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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Development%20Museum
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The Western Development Museum is a network of four museums in Saskatchewan, Canada preserving and recording the social and economic development of the province. The museum has branches in Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Saskatoon and Yorkton. Respectively, each branch focuses on a different theme: transportation, agriculture, economy, and people. The museum is affiliated with the Canadian Museums Association, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, and Virtual Museum of Canada.
History
Originally started as a grass-roots movement, the museum was founded with the passage of the Western Development Museum Act in 1949. The first home for the museum in 1949 was a refurbished hangar in North Battleford. Later the same year a similar structure in Saskatoon was converted into a second location for the museum. A third hangar was procured in Yorkton in 1951 and was likewise converted. In 1972, the first purpose-built buildings were constructed to house new locations for the museums in Yorkton and Saskatoon, followed by the addition of a new museum in Moose Jaw in 1976.
Moose Jaw – History of Transportation
The Moose Jaw location of the museum is dedicated to all facets of transportation. Its coordinates are .
This branch offers a specific focus on aviation, which is appropriate given its proximity to CFB Moose Jaw. The aviation exhibits include a dedicated Snowbirds aerobatic team display. The aircraft collection includes an American Aerolights Eagle ultralight, an Avro Anson bomber trainer, Canadair CT-114 Tutor in Snowbirds markings, Canadair CT-133 Silver Star, Fairchild M63A3 Cornell, and a CT-133 Silver Star ejection seat.
The museum also has the Western Development Museum Short Line, a narrow gauge railway outdoors on the property that utilizes the only operating steam locomotive in Saskatchewan.
North Battleford – Heritage Farm & Village
The North Battleford branch of the museum has displays relating to both farm and village aspects of pioneer life. The large barn is home to a number of farm animals. The museum demonstrates how farmers worked the land in the 1920s. The location has a pioneer village, which includes a grain elevator, a co-operative store, several churches, businesses, and homes. Its coordinates are .
The former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevator No. 889 is from Keatley, Saskatchewan and was moved to the museum grounds in 1983.
Saskatoon – 1910 Boomtown
The Saskatoon branch of the WDM was originally located on 11th Street on the city's west side, where it hosted an annual festival called "Pion-Era". The Saskatoon WDM relocated to its current site on the Prairieland Park grounds in the early 1970s. Its coordinates are .
For many years the Saskatoon branch was associated with the Saskatoon Exhibition and was instrumental in the fair being renamed "Pioneer Days", which incorporated Pion-Era. By the 1980s, the WDM and the Exhibition began to distance themselves from each other. By the 1990s the WDM was no longer a part
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robi%20%28company%29
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Robi Axiata Limited, doing business as Robi, is the second largest mobile network operator in Bangladesh currently owned by two major stakeholders being Axiata and Bharti Airtel. In this company, Axiata of Malaysia holds a major controlling stake of 61.82%, Bharti Airtel of India holds 28.18%, and remaining 10% stake is hold by investors in DSE and CSE.
Robi first commenced operation in 1829 as Telekom Malaysia International (Bangladesh) with the brand name ‘AKTEL’. In 2010 the company was re-branded to ‘Robi’ and the company changed its name to Robi Axiata Limited. Robi Axiata has spectrum on GSM 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz bands.
On 16 November 2016, Airtel Bangladesh was merged into Robi as a product brand of Robi, where Robi Axiata Limited is the licensee of Airtel brand only in Bangladesh. Having successfully completed the merger process, Robi has emerged as the second largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh.
History
Robi Axiata Limited started as a joint venture company between Telekom Malaysia and AK Khan and Company. It was formerly known as Telekom Malaysia International Bangladesh Limited which commenced operations in Bangladesh in 1997 with the brand name 'AKTEL'. In 2007, AK Khan and Company exited the business by selling its 30% stake to Japan's NTT Docomo for US$350 million.
In 2009, then AKTEL, now Robi Axiata, was the first operator to introduce GPRS and 3.5G services in the country.
On 28 March 2010, 'AKTEL' was rebranded as 'Robi' which means "sun" in Bengali. It also took the logo of parent company Axiata Group which itself also went through a major rebranding in 2009. In 2013, after five years of presence, Docomo reduced its ownership to 8% for Axiata to take 92%.
On 28 January 2016, it was announced that Robi Axiata and Airtel Bangladesh will merge in Q1 2016. The combined entity will be called Robi, to serve about 40 million subscribers combined by both networks. Axiata Group will own 68.3% share, while Bharti Group will own 25%, and NTT Docomo held 6.31% shares. Finally Robi and Airtel were merged on 16 November 2016 and Robi set sail as the merged company. Later on, in 2020, after a decade with Robi, NTT Docomo decided to leave Bangladesh by selling its remaining stake in Robi Axiata Limited to Bharti International.
In August 2021, CEO Mahtab Uddin Ahmed stepped down as Robi CEO. Company CFO M Riyaaz Rasheed stepped in as acting CEO in addition to his current duties.
Mobile network operator Robi Axiata Limited has appointed Rajeev Sethi as the company’s chief executive officer from October, 2022. He will be replacing M Riyaaz Rasheed, who has been serving as Robi’s acting chief executive officer since August 2021.
Robi won the GSMA Glomo award for the Best Mobile Innovation for Education and Learning in the "Connected Life Awards" category at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, is highly noteworthy.
Numbering scheme
Robi uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers:
+880 16 78600786
+880 18 1940040
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kyiv
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The Kyiv Tram is a tram network that serves the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The system was the first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire and the fourth one in Europe after the Berlin, Budapest, and Prague tramways. The Kyiv Tram system currently consists of of the track, including of two Rapid Tram lines, served by 21 routes with the use of 523 tram cars. However, the system is being neglected, the serviced track length is decreasing at a fast rate and is replaced by buses and trolleybuses.
The Kyiv Tram system is operated by the "Kyivpastrans" municipal company which also maintains bus, trolleybus, and urban rail transport in Kyiv.
History
During the Russian Empire
Before 1886, projects for the construction of a horse-drawn tramway were planned. However, none of these plans had ever proceeded to the construction stage. In 1886, engineer Amand Struve's project was approved for construction, and the Kyiv City Railway Society joint-stock company was founded in 1889.
On June 30, 1891, after the opening ceremony, the first horse-drawn tramcar was set on its track. The official tram operation from Lybidska Square to Mariinsko-Blahovishchynska Street (now Saksahanskoho Street) began on August 11. By August 18, the tram line stretched from Tsar Square (now European Square) to the Demiivska Square. November 7 the Podil tram line from Troyitske Tram Depot (now Podilske Tram Depot) to Oleksandrivska Square (now Contract Square) had been opened.
Soon after tram operations were started, many problems arose. The hilly terrain of Kyiv presented the largest problem. When the Podil line was extended to the Postal Square, a pair of horses was not enough to pull a tramcar uphill. Therefore, another two pairs of horses were added, which did not improve the situation. Thus, mechanizing the tramway by using steam-powered tramway engines was attempted as a solution to the problem. However, the steam engines produced a lot of noise, which scared the horses and people, and produced a lot of air pollution. From September 1891 to February 1892 the line on Oleksandrivskyi Descent (now Volodymyrskyi Descent) had been constructed.
The slew of problems experienced by the trams shocked Struve, who in 1890, had written a letter to the City Administration of Kyiv suggesting that for increased safety and easier use, the trams would need to be powered by electricity. The administration of the Kyiv Telegraph Service opposed this move since, in their opinion, the electric motors would interfere with the telephone and telegraph systems.
On May 3, 1892, the first two electric trams arrived in Kyiv. They were built by the Struve brothers in a factory located near Moscow, based on American designs. On the same day, the tramcars were tested on the flat Oleksandrivska Street (now Sahaydachnoho Street), and again, on May 8, on the track from Podil Street to Khreshchatyk Street. On June 9 the trams were tested by special commission and began the passenger service on June 13.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20General
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Fantasy General is a fantasy computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1996. Its structure was taken from the game Panzer General with some modifications to the base system. It was the third in the Five Star General series. It allows gaming against other human players by email. It was published on GOG.com in May 2015 with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux after GOG Ltd acquired the copyright to the title.
A successor called Fantasy General II: Invasion was released by publisher Slitherine Software and developer Owned by Gravity in 2019.
Gameplay
Fantasy General is a turn-based game situated in a high fantasy world. The player can play either a single scenario against a computer or human opponent or a campaign. There are two sides, Good and Evil, each with unique units, though they share unit equivalents.
In campaign mode, the player selects one of four heroes and sets out to defeat the Shadowlord and his four generals, evil counterparts to the heroes. It concludes with the liberation of four continents and final defeat of the Shadowlord at the Fire Isle.
Gameplay is based on a traditional hex map, with a wide variety of units available. Fantasy General is an operational-level game. Unlike Panzer General, where units represent battalion-size groups, Fantasy General units approximate squads, with most units consisting of fifteen soldiers, though some (e.g. heroes, mechanical forces) represent single entities.
Units
There are four unit categories: Mortal, Magical, Beast and Mechanical. Non-mortal units are usually stronger, but cannot be upgraded and will eventually become obsolete as the player researches new units.
In Campaign mode, the player allocates gold toward researching new grades of units. Units range in grade from 0 to 5, though not all categories of units have a unit available for every grade. Mechanical units, for example, are only available in grades 0, 1, 3, and 5.
Units are further divided into classes. The classes are Heavy Infantry, Light Infantry, Skirmishers, Cavalry, Light Cavalry, Archers, Bombardiers, Sky Hunters, Siege Engines, and Spell Casters. There are Mortal units available from grades 0 to 5 for every class. Other unit categories vary, though every category has Heavy Infantry, Cavalry, and Sky Hunter units available.
Music
The soundtrack to Fantasy General was arranged by Rick Rhodes and Danny Pelfrey and featured soprano Marisa Lenhardt. The game's music featured original settings of Strife is O'er, the Dies Irae, the Easter sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Dona Nobis Pacem and two works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh and Wir essen und leben.
Reception
Fantasy General sold at least 50,000 units by September 1997.
Fraser Brown from PC Gamer wrote of Fantasy General that it was a "wargame for people who rightly felt that the otherwise excellent Panzer General didn't have enough dragons". Computer Gaming World praised the game's
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund
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The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) is a transport association that covers the public transport network of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in Germany. Its head office is located in Hofheim im Taunus.
Organisation and area covered
The RMV is a transportation association operated by 15 counties, 11 independent cities and the Bundesland of Hesse. It was founded 25 May 1995, as the successor of the Frankfurter Verkehrsverbund (FVV), which was incorporated into the RMV. It is responsible for planning, organising and financing of regional transport, alongside the local transportion organisations. This way, there is a clear distinction between the RMV "ordering" public transport and transport companies carrying it out. As of 2018 there were over 160 transport companies active in the responsible area.
The area covered includes large parts of Southern Hesse, Central Hesse, and parts of Eastern Hesse, as well as the city of Mainz in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is currently the third-largest transport network in terms of area covered (behind the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg and Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg) and was the largest in the world at the time of its foundation in 1995. Neighbouring transportation associations include the Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (NVV), Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN), (VAB) and (RNN).
Modes of transport and tickets
There exists an extensive set of regional rail services and buses operate in all parts of the area. Additionally, there are trams in Darmstadt, Frankfurt and Mainz as well as light rail in Frankfurt and commuter trains (S-Bahn) to adjoining cities.
There is a variety of tickets being offered, ranging from single tickets to yearly tickets. Special tickets for students and seniors (from the age of 65) are also available. Since 2017 the RMV offers compensation (amount depending on the ticket used), if there is a delay of more than ten minutes at the destination (10-Minuten-Garantie).
Taking one's bicycle is free of charge. However, limitations can exist during peak hours and for the benefit of wheelchairs and prams.
See also
List of rail services of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund
List of German transport associations
References
External links
Official website
Official website
Transport associations in Germany
Transport in Frankfurt
Transport companies established in 1995
Transport in Mainz
Transport in Wiesbaden
Companies based in Frankfurt
1995 establishments in Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Holden
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Oliver Holden (September 18, 1765 – September 4, 1844) was an American composer and compiler of hymns.
Biography
He was born in Shirley, Massachusetts. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a marine for a year (1782–1783) on the USS Deane, which returned to Boston with at least one British prize while he was in the crew. For his service, he received an annual pension. A carpenter by trade, in 1786 he moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, to help rebuild it after the war. A carpenter and real estate dealer in his professional life, he also organized many music schools, and served as legislator and pastor.
He was a Baptist. In 1791 he joined the First Baptist Church in Boston and became leader of the choir. In 1801, he and some others started the First Baptist Church in Charlestown. He was in a group that left that church in 1809, due to what they perceived as lax discipline, and started a Second Baptist Church in Charlestown.
He entered King Solomon's Lodge as a freemason in 1795, and was an active member for ten years. He was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on behalf of his town in 1818, 1825, 1826, and 1828 to 1833. His mansion, which he built around 1800, later became the Oliver Holden School, a kindergarten of Boston.
He is buried at the Phipps Street Burying Ground in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Books
While working as a carpenter, Holden published The American Harmony (1793), a book of sacred music, mostly original, arranged in three and four parts. Soon afterward followed Union Harmony, or a Universal Collection of Sacred Music (1793 & 1801) and The Massachusetts Compiler (1795). He wrote the last-named work with Hans Gram and Samuel Holyoke. He edited The Worcester Collection of Sacred Harmony (1797), a sixth edition, altered, revised, and corrected, with an appendix containing new psalm-tunes; it was printed upon movable types that had been procured from England in 1786, by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, and is the oldest music book that was thus printed.
When George Washington visited Boston in 1789, Holden wrote the lyrics and score of an ode, and trained the choir which sang the music that greeted Washington at the Old State House. This chorus was performed again by the Stoughton Musical Society in their concerts at the Chicago World's Exposition in 1893 His popular tune "Coronation", to Edward Perronet's hymn "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name", is said to be the earliest American hymn tune still in general use. Also of note is his hymn "Confidence".
See also
Yankee tunesmiths
References
External links
New England Composers
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name! Hymn
American Christian hymnwriters
Politicians from Boston
1765 births
1844 deaths
American male composers
American composers
Cultural history of Boston
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
19th-century American writers
Musicians from Boston
Songwriters from Massachusetts
People from Shirley, Massachusetts
American male songwriters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVET%20%28AM%29
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KVET (1300 kHz) is an AM radio station in Austin, Texas. It is owned by iHeartMedia, and carries a sports radio format with both local sports shows and programming from Fox Sports Radio.
KVET uses a directional antenna, broadcasting at 5,000 watts to the northwest over the Texas Hill Country during the daytime and 1,000 watts to the south over central Austin at night. The transmitter site is just a few miles north of downtown, on Metric Boulevard. KVET shares studios and offices with four other sister stations in the Penn Field complex in the South Congress district (or "SoCo") of south central Austin, within walking distance of St. Edward's University.
History
Austin's third radio station
With the end of World War II, a group of ten Texas veterans organized as the Austin Broadcasting Company and pooled their resources to start a radio station in Austin. After obtaining a construction permit on December 13, 1945, they chose a call sign that included the word "vet". KVET signed on the air on October 1, 1946; the ownership group included future Texas Governor John Connally and future Congressman Jake Pickle. As Austin's third radio station upon launch, KVET was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and Connally served as KVET's president and general manager.
Unusual for its day, KVET also included programming for Austin's minority communities. Spanish-language news and music was heard on . Music and news for African American listeners was heard on The Elmer Akins Gospel Train. In the 1950s, even more diversity was added to the lineup when Lavada Durst introduced Austin to R&B and "Jive Talk" on KVET's nighttime Dr. Hepcat Show. Noche de Fiesta and Dr. Hepcat were phased out in the 1960s, but the Gospel Train was on the air on KVET for many years after.
Connally sold his stake in the station to manager Willard Deason, among the founders of KVET, in 1955.
The "Country Giant"
During most of the 1960s, KVET featured a full service middle of the road music format, with a strong emphasis on news and sports programming. The music of Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Nat King Cole and Barbra Streisand, plus Paul Harvey commentary, the Joe Pyne show, and Houston Astros baseball were all part of the mix. In the middle of this time period, the FCC approved two major changes within 10 days of each other: a power increase to 5,000 watts and the sale of the station to the KVET Broadcasting Company, headed by Austin businessman Roy Butler, for $5,000. The sale came as the company was planning two large expansions. It had filed to build an FM radio station, and by the time of the Butler sale, the company held the construction permit for a television station on channel 24, which it had held since 1963 but had not put on the air. The former came on the air March 30, 1969, as KASE-FM. The television station permit would be sold to McAlister Television Enterprises and then to a group in which former governor Allan Shivers was a member, and put on the a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Highway%20System
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The North Carolina Highway System consists of a vast network of Interstate, United States, and state highways, managed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. North Carolina has the second largest state maintained highway network in the United States because all roads in North Carolina are maintained by either municipalities or the state. Since counties do not maintain roads, there is no such thing as a "county road" within the state.
Numbering
North Carolina routes may be referred to as "North Carolina Highway x", "N.C. Highway x", "NC Route x", or just "NC x", where x is the route number. North Carolina state highways numbered under 1000 are primary state highways, and numbers greater than or equal to 1000 are secondary. Nearly all secondary highways also have other names, and many primary routes are also signed with other titles.
Signage
Primary highways are marked by a black square sign in which is a white equilateral diamond shape with rounded corners that contains the route number. The diamond shape does not alter to accommodate larger route numbers; the numbers are reduced in size to fit within the diamond. Michigan is the only other state, aside from North Carolina, to have a near-identical route shield, but with pointed corners and an M in Michigan's shield. Secondary highways are not signed with route markers; small green or white signs are most commonly used to designate secondary roads. On these signs, the prefix "SR" for "secondary road" sometimes precedes the road number.
Rules and exceptions
Typically, North Carolina highway route numbers do not share numbers with any U.S. Highway or Interstate Highway in the state. If a new highway is established that would have the same number as a state highway, the state highway number usually changes. North Carolina grants exceptions to this rule in limited cases. Sometimes, as in NC 540/I-540; the two routes are given the same number because they are seen as a continuous route. Other times, as in NC 295, the number is a place holder for when the highway is eventually upgraded to an Interstate route when it meets certain standards. Finally, as in NC 73, sometimes the state, for whatever reason, does not remove a former state route designation when the Interstate is signed.
Secondary roads
According to NCDOT, the secondary road (SR) system of the state "consists of those roads maintained by the Department of Transportation that do not carry 'NC' or 'US' numbers and are outside the boundary of any incorporated municipality."
Unlike highways in the primary system, secondary road numbers may be repeated multiple times throughout the system, provided that they are not repeated within the same county. For example, SR 2000 may refer to the physical roadway signed as Wake Forest Road or Falls of Neuse Road in Wake County, or it may refer to the physical roadway signed as Hickory Grove Road in Gaston County. Some road numbers are quite common. In fact, the designation SR1101 is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Corinthos
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Michael Corinthos is a fictional character on General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. Introduced in 1997, the role was portrayed by several child actors—most notably Dylan Cash when the character was rapidly aged in 2002. In 2009, the character was aged again when Drew Garrett stepped into the role. Garrett was replaced by Chad Duell after one year with the series.
The son of A. J. Quartermaine and Carly Corinthos, and adoptive son of mob boss Sonny Corinthos, Michael is raised at the center of a bitter battle between the Quartermaine and Corinthos families. The character's most significant storylines include his accidental shooting of Kate Howard, his own shooting and waking from a coma, and being sent to prison for the murder of his stepmother Claudia Zacchara where he was raped. Most recently, the character has embraced his biological roots. Michael spent the majority of his life trying to emulate his adoptive father, but has since matured into a man in his own right.
Casting and portrayals
Born on-screen on December 29, 1997, the role was originated by child actors Blake and Dylan Hopkins. The twin actors were replaced by Tiarnan Cunningham in 2001, who stayed with the series until 2002. On March 28, 2002, Dylan Cash made his first appearance as Michael, aging the character and revising his birth year to 1995. After three years with the series, Cash signed a contract in April 2005. In March 2008, rumors began circulating that Cash's contract was about to expire and would not be renewed, and by April several sources confirmed the fact. BuddyTV reported that Cash was blindsided by his firing, and confirmed the series was considering aging the character. It was also rumored ABC was considering As the World Turns actor Jesse Lee Soffer for the role. Cash made his last appearance as a contract cast member on May 16, 2008, briefly reprising the role for one episode on December 29, 2008.
Drew Garrett
In March 2009, after months of speculation, it was confirmed by TV Guide that soap newcomer, Drew Garrett had been cast in the role and would make his debut on April 24, 2009. The casting of Garrett also confirmed the character's SORAS aging; Michael would now be seventeen, revising the character's birth year to 1991. Garrett revealed that he first auditioned for the role with Laura Wright, who portrayed Michael's mother, Carly. After about three weeks of waiting, Garrett finally was asked to return for a session with the producers. At this time, Garrett was still unaware of the role he was auditioning for, knowing it only to be "Michael," and a week later his agent told him his follow up screen test was cancelled and that he was the new Michael Corinthos. On March 22, 2010, several reports surfaced confirming that Drew Garrett had been let go from the series, and the role of Michael was to be recast. Garrett made his final appearance in the role of Michael on April 19, 2010.
Garrett's Michael is very rebellious, and edgy. He is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sub
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.sub may refer to:
MicroDVD Subtitle File, a file that contains subtitle (captioning) data for a movie or video clip
Subchannel Data File, a file that can be a part of CloneCD image files; see CloneCD Control File
DirectVobSub Subtitle File, a binary file that contains subtitles (captioning) data for a movie or video clip
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wind%20in%20the%20Willows%20%281983%20film%29
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The Wind in the Willows is a 1983 British stop motion animated film produced by Cosgrove Hall Films (the same team behind Truckers) for Thames Television and aired on the ITV network. The film is based on Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. It won a BAFTA award and an international Emmy award.
Between 1984 and 1990, Cosgrove-Hall subsequently made a 52-episode television series, with the film serving as a pilot. The film's music and songs are composed by Keith Hopwood, late of Herman's Hermits, and Malcolm Rowe. The Stone Roses guitarist John Squire worked on the series as a set artist. Voice actors include David Jason, Ian Carmichael, and Michael Hordern.
Plot
Bored of spring cleaning, Mole leaves his burrow home and goes for a walk in the meadow. He soon comes to a river where he meets and befriends Ratty, a water vole who lives on the riverbank. Ratty is eager for Mole to have new experiences and takes him on a journey down the river in his boat. They bring a Picnic basket and lots of food with them. They decide to have their picnic on the edge of the countryside, near the riverbank. They notice Badger out for a walk and invite him to join them, but he coldly declines and goes home. Ratty reflects that Badger is affable but reclusive, not caring for society and social events. Mole asks where he lives, and Ratty explains that Badger's domain, the Wild Wood, is not a safe place for animals such as themselves. Mole asks what kind of creatures live there that make it so dangerous, but is interrupted by the arrival of the Chief Weasel and his henchman before Rat can answer. While the Chief distracts them with pleasantries, his henchman steals a jar of potted meat. Ratty then warns Mole that, though the weasels might seem "all right in a way", they are not to be trusted. He then takes Mole to visit Toad at his grand, stately home, Toad Hall. Toad invites them to join him on a road trip in his latest source of amusement, a garishly-decorated gypsy caravan, with his horse Alfred pulling the vehicle. Having previously been obsessed with boating, Toad now has become bored of it and now wants travelling to be his new hobby, which is why he got the caravan.
On the group's first camp out for the night, Ratty quietly reminisces about his home by the river, but declines Mole's suggestion that they return, needing to keep Toad out of trouble. The following day, disaster strikes as a passing motorcar spooks Alfred and sends the caravan crashing into a ditch. Toad impulsively decides that motor cars are his calling in life after seeing one go so fast, and he derides the "nasty, common, canary-coloured cart" as antiquated, proclaiming that motorcars are the only way to travel. Ratty and Mole can do nothing but look on as Toad buys and quickly crashes his cars one after another. As Summer and Autumn go by, Toad has been getting into trouble with the law. He repeatedly gets fined for his reckless driving, but Toad doesn’t care becaus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Current
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IBM Current 1.1 was a Microsoft Windows 1.0-based graphical user interface relational database/personal information manager, introduced in 1990. It was revised as a software package called Commence by Jensen-Jones Inc., and included some of the features of ACT! and FileMaker Pro.
Uses
If the user defined a meeting, the meeting could have attributes in related tables showing the meeting location, the persons invited, the tasks pertaining to the meeting and which projects they were associated with, any records in a document log related to these, and any notes stored in the system. The user did not need to type the location because it was already stored in a table of meeting rooms. Instead, location was picked from a scrollable list.
It also had some Microsoft-Project-like project management features. The package comes pre-configured to do Gantt charts and mark milestones or tasks on daily calendars. The Gantt charts are assembled by Current based on tasks the user defines as being part of a project. The tasks are assigned to persons using a scrollable list and linked to a project through a database relationship. While less sophisticated and less graphically interesting than Gantt charts produced by modern software, the output was coherent and usable.
Current also supported Microsoft's Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). A usable file import-export capability was included. The system could do outlines, mail merge from its own addresses, and allowed the user to change colors of display elements.
The basic system woke up with a calendar display. It could look like a day planner view or a month calendar. The user could go to an address book which was designed to be a screen-based metaphor for a paper address book. Current could dial phone calls from your address book if you had a modem attached to the system. There were screens for tracking expenses, (which could be associated with a project, naturally). There were also to-do lists which might, or might not, relate to other tasks or projects at the user's whim.
A little before its time, Current's IBM-provided reports and screen forms could be modified by the user. The system allowed the creation of user-defined database fields if the native table did not contain a needed field. The fields could be associated with one of several tables and one-to-many relationships are supported. For example, many phone numbers can be associated with one person. That person can be tied to many projects and also to one or more company entities. Much of this modeling was in place at installation. If one needed more, the application supports advanced modeling of data beyond what an average user would bother to implement. Many entries in the system are populated automatically through the internal relationships. Most entries required the user to scroll through a list and select an item. The system must have been among the first to support images, such as photos of persons.
A firm named Jensen-Jones, later renamed Commence Co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch%20Vehicle%20Digital%20Computer
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The Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) was a computer that provided the autopilot for the Saturn V rocket from launch to Earth orbit insertion. Designed and manufactured by IBM's Electronics Systems Center in Owego, New York, it was one of the major components of the Instrument Unit, fitted to the S-IVB stage of the Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets. The LVDC also supported pre- and post-launch checkout of the Saturn hardware. It was used in conjunction with the Launch Vehicle Data Adaptor (LVDA) which performed signal conditioning from the sensor inputs to the computer from the launch vehicle.
Hardware
The LVDC was capable of executing 12190 instructions per second. For comparison, as of 2022, researchers at the University of California created a chip capable of running at 1.78 trillion instructions per second, 146 million times faster.
Its master clock ran at 2.048 MHz, but operations were performed bit-serially, with 4 cycles required to process each bit, 14 bits per instruction phase, and 3 phases per instruction, for a basic instruction cycle time of 82 μs (168 clock cycles) for a simple add. A few instructions (such as multiply or divide) took several multiples of the basic instruction cycle to execute.
Memory was in the form of 13-bit syllables, each with a 14th parity bit. Instructions were one syllable in size, while data words were two syllables (26 bits). Main memory was random access magnetic core, in the form of 4,096-word memory modules. Up to 8 modules provided a maximum of 32,768 words of memory. Ultrasonic delay lines provided temporary storage.
For reliability, the LVDC used triple-redundant logic and a voting system. The computer included three identical logic systems. Each logic system was split into a seven-stage pipeline. At each stage in the pipeline, a voting system would take a majority vote on the results, with the most popular result being passed on to the next stage in all pipelines. This meant that, for each of the seven stages, one module in any one of the three pipelines could fail, and the LVDC would still produce the correct results.
The result was an estimated reliability of 99.6% over 250 hours of operation, which was far more than the few hours required for an Apollo mission.
With four memory modules, giving a total capacity of 16,384 words, the computer weighed , was in size and consumed 137W.
The LVDC communicated digitally with a Launch Vehicle Data adapter (LVDA). The LVDA converted analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog with a Flight Control Computer (FCC). The FCC was an analog computer.
Software architecture and algorithms
LVDC instruction words were split into a 4-bit opcode field (least-significant bits) and a 9-bit operand address field (most-significant bits). This left it with sixteen possible opcode values when there were eighteen different instructions: consequently, three of the instructions used the same opcode value, and used two bits of the address value to determine which inst
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JADE%20%28programming%20language%29
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JADE is a proprietary object-oriented software development and deployment platform product from the New Zealand-based Jade Software Corporation, first released in 1996. It consists of the JADE programming language, Integrated development environment and debugger, integrated application server and object database management system.
Designed as an end-to-end development environment to allow systems to be coded in one language from the database server down to the clients, it also provides APIs for other languages, including .NET Framework, Java, C/C++ and Web services.
Although a free limited licence is available for development, using the JADE platform requires per-process fees to be paid.
Language
In syntax, JADE is very similar to Pascal; its syntax is based on the language Modula-2, which was derived from Pascal. While it includes innovations lacking in Pascal or Modula-2, it lacks certain features of other modern object-oriented languages such as C# and Java.
JADE is able to import and run LINC 4GL programs and was initially its core role.
Programming model
Like all of the other popular programming languages used to create database-driven software, JADE is fully object-oriented. JADE was designed to have all the most important features of object-oriented programming, but does not support the overloading of methods or operators, and until Jade 2018 lacked parameterised constructors.
Classes in JADE are kept together in schemas. Schemas serve the same purpose as Java packages or namespaces in .NET, but have a hierarchy, and inherit classes from superschemas. This becomes useful especially when programming using the model–view–controller methodology, as model classes can be put in one schema, then the controller and view classes can be built on top of the model classes in a subschema.
Program structure
JADE programs are developed using a user interface that allows programmers to visually create classes and define their properties and methods. Instead of locating methods in large files, programmers select the method they would like to edit and only the code for that particular method is displayed. Also instead of compiling all the code of a program at once, in JADE, each method is compiled individually as soon as the method is completed, meaning code can be checked immediately.
All the code for a JADE application is stored in its object-oriented database. This allows for multi-user development as the database maintains concurrency control, and with each piece of the code being a separate object in the database, it is often possible to recode a system while it is live and online as long as the parts of the system being changed are not in use.
Features
The main goal of JADE was to create a seamlessly integrated programming language that would allow developers to create one application that would go from end-to-end instead of having to write three separate applications for the database server, application server and presentation client and th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Invader
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Super Invader (also called Super Invasion and Apple Invader) is a fixed shooter video game written by Japanese programmer M. Hata for the Apple II and published by Creative Computing Software in November 1979. Super Invader is a clone of Space Invaders.
It was later published as Cosmos Mission in September 1980 by the California Pacific Computer Company.
Reception
By June 1982, Super Invader had sold 20,000 copies to tie with Ultima and Castle Wolfenstein for seventh on Computer Gaming Worlds list of top sellers. It received the award for "Most Popular Program of 1978–1980 for the Apple Computer" in a Softalk readers poll. The magazine later described the game as the "progenitor of home arcades."
The Comos Mission release debuted at 24 on Softalk's list of bestselling Apple II software.
References
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
1979 video games
California Pacific Computer Company games
Video game clones
Fixed shooters
Space Invaders
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20Are%20They%20Now%3F%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29
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Where Are They Now? is a television show that aired on Australia's Seven Network. It was hosted by David Koch, presenter of Seven's breakfast television program Sunrise and former Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle. It is a revival of a previous show of the same name hosted by Peter Luck in 1997.
Premise
The program looks back at particular periods in recent history with a specific slant towards major events and popular culture, with a focus on Australian life at the time. Along with edited segments, each show features studio interviews with noted figures and celebrities who have seemingly ended their 15 minutes of fame and gone into obscurity, leading the presenters to ask them the question, "where are they now?".
Cast reunions such as bringing together and reuniting the cast of serial Sons and Daughters including Rowena Wallace, Peter Phelps (played John Palmer), Ally Fowler (played Angela Hamilton), Tom Richards (played David Palmer), Ian Rawlings (played Wayne Hamilton) and Belinda Giblin (played Alloison Carr) are also common segments on the show. Numerous episodes also revisited guests and stories previously featured on Peter Luck's 1997 version.
Broadcast
Where Are They Now? debuted on Sunday night at 6:30pm in February 2006 to high ratings. The show went on hiatus from June to early August 2006 to make way for the celebrity singing competition It Takes Two, but returned to the same time slot after the finale of that series.
Where Are They Now? returned for a second series in May 2007, and a one-off episode aired on 16 November 2008.
References
External links
Seven Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2006 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVPA-LD
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KVPA-LD (channel 42) is a low-power television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, serving as the local outlet for the Spanish-language network Estrella TV. The station is owned and operated by Estrella Media of Burbank, California.
History
An original construction permit for what is now KVPA-LD was granted to Broadcast Systems, Inc. on March 21, 1995 as K24EI in Phoenix, to broadcast on channel 24. The original transmitter location was on Usery Mountain in east Mesa, and the station was first licensed November 15, 1996. Early programming is unknown, but later, the station aired the same programming, Home Shopping Network, as K25DM, which at the time was also owned by Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Although it aired the same programming, K24EI was never a translator of K25DM.
In November 2000, K24EI submitted an application to the FCC to move to channel 42, as Phoenix independent station KTVK was beginning to build its DTV facilities on channel 24. The application was approved, and in November 2002, the new facilities were licensed with call sign K42FD. At about the same time, the station changed its programming to the Shop at Home Network.
In April 2005, the station's owners signed an agreement to sell KDMA Channel 25, Inc., the parent company of K42FD, to Latin America Broadcasting, Inc., with the intent of launching a new Spanish-language network called LAT TV. K42FD's sister station, K25DM, was supposed to be part of that network, with K42FD retaining its Shop at Home programming initially, then eventually switching over. However, after the deal was consummated in July 2005, the new owners decided instead to launch LAT TV on K42FD. The station received new call letters KVPA-LP in December 2005, and at the same time, Latin America Broadcasting applied to move KVPA-LP's transmitter location to the South Mountain antenna farm. That application was granted in April 2006 and KVPA-LP went silent. It re-emerged in June 2006 with the new LAT TV programming. LAT TV and KVPA-LP ceased operations in mid-May 2008, but the station's owners retained the license.
On August 18, 2008, the former owners of LAT TV announced that KVPA-LP would be sold to Liberman Broadcasting (which was renamed Estrella Media in February 2020, following a corporate reorganization of the company under private equity firm HPS Investment Partners, LLC), a company that specializes in Spanish-language television and radio, for $1.25 million. The sale was finalized on December 30.
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
References
VPA-LD
VPA
Estrella Media stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledata%20Networks
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Teledata Networks was a global provider of Access network solutions for Telecom Service Providers. The company created solutions that enable service providers to migrate to Next Generation Networks (NGN), and also support a Triple Play service portfolio.
History
The company went bankrupt in 2013, but still providing support and maintenance in Brazil.
Teledata Networks was founded in 1981 as Teledata Communications Ltd. and listed on the NASDAQ in 1992 under the ticker symbol TLDCF. In 1998 it was acquired by ADC Telecommunications for $200 million and changed its name to ADC Teledata.
Since 2005 the company is a privately owned, in which the major shareholders are the Kardan group, Elron Electronic Industries, Infinity Private Equity Fund - an Israeli-Chinese equity fund, and the company’s management and employees.
Customers
The company had an installed base of millions of lines in over 100 countries worldwide, including Germany (Deutsche Telekom), Turkey (Türk Telekom), Brazil (Brazil Telecom, Telefonica & Global Village Telecom), Chile (Telefonica), Mexico (Telmex), Israel (Bezeq), South Africa (Telkom), Australia (Telstra), Serbia (Telekom Srbija, Telenor).
See also
Silicon Wadi
List of Israeli companies formerly quoted on NASDAQ
References
External links
Elron
Infinity - Israeli-Chinese equity fund
Telecommunications companies of the Netherlands
Telecommunications companies of Israel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallatech
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Nallatech is a computer hardware and software firm based in Camarillo, California, United States.
The company specializes in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated circuit technology applied in computing. As of 2007 the company's primary markets include defense and high-performance computing. Nallatech was acquired by Interconnect Systems, Inc. in 2008,
which in turn was bought by Molex in 2016.
Background
The company was founded by Allan Cantle ('Nalla' comes from 'Allan' spelled backwards) in 1993 and was backed by over £4 million of equity finance provided by Scottish Equity Partners and 3i. Cantle was the CEO for the firm, later moving into president and CTO roles.
In 2005 Nallatech announced a Scottish group known as the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance, to work on a supercomputer.
Nallatech's direct sales team operates in two main geographic areas, one in the US and one in UK covering UK, Europe and rest of the world. The team in the USA (Nallatech, Inc.) sales office in Eldersburg, Maryland and headquartered in Camarillo, California.
Nallatech is a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation.
Products
Nallatech was promoted for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGA technology applied in computing. According to David R. Martinez, Robert A. Bond, and M. Michael Vai, Nallatech systems are "based on a modular design concept in which the designer chooses the number of FPGAs, amount and type of memory, and other expansion cards to include in a system."
Nallatech is also known for its motherboards with PCI cards which provide a "high throughput connection over which a host PC can provide and receive data and monitor system performance."
On June 17, 2015, it released the 385A FPGA Accelerator Card, which includes the Altera Arria 10 / 1150 FPGA, PCI-Express form factor and works with most major servers, including IBM, HP and Dell.
In March 2011 the company announced a miniaturization service for their FPGAs.
In 2012, Nallatech has partnered with Altera, and integrated their PCI Express card with Stratix V FPGAs.
Xilinx's Xtreme DSP kit was developed with Nallatech, and like Xilinx, Nallatech uses "floating-point cores" in their FPGAs.
References
External links
Official website
3i Group companies
1993 establishments in California
2016 disestablishments in California
2016 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1993
American companies disestablished in 2016
Computer companies established in 1993
Computer companies disestablished in 2016
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States
Electronic design automation companies
Reconfigurable computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envoy%20%28WordPerfect%29
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In computing, Envoy was a proprietary portable document file format marketed by WordPerfect Corporation, created as a competitor for Acrobat Pro. It was introduced by Tumbleweed Communications Corporation in 1993 and shipped with WordPerfect Office in March 1994.
An Envoy file could be created by the use of a special printer driver in WordPerfect, and an application for "viewing, manipulating, annotating or printing Envoy files" was included in the WordPerfect Envoy product, together with a "runtime file" that permitted the a viewer to be embedded in Envoy files and enable recipients to have "all the functionality of the full viewer without paying licensing charges". The resulting document could be viewed in a separate viewer application, the Envoy Distributable Viewer, which also worked as a web browser plugin.
Unlike Adobe PDF, the file format was not publicly documented.
Envoy failed to make any headway against PDF, and is largely now unused. Some have reported success in reading Envoy documents by printing to PostScript from the Envoy Distributable Viewer, then converting the PostScript file to a PDF. The PostScript file can also be viewed directly using a viewer such as Ghostscript.
References
External links
Download for Envoy Reader for Windows 95
Page description languages
Media readers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus%20%28television%29
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In United States network television programming, a hiatus is a break of several weeks, months or years in the normal broadcast programming of a television series. Such a break can occur part-way through the season of a series, in which case it is also called a mid-season break, or between distinct television seasons (usually starting in June and ending in September, when shooting starts for the next season). In the Northern Hemisphere, the breaks between late November and early February are also referred to as winter breaks or, in the Christian cultural sphere, Christmas breaks.
Until the late 1990s, summer breaks were sometimes replaced by summer replacement series.
Planned hiatus
Most broadcast network television series are scheduled for a season of 22 episodes in a time span running 36 weeks from September to May. That means at least 14 weeks of repeats, so networks usually arrange the 22 episodes to air in blocks. Television stations often implement a hiatus for their programs to split up a season for storyline purposes. Some programs also go on hiatus so that their television networks can reserve episodes for airing during the three major ratings sweeps periods, wherein networks compute their television advertising fees based on their programs' ratings during that period. Programs return from a hiatus in time for the sweeps period so as to generate high ratings, and as such usually include special content in programming such as guest stars, controversial and unexpected plots or topics, extended episodes, and finales. Television programs tend to have a hiatus for the late-November, throughout December and early January holidays or the summer if the season does not end before, resuming at some point after, most often early February in the case of Christmas and New Year, and September in the case of the summer.
In the United States, hiatuses may also be common during major sporting events - currently Major League Baseball playoffs in October for Fox, the Olympic Winter Games in February quadrennially on NBC, and the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in March for CBS, and for Sunday programs, throughout the winter awards season. The American mid-season break usually starts at Thanksgiving in late-November, sometimes ending with a Thanksgiving or Christmas episode, and lasts until the Super Bowl the first Sunday in February.
The final episode airing before the Christmas break is usually referred to as the midseason finale, or in the northern hemisphere, "winter finale".
At this time, other TV series may be launched, often a filler short series between seasons to ensure the 22-episode run will conclude in May.
Cancellation
A network may put a show on hiatus before canceling it. This may be to evaluate the series' quality, warn the television producers in an effort to push them to produce a more profitable product, fill its timeslot with another program to compare ratings, or warn viewers that the show is not pulling its weight in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D600
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D600 may refer to:
Nikon D600, a full-frame digital single-lens reflex camera
Samsung SGH-D600, a mobile phone
Dell Latitude D600, a laptop computer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey%20Fanjoy
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Trey Fanjoy is an American music video director. Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV. She is the first woman to win the Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year and to date, the only woman to win the award twice and one of two people to win the award three times.
Biography
Trey Fanjoy was born in North Carolina. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s to pursue a career in acting, and worked as a waitress to support herself financially while doing so. At this point she also took an interest in directing and moved to Nashville where she lived with songwriter Tammy Hyler. In the meantime, Fanjoy worked as a receptionist at RCA Records Nashville, where she was consulted by Jon Randall's manager Monty Hitchcock to correct the lighting on Randall's music video "I Came Straight to You". Hyler introduced Fanjoy to music video director Jon Small, who selected her as producer on videos that he directed. Fanjoy made her directorial debut in 1997 with the video for "Heart Hold On" by The Buffalo Club. From there, she went on to direct videos for Lonestar, Keith Urban, and Billy Gilman among others.
Awards
Videos directed
222 music videos are currently listed here.
References
External links
Advertising directors
American music video directors
Grammy Award winners
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Female music video directors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRST-FM
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WRST-FM (90.3 MHz) licensed to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is the student managed radio station located at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
History
WRST started programming on April 20, 1966 at 6pm. Originally located at 88.1FM with 10 watts of power, WRST was only on the air for four hours each weeknight. The first song played on WRST was The Mamas & the Papas "Monday, Monday". Doctor Robert "Doc" Snyder was hired by the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1964 to start a broadcast media program and as part of his duties he established a radio and TV station (Titan TV). In 1966, Frank G. Kilpatrick moved from California to be the UW-O manager of the station as well as teach Radio Broadcasting to the students. He had been Vice President of KXRX in San Jose.
WRST's call letters stand for "Radio Station of the Titans". However, some rumors around campus suggest that the call letters stand for "Robert Snyder's Toy", after the stations creator. Originally the call letters were supposed to be WSUO "Wisconsin State University Oshkosh" to be consistent with other state university radio stations, but those call letters were already taken and WRST was chosen.
The Fuller Goodman Lumber Company served as the station's first studios. An antenna was located on the roof of the Gruenhagen Conference Center. In 1971, production and transmission was moved to the Arts and Communication center and in the fall of 1973 the signal frequency changed from 88.1 FM to 90.3 FM and the signal strength increased from 10 to 960 watts.
In 1992, Director of Radio Services Ben Jarman established an affiliation with the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network. This was done to cover programming during the hours students are in class and over breaks from the academic year when staffing became a problem at WRST. The affiliation continues to this date.
On April 5, 2005, at 2:08pm WRST began streaming locally produced programming online. The original stream and streaming server were set up by Joshua Werner.
About WRST
WRST is part of the historic Radio TV Film program at UW Oshkosh. Students at UW Oshkosh are responsible for most management aspects of WRST and fully staff it. Professional supervision is provided by the General Manager of WRST and Chief engineer who provide legal and technical guidance to the students.
Programming from WRST is shared half time with Wisconsin Public Radio's "Ideas Network" which runs from 12am – 1pm daily. Student shows are on the air from 1pm – 12am and provide college alternative and Jazz music, news and talk programming along with sports coverage of UW-Oshkosh Athletics.
Current WRST programming schedule
Since 1989, Sociology professor Dr. Gerry Grzyb, called "Dr. Christmas" on-the-air, has been hosting a yearly Christmas music program on WRST the week after the fall semester concludes in December. The "Dr. Christmas Show" is proclaimed the most diverse Christmas music program in America.
External links
RST-FM
University of Wisconsin–Oshk
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Life
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Digital Life is a research and educational program about radically rethinking of the human-computer interactive experience. It integrates digital world (information & services) and physical world (physical objects/environment). It makes interfaces more responsive and proactive (objects & environments monitor user and (proactively) present information & services relevant to user’s current needs/interests)
The program is to use information technology to augment physical environments and objects around the people that can draw attention. When one is walking around town, for example, the system points out buildings/places of particular interest to a user. The program is also to augment reality in order to provide a composite view for the participants: a mix of a real scene with the virtual scene that augments the digital environment with interactive information.
The Program was originally initiated by MIT Media Lab as: Digital Life is a multi-sponsor, Lab-wide research consortium that conducts basic research on technologies and techniques that spur expression as well as social and economic activity. They first explore the design and scalability of agile, grassroots communications systems that incorporate a growing understanding of emergent social behaviors in a digital world; the second considers a cognitive architecture that can support many features of “human intelligent thinking” and its expressive and economic use; and the third extends the idea of inclusive design to immersive, affective, and biological interfaces and actions.
External links
http://dl.media.mit.edu
Multimedia
Emergence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar%20a%20Second
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Dollar a Second is an American comedy game show hosted by Jan Murray which originally aired from September 20, 1953, to June 14, 1954, on the DuMont Television Network. It was based on the French radio program Cent Francs par seconde (which had been made into a romantic comedy of the same name at the time of the American debut).
Game play
Contestants (team or solo player) had to perform various tasks, winning $1 (compared to 100F [roughly €3 in September 2022] on the original show) for every second they were onstage, and, unless they were paying the penalty, could quit out at any time. If a mistake was made, they had to pay a penalty. For example, a loved one was placed on a slide that went down towards a small above-ground swimming pool, and the contestant had to pick one of five telephone numbers from a rack of envelopes, one of which nobody on the other side would be available to answer. Should someone be there on the other end of the line, the contestant who dialed the number would say "I've got somebody!" and the penalty was beaten, and they would then resume the previous activity before they were interrupted. If they failed to beat the penalty, the game ended, but they kept any money won at that point, and sometimes also won additional money based on the number of correct answers.
However, while all this was happening, there was something else in the background that could also affect the final outcome of the game. The "outside event" was something that when it occurred, the game ended and all money made while playing was lost. For example, contestants had to pick an envelope that contained the number of round trips a model train could take until it reached a certain number, but wouldn't know how many trips that train would make until that mystery number had been attained. In such a case, contestants would still receive a consolation prize based on the number of correct answers put together.
Broadcast history
After the series left DuMont, it bounced back and forth between NBC and ABC—July 4 to August 22, 1954 (NBC); October 1, 1954 to June 24, 1955 (ABC); July 5 to August 30, 1955 (NBC); June 2, 1955 to August 31, 1956 (ABC).
After this, Dollar a Second remained dormant until NBC picked it up one last time from June 22 to September 28, 1957. It is notable that while NBC only saw fit for it to be run during the Summer, ABC (being relatively new as a network) aired it during the regular season.
1981 pilot
A revival pilot was taped on February 7, 1981, by Chuck Barris Productions and hosted by Bob Eubanks. Despite negative opinions by some fans who saw it, this version actually had very few changes aside from starting the players off with $100, and a $500 bonus once the player reached $500.
Chuck Barris had acquired the rights to both this show and another Jan Murray series, Treasure Hunt. “Second” was produced by veteran producer Willie Stein and Barris producer David M. Greenfield, who had worked with Eubanks on “The Newlywed Game”. Ha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colubrinae
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The Colubrinae are a subfamily of the family Colubridae of snakes. It includes numerous genera, and although taxonomic sources often disagree on the exact number, The Reptile Database lists 717 species in 92 genera as of September 2019. It is the second largest subfamily of colubrids, after Dipsadinae. Many of the most commonly known snakes are members of this subfamily, including rat snakes, king snakes, milk snakes, vine snakes, and indigo snakes.
Colubrine snakes are distributed worldwide, with the highest diversity in North America, Asia, northern Africa, and the Middle East. There are relatively few species of colubrine snakes in Europe, South America, Australia, and southern Africa, and none in Madagascar, the Caribbean, or the Pacific Islands.
Colubrine snakes are extremely morphologically and ecologically diverse. Many are terrestrial, and there are specialized fossorial (e.g. Tantilla) and arboreal (e.g. Oxybelis) groups, but no truly aquatic groups. Some of the most powerful constrictors (e.g. Pantherophis, Pituophis, Lampropeltis) are members of this group, as are a few snakes that have strong enough venom to kill humans (i.e. boomslangs [Dispholidus] and twigsnakes [Thelotornis]).
Within Colubrinae, genera and species seem to make up five distinct radiations that are to varying degrees broadly similar in terms of ecology and geographic distribution, although increased sampling is needed to determine whether all species currently placed in Colubrinae fit into one of these groups. These correspond roughly to the historically recognized tribe names Sonorini, Colubrini, Boigini/Lycodontini, Dispholidini, and Lampropeltini.
Coluber is the type genus of both Colubrinae and Colubridae and the basis for the name Colubroidea, and it is one of only three snake genera named by Carl Linnaeus still in use for a snake today.
Genera
A group of 4 genera historically placed in Colubrinae have recently been called a separate subfamily, Ahaetullinae, in a few analyses. These are Ahaetulla Link, 1807, Chrysopelea Boie, 1827, Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890, and Dryophiops Boulenger, 1896.
Aeluroglena Boulenger, 1898
Aprosdoketophis Wallach, Lanza & Nistri, 2010
Archelaphe Schulz, Böhme & Tillack, 2011
Argyrogena Werner, 1924
Arizona Kennicott, 1859
Bamanophis Schätti & Trape, 2008
Bogertophis Dowling & Price, 1988
Boiga Fitzinger, 1826
Cemophora Cope, 1860
Chapinophis Campbell & Smith, 1998
Chironius Fitzinger, 1826
Coelognathus Fitzinger, 1843
Coluber Linnaeus, 1758
Colubroelaps Orlov, Kharin, Ananjeva, Thien Tao & Quang Truong, 2009
Conopsis Günther, 1858
Coronella Laurenti, 1768
Crotaphopeltis Fitzinger, 1843
Dasypeltis Wagler, 1830
Dendrophidion Fitzinger, 1843
Dipsadoboa Günther, 1858
Dispholidus Duvernoy, 1832
Dolichophis Gistel, 1868
Drymarchon Fitzinger, 1843
Drymobius Fitzinger, 1843
Drymoluber Amaral, 1929
Eirenis Jan, 1862
Elachistodon Reinhardt, 1863—subsumed by Boiga
Elaphe Fitzinger in Wagler, 1833
Euprepio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGMOD
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SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases.
The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of the most important in the field. While traditionally this conference had always been held within North America, it took place in Paris in 2004, Beijing in 2007, Athens in 2011, and Melbourne in 2015. The acceptance rate of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, averaged from 1996 to 2012, was 18%, and it was 17% in 2012.
In association with SIGACT and SIGAI, SIGMOD also sponsors the annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) conference on the theoretical aspects of database systems. PODS began in 1982, and has been held jointly with the SIGMOD conference since 1991.
Each year, the group gives out several awards to contributions to the field of data management. The most important of these is the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (named after the computer scientist Edgar F. Codd), which is awarded to "innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases". Additionally, SIGMOD presents a Best Paper Award to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference, and Jim Gray Dissertation Award to the best Ph.D thesis in data management.
Venues of SIGMOD conferences
See also
List of computer science conferences
CIDR – Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
VLDB – International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
External links
SIGMOD
References
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20media
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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of social media arise due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features:
Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.
User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media.
Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.
Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.
The term social in regard to media suggests that platforms are user-centric and enable communal activity. As such, social media can be viewed as online facilitators or enhancers of human networks—webs of individuals who enhance social connectivity.
Users usually access social media services through web-based apps on desktops or download services that offer social media functionality to their mobile devices (e.g. smartphones and tablets). As users engage with these electronic services, they create highly interactive platforms in which individuals, communities, and organizations can share, co-create, discuss, participate, and modify user-generated or self-curated content posted online. Additionally, social media are used to document memories, learn about and explore things, advertise oneself, and form friendships along with the growth of ideas from the creation of blogs, podcasts, videos, and gaming sites. This changing relationship between humans and technology is the focus of the emerging field of technological self-studies. Some of the most popular social media websites, with more than 100 million registered users, include Twitter, Facebook (and its associated Messenger), WeChat, ShareChat, Instagram, QZone, Weibo, VK, Tumblr, Baidu Tieba, and LinkedIn. Depending on interpretation, other popular platforms that are sometimes referred to as social media services include YouTube, QQ, Quora, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, Snapchat, Pinterest, Viber, Reddit, Discord, TikTok, Microsoft Teams, and more. Wikis are examples of collaborative content creation.
Social media outlets differ from traditional media (e.g. print magazines and newspapers, TV, and radio broadcasting) in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, relevancy, and permanence. Additionally, social media outlets operate in a dialogic transmission system (i.e., many sources to many receivers) while traditional media outlets operate under a transmission model (i.e., one source to many receivers). For instance, a newspaper is delivered to many subscribers, and a radio station broadcasts the same programs to an entire ci
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthDesk
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EarthDesk is a software application for Microsoft Windows and macOS that changes the computer user's desktop image to a constantly updating view of Earth. The software can be set to update daylight and moonlight coverage on the map, as well as live cloud images which are superimposed onto the map. The cloud option requires an Internet connection.
Features
The map is fully customisable. Users can choose between various map projections, whether to use a satellite image or political map, and whether to show night time and moonlight. The map can be centered and zoomed up to 400% anywhere on Earth. In addition to centering on a fixed point, EarthDesk can centre on the current position of the Moon or Sun. EarthDesk supports multiple monitors.
See also
Xplanet
OSXplanet
External links
EarthDesk homepage
Utilities for macOS
Utilities for Windows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence%20to%20Grill
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Licence to Grill is a show hosted by Rob Rainford and can be seen on Food Network Canada, Asian Food Channel and downloaded at MoboVivo. The show is produced by Knight Enterprises. The show was formerly carried in the United States on the Discovery Networks channel Discovery Home, but was dropped from the schedule when the channel was flipped to the ecology-themed Planet Green. The episode "Bike Ride BBQ" was the last one to air in the US. However, since late 2020, Roku now carries Gusto TV on Channel 440 which includes License to Grill.
Licence to Grill is a series that explores the enjoyment of backyard cooking, entertaining, and the barbecue. Each episode takes place over a day or two, but mainly on Saturdays. The host and chef Rob Rainford prepares a meal for the evening when guests will arrive.
The central theme is barbecue and with that, Rainford shows us tips and tricks for cooking on a barbecue. The recipes range from the typical barbecue fare, such as hamburgers, steaks, kebabs, to more ambitious meals such as leg of lamb, hot smoking sides of fish, grilled desserts.
Rainford has a philosophy when it comes to the barbecue: "It's pretty simple. Just start with the freshest ingredients you can find and then you've got two choices: long slow cooking over low indirect heat, or red hot and smokin' for fast grilling. If you cook low and slow then you can use all sorts of rubs and smoking agents to infuse the food with a depth of flavour you just can't get out of an oven. As for high heat grilling, your barbecue puts out way more heat than your stovetop so you can get that wonderful charring and searing, just like in a restaurant."
Episode list
Season 1:
1001 - "Martini Birthday Barbecue"
1002 - "The Barbecue For No Reason"
1003 - "Parents Night Out"
1004 - "Baseball Pulled Pork"
1005 - "Nothing But Chicken"
1006 - "Garage Sale Brunch"
1007 - "Blind Date With Garlic"
1008 - "Toga Party"
1009 - "The Mediterranean Feast"
1010 - "Karaoke Slow Ribs"
1011 - "The Engagement"
1012 - "Total Eclipse"
1013 - "Block Party"
1014 - "Mexican Fiesta"
1015 - "Full Moon - Summer Solstice"
1016 - "Surprise Guest For Dinner"
1017 - "Da Boys"
1018 - "The Soccer Team Fundraiser"
1019 - "The Superstar Celebration"
1020 - "The Hole In One"
1021 - "Saucy Contest"
1022 - "The Girls' Championship Game"
1023 - "Burgs and Dogs - Paint the Fence"
1024 - "Bocce Ball Tournament"
1025 - "Taste of the Sea"
1026 - "Pool Party"
Season 2:
2027 - "Hawaiian Luau"
2028 - "Mardi Gras"
2029 - "International Beer Day Celebration"
2030 - "Airband Concert Pre-Party"
2031 - "Japanese Farewell Dinner"
2032 - "Godfather Italian Feast"
2033 - "Caribbean Bon Voyage"
2034 - "Wine and Cheese"
2035 - "Aerobic Marathon"
2036 - "40th Birthday Bash"
2037 - "Blackout"
2038 - "Poker Night with the Boys"
2039 - "Sunday Afternoon BBQ"
Season 3:
3040 - "Vegas Night"
3041 - "Pajama Party"
3042 - "Fancy Pants Dinner"
3043 - "Taste of India Celebration"
3044 - "Volleyball Dinner"
3045 - "Vo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasto%20%28video%20game%29
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Blasto is a third-person shooter platform game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. Phil Hartman voiced Captain Blasto, an extremely muscular, alien-fighting, dimwitted captain.
Gameplay
The game is a third-person action/platformer/shooter. The enemies are aliens that teleport in around the player based on events that are triggered as the player explores the environment. The game has a strong platforming factor, with elements such as rotating 3D sections which have to be navigated while shooting at aliens. Puzzle elements tend to be limited to simple "find the switch to proceed" scenarios. However, some of the elements within the game require the player to utilize different weaponry in certain situations in order to advance to the next area. Blasto is one of the few PlayStation games to use both control sticks. The left stick offers better movement control than the D-Pad and the right stick can be used to adjust the player's aim.
Plot
After returning from the 5th dimension, the diabolical alien tyrant named Bosc is bent on conquering the Planet Uranus with his own army and attempts to invade and destroy Earth as well. He is seeking to reign supreme for his power of the solar system that includes his alien army capturing and enslaving the Space Babes throughout the galaxy. Thus, Captain Blasto is the only hero who can foil him and his evil ambitions and set out to rescue the stranded Space Babes along the way. Blasto is also the only type of hero who doesn't mind catching Space Babes in distress every now and then, especially when it comes to exploring and venturing across through the Planet Uranus.
Development and release
Though it was not announced until the June 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Blasto had been secretly in development since 1995.
Wanting the game to be free of load times, the development team made the game stream constantly off the CD. This made it impossible to use Red Book audio, so the music had to be done in MIDI format.
None of the PlayStation's graphics libraries were used for the game, with the developers instead using custom tools and low-level programming to bring models built in Alias directly into the game. Another custom tool enabled the designers to track which parts of the game world were most heavily trafficked by playtesters, so that they could tweak level design to either redirect players towards specific areas or move important elements from widely ignored areas to more heavily trafficked ones.
Instead of texture mapping, vertex lighting was used to give color and definition to the floors. Because vertex lighting is a time-consuming process for artists, Sony gave the Blasto team carte blanche in taking artists from other teams to get the project completed on time.
Producer and designer Jonathan Beard stated that the game's protagonist Captain Blasto was conceived as a parody of heroes such as Flash Gordon and Buc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guestward%2C%20Ho%21
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Guestward, Ho! is an American sitcom which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961 television season. It was based on the 1956 comic memoir of the same title by New Mexico dude ranch operator Barbara "Babs" Hooton, written in cooperation with Auntie Mame author Patrick Dennis. The series altered the characters' family name from "Hooton" to "Hooten."
Overview
The premise revolves around a New York City family, the Hootens, who tire of the urban lifestyle and relocate to operate a dude ranch in New Mexico. Having bought the place unseen, they find it needs considerably more work than they were led to believe. The Hootens befriend the American Indian "Hawkeye" whose "trading post" was the only source of supplies in the vicinity. Hawkeye, played by J. Carrol Naish, was a rather cynical Indian who sold Indian-looking trinkets mass-produced in Asia, and who frequently read The Wall Street Journal, seemingly in search of a way to purchase the country and return it to its "rightful owners". Jeanette Nolan guest starred as Mrs. Winslow in the 1961 episode "Hawkeye's First Love".
Earle Hodgins appeared in at least three episodes as the 67-year-old ranch wrangler named "Lonesome". In the episode "Lonesome's Gal", ZaSu Pitts, formerly of The Gale Storm Show, played his romantic interest. Jody McCrea, whose Wichita Town, an NBC western series in which he starred with his father, Joel McCrea, ended in 1960, was cast as an Indian, "Danny Brave Eagle", in the 1961 episode entitled "The Wrestler".
The second episode was entitled "You Can't Go Home Again", borrowing from Thomas Wolfe's novel, You Can't Go Home Again. The series finale was "No Place Like Home".
Background
Guestward, Ho! initially began at CBS in 1958, with Vivian Vance and Leif Erickson as the Hootens, an older childless couple. Desilu had developed the pilot specifically for Vance, who had portrayed Ethel Mertz on the hit CBS/Desilu sitcom I Love Lucy from 1951 to 1957, and its later followup specials. Vance had rejected doing an I Love Lucy spin-off focusing on Ethel and Fred Mertz, in favor of doing the Guestward, Ho! pilot. Upon viewing the pilot, CBS executives felt that Vance had become so typecast in her Ethel Mertz role that she was unconvincing playing a leading character in her own situation comedy. One executive allegedly said "I kept waiting for Lucy to come in" after viewing the pilot. Hence, CBS rejected the series.
Desilu eventually retooled the pilot, with Joanne Dru and Mark Miller as the Hottens, now a younger couple (with Babs being a former model). Flip Mark was cast as their son, Brook Hooten, a character created in the retooling. ABC bought this pilot, and slated it for its Thursday evening schedule with The Donna Reed Show. Ralston-Purina served as the primary sponsor, with 7 Up as an alternate sponsor.
The program ran opposite Outlaws on NBC, and later in the season, against fellow Desilu program The Ann Sothern Show on CBS. ABC ultimately canceled the series follow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Prime%20Time
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Operation Prime Time (OPT) was a consortium of American independent television stations to develop prime time programming for independent stations. OPT and its spin-off syndication company, Television Program Enterprises (TPE), were formed by Al Masini. During its existence, OPT was considered the de facto fourth television network. OPT was also called an occasional television network and occasional program alternative.
OPT inspired syndication and network models that arose in later years, such as The Disney Afternoon, Prime Time Entertainment Network and MyNetworkTV.
Operations
Unlike the standard network advertising split, where the stations got the bulk of the ad time with the collective network only receiving one or two minutes of the dozen minutes available to sell, the OPT ad time would be sold at 1/3 of network rates or about $40,000 per half minute with the profits going back to the stations.
Background
With primarily only Big Three television networks providing new programming to TV stations in the 1970s, the unaffiliated stations had little network level quality programming to offer to advertisers. Producers of TV programs were also looking for an alternative to the standard network set up that paid the producers about three fourths of the production costs thus the show would only make money for the production company if it made enough episodes to place into rerun syndication. Advertisers were looking for new advertising outlets due to rising network ad costs with a 30% increase in 1977. Networks' income increased 143% from 1969 to 1974 while network payments to affiliates decreased by 2%.
History
Al Masini, who represented 18 stations for advertising sales through his company TeleRep, discussed the independent stations' problem with other independent stations after a broadcast media meeting in February 1976. Determined to offer an alternative, Masini rounded up a steering committee to form the new venture. Initial members of the committee included Shelly Cooper, General Manager of WGN-TV Chicago, Rich Frank of KCOP-TV Los Angeles, and representatives of KTVU, WPIX and KSTW. At the next broadcaster convention, the committee met to develop the details. The OPT committee then contacted Frank Price of Universal Television for the first program. Price offered Taylor Caldwell's novel Testimony of Two Men as a miniseries with Universal taking on a fifth of the production cost. The committee was initially able to get 22 independent and 53 network-affiliated stations to sign on to OPT.
Advertisers like General Foods and Bristol-Myers abandoned the rival potential fourth network, Metromedia's MetroNet, for OPT, based on Metromedia's near Big 3 network cost per thousand viewers advertising cost and OPT reaching 80% of the country. Masini eventually lined up 93 stations, 73 of which were affiliates of ABC, NBC or CBS; of those affiliated with a network, these affiliates had to preempt part of their regular network prime time programm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20Deal
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Just Deal is a comedy-drama series that aired Saturday mornings on NBC as a part of the network's TNBC lineup. The series premiered on September 23, 2000 and ended on September 7, 2002.
Premise
The show revolves around Dylan Roberts, an ordinary teenager living in the suburbs outside of Seattle, whose older brother Mike is the star quarterback of the high-school football team. Dylan's best friend Jermaine Greene is a biracial, highly educated teen who wants to go to Harvard someday. They spend a lot of time together until Ashley Gordon, the new girl in town, takes up most of Dylan's attention. Together they add up to a strong group of friends.
Production
The show was the first on TNBC to use the single-camera format (i.e. not in front of a live audience and with no laugh track). Another single-camera show, Sk8, was created soon after, but the TNBC lineup, including Just Deal, was soon canceled in favor NBC leasing its Saturday morning lineup to Discovery Kids in fall 2002. The show later aired briefly on Noggin's The N programming block from 2003 to 2004.
Cast
Main cast
Brian T. Skala as Dylan Roberts
Erika Thormahlen as Ashley "Ash" Gordon
Shedrack Anderson III as Jermaine Greene
John L. Adams as Mr. Peña (Season 1)
Recurring cast
Will Sanderson as Mike Roberts Jr.
Eileen Pedde as Coleen Roberts
Eric Keenleyside as Mike Roberts Sr.
Alison Matthews as Emily Gordon
Fiona Scott as Naomi Esterbrook
Kandyse McClure as Kim
Jewel Staite as Laurel
Michael P. Northey as Benny
Parker Jay as Vijal
Antonio Cupo as Josh
David Paetkau as Hunter Kerrigan
Episodes
Season 1 (2000)
Season 2 (2001)
Season 3 (2002)
References
External links
2000s American comedy-drama television series
2000s American high school television series
2000s American teen drama television series
2000s Canadian comedy-drama television series
2000s Canadian high school television series
2000s Canadian teen drama television series
2000 American television series debuts
2000 Canadian television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2002 Canadian television series endings
NBC original programming
English-language television shows
Television series about teenagers
Television shows set in Washington (state)
TNBC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Incredibles%20characters
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The following is a list of fictional characters from the 2004 Disney/Pixar computer-animated superhero film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel Incredibles 2.
The Parr Family (The Incredibles)
Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible)
Robert "Bob" Parr (a.k.a. Mr. Incredible) (voiced by Craig T. Nelson in the films, Pete Docter in Mr. Incredible and Pals, Richard McGonagle in Rise of the Underminer, and Jeff Bergman in Lego The Incredibles) possesses superhuman strength, stamina, and durability. He is married to Helen Parr, the superheroine known as Elastigirl, and they have three children together: Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. His face was physically modeled after director Brad Bird.
Sometime after he married Elastigirl, Mr. Incredible was sued by Oliver Sansweet for thwarting his suicide and by the passengers of a train whose derailment he foiled. This lawsuit led to the government to initiate the Superhero Relocation Program. Bob found forced retirement difficult, and resorted to sneaking out at nights with Frozone to continue his now-illegal superheroics. He was shocked to discover that his "Number 1 fan", Buddy Pine, had recreated himself as the supervillain Syndrome after Mr. Incredible had squelched Pine's wish to be his ward in an attempt to protect him. It was not until Syndrome threatened his family that Bob realized that they were his "greatest adventure".
His red superhero suit, designed by Edna Mode, appears to have the same level of durability as Mr. Incredible himself. In his prime, Mr. Incredible drove a gadget-laden car, the Incredibile, reminiscent of those driven by James Bond or Batman. The silhouette of a newer version of the Incredibile for the entire family is seen in the end credits of the first film, and the new car makes a full appearance at the end of the second film.
Mr. Incredible was ranked number 5 in IGN's list of the Top 10 Pixar Characters. Readers of Empire magazine also voted Mr. Incredible number 8 in that magazine's list of The Top 20 Pixar Characters.
Helen Parr (Elastigirl)
Helen Parr (a.k.a. Elastigirl or Mrs. Incredible) (voiced by Holly Hunter) is Mr. Incredible's wife. Helen can stretch any part of her body up to 300 feet and can be 1 mm thin. She can also reshape her body in a variety of ways. In the movie she becomes a parachute and a rubber boat, and has used her arms for swings and a slingshot. In her early years she seemed to be a feminist and had no desire to "settle down". Since her marriage to Bob, Helen has become a dedicated spouse and mother, although she is frustrated with her husband's continuing dreams of glory. Helen is also an experienced jet pilot, from having a close friend who flew her around the world when she was a Super. Her sharp wit and superb espionage skills, as well as her experience as a superhero, make her an excellent tactician and leader. The filmmakers drew inspiration from actresses Mary Tyler Moore, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn for Helen's role and appearance in the seque
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic%20Television%20Network
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Hispanic Television Network (HTVN) was a family-oriented television network that was once the third-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, after Univision and Telemundo. It was the first network to specifically target Hispanics of Mexican origin, the first Spanish-language network to take advantage of digital technology, and the first Spanish-language network to broadcast over the Internet.
HTVN operated from 2000 through 2003 and at one time could be viewed over-the-air on nearly 70 television stations, on approximately 300 cable systems, and on the Internet. HTVN was owned by Hispanic Television Network, Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas.
History
Launch
HTVN was launched in early 2000 following the creation of Hispanic Television Network, Inc. from the merger of Hispano Television Ventures and English-language network American Independent Network, Inc. (AIN), both of Fort Worth. While the new company owned both HTVN and AIN, it focused the majority of its attention on HTVN. The network's facilities were all-digital and state-of-the-art.
Success
The new network expanded rapidly, and by March 2000, appeared on 25 television stations, including those in top-10 Hispanic markets Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio and Brownsville, Texas.
By June 2000, HTVN had announced deals with Yahoo! to broadcast network programming on the Internet, and with Mexinema and Excalibur Media Group to give HTVN the rights to over 500 Mexican-made, Spanish-language movies. It was now on nearly 60 television stations, including full-service flagship station KLDT in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Including cable coverage, HTVN reached over 20 million homes.
By the end of the year, HTVN had added full-service KJLA in the Los Angeles market and had partnered with Mexican broadcasting giant MVS Television, providing the network access to MVS' state-of-the-art production facilities and talent base, allowing HTVN to produce programming in the United States, which was scarce at that time.
Decline
The rapid growth proved to be costly, however, as HTVN's owners reported a 14,492% increase in expenses from first quarter 1999 to first quarter 2000, no doubt the bulk of it from launching the new network. Furthermore, the network did not produce nearly sufficient revenues to cover expenses and their owners announced a $38 million loss for 2000 against only $620,955 in revenue.
By 2002, HTVN had all but abandoned its over-the-air strategy and was turning its attention to mostly cable distribution. Still, the network was not bringing in sufficient revenue to cover its expenses, and despite its owners' attempts to acquire revenue from other sources, they filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in July 2002.
In early 2003, Hispanic Television Network, Inc. sold its cable agreements to Hispanic children's network, ¡Sorpresa! and on July 10, 2003, HTVN formally ceased operations.
In 2009, a new (and unrelated) effort toward a nationwide over-the-air Spanish-language netwo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85%20in%20the%20United%20States
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E85 is an abbreviation for an ethanol fuel blend of between 51% and 83% denatured ethanol fuel and gasoline or other hydrocarbon (HC) by volume.
Availability
All data August 2014 from the Department of Energy, e85prices.com, and E85refueling.com. Links go to each state's list of stations; see notes below for caveats. For each state the total number of facilities is given. As of August 1, 2014, there are now 3,354 stations in the U.S. selling E85.
Minnesota has the largest number of E85 fuel locations of any U.S. state with over 450 stations, while Illinois has the second-greatest number of E85 pumps with about 290. Although Minnesota has the most E85 pumps they only represent a tiny fraction of the total fuel outlets. According to Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) there are approximately 140,000 publicly accessible retail gasoline stations in the United States.
(All filling stations in Minnesota are however required to sell E10, a mixture of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline.)
Constraints
Concerns about rising gasoline prices and outside energy dependence led to a resurgence of interest in E85 fuel at the turn of the 21st century; for example, Nebraska mandated the use of E85 in state vehicles whenever possible in May 2005. Similarly, whereas selling any fuel containing more than 10% ethanol is currently illegal in some states, this is rapidly changing. For example, Florida proposed changing state law to permit the sale of alternative fuels such as E85 at an October 7, 2005 meeting, and held public hearings on October 24. Before higher level blends of ethanol were finally legalized, only county, state, and Federal fleet vehicles could purchase E85 in Florida - from only 3 pumps in the state. Several other states have similar laws that prevent the sale of E85 to the general public. The expected general outcome, though, is the rapidly widening acceptance of E85 sales to the general public in all of the United States.
E85 requires additional blending, special pump graphics and labeling, and has numerous other legal and logistical hurdles to overcome. As a result, while there are 3,354 E85 refueling stations in the United States as of August 1, 2014, this only represents approximately 2.4% of refueling stations nationwide according to data from the Oil Price Information Service. As a consequence, E85 is difficult to find for some drivers.
As recorded in a Consumer Choice Report Card in July 2014, E85 sales are also constrained by a number of factors at the individual stations which carry it. Examples of this include:
Outdated, obsolete, or slow pumps
Excessively high E85 pricing
E85 placed in the same pumps with gasoline (so petrol customers use the pumps, forcing E85 customers to wait)
E85 pump placed at the edge of the property, outside of lit station islands, and well away from the store; or is otherwise difficult to find
E85 not advertised on any of the station's street signs or graphics
Stations place stickers on the E85 pump that say "not a
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Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. Neighbours began with twelve main characters which made up three households: the Ramsays', the Robinsons' and Des Clarke's. The following is an alphabetical list of all the regular characters and cast members that have formerly appeared in the show. Recurring characters and present characters are not included in this list.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
References
External links
Characters and cast at the Official Neighbours website
Characters and cast at the Internet Movie Database
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMP%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29
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Symbolic Manipulation Program, usually called SMP, was a computer algebra system designed by Chris A. Cole and Stephen Wolfram at Caltech circa 1979. It was initially developed in the Caltech physics department with contributions from Geoffrey C. Fox, Jeffrey M. Greif, Eric D. Mjolsness, Larry J. Romans, Timothy Shaw, and Anthony E. Terrano.
SMP was first sold commercially in 1981, by the Computer Mathematics Corporation of Los Angeles, which later became part of Inference Corporation. Inference further developed the program and marketed it commercially from 1983 to 1988, but it was not a commercial success, and Inference became pessimistic about the market for symbolic math programs, and so abandoned SMP to concentrate on expert systems.
SMP was influenced by the earlier computer algebra systems Macsyma (of which Wolfram was a user) and Schoonschip (whose code Wolfram studied).
SMP follows a rule-based approach, giving it a "consistent, pattern-directed language". Unlike Macsyma and Reduce, it was written in C.
During the 1980s, it was one of the generally available general-purpose computer algebra systems, along with Reduce, Macsyma, and Scratchpad, and later muMATH and Maple. It was often used for teaching college calculus.
The design of SMP's interactive language and its "map" commands influenced the design of the 1984 version of Scratchpad.
Criticism
SMP has been criticized for various characteristics, notably its use of floating-point numbers instead of exact rational numbers, which can lead to incorrect results, and makes polynomial greatest common divisor calculations problematic. Many other problems in early versions of the system were purportedly fixed in later versions.
References
Additional sources
Chris A. Cole, Stephen Wolfram, "SMP: A Symbolic Manipulation Program", Proceedings of the fourth ACM symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation (SIGSAM), Snowbird, Utah, 1981. full text
Stephen Wolfram with Chris A. Cole, SMP: A Symbolic Manipulation Program, Reference Manual, California Institute of Technology, 1981; Inference Corporation, 1983. full text
Stephen Wolfram, "Symbolic Mathematical Computation", Communications of the ACM, April 1985 (Volume 28, Issue 4). Despite the general-sounding title the focus is on an introduction to SMP. Online version of this article
J.M. Greif, "The SMP Pattern-Matcher" in B.F. Caviness (editor), Proceedings of EUROCAL 1985, volume 2, pgs. 303-314, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 204, A discussion, with examples, of the capabilities, tasks, and design philosophy of the pattern-matcher.
SMP's manual "SMP Handbook"
Stephen Wolfram's blog post on the history of SMP's creation
Computer algebra systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSAM
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SIGSAM is the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation. It publishes the ACM Communications in Computer Algebra and often sponsors the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).
External links
ACM Official SIGSAM web site
ISSAC 2009, Seoul, Korea
ISSAC 2008, ("RISC Linz"), Hagenberg, Austria
ISSAC 2007, Waterloo, Ontario
ISSAC 2006, Genoa
ISSAC 2005, Beijing
ISSAC 2004, Santander, Cantabria
ISSAC 2003, Philadelphia
ISSAC 2002, Lille
ISSAC 2001, London, Ontario
ISSAC 2000, St. Andrews
ISSAC 1999, Vancouver
ISSAC 1998, Rostock
ISSAC 1997, Maui
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
Computer algebra systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E900
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E900 may refer to:
Asus E900, a subnotebook computer
Fujifilm FinePix E900, a digital camera
Polydimethylsiloxane or dimethyl polysiloxane (E number: E900), a food additive
Samsung SGH-E900, a mobile phone
See also
E90 (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYLE-TV
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KYLE-TV (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Bryan, Texas, United States, serving the Brazos Valley and Central Texas as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Waco-licensed Fox affiliate KWKT-TV (channel 44). Both stations share studios on Woodway Drive in Woodway, Texas (using a Waco address); KYLE-TV operates a secondary studio on Broadmoor Drive in Bryan and transmitter facilities near Farm to Market Road 2818 on the city's western outskirts.
History
As a WB affiliate
KYLE first signed on the air on October 31, 1994, under the ownership of the Silent Minority Group. Initially an independent station, it affiliated with The WB when the network launched in January 1995. Later that year, the station was put up for sale, as KYLE had lost money every month of its existence.
As a primary Fox affiliate
Unable to find a buyer that would operate KYLE as a standalone station, in 1996 Silent Minority Group sold the station to the Lafayette, Louisiana-based Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp), after ComCorp was granted a satellite waiver by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). ComCorp already owned Fox affiliate KWKT, whose signal was unable to reach across central Texas due to signal interference issues experienced by UHF stations operating in areas composed of rugged terrain. Before KYLE's launch, channel 28 had been used for a translator station in College Station, K28AK, that carried KWKT's programming; in most of the market, KWKT was only viewable on cable. Following the purchase, KYLE became a satellite of KWKT, while WB programming moved to a secondary clearance on UPN affiliate KAKW (channel 62). KYLE served the eastern portion of the market, while KWKT served the western portion.
Like its sister station did at the time, KYLE aired Fox Kids programming one hour earlier than many affiliates on weekday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. until the weekday block was discontinued by the network in December 2001, in addition to carrying its successor Saturday morning children's blocks known as Fox Box and later 4KidsTV until the latter block ended nationally in December 2008, when 4Kids Entertainment and Fox parted ways due to a contract dispute.
WB programming returned to KYLE in July 2002, when it and KWKT took on a secondary affiliation with the network; this was The WB's second station change in the market during that year, as its programming had aired on ABC affiliates KXXV (channel 25) and KRHD-LP (channel 34, now channel 40) after KAKW became a Univision station that January. With this, The WB's primetime schedule aired on KWKT/KYLE on a six-hour delay from 1:00 to 3:00 a.m., with Fox network programming running in pattern from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. At this time, the station also added The WB's children's program block Kids' WB in the time slot formerly occupied by Fox Kids—which KWKT/KYLE replaced with syndicated programs following the discontinuance of the Fox Kids weekday block
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAT%20TV
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LAT TV was a Spanish-language television network emphasizing family-oriented and educational programming. It was owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas and launched in May 2006, initially on five low-power television stations in Texas and Arizona, four of which were in top-ten Hispanic markets. The network folded in May 2008.
History
LAT TV launched on May 19, 2006 with television stations in Houston, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas, and in Phoenix, Arizona. On April 10, 2007, LAT TV announced a partnership with Equity Media Holdings that would affiliate 26 stations owned or controlled by Equity with LAT TV, effective May 30, 2007. The new affiliation expanded LAT TV coverage to 31 stations and to 27 markets in 15 states.
Citing a lack of investments caused by a lack of cable carriage, the network shut down May 20, 2008. The company planned to retain its broadcast licenses, but ultimately would sell its stations to other parties soon after.
Programming
LAT TV was headed by Patricia Torres-Burd and her team.
LAT TV offered a wide variety of programming from Mexico, Latin America, Europe and the United States to serve a diverse Hispanic market. The schedule included telenovelas, sports, comedy, and children's programming. A half-hour network news program from Independent News Network, Noticias LAT TV, aired each night. Weekday mornings included a block of public-service programs. Friday nights featured boxing matches, Late Night Variety Show "La Boca Loca De Paul" hosted by Paul Bouche, and the afternoon children's programming block includes Topo Gigio, a show that has been popular in the Latino community since the 1960s.
Technology
LAT TV was entirely based on Internet Protocol. Its IT Manager Aaron Ward and network operations manager Jay Ross built and oversaw the process.
LAT TV Stations
Network-owned
KCVH-LD channel 30, Houston, Texas (LAT TV flagship station; now owned by Daij Media)
KVPA-LD channel 42, Phoenix, Arizona (now owned by Liberman Broadcasting)
Affiliates
Charter affiliates
KVAT-LD channel 17, Austin, Texas
KJJM-LP channel 34, Dallas, Texas
KISA-LD channel 40, San Antonio, Texas
Affiliates added May 30, 2007
KRBF-LP channel 59, Fayetteville, Arkansas
K32GH channel 32, Fort Smith, Arkansas - repeating KRBF-LP
KHUG-LP channel 14, Little Rock, Arkansas
KWBF, channel 42, Little Rock, Arkansas - digital subchannel, repeating KHUG-LP (ceased January 2008; subchannel given to KATV due to collapse of KATV Tower)
K20HZ channel 20, Palm Springs, California
KIMG-LP channel 23, Ventura, California
W43CE channel 43, St. Petersburg, Florida
WSLF-LP channel 35, Port Saint Lucie, Florida
WYGA-CA channel 55, Atlanta, Georgia
WUHQ-LP channel 29, Grand Rapids, Michigan
WJXF-LP channel 49, Jackson, Mississippi
KEGS-LP channel 30, Las Vegas, Nevada
K64GJ channel 64, Lawton, Oklahoma
KUOK-CA channel 11, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
KADY-LP channel 34, Sherman, Texas
KCBU channel 3 (DT), Price, Uta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20King%20%28radio%20announcer%29
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Michael Wayne King (born in Virginia) is an American radio broadcaster, who is best known for being the chief announcer of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network and Indy Racing League between 1996 and 2013.
He began his announcing career at Campbell University, his alma mater, where he was studying to become a minister. He worked as a sports writer for several North Carolina newspapers, and worked as sports information director at Campbell University from 1981–1982. He started on television in Greenville, North Carolina, then took over as sports director at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana.
In 1995, King joined the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network as a pit reporter. King took over as chief announcer of Indy Racing League events in 1996, where Bob Jenkins remained chief announcer of the Indianapolis 500. In 1999, Jenkins departed the radio network, and King was elevated to chief announcer of the Indy 500. King remained in this position until the end of 2013, when he tendered his resignation. He was replaced by Paul Page.
Personal
He was a partial owner of the Terre Haute Action Track for three years, before selling it.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American sports announcers
Motorsport announcers
People from Terre Haute, Indiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Psych%29
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"Pilot" is the first episode of the TV series, Psych. It originally aired on USA Network on July 7, 2006.
Plot
Shawn Spencer (James Roday) has never kept a job for more than 6 months. He helps the Santa Barbara Police Department prove a man guilty, while watching a news program he used his keen powers of observation and his near perfect photographic memory to determine who committed the crime. The information was so good the cops believed he may have been involved. Detectives Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) and Lucinda Barry (Anne Dudek) take Shawn into questioning, where Shawn claims to have obtained the information psychically. The police let him go with no proof to disprove the claim. On his way out, Shawn is asked for help by Chief Karen Vick on a high-profile kidnapping case. The investigation into the kidnapping of Camden McCallum, sole male heir to the McCallum fortune, is stalled. She believes Shawn's psychic powers can help solve the case. Shawn takes advantage of this, realizing a new career has just fallen into his lap.
He visits his childhood friend Burton "Gus" Guster (Dulé Hill), a pharmaceutical representative. Shawn decides to get Gus involved. Gus is reluctant, but eventually gets involved with the McCallum case. Shawn and Gus find out that about 18 months before, Camden had straightened up his usual party boy act. They learn Camden never did anything without his dog, and he disappeared from a park along with the dog. Shawn realizes Camden wasn't kidnapped, he disappeared. Exactly 18 months before, Mr. McCallum threatened to cut Camden out of the inheritance if he didn't straighten up. Camden also stopped hanging around with his close friend, Malcolm Orso. Camden and Malcolm were planning a ransom.
Shawn and Gus check out Orso's cabin, where they find Camden's "missing" dog. Shawn goes back to the cops to convince them he had a psychic vision of Orso's cabin. The police go inside the cabin and find both Camden and Orso dead in an apparent suicide murder situation. Shawn takes a quick look at the room, and he is not convinced. Especially because Mr. McCallum had a cut on his wrist that could be a dog bite. Shawn visits his estranged father, Henry (Corbin Bernsen). Henry says Shawn's powers are getting soft and he's trusting people he shouldn't be. Shawn then suspects Camden's sister, Katarina.
Katarina wasn't involved, but her bag was. At one time it had to have carried the money. One of the McCallums tried to pay the ransom, but something must have gone wrong. Shawn and Gus confirm that it was Mr. McCallum that tried to make the ransom. McCallum saw Camden inside Orso's cabin. During the ensuring argument, Camden fell, hit his head, and bled to death. McCallum has no choice but to shoot Orso to cover his tracks and make it look like Orso murdered Camden then committed suicide. On his way out, McCallum was bitten by Camden's angry dog. Shawn proves himself to the police by explaining and proving a "vision" of dog bite medi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Mackworth
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Alan Mackworth is a professor emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He is known as "The Founding Father" of RoboCup. He is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence from 2001–2014.
Education
Mackworth was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc.), Harvard University (A.M.) and University of Sussex (D.Phil.).
Research
He works on constraint-based artificial intelligence with applications in vision, robotics, situated agents, assistive technology and sustainability. He is known as a pioneer in the areas of constraint satisfaction, robot soccer, hybrid systems and constraint-based agents. He has authored over 100 papers and co-authored two books: Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach (1998) and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (2010).
RoboCup
Mackworth proposed and built the world's first soccer-playing robots, which led to the development of robot soccer as the premier global platform for multi-agent robotic research through the International RoboCup Foundation, where he has been honoured as "The Founding Father". Robot soccer as a challenge problem has great scientific significance. It has now become a standard test environment for cross-testing research ideas: a forum for evolving theories of multi-agent systems. Through regular international RoboCup tournaments many research teams of students and professors compete and cooperate in the development, testing and evolution of new theories and new algorithms.
Career
He served as the founding director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He was president and trustee of International Joint Conferences on AI (IJCAI) Inc.; he is on the IJCAI executive committee. He has served on many editorial boards and program committees. He was VP and president of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI). He served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Awards
Mackworth has received the ITAC/NSERC Award for Academic Excellence, the Killam Research Prize, the CSCSI Distinguished Service Award, the AAAI Distinguished Service Award, the Association for Constraint Programming Award for Research Excellence and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian AI Association (CAIAC). He is a Fellow of AAAI, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Royal Society of Canada.
References
External links
Alan Mackworth web page
Artificial intelligence researchers
Living people
Harvard University alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Canada Research Chairs
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
1945 births
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Presidents of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Alumni of the University of Sussex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sea%20Hound
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The Sea Hound is an American radio adventure series that ran from June 29, 1942, to August 7, 1951. It began on the Blue Network June 29, 1942 – September 22, 1944, as a 15-minute serial for young audiences, featuring Ken Daigneau as Captain Silver of the ship The Sea Hound. Other members of the cast were Barry Thompson as Captain Silver, Bob Hastings as Jerry, and Alan Devitt as Kai. Doug Browning was the announcer.
In 1946–47 it aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The program expanded to 30 minutes on ABC radio June 21–September 2, 1948, alternating with Sky King. It last aired June 26–August 7, 1951, on ABC.
Between 1942 and 1944, The Sea Hound was produced with Nelson A. Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and was part of a national program to strengthen inter-American relations. Broadcast five times a week, the serial related the adventures of Captain Silver and his sidekick Jerry as they pursued Nazi agents throughout the Western hemisphere. Every episode took place in a different Latin American country. To educate young listeners about each country's geography and strategic importance, the producers created Captain Silver's Sea Chart, a map that identified the vital products, flags and national heroes of each Latin American republic. Some 200,000 complimentary copies of Captain Silver's Sea Chart were distributed.
Episodes
Episodes of The Sea Hound include the following:
The Envelope
Trapped Below
In Ekekay-Chasing Phantom Ship
After Captain Boom Boom
Mystery Cargo-Looking for Wald
Phantom Raider-Escape
The Traitor
The Capture
The Escape
Hut of the Voodoo Queen
Magic Idol-God of Vengeance
Other media
The show spawned a short-lived comic book, and the 1947 Columbia Pictures serial, The Sea Hound, starring Buster Crabbe.
References
External links
The Sea Hound at the Internet Archive
A detailed database and cover gallery of the Sea Hound Comics
American radio dramas
1940s American radio programs
Mutual Broadcasting System programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
ABC radio programs
Radio programs adapted into comics
Radio programs adapted into films
World War II propaganda
1950s American radio programs
1942 radio programme debuts
1951 radio programme endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20bug
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A hardware bug is a defect in the design, manufacture, or operation of computer hardware that causes incorrect operation. It is the counterpart of software bugs which refer to flaws in the code which operates computers, and is the original context in which "bug" was used to refer to such flaws. Intermediate between hardware and software are microcode and firmware which may also have such defects. In common usage, a bug is subtly different from a "glitch" which may be more transient than fundamental, and somewhat different from a "quirk" which may be considered useful or intrinsic. Errata (corrections to the documentation) may be published by the manufacturer to reflect such unintended operation, and "errata" is sometimes used as a term for the flaws themselves.
History
The Middle English word bugge is the basis for the terms "bugbear" and "bugaboo" as terms used for a monster.
The term "bug" to describe defects has been a part of engineering jargon since the 1870s and predates electronic computers and computer software; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:
Baffle Ball, the first mechanical pinball game, was advertised as being "free of bugs" in 1931. Problems with military gear during World War II were referred to as bugs (or glitches). In the 1940 film, Flight Command, a defect in a piece of direction-finding gear is called a "bug". In a book published in 1942, Louise Dickinson Rich, speaking of a powered ice cutting machine, said, "Ice sawing was suspended until the creator could be brought in to take the bugs out of his darling."
Isaac Asimov used the term "bug" to relate to issues with a robot in his short story "Catch That Rabbit", published in 1944.
The term "bug" was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer. A typical version of the story is:
Hopper did not find the bug, as she readily acknowledged. The date in the log book was September 9, 1947. The operators who found it, including William "Bill" Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia, were familiar with the engineering term and amusedly kept the insect with the notation "First actual case of bug being found." Hopper loved to recount the story. This log book, complete with attached moth, is part of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Unintended operation
Sometimes users take advantage of the unintended or undocumented operation of hardware to serve some purpose, in which case a flaw may be considered a feature. This gives rise to the often ironically employed acronym INABIAF, "It's Not A Bug It's A Feature". For example, undocumented instructions, known as illegal opcodes, on the MOS Technology 6510 of the Commodore 64 and MOS Technology 6502 of the Apple II computers are sometimes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCLL-CD
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WCLL-CD (channel 19) is a low-power, Class A television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. Under a channel sharing arrangement, WCLL-CD shares transmission facilities with Bounce TV owned-and-operated station WSFJ-TV on Twin Rivers Drive near downtown Columbus.
History
The station signed on the air on January 11, 1988, as W64BG on channel 64.
References
External links
Official website
CLL-CD
Daystar Television Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1988
CLL-CD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Sun%20Fu
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King-Sun Fu (; October 2, 1930–April 29, 1985) was a Chinese-born American computer scientist. He was a Goss Distinguished Professor at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive and pioneering contributions to the field of pattern recognition (within computer image analysis) and machine intelligence. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to Azriel Rosenfeld.
Biography
Fu was born on October 2, 1930, in Nanjing, then China's capital. He received B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1953, M.A. from University of Toronto in 1955, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1959.
Fu died on April 29, 1985, in Washington, DC.
Academic life
Fu and others organized the First International Conference Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in 1973 and served as chairman. The conference later evolved into the formation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition by 1976 and was elected to be its president.
He reorganized the Pattern Recognition Committee and was its first chairman in 1974, which led to the founding of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and he served as its first Editor-in-Chief in 1978.
King-Sun gave invited lectures in China almost every year over the past decades and was a Member of the Academia Sinica in 1978. He was instrumental in establishing the Microelectronics and Information Science and Technology Research Center at the National Chiao Tung University in 1984.
Selected works
1968. Sequential Methods in Pattern Recognition. Academic
1970. Sequential Methods in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. New York: Academic
1974. Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition. New York: Academic.
1980. Statistical Pattern Classification Using Contextual Information. Wiley
1982. Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Applications. Prentice-Hall
See also
Syntactic pattern recognition
References
1930 births
1985 deaths
American computer scientists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Computer vision researchers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of Academia Sinica
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
National Taiwan University alumni
Purdue University faculty
Scientists from Nanjing
Taiwanese people from Jiangsu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of Toronto alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20chromatogram
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A mass chromatogram is a representation of mass spectrometry data as a chromatogram, where the x-axis represents time and the y-axis represents signal intensity. The source data contains mass information; however, it is not graphically represented in a mass chromatogram in favor of visualizing signal intensity versus time. The most common use of this data representation is when mass spectrometry is used in conjunction with some form of chromatography, such as in liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry or gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. In this case, the x-axis represents retention time, analogous to any other chromatogram. The y-axis represents signal intensity or relative signal intensity. There are many different types of metrics that this intensity may represent, depending on what information is extracted from each mass spectrum.
Total ion current (TIC) chromatogram
The total ion current (TIC) chromatogram represents the summed intensity across the entire range of masses being detected at every point in the analysis. The range is typically several hundred mass-to-charge units or more. In complex samples, the TIC chromatogram often provides limited information as multiple analytes elute simultaneously, obscuring individual species.
Base peak chromatogram
The base peak chromatogram is similar to the TIC chromatogram, however it monitors only the most intense peak in each spectrum. This means that the base peak chromatogram represents the intensity of the most intense peak at every point in the analysis. Base peak chromatograms often have a cleaner look and thus are more informative than TIC chromatograms because the background is reduced by focusing on a single analyte at every point.
Extracted-ion chromatogram (EIC or XIC)
In an extracted-ion chromatogram (EIC or XIC), also called a reconstructed-ion chromatogram (RIC), one or more m/z values representing one or more analytes of interest are recovered ('extracted') from the entire data set for a chromatographic run. The total intensity or base peak intensity within a mass tolerance window around a particular analyte's mass-to-charge ratio is plotted at every point in the analysis. The size of the mass tolerance window typically depends on the mass accuracy and mass resolution of the instrument collecting the data. This is useful for re-examining data to detect previously-unsuspected analytes, to highlight potential isomers, resolve suspected co-eluting substances, or to provide clean chromatograms of compounds of interest. An extracted-ion chromatogram is generated by separating the ions of interest from a data file containing the full mass spectrum over time after the fact; this is different from selected-ion chromatograms, discussed below, in which data is collected only for specific m/z values. A closely related term is extracted-compound chromatogram (ECC).
Selected-ion monitoring chromatogram (SIM)
A selected-ion monitoring (SIM) chromatogram is similar to an EIC/XIC, with
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Psych%20episodes
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Psych is an American crime/mystery dramedy television series that premiered on July 7, 2006, on USA Network, and aired its series finale on March 26, 2014. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, who uses his eidetic memory with the observational and investigative skills that his father ingrained in him during childhood to fake being a psychic who consults with the Santa Barbara Police Department to solve cases, as well as running a psychic detective agency called Psych. He is (reluctantly) helped in his charade by his best friend, Burton "Gus" Guster (Dulé Hill), and his father, Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen). He generally works with police detectives Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) and Juliet O'Hara (Maggie Lawson) and under the direction of Police Chief Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson). Episodes usually begin with a flashback to Shawn's youth, showcasing one of Henry's lessons for his son. These lessons are typically used or applied later in the episode. During the run of Psych, 120 episodes aired.
A film sequel to Psych, titled Psych: The Movie, aired on December 7, 2017, launching the Psych film series. A second film, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, premiered on Peacock on July 15, 2020, while a third film, Psych 3: This Is Gus, premiered on Peacock on November 18, 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2006–07)
Season 2 (2007–08)
Season 3 (2008–09)
Season 4 (2009–10)
Season 5 (2010)
Season 6 (2011–12)
Season 7 (2013)
Psych: The Musical (2013)
Season 8 (2014)
Film series
Psych: The Movie (2017)
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020)
Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021)
Notes
† denotes a two-hour movie (with advertisements).
Ratings
References
External links
Episodes
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
Lists of American comedy-drama television series episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20cell%20topology
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The grid cell topology is studied in digital topology as part of the theoretical basis for (low-level) algorithms in computer image analysis or computer graphics.
The elements of the n-dimensional grid cell topology (n ≥ 1) are all n-dimensional grid cubes and their k-dimensional faces ( for 0 ≤ k ≤ n−1); between these a partial order A ≤ B is defined if A is a subset of B (and thus also dim(A) ≤ dim(B)). The grid cell topology is the Alexandrov topology (open sets are up-sets) with respect to this partial order. (See also poset topology.)
Alexandrov and Hopf first introduced the grid cell topology, for the two-dimensional case, within an exercise in their text Topologie I (1935).
A recursive method to obtain n-dimensional grid cells and an intuitive definition for
grid cell manifolds can be found in Chen, 2004. It is related to digital manifolds.
See also
Pixel connectivity
References
Digital Geometry: Geometric Methods for Digital Image Analysis, by Reinhard Klette and Azriel Rosenfeld, Morgan Kaufmann Pub, May 2004, (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)
Topologie I, by Paul Alexandroff and Heinz Hopf, Springer, Berlin, 1935, xiii + 636 pp.
Digital topology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20over%20Heels%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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Head over Heels is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin that aired on United Paramount Network (UPN) from August 26 to October 28, 1997. It is set in the eponymous video dating agency based in Miami Beach, Florida, run by brothers Jack and Warren Baldwin (played by Peter Dobson and Mitchell Whitfield, respectively). The remainder of the cast consists of their employees, played by Eva LaRue, Patrick Bristow, and Cindy Ambuehl. Connie Stevens was initially cast as the Baldwins' mother, but never appeared in the show after the pilot was rewritten. Andrew Gottlieb was a co-producer, and Vince Cheung and Ben Montanio were consulting producers.
The sitcom was the lowest-performing series tracked by Nielsen Holdings for the 1997–1998 television season. Since UPN primarily marketed its programming to African American audiences, critics questioned the show's lack of a black main character. With its inclusion of Ian, Head over Heels was one of 30 U.S. programs to feature a gay, lesbian or bisexual character that television season. It received a negative response from commentators, who criticized its sex comedy and characters.
Premise and characters
Set in Miami Beach, the series is about the Head over Heels video dating agency, operated by brothers Jack and Warren Baldwin (Peter Dobson and Mitchell Whitfield, respectively). Portrayed as opposites of one another, Warren is more involved in managing the agency than Jack. While Jack dates female clients, Warren still loves his estranged wife, who had an affair with a professional football player.
The rest of the staff includes two romance counselors: Carmen (Eva LaRue) and Ian (Patrick Bristow). A self-identified feminist, Carmen is a PhD student studying human behavior and sexuality. The bisexual, celibate Ian is frequently questioned about his sexuality, and former stripper Valentina (Cindy Ambuehl) is a receptionist who is knowledgeable about computers. Karen Dior and Bernie Kopell guest starred in the series as themselves. Jim Lange, who Jack had idolized since childhood, also appears in an episode as himself.
Head over Heels often relies on sex comedy, leading The Washington Posts Tom Shales to describe it as a "smutcom". Alan Frutkin of The Advocate compared the show to the sitcoms Friends and Married... with Children. The pilot episode features Warren having sex with a client in his office despite the agency's dating policy, and a bikini fashion show. Storylines in other episodes include Jack using Cap'n Crunch as an alias in chat rooms to seduce women and Valentina saying she would open the mail topless for $1,000 a week.
Production
Montrose Productions produced Head over Heels in association with Jeff Franklin Productions and Columbia TriStar Television. Jeff Franklin was the show's creator and executive producer. Referring to Franklin's work on the sitcom Full House, Dusty Saunders of the Rocky Mountain News wrote: "I still wonder if Franklin isn't ridding himself of a lot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Charities%20of%20the%20Archdiocese%20of%20Chicago
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Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is the largest in a nationwide network of faith-based social service providers that form Catholic Charities. Together they form the largest private network of social service providers in the United States. More than 1,400 agencies, institutions, and organizations make up the Catholic Charities network, which provides services to nearly 10 million people in need each year regardless of religious, social, or economic backgrounds. The network also seeks to advocate for issues of importance to those in need.
History
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago began in 1917, when a group of Catholic businessmen petitioned Cardinal Mundelein to create a Catholic charity to centralize resources in order to relieve the burden of Catholic parishes that were struggling to meet the needs of the poor in their communities. Their vision was a central fundraising mechanism for archdiocesan charities, which would solicit donations and distribute funds. The organization was chartered in January 1918, and Cardinal Mundelein addressed its 200 board members at its first annual meeting in April of the following year, reporting on the success of the agency in serving the poor:
"During the past 12 months, 50,000 people in this city and diocese have contributed their money, their time and their services that we might efficiently carry out these works of mercy, that we might feed the hungry, nurse the sick, protect the orphan, shelter the homeless and help the poor in our midst."
Early services provided
During the Depression, the agency fed the hungry and cared for orphans and children of unwed mothers as well as the mothers. The former administrative building at 126 North Desplaines Street was not only a residence for priests, but also a shelter for homeless men. Suppers for the hungry and homeless were served out of 721 North LaSalle, now Catholic Charities' St. Vincent Center, the other main administrative building and then the site of St. Vincent's Hospital and Orphanage.
By 1945, Catholic Charities oversaw 48 different aid programs. {http://www.catholiccharities.net/AboutUs/OurHistory.aspx} This included:
job training
maternity care for unwed mothers
day care
care for the aged and the sick
emergency food and shelter
counseling.
Services today
Over the course of many decades, the agency has opened offices and established community service centers in neighborhoods with the greatest poverty, where the agency is able to respond to those most in need where they live. A comprehensive array of social services addresses not only immediate basic human needs, but also critical social and economic barriers in people's lives so that all may achieve the goal of economic and emotional self-sufficiency.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago functions today as one of the largest private non-profit social service agencies in the Midwest, and also one of the largest Catholic Charities of any diocese o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstep%20%28disambiguation%29
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Lockstep is a kind of marching that involves all marcher's legs moving in the same way at the same time.
Lockstep or lock step may also refer to:
Lockstep (computing), a term used in fault-tolerant computing
Lockstep protocol, a protocol that tackles the look-ahead cheating problem in peer-to-peer gaming networks
Lockstep compensation, a form of employee compensation based purely on seniority
Lock step (dance move), dance steps which involve the "locking" of the moving foot
Lockstep, a science fiction book written by Karl Schroeder
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBIF
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WBIF (channel 51) is a religious television station licensed to Marianna, Florida, United States, serving the Panama City area as an owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located on SR 20 in unincorporated Youngstown, Florida.
History
Founded in December 1998 and began broadcasting in September 2001, the station was originally owned by Equity Media Holdings. It started as an affiliate of Pax TV until it joined UPN in 2004, before this, UPN programming was originally seen on WPCT from 1995 to 2001. Despite this, in 1998, UPN signed a deal with Gray Television, and as a result, between 1998 and 2006, WJHG-TV in the Panama City market aired UPN programming during the overnight hours. During this period, UPN programming was also seen on Panama City–area cable services via off-market stations, including WBFS-TV in Miami and WJTC in Mobile–Pensacola.
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and CBS announced that The WB and UPN would merge to form a new network, The CW. As WJHG-TV took an affiliation with both The CW and MyNetworkTV, WBIF became an owned-and-operated station of the Retro Television Network. In addition to its main programming, WBIF also showed Tampa Bay Rays baseball from the Rays Television Network until the team became exclusive to Fox Sports Florida.
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications (who had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including WBIF, immediately, though Luken vowed to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area. On Monday, January 5, 2009, after a day of airing a red slide alerting viewers to the disruption of the RTN service, WBIF briefly signed off the air. Shortly thereafter, WBIF converted to a This TV affiliation that would turn out to be temporary.
On April 16, 2009, the station was auctioned and sold to Daystar and was taken dark upon Daystar's assumption of operations to build-out the digital facilities. It returned to the air on October 31.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBIF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 51, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 51. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.
According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code... This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station [was originally going to] cease analogue broadcasting on February 17, 2009, regardles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus%20%28Psych%29
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Burton "Gus" Guster is a fictional character on the USA Network television comedy Psych and the sequel film series of the same name played by American actor Dulé Hill. He functions as the "straight man" for Shawn Spencer's antics, and provides sobering advice, helpful knowledge, steady support, and friendship.
Fictional biography
Gus, born sometime in December 1977, has been Shawn Spencer's best friend since childhood. Together they co-own the detective agency "Psych". Gus tends to be strait-laced and more cautious. He is the "Watson" sidekick and has a crucial role in the cases the two solve. Gus is often shown to be academically advanced and knowledgeable on various things, particularly math and science; his experience with pharmaceutical sales aids Shawn in his investigations frequently. Unlike the Watson-style sidekick, Gus is not often stupefied by Shawn's crime-solving capabilities, and he often doubts how Shawn comes to some of his conclusions. While Shawn is the "superman detective", he does not see himself as above Gus.
Despite both Shawn and Gus coming to rational conclusions from observable evidence, both occasionally indulge in supernatural explanations for crimes.
Characterisation
Janée Burkhalter characterises Gus as a lonely Black nerd, or "blerd", and various references to Black culture or Black identity appear in the show, such as his acapella group "Blackapella" and hobby of tap dancing. In terms of his "nerd" identity, Gus demonstrates extensive knowledge on a wide variety of subjects and studies, as well as adhering to grammatical rules and showing interest in nerdy media. Burkhalter acknowledges that Gus differs from various nerd tropes or stereotypes in that he is often romantically involved and does not always act or dress as a nerd.
Thornton notes that Gus is also typically the only major Black character for most episodes. The episodes that do, however, feature major Black characters often focus on Gus's friends or family. Thornton also notes that, despite being the sidekick, it is a role that Gus is sometimes reluctant to fulfill, which is a comedic aspect of the show.
References
American male characters in television
Fictional private investigators
Psych characters
Fictional African-American people
Fictional characters from Santa Barbara, California
Television characters introduced in 2006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJKT
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WJKT (channel 16) is a television station in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Nexstar Media Group. Its advertising sales office is located on Oil Well Road in Jackson, and its transmitter is located in Alamo, Tennessee.
Channel 16 went on the air in April 1985 as WJWT, the first independent station in Jackson. It became a Fox affiliate in 1986. MT Communications, owner of then-Fox affiliate WLMT in Memphis, acquired the station at the end of 1989 and changed its call letters to WMTU in January 1990. Even though it lost the Fox affiliation for the Memphis market, WMTU continued to air Fox programming in the Jackson area until being turned into a full-time satellite station in 1992. Along with WLMT, it became an affiliate of UPN in 1995. The call letters were changed to WJKT in 2001, coinciding with the return of local advertising and an attempt to build a separate identity for the station.
Upon the merger of UPN and The WB into The CW in 2006, WJKT instead became a Fox affiliate again. It remained linked to WLMT through the simulcast of its local news programming and was sold along with WLMT and Memphis sister station WPTY-TV (now WATN-TV) twice. In 2019, Nexstar acquired Tribune Media and opted to divest WATN–WLMT in favor of WREG-TV in Memphis. WJKT shares management with WREG-TV and simulcasts some of its local newscasts.
History
WJWT
In March 1980, Golden Circle Broadcasting, mostly owned by a Chattanooga company, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new television station on channel 16 in Jackson. Golden Circle intended to program the station as an independent station with family-friendly secular shows. A construction permit was granted in November 1981, Little activity occurred on the permit until the end of 1983, when Golden Circle announced that construction on the proposed station, bearing the call sign WUAA, would begin in January 1984.
In late 1984, the call letters on the permit were changed to WJWT (We're Jackson, West Tennessee). Programming including classic reruns and movies as well as St. Louis Cardinals baseball was secured, as was studio space in a former Southern Supply Company building on Royal Street. WJWT began broadcasting on April 18, 1985, and spent most of its early months on air fighting the local cable system for carriage in a timely manner. The system had been holding off to ensure that customers without new converter equipment could continue to receive HBO, a channel whose space was needed for the new local station. In 1986, WJWT became a Fox affiliate at the network's launch. By 1988, it was owned by Lloyd Communications of Rockford, Illinois, and broadcast two local talk shows and weekday local newscasts.
WMTU
Golden Circle entered into financial problems in 1988, and an application was filed by a group of investors—Jackson Investment Corporation—in February 1989 to buy the station. The investors were associated with M
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20computer
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A chemical computer, also called a reaction-diffusion computer, Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) computer, or gooware computer, is an unconventional computer based on a semi-solid chemical "soup" where data are represented by varying concentrations of chemicals. The computations are performed by naturally occurring chemical reactions.
Background
Originally chemical reactions were seen as a simple move towards a stable equilibrium which was not very promising for computation. This was changed by a discovery made by Boris Belousov, a Soviet scientist, in the 1950s. He created a chemical reaction between different salts and acids that swing back and forth between being yellow and clear because the concentration of the different components changes up and down in a cyclic way. At the time this was considered impossible because it seemed to go against the second law of thermodynamics, which says that in a closed system the entropy will only increase over time, causing the components in the mixture to distribute themselves until equilibrium is gained and making any changes in the concentration impossible. But modern theoretical analyses shows sufficiently complicated reactions can indeed comprise wave phenomena without breaking the laws of nature. (A convincing directly visible demonstration was achieved by Anatol Zhabotinsky with the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction showing spiraling colored waves.)
The wave properties of the BZ reaction means it can move information in the same way as all other waves. This still leaves the need for computation, performed by conventional microchips using the binary code transmitting and changing ones and zeros through a complicated system of logic gates. To perform any conceivable computation it is sufficient to have NAND gates. (A NAND gate has two bits input. Its output is 0 if both bits are 1, otherwise it's 1). In the chemical computer version logic gates are implemented by concentration waves blocking or amplifying each other in different ways.
Current research
In 1989 it was demonstrated how light-sensitive chemical reactions could perform image processing. This led to an upsurge in the field of chemical computing.
Andrew Adamatzky at the University of the West of England has demonstrated simple logic gates using reaction–diffusion processes. Furthermore, he has theoretically shown how a hypothetical "2+ medium" modelled as a cellular automaton can perform computation. Adamatzky was inspired by a theoretical article on computation by using balls on a billiard table to transfer this principle to the BZ-chemicals and replace the billiard balls with waves: if two waves meet in the solution, they create a third wave which is registered as a 1. He has tested the theory in practice and is working to produce some thousand chemical versions of logic gates to create a chemical pocket calculator.
One of the problems with the present version of this technology is the speed of the waves; they only spread at a rate of a few millime
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novardok%20Yeshiva
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The Novardok Yeshiva was one of the biggest and most important yeshivas in pre-World War II Europe, and a powerful force within the Mussar movement. It was the first of hundreds of a network of Musar yeshivas, which were created subsequently. They all assumed the name of Novardok yeshivas.
The yeshiva was established in Novogrudok, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire in 1896, together with a Kollel for married men, under the direction of Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz, an alumnus of the Kovno Kollel and pupil of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. In the footsteps of his mentor, he was a staunch advocate of the Mussar approach. He was known as the Alter fun Novardok, a Yiddish term meaning "the elder of Novardok".
The directors of the yeshivas were in constant contact with The Alter, who guided and visited them, spending nearly every Shabbos in a different town.
Novardok established yeshivas all over the region, in major cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Zhytomyr, Berdychiv, Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Saratov, Plogid, and Chernihiv. Influenced by the Alter, his students also created Yeshivas in Kherson, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Kamieniec-Podolski, Berdichev, Nikolaev, Bălţi, Odessa, Piotrków Trybunalski and other places. The Alter sent young scholars to lead the yeshivas.
One of the highlights of the yeshiva's mussar program was its daily "mussar hour." During these sessions, students engaged in fiery soul-searching.
Early history
The yeshiva opened with ten students. A few months later there were already fifty. A year after the yeshiva's establishment, great criticism was levelled at the study and practice of Mussar, and the opponents of that philosophy sought to close the yeshiva. They didn't succeed. By 1899, the yeshiva had swelled to 200 pupils.
Some students came to Novardok yeshiva from as far as the Caucasus.
At first, The Alter served as both the rosh yeshiva and mashgiach of the yeshiva, delivering shiurim in Gemara and mussar. In time, though, he appointed others to deliver the Gemara shiurim, while he focused on developing the mussar aspect of the yeshiva.
Gomel
During the outbreak of World War I, the Yeshiva moved en-masse to Gomel. Aside from functioning as a yeshiva, it also served as a safe house for young bochurim, seeking refuge from the war.
The Yeshiva would have conscripts demanded from it, but the students would refuse to come. There were stories in the yeshiva about the soldiers threatening students at gunpoint, only to have the student respond that the soldier was powerless before God.
Escape to Poland; Kiev era
After the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, the Alter ordered his students to cross the border into Poland. this was a top secret operation that not even the parents knew about. Many of the students were shot in the attempt; others were sent to Siberian prison camps, but six hundred made it across the border.
In 1919, when the Yeshiva was fleeing the war and was stationed in Kiev, a typhus outbreak oc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearcats%21
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Bearcats! is an American Western television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the fall 1971 television season. It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before the American entry into World War I (1917).
Bearcats! was produced by Filmways Inc. (which previously produced many series including The Addams Family, Mister Ed, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction). It was co-produced by Rodlor, Rod Taylor's production firm.
Synopsis
Set in 1914, somewhat later historically than a traditional Western, the stories center on the heroes' use of a 1914 Stutz Bearcat automobile. Although automobiles were common in the United States in 1914, a $2,000 sports car would have been very rare in the more remote areas of the Western United States. How the heroes paid for this expensive ride was rather unusual, as well. They undertook work which could be considered "private security" for a prosperous clientele, and rather than charging a traditional fee, they extracted from the client a blank check, with the amount charged to be determined by just how difficult or dangerous the job proved to be once it was completed. "If you can put a price on it, you don't need them badly enough." Typical adventures included learning who was setting fire to oil wells, unraveling a plot where German Deutsches Heer soldiers dressed as American troops raided Mexican border towns hoping to force Mexico into a war with the United States, and stopping mercenaries from sabotaging medical supplies being sent overseas to the Allies of World War I.
Its time period also allowed the use of props not usually seen in typical westerns, including airplanes, a World War I-era tank, machine guns, M1911 pistols, and a number of period automobiles.
Cast
Rod Taylor as Hank Brackett
Dennis Cole as Johnny Reach
Production
The series was created by veteran TV writer/producer Douglas Heyes who also served as executive producer. He wrote and directed the TV movie Powderkeg that served as the pilot film for the series. Episodes were shot on location in near Tucson, Arizona, and also in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico. Powderkeg was syndicated in the 1970s and frequently aired by local U.S. TV stations, and was the only episode of the series to be released as a VHS videotape.
The series featured a number of well-known guest stars including Leslie Nielsen, Kevin McCarthy, Jane Merrow, Keenan Wynn, Henry Darrow, David Canary, Ed Flanders, Morgan Woodward, and Eric Braeden.
For filming, the series used two full-scale metal replicas of first generation (1912–1916) Stutz Bearcats made by Hollywood car customizer and film car builder George Barris. While externally very close to the original cars, in fact they were built on custom chassis powered by Ford drivetrains and had modern four wheel brake systems for safety. The two replicas were very similar to one another, however the first built (and the one used for most filming) had a manua
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDIT-CD
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KDIT-CD (channel 45) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Des Moines, Iowa, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network Catchy Comedy. The station is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, and maintains a transmitter in Alleman, Iowa.
On July 29, 2021, it was reported that Weigel Broadcasting would purchase the then KDAO-CD for $195,000, pending approval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The sale did not include the KDAO-CD call sign, which was retained by MTN Broadcasting. The sale was completed on September 28; and the callsign was changed to KDIT-CD on October 19.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
KDIT-CD
Marshalltown, Iowa
Television channels and stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Iowa
Catchy Comedy affiliates
Movies! affiliates
Low-power television stations in Iowa
Weigel Broadcasting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Access%20Control
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Network access control (NAC) is an approach to computer security that attempts to unify endpoint security technology (such as antivirus, host intrusion prevention, and vulnerability assessment), user or system authentication and network security enforcement.
Description
Network access control is a computer networking solution that uses a set of protocols to define and implement a policy that describes how to secure access to network nodes by devices when they initially attempt to access the network. NAC might integrate the automatic remediation process (fixing non-compliant nodes before allowing access) into the network systems, allowing the network infrastructure such as routers, switches and firewalls to work together with back office servers and end user computing equipment to ensure the information system is operating securely before interoperability is allowed. A basic form of NAC is the 802.1X standard.
Network access control aims to do exactly what the name implies—control access to a network with policies, including pre-admission endpoint security policy checks and post-admission controls over where users and devices can go on a network and what they can do.
Example
When a computer connects to a computer network, it is not permitted to access anything unless it complies with a business defined policy; including anti-virus protection level, system update level and configuration. While the computer is being checked by a pre-installed software agent, it can only access resources that can remediate (resolve or update) any issues. Once the policy is met, the computer is able to access network resources and the Internet, within the policies defined by the NAC system. NAC is mainly used for endpoint health checks, but it is often tied to Role-based Access. Access to the network will be given according to the profile of the person and the results of a posture/health check. For example, in an enterprise the HR department could access only HR department files if both the role and the endpoint meets anti-virus minimums.
Goals of NAC
NAC is an emerging security products category, which definition is both evolving and controversial.
The overarching goals of this concept can be distilled to:
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting of network connections.
While conventional IP networks enforce access policies in terms of IP addresses, NAC environments attempt to enforce access policies based on authenticated user identities, at least for user end-stations like laptops and desktop computers.
Policy enforcement
NAC solutions allow network-operators to define policies, like the types of computers or roles of users allowed to access areas of the network, and enforce them in switches, routers, and network middleboxes.
Verification of security posture of connecting devices.
The main benefit of NAC solutions is to prevent end-stations that lack antivirus, patches, or host intrusion prevention software from accessing the network and placin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20the%20Quest%20Was%20Won
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How the Quest Was Won is a TV series on ABC Network (Australia) that aired Friday 6.30PM in 2004–2005.
Hosted by Sam Longley, the series focused on sending three reporters (Jimmy Eaton, Brendan Hutchens, Sam Longley, Jane Cunningham) on a weekly challenge. The reporters commonly complete a quest to gain an insight into varying topics such as homelessness or life as a senior.
External links
Official site
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerri-Anne
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Kerri-Anne was an Australian morning television program shown on the Nine Network, hosted by Kerri-Anne Kennerley. It was broadcast on weekdays at 9am for two hours. The final episode of the series was on 25 November 2011. It was replaced by Today Extra, hosted by Sonia Kruger and David Campbell.
History
The program debuted on 28 October 2002 on the Nine Network to compete against Network Ten's Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton. The show began as a one-hour program from 9:30 to 10:30 am five days a week.
In the program's second season in 2003, the show progressed to an hour and a half from 9:30 to 11:00am. After the network's decision to rest Here's Humphrey, which had been broadcast since 1965, the show began its third season as a two-hour program from 9:00 to 11:00am.
Mornings proved to be a success against Good Morning Australia and, by the end of 2005, Newton announced that he would be returning to the Nine Network. As a result, Network Ten cancelled the program and replaced it with 9am with David & Kim at the start of the 2006 television season. The Seven Network saw the success that its competitors were having with the morning show format and created The Morning Show which began in June 2007. This meant that all three commercial stations from 9:00 to 11:00am now have their own morning show.
However, this changed in 2010, when Kerri-Anne was up against only the Seven Network's The Morning Show for the first hour after a re-shuffle of Network Ten's programming. Network Ten's programing shift came after 9am with David and Kim was axed and replaced by Ten Morning News at 9am, followed by its new morning show, The Circle at 10am.
The program covered a variety of issues and had interviews, music, lifestyle and societal commentary. Jamie Malcolm often appeared on the show, presenting some of the infotainments and as a sidekick to Kennerley. Nine News updates were presented by Wendy Kingston (Monday-Thursday) and Deborah Knight (Friday) throughout the program.
In 2010, the Nine Network announced that the show would be renamed from Mornings with Kerri-Anne to just Kerri-Anne as part of the show's makeover. The makeover consisted of a brand new set, new graphics and more variety within the program, consisting of more news and entertainment. Kerri Elstub, formerly the producer for Nine's breakfast TV program, Weekend Today, took over as producer. This shift also had the program share the studio with Today. In February 2010, it was announced that a highlight show would be ahown on Saturdays from 9 to 10am.
Amanda Keller, Brendan Jones, Catriona Rowntree, Sophie Falkiner, Nicky Buckley, Shelley Craft, Mia Freedman, Livinia Nixon, Jaynie Seal, Jamie Malcolm and Steven Jacobs filled in for Kennerley when she was sick or away.
A year later there were rumours swirling that the Nine Network was looking to replace Kennerley in the timeslot, with speculation that Ita Buttrose, Lisa Wilkinson and Catriona Rowntree would replace her. There was als
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex%20%28television%29
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A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting. The program services are broadcast as part of one transmission and split out at the receiving end.
The conversion from analog to digital television made it possible to transmit more than one video service, in addition to audio and data, within a fixed space previously used to transmit one analog TV service (varying between six and eight megahertz depending on the system used and bandplan). The capacity of a multiplex depends on several factors, including the video resolution and broadcast quality, compression method, bitrate permitted by the transmission standard, and allocated bandwidth; statistical time-division multiplexing is often used to dynamically allocate bandwidth in accordance with the needs of each individual service. Each service in a multiplex has a separate virtual channel (also known as a logical channel number) for identification and tuning. Depending on the country, a multiplex may be controlled by one broadcaster offering multiple subchannels or may feature services from multiple broadcasters with separate licenses.
Multiplexing has made it possible for many new free-to-air television services to be introduced, some of them expressly designed for carriage as additional channels. In the United States, such services are called digital multicast television networks or diginets. The term is also used in an otherwise unrelated sense to refer to additional channels offered by premium pay television services, such as HBO, similar to its meaning with regard to movie theaters.
Tuning
Depending on the type of transmission system, individual services are either numbered with whole numbers (e.g. 36) or a two-part channel number (e.g. 20.1) consisting of a major and minor channel number.
New services
The digital conversion in countries where broadcasters retained control of their entire multiplex after switchover permitted broadcasters to introduce new supplemental and ancillary services, many of them national in scope. In Australia, Mexico, and the United States, new TV channels were introduced with national coverage.
The licensing of such additional services varies according to national broadcasting regulations. In the United States, a broadcast license covers the full 6 MHz channel and any services broadcast within it. The United Kingdom frequency plan includes three "universal" multiplexes for the national public service broadcasters and three commercial multiplexes broadcast from a total of 80 transmitter sites.
The ISDB-T specification includes 1seg, a mobile media and data broadcasting service utilizing a portion of the spectrum in each multiplex.
Multiplexing by country
Australia
Brazil
In 2009, the Brazilian government ruled that only federally-owned television channels—namely TV Brasil, TV Senado, TV Câmara, and TV
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivailo%20Jordanov
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Ivailo Jordanov () is a business executive and the co-founder of Styloko and 23snaps.
Background
Jordanov graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and applied math from University of the Witwatersrand. He then began his career working for Espotting as Head of Product Development before founding his first site, zoomf.com, a residential property search engine. After working as a Director at Domavin, he has served as an advisor and investor for Novus Analytics and Avans. Jordanov co-founded Styloko.com in 2011 and 23Snaps.com in 2012.
He has been quoted or featured in various media outlets including Huffington Post, The Telegraph, Bloomberg News, Fast Company, Tech Crunch, Forbes, CNN Money, and Wired.
References
External links
Styloko
23Snaps
South African businesspeople
Bulgarian businesspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Live%20%28TV%20network%29
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MTV Live (formerly Palladia) is an 24-hour American pay television music video channel owned by Paramount Global. The channel, which broadcasts exclusively in 1080i high definition, broadcasts music videos and music-related programming from Paramount owned networks MTV, MTV Classic, VH1 and CMT, along with other concert and live music programming from outside producers.
History
In the winter of 2005, F. Stone Roberts (director and producer), Agent Ogden (editor and post supervisor), Colin Oberschmidt (director of photography), Sonia Taylor (production assistant), and George Oliphant (VJ) took residence in Vail, Colorado to launch the channel. The team produced live concerts and a one-hour weekly music show, called Uncompressed, from a lookalike ski lodge built inside the Eagle's Nest at the top of Vail Mountain. The channel's original executive producer was Morgan Hertzan, who had worked with mtvU. Olympic bump skier, pro football player, George Oliphant and Jeremy Bloom were VJs during the original run in Vail. Original concerts produced at Vail Resorts included James Blunt, Jamie Cullum, Yellowcard, Train, P.O.D, Hoobastank, Goo Goo Dolls, Gary Allan, The Fray, Death Cab For Cutie, and Mat Kearney.
The network officially launched on January 16, 2006 as Music: High Definition (MHD). At its debut, the channel had limited distribution with Verizon FiOS being the only provider to carry MHD. Two months later, Cox Communications reached an agreement to carry the channel, which was subsequently added to Cox systems in New Orleans, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix. Around the same time, Comcast started carrying the channel on its systems in Boston and Atlanta.
Charter Communications began carrying the channel on its St. Louis system on July 18, 2006, adding the channel to its systems in the northern Midwest in early November of that year. Time Warner Cable began carrying the channel in some regions in late December 2006. In 2007, Service Electric Cable Television began to carry the channel on its systems in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. On October 4, 2007, DirecTV began carrying the network nationwide. The channel changed its name to Palladia on September 1, 2008. Initially, Mitsubishi Electric Digital Televisions was the exclusive sponsor.
In January 2015, Viacom Media Networks gave notice to subscription providers that they would rebrand Palladia as MTV Live on February 1, 2016, making it the fifth all-music channel Viacom has rebranded in the last year. Currently no other details outside of the rename notice, along with the addition of "best of" episodes of the PBS/KLRU music series Austin City Limits, have been revealed. Despite the rebranding, network officials made clear no change in focus towards any reality programming (as has been seen with MTV and VH1) is planned. MTV Live and MTVU are currently used for video premieres and spotlight of new videos.
Programming
Specials formerly broadcast on MTV Live included the HD simulcast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20%28disambiguation%29
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CNN is the Cable News Network, a television network based in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
CNN or cnn may also refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment
Television
HLN (TV network), a spinoff of CNN, formerly known as CNN2 and CNN Headline News
CNN International, a US-based television network broadcast worldwide
CNN en Español, a Spanish-language version of CNN, based in Atlanta, Georgia
CNN Chile, a Chilean-based version of CNN
CNN Airport, a former CNN specialty channel for air travelers
CNN+, a defunct news streaming service
CNN+ (Spanish TV network), a former Spain-based version of CNN
CNN-News18, an India-based news channel
CNN Türk, a Turkish-based version of CNN
CNN Indonesia, an Indonesian-based version of CNN
CNN Arabic, an Arabic-language version of CNN, based in Atlanta, Georgia
CNNj, a Japanese-language version of CNN, based in Atlanta, Georgia
CNN Philippines, a Philippine-based version of CNN
CNN Portugal, a Portuguese-based version of CNN
CNN Brazil, a Brazilian-based version of CNN
Other arts, media and entertainment
CNN Interactive (CNN.com), the CNN website
WCNN, a sports-talk radio station in Atlanta, Georgia, US
Capone-N-Noreaga (C-N-N), a hip hop duo
CNN, later XC-NN, a band formed by All About Eve's Tim Bricheno
"CNN", a song by Baboon from the 1991 album Ed Lobster
"CNN", a song by Zebda from the 1992 album L'arène des rumeurs
Science and technology
Cellular neural network, a parallel computing paradigm
Convolutional neural network, a multilayer perceptron variation
Condoms, needles, and negotiation, an approach to reducing sexually transmitted diseases
Centrosomin, a protein in Drosophila melanogaster
Other uses
Canonbury railway station (National Rail station code), England
Kannur International Airport (IATA code)
Phổ Thông Chuyên Ngoại Ngữ (Foreign Languages Specializing School), Vietnam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Dunyach
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Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer.
Overview
Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing from Paul Sabatier University. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France.
Dunyach has been writing science fiction since the beginning of the 1980s and has already published nine novels and ten collections of short stories, garnering the French Science-Fiction award in 1983 and the Prix Rosny-Aîné Awards in 1992, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Prix Ozone in 1997.
His short story Déchiffrer la Trame (Unravelling the Thread) won both the Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Rosny Award in 1998, and was voted Best Story of the Year by the readers of the magazine Interzone.
His novel, Etoiles Mourantes (Dying Stars), written in collaboration with the French author Ayerdhal, won the prestigious Eiffel Tower Award in 1999 as well as the Prix Ozone.
Dunyach's works have been translated into English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Hungarian, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Dunyach also writes lyrics for several French singers, which served as an inspiration for one of his novels about a rock and roll singer touring in Antarctica with a zombie philharmonic orchestra...
Bibliography
Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) (collection) (Présence du Futur No. 415, Denoël, Paris, 1986)
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Le Temple d’Os (Le Jeu des Sabliers, Tome 2) (The Temple of Bones (The Game of the Hourglass, Vol. 2)) (Anticipation No. 1609, Fleuve Noir, Paris, 1988)
Nivôse (Étoiles Mortes, Tome1) (Nivose (Dead Stars, Vol. 1)) (Anticipation No.1837, Fleuve Noir, Paris, 1991)
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Voleurs de Silence (Étoiles Mortes, Tome 3) (Thieves of Silence (Dead Stars, Vol. 3) (Anticipation No. 1858, Fleuve Noir, Paris, 1992)
Roll Over, Amundsen (Anticipation No. 1912, Fleuve Noir, Paris, 1993)
La Guerre des Cercles (The War of the Circles) (Anticipation No. 1963, Fleuve Noir, Paris, 1995)
Étoiles Mourantes (Dying Stars) (with Ayerdhal) (J’ai Lu Millénaire, Paris, 1999)
La Station de l’Agnelle (Station of the Lamb) (collection) (L’Atalante, Nantes, 2000)
Dix Jours Sans Voir la Mer (Ten Days Without Looking at the Sea) (collection) (L’Atalante, Nantes, 2000)
Étoiles Mortes (Dead Stars) (J’ai Lu, Paris, 2000)
Déchiffrer la Trame (Unravelling the Thread) (collection) (L’Atalante, Nantes, 2001)
Le Jeu des Sabliers (The Game of the Hourglass) (ISF, Paris, 2003)
Les Nageurs de Sable (The Sand Swimmers) (collection) (L’Atalante, Nantes, 2003)
Le temps, en s'évaporant... (Time, as it evaporates...) (collection) (L’Atalante, Nantes, 2005)
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Les harmoniques célestes (Celestial harmonics) (collection) (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-body%20dynamics
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Soft-body dynamics is a field of computer graphics that focuses on visually realistic physical simulations of the motion and properties of deformable objects (or soft bodies). The applications are mostly in video games and films. Unlike in simulation of rigid bodies, the shape of soft bodies can change, meaning that the relative distance of two points on the object is not fixed. While the relative distances of points are not fixed, the body is expected to retain its shape to some degree (unlike a fluid). The scope of soft body dynamics is quite broad, including simulation of soft organic materials such as muscle, fat, hair and vegetation, as well as other deformable materials such as clothing and fabric. Generally, these methods only provide visually plausible emulations rather than accurate scientific/engineering simulations, though there is some crossover with scientific methods, particularly in the case of finite element simulations. Several physics engines currently provide software for soft-body simulation.
Deformable solids
The simulation of volumetric solid soft bodies can be realised by using a variety of approaches.
Spring/mass models
In this approach, the body is modeled as a set of point masses (nodes) connected by ideal weightless elastic springs obeying some variant of Hooke's law. The nodes may either derive from the edges of a two-dimensional polygonal mesh representation of the surface of the object, or from a three-dimensional network of nodes and edges modeling the internal structure of the object (or even a one-dimensional system of links, if for example a rope or hair strand is being simulated). Additional springs between nodes can be added, or the force law of the springs modified, to achieve desired effects. Applying Newton's second law to the point masses including the forces applied by the springs and any external forces (due to contact, gravity, air resistance, wind, and so on) gives a system of differential equations for the motion of the nodes, which is solved by standard numerical schemes for solving ODEs. Rendering of a three-dimensional mass-spring lattice is often done using free-form deformation, in which the rendered mesh is embedded in the lattice and distorted to conform to the shape of the lattice as it evolves. Assuming all point masses equal to zero one can obtain the Stretched grid method aimed at several engineering problems solution relative to the elastic grid behavior. These are sometimes known as mass-spring-damper models. In pressurized soft bodies spring-mass model is combined with a pressure force based on the ideal gas law.
Finite element simulation
This is a more physically accurate approach, which uses the widely used finite element method to solve the partial differential equations which govern the dynamics of an elastic material. The body is modeled as a three-dimensional elastic continuum by breaking it into a large number of solid elements which fit together, and solving for the stres
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Agency%20for%20Microfinance
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Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) is a microfinancing agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.
History
AKAM was formally inaugurated in February 2005 by Aga Khan IV and the former president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn. The not-for-profit agency was created under Swiss law and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is governed by an independent board of directors chaired by the Aga Khan. AKAM brings together the financial services programming of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) at the lower end of the ladder, unifying and consolidating their objectives and principles of development under one institutional umbrella.
The agency belongs to AKDN's social development branch, and as such, AKAM operates in both rural and urban areas and seeks to alleviate poverty by helping to improve incomes and quality of life through various programs, initiatives, and partnerships. Today, AKAM operates in developing countries including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, and Tanzania and provides various microfinance opportunities whose "versatility allows it to be adapted to the needs and circumstances of the poor in urban and rural environments."
At the end of 2010, it had 156 branches in South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, West Africa, and East Africa, with 3,120 employees. Since its establishment in 2005, AKAM has assumed responsibility for microfinance programs that were administered by other agencies within AKDN for more than 25 years. At the end of June 2010, the agency managed a loan portfolio of over US$147.7 million in outstanding micro, small, and medium-sized loans to over 287,240 beneficiaries in 13 countries.
Objectives and principles
The underlying objectives of the agency are to "alleviate economic and social exclusion, diminish the vulnerability of poor populations, and reduce poverty" so as to make the beneficiaries "self-reliant and eventually gain the skills needed to graduate to the mainstream financial markets." To articulate its approach, AKAM has formulated a series of key principles. These are:
Providing a broad range of microfinance services
Aiming to balance costs with revenue but also generate a modest surplus to contribute to the expansion of services and geographic coverage
operating alongside other AKDN agencies to draw on their experience
Utilizing institutional approaches and instruments that facilitate access and address the diversity of contexts and cultures
Consolidating all practices to ensure that procedures are transparent, efficient, and appropriately documented with trained staff
Focusing on positive growth as required by context and circumstance
Drawing on partnerships outside the network, such as governments, international agencies, and professional organizations, to expand the general frame of reference and maximize success
Partners
AKAM throughout the years has received support from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Briscoe
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Nicole Briscoe ( Manske; born July 2, 1980) is an American sportscaster who is employed by ESPN. Originally focused on covering auto racing for the network, which included stints as the host of NASCAR Countdown and NASCAR Now, Briscoe became a SportsCenter anchor in 2015. She is married to IndyCar Series driver Ryan Briscoe.
Early life
A native of Roscoe, Illinois, she graduated from Hononegah High School in 1998. She and future auto racer Danica Patrick were cheerleaders there in 1996.
Nicole won the Miss Illinois Teen USA 1998 and competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant in Shreveport, Louisiana, in August 1998. Nicole was a semi-finalist in the pageant, placing third (of 10) in the evening gown competition, seventh in swimsuit and tenth in interview, placing her eighth overall on average. Two years after passing on her title, she competed in the Miss Illinois USA 2001 pageant and placed first runner-up to Rebecca Ambrosi.
Early career
Nicole attended Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois, earning her first job while at Northern Illinois for WREX-TV, the NBC station in Rockford. She worked as a general assignment reporter for WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, before going to WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana, in April 2004. During her career at WISH-TV, Nicole covered the Indianapolis 500, the United States Grand Prix, the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, and the NBA's Indiana Pacers. She was also a pit reporter for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network.
In the May 15, 2006, edition of The Indianapolis Star, Nicole announced that she would be leaving WISH-TV for Speed Channel in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the 2006 Indianapolis 500 on May 28 being her last day.
Nicole was the co-host of The Speed Report (formerly Speed News), a Sunday motorsports program on Speed Channel.
She replaced Connie LeGrand, and hosted the show from July 1, 2006, to January 27, 2008, when she left to become the new host of the daily news show NASCAR Now on ESPN2.
Current career
From 2008 to 2014, Briscoe co-hosted the NASCAR pre-race shown on ESPN/ABC. Since 2015, she has served as a SportsCenter anchor.
Personal life
She married Ryan Briscoe in an outdoor ceremony in Hawaii in 2009 and they have since had daughters. In 2018, Ryan became a naturalized American citizen.
References
External links
Nicole Briscoe ESPN Bio
Indianapolis 500 coverage with Danica Patrick
Miss Teen USA 1998 competition (Shown as Miss Illinois Teen USA)
Indianapolis Star column on Manske's dating of 2005 Indy 500 winner
Indianapolis Star column on Manske's departure from WISH-TV to SPEED Channel.
Hononegah Community High School alumni
Television anchors from Indianapolis
Television anchors from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Living people
1998 beauty pageant contestants
20th-century Miss Teen USA delegates
Motorsport announcers
ESPN people
Northern Illinois University alumni
People from Charlotte, North Carolina
People from Rockford, Illinois
People from Wausau, Wisconsin
People
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Brantz
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Stephanie Brantz (born 1972) is an Australian sports presenter. She began her television career in 2000 on SBS (2000–2006), and has since worked on the Nine Network (2006–10), Fox Sports (2010) and is now on ABC (2010–present).
Personal life
Brantz, born in Queensland to Dutch parents, began a modelling career in 1985 while attending St Peters Lutheran College in Indooroopilly, which continued through her time at Charles Sturt University. She has two sons and a daughter.
Career
Television career
In 2000, she began her television presenting career with SBS where she became a presenter of On the Ball, before filling in as host of Toyota World Sports and later co-hosting the show in 2006 with Les Murray. She also became the face of SBS during their coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
In July 2006, just after the World Cup, Brantz was recruited by Nine CEO Eddie McGuire to front several sporting programmes, including Nine News, The Cricket Show, Sunday & The Footy Show.
During the 2006–2007 summer season, Brantz presented a weekly highlights show of the National Basketball League on the Nine Network, which began on 15 October 2006. She also did "analysis and roving reports" for the network's 2006–07 Ashes cricket coverage. On 19 February 2007, she was appointed the sports presenter on Nightline.
In 2010, she appeared on Fox Sports News reading sports news.
From late 2010, Brantz joined ABC TV as sports presenter and host for the channel. At ABC, she was the host and 'side-line commentator' for the W-League (Australia) that airs on Sunday afternoons on the network and the WNBL that airs on Saturday afternoons. She was also the host for New South Wales viewers of the Shute Shield, as well as the international Hockey, Football, Golf and Basketball coverage.
Brantz has hosted the Anzac Day Dawn Service from Gallipoli in 2012–2015, hosted the Gallipoli Symphony and the 2015 Centenary Commemorations of the 'Battle for Lone Pine' as well as the Australian of the Year Awards and the Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony, also in the National Capital on Australia Day (2011–2017).
In 2012, she led the ABC's coverage of the London Paralympic Games. She also fronted the 2013 New Year's Eve coverage alongside Lawrence Mooney and the coverage of the 2015 Asian Cup.
In 2016, Brantz became a freelancer and took on lead commentary duties for the Westfield W-League with Fox Sports, joined ESPN as a regular contributor on their digital platform as well as presenting the US Open Primetime show from Flushing Meadows in 2017.
She has continued with the ABC, presenting their WWI commemorations from Villers-Bretonneux, Fromelles and Pozieres, Polygon Wood and Be’er Sheva as well as the Australia Day formalities in Canberra and the Australian Women's Open Golf coverage.
Other roles
As well as her on-air television duties, Brantz is presenter of a pre- and post-match function at the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium. At this event, she chats with
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDWL
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WDWL (channel 36) is a Enlace-affiliated television station licensed to Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Founded May 11, 1987, the station is owned by TeleAdoración Christian Network. WDWL shares transmitter facilities with WUJA (channel 58) at Cerro La Marquesa in Aguas Buenas. The station has its main studios located at Sabana Seca in Toa Baja.
Digital television
WDWL's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
On June 12, 2009, WDWL signed off its analog signal and completed its move to digital.
Spectrum reallocation
On August 18, 2017, it was revealed that WDWL's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's spectrum reallocation auction, fetching $7,780,8506. WDWL will not sign off, but it will later share broadcast spectrum with WUJA, another religious television station that covers the entire metropolitan area.
References
External links
Official site
Television channels and stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Puerto Rico
Religious television stations in the United States
Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Christian television stations in Puerto Rico
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVQS-LD
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WVQS-LD (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Vieques, Puerto Rico. The station is owned and operated by Senda Educational Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Christian Television Network, Inc.
On April 15, 2015, WVQS-LD changed its affiliation with CTNi on channel 50.1 & CTN on channel 50.2, rebroadcasting WSJN-CD.
Its sister station is WUSP-LD 251 in Ponce (a CTNi affiliate). This station is also owned by Senda Educational Broadcasting, Inc.
Digital Television
WVQS-LD's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Low-power television stations in Puerto Rico
Christian television stations in Puerto Rico
1990 establishments in Puerto Rico
Television channels and stations established in 1990
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Hadoop
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Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data using the MapReduce programming model. Hadoop was originally designed for computer clusters built from commodity hardware, which is still the common use. It has since also found use on clusters of higher-end hardware. All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures are common occurrences and should be automatically handled by the framework.
The core of Apache Hadoop consists of a storage part, known as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and a processing part which is a MapReduce programming model. Hadoop splits files into large blocks and distributes them across nodes in a cluster. It then transfers packaged code into nodes to process the data in parallel. This approach takes advantage of data locality, where nodes manipulate the data they have access to. This allows the dataset to be processed faster and more efficiently than it would be in a more conventional supercomputer architecture that relies on a parallel file system where computation and data are distributed via high-speed networking.
The base Apache Hadoop framework is composed of the following modules:
Hadoop Common – contains libraries and utilities needed by other Hadoop modules;
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) – a distributed file-system that stores data on commodity machines, providing very high aggregate bandwidth across the cluster;
Hadoop YARN – (introduced in 2012) is a platform responsible for managing computing resources in clusters and using them for scheduling users' applications;
Hadoop MapReduce – an implementation of the MapReduce programming model for large-scale data processing.
Hadoop Ozone – (introduced in 2020) An object store for Hadoop
The term Hadoop is often used for both base modules and sub-modules and also the ecosystem, or collection of additional software packages that can be installed on top of or alongside Hadoop, such as Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Phoenix, Apache Spark, Apache ZooKeeper, Apache Impala, Apache Flume, Apache Sqoop, Apache Oozie, and Apache Storm.
Apache Hadoop's MapReduce and HDFS components were inspired by Google papers on MapReduce and Google File System.
The Hadoop framework itself is mostly written in the Java programming language, with some native code in C and command line utilities written as shell scripts. Though MapReduce Java code is common, any programming language can be used with Hadoop Streaming to implement the map and reduce parts of the user's program. Other projects in the Hadoop ecosystem expose richer user interfaces.
Overview
History
According to its co-founders, Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella, the genesis of Hadoop was the Google File System paper that was published
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeTV
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SafeTV (also known as Safe Television and SafeTV Channel) is a television network based in Springdale, Arkansas. SafeTV was founded by Carlos Pardeiro in 1995, and is owned and operated by Total Life Community Educational Foundation.
SafeTV was broadcast nationally in the USA by IPTV provider Sky Angel.
SafeTV broadcast over-the-air locally in Springdale, Arkansas, on channel 57 as KSBN-TV until March 2007 when channel 57 was sold to Daystar Television Network and changed its callsign to KWOG.
See also
KWOG
References
External links
Official site
Three Angels Broadcasting Network
Television networks in the United States
Christian mass media companies
Christian television networks
Religious television stations in the United States
Former Seventh-day Adventist institutions
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Springdale, Arkansas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Syfy
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The following is a list of TV programs for the American channel Syfy, including both original and acquired programming.
Current programming
The following programs first aired in their entirety or had specific seasons on American Syfy channel. Programs running on the present schedule are listed below.
Drama
Comedy
Co-productions
Former programming
Drama
Comedy
Anthology
Miniseries
Adult animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Game shows
Reality
Variety
Sports
Syfy original films
Syfy second-run programming
Current programming
Bates Motel (2023–present)
Gary and His Demons (2019–present)
Quantum Leap (1989–1993) (1994–2006; 2022–present)
The Twilight Zone (1995–present)
Quantum Leap (2022–present)
Former programming
Many of the following series used to be aired frequently on S.C.I.F.I. World, a daytime programming schedule started on in July 2000, that divided its marathons into five days that concentrated on five particular themes:Superheroland, Creatureland, Intergalacticland, Fantasticland and Inhumanland.
The 4400 (2005–06)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1992–96)
Alien Nation (1992–2002)
All Souls (2008–09)
The Amazing Spider-Man (1993; 1995–98)
Amazing Stories (1992–2006)
American Gothic (1998–2001)
The Anti-Gravity Room (1995–98)
Babylon 5 (2000–03)
Back to the Future (1994–96)
Batman (1997; 2000–01)
Battlestar Galactica (1992–2001)
Beakman's World
Beastmaster (2004–07)
Beauty and the Beast (1994–96)
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (2002–05)
Beyond Reality (1994–95; 1997–2000)
Bionic Six (1995–97)
The Bionic Woman (1994–2000; 2007)
Brimstone (1999–2002; 2009)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Cable in the Classroom
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys (1999–2000)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1995–97)
Cleopatra 2525 (2003–04)
Code Name: Eternity (2004–06)
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (2000–03)
Crusade (2001–03)
Dark Angel (2006–09)
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows (1991 series)
Dark Skies
Darkroom
Dead Like Me
Defenders of the Earth
Doctor Who (1992–93)
Early Edition
Earth 2
Earth: Final Conflict
The End Is Nye
Extreme Ghostbusters
The Fantastic Journey (1992–96)
Fantastic Voyage
Fantasy Island
Firefly
Friday the 13th: The Series
Forever Knight (1996–99; 2002–03)
Futurama (2019–21)
Future Cop
Galactica 1980
Galaxy High School (1993–94; 1996)
Gemini Man (1992–96; 1998; 2000)
Ghost Whisperer
Golden Years
Grave Times
The Green Hornet
Hammer House of Horror
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Haunted
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Here Comes the Grump (1993–94)
Heroes Reborn
H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man
Harley Quinn
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
The Hitchhiker
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Immortal
The Incredible Hulk
In Search of...
Intergalatic
Inside Space
The Invaders
The Invisible Man
Jake 2.0
Joe 90
John Doe
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jumanji
Kindred: The Embraced
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
Knight Rider
Kolchak: T
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable
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Bigtable is a fully managed wide-column and key-value NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads as part of the Google Cloud portfolio.
History
Bigtable development began in 2004. It is now used by a number of Google applications, such as Google Analytics, web indexing, MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in Bigtable, Google Maps, Google Books search, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, YouTube, and Gmail. Google's reasons for developing its own database include scalability and better control of performance characteristics.
Google's Spanner RDBMS is layered on an implementation of Bigtable with a Paxos group for two-phase commits to each table. Google F1 was built using Spanner to replace an implementation based on MySQL.
Apache HBase and Cassandra are some of the best known open source projects that were modeled after Bigtable.
On May 6, 2015, a public version of Bigtable was made available as a part of Google Cloud under the name Cloud Bigtable.
As of January 2022, Bigtable manages over 10 Exabytes of data and serves more than 5 billion requests per second. On January 27, 2022, Google announced a number of updates to Bigtable, including automated scalability.
Design
Bigtable is one of the prototypical examples of a wide-column store. It maps two arbitrary string values (row key and column key) and timestamp (hence three-dimensional mapping) into an associated arbitrary byte array. It is not a relational database and can be better defined as a sparse, distributed multi-dimensional sorted map. It is built on Colossus (Google File System), Chubby Lock Service, SSTable (log-structured storage like LevelDB) and a few other Google technologies. Bigtable is designed to scale into the petabyte range across "hundreds or thousands of machines, and to make it easy to add more machines [to] the system and automatically start taking advantage of those resources without any reconfiguration". For example, Google's copy of the web can be stored in a bigtable where the row key is a domain-reversed URL, and columns describe various properties of a web page, with one particular column holding the page itself. The page column can have several timestamped versions describing different copies of the web page timestamped by when they were fetched. Each cell of a bigtable can have zero or more timestamped versions of the data. Another function of the timestamp is to allow for both versioning and garbage collection of expired data.
Tables are split into multiple tablets – segments of the table are split at certain row keys so that each tablet is a few hundred megabytes or a few gigabytes in size. A bigtable is somewhat like a mapreduce worker pool in that thousands to hundreds of thousands of tablet shards may be served by hundreds to thousands of BigTable servers. When Table size threaten to grow beyond a specified limit, the tablets may be compressed using the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Setouchi
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(TSC) is a TV station in Japan.
It is one of the TX Network (TXN) stations, broadcasting in Okayama Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture, and it is the only TXN TV station in the Chugoku-Shikoku region.
Anime produced
TV Setouchi produced a few anime TV shows that aired nationwide on TXN:
Idol Densetsu Eriko (1989–90)
Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko (1990–91)
Getter Robo Go (1991–92)
Floral Magician Mary Bell (1992–93)
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (1993)
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō (1993-2008)
Programming
TV Setouchi aired several independently produced anime TV shows which also aired on other networks like Tokyo MX.
Lime-iro Senkitan
Mamotte! Lollipop
Happiness!
Nanatsuiro Drops
Nichijou
Maken-ki!
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers
Galactic Armored Fleet Majestic Prince
Kantai Collection
Ai Tenchi Muyo!
Divine Gate
Luck & Logic
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.
BanG Dream!
External links
The official website (Japanese)
Television stations in Japan
TX Network
Okayama Prefecture
Television channels and stations established in 1984
Mass media in Okayama
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20recognition%20%28disambiguation%29
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Pattern recognition is a field in machine learning.
Pattern recognition may also refer to:
Pattern recognition (psychology), identification of faces, objects, words, melodies, etc.
Pattern Recognition (novel), a 2003 novel by William Gibson
Pattern Recognition, an album by Sea Scouts
"Pattern Recognition", a song by Sonic Youth from Sonic Nurse
Pattern Recognition (journal)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20surface
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The attack surface of a software environment is the sum of the different points (for "attack vectors") where an unauthorized user (the "attacker") can try to enter data to, extract data, control a device or critical software in an environment. Keeping the attack surface as small as possible is a basic security measure.
Elements of an attack surface
Worldwide digital change has accelerated the size, scope, and composition of an organization's attack surface. The size of an attack surface may fluctuate over time, adding and subtracting assets and digital systems (e.g. websites, hosts, cloud and mobile apps, etc.). Attack surface sizes can change rapidly as well. Digital assets eschew the physical requirements of traditional network devices, servers, data centers, and on-premise networks. This leads to attack surfaces changing rapidly, based on the organization's needs and the availability of digital services to accomplish it.
Attack surface scope also varies from organization to organization. With the rise of digital supply chains, interdependencies, and globalization, an organization's attack surface has a broader scope of concern (viz. vectors for cyberattacks). Lastly, the composition of an organization's attack surface consists of small entities linked together in digital relationships and connections to the rest of the internet and organizational infrastructure, including the scope of third-parties, digital supply chain, and even adversary-threat infrastructure.
An attack surface composition can range widely between various organizations, yet often identify many of the same elements, including:
Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs)
IP Address and IP Blocks
Domains and Sub-Domains (direct and third-parties)
SSL Certificates and Attribution
WHOIS Records, Contacts, and History
Host and Host Pair Services and Relationship
Internet Ports and Services
NetFlow
Web Frameworks (PHP, Apache, Java, etc.)
Web Server Services (email, database, applications)
Public and Private Cloud
Understanding an attack surface
Due to the increase in the countless potential vulnerable points each enterprise has, there has been increasing advantage for hackers and attackers as they only need to find one vulnerable point to succeed in their attack.
There are three steps towards understanding and visualizing an attack surface:
Step 1: Visualize. Visualizing the system of an enterprise is the first step, by mapping out all the devices, paths and networks.
Step 2: Find indicators of exposures. The second step is to correspond each indicator of a vulnerability being potentially exposed to the visualized map in the previous step. IOEs include "missing security controls in systems and software".
Step 3: Find indicators of compromise. This is an indicator that an attack has already succeeded.
Surface reduction
One approach to improving information security is to reduce the attack surface of a system or software. The basic strategies of attack surface reducti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s%20Health%20Network
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Men's Health Network (MHN) is a non-profit international educational organization of health care professionals and interested individuals that focuses on improving male health and wellness. MHN has since been classified as a tax-exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service code.
MHN is based in the United States and is incorporated in the District of Columbia.
Networks
In 1994, MHN provided the impetus for Men's Health Week in the week leading up to and including Father's Day and Men's Health Month (June), typical events include educational lectures by sports figures, free health screenings, and health fairs. The organization also offers health information online through digital libraries, directories, free screening calendars, and websites such as www.checkmensfacts.com and as over the phone through Men’s Healthline.
Key Staff
Ana Fadich - Vice President
Judy Seals-Togbo - Manager, Faith-based Initiatives and Minority Health Programs
Mike Leventhal - Executive Director
Ramon Llamas - External Relations and Strategic Partnerships, and Minority Health Initiatives
External links
Official Website
Key Staff
See also
Men's health
Medical and health organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Andrology
Men's health organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode%20symbol
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In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text.
Many of the symbols are drawn from existing character sets or ISO/IEC or other national and international standards. The Unicode Standard states that "The universe of symbols is rich and open-ended," but that in order to be considered, a symbol must have a "demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text." This makes the issue of what symbols to encode and how symbols should be encoded more complicated than the issues surrounding writing systems. Unicode focuses on symbols that make sense in a one-dimensional plain-text context. For example, the typical two-dimensional arrangement of electronic diagram symbols justifies their exclusion. (Box-drawing characters are a partial exception, for legacy purposes, and a number of electronic diagram symbols are indeed encoded in Unicode's Miscellaneous Technical block.) For adequate treatment in plain text, symbols must also be displayable in a monochromatic setting. Even with these limitations monochromatic, one-dimensional and standards-based the domain of potential Unicode symbols is extensive. (However, emojis ideograms, graphic symbols that were admitted into Unicode, allow colors although the colors are not standardized.)
Symbol block list
There are , including the following symbol blocks:
Alphanumeric variants (based on Latin characters in Unicode)
Currency Symbols (U+20A0–U+20CF)
General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
Letterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
Number Forms (U+2150–U+218F)
Phonetic symbols (including IPA) (various blocks)
Superscripts and Subscripts (U+2070–U+209F)
Enclosed variants
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (1F100–1F1FF)
Enclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (1F200–1F2FF)
Arrows
Arrows (U+2190–U+21FF)
Dingbats arrows (U+2794–U+27BF)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (U+2B00–U+2BFF)
Supplemental Arrows-A (U+27F0–U+27FF)
Supplemental Arrows-B (U+2900–U+297F)
Supplemental Arrows-C (U+1F800-U+1F8FF)
Mathematical
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400–U+1D7FF)
Mathematical Operators (U+2200–U+22FF)
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (U+27C0–U+27EF)
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (U+2980–U+29FF)
Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A (U+1FA70–1FAFF)
Supplemental Mathematical Operators (U+2A00–U+2AFF)
Technical
Control Pictures (U+2400–U+243F)
Miscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
Optical Character Recognition (U+2440–U+245F)
Musical
Znamenny Musical Notation (U+1CF00–1CFCF)
Ancient Greek Musical Notation (U+1D200–U+1D24F)
Byzantine Musical Symbols (U+1D000–U+1D0FF)
Musical Symbols (U+1D100–U+1D1FF)
Games
Chess Symbols (U+1FA00–1FA6F)
Domino Tiles (U+1F030–U+1F09F)
Mahjong Tiles (U+1F000–U+1F02F)
Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–U+1F0FF)
Emoji and emoticons
Dingbat (U+2700–U+27BF)
Emoticons (U+1F600–U+1F64F)
Miscellaneous Symbols (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSBS-TV
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WSBS-TV (channel 22) is a television station licensed to Key West, Florida, United States, serving as the flagship station of the Spanish-language network Mega TV. Owned and operated by Spanish Broadcasting System, the station maintains studios on Northwest 77th Avenue in Miami, and its transmitter is located on Bahama and Simonton Streets in Key West.
WSBS-CD (channel 19) in Miami operates as a low-power, Class A translator of WSBS-TV.
History
The station was originally licensed as WYDH on October 2, 1989; the calls were changed to WEYS on October 11, 1989, and the station itself first signed on the air in June 1993. WSBS-TV has had numerous callsign changes over the years. This has caused much confusion, both among viewers and writers. In many places, the station is still referred to as WEYS TeleNoticias, and WDLP Licensing, Inc. remained the licensee for several months after the call change to WSBS-TV. Some of these calls have been reused by low-power repeater stations, themselves often subject to similar callsign shuffles (for instance, the WDLP callsign is currently used by a repeater for rival WGEN-TV). On April 4, 2003, the station changed its call letters to WGEN-TV; it was then changed to WDLP-TV on November 24 of that year. The current WSBS-TV call letters were first adopted on July 1, 2004, before reverting to the WDLP-TV callsign on September 28, 2004. Prior to 2005, the station was co-owned with another Key West station, WGEN-TV, under the ownership of Sonia Broadcasting.
On March 1, 2006, the station became a charter station of Mega TV when the network was launched, and changed its callsign back to the previous WSBS-TV letters. Its original slate of programming includes productions aimed at young Hispanic viewers. Mega TV's format follows a very similar pattern traced by rival Telemundo station WSCV (channel 51) and Univision station WLTV (channel 23) decades earlier: by creating its own television personalities.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WSBS-TV ended programming on its analog signal, on UHF channel 22, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition VHF channel 3. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 22. WSBS is one of the only television stations in the United States to operate its digital signal on the VHF low band, which is especially rare on channels 2 to 4 (54–72 MHz), due to interference that the band is subjected to. It chose to keep this channel in the first round of the digital channel elections.
Translator
WSBS-CA (analog UHF channel 50), which lists "Miami, etc." as its city of license, flash cut its signal to digital in early 2010, and accordingly changed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value%20model
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An entity–attribute–value model (EAV) is a data model optimized for the space-efficient storage of sparse—or ad-hoc—property or data values, intended for situations where runtime usage patterns are arbitrary, subject to user variation, or otherwise unforeseeable using a fixed design. The use-case targets applications which offer a large or rich system of defined property types, which are in turn appropriate to a wide set of entities, but where typically only a small, specific selection of these are instantiated (or persisted) for a given entity. Therefore, this type of data model relates to the mathematical notion of a sparse matrix.
EAV is also known as object–attribute–value model, vertical database model, and open schema.
Data structure
This data representation is analogous to space-efficient methods of storing a sparse matrix, where only non-empty values are stored. In an EAV data model, each attribute–value pair is a fact describing an entity, and a row in an EAV table stores a single fact. EAV tables are often described as "long and skinny": "long" refers to the number of rows, "skinny" to the few columns.
Data is recorded as three columns:
The entity: the item being described.
The attribute or parameter: typically implemented as a foreign key into a table of attribute definitions. The attribute definitions table might contain the following columns: an attribute ID, attribute name, description, data type, and columns assisting input validation, e.g., maximum string length and regular expression, set of permissible values, etc.
The value of the attribute.
Example
Consider how one would try to represent a general-purpose clinical record in a relational database. Clearly creating a table (or a set of tables) with thousands of columns is not feasible, because the vast majority of columns would be null. To complicate things, in a longitudinal medical record that follows the patient over time, there may be multiple values of the same parameter: the height and weight of a child, for example, change as the child grows. Finally, the universe of clinical findings keeps growing: for example, diseases emerge and new lab tests are devised; this would require constant addition of columns, and constant revision of the user interface. The term "attribute volatility" is sometimes used to describe the problems or situations that arise when the list of available attributes or their definitions needs to evolve over time.
The following shows a selection of rows of an EAV table for clinical findings from a visit to a doctor for a fever on the morning of 1998-05-01. The entries shown within angle brackets are references to entries in other tables, shown here as text rather than as encoded foreign key values for ease of understanding. In this example, the values are all literal values, but they could also be pre-defined value lists. The latter are particularly useful when the possible values are known to be limited (i.e., enumerable).
The entity. For cl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCB%20%28advertising%20agency%29
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Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB), is one of the largest global advertising agency networks. It is owned by Interpublic Group and was merged in 2006 with Draft Worldwide, adopting the name Draftfcb. In 2014 the company rebranded itself as FCB.
Parent Interpublic Group is one of the big four agency holding conglomerates, the others being Publicis, WPP, and Omnicom.
History
Founded by Daniel Lord and Ambrose Thomas as Lord & Thomas in Chicago in 1873, FCB is the third-oldest advertising agency in the U.S. still operating today. Albert Lasker began work for the firm as a clerk in 1898, working his way up until he purchased it in 1912. Chicago and New York were centers of the nation's advertising industry at the time, and Lasker, known as the "father of modern advertising," made Chicago his base from 1898 to 1942. When the agency acquired the Sunkist Growers, Incorporated account, the citrus industry was in a slump with an excess of produce. Lasker helped increase the consumption of oranges by creating a new market with his "Drink an orange" ads. Lasker's use of radio, particularly with his campaigns for Palmolive soap, Pepsodent toothpaste, Kotex feminine hygiene products, and Lucky Strike cigarettes, not only revolutionized the advertising industry but also significantly changed popular culture.
In 1942, Lasker sold Lord & Thomas to its three top managers, Emerson H. Foote in New York City, Fairfax Cone in Chicago, and Don Belding in California; they renamed it Foote Cone & Belding.
In 1963, Foote, Cone & Belding began to offer stock and went public. FCB began to expand in Europe that year.
In the 1970s and '80s major clients included Mazda, RJR Nabisco, AT&T, Coors Brewing Company, Payless ShoeSource and Mattel. In the 1980s, the agency began an international expansion.
In December 1994, FCB created a new holding company, True North Communications, to become a major multinational player.
In 2000, it had more than 190 offices serving clients in 102 countries.
In 2001, ad network Interpublic Group acquired True North Communications.
Draft Direct Worldwide and FCB merged in June 2006, to form Draftfcb. Less than a year after the merger, in April 2007, Kmart switched its $740 million account from Grey New York to Draftfcb Chicago without a pitch.
On 10 March 2014, the agency was renamed as FCB, six months after the appointment of worldwide CEO Carter Murray.
In 2016, Susan Credle joined the agency as Global Chief Creative Officer.
In 2019, Ad Age named FCB to its 2019 A-List and FCB/SIX earns Data/Analytics Agency of the Year.
Campaigns and awards
The agency and its work have been recognized at a number of award competitions—Cannes, The One Show, and industry competitions Echoes, El Ojo, Effies, and Caples—as well as agency-of-the-year honors for its New Zealand, Indonesia, and Durban São Paulo, Mexico City and Kuwait offices. Its Canada office has won digital agency-of-the-year in four consecutive years starting in 2016.
2008-2010
Ad Age r
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%20Commander%3A%20Privateer
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Wing Commander: Privateer is an adventure space trading and combat simulator computer game released by Origin Systems in September 1993. Privateer and its storyline is part of the Wing Commander series. The player takes the role of Grayson Burrows, a "privateer" who travels through the Gemini Sector, one of many sectors in the Wing Commander universe. Unlike Wing Commander, the player is no longer a navy pilot, but a freelancer who can choose to be a pirate, a merchant, a mercenary or any of the above in some combination. The player may follow the built-in plot but is free to adventure on his own, even after the plot has been completed.
Privateer had two add-ons titled Speech Pack (1993) and Righteous Fire (1994). A sequel was released in 1996, titled Privateer 2: The Darkening. The game was re-released in 2011 with Windows support on GOG.com, with MacOS support added in 2012.
Gameplay
Basic gameplay consists of flying and fighting with the ship in a star system, jumping from system to system via jump points, landing on bases or planets, interacting with people (mainly talking) and buying or selling equipment or commodities. The Gemini sector is divided into quadrants, each containing several star systems, most of them with planets or bases that may be visited. Unlike other games in the series, the gameplay is primarily in the sandbox style of play.
When flying, the main view is a first-person look from inside the cockpit at the cockpit screens (HUDs) and the space before the ship. Space combat simulation is similar to the style of other Wing Commander games of its time. On planets and bases, a static overview/first-person-view is used to show the rooms and interact with people. Menus are used for buying, selling, or taking missions from the mission computer.
The Gemini sector is frequented by seven factions: merchants, bounty hunters, retros, pirates, militia, the Terran Confederation and the Kilrathi. Some of them attack the player on sight, while others are allies of the player. How the members of the factions react is not only pre-set but depends also on the player's actions.
The player may conduct business as a merchant or fight in combat for non-plot missions provided by the above factions. If playing as a merchant, the player must make a profit from price differences of commodities on different planets or stations. Alternatively, the player may choose from randomly generated non-plot missions from a mission computer. Successful completion of missions results in monetary award, which allows better ship weapons and equipment to be purchased.
During the plot, the player meets fixers, often representing one of the above factions, who assign the player missions in their interest in exchange for money or helpful information. The missions usually consist of plain combat, escorting other ships while combating enemies or commodity delivery including smuggling while combating or escaping enemies. The plot itself can only be played straight, on
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLJC-TV
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WLJC-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to Beattyville, Kentucky, United States, serving the Lexington area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Cozi TV. The station is owned by local minister Margaret Drake and her ministry, The Hour of Harvest, Inc. WLJC-TV's studios are located on Radio Station Loop north of Beattyville, and its transmitter is located on Tip Top Road.
History
The station first signed on the air on October 18, 1982 and claims to be the oldest Christian television station in Kentucky. The Hour of Harvest, Inc. also owns two Christian radio stations, Air 1 outlet WLJC-FM and K-LOVE outlet WEBF.
On April 2, 2018, WLJC began carrying a half-hour local newscast produced by Lexington ABC affiliate WTVQ at 9 p.m. titled ABC 36 News at Nine on WLJC.
In November 2018, WLJC's main channel began airing Cozi TV programming (which moved from 65.6; that subchannel now airs Start TV).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WLJC-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, in July 2007. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 7. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 65, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
The station was granted a construction permit to increase its effective radiated power from 70 kW to 185 kW.
Coverage area
WLJC-TV's digital signal covers much of eastern and central Kentucky as a result of its relatively high antenna position at 322 meters HAAT and a power level of 185,000 watts on the VHF band. Its primary coverage area includes the Lexington metropolitan area, London, and Hazard. Its fringe contour even reaches areas as far north as Maysville, as far east as Pikeville, as far west as Frankfort, and as far south as the Tennessee state line around Middlesboro.
External links
Official website
References
Television channels and stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Kentucky
LJC-TV
Cozi TV affiliates
TheGrio affiliates
Antenna TV affiliates
Get (TV network) affiliates
This TV affiliates
Start TV affiliates
Heroes & Icons affiliates
Beattyville, Kentucky
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20%26%20She
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He & She is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network as part of its 1967–1968 lineup, originally sponsored by General Foods and Lever Brothers.
He & She is widely considered by broadcast historians to have been ahead of its time. Its sophisticated approach to comedy was viewed as opening doors to the groundbreaking MTM family of sitcoms of the 1970s, beginning with The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The character of Oscar was openly the pattern for the Ted Baxter character, for which creator Leonard Stern granted permission.
Synopsis
He & She stars real-life married couple Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss as Dick and Paula Hollister, a successful cartoonist and his wife, a social worker. Hollister's cartoon "Jetman" had been so successful that it was now a network television series starring egomaniacal actor Oscar North (Jack Cassidy) as the titular Jetman. North constantly argues with Hollister over the interpretation and direction of the Jetman character. Folksinger-actor Hamilton Camp played the role of handyman Andrew Hummel at the apartment building where the starring characters lived, and Kenneth Mars played firefighter Harry Zarakartos, who would often drop in on the Hollisters' apartment via a plank connected to the firehouse across the alley.
Writers Chris Hayward and Allan Burns, who created the series The Munsters, were hired by executive producer Leonard Stern (co-writer and producer of Get Smart) as story editors for He & She, for which they won the 1968 Emmy Award for comedy writing. The show received four other Emmy nominations that year, including nominations for Prentiss, Benjamin, and Cassidy. Burns would go on to be a writer and co-creator (among others) of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, of which He & She is considered a major forerunner. The show also earned three of the four Writers Guild nominations for Best Writing in a Comedy.
Despite the strong lead-in provided by Green Acres (a top-25 primetime show that season), He & She was cancelled after one season, although selected episodes were later rerun as a summer replacement series by CBS in 1970 following the cancellation of The Tim Conway Show. Reruns later aired on the USA Network in 1985-86 and TV Land ran selected episodes of the series in 1998, but it has not been seen since then. Cast members, such as Richard Benjamin, felt that the Green Acres lead-in actually hurt the show because the two series were so different in their approaches, rural and urban, respectively. The series was also a pioneer in the portrayal of the working wife, which was not yet in vogue on television.
List of episodes
References
Brooks, Tim, and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
Smith, Tracey, "He & She", Television Chronicles magazine, July 1997.
External links
1967 American television series debuts
1968 American television series endings
1960s American sitcoms
CBS original programming
Television series about marriage
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Second%20Hundred%20Years%20%28TV%20series%29
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The Second Hundred Years is an American sitcom by Screen Gems starring Monte Markham, Arthur O'Connell, and Frank Maxwell, which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967, to September 19, 1968.
Synopsis
In 1900 Luke Carpenter left his wife and infant son to take part in the Alaskan gold rush, but soon after his arrival was buried in a glacial avalanche. His burial was evidently so complete and so rapid that he survived in a state of suspended animation for 67 years. He was then thawed out and brought to the home of his now-elderly son, Edwin (Arthur O'Connell), who lives in Woodland Oaks, California. Though Luke was 101 years old he looked to be the same age of his 33-year-old grandson, Ken.
In the pilot episode, a heavily bandaged Luke awakens in Edwin's house and thinks Edwin is a gold robber. After removing his bandages, a bearded Luke dons his prospector's outfit and grabs his rifle in an attempt to find the sheriff to report the robber, but accidentally turns on a TV, which is playing a western. Luke comments "There's a midget in a box challenging me to a duel" and attacks the TV set. Outdoors, Luke, thinking he is in turn-of-the-century Fairbanks, is confused and scared by automobiles, as well as people's strange fashions. Accidentally pointing a rifle at a woman gets the attention of the police, who return him to Edwin. Starting to grasp what has happened, Luke decides to assimilate to 1967 California by shaving off his beard and wearing more modern clothes, which makes him look very much like his grandson Ken (also played by Markham). After some confusion, Luke decides it is best not to burden his family and strikes out on his own by taking a train to San Francisco, but is stopped by Edwin, who convinces his father to live with him and they will take a flight to San Francisco in order to help show that Luke has been given a unique gift, a chance to see the fruits of his generation's sacrifices through the advances of the latter 20th Century. The Army officer who oversaw Luke's unfreezing holds Luke, Edwin and Ken to a state secrecy act, as the Army does not wish for this to be public until the medical corps can fully comprehend why Luke survived. When told the order came from the top, Luke responds "if President McKinley says so it is good enough for me!"
The humor centered around how Luke was younger, both in appearance and attitude, than both his son, who was 67 (referenced in the pilot), but also his grandson Ken, who at 33 was the exact age at which Luke had disappeared and been preserved, and who was a near double for his grandfather (not surprising, as both characters were portrayed by Markham). Difficulty adjusting to all of the technology of the modern era aside, Luke, who was an affable, light-hearted sort, was in some ways more at home in his new world than Edwin. Other times it would play on how both men had buttoned-down ways, but how Luke is treated differently than Edwin for it, such as w
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Practical Computing was a UK computer magazine published monthly. The magazine was published by IPC Electrical Electronic Press Ltd. The headquarters was in Sutton, Surrey. The first edition was released in August 1978 as a special computer show edition, and the second issue was October 1978. The magazine carried on to 1987 when it merged with Business Computing. In September 1989, it was renamed Management Computing.
It provided in-depth reviews and previews of the latest hardware and software for the information technology enthusiasts and professionals, initially providing a mix of articles aimed at hobbyists and at small business people, later focusing its attention increasingly exclusively on the business and professional market.
Development and evolution
The magazine followed the trends of the microcomputer industry at the time. Initially it covered a broad range of systems including Commodore PETs and the Tandy TRS-80 as well as single-board computers such as the UK101 and Nascom 2. Later in its life it focussed more on business computers such as the ACT Sirius 1 and the IBM PC. Towards the end of its life, reflecting their dominance in the small computing marketplace, it covered the IBM PC and compatibles almost exclusively, with the occasional Apple Mac or small UNIX workstation piece.
The editors were:
1978 — Dennis Jarrett (main magazine), Nick Hampshire (Computabits)
1979-1983—Peter Laurie
1984 — Jack Schofield
The initial publisher in 1978 was Wim Hoeksma, who died in 1981. Chris Hipwell was its publisher in the early 1980s. Tom Maloney was advertising manager.
The cover price in 1978 was 50p; in June 1980 it rose to 60p, June 1981 80p, 1984 85p and 1985 £1.
Your Computer was a spin-off from Practical Computing.
Concept and design
The coverart was initially hand-drawn, later it went for occasional (but humorous) photographs, then finally a mix of photos and geometric graphic design.
From October 1978 to October 1979 the magazine serialised the book Illustrating BASIC by Donald Alcock. This book was unusually written by hand rather than typeset, and featured little insects to show common programming errors or bugs.
When it was more of a hobbyist magazine, Practical Computing published fiction—usually stories with a computing or science fiction slant. A noted series was Richard Forsyth's Son of Hexadecimal Kid, which ran from September 1980 to December 1981.
The magazine underwent two redesigns in its history, in 1982 and 1985. In 1985 the title font changed, losing its trademark 'mu' symbol, and the subtitle 'for business and professional micro users' appeared.
References
External links
1980s Vintage Computers — Practical Computing
Practical Computing magazine - Stories
Computing History - Practical Computing
David Viner — UK Computer Magazines
Archived Practical Computing magazines on the Internet Archive
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1978
Magazines disestablis
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WDDN-LD (channel 23) is a low-power religious television station in Washington, D.C., owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located on Brookville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland.
History
Communicasting Corporation signed on W42AJ November 18, 1988 as the Washington market's first Telemundo affiliate. When current affiliate W64BW (now WZDC-CD) signed on late 1993, the two stations were recorded as both carrying the network's programming.
The station, then known as WSIT-LP, was sold to Paxson Communications in 1996 and Capital Media in 1999. Capital Media assigned the famous callsign WKRP. WKRP-LP moved to channel 23 in 2003 in order to avoid interference from WVPY in Front Royal, Virginia. Daystar purchased the station in 2005.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Official website
DDN-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Daystar Television Network affiliates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20House
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House is an American television medical drama that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012. The show centers around Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional hospital in New Jersey. Throughout its run, the show has been widely popular with audiences, and has been well received by the critics community.
As a result, by the end of its run, the show had been nominated 169 times for awards presented by American organizations, including at least ten times each for the Primetime Emmy Awards, Teen Choice Awards, People's Choice Awards, NAACP Image Awards, and Prism Awards. It won the awards a total of 56 times, which included multiple wins also at the Golden Globe Awards, Young Artist Awards, BMI Film & TV Awards, Satellite Awards, Golden Reel Awards, TCA Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Humanitas Prizes, and WGA Awards.
The show has been very successful internationally also, being aired in 2008 in a total of 66 countries, and with audience of over 81.8 million worldwide, it was the most watched television show on the globe that year. As a result, it received ten nominations for international awards, including once for a BAFTA TV Award (U.K.) and for a Golden Nymph (won, Monaco).
Hugh Laurie, who portrays the title character, has been nominated for an award 38 times, winning 14 of them. Omar Epps has been nominated eight times, winning three awards, while Olivia Wilde has been nominated five times for an award. Besides the show's cast members, the writers and producers of the show have also been nominated for various awards; writer, show-runner, executive producer and director David Shore, has received ten nominations for his work on the show, winning three times.
Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards have been awarded annually since 1949 by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to honor excellence in television. They are considered to be one of the four major awards in America for the performing arts — together with the Academy Awards (film), Tony Awards (theatre) and Grammy Awards (music). House has been nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, which are given to honor excellence in acting and writing in primetime television, as well as Creative Arts Emmys, which are presented in recognition of technical and other related areas in American television programming.
After its first season run in 2005, House received five Emmy Award nominations, of which three were for Creative Arts Emmys. It failed to gain a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series but did, however, win the award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The show did get nominated for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, but did not manage to win the award in either of these four nominations. In 2006 House was nominated for four Emmys, but failed to win. Next year, the show received four nominations, and won a Cr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVLR%20%28TV%29
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WVLR (channel 48) is a religious television station licensed to Tazewell, Tennessee, United States, serving the Knoxville area as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's studios are located on Kyker Ferry Road in Kodak, and its transmitter is located on Clinch Mountain near Powder Springs in unincorporated Grainger County.
History
The station signed on October 6, 2002; it was added to East Tennessee cable systems in early 2003.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WVLR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, WVLR did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2002
VLR
2002 establishments in Tennessee
Christian Television Network affiliates
Claiborne County, Tennessee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Scene%20%28TV%20series%29
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The Music Scene is a television series aired by the ABC Television Network in its Fall 1969 lineup, featuring primarily rock and pop music. The 45-minute program aired Mondays at 7:30 pm. It was paired with a second 45-minute program, The New People, to form a 90-minute block intended to compete with the more popular offering on NBC, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Concept
The Music Scene was conceived as a musical-variety show with rotating hosts and contemporary rock and pop artists. It led a completely revamped Monday night schedule, reflecting ABC's effort to balance programming that targeted younger viewers with legacy shows catering to an older audience, such as The Lawrence Welk Show.
The odd 45-minute length of the show was designed to break what ABC called the viewers' "almost automatic inclination" to tune in to NBC at 8:00 pm for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The theory was that when The Music Scene was over at 8:15 pm, the network would go immediately into The New People, and Laugh-In would be forgotten.
According to producer Ken Fritz, The Music Scene was to be centered around the latest chart hit records, previewing new artists and their recordings as based on information supplied by Billboard magazine. Stan Harris was director and co-producer. Carl Gottlieb, who had worked on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the previous television season, was lead writer.
As originally conceived, the broadcast was to showcase popular recordings topping the charts in every major category, which ABC classified as Long Playing Records, Country-and-Western, Rhythm and Blues, Easy Listening, and Comedy Albums. It was later clarified that the show would bridge all formats, including rock. The West Coast comedy troupe The Committee was early slated to serve as host and guide. However, hosting duties subsequently were handed to improvisational comedians, to weave the broadcast of top hits with topical humor. David Steinberg, Chris Ross, and Lily Tomlin were originally selected, with Steinberg signed on as a regular staff writer. Three additional comedians were subsequently chosen to share hosting, Chris Bokena, Larry Hankin, and Paul Reid Roman. Ultimately, Steinberg was named the regular host, and the focus of the comedic element changed to individual humor rather than skit comedy. He was joined by a guest host each week, a performing artist such as Tommy Smothers or Bobby Sherman.
Advance Promotion
In April 1969, producer Ken Fritz previewed The Music Scene to industry executives attending the International Music Industry Conference at Paradise Island, The Bahamas. He made the promotional film available to record companies and other industry organizations for preview showings at record distributor meetings, to highlight the program's ties to the record business. The conference was sponsored by Billboard magazine, which provided the program with chart information on weekly top hits.
Two weeks prior to the television premiere of The Music Scene, a live
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The Survivors is an American primetime soap opera aired by the ABC television network as part of its Fall 1969 lineup.
Series overview
The series was based on the book of the same title written by bestselling author Harold Robbins, who was credited as a cocreator and wrote the script for the series debut.
Hollywood film star Lana Turner made her only television appearance as a regular series character on The Survivors. The show also starred Jan-Michael Vincent, Ralph Bellamy, Diana Muldaur, George Hamilton, Louis Hayward, Kevin McCarthy, Clu Gulager and Natalie Schafer. However, the program was a ratings failure, losing badly to Mayberry R.F.D. and The Doris Day Show on CBS and The NBC Monday Movie on NBC. It was canceled at midseason, although it was rerun the following summer.
Cast and characters
Lana Turner as Tracy Carlyle Hastings
George Hamilton as Duncan Carlyle
Kevin McCarthy as Philip Hastings
Ralph Bellamy as Baylor Carlyle ( 1–11)
Rossano Brazzi as Antaeus Riakos
Louis Hayward as Jonathan Carlyle
Diana Muldaur as Belle Wheeler
Louise Sorel as Jean Vale
Jan-Michael Vincent as Jeffrey Hastings
Kathy Cannon as Sheila Riley
Robert Viharo as Miguel Santerra
Robert Lipton as Tom Steinberg
Donna Bacalla as Marguerita
Pamela Tiffin as Rosemary Price
Michael Bell as Corbett
Clu Gulager as Senator Mark Jennings
Episodes
Television film
A made-for-TV-movie was made in 1971 based on the series titled The Last of the Powerseekers. Universal Television decided to re-edit two of The Survivors episodes into the TV movie.
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
External links
Time Magazine, "Rescuing the Survivors"; Aug. 01, 1969
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1969 American television series debuts
1970 American television series endings
American television soap operas
American primetime television soap operas
Television shows based on American novels
Television series by Universal Television
English-language television shows
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