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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle%20%28software%29
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Twinkle is a free and open-source application for voice communications over Voice over IP (VoIP) protocol.
Architecture
It is designed for Linux operating systems and uses the Qt toolkit for its graphical user interface. For call signaling it employs the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It also features direct IP-to-IP calls. Media streams are transmitted via the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) which may be encrypted with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) and the ZRTP security protocols.
Since version 1.3.2 (September 2008), Twinkle supports message exchange and a buddy-list feature for presence notification, showing the online-status of predefined communications partners (provider-support needed).
Supported audio formats
G.711 A-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
G.711 μ-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
G.726: 16, 24, 32 or 40 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
GSM: 13 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
G.729: 8 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
iLBC: 13.3 or 15.2 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
Speex narrow band: 15.2 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
Speex wide band: 28 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
Speex ultra wide band: 36 kbit/s payload, 32 kHz sampling rate
See also
Comparison of VoIP software
List of SIP software
List of free and open-source software packages
Opportunistic encryption
References
Free VoIP software
Cryptographic software
Internet privacy software
Secure communication
Software that uses Qt
KDE software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20Joey%27s%20Big%20Break
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"The One with Joey's Big Break" is the twenty-second episode of Friends fifth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on May 13, 1999.
Plot
When Rachel is complaining about her eyes, Monica tells her to see her eye doctor, but Rachel refuses due to an unnatural fear of having anything near her or anyone else's eyes. Rachel eventually visits the eye doctor after much persuasion by Monica. The doctor tells her that she has a minor infection in her left eye and gives her eye drops for it. Monica takes extreme measures to give Rachel her eyedrops, to no avail. Eventually, Monica and the others manage to hold her down and give her the eyedrops.
Joey is told by his agent that he is to play the lead role in an upcoming movie called Shutter Speed, which is being filmed in Las Vegas. After hearing the news, Chandler decides to go with Joey. While the two are on the George Washington Bridge on their way to Vegas, Joey reveals to Chandler that rather than getting a fixed salary, he would instead be getting a part of the movie's profit. This causes Chandler to inadvertently reveal that he does not think that this movie would be Joey's big break, causing Joey to kick Chandler out of the car.
In Vegas, Joey arrives at the film site where the director reveals that production is being postponed due to a lack of funds and tells Joey to stand by until filming can resume. Joey gets an extremely demeaning and humiliating job at Caesars Palace and hides it from his friends.
Meanwhile, Phoebe finds herself upset with Ross, but cannot remember why. Ross posits several reasons why Phoebe might be unhappy with him, but is unable find the right reason. He soon plays Phoebe's game with her in an effort to find out, and discovers that Phoebe believes that he called her boring. Ross cannot remember ever saying that she was boring, and Phoebe then realizes that it was a dream.
Reception
In the original broadcast, the episode was viewed by 21.3 million viewers.
Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked the episode #106 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes.
Telegraph & Argus placed the episode at the same spot on their ranking of all 236 Friends episodes, and wrote that the best line in the episode was: (Phoebe apologises to Ross for an earlier insult) "I am sorry about the fat ass thing. You actually have a very sweet little heinie".
References
1999 American television episodes
Friends (season 5) episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Debbie%20Reynolds%20Show
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The Debbie Reynolds Show is an American sitcom which aired on the NBC television network during the 1969–70 television season. The series was produced by Filmways.
Synopsis
Debbie Reynolds portrayed Debbie Thompson, a housewife married to Jim, a successful sportswriter for the Los Angeles Sun. Jim was portrayed by actor Don Chastain; his boss and brother-in-law was played by longtime television actor Tom Bosley. Reynolds' attempts to amuse herself were regarded as being reminiscent of those of Lucille Ball on Here's Lucy.
Creator/producer Jess Oppenheimer was the original producer and co-creator of I Love Lucy. The show also employed Bob Carroll Jr., and Madelyn Davis, two longtime Lucy writers.
NBC was selling advertising time for cigarette commercials against Reynolds' wishes (even though she was assured no cigarette ads would be seen during the program). After Reynolds threatened to quit the show, American Brands (formerly known as American Tobacco) withdrew sponsorship. To make up for NBC's lost ad revenue, Reynolds agreed to give back to the network their guarantee of a second year of airing the program, as well as an NBC-backed film, What's the Matter with Helen?, in which she starred, and her ownership in a subsequent NBC-produced series.
Cast
Debbie Reynolds as Debbie Thompson
Don Chastain as Jim Thompson
Patricia Smith as Charlotte Landers
Tom Bosley as Bob Landers
Bobby Riha as Bruce Landers, Bob and Charlotte's son.
Episodes
In popular culture
Monty Python's Flying Circus spoofed the series in a sketch primarily written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman entitled "The Attila the Hun Show". It pokes fun at The Debbie Reynolds Show (the opening title sequence in particular, which the Pythons closely parodied), as well as American comedy in general.
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
External links
1969 American television series debuts
1970 American television series endings
1960s American sitcoms
1970s American sitcoms
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Television series about marriage
Television series by MGM Television
Television series by Filmways
Television shows set in Los Angeles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Foster%27s%20Home%20for%20Imaginary%20Friends%20characters
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This is a list of characters from the Cartoon Network animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Main characters
Mac
Mac (voiced by Sean Marquette) is Terrence's younger brother who is a bright and creative eight-year-old boy and Bloo's creator who visits Foster's every day. Mac is often the voice of reason among his friends when they are making decisions. However, his extremely good nature tends to make him somewhat naive. He is very attached to Bloo and it is shown that his biggest fear is never seeing him again, because Bloo is what keeps him happy and cheerful and vice versa. Mac becomes hyperactive to the point of a rabid mania when he eats sugar. Once in this state, he becomes impossible to control, will often become obsessed with seeking any other source of sugar. He, alongside Bloo, made a cameo appearance in The Powerpuff Girls series finale, "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!".
Bloo
Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo (voiced by Keith Ferguson) is Mac's blue blob-like creature imaginary friend and best friend who is often very immature, happy-go-lucky, self-centered and egotistical as well as having a knack for getting in trouble and prone for doing kid's and children's antics. Despite all this, he still has a good heart and apologizes for his jealousy. Bloo loves paddle-balls and toys even though he cannot make the ball hit the paddle. His full name is Blooregard Q. Kazoo. He, along with Mac, made a cameo appearance in The Powerpuff Girls series finale, "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!".
Wilt
Wilt (voiced by Phil LaMarr) – The kind, red, very tall and disabled no. 1 imaginary friend with only a right arm and crooked left eye-stalk. However, in "Good Wilt Hunting", it is discovered that he was not always this way; he was injured during a basketball game, leaving his left eye crushed and his left arm injured. Wilt exhibits consummate good sportsmanship, which he applies to every part of life he can. He is considered the nicest person at Foster's and is known for being excessively polite and apologetic, saying “I’m sorry” all the time. Wilt has a big heart, is frequently cool and collected, and, only on very rare occasions shows anger at all. His oversized basketball shoes always squeak against the floor/ground, no matter what surface he is walking on. According to the episode "Room with a Feud", among him, Coco and Eduardo, he has been in the house for the longest time. He is named for basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain.
Eduardo
Eduardo (voiced by Tom Kenny) is the big, hairy and purple Spanish-speaking no. 88 imaginary friend who resembles a mixture of a minotaur and one of the beasts from Maurice Sendak's storybook, Where the Wild Things Are with horns, a snout, a pointy demon-like tail and large teeth. Despite his large size, overwhelming strength, and menacing demeanor, Eduardo is usually docile, but also timid and jumpy as he lacks confidence when he gets frightened, is very compassionate towards all kids (children, preteens
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jim%20Nabors%20Hour
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The Jim Nabors Hour is an American variety television series hosted by Jim Nabors that aired on the CBS television network from 1969 to 1971.
Fresh from his success with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which put his backwoods "Gomer Pyle" character from The Andy Griffith Show in a military context, the show not only built on that success, but also displayed his baritone singing voice, which had been used on the Pyle show on occasion and had earned Nabors several gold records in the late 1960s.
Two of Nabors' co-stars from Gomer Pyle, Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton, appeared as regulars along with Karen Morrow and many guest stars. The Tony Mordente Dancers and the Nabors Kids provided musical support for the song and dance routines.
The show was consistently in the top thirty and performed strongly in its time slot, but fell victim to the CBS "rural purge" and was axed by the network after two seasons; the last episode was broadcast on March 11, 1971.
References
External links
Episode Guide on Ultimate70s
Jim Nabors Hour, The
Jim Nabors Hour, The
Jim Nabors Hour, The
Jim Nabors Hour, The
Jim Nabors Hour, The
Jim Nabors Hour, The
Jim Nabors Hour, The
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISACOMM
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ISA Communications Services, Inc. (ISACOMM) was a long-distance telephone company headquartered in Atlanta. It was the first telephone company to offer a virtual network service to corporations and the first to offer codec-based videoconferencing services. The company was also a pioneer in shared tenant services, by which a commercial landlord includes telecommunications services in its lease package.
Formation
ISACOMM began as a concept within Insurance Systems of America (ISA), an Atlanta company founded in 1970 to write and license applications software for the insurance industry. Sensing an opportunity in the telecommunications market, ISA created ISACOMM in 1978. Several insurance companies took minority ownership positions in ISACOMM, but ISA retained majority ownership. The founders of ISACOMM were Richard C. Smith, an executive from ISA, and Kenneth H. Crandall, a principal in the creation of Satellite Business Systems (SBS). Smith and Crandall were ISACOMM's CEO and CTO, respectively. Smith later became CEO of Telcordia.
ISACOMM's business plan was to buy long-distance voice and data services from SBS in bulk and to resell the services to corporations whose networks were not large enough individually to justify their own SBS earth stations. ISACOMM contracted with SBS for earth stations around the United States and then leased ports on those earth stations to individual corporations. Thus, ISACOMM was an aggregator of traffic for SBS; at one point, ISACOMM was the second largest customer of SBS. For calls that terminated off the SBS network, ISACOMM provided seamless interconnect with local telephone companies and, where necessary, AT&T. By leveraging the technology and capital investment of SBS and other carriers, ISACOMM could produce a high return on equity even with modest operating margins.
Marketing
Customers of ISACOMM understood their relationship to be with ISACOMM, not SBS. As an interstate carrier, ISACOMM was subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission and had to file its own tariffs, although progressive deregulation of the industry made the tariff process increasingly irrelevant.
The original target market for ISACOMM was the insurance industry, with whom the ISACOMM management had strong connections arising from the history of ISA. However, ISACOMM quickly pursued the Fortune 500 (except for those corporations who were large enough to be served directly by SBS). ISACOMM did not sell long-distance services to consumers.
ISACOMM's principal competitor was AT&T. The success of ISACOMM in winning customers away from AT&T, at the same time that MCI and Sprint were doing likewise, provided confirmation that open competition in the long-distance market was viable.
Technology
Beyond voice and data services, ISACOMM became a leader in videoconferencing by installing videoconferencing rooms around the country, initially using the SBS network for connectivity and subsequently using its own earth station
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WELF-TV
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WELF-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Dalton, Georgia, United States, serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located on SR 157 in unincorporated west-central Walker County.
History
The station began operations on May 10, 1994. It was built and signed on by Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, a broadcast ministry based in Mobile, Alabama, and co-founded by television producer Paul Crouch Jr. and attorney and broadcaster Jay Sekulow. All of Sonlight's stations were affiliated with TBN, which was co-founded by Paul Crouch Jr.'s parents Paul Sr. and Jan. As a TBN affiliate, WELF carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming.
In 1997, WELF was sold, along with the rest of Sonlight's stations, to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), a minority-owned firm with close ties to TBN; the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network. WELF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.
Technical information
References
External links
Official website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1994
ELF-TV
1994 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Dalton, Georgia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXTX
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WXTX (channel 54) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by American Spirit Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Television, owner of ABC affiliate WTVM (channel 9), for the provision of certain services. Gray also operates dual NBC/CW+ affiliate WLTZ (channel 38) under a separate SSA with owner SagamoreHill Broadcasting. WXTX and WTVM share studios (which also house master control and most internal operations for WLTZ) on Wynnton Road (GA 22) in the Dinglewood section of Columbus; WXTX's transmitter is located in the Vista Terrace section of South Columbus.
History
The station signed on August 29, 1983 as the market's second independent television outlet after Opelika, Alabama's WSWS-TV (channel 66). Less than three years later on April 5, 1987, it became a Fox affiliate and has remained with the network ever since the network's prime time launch. The station is the network's longest serving Georgia affiliate after Fox dropped WATL for New World-owned WAGA-TV in Atlanta. By 1993, WXTX grew to a seven night network affiliate after Fox expanded its programming offerings. The station was named a top ten affiliate with the network in November 1994 for its prime time audience share. It has subsequently been named to the "Fox Number One Club" several times, most recently in 2007, in recognition of the station's sweeps ratings.
On September 5, 2006, it became the area's secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate after The CW chose then-UPN station WLGA to become its affiliate in Columbus. The CW is currently seen on a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WLTZ. Originally, WXTX aired programming from MyNetworkTV on weeknights from 11 until 1 in the morning. For Saturday night prime time, that network was shown early Sunday mornings from 12:30 until 2:30. It eventually shifted to the Tuesday through Saturday time slot of midnight until 2 a.m. after the network transitioned to a programming service. In 2012, WXTX dropped MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation; this left Columbus with no affiliate of the service until 2017, when WLTZ launched MyNetworkTV in prime time on its third digital subchannel, which airs Antenna TV at all other times.
At one point, the station offered The Tube (a 24-hour automated music video network) on a second digital subchannel. This was dropped on October 1, 2007, when the service shut down due to a lack of advertising revenue. WXTX's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.
Programming
Syndicated programming
Syndicated programming on WXTX includes The Big Bang Theory, Judge Judy, Rachael Ray, and Maury among others.
News operation
Since 2004 through a news share agreement, WTVM has been producing the Chattahoochee Valley's only prime time newscast on WXTX called Fox 54 News at 10, which airs weeknights for an hour (thirty minutes on weekends) from the ABC affiliate's facility on Wynnton Road/SR 22 Spur in the Ding
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMCN-TV
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WMCN-TV (channel 44) is a television station licensed to Princeton, New Jersey, United States, serving the Philadelphia area with programming from ShopHQ. It is owned by WRNN-TV Associates alongside Willow Grove, Pennsylvania–licensed independent WTVE (channel 51) and Trenton, New Jersey–licensed Class A station WPHY-CD (channel 25). WMCN-TV's studios are located on Dobbs Lane in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Through a channel sharing agreement with PBS member station WHYY-TV (channel 12), WMCN-TV transmits using WHYY-TV's spectrum from an antenna in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
History
The station first signed on the air on May 29, 1981 as WWAC-TV, originally licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey and broadcasting on UHF channel 53. The station changed its callsign to WMCN-TV in 2003. In 2009, the station was rebranded as "Get It On TV Philadelphia" to reflect its focus on the entire Philadelphia market, not just Atlantic City. Most of the station's programming consisted of infomercials, many of which were produced by WMCN for local companies. The remainder of WMCN's schedule was filled with several hours per week of regional faith-based telecasts as well as children's and community interest programming.
In 2011, WMCN obtained rights to broadcast games from the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul, broadcasting a majority of their regular season games on the station.
In 2012, the station was once again rebranded as "WMCN44", signaling a shift towards a more traditional independent station. WMCN also added several syndicated programs to its schedule, including Cold Case Files, Dog the Bounty Hunter and Punk'd. On September 10 of that year, WMCN announced that it would produce three new original weekly series: A New View, an issues-oriented show hosted by former WTXF-TV (channel 29) personality Dawn Stensland, Tolly's Awesome Friends, a series centered on noteworthy locals hosted by ex-WTXF sports director Don Tollefson, and Philly Sports Spotlight, a locally focused series hosted by former WPVI-TV (channel 6) sports anchor Phil Andrews.
On December 4, 2014, voluntary assignment of the station's license was changed from Lenfest Broadcasting, LLC to WMCN License Holdings, LLC, which had exactly the same ownership structure as Lenfest.
In the fall of 2016, WMCN added programming from Newsmax TV during the 4–6 p.m. and 8–9 p.m. hours, as well as nightly broadcasts of the Cowtown Rodeo and motorsports newsmagazine Raceline TV, plus the weekly Ring of Honor Wrestling series.
In the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction, WMCN-TV sold its spectrum for $63,144,027 and indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement. On July 14, 2017, NRJ TV, owner of WPHY-CD, agreed to purchase WMCN for $6 million; on July 24, 2017, it assigned its right to acquire the station to WRNN-TV Associates in a deal not filed with the FCC until December. On February 14, 2018, WMCN entered into a channel sharing agr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBIST
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Programmable Built-In Self-Test (PBIST) is a memory DFT feature that incorporates all the required test systems into the chip itself. The test systems implemented on-chip are as follows:
algorithmic address generator
algorithmic data generator
program storage unit
loop control mechanisms
PBIST was originally adopted by large memory chips that have high pin counts and operate at high frequencies, thereby exceeding the capability of production testers.
The purpose of PBIST is to avoid developing and buying more sophisticated and very expensive testers. The interface between PBIST, which is internal to the processor, and the external tester environment is through
the standard JTAG TAP controller pins. Algorithms and controls are fed into the chip through the TAP controller's Test Data Input (TDI) pin. The final result of the PBIST test is read out through the Test Data Output (TDO) pin.
PBIST supports the entire algorithmic memory testing requirements imposed by the production testing methodology. In order to support all of the required test algorithms, PBIST must have the capability to store the required programs locally in the device. It must also be able to perform different address generation schemes, different test data pattern generation, looping schemes, and data comparisons.
Work on most of programmable memory BIST approaches concerns the programmability of the memory test algorithm. The programmable memory BIST proposed has several advantages:
• It enables programming both test algorithms and test data.
• It implements test algorithm programmability at low cost, by extracting the different levels of hierarchy of the test algorithm and associating a hardware bloc to each of them, resulting on low cost hardware
• It enables low-cost implementation of full-data programmability by adapting the transparent memory test approach in a manner that uses the memory under test for programming the test data.
Part of the Built-in self-test.
Electronic design automation
Hardware testing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kingston%20upon%20Hull
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The Kingston upon Hull tramway network was a network of tram lines following the five main roads radially out of the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Two of these lines went west, and two east. The fifth went to the north, and branched to include extra lines serving suburban areas. Additionally a short line linked the city centre to the Corporation Pier where a ferry crossed the Humber Estuary to New Holland, Lincolnshire.
The early tramway system was worked from 1876 by horse power by the Hull Street Tramways company, except on the eastwards Hedon Road route which was operated by steam power from the outset by the Drypool and Marfleet Steam Tramways Company after 1899. Both companies were acquired by the city council in the final years of the 19th century, and the routes electrified and converted to double track, and operated as a municipal concern.
The City of Hull Tramways (later known as the Corporation Tramways) expanded the electrified tram network along the main roads of Hull up to 1927 when the tram system reached its greatest size.
Between 1937 and 1945 the system was converted to trolleybus operation. The Hull trolleybus system worked on the same paths as tram system, with the exception of the Hedon Road and Corporation Pier branches which became diesel bus operated. Later, all trolleybus services were replaced with diesel powered buses.
History
Hull Street Tramways
In 1871, soon after the Tramways act of 1870 became law, permission was sought from the board of Kingston upon Hull to construct a tram system in the town. The scheme was backed by Major Trevenen James Holland and the scheme received the support of the local board, despite problems due to narrow streets in the old town – making double track running difficult as well as causing opposition from the landowning Trinity House. In 1872 the construction was authorised by a local act of parliament, allowing the construction by the Continental & General Tramways Company of several tram lines in Hull centred on the town centre, including two westward lines along Anlaby and Hessle Road, a line north-eastward along Holderness Road, a line roughly west-north-west along Spring Bank, and a short line running southwards from the city centre to the old town to Nelson Street close to the Victoria Pier.
On 9 January 1875 the tram route to Beverley Road was opened, and, in November 1876 the Hull Street Tramways Company (incorporated 1875) acquired the partially constructed tramway system from the Continental & General Tramways Co.. The Spring Bank route opened in 1876, the lines along Hessle Road, Anlaby Road, Holderness Road and the line through the old town were all open by 1877. The tram system was horse-operated, approximately 9 miles long, and mostly single-tracked. The company operated a fleet of around 30 vehicles, initially single-deck vehicles; later double-deck horse-drawn trailers were used, some with a capacity of over 40 persons. In 188
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fivos%20Constantinou
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Fivos Constantinou (; born May 27, 1981) is a Cyprus Native and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from MIT. Fivos is well known for his accomplishments as a distance runner on the track as well as in Cross Country. He has competed for the MIT Cross Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Teams. In his senior year he was the Cross Country team captain and was voted as the team's MVP by the team members.
Prior to his collegiate career Fivos competed for his local track club in Cyprus, G.S.Z., and was a 4 time National champion.
He won National titles in 800m and 1500m races as well as 2 Cross Country titles.
Personal Bests
"(xc)" indicates Cross Country
"(i)" indicates Indoor Track
References
External links
Fivos' Training Log
MIT Men's Track and Field & Cross Country
Profile at the European Athletics Association
1981 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AspectC%2B%2B
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AspectC++ is an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages. It has a source-to-source compiler, which translates AspectC++ source code into compilable C++. The compiler is available under the GNU GPL, though some extensions specific to Microsoft Windows are only available through pure-systems GmbH.
Aspect-oriented programming allows modularizing cross-cutting concerns in a single module, an aspect.
Aspects can modify existing classes, but most commonly they provide 'advice' that runs before, after, or around
existing functionality.
Example
All calls to a specific function can be traced using an aspect, rather than inserting 'cerr' or print statements in many places:
aspect Tracer
{
advice call("% %Iter::Reset(...)") : before()
{
cerr << "about to call Iter::Reset for " << JoinPoint::signature() << endl;
}
};
The Tracer aspect will print out a message before any call to %Iter::Reset. The %Iter syntax
means that it will match all classes that end in Iter.
Each 'matched' location in the source code is called a join point—the advice is joined to (or advises) that code.
AspectC++ provides a join point API to provide and access to information about the join point. For example, the function:
JoinPoint::signature()
returns the name of the function (that matched %Iter::Reset) that is about to be called.
The join point API also provides compile-time type information that can be used within an
aspect to access the type or the value of the arguments and the return type and return value of a
method or function.
References
External links
AspectC++
Articles on aspect-oriented programming and AspectC++ at past AOSD conferences
Aspect-oriented programming
C++ programming language family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20and%20molecular%20astrophysics
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Atomic astrophysics is concerned with performing atomic physics calculations that will be useful to astronomers and using atomic data to interpret astronomical observations. Atomic physics plays a key role in astrophysics as astronomers' only information about a particular object comes through the light that it emits, and this light arises through atomic transitions.
Molecular astrophysics, developed into a rigorous field of investigation by theoretical astrochemist Alexander Dalgarno beginning in 1967, concerns the study of emission from molecules in space. There are 110 currently known interstellar molecules. These molecules have large numbers of observable transitions. Lines may also be observed in absorption—for example the highly redshifted lines seen against the gravitationally lensed quasar PKS1830-211. High energy radiation, such as ultraviolet light, can break the molecular bonds which hold atoms in molecules. In general then, molecules are found in cool astrophysical environments. The most massive objects in our galaxy are giant clouds of molecules and dust known as giant molecular clouds. In these clouds, and smaller versions of them, stars and planets are formed. One of the primary fields of study of molecular astrophysics is star and planet formation. Molecules may be found in many environments, however, from stellar atmospheres to those of planetary satellites. Most of these locations are relatively cool, and molecular emission is most easily studied via photons emitted when the molecules make transitions between low rotational energy states. One molecule, composed of the abundant carbon and oxygen atoms, and very stable against dissociation into atoms, is carbon monoxide (CO). The wavelength of the photon emitted when the CO molecule falls from its lowest excited state to its zero energy, or ground, state is 2.6mm, or 115 gigahertz. This frequency is a thousand times higher than typical FM radio frequencies. At these high frequencies, molecules in the Earth's atmosphere can block transmissions from space, and telescopes must be located in dry (water is an important atmospheric blocker), high sites. Radio telescopes must have very accurate surfaces to produce high fidelity images.
On February 21, 2014, NASA announced a greatly upgraded database for tracking polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the universe. According to scientists, more than 20% of the carbon in the universe may be associated with PAHs, possible starting materials for the formation of life. PAHs seem to have been formed shortly after the Big Bang, are widespread throughout the universe, and are associated with new stars and exoplanets.
See also
Alexander Dalgarno (physicist)
Astrochemistry
Astrophysics
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Cosmochemistry
Interstellar medium
Molecular modelling
Quantum dynamics
Spectroscopy
References
National Radio Astronomy: Molecular Astrophysics
Molecular Astrophysics: A volume honouring Alexander Dalgar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Kloeffler
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Daniel L. Kloeffler (born January 1, 1976) is an American television journalist. Since 2010, he has been an anchor of ABC News Now, a cable-news channel of the ABC broadcasting network.
Early life
Kloeffler graduated from Algonac High School in Algonac, Michigan, in 1994. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, in 1999.
Career
He worked at WSTM-TVan NBC-affiliated television station in Syracuse, New Yorkprior to joining MSNBC, a cable-news channel. While at MSNBC, he anchored overnight MSNBC Now news updates as well as MSNBC's First Look and broadcast network NBC's Early Today, both early-morning news programs; Kloeffler left MSNBC in 2009.
In 2010, he became a freelance anchor and correspondent for ABC News, where he anchors on its ABC News Now channel.
References
1976 births
ABC News personalities
American television news anchors
Journalists from Michigan
Journalists from New York City
Living people
American LGBT journalists
Place of birth missing (living people)
MSNBC people
NBC News people
People from Algonac, Michigan
University of New Hampshire alumni
Writers from New Hampshire
LGBT people from Michigan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient%20safety%20organization
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A Patient Safety Organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy. A PSO differs from a Federally designed Patient Safety Organization (PSO), which provides health care providers in the U.S. privilege and confidentiality protections for efforts to improve patient safety and the quality of patient care delivery (see 42 U.S.C. 299b-21 et seq. and www.PSO.AHRQ.gov.)
In the 1990s, reports in several countries revealed a staggering number of patient injuries and deaths each year due to avoidable errors and deficiencies in health care, among them adverse events and complications arising from poor infection control. In the United States, a 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine called for a broad national effort to prevent these events, including the establishment of patient safety centers, expanded reporting of adverse events, and development of safety programs in healthcare organizations. Although many PSOs are funded and run by governments, others have sprung from private entities such as industry, professional and consumer groups.
Functions
To achieve their goals, patient safety organizations may
Collect data on the prevalence and individual details of errors.
Analyze sources of error by root cause analysis.
Propose and disseminate methods for error prevention.
Design and conduct pilot projects to study safety initiatives, including monitoring of results.
Raise awareness and inform the public, health professionals, providers, purchasers, and employers.
Conduct fundraising and provide funding for research and safety projects.
Advocate for regulatory and legislative changes.
Governmental organizations
World Health Organization
World Alliance for Patient Safety
In response to a 2002 World Health Assembly Resolution, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety in October 2004. The goal was to develop standards for patient safety and assist UN member states to improve the safety of health care. The Alliance raises awareness and political commitment to improve the safety of care and facilitates the development of patient safety policy and practice in all WHO Member States. Each year, the Alliance delivers a number of programs covering systemic and technical aspects to improve patient safety around the world.
At the Fifty-Ninth World Health Assembly in May 2006, the Secretariat reported that the Alliance held patient safety meetings in five of the six WHO regions and 40 technical workshops in 18 countries. Since the launch of the Alliance in October 2004, significant progress was achieved in six areas:
The First Global Patient Safety Challenge, which for 2005–2006 (addressing health care-associated infection) developed the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care.
A patient involvement group, Patients for P
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Fever
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is a 1979 arcade game by Nintendo R&D2. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did programming work on Space Fever. It was released in both monochrome and color versions. The gameplay is similar to Space Invaders, which had been released by Taito in 1978. In America, the game was distributed by Far East Video.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Space Fever is reminiscent of Space Invaders (1978), where the player controls a laser cannon situated at the bottom of the screen and must defeat waves of enemy aliens. The aliens are arranged in rows and slowly move to the edge of the screen, before descending and continuing in the opposite direction. As more aliens are defeated, they increase in speed. A UFO will occasionally appear towards the top of the screen, which can be shot down for bonus points. There are three game modes that change the way the aliens move; the first presents two formations of enemies that move in opposite directions, the second continuously adds additional rows of aliens, and the third is functionally identical to Space Invaders.
Development
In the late 1970s, Nintendo Co., Ltd began shifting its focus away from its roots as a toy and playing card company towards the coin-operated entertainment market. Its decision was largely based on the 1973 oil crisis increasing the manufacturing costs for toys, and its need to diversify itself if it wanted to remain profitable. Nintendo had previously designed several electro-mechanical shooting gallery machines, such as the Laser Clay Shooting System and Wild Gunman. The company released its first video arcade game, Computer Othello, in June 1978. In the same month, Taito released Space Invaders, which triggered a nationwide resurgence in its video game market. This led to several manufacturers, including Nintendo, creating similar "Invader-type" games to try and capitalize on its popularity. Space Fever was one of its attempts, and was developed by Nintendo's Research & Development 2 (R&D2) division. Masayuki Uemura, the head of R&D2, led the development of the game. The programming and circuit design was contracted out to Ikegami Tsushinki, as were most of Nintendo's arcade games at the time.
Space Fever was released in Japan in February 1979. It was released as a tabletop arcade cabinet with a black and white raster monitor; a version featuring single-color graphics was released later in the year.
Legacy
A special version of Space Fever called was released the same year and features aliens that are double the width of the standard variety, which can either be destroyed completely or split into two smaller aliens depending on where they are shot. This version is in color, and the shelter blocks are visually distinct from the monochrome version. Like with the original Space Fever, SF-Hisplitter was also distributed in America by Far East Video.
A sequel to Space Fever, titled is a minigame in the Game Boy Camera cartridge. The game also acts as a menu for selecting the other built
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PikeOS
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PikeOS is a commercial, hard real-time operating system (RTOS) that offers a separation kernel based hypervisor with multiple logical partition types for many other operating systems (OS), each called a GuestOS, and applications. It enables users to build certifiable smart devices for the Internet of things (IoT) according to the high quality, safety and security standards of different industries. For safety and security, critical real-time applications on controller-based systems without memory management unit (MMU) but with memory protection unit (MPU) PikeOS for MPU is available.
Overview
PikeOS was introduced in 2005 and combines a real-time operating system (RTOS) with a virtualization platform and Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) for embedded systems. It is a commercial clone of L4 microkernel family. PikeOS has been developed for safety and security-critical applications with certification needs in the fields of aerospace, defense, automotive, transport, industrial automation, medical, network infrastructures, and consumer electronics. The PikeOS separation kernel (v5.1.3) is certified against Common Criteria at EAL5+.
A key feature of PikeOS is an ability to safely execute applications with different safety and security levels concurrently on the same computing platform. This is done by strict spatial and temporal segregation of these applications via software partitions. A software partition can be seen as a container with pre-allocated privileges that can have access to memory, central processing unit (CPU) time, input/output (I/O), and a predefined list of OS services. With PikeOS, the term application refers to an executable linked against the PikeOS application programming interface (API) library and running as a process inside a partition. The nature of the PikeOS application programming interface (API) allows applications to range from simple control loops up to full paravirtualized guest operating systems like Linux or hardware virtualized guests.
Software partitions are also called virtual machines (VMs), because it is possible to implement a complete guest operating system inside a partition which executes independently from other partitions and thus can address use cases with mixed criticality. PikeOS can be seen as a Type-1 hypervisor.
Supported toolchain, IDE CODEO
The Eclipse-based IDE CODEO supports system architects with graphical configuration tools, providing all the components that software engineers will need to develop embedded applications, as well as including comprehensive wizards to help embedded project development in a time-saving and cost-efficient way:
Guided configuration
Remote debugging (down to the hardware instruction level)
Target monitoring
Remote application software deployment
Timing analysis
Several dedicated graphical editing views are supporting the system integrator to always keep the overview on important aspects of the PikeOS system configuration showing partition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTMJ-CD
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KTMJ-CD (channel 43) is a low-power, Class A television station in Topeka, Kansas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KSNT (channel 27); Nexstar also provides certain services to dual ABC/CW+ affiliate KTKA-TV (channel 49) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Vaughan Media, LLC. The stations share studios on Northwest 25th Street (US 24), near the unincorporated community of Kiro (with a Topeka mailing address), while KTMJ-CD's transmitter is located along Southwest West Union Road west of Topeka.
Even though KTMJ-CD operates a digital signal of its own, the low-power broadcasting radius does not reach the northern and eastern fringes of the Topeka market. Therefore, the station is simulcast in high definition on KSNT's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market. This signal can be seen on channel 27.2 from KSNT's transmitter at the Northwest 25th Street studios.
History
Early history
KTMJ traces its roots to the March 31, 1983, sign-on of K06KZ in Junction City, an independent station which broadcast on VHF channel 6. In 1987, the station changed its call letters to KTMJ-LP (representing the station's service area of Topeka, Manhattan and Junction City); however, the station was referenced as "KTMJ-TV 6" in the Kansas City edition of TV Guide and Topeka area newspapers. KETM-LP signed on the air on November 30, 1988, as K17CK; also operating as an independent station initially, it was eventually converted into a repeater of the Junction City station, which served as the main signal. On March 30, 2011, it surrendered its Class A designation and reverted to a standard LPTV license; at that time, the station changed its call letters to KETM-LP. KMJT-CA began operating on August 4, 1992, as K15DQ; it became a Class A repeater of the original Junction City signal on September 24, 2001. Channel 43 originally maintained studio facilities located on Southgate Drive in southwestern Topeka.
On January 16, 1995, KTMJ-LP became a primary affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) and a secondary affiliate of The WB. While the station aired UPN's Monday and Tuesday night programming in pattern, KTMJ carried The WB's initial Wednesday lineup on a week-delayed basis on Sunday nights to accommodate the Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN) on Wednesday nights. In September 1995, KTMJ moved the delayed WB Wednesday lineup to Saturdays in order to carry the network's new Sunday schedule in pattern; it also added both networks' new children's programming blocks (UPN Kids and Kids' WB), running their weekend lineups back-to-back on Sunday mornings and early afternoons as part of a seven-hour block of network and syndicated cartoons. On April 1, 1996, the station became a primary affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company and shifted UPN to secondary status; this would leave the Topeka market without a local WB affiliate until the September
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Monthly%20Talks
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Texas Monthly Talks was a thirty-minute interview show on public television networks across the state of Texas hosted by Evan Smith, then Editor Emeritus of Texas Monthly magazine. Produced by Dateline NBC veteran Lynn Boswell, the show addressed contemporary issues in Texas politics, business and culture. Premiering in February 2003, the show was an original production of KLRU-TV, the PBS station serving Austin and Central Texas. In 2010 the series was succeeded by Overheard, with the same format, host and producer; the renaming was necessary because Smith had resigned his position at the magazine and had become Editor in Chief of the Texas Tribune.
On Texas Monthly Talks Smith regularly interviewed public figures from Austin and around Texas, such as Bill Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin, mayors Bill White of Houston, Tom Leppert of Dallas, and Texas Governor Rick Perry. His guests also included notables in national politics, such as presidential candidates Howard Dean, John Kerry, Bill Bradley, John McCain, Joe Biden, Mike Huckabee, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards; in business, such as Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey; in the media, such as New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich and newscasters Jim Lehrer, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Tom Brokaw; and in entertainment, such as directors Francis Ford Coppola, John Sayles, and David Lynch, singers Ted Nugent and Billy Gibbons, novelist Salman Rushdie, and actresses Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, and Debra Winger.
In 2006 the show won a Lone Star Emmy Award for interview program. In 2009 an episode with Billy Bob Thornton won a Lone Star Emmy for arts or entertainment program.
Guests by season
Season eight
Mike Leach, head football coach of the Texas Tech University Red Raiders
E. J. Dionne, columnist and author
Francisco Cigarroa, Chancellor of the University of Texas System
Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
Buzz Aldrin, former astronaut
Taylor Branch, author
Gail Collins, New York Times columnist
Jane Smiley, novelist
Richard Linklater, director
Morley Safer, broadcast journalist
Michael Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate
Augie Garrido, University of Texas baseball coach
Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek
David Brancaccio, host of Now on PBS
Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, authors
Tim Matheson, actor
Thomas Haden Church, actor
Jake Silverstein, author and editor of Texas Monthly
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Frank Deford, sportswriter
Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post
Anna Deavere Smith, actress and playwright
The Right Rev. Andrew C. Doyle, the Ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas
Gwen Ifill, journalist
Sally Ride, astronaut
Season seven
Matthew McConaughey, actor
Lily Tomlin, comedian
Rick Norieg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBN-FM
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CBN-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador at 106.9 MHz. The station was launched in 1975. It is part of the CBC's CBC Music network.
Local programming is limited to weather updates and a pre-broadcast of the local Radio One station's Saturday afternoon cultural program, The Performance Hour, on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. The latter airs primarily to fill time, as some Saturday afternoon programs are timed to air live in both the Atlantic and Eastern time zones. Among CBC Music stations, only CBN-FM and Halifax's CBH-FM air any long-form local programming of this type.
Rebroadcasters
External links
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador
CBN-FM history – Canadian Communications Foundation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC%20Kronos
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Kronos is an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1971. Kronos ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series mainframe computers and their successors. CDC replaced Kronos with the NOS operating system in the late 1970s, which were succeeded by the NOS/VE operating system in the mid-1980s.
The MACE operating system and APEX were forerunners to KRONOS. It was written by Control Data systems programmer Greg Mansfield, Dave Cahlander, Bob Tate and three others.
See also
CDC SCOPE
References
KRONOS
Discontinued operating systems
Time-sharing operating systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Dunkels
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Adam Dunkels (born 1978) is a Swedish computer scientist, computer programmer, entrepreneur, and founder of Thingsquare, an Internet of things (IoT) product development business.
His father was professor of mathematics Andrejs Dunkels. His mother was professor Kerstin Vännman. His work is mainly focused on computer networking technology and distributed communication for small embedded systems and devices and wireless sensor networks on the Internet. He attended the Swedish Institute of Computer Science where he earned Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) in 2001, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 2007. Dunkels is best known to the embedded community as the author of the uIP (micro-IP) and lwIP TCP/IP Internet protocol suite (stacks). He invented protothreads and the operating system Contiki. The MIT Technology Review placed him on the TR35 list of world's top 35 innovators under 35, in 2009.
His book Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: the Next Internet, co-authored with Jean-Philippe Vasseur, and with a foreword by Vint Cerf, was published in 2010.
He is a founder of the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance (IPSO Alliance), which promotes IP networking for smart objects such as embedded systems and wireless sensors, and author of the alliance's white paper.
Dunkels received the 2008 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGOPS EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award for his Ph.D. thesis "Programming Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems". He has won an ERCIM Cor Baayen award.
Networked embedded software
Many of Dunkels's small implementations are used in commercial products from companies, including Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Altera, BMW, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, GE, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Volvo Technology, and Xilinx. They include:
Protothreads
uIP (micro-IP)
Contiki
lwIP (lightweight IP)
uVNC
Miniweb
phpstack
μBASIC
References
External links
Xerox honors Swedish inventor of minimalistic operating system with maximal field of application
Slashdot: Adam Dunkels on Embedded Sensor Networks
The uIP TCP/IP stack
Dr Dobb's Journal: Inside the uIP Stack
Embedded WEB Server Demo
Luleå University of Technology alumni
Living people
1978 births
Swedish computer scientists
Technology company founders
Swedish company founders
People from Luleå
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay%20Yeo
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Lindsay Yeo is a New Zealand broadcaster who had his own radio programme on Newstalk ZB, and continues to make regular appearances on the network.
Biography
Yeo through much of the 1970s and 1980s was the breakfast host of the Wellington radio station 2ZB. It consistently was the number one rated Wellington breakfast radio programme until the late 1980s. One of Yeo's creations was the children's character "Buzz O'Bumble" who appeared every day on the radio show, with his other friends "Belinda" the bee and "Wally Weta". Little has been heard of these characters since the format of 2ZB changed to news/talk in the late 1990s, and his community-oriented breakfast show was replaced with news and interviews.
The character Belinda was Buzz's wife and they also had a family, Bimbo, Bonny and Bobo. The children were most often played by Lindsay's own family. Wally Weta also had stage friends, Super Spider, Dumb Dumb and Dimwit the clowns. The group toured doing shows around the country. Buzz was seen riding elephants in the Moscow Circus parade through Wellington streets. Riding 8' unicycles at the Stratford stockcar track. Later Lindsay developed Bumbleland which allowed character expansion and he introduced a family of elves once again played by his own family.
The theme song used was, "It's A Small World".
After the show ended, Yeo retired to Tasman.
References
Further reading and listening
Broadcasters Oral History 2004 - Lindsay Yeo (90 minute interview), Sound Archives, Radio New Zealand
New Zealand broadcasters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Receiver
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The Rio Receiver was a home stereo device for playing MP3 files stored on your computer's hard drive over an Ethernet or HomePNA network. It was later rebranded and sold as the Dell Digital Audio Receiver.
With a design derived from the existing Linux-based Empeg Car, it became popular among the Linux hacking community.
The hardware consisted of a Cirrus Logic 7212 CPU (ARM720T at 74 MHz), 1Mx32 (4 MB) of EDO RAM, and either 512k×16 or 256k×16 (1 MB or 0.5 MB) of NOR flash used to boot. Audio output used a Burr-Brown PCM1716 DAC that drove line outputs, the headphone jack, and a Tripath class-D digital audio amplifier for speakers. Network connections were via either a Cirrus logic 8900A (10MBit Ethernet) or a Broadcom HomePNA 10 Mbit/s chipset; if no Ethernet link was seen at boot time, the unit tried HomePNA. The user interface was a 128x64 pixel monochrome LCD with an EL backlight, a rotary control with a push button, several buttons and IR remote control.
The unit booted via a 2.2 linux kernel in flash which used DHCP and SSDP to discover an NFS server from which it loaded a new kernel. The second kernel then mounted a root filesystem over NFS containing a small set of standard POSIX tools and an application for selecting and playing music over the network, which was served using HTTP by the Audio Receiver Manager software running on a Windows PC. Although the music player and the Audio Receiver Manager and Broadcom HomePNA kernel driver module were proprietary software, the kernel and other tools were open source. The two-step kernel boot process allowed rapid development of changes to the kernel allowing units to run new kernels by simply power cycling them; the use of standard protocols meant a variety of replacement software components could be developed independently.
External links
RRR Project - Replacement Client Application by Reza Naima
RioPlay - Open source project to replace the client and server side software
SlimRio - Open source client software to interoperate with SlimServer.
Jreceiver - Open source host software to interoperate with various client modules for the rio receiver.
MediaNet - Replacement client and server side software with FLAC, OGG and shoutcast support.
YARRS - Yet Another Rio Receiver Server. Unix-based, free-software replacement server.
Linux-based devices
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%20Compiler%20Kit
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The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, since 2005 maintained by David Given. It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC.
History
The ACK's notability stems from the fact that in the early 1980s it was one of the first portable compilation systems designed to support multiple source languages and target platforms.
The ACK was known as MINIX's native compiler toolchain until the MINIX userland was largely replaced by that of NetBSD (MINIX 3.2.0) and Clang was adopted as the system compiler.
It was originally closed-source software (that allowed binaries to be distributed for MINIX as a special case), but in April 2003 it was released under the BSD licenses.
Working principle
Maximum portability is achieved by using an intermediate language using bytecode, called EM. Each language front-end produces EM object files, which are then processed through several generic optimisers before being translated by a back-end into native machine code.
ACK comes with a generic linker and librarian capable of manipulating files in the ACK's own a.out-based format; it will work on files containing EM code as well as native machine code. However, EM code cannot be linked to native machine code without translating the EM binary first.
Target processors
ACK backends can produce native machine code for a wide range of CPUs, even starting with small 8 bit CPUs.
6502
6800 (assembler only)
6805 (assembler only)
6809 (assembler only)
ARM
8080*
Z80
Z8000
Intel 8086*
i386
68000
68020
68040
NS32016
S2650 (assembler only)
SPARC
VAX4
PDP-11
Broadcom VideoCore IV (BCM2708)*
* Version 6.0
See also
Portable C compiler
References
External links
Official sourcecode repository, including changelog (GitHub)
BASIC compilers
C (programming language) compilers
Computer science in the Netherlands
Free compilers and interpreters
Information technology in the Netherlands
MINIX
Modula-2 compilers
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Software using the BSD license
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCOM%20U.S.%20Navy%20SEALs%3A%20Fireteam%20Bravo
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SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo is a tactical shooter video game developed by Zipper Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation Portable. It is the first SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs game in the Fireteam Bravo series. It has both online play (infrastructure mode) and PSP to PSP play (ad hoc). It is similar to the main series games.
The online servers for this game, along with other PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable SOCOM titles, were shut down on August 31, 2012.
Gameplay
The most notable difference between Fireteam Bravo and its main series counterparts is the aiming system. The main series' controllers have two analog sticks, while the Fireteam Bravo series has only one. To aim, the player must "lock on" with the R button onto a target and then fire. Within the game there are sniper rifles, assault rifles, machine guns, explosive attachments, ballistic weaponry, and grenades.
Multiplayer
The game supports up to 16 players at a time, voice chat, and a variety of modes. Fireteam Bravo lacks a ladder system of its own. It includes number of variety of gameplay modes such as Free For All and Captive.
Reception
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo received "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
2005 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs
Video games about the United States Navy SEALs
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by James Dooley (composer)
Video games set in Asia
Video games set in Chile
Video games set in Morocco
Video games set in Poland
Zipper Interactive games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham%20Tramway
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The Rotherham Tramway was a tramway system serving the West Riding town of Rotherham. Service began on 31 January 1903 and ended on 13 November 1949.
The network of six lines spread across the town and was linked to the tramway networks of Sheffield and Mexborough & Swinton.
Rotherham tramways ran on six lines joining in the town's centre and serving Thrybergh, Silverwood Colliery and Broom Road to the East, Canklow and Sheffield to the South, Kimberworth to the West and Rawmarsh to the North.
The line to Sheffield was Rotherham's busiest as it served the main steel producing area of Great Britain. It required an almost constant flow of tramcars to meet demand. Track was re-laid in 1933 as well as single-ended double-decker tramcars purchased to serve on this particular line. Indeed, the line was built with loop termini. The tramcars used for the Sheffield-Rotherham service were equipped with only one entrance and staircase and like on traditional double-decker buses, seats were made to be comfortable. Tram service ended on this route in 1948 and Sheffield trams ended at Tinsley (where the change of owner occurred until 1926 when the Sheffield Corporation purchased the line up to Vulcan Road).
An extension of the line to Broom Top to Maltby was opened for trolleybuses in 1912, this being the third trolleybus line in Great Britain. Trolleybuses were permitted to reach the town centre in 1924 along with trams. Tram routes to Rawmarsh Road, Broom Road, Kimberworth and Thrybergh were converted to trolleybuses in 1929 and 1931. The line to Canklow was converted to motorbuses in 1934.
Double-decker trolleybuses were built from the single-deck fleet from 1955. Twenty-three of these were sold in Spain with the last trolleybus running in 1965.
Trams returned to Rotherham in October 2018 when the Sheffield Supertram was extended to Rotherham Parkgate.
References
Rotherham
Tram transport in England
Rail transport in South Yorkshire
1903 establishments in England
1949 disestablishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt%20Online%20Gaming
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Jolt Online Gaming was an online gaming company hosted in Ireland. Its main site provided news, reviews, and interviews concerning upcoming games on consoles and computers, while its gaming network Jolt Online Gaming Network hosted and published free-to-play browser-based games. Notable works included Utopia, Utopia Kingdoms, Legends of Zork, and NationStates 2.
As of 14 March 2012 Jolt's CEO Richard Barnwell announced through the Utopia Kingdoms forum that the company would be closing in the next couple of days:
History
Founded in 1999, Jolt Online Gaming was based in Europe, with servers across the US. Jolt was known as one of the pioneers of the supply of rentable servers to online gaming clans. Jolt was acquired by OMAC Industries, a company based in Dublin, Ireland in June 2008. On 8 November 2009 the website Silicon Republic confirmed that GameStop had acquired a stake in Jolt, making a major, undisclosed investment.
The Jolt Online Gaming Network had been noted for releasing browser-based games using the names and fictional worlds of older games or franchises. Their business models often employed micropayment systems, as well as basic banner advertisements.
Hosted games
Championship Manager: Rivals
Championship Manager: Rivals is a football (soccer) game playable through the Facebook website. It was officially released on 1 June 2011 by Jolt Online and developed by Beautiful Game Studios.
The game is the most successful game that Jolt currently has, with a user base of 30,000 monthly active users (MAU). Jolt announced updates including player vs. player gaming, which would allow friend's teams to play against each other.
With the recent changes the company is experiencing (as of 16 March 2012), the future of Championship Manager: Rivals is unknown. The game's forum is down and the company has not specified how the company's closure will affect the game. There are no noticeable changes in-game, and no downtime reported.
Earth: 2025
Earth: 2025 was a browser-based massive multiplayer internet-based strategy game, originally created and run by Mehul Patel. It was first officially brought online in 1997 and acquired by Jolt through the 2008 sale of Swirve.com to Omac Industries.
In 2008 Jolt acquired this game along with Swirve's Utopia. On 4 November 2009 Jolt announced that they would no longer be continuing the game when the current rounds end in December, citing an over abundance of technical problems which allegedly made continuing support untenable.
Utopia
Utopia is a browser-based massive multiplayer internet-based strategy game, originally developed by Mehul Patel and run by Swirve.com. It was first officially brought online in 1998 and acquired by Jolt through the 2008 sale of Swirve.com to Omac Industries.
In 2009, following repeated denial-of-service attacks on the Utopia servers, Jolt sold the IP to the Dublin-based Front Square Solutions (Sean Blanchfield and Brian McDonnell) and shut down the old game servers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataFlash
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DataFlash is a low pin-count serial interface for flash memory.
It was developed as an Atmel proprietary interface, compatible with the SPI standard. In October 2012, the AT45 series DataFlash product lines, related intellectual property, and supporting employee teams were purchased by Adesto Technologies.
Information is written and read from a DataFlash device using any microcontroller, such as the Atmel AVR, the Microchip PIC or the ARM. The boot ROM of numerous Atmel ARM microcontrollers support downloading code from DataFlash chips after reset.
Examples
The AT45DB161D Integrated circuit (chip) is an example of a 2 MB (16 Mbit) dataflash product. This comes in a 8x5 mm small outline integrated circuit 8-pin package. This chip is used in a huge number of consumer electronic products. Any microcontroller can use this chip to store data.
The AT45DCB008D card is an 8 MB (64 Mbit) flash memory card, which could be mistaken for an MMC or SD card. This DataFlash card packages an AT45DB642D flash chip, which is also available in 8x6 mm CASON 8-pin packages.
The AT26 series DataFlash chips are software-incompatible with the original AT45 series chips. They use a simpler command set, supported by other vendors of serial flash but omitting SRAM buffers and other features that make AT45 chips simpler to support.
Comparisons
Both DataFlash and EEPROM chips can be accessed from a microcontroller, using a 4-wire Serial Peripheral Interface Bus (SPI bus). Both are available in small 8 pin packages. The protocol interfaces are very similar; in both cases, bytes are written or read, via SPI, one or more bytes at a time.
DataFlash usually had higher capacities than EEPROM in the early days, and it still provides faster access times. DataFlash capacities in small packages range from 128 kB to 8 MB, while SPI EEPROM capacities in similar packages range from 1 kB to 8 MB .
Flash chips are tuned for page access, rather than the byte access used with EEPROM.
However, AT45 series chips have commands that let their drivers act more like EEPROM drivers.
Leveraging the SRAM buffers exposed by AT45 chips to do more than support EEPROM-like access requires specialized software.
DataFlash cards are more expensive than the consumer oriented MMC or SD cards, and have lower capacities, but have an extremely simple programming interface compared to MMC/SD. All these cards can be used in SPI mode.
In summary, DataFlash enables use of more data storage and faster access times than EEPROM. DataFlash chips can leverage the AT45 SRAM buffers. EEPROMs, AT26 series chips, or MMC/SD cards permit use of second sources for parts.
For cards used in field upgrades, DataFlash cards permit simple software support and compatibility with on-board flash chips; MMC/SD costs less.
The programming code required to interface EEPROM to the DataFlash chip is simpler.
Programming
Examples of source code in the C programming language are available for operating systems such as Be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wireless%20community%20networks%20by%20region
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Megasurf wireless internet os covering the area.
Africa
DRC
Mesh Bukavu
Pamoja Net
Ghana
Akwapim Community Wireless Network
Somalia
Abaarso
South Africa
Rural Telehealth
Orange Farm:
Zenzeleni:
Home of Compassion
Tanzania
Sengerema Wireless Community Network
Kenya
TunapandaNET Community Network
Tunisia
Mesh SAYADA
Asia
Nepal Wireless Networking Project
Middle East
Oceania
Australia
Air Stream Wireless
Melbourne Wireless
TasWireless, Tasmania
Europe
Austria
FunkFeuer
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Clermont Sans Fil
Germany
Freifunk
Greece
Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
Wireless Thessaloniki
Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Network
Hungary
Ireland
CRCWN Cavan Rural Community Wireless Network. Free Wi-Fi and Fixed Wireless Internet.
(www.crcwn.online)
Italy
ninux
Progetto Neco
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Wireless Leiden
Poland
Hyperboria PL (hyperboria.net.pl)
Portugal
Wirelesspt
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
wlan slovenija
Spain
guifi.net
Sweden
Pjodd
United Kingdom
Southampton Open Wireless Network
Americas
North America
Canada
Nova Scotia
Chebucto Community Network, Halifax Regional Municipality
Ontario
Toronto Mesh
Wireless Toronto
Wireless Nomad, Ontario and Toronto
Québec
Île Sans Fil, Montreal
ZAP Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
Cuba
SNET (abbreviation of "Street Network"), nationwide underground community network
United States
Arizona
Tucson Mesh, Tucson
California
People's Open Network, Oakland
Illinois
Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network
Minnesota
Minneapolis wireless internet network
New York
NYC Mesh
Red Hook Wi-Fi
Oregon
Personal Telco, Portland, OR
Vermont
Newport Wireless Mesh, Newport City, Vermont
Washington
Seattle Wireless
West Virginia
West Virginia Broadband
South America
Argentina
Altermundi
Brazil
Coolab
See also
Computer network
Metropolitan area network
Wireless community network
Wireless mesh network
Wireless user group
References
External links
Lists by region
Technology-related lists
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de:Freies Funknetz
fr:Réseaux sans fil communautaires
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMCF-TV
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WMCF-TV (channel 45) is a religious television station in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located near Sevenmile Creek, on the east side of Montgomery.
The station formerly operated from a studio located on Mendel Parkway West in Montgomery. That facility was one of several closed by TBN in 2019 following the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s repeal of the "Main Studio Rule", which required full-service television stations like WMCF-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.
History
WMCF-TV was signed-on in 1985 by Word of God Fellowship, Inc., the future parent organization of the Daystar Television Network. It has broadcast Christian television programs for the entirety of its existence, and this continued following subsequent sales of the station: in 1990 to Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, which owned WMPV-TV in Mobile; and in 1997 to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), a minority-owned firm with close ties to TBN, who already owned WTJP-TV in Gadsden. WMCF had been airing many TBN programs, and the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network.
WMCF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46, using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 45.
References
External links
Official website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1985
MCF-TV
1985 establishments in Alabama
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRXY-TV
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WRXY-TV (channel 49) is a religious television station licensed to Tice, Florida, United States, serving the Fort Myers–Naples area as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's studios and transmitter are located on Horseshoe Road in Punta Gorda, near the Babcock Ranch planned community. WRXY-TV is branded as CTN 10, in reference to its channel position on most cable systems in the market.
History
The station was founded on January 29, 1995. Broadcasts were originally hosted from a barn located on a cow pasture.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
See also
Channel 10 branded TV stations in the United States
Channel 33 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 49 virtual TV stations in the United States
References
External links
WRXY website
CTN website
Television channels and stations established in 1995
RXY-TV
1995 establishments in Florida
Christian Television Network affiliates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20%28public%20transit%29
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A transfer allows the rider of a public transportation vehicle who pays for a single-trip fare to continue the trip on another bus or train. Depending on the network, there may or may not be an additional fee for the transfer. Historically, transfers may have been stamped or hole-punched with the time, date, and direction of travel to prevent their use for a return trip. More recently, magnetic or barcoded tickets may be recorded (as on international flights) or ticket barriers may only charge on entry and exit to a larger system (as on modern underground rail networks).
Some public transportation systems allowing a rider to switch from one vehicle to another for free without paying an additional fare. A free transfer can be implemented by having both vehicles stop within the same fare control area, by issuing the rider a special ticket (also called a "free transfer") or by using an electronic smartcard system programmed to allow such transfers.
Fare cards vastly simplify transfers, especially between different operators, since the transfer and payment (if any) is handled automatically by the card. Since transfers between services can significantly expand the effective range and coverage of another service, fare cards are often implemented specifically to improve a transit network's quality.
References
Public transport fare collection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJEB-TV
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WJEB-TV (channel 59) is a religious television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, serving as the market's local outlet for the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is owned and operated by TBN's Community Educational Television subsidiary, which manages stations in Florida and Texas on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. WJEB-TV's studios are located on Emerson Expressway/US 1 in southeastern Jacksonville, and its transmitter is located on Newton Road in the city's Brackridge neighborhood.
Background
The station first signed on the air on May 29, 1991, and was built and signed on by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, under the licensee Jacksonville Educators Broadcasting, Inc., operated by the TBN subsidiary Community Educational Television. In addition to programming from TBN, the station airs educational programming to prepare local students for the General Educational Development (GED) test to fulfill the requirements under their license service.
Subchannels
References
External links
WJEB page on TBN's website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1991
JEB-TV
1991 establishments in Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTCE-TV
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WTCE-TV (channel 21) is a religious television station licensed to Fort Pierce, Florida, United States, serving as the West Palm Beach–area outlet for the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is owned and operated by TBN's Community Educational Television subsidiary, which manages stations in Florida and Texas on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. WTCE-TV broadcasts from a transmitter in unincorporated southeastern Martin County (southwest of Hobe Sound).
While it has broadcast TBN programming for its entire history since signing on in May 1990, WTCE was not originally intended to be a Christian television station. The construction permit was obtained in 1986 by a group which sought to start a public television station for Fort Pierce. Unable to raise federal grant money to build the station, it sold the permit to an affiliate of Palm Beach Atlantic College (PBAC) at the end of 1987. PBAC intended to build WTCE as the first in a series of new non-commercial stations across South Florida. However, despite coming weeks away from launch and announcing programming, a financial crunch left PBAC without the cash to begin broadcasting. TBN had provided the equipment used to start the station, so PBAC sold the station to TBN despite an earlier agreement with the owner of Miami public TV station WPBT.
Pre-launch history
Construction permit award
Even though channel 21 in Fort Pierce was allocated for use by a non-commercial educational television station, the only user of the channel by 1985 was a translator for WTOG in St. Petersburg, which began broadcasting the commercial independent station to St. Lucie County and the northern part of Martin County in May 1983. This changed in 1985, when Florida Educational Television applied for channel 21. It proposed to provide PBS service to an area that mostly needed cable to watch public television stations. A construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in January 1986, Florida Educational Television estimated that it would need $2 million, primarily from a federal grant, to build its proposed WFET by 1988. Meanwhile, the WTOG-TV translator was shut down by the station at the end of October 1986 to make way for the new educational channel and because its programming duplicated other independent stations available in the Fort Pierce area. Florida Educational Television also held the construction permit for WETV, channel 13 in Key West, and applied for channel 29 in Ocala.
Florida Educational Television was never able to pursue the federal grant money it needed to build WFET. In December 1987, Palmetto Broadcasters Associated for Communities, Inc., purchased the construction permit for $76,500. It won an extension of the construction permit. However, it was not until October 1989 that Palmetto—an affiliate of Palm Beach Atlantic College, a private Christian institution in West Palm Beach—revealed its ambitious and extensive television plans. In a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20Blocking%20List
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In computer networking, the Composite Blocking List (CBL) is a DNS-based Blackhole List of suspected E-mail spam sending computer infections.
Overview
The CBL takes its source data from very large spamtraps/mail infrastructures, and only lists IPs exhibiting characteristics such as:
Open proxies of various sorts (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate etc.)
Worms/viruses/botnets that do their own direct mail transmission, or are otherwise participating in a botnet.
Trojan horse or "stealth" spamware.
The CBL attempts to avoid listing real mail servers, but certain misconfigurations of mail servers can make the system appear infected (for example, servers that send HELO with 'localhost' or a similar incorrect domain.)
Entries automatically expire after a period of time.
The CBL does not provide public access to gathered evidence.
CBL data are used in Spamhaus XBL list.
See also
Comparison of DNS blacklists
CBL Index — estimate of outgoing spam reputation
External links
The CBL
CBL lookup and removal page
Computer security procedures
Spamming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%20on%20TBS
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MLB on TBS is an American presentation of regular season and postseason Major League Baseball (MLB) game telecasts that air on the American pay television network TBS and the streaming service Max. The games are produced by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports (formerly known as Turner Sports).
History
Pre-2007: relationship with the Braves
Atlanta Braves baseball games had been a local staple on Atlanta independent station WTBS (channel 17, now WPCH-TV; which, like TBS, was owned by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System) since Turner acquired the team's broadcast rights in 1973, and subsequently gained national prominence when the station was uplinked to satellite in December 1976, becoming one of America's first superstations. Along with Chicago-based WGN-TV and New York-based WWOR-TV, WTBS was one of the few television stations that broadcast local sporting events to a national audience, with some even giving the Braves the title "America's Team".
1983 marked the last time that local telecasts of League Championship Series games were allowed. In 1982, Major League Baseball recognized a problem with this due to the emergence of cable superstations such as WTBS in Atlanta and WGN-TV in Chicago. When TBS tried to petition for the right to do a "local" Braves broadcast of the 1982 NLCS, Major League Baseball got a Philadelphia federal court to ban them on the grounds that as a cable superstation, TBS's telecast would compete with the national broadcast on ABC.
On July 11, 1988, the day before the Major League Baseball All-Star Game from Cincinnati, TBS televised the annual All-Star Gala from the Cincinnati Zoo. Larry King hosted the broadcast with Craig Sager and Pete Van Wieren handling interviews. The broadcast's big draw would have been the Home Run Derby, which TBS intended on taping during the afternoon, and later airing it in prime time during the Gala coverage. The Gala coverage also had some pre-taped features such as highlights from previous All-Star Games, a segment on Cincinnati's baseball history, a video recap of the 1988 season's first half and, a slow-motion highlight montage set to "This Is the Time" by Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung. However, the derby and a skills competition were canceled due to rain. As a result, TBS scrambled to try to fill nearly an hour of now-open airtime. For example, the Gatlin Brothers, the event's musical guests, who had already played a full concert, were asked to come back out and play some more.
Sister network TNT was actually in the running to gain the cable portion of the baseball TV rights beginning in 1990. However, ESPN won the final bid with the league.
When Major League Baseball was realigned into three divisions each within the American and National Leagues in 1994, TBS offered Major League Baseball US$40-$45 million a year for rights to another round of postseason games (presumably, matches from the newly created Division Series). Instead, Major League Baseball along with ABC and NBC formed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20printer
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In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected to a physical computer printer.
When a document is "printed" by a virtual printer, instead of physically printing it on paper or other material the underlying software processes the images of its pages in some other way, often resulting in a file being produced or the images being transmitted.
History
In the early 1960s the B5500 Master Control Program (MCP) operating system included virtual printers, called "Printer Backups" in the form of Printer Backup Tapes (PBT) and Printer Backup Disks (PBD). IBM's VM/370 operating system allows users to spool a virtual printer (or punch) file to another user, who can read it as input. This provides a basic means of file transfer.
Functions
Typical uses of virtual printers include:
Saving a document to another format such as a PDF or multi-page TIFF file.
Sending documents to a fax server.
Allowing user to control certain aspects of printing not supported natively, such as printing multiple pages per sheet without border, print letterhead, watermarks etc. This output can either be saved in a file for future printing or passed to another printer.
Previewing a printed document before printing it, to save ink and paper. This functionality is also built into many GUI applications.
Allowing remote printing of documents over the Internet. At least one example of this technology creates a virtual printer on one computer which actually converts the document and sends it to a remote server, from which the file can be printed to a printer attached to a PC in a remote location. Similar technology is also being used to allow printing from devices such as smart phones.
See also
List of virtual printer software
Spooling
References
Computer printers
Device drivers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus%20hoax
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A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the recipients to forward it to everyone they know, but it can also be in the form of a pop-up window.
Identification
Most hoaxes are sensational in nature and easily identified by the fact that they indicate that the virus will do nearly impossible things, like blow up the recipient's computer and set it on fire, or less sensationally, delete everything on the user's computer. They often include fake announcements claimed to originate from reputable computer organizations together with mainstream news media. These bogus sources are quoted in order to give the hoax more credibility. Typically, the warnings use emotive language, stress the urgent nature of the threat and encourage readers to forward the message to other people as soon as possible.
Virus hoaxes are usually harmless and accomplish nothing more than annoying people who identify it as a hoax and wasting the time of people who forward the message. Nevertheless, a number of hoaxes have warned users that vital system files are viruses and encourage the user to delete the file, possibly damaging the system. Examples of this type include the jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax and the SULFNBK.EXE hoax.
Some consider virus hoaxes and other chain e-mails to be a computer worm in and of themselves. They replicate by social engineering—exploiting users' concern, ignorance, and disinclination to investigate before acting.
Hoaxes are distinct from computer pranks, which are harmless programs that perform unwanted and annoying actions on a computer, such as randomly moving the mouse, turning the screen display upside down, etc.
Action
Anti-virus specialists agree that recipients should delete virus hoaxes when they receive them, instead of forwarding them.
McAfee says:
F-Secure recommends:
Comparison
Telephone scam
A telephone scam, commonly operated from call centres based in India, has been active since 2008. The victim is quoted his or her name and address, and is told: "I'm calling for Microsoft (or an entity that sounds like it is connected to Microsoft, such as the "Windows Service Center" or "Windows Technical Department"). We've had a report from your internet service provider of serious virus problems from your Windows computer." The victim is then directed to open the Windows event viewer, which displays apparently critical warnings, and is directed to a website to download an application to allow the scammer to control his or her computer remotely. The caller supposedly fixes the problems and demands a fee for the service. In addition to the fraudulent fee, the process usually enables malware to be uploaded to the victim's computer.
Parodies
The virus hoax has become part of the culture of the twenty-first century and the gullibility of novice computer users convinced to delete files on the basis of hoaxes has been parodied in several popul
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Pakistani%20TV%20channel%29
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MTV Pakistan was the Pakistani subsidiary of MTV, a cable television network owned by Viacom. The Pakistan franchise was set up in collaboration with Pakistan's first satellite channel media group known as Indus Media Group (Indus TV). Indus TV was Pakistan's second private television broadcaster after STN.
Programming
MTV Pakistan combined local and international music and was the only music channel with global and local programs. The channel broadcast Pakistani shows such as MTV Basanti, Most Wanted, MTV Select, Bheja Fry, Love Lockdown, Love Stories, Top Ten World Music , MTV Classics, MTV Requested, MTV News, MTV VJ Hunt, Groove and Classics. International shows included MTV Unplugged, MTV Roadies, Stunt Mania.
MTV Pakistan arranged music awards in 2009.
MTV Pakistan provided upcoming and talented Pakistani artists with an opportunity to get global recognition.
MTV Pakistan was rebranded as Indus Music in October 2011 due to the expiration of the franchise agreement with Viacom.
MTV Pakistan came back on air on 23 October 2011 when Indus returned to franchise agreement with Viacom. But after a short period of time, it was shut down for unpopularity.
VJs
Saira Yousuf
Palwasha Yousuf
Mawra Hocane
Urwa Hocane
Anoushey Ashraf
Mahira Khan
Faizan
Ayesha Omar
Ali Safina
Dr Ali Munir
See also
List of music channels in Pakistan
MTV Networks Asia Pacific
Music of Pakistan
List of television stations in Pakistan
References
External links
2006 establishments in Pakistan
2011 disestablishments in Pakistan
Defunct television channels
Mass media in Pakistan
MTV channels
Music organisations based in Pakistan
Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Television stations in Karachi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnifier
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A magnifier is a device used for magnification.
Magnifier can also refer to:
Magnifying glass, an optical device for magnification
Screen magnifier, software that magnifies part of a computer screen
Magnifier (Windows), a screen magnifier for Microsoft Windows
Magnifier (iOS), a screen magnifier for iOS
Magnifier, a screen magnifier for Android
Magnifying transmitter, alternate version of a Tesla Coil
Sight magnifier, a magnified optic used on firearms
See also
Video magnifier, an electronic device used for optical magnification
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnier/Orr%20diagram
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A Warnier/Orr diagram (also known as a logical construction of a program/system) is a kind of hierarchical flowchart that allows the description of the organization of data and procedures. They were initially developed 1976, in France by Jean-Dominique Warnier and in the United States by Kenneth Orr on the foundation of Boolean algebra. This method aids the design of program structures by identifying the output and processing results and then working backwards to determine the steps and combinations of input needed to produce them. The simple graphic method used in Warnier/Orr diagrams makes the levels in the system evident and the movement of the data between them vivid.
Basic elements
Warnier/Orr diagrams show the processes and sequences in which they are performed. Each process is defined in a hierarchical manner i.e. it consists of sets of subprocesses, that define it. At each level, the process is shown in bracket that groups its components.
Since a process can have many different subprocesses, Warnier/Orr diagram uses a set of brackets to show each level of the system. Critical factors in software definition and development are iteration or repetition and alternation. Warnier/Orr diagrams show this very well.
Using Warnier/Orr diagrams
To develop a Warnier/Orr diagram, the analyst works backwards, starting with systems output and using output oriented analysis. On paper, the development moves from the set to the element (from left to right) . First, the intended output or results of the processing are defined. At the next level, shown by inclusion with a bracket, the steps needed to produce the output are defined. Each step in turn is further defined. Additional brackets group the processes required to produce the result on the next level.
Warnier/Orr diagrams offer some distinct advantages to systems experts. They are simple in appearance and easy to understand. Yet they are powerful design tools. They have advantage of showing groupings of processes and the data that must be passed from level to level. In addition, the sequence of working backwards ensures that the system will be result oriented. This method is useful for both data and process definition. It can be used for each independently, or both can be combined on the same diagram.
Constructs in Warnier/Orr diagrams
There are four basic constructs used on Warnier/Orr diagrams: hierarchy, sequence, repetition, and alternation. There are also two slightly more advanced concepts that are occasionally needed: concurrency and recursion.
Hierarchy
Hierarchy is the most fundamental of all of the Warnier/Orr constructs. It is simply a nested group of sets and subsets shown as a set of nested brackets. Each bracket on the diagram (depending on how you represent it, the character is usually more like a brace "{" than a bracket "[", but we call them "brackets") represents one level of hierarchy. The hierarchy or structure that is represented on the diagram can show the organization of d
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webattacker
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Webattacker is a do-it-yourself malware creation kit that includes scripts that simplify the task of infecting computers and spam-sending techniques to lure victims to specially rigged Websites. It was allegedly created by a group of Russian programmers. The kit demands minimal technical sophistication to be manipulated and used by crackers.
Sophos has reported that WebAttacker is being sold at some hacker Web sites or through a network of individual resellers and includes technical support. The malware code is currently being delivered in at least seven exploits, including threats aimed at Microsoft's MDAC software, Mozilla's Firefox Web browser and Sun Microsystems's Java virtual machine programs.
The exploitation process usually consists of the following steps:
Establishment of a malicious website though automated tools provided by WebAttacker
Sending mass email (otherwise known as spam) inviting the recipient to visit the website under various pretenses
Infecting the visitor's computer with a Trojan by exploiting numerous vulnerabilities
Using the Trojan to run arbitrary executables on the infected PC which are typically designed to extract passwords, personal information, keystroke logging, or taking general control over the compromised computer
The software appears to be updated regularly to exploit new flaws, such as the flaw discovered in September 2006 in how Internet Explorer handles certain graphics files.
Notes
Computer security exploits
Types of malware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20fibre-optic
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Hybrid fibre-optic is the connection used by some television studio and field production video cameras that combine all video, audio, data, control, power, and other signals onto two single mode optical fibres and a few copper conductors in one jacket, therefore allowing one cable to provide all the necessary signals a camera needs for the television production environment.
Fiber-optic communications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky%20Morales
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Victoria "Vicky" Torres Morales-Reyno (; born July 10, 1969) is a Filipino broadcast journalist and television presenter. She is best known for being one of the anchors of GMA Network's early evening newscast 24 Oras with Mel Tiangco and Mike Enriquez (later Emil Sumangil) as well as for being the host of the Saturday afternoon documentary-drama show Wish Ko Lang!. For hosting Wish Ko Lang!, she got the "Best Public Service Program Host" award during the 29th PMPC Star Awards for Television in 2015 given by the Philippine Movie Press Club. She previously anchored Saksi, the late news program of GMA Network, from 1999 to 2014. In GTV, she hosts a magazine news program entitled Good News Kasama si Vicky Morales, which was started in 2011 when GTV was previously known as GMA News TV.
Aside from receiving an award from PMPC, she received different accolades from other local awards including Catholic Mass Media Awards, UP Gandingan, USTv Awards, Gawad Tanglaw, Northwest Samar State University Student Choice Awards, and Anak TV Seal. Her skills as a journalist has also been recognized internationally by the Asian TV Awards, New York Festival, US International Film and Video Awards, and the George Foster Peabody Awards.
Career
College years and ABS-CBN stint
When she entered Ateneo de Manila University, the first course that she took was Bachelor of Science in Management but she later shifted to a communications course, so that, she can be a journalist. During her college years, her professor introduced her to ABS-CBN executive Charo Santos-Concio and then Morales auditioned to be part of the ABS-CBN Network. Charo wanted her to be an actress but Morales preferred to be a news reporter. She passed the auditions and then afterwards, she attended training to improve her craft. At one point of her training, she worked with Korina Sanchez in a short time.
After three months of training, ABS-CBN executives were not satisfied with her performance, thus, she was removed from the training. Although, this was not her last stint from ABS-CBN. She was later hired by Dong Puno as her production staff and later co-anchor on his business program in ABS-CBN. Morales learned a lot from Dong and she considered him as her mentor.
Also during her younger years, she appeared at a Coke commercial alongside Gary Valenciano and Sharon Cuneta.
Broadcast journalist at GMA Network
In 1990, after graduating college, Morales secretly applied for an anchor spot in GMA Headline News (the now-defunct late night English language news program of GMA Network) who would join the program's news presenters Tina Monzon-Palma and Jose Mari Velez. After then GMA's AVP for News Dan de Padua called Vicky, she was eventually hired as the news anchor for GMA Headline News and bested 500 other applicants. She anchored a segment of the said late news program entitled "Good News," which, incidentally, would become the title of her own news magazine program in 2011.
After ending her work at G
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langrisser%3A%20The%20Descendants%20of%20Light
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, known as Warsong in North America, is a tactical role-playing game developed by Nippon Computer Systems (NCS). The first in the Langrisser series, it blended tactical warfare with RPG elements, similar to the Fire Emblem series. It was initially released for the Mega Drive/Genesis console and the PC Engine (in Super CD-ROM² format), the former version being published by Treco in America. The PC-Engine version was released under the title Langrisser: The Descendants of Light. It was later re-released alongside Der Langrisser (a remake of Langrisser II) in a compilation for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. That compilation was released for the PlayStation Network in 2009. A full remake of Langrisser I & II was also released in 2019 on both Sony PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch and on PC in 2020, featuring new graphics and BGM and also new playable characters and multiple paths through the game for Langrisser I.
Gameplay
The player controls a group of heroes or commanders to accomplish some goals each phase. They are joined with non-controlled allies to battle with enemy commanders. Before each phase, the player can purchase up to eight army units from a single type for every one of its heroes. The type of the available army depends on the hero class (e.g. Griffons can only be purchased by Dragon Knights) and have different prices. At the end of each phase, any surviving army provides some amount of cash for the player to use next time.
After each battle, the winning commander gains experience that allows him to upgrade to a more powerful class. If a hero dies, he is lost forever; if the main hero dies, the game is over.
During the game, the player slowly acquires ally leaders, each of whom can hire up to 8 troops (each troop representing 10 soldiers) to fight in stages called Scenarios. Each scenario starts the player out in a defensive position with enemies nearby and a goal to accomplish. Typical goals are, "Protect this person", "Destroy all the enemies", "Destroy the enemy leader (other enemies optional)" and several other types. The player chose where to place their troops in the beginning, and the formations they want to fight in.
Along the way, the player also acquires special items that can increase the power of their commanders. As their commanders gain experience, they can be promoted to different "classes" with new spells, and new abilities.
Characters
Note: These characters and their information are from the Mega Drive/Genesis version
Classes in bold shows the initial class for that character
Story
Plot
The storyline follows the armies of Prince Garett of Baltia as they battle the Dalsis Empire and the monsters they unwittingly awaken, framed as a battle between the forces of good and an ancient evil that threatens to overrun the world.
The story begins with an assault on the Nation of Baltia by the forces of the Dalsis Empire. King Alfador sees the castle will not be able to stand and urges his son Prince Garett to flee t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII%20Express
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ASCII Express is a telecommunications program written for the Apple II series of computers. During the 1980s, when the use of bulletin board systems (BBS) and telecommunications in general were not as widespread as they are today, ASCII Express (AE) was the program of choice for many telecommunication users.
ASCII Express II
The first version of AE, known as ASCII Express II, was created by Bill Blue in 1980 and distributed by Southwestern Data Systems. AE II can be used on any Apple II that has DOS 3.x and one of a small number of modems available at the time, such as the Hayes Micromodem II. This version of the program was mostly used by telecommunicators to access paid BBSs like THE SOURCE and CompuServe, as well as free BBSs. The interface of AE II is menu-driven, with very few of the features that are now expected of a modern telecom program, such as terminal emulation and multi-file transfer protocols like YMODEM and ZMODEM.
ASCII Express The Professional
By 1982, ASCII Express II ceased development, and was replaced by a totally re-written replacement called ASCII Express "The Professional", also known as "ASCII Express Professional" or its much shorter name "AE Pro". This version was a collaboration between Bill Blue and Mark Robbins. AE Pro was a command-line driven telecom program packed with many features lacking in its predecessor, including scripting, YMODEM and ZMODEM, terminal emulation, and support for Apple ProDOS 8. AE Pro can also be used as a pseudo-BBS when configured as a host, allowing a user to dial-in and exchange files. This type of system was coined the name AE line.
Earlier versions of AE Pro were distributed by Roger Wagner of Southwestern Data Systems, and later by United Software Industries (founded by Mark Robbins, Bill Blue and others). Greg Schaefer converted AE Pro from Apple DOS 3.3 to Apple ProDOS in an afternoon and received US$5000 for his efforts.
In 1984, Bill Blue and Joe Holt ported AE Pro to MS-DOS and 8086 assembly language. In 1985 Joe Holt and Greg Schaefer rewrote AE Pro for the Apple II taking advantage of the platform's new mouse and MouseText features. It also featured advanced scripting and a full-featured mouse-based text editor. This product was released as MouseTalk. AE Pro and MouseTalk were soon overshadowed by ProTERM, a telecom product that utilizes many of the advanced features of the Apple IIe and IIc, such as 65C02 opcodes, use of the mouse, and macros.
Peer to peer file sharing
The early 1980s was the period when modding was becoming very active throughout the world. Hundreds of Apple II-based BBSs popped up, most of them used only as message boards. With the aid of free Apple II hacking software like Dalton's Disk Disintegrator (DDD), computer users were able to take an un-protected floppy disk, compress it into multiple files, then transmit those files to another user. This was actually one of several origins of what is known today as peer-to-peer file transfers.
While
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The mechanome consists of the body, or ome, of data including cell and molecular processes relating to force and mechanical systems at molecular, cellular and tissue length scales - the fundamental "machine code" structures of the cell. The mechanome encompasses biological motors, like kinesin, myosin, RNAP, and Ribosome mechanical structures, like actin or the cytoskeleton and also proteomic and genomic components that are mechanosensitive and are involved in the response of cells to externally applied force.
A definition of the "Mechanome" extending to cell/organ/body given by Prof. Roger Kamm, at the 5th World Congress of Biomechanics Munich, includes understanding:
The complete state of stress existing from tissues to cells to molecules. The biological state that results from the distribution of forces. Requires knowledge of the distribution of force throughout the cell/organ/body, the functional interactions between these stresses and the fundamental biological processes.
The mechanome seeks to understand the fundamental physical-mechanical processes and events that affect biological function. An example at the molecular level includes the common structural designs used by kinesin and myosin motor proteins (such as dimer formation and mechanochemical cycles) that control their function and lead to properties such as processivity. The mechanome assembles the common features of these motors regardless of the "track" (microtubules, actin filaments, nucleotide based structures, membranes) they move on. A cytoskeletal example includes structures such as actin filament networks and bundles that can form from a variety of actin binding proteins that cross-link or bundle actin filaments leading to common mechanical changes of these structures. A cell machinery example includes common structures such as contractile ring formation formed by both actin and tubulin type structures leading to the same mechanical result of cell division.
In order to respond to loading cells require a functional mechanome, defined as the cellular and extracellular mechanosensitive elements (genomic, proteomic, metabolic etc.) that contribute to the mechanical responsiveness of specific cells within a defined mechanical environment.
Using mechanical force techniques, such as optical tweezers or atomic force microscopy, single proteins can be identified by a unique structural fingerprint .
Mechanomics
Mechanomics is the study of how forces are transmitted and the influence they have on biological function.
Mechanomics is also an emerging field between biology and biomechanics.
Physicomics
Physicomics it the complex of other than mechanical forces involved in cellular physiology and response to its environment. Besides mechanical one should think of other physical parameters such as pressure, temperature, electro-magnetic fields such as light, et cetera.
See also
Biomechanics
Proteome
External links
Lang Laboratory at MIT, USA
An animation of how the mechano
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Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp is a British national breakfast radio show on Capital. The show is broadcast from 6am to 10am each weekday. From 7 January 2012 an additional live networked edition was broadcast from 6am to 9am each Saturday.
A national version of the programme began on 8 April 2019 forcing the local variations across the UK to be axed. Those local versions were Dino, Pete & Tyles (Capital East Midlands), Jono & Emma (Capital South Coast), Adam & JoJo (Capital Yorkshire), Rob & Matilda (Capital Birmingham), Matt & Polly (Capital South Wales), Bodg, Matt & Hannah (Capital North East), The Rob Ellis Show (Capital Manchester), Des Clarke, Ben Sheppard (Capital North West and Wales), Adam, Gemma & Dylan (Capital Liverpool) and Dave and Miranda (Capital Brighton). Only Capital Cymru and as of April 2023 Capital Scotland retained their own local shows.
Broadcast and production
As Capital London (channel listed as Capital FM) is simulcast on TV variants which are available on Freesat, Freeview, Sky, TalkTalk TV and Virgin Media, Capital Breakfast is available throughout the UK. This variant is produced at their studios in Leicester Square, London.
On air team
The longest running presenter was Chris Tarrant, who presented the show from 1987 to 2004. Tarrant won the Sony Radio Academy Awards, Breakfast Show Gold in 1995 for this show. Previous Breakfast Show presenters from 1973 were David Symonds, Kenny Everett & Dave Cash, Everett on his own, Mike Smith and Graham Dene.
In April 2004, Johnny Vaughan replaced Tarrant, as the presenter of Capital Breakfast. In 2008, he was joined by Denise Van Outen and then Lisa Snowdon. Vaughan left the programme in November 2011 after being told that his contract was not being renewed, and was replaced with Dave Berry.
In February 2011 it was reported the show remained London's most listened to commercial breakfast show with Capital London having more than one million listeners between 6am and 10am.
In February 2016, following Lisa Snowdon's departure, It was announced that George Shelley and Lilah Parsons would join Dave Berry as co-presenters.
In February 2017, It was announced that Dave Berry to leave Capital to host his own show on Absolute Radio.
In April 2017, Dave Berry left Capital. Following that it was announced that George Shelley and Lilah Parsons would leave Capital Breakfast, a Capital spokesperson said they’ll appear elsewhere on the schedule.
On 18 April 2017, it was announced that Roman Kemp would host the show alongside Vick Hope, a new presenter. They started on 2 May 2017. A year later Sonny Jay joined the show full-time. On 24 February 2020, it was announced that Hope had left Capital Breakfast to focus on new TV opportunities.
It was announced that presenter Siân Welby would replace Hope, starting 23 March 2020.
In 2022, It was announced that Chris Stark would join the team. His first show was on October 10, 2022.
On December 15, 2022, Sonny Jay announced that he wou
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Kirkdale TMD is a traction maintenance depot located beside Kirkdale railway station in north Liverpool, England. The depot is the largest on the Merseyrail network; it is located on the Northern Line and is used primarily for stabling units, heavy maintenance and cleaning units both internally and externally. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by Stadler.
Operation of Kirkdale depot was transferred from Merseyrail to Stadler Rail Service UK in October 2017. The depot is Stadler Rail's United Kingdom headquarters and the majority of the company's UK workforce will be based at this site. At Kirkdale, Stadler Rail is responsible for their maintenance setup and staff at the Norwich Crown Point maintenance depot, Glasgow Subway and the future Tyne and Wear Metro maintenance and staff.
The site was extended and uprated. Work finished on an extensive re-build in November 2019, allowing the depot to become the main maintenance hub for the new Class 777 fleet.
Although Kirkdale is the largest Merseyrail depot, most heavy maintenance is currently carried out at Birkenhead North TMD. This will be reversed once the new Class 777 fleet is fully introduced.
History
Bank Hall depot
The site was originally used for the Bank Hall motive power depot, which closed in 1966. The original depot was adjoined by a large area of sidings with more than thirty roads but, following the cessation of express trains operating to and from station in May 1970, the sidings were rarely used.
Rebuild as Kirkdale depot
In 1976, when the new Loop and Link tunnels were being constructed to replace the surface station at Liverpool Exchange, the sidings were lifted and transformed into a modern maintenance depot, which was named after the nearby station. A new shed with four roads was constructed, with inspection pits under the tracks. Each road is long enough to house two three-car sets coupled together. A new carriage wash plant was also built so that units could be driven through and cleaned in a very short amount of time. This is the only active washing plant on Merseyrail, with the other washing plant at Birkenhead North being destroyed by consistent vandalism.
In 2006, a brand new wheel lathe was installed at Kirkdale in an area of the depot which was formerly used for the storage of departmental equipment. The commissioning of the new wheel lathe subsequently ended the long running necessity to tow any units requiring wheel turning to the lathe at Allerton depot (located near ) behind a Class 08 diesel shunter, with units transferring from and back to the Merseyrail network via the crossover at .
Second rebuild
Merseyrail's fleet of and 508 units is scheduled to be replaced between 2019 and 2023 by a fleet of units built by Stadler Rail at Bussnang, Switzerland. As part of the overall fleet replacement project, which will cost £460 million, both Kirkdale and Birkenhead North depots will be upgraded to a standard which will be capable of maintaining the new trains
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International Networks is the name given by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to country calling codes +882 and +883, and serves as a catch-all for telephone services not dedicated to a single country. Satellite telephone carriers, especially those with worldwide service, are allocated within the Global Mobile Satellite System (GMSS), country code +881, with the exception of non-terrestrial Inmarsat, country code 870.
As in the other such shared country codes, carriers are allocated number space within this code space plus their identification code (two-digit number in 882 code space, three or four digit number in 883 code space). The phone number for a subscriber of such a service starts with +882/+883 followed by the carrier code.
The cost to call such a number can be high; for example in the British Telecom price list rates for various 882 and 883 numbers ranged from £0.60 to £4.50 per minute.
Carrier codes
As of November 27, 2017 the assignments of +882/+883 carrier codes are as follows:
Active
In the +882-99 block, two numbering spaces collide: The numbering area has officially been assigned to Telenor but prior to this assignment, e164.org started to assign unofficial numbers within that numbering area.
Inactive
The following codes were previously assigned by the ITU but were not used as of 2007:
References
External links
Current ITU-T list of E.164 shared country codes in the 881, 882 and 883 range
List of ITU-T E.164 assigned country codes as of 2016
iNum OFFICIAL Website
World Telephone Numbering Guide: Special Services
Country codes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL%20Workbench
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MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, database design, creation and maintenance into a single integrated development environment for the MySQL database system. It is the successor to DBDesigner 4 from fabFORCE.net, and replaces the previous package of software, MySQL GUI Tools Bundle.
History
fabFORCE.net DBDesigner4
DBDesigner4 is an open source visual database design and querying tool for the MySQL database released under the GPL. It was written in 2002/2003 by the Austrian programmer Michael G. Zinner for his fabFORCE.net platform using Delphi 7 / Kylix 3.
While being a physical-modeling only tool DBDesigner4 offers a comprehensive feature set including reverse engineering of MySQL databases, model-to-database synchronization, model poster printing, basic version control of schema models and a SQL query builder. It is available for MS Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
In late 2003, Zinner was approached by representatives from MySQL AB and joined the company to take over the development of graphical user interface (GUI) tools for MySQL. This led to the creation of the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle.
MySQL GUI Tools Bundle
The MySQL GUI Tools Bundle is a cross-platform open source suite of desktop applications for the administration of MySQL database servers, and for building and manipulating the data within MySQL databases. It was developed by MySQL AB and later by Sun Microsystems and released under the GPL. Development on the GUI Tools bundle has stopped, and is now only preserved under the Download Archives of the MySQL site.
The GUI Tools bundle has been superseded by MySQL Workbench, and reached its End-of-Life with the beta releases of MySQL Workbench 5.2. However, the MySQL Support team continued to provide assistance for the bundle until June 30, 2010.
Releases
The first preview version of MySQL Workbench was released in September 2005, and was not included in the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle. Development was started again in 2007 and MySQL Workbench was set to become the MySQL GUI flagship product.
Version numbering was started at 5.0 to emphasise that MySQL Workbench was developed as the successor to DBDesigner4.
MySQL Workbench 5.0 and 5.1
MySQL Workbench 5.0 and 5.1 are specialized visual database design tools for the MySQL database. While MySQL Workbench 5.0 was a MS Windows-only product, cross-platform support was added to MySQL Workbench 5.1 and later.
MySQL Workbench 5.2
Starting with MySQL Workbench 5.2 the application has evolved to a general database GUI application. Apart from physical database modeling it features an SQL Editor, database migration tools, and a database server administration interface, replacing the old MySQL GUI Tools Bundle.
MySQL Workbench 6.0
On May 22, 2013, the MySQL Workbench Team announced that they were working on Version 6.0. The first public beta, labeled version 6.0.2, was released on June 14, 2013, and the first general-availability release
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Secure Network is a small offensive security and security research company focusing on Information Security based in Milano, Italy. Besides having notability in Italy, it received international exposure with a research project on Bluetooth security (co-sponsored by F-Secure) codenamed BlueBag, which has been also selected for the Black Hat Briefings conference 2006 in Las Vegas.
In 2009, it also organized SEaCURE.IT, the first international technical security conference ever held in Italy.
Secure Network also offers internet security compliance consulting to private companies.
References
Companies of Italy
Data security
Companies based in Milan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf%20Resort%20Tycoon
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Golf Resort Tycoon is a business simulation computer game developed by Cat Daddy Games and published by Activision in 2001.
Gameplay
The game is based on the premise of players constructing their own golf resorts with a limited amount of funds hoping to earn more income through the satisfaction of the resort's attendees.
There are two gameplay modes: Instant Action and Challenges. Instant Action allows a player to freely create their own golf resort. Challenges requires a player to complete specific series of tasks.
Reception
Most of the reviews for Golf Resort Tycoon stated that it was a mediocre game overall. GameSpot gave it a 6.2, stating "Golf Resort Tycoon can be a nice diversion and a decent way to kill time in short spurts, but it's definitely not for everyone. GameZone rated the game 8 of 10 saying it is challenging and addictive.
Sequels
A sequel to Golf Resort Tycoon, Golf Resort Tycoon II was released in 2002.
External links
References
Business simulation games
Windows games
Windows-only games
2001 video games
Cat Daddy Games games
Activision games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
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is a Japanese character designer and manga artist. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer science when in grade school. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School. Fujiwara won an honorable mention in 1979 for his debut manga titled Itsu mo no Asa ni in the 18th Tezuka Award along with Toshio Nobe (also an honorable mention) and Tsukasa Hojo, who won the top prize awarded. He was heavily influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo, and a defining feature of his work is the fine attention to detail. His pen name "Kamui" has its origins in the name of the Ainu god of creation, Kamuy, and he has used it since high school. He has had stories published in the manga anthology series Petit Apple Pie.
Works
Manga
Buyo Buyo
"Chameko" (published in Manga Burikko)
Chocolate Panic
Clip
Color Mail
Deja Vu
Dragon Quest: Warriors of Eden
Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō
Dragon Quest Retsuden: Emblem of Roto Returns
Dragon Quest Retsuden: Emblem of Roto: Monshō o Tsugumono-tachi e
Drop
Fukugami Chōkidan
H2O (published in Manga Burikko)
Hot Ai-Q
Hyōi
Kanata e
Kenrō Densetsu: Kerberos Panzer Cops (written by Mamoru Oshii)
Oine (published in Manga Burikko, originally created by Kentarō Takekuma)
Old Testament: Genesis Books I & II (initially published by Core, republished by Tokuma Shoten)
Raika (created by Yū Terashima)
Saiyūki
Shifuku Sennen
Sōseiki
St. Michaela Gakuen Hyōryūki (created by Ei Takatori)
Teito Monogatari
Ultra Q
Unlucky Young Men
Yūtopia
Video games
Bōken Shōnen Kurabu ga Hou (character designer)
Grandia Xtreme (character designer)
World Neverland (character designer)
Gēmu Nihonshi Tenkabito: Odanobunaga (character designer)
Gēmu Nihonshi Tenkabito: Hidekichi to Ieyasu (character designer)
Terranigma (art director)
46 Okunen Monogatari: Harukanaru Eden E (Japanese version cover art)
References
External links
Kamui's Note (official site)
1959 births
Japanese illustrators
Japanese video game designers
Living people
People from Arakawa, Tokyo
Manga artists from Tokyo
Video game artists
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Hit TV is a local Kazakh television channel that has been start since 7:00 AM (Alma-Ata Time) in October 21, 2003. It's a dedicated youth oriented music television network showing all the latest music videos from Kazakhstan and abroad. Like many other national music video networks, Hit TV also has regular "show business" programs featuring music and movie gossip from around the world. Hit TV is owned by the Shahar Media Group.
List of programs broadcast on Hit TV
Personalniy Play*List - A music video request show featuring viewer interaction.
Headliner - presents the latest news from the music industry.
SuperStar KZ Dnevnik - The video diaries of the finalists from Kazakh version of Pop Idol.
Mobilnaya 20 - A countdown show featuring the Top 20 music video ringtone downloads.
P.O.P.S.A - A show where viewers can vote for their favourite music video in a countdown style program.
DOM-2 - A program featuring music videos of comfort & love.
SMS chat.kz - The newest program, an open music video request show featuring SMS tickers.
VJ roster
Marina
Adil Lian
Kazbek
Marat
Alena
Ivan
Trivia
The first music video ever broadcast on the channel was DJ Bobo's Chihuahua.
Three compilation CDs have been released by the network in association with Kazakh online retailed http://www.hit.kz. Мой HiT #1, Мой HiT #3 & Dom-2
References
External links
Television stations in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstani music
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Security%20Act%20of%201987
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The Computer Security Act of 1987, Public Law No. 100-235 (H.R. 145), (Jan. 8, 1988), is a United States federal law enacted in 1987. It is intended to improve the security and privacy of sensitive information in federal computer systems and to establish minimally acceptable security practices for such systems. It required the creation of computer security plans, and appropriate training of system users or owners where the systems would display, process or store sensitive information.
Provisions
Assigned the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, At the time named National Bureau of Standards) to develop standards of minimum acceptable practices with the help of the NSA
Required establishment of security policies for Federal computer systems that contain sensitive information.
Mandatory security awareness training for federal employees that use those systems.
References
HR 145
Electronic Privacy Information Center
External links
1987 in American law
100th United States Congress
United States federal computing legislation
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Google Voice Search or Search by Voice is a Google product that allows users to use Google Search by speaking on a mobile phone or computer, i.e. have the device search for data upon entering information on what to search into the device by speaking.
Initially named as Voice Action which allowed one to give speech commands to an Android phone. Once only available for the U.S. English locale – commands were later recognizable and replied to in American, British, and Indian English; Filipino, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
In Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean), it was merged with Google Now.
In August 2014, a new feature was added to Google Voice Search, allowing users to choose up to five languages and the app will automatically understand the spoken language.
Google Voice Search on Google.com
On June 14, 2011, Google announced at its Inside Google Search event that it would start to roll out Voice Search on Google.com during the coming days.
Google rolled out the support, but only for the Google Chrome browser.
History
Google Voice Search was a tool from Google Labs that allowed someone to use their phone to make a Google query. After the user called (650) 623-6706, the number of Google Voice's search system, they would wait for the words Say your Search Keywords and then say the keywords. Next, they would either wait to have the page updated, or click on a link to bring up the search page the user requested. At the moment, both the demo of this service and the page have been shut down. Since the introduction of the service, products from Google, such as GOOG-411, Google Maps and Google Mobile App, have been developed to use speech recognition technology in various ways.
On October 30, 2012, Google released a new Google Search app for iOS, which featured an enhanced Google Voice Search function, similar to that of the Voice Search function found in Google's Android Jelly Bean and aimed to compete with Apple's own Siri voice assistant. The new app has been compared favorably by reviewers to Siri and The Unofficial Apple Weblog's side-by-side comparison said that Google's Voice Search on iOS is "amazingly quick and relevant, and has more depth [than Siri]".
Of note is that as of May 2016 20% of search queries on mobile devices were done through voice with the number expected to grow.
Supported languages
The following languages and variants are partially supported in Google Voice Search:
Abaza since 2021
Afrikaans since 2010
Albanian since 2020
Amharic since 2017
Arabic since 2006
Armenian since 2017
Azerbaijani since 2017
Basque since 2012
Bangla since 2017
Bulgarian since 2012
Burmese since 2018
Catalan since 2012
Czech since 2010
Danish since 2014
Dutch since 2010
English (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, US), some variants since 2008 launch
Filipino since 2013
Finnish since 2012
French since 2010
Galician since 2012
Georgian since 2017
German since 2010
Greek since 2014
Gujarati since 2017
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Fick
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Nathaniel C. Fick (born June 23, 1977) is an American diplomat, technology executive, author, and former United States Marine Corps officer. He was the CEO of cybersecurity software company Endgame, Inc., then worked for Elastic NV after it acquired Endgame. He was an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. In 2022, he was selected to lead the U.S. State Department's Bureau for Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
Fick is the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, a memoir of his military experience published in 2005 that was a New York Times bestseller, one of the Washington Post's "Best Books of the Year," and one of the Military Times "Best Military Books of the Decade."
Early life and education
Fick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1977, and attended Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland. Fick went on to attend Dartmouth College. He later graduated with degrees in classics and government in 1999. While at Dartmouth, Fick captained the cycling team to a U.S. National Championship and wrote a senior thesis on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and its implications for American foreign policy. After leaving the Marine Corps, Fick earned both an MPA and MBA from Harvard University.
Career
In 1998, after his junior year at Dartmouth, Fick attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduating college the following year.
Fick was trained as an infantry officer and was eventually assigned as a platoon commander to 1st Battalion 1st Marines. He was an officer in the Amphibious Ready Group of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based in Darwin, Northern Territory, training with the Australian Army for humanitarian operations deployment to East Timor until the September 11 attacks. He then led his platoon into Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom to support the War on Terror. Upon his return to the United States in March 2002, he was recommended for Marine reconnaissance training. He also completed Army Airborne School. He subsequently led Second Platoon of Bravo Company of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Fick left the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain in December 2003, and used the GI Bill to attend Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. His memoir One Bullet Away won the Colby Award in 2006.
Fick became the chief operating officer (COO) at the Center for a New American Security in 2008 and later was appointed CEO in June 2009.
He was elected to Dartmouth College's board of trustees in April 2012 and served for eight years.
Fick served as the CEO of cybersecurity software company Endgame from 2012 through its acquisition by search company Elastic in 2019, when he became Elastic's general manager of information security. He was recognized in 2018 by Fast Company magazine as o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopcroft%E2%80%93Karp%20algorithm
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In computer science, the Hopcroft–Karp algorithm (sometimes more accurately called the Hopcroft–Karp–Karzanov algorithm) is an algorithm that takes a bipartite graph as input and produces a maximum-cardinality matching as output — a set of as many edges as possible with the property that no two edges share an endpoint. It runs in time in the worst case, where is set of edges in the graph, is set of vertices of the graph, and it is assumed that . In the case of dense graphs the time bound becomes , and for sparse random graphs it runs in time with high probability.
The algorithm was discovered by and independently by . As in previous methods for matching such as the Hungarian algorithm and the work of , the Hopcroft–Karp algorithm repeatedly increases the size of a partial matching by finding augmenting paths. These paths are sequences of edges of the graph, which alternate between edges in the matching and edges out of the partial matching, and where the initial and final edge are not in the partial matching. Finding an augmenting path allows us to increment the size of the partial matching, by simply toggling the edges of the augmenting path (putting in the partial matching those that were not, and vice versa). Simpler algorithms for bipartite matching, such as the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm‚ find one augmenting path per iteration: the Hopcroft-Karp algorithm instead finds a maximal set of shortest augmenting paths, so as to ensure that only iterations are needed instead of iterations. The same performance of can be achieved to find maximum-cardinality matchings in arbitrary graphs, with the more complicated algorithm of Micali and Vazirani.
The Hopcroft–Karp algorithm can be seen as a special case of Dinic's algorithm for the maximum-flow problem.
Augmenting paths
A vertex that is not the endpoint of an edge in some partial matching is called a free vertex. The basic concept that the algorithm relies on is that of an augmenting path, a path that starts at a free vertex, ends at a free vertex, and alternates between unmatched and matched edges within the path. It follows from this definition that, except for the endpoints, all other vertices (if any) in augmenting path must be non-free vertices. An augmenting path could consist of only two vertices (both free) and single unmatched edge between them.
If is a matching, and is an augmenting path relative to , then the symmetric difference of the two sets of edges, , would form a matching with size . Thus, by finding augmenting paths, an algorithm may increase the size of the matching.
Conversely, suppose that a matching is not optimal, and let be the symmetric difference where is an optimal matching. Because and are both matchings, every vertex has degree at most 2 in . So must form a collection of disjoint cycles, of paths with an equal number of matched and unmatched edges in , of augmenting paths for , and of augmenting paths for ; but the latter is impossible because is o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Grid
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The D-Grid Initiative (German Grid Initiative) was a government project to fund computer infrastructure for education and research (e-Science) in Germany. It uses the term grid computing.
D-Grid started September 1, 2005 with six community projects and an integration project (DGI) as well as several partner projects.
Integration project
The D-Grid integration project intended to integrate community projects. The D-Grid integration project acted as a service provider for the science community in Germany. The project office is located at the Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The resources to ensure a sustainable Grid infrastructure are provided by four work packages:
D-Grid Base-Software: The major task of this work package is to provide several different middleware packages. These are the Globus Toolkit, UNICORE, LCG/gLite, GridSphere and the Grid Application Toolkit (GAT). The community projects linked together in the D-Grid integration project are supported during the installation, operation and if needed and possible the customisation of the Base-Software.
Deployment and operation of the D-Grid infrastructure: Work package 2 builds up a Core-D-Grid. It was used as a prototype to test the operational functionality of the system. This work package also deals with monitoring, accounting and billing.
Networks and Security: The network infrastructure in D-Grid is based on the DFN Wissenschaftsnetz X-WiN. Work package 3 will provide extensions to the existing network infrastructure according to the needs of Grid middleware used in D-Grid. Further tasks are to build an AA-Infrastructure in D-Grid, develop firewall concepts for Grid environments and set up Grid specific CERT services.
D-Grid project office: The work package is responsible for the integration of community projects into one common D-Grid platform. Work package 4 also deals with sustainability.
Communities
Six community projects participated in the D-Grid Initiative:
AstroGrid-D
AstroGrid-D, also referred to as the German Astronomy Community Grid (GACG), is a joint research project of thirteen astronomical institutes and grid-oriented computer science groups, supported by supercomputing centers. The main objective of AstroGrid-D is the integration of German research facilities into a unified nationwide research infrastructure in the field of astronomy. The goal is to improve the efficiency and usability of hardware and software resources including computer clusters, astronomical data archives, and observational facilities such as robotic telescopes. AstroGrid-D supports the standards of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) and cooperates closely with international projects on grid development.
AstroGrid-D is managed by the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP).
C3-Grid
At the Collaborative Climate Community Data and Processing Grid (C3-Grid) scientific researchers are trying to understand the earth system including
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX%20architecture
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AX (Architecture eXtended) was a Japanese computing initiative starting in around 1986 to allow PCs to handle double-byte (DBCS) Japanese text via special hardware chips, whilst allowing compatibility with software written for foreign IBM PCs.
History
The idea was conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi before he resigned his position as vice president of Microsoft. Microsoft Japan took over the project, and in July 1987 the Preparatory Committee of the AX Consortium started developing its specification.
The AX Consortium officially started in October 1987, including ASCII Corporation, Sony, Hitachi, Sharp, Oki, Casio, Canon, Kyocera, Sanyo, Mitsubishi Electric, etc., but notably excluding Toshiba and Fujitsu (who were hence the 'opposition').
At that time, NEC PC-9801 was the dominant PC architecture in the Japanese PC market because IBM PC/AT and its clone PCs could not display Japanese text. However, NEC did not tolerate PC-9801 compatible machines and was fighting court battles with Epson which was the only PC-9801 compatible machine vendor. Therefore, other vendors desperately needed a standard specification for Japanese capable PCs.
Eventually two standards were developed: JEGA and AX-VGA.
Due to less available software and its higher cost compared to the PC-9801 series, AX failed and was not able to break into the market in Japan. The Nikkei Personal Computing journal reported in 1989 that only 18 out of 36,165 PCs used in 937 companies were AX machines, and 90% of companies had no plan to purchase the AX machine.
In 1990, IBM Japan unveiled DOS/V which enabled IBM PC/AT and its clones to display Japanese text without any additional hardware using a standard VGA card. Soon after, AX disappeared and the decline of NEC PC-9801 began.
AX architecture machines
Several companies released AX computers:
Oki Electric Industry if386AX30 / 50 series
Casio Computer AX-8000D / 8000L
Canon Axi DX-20 / 20P / 10 / 10P
Kyocera AX386 model A
Sanyo Electric MCB-17 /18 series
Sharp AX286D / 286L / AX386 ( MZ-8000 )
Sony Quarter L (PCX-300 series)
Acer ACER1100 / 1200 / 1170
NCR PC-AXL / PC-AX32
Hitachi FLORA 3010 / 3020 series
Mitsubishi Electric MAXY (M3201 / M3202 / M3205)
Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard Vectra-AX series
JEGA
To display Kanji characters with sufficient clarity, AX machines had screens with a resolution of 640 x 480 rather than the 640 x 350 standard EGA resolution prevalent elsewhere at the time. JEGA was developed jointly by ASCII and Chips & Technologies, combining the P82C435 and V6367 video chips. Users could typically switch between Japanese and English modes by typing JP and US, which would also invoke the AX-BIOS and an IME enabling the input of Japanese characters.
In addition to the modes provided by EGA, JEGA supports the following display modes as standard:
80 x 25 character text display, effective resolution 640 x 480 pixels, 8 pages: overwrites modes 2h (graphic screen and overlaid display) and 3h of EGA;
640 x
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile%20%28software%29
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Smile is a free Macintosh computer programming and working environment based on AppleScript. Smile is primarily designed for scientists, engineers, desktop publishers, and web applications developers, to help them automate frequent tasks and control complex operations.
History
Smile was first released in 1995 as SMILE (in upper case). The acronym stood for SMI, Limited Edition, with SMI standing for Scriptable Measurements on Images. SMI is a software developed by Satimage Software, a French company engaged in machine vision technology, to automate real-time measurement and inspection systems for industrial plants.
SMI is the core engine, which is written in C/C++ that alone does nothing: it requires an interface, and that interface's behavior is programmed in AppleScript. SMI's core implements the key features of the software and publishes them to AppleScript. Basically, Smile is just SMI, without real-time video processing features.
The need for 2D and 3D real-time visualization (of the measurements) gave rise to SmileLab. More recently, web-based control of facilities has become a standard, and Smile is now also a web applications server and a web browser.
Smile
The technologies included in Smile:
AppleScript Terminal windows,
an AppleScript editor with many helpers,
an editor of scripted interfaces,
a web browser,
a proprietary URL protocol to make HTML interfaces and have them send events to scripts,
a text editor for ASCII and Unicode, with a search-and-replace tool supporting Regular Expressions,
a XML editor,
a Regular Expression engine,
an XML and p-list engine,
a 2D graphic engine, to program vector PDF graphics by script,
fast mathematical commands on numbers, arrays and matrices,
commands for driving industrial interfaces: RS-232 serial communication, digital I/O, LED display,
a smile software for editing,
TextExpander (5.1.2).
SmileLab
Smile provides an Aqua interface to make any data graph "manually" and libraries of commands to make graphs and process data via scripts (SmileLab can display at any moment the script corresponding to the user's action.)
Performance
Computational extensions can be written in C or C++. Smile handles common file formats, but extensions for unsupported file formats can be added.
Smile Server
Smile Server is a bridge between a CGI program and AppleScript. This works by Smile opening a server port. A specific CGI, included, makes an HTTP request into a p-list (Apple's associative array XML format) and sends it to Smile Server on that port (specified in a configuration file). Asynchronous as well as synchronous behaviours are implemented, allowing Smile Server to be used as an alternate solution to .asp or .php to build dynamic sites, including AJAX-based websites.
Smile also handles XML-RPC requests.
External links
Satimage Software
Macintosh operating systems development
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hecht
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Robert Hecht is the name of:
Robert E. Hecht (1919–2012), American antiquities dealer
Robert Hecht-Nielsen (born 1947), adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego
Robert M. Hecht (born 1953), American global health policy and financing expert
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snippet%20%28programming%29
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Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text. Ordinarily, these are formally defined operative units to incorporate into larger programming modules. Snippet management is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors, IDEs, and related software. It allows the user to avoid repetitive typing in the course of routine edit operations.
Definition
In programming practice, "snippet" refers narrowly to a portion of source code that is literally included by an editor program into a file, and is a form of copy and paste programming. This concrete inclusion is in contrast to abstraction methods, such as functions or macros, which are abstraction within the language. Snippets are thus primarily used when these abstractions are not available or not desired, such as in languages that lack abstraction, or for clarity and absence of overhead.
Snippets are similar to having static preprocessing included in the editor, and do not require support by a compiler. On the flip side, this means that snippets cannot be invariably modified after the fact, and thus is vulnerable to all of the problems of copy and paste programming. For this reason snippets are primarily used for simple sections of code (with little logic), or for boilerplate, such as copyright notices, function prototypes, common control structures, or standard library imports.
Overview
Snippet management is a text editor feature popular among software developers or others who routinely require content from a catalogue of repeatedly entered text (such as with source code or boilerplate). Often this feature is justified because the content varies only slightly (or not at all) each time it is entered.
Snippets in text editors
Text editors that include this feature ordinarily provide a mechanism to manage the catalogue, and separate "snippets" in the same manner that the text editor and operating system allow management of separate files. These basic management abilities include operations such as viewing, adding, editing, deleting, sorting, filtering, grouping, renaming, and storing snippets in a repository, catalogue, or database. Some editors provide a macro ability to snippets allowing function prototypes and variable control structures to be generated based on a standard template.
Snippets in IDEs
Some programmer's applications such as Eclipse, NetBeans, and Microsoft's Visual Studio (uses TextMate-inspired snippets underhood) and other IDEs include built-in parts of structure for ease of coding.
Other applications such as Macromedia Dreamweaver make use of these code snippets as well for Web development.
Snippets in JIT compilers
Just-in-time (JIT) compilers can "splice together" pre-compiled sections of code as longer object code/machine code segments. This reduces interpret time significantly and simultaneously speeds execution.
Snippets in shells
Snippets may be used inside commandline interfaces like bash, zsh (GNU Lin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20of%20Maharashtra
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Bank of Maharashtra is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Pune. The bank had 30 million customers across the country with 2263 branches as of June 2023. It has the largest network of branches of any nationalised bank in the state of Maharashtra.State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the top performer among public sector lenders in terms of loan and deposit growth in percentage terms during 2022-23.
The Pune-headquartered lender also recorded highest growth in profitability with bottomline growing almost 126 per cent to Rs 2,602 crore during the year.
History
The bank was founded by V.G.Kale and D. K. Sathe in Pune. The bank was registered on 16 September 1935 with an authorized capital of and became operational on 8 February 1936. It provided financial assistance to small business and gave birth to many industrial houses. The bank was nationalised in 1969.
A. S Rajeev assumed charge as Managing Director & CEO of the bank on 2 December 2018. A.B. Vijayakumar joined as executive director on 10 March 2021. Asheesh Pandey joined as executive director on 31 December 2021.
Allen C Pereira, Former Chairman of Bank of Maharashtra was responsible for having opened several branches of the branch in the North East Zones of India where the bank had no presence and helped scaling up.
See also
Banking in India
List of banks in India
Reserve Bank of India
Indian Financial System Code
List of largest banks
List of companies of India
Make in India
References
External links
Public Sector Banks in India
Banks established in 1935
Financial services companies based in Pune
Companies nationalised by the Government of India
Indian companies established in 1935
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargable
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In relational databases, a condition (or predicate) in a query is said to be sargable if the DBMS engine can take advantage of an index to speed up the execution of the query. The term is derived from a contraction of Search ARGument ABLE. It was first used by IBM researchers as a contraction of Search ARGument, and has come to mean simply "can be looked up by an index."
A query failing to be sargable is known as a non-sargable query and typically has a negative effect on query time, so one of the steps in query optimization is to convert them to be sargable. The effect is similar to searching for a specific term in a book that has no index, beginning at page one each time, instead of jumping to a list of specific pages identified in an index.
The typical situation that will make a SQL query non-sargable is to include in the WHERE clause a function operating on a column value. The WHERE clause is not the only clause where sargability can matter; it can also have an effect on ORDER BY, GROUP BY and HAVING clauses. The SELECT clause, on the other hand, can contain non-sargable expressions without adversely affecting the performance.
Some database management systems, for instance PostgreSQL, support functional indices. Conceptually, an index is simply a mapping between a value and one or more locations. With a functional index, the value stored in the index is the output of the function specified when the index is created. This capability expands what is sargable beyond base column expressions.
Sargable operators:
Sargable operators that rarely improve performance:
Simple example
clauses that are sargable typically have field values on the left of the operator, and scalar values or expressions on the right side of the operator.
Not sargable:
SELECT *
FROM myTable
WHERE SQRT(myIntField) > 11.7
This is not sargable because myIntField is embedded in a function. If any indexes were available on myIntField, they could not be used. In addition, would be called on every record in myTable.
Sargable version:
SELECT *
FROM myTable
WHERE myIntField > 11.7 * 11.7
This is sargable because myIntField is NOT contained in a function, making any available indexes on myIntField potentially usable. Furthermore, the expression is evaluated only once, rather than for each record in the table.
Text example
... clauses that are sargable have field values on the left of the operator, and text strings that do not begin with the on the right.
Not sargable:
SELECT *
FROM myTable
WHERE myNameField LIKE '%Wales%' -- Begins with %, not sargable
This is not sargable. It must examine every row to find the fields containing the substring in any position.
Sargable version:
SELECT *
FROM myTable
WHERE myNameField LIKE 'Jimmy%' -- Does not begin with %, sargable
This is sargable. It can use an index to find all the myNameField values that start with the substring .
See also
Block Range Index
Query optimization
Notes
Gulutzan and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%20PRISM
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PRISM (Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Multiprocessor) was Apollo Computer's high-performance CPU used in their DN10000 series workstations. It was for some time the fastest microprocessor available, a high fraction of a Cray-1 in a workstation. Hewlett-Packard purchased Apollo in 1989, ending development of PRISM, although some of PRISM's ideas were later used in HP's own HP-PA Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) and Itanium processors.
PRISM was based on what would be known today as a VLIW-design, while most efforts of the era, 1988, were based on a more "pure" RISC approach. In early RISC designs, the core processor was simplified as much as possible in order to allow more of the chip's real-estate to be used for registers and simplifying the addition of instruction pipelines for improved performance.
Compilers
The compilers used with the systems were expected to dedicate more time during compilation to making effective use of the registers and cleaning the instruction stream. By doing instruction scheduling in the compiler, this design avoided the problems and complexity of dynamic instruction scheduling (where instructions for multiple functional units must be selected carefully in order to avoid interdependencies between intermediate values) encountered in superscalar designs such as Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha.
In some respects, the VLIW design can be thought of as "super-RISCy", as it offloads the instruction selection process to the compiler as well. In the VLIW design, the compiler examines the code and selects instructions that are known to be "safe", and then packages them into longer instruction words. For instance, for a CPU with two functional units, like the PRISM, the compiler would find pairs of safe instructions and stuff them into a single larger word. Inside the CPU, the instructions are simply split apart again, and fed into the selected units.
This design minimizes logical changes to the CPU as functional units are added, as the compiler is handling the instruction selection. However, this also ties the compiled code very tightly to the processor design; for instance, if a new generation of the CPU adds additional functional units, all programs running on it must be re-compiled so the compiler can re-arrange the instructions again, perhaps four-wide instead of two-wide. In comparison, a more traditional design like the PowerPC (PPC) has seen dramatic internal changes, yet code written for the first PPC's will still run without modification on the latest versions. The cost for this is an increasing amount of chip space that has to be dedicated to instruction scheduling.
The Apollo compilers were the first commercial compilers to use single static assignment techniques.
Architectural features
PRISM was a "pure" 32-bit design, including thirty-two 32-bit integer and thirty-two 64-bit floating point registers (overlaid by sixty-four 32-bit registers). PRISM could dispatch a single integer or one integer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teni
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Teni may refer to:
Teni (singer) (born 1992), Nigerian singer
Thiazole tautomerase, enzyme
Theni, town in India
TENI, the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland
The Russian title of Shadows, a 1953 Soviet film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence%20boundary%20disambiguation
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Sentence boundary disambiguation (SBD), also known as sentence breaking, sentence boundary detection, and sentence segmentation, is the problem in natural language processing of deciding where sentences begin and end. Natural language processing tools often require their input to be divided into sentences; however, sentence boundary identification can be challenging due to the potential ambiguity of punctuation marks. In written English, a period may indicate the end of a sentence, or may denote an abbreviation, a decimal point, an ellipsis, or an email address, among other possibilities. About 47% of the periods in The Wall Street Journal corpus denote abbreviations. Question marks and exclamation marks can be similarly ambiguous due to use in emoticons, computer code, and slang.
Some languages including Japanese and Chinese have unambiguous sentence-ending markers.
Strategies
The standard 'vanilla' approach to locate the end of a sentence:
(a) If it's a period, it ends a sentence.
(b) If the preceding token is in the hand-compiled list of abbreviations, then it doesn't end a sentence.
(c) If the next token is capitalized, then it ends a sentence.
This strategy gets about 95% of sentences correct. Things such as shortened names, e.g. "D. H. Lawrence" (with whitespaces between the individual words that form the full name), idiosyncratic orthographical spellings used for stylistic purposes (often referring to a single concept, e.g. an entertainment product title like ".hack//SIGN") and usage of non-standard punctuation (or non-standard usage of punctuation) in a text often fall under the remaining 5%.
Another approach is to automatically learn a set of rules from a set of documents where the sentence breaks are pre-marked. Solutions have been based on a maximum entropy model. The SATZ architecture uses a neural network to disambiguate sentence boundaries and achieves 98.5% accuracy.
Software
Examples of use of Perl compatible regular expressions ("PCRE")
((?<=[a-z0-9][.?!])|(?<=[a-z0-9][.?!]\"))(\s|\r\n)(?=\"?[A-Z])
$sentences = preg_split("/(?<!\..)([\?\!\.]+)\s(?!.\.)/", $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); (for PHP)
Online use, libraries, and APIs
sent_detectorJava
Lingua-EN-Sentenceperl
Sentence.pmperl
SATZAn Adaptive Sentence Segmentation Systemby David D. PalmerC
Toolkits that include sentence detection
Apache OpenNLP
Freeling (software)
Natural Language Toolkit
Stanford NLP
GExp
CogComp-NLP
See also
Sentence spacing
Word divider
Syllabification
Punctuation
Text segmentation
Speech segmentation
Sentence extraction
Translation memory
Multiword expression
References
External links
pySBD - python Sentence Boundary Disambiguation
Tasks of natural language processing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%2048001%E2%80%9349000
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| 48047 Houghten || || Christopher Houghten (born 1963), from Rutland, Vermont, who developed a non-computer-based system to allow manually operated telescopes to be GOTO telescopes ||
|-id=070
| 48070 Zizza || || Frank Zizza, American associate professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona South and past president of the Huachuca Astronomy Club. He is credited with originating the idea of establishing an astronomical observatory on the university's campus in Sierra Vista. ||
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48101–48200
|-id=159
| 48159 Saint-Véran || 2001 HY || Saint-Véran, the highest village in France, where the Observatoire de Saint-Véran is located ||
|-id=171
| 48171 Juza || || Karel Juza (1952–1994) was a Czech stellar astronomer who worked at the observatories in Valašské Meziříčí, Tatranská Lomnica, Skalnaté Pleso and Ondřejov. His studies concentrated on the eclipsing binary AR Aur and Be-stars. He died prematurely, just before finishing his Ph.D. thesis. ||
|-id=200
| 48200 Nishiokatakashi || || Takashi Nishioka (born 1936) contributed to the promotion and development of Japan's aerospace industry, such as leading the domestic production of commercial aircraft and initiating the privatization of rocket launch services. He is the chairman of the Japan Space Forum. ||
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48201–48300
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| 48300 Kronk || || Gary W. Kronk (born 1956) is an American amateur astronomer, programer-analyst and writer who was so inspired by comet C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) as a teenager that he began a quest to catalogue every comet recorded in human history. Volume One (Ancient Comets to 1799) of his four-part Cometography was published in 1999. ||
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48301–48400
|-id=373
| 48373 Gorgythion || 2161 T-3 || Gorgythion, from Greek mythology. He was the bastard son of Trojan king Priam, killed by an arrow shot by Teucer at Hector during the Trojan War. ||
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|-id=410
| 48410 Kolmogorov || || Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), a Russian academician, professor at the Moscow State University, and outstanding mathematician. ||
|-id=411
| 48411 Johnventre || || John Ventre (born 1935), a teacher, friend of the discoverer, meteorite expert, and Cincinnati Observatory Center historian ||
|-id=415
| 48415 Dehio || 1987 QT || Georg Dehio (1850–1932), German art historian who published the fundamental works The Church Architecture of the Occident (1884–1901), Handbook of the Monuments of German Art (1900–1912) and History of the German Arts (1919–1926). The handbook Dehio became a guide essential to amateurs. ||
|-id=416
| 48416 Carmelita || || Carmelita Miranda (born 1950), American astronomy popularizer who developed a love of astronomy while sailing the Pacific. She focused this passion into writing and presenting night-sky programs to over 25~000 children using a portable planetarium. She also demonstrated solar observations. ||
|-id=422
| 48422 Schrade || || Hugo Schrade (1900–1974), German optical engineer, employed by the fir
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus%20%28secure%20telephone%29
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Nautilus is a program which allows two parties to securely communicate using modems or TCP/IP. It runs from a command line and is available for the Linux and Windows operating systems. The name was based upon Jules Verne's Nautilus and its ability to overcome a Clipper ship as a play on Clipper chip.
The program was originally developed by
Bill Dorsey, Andy Fingerhut, Paul Rubin, Bill Soley, and David Miller.
Nautilus is historically significant in the realm of secure communications because it was one of the first programs which were released as open source to the general public which used strong encryption. It was created as a response to the Clipper chip in which the US government planned to use a key escrow scheme on all products which used the chip. This would allow them to monitor "secure" communications. Once this program and another similar program PGPfone were available on the internet, the proverbial cat was "out of the bag" and it would have been nearly impossible to stop the use of strong encryption for telephone communications.
The project had to move their web presence by the end of May 2014 due to the decision of to shut down the developer platform that hosted the project.
External links
new Nautilus homepage from May 1 2014 on
"Can Nautilus Sink Clipper?" Article in Wired, Aug 1995
Secure communication
Cryptographic software
VoIP software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niddatal
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Niddatal () is a town in the Wetteraukreis district in Hesse, Germany. It is located on the river Nidda, 6 km southeast of Friedberg and 22 km northeast of Frankfurt am Main.
The town is divided into four districts: Assenheim, Ilbenstadt, Kaichen, Bönstadt.
History
Assenheim
Assenheim was first mentioned as a township in 1139. Assenheim Castle existed between the years 1170 – 1780. Its ruins are still visible today.
Ilbenstadt
Ilbenstadt's first mention as an Eluistat was in 818. At the time, Ilbenstadt consisted of two cloisters. Its Church St. Maria, Petrus und Paulus was elevated to Basilica Minor status in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.
Kaichen
Kaichen was founded by a Anshelmus de Cochene in 1231. Around 1400, Kaichen's first church was built and rebuilt in 1737 and a baptismal font was added. One of the most popular places in Kaichen is the Gericht zu Kaichen which was a court able to declare to a death penalty.
Bönstadt
Bönstadt first was the property of the counts of Falkenstein, and later of Isenburg-Büdingen, which made Bönstadt belong to Assenheim castle. Documentary, in former times Bönstadt had meant Benstad in 1184. In 1970, the townships of Assenheim, Ilbenstadt, Bönstadt and Kaichen merged to form modern-day Niddatal. As of January 2009, the town's population stands at 9,360. The area is characterised by agricultural activities, but in its former past, trade played a fundamental role in the local economy.
Politics
Local elections in Niddatal have yielded the following results:
Sights
Ilbenstadt
Basilica Maria St. Petrus und Paulus was donated by St. Gottfried von Cappenberg in 1123.
St. Cappenberg was interred there in 1127 and Pope Pius XI elevated the Church to Basilica Minor status in 1929. Due to secularization in 1803, its cloister was abrogated.
After World War II, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz repurchased the cloister from the state Hesse.
Today the church is a landmark of Ilbenstadt which is also visible because of the eternalisation on town emblem. Regionally, the church is also known as (cathedral of Wetterau)
References
Wetteraukreis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmarsat
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Inmarsat is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global mobile services. It provides telephone and data services to users worldwide, via portable or mobile terminals which communicate with ground stations through fifteen geostationary telecommunications satellites.
Inmarsat's network provides communications services to a range of governments, aid agencies, media outlets and businesses (especially in the shipping, airline and mining industries) with a need to communicate in remote regions or where there is no reliable terrestrial network. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Connect Bidco, a consortium consisting of Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, the CPP Investment Board and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, in December 2019.
On 8 November 2021, a deal was announced between Inmarsat's owners and Viasat, in which Viasat was to purchase Inmarsat. The acquisition was completed in May 2023.
History
Origins
The present company originates from the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT), a non-profit intergovernmental organisation established in 1979 at the behest of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)—the United Nations maritime body—and pursuant to the Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization, signed by 28 countries in 1976. The organisation was created to establish and operate a satellite communications network for the maritime community. In coordination with the International Civil Aviation Organization in the 1980s, the convention governing INMARSAT was amended to include improvements to aeronautical communications, notably for public safety. The member states owned varying shares of the operational business. The main offices were originally located in the Euston Tower, Euston Road, London.
Privatization
In the mid-1990s, many member states were unwilling to invest in improvements to INMARSAT's network, especially owing to the competitive nature of the satellite communications industry, while many recognised the need to maintain the organisation's older systems and the need for an intergovernmental organisation to oversee public safety aspects of satellite communication networks. In 1998, an agreement was reached to modify INMARSAT's mission as an intergovernmental organisation and separate and privatise the organisation's operational business, with public safety obligations attached to the sale.
In April 1999, INMARSAT was succeeded by the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) as an intergovernmental regulatory body for satellite communications, while INMARSAT's operational unit was separated and became the UK-based company Inmarsat Ltd. The IMSO and Inmarsat Ltd. signed an agreement imposing public safety obligations on the new company. Inmarsat was the first international satellite organisation that was privatised.
In 2005, Apax Partners and Permira bought shares in the company. The company was also first listed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-list%20%28computer%20security%29
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In capability-based computer security, a C-list is an array of capabilities, usually associated with a process and maintained by the kernel. The program running in the process does not manipulate capabilities directly, but refers to them via C-list indexes—integers indexing into the C-list.
The file descriptor table in Unix is an example of a C-list. Unix processes do not manipulate file descriptors directly, but refer to them via file descriptor numbers, which are C-list indexes.
In the KeyKOS and EROS operating systems, a process's capability registers constitute a C-list.
See also
Access-control list
References
Arrays
Operating system security
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shere%20SMART
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The Shere SMART ("SMART Terminal") is a desktop-based railway ticket issuing system, developed by the Guildford-based company Shere Ltd, utilising Newbury Data ND4020 ticket printer, first introduced in Britain in 2003. Since the first trial installation of the system in the ticket office at London Bridge station, approximately 300 terminals have been installed at stations on the Southern and former Thameslink networks.
Origins
After the railway network was privatised in the mid-1990s, it was decided that when the existing "Heritage" ticket issuing systems (APTIS, SPORTIS and the Quickfare passenger-operated machines) needed replacing, the contracts should be put out to competitive tender. Although the Rail Settlement Plan (RSP) scheme, overseen and controlled by the newly created Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC), would set various requirements and regulate the introduction of such systems through an official accreditation process, any company which wished to set up a ticket issuing system and offer it for accreditation could do so. Once it had been accredited, the system could then be offered to the individual Train Operating Companies once they were ready to replace their existing equipment.
Accordingly, having met RSP's requirements, the SMART Terminal began to be installed on a trial basis in 2003. London Bridge was the first station to gain one, in January of that year, when Connex South Eastern elected to put the system on trial. Over the next 18 months, more machines were trialled at various locations by other TOCs as part of the tendering process. (Train Operating Company names shown in the table are those current at the time of installation.)
There was also a machine (number 5029) in an Excess Fares office at London Paddington, from August 2004 until June 2006. First Great Western have replaced this with a Fujitsu STAR terminal.
Installation programme
The Southern and Thameslink TOCs, both at that time owned and operated by the Govia company, signed contracts in 2004 to have SMART installed in ticket offices at their stations. Southern began by putting in two terminals each at Balham and Norwood Junction (the latter in conjunction with a major station refurbishment project) during the summer; once these had "bedded in" successfully, the roll-out continued across the rest of the network, with a number of small stations waiting until April 2005 for their APTIS machines to be replaced. Delayed installations occurred at Woodmansterne (September 2005) and Littlehaven (December 2005). The smaller Thameslink network had all of its stations equipped with SMART Terminals between September and December 2004.
Features
SMART can be operated using a standard keyboard and mouse interface, or by using the terminals' touch-screen capability.
A programmable list of the 24 most popular tickets from the "home" station is displayed on the screen by default. These can be changed locally or centrally according to temporary requi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTRON
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BTRON (Business TRON) is one of the subprojects of the TRON Project proposed by Ken Sakamura, which is responsible for the business phase. It refers to the operating systems (OS), keyboards, peripheral interface specifications, and other items related to personal computers (PCs) that were developed there.
Originally, it refers to specifications rather than specific products, but in reality, the term "BTRON" is often used to refer to implementations. Currently, Personal Media Corporation's B-right/V is an implementation of BTRON3, and a software product called "" that includes it has been released.
Specifications
As with other TRON systems, only the specification of BTRON has been formulated, and the implementation method is not specified. Implementation is mentioned in this section to the extent necessary to explain the specification, but please refer to the Implementation section for details.
BTRON1, BTRON2, BTRON3
The BTRON project began with Matsushita Electric Industrial and Personal Media prototyping "BTRON286," an implementation on a 16-bit CPU 286 for the CEC machine described below. BTRON1 specifications include the BTRON1 Programming Standard Handbook, which describes the OS API, and the BTRON1 Specification Software Specification. which describes the OS API.
BTRON2 is planned to be implemented on , and only the specification has been created and published. It is planned to be implemented on evaluation machines equipped with TRON chips made by Fujitsu and named "2B". One of its features is that all OS-managed computing resources such as memory, processes, and threads are handled in a real/pseudomorphic model, a feature of BTRON.
SIGBTRON's TRON chip machine MCUBE implemented "3B," which is 32-bit and uses an ITRON-specification RTOS (modified from "ItIs") for the microkernel. 3B and The B-right specification used in , etc. is "BTRON3" (currently, the microkernel is I-right); the specification that B-right/V conforms to is published as the BTRON3 specification.
μBTRON
This is a BTRON subset that was envisioned as a popular version. With the performance of computer hardware at the time of its conception, a computer that can implement the ideal BTRON would be a workstation-class computer, so it is also positioned as BTRON for general households.
BTRON is a subset of a dedicated machine with fixed applications (like a dedicated machine word processor), and is based on the concept of a "dedicated communication machine. Specific applications include "communication with oneself (creative activities)", "communication with others (Internet communication)", and "communication with machines" (e.g. data exchange with peripheral devices, such as digital cameras).
Linkage with the last peripheral device was envisioned as the key to adding functions to a dedicated machine to which no additional programs could be added. This peripheral device was called "electronic stationery". For communication with these peripherals, a prototype of the real
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCNN
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TCNN may refer to:
Theological College of Northern Nigeria
Thai Cable News Network
Television Corporation of NewNight Malaysian TV station
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20S-Bahn
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The Vienna S-Bahn is a suburban commuter rail network in Vienna, Austria. As opposed to the city-run urban metro network, the Vienna U-Bahn, it extends beyond the borders of the city, is operated by the ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways), and consists of many branch lines. S-Bahn is short for Schnellbahn, which can be translated as "rapid railway".
Network
The Vienna S-Bahn consists of a multitude of branch lines extending beyond the city boundary, most of which converge at a central route segment called the Stammstrecke ("trunk line"). While many of the individual lines run at half-hourly or hourly intervals, they are able to offer combined frequencies of only a few minutes or less along the Stammstrecke. Only line S45 operates entirely within Vienna's boundaries.
Unlike many S-Bahn networks in Germany, the Vienna S-Bahn is not a separate rail network. It is integrated with, and part of, the national railway system. As such, S-Bahn trains share tracks with regional trains (which travel further than the S-Bahn, some regional lines crossing into neighbouring countries) and other rail traffic, including freight trains.
The numbering of the lines has changed since the partial opening of the Wien Hauptbahnhof on 9 December 2012.
All lines, except for S45, have trains that go further and ones that do not run to the terminal.
History
The Wiener Stadtbahn, which belonged to the Commission for Transport Facilities in Vienna and was operated by the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, was in its original mode of operation (1898–1925) a forerunner of the S-Bahn, since it was a full-line operation (), which also handled local traffic. However, since other factors, such as military transports, long-distance traffic, etc., played an important role in their planning and the railway was operated with steam locomotives, there was no great success.
As a result, numerous proposals were made to improve the situation, but most of them failed. In these proposals, generally no distinction was made between full railway and metro, so many proposals under the name "U-Bahn" mostly included mainline railway facilities. The original light rail plans included more lines than were actually built; said plans remained legally safeguarded until 1951. However, the Stadtbahn, which had been shut down after 1918, was reopened in 1925 by the Vienna city administration as the Wiener Elektrische Stadtbahn and in a common fare network with the tram; for the sets, turning loops were built in Hütteldorf and Heiligenstadt and at Gumpendorfer Straße station, connecting tracks to the tram network were also built so that the Stadtbahn cars used could also run on the tram. The track connections to the full railway network, on the other hand, were shut down or dismantled. The light rail was thus eliminated for an operation that was spreading to the region.
When the Gemeindebau housing estate in the 3rd district was built in 1931–33, it was designed so that an elevated passenger ra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orom
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OROM or Orom may refer to:
Option ROM, in PCs
Optical read only memory, a type of computer memory
Orom (Kanjiža), a village in Serbia
Horom, Armenia, also called Orom
Oromë, a fictional character.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%20signature%20algorithm
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In cryptography, the Rabin signature algorithm is a method of digital signature originally proposed by Michael O. Rabin in 1978.
The Rabin signature algorithm was one of the first digital signature schemes proposed. By introducing the use of hashing as an essential step in signing, it was the first design to meet what is now the modern standard of security against forgery, existential unforgeability under chosen-message attack, assuming suitably scaled parameters.
Rabin signatures resemble RSA signatures with 'exponent ', but this leads to qualitative differences that enable more efficient implementation and a security guarantee relative to the difficulty of integer factorization, which has not been proven for RSA.
However, Rabin signatures have seen relatively little use or standardization outside IEEE P1363 in comparison to RSA signature schemes such as RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 and RSASSA-PSS.
Definition
The Rabin signature scheme is parametrized by a randomized hash function of a message and -bit randomization string .
Public key
A public key is a pair of integers with and odd.
Signature
A signature on a message is a pair of a -bit string and an integer such that
Private key
The private key for a public key is the secret odd prime factorization of , chosen uniformly at random from some space of large primes. Let , , and . To make a signature on a message , the signer picks a -bit string uniformly at random, and computes . If is a quadratic nonresidue modulo , then the signer throws away and tries again. Otherwise, the signer computes using a standard algorithm for computing square roots modulo a prime—picking makes it easiest. Square roots are not unique, and different variants of the signature scheme make different choices of square root; in any case, the signer must ensure not to reveal two different roots for the same hash . The signer then uses the Chinese remainder theorem to solve the system for . The signer finally reveals .
Correctness of the signing procedure follows by evaluating modulo and with as constructed. For example, in the simple case where , is simply a square root of modulo . The number of trials for is geometrically distributed with expectation around 4, because about 1/4 of all integers are quadratic residues modulo .
Security
Security against any adversary defined generically in terms of a hash function (i.e., security in the random oracle model) follows from the difficulty of factoring :
Any such adversary with high probability of success at forgery can, with nearly as high probability, find two distinct square roots and of a random integer modulo .
If then is a nontrivial factor of , since so but .
Formalizing the security in modern terms requires filling in some additional details, such as the codomain of ; if we set a standard size for the prime factors, , then we might specify .
Randomization of the hash function was introduced to allow the signer to find a quadrat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointcheval%E2%80%93Stern%20signature%20algorithm
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In cryptography, the Pointcheval–Stern signature algorithm is a digital signature scheme based on the closely related ElGamal signature scheme. It changes the ElGamal scheme slightly to produce an algorithm which has been proven secure in a strong sense against adaptive chosen-message attacks, assuming the discrete logarithm problem is intractable in a strong sense.
David Pointcheval and Jacques Stern developed the forking lemma technique in constructing their proof for this algorithm. It has been used in other security investigations of various cryptographic algorithms.
References
Digital signature schemes
Public-key cryptography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Broadcast%20Network
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The Islamic Broadcast Network (IBN) is a local cable television station in Trinidad and Tobago. The station is carried on Channel 8 on the Columbus cable system. The station's studios are located at Bamboo Main Road in Valsayn, and its CEO is Tanvir kamal.
Programming
The station carries several hours of local programming daily. While it focuses on religious programming the station's schedule also includes a considerable amount of current affairs and community / lifestyle programming. Shows such as Breaking Barriers and Point Blank have become immensely popular and have been rated highly in recent surveys.
Controversy
On 22 January 2007, Police Commissioner Trevor Paul claimed that members of the business community contacted him expressing anxiety about the CEO's public call for business to close on the 25th and 26th as a public protest to highlight the spiraling crime situation. Based on four complaints, the contents of which are yet to be made public, the Police Commissioner recommended that the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) investigate the alleged conduct of the talk show host. Columbus Communications, the cable company on which IBN TV8 airs, said they have “no choice” but to pull the popular talk show Breaking Barriers off the air over complaints by TATT over “questionable content.” The show was hosted by Mr Inshan Ishmael.
External links
Facebook Page/Live Stream
Official Site
Live Stream
Islam in Trinidad and Tobago
Television stations in Trinidad and Tobago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen-mei%20Hwu
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Wen-mei Hwu () is the Walter J. Sanders III-AMD Endowed Chair professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is on compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing. He is a principal investigator for the petascale Blue Waters supercomputer, is co-director of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC), and is principal investigator for the first NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence at UIUC. At the Illinois Coordinated Science Lab, Hwu leads the IMPACT Research Group and is director of the OpenIMPACT project – which has delivered new compiler and computer architecture technologies to the computer industry since 1987. From 1997 to 1999, Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at Illinois. Since 2009, Hwu has served as chief technology officer at MulticoreWare Inc., leading the development of compiler tools for heterogeneous platforms. The OpenCL compilers developed by his team at MulticoreWare are based on the LLVM framework and have been deployed by leading semiconductor companies. In 2020, Hwu retired after serving 33 years in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, Hwu is a Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at Nvidia Research and Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Biography
Dr. Hwu's completed in 1987 a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, under Yale Patt. Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm,
were the predecessors of the form of out-of-order execution that became commercially successful with the Intel P6. For his contributions to the areas of compiler optimization and computer architecture, he received the 1993 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award, the 1994 Xerox Award for Faculty Research, the 1994 University Scholar Award of the University of Illinois, the 1997 Eta Kappa Nu Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, the 1998 ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award, the 1999 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the 2001 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award. He served as the Franklin Woeltge Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2004. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM.
Current Research Affiliations
Wen-mei Hwu NVIDIA Research
IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research
Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
IMPACT Research Group at the Coordinated Science Lab
Concurrent Theme for the Gigascale Systems Research Center
CUDA Center of Excellence at Illinois
See also
Wen-mei Hwu's Homepage
Parallel Computing Research at Illinois: The UPCRC Agenda
Parallel@Illinois
Electrical and Computing Engineering at Illinois
First Virtual School on Computational Science and Engineering: GPUs and Multicores - led by Wen-mei Hwu and David Kirk (Summer 2008)
University of Illinois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobago%20Channel%205
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Tobago Channel 5 is a community television station originating from the island of Tobago in Trinidad and Tobago. The station primarily broadcasts programming on Tobago, Tobago's news, Tobago's people, Tobago's culture and Tobago's perspective on national issues.
Tobago Channel 5 is one of two local television station in Tobago the other being the Tobago Inspirational Network (TIN). Its studios are located at 65-67 Lambeau, Signal Hill Road, Signal Hill, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. The station is carried on channel 5 on Trico Industries Limited and a live stream of their programmes is available on their website. Tobago Channel 5's original programming include programs such as Campout, Channel 5 News, Rise & Shine, Total Lockdown, Sports Talk, Half Time Show, Your Point Of View, High 5 and Jamboree.
Website
Tobago Channel 5 officially launched its website on July 1, 2009. The website provides a live stream of the station's programming and has information on Tobago's news and current affairs.
Personalities
Ayana Carter - Channel 5 News
Brother B - Rise and Shine
Christo Gift (SC) - Hi 5 Reloaded
Gerry McFarlane - Spot On
Network Slogans
Building a stronger community, ...strengthening our nation (2002–present)
References
External links
Facebook Page
Official Site
Live Stream
Trico Industries Limited (Under Construction)
Television stations in Trinidad and Tobago
Television channels and stations established in 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%20of%20tubes
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"A series of tubes" is a phrase used originally as an analogy by then-United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality. On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers such as AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon Communications from charging fees to give some companies' data a higher priority in relation to other traffic. The metaphor was widely ridiculed, because Stevens was perceived to have displayed an extremely limited understanding of the Internet, despite his leading the Senate committee responsible for regulating it.
Partial text of Stevens's comments
Media commentary
On June 28, 2006, Public Knowledge government affairs manager Alex Curtis wrote a brief blog entry introducing the senator's speech and posted an MP3 recording. The next day, the Wired magazine blog 27B Stroke 6 featured a lengthier post by Ryan Singel, which included Singel's transcriptions of some parts of Stevens's speech considered the most humorous. Within days, thousands of other blogs and message boards posted the story.
Most writers and commentators derisively cited several of Stevens's misunderstandings of Internet technology, arguing that the speech showed that he had formed a strong opinion on a topic which he understood poorly (e.g., referring to an e-mail message as "an Internet," and blaming bandwidth issues for an e-mail problem much more likely to be caused by mail server or routing issues). The story sparked mainstream media attention, including a mention in The New York Times. The technology podcast This Week in Tech also discussed the incident.
According to The Wall Street Journal, as summarized by MediaPost commentator Ross Fadner, "'The Internet is a Series of Tubes!' spawned a new slogan that became a rallying cry for Net neutrality advocates. ... Stevens's overly simplistic description of the Web's infrastructure made it easy for pro-neutrality activists to label the other side as old and out-of-touch." Several parodies of Stevens's speech have been created, usually consisting of samples taken from this speech with an added melody.
Edward Felten, Princeton University professor of computer science, pointed out the unfairness of some criticisms of Stevens's wording, while maintaining that the underlying arguments were rather weak.
Later commentaries observed that while Stevens was ineloquent in his presentation the analogy itself was accurate.
In popular culture
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart made multiple references to "Techno" Ted Stevens's "series of tubes" description; as a result, Stevens has become well known as the person who once headed the committee charged with regulating the Internet. "I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word 'tubes'," Stevens said to reporters in response to The Daily Shows coverage. When
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Week
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Shark Week is an annual, week long TV programming block at the Discovery Channel, which features shark-based programming. Shark Week originally premiered on July 17, 1988. Featured annually, in July or early August, it was originally devoted to conservation efforts and correcting misconceptions about sharks. Over time, it grew in popularity and became a hit on the Discovery Channel. Since 2010, it has been the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Episodes are also available for purchase on services like Google Play Movies & TV/YouTube, Amazon Video, and iTunes. Some episodes are free on subscription-based Hulu and Discovery+.
History
The first Shark Week premiered in July 1988, with the first show to air being Caged in Fear. A total of 10 episodes aired. Other shows included Sharks: Predators or Prey, The Shark Takes a Siesta, and Sharks of a Different Color. Due to the success of the programming block, Discovery decided to continue it.
In 2000, Discovery Channel aired Shark Week Uncaged presented by famous zoologist Nigel Marven as a host. Six million 3D Pulfrich glasses were distributed to viewers in the United States and Canada for an episode featuring an extinct giant shark, which had 3D segments.
The programming has been hosted by notable personalities from other Discovery series. In 2005, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters hosted Shark Week, which premiered with a two-hour MythBusters "Jaws Special". In 2006, Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs hosted Shark Week, and two Dirty Jobs episodes were produced to tie-into the programming, titled "Jobs that Bite" and "Jobs that Bite...Harder". That year, a 446-foot-long (136 metres) inflatable great white shark named Chompie was hung from the Discovery Channel's Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters.
In 2007, Discovery Channel celebrated Shark Week's 20th Anniversary hosted by Les Stroud, host of Survivorman. The 20th anniversary included the launch of Sharkrunners, a video game that uses GPS data from tagged sharks in the Pacific Ocean. The program Ocean of Fear aired on July 29.
In 2014, Deep Blue, a large great white shark estimated to be twenty feet long was featured in an episode of Shark Week, she was seen traversing the waters off the coast of Guadalupe Island.
In 2021, the events began streaming on Discovery+ alongside its broadcasts on the Discovery Channel.
Shweekend
In early 2015, Discovery announced a new, shark-themed weekend that would air on the Discovery Channel. The weekend took place in late August 2015, and contained three different programs. The first program, which aired on Saturday, August 29, was MythBusters vs. Jaws, followed right after by Shark Alley: Legend of Dynamite. The next day, Sunday, August 30, one program aired, called Air Jaws: Walking with Great Whites. The purpose of Shweekend was to increase the shark-related content fr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20simulation%20and%20organizational%20studies
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Computer simulation is a prominent method in organizational studies and strategic management. While there are many uses for computer simulation (including the development of engineering systems inside high-technology firms), most academics in the fields of strategic management and organizational studies have used computer simulation to understand how organizations or firms operate. More recently, however, researchers have also started to apply computer simulation to understand organizational behaviour at a more micro-level, focusing on individual and interpersonal cognition and behavior such as team working.
While the strategy researchers have tended to focus on testing theories of firm performance, many organizational theorists are focused on more descriptive theories, the one uniting theme has been the use of computational models to either verify or extend theories. It is perhaps no accident that those researchers using computational simulation have been inspired by ideas from biological modeling, ecology, theoretical physics and thermodynamics, chaos theory, complexity theory and organization studies since these methods have also been fruitfully used in those areas.
Basic distinctions/definitions
Researchers studying organizations and firms using computer simulations utilize a variety of basic distinctions and definitions that are common in computational science
Agent-based vs Equation-based: agent-based models unfold according to the interactions of relatively simple actions, while equation-based models unfold numerically based on a variety of dynamic or steady-state equations (Note: some argue this is something of a false distinction since some agent based models use equations to direct the behavior of their agents)
Model: simplified versions of the real world that contain only essential elements of theoretical interest
Complexity of the model: the number of conceptual parts in the model and the connections between those parts
Deterministic vs. Stochastic: deterministic models unfold exactly as specified by some pre-specified logic, while stochastic models depend on a variety of draws from probability distributions
Optimizing vs. Descriptive: models with actors that either seek optimums (like the peaks in fitness landscapes) or do not
Methodological approaches
There are a variety of different methodological approaches in the area of computational simulation. These include but are not limited to the following. (Note: this list is not Mutually Exclusive nor Collectively Exhaustive, but tries to be fair to the dominant trends. For three different taxonomies see Carley 2001; Davis et al. 2007; Dooley 2002)
Agent-based models: computational models investigating the interaction of multiple agents (many of the following approaches can be 'agent-based' as well)
Cellular automata: models exploring multiple actors in physical space whose behavior is based on rules
Dynamic network models: any model representing actors and non-actor entities (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyanmoy%20Deb
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Kalyanmoy Deb is an Indian computer scientist. Deb is the Herman E. & Ruth J. Koenig Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at Michigan State University. Deb is also a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University.
Deb established the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory at IIT Kanpur in 1997 and the Computational Optimization and Innovation (COIN) Laboratory at Michigan State in 2013. In 2001, Wiley published a textbook written by Deb titled Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms as part of its series titled "Systems and Optimization". In an analysis of the network of authors in the academic field of evolutionary computation by Carlos Cotta and Juan-Julián Merelo, Deb was identified as one of the most central authors in the community and was designated as a "sociometric superstar" of the field. Deb has several honors, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in engineering sciences (2005), the Thomson Citation Laureate award for his highly cited research in computer science (1996–2005), and the MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award for a record of creativity to the extent that the field of multiple-criteria decision making would not exist in its current form in 2008. Deb has been awarded the Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science from Infosys Limited, Bangalore, India for his contributions to evolutionary multi-objective optimization, which have led to "advances in non-linear constraints, decision uncertainty, programming and numerical methods, computational efficiency of large-scale problems, and optimization algorithms." He is also a recipient of the 2012 TWAS Prize from the World Academy of Sciences.
Background and career
Deb received his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from IIT Kharagpur and his MS (1989) and PhD (1991) in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Alabama. His PhD advisor was David E. Goldberg, and his PhD thesis was titled Binary and Floating-Point Function Optimization using Messy Genetic Algorithms. From 1991 to 1992 he was a postdoc at UIUC. In 1993, he became a professor of mechanical engineering at IIT Kanpur, where he went on to hold the Deva Raj Endowed Chair (2007–2010) and the Gurmukh and Veena Mehta Endowed Chair (2011–2013). For his next position, he left for the Michigan State University, where has been the Herman E. & Ruth J. Koenig Endowed Chair since 2013.
Research
NSGA
Deb is a highly cited researcher, with 138,000+ Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 116. A large fraction of his citations come from his work on nondominated-sorting genetic algorithms for multiobjective optimization. In 1994, Deb and coauthor Nidamarthi Srinivas introduced one of the first nondominated-sorting genetic algorithms, which they termed "NSGA".
NSGA-II
In 2002, Deb and coauthors Amrit Pratap, Sameer Agarwal, and T.A.M.T. Meyarivan introduced a notion o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20728
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The IBM 728 magnetic tape drive was used on the SAGE AN/FSQ-7 computer. It was physically similar to the IBM 727, but with significantly different specifications.
This is one of several IBM 7 track tape drives.
Tape Word Bit Positions
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LS L6 L12 R2 R8 R14
L1 L7 L13 R3 R9 R15
L2 L8 L14 R4 R10 P
SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN SYN
L3 L9 L15 R5 R11 EOF
L4 L10 RS R6 R12 EOF
L5 L11 R1 R7 R13 EOF
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728
Tape 728
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20shared%20object
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A local shared object (LSO), commonly called a Flash cookie (due to its similarity with an HTTP cookie), is a piece of data that websites that use Adobe Flash may store on a user's computer. Local shared objects have been used by all versions of Flash Player (developed by Macromedia, which was later acquired by Adobe Systems) since version 6.
Flash cookies, which can be stored or retrieved whenever a user accesses a page containing a Flash application, are a form of local storage. Similar to cookies, they can be used to store user preferences, save data from Flash games, or track users' Internet activity. LSOs have been criticised as a breach of browser security, but there are now browser settings and addons to limit the duration of their storage.
Storage
Local shared objects contain data stored by individual websites. Data is stored in the Action Message Format. With the default settings, the Flash Player does not seek the user's permission to store local shared objects on the hard disk. By default, an SWF application running in Flash Player from version 9 to 11 (as of Sept 1, 2011) may store up to of data to the user's hard drive. If the application attempts to store more, a dialog asks the user whether to allow or deny the request.
Adobe Flash Player does not allow third-party local shared objects to be shared across domains. For example, a local shared object from "www.example.com" cannot be read by the domain "www.example.net". However, the first-party website can always pass data to a third-party via some settings found in the dedicated XML file and passing the data in the request to the third party. Also, third-party LSOs are allowed to store data by default. By default, LSO data is shared across browsers on the same machine. As an example:
A visitor accesses a site using their Firefox browser, then views a page displaying a specific product, then closes the Firefox browser, the information about that product can be stored in the LSO.
If that same visitor, using the same machine now opens an Internet Explorer browser and visits any page from the site viewed in Firefox, the site can read the LSO value(s) in the Internet Explorer browser, and display dynamic content or otherwise target the visitor.
This is distinct from cookies which have directory isolated storage paths for saved cookies while LSOs use a common directory path for all browsers on a single machine.
Application to games
Flash games may use LSO files to store the user's personal game data, such as user preferences and actual game progress. Backing up files such as these requires some technical understanding of software. However, both browser updates and programs designed to remove unused files may delete this data.
To prevent cheating, games may be designed to render LSO files unusable if acquired from another location.
Privacy concerns
As with HTTP cookies, local shared objects can be used by websites to collect information on how people navigate them, although
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6S
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6S may stand for:
6S (music), key signature of six sharps
6S (radiative transfer code), a computer program that simulates the reflection of solar radiation
6S / SsrS RNA, the first noncoding RNA to be sequenced
6S, a modification of the 5S methodology which includes "Safety" as the 6th S. It is a lean process improvement tool that stands for Sort, Set in Order (aka Straighten or Stabilize), Shine (aka Scrub or Sweep), Standardize, Sustain, Safety.
6S can be the shortened form of Six Sigma
iPhone 6S, a smartphone by Apple, Inc.
6S, the production code for the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Twin Dilemma
Transportation
Kato Airline, a Norwegian airline with an IATA airline designator of 6S from 1996 to 2008
Sahara Airlines (Algeria), an Algerian airline with an IATA airline designator of 6S from 1999 to 2003
British Rail Class 201 diesel-electric multiple units with 6 coaches and a short frame (6S)
See also
6 (disambiguation)
S4 (disambiguation)
6X (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K14RK-D
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K14RK-D, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 14), is a low-power television station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its transmitter is located on South Mountain.
History
The station began with an original construction permit for K69FM (channel 69), granted to Broadcasting Systems of Phoenix on August 19, 1988. The station was licensed on January 11, 1990, with city of license of South Phoenix. Early programming is unknown. In February 1991, the station was sold to Polar Broadcasting of Arizona, a San Francisco, California-based company, who shortly thereafter applied to move the station to channel 67 and change the city of license to Phoenix. The station licensed its new facilities and its callsign was changed to K67FE in December 1992.
In June 1996, Polar Broadcasting sold the station to Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks and the station became part of Infomall TV Network, or inTV. Paxson Communications sold the station in August 1999 to Spanish Independent Broadcasting Network, who changed the programming to Spanish independent, rebroadcasting KWHY-TV (channel 22) of Los Angeles, California. The next year, needing to vacate the upper-700 MHz band (channels 60 - 69), the station applied for and was granted a permit to move to channel 53. The station was licensed in June 2002 as K53GF. Since then, the station has dropped the KWHY-TV rebroadcast and operates as an independent station, airing mostly movies and infomercials for local car dealers.
In May 2005, K53GF received a request to vacate channel 53 from Aloha Partners, who were winners of the FCC auction for the spectrum now occupied by channel 54. However, with the DTV conversion still in process, there were no suitable in-core channels to which K53GF could move their analog operations. Instead, they requested to operate as a low-power digital TV station (LPDTV) on channel 38 and the FCC granted a construction permit in October 2005 to build LPDTV station K38IZ-D. In the meantime, Aloha Partners has not launched its proposed service to Public Safety, and K53GF remained on the air on analog channel 53 until May 2010. Aloha Partners and its channel 54/59 spectrum were acquired on February 4, 2008, by AT&T Mobility.
On October 27, 2008, the station filed for special temporary authorization (STA) to continue broadcasting the analog signal until 2009. The station began digital operation under program test authority on October 30, 2008.
Digital channels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Programming
K38IZ-D airs a mix of locally produced shows, public domain movies and paid programming in Spanish. On 38.2 the station broadcasts the Tuff TV network under the brand IZ Tuff, on 38.3 the station broadcasts classic 1970s/1980s music videos under the brand IZ Videos and on 38.4 the station broadcasts ZUUS Country under the brand IZ ZCTN. In April 2015, the station added This TV programming on channel 38.5, an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Power%20%28networks%20corporation%29
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Western Power is a statutory corporation established by the Electricity Corporations Act 2005 (WA). It is owned by the State Government of Western Australia and is accountable to the Minister for Energy. It is responsible for building, maintaining and operating the electricity network within the South West Interconnected System (SWIS), the poles and wires or energy grid.
When the original Western Power Corporation was split it was separated into four independent companies:
Western Power - manages the physical network that transports electricity. It operates in the south west of WA, including the Perth metropolitan area. Western Power does not generate electricity or send electricity bills to customers. Its role is to manage the poles, wires, substations and other infrastructure that brings electricity to homes and businesses in the SWIS.
Horizon Power - manages the physical network that transports electricity in the north and regional areas of WA. Horizon power is also responsible for electricity generation and billing.
Synergy - the energy retailer that manages electricity accounts and is responsible for billing customers.
Verve Energy - the generation business that produces electricity. Merged with Synergy in 2014.
Operations
The SWIS reaches from Albany in the south, Kalbarri in the north and Kalgoorlie in the east of the state and includes the Perth metropolitan area. The Western Power network consists of more than 103,000 km (64,001 mi) of powerlines, 825,788 poles & towers, 276,000 streetlights and 154 transmission substations.
See also
Alinta
State Energy Commission of Western Australia
References
External links
Government of Western Australia - Office of Energy
Economic Regulation Authority of Western Australia
Government of Western Australia - Office of Energy - Electricity Reform Implementation Unit
Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
Energy in Western Australia
Government-owned companies of Western Australia
Electric power transmission system operators in Australia
Electric power distribution network operators in Australia
Government-owned energy companies
Australian companies established in 2006
Energy companies established in 2006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne%20%28archaeological%20database%29
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iDAI.objects arachne (short form: Arachne) is the central object-database (administrator: Reinhard Förtsch) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CoDArchLab) at the University of Cologne.
Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and Classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes. This combines an ongoing process of digitizing traditional documentation (stored on media that are both threatened by decay and largely unexplored) with the production of new digital object and graphic data. Wherever possible, Arachne follows a paradigm of highly structurized object-metadata which is mapped onto the CIDOC-CRM, to address machine-readable metadata strategies of the Semantic Web. This »structured world« of Arachne requires high efforts in time and money and therefore is only possible for privileged areas of data. While on the ever-increasing range of new, digital born data in reality only a small effort-per-object ratio can be applied. It therefore requires a “low-threshold” processing structure that is located in the »unstructured world« of Arachne. All digital (graphic and textual) information is secure on a Tivoli Storage System (featuring long-term multiple redundancy) and distributed online through the Storage Area Network in Cologne.
Object modelling and design
Arachne's database design uses a model that builds on one of the most basic assumptions one can make about archaeology, classical archaeology or art history: all activities in these areas can most generally be described as contextualizing objects. Arachne tries to avoid the basic mistakes of earlier databases, which limited their object modelling to specific project-oriented aspects, thus creating separated containers of only a small number of objects. All objects inside Arachne share a general part of their object model, to which a more class-specific part is added that describes the specialised properties of a category of material like architecture or topography. Seen on the level of the general part, a powerful pool of material can be used for general information retrieval, whereas on the level of categories and properties, very specific structures can be displayed.
Arachne aims to create interoperability between different systems while protecting the copyrights of the authors. The Arachne database is a central subsystem of the iDAI.welt, the software architecture of the German Archaeological Institute, consisting of various interconnected modules and oriented in their data on open access and in its programming to open source. The modules of the iDAI.welt (e.g. iDAI.objects, IDAI.field, iDAI.gazetteer) are in a constant process of development by new technological and scientific methods and possibilities. Interoperability is becoming increasingly important, especially between Arachne as an image and object database and the various geographica
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla%20software
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In computer science, vanilla describes software, hardware or algorithms that have not been customized or modified from their original form. The term "Vanilla software" has become a widespread de facto industry standard, widely used by businesses and individuals. The term comes from the traditional standard flavor of ice cream, vanilla. According to Eric S. Raymond's The New Hacker's Dictionary, "vanilla" means more "ordinary", not "default".
Examples of how to use "vanilla" in a sentence:
As one of the earliest examples, IBM's mainframe text publishing system BookMaster, provides a default way to specify which parts of a book to publish, called "vanilla", and a fancier way, called "mocha".
The term "vanilla" is sometimes also used for hardware components. For instance, in the 1990s non-upgraded Amiga home computers were called "(plain) vanilla"; similarly, it was later also applied to PC parts.
For Unix-based kernels, a "vanilla kernel" is a kernel that has been unmodified by any third-party source. For instance, the vanilla Linux kernel is often given a Linux distribution–specific "flavour" by being heavily modified.
In his book End of Ignorance, Charles Winborne refers to a static page that is "only a text file, but one that links to accompanying files" as a plain-vanilla web page.
Fans of the video game Minecraft usually refer to the game without mods as "vanilla".
JavaScript, when used without any libraries or third party plugins is referred to as "vanilla JavaScript".
See also
Commercial off-the-shelf
Mod (video games)
Out of the box (feature)
Plain vanilla
Turnkey
References
Computing terminology
de:Vanilla software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhema%20Media
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Rhema Media (previously known as Rhema Broadcasting Group or RBG) is a Christian media organisation in New Zealand. It owns radio networks Rhema, Life FM and Star, and television station Shine TV. It also publishes Bob Gass's quarterly devotional publication The Word For Today, and a youth version called The Word For You Today. Rhema Media is based in Newton, Auckland and is the founding organisation of United Christian Broadcasters (UCB).
Rhema Media was set up in the 1960s by Christchurch evangelical Richard Berry, following the success of Ecuadorian Christian short-wave radio station HCJB. The company's flagship network Rhema (then New Zealand's Rhema) began full-time broadcasting on 11 November 1978. In 1997 the company launched the additional radio brands of Life FM and Star (then Southern Star). Shine TV was launched in 2002, and The Word radio network operated between 2007 and 2015.
History
1960s–1978
Rhema Media began in the 1960s as Gospel Radio Fellowship, a small group of evangelical Christians who wanted to set up a radio station in Christchurch. The New Zealand Government legalised private radio, after illegal pirate broadcasts by Radio Hauraki in the Hauraki Gulf. The fellowship set up a radio studio and transmitter in an old church building and applied to the Broadcasting Authority for permission to broadcast in 1972. However, the authority was skeptical about the need for an evangelical radio station, and declined the station's application based on a lack of public interest, finance and professional staff.
Gospel Radio Fellowship changed its name to Radio Rhema in 1974, and raised enough money to employ twenty staff. It received a one-day license for Christchurch in November 1974, a one-day license for Petone in October 1975, and a 10-day Christmas license for Christchurch in 1976. The broadcasts had to be live, medium wave, no more than 100 watts, and only directed at supporters. The station published newsletters for its Christchurch and Wellington listeners, and launched a monthly publication, Frequency, in 1977.
Radio Rhema gained a permanent licence in 1978 after about 55,000 people pledged their support to the station. It was launched by prime minister Robert Muldoon, who said the station promoted "a faith that moves mountains", and made its first broadcast officially on 11 November 1978. The station was allowed to broadcast six hours a day on weekdays and 18 hours a day on weekends, making it the first permanent Christian station in the British Commonwealth and one of the first Christian broadcasters in the world.
1978–1997
In 1980 the station was allowed to broadcast 18 hours every day, and had thirty five full-time and ten part-time workers. In 1982 it gained a license in Wellington. and purchased a property in Auckland where it employed six staff. In 1986 it began broadcasting in Auckland and attracted a niche following. and in 1989 it received approval to begin broadcasting in Dunedin.
Radio Rhema was one of th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Yunhe
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Pan Yunhe (; born November 4, 1946) is a Chinese specialist in artificial intelligence and geographic information systems. He served as President of Zhejiang University and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Early life
Pan, a native of Zhejiang Province, graduated from Tongji University, and received a master's degree from Zhejiang University. He is a professor of computer science at Zhejiang University, and he took the office of the president there in 1995. He became a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Pan did his undergraduate study at Tongji University in Shanghai, and his postgraduate study at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. From 1995 to 2006, he was the president of Zhejiang University. He was appointed vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on June 7, 2006.
References
1946 births
Living people
Engineers from Zhejiang
Tongji University alumni
Zhejiang University alumni
Presidents of Zhejiang University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Educators from Hangzhou
Artificial intelligence researchers
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