry and divorce between the events of The L Word and Generation Q.
Storyline
Back Story
In the context of the six seasons of The L Word very little is said about Tina's background and nothing at all is revealed about her family. Only in the interrogation tapes, released online after the airing of the final episode of season 6, does Tina reveal some 'truths' about her upbringing. As a child, Tina and her two siblings were abruptly moved to Atlanta, Georgia by her mother when Tina's politician father refused to end his extramarital affair.
Tina's first sexual relationship was an abusive one - her older sister molested her for three years when they were children. Her sister later became a born-again Christian to deny her own homosexuality, while hypocritically shunning Tina for being bisexual. Tina kept her abuse history secret from everyone, including Bette, and only confessed it to interrogating police officers after Jenny Schecter's death.
Prior to meeting Bette, Tina lived largely as a straight woman and had a few relationships, along with two abortions in her early twenties.
Bette and Tina met when Tina's then-boyfriend Eric took her to the Bette Porter Gallery, where the two instantly became attracted to one another. Bette noticed Tina's right earring had fallen off. Despite the fact that Bette returned it to her, Tina left her earring at Bette's gallery so she could come back and get it later. Bette had kept it for her. While Tina was picking it from her hand, Bette kissed her. Shortly after, Tina left Eric to begin a relationship with Bette.
Season 1
At the beginning of the first season, having been a couple for seven years, Tina and Bette are in the process searching for a sperm donor so that Tina can be artificially inseminated. After a successful insemination, Tina conceives, but suffers a miscarriage before she is even showing. This event is very traumatic for Tina, who finds comfort in working for a charity organization. Though she finds fulfillment there, her new career drives her further away from Bette. Bette then has an affair with carpenter Candace Jewell to fulfil her sexual needs. Tina eventually finds out, and in the ensuing fight, they have sex. Though consent remains unclear, Tina eventually submits to Bette and later moves out of their house to live with Alice.
Season 2
During the second season, Tina lives with Alice, and under her advice, decides to seek legal advice over her separation from Bette. Tina gets into contact with J
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsophila%20caudata
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Alsophila caudata, synonym Cyathea caudata, is a species of tree fern native to the islands of Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines, where it grows in montane forest. The trunk is erect and up to 4 m tall or more. Fronds are bi- or tripinnate and 1–2 m long. The stipe is warty and covered with dark, narrow, glossy scales. Sori are borne near the midvein of fertile pinnules and are protected by firm, brown indusia. , Plants of the World Online treated it as a synonym of Alsophila speciosa.
Taxonomy
The species was first described, as Cyathea caudata, by John Smith in 1841. , World Ferns accepted the species as Alsophila caudata, whereas Plants of the World Online treated it as a synonym of Alsophila speciosa.
In 2004, it was said that the closest relatives of A. caudata appear to be the smaller Alsophila edanoi and Alsophila heterochlamydea. Further study was needed to determine whether all three should be retained as separate species.
References
caudata
Flora of Luzon
Flora of Mindanao
Plants described in 1841
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urapakkam
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Urapakkam is a vibrant suburb located to the south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It boasts a railway station situated within the locality, serving as a part of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network on the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section. Falling under the jurisdiction of the Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India, Urapakkam is also part of the 'Golden Quadrilateral' National Highway Project with National Highway 45 passing through it. This suburb lies in close proximity to various other localities such as Potheri, Guduvancheri, Raj Bhavan, Tambaram, and Chitalapakkam, thus acting as a connecting hub in the southern part of the Chennai metropolitan area. Urapakkam's growth as a residential and commercial hub, alongside its rich cultural heritage showcased by numerous ancient temples, adds to its significance. Its strategic location along major roadways enhances connectivity between Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu, making Urapakkam a key locality in the region.
Transportation
By Rail
Urapakkam is served by the Urapakkam railway station on the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, providing connectivity to various parts of Chennai and nearby regions.
By Bus
Urapakkam enjoys excellent road connectivity. National Highway 45 passes through the locality, linking it to other parts of Tamil Nadu and Chennai. The suburb is served by various bus stops, with the Chennai Metropolitan Transport Service buses and Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) buses facilitating easy transport to different parts of Chennai and other regions in Tamil Nadu.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census, Urapakkam, a Census Town in the Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu, had a population of 29,122 individuals.
References
Cities and towns in Chengalpattu district
Suburbs of Chennai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Military%20Television%20Network
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U.S. Military Television Network is a planned specialty television channel distributed through satellite television and cable television companies.
It positions itself as "a new 24 hour cable television network designed to introduce America to the personnel and their families that make up the U.S. Military".
Its founder is Lauren Kelly, who is married to a Marine.
References
The Daily News (Jacksonville, North Carolina): I want my USMTV: spouse launches network
External links
US Military Television Network
United States military support organizations
Television networks in the United States
Mass media of the military of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Run%20for%20Your%20Life
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Midnight Run for Your Life is a 1994 made-for-television film, and the third and final entry in a series of television films produced for Universal Television's Action Pack programming block and based on the 1988 film Midnight Run. Christopher McDonald, who played Jack Walsh in previous installments Another Midnight Run and Midnight Runaround, reprises the role.
Plot
Lorna Bellstratten (Walters), a waitress with dreams of being in show business, is duped by her drug-dealer boyfriend Michael Vega (Guastaferro) into delivering a bomb to an undercover cop. Though Lorna survives the explosion (intended to kill her and the cop), she finds herself—as the only material witness to the crime she unwittingly abetted—wanted by both the cops and the mob (Vega's employers). Distraught, Lorna flees to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and takes out a contract on her own life (suicide-by-hitman.) Meanwhile, Vega (posing as Lorna's father) hires Los Angeles bail bondsman, Eddie Moscone (Hedaya) to send in a bounty hunter to bring her back to LA alive. Eddie offers the job to bounty hunter Jack Walsh (McDonald) for $10,000. He doesn't want to take the job because Eddie keeps on stiffing him his money. Eddie threatens to give the job to rival bounty hunter Marvin Dorfler, who does not make an appearance. When Walsh finds her in Cabo San Lucas, Lorna thinks he's her hitman. After a night of dancing, Lorna finds out the truth, hits Walsh out of anger and returns to her hotel room in a huff. Walsh's attempt to recover her is initially thwarted by the untimely arrival of the real hit-man, but they escape—with the hitman, the cops, and Vega's goons all hot on their trail. Along the way, the still-despondent Lorna keeps looking for—and finding—all manner of new ways to kill herself. For Jack Walsh, there's another problem—he's falling in love.
Cast
Christopher McDonald as Jack Walsh
Melora Walters as Lorna Bellstratten
Vincent Guastaferro as Michael Vega
Dan Hedaya as Eddie Moscone
John Fleck as Jerry Geisler
Richard Bradford as Lt. Breem
Steve Hytner as Sgt. Pickett
LaTanya Richardson as Det. Dixon
Louis Mustillo as Hector
Stephen Lee as Benny
Michael Beach as Pemberton
References
External links
1994 television films
1994 films
Action Pack (TV programming block)
American television films
Films directed by Daniel Sackheim
Films set in Mexico
Universal Pictures films
Television sequel films
American action comedy films
1990s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCS
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APCS may refer to:
Serum amyloid P component, a human gene
AP Computer Science
Academics Plus Charter Schools, in Arkansas
Avoyelles Public Charter School, Mansura, Louisiana
See also
APC (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auma
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Auma () is a town and a former municipality in the district of Greiz, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Auma-Weidatal. It is situated 24 km southwest of Gera.
History
Within the German Empire (1871-1918), Auma was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
References
External links
District Greiz
Towns in Thuringia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistic%20%28role-playing%20games%29
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A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character. That piece of data is usually a (unitless) integer or, in some cases, a set of dice.
For some types of statistics, this value may be accompanied with a descriptive adjective, sometimes called a specialisation or aspect, that either describes how the character developed that particular score or an affinity for a particular use of that statistic (like Specialisations in Ars Magica or Attribute Aspects in Aria).
Most games divide their statistics into several categories. The set of categories actually used in a game system, as well as the precise statistics within each category, vary greatly. The most often used types of statistic include:
Attributes describe to what extent a character possesses natural, in-born characteristics common to all characters.
Advantages and disadvantages are useful or problematic characteristics that are not common to all characters.
Powers represent unique or special qualities of the character. In game terms, these often grant the character the potential to gain or develop certain advantages or to learn and use certain skills.
Skills represent a character's learned abilities in predefined areas.
Traits are broad areas of expertise, similar to skills, but with a broader and usually more loosely defined scope, in areas freely chosen by the player.
There is no standard nomenclature for statistics; for example, both GURPS and the Storytelling System refer to their statistics as "traits", even though they are treated as attributes and skills.
Many games make use of derived statistics whose values depend on other statistics, which are known as primary or basic statistics. Game-specific concepts such as experience levels, alignment, character class and race can also be considered statistics.
Types
Attributes
An attribute describes to what extent a character possesses a natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game. Attributes are also called statistics, characteristics or abilities.
Most role-playing games use attributes to describe characters’ physical and mental characteristics, for example their strength or wisdom. Many games also include social characteristics as well, for example a character's natural charisma or physical appearance. They often influence the chance to succeed in a skill or other tests by addition to a die roll or by determining the number of dice to be thrown. As a consequence, usually a higher number is better, and ranges can be as small as 1–5 (for numbers of dice) or as great as 1–100 (when adding to results of percentile dice). In some games, attributes represent linearly increasing ability (e.g. in Tunnels and Trolls, where a character can lift 10 lbs per point of Strength) whereas in others a small increase can represent a major gain in ability (e.g. in the DC Heroes/Blood of Heroes system, where +1 to Strength doubles a character's lifting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%20%281990%20arcade%20game%29
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Batman is a horizontally scrolling beat 'em up arcade game released by Atari Games, Midway Games, Data East and Namco in 1990 in North America, 1991 in Japan and 1991 in Europe.
Gameplay
The storyline is based on the eponymous 1989 movie. It features stages based on locations in the film, including first-person control of the Batmobile and the Batwing. The game features audio clips of Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) as well as digitized photos from the film. Batman can use various weapons, such as batarangs and gas grenades, as he takes on various goons and the Joker.
Development and release
Konami was also in talks of releasing an arcade game based on the 1989 film around the same time as Atari but "other companies got in the way". It is suspected that company was Atari.
Reception
References
External links
Batman at Arcade History
1990 video games
Video games based on Batman films
Arcade video games
Atari arcade games
Batman (1989 film series)
Beat 'em ups
Data East arcade games
Data East video games
Midway video games
Namco arcade games
Side-scrolling beat 'em ups
Superhero video games
Video games based on adaptations
Video games based on films
Video games based on works by Tim Burton
Video games set in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight%20%28company%29
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Spotlight is the largest casting resource in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1927, it has over 70,000 actors, actresses, presenters, dancers, and stunt performers in its database. It is used by thousands of production companies, broadcasters, advertisement agencies, and casting directors. Clients range from large organisations such as the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to smaller production companies. Its website features a public "Contacts Listings" section, which lists a variety of professionals which provide services to the entertainment industry.
Spotlight is one of the most successful and largest companies in the UK casting profession.
Kenneth Seale joined the company as an employee, and later became a director. He was succeeded by his son Nigel, who launched a CD version of Spotlight in 1995, which won a Professional Publishers Association award. Spotlight was registered as an unlimited company in 2010, which does not have to disclose its profits publicly. Nigel Seale died in 2019 aged 78.
His daughters Emma and Philippa worked for Spotlight, and his son Ben became chief executive.
Spotlight was acquired by Talent Systems in 2020.
Directory Books
Spotlight was the publisher of annual directories of entertainment industry professionals (including actors, presenters and directors/designers).
References
External links
Spotlight website
Directories
1927 establishments in the United Kingdom
Casting companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda%20Vi%C3%A9gas
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Fernanda Bertini Viégas (born 1971) is a Brazilian computer scientist and graphical designer, whose work focuses on the social, collaborative and artistic aspects of information visualization.
Biography
Viégas studied graphic design and art history at the University of Kansas, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in 1997. She then moved to the MIT Media Lab, where she received an M.S. in 200 and a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences in 2005 under the supervision of Judith Donath. The same year she began work at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the Visual Communication Lab.
In April 2010, she and Martin M. Wattenberg started a new venture called Flowing Media, Inc., to focus on visualization aimed at consumers and mass audiences. Four months later, both of them joined Google as the co-leaders of the Google's "Big Picture" data visualization group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Work
Social visualization
Viégas began her research while at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on graphical interfaces for online communication. Her Chat Circles system introduced ideas such as proximity-based filtering of conversation and a visual archive of chat history displaying the overall rhythm and form of a conversation. Her email visualization designs (including PostHistory and Themail) are the foundation for many other systems; her findings on how visualizations are often used for storytelling influenced subsequent work on the collaborative aspects of visualization. While at MIT, she also studied usage of Usenet and blogs.
Collective intelligence and public visualization
A second stream of work, in partnership with Martin Wattenberg, centers on collective intelligence and the public use of data visualization.
Her work with visualizations such as History Flow and Chromogram led to some of the earliest publications on the dynamics of Wikipedia, including the first scientific study of the repair of vandalism.
Viégas is one of the founders of IBM's experimental Many Eyes website, created in 2007, which seeks to make visualization technology accessible to the public. In addition to broad uptake from individuals, the technology from Many Eyes has been used by nonprofits and news outlets such as the New York Times Visualization Lab.
Art
Viégas is also known for her artistic work, which explores the medium of visualization for explorations of emotionally charged digital data. An early example is Artifacts of the Presence Era, an interactive installation at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2003, which featured a video-based timeline of visitor interactions with the museum. She often works with Martin Wattenberg to visualize emotionally charged information. An example of these works is their piece "Web Seer", which is a visualization of Google Suggest. The Fleshmap series (started in 2008) uses visualization to portray aspects of sensuality, and includes work on the web, video, and installations. In 2012, she launched the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripsit
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Scripsit (usually rendered in official marketing and support documents as SCRIPSIT) is a word processing application written for the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of computers. Versions were available for most if not all computers sold under the TRS-80 name, including the Color Computer and several pocket computer designs, as well as the Tandy version of the Xenix operating system. Tandy Corp. also produced a version running under MS-DOS for its line of PC compatible computers (Tandy 1000 and successors). Some of the 8-bit versions are tape-based and have no ability to read or write to disk.
The word scripsit is a Latin verb equivalent to the English "wrote". It was often used as an inscription indicating the identity of the person who wrote something.
Functionality
Scripsit is a rudimentary word processor. It has basic text entry and margin controls, as well as word wrap. Many versions tied to specific platforms were available, and each version had its own set of features. Most versions supported variable width fonts, specifically for daisy-wheel printers. None had support for graphics other than some character macros depending on the version. The version for the TRS-80 Model I had special handling to make it possible to use lowercase letters, even though the hardware itself did not support mixed-case type.
Despite its limitations, Scripsit was seen at the time as a killer application for the TRS-80 line of machines, along with other breakthrough applications such as VisiCalc. It was Radio Shack's top-selling program for the consumer-oriented Models I and III. Its main competitor was Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil. Scripsit dominated its market because, at first, no other TRS-80 word processor was available through the ubiquitous Radio Shack retail stores, with alternatives only being known and made available to the public in the TRS-80 computer press, such as 80 Micro magazine. The software market evolved quickly, however, and Scripsit's popularity soon gave way to packages running on other more modern computers, such as WordPerfect running on the IBM PC.
Word processors typically require the use of special function keys to access editing commands as opposed to text entry. This proved to be a challenge on the TRS-80 Models I and Model III, as their keyboards had no non-typewriter modifier keys—not even a [Control] key. Instead, Tandy used the '@' key to access features such as margin control and load/save. Other common features were implemented as key combinations using the [Clear] key, and, lacking a [CAPS] key, the combination [SHIFT][zero].
SuperScripsit
An upgraded disk-only version named SuperScripsit was available with spellchecking for some platforms, specifically the Model I, Model III, and Model 4. This version basically matches the functionality of the normal Scripsit for disk-based platforms such as the Model II, Model 12, and Model 16. Some additional features such as boilerplating and integration with Profile, Tandy's da
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Soho
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Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho (; born March 27, 1964) is a Filipino broadcast journalist affiliated with GMA Network. She is the host of the news magazine program Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (2004present) on GMA, and was the news anchor for State of the Nation on GTV from 2011 to 2021.
Soho is a multi-awarded journalist. In 1998, Soho became the first Filipino to win the British Fleet Street Award for Journalism. In 1999, Soho and the I-Witness team received the Philippines' first Peabody Award for producing the "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao" documentaries. Soho's story of a hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley made her the first Filipino to win in the New York Film Festival.
Early life
Maria Jessica Aspiras Soho was born in Agoo, La Union, Philippines, on March 27, 1964. Her parents are Abelardo Soho, a government employee, and Maura Aspiras, an agriculturist. Soho's grandmothers, Sixta "Apo Ittang" Aspiras and Concepción "Cion" Soho, influenced her in telling stories.
Soho attended the University of the Philippines Diliman to study mass communication. One of her professors was Luis Beltran, who inspired Soho to finish her studies and practice journalism in Manila.
Career
Soho joined GMA News and Public Affairs in January 1985. Soho's first voice-over report was a feature story on the inauguration of the Manila Line 1 from Baclaran to Monumento. Soho was later assigned to the defense and military beats.
In 1991, Soho earned a Bronze Award at the New York Film Festival for her coverage of a hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley, the first for a Filipino. She also received the Ka Doroy Valencia Award given by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas. In 1994, she received the Grand Prize from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union for her coverage of a breaking news story. Soho is included in the list of 100 Filipino Women of Distinction chosen during the Philippine Centennial celebrations.
Soho helped conceptualize the one-hour documentary television program I-Witness, which she co-presented from its premiere in 1999 to 2004. The I-Witness documentaries "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao" made her the first Filipino reporter, with GMA Network as the first Filipino network, to win a Peabody Award in 1999. She won the Asian Television Award for Best News and Current Affairs Special for the 2001 "Saksi Sa Kasaysayan" documentary.
In 2014, Soho's GMA news programs Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho and State of the Nation with Jessica Soho were recognized by the Peabody Awards for their coverage on Super Typhoon Yolanda. State of the Nation also earned Soho consecutive wins for Most Trusted News Presenter by Reader's Digest Asia.
In 2015, Soho was given an honorary doctorate in humanities by the University of Northeastern Philippines during its 67th commencement exercises on April.
Controversies
In May 2013, a controversy sparked involving Soho and comedian Vice Ganda, involving a joke directed at the anchor during the latter's concert held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Reed%20Network
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Dan Reed Network is an American funk rock band formed in 1984 by Dan Reed in Portland, Oregon. They released several albums during the mid-to late 1980s and scored a top 40's hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988.
History
Formation
Dan Reed (born 1963 in Portland, Oregon) met Dan Pred in high school in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and after a time pursuing music studies at Northern State University, the pair returned to Portland and formed the Dan Reed Network in 1984. In 1986, they made their first recording, a six-track EP called Breathless which included a No. 1 single, "Steal Me", on Z-100 in Portland, Oregon.
The lineup at this point was Dan Reed on vocals and guitar, Brion James on guitar, Melvin Brannon II on bass guitar, Dan Pred on drums, and Rick DiGiallonado (formerly of Portland platinum rockers Quarterflash) on keyboards. The band's diverse ethnic and musical backgrounds (Reed is of German, Hawaiian, and Native American ancestry, James is of Jamaican ancestry, Brannon is African-American, Pred is Jewish and DiGiallonado is Italian-American) were reflected in the music, which, though discernibly hard rock, was blended with soul, funk, and jazz arrangements. DiGiallonado, who was married with one child, was replaced by Portlander Blake Sakamoto on keyboards; Sakamoto, of Japanese heritage, had returned from Los Angeles where he had been playing with future Atlantic Records artists Dear Mr. President (lead singer Julian Raymond moved on to be vice president of Capitol Records).
The Dan Reed Network made a name for itself with the live performances. The Washington Post described the band in one performance as "easily charming its ... audience with an unlikely brand of heavy metal-ish rock sharpened by junk funk and plenty of rock 'n' roll theatrics", and that "the Network's strength lies in its infectious temperament."
Record deal
The band signed to Mercury Records with the aid of Derek Shulman (who was enjoying success with Bon Jovi and Cinderella), and were managed by Bill Graham. In winter 1987, the group released an eponymous debut album which was produced by Bruce Fairbairn (who had worked with Bon Jovi) and was engineered and mixed by Mike Fraser at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. They released their first single "Ritual", which peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also received a music video.
The Dan Reed Network album received positive reviews, not the least of which is a four-star write-up from Rolling Stone. Most reviews lauded the band's ability to blend elements of heavy funk with a gritty rock edge peppered with pop hooks, pulled together in a 1980s radio-friendly production. Rolling Stone wrote that "Producer Fairbairn deserves a nod for adding just the right amount of pop polish where it's needed", and giving even the weaker songs on a strong album an appeal. Still, while People magazine's review of the album as being "polished to a brassy sheen" saw the glass half-full, some music critics saw Fa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Runaround
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Midnight Runaround is a 1994 American made-for-television film, and the second in a series of television films produced for Universal Television's Action Pack programming block and based on the 1988 film Midnight Run. The sequel to Another Midnight Run, the film stars Christopher McDonald reprising his role as Jack Walsh. Midnight Runaround was followed by Midnight Run for Your Life.
Cast
Christopher McDonald as Jack Walsh
Kyle Secor as Dale Adder
Ed O'Ross as Marvin Dorfler
John Fleck as Jerry Geisler
Dan Hedaya as Eddie Moscone
Rebecca Cross as Gina
Tom McCleister as Hal Mooney
Dick Miller as O'Doul
Leon Russom as Sheriff Burton
Beverly Leech as Reba
Jeff Doucette as Orvis
Gary Grubbs as Lester
Filming locations
Los Angeles, California
Sperry, Oklahoma
References
External links
1994 television films
1994 films
Action Pack (TV programming block)
American television films
Universal Pictures films
American action comedy films
Films shot in Oklahoma
Films set in Oklahoma
Films shot in Los Angeles
Television sequel films
1990s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Midnight%20Run
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Another Midnight Run is a 1994 American made-for-television film, and the first in a series of television films produced for Universal Television's Action Pack programming block and based on the 1988 feature film Midnight Run. Christopher McDonald plays bounty hunter Jack Walsh, who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the first film. Another Midnight Run was followed by two more made-for-television sequels, Midnight Runaround and Midnight Run for Your Life.
Plot summary
Jack Walsh (McDonald) is hired by bail bondsman Eddie Moscone (Dan Hedaya) to bring in Bernie Abbot (Jeffrey Tambor) and Helen Bishop (Cathy Moriarty), a husband and wife team of con artists. Moscone also brings in rival bounty hunter Marvin Dorfler (Ed O'Ross) to work with Jack, with the agreement that they will split the money; however, both men are planning to double cross each other.
Cast and characters
Christopher McDonald as Jack Walsh
Jeffrey Tambor as Bernie Abbot
Cathy Moriarty as Helen Bishop
Ed O'Ross as Marvin Dorfler
John Fleck as Jerry Geisler
Dan Hedaya as Eddie Moscone
Sam Shamshak as Lester Weems
Alternate titles
Midnight Run 2: Another Midnight Run (UK)
Midnight Run: Cash Comes at Midnight (Germany)
References
External links
American action comedy films
American television films
Action Pack (TV programming block)
Universal Pictures films
1994 television films
1994 films
Television sequel films
Films set in Los Angeles
Films directed by James Frawley
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Pilgrim
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Mark Pilgrim is a software developer, writer, and advocate of free software. He authored a popular blog, and has written several books, including Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language published under the GNU Free Documentation License. Formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group, he started working at Google in March 2007. In 2018, he moved to Brave.
Early life
In 1992, while a sophomore at Cornell University and a part-time employee of Cornell Information Technologies (CIT), Pilgrim and another student, David Blumenthal, embedded a computer virus, MBDF, into three games. In February of the same year, Pilgrim, Blumenthal, Randall Johnson, and Eric Sooros uploaded the games from Cornell's Upson Hall computer lab to a public server at Stanford University. The four used false mainframe accounts created by Blumenthal, then also a CIT employee The virus caused disruption to Macintosh computers internationally.
The origin of the virus was first identified by Claris employees in Wales on February 14, and was traced to Stanford, and then further to one of Cornell's mainframes. Cornell's access logs showed the uploads were made from several computers in the lab while Pilgrim was working there. Sooros was granted immunity from prosecution in return for his grand jury testimony against Pilgrim, Johnson, and Blumenthal. Pilgrim and Blumenthal were arrested and initially charged with computer tampering in the second degree, a Class A misdemeanor. The FBI investigated to determine if federal charges were warranted, though no additional charges were filed. After facing disciplinary hearings, none of the four implicated continued as Cornell students.
In September 1992, Pilgrim and Blumenthal pled guilty and were later sentenced to 520 hours of community service, forfeiture of seized computer equipment, and payment of nearly $2,500 in restitution to Cornell and other affected parties. Johnson pled guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to 450 hours of community service.
Books and articles
Dive into Python
Pilgrim's book Dive into Python is a teach-by-example guide to the paradigms of programming in Python and modern software development techniques. It assumes some preexisting knowledge of programming, although not necessarily in Python. The first edition was published in 2004 (), and a 2009 second edition () covers Python 3. Both are available online as well as in print.
Much of the book consists of example programs with annotations and explanatory text, and it generally describes how to modify an example to serve new purposes. One early example program reads through a directory of MP3 files and lists the header information, such as artist, album, etc. Other topics covered include object oriented programming, documentation, unit testing, and accessing and parsing HTML and XML.
Other works
Dive into Accessibility, a free book on web accessibility, for web designers
Dive into Greasemonkey, a
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Malvern tram depot is located in Coldblo Road, Armadale, Victoria, a suburb of Stonnington, Australia. Operated by Yarra Trams, it is one of eight tram depots on the Melbourne tram network.
History
Malvern tram depot was opened on 30 May 1910 by the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust (PMTT). It was included in the sale of the PMTT to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board on 1 March 1920. In 1930 a second tramshed was built on the opposite side of Coldblo Road.
When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Malvern depot passed to M>Tram. It passed to Yarra Trams when it took control of the entire tram network in April 2004. In January 2005 Coldblo Road that ran between the two sheds with one track was closed to vehicle traffic and two additional tracks laid.
Heritage buildings
The buildings at the depot are listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Layout
The main yard has 17 roads, 14 of these inside two sheds and three uncovered roads taking up space in Coldblo Road. A multi-directional single exit/entry track exists.
Rolling stock
As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 93 trams: 38 D1 Class and 55 Z3 Class.
Routes
The following routes are operated from Malvern depot:
5: Melbourne University to Malvern
6: Moreland to Glen Iris shared with Brunswick depot
16: Melbourne University to Kew
72: Melbourne University to Camberwell
References
Heritage-listed buildings in Melbourne
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1910
1910 establishments in Australia
Transport in the City of Stonnington
Buildings and structures in the City of Stonnington
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Calgary
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The city of Calgary, Alberta, has a large transportation network that encompasses a variety of road, rail, air, public transit, and pedestrian infrastructure. Calgary is also a major Canadian transportation centre and a central cargo hub for freight in and out of north-western North America. The city sits at the junction between the "Canamex" highway system and the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1 in Alberta).
As a prairie city, Calgary has never had any major impediments to growth. As such, it has developed into a city with an area of about (of which only half is built up) and a metropolitan area of nearly . This outward growth has encouraged the development of an extensive personal vehicle-oriented road network complete with a freeway system.
Since 1981, when the city officially opened the first leg of its CTrain rapid transit system, emphasis on public transportation as an alternative to cars has become important. The CTrain has the second-highest light rail system ridership of any North American city, only slightly behind Guadalajara, Mexico. Cycling is also seen as a major alternative to driving in Calgary. In recent years, increases in the population and density of inner-city neighbourhoods such as the Beltline have favoured greater pedestrianism as well.
Public transportation
Calgary's primary public transportation system is operated by Calgary Transit. The service operates only within Calgary city limits and does not provide transportation to and from other communities within the Calgary Region. Some communities within Calgary's metropolitan area provide their own transit services (for example, Airdrie Transit). Calgary Transit is owned and managed by the City of Calgary.
Light rail
The light rail transit (LRT) system, known as the C-Train, consists of of track connecting 45 stations and was one of the first such systems in North America. Until very recently, Calgary and Edmonton were the only two North American cities with populations under two million to operate rapid mass transit systems.
The Saddletowne-69 St. (Route 202) line serves the city's West, downtown and Northeast areas, while the Tuscany-Somerset–Bridlewood (Route 201) line runs between the Northwest and South Calgary via the 7th Avenue South transit-only corridor. Travel between stations along 7th Avenue in downtown is free-of-charge. Unique to the C-Train system, its power is completely wind generated and completely free of emissions. An extension of the Route 202 line was recently built to serve some Southwest communities to the west of downtown. The project is called the WestLRT and was completed in December 2012.
Buses
Calgary Transit also has a system of buses, with routes stretching over the whole city. It has won several awards for its efficiency and its environmental responsibility. It consists of over 160 bus routes and four C-Train lines (two routes), stretching over .
Roads and streets
Calgary has an extensive street network. Smaller roads are supple
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Many countries have national networks of controlled-access highways, the names of which vary from one country to another e.g. freeway or motorway. The networks do not always include all such highways, or even all the major ones in the country.
Asia
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Lebuhraya
: Gaosu Gōnglù (高速公路)
: Highways
: Expressways
: Toll Road/Jalan Tol (all tolled)
: Āzādrāh (آزادراه)
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: kvish mahir (כביש מהיר)
:
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Avtomagistral (Автомагистраль)
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Autoroutes
: Lebuhraya (all tolled)
: Expressway (အမြန်လမ်း) (all tolled)
: Kosokdoro (고속도로)
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Motorways/Maḥrak rāst (محرک راست)
: Expressways (all tolled)
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Expressways (all tolled)
: Gosokdoro (고속도로)
: Expressways (all tolled)
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Gaosu Gōnglù (高速公路)
: Thangluang phiset (ทางหลวงพิเศษ)
: Otoyol
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Đường cao tốc
Europe
International E-road network (Note: not all E-roads are limited access with no at-grade intersections)
: Autostradë
: Avtomayughri (ավտոմայրուղի)
: Autobahnen
: Avtoyol
: Mahistral' (Магістраль)
: Autosnelwegen/Autoroutes/Autobahnen
: Autoput
: Avtomagistrala (автомагистрала)
: Autocesta
: Dálnice
: Avtokinitódromos (Αυτοκινητόδρομος)
: Motorvej
: Põhimaantee
: Moottoritiet
: Autoroutes
: Chkarosnuli avtomagistrali (ჩქაროსნული ავტომაგისტრალი)
: Autobahnen
: Avtokinitódromos (Αυτοκινητόδρομος)
: Autópálya and Autóút
: Motorway/Motorbhealach
: Autostrade
: Autostradë
: Automaģistrāle
: Automagistralė
: Autoroutes/Autobahnen
: Autoput (Аутопут)
: Autosnelwegen
: Avtopat (Автопат)
: Motorvei
: Autostrady and drogi ekspresowe
: Auto-estradas
: Autostrada
: Avtomagistral (Автомагистраль)
: Autoput (Аутопут)
: Dial'nica
: Avtoceste
: Autopistas and Autovías
: Motorvägar
: Autobahnen/Autoroutes/Autostrade
: Otoyol
: Avtomahistral (Автомагістраль)
: Motorways
Oceania
: Freeways
: Motorways
North America
: Highways/Autoroutes
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Highways
: Autoroutes
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Highways
: Freeways/Highways/Autopistas
South America
: Autopistas
: Autovías
: Rodovias
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
: Autopistas
Africa
: Autoroutes
: Motorways
: Autoroutes
: ṭarīq siyār (طريق سيار)
: Autovías
: Motorways
: Motorways
: Motorways/Autoroutes
: Autoroutes
: Motorways
: Autoroutes
: Autoroutes
: Autosnelwegen/Motorways
: Autoroutes
Notes
Controlled-access
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20Sports%20%28Florida%29
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Spectrum Sports (formerly known as Bright House Sports Network) was an American regional sports network serving the Tampa Bay and Orlando metropolitan areas of Florida, that was owned by cable television provider Charter Communications which exclusively carried the channel on Standard Definition channel 47 and High Definition channel 1147.
History
The channel was originally established in the Tampa Bay area in 2004, as Catch 47 (named after its cable channel slot). In September 2008, Corporate VP Elliott Wiser and General Manager Paul Kosuth relaunched the channel as Bright House Sports Network. The Network's carriage was expanded to Bright House's Central Florida systems. In 2012, the channel won sole rights to air all post season high school games. Bright House was acquired by Charter in May 2016, along with Time Warner Cable, and on November 15, 2016, Bright House Sports Network was renamed as Spectrum Sports, as Bright House on the same day became Spectrum.
In 2009, ESPN Inc. acquired a 27% stake in the channel and spun off its stake to Bright House in 2010.
As part of a company-wide restructuring, the channel is slated to be discontinued by the end of 2017. It signed off earlier than expected on December 16, 2017.
Programming
Programs featured on Spectrum Sports include Spectrum Sports Sport Stories, a monthly show covering local stories and interviews, Prep Sports Showcase, and "The Sunday Night Fish Fry," which includes Average Angler Adventures.
The channel airs local high school sports in the "Game of the Week" series, covering football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, and soccer events. Spectrum Sports provides the semi-finals and finals from the Florida High School Athletic Association in swimming and diving, cheerleading, lacrosse, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, and soccer.
Spectrum Sports provides select coverage of the University of South Florida Bulls athletics, including: football and basketball. In late 2008, the channel used its expanded coverage within the Central Florida market to start televising basketball and football games of the University of Central Florida. The first few games were rebroadcasts from Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) and the CBS College Sports Network; however, on January 6, 2009 Bright House Sports Network produced its first UCF basketball game against the College of the Holy Cross. Bright House Networks (now Charter Communications) is also the sponsor of UCF's on-campus stadium, Bright House Networks Stadium.
In addition, Spectrum Sports airs nationwide sports programs from sources such as ESPN Plus and America One. During the overnight hours, it simulcasts programming from ESPNEWS.
Prior to 2010, the channel aired Press Box, Xtra Point, Lightning Strikes, The Baysball Show and Beef 'O' Brady's High School Scoreboard. The Toyota Sports Connection, a nightly show focusing on local professional and college teams, ran from 1997 to 2011. Bright House Sports Network a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20process%20modeling
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Chemical process modeling is a computer modeling technique used in chemical engineering process design. It typically involves using purpose-built software to define a system of interconnected components, which are then solved so that the steady-state or dynamic behavior of the system can be predicted. The system components and connections are represented as a process flow diagram. Simulations can be as simple as the mixing of two substances in a tank, or as complex as an entire alumina refinery.
Chemical process modeling requires a knowledge of the properties of the chemicals involved in the simulation, as well as the physical properties and characteristics of the components of the system, such as tanks, pumps, pipes, pressure vessels, and so on.
See also
Manufacturing process management
Process simulation
Process optimization
Process design (chemical engineering)
Process systems engineering
External links
Real world examples--> Brought to you by PEA.
Comprehensive directory of topics in plant simulation, process modeling and chemical engineering. --> by Kimmo Klemola, Dr. Tech. (Chem. Eng.), Lappeenranta, Finland. Includes links to other directories.
PottersWheel --> Parameter calibration in chemical reaction network models
References
Production and manufacturing software
Chemical process engineering
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gekitotsu%20Yonku%20Battle
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is a Japan-exclusive video game of the vehicular combat game genre released in 1989 by Irem for the Family Computer.
Game description
The game is a top-down game, similar to games such as Micro Machines, Moto Roader, Jackal, among others.
Mechanically, the game consists of crashing cars within a limited stage with obstacles in the middle. Occasionally power-ups appear, one of which causes all cars on the screen to explode at the same time.
Your goal is to eliminate all enemies and you can only defeat them by making them crash into the obstacles or by turning around when they are behind you and crashing into them head-on.
References
Gekitotsu Yonku Battle - FC no Game Seiha Shimasho
1989 video games
Irem games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Haw-Hawed%20Couple
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"The Haw-Hawed Couple" is the eighth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 10, 2006. In the episode, Bart becomes Nelson's new best friend and under Nelson's protection, no one dares to mess with Bart. It was written by Matt Selman and directed by Chris Clements. In its original run, the episode received 8.29 million viewers. The episode's title is a pun on The Odd Couple, emphasizing Nelson's style of laughing.
A fictional character featured in this episode, Angelica Button, was later used in the season 19 episode "Smoke on the Daughter", and the revelation that the Angelica Button book series was ghost-written was the basis for the season 23 episode "The Book Job".
Plot
Marge and Homer are making love in their room while playing a fake tape of them arguing, so the kids will not come in. When a flying article of clothing hits the tape recorder and plays America's "A Horse with No Name", Bart and Lisa decide to come in. Bart ends up traumatized by the sight and is an emotional wreck the following day. While he is coping, Nelson coerces Bart and Milhouse for their lunch money, but also invites him and the rest of the class to his upcoming birthday party. Although Bart convinces all his friends not to go to Nelson's birthday party, Marge makes him attend. After the party, Bart becomes Nelson's new best friend and under Nelson's protection, no one dares to mess with Bart. However, there is only one drawback to his newfound friend/bodyguard: he is no longer able to pal around with Milhouse because Nelson has never had a best friend before and is overly protective and jealous. Eventually, Nelson discovers that Bart had been playing with Milhouse, which leads him to no longer consider Bart a friend. He eventually decides to forgive Bart, however Bart tells Nelson that he thinks he is a psycho. Later, during a field trip to some tide pools, Nelson confronts Bart in a cave, telling Bart he is a bad friend. Suddenly, high tide comes and Nelson saves Bart (but only because they were field trip buddies). Later, Bart goes home and remembers the good times he had with Nelson while hugging a "Nelson vest" he had received.
Meanwhile, in the B-plot, Homer finds himself hooked on one of Lisa's fantasy books, choosing to read an Angelica Button book to Lisa. Homer eventually reads ahead and finds that one of the characters, Greystash, is killed while trying to save Angelica. Upon hearing that Greystash dying would be the end of Lisa's childhood, Homer is unable to bring himself to read the actual last chapter to Lisa, and improvises a happy ending instead involving Greystash defeating the evil wizard. Afterward, Lisa reads the real ending and nonchalantly decides that Homer's ending was better. During the credits, Homer is seen at Moe's Tavern, still mourning the loss of Greystash while screaming, "No man should have to outlive his fictional w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20and%20false%20%28commands%29
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In Unix-like operating systems, true and false are commands whose only function is to always return with a predetermined exit status. Programmers and scripts often use the exit status of a command to assess success (exit status zero) or failure (non-zero) of the command. The true and false commands represent the logical values of command success, because true returns 0, and false returns 1.
Usage
The commands are usually employed in conditional statements and loops of shell scripts. For example, the following shell script repeats the echo hello loop until interrupted:
while true
do
echo hello
done
The commands can be used to ignore the success or failure of a sequence of other commands, as in the example:
make … && false
Setting a user's login shell to , in /etc/passwd, effectively denies them access to an interactive shell, but their account may still be valid for other services, such as FTP. (Although , if available, may be more fitting for this purpose, as it prints a notification before terminating the session.)
The programs take no "actual" parameters; in the GNU version, the standard parameter --help displays a usage summary and --version displays the program version.
Null command
The true command is sometimes substituted with the very similar null command, written as a single colon (:). The null command is built into the shell, and may therefore be more efficient if true is an external program (true is usually a shell built in function). We can rewrite the upper example using : instead of true:
while :
do
echo hello
done
The null command may take parameters, which are ignored. It is also used as a no-op dummy command for side-effects such as assigning default values to shell variables through the ${parameter:=word} parameter expansion form. For example, from bashbug, the bug-reporting script for Bash:
: ${TMPDIR:=/tmp}
: ${EDITOR=$DEFEDITOR}
: ${USER=${LOGNAME-`whoami`}}
See also
List of Unix commands
Two-valued logic
IEFBR14
Notes
References
External links
Manual pages
true(1): Do nothing, successfully – GNU Coreutils reference
false(1): Do nothing, unsuccessfully – GNU Coreutils reference
true(1): Return true value – FreeBSD manual page
false(1): Return false value – FreeBSD manual page
Standard Unix programs
Unix SUS2008 utilities
IBM i Qshell commands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%20%28web%20browser%29
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Charon is a discontinued web browser for the Inferno operating system. It had a limited support for JavaScript but none for CSS.
It was originally written by Howard Trickey in Limbo for Inferno. It runs under the wm window manager, but can also run directly on the draw device. As part of the acme standalone project, Charon was implemented as a client to run inside acme.
References
External links
Plan 9 Web Browsers
Inferno's charon(1) man page
Inferno (operating system)
Web browsers for Plan 9
Discontinued web browsers
Free web browsers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Transmetropolitan%20characters
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Transmetropolitan is a cyberpunk comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics (originally by Helix). It chronicles the battles of Spider Jerusalem, infamous renegade gonzo journalist of the future. Jerusalem dedicates himself to fighting the corruption and abuse of power of two successive United States presidents; he and his assistants strive to keep their world from turning more dystopian than it already is.
Protagonists
Spider Jerusalem, main character of the series, gonzo journalist extraordinaire. He is inspired by Hunter S. Thompson, and the spiritual cousin to Doonesbury's "Uncle Duke". His early, unshaved appearance is a direct reference to Robertson's friend Andre Ricciardi, and not Alan Moore as often suggested.
The Filthy Assistants
Channon Yarrow
Channon Yarrow, Spider's first assistant in the series. She was formerly a stripper, pay-dacoit, and bodyguard. Physically, Channon is quite tall (it is never told how tall, but she is portrayed as a half a head taller than Spider Jerusalem and a full head taller than Yelena Rossini). Per Spider's orders, Channon ingests medication to give her a genetic trait protecting her from cancer, and takes up chain smoking.
Channon begins the series as one of the strippers at a strip club in the Angels 8 district of the city, which is invaded by Spider Jerusalem during the Transient Riots. Inspired when Spider quells the riots by broadcasting a live bulletin about it directly to the rest of the City via a local feedsite, Channon (who turns out to be a journalism student stripping to pay for school) quits the club and is hired by The Word editor Mitchell Royce to be Spider's assistant, a job originally consisting primarily of making sure her boss is supplied with enough brain-enhancing drugs and alcohol to be an effective journalist.
Channon leaves Spider's employ briefly, following her boyfriend Ziang's choice to dump her and have his consciousness downloaded into a cloud of floating nanotechnological computers, an experience Spider made her chronicle in his weekly column because he felt that everyone should witness it at least once. During her time away, she became a "Bride of Christ" - Fred Christ, the self-appointed leader of the Transient Movement and half-alien 'love messiah' founder of the Church of Transience.
She rejoined Spider and his new assistant, Yelena, early in their fight to prevent the election of President Gary Callahan, aka "The Smiler", taking on the role of bodyguard. In this new role, Channon is depicted as physically more powerful and imposing than before, regularly fighting off multiple assailants and taking point when strategy is required. Much of the situations she helps fight off comes from the Smiler himself, who has it out for Spider and his assistants. She also demonstrates expertise with a number of small arms, due to her being regularly searched for them at school, to make sure that she was
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umniah
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Umniah () is a Jordanian mobile network operator. A subsidiary of Bahrain-based Batelco, it is the third and most recent GSM cellular phone company to enter the Jordanian telecom market. As of 2014 Umniah has a 30 percent share of the mobile telecommunications market.
History
Umniah was founded in August 2004 by former Fastlink (now Zain Jordan) executive Michael Dagher and Fouad Al Ghanem Group of Kuwait with Huawei Technologies and HP as strategic partners. Umniah was granted the second GSM license in August 2004 issued by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to operate, manage and own a public digital cellular mobile network.
Operations began in June 2005 and within its first six months, Umniah had 500,000 subscribers. In June 2006 Batelco, the state-owned Bahraini telco, acquired 96 percent of Umniah's shares for $415 million with the rest being held by The Underprivileged Student Support Fund.
Since its launch in 2005, Umniah was able to expand the Jordanian mobile market penetration rate from 32% to over 60% at the same time capturing 29% market share as of 2015. By the end of 2007 Umniah customer base reached one million subscribers. In 2015, Umniah reached 3 million subscribers.
See also
Zain Jordan
Orange Jordan
List of mobile network operators in the Middle East
External links
References
Telecommunications companies of Jordan
Companies based in Amman
Companies established in 2005
Jordanian brands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSS
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NCSS may refer to:
National Center for Sports Safety
National Computer Science School
National Cooperative Soil Survey
National Council for the Social Studies
National Council of Social Service (Singapore)
National Council of Social Services (United Kingdom)
National CSS, a computer time-sharing vendor of the 60s-80s
NCSS (statistical software)
Niue Community Service Star
Northwoods Community Secondary School
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Pelling
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Nick Pelling is a British-born computer programmer and investigative writer best known as the creator of the 1984 game Frak!.
Games
Developed
As Aardvark Software
Arcadians (1982)
Zalaga (1983) (port of Galaga)
Frak! (1984)
Firetrack (1987)
Sharkey's 3D Pool (1989)
3D Pocket Pool (2001)
Independently
Bangkok Knights (1987)
Shinobi (1989)
Loopz (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (1993)
The Pagemaster (1994)
Mortal Kombat II (1994)
Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994)
Primal Rage (1995)
Batman Forever (1995)
The X-Files Game (1999)
In Cold Blood (2000)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (2002)
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002)
Championship Manager 5 (2005)
Buzz!: The Music Quiz (2005)
Buzz!: The BIG Quiz (2006)
Buzz!: The Mega Quiz (2007)
Buzz!: The Hollywood Quiz (2007)
Soldiers of Fortune (2013)
Ported
As Aardvark Software
Duke Nukem 3D (1997, PlayStation)
Independently
Dandy (1986, Commodore 64) in the capacity of '11th hour Software Salvage'
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, Commodore 64)
Battle Master (1991, Sega Genesis)
Wing Commander (1992, AmigaOS)
Dangerous Streets & Wing Commander (1994, Amiga CD32)
Interests in history
Pelling published an article in the British magazine History Today, supporting a previous attribution of the invention of the telescope to a Gerundian named Joan Roget in 1590 and published a 2006 book on the Voynich manuscript, claiming it was written by 15th century North Italian architect Antonio Averlino (also known as "Filarete").
Books
References
External links
Pelling's website
Pelling's Cipher Mysteries website
1964 births
Alumni of Kingston University
Alumni of the University of Manchester
British computer programmers
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnterpriseDB
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EnterpriseDB (EDB), a privately held company based in Massachusetts, provides software and services based on the open-source database PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres), and is one of the largest contributors to Postgres. EDB develops and integrates performance, security, and manageability enhancements into Postgres to support enterprise-class workloads. EDB has also developed database compatibility for Oracle to facilitate the migration of workloads from Oracle to EDB Postgres and to support the operation of many Oracle workloads on EDB Postgres.
EDB provides a portfolio of databases and tools that extend Postgres for enterprise workloads. This includes fully managed Postgres in the cloud, extreme high availability for Postgres, command line migration tools, Kubernetes Operator and container images, management, monitoring and optimizing of Postgres, enterprise ready Oracle migration tools and browser-based schema migration tools
EnterpriseDB was purchased by Great Hill Partners in 2019.
In June 2022, Bain Capital Private Equity announced a majority growth investment in the company, whereafter EDB continues to operate under the leadership of Ed Boyajian, President and CEO of EDB, an open source pioneer who has led the company since 2008.
Great Hill Partners, which acquired EDB in 2019, remains a significant shareholder.
History
EDB was founded in 2004. The growing acceptance of open source software created a market opportunity and the company wanted to challenge the database incumbents with a standards based product that was compatible with other vendor solutions. EnterpriseDB sought to develop an open source-based, enterprise-class relational database to compete with established vendors at an open source price point.
EDB introduced its database, EnterpriseDB 2005, in 2005. It was named Best Database Solution at LinuxWorld that year, beating solutions from Oracle, MySQL, and IBM. EDB renamed the database EnterpriseDB Advanced Server with its March 2006 release. The database was renamed Postgres Plus Advanced Server in March 2008. In April 2016, with the introduction of the EDB Postgres Platform, EDB's fully integrated next-generation data management platform, the database was renamed to EDB Postgres Advanced Server.
In 2020, EDB acquired 2ndQuadrant, a global Postgres solutions and tools company based out of the UK, becoming the leader in the PostgreSQL market.
Customers
EDB serves more than 1,500 customers, including leading financial services, government, media, and communications and information technology organizations.
Products
BigAnimal
BigAnimal is EDB's fully managed Postgres in the cloud. This is EDB's database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering, available on both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
EDB Postgres Distributed
EDB Postgres Distributed (previously known as Postgres-BDR) provides high availability for Postgres databases, and up to five 9s of availability and flexible deployment options.
Migration Tool
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20LG%20Quiz
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Digital LG Quiz is a Philippine television quiz show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Paolo Bediones and Regine Tolentino, it premiered in 1999. The show was reformatted and retitled as Digital LG Challenge in 2003, with Bediones and Pia Guanio as the hosts. The show concluded in 2004.
Format
A high school sends a representative (and an alternative), either a sophomore or a junior to the television program. The alternative would only come to play if the original contestant would not be able to make it on the school's first appearance each season. For example, if the original contestant qualified for the monthly final, but the contestant can't be available, the school forfeits its monthly final spot. But if the school sends its alternate and qualifies for the monthly final, but the original becomes available for the monthly final, the alternate would be the one that will represent the school. The season runs from October to July.
In order to be the season's champion, a contender must qualify for the monthly and quarterly finals, and to win in the quarterly finals.
In the weekly preliminary rounds, four schools would be represented (the manner of selection depends on the available schedule). The contender with the highest points at the end of the program wins the weekly final. Two more weekly preliminary rounds will be held, and on the fourth week, a monthly final will be held, where the three weekly champions qualify directly, along with the second-placer with the highest total points (as the wildcard).
If there are two contenders with the same number of points for the wildcard spot, a written test will be administered (first season) or the contender with the higher number of buzz-ins (succeeding seasons) would qualify.
The process will be repeated until there are three monthly champions. On the fourth month, the three monthly champions qualify directly to the quarterfinals, along with the second-placer with the highest total points earned in the monthly finals (as a wild card) to contest for a spot in the grand final. The process will be repeated until there are four quarterly champions (no wildcards). The quarterly champions would meet in the grand final, where it is contested at the end of the season in July.
Finalists
Year 1 (1999–2000)
Year 2 (2000–01)
Year 3 (2001–02)
Laurence Lloyd Parial - Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology - San Isidro Campus, San Isidro - 320 point
Renerio Salonga - Makati Hope Christian School, Makati
Jed Yabut - Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Manila
Renz Jerome Caliguia - St. Vincent's Academy, Apalit, Pampanga
Year 4 (2002–03)
John Sithli Mendoza - Makati Science High School, Makati
Carmen Fernandez - OB Montessori Center, Quezon City
Miguel Karlo De Jesus - Manila Science High School, Manila
John Carlo B. Timbol - Philippine Science High School-Diliman Campus, Quezon City
Year 5 (2003–04)
Joseph Sy - La Salle Greenhills, Mandaluyong
Milli Pangilinan - St. Paul University, Que
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte%20pair%20encoding
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Byte pair encoding (also known as digram coding) is an algorithm, first described in 1994 by Philip Gage. Its modification is notable as the large language model tokenizer with an ability to combine both tokens that encode single characters (including single digits or single punctuation marks) and those that encode whole words (even the longest compound words). This modification, in the first step, assumes all unique characters to be an initial set of 1-character long n-grams (i.e. initial "tokens"). Then, successively the most frequent pair of adjacent characters is merged into a new, 2-characters long n-gram and all instances of the pair are replaced by this new token. This is repeated until a vocabulary of prescribed size is obtained. Note that new words can always be constructed from final vocabulary tokens and initial-set characters.
All the unique tokens found in a corpus are listed in a token vocabulary, the size of which, in the case of GPT-3, is 50257.
The difference between the modified and the original algorithm is that the original algorithm does not merge the most frequent pair of bytes of data, but replaces them by a new byte that was not contained in the initial dataset. A lookup table of the replacements is required to rebuild the initial dataset. The algorithm is effective for the tokenization because it does not require large computational overheads and remains consistent and reliable.
Original algorithm
The original algorithm operates by iteratively replacing the most common contiguous sequences of characters in a target piece of text with unused 'placeholder' bytes. The iteration ends when no sequences can be found, leaving the target text effectively compressed. Decompression can be performed by reversing this process, querying known placeholder terms against their corresponding denoted sequence, per a lookup table. In the original paper, this lookup table is encoded and stored alongside the compressed text.
Example
Suppose the data to be encoded is
aaabdaaabac
The byte pair "aa" occurs most often, so it will be replaced by a byte that is not used in the data, such as "Z". Now there is the following data and replacement table:
ZabdZabac
Z=aa
Then the process is repeated with byte pair "ab", replacing it with "Y":
ZYdZYac
Y=ab
Z=aa
The only literal byte pair left occurs only once, and the encoding might stop here. Alternatively, the process could continue with recursive byte pair encoding, replacing "ZY" with "X":
XdXac
X=ZY
Y=ab
Z=aa
This data cannot be compressed further by byte pair encoding because there are no pairs of bytes that occur more than once.
To decompress the data, simply perform the replacements in the reverse order.
See also
Re-Pair
Sequitur algorithm
References
Lossless compression algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced%20Migration%20Review
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Forced Migration Review (FMR) is a publication on refugee, internal displacement and statelessness issues.
History and profile
It was founded in 1987 as the Refugee Participation Network newsletter. The first issue was published in November 1987. In April 1998 it was re-launched as Forced Migration Review (FMR). It is published by the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre in four languages, namely English, Arabic, Spanish and French. It is also distributed without charge. It appears approximately three times a year, with occasional supplements and special issues. Most issues have a main theme and also carry some 'general articles' on other aspects of forced migration.
FMR provides a practice-oriented forum for debate on issues facing refugees and internally displaced persons in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.
References
External links
Forced Migration Review
Forced migration
English-language journals
International relations journals
Oxford University Press academic journals
Sociology journals
Academic journals established in 1987
Multilingual journals
Triannual journals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20Networks%20International%20UK
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AMC Networks International UK (EMEA) (formerly AMC Networks International Zone (EMEA), Chello Zone, Zone Vision and Zone Media) is a London, UK-based television company, founded in 1991 by Chris Wronski and owned by AMC Networks International.
History
The company was founded to distribute television programmes in Eastern Europe, but now operates in 138 countries. They operate channels under 7 brands, albeit with some limited to specific countries, and provide 22 sound tracks across these.
Its English speaking-targeted channels show mainly US and Canadian imports as well as older BBC and ITV produced content; whereas its Central European stations show large quantities of recent British television. Original sound tracks are provided on most shows which are dubbed.
On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and Zone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Action would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller.
On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror was rebranded as Horror Channel, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009. On-air the channel name appears as Horror. The rebrand was produced by Chello Zone's in-house creative services team.
On 1 August 2012 Chellomedia revealed that the European versions of the Chello Zone channels would be rebranded into CBS Reality, CBS Drama and CBS Action as well.
On 28 October 2013, AMC Networks announced it would acquire Chellomedia (apart from its Benelux division) from Liberty Global, for around $1.04 billion. This acquisition was completed 11 February 2014.
In April 2014 it was announced that AMC Networks has acquired Kinowelt TV. A renaming of the channel is currently not planned.
On 8 July 2014, AMC Networks renamed Chellomedia as AMC Networks International and Chello Zone as AMC Networks International Zone (later dropping the 'Zone' for 'UK').
In June 2022, it was announced that AMC would drop the CBS branding from the channels owned in a joint-venture with Paramount Global in a reshuffle of their portfolio. CBS Justice will close down, with its slot being taken over by a new channel called Legend on 30 June 2022. Legend will feature the majority of the sci-fi, fantasy and horror programming found on Horror, with a dedicated horror sister channel only operating in the evening under the name Horror Xtra. In addition their Reality channel will get a sister channel as CBS Drama will close and be replaced by Reality Xtra.
In August 2023, it was announced that AMC UK channel including all Catch Up Content will be removed from BT TV on 28th September.
Channels
Current
AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctonemesia
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Proctonemesia is a genus of Brazilian jumping spiders that was first described by M. J. Bauab V. & B. A. M. Soares in 1978. it contains only two species, found only in Brazil: P. multicaudata and P. secunda.
References
Salticidae genera
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Salticidae
Spiders of Brazil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious%20Software%20Removal%20Tool
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Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a freeware second-opinion malware scanner that Microsoft's Windows Update downloads and runs on Windows computers each month, independent of the install antivirus software. First released on January 13, 2005, MSRT does not offer real-time protection. It scans its host computer for specific, widespread malware, and tries to eliminate the infection. Outside its monthly deployment schedule, it can be separately downloaded from Microsoft.
Availability
Since its January 13, 2005, Microsoft releases the updated tool every second Tuesday of every month (commonly called "Patch Tuesday") through Windows Update, at which point it runs once automatically in the background and reports if malicious software is found. The tool is also available as a standalone download.
Since support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13, 2010, Microsoft stopped distributing the tool to Windows 2000 users via Windows Update. The last version of the tool that could run on Windows 2000 was 4.20, released on May 14, 2013. Starting with version 5.1, released on June 11, 2013, support for Windows 2000 was dropped altogether. Although Windows XP support ended on April 8, 2014, updates for the Windows XP version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool would be provided until August, 2016; version 5.39. The latest version of MSRT for Windows Vista is 5.47, released on 11 April 2017.
Despite Microsoft ending general support for the Windows 7 operating system in 2020, updates are still provided to Windows 7 users via the standard Windows Update delivery mechanism.
Operation
MSRT does not install a shortcut in the Start menu. Hence, users must manually execute %windir%\system32\mrt.exe. The tool records its results in a log file located at %windir%\debug\mrt.log.
The tool reports anonymized data about any detected infections to Microsoft. MSRT's EULA discloses this reporting behavior and explains how to disable it.
Impact
In a June 2006 Microsoft report, the company claimed that the tool had removed 16 million instances of malicious software from 5.7 million of 270 million total unique Windows computers since its release in January 2005. The report also stated that, on average, the tool removes malicious software from 1 in every 311 computers on which it runs. On May 19, 2009, Microsoft claimed that the software has removed password stealer threats from 859,842 machines.
In August 2013, the Malicious Software Removal Tool deleted old, vulnerable versions of the Tor client to end the spread of the Sefnit botnet (which mined for bitcoins without the host owner's approval and later engaged in click fraud). Approximately two million hosts had been cleaned by October; although this was slightly less than half of the estimated infections, the rest of the suspected machines presumably did not have their automatic Windows Updates enabled or manually run.
References
Further reading
External links
Microsoft software
Spyware r
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20de%20Grazia
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Alfred de Grazia (December 29, 1919 – July 13, 2014), born in Chicago, Illinois, was a political scientist and author. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s, developed new ideas about personal digital archives in the 1970s, and defended the catastrophism thesis of Immanuel Velikovsky.
Origins
His father, Joseph Alfred de Grazia, was born in Licodia, province of Catania, in Sicily and was politically active in a troubled period in the history of the island. He emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty, after having hit the mayor of Licodia with his clarinet during a political scuffle. He became a bandmaster, music teacher, in and out of the WPA and a musical union leader in Chicago. In 1916, he married Chicago-born Katherine Lupo Cardinale whose parents had emigrated from Sicily. Her brother was the boxer Charles Kid Lucca, Canadian champion welter-weight champion from 1910 to 1914. They had three more sons, Sebastian de Grazia, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Edward de Grazia, a prominent first amendment lawyer and co-founder of Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and Victor de Grazia who was Deputy-Governor of the State of Illinois from 1973 to 1977.
Education
De Grazia attended the University of Chicago, receiving an A.B. there in 1939, attended law school at Columbia University from 1940 to 1941, and in 1948 earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. His thesis was published in 1951 as Public and Republic: Political Representation in America. When reviewed by The New York Times it was called "A thoroughgoing examination of the meaning of representation, the fundamental element in any definition of republic." and August Heckscher in the New York Herald Tribune said it was "A sober scholarly volume, authoritative in its field." Charles E. Merriam, founder of the behavioristic approach in political science, wrote: "All scholars in the field of political science and particularly those in the area of representation are under lasting obligation to the writer of this volume for a learned and helpful treatment of one of the major problems of our times. The book will enrich the literature on this very important subject."
Military activity
In World War II, de Grazia served in the United States Army, rising from private to captain. He specialized in mechanized warfare, intelligence and psychological warfare. He received training in this then new field in Washington D.C. and the newly established Camp Ritchie in Maryland. He served with the 3rd, 5th and 7th Armies and as a liaison officer with the British 8th Army. He took part in six campaigns, from North Africa to Italy (Battle of Monte Cassino) to France and Germany.
De Grazia co-authored a report on psychological warfare for the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force. By the end of the war, he was Commanding Officer of the Psychological Warfare Propaganda Team attached to the headquarters of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20View%20Geospatial
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East View Geospatial (EVG), formerly East View Cartographic (EVC), is a provider of worldwide maps, geospatial data and geographic information systems (GIS) services. EVG's holdings include all types of geospatial data including vector & raster data, digital elevation models (DEM), satellite & aerial imagery, topographic maps, nautical & aeronautical charts, geological maps, bathymetric data and atlases.
EVG has a history serving Energy & Natural Resource, Avionics, and Telecom companies, Defense and Intelligence contractors, Land Use & Engineering firms, Humanitarian organizations and Academic institutions.
EVG is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices in Russia, Kenya, China and Ukraine.
East View Geospatial Jottings
EVG has played a role in gaining access to and then marketing original geospatial information from China and Russia, pertaining in particular to Asia, South America, and Africa, areas of the world for which the United States of America does not have tactical maps at the 1:50,000 or better level, with contour lines.
In 2003, East View Cartographic formed a partnership with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to provide data sets for ESRI's Mapshop web application.
In 2006, East View acquired perhaps the first comprehensive private collection of worldwide geologic maps from the Telberg Geologic Map Service.
In 2010, East View acquired the map assets and domain name of Map Link.
In 2012, East View Cartographic changed its name to East View Geospatial.
About East View
East View was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. East View is divided into East View Information Services (www.eastview.com), East View Geospatial and East View Map Link.
East View Information Services (EVIS) is a provider of native and translated foreign language information databases, print periodicals, books and microforms.
East View Geospatial (EVG) is a provider of worldwide maps, geospatial data and GIS production services and solutions.
East View Map Link (EVML) is a provider of travel, thematic and wall maps, road atlases, globes and geography education materials.
East View maintains thousands of supplier/publisher relationships throughout the world for maps and geospatial data and Russian, Arabic and Chinese-produced social and hard science content. East View manages a data center, library and warehouse in Minneapolis where it hosts and stores dozens of foreign language databases, maps and atlases and geospatial, Russian, Chinese and Arabic metadata records.
Sources
Map companies of the United States
Companies based in Minneapolis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Krol
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Ed Krol (born August 21, 1951) is the former network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet and The Whole Internet (User's Guide and Catalog).
Background
Krol was born on August 21, 1951, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and spent his entire career there.
Career
In 1985, Krol began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He was the network manager for the NCSA when the contract was received to establish the NSFNet, and led the team in the network development. He helped develop the Frequently Asked Questions format when he published the popular user's guide Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet in 1987, which was funded by the National Science Foundation. In 1989, he became the assistant director for Network Information Services, Computing, and Communications Service Office at the University of Illinois.
In 1992, Krol published The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, which was noted by the New York Public Library as one of its Books of the Century in 1995. The book was translated into over ten languages and sold over a million copies. This aided the worldwide acceptance and spread of the Internet. In 1999, Krol and Kiersten Conner-Sax published a sequel titled The Whole Internet User's Guide: The Next Generation.
In 2002 Krol retired from the University of Illinois after working there for 29 years.
Works
Awards
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame 2017
See also
History of the Internet
References
External links
American technology writers
Internet pioneers
1951 births
Living people
O'Reilly writers
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone%20Fantasy
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Zone Fantasy was a television film channel in Italy that featured diverse programming. Zone Fantasy was targeted towards a mixed 16- to 45-year-old demographic, and focused on adventure, fantasy, horror and science fiction genres.
The channel transmitted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on SKY Italia.
The channel ceased its broadcasts on 6 September 2011 and was rebranded by Horror Channel., and the other cities are switched into VH1 Classic in 2011.
References
External links
Official site
Science fiction television channels
AMC Networks International
Italian-language television stations
Defunct television channels in Italy
Defunct television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
2006 establishments in Italy
2011 disestablishments in Italy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livecode
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Live coding is the use of interactive programming in the arts.
Livecode may also refer to:
LiveCode, a commercial cross-platform rapid application development language inspired by HyperTalk
LiveCode (company), a computer software company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20communication
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Strategic communication can mean either communicating a concept, a process, or data that satisfies a long-term strategic goal of an organization by allowing facilitation of advanced planning, or communicating over long distances usually using international telecommunications or dedicated global network assets to coordinate actions and activities of operationally significant commercial, non-commercial and military business or combat and logistic subunits. It can also mean the related function within an organization, which handles internal and external communication processes. Strategic communication can also be used for political warfare.
Definition of strategic communication
Strategic communication refers to policy-making and guidance for consistent information activity within an organization and between organizations. Equivalent business management terms are: integrated (marketing) communication, organizational communication, corporate communication, institutional communication, etc. (see paragraph on 'Commercial Application' below).
In the U.S. government context, strategic communication has been defined as "Focused United States Government efforts to understand and engage key audiences to create, strengthen, or preserve conditions favorable for the advancement of United States Government interests, policies, and objectives through the use of coordinated programs, plans, themes, messages, and products synchronized with the actions of all instruments of national power."
Strategic communication management could be defined as the systematic planning and realization of information flow, communication, media development and image care in a long-term horizon. It conveys deliberate messages through the most suitable media to the designated audiences at the appropriate time to contribute to and achieve the desired long-term effect. Communication management is process creation. It has to bring three factors into balance: the message, the media channel and the audience.
An alternative view of strategic communication is offered by Steve Tatham of the UK Defence Academy. He argues that whilst it is desirable to bound and coordinate communications together - particularly from governments or the military - it should be regarded in a much more fundamental manner than simply process. The 'informational effect' should be placed at the very epi-centre of command and that all action must be calibrated against that effect - including the evaluation of 2nd and 3rd order effects. This is, he argues, proper Strategic Communication (communication singular — an abstract noun) whilst the actual process of communicating (which includes Target Audience Analysis, evaluation of conduits, measurements of effect etc.) — is Strategic Communications (plural).
In the August 2008 paper, "DoD Principles of Strategic Communication," Robert T. Hastings Jr., acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, described strategic communication as "the synchronization of i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlespace
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Battlespace or battle-space is a term used to signify a military strategy which integrates multiple armed forces for the military theatre of operations, including air, information, land, sea, cyber and outer space to achieve military goals. It includes the environment, factors, and conditions that must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. This includes enemy and friendly armed forces, infrastructure, weather, terrain, and the electromagnetic spectrum within the operational areas and areas of interest.
Concept
From "battlefield" to "battle-space"
For many years, the understanding of the military operational environment has transformed from primarily a time and space-driven linear understanding (a "battlefield") to a multi-dimensional system of systems understanding (a battle-space). This system of systems understanding implies that managing the battle-space has become more complex, primarily because of the increased importance of the cognitive domain, a direct result of the information age. Today, militaries are expected to understand the effects of their actions on the operational environment as a whole, and not just in the military domain of their operational environment.
From "Old" to "New" Battlespace
The evolution of competition and conflict during the industrial age has led to a corresponding transformation in the ability to engage in warfare in the information age. The concept of thinking and fighting in the industrial age can be described as the "Old Battlespace," characterized by clearly defined and discernible battlefield lines in the tangible domains of land, sea, and air.
However, as economies and technologies have advanced, the methods by which countries and militaries compete and conduct warfare have also changed. In the information age, the tangible domains of land, sea, and air remain constant, but the emergence and prominence of cyber operations, outer space activities, civil society engagement, and social media usage have elevated the significance of intangible realms in both kinetic and non-kinetic forms of warfare.
This shift to a "New Battlespace" implies that traditional barriers, such as vast distances, oceans, and legal constraints, no longer present insurmountable obstacles. Consequently, emerging domains allow for the weaponization of nearly anything, turning the entire globe into a competitive arena for state and non-state actors. In this context, everyone becomes a participant in global contestation, whether willingly or not, as anything and everything can be utilized as a weapon.
These changes do not indicate a fundamental alteration in the nature of war between the Old and New Battlespaces; rather, they underscore the continuously evolving character of war due to changes in economies, technologies, and military strategies. "New Battlespace" poses complex challenges for strategists and policymakers.
The internet, deep interdependencies, and hyper-co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonami%20Jetstream
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Toonami Jetstream was an ad-supported online broadband streaming service and a remake of Toonami's previous video streaming service Toonami Reactor provided by Cartoon Network and Viz Media.
It hosted various Toonami hits and had music videos, game reviews, and a comment box. It premiered July 17, 2006. Toonami Jetstream was only available in the United States. A computer with Windows 2000 SP4+, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Mac OS X, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (or higher) or Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (or higher), Adobe Flash 9, and a broadband connection were required.
After Toonami was cancelled on September 20, 2008, it was unknown if Toonami Jetstream would still be active, or would merge with Cartoon Network Video. On January 30, 2009, however, Toonami Jetstream suddenly got taken offline. As a result, Naruto moved to Cartoon Network Video, while other anime series like Zatch Bell! and Hikaru no Go are on Viz Media's website and One Piece is available on Funimation's official One Piece website.
Shows
Former series (premieres)
Blue Dragon (debuted on Jetstream April 7, 2008, was on television at time of Jetstream's debut, was exclusively on Jetstream) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV)
Hikaru no Go (debuted on Jetstream July 14, 2006, with biweekly instruction "How to play Go" clips, now finished) (aired biweekly) (TV-PG)
Kiba (debuted on Jetstream July 14, 2008) (aired biweekly) (TV-PG-V)
Zatch Bell! (debuted on Jetstream March 12, 2007, on hiatus at time up to episode 77 of Jetstream debut, though that hiatus was ignored in this case) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV)
Former series (reruns)
MÄR (debuted on Jetstream July 14, 2006, debuted on television December 23, 2006) (aired biweekly) (TV-PG-V)
Naruto (debuted on Jetstream July 14, 2006, was on television at time of Jetstream's launch, was exclusively on Jetstream.) (aired weekly) (TV-PG-V,S,D)
Pokémon: Battle Frontier 1 (debuted on Jetstream November 17, 2008, formerly on television) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV)
Pokémon: Master Quest 1(debuted on Jetstream June 16, 2008, formerly on television) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV)
Samurai Jack (debuted on Jetstream July 14, 2006, formerly on television) (reactive as of April 28, 2008) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV)
Storm Hawks (debuted on Jetstream October 20, 2008) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV) (Unlike the other shows, it didn't have a "Top 10" list.)
Transformers: Animated (debuted on Jetstream February 15, 2008) (reactive as of October 27, 2008) (aired weekly) (TV-Y7-FV)
Series dropped from Toonami Jetstream
These shows have been taken off the schedule prematurely, possibly due to dubbing of the shows.
Eyeshield 21 (debuted on Jetstream December 17, 2007) (TV-PG)
The Prince of Tennis (debuted on Jetstream July 14, 2006, debuted on television December 23, 2006) (aired biweekly) Hiatus-December 3, 2007) (TV-PG)
These shows have been taken off the schedule prematurely, for reasons unknown:
Dragon Ball (debuted on Jetstream July 2, 2007, formerly on te
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Pack%20%28TV%20programming%20block%29
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Action Pack, also called Universal Action Pack, was a syndicated programming block series of television movies and television series created by Universal Television that aired from 1994 until 2001. The Action Pack included two hours of various television series produced by Renaissance Pictures and distributed by MCA TV (later known as Universal Television Enterprises and Studios USA Television Distribution).
Background
Previously, there were three attempts by MCA TV/Universal Television to launch some sort of organized independent programming. First, MCA TV launched the ad hoc movie Universal Pictures Debut Network in 1985. With Premier Program Service, MCA TV teamed up with Paramount for this planned network by October 1989, which was abandoned in February 1990. The last was a two night three-series Hollywood Premiere Network in 1990–91.
History
In 1994, the Action Pack initially ran as a wheel series of television movies, which were all effectively pilots; if successful, they would become TV series the following season. The initial plan was for four films created from six franchises for the block, including TekWar, Smokey and the Bandit, Midnight Run, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Vanishing Son and the working title Fastlane when offered at programming executive conference in January 1994.
On January 17 and 18, 1994, a dozen stations showed TekWar, the premiere TV movie of the programming block. The stations' ratings increased greatly with a 350% increase in KOFY in San Francisco. MCA cut Rob Cohen's Midnight Run to three films, so that star Christopher McDonald could star in a feature film. Cohen produced Knight Rider 2010 as a replacement. The block aired its first season until January 1995 and lost $30 million. TekWar was picked up as a regular TV series for the USA Network instead of Action Pack, starting in January 1995.
From January to June 1995, the block included Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Vanishing Son. The Hercules series became a surprise hit as the third most-watched first-run syndicated action hour. From September 1995 through January 2000, Action Pack included Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spinoff, Xena: Warrior Princess. After Hercules ended its run in January 2000, the Universal Action Pack launched the Back2Back Action Hour consisting of two thirty-minute series: Jack of All Trades and Cleopatra 2525 to air alongside Xena. The lineup lasted until second quarter 2001. Jack of All Trades and Xena were canceled and Cleopatra 2525 was increased to an hour-long show in January 2001.
After Xena, the most successful series on the Action Pack, completed airing its final season's reruns in the summer of 2001, Cleopatra 2525 also stopped production and the Action Pack block was discontinued.
Television movies
The television movies aired during the Action Pack's first year included:
Hercules series:
Hercules and the Amazon Women
Hercules and the Lost Kingdom
Hercules and the Circle of Fire
Hercules in the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtalk
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DECtalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1983, based largely on the work of Dennis Klatt at MIT, whose source-filter algorithm was variously known as KlattTalk or MITalk.
Uses ranged from interacting with the public to allowing those with speech disabilities to verbalize, include giving a public speech.
History
Announced December 1983, a trickle came February 1984; larger DECtalk quantities were delivered in March.
They were standalone units that connected to any device with an asynchronous serial port. These units were also able to connect to the telephone system by having two telephone jacks. One connected to a phone line, the other to a telephone. The DECtalk units could recognize and generate any telephone touch tone. With that capability the units could be used to automate various telephone-related tasks by handling both incoming and outgoing calls. This included acting as an interface to an email system and the capability to function as an alerting system by utilizing the ability to place calls and interact via touch tones with the person answering the phone.
Later units were produced for PCs with ISA bus slots. In addition, various software implementations were produced, most notably the DECtalk Access32. Certain versions of the synthesizer were prone to undesirable characteristics. For example, the alveolar stops were often assimilated as sounding more like dental stops. Also, versions such as Access32 would produce faint electronic beeps at the end of phrases.
In the final years, early/mid-2000, the DECtalk IP was sold to Force Computers, Inc. In December 2001, the IP was sold from Force Computers, Inc, to Fonix Speech, Inc. (now SpeechFX, Inc.), which offers DECtalk as a small-footprint TTS system and in a computer program form.
Features
The New York Times wrote: "like a scratchy recording of a person with a lisp" but added "usually understandable."
DECtalk had a number of built-in voices which were identified by the following names: Perfect Paul (the default voice), Beautiful Betty, Huge Harry, Frail Frank, Kit the Kid, Rough Rita, Uppity Ursula, Doctor Dennis and Whispering Wendy. Each of the voices were editable by adjusting various parameters (such as throat size, crossover frequencies, etc.).
DECtalk understood phonetic spellings of words, allowing customized pronunciation of unusual words. These phonetic spellings could also include a pitch and duration notation which DECtalk would use when enunciating the phonetic components. This allowed DECtalk to sing.
Uses
The DECtalk engine was notably used in the US National Weather Service's first "Console Replacement System" (CRS) installations in the late 1990s for NOAA Weather Radio. it had all but been replaced by a far more modern engine called Speechify from SpeechWorks (not to be confused with the iOS app of the same name). DECtalk's Perfect Paul preset voiced station identifications on many NW
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis%3A%20The%20Fantasm%20Soldier
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is a 1986 action-platform video game originally developed by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan for the MSX, PC-8801, X1, FM-7, and PC-9801 home computers. It is the first entry in the Valis series. It stars Yuko Asou, a Japanese teenage schoolgirl chosen as the Valis warrior and wielder of the mystical Valis sword to protect the Earth, the land of spirits, and the dream world Vecanti from demon lord Rogles. Through the journey, the player explores and search for items and power-ups, while fighting enemies and defeating bosses to increase Yuko's attributes.
Programmers Masahiro Akishino and Osamu Ikegame began planning on a side-scrolling action game featuring a customed delinquent heroine, an idea originated from Sukeban Deka to compete in a contest sponsored by Japanese computer magazine LOGiN, being kept secret within Telenet until they approved development to continue when the company learned of its existence. After a Telenet superior expressed disliking towards its graphics, writer Hiroki Hayashi was ordered to take action and fix it, leading to the conception of Valis. Akishino and Hayashi used Ikegame's work as basis to introduce their own story and character ideas, which were based on an unfinished personal novel Hayashi wrote prior to the game's production.
Valis sold well and was listed as one of the best-selling games in 1987 rankings. An almost completely reworked version was also released for the Family Computer, followed by remakes for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and PC Engine Super CD-ROM², and a version for mobile phones as well. The game was supplemented with manga adaptations, an anime short by Sunrise, albums from King Records and Wave Master, and doujinshi books. Critical reception has varied depending on the version; the original MSX version garnered mixed reviews while the Genesis remake carried average sentiments, however the enhanced PC Engine remake was received more favorably. It was followed by Valis II (1989).
Gameplay and premise
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier is an action-platform game starring Yuko Asou, a Japanese schoolgirl teenager who is fated to protect three different realms – the Earth, the land of spirits, and the dream world Vecanti. The demon lord Rogles extinguishes a light, which acts as a source of power for the inhabitants of Vecanti. In a desperate plea for salvation, the queen of Vecanti, Valia, reaches out for a brave soul who can help them in their time of despair, with Yuko being the one who answers the call. Yuko is magically summoned into becoming the Valis warrior by wielding the titular sword to liberate Vecanti from the evil of Rogles. Yuko's classmate, Reiko Kirishima, is brainwashed by Rogles into helping him and destroy Yuko.
Gameplay varies depending on the platform, but each version retains the same basic plot; in the original MSX, PC-8801 and X1 versions, as well as the FM-7 and PC-9801 ports, Valis is a side-scrolling game where the player controls Yuko to fight through each
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma%20Linda%20Broadcasting%20Network
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Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN) is a non-profit, community and variety television, Christian broadcasting network in Loma Linda, California founded in 1996. Broadcast can be received via GloryStar Satellite Systems - Galaxy 19, Internet video streaming on each website, IPTV services such as Roku and Roku devices, Joozoor TV and many more, and Verizon FiOS and cable/low and high power TV stations in select areas. LLBN English broadcasts on Glorystar channel 105, along with LLBN Arabic on Glorystar channel 405 and LLBN Latino on Glorystar channel 505. It is located in Loma Linda which is known as one of only five blue zones worldwide from the surrounding Seventh-day Adventist community from which it draws for its programs, with values and lifestyle centered on the Seventh-day Adventist Church and from the Loma Linda University and Hospital nearby.
Programming
LLBN broadcasts programs such as talk shows, interview features, church services, preaching programs, musical concerts, sing-along programs and others, in multiple languages. LLBN can be viewed on every inhabited continent via satellite and the Internet. LLBN has also spawned two additional ethnic channels, LLBN Arabic and LLBN Chinese.
It features programming from the Loma Linda University Church of Seventh-day Adventists as a part of their weekly programs.
Guests Speakers
It has had special guest speakers such as James Burr who is recognized throughout the world for his achievements in telescope design and manufacturing and his design patents for astronomy accessories and lectures on Astronomy from a biblical perspective, and Shawn Boonstra, speaker/director for It Is Written. LLBN's Christian Connections had Ted Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church. It had Drs. Lawrence Geraty and Douglas Clark of The Center for Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra University and archaeologists Kent Bramlett and Chang Ho Ji, looking at the contributions of Middle Eastern archaeology to our understanding of the Bible and also Dr. Lynn Martell with inspirational stories of people who have confronted and overcome personal medical challenges.
See also
Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Religious broadcasting
References
External links
Official website
Loma Linda, California
Christian television networks
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Recording studios in California
Independent ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Adventist organizations established in the 20th century
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claranet
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Claranet provides network, hosting and managed application services in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands (Benelux), Portugal, Spain, Italy and Brazil.
History
Charles Nasser founded the ISP in 1996 and by 1999 had 150,000 subscribers.
Claranet has grown its business through a number of acquisitions, including Netscalibur in 2003, via net.works uk in 2004 and in 2005 Amen Group, via net.works Europe and Artful. In 2012 Claranet acquired Star Technology.
The company has annualised revenues of circa £375 million, over 6,500 customers and over 2,200 employees. On a constant currency basis, revenues have increased four times in under five years. Claranet was recognised as a ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting, Europe (2016) for the fourth consecutive year and holds Premier Partner status with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
In 2017 Claranet acquired French company Oxalide and ITEN Solutions, revolutionising the IT market in Portugal.
On 5 July 2018, Claranet acquired NotSoSecure.
References
External links
Internet service providers of the Netherlands
Internet service providers of the United Kingdom
Internet service providers of Germany
Web hosting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football365
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Football365.com is a website operated by Planet Sport Publishing's Planet Sport Network that also includes TEAMtalk, Planet Football, Planet F1 Planet Rugby, Tennis365 and LoveRugbyLeague from its base in Leeds.
The website primarily covers the Premier League, as well as other European leagues and cups. It takes an informal and humorous approach to dealing with the latest football news and often includes running jokes about individuals connected with the sport. F365 has been noted for the comprehensive coverage it provides, as well as its statistics and comment features.
History
The site was founded in 1997 by Arsenal fan and Internet pioneer David Tabizel, who then teamed up with journalist Danny Kelly, along with Dan Thompson (founder of computer game company Renegade Software) and Simon Morris, a former marketing director of BSkyB and ex-footballer and TV presenter Andy Gray, who also wrote a regular column. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2012, Tabizel stated that the website was named after a phrase oft used by his mother, Sandy, who would lambast him with "Its football 365 (days per year) with you!" In 1999, the height of the dot-com bubble, the site's former parent company 365 Corporation floated on the London Stock Exchange, peaking at a value of £500 million shortly after launch.
In 2006, Sky UK took ownership of Football365 as part of its £96m purchase of 365 Media Group
In 2015, Football365 transferred to Planet Sport Ltd based in Leeds.
Regular features
F365 Mailbox: A twice-daily collection of e-mails sent in by readers from Monday to Friday, some of which are not related to football.
F365 Forum: The website provides the F365 Forum for readers to discuss the sport.
Mediawatch: A satirical daily review of recent stories and articles from various national newspapers and football websites.
Winners And Losers: A review of the Premier League's weekend's action and that of the Champions League action.
Big Weekend/Big MidWeek: A preview feature for the coming weekend's games (or the mi-week games if any).
16 Conclusions: Sixteen conclusions derived from the matches amongst the so-called Big Six.
The Cheeky Punt: An offbeat betting preview feature.
F365 Says: Writers and contributors to the website give their opinions on recent footballing news, including in-house writers Sarah Winterburn, Matt Stead, Joe Williams, Ian Watson and Will Ford, in addition to columnists John Nicholson, Seb Stafford Bloor, Steven Chicken and Daniel Storey.
Gossip: An update of transfer gossip featuring F365 contributors and public comments.
Live: A real-time feed of live fixtures
Internet TV channel
The website also had an internet TV channel, F365 TV. Among the programmes broadcast were The Paper Round and The Dugout Podcast - an irreverent fortnightly football show that is available from Thursdays to Mondays on Football365, Teamtalk and iTunes. Presenters included Don Dealio, Ed Draper, Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper.
Regional variants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natas
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Natas may refer to:
Natas (comics), a DC Comics master martial artist
Natas (computer virus), a computer virus written by James Gentile
Natas (group), a Detroit hip hop group consisting of Esham, Mastamind and T-N-T
Natas Kaupas, American professional skateboarder
Los Natas, an Argentine rock band
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Akkineni Nageswara Rao, a veteran Indian Telugu film actor; sometimes nicknamed Natasamrat
King Natas, the villain of the Dungeon Explorer video games
See also
Nata (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Tactical%20Airborne%20Reconnaissance%20System
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Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) is a system for image acquisition, data storage, and data link used by the United States Marine Corps on its F/A-18D Hornet aircraft. It consists of the Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) with infrared and visible light sensors, two digital tape recorders, and a Reconnaissance Management System (RMS); an interface with the APG-73 Radar Upgrade (Phase II) which records synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery; and a digital data link mounted in a centerline pod. ATARS fits in the nose in place of the nose gun, with a small datalink pod mounted on the centerline station. The digital data link will transmit imagery and auxiliary data to any Common Imaging Ground/Surface Station (CIG/SS) compatible system including the Joint Services Imagery Processing System (JSIPS) or Marine Tactical Exploitation Group (TEG) based ashore and Navy JSIPS (JSIPS-N) aboard ship.
Operational use
Each of the four U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D squadrons have three ATARS aircraft, giving a total of 12 ATARS equipped aircraft altogether. The first operational use of ATARS equipped aircraft occurred in February 2000 when MCAS Beaufort based VMFA(AW)-332 deployed to Hungary in Operation Allied Force. ATARS is a considerable advance in capability on the Marines old RF-4B/C aircraft.
References
www.spyflight.co.uk
www.fas.org
External links
After Action report on ATARS after ‘’Allied Force’’
ATARS
Synthetic aperture radar
Military equipment introduced in the 1990s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall%20chart
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A waterfall chart is a form of data visualization that helps in understanding the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. These intermediate values can either be time based or category based. The waterfall chart is also known as a flying bricks chart or Mario chart due to the apparent suspension of columns (bricks) in mid-air. Often in finance, it will be referred to as a bridge.
Waterfall charts were popularized by the strategic consulting firm McKinsey & Company in its presentations to clients.
Complexity can be added to waterfall charts with multiple total columns and values that cross the axis. Increments and decrements that are sufficiently extreme can cause the cumulative total to fall above and below the axis at various points. Intermediate subtotals, depicted with whole columns, can be added to the graph between floating columns.
Overview
The waterfall is known as a bridge or cascade; the chart portrays how an initial value is affected by a series of intermediate positive or negative values. Also, it is similar to Bar Graph.
Applications
A waterfall chart can be used for analytical purposes, especially for understanding or explaining the gradual transition in the quantitative value of an entity that is subjected to increment or decrement. Often, a waterfall or cascade chart is used to show changes in revenue or profit between two time periods.
Waterfall charts can be used for various types of quantitative analysis, ranging from inventory analysis to performance analysis.
Waterfall charts are also commonly used in financial analysis to display how a net value is arrived at through gains and losses over time or between actual and budgeted amounts. Changes in cash flows or income statement line items can also be shown via a waterfall chart. Other non-business applications include tracking demographic and legal activity changes over time.
There are several sources for automatic creations of Waterfall Charts (PlusX , Origin, etc.)
References
Charts
Visualization (graphics)
Management theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Lindsay%20%28podcaster%29
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Alex Ben Lindsay (born July 10, 1970) is an American computer graphics and video production specialist. He is also the founder of the Pixel Corps and dvGarage which were both companies involved with computer graphics, computer animation and video production.
Background
Lindsay spent three years working at Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Titan A.E. (2000).
He also played Rum Sleg in The Phantom Menace, for which action figures are available.
He has taught at the Academy of Art and at the San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Programs. He has written for 3D Magazine, 3D World and Post. He was a regular guest on the US cable channel TechTV, and has appeared as a guest on G4techTV Canada's television show The Lab with Leo Laporte.
Currently, he is Head of Operations at 090 Media.
Podcasting
Lindsay produced the internet show MacBreak, which in 2006 made episodes available online in 1080p, a notably high resolution at the time. He also regularly participates in MacBreak Weekly, a weekly talk show/netcast on the TWiT network, and hosts the Virtual Final Cut Pro X Users Group dedicated to working with Apple Inc.'s non-linear editing system software.
Currently, he produces the daily Zoom webinar Office Hours which is a panel discussion about media production technology.
References
External links
090 Media
Office Hours Website A global conversation where no one’s left out
The home of the TWiT network
Living people
American bloggers
American podcasters
1971 births
TWiT.tv people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egham%20railway%20station
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Egham railway station serves the town of Egham in Surrey, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by South Western Railway, which also provides the train services. The station is on the Waterloo to Reading line, from , between Virginia Water and Staines. The station is also served by trains to Weybridge.
The station signs read 'Egham, for Royal Holloway, University of London'. Many students from the University and the nearby Strode's College use the station for travel to and from Egham.
History
Beginning in 1846 proposals were made for a line connecting Egham to Waterloo. In 1852 the Staines, Wokingham & Woking Junction Railway was proposed and then approved the following year. Despite objections to the railway's 12 proposed road crossings, the refusal of landowners to sell their properties and the death of two workers, the line opened on 4 June 1856 operated by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). The line was electrified in 1939.
A new station building built by British Rail on the London-bound platform was opened in 1985 by Lady Lawrence.
Accidents
On 7 June 1864, two trains running from Ascot to London collided, resulting in the deaths of six people. The trains had been scheduled to leave Ascot at five minute intervals, but the first train was delayed at Egham due to a passenger being removed for card-sharping, causing a late departure at 7:28pm when it was struck by the following train.
On 17 October 2000, a bus became trapped between the barriers at Pooley Green crossing and was subsequently struck by an empty train. The bus was dragged 100 metres causing damage to nearby houses. All eight bus passengers were evacuated before the collision.
Services
The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service from the station is:
4 tph (trains per hour) to London Waterloo, of which two run via Richmond (limited stop) and two run via Brentford (all stations)
2 tph to Weybridge
2 tph to Reading
On Sundays this is reduced to:
3 tph to London Waterloo, of which two run via Richmond and one runs via Brentford
1 tph to Woking
2 tph to Reading
References
External links
Railway stations in Surrey
DfT Category C2 stations
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856
Railway stations served by South Western Railway
1856 establishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
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LiMux was a project launched by the city of Munich in 2004 in order to replace the software on its desktop computers, migrating from Microsoft Windows to free software based on Linux. By 2012, the city had migrated 12,600 of its 15,500 desktops to LiMux. In November 2017 Munich City Council resolved to reverse the migration and return to Microsoft Windows-based software by 2020. In May 2020, it was reported that the newly elected politicians in Munich, while not going back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux wholesale, will prefer Free Software for future endeavours.
The project initially used OpenOffice.org, but announced on 15 October 2012 that it would switch to LibreOffice. The city reported that due to the project, it had gained freedom in software decisions, increased security and saved €11.7 million (US$16 million).
LiMux was the first Linux desktop distribution certified for industry use (ISO 9241) by the Technical Inspection Association (). It was first based on Debian, but later changed to the most popular Debian derivative, Ubuntu. LiMux Client version 5.0 was released in November 2014, based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with KDE SC 4.12 as the desktop. The default office suite was LibreOffice 4.1. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird were included in their Extended Support Release version.
History
In 2003 the impending end of Microsoft's support for Windows NT 4.0 led Munich City Council to commission a report on choices for a successor for use on its office computers. The report yielded two main alternatives, either migration to Windows XP or a move to a free and open source operating system based on Linux with an accompanying emphasis on web browsers as OS-neutral application clients.
A majority of Council members voted for the Linux-based solution, which was dubbed LiMux, referencing the M on Munich vehicle registrations and MUC, the code of International Air Transport Association (IATA) for Munich airport.
On 16 May 2007, the TÜV confirmed by a comprehensive certification process, the usability of the LiMux-based client as a user interface for interactive computer systems according to the ISO standard 9241-110.
The migration was interrupted in the summer of 2004, because the city wanted to investigate the legal implications of software patents. In late 2006, the actual migration began.
A tool called Wollmux was developed to extend OpenOffice capabilities in areas required by Munich Council, including managing consistent letterheads, form templates, saved blocks of standard text, document versioning and merging. Wollmux was released in May 2008.
In May 2009, 1800 workstations were converted to Linux, and 12,000 received OpenOffice. By October 2013, the city of Munich had migrated over 15,000 desktop PCs (of about 18,000 desktops) to Linux and OpenOffice.org. The usability project group interviewed users regularly to achieve a good fit to the needs.
In 2014, Munich deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, and mayor, Dieter Reiter, cons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Justice
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American Justice is an American criminal justice television program airing on the A&E Network. From 1992–2005, the show was hosted by television reporter Bill Kurtis. The show features interesting or notable cases, such as the murder of Selena, Scarsdale Diet doctor murder, the Hillside Stranglers, Matthew Shepard, and the Wells Fargo heist, with the stories told by key players, such as police, lawyers, victims, and the perpetrators themselves. More than 250 episodes were produced in the original series, making it the longest-running documentary justice show on cable.
The original series' final new episode aired on December 10, 2005. A new version debuted on August 20, 2021, with actor Dennis Haysbert replacing Kurtis as narrator.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
70 Payback for a Bully : Murder of Bobby Kent
71 “It’s Not My Fault.”: Strange Defenses
72 Lethal Injection: The Hospital Murders
73 The Jonesboro Schoolyard Ambush
74 Sister against Sister: The Twin Murder Plot
75 Rape in Connecticut: The Alex Kelly Story
76 Duty, Honor...and Murder
77 A Parent's Nightmare
78 Death Row Radical: Mumia Abu-Jamal
79 Dancing, Drugs, & Murder
80 Blueprint for Murder
81 The Killer Within: Murder of Kathy Bonney
82 The Trial Of Louise Woodward
83 Getting Away With Murder
84 Deadly Magnolia
85 Kill Thy Neighbor: George Trepal
86 The Life and Death of Teena Brandon
Season 8
87 Oil, Money and Murder - The trials of Texas oilman T. Cullen Davis
88 Free To Murder Again
89 The Wife Who Knew too Much
90 When a Child Kills
91 The California Killing Field
92 Murder on a Reservation
93 Dangerous Medicine?
94 A Son's Confession
95 Family Secret: The Death of Lisa Steinberg
96 Hiding In Plain Sight: Tales Of A Fugitive
97 A Mother On Death Row
98 The Erin Brockovich Story
99 The Boy Who Saw Too Much
100 The Atlanta Child Murders
101 Who Wants to Kill a Millionaire (The Ted Binion Silver Murder)
102 Shotgun Justice
103 Shattered Innocence: The Fells Acres Abuse Case
104 Raised On Hate
105 The Matthew Shepard Story
Season 9
106 Lying Eyes
107 Conspiracy to Kill: The Rae Carruth Story
108 Eliminating The Competition
109 Marijuana And Murder
110 Like Mother, Like Son: Sante and Kenny Kimes
111 The Girl In The Box
112 The Disappearance Of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
113 A Mother's Story Of Murder
114 Death In A Small Town (Alvin Ridley)
115 Millions Of Reasons To Kill
116 Driven To Kill
117 The Cult Murders
118 Brutal Revenge
119 An Execution in Doubt
120 Suicide By Execution
121 The Witness and the Hitman
122 While the Children Slept
Season 10
123 The Monster Inside
124 Vanished
125 Crib Death?
126 The Black Widow Of Vegas
127 In The Hands Of A Child
128 Who Killed Hannah Hill?
129 Justifiable Homicide?
130 A Questionable Doctor
131 A Mother's Betrayal
132 The Andrea Yates Story
133 A Murder before Homecoming (the murder of Heather Rich)
134 Shots in the Dark
135 S
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29
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As a subfield in artificial intelligence, diagnosis is concerned with the development of algorithms and techniques that are able to determine whether the behaviour of a system is correct. If the system is not functioning correctly, the algorithm should be able to determine, as accurately as possible, which part of the system is failing, and which kind of fault it is facing. The computation is based on observations, which provide information on the current behaviour.
The expression diagnosis also refers to the answer of the question of whether the system is malfunctioning or not, and to the process of computing the answer. This word comes from the medical context where a diagnosis is the process of identifying a disease by its symptoms.
Example
An example of diagnosis is the process of a garage mechanic with an automobile. The mechanic will first try to detect any abnormal behavior based on the observations on the car and his knowledge of this type of vehicle. If he finds out that the behavior is abnormal, the mechanic will try to refine his diagnosis by using new observations and possibly testing the system, until he discovers the faulty component; the mechanic plays an important role in the vehicle diagnosis.
Expert diagnosis
The expert diagnosis (or diagnosis by expert system) is based on experience with the system. Using this experience, a mapping is built that efficiently associates the observations to the corresponding diagnoses.
The experience can be provided:
By a human operator. In this case, the human knowledge must be translated into a computer language.
By examples of the system behaviour. In this case, the examples must be classified as correct or faulty (and, in the latter case, by the type of fault). Machine learning methods are then used to generalize from the examples.
The main drawbacks of these methods are:
The difficulty acquiring the expertise. The expertise is typically only available after a long period of use of the system (or similar systems). Thus, these methods are unsuitable for safety- or mission-critical systems (such as a nuclear power plant, or a robot operating in space). Moreover, the acquired expert knowledge can never be guaranteed to be complete. In case a previously unseen behaviour occurs, leading to an unexpected observation, it is impossible to give a diagnosis.
The complexity of the learning. The off-line process of building an expert system can require a large amount of time and computer memory.
The size of the final expert system. As the expert system aims to map any observation to a diagnosis, it will in some cases require a huge amount of storage space.
The lack of robustness. If even a small modification is made on the system, the process of constructing the expert system must be repeated.
A slightly different approach is to build an expert system from a model of the system rather than directly from an expertise. An example is the computation of a diagnoser for the diagno
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble%20in%20the%20Morning
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Rumble in the Morning is a comic radio program broadcast weekday mornings on FM99 in Virginia and hosted by Rick Rumble.
Programming
The show is scheduled to air weekdays from 5:30AM to 10:00AM (though they often begin and end several minutes late, sometimes going to 10:15). The host(s) typically begin the program by announcing what is coming up on the show that day. They then take calls from their listeners. They continue taking listener calls throughout the day, in addition to reading some listener e-mails and text messages. Daily they will introduce a particularly ridiculous, confusing, or embarrassing news clip called “Stupid News” this is done 3 times during the show.
In addition to the regular news, traffic, and sports reports, the Rumble in the morning show has a number of segments unique to their show, including:
"Stupid News" (Daily at 6:45AM and 8:45AM) - Reports of real-life news events which seem to result from lack of intelligence or logic. A "bonus" item is also recorded to be played by Eric, now FM99's afternoon DJ as of March 2015, at 4pm.
"Ask Shelley" (Mondays) - Shelley replies to questions from listeners, no matter how personal or explicit for sure..
"Facebook Fights" (Tuesdays) - Staff members act out social media scuffles for the amusement of themselves and the audience.
"The Reach-Around" (Wednesdays) - Strange, funny, or illogical audio discovered on the World Wide Web. Previously done daily under the branding "Idiots On The Internet".
"Wheel of interviews" (Wednesday, infrequently) - Rumble conducts an interview in which he pranks the interviewee(s) by assuming a different personality or some sort of disorder done very well.
"What's on Craigslist?" (Thursdays) - Strange, funny, or illogical postings found on the Craigslist website. Mostly restricted to the 6:00 and 9:00 hours due to the frequently salacious content.
"The News You Missed" (Friday) - Rumble lampoons real-life news events from the past week.
"Video Game Report" (Friday) - Shelley and Eric present a comical rundown of video game news.
"Rumble in the Streets" - Rumble interviews people on the street at different local events
The Rumble in the Morning show also conducts formal interviews with celebrities, politicians, authors, heads or members of organizations, and even ordinary citizens who were somehow involved in news stories. The show is also known for conducting fake celebrity phone interviews, for which Rumble and staff members impersonate the celebrity in question or for which a real-life interview is edited for humorous effect. Among the celebrities who have received this treatment are George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Larry Flynt, Michael Jackson (and Michael Jackson's brain), Michael Vick, Barney Frank, and Paula Abdul.
On Thursday, the show often welcomes into the studio a comedian who is due to perform at The Funny Bone in Virginia Beach that weekend. Among the comedians who have been guests on the show are Tommy Davidson, Jim Florentine, Ralphi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denfert-Rochereau%20station%20%28Paris%20RER%29
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Denfert-Rochereau station () is a railway station in Paris. It was one of the first stations of the French railway network, and is still in use as a station of Paris' RER line B.
The station was built from 1842 and opened on 7 June 1846 as the Gare d'Enfer (or Gare de Paris-d'Enfer), after the nearby Place d'Enfer (now called the Place Denfert-Rochereau), itself named after the Barrière d'Enfer. The station building has a circular shape as it possessed a rail loop. Indeed, the station was the Parisian terminus of a line from Sceaux. The Ligne de Sceaux used the Arnoux system (after its inventor), as it required the construction of specific engines capable of travelling on very tight curves and broad gauge tracks of . The Arnoux system was abandoned in 1891 and the line was converted to (standard) gauge. The line was extended to Luxembourg station in 1895, with the newly created Port-Royal station along the way. At the same time, the station was renamed after Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau. The line was operated by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans until 1937 when the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Métropolitain de Paris (CMP) (predecessor of the RATP) took over. It became line B of the RER in 1977 on being extended to meet line A at Châtelet – Les Halles.
The station building of Denfert-Rochereau station is the oldest railway building still standing in Paris.
Denfert-Rochereau remains a station of line B of the Réseau Express Régional and is an interchange with the métro station of the same name, Denfert-Rochereau.
External links
Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in Paris
Railway stations in France opened in 1846
Buildings and structures in the 14th arrondissement of Paris
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAfee%20%28disambiguation%29
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McAfee is an antivirus and computer security company.
McAfee may refer also to:
Places in the United States
McAfee, Kentucky, unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky
McAfee, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Vernon Township, New Jersey
McAfee Coliseum or RingCentral Coliseum, a stadium in Oakland, California
McAfee Peak, in the Independence Mountains of Nevada
Other uses
McAfee (surname), including a list of people with the surname McAfee and MacAfee
McAfee, the tune to the hymn "Near to the Heart of God" written by Cleland Boyd McAfee
See also
McAfee Knob, a mountain feature on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia
Candler-McAfee, Georgia, a census-designated place
McCafé, a fast-food chain owned by McDonald's
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npower
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Npower may refer to:
N-Power (Nigeria), Nigerian Federal Government programme to empower youth.
npower (United Kingdom), a gas and electricity supply company in the UK
NPower (USA), a network of nonprofit technology assistance providers in the United States
Npower, a line of electronics from Nickelodeon which includes music/media players, digital cameras and DVD players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri%20Graner%20Ray
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Sheri Graner Ray is an American computer game designer. Active since 1990, she has worked for such companies as Electronic Arts, Origin Systems, Sony Online Entertainment, and Cartoon Network, and has worked on such licenses as Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima, and Nancy Drew. She is author of the book Gender Inclusive Game Design-Expanding the Market and is the computer game industry's leading expert on the subject of gender and computer games.
The Hollywood Reporter named Ray one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry in 2004. In 2005 she received the International Game Developers Association Award for Community Contribution at the Game Developers Choice Awards for her work on women's interests in the video game industry. She served as Chair of the Steering Committee for Women In Games International, a non-profit organization she co-founded.
She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Tim.
References
External links
http://www.SheriGranerRay.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20070623123227/http://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/coverage/feature.asp?feature_id=44
https://web.archive.org/web/20061127184038/http://www.misbehaving.net/2005/02/igda_honours_sh.html
Women in Games International
https://bi.gale.com/global/article/GALE%7CA137634405?u=cuny_statenisle
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American video game designers
Living people
Origin Systems people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Garza
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Peter Garza (born August 6, 1960) is a United States computer forensics expert and cybercrime investigator.
As a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Peter Garza conducted the first court-ordered Internet wiretap in the United States while investigating the Julio Cesar Ardita ("El Griton") hacking case. Ardita was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with using compromised user accounts at Harvard University to hack into government and university computer systems in the U.S. and abroad. Ardita pleaded guilty on May 19, 1998 in the United States District Court of Massachusetts to unlawfully intercepting electronic communications and damaging files on military computer systems.
Garza founded EvidentData, Inc., a private sector consulting firm specializing in computer forensics, electronic discovery, and expert consulting, in 1999. EvidentData was acquired by First Advantage which he left in 2009 to form Data Forté. Garza continues to be involved in many high-profile civil cases. He gave expert testimony regarding altered electronic documents in a case (Beckman Coulter Inc. v. Dovatron International Inc.) which resulted in a $934 million jury award and testified regarding critical deleted but recoverable data in a case (Steinberg, Moorad & Dunn, Inc. v. Dunn) brought by sports agent Leigh Steinberg against former partner David Dunn which resulted in a $45 million jury award.
Peter Garza earned a Master of Science in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University in 2001. He also developed and taught a graduate course in Computer Forensics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
External links
Article regarding Ben Roethlisberger case
Fortune Small Business article discussing Peter Garza's work
Article regarding the Julio Cesar Ardita hacking case from Informit
Department of Justice press release regarding first Internet wiretap
Department of Justice press release regarding Julio Cesar Ardita guilty plea
Article regarding Beckman Coulter Inc. v. Dovatron International Inc.
Article regarding Steinberg, Moorad & Dunn, Inc. v. Dunn
Computer security specialists
Living people
1960 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKTV%20Play
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UKTV Play is a video on demand service owned by UKTV, launched in August 2014. The service offers catch-up programming from UKTV's free-to-air channels, which are Dave, Drama, W and Yesterday.
History
UKTV Play was first announced in June 2014. The service first launched on iOS in August, on PC, YouView and Virgin Media in November and on Android in February 2015. In addition, it launched on Freeview Play in August 2016, on Roku and Now in February 2018, and on Freesat and Samsung smart TVs in September 2018.
Following the addition of W to UKTV's free-to-air packages, the shows from the channel became available to watch for free on UKTV Play.
In August 2023, UKTV launched four FAST channels utilising the UKTV Play brand and content on platforms including Samsung TV Plus and Pluto TV.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2014
Video on demand services
2014 establishments in the United Kingdom
UKTV
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Blaster
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is an interactive movie video game developed by Data East featuring animation by Toei Animation, originally released exclusively in Japan as a laserdisc-based arcade game in 1985. The player assumes the role of a vigilante who must avenge the death of his wife by pursuing the biker gang responsible for her death in a modified sports car. The game would later be ported to a variety of home formats such as the MSX and Sharp X1 (VHD format), Sega CD (under the title of Road Blaster FX), LaserActive (in Mega-LD format), PlayStation and Sega Saturn (in a compilation with Thunder Storm). The Sega CD and Mega-LD versions were released outside of Japan under titles of Road Avenger and Road Prosecutor respectively.
Gameplay
As with other laserdisc-based arcade games from the same time, the gameplay consists of on-screen instructions overlaid over pre-recorded full motion video animated footage of high-speed chases and vehicular combat. The player controls the crosshair from a first-person perspective, to steer their car toward the correct directions according to the green arrows flashing and beeping beside it, while controlling the gas pedal, brake and booster whenever they light up.
The game has nine stages. Upon successfully completing a level, the player is graded on the reaction time. Different difficulty levels can be selected. In Normal Mode, pop-up icons and audio tones signal when to turn left or right, brake, hit turbo, or hit other cars. In Hard Mode, there are no on-screen icons to guide the player.
Plot
The story of Road Blaster is inspired by revenge thriller films such as Mad Max. In the late 1990s United States, the player assumes the role of a vigilante who drives a customized sports car in order to get revenge on a biker gang responsible for his wife's death on their honeymoon. After recovering from his own injuries, he upgrades his car and goes on a rampage through nine areas. His goal is to seek out the gang's female boss and complete his vengeance.
Development
Road Blaster uses animation provided by the anime studio Toei Animation. It was animated under the guidance of Yoshinobu Inano, who also directed or key-animated such films such as Gundam: Char's Counter Attack, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, and The Transformers: The Movie. It was animated using 15,000 hand-painted cels to produce over 30 minutes of animation. Game director Yoshihisa Kishimoto, who previously worked on Cobra Command, later directed the arcade version of Double Dragon, where the car from Road Blaster can be seen inside the Lee brothers' garage at the start of the game.
The chopper from Cobra Command/Thunder Storm can also be seen at the beginning of Road Blaster.
Releases
Road Blaster was originally released in 1985 as a laserdisc-based arcade game. Various ports were released throughout history, including versions for the MSX, X1 (both in VHD format), Mega CD/Sega CD, LaserActive (in Mega LD format), Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and 3DO Interactive Multiplay
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%20intelligence
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Commercial intelligence is a form of open-source intelligence practiced by diverse international and local businesses.
Business Intelligence is a misnomer for data mining and enterprise dashboards that present useful patterns or distillations of internal information to the executive.
What is Commercial Intelligence?
Commercial Intelligence (CI) is the process of defining, gathering, analyzing and distributing accurate and relevant intelligence regarding the products, customers, competitors, business environment and the organization itself. This methodical program affects the organization's tactics, decisions and operations.
Who uses Commercial Intelligence?
A 1998 study by the Futures Group, a Glastonbury, Connecticut-based consulting firm, indicates that 82% of companies with annual revenues exceeding $10 billion and 60% of those with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion now have an organized intelligence system. While most larger companies have specific departments devoted to Commercial Intelligence, mid-sized companies tend to hire Commercial Intelligence firms, and smaller business owners are more likely to do it themselves.
What Commercial Intelligence Could We Use?
Commercial Intelligence can be obtained and analysed in various ways that include:
Information on a supplier's financial performance
Political developments
Economic indicators
New product development
Currency market movements
Competitor performance
New market entrants
Primary Vs Secondary Intelligence
Primary Sources of Intelligence
Primary sources of CI include:
Speeches by executive managers concerning future strategies and tactics of the company and company literature shared at trade shows, conferences and other events.
All forms of communication mediums such as TV, Radio, Business magazines, etc.
Annual reports.
Physical observations of activities.
Conversations with internal sources known to be knowledgeable about the competitor's operations and decision making
Conversation with ex-company employees
Conversations with consultants or agencies of the company
Secondary Sources of Intelligence
Secondary sources of CI include:
Articles and reviews created by someone outside the company concerning the company.
Books about the company and/or the companies in the industry.
Special studies, research papers and analyst reports.
Intelligence from both classifications can be found within the scope of open source intelligence (OSINT).
The Commercial Intelligence Cycle
Efficient and successful CI is a constant cycle that consists of 5 steps:
Planning; deliberating with decision makers to discover their intelligence needs.
Gathering; collecting activities that are conducted legally and ethically.
Analysis; interpreting all the information gathered and assembling the suggested actions.
Dissemination; presenting the findings to the decision makers
Feedback; studying the decision makers’ responses and understanding their need for continued intelligence.
Ethics i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20%28journal%29
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Artificial Intelligence is a scientific journal on artificial intelligence research. It was established in 1970 and is published by Elsevier. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and Science Citation Index. The 2021 Impact Factor for this journal is 14.05 and the 5-Year Impact Factor is 11.616.
References
External links
Official website
Artificial intelligence publications
Computer science journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 1970
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Dickmanns
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Ernst Dieter Dickmanns is a German pioneer of dynamic computer vision and of driverless cars. Dickmanns has been a professor at Bundeswehr University Munich (1975–2001), and visiting professor to Caltech and to MIT, teaching courses on "dynamic vision".
Biography
Dickmanns was born in 1936. He studied aerospace and aeronautics at RWTH Aachen (1956–1961), and control engineering at Princeton University (1964/65); from 1961 to 1975 he was associated with the German Aero-Space Research Establishment (now DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, working in the fields of flight dynamics and trajectory optimization. In 1971/72 he spent a Post-Doc Research Associateship with the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville (orbiter re-entry). From 1975 to 2001 he was with UniBw Munich, where he initiated the 'Institut fuer Flugmechanik und Systemdynamik' (IFS), the Institut fuer die 'Technik Autonomer Systeme' (TAS), and the research activities in machine vision for vehicle guidance.
Pioneering work in autonomous driving
In the early 1980s his team equipped a Mercedes-Benz van with cameras and other sensors. The 5-ton van was re-engineered that it was possible to control steering wheel, throttle, and brakes through computer commands based on real-time evaluation of image sequences. Software was written that translated the sensory data into appropriate driving commands. For safety reasons, initial experiments in Bavaria took place on streets without traffic. In 1986 the Robot Car "VaMoRs" managed to drive all by itself and by 1987 was capable of driving itself at speeds up to .
One of the greatest challenges in high-speed autonomous driving arises through the rapidly changing visual street scenes. Back then, computers were much slower than they are today (~1% of 1%); therefore, sophisticated computer vision strategies were necessary to react in real time. The team of Dickmanns solved the problem through an innovative approach to dynamic vision. Spatiotemporal models were used right from the beginning, dubbed '4-D approach', which did not need storing previous images but nonetheless was able to yield estimates of all 3-D position and velocity components. Attention control including artificial saccadic movements of the platform carrying the cameras allowed the system to focus its attention on the most relevant details of the visual input. Kalman filters have been extended to perspective imaging and were used to achieve robust autonomous driving even in presence of noise and uncertainty. Feedback of prediction errors allowed bypassing the (ill-conditioned) inversion of perspective projection by least-squares parameter fits.
When in 1986/87 the EUREKA-project 'PROgraMme for a European Traffic of Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety' (PROMETHEUS) was initiated by the European car manufacturing industry (funding in the range of several hundred million Euros), the initially planned autonomous lateral guidance by buried cables was dropped and substituted by the muc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hi%20Hi%20Puffy%20AmiYumi%20episodes
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This is a list of episodes of the animated television series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, who which is created by former Cartoon Network's executive Sam Register. (Episodes are in order of airing, with seasonal number, and all premiere dates are in the United States.)
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (2003)
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi had an unaired pilot episode. Sam Register pitched the idea of Puffy AmiYumi having their own television series on Cartoon Network, and the studio Renegade Animation developed a test short on April 22, 2003 in hopes of swaying the channel to greenlit their show's production. Bits and pieces of it were shown in non-full version as a preview on Cartoon Network DVDs and VHS tapes, and a full preview of the pilot was made available on the Teen Titans DVD (for its first season), albeit as a short promo. The entire pilot was found by series' director, Darrell Van Citters, and was originally uploaded to Vimeo on April 5, 2018, with reuploads being common afterwards. Despite being his creation, this was the only time Sam Register ever wrote an episode of the series.
Season 1 (2004–2005)
Season 2 (2005)
Season 3 (2006)
References
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Recordings%20Network
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Global Recordings Network (GRN) was founded by Joy Ridderhof in Los Angeles, California in 1939 as "Gospel Recordings." The mission of GRN is "In partnership with the church, to effectively communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ by means of culturally appropriate audio and audio-visual materials in every language." This is accomplished by recording the stories of the Bible in the native language or dialect, by a mother tongue speaker and providing them in an audio format to churches, mission organisations and the community at large. Often the languages do not have a written form. GRN has recorded over 6,000 languages or dialects. GRN has offices in more than 20 countries. GRN's motto is "Telling the story of Jesus in EVERY language."
The language professor Alexander Arguelles notes that it is possible to use these recordings and the accompanying text in a language the learner knows, to start learning any of the languages. For many there is no other way to learn the language. 1300 of the languages accompany the stories with standardized pictures, shown for 10–20 seconds, which allow learners to find short parallel sections in the language they know and the one they want to learn.
The recordings have been used for linguistic research on rhythm and phonological characteristics, vowels, consonants, for comparative research on phonemes from hundreds of languages, for developing and testing computer systems to recognize languages, and for documenting and reviving rare languages.
Books
1978 - Capturing Voices by Phyllis Thompson, a biography of Joy Ridderhof and Gospel Recordings.
1987 - Catching Their Talk In A Box by Betty M. Hockett, a children's biography from the series "Life-Story from Missions"
See also
Language education
SIL International
Wycliffe Bible Translators
References
External links
Global Recordings Homepage
Audiovie Homepage.Audiovie is Global Recordings in most Francophone countries.
Wheaton College GRN archives collection
Christian missions
1939 establishments in California
Language acquisition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Jerzy%20Minakowski
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Marek Jerzy Minakowski is a Polish historian and genealogist known for creating the Polish genealogy database Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego.
Early life and career
Minakowski earned his PhD in classical philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Initially focusing on classical philosophy and logics, he later started publishing about Poland's history and genealogy. In 2001, he founded a genealogy website Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego and began adding available historical records. By 2020, the site contained genealogy records of around 1 million people.
In 2016, in recognition of his work, he received the Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture.
Personal life
In 1994, he married archaeologist Anna Barbara Lebet (born 1963), with whom he has one daughter.
References
External links
TEDxWarsaw – Marek Minakowski – 3/5/10 YouTube [English]
Marek Jerzy Minakowski at Ludzie nauki nauka-polska.pl [Polish]
1972 births
Living people
Jagiellonian University alumni
People from Olsztyn
Polish male bloggers
Polish genealogists
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardTalk
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CardTalk is an inexpensive cardboard phonograph for playing recordings, mainly voice, made on vinyl records. The name was used by Global Recordings Network, a Christian missionary movement which used the device from the 1960s to play religious talks in remote parts of the world that did not have electricity. It consists of a flat piece of cardboard creased and folded into a triangle. The base has a nub to hold the record in place. The upper "arm" forms the apex of the triangle and has a needle which is placed upon the record. The record is spun using a small pointed object like a pencil. The cardboard picks up the impressions on the record and vibrates loud enough to be heard causing the "card" to "talk". Several cardboard phonograph playing devices were patented around the same period and these include Jauquet (1953) for a "Pocket Speaking Device", J.S. Wiener's "Sound Emitting Device" (1967) and the "Record Player" of Max Meier-Maletz (1972).
References
External links
History of CardTalk
DIY design
Video demonstration
Sound production technology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20file%20and%20hidden%20directory
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In computing, a hidden folder (sometimes hidden directory) or hidden file is a folder or file which filesystem utilities do not display by default when showing a directory listing. They are commonly used for storing user preferences or preserving the state of a utility and are frequently created implicitly by using various utilities. They are not a security mechanism because access is not restricted – usually the intent is simply to not "clutter" the display of the contents of a directory listing with files the user did not directly create.
Unix and Unix-like environments
In Unix-like operating systems, any file or folder that starts with a dot character (for example, ), commonly called a dot file or dotfile, is to be treated as hidden – that is, the ls command does not display them unless the -a or -A flags (ls -a or ls -A) are used. In most command-line shells, wildcards will not match files whose names start with . unless the wildcard itself starts with an explicit . .
A convention arose of using dotfiles in the user's home directory to store per-user configuration or informational text. Early uses of this were the well-known dotfiles .profile, .login, and .cshrc, which are configuration files for the Bourne shell and C shell and shells compatible with them, and .plan and .project, both used by the finger and name commands.
Many applications, from bash to desktop environments such as GNOME, now store their per-user configuration this way, but the Unix/Linux freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification aims to migrate user config files from individual dotfiles in $HOME to non-hidden files in the hidden directory $HOME/.config.
Android
The Android operating system uses empty .nomedia files to tell smartphone apps not to display or include the contents of the folder. This prevents digital photos and digital music files from being shown in picture galleries or played in MP3 player apps. This is useful to prevent downloaded voicemail files from playing between the songs in a playlist, and to keep personal photos private while still allowing those in other folders to be shared in person with friends, family, and colleagues. The .nomedia file has no effect on the filesystem or even the operating system, but instead depends entirely on each individual app to respect the presence of the different files.
GNOME
In the GNOME desktop environment (as well as all programs written using GLib), filenames listed in a file named .hidden in each directory are also excluded from display. In GNOME's file manager, the keyboard shortcut + enables the display of both kinds of hidden files.
macOS
In addition to the "dotfile" behaviour, files with the "Invisible" attribute are hidden in Finder, although not in ls. The "Invisible" attribute can be set or cleared using the SetFile command; for example, invoking SetFile -a V jimbo will hide the file jimbo. Starting in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the chflags command can also be used; for example, chflags hidd
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXDocker
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KXDocker is a program for the Linux operating system created by Ing. Stefano Zingarini. It resembles the "Dock" of Mac OS X in that it is mainly used as an application launcher. It supports themes, plugins and a few extra features (there is documentation on creating your own themes). Other such docks available for Linux and KDE include Kiba-dock (implements physics simulation allowing the application icons to be dragged around and initially looked to be more suitable for the GNOME desktop environment), Kooldock and Ksmoothdock. While Kiba-dock is popular for its tag-along with 3D window managers (i.e. AIGLX with Beryl), KXDocker seems to be the choice for those who seek "simple yet powerful" alternatives.
KXDocker was made for Linux distributions using KDE. However, KXDocker also works with GNOME, as outlined by the author. It is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
According to the project's website, KXDocker is, or soon will be, discontinued, giving way to its successor - "XQDE". However, it seems currently there is not much stated in the XQDE project page (aside from a few insights) and thus we can assume it is still in its infancy. It will be built upon Qt 4 and the author writes "it will gain all Compiz (Beryl) power", which may mean it will have better integration with the compositing window manager.
References
Aleksey 'LXj' Alekseyev (January 4, 2007) KXDocker: More than a task manager, linux.com
Wolfgang Miedl (10 January 2005), Linux-Startleiste im Apple-Stil (Linux taskbar in Apple style), Computerwoche
Marcel Gagné (January 5, 2005) Cooking with Linux - Eye-Popping Panels, Linux Journal
External links
XQDE - Successor to KXDocker
KDE software
Application launchers
Linux windowing system-related software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod%20%28computer%29
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The Nimrod, built in the United Kingdom by Ferranti for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was an early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot (3.7-by-2.7-by-1.5-meter) computer, designed by John Makepeace Bennett and built by engineer Raymond Stuart-Williams, allowed exhibition attendees to play a game of Nim against an artificial intelligence. The player pressed buttons on a raised panel corresponding with lights on the machine to select their moves, and the Nimrod moved afterward, with its calculations represented by more lights. The speed of the Nimrod's calculations could be reduced to allow the presenter to demonstrate exactly what the computer was doing, with more lights showing the state of the calculations. The Nimrod was intended to demonstrate Ferranti's computer design and programming skills rather than to entertain, though Festival attendees were more interested in playing the game than the logic behind it. After its initial exhibition in May, the Nimrod was shown for three weeks in October 1951 at the Berlin Industrial Show before being dismantled.
The game of Nim running on the Nimrod is a candidate for one of the first video games, as it was one of the first computer games to have any sort of visual display of the game. It appeared only four years after the 1947 invention of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game to use an electronic display, and one year after Bertie the Brain, a computer similar to the Nimrod which played tic-tac-toe at the 1950 Canadian National Exhibition. The Nimrod's use of light bulbs rather than a screen with real-time visual graphics, however, much less moving graphics, does not meet some definitions of a video game.
Development
In the summer of 1951, the United Kingdom held the Festival of Britain, a national exhibition held throughout the UK to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture, and the arts and to commemorate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. British engineering firm and nascent computer developer Ferranti promised to develop an exhibit for the Festival. In late 1950, John Makepeace Bennett, an Australian employee of the firm and recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Cambridge, proposed that the company create a computer that could play the game of Nim. In Nim, players take turns removing at least one object from a set of objects, with the goal of being the player who removes the last object; gameplay options can be modeled mathematically. Bennett's suggestion was supposedly inspired by an earlier Nim-playing machine, "Nimatron", which had been displayed in 1940 at the New York World's Fair. The Nimatron machine had been designed by Edward Condon and constructed by Westinghouse Electric from electromechanical relays, and had weighed over a ton. Although Bennett's suggestion was a game, his goal was to show off the computer's ab
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20coupling
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In object-oriented programming, sequential coupling (also known as temporal coupling) is a form of coupling where a class requires its methods to be called in a particular sequence. This may be an anti-pattern, depending on context.
Methods whose name starts with Init, Begin, Start, etc. may indicate the existence of sequential coupling.
Using a car as an analogy, if the user steps on the gas without first starting the engine, the car does not crash, fail, or throw an exception - it simply fails to accelerate.
Sequential coupling can be refactored with the template method pattern to overcome the problems posed by the usage of this anti-pattern.
References
Anti-patterns
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIDY
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KIDY (channel 6) is a television station in San Angelo, Texas, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Tegna Inc., and has studios on South Chadbourne Street in San Angelo; its transmitter is located in rural northwestern Tom Green County (east of Grape Creek). KIDY also handles master control and other internal operations for sister station and fellow Fox affiliate KXVA in Abilene.
History
The station first signed on the air on May 12, 1984, originally operating as an independent station which also carried business news programming from the Financial News Network until 1985. KIDY became a charter affiliate of the then-fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company on October 9, 1986; back then, Fox only carried a late night talk show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. It wasn't until April 5, 1987 when the network expanded its programming to prime time. In the late 1990s, KIDY began branding as "Fox 10," in reference to the station's channel position in the area cable providers (including Suddenlink Communications); the station's branding was changed to "KIDY Fox San Angelo" in 2007. In 2008, KIDY was purchased by Bayou City Broadcasting in a group deal for approximately $3 million.
On September 27, 2012, Bayou City Broadcasting announced an agreement to sell KXVA and its seven other television stations to Dallas-based London Broadcasting Company (the sale price initially was not disclosed). The sale marked a temporary exit from the broadcasting industry for the company's owner DuJuan McCoy, who planned on refocusing his company to acquire major network affiliates in mid-sized markets larger than San Angelo and Abilene. The FCC granted its approval of the sale on November 14. The sale was completed on December 31.
On May 14, 2014, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire KIDY and five other London Broadcasting stations for $215 million. Gannett CEO Gracia Martore touted that the acquisition would give the company a presence in several fast-growing markets, and opportunities for local advertisers to leverage its digital marketing platform. Both KIDY and Abilene sister station KXVA will be the first Fox affiliates to be owned by Gannett outright; the company had acquired KMSB in Tucson from Belo (as part of a group deal that also included stations in four other Texas markets, Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio) in 2013—however, KMSB is operated by Gray Television (owner of that market's CBS affiliate KOLD-TV) under a shared services agreement that was established in 2012 between Belo and KOLD's then-owner Raycom Media, and Gannett could not directly own the station's license due to newspaper cross-ownership restrictions. The sale was completed on July 8. 13 months later, on June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KIDY was retained by the latter company, named Tegna.
Programming
KIDY carri
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Michie
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Donald Michie (; 11 November 1923 – 7 July 2007) was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny", a German teleprinter cipher.
Early life and education
Michie was born in Rangoon, Burma. He attended Rugby School and won a scholarship to study classics at Balliol College, Oxford. In early 1943, however, looking for some way to contribute to the war effort, Michie instead attempted to enrol on a Japanese language course in Bedford for intelligence officers. On arrival, it transpired that he had been misinformed, and instead he trained in cryptography, displaying a natural aptitude for the subject. Six weeks later, he was recruited to Bletchley Park and was assigned to the "Testery", a section which tackled a German teleprinter cipher. During his time at Bletchley Park he worked with Alan Turing, Max Newman and Jack Good. Michie and Good were on the initial staff of the Newmanry.
Fom 1945 to 1952 he studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (D Phil) degree for research in mammalian genetics, in 1953.
Career and research
In 1960, he developed the Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine (MENACE), one of the first programs capable of learning to play a perfect game of noughts and crosses. Since computers were not readily available at this time, Michie implemented his program with about 304 matchboxes, each representing a unique board state. Each matchbox was filled with coloured beads, each representing a different move in that board state. The quantity of a colour indicated the "certainty" that playing the corresponding move would lead to a win. The program was trained by playing hundreds of games and updating the quantities of beads in each matchbox depending on the outcome of each game.
Michie was director of the University of Edinburgh's Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (previously the Experimental Programming Unit) from its establishment in 1965. The machine intelligence unit predated the university's computer science unit. He remained at Edinburgh until 1985, when he left to found The Turing Institute in Glasgow.
Active in the research community into his eighties, he devoted the last decade of his life to the UK charity The Human Computer Learning Foundation, and worked with Stephen Muggleton, Claude Sammut, Richard Wheeler, and others on natural language systems and theories of intelligence. In 2007 he was completing a series of scientific articles on the Sophie Natural Language System and a book manuscript entitled "Jehovah's Creatures". Michie invented the memoisation technique.
He was founder and Treasurer of the Human-Computer Learning Foundation, a charity registered in the UK.
Awards and honours
He was awarded numerous fellowships and honours during his career including:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) (1969)
Foreign Ho
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Distributed%20Computing%20Systems
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The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) is the oldest conference in the field of distributed computing systems in the world. It was launched by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) in October 1979, and is sponsored by such committee. It was started as an 18-month conference until 1983 and became an annual conference since 1984. The ICDCS has a long history of significant achievements and worldwide visibility, and has recently celebrated its 37th year.
Location history
2019: Dallas, Texas, United States
2018: Vienna, Austria
2017: Atlanta, GA, United States
2016: Nara, Japan
2015: Columbus, Ohio, United States
2014: Madrid, Spain
2013: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2012: Macau, China
2011: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
2010: Genoa, Italy
2009: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2008: Beijing, China
2007: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006: Lisbon, Portugal
2005: Columbus, Ohio, United States
2004: Keio University, Japan
2003: Providence, RI, United States
2002: Vienna, Austria
2001: Phoenix, AZ, United States
2000: Taipei, Taiwan
1999: Austin, TX, United States
1998: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997: Baltimore, MD, United States
1996: Hong Kong
1995: Vancouver, Canada
1994: Poznań, Poland
1993: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
1992: Yokohama, Japan
1991: Arlington, TX, United States
1990: Paris, France
1989: Newport Beach, CA, United States
1988: San Jose, CA, United States
1987: Berlin, Germany
1986: Cambridge, MA, United States
1985: Denver, CO, United States
1984: San Francisco, CA, United States
1983: Hollywood, FL, United States
1981: Versailles, France
1979: Huntsville, AL, United States
See also
List of distributed computing conferences
External links
ICDCS 2018 - July 2–July 5, 2018, Vienna, Austria
ICDCS 2007 - June 25–June 29, 2007, Toronto, Canada.
ICDCS 2006 - July 4–July 7, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
ICDCS 2005 - July 6–July 10, 2005, Columbus, Ohio, United States.
ICDCS 2004 - March 23–March 26, 2004, Keio University, Japan.
ICDCS 2003 - May 19–May 22, 2003, Providence, RI, United States.
ICDCS 2002 - July 2–July 5, 2002, Vienna, Austria.
ICDCS 2001 - April 16–April 19, 2001, Phoenix, AZ, United States.
Distributed computing conferences
Computer networking conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Winston
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Patrick Henry Winston (February 5, 1943 – July 19, 2019) was an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winston was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, succeeding Marvin Minsky, who left to help found the MIT Media Lab. Winston was succeeded as director by Rodney Brooks.
After graduating from high school, Winston left East Peoria, a suburb of Peoria, IL, to come to MIT by train. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1965, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and went on to complete his Masters and PhD there as well, finalizing his PhD in 1970. His research interests included machine learning and human intelligence. Winston was known within the MIT community for his excellent teaching and strong commitment to supporting MIT undergraduate culture.
At MIT, Winston taught 6.034: Artificial Intelligence and 6.803/6.833: Human Intelligence Enterprise. Winston's How to Speak talk was an MIT tradition for over 40 years. "Offered every January, the talk is intended to improve your speaking ability in critical situations by teaching you a few heuristic rules." A book with his insights and teachings on communication was published in 2020 by the MIT Press: "Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform".
Winston served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence from 1985–1987.
Winston died in Boston on July 19, 2019.
Bibliography and publications
Winston authored a number of computer science and AI textbooks, including:
Artificial Intelligence
The Psychology of Computer Vision
Lisp (with Berthold K.P. Horn)
On to C
On to C++
On to Java (with Sundar Narasimhan)
On to Smalltalk
References
External links
Personal homepage
Oral History with Patrick H. Winston, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1943 births
2019 deaths
Scientists from Illinois
Writers from Peoria, Illinois
Artificial intelligence researchers
American cognitive scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
American computer scientists
Lisp (programming language) people
Presidents of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konglungen
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Konglungen is a village in Asker municipality, Norway.
Its population in 1999 was 208, but since 2001 it is not considered an urban settlement by Statistics Norway, and its data is therefore not registered.
References
Villages in Viken (county)
Villages in Akershus
Villages in Asker
Villages in Northern Asker
Asker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection%20bandwidth
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In computer networking, if the network is bisected into two equal-sized partitions, the bisection bandwidth of a network topology is the bandwidth available between the two partitions. Bisection should be done in such a way that the bandwidth between two partitions is minimum. Bisection bandwidth gives the true bandwidth available in the entire system. Bisection bandwidth accounts for the bottleneck bandwidth of the entire network. Therefore bisection bandwidth represents bandwidth characteristics of the network better than any other metric.
Bisection bandwidth calculations
For a linear array with n nodes bisection bandwidth is one link bandwidth. For linear array only one link needs to be broken to bisect the network into two partitions.
For ring topology with n nodes two links should be broken to bisect the network, so bisection bandwidth becomes bandwidth of two links.
For tree topology with n nodes can be bisected at the root by breaking one link, so bisection bandwidth is one link bandwidth.
For Mesh topology with n nodes, links should be broken to bisect the network, so bisection bandwidth is bandwidth of links.
For Hyper-cube topology with n nodes, n/2 links should be broken to bisect the network, so bisection bandwidth is bandwidth of n/2 links.
Significance of bisection bandwidth
Theoretical support for the importance of this measure of network performance was developed in the PhD research of Clark Thomborson (formerly Clark Thompson). Thomborson proved that important algorithms for sorting, Fast Fourier transformation, and matrix-matrix multiplication become communication-limited—as opposed to CPU-limited or memory-limited—on computers with insufficient bisection bandwidth. F. Thomson Leighton's PhD research tightened Thomborson's loose bound on the bisection bandwidth of a computationally-important variant of the De Bruijn graph known as the shuffle-exchange network. Based on Bill Dally's analysis of latency, average-case throughput, and hot-spot throughput of m-ary n-cube networks for various m, it can be observed that low-dimensional networks, in comparison to high-dimensional networks (e.g., binary n-cubes) with the same bisection bandwidth (e.g., tori), have reduced latency and higher hot-spot throughput.
References
Information theory
Network management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny%20Computers
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Tiny Computers is a British computer manufacturer based in Manchester and once in Salfords, Surrey, England. The company went into administration due to substantial losses in January 2002 and was subsequently purchased by rival OEM Time Group and is now owned by Willow Vale Electronics Limited based in Manchester.
History
Tiny Computers enjoyed great success during the latter half of the 1990s, having retail units throughout the United Kingdom as well as launching in the United States and the Far East. The company claimed to have sold 400,000 units in 2000, and signed a contract worth £40m with Scottish manufacturer Fullarton Computer Industries in August 2001.
Customer service issues
Tiny Computers acquired the rather dubious acronym "Tough It's Now Yours" which was based around their customer service once a product had been sold. Calls to a premium rate 0906 number (50p per minute back in the 1990s) were frequently answered by staff with an apathetic attitude to the customer's issue.
Tiny cited reduced air freight fees and a shorter, more efficient supply chain as their reason for choosing a firm based in the United Kingdom over Asian OEMs who had lower base costs. However, due to increasing competition in the consumer PC market, their profits eventually began to fall, and in the beginning of 2002, they went into administration and were subsequently purchased by rival TIME.
Innovations
Home theater PC
In March 2001, the company released one of the first home theater PCs, called the Takami system. The PC was contained in a flat case with a similar form factor to a VHS player, and was intended to be placed under a television rather than at a computer desk as was typical during the 1990s. Bundles including a plasma television and other home cinema equipment were also sold.
Despite its innovative nature, the Takami was not a commercial success, with only 5,000 units being sold during 2001.
Tiny Trainer
In 2000, in an attempt to make computing easier for those who had little to no experience with PCs, Tiny commissioned e-learning company VSI Communications Group to create a 'virtual mentor' named Tiny Trainer. An interactive animation ran automatically when the PC first booted up and gave users a brief introduction to computers in general, the Windows operating system as well as Tiny's own online services.
Tiny Trainer was based on the same technology platform as VSI's Mentor interactive help series, and was tightly integrated with a Tiny specific Windows ME version of Mentor that also came bundled on Tiny's computers.
Sponsorship
Tiny sponsored Wimbledon F.C. shirts between 1999 and 2000.
References
Defunct companies based in Surrey
Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom
Computer companies disestablished in 2002
Computer companies established in 1990
Companies that have entered administration in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer hardware companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXVA
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KXVA (channel 15) is a television station in Abilene, Texas, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station broadcasts from a transmitter located in rural southwestern Callahan County. Its operations and local productions are housed at sister station and fellow Fox affiliate KIDY in San Angelo; the two stations are commonly branded as "Fox West Texas" and largely simulcast the same programming, including local newscasts covering both areas.
History
In 1992, Sage Broadcasting Company established K54DT "KDT" (call letters changed to KIDZ-LP in 1996), a translator of KIDY, to serve San Angelo. However, when the NFL came to Fox in 1994, its insufficient coverage meant that Fox sold the rights to air its football package to ABC affiliate KTXS. The wife of one of KIDY's owners, doing business as Star Broadcasting, then filed in 1995 to build a station on channel 15. Four applications were received in total for channel 15, but because the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and subsequent amendments shifted all new commercial broadcast stations to being awarded in auctions, the four parties then were ordered to bid on the allotment. That never came to pass, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a settlement agreement clearing the way for the Star Broadcasting application in 1999.
A final construction permit for channel 15 was issued on June 15, 2000, but the call letters KXVA had already been announced, as had been the programming plan: to move Fox to the new full-power station and convert the low-power outlet into a UPN affiliate. The new station's startup was pushed back from a planned September or October 2000 launch due to equipment delays and bad weather affecting the construction of the tower to January 9, 2001. It was the first new full-power TV station in Abilene since KTAB began in October 1979.
In 2008, the station was purchased by Bayou City Broadcasting in a group deal for approximately $3 million. On September 27, 2012, Bayou City Broadcasting announced an agreement to sell KXVA and its seven other television stations to the Dallas-based London Broadcasting Company (the sale price initially was not disclosed). The sale marked a temporary exit from the broadcasting industry for the company's owner DuJuan McCoy, who planned on refocusing his company to acquire major network affiliates in mid-sized markets larger than San Angelo and Abilene. The FCC granted its approval of the sale on November 14; the sale was completed on December 31.
On May 14, 2014, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire KIDY, KXVA, and four other London Broadcasting stations for $215 million; Gannett CEO Gracia Martore touted that the acquisition would give the company a presence in several fast-growing markets and opportunities for local advertisers to leverage its digital marketing platform. The sale was completed on July 8. 13 months later, on June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one si
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Chris Bruno is an American film and television actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sheriff Walt Bannerman on the USA Network television series The Dead Zone.
Early life
Bruno was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to actor Scott Bruno and the late Nancy M. Bruno. His younger brother, Dylan, is also an actor (best known for his role as Colby Granger in Numb3rs). The brothers grew up in Milford with their mother, Nancy, but spent a substantial amount of time with their father on Manhattan's Upper West Side. During college, Bruno was active in both theater and sports. After an injury sidelined his skiing career while attending college in Vermont, he auditioned for and was cast in the lead in The Mandrake.. Transferring to the State University of New York at Stony Brook as a theatre major, he became the starting pitcher for the school's baseball team.
Career
Soon after graduating college, Bruno joined the cast of Another World as Dennis Carrington Wheeler and was nominated for a Soap Opera Award for Outstanding Newcomer. After Another World, he was cast as Michael Delaney on ABC's All My Children. Bruno spent some time as a stand up comedian in the years following his soap opera stints and landed several guest-starring spots on the sitcoms The Nanny, Jesse and Suddenly Susan.
In 2001, he was cast as Walt Bannerman in USA Network's sci-fi drama The Dead Zone, the premiere of which was the highest-rated cable television series premiere at that time. In the series' fifth season, Bruno's directorial debut was the episode "Independence Day", which was dedicated in memory of his mother, who died of cancer.
Bruno remained a star on the show for the first five seasons; his character was killed off during the sixth-season premiere. Bruno made three additional guest appearances for the remainder of the final season. He also starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 2005 Roger Donaldson film The World's Fastest Indian, which according to Bruno was "one of the most exciting jobs" he's ever done.
In 2009, he appeared in 2 episodes of Prison Break and then appeared in the television movie Prison Break: The Final Break. He voiced Jack Slate in the 2002 video game Dead to Rights. In 2014 Bruno started playing the recurring role of Adam Stevens on ABC Family's The Fosters. In 2014 he also did two episodes of MTV's Awkward playing the role of Danny, Matt's biological father. Chris is a professional MMA Fighter and was the oldest person in history to make his professional debut at 51 years old. Bruno is also a helicopter pilot.
Selected filmography
References
External links
Chris Bruno's biography, USAnetwork.com; accessed August 29, 2015.
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male soap opera actors
Male actors from Connecticut
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
People from Milford, Connecticut
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Alsophila cuspidata, synonym Cyathea cuspidata, is a widespread species of tree fern native to Central and South America, where it grows in tropical rain forest up to the montane zone, as well as in open sites, on riverbanks and cleared pastureland at an altitude of 0–800 m. Its natural distribution covers Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, the Amazon Basin, Brazil and French Guiana. This species often has multiple trunks, which may be 15 m tall and about 10 cm in diameter. They are covered in black spines and together form a medium-sized, feathery clump. Fronds are bipinnate and 2–3 m long. The rachis and stipe are brown to dark brown and are covered with scales. The scales are bicoloured, having a dark brown to blackish centre and a pale, whitish margin. Pinnule veins sometimes have small, brown, star-shaped scales. Sori are round and form on either side of the pinnule midvein. They are covered by globose indusia.
In cultivation, A. cuspidata should be provided with high humidity and warm temperatures. It should not be exposed to frost.
References
cuspidata
Ferns of the Americas
Flora of Central America
Flora of Southern America
Ferns of Brazil
Ferns of Ecuador
Ferns of Mexico
Plants described in 1834
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