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"G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)", also known as "G.I. D'oh", is the fifth 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 November 12, 2006. It was written by Daniel Chun and directed by Nancy Kruse, while Kiefer Sutherland makes his first of two guest appearances this season. Maurice LaMarche does additional voices. In its original run, the episode received 11.43 million viewers. The episode is a critique of the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Plot
At the Springfield Mall, Bart and Milhouse torment the bullies as they work in a shoe store. When the manager leaves, however, they are stripped to their underwear by the bullies and hung in the store window. Two US Army recruiters fail to tempt Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney. Realizing that even the dumbest teenagers in the dumbest city in the dumbest US state do not want to join the Army, they decide to start targeting children. During a surprise assembly at Springfield Elementary, the recruiters show a short movie depicting the Army as a high-tech adventure. According to the film, soldiers fly around in attack helicopters destroying evildoers by day and rocking out in front of thousands of screaming fans by night. The students are easily swayed and quickly line up to enlist.
An excited Bart comes home from school and shows Homer and Marge his delayed entry program form. Though Homer is impressed, Marge is appalled at the idea of Bart joining the Army when he turns 18, prompting her to send Homer down to the recruitment center to get Bart out of his contract. Homer reluctantly forces the two recruiters to tear up Bart's paperwork, though he apologizes for it, saying that it was Marge who told him to do so. Upon learning this, the recruiters prey upon Homer's gullibility and convince him to enlist instead. At the post Homer infuriates his new hard-nosed colonel (Kiefer Sutherland). Homer loves the sound of the colonel's noticeably "awesome" gravelly voice. While the majority of recruits are assigned to the infantry, Homer, and a group of stupid recruits, are assigned to a rehabilitation platoon. During field training exercises at night, Homer and the other stupid recruits are given the role of the opposing force, (China). Upon learning that it is a live fire exercise, with the weapons to be tested on them, the unit tries to hide. Homer, mistaking gunfire for Chinese New Year, accidentally exposes his unit's location by launching a flare gun in the air. The flare blinds the colonel and his men, who were all wearing night vision goggles. Homer and his unit soon escape into Springfield while the Army gives chase as well as invades Springfield.
As the colonel and his troops patrol Springfield searching for him, Homer sneaks back home. Marge and Homer are surprised by a camera equipped toy helicopter and (in a scene reminiscent of many classic cartoon chases) Homer attempts to avoid it, running through the entire hou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization
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Superoptimization is the process where a compiler automatically finds the optimal sequence for a loop-free sequence of instructions. Real-world compilers generally cannot produce genuinely optimal code, and while most standard compiler optimizations only improve code partly, a superoptimizer's goal is to find the optimal sequence, the canonical form. Superoptimizers can be used to improve conventional optimizers by highlighting missed opportunities so a human can write additional rules.
History
The term superoptimization was first coined by Alexia Massalin in the 1987 paper Superoptimizer: A Look at the Smallest Program.
The label "program optimization" has been given to a field that does not aspire to optimize but only to improve.
This misnomer forced Massalin to call her system a superoptimizer, which is actually an optimizer to find an optimal program.
In 1992, the GNU Superoptimizer (GSO) was developed to integrate into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Later work further developed and extended these ideas.
Techniques
Traditionally, superoptimizing is performed via exhaustive brute-force search in the space of valid instruction sequences. This is a costly method, and thus impractical for general-purpose compilers. Yet, it has been shown to be useful in optimizing performance-critical inner loops. It is also possible to use a SMT solver to approach the problem, vastly improving the search efficiency (although inputs more complex than a basic block remains out of reach).
In 2001, goal-directed superoptimizing was demonstrated in the Denali project by Compaq research. In 2006, answer set declarative programming was used for superoptimising in the Total Optimisation using Answer Set Technology (TOAST) project at the University of Bath.
Superoptimization can be used to automatically generate general-purpose peephole optimizers.
Publicly available superoptimizers
Several superoptimizers are available for free download.
For the x86 family of instruction sets:
GNU superoptimizer (superopt) (GSO) (1992) – also supports many other ISAs
STOKE, a stochastic optimizer for x86-64 x86 assembly language.
For ARM:
Unbounded Superoptimizer, transforming LLVM IR into ARMv7-A assembly
For embedded systems:
PIC microcontroller SuperOptimizer (2003)
A feasibility study by Embecosm (2014) for AVR, based on GSO
For the JVM:
Clojure superoptimizer for the Java virtual machine (2012)
For LLVM IR:
souper superoptimizer for programs in the LLVM intermediate language.
For WebAssembly
slumps provides superoptimization for WASM programs based on souper.
See also
Peephole optimization
Dead code elimination
Metacompilation
References
Compiler optimizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%204000T
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The Amiga 4000T, also known as A4000T, is a tower version of Commodore's A4000 personal computer. Using the AGA chipset, it was originally released in small quantities in 1994 with a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU, and re-released in greater numbers by Escom in 1995, after Commodore's demise, along with a new variant which featured a 50 MHz Motorola 68060 CPU. Despite the subsequent demise of Escom, production was continued by QuikPak in North America into at least 1997.
Technical details
The A4000T was the only Amiga ever to have both SCSI and IDE interfaces built-in on the motherboard. Having driver software for both interfaces in the 512 KB ROM meant that some other parts of AmigaOS had to be moved from the ROM, and thus the A4000T was the only machine to require the file workbench.library to be stored on disk (this has changed, though, with the introduction of AmigaOS 3.2 and Kickstart 3.2, which too require workbench.library (and icon.library) to be stored on disk). It was also the only Amiga to use a PC form factor for the motherboard (AT), and one of the few to use a lithium battery instead of a nickel–cadmium rechargeable battery, vastly reducing the risk of leaking corrosive fluids onto the motherboard and causing damage with age. Modularity was another unique aspect to the machine, with the CPU, audio, video, and input-output ports all on separate daughterboards. This made the machine near-modular.
The machine was targeted as a high-end video workstation with expandability in mind and an eye towards NewTek's Video Toaster. Its motherboard, the latest revision of which was manufactured in yellow and green versions, contains two Amiga Video Slots, five 100-pin Zorro III slots, and 4 ISA slots, and its case can accommodate up to six drives. Up to 16 MB of RAM can be installed on the motherboard, while additional RAM can be installed on some CPU boards (up to 128 MB), and yet more can be added on Zorro cards. For CPU upgrades, a 200-pin KEL socket is used.
Legacy and the end of "classic" Amiga line
This was the last computer to be released by Commodore International. It is estimated that only 200 Commodore-branded A4000Ts were produced before the company folded. Production of the A4000T was restarted after Escom bought the Amiga assets, and QuikPak assisted Escom in the assembly of A4000T motherboards for the European market, and entire towers for the North American market. Apart from the new option of a 68060 CPU, the Escom-manufactured 4000Ts had minor differences from the old one including the substitution of the high density floppy drive with a double density one, and a different front bezel on the case. The case itself was a re-purposed PC case which is evidenced by the presence of the Turbo button whose function in A4000T was to disable the internal speaker (as Amigas don't support the PC-specific speed reduction which was the button's original function). Amidst major distributors like SMG exiting the Amiga market, Escom's bankruptcy i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Ordering%20Status%20System
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In the United States, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group operates a nationwide, web-based database system for managing wildland firefighting resources. The system, called National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System or Resource Ordering and Status System, (or simply ROSS), improves efficiency of borrowing and sending home of fire equipment in a large, campaign-type fire. It coordinates equipment movements across bureaucratic lines, making state and federal resources look more like a single pool of equipment and staff.
In the past, borrowing equipment and staff, called resources, from other agencies required people in a command center to place telephone calls and make radio inquiries to find out what was available. Some agencies had internal computer systems to manage equipment and staff moves but they could not exchange data with the systems of other agencies. This made processes produce non-repeatable results and was labor-intensive, tying up staff on the telephone during their busiest periods. ROSS speeds the process and gives system users an enhanced understanding of:
what quantity of resources are assigned to a fire.
what quantity of resources are on the way to the fire.
how deeply their resources have been depleted by requests.
how soon local equipment will return from a distant assignment.
Participating agencies include many state fire suppression organizations such as CAL FIRE, and federal entities such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Information Technology Center, and the United States Forest Service. The National Wildfire Coordinating Group membership is made up of representatives from each of these Federal land management agencies and the National Association of State Foresters.
See also
Incident Command System
External links
ROSS home page
National Association of State Foresters.
Wildfire suppression
Firefighting in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara%20no%20Ietaka
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was an early Kamakura period Japanese waka poet. Several of his poems are included in the Shin Kokin Wakashū. He was related by marriage to Jakuren, which made him strongly connected to the network of poets of the time. He was a pupil to Fujiwara no Shunzei.
Poetry
Ietaka was involved in a number of poetic matches. One of these poems is from the :
Ietaka also has a personal collection called the .
References
Japanese poets
1158 births
1237 deaths
Hyakunin Isshu poets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Culver%20%28composer%29
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Andrew Culver (born August 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American composer and software entrepreneur. Culver's works have included chamber and orchestral music, electronic and computer music, sound sculpture and music sculpture, film, lighting, text pieces, and installations. He performs concerts with sound sources of his own invention that are based on the tensegrity structural principle as elaborated by Buckminster Fuller, a lifelong influence.
Career
Culver worked as John Cage’s creative assistant for 11 years, and was involved in all aspects of Cage’s musical, poetic, operatic and film work. He wrote the chance operations and compositional process software Cage used during that period, and directed Cage's operas, sound and light installations. He continued directing Cage installations and operas after the composer’s death, including posthumous premieres.
Culver was the founding member of Sonde, a music design and ensemble that grew out of McGill University.
Culver’s interests are varied in concept, technique and media. He has created and/or directed work in a wide variety of performance, theatrical, electronic, computer, audio-visual, sculptural and installation situations. He has written on art, music and anarchy since the 70’s, for publications such as the Montreal Star, Musicworks, and Circuit. He has developed software and database structures and invented or developed a variety of formal, structural, time, pitch and microtonal systems.
Culver's largest work is Ocean 1—133 (1994, 2006), the orchestral component of Ocean, which was conceived by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, with choreography by Merce Cunningham, electronic music by David Tudor, and design by Marsha Skinner. David Tudor provided and performed (before his death) the electronic music component, and artist Marsha Skinner, the lighting and costumes. The work is big: 90 minutes for 150 soloists in the round, without a conductor. It has been performed some 60 times, at Lincoln Center in New York, La Fenice in Venice, in Amsterdam, Brussels, Belfast, Berkeley, Montpelier and Japan, New York, London and Miami. Culver describes the work by saying, "There is no score. There's 150 solo parts. Everyone is a soloist."
Culver is the Founder and co-CEO of iLiv, a software and services company.
Culver also writes about music, art, and anarchy. He is the founder of Anarchic Harmony Foundation, a non-profit organization that funds and manages projects in the fields of music, opera, multimedia, etc. He is the inventor of the Anarchic Philharmonic.
References
1953 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
20th-century Canadian composers
21st-century classical composers
21st-century American composers
21st-century American male musicians
American classical composers
American male classical composers
American writers about music
Canadian classical composers
Canadian writers about music
Experimental composers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20network-attached%20storage%20series
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The Buffalo TeraStation network-attached storage series are network-attached storage devices.
The current lineup includes the LinkStation and TeraStation series. These devices have undergone various improvements since they were first produced, and have expanded to include a Windows Storage Server-based operating system.
History
Buffalo released the first TeraStation model, the HD-HTGL/R5, in December 2004. The second generation models, the TS-TGL/R5, was released the following year with uninterrupted operation and improved operational stability. This was followed up with the TeraStation Pro and the TeraStation Pro II in 2006, which offered iSCSI support, as well as 2U rackmount models. in 2008, the fourth generation TS-X models were released with hot swapping and replication, along with IU rackmount versions.
TeraStation
The TeraStation is a network-attached storage device using a PowerPC or ARM architecture processor. Many TeraStation models are shipped with enterprise-grade internal hard drives mounted in a RAID array. Since January 2012, the TeraStation uses LIO for its iSCSI target.
LinkStation
The LinkStation is a network-attached storage device using a PowerPC or ARM architecture processor designed for personal use, aiming to serve as a central media hub and backup storage for a household. Compared to the TeraStation series, LinkStation devices typically offer more streamlined UI and media server features.
Current Product Lineup
LinkStation
The LinkStation is notable among the Linux community both in Japan and in the US/Europe for being "hackable" into a generic Linux appliance and made to do tasks other than the file storage and sharing tasks for which it was designed. As the device runs on Linux, and included changes to the Linux source code, Buffalo was required to release their modified versions of source code as per the terms of the GNU General Public License. Due to the availability of source code and the relatively low cost of the device, there are several community projects centered around it. There are two main replacement firmware releases available for the device: the first is OpenLink which is based on the official Buffalo firmware with some modifications and features added. The other is FreeLink, which is a Debian distribution.
TeraStation
Like the LinkStation, TeraStation devices run its own version of Linux, and some models run Windows Storage Server 2016. Debian and Gentoo Linux distributions and NetBSD are reported to have been ported to it.
Operation
The device in various iterations ships with its own Universal Plug and Play protocol for distribution of multimedia stored on the device. It can also be configured as a variety of different media servers TwonkyVision Media server, a SlimServer/SqueezeCenter server, an iTunes server using the Digital Audio Access Protocol, a Samba server, an LIO iSCSI target, MLDonkey client, as well as a Network File System server for Posix-based systems. For use as a backup server,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%20MACRO
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VAX MACRO is the computer assembly language implementing the VAX instruction set architecture for the OpenVMS operating system, originally released by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1977.
The syntax, directives, macro language, and lexical substitution operators of VAX MACRO formerly appeared in MACRO-11, the assembler for the PDP-11 series of computers. The MACRO-32 assembler supported the VAX processors developed and manufactured by DEC. It ran under the VMS operating system and produced object files suitable for the VMS linker. The MACRO-32 assembler and linker were bundled with the operating system.
To port VMS to the DEC Alpha, VAX MACRO was implemented for the Alpha architecture. Since the Alpha used a different instruction set than the VAX, MACRO-32 was implemented as a compiler, compiling VAX assembly language into Alpha instructions.
The Alpha AXP chips have their own native instruction set architecture, the OpenVMS assembler for Alpha assembly code is named MACRO-64.
A MACRO-32 compiler is also available for the Intel Itanium architecture, and for x86-64.
References
External links
VSI OpenVMS VAX MACRO and Instruction Set Reference Manual
VSI OpenVMS MACRO Compiler Porting and User's Guide
Assembly languages
OpenVMS
OpenVMS software
Digital Equipment Corporation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29
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Sugar is a TV cooking show shown on Food Network Canada hosted by Canadian pastry chef Anna Olson. The official show description reads "Anna Olson satisfies sweet cravings with great dessert recipes and guides viewers from making to plating with presentation ideas to dress up any dessert."
Premiered in October 2002, Sugar is a half-hour show which specializes in desserts. Each episode has a theme ingredient. Host Anna Olson makes one simple dessert with the theme ingredient in the first part of the show. During the second and third part, she creates a more elaborate or decadent dessert with the same ingredient. During the last few minutes of the program called the "Switch-Up", Anna re-invents the first dessert with a few tricks and turns it into something more special.
Sugar aired for five seasons on Food Network Canada and its 151 episodes has been syndicated in 40 countries.
Episode list
The following is a complete list of episodes from Sugar.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Media releases
DVDs
Echo Bridge Entertainment, who acquired Alliance Atlantis International Distribution has started to release Sugar on DVD.
Books
Two books have been derived based on recipes from the shows, published by Whitecap Books.
Sugar (Whitecap Books, April 2004, )
Another Cup of Sugar (Whitecap Books, October 2006, )
Notes
External links
Official Show Page on Foodtv.ca
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
2000s Canadian cooking television series
2002 Canadian television series debuts
2007 Canadian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiTimes
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DIGITIMES Inc. () is a daily newspaper for semiconductor, electronics, computer and communications industries in Taiwan and the Greater China region. It was established in 1998. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan and currently has a daily newspaper in traditional Chinese as well as Chinese-language and English-language websites.
In Taiwan, the company claims to have over 1,300 member companies and offers various levels of membership, which allows members access to its news archive, preferential booking for events and, for the higher levels of membership, access to DigiTimes Research reports.
The newspaper is cited by various information technology media and blogs like CNN, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, Laptop Magazine, Cnet and others.
See also
Media in Taiwan
References
External links
DigiTimes official website
DigiTimes English -
1998 establishments in Taiwan
Taiwanese news websites
Companies based in Taipei
Taiwanese companies established in 1998
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Nacional%20de%20Expressos
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Rede Nacional de Expressos (National Express Network) is a national express coach network in Portugal. The network, based in Lisbon, was founded in 1995. The network is composed of several bus operating companies: Transdev Portugal, SA; Rodoviária do Tejo SA; Barraqueiro Transportes, SA (including Rodoviária do Alentejo, SA; Eva Transportes, SA) among others; Rodoviária da Beira Interior, SA among others. The network is the spiritual successor of the intercity express services created in the late 1970s by Rodoviária Nacional.
Rede Nacional de Expressos doesn't own coaches, as all the fleet belongs to the company's shareholders, despite most of buses associated to Rede Expressos use the Rede Expressos brand livery.
Rede Nacional de Expressos was created in 1995, with the primary mission of ensuring passenger transport and package delivery between major cities and regions of Portugal. Nowadays, based on a dense network spread over 42,000 km, Rede Nacional de Expressos connects several hundred destinations, several times per day.
Rede Nacional Expressos buses are equipped with free wifi.
External links
Rede Nacional de Expressos
Public Transport in Portugal
References
Bus companies of Portugal
Public transport in Portugal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Equipped
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Kitchen Equipped is a show which aired on Food Network and HGTV.
The show, which shot three seasons was co-hosted by Canadian pastry and celeb chef Anna Olson (seasons two and three), carpenter Jay Purvis, and interior designer Stacy McLennan (season one). Both Olson and Purvis explore building and renovating a kitchen. Plus they explore gadgets, kitchen accessories, products, appliances, and a lot more. Stacey McLennan was the first winner of Designer Superstar Challenge.
Stacy McLennan was replaced after the first season with Chef Anna Olson.
Over the course of the first season, Purvis and McLennan showed the viewers how to design a kitchen. Each episode would show a little more of the kitchen being done. The second and third seasons spent less time on the process and more on the finishes of the kitchen without showing the actual construction, just the various steps.
Current show status
Kitchen Equipped has aired its third season daily at 2 on HGTV. It also airs on Food Network and Fine Living.
Kitchen styles
The show has many kitchen styles which are:
Country Chic
Electric
Makeover Kitchen
Modern Valcucine
Suburban Makeover
Urban Traditional
Broadcasters
Past
Fine Living Canada - syndicated reruns
Food Network Canada - original broadcast
HGTV - original broadcast
Notes
External links
Kitchen Equipped on HGTV.ca
Kitchen Equipped on-air schedule
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
2000s Canadian reality television series
HGTV (Canada) original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodovi%C3%A1ria%20Nacional
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Rodoviária Nacional was the state-owned bus network in Portugal, resulting from the nationalization, in 1975, of the largest bus operators in the country, basically the criteria used for nationalization was the fleet size : more than 60 vehicles.
Operations
The services were first organized in ten "Centros Operacionais de Passageiros" (COP) (Passenger Operational Centres) managing the activities of a similar number of nationalized corporate groups, such organization meant a confusing geographical distribution of operations, so still in 1976 a reorganization into nine "Centros de Exploração de Passageiros" (CEP) (Passenger Managing Centres) settled on a more logical regional organization was set up.
In 1977, CEP10 was created for managing hire and special services in Lisbon. This division along with other CEPs started to promote medium to long distance services that would be labeled as "Expresso" from 1979.
The CEP10 headquarters and terminal for long distance services was located on former Claras Transportes' station at Av. Casal Ribeiro, opened in 1973. The passenger amenities and ticket booths were located on the ground floor, the arrival and departure lanes on the first underground level, the workshops and depot on the second underground level, parcels and cargo section on third underground level, for such reasons this station was known as "the cave".
In 1984, the most of CEP5 and parts of CEP6 became the DGRL ("Direcção Regional da Grande Lisboa", or Regional Management of Greater Lisbon) split in 4 COPs, the process of fleet reorganization would last until September 1986. Also in 1984, Vila Franca de Xira, Arruda dos Vinhos, Alenquer (all from CEP6), Torres Vedras (CEP4) and Ericeira/Mafra (CEP5) corridors were passed to CEP10. The creation of DGRL along with CEP10 incorporations meant the extinction of CEP5 and CEP6.
A cargo section was also created, operating under the name RNTrans.
Ultrena
This division was created to manage other activities from nationalized companies, such as the floriculture business of Arboricultora (from Caneças), the car hiring operations from Claras, or EVA Hotel (EVA stands for Empresa de Viação Algarve, or Algarve Road Transport Company). The workshops were also managed by Ultrena.
Numbering
The coach fleet was numbered with four digits, corresponding the first to the CEP which the vehicle was affected (if the vehicle belonged to CEP 8, its fleet number would be 8xxx). For CEP 10 fleet, the first digit was a 0 (0xxx), the DGRL was three digit, preceded by the letter L (Lisboa) or CS (Cascais and Sintra) (L-xxx, CS-xxx), with the numbering strictly distributed by chassis manufacturer.
The RNIP
In order to privatize the operator in 1991 RN became RNIP ("Rodoviária Nacional Investimentos e Participações" : RN Investments and Participations), the CEP's were renamed as:
CEP1 - Rodoviária de Entre Douro e Minho (REDM) - managing Northwest of Portugal, from Braga.
CEP2 - Rodoviária da Beira Litoral (RBL) - mana
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The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems employ some specific exception handling mechanisms.
Structured Exception Handling
Microsoft Structured Exception Handling is the native exception handling mechanism for Windows and a forerunner technology to Vectored Exception Handling (VEH). It features the finally mechanism not present in standard C++ exceptions (but present in most imperative languages introduced later). SEH is set up and handled separately for each thread of execution.
Usage
Microsoft supports SEH as a programming technique at the compiler level only. MS Visual C++ compiler features three non-standard keywords: __try, __except and __finally — for this purpose. Other exception handling aspects are backed by a number of Win32 API functions, for example, RaiseException to raise SEH exceptions manually.
Implementation
IA-32
Each thread of execution in Windows IA-32 edition or the WoW64 emulation layer for the x86-64 version has a link to an undocumented list at the start of its Thread Information Block. The __try statement essentially calls a compiler-defined EH_prolog function. That function allocates an on the stack pointing to the __except_handler3 function in msvcrt.dll, then adds the record to the list's head. At the end of the __try block a compiler-defined EH_epilog function is called that does the reverse operation. Either of these compiler-defined routines can be inline. All the programmer-defined __except and __finally blocks are called from within __except_handler3. If the programmer-defined blocks are present, the created by EH_prolog is extended with a few additional fields used by __except_handler3.
In the case of an exception in user mode code, the operating system parses the thread's list and calls each exception handler in sequence until a handler signals it has handled the exception (by return value) or the list is exhausted. The last one in the list is always the kernel32!UnhandledExceptionFilter which displays the General protection fault error message. Then the list is traversed once more giving handlers a chance to clean up any resources used. Finally, the execution returns to kernel mode where the process is either resumed or terminated.
The patent on this mode of SEH, US5628016, expired in 2014.
x86-64
SEH on 64-bit Windows does not involve a runtime exception handler list; instead, it uses a stack unwinding table (UNWIND_INFO) interpreted by the system when an exception occurs.
This means that the compiler does not have to generate extra code to manually perform stack unwinding and to call exception handlers appropriately. It merely has to emit information in the form of unwinding tables about the stack frame layout and specified exception handlers.
Support
GCC 4.8+ from Mingw-w64 supports using 64-bit SEH for C++ exceptions. LLVM clang supports __try on both x86 and x64.
Vectored Exception Handling
Vectored Exception Handling was introduced in Windows XP. Vectored Exception Handling is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only
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Write-only or write only may refer to:
A file access permission type
In programming languages, a property of a class, which has only mutator methods
Write-only language, a derogatory term for programming languages that are hard to read
Write-only publishing, a derogatory term for predatory open-access publishing
Write-only memory (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ND-NOTIS
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ND-NOTIS was a office automation suite by Norsk Data introduced in the early 80s, running on the SINTRAN III platform on both ND-100 and ND-500 architectures. It was also available on Microsoft Windows running in networks of Norsk Data servers.
Overview
ND-NOTIS was successful, and was the main product line of the company for quite a while, cementing its position in the Norwegian government office automation market. It was also widespread in Germany and in the UK (local municipality, DHSS etc.)
The NOTIS family of products was presented to the British Computer Society by Jeremy Salter. Roger Tagg et al. (BCS, End User SG, 1985) and was received with praise as the BCS model for user interface. The same praise was awarded to NOTIS-IR as a model for information storage and retrieval. The European Commission published in 1985 NOTIS-IR as reference model for document and information search and retrieval.
ND-NOTIS was unique for its time and had innovative features like multilingual input and search.
Norsk Data also sold custom-made Tandberg Data TDV-2200 terminals as "NOTIS terminals" with special keys for text editing. Other terminals were "endorsed", provided new keycaps and branded as "NOTIS Terminals" - including the Facit "Twist" - that would show a page standing.
Components
Components included:
NOTIS-WP
NOTIS Word Processor, a full text editing environment optimized for word processing.
NOTIS-DS
NOTIS Document Store, a database of documents based on the SIBAS database.
NOTIS-BS
NOTIS Backup System, an advanced system used for automated and incremental backups of a DS document store.
NOTIS-ID
NOTIS mail system. Proprietary e-mail system. It was later interfaced to Notis-Mail (see below).
NOTIS-Mail
NOTIS full X.400 e-mail system, including an X.500 based directory service (implemented using SIBAS) and TCP/IP based SMTP mail. This provided HTML formatted messages in from 1985.
NOTIS-TF
NOTIS Text Formatter, a text formatting system.
NOTIS-RG
NOTIS Report Generator, a powerful data extracting and modifying system. Often used together with database systems like SIBAS, Mimer or Oracle.
NOTIS-RP
NOTIS Report Producer, closely integrated with NOTIS-RG.
NOTIS-CALC
NOTIS Spreadsheet program, similar to VisiCalc and later successors like Microsoft Excel
NOTIS-ENCRYPT
NOTIS Encryption software.
NOTIS-IR
NOTIS Information Retrieval, a document database with free text search allowing full multi-site search.
NOTIS-QL
NOTIS Database query and application generation program, also called "Access-1" predecessor to MS Access.
General
'NOTIS was unique then. It captured the notion of different user interfaces, or terminals; and managed a common user interface for all applications that used the platform. So a key on the keyboard would in all applications "mean" the same.
It relied on an interface system "User Environment" to hold in one place all user profile and preferences. That is everything from log-in name and password, language p
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGSS
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SGSS may refer to:
Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School, a secondary school in Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong
Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment, a follow-on project to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)
St. Gabriel's Secondary School, a secondary school in Serangoon, Singapore
Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sūtra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torvill%20and%20Dean%27s%20Dancing%20on%20Ice
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Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice was an Australian reality television series which was based on the original British version, Dancing on Ice. The series premiered on the Nine Network on Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at , and involved celebrities ice dancing on a specially constructed ice rink located in Sydney's north-west suburbs. The series ran for one season before being cancelled, and the winner of the competition was model Jake Wall. The series reportedly cost several million dollars to produce and received above-average ratings.
Format
The couples competed against each other for a prize at the end of the series. The ten celebrities were teamed up with ten professional ice skaters and received special training from champion ice dancing duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean themselves. Home viewers voted for their favourite couples and the couple with the fewest votes were voted off the show each week until a winner was decided. The show was run in a similar format to the Seven Network's rival dancing show Dancing with the Stars which had been a major hit for the Seven Network over the previous three years.
During training almost every contestant suffered an injury of some sort, the most serious of which being Michael Slater severing a tendon in his hand after it was accidentally skated over by his partner. Giaan Rooney dislocated her ankle just before the second episode of the series, and was forced to withdraw from the competition. Annalise Braakensiek twisted her ankle during the broadcast of the first episode, and was forced to withdraw as well.
The show was hosted by celebrity gardener and backyard designer Jamie Durie and former Today weather presenter Sami Lukis. It was based on the British ITV show Dancing on Ice, which also featured Torvill and Dean, and is also roughly similar to an earlier Nine program Skating on Thin Ice, also hosted by Durie, in 2005. Kristina, Pam and Matt were also skating partners for the celebrities in the original UK version.
UK judges Karen Barber and Jason Gardiner, were joined by Alisa Camplin, Belinda Noonan, and international ice dancing judge, Mark Storton, on the judging panel. The judges only made opinions; it was up to the home viewers to make decisions.
Celebrities and their partners
Scoring chart
Red numbers indicate the lowest score of the week
Green numbers indicate the highest score of the week
indicates that the couple were in the skate off
indicates that the couple were eliminated
indicates that the couple withdrew from the competition
indicates that the couple won
indicates that the couple came in second place
Average chart
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-point scale.
Live show details
Week 1 (11 July)
Week 2 (18 July)
Judges' votes to save
Noonan: Michael & Anya
Storton: Michael & Anya
Camplin: Trisha & Alexandre
Gardiner: Michael & Anya
Barber: Trisha & Alexandre
Week 3 (25 July)
During the skate off, Dermott decided that his bicep injury made
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20T90
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The Cray T90 series (code-named Triton during development) was the last of a line of vector processing supercomputers manufactured by Cray Research, Inc, superseding the Cray C90 series. The first machines were shipped in 1995, and featured a 2.2 ns (450 MHz) clock cycle and two-wide vector pipes, for a peak speed of 1.8 gigaflops per processor; the high clock speed arises from the CPUs being built using ECL logic. As with the Cray J90, each CPU contained a scalar data cache, in addition to the instruction buffering/caching which has always been in Cray architectures.
Configurations were available with between four and 32 processors, and with either IEEE 754 or traditional Cray floating-point arithmetic; the processors shared an SRAM main memory of up to eight gigabytes, with a bandwidth of three 64-bit words per cycle per CPU (giving a 32-CPU STREAM bandwidth of 360 gigabytes per second). The clock signal is distributed via a fiber-optic harness to the processors.
The T90 series was available in three variants, the T94 (one to four processors), T916 (eight to 16 processors) and T932 (16 to 32 processors).
It is widely considered as being slightly ahead of the state of the art at the time it was shipped; the systems were never particularly reliable. At launch, a 32-processor T932 cost $35 million.
Cray T90 systems were installed at, amongst other places, at least three US government sites, at NAVOCEANO in Mississippi (Bay St. Louis) USA, at NTT and NIED in Japan, at the Ford Motor Company and at General Motors, at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in France.
The system chassis weighs , contains of fluorinert coolant, and is approximately the shape and size of a very large chest freezer, paneled in black and gold plastic.
Its successor, some years after the last T90s shipped, was the Cray X1.
References
External links
Top 500 Supercomputer sites (PDF)
Computer-related introductions in 1995
T90
Vector supercomputers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20image
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In computing, a system image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non-volatile form such as a file. A system is said to be capable of using system images if it can be shut down and later restored to exactly the same state. In such cases, system images can be used for backup.
Hibernation is an example that uses an image of the entire machine's RAM.
Disk images
If a system has all its state written to a disk, then a system image can be produced by simply copying that disk to a file elsewhere, often with disk cloning applications. On many systems a complete system image cannot be created by a disk cloning program running within that system because information can be held outside of disks and volatile memory, for example in non-volatile memory like boot ROMs.
Process images
A process image is a copy of a given process's state at a given point in time. It is often used to create persistence within an otherwise volatile system. A common example is a database management system (DBMS). Most DBMS can store the state of its database or databases to a file before being closed down (see database dump). The DBMS can then be restarted later with the information in the database intact and proceed as though the software had never stopped. Another example would be the hibernate feature of many operating systems. Here, the state of all RAM memory is stored to disk, the computer is brought into an energy saving mode, then later restored to normal operation.
Some emulators provide a facility to save an image of the system being emulated. In video gaming this is often referred to as a savestate.
Another use is code mobility: a mobile agent can migrate between machines by having its state saved, then copying the data to another machine and restarting there.
Programming language support
Some programming languages provide a command to take a system image of a program. This is normally a standard feature in Smalltalk (inspired by FLEX) and Lisp, among other languages. Development in these languages is often quite different from many other programming languages. For example, in Lisp the programmer may load packages or other code into a running Lisp implementation using the read-eval-print loop, which usually compiles the programs. Data is loaded into the running Lisp system. The programmer may then dump a system image, containing that pre-compiled and possibly customized code—and also all loaded application data.
Often this image is an executable, and can be run on other machines. This system image can be the form in which executable programs are distributed—this method has often been used by programs (such as TeX and Emacs) largely implemented in Lisp, Smalltalk, or idiosyncratic languages to avoid spending time repeating the same initialization work every time they start up.
Similar, Lisp Machines were booted from Lisp images, called Worlds. The World contains the complete operating system, its applications and its data i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20connection
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In algebraic geometry and synthetic differential geometry, a Grothendieck connection is a way of viewing connections in terms of descent data from infinitesimal neighbourhoods of the diagonal.
Introduction and motivation
The Grothendieck connection is a generalization of the Gauss–Manin connection constructed in a manner analogous to that in which the Ehresmann connection generalizes the Koszul connection. The construction itself must satisfy a requirement of geometric invariance, which may be regarded as the analog of covariance for a wider class of structures including the schemes of algebraic geometry. Thus the connection in a certain sense must live in a natural sheaf on a Grothendieck topology. In this section, we discuss how to describe an Ehresmann connection in sheaf-theoretic terms as a Grothendieck connection.
Let be a manifold and a surjective submersion, so that is a manifold fibred over Let be the first-order jet bundle of sections of This may be regarded as a bundle over or a bundle over the total space of With the latter interpretation, an Ehresmann connection is a section of the bundle (over ) The problem is thus to obtain an intrinsic description of the sheaf of sections of this vector bundle.
Grothendieck's solution is to consider the diagonal embedding The sheaf of ideals of in consists of functions on which vanish along the diagonal. Much of the infinitesimal geometry of can be realized in terms of For instance, is the sheaf of sections of the cotangent bundle. One may define a first-order infinitesimal neighborhood of in to be the subscheme corresponding to the sheaf of ideals (See below for a coordinate description.)
There are a pair of projections given by projection the respective factors of the Cartesian product, which restrict to give projections One may now form the pullback of the fibre space along one or the other of or In general, there is no canonical way to identify and with each other. A Grothendieck connection is a specified isomorphism between these two spaces. One may proceed to define curvature and p-curvature of a connection in the same language.
See also
References
Osserman, B., "Connections, curvature, and p-curvature", preprint.
Katz, N., "Nilpotent connections and the monodromy theorem", IHES Publ. Math. 39 (1970) 175–232.
Connection (mathematics)
Algebraic geometry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz%20Station
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Luz Station (, ) is a commuter rail and intercity rail station in the Bom Retiro district of São Paulo, Brazil, serving RFFSA, the intercity rail network of Brazil, CPTM Line 7-Ruby, Line 11-Coral and Line 13–Jade (Airport-Express). It has subway connections to São Paulo Metro Line 1-Blue and ViaQuatro Line 4-Yellow via its underground metro station of the same name.
The station houses the Museum of the Portuguese Language, established in 2006. The Luz Metro station is also located within the complex.
History
The station was built in the late 19th century with the purpose of being the headquarters of the newly founded São Paulo Railway. In the first decades of the 20th century, it was the main entrance to the city, a fact that gave it a major economic relevance, because the majority of the coffee from Santos was delivered in the station, along with the imported supplies. At the time of the station's construction in the mid-nineteenth century, the Luz neighborhood was characterized by a large embankment that connected the city's downtown area to the Grande Bridge. It also had a botanical garden, which was enlarged by the Governor João Teodoro Xavier de Matos, and would serve as the future home of Luz station.
Land for the station was earmarked from the Botanical Garden Square, though its exact location was not confirmed until 1865. With the support of construction engineer Daniel Fox, superintendent J.J. Aubertin requested to the governor that the station be constructed on the corner of Rua Brigadeiro Tobias, where the current metro station now stands. He also requested that construction follow the previous plans created by the inspector engineer Vasco de Medeiros; otherwise, the station would be displaced to the other side of the Botanical Garden, and two gates would need to be installed to serve Rua Alegre and Rua Constituição. If the station were to be constructed beside the current subway station, however, the installation of one gate would be sufficient to serve both streets.
The initial station building was a small, one-story block. Dispatch facilities, facilities for boarding and arrival, and the residence of the station chief were located inside the station, while buildings for line administration, company engineering, building repairs, and supplies storage were built outside.
On 17 March 1888, station expansion was proposed, leading to the construction of the "second" Luz station. Passenger platforms were expanded and the edifice renovated. After construction, another story was added, bringing the station's height to two stories. The edifice was rebuilt in the neoclassical style and an iron cover was installed over the entrance of the building and the platforms. In 1900, Alfredo Moreira Pinto described the second Luz station as follows:
This building was maintained until the beginning of the twentieth century, when it was demolished for the construction of the third Luz station.
The current building was finished in 1901. The mater
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulmer%20%28directories%29
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Bulmer was a Victorian historian, surveyor, cartographer and compiler of directories. His directories provided a history and geography of a particular area. The directories listed and described all parishes; listed trades and professions and provided a helpful street index with the names of residents, together with other local information. Data CDs of Bulmer Directories are available from publishers in the UK.
List of directories
Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland, 1883
Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of West Cumberland, 1884.
Bulmer's History, Directory and Topography of Westmorland, 1885
Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of Northumberland (Hexham Division), 1886
Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of Northumberland (Tyneside, Wansbeck and Berwick Divisions), 1887
Bulmer's History, and Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1887
Bulmer's History, and Directory of North Yorkshire, 1890 (two Volumes)
Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of East Yorkshire and Hull, 1892
Bulmer's Directory of Cumberland, 1901
T. Bulmer: History, Topography and Directory of Westmorland, 1906
T Bulmer: History, Topography and Directory of Furness and Cartmel, 1911
Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of Furness, Cartmel and Egremont division of Cumbria, 1911
T Bulmer: History, Topography and Directory of Lancaster and district, 1912
J Bulmer: History, Topography and Directory of Lancaster and district, 1913
References
Directories
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Online
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UK Online was a consumer Internet service provider that operated within the UK, and began as a dial-up provider in 1994. Network provider Easynet acquired the company in 1996, and were in turn acquired by BSkyB in 2005. The service was closed down in January 2011.
Initially launching an ADSL based broadband product in November 2004 with a 1MB service, they did not appear to be offering anything out of the ordinary. However, they quickly followed up by launching one of the UK's first consumer 8MB services in the same month. At the initial price of £39.99 a month, the service caused quite a stir in the UK broadband market. The 8MB service was only available in areas served by the parent company Easynet's LLU operations. Areas not covered were offered traditional speed products based on BT wholesale products. Along with planned speed upgrades by cable supplier Telewest, the UK Online 8MB service helped spur a series of investments by other ISPs in the UK in an effort to keep up.
In October 2007 UK Online provided three packages, Lite, Pro, and Premier - all with "unlimited" usage limits. However, a Fair Usage Policy applied to all packages and heavy users were moved onto so called "bad boy pipes" (although this did not appear to happen with LLU connections).
Since the regulatory approval of ADSL2+ technology in the UK, UK Online were able to offer services with speeds up to 22MB, and were one of the first companies to do so on a national scale. This was still based on the Easynet LLU coverage however.
In October 2005 BSkyB purchased Easynet and so now also owned UK Online, however UK Online continued to exist as a separate entity from Sky Broadband. In January 2008 Easynet Connect was launched as a SME ISP by UK Online and Easynet.
In spring 2008 UK Online announced it would shortly be launching a number of competitive new services, including domain registration, Microsoft Hosted Exchange email and commercial web hosting on Windows and Linux. The development of the planned services was cancelled and all mention of them, including the pre-registration page, quietly dropped from the website in May/June 2008.
In September 2009 the online ordering system started displaying a message of "We are unable to confirm some information about your current connection and cannot process your signup online at this time. You can still sign up for UK Online by calling us directly on 0800 053 2222". However, on ringing up, customers were told the ordering systems were being updated, and orders could not be placed.
In November 2010, UK Online announced on its home page that Sky was closing it down, with all UK Online services due to end on 21 January 2011.
By February 2011, the UK Online website stated simply "UK Online is now closed". However, there were problems with the company closure and a number of customers reported that their phone lines still had ADSL activated on them with the consequence that they could not migrate to another ISP despite the fact tha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers%20Nash
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Piers David Nash (born 8 August 1969) is an entrepreneur, cancer biology professor, data evangelist, writer and technology futurist. He is the son of academic Roger Nash.
Early life and education
Born in Exeter, England, and grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. In high school he competed in the Canada-Wide Science Fair in five successive years (1983–87), winning awards on each occasion and becoming one of the most highly awarded science fair participants in the history of the fair. In recognition of this he was selected to represent Canada as one of two youth delegates to the 1985 Nobel Prize lectures and ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar and was awarded the International Youth Year Ontario Gold Medal. He received a BSc with honours in biochemistry from the University of Guelph, and the Chemical Institute of Canada prize for the top of class and President's Scholarship. He received a PhD in 1999 from the University of Alberta working in the laboratory of Dr. Grant McFadden investigating poxviral immunomodulatory proteins. His doctoral thesis focused on the enzymology and biological properties of the Myxoma virus encoded serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin), SERP-1. He completed postdoctoral research with Anthony Pawson at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto from June 1999 to December 2003. In 2014, Nash received an MBA with a concentration in finance awarded with high honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. From 2014 to 2017, Nash was Director in the for Data-Intensive Science that was building and managing the National Cancer Institute Genomic Data Commons with Robert Lee Grossman.
Career
Nash is the founder and CEO of Sympatic Inc. Nash is Founder & General Manager of Nash Strategy & Innovation. He advises Fortune 500 technology companies and startups in the genomics, healthcare, data science and data storage fields. He serves on the Advisory Boards of technology and innovation companies. Nash was Managing Director at Health2047, the innovation enterprise of the American Medical Association from 2017-2018. He was founding strategy manager, director of business and research development for the University of Chicago's Center for Data Intensive Science which developed the National Cancer Institute Genomic Data Commons. He was a professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and a Scientist of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Chicago from 2004–2012 and a fellow of the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology from 2006–2012. As a scientist, he investigates protein–protein interactions involved in signal transduction, and the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues. His work at the University of Chicago focused on understanding the SH2 domain at a systems level and investigating the role of ubiquitination in controlling endocytosis and modulating signal trans
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20RS/6000
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The RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) is a family of RISC-based Unix servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT PC computer platform in February 1990 and was the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based microprocessors. In October 2000, the RS/6000 brand was retired for POWER-based servers and replaced by the eServer pSeries. Workstations continued under the RS/6000 brand until 2002, when new POWER-based workstations were released under the IntelliStation POWER brand.
History
The first RS/6000 models used the Micro Channel bus, later models used PCI. Some later models conformed to the PReP and CHRP standard platforms, which were co-developed with Apple and Motorola, with Open Firmware. The plan was to enable the RS/6000 to run multiple operating systems such as Windows NT, NetWare, OS/2, Solaris, Taligent, AIX and Mac OS but in the end only IBM's Unix variant AIX was used and supported on RS/6000. Linux is widely used on CHRP based RS/6000s, but support was added after the RS/6000 name was changed to eServer pSeries in 2000.
The RS/6000 family also included the POWERserver servers, POWERstation workstations and Scalable POWERparallel supercomputer platform. While most machines were desktops, desksides, or rack-mounted, there were laptop models too. Famous RS/6000s include the PowerPC 604e-based Deep Blue supercomputer that beat world champion Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, and the POWER3-based ASCI White which was the fastest supercomputer in the world during 20002002.
Architecture
Hardware
Service processor
Many RS/6000 and subsequent pSeries machines came with a service processor, which booted itself when power was applied and continuously ran its own firmware, independent of the operating system. The service processor could call a phone number (via a modem) in case of serious failure with the machine. Early advertisements and documentation called the service processor "System Guard", (or SystemGuard) although this name was apparently dropped later on, roughly around the same time that the simplified RS/6000 name was adopted for the computer line itself.
Late in the RS/6000 cycle, the service processor was "converged" with the one used on the AS/400 machines.
Software
POWER machines typically ran AIX. Solaris, OS/2 and Windows NT were also ported to PowerPC. Later Linux was also used.
Some AIX systems support IBM Web-based System Manager.
Models
Some models were marketed under the RS/6000 POWERstation and POWERserver names.
Micro Channel-based lines
The early lines were based on an IBM proprietary Micro Channel architecture; the same architecture that was used in the high end PS/2 x86 desktop line. MCA-based lines were produced until 1999.
Type 7006
Type 7008
These workstations were marketed under the PowerStation name.
Type 7009
Type 7010
This type was for Xstations, IBM's line of X terminal.
Type 7011
Type 7012 and 7030
The 380, 390
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker%20Dome%20Challenge
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The MANSIONPoker.net Poker Dome Challenge was a 43-week series of speed poker tournaments offering a grand prize of US$1,000,000. The tournament aired in the United States on Fox Sports Network from May 2006 to March 2007. The tournament featured a number of technological gimmicks in an effort to increase viewer interest and excitement. Commentating duties were shared by rotating hosts including Barry Tompkins, Jon Kelley, Michael Konik, Michael Gracz, Joel Meyers and Chris Rose with Leeann Tweeden serving as co-host/exit interviewer (occasionally covered by Nafeesa DeFlorias). Matt Savage was the tournament director.
The series consisted of single table tournaments of six players each. Five of the six competitors qualified through daily freeroll tournaments held at mansionpoker.net. Another competitor came from the National Pub Poker League, an amateur poker league that partnered with MansionPoker.net and qualified its nightly bar tournament winners into a private weekly freeroll. Winners of the online qualifiers were flown all expenses paid to Las Vegas, Nevada and received $500 in casino chips and other amenities.
Professional poker players Tony G, Dennis Waterman and Perry Friedman and reality television personality-turned poker pro Rob Mariano have appeared in the Dome. Nevada casino author Al W Moe appeared in the Dome and his wife, Shannon R Moe, was an alternate selection a month later.
Players started with 50,000 in tournament chips and play continued until one player had all 300,000. The tournament was single-elimination and only the winner of each table received prize money. Players had just 15 seconds to act on a hand before it was ruled dead. Each player was given one 30-second time extension that could be used at any time. When the table got to heads-up, each player received another 30-second time extension (although if a player hadn't previously used the extension he or she did not then have two). Betting was pot-limit pre-flop and no-limit post-flop until heads-up play, when it became all no-limit.
Each preliminary winner pocketed $25,000 in cash and advanced to the semi-finals. After each set of six preliminary tournaments, a semi-final single table tournament was played among the six winners, with the winner of that table taking $50,000 and advancing to the final table. After the six semi-final matches were played, the finalists played one more single table tournament for the $1,000,000 winner-take-all grand prize. Each of the other finalists won a prize package from Mansion Poker worth $13,000.
The Poker Dome
Tournaments were played in front of a live audience in a structure called The Poker Dome. The audience couldn't be seen or heard by the players and players were screened before entering the Dome to ensure they were unable to communicate with anyone outside the Dome. The high tech table featured an LED display for the dealer button, hole card cameras, automatic card reading technology (described on-screen as "computer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupiocrinus
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Marsupiocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Silurian to the Early Devonian in North America.
References
External links
Marsupiocrinus in the Paleobiology Database
Monobathrida
Prehistoric crinoid genera
Silurian crinoids
Devonian crinoids
Prehistoric echinoderms of North America
Silurian first appearances
Early Devonian genus extinctions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus%20%28software%29
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Cumulus is a digital asset management software designed for client/server system which is developed by Canto Software. The product makes use of metadata for indexing, organizing, and searching.
History
Cumulus was first released as a Macintosh application in 1992, and was named by Apple Computer as the "Most Innovative Product of 1992". Cumulus introduced search capabilities beyond those available in the Macintosh at the time, particularly relating to thumbnails.
Cumulus 1.0 was a single-user product with no network capabilities. Among the main features of Cumulus 1.0, the search function automatically generated previews and contained support for the included AppleTalk – Peer-to-Peer – network.
Cumulus 2.5 was available in five different languages and received the 1993 MacUser magazine Eddy award for "Best Publishing & Graphics Utility". In 1995, Canto introduced the scanner software "Cirrus" to focus on the development of Cumulus.
Cumulus 3, released in 1996, introduced a server version for the first time and contained the possibility to spread files over the Internet via the "Web Publisher". Since Apple offered Cumulus 3 with its "Workgroup Server" as a bundle, Cumulus became one of the leading digital asset management systems.
Cumulus 4 was the first version that was network-ready, and was available for Macintosh, Windows and UNIX operating systems allowing for cross-platform file sharing. Released in 1998, the support of Solaris was discounted later.
Cumulus 5 modified the software core to use an open architecture providing an API to external systems and databases. The open architecture of Cumulus 5 also enabled a more functional bridge between Cumulus and the Internet.
Cumulus 6 introduced Embedded Java Plugin (EJP) which allowed system integrators to build custom Java plug-ins in order to extend the functionality of the Cumulus client.
Cumulus 6.5 marked the end of the Cumulus Single User Edition product, which was licensed to MediaDex for further development and distribution.
Cumulus 7 was introduced summer of 2006.
Cumulus 8 was released in June 2009, with new indexing capabilities taking advantage of multicore/multiprocessor systems, and ability to manage a wider variety of file formats.
Cumulus 8.5 was released in May 2011. Support was added for multilingual metadata, sometimes referred to as "World Metadata." Cumulus Sites was updated to support metadata editing and file uploads.
Cumulus 8.6 was released in July 2012, and contains an updated user interface for the administration of Cumulus Sites and additional features for web-based administration of Cumulus. Other additions include features for collaboration links, multi-language support and automated version control.
Cumulus 9 was released in September 2013 and introduced a new Web Client User Interface and the Cumulus Video Cloud. The Cumulus Web Client UI was redesigned to provide users with a modern, easy-to-use interface to support and guide the user while addressin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20message
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In computing, a private message, personal message, or direct message (abbreviated as PM or DM) refers to a private communication sent or received by a user of a private communication channel on any given platform. Unlike public posts, PMs are only viewable by the participants. Though long a function present on IRCs and Internet forums, private channels for PMs have recently grown in popularity due to the increasing demand for privacy and private collaboration on social media.
There are two main types of private messages. One type includes those found on IRCs and Internet forums, as well as on social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, where the focus is public posting, PMs allow users to communicate privately without leaving the platform. The second type are those relayed through instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Kik, and Snapchat, where users create accounts primarily to exchange PMs. A third type, peer-to-peer messaging, occurs when users create and own the infrastructure used to transmit and store the messages; while features vary depending on application, they give the user full control over the data they transmit. An example of software that enables this kind of messaging is Classified-ads.
Besides serving as a tool to connect privately with friends and family, PMs have gained momentum in the workplace. Working professionals use PMs to reach coworkers in other spaces and increase efficiency during meetings. Although useful, using PMs in the workplace may blur the boundary between work and private lives.
History
The development of computers sparked the information revolution, which changed the way people communicate. Peter Drucker published an article centering on the theme that the computer is to the Information Revolution what the railroad was to the Industrial Revolution; railroads unified travel between the east and west coast of the United States, whereas computers unified communication across the entire globe. This revolutionized many different forms of communication, but particularly the personal message.
The first email system able to send mail between people using different host computers was launched via the ARPANET in 1971, and it revolutionized personal messaging by enabling users to send electronic messages to distant recipients. The popularity of email has since skyrocketed, and it continues to be a widely-used means of personal messaging.
The advent of the Internet paved the way for communication through platforms and website portals like Yahoo!, and AOL. Instant messaging systems became popular in the late 1990s, including AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. As Internet communication links improved and personal computers became more capable, this functionality was merged into systems that also included voice and video communication, such as Skype (launched in 2003).
In 2008, Facebook announced Facebook Chat, which evolved into Facebook Messenger in 2011 and allows us
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARTA%20rail
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The MARTA rail network, a component of the MARTA transit system in Metro Atlanta, has four service lines: the Red, Gold, Blue, and Green Lines. The Red and Gold Lines mainly run along the North-Northeast corridor, and the Blue and Green Lines run along the West-East corridor. The two corridors connect at the Five Points station, which is the only station where transfers are possible between all four lines. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
Rail system
All trains are identified by their destinations, and an automated announcement system announces train destinations, bus and other transit connections, and landmarks that are at or nearby each rail station.
Each station also has a secondary designation that provides the cardinal direction (typically north, south, east, or west) and relative distance from the central Five Points station. For instance, Lindbergh Center is the sixth station from Five Points traveling north, and has the secondary designation (N6). Northeast of Lindbergh Center on the Gold Line, stations are designated with NE while continuing the numbering, so Lenox is (NE7). Similarly, Bankhead is on a branch from the main east-west trunk and is designated (P4), a legacy of the original Proctor Creek name for the Green Line.
During daytime hours, trains on the Red and Gold lines service the entire north-south trunk line and split north of Lindbergh Center (N6). All MARTA trains are identified with a destination on electronic LCD signs on the front and sides of the train and on each car. After 9pm, the Red Line is short-turned and runs as a shuttle between North Springs (N11) and Lindbergh Center (N6), connecting to the Gold Line at Lindbergh Center. The connection is scheduled, with southbound Red trains arriving at Lindbergh Center just before Gold trains continuing southbound, and in reverse, northbound Gold trains arrive at Lindbergh just before Red trains leave northbound.
Blue and Green lines service the east-west trunk line together between Ashby (W3) and Edgewood–Candler Park (E4). At Ashby, Blue Line service continues to H.E. Holmes (W5) while Green Line trains divert to Bankhead Station (P4). Green Line service terminates at Edgewood–Candler Park, while the Blue Line continues east to Indian Creek. After 9pm, Green Line service is short-turned and operates as a shuttle between Bankhead (P4) and Vine City (stop W2). On weekends before 9pm, Green Line service is short-turned at King Memorial (stop E2).
Older system maps used orange to denote the North-South line and blue for the East-West line, including the Northeast and Proctor Creek branches. Lines were identified by the direction of travel and/or terminii. MARTA switched to a color-based route naming system in October 2009, so the North-South or North Springs-Airport line became the Red Line, for example. The former Northeast line that served Doraville, known as the "heart of Atlanta's Asian community", was initially named the Yellow Li
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Interest%20Group%20on%20Knowledge%20Discovery%20and%20Data%20Mining
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SIGKDD, representing the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, hosts an influential annual conference.
Conference history
The KDD Conference grew from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) workshops at AAAI conferences, which were started by Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and Usama Fayyad in 1994. Conference papers of each proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM. KDD is widely considered the most influential forum for knowledge discovery and data mining research.
The KDD conference has been held each year since 1995, and SIGKDD became an official ACM Special Interest Group in 1998. Past conference locations are listed on the KDD conference web site.
The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is recognized as a flagship venue in the field. Based on statistics provided by independent researcher Lexing Xie in her analysis “Visualizing Citation Patterns of Computer Science Conferences“ as part of the research in Computation Media Lab at Australian National University:
4489 papers were published at ACM SIGKDD conference over 22 years between 1994-2015.
These 4489 papers had received 112570 citations in total across 3033 venues.
56% of these 3033 venues are recognized as top 25 venues in the field.
The annual conference of ACM SIGKDD has received the highest rating A* from independent organization Computing Research and Education (a.k.a. CORE).
Selection Criteria
Like all flagship conferences, SIGKDD imposes a high requirement to present and publish submitted papers. The focus is on innovative research in data mining, knowledge discovery, and large-scale data analytics. Papers emphasizing theoretical foundations are particularly encouraged, as are novel modeling and algorithmic approaches to specific data mining problems in scientific, business, medical, and engineering applications. Visionary papers on new and emerging topics are particularly welcomed. Authors are explicitly discouraged from submitting papers that contain only incremental results or that do not provide significant advances over existing approaches.
In 2014, over 2,600 authors from at least fourteen countries submitted over a thousand papers to the conference. A final 151 papers were accepted for presentation and publication, representing an acceptance rate of 14.6%. This acceptance rate is slightly lower than those of other top computer science conferences, which typically have a rate of 15–25%. The acceptance rate of a conference is only a proxy measure of its quality. For example, in the field of information retrieval, the WSDM conference has a lower acceptance rate than the higher-ranked SIGIR.
Awards
The group recognizes members of the KDD community with its annual Innovation Award and Service Award.
Each year KDD presents a Best Paper Award to recognizes papers presented at the annual SIGKDD confer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Network
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The Football Network was a network that covered all aspects of American football, including the NFL, college football, high school, and various semi-pro and indoor leagues. The network was owned by TFN, The Football Network, Inc. a public traded corporation (OTCBB: TFBN).
TFN is one of the few nationwide TV networks in the United States that has ever been owned by an African-American.
History
Founding
The Football Network was founded in 1996 by Jantonio Turner, when he wanted to find more football highlights and discovered that no other all-football channel existed. He was first mentored by Sheldon Altfeld, who had launched his own channel and was giving seminars to entrepreneurs who wished to begin their own networks.
On September 5, 1998, a preview airing of the channel occurred on a C-band satellite. The channel continued this part-time broadcast of two hours every Saturday, with an hour on two different transponders. The network signed a letter of intent, an early step towards a master agreement, with the National Cable Television Cooperative.
The Football Network went public on October 20, 1998, when it began trading on the OTC bulletin board to help it attract the funding necessary to launch. Over the next few years the company laid the groundwork for the establishment of a channel from extensive qualitative and quantitative market research, to hiring Newberger Greenberg and Associates, the media consulting firm who did the business plans for The Golf Channel.
In 2001, Jerry Solomon, husband of Nancy Kerrigan, joined the network.
By 2003, a number of other single sports channels, including Black Belt TV, the Ice Channel, NFL Network and Tennis Channel, joined TFN in looking to launch on the new digital tier of cable. While Gol TV and College Sports Television launched in early 2003. By March 2003, the network and the 13 conferences of the NCCAA Division I-AA agreed to start the NCAA Division I-AA College Football All-Star Classic to be held and broadcast on December 30.
In May 2003, the company agreed to a deal to be headquartered in Baton Rouge, temporarily at the Louisiana Public Broadcasting's studios. Meanwhile, a permanent facility would be constructed at the Bon Carré Business Park. As a part of the deal, the state would take less than 10% equity stake in the company and grant 15 year tax credits. Previously, the company was located in Lynnfield, Massachusetts.
In July 2003 the Spike channel agreed to carry an hour of TFN programming a week. By August 2003, The Football Network signed the Atlantic 10 Conference, followed by the Patriot and Pioneer leagues and the Southern, Big Sky, and Big South conferences. For the University of Maine Black Bears, an Atlantic 10 team, TFN planned to produced and simulcast live eight games for Fox Sports Net New England and the network. The National Cable Television Cooperative signed a master agreement with the network by August 18 for its member cable operators to allow them to pick up the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale%20of%20the%20Century%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29
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Sale of the Century (stylized as $ale of the Century) is an Australian game show that aired on the Nine Network from 14 July 1980 to 29 November 2001. It is based on both Great Temptation that aired from 1970 to 1974 and on the original Sale that first aired in the United States from 1969 to 1973. The Australian format of Sale has since been used internationally, including in a revived US version that aired from 1983 to 1989.
Tony Barber, the host of Great Temptation, was also the initial host of Sale for over a decade before being replaced by Glenn Ridge in 1991. Hostesses over the years have included Barbie Rogers, Victoria Nicolls, Delvene Delaney, Alyce Platt, Jo Bailey, Nicky Buckley and Karina Brown. Pete Smith was Sales announcer for the majority of its run. Ron Neate was announcer for only the first ten episodes in 1980 before Smith took over.
From 30 May 2005 to 23 January 2009, the series was revived under its original Australian title, Temptation.
Gameplay
The game usually involves three contestants competing to amass the highest score by answering questions correctly and playing several games. The champion from the previous episode will usually be invited to return as a carry-over champion.
Each contestant is given $20 to start. The host reads a trivia question to the contestants. The first to press a buzzer gets an opportunity to answer the question, interrupting the host if in the middle of reading the question. Players' scores increase by $5 for each correct answer and decrease by $5 for each incorrect answer. If a player answers incorrectly, the correct answer is revealed and the game goes on to the next question, as only one player can try to answer each question.
Gift Shop
At the end of each of the first two rounds (and in early years, also at the end of the third round), the highest-scoring player gets to go to a "Gift Shop" and is offered the chance to sacrifice part of their score to "purchase" a prize at a "low price". The prizes, and the cost, increased in each round, usually around $5–7 in round 1, then $7–10 in round 2, and $10–16 in round 3. Contestants were allowed to haggle with the host, who, depending on the game situation, might reduce the price and offer inducements including actual cash in order to entice the contestant to purchase. If two or more players had the same score at this point, a Dutch auction was conducted for the prize whereby the host would incrementally reduce the selling price until either contestant buzzed in or the host decided not to lower the prize any further and announced "no sale".
Some gift shops also included a bonus prize called a "Sale Surprise", revealed only after the conclusion of the gift shop (whether the contestant bought the prize or not).
Cashbox/Cash Card
In 1986, along with the debut of the new theme and set as well as co-host Platt, the third Gift Shop prize was replaced by these two mini-games, giving players an opportunity to win some cash, an extra prize, or earn ex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20DuMont%20Television%20Network%20affiliates
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This is a partial list of affiliate stations of the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States from 1946 to 1956. At its peak in 1954, DuMont was affiliated with around 200 TV stations. In its later years, DuMont was carried mostly on poorly watched UHF channels or had only secondary affiliations on VHF stations. The DuMont affiliation ending dates listed here are somewhat tentative in several cases; DuMont ended most operations on April 1, 1955, and honored network commitments until August 1956.
Many stations in the early years of television affiliated with more than one network. There were not enough local stations in most cities for each of the four major networks to have an affiliate, leading to the four networks (as well as a number of smaller networks) to fight for air time. Local TV stations were free to "cherry-pick" which programs they would broadcast. Many of DuMont's "affiliates" carried very little DuMont programming, choosing to air one or two more popular programs (such as Life Is Worth Living, which was aired by 169 stations during the 1953–1954 season) and/or sports programming on the weekends. Few stations carried the full DuMont program line-up.
DuMont's advertising revenues depended on being able to be viewed nationwide. As a result, the company made affiliation agreements which have been described as "a crazy patchwork of deals". In many cities, DuMont was affiliated with more than one TV station in order to get more of its programming cleared for broadcast. No definitive list of affiliated stations from 1946 to 1956 exists, and many sources contradict one another.
DuMont's owned-and-operated stations are highlighted in yellow. The Paramount owned-and-operated stations, which did not carry DuMont programs but were ruled DuMont O&Os by the FCC, are shown in pink.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Footnotes
† Ending dates tentative; source does not give a date for the end of affiliation with DuMont or states affiliation ended at the end of the network operations. DuMont cancelled most network programs beginning 1 April 1955, and honored network commitments until 6 August 1956.
Affiliates
DuMont Television Network
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamQuest%20Corporation
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TeamQuest Corporation is a computer software company specializing in Systems management, Performance management and Capacity planning software for computer servers. TeamQuest is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. In 2016, shortly after lay-offs "due to a decline in the company's software development for mainframe structures", the company was acquired by HelpSystems.
History
TeamQuest was founded in 1991 by three employees from a software research and development group at Unisys Corporation.
Solutions
TeamQuest solutions are focused on IT Service Optimization (ITSO). The stated goal of ITSO is to "meet IT service levels while minimizing infrastructure costs and mitigating risks", for example through server consolidation.
TeamQuest released a comprehensive update to its Vityl suite of infrastructure monitoring and capacity management tools in January 2017.
Customers
TeamQuest customers include companies across a variety of industries.
See also
BigAdmin Feature Article: Using TeamQuest Performance Software to Monitor Zones for Performance Management of the Solaris OS
Business Profile on Yahoo Finance : Teamquest Corporation
References
Software companies based in Iowa
System administration
Computer systems
American companies established in 1991
1991 establishments in the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephony%20application%20server
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The term telephony application server refers to an entity in a telephone network that carries out functions that are not directly related to the routing of messages through the network.
Such functions can include in-network answering machines, 800 (freephone) numbers, automatic call forwarding, conference bridges and many other types of application. In integrated telephone networks, these are mostly implemented as functions in the telephone exchange, but in more open networks such as IP telephony networks based on the SIP protocol, these are often separate computers.
In contexts where it is obvious that one is talking about telephony, such as RFC 3057, one often just calls them "application servers"; this is also common in the context of SIP (for instance in RFC 4240), because proponents argue that SIP is applicable to a much wider range of applications than just telephony.
The application server provides call-termination or subscriber-independent applications. These include such capabilities as local number portability, free-call routing resolution, conference bridge services, and unified messaging. The PSTN versions of these applications are frequently known as 800 numbers in North America. The subscriber has to explicitly place a call to the application server.
Application server applications are of two general types, those that are signaling only, and those that involve media manipulation. The former are often related to routing resolution—local number portability, free-call routing, and other services where the dialed number must be translated to a routable address. An example involving media manipulation would be conference bridge applications, something with which most business people are very familiar. The call steps include
Each user calls in on a pre-published number.
The dialed number is translated into an IP address and named the endpoint of the application server, and the call is routed there.
The application server connects to the media server, instructing it to play a greeting and collect the conference number.
The media server returns and conference number, and the application server instructs the media server to play a prompt to collect the authorization number.
If the digits collected are correct, the application server tells the media server to move this call to a particular conference bridge.
References
Telephony
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20Communication%20Camp
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The Chaos Communication Camp (also known as CCCamp) is an international meeting of hackers that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). So far all CCCamps have been held near Berlin, Germany.
The camp is an event for providing information about technical and societal issues, such as privacy, freedom of information and data security. Hosted speeches are held in big tents and conducted in English as well as German. Each participant may pitch a tent and connect to a fast internet connection and power.
List of Camps
See also
Chaos Communication Congress, an annual indoor event, held in December in Germany
Hack-Tic hacker events, a quadrennial outdoor event, held in August in the Netherlands
Electromagnetic Field, a biennial outdoor event, held in August in England
References
External links
Camp 2023 (recorded talks)
Camp 2019 (recorded talks)
Camp 2015 (recorded talks)
Camp 2011 (recorded talks)
Camp 2007 (recorded talks, video documentation)
Camp 2003 (recorded talks, video documentation)
Camp 1999 (recorded talks, video documentation)
Hacker conventions
Information technology in Germany
Recurring events established in 1999
Hacker_camps
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture%20compression
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Texture compression is a specialized form of image compression designed for storing texture maps in 3D computer graphics rendering systems. Unlike conventional image compression algorithms, texture compression algorithms are optimized for random access.
Texture compression can be applied to reduce memory usage at runtime. Texture data is often the largest source of memory usage in a mobile application.
Tradeoffs
In their seminal paper on texture compression, Beers, Agrawala and Chaddha list four features that tend to differentiate texture compression from other image compression techniques. These features are:
Decoding Speed It is highly desirable to be able to render directly from the compressed texture data and so, in order not to impact rendering performance, decompression must be fast.
Random Access Since predicting the order that a renderer accesses texels would be difficult, any texture compression scheme must allow fast random access to decompressed texture data. This tends to rule out many better-known image compression schemes such as JPEG or run-length encoding.
Compression Rate and Visual Quality In a rendering system, lossy compression can be more tolerable than for other use cases. Some texture compression libraries, such as crunch, allow the developer to flexibly trade off compression rate vs. visual quality, using methods such as rate-distortion optimization (RDO).
Encoding Speed Texture compression is more tolerant of asymmetric encoding/decoding rates as the encoding process is often done only once during the application authoring process.
Given the above, most texture compression algorithms involve some form of fixed-rate lossy vector quantization of small fixed-size blocks of pixels into small fixed-size blocks of coding bits, sometimes with additional extra pre-processing and post-processing steps. Block Truncation Coding is a very simple example of this family of algorithms.
Because their data access patterns are well-defined, texture decompression may be executed on-the-fly during rendering as part of the overall graphics pipeline, reducing overall bandwidth and storage needs throughout the graphics system. As well as texture maps, texture compression may also be used to encode other kinds of rendering map, including bump maps and surface normal maps. Texture compression may also be used together with other forms of map processing such as MIP maps and anisotropic filtering.
Availability
Some examples of practical texture compression systems are S3 Texture Compression (S3TC), PVRTC, Ericsson Texture Compression (ETC) and Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC); these may be supported by special function units in modern Graphics processing units.
OpenGL and OpenGL ES, as implemented on many video accelerator cards and mobile GPUs, can support multiple common kinds of texture compression - generally through the use of vendor extensions.
Supercompression
A compressed-texture can be further compressed in what is ca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex%20County%20Magnet%20Schools
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The Middlesex County Magnet Schools, formerly known as the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools, is a public school district that provides a network of high schools serving the vocational and technical education needs of students in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The district was the first county vocational school system in the United States. The district serves high school, adult, and special needs students.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 2,144 students and 170.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
The high school campuses in the district are located in East Brunswick, Edison, Perth Amboy, Piscataway and Woodbridge Township.
Awards and recognition
Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences in Woodbridge was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education's National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
Perth Amboy Technical High School was recognized by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2012, one of 17 schools in New Jersey to be honored that year.
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
East Brunswick Magnet School with 465 students in grades 9-12
Edison Academy Magnet School with 172 students in grades 9-12
Perth Amboy Magnet School with 274 students in grades 9-12
Piscataway Magnet School with 649 students in grades 9-12
Woodbridge Academy Magnet School with 285 students in grades 9-12
Career majors
A description of each career major can be found on the MCMS website.
Edison Academy
Civil/Mechanical Engineering Technology
Electrical/Computer Engineering Technology
East Brunswick
Commercial Art/Marketing Design
Graphic Arts
Automotive Technology
Machine Tool Technology
Welding
Architectural Drafting/CAD
Carpentry
Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC)
Performing Arts Theatre
Performing Arts Dance
Agriscience Technology
Baking
Culinary Arts
Cosmetology/Hairstyling
Health Technology
Automotive Services
Basic Business Technology
Building Services/Maintenance Mechanics
Building Trades
Dry Cleaning
Food Services
Health Services
Masonry
Retail Sales
Perth Amboy
Auto Mechanics
Computer Applications for Business
Graphic Design
Carpentry
Electrical Technology
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Culinary Arts
Piscataway
Computer Assisted Drafting
Machine Tool Technology
Automated Office Technology
Computer Applications for Business
Computer Systems Technology
Automotive Collision Repair Technology
Auto Mechanics
Baking
Culinary Arts: Commercial Foods
Cosmetology/Hairstyling
Apparel Services/Clothes Processing
Auto Maintenance
Auto Repair
Basic Business Technology
Building Trades
Carpentry
Culinary Arts: Career Development
Hospitality: Hotel Services
Landscaping/Horticulture
He
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundy%20Shore%20Ecotour
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The Fundy Shore Ecotour is a former scenic drive and network of tourist destinations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and encircles several sub-basins of the Bay of Fundy, which contains the highest tidal range on the planet.
The Fundy Shore Ecotour ran from Brooklyn, Hants County in the south, to Amherst, Cumberland County near the inter-provincial boundary with New Brunswick in the north. It followed the shores of Chignecto Bay, Minas Basin, and Cobequid Bay and overlaps with and extends the Glooscap Trail in many places.
Some remnant signage of the Fundy Shore Ecotour still remain, but the route has been largely replaced by the Glooscap Trail and Fundy Shore Scenic Drive.
Communities
Amherst
River Hebert
Joggins
Advocate Harbour
Parrsboro
Five Islands
Economy
Bass River
Glenholme
Onslow
Truro
Old Barns
Clifton
Beaver Brook
Green Oaks
Maitland
Selma
Noel Shore
Onslow
Minasville
Moose Brook
Tenecape
Walton
Pembroke
Cambridge
Bramber
Cheverie
Kempt Shore
Summerville
Centre Burlington
Brooklyn
Parks
Cape Chignecto Provincial Park
Central Grove Provincial Park
Clairmont Provincial Park
Five Islands Provincial Park
Museums
Fundy Geological Museum
Age of Sail Heritage Centre
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
Highways
Trunk 2
Route 215
Route 236
Route 242
Route 209
Route 302
References
Books
Roads in Colchester County
Roads in Hants County, Nova Scotia
Roads in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Tourist attractions in Colchester County
Tourist attractions in Hants County, Nova Scotia
Tourist attractions in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20read%20out
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A digital readout (DRO) is a numeric display, usually with an integrated keyboard and some means of numeric representation. Its integral computer reads signals generated by linear encoders or (less frequently) rotary encoders installed to track machine axes, using these measures to keep track of and display to a machine operator the workpiece position (e.g., milling machines), or tool position (lathes, grinders, etc) in space.
In machine-shop terminology, the complete digital read-out system (consisting of a computer, axis-position encoders, and a numeric display) is referred to by the acronym DRO. Such a system is commonly fitted to machines in today's shops, especially for metal working — lathes, cylindrical grinders, milling machines, surface grinders, boring mills and other machine tools — to allow the operator to work faster and with greater accuracy. Use of DROs is not limited to manually operated machines. CNC machines can usually be switched to manual operation, and in this case a form of DRO is simulated on its control panel.
Display unit (computer)
Several 7-segment displays, or an LCD screen on more expensive models display the position of each machine axis. Three-axis systems including the X, Y, Z axes are common on milling machines; those plus U and W are used on highly sophisticated 5-axis vertical machining centers. Lathes or cylindrical grinders typically use just X and Z axes, while a surface grinder may use only a Z axis.
Common standard functions on a DRO
DROs have a lot of functionality, providing computation of common operations. The following list was taken from the user manual of a digital readout manufacturer's product:
Imperial (inch) and metric interchange.
"1/2" function: takes the value of an axis and divides it by two, used to find the center of a workpiece.
Preset dimensions: axis values can be entered directly, used to match measured value.
Absolute or Incremental modes: position of a feature given on a blueprint is given by one of two methods:
Absolute: which means the coordinate is relative to the part's absolute zero (usually one of its corners or its center).
Relative: meaning the coordinate is referred to some other feature, usually the last one machined.
Bolt holes: drilling or boring of several holes along an arc without using a rotary table.
Inclines: compute a cut or series of holes across an incline or diagonal.
Memory: stores hundreds or thousands of points.
Calculator: a scientific calculator is often included.
Linear encoders
All encoders have a scale that attaches to the moving part (the table, carriage, knee or quill) and a reader that attaches to the part that does not move. All are subject to damage from impact, so should be protected with a metallic shield.
Glass scales
Made from strips of high-quality glass with evenly etched marks just like the marks of a ruler, but very small (typically 5 μm apart, but in some instances can be smaller, such as 1 μm for a lathes cross slide). Two o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDV%202200
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TDV-2200 was a series of terminals produced by Tandberg Data from the early 1980s.
Norsk Data sold rebranded versions of the TDV 2200 series under their own designations ND-240/242 (TDV-2215 variants), ND-246/266/267 (TDV-2200/9 variants) and ND-320 (TDV-2200/9S). The rebranded TDV-2200/9(S) terminals had keyboards customized for the ND-NOTIS text processing system.
For Siemens, Tandberg build the similar MTS 2000 series.
Another important customer was Mycron.
It optionally used ISO 646-NO for mapping of the Norwegian characters, which made them a pet hate among UNIX people. (Some users still humorously pronounce the vertical bar as "ø".)
Versions with vector graphics were available, as were versions supporting Thai script and other scripts.
It won several awards for ergonomic design, and its keyboard was widely considered to be one of the best on the market.
Its immediate predecessor was the TDV-2100 series, and its successor was the TDV-1200.
External links
Tandberg TDV 2220 on the terminals wiki
References
Character-oriented terminal
Norsk Data minicomputers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Interface%20Adapter
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A Virtual Interface Adapter ("VIA") is a network protocol (such as TCP/IP ...). As of July 2006 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 supports it. The specific implementation of VIA will vary from vendor to vendor. In general, it is usually a network kind of interface but is usually a very high-performance, dedicated connection between two systems. Part of that high performance comes from specialized, dedicated hardware that knows that it has a dedicated connection and therefore doesn't have to deal with normal network addressing issues.
The VIA protocol is used to support VIA devices such as VIA Storage Area Network devices.
Comes in the concept of clustering (i.e.) load balancing method.
The load balancer will have this VIA and through VIA it will connect the databases.
The VIA protocol is deprecated by Microsoft, and will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. It is however supported in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, and SQL Server 2014.
See also
System Area Network
References
Notes
Network protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Complete%20Directory%20to%20Prime%20Time%20Network%20and%20Cable%20TV%20Shows%201946%E2%80%93Present
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The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present is a trade paperback reference work by the American television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, first published by Ballantine Books in 1979.
History
The 1979 book publication was by Tim Brooks at NBC, who was then head of that network's research, and Earle Marsh of CBS, who was a manager there of special research projects, and it was the book's first edition. According to Aaron Barnhart (as told to him by author Tim Brooks), the original volume "almost didn't get printed... because publishers were worried 'that it was too big.'" (with its 3,000 shows covered). Between the 6th and 9th editions, Brooks and Marsh expanded an already "hefty" paperback from 5,000 to 6,500 shows covered ("adding about [a] half an inch to the spine"). According to Barnhart, "no listing has ever been deleted or edited for space in the 30-year history of [T]he Complete Directory".
The title of later editions include the words "and cable". The ninth edition came out in 2007; in it, co-author Tim Brooks stated that the ninth edition may be the last one released of the book.
Awards and recognition
The 1979 publication won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award, then known as the "American Book Awards", in the category of General Reference Books—Paperback, as the work was published direct to paperback. (This is why the tag, "American Book Award Winner!", appears on the book cover beginning with the second edition.)
Critical reception
As television reporter and critic Aaron Barnhart notes, Brooks and Marsh's work appeared alongside existing references by the acclaimed Erik Barnouw (Tube of Plenty) and by TV writer Les Brown of The New York Times (Encyclopedia of Television); despite these, The Complete Directory was "immediately hailed as the best of the bunch, more comprehensive and a more enjoyable read". Barnhart's praise is uniformly high, referring to it as "one of the seven wonders of show business", and noting that the comprehensive nature of the work is "a testament to the vision of [the] two men who [took] great pride in handcrafting American TV's greatest single reference guide, online or offline".
Features
According to the authors, the book is an attempt to list all commercially broadcast network series ever shown in the evening or nighttime hours (defined as 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time or later) in the United States (i.e., prime time and the two hours preceding it). It also lists programs which were widely syndicated in the U.S., and, effective with the sixth edition in 1995, cable television series if, at the time they were aired, the cable network carrying them was available in at least 50% of U.S. homes.
Other criteria for inclusion from the original design of the book are:
The series must have been carried on a commercial network. Programs produced for and by public broadcasters such as National Educational Television and the Public Broadcasting Service are excluded unles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Purvis
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Jay Purvis is a former model and television host. Purvis was a co-host of Kitchen Equipped, which was shown on Food Network Canada, Purvis also hosted HGTV. Purvis now hosts The Fix which airs on HGTV.
The Kitchen Equipped'''s resident carpenter's looks (Purvis) are compared to American Idol host Ryan Seacrest. Purvis is also compared to English chef Jamie Oliver due to Purvis's use of Brighton slang and public school accent.
Biography
Purvis was born in Oakville, Ontario in 1976, but his mother and brother moved to Britain and later when he was 8 years to Israel. Jay is a former pupil of Claremont Preparatory School and then Sutton Valence Public School and grew up in rural Kent with his mother and brother Shawn (DJ and surfer). He rode his mother's horses helping her in her equestrian hobbies and also played good rugby and cricket for his schools. After Shawn had finished his A levels they all moved to Brighton, where he worked in the building renovation and carpentry world. At the age of 20, Jay hung up his tools for the catwalk after being taken on by a London agency. After modelling for three years he moved back to Canada, where he has since continued to frame houses and star in various shows.
Since being back in Canada, he has worked as a construction manager on numerous projects. After that, he started his own renovation and framing company. Through starting his own business, Jay gained much needed and invaluable knowledge about business and construction.
Jay got into television when he met a television producer Neil Davies who was looking for a contractor for the show Kitchen Equipped. He has also made appearances on various other television shows mostly on Home and Garden Television. He now hosts a show on HGTV called The Fix.
When not filming Purvis's television show, he worked as a commercial diver.
Filmography
Awards
Jay Purvis has been nominated for Viewer's Choice Award for Lifestyle Host'' at the Gemini Awards.
References
External links
Jay Purvis on HGTV.ca
Living people
Canadian television hosts
Canadian people of English descent
English people of Canadian descent
English television presenters
People from Oakville, Ontario
1976 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FANatic
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FANatic is an American TV show created by Ed Connolly and executive produced by Deborah Norton and Ed Connolly of Norton Connolly Productions, that was shown on the MTV network in the late 1990s. It featured everyday people being tricked into going somewhere and unexpectedly meeting their idol (musician, actor, etc.).
Episode list
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
References
MTV original programming
1998 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
1990s American reality television series
2000s American reality television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege%20revocation%20%28computing%29
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Privilege revocation is the act of an entity giving up some, or all of, the privileges they possess, or some authority taking those (privileged) rights away.
Information theory
Honoring the Principle of least privilege at a granularity provided by the base system such as sandboxing of (to that point successful) attacks to an unprivileged user account helps in reliability of computing services provided by the system. As the chances of restarting such a process are better, and other services on the same machine aren't affected (or at least probably not as much as in the alternative case: i.e. a privileged process gone haywire instead).
Computer security
In computing security privilege revocation is a measure taken by a program to protect the system against misuse of itself.
Privilege revocation is a variant of privilege separation whereby the program terminates the privileged part immediately after it has served its purpose. If a program doesn't revoke privileges, it risks the escalation of privileges.
Revocation of privileges is a technique of defensive programming.
References
Protection Profile for Privilege-Directed Content Authoriszor Ltd, Ref: Auth_CC/PP/DES/01, Issue 1.3, 22 December 2000
LOMAC: Low Water-Mark Integrity Protection for COTS Environments by Timothy Fraser
Information theory
Computer security procedures
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Cobb
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Chris Cobb (born ca. 1964) is a British computer scientist and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Chief Operating Officer at the University of London. He has been Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Roehampton, London, England and prior to that was at London School of Economics. In 2020, he was appointed as Chief Executive of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, despite not having any professional background in music.
Life and work
Cobb received his degree in Business and Computing in the late 1980s, and started his career at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as an analyst programmer, and later becoming Director of Business Systems and Services in 1996. In 2005 he was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor at Roehampton University, and in 2011 back at the University of London, he became Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary. He was promoted to PVC in 2014.
Cobb taught University IT Management on the ESMU – HUMANE Winter School for Senior University Administrators and has undertaken JISC funded research in the use of IT in Chinese Universities as part of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Sino-UK exchange programme.
Previously Cobb was a member of the AHUA National Executive (2014–2016) where he led in liaison with Jisc and Universities UK on cybersecurity. Previously he has sat on a number of national working groups relating to IT in Higher Education, including the Jisc Organisation Support Committee, Board membership of JISC infoNet. and chairing the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) CISG between 2003 and 2005. He also chaired a Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) working group investigating improvements to the recruitment and admittance of part-time students into Higher Education.
Cobb is an advocate of sharing services across universities and speaks regularly on the advantages of efficiency, quality and cost. He has been awarded several grants to develop new services and was a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Shared Services working group. He now chairs Co Sector Ltd, the University of London's shared services organisation.
Cobb provides consultancy to other universities on the use of IT and in 2008 (on behalf of the European University Association) provided advice on the integration on IT infrastructure and systems for the merger of four universities in Strasbourg; Louis Pasteur University, Robert Schuman University, Marc Bloch University and l'Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres d'Alsace. In 2008 Cobb led a successful funding bid from the JISC to experiment in the use of enterprise architecture within a university context with the specific aim of developing a service-oriented architecture to systems integration and thus enabling greater accessibility to shared services. This project concluded in mid-2010. In 2013 Cobb is involved in developing the University of London into a "significant provider of sh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NightRide%20%28bus%20service%29
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NightRide is a network of bus routes in operation between midnight and 4.30am in Sydney, Australia. The sixteen routes are run by bus operators as listed below and allow for a nightly shutdown of the Sydney Trains commuter rail network. The NightRide network was established in mid-1989 as low-patronage late-night train services were progressively withdrawn. Services follow major roads, and some stops are some distance from the railway stations they replace. In addition, some routes serve stations on multiple railway lines. In the city, most services depart from George Street, above Town Hall station.
Normal bus fares apply to NightRide journeys.
The suspension of train services overnight allows for maintenance to occur on tracks. Passengers reportedly feel safer on buses than mostly-empty trains late at night. However, in 2014, it was reported that patronage on most NightRide routes was falling. The Tourism and Transport Forum has called for 24-hour train operations to resume.
History
The first NightRide routes, to Riverwood, Campbelltown and Sutherland, commenced in June 1989. Services to Penrith, Hornsby and Cronulla began two months later. New services were introduced to Bondi Junction in 2009; and Carlingford and Richmond in 2011.
A city loop route, called N1, was established in 2000 and cancelled two years later.
New contracts for all routes commenced 1 March 2018 with a number of routes going to different operators. The routes then became normal commuter routes under the administration of Transport for NSW instead of Sydney Trains. Changes included N100 Railway Square to Bondi Junction which commenced in 2009 ceasing, replaced by route N91 in conjunction with frequency changes to some routes.
From 23 August 2020, two additional routes, N31 and N92 were introduced, and all N71 services standardised to operate to Richmond.
Network
As of 2023, the NightRide network operations are as below:
Note: Routes N61 and N81 operate early morning on Friday, Saturday and Sunday only.
References
Bus routes in Sydney
Bus transport in Sydney
1989 establishments in Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Diefendorff
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Keith Diefendorff is a computer architect and veteran in the microprocessor industry.
Diefendorff is one of the persons that has led the industry in developing RISC processors, both for embedded systems and superscalar high performance systems. He is one of the main designers of the PowerPC family of processors.
Background
Keith Diefendorff started at Texas Instruments, designing integrated circuits processors and systems. Later Diefendorff joined Motorola and was the chief architect of a second-generation implementation of the 88000 instruction set architecture, the 88110. The 88110 was not a commercial success, and when Motorola shifted focus to creating a new RISC architecture with IBM, Diefendorff was assigned as chief architect for the PowerPC.
After his work at Motorola Diefendorrf moved to NexGen as director of technical x86-strategy. Diefendorff joined AMD when NexGen was acquired by AMD.
From AMD Diefendorrf then moved to Apple as architect for the AltiVec media extensions developed for the PowerPC processors used by Apple.
Keith Diefendorff has been working in the embedded processor space. First at the embedded processor IP-core company ARC International. After ARC Diefendorrf moved to MIPS Technologies.
Diefendorrf has also worked as processor analyst, and editor in chief (1998–2001) for the industry magazine Microprocessor Report.
References
External links
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/keith-diefendorff/41/bab/227
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer architects
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTFV-CD
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KTFV-CD (channel 32) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to McAllen, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside McAllen-licensed Univision affiliate KNVO (channel 48), Harlingen-licensed Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate KFXV, channel 60 (and translators KMBH-LD and KXFX-CD), and primary CW+ affiliate and secondary PBS member KCWT-CD (channel 21). The stations share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen, while KTFV-CD's transmitter is located near Scissors, Texas.
Outline profile
After XHRIO dropped the Fox affiliation for MundoFox (later MundoMax), residents of the lower Rio Grande Valley had trouble receiving the new low-power Fox signal. Due to this, it was decided to add a feed of KFXV to the second subchannel of KTFV and display it as 67.1 (same display channel as KFXV) in an attempt to reach a larger audience.
In addition to its own digital signal, KTFV-CD is simulcast in widescreen standard definition on KNVO's second digital subchannel (48.2) from a transmitter on Farm to Market Road 493, near Donna, Texas.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
UniMás network affiliates
Charge! (TV network) affiliates
TBD (TV network) affiliates
Stadium (sports network) affiliates
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
TFV
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Entravision Communications stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJST-LD
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KJST-LD (virtual channel 28, digital channel 11) is a low-power television station in McAllen, Texas, broadcasting programming in Spanish under the Telefrontera brand.
KJST-LD programming can also be seen in Rio Grande City on KRGT-LP channel 6.
The station is owned by CTV Broadcasting, a local broadcaster not associated with Canada's CTV television network.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Telefrontera
JST-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Texas
Low-power television stations in Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrsst-pp
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The Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) is a follow on activity form the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) high-resolution sea surface temperature pilot project. It provides a global high-resolution (<10 km) data products to the operational oceanographic, meteorological, climate and general scientific community, in real time and delayed mode.
Sea surface temperature (SST) measured from satellites in considerable spatial detail and at high frequency, is increasingly required for use in the context of operational monitoring and forecasting of the ocean, for assimilation into coupled ocean-atmosphere model systems and for applications in short-term numerical weather prediction and longer term climate change detection. Currently there are many different SST data sets available derived from satellite systems. But, scientists and operational agencies alike are presented with a bewildering set of options in terms of SST product content, coverage, spatial resolution, timeliness, format and accuracy. The international GODAE steering committee realised that SST data products were not adequate for GODAE forecast systems and initiated the GODAE High Resolution SST Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP). User requirements were collected together to define the optimal SST data products that could be developed to suit the widest possible number of applications. In 2008 the GHRSST-PP Science Team agreed to close the Pilot Project as the GODAE project was completed. A follow on activity called the Group for High Resolution SST is now continuing the coordination of GHRSST activities.
Purpose
The purpose of GHRSST is to develop an operational demonstration system and to drive all scientific aspects related to SST. The activity co-ordinates the delivery of a new generation of global coverage high-resolution (better than 10 km and ~6 hourly) SST data products. GHRSST data products are derived by combining readily available but complementary Level-2 (L2) satellite and in situ observations in real time to improve spatial coverage, temporal resolution, cross-sensor calibration stability and SST product accuracy.
GHRSST is an international activity that orchestrates a wide variety of input and output data. The data are shared, indexed, processed, quality controlled, analysed and documented within an international framework. Large volumes of data and associated data services are harnessed together to deliver the new generation of global coverage high resolution SST data sets.
GHRSST is based on a distributed system in which the data processing operations that are necessary to operationally generate and distribute high resolution SST data sets having global coverage are shared by Regional Data Assembly Centres (RDAC). RDAC ingest, quality control and merge existing satellite and in situ SST data sources that are then merged to generate regional coverage SST data products having the same netCDF format specification (called L2P products), in real-time. RDAC data
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXOF-CD
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KXOF-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A television station in Laredo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Univision affiliate KLDO-TV (channel 27) and Class A UniMás affiliate KETF-CD (channel 39). The three stations share studios on Bob Bullock Loop in Laredo; KXOF-CD's transmitter is located on Shea Street north of downtown.
KXOF-CD and Harlingen-based KFXV (channel 60), which serves the Rio Grande Valley to the southeast, use the same newscast called Fox News South Texas which is divided into two segments; Laredo news (originating from KXOF) and Rio Grande Valley news (originating from KFXV).
History
The station began as K15EZ on channel 15 on July 28, 1997, moving to channel 25 on August 6, 1999 as K25GN. From 1999 to 2005, the station was KZLD-LP. Entravision bought the station in 2005, simultaneously switching the station to a Spanish-language Telefutura network as KETF-CA. In 2009, KETF-CA went off the air due to XHBR transmitting digitally on channel 25.1. In June of that year, KETF-CA applied for a permit to start transmitting digitally on channel 31.1. In January 2010, the permit was granted. The station changed its call sign to KETF-CD on January 3, 2011.
KETF-CD and its sister station KXOF-CD swapped call signs on December 13, 2018.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
KXOF 31 Website
XOF-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Low-power television stations in Texas
Entravision Communications stations
1999 establishments in Texas
Fox network affiliates
MyNetworkTV affiliates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCSL
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RCSL may mean:
RealNetworks Community Source License, a software license
Rugby Canada Super League, a rugby union competition in Canada
Red Costarricense de Software Libre, a Costa Rican Free Software advocacy group
Royal Standard de Liège, a Belgian soccer club from the city of Liège.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ns%20%28simulator%29
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ns (from network simulator) is a name for a series of discrete event network simulators, specifically ns-1, ns-2, and ns-3. All are discrete-event computer network simulators, primarily used in research and teaching.
History
ns-1
The first version of ns, known as ns-1, was developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in the 1995-97 timeframe by Steve McCanne, Sally Floyd, Kevin Fall, and other contributors. This was known as the LBNL Network Simulator, and derived in 1989 from an earlier simulator known as REAL by S. Keshav.
ns-2
Ns-2 began as a revision of ns-1. From 1997 to 2000, ns development was supported by DARPA through the VINT project at LBL, Xerox PARC, UC Berkeley, and USC/ISI. In 2000, ns-2 development was supported through DARPA with SAMAN and through NSF with CONSER, both at USC/ISI, in collaboration with other researchers including ACIRI.
Features of NS2
1. It is a discrete event simulator for networking research.
2. It provides substantial support to simulate bunch of protocols like TCP, FTP, UDP, https and DSR.
3. It simulates wired and wireless network.
4. It is primarily Unix based.
5. Uses TCL as its scripting languages.
6. Otcl: Object oriented support
7. Tclcl: C++ and otcl linkage
8. Discrete event schedule
Ns-2 incorporates substantial contributions from third parties, including wireless code from the UCB Daedelus and CMU Monarch projects and Sun Microsystems.
ns-3
In 2003, a team led by Tom Henderson, George Riley, Sally Floyd, and Sumit Roy, applied for and received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a replacement for ns-2, called ns-3. This team collaborated with the Planete project of INRIA at Sophia Antipolis, with Mathieu Lacage as the software lead, and formed a new open source project.
In the process of developing ns-3, it was decided to completely abandon backward-compatibility with ns-2. The new simulator would be written from scratch, using the C++ programming language. Development of ns-3 began in July 2006.
Current status of the three versions is:
ns-1 development stopped when ns-2 was founded. It is no longer developed nor maintained.
ns-2 development stopped around 2010. It is no longer developed nor maintained.
ns-3 is actively being developed and maintained.
Design
ns-3 is built using C++ and Python with scripting capability. The ns library is wrapped by Python thanks to the pybindgen library which delegates the parsing of the ns C++ headers to castxml and pygccxml to automatically generate the corresponding C++ binding glue. These automatically generated C++ files are finally compiled into the ns Python module to allow users to interact with the C++ ns models and core through Python scripts. The ns simulator features an integrated attribute-based system to manage default and per-instance values for simulation parameters.
Requirements
To build ns you need a computer and a C++ compiler. We develop ns on several kinds of Unix (FreeBSD,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi%20J.%20Rost
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Randi J. Rost (born February 24, 1960) is a computer graphics professional and frequent contributor to graphics standards. He was an early participant in the personal computer industry, creating a game called King Cribbage for the Apple II computer in 1981 and publishing numerous instructional and review articles in trade publications.
He currently manages relationships with a variety of game developers and other graphics ISVs at Intel. He participates in a number of internal strategic planning activities and is a contributor to corporate graphics strategy. He was a founding member of the Khronos Group and has represented Intel on the Khronos Group Board of Promoters. He came up with the name Khronos (a transliteration for the Greek word "time") during this group's formative period, and for this was awarded a pound of smoked salmon. In 1993, Randi won the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA) Award for the Advancement of Graphics Standards, given to recognize the individual who has shown dedication to the development and use of computer graphics standards.
Prior to joining Intel, he was a driver engineering manager and then director of developer relations at 3Dlabs, the company that led the development of the OpenGL Shading Language (or GLSL). Randi was a core contributor to the development of the OpenGL Shading Language and the OpenGL API that supports it, as well as one of the first programmers to design and implement shaders using this technology. He led the 3Dlabs team devoted to educating developers and helping them take advantage of new graphics hardware technology.
In the late 1980s, he was a co-architect of PEX, a 3D graphics extension to the X Window System. He was a founding member of the Picture-Level Benchmark organization that was later merged into SPEC and has become the leading creator of vendor-neutral graphics benchmarking tools. He was a member of the OpenGL ARB when it was originally formed in 1991. He has given numerous talks and lectures on a variety of computer graphics subjects at SIGGRAPH, GDC, Eurographics, and other notable conferences.
Published work
OpenGL Shading Language, Third Edition, Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Addison-Wesley Professional, July 30, 2009.
OpenGL Shading Language, Second Edition, Randi J. Rost, Addison-Wesley Professional, January 25, 2006.
OpenGL Shading Language, Randi J. Rost, Addison-Wesley Professional, February 12, 2004.
X and MOTIF Quick Reference Guide, Second Edition, Randi J. Rost, Digital Press, October 1993.
X and MOTIF Quick Reference Guide, Randi J. Rost, Digital Press, September 13, 1990.
See also
OpenGL
Intel
3Dlabs
Khronos Group
External links
Intel homepage
3Dlabs homepage
Official Randi J. Rost Bio
Computer graphics professionals
Living people
1960 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbersheeting
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In cartography and geographic information systems, rubbersheeting is a form of coordinate transformation that warps a vector dataset to match a known geographic space. This is most commonly needed when a dataset has systematic positional error, such as one digitized from a historical map of low accuracy. The mathematics and procedure are very similar to the georeferencing of raster images, and this term is occasionally used for that process as well, but image georegistration is an unambiguous term for the raster process.
Applications in history and historical geography
Rubbersheeting is a useful technique in HGIS, where it is used to digitize and add old maps as feature layers in a modern GIS. Before aerial photography arrived, most maps were highly inaccurate by modern standards. Rubbersheeting may improve the value of such sources and make them easier to compare to modern maps.
Software
ESRI's ArcGIS 8.3+ has the capability of rubbersheeting vector data, and ArcMap 9.2+ may also rubber-sheet raster layers.
Autodesk's AutoCAD Map 3D and AutoCAD Civil 3D (which includes most of AutoCAD Map 3D's functionality) allows a user to rubbersheet vector data, and Autodesk's Raster Design (an add-in product for AutoCAD-based products) allows a user to rubbersheet raster data.
Blue Marble Geographics' Global Mapper allows a user to rubbersheet raster data.
Cadcorp Spatial Information System software (SIS Map Modeller) is offering a tool for rubbersheeting data layers.
QGIS Georeferencer plug-in provides a number of transformation types including Thin Plate Spline, which enables full rubber-sheeting. QGIS is a free open-source GIS package.
See also
Image rectification
Image registration
References
Further reading
Cartography
Historical geographic information systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU%20cluster
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A GPU cluster is a computer cluster in which each node is equipped with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). By harnessing the computational power of modern GPUs via General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), very fast calculations can be performed with a GPU cluster.
Hardware (GPU)
The hardware classification of GPU clusters fall into two categories:
Heterogeneous and Homogeneous.
Heterogeneous
Hardware from both of the major IHV's can be used (AMD and nVidia). Even if different models of the same GPU are used (e.g. 8800GT mixed with 8800GTX) the GPU cluster is considered heterogeneous.
Homogeneous
Every single GPU is of the same hardware class, make, and model. (i.e. a homogeneous cluster comprising 100 8800GTs, all with the same amount of memory)
Classifying a GPU cluster according to the above semantics largely directs software development on the cluster, as different GPUs have different capabilities that can be utilized.
Hardware (Other)
Interconnect
In addition to the computer nodes and their respective GPUs, a fast enough interconnect is needed in order to shuttle data amongst the nodes. The type of interconnect largely depends on the number of nodes present. Some examples of interconnects include Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand.
Vendors
NVIDIA provides a list of dedicated Tesla Preferred Partners (TPP) with the capability of building and delivering a fully configured GPU cluster using the Tesla 20-series GPGPUs. AMAX Information Technologies, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics are some of the few companies that provide a complete line of GPU clusters and systems.
Software
The software components that are required to make many GPU-equipped machines act as one include:
Operating System
GPU driver for the each type of GPU present in each cluster node.
Clustering API (such as the Message Passing Interface, MPI).
VirtualCL (VCL) cluster platform is a wrapper for OpenCL™ that allows most unmodified applications to transparently utilize multiple OpenCL devices in a cluster as if all the devices are on the local computer.
Algorithm mapping
Mapping an algorithm to run a GPU cluster is somewhat similar to mapping an algorithm to run on a traditional computer cluster. Example: rather than distributing pieces of an array from RAM, a texture is divided up amongst the nodes of the GPU cluster.
References and external links
NCSA's Accelerator Cluster
GPU Clusters for High-Performance Computing
GPU cluster at STFC Daresbury Laboratory
GPU Cores Temperature Monitoring
Cluster computing
GPGPU
Graphics hardware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat
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Viasat may refer to:
Viasat (American company) (founded 1986)
Viasat hack, a cyberattack on the Viasat KA-SAT network that happened in February 2022
Viasat (Nordic television service) (founded 1991)
Viasat Cup, 2006 Danish football tournament
Viasat Ukraine, a Ukrainian direct broadcast satellite television distributor
Viasat World, operator of:
Viasat Nature
Viasat Explore
Viasat History
Viasat 1, a Ghanaian television channel
Viasat 3, a Hungarian TV channel
Viasat 6, a thematic television channel of Sony Pictures Television Networks
See also
ViaSat-1, ViaSat-2, and ViaSat-3, satellites launched by the American company
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaio%20VGN-TX2
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The Vaio VGN-TX2 was a subnotebook, or ultraportable, computer made by Sony.
Overview
The Vaio VGN-TX2 stands out by its quiet operation, long battery life and low weight compared to similar models from other manufacturers. This required a low-power processor to be chosen, and as a result, the clock speed remained at 1.1 GHz for the "HP" and 1.2 GHz for the more expensive "XP" model. The other difference between the two models is that the HP has 512 MiB of RAM and the XP 1 GiB. To achieve the low weight, Sony chose a carbon-fibre case. It was released in September 2005.
Versions
The TX had been released into four types in North America, with the 600, 700, 800 and TXN series. The 600 series came with a 1.2 GHz Pentium M processor and 60 gigabyte hard drive. The 700 series is similar, except it had a 1.3 GHz Pentium M processor and 80 gigabyte hard drive. The 800 series had the same hard drive as the 700 series but instead had a 1.2 GHz Core Solo processor, giving it even longer battery life than its predecessors. This iteration of the TX line also had a built-in fingerprint reader. The TXN model was only available in North America and is similar to the TX800, except it had a built in Sprint EVDO modem and antenna whereas the TX800 series lacked either. The previous TX600s and TX700s had built-in Cingular EDGE modems and antennas. The TXN models were also slightly heavier and thicker than all other TX models to accommodate the built-in Sprint EVDO WWAN modem.
Features
The TX series used 1.8-inch hard drives with most units having 512 MB of ram built into the motherboard and one RAM slot free to be upgraded to 1.5 GB of RAM max, whereas some higher-end models have 1 GB of RAM built in and so were able to be upgraded to 2 GB of RAM max.
They also had an instant-on feature, which has become a common feature in notebooks since HP introduced it in their notebooks in late 2004 which lets one play DVD movies, view photos from a memory stick or SD card or play music CDs without booting up to Windows.
It has different model names outside North America. The VGN-TX2 is the European–Japanese equivalent of the VGN-TX7XXP for instance and the VGN-TX3 is identical to the VGN-TX8XXP.
All models used the older PCMCIA card standard whereas some of its competitors at the time opted to use the newer Expresscard format.
Like most Vaio notebooks, this model had a widescreen display, in this case with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels and 11.1 inches diagonally which gives it a 16:9 aspect ratio vs 16:10 for most other widescreen notebooks. It weighs 1.25 kg. Within the Vaio range, its weight is undercut by the Vaio PCG-X505, which weighs only 780 g and the recently released Vaio G series. However, these latter models do not have a built-in optical drive.
The TX also can be fitted with an extended battery which has roughly twice the capacity as its standard battery. The standard battery has roughly 7800 mAh capacity.
The final release of the TX such as the VGN-TX
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Clavio
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Arnold Aldea Clavio (; born November 2, 1965), also known as Igan, is a Filipino radio and television newscaster, journalist, and television host. He currently co-anchors GMA Network's late-night newscast Saksi, the morning show Unang Hirit, and a morning radio show called One on One: Walang Personalan on DZBB with Connie Sison. He also writes a column entitled Hirit Na! for the tabloid newspaper Abante. He was the director of Solid Ground School in Plaridel, Bulacan in 1998.
Biography
Whilst in school, Clavio was a member of his school newspaper's editorial staff. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters.
After graduating, Clavio worked as a news writer at DWIZ. After a year, he became a field reporter for GMA Network's flagship radio station, DZBB.
Clavio made his first appearance as a television news reporter in 1994, when GMA offered him a reporter's slot in Brigada Siete, co-hosting with the late Louie Beltran and Jessica Soho.
The next year, the Philippine Department of Health awarded Clavio top prize in their Philippine AIDS-STD Media Awards for his report on Sarah Jane Salazar. Later that year, the Asian Broadcasting Union named Clavio's coverage of Abu Sayyaf the "Best Reportage of a Crisis."
In 1996, Clavio became the host of Emergency, a late-night news and public affairs program, replacing Edu Manzano. In 1999, he began to co-host Unang Hirit, an early morning news and lifestyle program.
Three years later, Clavio was hosting his morning radio program, Dobol A sa Dobol B. The program was named 1999's "Best Public Affairs Program" on radio by the KBP Golden Dove Awards.
On March 15, 2004, he replaced Mike Enriquez as co-anchor of Saksi. In November of that year, he co-hosted the Eat Bulaga Silver Special, a collaboration between TAPE Productions and GMA News and Public Affairs, with his co-host from Unang Hirit, Rhea Santos.
In 2009 and 2010, Clavio hosted a variety of television programs. In March 2009, he co-hosted Case Unclosed, replacing Kara David. In September of that year, he was a guest newscaster for 24 Oras: Special Edition, a special weekend newscast that aired after Typhoon Ondoy, Typhoon Pepeng, and the Maguindanao massacre. He also appeared in 24 Oras as a substitute anchor for Mike Enriquez during his medical leave.
In March 2010, Clavio became the host of Kandidato, a public affairs talk show featuring interviews with presidential candidates. The next month, the primetime talk show Tonight with Arnold Clavio was launched on the Q channel and GMA News TV. Clavio also hosted a new public service program called Rescue a month later.
In February 2011, he became a solo newscaster on Balita Pilipinas.
In March 2012, he was named as one of the 18 awardees at the 2nd UST AB Gantimpala Awards held at Club Filipino in Greenhills. In December 2012, Clavio was inducted to the Eastwood City Walk of Fame for his work as a newscaster.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20method
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In computational complexity theory, the potential method is a method used to analyze the amortized time and space complexity of a data structure, a measure of its performance over sequences of operations that smooths out the cost of infrequent but expensive operations.
Definition of amortized time
In the potential method, a function Φ is chosen that maps states of the data structure to non-negative numbers. If S is a state of the data structure, Φ(S) represents work that has been accounted for ("paid for") in the amortized analysis but not yet performed. Thus, Φ(S) may be thought of as calculating the amount of potential energy stored in that state. The potential value prior to the operation of initializing a data structure is defined to be zero. Alternatively, Φ(S) may be thought of as representing the amount of disorder in state S or its distance from an ideal state.
Let o be any individual operation within a sequence of operations on some data structure, with Sbefore denoting the state of the data structure prior to operation o and Safter denoting its state after operation o has completed. Once Φ has been chosen, the amortized time for operation o is defined to be
where C is a non-negative constant of proportionality (in units of time) that must remain fixed throughout the analysis.
That is, the amortized time is defined to be the actual time taken by the operation plus C times the difference in potential caused by the operation.
When studying asymptotic computational complexity using big O notation, constant factors are irrelevant and so the constant C is usually omitted.
Relation between amortized and actual time
Despite its artificial appearance, the total amortized time of a sequence of operations provides a valid upper bound on the actual time for the same sequence of operations.
For any sequence of operations , define:
The total amortized time:
The total actual time:
Then:
where the sequence of potential function values forms a telescoping series in which all terms other than the initial and final potential function values cancel in pairs. Rearranging this, we obtain:
Since and , , so the amortized time can be used to provide an accurate upper bound on the actual time of a sequence of operations, even though the amortized time for an individual operation may vary widely from its actual time.
Amortized analysis of worst-case inputs
Typically, amortized analysis is used in combination with a worst case assumption about the input sequence. With this assumption, if X is a type of operation that may be performed by the data structure, and n is an integer defining the size of the given data structure (for instance, the number of items that it contains), then the amortized time for operations of type X is defined to be the maximum, among all possible sequences of operations on data structures of size n and all operations oi of type X within the sequence, of the amortized time for operation oi.
With this definition, the time t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20photo%20gallery%20software
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A photo gallery software is a computer software that let users to manage and display photos and pictures and, in some cases, videos and other multimedia content. Features could include classify, display, share, tagging, etc.
The following is a comparison of photo gallery publishing software.
Some are desktop applications, others are server side applications.
For software that just allows you locally organize photos in your filesystem see image organizer.
Desktop applications
Server applications
See also
Comparison of image viewers
References
Photo gallery software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panayiotis%20Kokoras
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Panayiotis Kokoras (; born 1974, Ptolemaida) is a Greek composer and computer music innovator. Kokoras's sound compositions use timbre as the main element of form. His concept of "holophony" describes his goal that each independent sound (φωνή), contributes equally into the synthesis of the total (ὅλος). In both instrumental and electroacoustic writing, his music calls upon a "virtuosity of sound," emphasizing the precise production of variable sound possibilities and the correct distinction between one timbre and another to convey the musical ideas and structure of the piece.
His compositional output is also informed by musical research in Music Information Retrieval compositional strategies, Extended techniques, Tactile sound, Augmented reality, Robotics, Spatial Sound, Synesthesia.
He is founding member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) and from 2004 to 2012 he was board member and president.
Studies
Kokoras studied composition with I. Ioannidi and Anri Kergomard as well as classical guitar with E. Asimakopoulo in Athens. In 1999 he moved to England, for postgraduate studies at the University of York, where he completed his MA and PhD in composition with T. Myatt with funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and Aleksandra Trianti Music Scholarships (Society Friends of Music) among others.
Compositions
His works have been commissioned by institutes and festivals such as the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard), IRCAM (France), MATA (New York), Gaudeamus (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), IMEB (France), Siemens Musikstiftung (Germany) and have been performed in over 400 concerts around the world.
Distinctions
His compositions have received 61 distinctions and prizes in international competitions, and have been selected by juries in more than 130 international calls for scores.
Destellos Prix 2011, Argentina
Prix Ars Electronica 2011, Austria
Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award 2007, Switzerland
Pierre Schaeffer 2005, Italy
Musica Viva 2005 and 2002, Portugal
Look and Listen Prize 2004, New York
Gaudeamus 2004 and 2003, the Netherlands
Bourges Residence Prix 2004, France
Insulae Electronicae 2003, Italy
Jurgenson Competition 2003, Russia
Seoul international competition 2003, Korea
Takemitsu Composition Award 2002, Japan
Noroit Prize 2002, France
CIMESP 2002, Brazil
Musica Nova Prize 2001, Czech Republic
Métamorphoses 2000, Belgium.
Teaching
As an educator, Kokoras has taught at the Technological and Educational Institute of Crete, and, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Since fall 2012 he has been appointed assistant professor at the University of North Texas.
Articles
Panayiotis Kokoras, Olivier Pasque (2008) Conference of Intersciplinary Musicology (CIM) Sound Scale: perspectives on the contribution of flute's sound classification to musical structure. Greece.
Panayiotis Kokoras (2007) Journal of Music and Meaning (JMM) Towards a Holophonic Musical Texture. JMM 4, Winter 20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPBI-CA
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KPBI-CA, UHF analog channel 46, was a low-power, Class A MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Fort Smith, Arkansas. The station was owned by Equity Media Holdings and, like many of Equity's stations, KPBI-CA was controlled remotely via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was relayed via the satellite Galaxy 18 (Ku band transponder 21). The station's programming was also available on channel 34 from Eureka Springs, which shared the KPBI call sign and was attainable over the air in Fort Smith.
History
KPBI signed on as independent station K32ED on channel 32 in May 1995. It switched to UPN in September, and changed its callsign to KFDF-LP in December. It also had translators on channel 32 covering Fort Smith and surrounding areas and channel 36, which covered Springdale and its associated area. In October 2001, KFDF-LP moved to channel 46 and changed its callsign to KPBI-LP, as well as changing its affiliation to Fox. This resulted in the former KPBI moving to channel 10 and obtaining the KFDF calls.
KPBI was the flagship station for a network of low-power television stations owned and operated by Bill and Karen Pharis. This station served the Fort Smith area, and its transmitter was located at Mt. Vista in Van Buren, Arkansas. It was followed by channel 15, which served Springdale, Arkansas, and its surrounding areas. KPBI eventually added several other low-power translators that extended the coverage area to Mt. Magazine in the east, Poteau Mountain to the west and south (located in Poteau, Oklahoma) and Rogers, Arkansas, to the north. This gave an equal coverage area to that of the other local high-power stations.
KPBI carried Fox programming at night, and various syndicated offerings during the daytime hours. It also made an inroad in coverage of college sporting events that were not being otherwise made available to the public (i.e. Westark Lions basketball and baseball, Lady Razorbacks basketball, etc.)
KPBI was the operating station for the "Foxstar" satellite truck.
KPBI was known locally as a more "unstructured" station in on-air operations. This was demonstrated by various events such as off-the-path programming, strange video effects (i.e. the "dropping of sheep", which was a Video Toaster effect that would make sheep fall down into the video signal) and the substantial use of all employees as either on-air talent or as voices for commercials and tags. Also of interest is that KPBI used such devices as the Video Toaster and cable spot insertion equipment as primary switchers, commercial production gear and the like, which was a real world proof that a working television station could be operated without high-dollar equipment.
KPBI and KFDF operated from the same location in the Ward-Garrison Building, located at the corner of 6th and Garrison Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. This was also the location for the AM radio stations of KFDF (1580 kHz; now KAGE) and KPBI (1510 kHz; late
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enscript
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enscript is the name of a computer program originally written by Adobe in the late 1980s that converts text files to PostScript for printing. It has been re-implemented by many parties, including GNU and SPARC.
The GNU version is released under GNU GPL version 3. It has many additional functionalities, such as syntax highlighting, support for other page sizes, and the ability to use RTF or HTML formats instead. , it seems to be the only enscript still being maintained.
The reason enscript became popular seems to be its support for 2-up printing compared to the old pr. This is no longer a distinct functionality in any way.
External links
References
GNU Project software
Free printing software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larysa%20Harapyn
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Larysa Harapyn (born c. 1973) is a Canadian media personality, who was a news anchor at the now-defunct Sun News Network. She was an entertainment reporter on Citytv in Toronto and was an anchor on the Star! Daily program seen throughout Canada on the Star! specialty channel. In 2007, she was one of a number of staffers who worked both at Citytv and at CTV, but later left CTV. In December 2008, Rogers (the new owners of Citytv) eliminated the CityNews entertainment unit, including Harapyn. She then worked as a journalist with the Financial Post.
Harapyn started in the CHUM family at all-news station CablePulse 24 and quickly became an entertainment reporter on the regular news broadcasts. She has interviewed notable personalities including Lenny Kravitz, Lois Bromfield, David F. Boone, Rich Hall and Ryan Hamilton. She has also hosted some entertainment specials including Everything Hef (about Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner) and a pre-game show to the Academy Awards. Harapyn also showed her comedic side by appearing in a number of Citytv commercials, promoting upcoming movies on the station.
Harapyn is of Ukrainian descent. She was briefly a model before she came to Citytv and has two brothers, Roman and Ihor. She is a former student at York University.
In 2002, Harapyn posed for Oxygen, a Canadian fitness magazine.
Mid-2014 Harapyn began working at the Sun News Network as a "Hard News anchor". She gives news updates on the half-hour. The channel ceased operations in February 2015. Harapyn is now with the National Post's Financial Post as print and media journalist.
References
External links
Pop Journalism: Larysa Harapyn interview, accessed 16 July 2006
1973 births
Living people
Canadian television hosts
Canadian women television hosts
Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
York University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile%20%28TV%20network%29
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Smile (shortened from its former name of Smile of a Child) is an American Christian free-to-air television network owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network is aimed at children aged 2-12 and offers a mixture of children's religious and family-oriented programming. The network was founded as the television branch of TBN's Smile of a Child ministry, created by TBN co-founder Jan Crouch.
Smile is also available on pay-TV providers as well as on some streaming services that offer TBN's six U.S. networks.
The network is available in the U.S. on AT&T U-Verse and Wave Broadband and throughout North and Central America as a free-to-air channel on Galaxy 14 C-band, Galaxy 19 Ku band and available with Glorystar Christian Satellite. Internationally, ABS1 satellite to Asia, India, and the Middle East, and Agila 2 both C-band and Ku band signals in some areas of Asia and the Philippines. The network is also live-streamed on both its own and TBN's website.
In addition, the parent network TBN runs a "Smile" block on Saturday mornings. Competing network KTV aired a 12-hour block of Smile programming from October 26, 2015, through June 30, 2017.
History
Early history, as Smile of a Child
Founded as Smile of a Child TV by TBN co-founder Jan Crouch, the network was developed and named after Smile of a Child, a children's outreach ministry founded by Jan and Paul Crouch in the 1990s to provide services and donations to needy children worldwide. The network launched on December 24, 2005 at 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time, with the holiday-themed special Martin the Cobbler as its inaugural program.
Smile was initially available as a 24-hour-a-day service on all platforms, and debuted on digital subchannels of TBN owned-and-operated station in 13 markets. Over the subsequent years, Smile expanded its national coverage to all of TBN's owned-and-operated and affiliated stations in nearly 40 markets, carried usually on the fifth subchannel (for example, if the local TBN station broadcasts on channel 17, then Smile would be carried on digital subchannel 17.5). The network's original butterfly logo is a visual representation of the initials of Jan Crouch's maiden name, JWB (Janice Wendell Bethany).
Multicasting consolidation with JUCE TV
On June 1, 2015, Smile was combined into a single subchannel with a sister network JUCE TV (which targets teenagers and young adults 13 to 30 years of age), under a timeshare arrangement. As a result of the realignment, for over-the-air viewers, Smile was originally reduced to a 9-hour daily programming schedule (from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time) on the third subchannel occupied by JUCE (which continues to air over its existing subchannel slot for the remainder of the broadcast day) on the 38 stations owned directly by TBN and through its subsidiary Community Educational Television. The following week, the timeshare was modified so that Smile would air from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Eastern), with JUCE airing the remain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBTV-CD
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KBTV-CD (channel 8) is a low-power, Class A television station in Sacramento, California, United States, affiliated with Visión Latina, a Spanish-language religious television network. It is also a multicultural independent station, branded on-air as Crossings TV, on its second digital subchannel. KBTV-CD is owned by HC2 Holdings and its second digital subchannel is also available throughout the Central Valley on Comcast Xfinity channel 398. The station's transmitter is located in downtown Sacramento. KBTV-CD on its second digital subchannel broadcasts programs in various ethnic languages as well as programming from Shop LC during the late-night hours.
History
KBTV-CD began broadcasting as K25EL in December 1994. By 1997, it was airing programming from the American Independent Network and America One as well as local programming. By 2004, it had changed formats to home shopping.
In 2005, KBTV-LP was sold to a group of investors led by Frank Washington. The new owners converted it into a multicultural station airing imported and independently produced local programming in languages including Russian, Chinese, Tagalog, and Hmong; they also secured coverage on regional Comcast cable systems. Washington had some experience with multicultural television, having installed such a format on KBCB in the Seattle market. This service grew into Crossings TV by January 2013.
Crossings itself, through Tower of Babel LLC, owned KBTV until 2010, when it was sold to Mako Communications, who conducted the station's conversion to digital television in December of that year. Mako attempted in 2013 to sell KBTV-CD to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations; the sale fell through in June 2016. Mako Communications sold its stations, including KBTV-CD, to HC2 Holdings in 2017.
Crossings TV moved from subchannel 8.1 to 8.2 on October 3, 2022, exchanging positions with the newly launched Visión Latina, the United States television venture of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, which had been added the month before.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
References
External links
Crossings TV website
BTV-CD
BTV
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in California
Innovate Corp.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone%20Dock%20railway%20station%20%28Liverpool%20Overhead%20Railway%29
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Gladstone Dock was a station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, between Alexandra Dock and Seaforth Sands. It was opened on 16 June 1930, the final station to open on the network.
It was named after the adjacent Gladstone Dock, and was the only station on the network to be accessible directly from the dockside, with two steel bridges connecting the platforms, as it primarily served the passenger liners which frequently docked nearby. Only the northbound platform was directly accessible from the street.
The station was opened at 6am on the first day of operation without a formal ceremony. It was originally only open on week days, but service was intended to be extended to be extended to weekends.
The station was damaged during the Liverpool Blitz, requiring it to be rebuilt.
The station closed, along with the rest of the line on 30 December 1956. No evidence of the station remains.
References
Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
Former Liverpool Overhead Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1930
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger%20%28company%29
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Danger, Inc. was a company specializing in hardware design, software, and services for mobile computing devices. Its most notable product was the T-Mobile Sidekick (also known as Danger Hiptop), a popular early smartphone. The Sidekick or Hiptop was an early example of client–server ("cloud"-based) smartphones and created the App (Applications) marketplace, later popularized by Android and iOS. Danger was acquired by Microsoft on 11 February 2008, for a price rumored to be around $500 million (USD).
History
The company was originally started by former Apple Inc., WebTV and Philips employees Andy Rubin, Joe Britt, and Matt Hershenson. Co-founder Andy Rubin left in 2003 to create the company Android, which was later acquired by Google.
After the Microsoft acquisition in 2008, the former Danger staff were absorbed into the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division, where they worked on a future mobile phone platform known as "Project Pink" which would eventually be released as Kin. Because of poor sales, production was ceased just a few weeks after its release. The Kin development team was folded into the Windows Phone team, and Microsoft stopped promoting the devices.
By October 2009, most of the ex-Danger employees had left Microsoft. Until March 2013, Rubin headed Android development, and brought former Danger Director of Design Matias Duarte to Google.
The Register described the Microsoft acquisition as "a classic case of M & A failure, where the acquirer has failed to integrate either the technology or the people from the company that it bought." Later in 2013 Microsoft purchased Nokia's mobile phone business, which is also seen as a failure.
October 2009 data loss
In early October 2009, a server malfunction or technician error at Danger's data centers resulted in the loss of all Sidekick user data. As Sidekicks store users' data on Danger's servers—versus using local storage—users lost contact directories, calendars, photos, and all other media not locally backed up. Local backup could be accomplished through an app ($9.99 USD) which synchronized contacts, calendar, and tasks, but not notes, between the web and a local Windows PC. In an October 10 letter to subscribers, Microsoft expressed its doubt that any data would be recovered.
The customer's data that was lost was, at the time, being hosted in Microsoft's data centers. Some media reports have suggested that Microsoft hired Hitachi to perform an upgrade to its storage area network (SAN), when something went wrong, resulting in data destruction. Microsoft did not have an active backup of the data and it had to be restored from a month-old copy of the server data, totalling 800GB in size, from offsite backup tapes. The entire restoration of data took over 2 months for customer data and full functionality to be restored.
The Danger/Sidekick episode is one in a series of cloud computing mishaps that have raised questions about the relia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Guns%20of%20Will%20Sonnett
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The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series set in the 1870s that was broadcast in color on the ABC television network from 1967 to 1969. The series, which began with the working title, "Two Rode West", was the first production collaboration between Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas, who would later go on to produce The Mod Squad. The series is distributed by CBS Television Distribution (under the moniker KWP Studios) and, when telecast, is usually seen in tandem with another 1960s short-lived Western series, the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production Branded; King World was originally responsible for distributing both shows.
It was filmed on location at various sites near Los Angeles, including Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
The series is noted for containing Jack Nicholson's final appearance in episodic television.
Synopsis
The series starred veteran character actor Walter Brennan as Will Sonnett, and Dack Rambo as his grandson, Jeff, who were searching for Will's son, James. Disgusted with his father's absence due to army business, James had disappeared at the age of seventeen. A few years later, a baby boy was delivered to Will, with a letter identifying him as James' son and explaining that the mother had died in childbirth. The letter also said that James was giving his father a second chance at being a parent. Will was grateful for the opportunity, and did his best to steer his grandson in the right direction.
The elder Sonnett was capable with firearms and often spoke to strangers about this in an intimidating way. In the first episode, he mentions that his son is an expert with guns, and his grandson is better, "and I'm better than both of 'em – no brag, just fact." This last phrase was uttered frequently on the show, and became a catch phrase among the show's fans.
Will was not completely absent from James' childhood, and he had taught James how to handle a six-shooter; the younger man became renowned as a peerless gunfighter. Hearing so much of his father's repute, Jeff decided to find him. Will agreed, and they rode across the West looking for James. They often arrived at places that James had recently left, where the people they met had mixed opinions of James. Some saw him as a ruthless killer, while others viewed him as the only man brave enough to take the side of justice against men far more ruthless.
James, played by Jason Evers, appeared in a total of fourteen episodes. Sometimes he was seen only fleetingly, or in a flashback or dream sequence; sometimes he had a more substantial role. Although the Sonnets would come close to actually reuniting with James on several occasions, fate and circumstance would conspire to keep them apart until the very end of the series run.
The main characters achieved the goal of the premise in the final episode, when Will and Jeff located James. The three men became lawmen in a small town: Will as town marshal and the other two as his deputies.
The Guns
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%20programming
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IC programming is the process of transferring a computer program into an integrated computer circuit. Older types of IC including PROMs and EPROMs and some early programmable logic was typically programmed through parallel busses that used many of the device's pins and basically required inserting the device in a separate programmer.
Modern ICs are typically programmed in circuit though a serial protocol (sometimes JTAG sometimes something manufacturer specific). Some (particularly FPGAs) even load the data serially from a separate flash or prom chip on every startup.
Notes
Embedded systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian-American%20Network%20Against%20Abuse%20of%20Human%20Rights
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The Asian-American Network Against Abuse of Human Rights (ANAA) is a volunteer-run organization with the purpose of increasing awareness about gender apartheid and gendercide that is occurring in Pakistan. It received national media attention for its involvement in inviting Mukhtar Mai to the United States.
Vision
According to ANAA's website:
ANAA's vision is of a progressive and enlightened Pakistan where there is no room for discrimination and injustice. ANAA believes in justice for all, gender equality, and human rights for all as enshrined in the principles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, CEDAW - The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and all other charters, covenants and protocols of the United Nations Organization on human rights. ANAA envisions its work to expand beyond Pakistan to include all of South Asia in the future.
Mission
ANAA's stated mission is to:
To increase awareness about the existence of human rights abuses in Pakistan by educating Pakistanis and the international community about the existing discriminatory laws and practices in Pakistan.
To initiate public debate about the means to eradicate discrimination and social injustice against women, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in Pakistan through organization of educational seminars and conferences designed to increase awareness
To help improve the human rights situation in Pakistan, an integral concern for the international community through collaboration with national and international groups engaged in the promotion of human rights in Pakistan
And to expose the legal, social and psychological obstacles, ostracism and alienation faced by victims of sexual violence in Pakistan and to confront the issue of sexual violence against women through publication of newsletters, research reports and public seminars.
ANAA members are known to organize demonstrations and to urge Pakistan's government to defend the rights of women against all kinds of abuse in Pakistan.
References
Human rights organizations based in the United States
Human rights in Pakistan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Easter%20eggs%20in%20Microsoft%20products
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Some of Microsoft's early products included hidden Easter eggs. Microsoft formally stopped including Easter eggs in its programs as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002.
Windows
Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1 all include an Easter egg which features a window that shows a list of people who worked on the software along with a "Congrats!" button. Double clicking the list box further changes the background of the window to tiled smiley faces. The instructions for invoking the Easter egg vary depending on the version:
1.xx: Press .
1.01 and later: Hold then , release then , press twice then press .
2.0 and later: Press , , , and in rapid succession.
Windows 3.0 has a developer credits page which may be accessed by setting the focus to the desktop (by minimizing all windows and clicking on an open area of the desktop) then typing win30 followed by and in quick succession. This causes the developer credits to appear on the desktop in the form of the email names of the crew.
Windows 3.1 has two visible Easter eggs, both of which reference the Microsoft Bear, which was the mascot of the Windows 3.1 development team. One was the developer credits, where the Bear, along with Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Brad Silverberg, present the email aliases of the Windows 3.1 developers. bradsi, being in charge of Windows production, is listed first; the three other presenters, billg, steveb, and t-bear, appear together in "Special Thanks", the last section of the list. The other one was a reference to a fictitious file named BEAR.EXE in the properties window for the MS-DOS Prompt. Internally, there was another egg, where several internal system functions (although having meaningful internal names) were exported from user.exe as BEARNNN (where NNN is the ordinal number of the function) in his honor and to discourage their use by third-party software developers. The user can also find the easter egg by opening the About Program Manager, holding down , and , double click one colored square of the Microsoft Windows logo, and then close the window. Open it again and do so with a different square (with the keys still pressed down). Keep repeating this until the Microsoft Bear appears in the window, as seen to the right.
Windows 95 has an animated presentation of its developers, complete with music. This page is accessed by renaming a folder on the desktop to "and now, the moment you've all been waiting for", then "we proudly present for your viewing pleasure", and finally "The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!". Additionally, during the development of Windows 95, the shell developers had several stuffed animals as mascots. In addition to the Microsoft Bear, there were two bunnies as well - the smaller 16-bit Bunny and the larger 32-bit Bunny. The bunnies' names referred to the fact that Windows 95 was the transitional OS. The Microsoft Bunny has an exported function named after him, BUNNY_351 in krnl386.exe. Also, the Bunny is the icon for th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20cross-connect
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An optical cross-connect (OXC) is a device used by telecommunications carriers to switch high-speed optical signals in a fiber optic network, such as an optical mesh network.
There are several ways to realize an OXC:
Opaque OXCs (electronic switching) - One can implement an OXC in the electronic domain: all the input optical signals are converted into electronic signals after they are demultiplexed by demultiplexers. The electronic signals are then switched by an electronic switch module. Finally, the switched electronic signals are converted back into optical signals by using them to modulate lasers and then the resulting optical signals are multiplexed by optical multiplexers onto outlet optical fibers. This is known as an "OEO" (Optical-Electrical-Optical) design. Cross-connects based on an OEO switching process generally have a key limitation: the electronic circuits limit the maximum bandwidth of the signal. Such an architecture prevents an OXC from performing with the same speed as an all-optical cross-connect, and is not transparent to the network protocols used. On the other hand, it is easy to monitor signal quality in an OEO device, since everything is converted back to the electronic format at the switch node. An additional advantage is that the optical signals are regenerated, so they leave the node free of dispersion and attenuation. An electronic OXC is also called an opaque OXC.
Transparent OXCs (optical switching) - Switching optical signals in an all-optical device is the second approach to realize an OXC. Such a switch is often called a transparent OXC or photonic cross-connect (PXC). Specifically, optical signals are demultiplexed, then the demultiplexed wavelengths are switched by optical switch modules. After switching, the optical signals are multiplexed onto output fibers by optical multiplexers. Such a switch architecture keeps the features of data rate and protocol transparency. However, because the signals are kept in the optical format, the transparent OXC architecture does not allow easy optical signal quality monitoring.
Translucent OXCs (optical and electronic switching) - As a compromise between opaque and transparent OXC's, there is a type of OXC called a translucent OXC. In such a switch architecture, there is a switch stage which consists of an optical switch module and an electronic switch module. Optical signals passing through the switch stage can be switched either by the optical switch module or the electronic switch module. In most cases, the optical switch module is preferred for the purpose of transparency. When the optical switch module's switching interfaces are all busy or an optical signal needs signal regeneration through an OEO conversion process, the electronic module is used. Translucent OXC nodes provide a compromise of full optical signal transparency and comprehensive optical signal monitoring. It also provides the possibility of signal regeneration at each node.
An optical add-drop mult
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The Kendriya Vidyalayas are a network of central government-overseen schools in India, formed under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), headquartered in New Delhi. The functioning of these schools is overseen by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan which is an autonomous body under India's Ministry of Education.
This is a partial list of Kendriya Vidyalaya schools. The organisation started with 20 regimental schools in 1963 and there are total of 1,247 schools: 1,244 in India and three abroad. A total of 1,437,363 students and 48,314 employees were on the rolls . These are divided among 25 regions, each headed by a deputy commissioner.
In India
Andhra Pradesh
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Vizag
Arunachal Pradesh
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Tenga Valley
Assam
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Khanapara
Kendriya Vidyalaya Mangaldai
Bihar
Kendriya Vidyalaya Katihar
Kendriya Vidyalaya Muzaffarpur
Kendriya Vidyalaya Maharajganj
Goa
Kendriya Vidyalaya Bambolim
Haryana
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rohtak
Jammu and Kashmir
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bantalab, Jammu
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sunjuwan, Jammu
Karnataka
Kendriya Vidyalaya Hebbal, Bangalore
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Jalahalli West, Bangalore
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Jalahalli East, Bangalore
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Malleswaram, Bangalore
Kerala
Kendriya Vidyalaya Adoor
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ernakulam
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kottayam
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kanjikode
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kollam
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Malappuram
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Puranattukara
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ramavarmapuram
Madhya Pradesh
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 4, Gwalior
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rajgarh
Maharashtra
Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT Powai, Mumbai
Kendriya Vidyalaya Ganeshkhind, Pune
Odisha
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Charbatia
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Bhubaneswar
Kendriya Vidyalaya Rourkela
Tamil Nadu
Kendriya Vidyalaya Karaikudi
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sivaganga
Telangana
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 AFA, Dundigal
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2 AFA, Dundigal
Kendriya Vidyalaya Bolarum
Uttar Pradesh
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hardoi
Kendriya Vidyalaya IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Raebareli
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Varanasi
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Dahi Chowki Unnao
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballia
West Bengal
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sevoke Road
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Cossipore, Kolkata
Kendriya Vidyalaya (AFS), Barrackpore
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Kanchrapara
International
The three Kendriya Vidyalayas outside India are in Kathmandu, Moscow, and Tehran, situated inside Embassies in these countries and their expenditures are borne by the Ministry of External Affairs. They are intended for children of Indian embassy staff and other expatriate employees of the government of India, including State Bank of India.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Moscow, Russian Federation
Kendriya Vidyalaya Tehran, Iran
Referenc
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The semi-structured model is a database model where there is no separation between the data and the schema, and the amount of structure used depends on the purpose.
The advantages of this model are the following:
It can represent the information of some data sources that cannot be constrained by schema.
It provides a flexible format for data exchange between different types of databases.
It can be helpful to view structured data as semi-structured (for browsing purposes).
The schema can easily be changed.
The data transfer format may be portable.
The primary trade-off being made in using a semi-structured database model is that queries cannot be made as efficiently as in a more constrained structure, such as in the relational model. Typically the records in a semi-structured database are stored with unique IDs that are referenced with pointers to their location on disk. This makes navigational or path-based queries quite efficient, but for doing searches over many records (as is typical in SQL), it is not as efficient because it has to seek around the disk following pointers.
The Object Exchange Model (OEM) is one standard to express semi-structured data, another way is XML.
See also
Semi-structured data
Database models
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20DM%20class%20electric%20multiple%20unit
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The New Zealand DM/D class electric multiple unit (also known as English Electrics) were a type of electric multiple units used on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand. Formed of DM power cars and D trailer cars, the first units were ordered from English Electric in 1936 and introduced on 2 July 1938 operating the electrified Johnsonville Line service. Additional units were ordered in 1942 for the line, and in 1946 as the other Wellington suburban lines were to be electrified.
The units were relegated to peak services and the Johnsonville Line after the arrival of the "Ganz-Mavag" EM/ET units in 1982–83, before finally being replaced by the "Matangi" FP/FT units in 2011–12. The units operated their last revenue service on 25 June 2012, from Wellington to Melling and return. Five complete units (four two-car and one three-car) and six trailer cars have been preserved.
Introduction
Following its decision to build the Tawa Flat deviation to replace the original Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company portion of the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) alignment out of Wellington, the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) decided to convert the remaining of track between Wellington and Johnsonville into an electrified suburban branch line. Six two-car trains comprising one driving motor car and one driving trailer were ordered from English Electric in 1936 to work the future Johnsonville Line, which formally opened as a branch line on 2 July 1938 with the new electric trains inaugurating the service. The new trains were allocated as the DM class (driving motor cars) and the D class (non-motored driving trailer). The first order became known as the "36 stock" by the year it was ordered (1936).
Due to traffic growth both on the Johnsonville Branch and with further electrification in the Wellington suburban area, two further orders were placed with English Electric for further trains of this type; three motor cars and two trailers were ordered in 1942 and delivered in 1946 following the end of the Second World War, while forty motor cars and seventy-one trailers were ordered in 1946 and delivered from 1949 onwards to work the Paekākāriki and later Upper Hutt and Melling services. Due to the limited number of these trains, NZR was required to run additional locomotive-hauled carriage trains until the arrival of the first Ganz Mavag EM/ET units in 1982.
Operation
The class operated in two principal configurations:
Two-car unit (DM-D). Used on the steep Johnsonville Line until March 2012, as four-car trains for peak and two-car trains off-peak and weekend; 38.4 metres long with a tare weight of , full seated load . Two car units were also operated on the Melling line. Until March 2012 there were 11 two-car units in service.
Three-car unit (D-DM-D). Used on the Wellington to Taita line (extended to Upper Hutt from 1955), and the Wellington to Paekākāriki line; as six carriage sets during peak periods and three carriage sets off-peak and w
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The New Zealand DF class locomotive of 1954 was the first class of mainline diesel-electric locomotives built for New Zealand's national railway network, built by English Electric. It should not be confused with General Motors Electro-Motive Division DF class of 1979.
Introduction
They had a wheel arrangement of under the UIC classification system, generated 1120 kW (1500 hp) of power, and could achieve a maximum speed of 97 km/h. They started the process of displacing steam motive power from main lines in New Zealand, but were soon displaced themselves by the DA class of 1955.
Initially, 31 DF locomotives were ordered, but this order was amended to ten DFs and 42 DG class locomotives, which in appearance was essentially half a DF but with a similar bulldog nose cab design. The DF locomotives were heavier than the later and slightly less powerful DAs and were used to haul freight trains on the North Auckland and East Coast Main Trunk lines in Northland and the Bay of Plenty from which the DAs were prohibited by dint of the higher axle loading of the DA class. Their axle loading was .
The DF class were confined to the North Island, although they did all visit Dunedin for overhaul at Hillside Workshops. The locomotives did not run in service during their journeys to and from Hillside, instead, they were towed. They were allowed to move under their own power once there and haul transfer freight trains to and from Port Chalmers and Mosgiel as part of tests before returning to service.
On the arrival of the Phase III DA class locomotives in 1964, the DF class was renumbered from the 1500 series to the 1300 series in November 1965 in order to free up the 1500-series numbers for the new DA locomotives.
Withdrawal
The DFs were unreliable and needed frequent repairs. This contributed to their short lifespan; withdrawal began in 1972 and the last, DF 1301, was withdrawn in June 1975. A plan to shift the whole fleet to the South Island to join their smaller but more versatile DG siblings was proposed. They were to operate on the hilly Dunedin to Oamaru section of the Main South Line but a new locomotive type was chosen in the DJ class.
Preserved locomotive
DF 1301, the first locomotive built, was donated to the National Federation of Rail Societies NZ (now Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand) in 1975. It was placed on static display at Sim Pacific Metals Limited in Auckland, replacing K 900. As part of this it was renumbered to its original number of 1501, but with V-shaped nose stripes in place of the original wing-shaped ones. Initially displayed in the open, a limited shelter was built over the locomotive at a later date although this did not halt the progressive deterioration of the locomotive. Various proposals were put forward for the restoration of the locomotive, but did not amount to anything.
In 2007, with Sims Pacific requiring the area where the DF was located for redevelopment, owne
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The Microsoft Windows operating system supports a form of shared libraries known as "dynamic-link libraries", which are code libraries that can be used by multiple processes while only one copy is loaded into memory. This article provides an overview of the core libraries that are included with every modern Windows installation, on top of which most Windows applications are built.
Internal components
HAL.DLL is a kernel-mode library file and it cannot be used by any user-mode program. NTDLL.DLL is only used by some programs, but it is a dependency of most Win32 libraries used by programs.
HAL.DLL
The Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) is implemented in hal.dll. The HAL implements a number of functions that are implemented in different ways by different hardware platforms, which in this context, refers mostly to the chipset. Other components in the operating system can then call these functions in the same way on all platforms, without regard for the actual implementation.
For example, responding to an interrupt is quite different on a machine with an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) than on one without. The HAL provides a single function for this purpose that works with all kinds of interrupts by various chipsets, so that other components need not be concerned with the differences.
The HAL is loaded into kernel address space and runs in kernel mode, so routines in the HAL cannot be called directly by applications, and no user mode APIs correspond directly to HAL routines. Instead, the HAL provides services primarily to the Windows executive and kernel and to kernel mode device drivers. Although drivers for most hardware are contained in other files, commonly of file type .sys, a few core drivers are compiled into hal.dll.
Kernel mode device drivers for devices on buses such as PCI and PCI Express directly call routines in the HAL to access I/O ports and registers of their devices. The drivers use HAL routines because different platforms may require different implementations of these operations. The HAL implements the operations appropriately for each platform, so the same driver executable file can be used on all platforms using the same CPU architecture, and the driver source file can be portable across all architectures.
On x86 systems prior to Windows 8, there are several different HAL files on the installation media. The Windows installation procedure determines which ones are appropriate for the current platform and copies it to the hard drive, renaming it to hal.dll if necessary. Among the criteria for this selection are: the presence of an ACPI-compatible BIOS, the presence of an APIC, and whether or not multiple processors are present and enabled. (The multiple cores of a multi-core CPU, and even the "logical processors" implemented by a hyperthreading CPU, all count as "processors" for this purpose.) On x86-64 and Itanium platforms there is just one possible hal.dll for each CPU architecture. On Windows 8
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MTV K was an English-language online media hub under the MTV brand that focused on Korean pop music for a global audience. Owned and operated by parent company Viacom Media Networks, MTV K was based out of New York City and provided original media content including music video playlists, live performances, editorial, and other exclusive content in multiple languages.
MTV K first launched in 2006 as a television channel on DirecTV and was reformatted to online content in 2010. MTV K went silent around 2015.
Television channel
MTV K launched as a DirectTV premium channel that launched on June 27, 2006 as the newest brand under the MTV World banner after MTV Chi and MTV Desi (for Chinese and South Asian/Desi-Americans, respectively). It showcased the best of Korean pop culture while also providing a platform for Korean-American talent. The target audience primarily consisted of Korean-Americans, Asian-Americans and K-pop lovers. Viewer-voted music video "My Name" by K-pop sensation BoA was the first video content to air on the channel.
After going off the air on April 30, 2007, MTV K made the shift to exclusively online content in 2010, focusing on original K-pop programming, music videos and editorial targeted for international fans of Korean pop music.
MTV K Presents... Live in NYC
MTV K hosted several major K-pop artists in the iconic MTV Times Square studio, including Rain, Se7en and YG Family, Wonder Girls, 2PM, 4Minute, Beast, and B.A.P. The shows were formatted in the TRL-style with live performances, MV clips, and audience interaction.
MTV K Presents B.A.P Live in New York City started the next generation of K-pop consumption in the United States by providing a live stream of the three performances on MTVK.com during the event.
2013 relaunch
In April 2013, MTV K announced that the site was planning a major revamp to bring more exclusive content than ever. A "brand new MTV K" is expected to available in late 2013.
See also
Korean Wave
References
External links
Official Website
TV Installation
MTV
Music video networks in the United States
Asian-American television
Korean-American mass media
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
Music organizations based in South Korea
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The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of:
the North Coast Line (NCL) extending from Brisbane to Rockhampton, Townsville and Cairns
Four east–west lines (and associated branch lines) connecting to the NCL:
the Western line (including the Main Line) from Brisbane to Toowoomba and Charleville
the Central Western line from Rockhampton to Longreach and Winton
the Great Northern Railway from Townsville to Mount Isa
the Tablelands line from Cairns to Atherton and Forsayth
Four export coal networks:
Moura to Gladstone
Blackwater to Gladstone utilising the Central Western and NCL lines
Goonyella to Hay Point
Newlands to Abbot Point
the original narrow-gauge Southern line that provided a rail connection to Sydney, extending from Toowoomba to the New South Wales border at Wallangarra, plus the South Western line west from Warwick to Thallon;
Two lines extending south of Brisbane, a narrow gauge passenger line from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, and a line to the New South Wales border connecting to the line to Sydney
the isolated Normanton to Croydon line, now operated as a tourist service as The Gulflander
There was also an isolated section running from Cooktown to Laura with proposed destination of Maytown on the Palmer River goldfields. (Has since been removed)
An isolated private freight line at Weipa hauling bauxite from a mine to the export terminal; and
Over 3,000 km of gauge sugar cane lines servicing 19 sugar mills (see Tramways section below).
Passenger services are provided by:
Long distance trains from:
Brisbane to Cairns
Townsville to Mount Isa
Brisbane to Rockhampton and Longreach
Brisbane to Charleville
Brisbane to Sydney by the standard gauge XPT
the Brisbane-centric Translink network providing services:
south to Beenleigh and Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast
north to Ferny Grove, Shorncliffe, Kippa-Ring, Caboolture and Gympie;
east to the Brisbane Airport and Doomben on the north side of the Brisbane River and to Cleveland on the south side of the river; and
west to Ipswich, Springfield and Rosewood.
The Translink network consists of approximately 300 route km and 151 stations.
History
Construction
Construction of the Queensland rail network began in 1864 with the first section of the Main Line railway from Ipswich to Grandchester being built. This was the first narrow-gauge main line constructed in the world and is now the second largest narrow-gauge railway network in the world.
Network extent
At its maximum extent in 1932, the system totalled ~10,500 km of routes open for traffic.
In 1925, QR employed ~18,000 people, 713 locomotives, 930 passenger carriages, ~16,000 goods wagons, hauled ~five million tons of goods and ~30 million passengers, and made a return on capital of 3.2% before depreciation.
Electrification
Three significant electrification programs have been undertaken in Que
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMB
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DSMB may stand for:
Delayed surface marker buoy, an inflatable buoy used by SCUBA divers
Data and safety monitoring board, an independent group of experts who monitor patient safety and treatment efficacy data while a clinical trial is ongoing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDT
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HDT may refer to:
HDT (data format), a data compression format
Hardware Detection Tool, software for SYSLINUX
Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time
Heat deflection temperature, at which a polymer deforms under load
Holden Dealer Team, a former car-racing team
Henry David Thoreau, American transcendentalist poet
Heavy Duty Truck (HDT), a class 7 or 8 prime mover, the term is usually used in the fifth wheel rv industry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSID
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Life Science Identifiers are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. Essentially, an LSID is a unique identifier for some data, and the LSID protocol specifies a standard way to locate the data (as well as a standard way of describing that data). They are a little like DOIs used by many publishers.
An LSID is represented as a uniform resource name (URN) with the following format:
urn:lsid:<Authority>:<Namespace>:<ObjectID>[:<Version>]
The lsid: namespace, however, is not registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and so these are not strictly URNs or URIs.
LSIDs may be resolved in URLs, e.g. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CDC8D258-8F57-41DC-B560-247E17D3DC8C
Controversy over the use of LSIDs
There has been a lot of interest in LSIDs in both the bioinformatics and the biodiversity communities, with the latter continuing to use them as a way of identifying species in global catalogues. However, more recently, as understanding has increased of how HTTP URIs can perform a similar naming task, the use of LSIDs as identifiers has been criticized as violating the Web Architecture good practice of reusing existing URI schemes. Nevertheless, the explicit separation of data from metadata; specification of a method for discovering multiple locations for data-retrieval; and the ability to discover multiple independent sources of metadata for any identified thing were crucial parts of the LSID and its resolution specification that have not successfully been mimicked by an HTTP-only approach.
The World Wide Web provides a globally distributed communication framework that is essential for almost all scientific collaboration, including bioinformatics. However, several limits and inadequacies were thought to exist, one of which was the inability to programmatically identify locally named objects that may be widely distributed over the network. This perceived shortcoming would have limited our ability to integrate multiple knowledgebases, each of which gives partial information of a shared domain, as is commonly seen in bioinformatics. The Life Science Identifier (LSID) and LSID Resolution System (LSRS) were designed to provide simple and elegant solutions to this problem, consistent with next-generation Semantic Web and semantic grid, based on the extension of existing internet technologies. However, it has more recently been pointed out that some of these perceived shortcomings are not intrinsic to HTTP URIs, and much (though not all) of the functionality that LSIDs provide can be obtained using properly crafted HTTP URIs.
Alternative identifiers for organisms
Alternative identifiers have been proposed for organisms, e.g. the DOI system. NamesforLife (N4L), a private company, set up a system to apply DOIs to organisms. For example, doi:10.1601/nm.3093 is the DOI for Escherichia coli, and doi:10.1601/tx.3093 is the corresponding taxon.
See also
Resource Description Framework
MicroArray and Gene Ex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%20Paulsen
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Kai Paulsen (1947 - 28 May 2002) was a Norwegian journalist, photographer, and computer collector.
In 2000 he founded "IT Insider", a technology periodical.
His collection has been donated to the Norwegian Computer History Society by his relatives.
1947 births
2002 deaths
Norwegian photographers
20th-century Norwegian journalists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleCD
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AppleCD is a range of SCSI-based CD-ROM drives for Apple Macintosh personal computers, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from the late 1980s to late 1990s. Earlier AppleCD drives required a CD caddy in order to be used, while later models used a tray-loading mechanism. The original model introduced in 1988 was simply called the AppleCD SC. There was also a version of the CD drive that did not have the Apple logo.
AppleCD SC
The AppleCD SC was the first CD-ROM by Apple Computer Company, introduced in 1988. It originally contained a fan but in 1990 they removed it because it was unneeded and attracted dust onto the optical disk head which could cause problems. It uses a front-loading caddy 1x CD-ROM and is only capable of Read Only Media. This accessory device was only able to read compact discs up to a 650 MB capacity in five formats, CD-Audio, CD-ROM, HFS, ProDOS, and High Sierra. On the front of the device it has an eject button, mini-phono sound out jack, and a volume knob. On the rear it has a power switch, power input, two Centronics 50-pin SCSI outputs, and an audio RCA connector. With appropriate software it would run on any Macintosh with a DB-25 connector, or an Apple II with an Apple II SCSI interface card.
AppleCD SC Plus
The AppleCD SC Plus was Apple Computer's second CD-ROM drive, a replacement for the AppleCD SC which was introduced in 1991. Identified as model number M3021, just like its predecessor, the AppleCD SC, it used a 1x Read Only Media CD-ROM drive. The Plus could read a CD with up to 750 MB of data over the 650 MB of the AppleCD SC. It had indicator lights, an eject button, mini-phone audio jack, volume knob, and the CD caddy drive on the front of the accessory. On the back there were two 50-pin Centronics SCSI connectors, audio RCA connectors, power input, and a power switch. The AppleCD SC Plus had only minor improvements over the AppleCD SC and it was relatively the same.
Several other models were made, including the 150, 300, 300e, 300i Plus, 300e Plus, 600i, 600e Plus and 1200i ('e' representing an external drive, and 'i' representing internal; model number also represents data reading speed in KB/s). They all include two Centronics 50-pin SCSI ports, and require mains power.
References
Notes
Vectronic's Apple World Collection External Macintosh Drives, 6/05/14,
Apple Rescue Of Denver http://www.applerescueofdenver.com/products-page/all-products-apple-ii/applecd-sc-plus-ss1380z/.
Apple Inc. peripherals
Optical computer storage
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In computer science, repeat-accumulate codes (RA codes) are a low complexity class of error-correcting codes. They were devised so that their ensemble weight distributions are easy to derive. RA codes were introduced by Divsalar et al.
In an RA code, an information block of length is repeated times, scrambled by an interleaver of size , and then encoded by a rate 1 accumulator. The accumulator can be viewed as a truncated rate 1 recursive convolutional encoder with transfer function , but Divsalar et al. prefer to think of it as a block code whose input block and output block are related by the formula and for . The encoding time for RA codes is linear and their rate is . They are nonsystematic.
Irregular Repeat Accumulate Codes
Irregular Repeat Accumulate (IRA) Codes build on top of the ideas of RA codes. IRA replaces the outer code in RA code with a Low Density Generator Matrix code. IRA codes first repeats information bits different times, and then accumulates subsets of these repeated bits to generate parity bits. The irregular degree profile on the information nodes, together with the degree profile on the check nodes, can be designed using density evolution.
Systematic IRA codes are considered a form of LDPC code. Litigation over whether the DVB-S2 LDPC code is a form of IRA code is ongoing. US patents 7,116,710; 7,421,032; 7,916,781; and 8,284,833 are at issue.
Notes
References
External links
Iterative Error Correction: Turbo, Low-Density Parity-Check, and Repeat-Accumulate Codes
Error detection and correction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIL%20%28FM%29
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WHIL (91.3 FM) is an NPR-affiliated radio station in Mobile, Alabama. It primarily features classical music and news and talk programming. WHIL's signal travels in about a 45-mile radius from Mobile—serving the extreme southern tip of Alabama along the state's portion of the Gulf Coast (and some counties to the north, in southwestern Alabama), as well as the Gulf Coast counties of southeastern Mississippi and extreme northwestern Florida.
Until 2011, the station maintained studios on the campus of Spring Hill College, a Jesuit institution that started the station and held the broadcast license.
On July 1, 2011, WHIL-FM discontinued operations as a stand-alone station, having been acquired by the University of Alabama to serve as a local affiliate for its Alabama Public Radio network.
History
WHIL first broadcast as WHIL-FM on September 5, 1979. Only a week later, Hurricane Frederic struck the Alabama Gulf Coast, rendering the station silent for some time thereafter due to transmitter and tower damage. From those rough beginnings, the station grew to provide one of the few non-commercial radio services available to the region with programming not designed for religious proselytization. In later years, it used the branding "Fine Arts Radio for the Gulf Coast," a summary of its mission and scope.
Of the public radio stations and networks located in Alabama, WHIL-FM was the only one not operated by an agency or educational institution of the state. It was the fourth chronologically, after Huntsville's WLRH, Birmingham's WBHM, and Troy's WTSU; only Tuscaloosa (Alabama Public Radio) came later, in 1982.
On March 21, 2011, Spring Hill College and University of Alabama officials announced the sale of WHIL-FM to UA, which converted WHIL-FM into a translator of APR on July 1, 2011. This move reflected increasing consolidation in non-commercial radio, a situation largely occurring because of the economic downturn that took place in the late 2000s.
On June 14, 2016, the station changed its call sign from WHIL-FM to the current WHIL.
Programming
In the mid-to-late 1990s, Spring Hill College officials took exception to some news reports on National Public Radio about subjects such as abortion rights and homosexuality. Because these seemed to denigrate the moral positions of the Roman Catholic order of the Society of Jesus, the parent organization of the college, WHIL-FM discontinued airing NPR news programs for several years. Protests from disappointed and angry listeners prompted WHIL-FM to restore Morning Edition, but the station continued to preempt All Things Considered in favor of classical music and Public Radio International's Marketplace. However, in response to a survey of local public radio listeners, WHIL-FM returned ATC to its schedule in early 2007.
References
External links
WHIL official website
"Radio Avalon" site
HIL (FM)
NPR member stations
Classical music radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1979
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Street
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Alexander Street is an electronic academic database publisher.
It was founded in May 2000 in Alexandria, Virginia, by Stephen Rhind-Tutt (President), Janice Cronin (CFO), and Eileen Lawrence (Vice President, Sales and Marketing). As of January 2016, the company had grown to more than 100 employees with offices in the United States, Australia, Brazil, China, and the United Kingdom. In June 2016, it was acquired by ProQuest.
History
The company's first product was North American Women's Letters and Diaries, a collection of 150,000 pages of letters and diaries by women from colonial times through the 1950s.
In 2000, in collaboration with the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago, the company began using semantic indexing techniques in its humanities databases. It created metadata elements for gender, age, and sexual orientation of characters within plays; author nationality, birthplace and death place, as well as where and when an item was written. These elements were then combined with full-text search to allow material to be analyzed in new ways.
In 2003, the company began a major partnership with The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York to publish Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000. This has subsequently become a leading site for the study of women's history.
In November 2004, Alexander Street acquired the principal assets of Classical International, a London and New York–based publisher of streaming music for libraries. This led to a new range of music publications, including a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to provide Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries and African American Song.
In November 2005, Alexander Street acquired the range of religious products produced by Ad Fontes, including The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts and The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation.
In October 2006, the company acquired the assets of University Music Editions, a small microfilm publisher specializing in the publication of scores, journals and other musically oriented publications. These collections were subsequently released as part of Classical Scores Library.
Late in 2006, the company began developing online collections of video. Theatre in Video was published in April 2007 and has been followed by a succession of online streaming video collections. Using techniques such as semantic indexing, initially developed for textual databases, it was an early provider of synchronized, scrolling transcripts that allow the watcher to read ahead. At the 2010 Midsummer American Library Association, the company advertised 9 streaming video collections spanning more than 9,000 individual video titles.
In April 2007, Alexander Street acquired the principal products of HarpWeek, publisher of Harper's Weekly and Lincoln and the Civil War. In June 2009 Alexander Street Press and Arcadia Publishing launched a research website to college local history inf
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Sara's Secrets was a Food Network show hosted by Sara Moulton who was the executive chef of Gourmet magazine. Sara’s Secrets aired from 2002 until 2007.
Sara's Secrets offers the viewer recipes and techniques specifically focused to fit the viewer's busy lifestyle.
From time to time, guest chefs, cookbook authors, and food specialists from around the world drop by. Invited guests give the viewer insider secrets, tips, tricks, techniques that professionals use to save time and money.
Sara Moulton shows the viewer how to make the best meals possible by keeping it simple with a limited amount of fuss, but also with good flavor.
Episode list
Season 1
HCSP03 Sara's Thanksgiving Secrets
SS1A01 Tricks for the Pastry Impaired
SS1A02 The Perfect Salad
SS1A03 Dinner Party of Miniatures
SS1A04 Dinner For Two
SS1A05 Tantalizing Tarts
SS1A06 Two Birthday Parties
SS1A07 Complete Make-Ahead Brunch
SS1A08 Trompe L'Oeil Food Gifts
SS1A09 Do You Fondue?
SS1A10 Sunday Night Supper
SS1A11 Food As Fashion
SS1A12 Low Fat Fooled Ya
SS1A13 Cinderella Dishes
SS1A14 Unexpected Guests
SS1A15 One Cake Fits All
SS1A16 A Special Occasion Dinner
SS1A17 Surprise Holiday Guests
SS1A18 Food and Wine Tasting
SS1A19 Pizza Party
SS1A20 Come For Drinks, Stay For Dinner
SS1A21 Thanksgiving Primer
SS1A22 Open House
SS1A23 Mediterranean Magic
SS1A24 Wrap Magic
SS1A25 Budget Gourmet
SS1A26 Some Assembly Required
SS1B01 Always On Hand
SS1B02 Feasts From the Fridge
SS1B03 Feasts From the Freezer
SS1B04 Double Duty
SS1B05 Breakfast for Dinner
SS1B06 Frozen Dinners
SS1B07 Sandwich Sensations
SS1B08 Soup as Supper
SS1B09 Shortcuts to Success
SS1B10 Cooking For One
SS1B11 Better Burgers
SS1B12 One Pot Meals
SS1B13 Fast and Fabulous Fish
SS1B14 Secrets to Simple Sautes
SS1B15 Slow Cooking
SS1B16 Blue Plate Specials
SS1B18 Taters, Taters, Taters
SS1B19 Getting Organized
SS1B20 Pot Pies
SS1B21 A New Way to Cook
SS1B22 Quick and Easy Sides
SS1B23 Grill Pan
SS1B24 Everyday Vegetarian
SS1B25 Easy Desserts
SS1B26 Quick Pasta Sauces
SS1B27 Rice for Supper
SS1B28 Paella Fiesta
SS1B29 The Mold Makes It
SS1B30 Main Course Salads
SS1B31 Bistro Dinner
SS1B32 Mexican Night
SS1B33 Seafood Sandwiches
SS1B34 Corn Every Way
SS1B35 Pounding Out Dinner
SS1B36 Dinner at the Beach
SS1B37 No-Fail Fish
SS1B38 Exotic Dinner
SS1B39 Five Ingredient Wonders
SS1B40 Casual Entertaining
SS1B41 One Pot Meal
SS1B42 Packed With Flavor
SS1B43 Sweet Endings
SS1B44 Mediterranean Mezze Table
SS1B45 Quick and Tasty Chicken
SS1B46 Wok this Way
SS1B47 Lemons Every Way
SS1B48 Appetizing Dinner
SS1B49 Real Simple
SS1B50 Here's the Beef
SS1B51 Lasagna Three Ways
SS1B52 Eat Your Vegetables
SS1B53 All About Cheese
SS1B54 Quick Breads
SS1B55 Celebrations
SS1B56 Quick Sauces
SS1B57 Crazy About Couscous
SS1B58 Romantic Sailboat Picnic
SS1B60 Skewer It!
SS1B61 Three Dinners in One
SS1B68 Midsummer Swedish Buffet
SS1B71 Dinner in Twenty Minutes
SS1B72 Warm Weather Soups
SS1B73 Berry Best
SS1B74 Celebrating Tomatoes
SS1B75 Terrace Lunch
SS1
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Boot%20Manager
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The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista. It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. It replaced the NTLDR present in older versions of Windows.
The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration Data store and uses the information to load the operating system through winload.exe or winresume.exe.
Launching
On system with BIOS firmware, the BIOS invokes MBR boot code from a hard disk drive at startup. The MBR boot code and the VBR boot code are OS-specific. In Microsoft Windows, the MBR boot code tries to find an active partition (the MBR is only 512 bytes), then executes the VBR boot code of an active partition. The VBR boot code tries to find and execute the bootmgr file from an active partition.
On systems with UEFI firmware, UEFI invokes bootmgfw.efi from an EFI system partition at startup, starting the Windows Boot Manager.
Operation
Once launched the Windows Boot Manager reads the Boot Configuration Data to determine what operating systems are present and if it should present the user with a menu allowing them to select which operating system to boot. Before Windows Vista, this data was contained in .
These menu entries can include:
Options to boot Windows Vista and later by invoking winload.exe.
Options to resume Windows Vista and later from hibernation by invoking winresume.exe.
Options to boot a prior version of the Windows NT family by invoking its NTLDR.
Options to load and to execute a volume boot record.
Operating system loading
The operating system is loaded by individual boot loaders for each install of Windows, called the Windows Boot Loader.
winload.exe
The Windows Boot Manager invokes winload.exe—the operating system boot loader—to load the operating system kernel executive (ntoskrnl.exe) and core device drivers. In that respect, winload.exe is functionally equivalent to the operating system loader function of NTLDR in prior versions of Windows NT. In UEFI systems, the file is called winload.efi and the file is always located at \windows\system32 or \windows\system32\boot.
winresume.exe
If the computer has recently hibernated, then bootmgr will instead invoke winresume.exe. In UEFI systems, the file is called winresume.efi and is always located at \windows\system32 or \windows\system32\boot.
Boot Configuration Data
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) is a firmware-independent database for boot-time configuration data. It is used by Microsoft's Windows Boot Manager and replaces the boot.ini that was used by NTLDR.
Boot Configuration Data is stored in a data file that has the same format as Windows Registry hives and is eventually mounted at registry key (with restricted permissions). For UEFI boot, the file is located at /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/BCD on th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infostate
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Infostate is an index used to measure the Digital Divide.
It was proposed by Orbicom, the International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications, in "Monitoring the Digital Divide… and beyond".
The conceptual framework of the index introduces the notions of a country's infodensity and info-use.
Infodensity refers to the stocks of ICT capital and labour, including networks and ICT skills, indicative of a country's productive capacity and indispensable to function in an Information Society. It includes ICT networks, machinery, and equipment, as well as ICT skills, indispensable for the functioning of information, knowledge-oriented societies.
Info-use refers to the uptake and consumption flows of ICTs, as well as their intensity of use by households, businesses and governments and the intensity of their actual use.
Infostate is an aggregation of Infodensity and Info-use indexes and represents the degree of a country's ‘ICT-ization’.
The Digital Divide is then defined as the relative difference in infostates among economies.
The Infostate index is used as a base for another index, the ICT Opportunity Index, proposed by ITU, International Telecommunication Unit in “From the Digital Divide to DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES: Measuring Infostates for Development”.
The ICT Opportunity Index is in fact the merger of two well known initiatives, ITU's Digital Access Index (DAI) and Orbicom's Monitoring the Digital Divide/ Infostate conceptual framework and model.
Main works
Sciadas, G. (Ed.) (2005). From the Digital Divide to Digital Opportunities. Montreal: Orbicom.
Sciadas, G. (2004). International Benchmarking for the Information Society. Busan: ITU
Sciadas, G. (Ed.) (2003). the Digital Divide... and Beyond. Montreal: Orbicom.
Sciadas, G. (2002). Monitoring the Digital Divide. Montreal: Orbicom.
Digital divide
UNESCO
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon%20Quartermaine
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Dillon Quartermaine is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network.
Introduced in 1992, Dillon is the son of Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot) and her ex-husband Paul Hornsby (Paul Satterfield). Tracy skips town with Dillon in 1993, violating her custody agreement with Paul. In 1996, Tracy and Dillon—played by P.J. Aliseo—are introduced on The City and last appeared in the series finale in 1997. In 2003, the character was re-introduced on General Hospital played by Scott Clifton. Dillon develops a romance with Georgie Jones (Lindze Letherman) whom he eventually marries. However, the relationship falls apart when Dillon has an affair with and impregnates his stepsister Lulu Spencer (Julie Marie Berman). Clifton vacated the role in 2007 and Dillon was written out of the series making brief returns last appearing for Georgie's funeral in 2007. The actor earned three consecutive Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Younger Actor in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
In 2015, Robert Palmer Watkins joined the cast as a recast Dillon Quartermaine.
Development
Casting
The role of Dillon was originated by Kevin and Michael Jacobson in May 1992. The Jacobs twins vacated the role in the summer of 1993. In July 1996, Jacob Smith appeared in the role of Dillon. Smith last appeared on General Hospital in October 1996. In 1996, Jane Elliot joined the cast of The City in the role of Tracy Quartermaine. P.J. Aliseo made his debut on The City in the role of Dillon on October 15, 1996 as a recurring cast member. Aliseo remained with the series until its cancellation and final episodes in March 1997.
In April 2003, Scott Clifton made his debut in the role of Dillon. After four years with the series, it was announced that Clifton had chosen not to renew his contract. Clifton would reprise the role for a total of six episodes which aired from November to December 2007. While Clifton vacated the role to focus on his music career, he remained open to sporadic appearances but was not interested in returning full-time.
When Clifton was released from his contract at One Life to Live in 2010, he told fans that he was definitely open to returning to General Hospital if the show offered. However, Clifton joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful shortly after. Having found success on B&B, Clifton rejected the possibility of reprising the role of Dillon in a 2011 interview. "If I were fired and needed work, yes, I would come back to GH if they wanted me. But I don’t feel any desire to return to GH because I feel proud of what I was able to do over there at that point in my career. At this point, it would be hard and confusing for me to reprise Dillon at this stage." He continued, "I think GH is a great show to work on but I prefer B&B, which may be selfish."
Following the 2011 cancellations of All My Children and One Life to Live, rumors circulated that several actors from the soaps would join the cast of General Hospital. John
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi%20Railways%20Organization
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The Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) () was a state-owned railway company that operated part of Saudi Arabia's rail network, along with the Saudi Railway Company (now Saudi Arabia Railways). The SRO operated a network of railways with a total length of approximately 1,380 kilometers. The network consisted of two main lines. A 449 km passenger line that links Dammam with Riyadh, and a 556 km freight line that connects the King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam with Riyadh.
There are plans to extend the network to the Red Sea port of Jeddah and, eventually to the borders of Jordan, Yemen, and perhaps all the way to Egypt.
Approval to merge the Saudi Railways Organization and Saudi Railway Company was announced in February 2021, and the Saudi Railways Organization was merged into the Saudi Railway Company (now Saudi Arabia Railways) on 1 April 2021.
Rolling stock
Spanish manufacturer CAF delivered eight fast diesel locomotives in 2012, with one driving van trailer passenger car and four other passenger cars, with a leading power car unit; plus two spare power cars. They are used on the Dammam–Riyadh Line. During 2013 the travel time is 4:15 but there is a target of 3:00 for the future.
Trainsets
Diesel Locomotives
Expansion
The SRO has several plans to expand the network as part of the Saudi Railway Master Plan 2010-2040 (SRMP). Some of the projects under the plan are:
Saudi Landbridge: The Landbridge project is aimed at connecting the Red Sea with the Persian Gulf. It will involve the construction of a 950 km line from Jeddah Islamic Port to Riyadh, and a 115 km line from Dammam to Jubail.
North-South line
The Gulf Railway project is a propose railway network of 2116 km linking all GCC countries. The length of the track inside Saudi Arabia would be 663 km.
The SRO also has plans to construct three lines in southern Saudi Arabia to improve the region's connectivity with the rest of the country. The lines are the Taif-Khamis Mushayt–Abha line (706 km), the Jeddah-Jizan line (660 km), and the Yanbu–Jeddah line (350 km).
See also
Saudi Arabia Railways
Rail transport in Saudi Arabia
Transport in Saudi Arabia
Haramain High Speed Railway
References
Al Ayuni Investment and Contracting Company,Saudi Railway CTW400 Project Main Contractor
1951 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Organizations established in 1951
Government agencies of Saudi Arabia
Companies based in Dammam
Government-owned railway companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Left%20%28England%20and%20Wales%29
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The Green Left is an anti-capitalist and eco-socialist grouping within the Green Party of England and Wales. It seeks to constitute a network for "socialists and other radicals" in the Green Party, as well as "act[ing] as an outreach body that will communicate the party's radical policies to other socialists and anti-capitalists outside the party." It includes some prominent members of the Green Party of England and Wales, and held its first meeting on 4 June 2006. Green Left members were early supporters of an "ecosocialist international", such as the Ecosocialist International Network (EIN) Green Left publishes the 'Watermelon' a publication promoting eco-socialist policies to Green Party members on an array of issues. Green Left has a social media presence including on Twitter and Facebook. The Facebook site is very busy and has 9,000 members. Green Left engages the wider left with the aim to build for real change with eco-socialist policies and including just transition and supporting workers struggles. Green Left is very supportive of the Green Party Trade Union Group.
Formation
Green Left was launched on 4 June 2006 by members of the Green Party of England and Wales. Those who supported the group included various members of the Green Party of England and Wales Executive. Some members of Green Left then went on to be leaders of the party.
Aims and beliefs
Green Left formulated its beliefs, agreed on at the meeting, in the Headcorn Declaration (below), which stated that Green Left hopes "to raise Green Party politics to meet the demands of its radical policies". The statement criticised the "New Labour government's abandonment of the policies of the left" and claimed "that the Green Party's progressive agenda makes it the natural home for the left".
The Headcorn Declaration
In June 2006, a number of members of the Green Party agreed to the core beliefs and policies of the Headcorn declaration which became a launch statement of the Green left. The launch statement included the following points:
Green Left is critical of capitalism, and sees capitalism as incompatible with ideals like sustainability, peace and social justice. As such it places itself in the tradition of William Morris, the British ecosocialist who operated within the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and Socialist League.
It seeks to unite all socialists, anti-capitalists and radicals, in and outside of the Green Party.
It welcomes and wishes to continue the grassroots democracy within the Green Party of England and Wales, which should remain a "bottom-up" organisation.
Green Left wants to apply the slogan think global, act local to its own party, by increasing international contacts, while also seeking to create local coalitions, made up of various groups such as trade unions, faith-based communities and other minority groups.
See also
British Left
Green left
Green politics
Social ecology
References
External links
Green Left facebook
Green Left blog
Green Le
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28disambiguation%29
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Cartoon Network is an international children's television programming brand originally based in America in English.
Cartoon Network may also refer to:
Cartoon Network feeds
Cartoon Network Arabic, in Arabic
Cartoon Network (Australian and New Zealand TV channel), in English
Cartoon Network (Canadian TV channel), in English (formerly Teletoon from 1997-2023)
Boomerang (Canadian TV channel), known as Cartoon Network from 2012-2023)
Cartoon Network (Central and Eastern Europe), in Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and English
Cartoon Network (Middle Eastern and African TV channel), in Arabic, Greek and English
Cartoon Network (French TV channel), in French and English
Cartoon Network (German TV channel), in German and English
Cartoon Network Hindi, in Hindi
Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel), in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
Cartoon Network HD+, in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu
Cartoon Network (Italian TV channel), in Italian and English
Cartoon Network (Japanese TV channel), in Japanese and mostly English as well
Cartoon Network (Latin American TV channel), in Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and English
Cartoon Network (Dutch TV channel), in Dutch and English
Cartoon Network (Scandinavian TV channel), in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and English
Cartoon Network (Pakistani TV channel), English and Urdu
Cartoon Network (Philippine TV channel), in English
Cartoon Network (Polish TV channel), in Polish and English
Cartoon Network (Portuguese TV channel), in European Portuguese
Cartoon Network (Russian & Southeastern European TV channel), in Russian, Bulgarian, English, Serbian, Croatian and Slovene
Cartoon Network (South Korean TV channel), in Korean
Cartoon Network (Asian TV channel), in English, Indonesian, Thai, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tamil and Khmer
Cartoon Network (Spanish TV channel), in Castilian Spanish and English until 2013
Cartoon Network (Turkish TV channel), in Turkish and English
Cartoon Network (British and Irish TV channel), in English
Other
Cartoon Network Studios, an animation studio based in Burbank, California
Cartoon Network Too, a British television channel
List of international Cartoon Network channels, a list of Cartoon Network and sister-channels from around the world
See also
Cartoon Cartoons
Cartoon Network Original Series and Movies
Cartoon Network
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