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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Host%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "The Host" is the second episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on September 23, 1994. It was written by Chris Carter, directed by Daniel Sackheim, and featured guest appearances by Darin Morgan. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "The Host" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.8, being watched by 9.3 million households in its initial broadcast. The episode received positive reviews, praising the creepiness of the antagonist.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In the episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a body found in sewage after being reassigned to different sections. Their inquiry results in the discovery of a bizarre fluke-like man—the product of the Chernobyl disaster—that soon goes on a rampage in the sewers of New Jersey.
Carter claimed to have been inspired to write the episode based on three incidents; his dog having worms, his research into Chernobyl, and the extinction of species during the 1990s. The Flukeman character was portrayed by Darin Morgan, brother of executive producer Glen Morgan. Darin would become a staff writer for the show later in the second season. In addition, "The Host" also introduced the character of X, the successor of Mulder's former Syndicate informant Deep Throat.
Plot
On a Russian freighter off the coast of New Jersey, a crewman trying to fix the ship's toilets is pulled into the septic system. His half-eaten body appears in the sewers of Newark days later. Fox Mulder is assigned the case and visits with a Detective Norman in Newark, being shown the still-unidentified body. He angrily confronts Assistant Director Walter Skinner, feeling he has been given this seeming "wild goose chase" as a form of punishment. That night, Mulder talks to Dana Scully, telling her that he's thinking of leaving the FBI. Scully performs the autopsy on the crewman's body, finding a Russian language tattoo on his arm and a flukeworm inside his liver.
In a Newark sewer, a city sanitation worker named Craig is rescued when an unseen creature pulls him underwater. Believing he was attacked by a python, he visits a doctor with Mulder observing. An examination of his back reveals an abnormal four-pointed wound. Shortly afterwards, Mulder receives a call from a mysterious man, telling him he has a friend at the FBI. Scully shows Mulder the flukeworm, whose mouth, though much smaller, matches the wound on Craig's back. That night, Craig dies in his shower after coughing up a flukeworm. Mulder visits a sewage processing plant and along with plant foreman Ray, finds a large humanoid mutant with a fluke-like mouth.
At Quantico, someone slips a newspaper article under Scully's door enabling her to identify the original body. Mulder and Scully meet at the processing plant and obser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Blood" is the third episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on September 30, 1994. The teleplay was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong from a story by Darin Morgan, and was directed by David Nutter. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Blood" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.8, being watched by 8.7 million households in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In the episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a series of killings in Pennsylvania. All the suspects appear compelled to murder after seeing violent messages on electronic devices.
"Blood" was inspired by writer Glen Morgan's own hematophobia as well as controversy over malathion spraying in Southern California. The episode marked the second appearance of the Lone Gunmen in the series, as well as a guest appearance by pornographic actress Ashlyn Gere.
Plot
In Franklin, Pennsylvania, postal worker Edward Funsch (William Sanderson) is informed that he will be laid off at the end of the week. Afterwards, Funsch sees the words "Kill 'Em All" on his machine's digital display. At Franklin's civic center, a middle-aged man in a crowded elevator sees "No Air" displayed on the elevator's LED display, and is the only one who can see the message. Sweating and obviously claustrophobic, he again glances at the LED display. This time it flashes the words "Can't Breathe" and then "Kill 'Em All."
Agent Fox Mulder arrives at the civic center in the aftermath of what looks like a massacre. Sheriff Spencer (John Cygan) explains that the suspect murdered four people from the elevator with his bare hands; his rampage ended when he was shot by a security guard. Spencer notes that seven other individuals have murdered twenty-two people in Franklin in the past six months. Mulder discovers that the LED display in the elevator has been damaged, and that the dead suspect has a green residue on his fingertips. Meanwhile, Funsch tries to make a withdrawal from an ATM, but is greeted with the words "Security Guard", "Take His Gun" and "Kill 'Em All" on the screen. He frustratedly beats the screen before running away, escaping from a confused security guard.
At the FBI Academy, Dana Scully reads Mulder's initial report. The only connection between the murders that he can see is that the suspects all destroyed an electronic device during the killings. Meanwhile, Bonnie McRoberts, another Franklin resident, drops by a repair shop to pick up her car, where a message on an engine diagnostic display warns her that the mechanic is going to rape her. She impulsively kills him with an oil can spout. When Mulder and Spencer question McRoberts the next morning, her kitchen microwave instructs her to ki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHX-TDT | XHX-TDT is the television call sign for the Televisa television station on virtual channel 2.1 in both Monterrey, Nuevo León and Saltillo, Coahuila. The station carries the Las Estrellas network.
History
The first television station in Monterrey, XHNL-TV, came to air on channel 10 September 1, 1955, with a presidential report from President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. XHNL broadcast from studios in two rooms of the Hotel El Mirador and a transmitter on Cerro del Topo Chico and carried a wide variety of films and TV series on film. Not long after it started, it raised its power and its antenna height and changed its callsign to XHX-TV. In 1958, the opening of Televicentro de Monterrey allowed for local program production to begin.
The station became a Las Estrellas transmitter in 1985.
Digital television
On September 24, 2015, XHX shut off its analog signal on analog channel 10 (9 in Saltillo); its digital signal on UHF channel 23 remained.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Sanborn | Kate Sanborn (July 11, 1839 - July 9, 1917) was an American author, teacher and lecturer. Also a reviewer, compiler, essayist, and farmer, Sanborn was famous for her cooking and housekeeping.
Early years and education
Katherine Abbott Sanborn was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, July 11, 1839. Her father was the educator Edwin David Sanborn, who occupied the chair of Latin and English literature, at Dartmouth College, for nearly fifty years, In 1859, he accepted the Latin professorship and presidency of Washington University in St. Louis, returning four years later to the chair of oratory and literature at Dartmouth, which he held until he retired from active work. Her mother was Mary Ann (Webster) Sanborn, daughter of Ezekiel Webster, of Boscawen, New Hampshire. Sanborn was a descendant of Captain Ebenezer Webster, the Revolutionary hero, and grand-niece of Daniel Webster.
Sanborn was educated at home by her father almost entirely, though tutors in mathematics were employed for her. Her drill in Latin commenced at eight years with studying a Latin booklet, and continued till she left home to support herself. It comprised more than a college course. This year after year of translating, scanning, word selection and phrasing, was a wonderful training in language. She was obliged to commit to memory some portion of prose or poetry daily, and also to describe something in writing. Then followed apt quotations at the tea table, later a good anecdote. These teachings and tasks of mind and memory were not dull drill, but part of everyday, social family life. While such instruction set the course of her career, it accomplished much more, giving a splendid memory, ready for use. Daily writing under skilled criticism, studying the light and shade of word and expression, the use of synonyms, pointed the "inevitable nib" to her pen and also to her speech, so adding another power to naturally great mental endowment. It was the love of her father and her love for him which were ever the essential feature of this instruction: there was in it no drudgery for teacher or pupil.
At eleven, she earned for a little story her father sent to a child's paper, Well-Spring.
Career
At seventeen, she supported herself by her written work.
She inherited a love for teaching, and began that employment in her father's house, then went with him to St. Louis, Missouri where she taught in Mary Institute, at a salary of per year, of which she was very proud. After, she taught elocution at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, so well that Henry Ward Beecher said, "There used to be a few prize pumpkins here, but now each pupil is doing good work." At the same time she gave twenty lectures in New York City each season upon such subjects as "Bachelor Authors," " Punch as a Reformer," "Literary Gossips," "Spinster Authors of England," and so forth. She lectured in public on literary history and allied subjects. Her lecturing career, which last for 20 years, began in the drawing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHWX-TDT | XHWX-TDT is a television station in Monterrey, Nuevo León and Saltillo, Coahuila. Broadcasting on digital channel 19 in both cities, XHWX is a transmitter of the Azteca Uno network and the key station in the TV Azteca Noreste regional system, which provides regional news and sports content to Azteca's stations throughout northeastern Mexico.
History
The first XHWX concession was awarded in 1980 to Corporación Mexicana de Radio y Televisión (the Mexican government's Canal 13 network). The original concession called for a station on channel 22 (later occupied by XHMOY-TV), but the station was allowed to slot into channel 4 when XEFB-TV was moved to channel 2.
Digital television
Analog shutdown
On September 24, 2015, XHWX shut off its analog signal; its digital signal remained on UHF channel 39. The digital signal will eventually move to post-transition channel 17 as part of the program to clear channels 38-51 fowill be removed from broadcasting use. It added the "-TDT" suffix as a result of the transition.
National re-numbering scheme
On October 25, 2016, XHWX-TDT changed its virtual channel from 4 to 1 as part of the national re-numbering scheme, in which Azteca 13 transmitters received virtual channel 1 (this ultimately prompted the network to be renamed on January 1, 2018). XEFB took over virtual channel 4.
Repeaters
XHWX-TDT is repeated on nine transmitters in Nuevo León and Coahuila:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHFN-TDT | XHFN-TDT is a television station in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The station carries the Azteca 7 network and also serves as the key station of the Azteca Noreste regional network, serving the northeastern states of Mexico with regional news and programming.
History
XHFN signed on in February 1974 on channel 8, under the auspices of CEMPAE (Centro para el Estudio de Medios y Procedimientos Avanzados de la Educación, or "Center for the Study of Advanced Media and Education Processes"). It primarily broadcast educational programs and telecourses.
CEMPAE was shuttered on January 20, 1983, with the Secretariat of Public Education absorbing its assets. Two months later, upon the creation of the Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión (abbreviated Imevisión), XHFN became part of the new federal agency. As an Imevisión station, XHFN broadcast programs from its two networks as well as local Monterrey productions, including local news.
In 1992, XHFN was part of the media package that became Televisión Azteca. Also in the 1990s, it moved from channel 8 to channel 7.
Digital television
Repeaters
XHWX-TDT is repeated on eight transmitters in Nuevo León:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMNQ | KMNQ (1470 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and serving the Twin Cities radio market. The station simulcasts the Spanish-language programming of sister station KMNV, playing Regional Mexican music. In October 2021, it began stunting with a variety format, before leaving the air entirely in early 2022. In January 2023, it returned, again simulcasting sister station KMNV. It left the air again shortly thereafter.
KMNQ's radio studios were located on 27th Avenue South and East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Those studios burned in the Minneapolis Riots following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The station returned to the air with help from KFAI, which offered space in its facility. Studios were subsequently established in Richfield.
The transmitter is located in Brooklyn Park. KMNQ’s power is 5,000 watts using a directional antenna to protect other stations on 1470 AM.
History
Since 1994, 1470 has simulcast KLBB (1400 AM), which played big band, lounge and middle of the road (MOR) music (often referred to as adult standards). Both stations were operated as The KLBB Company, a for-profit subsidiary of the Greenspring Company owned by American Public Media Group, which operates Minnesota Public Radio and other properties. MPR announced on May 25, 2005 that it had reached an agreement to sell both KLBB and KLBP to Davidson Media Group, a New York-based broadcaster specializing in multi-cultural, community focused formats. Thereafter, KLBB flipped to a Spanish-language format, while the format on KLBP remained MOR until July 17, 2006, when it switched to a gospel music format from the Buffalo, New York-based Totally Gospel Radio Network with the KZTG call letters. The sale of both stations was approved by the FCC on July 25, 2005, with Davidson Media taking control September 7, 2005.
Over the years, the station carried various formats under the call letters KANO (standing for "Anoka") (also album rock as KTWN in 1979 and country music as KKKC in 1983). In 1984 the station brought back the KANO calls with a soft rock/oldies format with heavy emphasis on local sports and news before becoming KBCW in 1991, which broadcast a classic country music format. Additionally, the station increased its power from 1,000 watts to 5,000 watts and began 24-hour operation. Cargill Communications purchased both KLBB and KBCW in 1993, along with WTCX (105.1 FM) and WLOL (105.3 FM) for the basis of a proposed alternative rock station, soon to become known as "REV105". Cargill was uncomfortable with dropping the much loved adult standards format of KLBB, so the format was retained with a content and branding overhall, and 1470 was converted to a simulcast of KLBB, moving the well-known WLOL call letters (albeit well known on original frequencies 1330 AM and 99.5 FM) to 1470. In 1999, James and Susan Cargill, who two years earlier had sold the three FM stations that made up REV105, donated 1400 and 1470 (soon to be renamed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Northan | Rebecca Northan is a Canadian actor, improviser, theatre director, and creative artist. She is known for playing the hippie mother Diane Macleod on the CTV & The Comedy Network sitcom Alice, I Think and for her role as Jane in the critically acclaimed independent film Adult Adoption. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary, and an alumna of the Loose Moose Theatre Company where she did her improv training with Keith Johnstone.
Northan has been improvising and working as an actor for many years, and in 2004 she was nominated for a Gemini Award for "Best Ensemble in a Comedy" for The Comedy Network’s The Joe Blow Show. Northan is also a five-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee, and one time winner, for "Best Female Improviser". She has made several appearances at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in the World Improv Games, and was a member of The Second City Toronto mainstage cast. She has also appeared as a guest host on CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes, as well as having appeared in the feature films The Rocker and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. She also co-stars in the Showcase series The Foundation, directed by Michael Dowse.
As a theatre actor, Northan has worked across Canada including Theatre Calgary, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Fringe Theatre Adventures (Edmonton), Quest Theatre (touring theatre for young people) and Alberta Theatre Projects. In Toronto, Northan was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Best Actress" for her work in Eric Woolfe's Jack the Ripper play, Dear Boss. When not performing Northan also works as producer/director.
Northan was briefly married to Canadian actor Bruce Horak. The two continue to work as creative partners, and together, have created a number of award-winning projects. Northan and Horak collaborated on the live theatrical show This is Cancer!, a comedy which brings the character of Cancer to life in order to address the modern audience's current cancer concerns. They are also responsible for Legend Has It, Undercover, and An Undiscovered Shakespeare - all productions which fall under the banner of Spontaneous Theatre, a theatrical genre pioneered by Northan, which casts an audience member in the lead role.
In the summer of 2007, Northan created a performance piece for the Harbourfront Centre's Spiegelshow Blind Date, an improvised turn in which Northan chooses a member of the audience to perform with her as her blind date. This subsequently evolved into a 90 minute performance that initially played at both the Loose Moose Theatre, and the World Stage Series at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, to sold out crowds. In December 2010, the show was picked up by Broadway Producer Kevin McCollum. It sold out its run at Ars Nova in NYC, and was met with rave reviews.
In the spring of 2013 McCollum brought Blind Date to the Charing Cross Theatre in London, UK for seven weeks.
In 2016, she won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role – Play (Large |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track%20tape | 9-track tape is a format for magnetic-tape data storage, introduced with the IBM System/360 in 1964. The wide magnetic tape media and reels have the same size as the earlier IBM 7-track format it replaced, but the new format has eight data tracks and one parity track for a total of nine parallel tracks. Data is stored as 8-bit characters, spanning the full width of the tape (including the parity bit). Various recording methods have been employed during its lifetime as tape speed and data density increased, including PE (phase encoding), GCR (group-coded recording), and NRZI (non-return-to-zero, inverted, sometimes pronounced "nur-zee"). Tapes come in various sizes up to in length.
The standard size of a byte was effectively set at eight bits with the S/360 and nine-track tape.
For over 30 years the format dominated offline storage and data transfer, but by the end of the 20th century it was obsolete, and the last manufacturer of tapes ceased production in early 2002, with drive production ending the next year.
Typical operation
A typical 9-track unit consists of a tape transport—essentially all the mechanics that moves tape from reel to reel past the read/write and erase heads—and supporting control and data read/write electronics. The transport typically consists of a supply motor, a take-up motor, hubs for locking the tape reels in place, a capstan motor (though not necessarily a pinch roller, see below), tape head assembly, miscellaneous rollers which keep the tape in a precise path during operation, and vacuum columns which prevent tape 'snatch'. Data can become corrupted by stretched tape or variations in tape speed, so the transport has to guide the tape through without damaging its edges, move it with minimal wow and flutter, and give it a tension that is low but sufficient to keep the tape in constant contact with the read/write head.
To load a tape, an operator removes the protective ring (frequently called a "tape seal belt" because its purpose is to prevent humidity and dust on the media) from the outside of the tape reel and installs the tape on the supply hub, then threads the tape leader through the various roller assemblies and onto the take-up reel, installing three or four winds of tape to provide enough friction for the take-up motor to be able to pull the tape. The operator then initiates an automatic sequence, often by a single press of a button, that closes the protective window, starts the vacuum system, then moves the tape forward until the beginning-of-tape (BOT) foil strip is detected by an optical sensor in the tape path. The control electronics then indicate to the controlling computer that the unit is ready for operation.
Like its audio counterpart, moving tape past the read/write heads on a nine-track digital tape drive requires precise control, accomplished by a capstan motor. The capstan motor is designed for very smooth operation. Feedback to the control electronics is accomplished by a tachometer, usually |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsChannel%20Los%20Angeles | SportsChannel Los Angeles was an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision and NBC, and operated as an affiliate of SportsChannel. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout the Southern California, with a focus on Los Angeles-area professional sports teams.
History
SportsChannel Los Angeles launched on June 30, 1989; it served as the successor to Z Channel, an avant-garde movie service focusing on a variety of high-profile and lesser-known but critically acclaimed films. Like its predecessor, SportsChannel Los Angeles operated as a premium cable service, requiring cable subscribers to pay an extra monthly fee to receive the network, a distribution method that many regional sports networks had utilized at the time of its launch; however unlike its predecessor, it did not broadcast 24 hours a day at first, offering programming from 2:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. on weekdays and from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on weekends.
Officials with Rainbow Media thought that it would give SportsChannel Los Angeles a financial advantage compared to Prime Ticket, which had the regional cable television rights to the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings but, in direct contrast, operated as a basic cable service. In the spring of 1991, the network acquired the regional television rights to the Los Angeles Clippers, effective with the 1991–92 season, assuming the local rights to the NBA team's game telecasts from Prime Ticket after one year.
The tactic backfired, as SportsChannel's Los Angeles subscriber base ultimately never matched that of Prime Ticket. After it replaced Z Channel, the network had about 120,000 subscribers; that number dropped sharply to around 67,000 subscribers by 1992.
Because of this, the network attempted to reboot itself as a basic cable network on April 1, 1992; however, it chose to maintain premium exclusivity to selected events such as marquee Dodgers, Angels, Lakers and Stanley Cup Finals games, still requiring those events to be purchased on a pay-per-view basis, while all of the network's other programming including regular-season NHL games, college basketball and live and replayed horse races held at Santa Anita races were made available to all cable subscribers. However, because of the surcharge that would have to be passed to subscribers by carrying SportsChannel as a part-time premium/basic service, the plan did not sit well with some providers such as Cencom Cable Associates (which served parts of the western San Gabriel Valley, including Pasadena) and Paragon Cable (covering the suburbs of Torrance and Garden Grove), which decided to drop the network altogether.
In addition, the network's decision to operate as a pay service caused some complaints from viewers, none more so than on May 3, 1992, after it became a part-time premium channel. Because of the riots that rocked Los Angeles following the acquittal of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup%20battery | A backup battery provides power to a system when the primary source of power is unavailable. Backup batteries range from small single cells to retain clock time and date in computers, up to large battery room facilities that power uninterruptible power supply systems for large data centers. Small backup batteries may be primary cells; rechargeable backup batteries are kept charged by the prime power supply.
Examples
Aircraft emergency batteries
Backup batteries in aircraft keep essential instruments and devices running in the event of an engine power failure. Each aircraft has enough power in the backup batteries to facilitate a safe landing. The batteries keeping navigation, ELUs (emergency lighting units), emergency pressure or oxygen systems running at altitude, and radio equipment operational. Larger aircraft have control surfaces that run on these backups as well. Aircraft batteries are either nickel-cadmium or valve-regulated lead acid type. The battery keeps all necessary items running for between 30 minutes and 3 hours. Large aircraft may have a ram air turbine to provide additional power during engine failures.
Burglar alarms
Backup batteries are almost always used in burglar alarms. The backup battery prevents the burglar from disabling the alarm by turning off power to the building. Additionally these batteries power the remote cellular phone systems that thwart phone line snipping as well. The backup battery usually has a lifespan of 3-10 years depending on the make and model, and so if the battery runs flat, there is only one main source of power to the whole system which is the mains power. Should this fail as well (for example, a power cut), it usually triggers a third backup battery located in the bellboxes on the outside of the building which simply triggers the bell or siren. This however means that the alarm cannot be stopped in any way apart from physically going outside to the bellbox and disabling the siren. It is also why if there is a power outage in the area, most burglar alarms do start ringing and cannot be realistically stopped until the main power is restored.
Computers
Modern personal computer motherboards have a backup battery to run the real-time clock circuit and retain configuration memory while the system is turned off. This is often called the CMOS battery or BIOS battery. The original IBM AT through to the PS/2 range, used a relatively large primary lithium battery, compared to later models, to retain the clock and configuration memory. These early machines required the backup battery to be replaced periodically due to the relatively large power consumption. Some manufacturers of clone machines used a rechargeable battery to avoid the problems that could be created by a failing battery. Modern systems use a coin style primary battery. In these later machines, the current draw is almost negligible and the primary batteries usually outlast the system that they support. It is rare to find rechargeable bat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGFS | NGFS may refer to:
Naval gunfire support
New Garden Friends School
Network for Greening the Financial System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20reality%20in%20telerehabilitation | Virtual reality in telerehabilitation is a method used first in the training of musculoskeletal patients using asynchronous patient data uploading, and an internet video link. Subsequently, therapists using virtual reality-based telerehabilitation prescribe exercise routines via the web which are then accessed and executed by patients through a web browser. Therapists then monitor the patient's progress via the web and modify the therapy asynchronously without real-time interaction or training.
Background
The computer technology that allows development three-dimensional virtual environments consists of both hardware and software. The current popular, technical, and scientific interest in virtual environments is inspired, in large part, by the advent and availability of increasingly powerful and affordable visually oriented, interactive, graphical display systems and techniques lacking only sense and sensibility.
The term "virtualized reality" (VR) was coined and introduced in a paper by Kanade. The traditional virtual reality world is typically constructed using simplistic, artificially created computer-aided design (CAD) models. VR starts with the real-world scene and virtualizes it. Virtual reality is a practical, affordable technology for the practice of clinical medicine, and modern, high-fidelity virtual reality systems have practical applications in areas ranging from psychiatry to surgical planning and telemedicine. Through VR's capacity to allow the creation and control of dynamic 3-dimensional, ecologically valid stimulus environments within which behavioral response can be recorded and measured, it offers clinical assessment and rehabilitation options not available with traditional methods.
Application
The value of VR systems for the investigation and rehabilitation of cognitive and perceptual impairments and current and potential applications of VR technology address six neurorehabilitation issues. Korean researchers developed and assessed the value of a new rehabilitation training system to improve postural balance control by combining virtual reality technology with an unfixed bicycle. The system was effective as a training device; in addition, the technology might have a wider applicability to the rehabilitation field.
Tracy and Lathan investigated the relationship between motor tasks and participants' spatial abilities by training participants within a VR based simulator and then observing their ability to transfer training from the simulator to the real world. The study demonstrated that subjects with lower spatial abilities achieved significant positive transfer from a simulator based training task to a similar real world robotic operation task.
Virtual environments were applied to assess the training of inexperienced powered wheelchair users and demonstrated that the two virtual environments represent a potentially useful means of assessing and training novice powered wheelchair users. A recently completed project at the Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Brainerd | Paul Brainerd (born 1947) is an American businessman, computer programmer and philanthropist. In 1984, he co-founded the Aldus Corporation, which released Pagemaker, the first consumer-use desktop publishing software. Brainerd has since coined the term "desktop publishing". Since 1995, he has been involved in philanthropic efforts, including the founding of Social Ventures Partners in 1997, a global organization that connects local investors with non-profit community organizations.
Life
Brainerd was born in Medford, Oregon, to Phil and VerNatta Brainerd. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received his BA in business administration, followed by an M.S. in journalism from the University of Minnesota. He was the editor for the school's paper, the Oregon Daily Emerald. Following graduation, he worked at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Desktop publishing
Brainerd co-founded the publishing/printing software company Aldus in 1984. The company subsequently brought PageMaker to the market. Brainerd is also known for having coined the term "desktop publishing". He stepped down from his position of president and chief executive of Aldus in 1993, ten years after its founding.
Philanthropy
In 1995, Brainerd founded the Brainerd Foundation, a small family foundation that provides innovative grantmaking to Pacific Northwest communities and nonprofits to build a lasting conservation ethic at the local, state, and federal level.
Brainerd founded Social Ventures Partners (SVP) in 1997. The organization works by matching philanthropists, who provide funding and mentorship, with local community organizations. By 2017, the organization consisted of 3,500 venture philanthropists in 43 cities and nine countries. The group's collective investments total more than $63 million in over 800 organizations.
In 2000, Paul Brainerd founded Islandwood, an environmental learning center created to improve access to meaningful, nature-based learning experiences for the region's children. The center is located on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
In 2018, Brainerd founded Camp Glenorchy, an accommodation provider that operates in Glenorchy, New Zealand. Camp Glenorchy is designed, built, engineered and operated in line with the philosophy and principles of the Living Building Challenge, a sustainability standard for buildings. The establishment of the camp was controversial with the local community.
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Brainerd Foundation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20reader | An optical reader is a device found within most computer scanners that captures visual information and translates the image into digital information the computer is capable of understanding and displaying.
An example of optical readers are marksense systems for elections where voters mark their choice by filling a rectangle, circle, or oval, or by completing an arrow. After the voting a tabulating device reads the votes using "dark mark logic", whereby the computer selects the darkest mark within a given set as the intended choice or vote.
See also
Digital paper
Optical character recognition
Optical scan voting system
Optical mark recognition
References
Optical devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Venceremos | Radio Venceremos (Spanish; in English, "'We Shall Overcome' Radio") was an 'underground' radio network of the anti-government Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War. The station "specialized in ideological propaganda, acerbic commentary, and pointed ridicule of the government". The radio station was founded by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi (Santiago).
Despite the end of the war in 1992, the network continues to broadcast. The war years of the station and its national and international influence were documented in the Spanish-language book Las mil y una historias de radio Venceremos and its English translation, Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos, by the author José Ignacio López Vigil (translator: Mark Fried), a book recorded by the American Library of Congress. An exhibit honoring Radio Venceremos, including a studio room with original equipment, forms a prominent part of the Museum of the Revolution in Perquín, Morazán, El Salvador.
Digitized recordings of the Radio Venceremos broadcasts are freely available online through the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin.
Further reading
López Vigil, José Ignacio. Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos. (Translator, Mark Fried). Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, [1994]. Translation of Las mil y una historias de Radio Venceremos. .
Consalvi, Carlos Henríquez (Santiago). La Terquedad del Izote, La historia de Radio Venceremos. México: Editorial Diana, Ediciones Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, 1992. 268p.,
Radio Venceremos Digital Collection - University of Texas Libraries
References
Salvadoran Civil War
Radio in El Salvador
Defunct mass media in El Salvador
Radio stations established in 1981
Radio stations disestablished in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogel | A hogel (a portmanteau of the words holographic and element) is a part of a light-field hologram, in particular a computer-generated one. It is considered a small holographic optical element or HOE and that its total effect to that of a standard hologram only that the resolution is lower and it involves a pixelated structure. An array of these elements form the complete image of a holographic recording, which is typically displayed in 3D free-viewing device.
In contrast to 2D pixels, hogels contain the direction and intensity of light rays from many perspectives and is in essence what is referred to as a micro-image in plenoptic imaging terms. Synthetic hogels are typically rendered through double-frustum, oblique slice & dice or polygonal/voxel ray-tracing/ray-casting. Research into efficient generation and compression of hogels may allow holographic displays to become more widely available.
An array of hogels can be used to reconstruct a light-field by emitting light through a microlens array or by reflective/transmissive photo-polymer holograms. The use of hogels eliminates the limitation on the number and size of pixels as well as the size of the lenses that constitute the lens array because the holograms are no longer physical entities. Recorded information in a hogel is through the object beam.
Development
The term "hogel" was coined by Mark Lucente who first used it in his 1994 MIT Doctoral Thesis Dissertation.
More recent examples include a paper presented at the SMPTE 2nd Annual International Conference on Stereoscopic 3D for Media and Entertainment entitled "The First 20 Years of Holographic Video – and the Next 20", or in these recent book chapters: "Electronic Holography -- 20 Years of Interactive Spatial Imaging" in Handbook of Visual Display Technology , and "Computational Display Holography" in Holographic Imaging.
References
External links
A video showing the rapid writing time of the 3D display system
Hogel Rendering
Hogel Rendering Performance
3D hogel render video
Further reading
"Holographic three-dimensional telepresence using large-area photorefractive polymer". Nature 468:80-83. 4 November 2010. .
Klug, M., Burnett, T., Fancello, A., Heath, A., Gardner, K., O'Connell, S., Newswanger, C. (2013). "A Scalable, Collaborative, Interactive Light-field Display System", SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers
Holography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20Storage%20Technology%20Association | The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) was an international trade association formed to promote the use of recordable optical data storage technologies and products. It was responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system specification (derived from ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167), which was notably adopted for DVD-Video. It was incorporated in California in 1992 and dissolved in 2018.
In the autumn of 2007, OSTA spearheaded a campaign to encourage families and photographers to back up their digital photographs on compact discs.
External links
OSTA
Understanding Recordable & Rewritable DVD
Understanding CD-R & CD-RW
Running Optimum Power Control: Data Integrity in CD-Recording
Technology trade associations
International organizations based in the United States
Organizations based in California
Optical computer storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netan | Netan can refer to:
Cyber Terror Response Center in Korea
Netan, a fictional character in Stargate SG-1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Emanuel | Mike Emanuel (born December 10, 1967) is the Chief Washington Correspondent and a former White House Correspondents' Association for Fox News. He has worked for the network since July 1997. He hosts Fox News Live on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET and regularly fills-in on Special Report, Fox News @ Night, Fox News Sunday, America's Newsroom, America Reports, and Fox Report.
Prior to working for Fox News Channel, Mike Emanuel was a television journalist anchor/reporter for local TV stations in Midland-Odessa, Texas, Waco, Texas, Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles.
Emanuel grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He holds a degree in Communication from Rutgers College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. During his college years, Emanuel announced Rutgers sports on WRSU-FM.
Mike Emanuel is Greek-American and an Orthodox Christian.
References
External links
https://www.foxnews.com/person/e/mike-emanuel
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/10/playbook-birthday-mike-emanuel-079814
https://blogs.goarch.org/blog/-/blogs/meet-mike-emmanuel-an-oratorical-teen-turned-political-correspondent
Living people
1967 births
American television reporters and correspondents
Fox News people
People from Westfield, New Jersey
Members of the Orthodox Church in America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%20%28disambiguation%29 | K is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet.
K may also refer to:
General uses
K (programming language), an array processing language developed by Arthur Whitney and commercialized by Kx Systems
K (cider), a British draft cider manufactured and distributed by the Gaymer Cider Company of Bath, England
K band (disambiguation)
K computer, a Japanese supercomputer
K-factor (disambiguation), several unrelated terms in physics, engineering, telecommunications and chess
K (Broadway Brooklyn Local), earlier KK, a defunct service in the New York City Subway discontinued in 1976
K (Eighth Avenue Local), a defunct service on the New York City Subway, which was known as the AA until 1985
Vitamin K, a group of vitamins that are needed to promote blood coagulation
Kappa (Κ) (Greek alphabet)
Ka (Cyrillic) (К) (Cyrillic alphabet)
Chrysler K platform, 1981–1995 car design used by Chrysler
Low-K, the dielectric constant in semiconductors, electronics, and physics
K–12 education, a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education, used mainly in North America
K, a prefix for North American call signs used by most broadcast stations in the US west of the Mississippi River
K College, in Tonbridge, Kent
People
Adem K, Australian musician
Yasmin K., German singer
K (composer), Indian film composer
K (singer) (born 1983), Korean singer who works in Japan as a J-pop singer
K, deceased guitarist of Japanese visual kei band Moi Dix Mois
Kiccha Sudeepa, Indian actor, commonly abbreviated as simply K
In fiction and literature
Books
K (Minogue and Baker book), a photographic book by Kylie Minogue and William Baker
K, a 2011 novel by Bernardo Kucinski, Brazilian journalist and political scientist
K. (novel), a 1915 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
"K" Is for Killer, the eleventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 1994
Films and TV
K (2002 film), directed by Shoja Azari, an Iranian American
K, a 1997 French film directed by Alexandre Arcady
K (TV series), a Japanese anime
K, the production code for the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Characters
K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's 1926 novel The Castle
K, a character in the manga and anime Gravitation
K, the main character in the novel by the same name by Bernardo Kucinski
K, the main character in the TV series Robotto Keiji (Robot Detective)
K, Todd and Riley's adoptive superspy mother on the Disney program The Replacements
K, the protagonist played by John Abraham in No Smoking
K, a character in Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro
K, a character in the visual novel Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
K′, also known as "K Dash" or "K Prime", a King of Fighters character
Agent K, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black, Men in Black II, and Men in Black 3
Joseph K., the protagonist of Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial
K, the main character in the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049
Dr. K, the character in Power Rangers RPM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Barbie%20Diaries | The Barbie Diaries is a 2006 computer-animated motion capture teen drama film directed by Eric Fogel and written by Elise Allen and Laura McCreary which premiered on Nickelodeon on April 30 and on DVD on May 9.
The eighth entry in the Barbie film series, it features Kelly Sheridan as the talking vocal provider for Barbie and Skye Sweetnam as her singing vocals. The only Barbie film produced by Curious Pictures and thus the only film in the first decade of the Barbie film franchise not to be produced by Mainframe Entertainment (currently Mainframe Studios), this is also the last Barbie film to be originally distributed by Lionsgate in the United States and Canada, as Universal Studios (now Universal Pictures), who already released the films overseas with international distributor Entertainment Rights, was set to take over the home video distribution rights from the next film, Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses.
Plot
In this film, Barbie is portrayed as a typical American teenager who is a sophomore in high school who encounters the problems that real-life teens often encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip and getting involved in school activities. She always gets beaten in everything by Raquelle, a snobby girl who used to be her best friend in fifth grade. On the first day of school, she attempts to become anchorwoman for the school TV station but Raquelle beats her to it. Instead, she becomes Raquelle's personal assistant, buying her drinks and doing her work.
When Raquelle dumps her boyfriend Todd, on whom Barbie has a crush, he and Barbie begin hanging out together and soon become a couple. Todd asks Barbie to the Fall Formal. Thrilled, Barbie, as well as her best friends Tia and Courtney, rush to buy a dress when they discover that Raquelle and Todd are together again. The mysterious woman at the counter, whose name is Stephanie, gives them advice and offers them some charm bracelets for free. Barbie's happens to come with a diary which she writes her hopes in.
Soon after, what she wrote starts to mysteriously come true. Someone leaves her love notes and her band, Charmz, gets a gig at the school dance that Barbie was previously invited to. Next, Barbie decides to do a piece on popular kids and "What Makes Them Popular." She soon starts to neglect her friends and the story is quite mean. She even skips Tia's class-president election to hang out with Reagan and Dawn, Raquelle's friends. She starts skipping band practice and spends hours talking to them on the phone and hanging out with them. Barbie realizes that her hopes written in the diary came true and rushes to the mall to ask Stephanie about it. To her shock, it is revealed that the woman never worked there and apparently does not exist.
Tia and Courtney discover that it is Kevin who has been leaving Barbie the love notes, not Todd. They pressure him to tell her, but he refuses. Dawn and Reagan find out that Barbie only befriended them because of her story and stop hanging ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeffe%27s%20method | In mathematics, Graeffe's method or Dandelin–Lobachesky–Graeffe method is an algorithm for finding all of the roots of a polynomial. It was developed independently by Germinal Pierre Dandelin in 1826 and Lobachevsky in 1834. In 1837 Karl Heinrich Gräffe also discovered the principal idea of the method. The method separates the roots of a polynomial by squaring them repeatedly. This squaring of the roots is done implicitly, that is, only working on the coefficients of the polynomial. Finally, Viète's formulas are used in order to approximate the roots.
Dandelin–Graeffe iteration
Let be a polynomial of degree
Then
Let be the polynomial which has the squares as its roots,
Then we can write:
can now be computed by algebraic operations on the coefficients of the polynomial alone. Let:
then the coefficients are related by
Graeffe observed that if one separates into its odd and even parts:
then one obtains a simplified algebraic expression for :
This expression involves the squaring of two polynomials of only half the degree, and is therefore used in most implementations of the method.
Iterating this procedure several times separates the roots with respect to their magnitudes. Repeating k times gives a polynomial of degree :
with roots
If the magnitudes of the roots of the original polynomial were separated by some factor , that is, , then the roots of the k-th iterate are separated by a fast growing factor
.
Classical Graeffe's method
Next the Vieta relations are used
If the roots are sufficiently separated, say by a factor , , then the iterated powers of the roots are separated by the factor , which quickly becomes very big.
The coefficients of the iterated polynomial can then be approximated by their leading term,
and so on,
implying
Finally, logarithms are used in order to find the absolute values of the roots of the original polynomial. These magnitudes alone are already useful to generate meaningful starting points for other root-finding methods.
To also obtain the angle of these roots, a multitude of methods has been proposed, the most simple one being to successively compute the square root of a (possibly complex) root of , m ranging from k to 1, and testing which of the two sign variants is a root of . Before continuing to the roots of , it might be necessary to numerically improve the accuracy of the root approximations for , for instance by Newton's method.
Graeffe's method works best for polynomials with simple real roots, though it can be adapted for polynomials with complex roots and coefficients, and roots with higher multiplicity. For instance, it has been observed that for a root with multiplicity d,
the fractions
tend to
for . This allows to estimate the multiplicity structure of the set of roots.
From a numerical point of view, this method is problematic since the coefficients of the iterated polynomials span very quickly many orders of magnitude, which implies serious numerical errors. O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sooriyan%20FM | Sooriyan FM is a privately owned Tamil radio station in Sri Lanka run by ABC Radio Networks started in 1998. It covers the whole island. The network runs sister stations Hiru FM and Shaa FM in Sinhala and Gold FM and Sun FM in English.
About
Island Wide - 103.4 MHz,103.6 MHz.
Sooriyan FM rated the number one Tamil radio channel as per the latest Listenership survey.
According to LMRB (Lanka Marketing Research Bureau) ratings Sooriyan FM is continuing to lead the market and audience ratings in the Tamil radio industry in Sri Lanka for the 19th consecutive year.
Sooriyan FM, the Number 01 Tamil channel in Sri Lanka, a member of the Asia Broadcasting Corporation Private limited which is a Rayynor Silva Holdings company.
Sooriyan FM, the 1st private Tamil radio channel in Sri Lanka launched 12 years ago, is the market leader & the trend setter in Tamil radio. Its innovative programming strategy and the up to date news reporting has made Sooriyan FM the epitome in Tamil broadcasting.
Sooriyan FM is, as at now, a multi-award winning Radio Channel in Sri Lanka.
Asia Broadcasting Corporation Private Limited, a part of Rayynor Silva Holdings the owning company of Hiru FM/Gold FM/Sooriyan FM/Sun FM/Shaa FM, set up 12 years ago, revolutionized the Media industry setting up Sri Lanka's First Ever Private Tamil Channel -Sooriyan FM, Sri Lanka's First Ever English Oldies Channel -Gold FM, Sri Lanka's First Sinhala Youth Channel Shaa FM along with Sri Lanka's number one Sinhala radio channel Hiru FM and Sri Lanka's youth English trend setter Sun FM.
The Head Office is situated at the World Trade Centre, and currently occupies the entire 35th Floor in the East Tower of the World Trade Centre, and currently holds the main operations, which includes 8 studios; consisting of 6 broadcasting studios, 1 production studio & 1 dubbing studio; along with the Master Control Room (MCR), the Transmission Rooms for Colombo, the Music Library, News Rooms, and all other offices.
While the main transmitting facility is situated at the World Trade Centre, we also transmit all channels from 6 other locations in the country, ensuring island wide coverage, which also consist of state of the art transmission facilities and equipment, at each location.
The company is managed by Mr. Rayynor Silva, one of the most senior radio personalities in today's broadcasting field in Sri Lanka. His experience of 18 years in the 19-year-old private radio broadcasting Industry has given him an invaluable in-depth insight of the industry. Currently, he is successfully steering Sri Lanka's No. 1 Sinhala radio channel - Hiru FM, the Number 1 Tamil radio channel - Sooriyan FM, the Number 1 English channel – Gold FM, Sri Lanka's hottest English station Sun FM and Sri Lanka's hottest Sinhala station Shaa FM.
He launched the first ever private Tamil radio channel in Sri Lanka - "Sooriyan FM", The first ever English 1970s oldies channel in Sri Lanka - "Gold FM", Sri Lanka's First youth chann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHCH-TDT | XHCH-TDT is a television station in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Broadcasting on virtual channel 1, XHCH is owned by TV Azteca and broadcasts its Azteca Uno network.
History
1960s and 1970s
XHCH-TV came to air on March 16, 1968, after a concession was authorized in November 1964. The original concessionaire was Impulsora de Televisión de Chihuahua, S.A. At the time, Chihuahua had just one television station, XHFI-TV channel 5, operated by Telesistema Mexicano. In contrast, XHCH-TV, and later its sister station XHIT-TV channel 4 which came on the air at the end of the 1960s, were part of the Tele-Cadena Mexicana system. Chihuahua was a rare duopoly in this system. In its early days channel 2 broadcast at an ERP of just one kilowatt; this was upgraded to five kilowatts in 1969. That year, despite the ambitions of its owners to create a local station, XHCH became an affiliate of Televisión Independiente de México.
Tele-Cadena Mexicana's stations were nationalized by decree in 1975. While XHIT linked up to the Canal 13 network from Mexico City, as would happen for almost all of the TCM stations, XHCH continued as a local station. It ran a wide variety of programs; its kids program Estrellitas del Dos debuted in 1970 and remained on air for 17 years. After the fusion of TIM and TSM in 1972, the station linked up to Mexico City's Canal 5 (as Televisa only had one Chihuahua station until the 1990s) and broadcast its diet of cartoons and sports programs.
In 1980 the station expanded to Ciudad Juárez with the launch of a satellite-fed retransmitter, XHCJE-TV channel 11.
Imevisión
In 1983, XHCH and XHCJE were rolled up into the new Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión. Under Imevisión, as the agency would rebrand in 1985, XHCH was disconnected from Canal 5, while XHIT became a full-time repeater of the channel 13 network. The launch of the new Red Nacional 7 in 1985 took place not over XHCH but on channel 11, among the first stations allotted for Televisión Rural de México (this station is now XHECH-TV).
Out of necessity XHCH became a local station in Imevisión — one of three, along with XHFN-TV Monterrey and XEIMT-TV Mexico City. It broadcast three and a half hours a day of local programming, including regional and municipal newscasts.
The station regularly aired Spanish broadcasts of the Sun Bowl, a famous college football bowl game held in El Paso, Texas. On December 30, 1989, much like the Heidi Game in the NFL/AFL, the station interrupted the broadcast of what was then known as the John Hancock Bowl with 6 minutes left to go to broadcast a recap of the 1989 Formula One season.
Azteca
Upon the privatization of Imevisión and its transformation into Televisión Azteca in 1993, Chihuahua became the only city in the country where Azteca held three television stations—channels 2, 4 and 11.
Currently XHCH runs the Azteca Uno network, along with XHIT, though XHIT lacks local programming such as newscasts and is an hour behind XHCH.
Digital television
XHCH-T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHFI-TDT | XHFI-TDT is the television call sign for the Televisa television station on virtual channel 2 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. The station repeats the Las Estrellas network.
History
XHFI received its concession on April 30, 1963, and signed on in 1964 as XERA-TV; the station broadcast on analog channel 11 and then moved to 5. XERA changed its calls to the current XHFI-TDT by 1969. It was the first television station in the city of Chihuahua. The station was partly local in the mornings until XHAUC-TV signed on in 1996. Digital transmissions began in 2013; the station shut off analog on December 31, 2015.
Digital television
XHFI-TDT broadcasts on RF channel 26 (virtual channel 2). On January 1, 2019, it began carrying FOROtv as its second digital subchannel, relocated from XHCHZ-TDT upon the move of Televisa Chihuahua programming to 5.2.
Digital subchannels
Repeaters
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References
External links
Las Estrellas transmitters
Mass media in Chihuahua City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARGO%20%28programming%20language%29 | FARGO (fourteen-o-one automatic report generation operation) was the predecessor to the RPG programming language. FARGO was more of a utility program than a programming language, whereas RPG had a program generation process that produced an executable object.
A transitional tool
The idea behind FARGO was to facilitate ease of transition for IBM 407 Accounting Machine technicians to the new IBM 1400 series of computers. The 1400 series had two assemblers; Symbolic Programming System (SPS) and Autocoder (a more advanced assembler which required more memory than SPS). These represented a significant paradigm shift and learning curve for the technicians who were accustomed to wiring a control panel to direct input, output, control and counter operations (add, subtract). Multiplication and division operations were possible but their practicality was limited.
Tabulator machine operations were directed by impulses emitted in a machine cycle; hence, FARGO emulated the notion of a cycle. FARGO coordinated the concept of coding sheets that closely approximated the principles of wiring control panels of tabulating machines. Early FARGO training material showed the wiring control of panels vs. coding sheet relationships.
Programs did not require compilation
Another important feature of FARGO programs is that they did not require compilation. Instead, specification cards were placed into the FARGO program deck at appropriate locations and then simply run with the data cards at the end of the program deck. FARGO was designed for IBM 1401 card systems with at least 4000 positions of Core storage.
Backward compatibility
IBM historically placed emphasis on backward compatibility, and FARGO and 1400 Autocoder continued to be used in some IBM System/360 shops by running in "Emulation" mode. COBOL, FORTRAN and RPG languages did not require emulation because System/360 versions were provided.
External links
Procedural programming languages
IBM software
Programming languages created in the 1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%20Computer%20Technology | Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. was a manufacturer of computer peripherals for PCs and Macs founded in 1982.
History
Hercules was formed in 1982 in Hercules, California, by Van Suwannukul and Kevin Jenkins and was one of the major graphics card companies of the 1980s. Its biggest products were the MDA-compatible Hercules Graphics Card (HGC) and Hercules Graphics Card Plus (HGC+) and the associated standard, which was widely copied and survived into the 1990s.
The Hercules Graphics Card included a "Centronics compatible" parallel printer port, the same as the IBM Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter board that the card was based on. The company also produced CGA compatible cards, and with the unsuccessful Hercules InColor Card, it tried to go head-to-head with the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA).
After low sales with InColor, Hercules stopped making its own graphics core and bought graphics chipsets from other manufacturers. The company name gradually declined through the 1990s while graphics chipsets firms such as Tseng Labs, S3 Graphics, 3Dfx, nVidia and ATI Technologies became popular, but Hercules sales of graphic cards were still at US$20 million in 1998. An acquisition of Hercules by German graphics card maker ELSA fell through in 1998 after the companies could not agree on terms.
Brand acquisition by Guillemot
The Hercules brand was acquired by the French-Canadian based Guillemot Corporation for $1.8 million. In 2000 Hercules became the brand name for Guillemot 3D Prophet graphic cards, based on nVIDIA chipsets, switching to ATI Technologies chipsets in 2002.
Also in 2000, Guillemot introduced a new sound card, Game Theater XP, with the Hercules brand name, and Hercules gradually became the computer peripherals brand in Guillemot Corporation.
In 2004, Guillemot announced it would cease to produce graphics cards. Within the Guillemot group, computer peripherals (audio interfaces, speakers, webcams, networking) are designed by the Hercules division and given the Hercules brand, while game peripherals are designed by the Thrustmaster division and receive the Thrustmaster brand.
In 2010, the Hercules brand was used on computer speakers, computer DJ controllers, webcams and wireless networking peripherals.
Hercules turnover was €40.9 million (US$56.5 million) in 2010.
Organization
Headquarters: in France (President: Claude Guillemot),
Research and development: offices in Canada, France, Hong-Kong and Romania,
Sales: via Guillemot sales branches in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA,
Distribution to retailers: through distributors,
Technical support: customer phone and email support by Guillemot technical support team.
Products
Computer DJing: DJ Console – controllers with audio interface (DJ Console Mk2, Mk4, Rmx, 4-Mx) / DJ Control = DJ controllers without audio (DJ Control MP3, MP3 e2, Steel)
Netbooks: eCafe ec-800, 900, 1000W, 1010W
Speakers: XPS: Stereo, 2.1, for iPod and 5.1
Webcams: Dual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart%20Johnsson | Lennart Johnsson (born 1944) is a Swedish computer scientist and engineer.
Johnsson started his career at ABB in Sweden and moved on to UCLA, Caltech, Yale University, Harvard University, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH in Sweden), and Thinking Machines Corporation. He is currently based at the University of Houston, where he holds the Hugh and Lillie Roy Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering as a lecturer at a summer school at the KTH PDC Center for High Performance Computing.
References
Johnsson, Lennart
American computer scientists
Scientific computing researchers
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Yale University faculty
Harvard University faculty
University of Houston faculty
Johnsson, Lennart
Johnsson, Lennart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Brown%20%28radio%20host%29 | Jim Brown is a Canadian radio personality, best known as a host of programming on CBC Radio One.
He was the host of the Calgary Eyeopener on CBR in Calgary from 2003 until 2011, and the national public affairs program The 180 on CBC Radio One from 2013 to 2017.
Before moving to Calgary, he hosted The Morning Show at CBN in St. John's, Newfoundland, for eight seasons.
He has also been heard across Canada as a guest host of The Current, Sounds Like Canada, As It Happens, The House and Q.
Prior to joining the CBC, Brown worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor. His first film, the feature film Radiant City, co-directed with Gary Burns, was presented in September 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film won a Genie Award for Best Documentary in 2007.
Filmography
Radiant City (2006)
References
Living people
Canadian radio journalists
Canadian talk radio hosts
CBC Radio hosts
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSIS | KSIS (1050 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Sedalia, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and the license is held by Townsquare License, LLC.
Programming
KSIS broadcasts a blend of news, talk, and sports radio programming. The station derives some of its news programming from ABC News Radio. Notable syndicated talk programming on KSIS includes weekday shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michael Medved. KSIS airs St. Louis Cardinals baseball games as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network.
Local real estate agent Angel Morales hosts a Saturday morning Spanish language talk program called "Sábados Latinos". The name translates to "Latino Saturdays" in English.
The show is part of the station's outreach to mid-Missouri's growing Latino population.
History
KSIS first signed on at 1050 kHz as a 1,000 watt daytime-only station on February 18, 1954. The station was licensed to Yates Broadcasting Company, Inc., with Carl W. Yates, Jr., serving as president and general manager.
In November 1986, Yates Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Bick Broadcasting Company. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 9, 1986, and the transaction was consummated on December 30, 1986.
In April 2006, Bick Broadcasting Company reached an agreement to sell this station to Double O Radio subsidiary Double O Missouri Corporation. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 30, 2006, and the transaction was consummated on August 31, 2006. Double O Radio later merged with Townsquare Media.
References
External links
KSIS official website
SIS
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1954
Pettis County, Missouri
Townsquare Media radio stations
1954 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory%20scheduling | Anticipatory scheduling is an algorithm for scheduling hard disk input/output (I/O scheduling). It seeks to increase the efficiency of disk utilization by "anticipating" future synchronous read operations.
I/O scheduling
"Deceptive idleness" is a situation where a process appears to be finished reading from the disk when it is actually processing data in preparation of the next read operation. This will cause a normal work-conserving I/O scheduler to switch to servicing I/O from an unrelated process. This situation is detrimental to the throughput of synchronous reads, as it degenerates into a seeking workload.
Anticipatory scheduling overcomes deceptive idleness by pausing for a short time (a few milliseconds) after a read operation in anticipation of another close-by read requests.
Anticipatory scheduling yields significant improvements in disk utilization for some workloads. In some situations the Apache web server may achieve up to 71% more throughput from using anticipatory scheduling.
The Linux anticipatory scheduler may reduce performance on disks using Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ), high performance disks, and hardware RAID arrays. An anticipatory scheduler (AS) was the default Linux kernel scheduler between 2.6.0 and 2.6.18, by which time it was replaced by the CFQ scheduler.
As of kernel version 2.6.33, the Anticipatory scheduler has been removed from the Linux kernel. The reason being that while useful, the scheduler's effects could be achieved through tuned use of other schedulers (mostly CFQ, which can also be configured to idle with the slice_idle tunable). Since the anticipatory scheduler added maintenance overhead while not improving the workload coverage of the Linux kernel, it was deemed redundant.
See also
Deadline scheduler
Noop scheduler
CFQ scheduler
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Scheduling (computing)
References
Linux kernel features
Operating system kernels
Disk scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlie%20Branch | The Fairlie Branch (also known as the Eversley Branch) was a branch line railway in southern Canterbury which formed part of New Zealand's national railway network. Construction began in 1874, and at its farthest extent, it terminated just beyond Fairlie in Eversley. Its closure came in 1968, but a portion remains open in Pleasant Point as the Pleasant Point Museum and Railway.
Construction
Proposed in the early 1870s, the local government voted in favour of a branch line from Timaru to Pleasant Point in December 1872 and a construction contract was let in the following March. After a railway act approving the line was passed later in 1873, construction could commence, and it did so on 18 February 1874. The branch left the Main South Line in Washdyke, now a northern suburb of Timaru, and headed northwest towards Pleasant Point. Construction of this 14.42 km of railway proceeded without any notable difficulties, opening for service on 24 December 1875 - though trains had been able to run to Pleasant Point as early as two months previously. An extension followed swiftly, and the 27 km addition to Albury opened on 1 January 1877.
After this point, however, construction stalled. On 13 August 1880, the Timaru Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution to pressure the government to call tenders for the construction of the remainder of the line. This was followed by a public meeting in Fairlie on 25 March 1882 that issued the same demand on the government, asserting that the line to Albury was the best paying in New Zealand and an extension would provide more convenient access to much of the freight then conveyed to the Albury terminus. Contracts were soon let, and the next 12 km to Winscombe were opened on 24 August 1883. Less than half a year later, the final portion of the line was opened for general traffic to the locale of Eversley, just beyond Fairlie, on 28 January 1884, giving the branch a full length of 58.2 km. Some sources, including Railways Department publications, incorrectly state this happened on 9 January 1884. The opening of the line was celebrated on 30 January 1884 by a public holiday in Fairlie and environs, and an excursion train ran from Timaru conveying 600-700 passengers for the occasion. This train was double-headed by K 88 Washington and a member of the F class, and it consisted of a guard's van and 14 carriages, some of which were brought down from Christchurch the previous morning to cater for the anticipated large crowd.
There were plans to extend the branch even further to Burkes Pass and the Mackenzie Country. 27 kilometres of formation were made to varying standards of completion, but ultimately no rails were laid and the line's farthest terminus remained Eversley.
Stations
The following stations were located on the Fairlie Branch (in brackets is the distance from Washdyke):
Racecourse (2 km)
Cartwright's Road Crossing (2.632 km)
Levels (5.91 km)
Waitawa (approximately 10 km)
Pleasant Point (14.42 k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Tec | C-Tec (or The Cyber-Tec Project) was an EBM band originally formed as a side project in 1995 by Jean-Luc De Meyer (of Front 242), Jonathan Sharp (of New Mind), and Ged Denton (of Crisis n.T.i.). The name was taken from Cyber-Tec Records, who released the band's debut EP. Afterward, Jonathan Sharp left the band (due to problems with Cyber-Tec Records manager Paul M. Green), and Marc Heal (of Cubanate) joined as a full-time member.
History
C-Tec was conceived as a one-off project, under the name The Cyber-Tec Project, but the members decided to continue producing music under the name. The concept emerged during a dormant period for Front 242 when De Meyer (the original lead singer in 242) and other members took time to work on solo and side projects.
In 1995 Synthetic Symphony released the band's debut EP Cyber-Tec, which was later reissued in the United States by Fifth Colvmn Records with an alternate track listing. The EP peaked at #7 on the CMJ RPM Chart in the U.S. In 1997, after shortening their name to C-Tec, they released a full album, Darker, on the US industrial Wax Trax! label.
The band toured early in 1996 but the American leg of the tour was cut short after playing only one show in New York City due to contract issues. The band toured North America twice in 1998 with a hybrid lineup featuring other members of Cubanate and Julian Beeston, one time drummer in Nitzer Ebb.
The second album, Cut, was released in 2000 on SPV imprint Synthetic Symphony. The album was originally slated for US release on Wax Trax! but the label closed around this time, thus, Cut never had an official American release. Cut was ranked #25 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC) Top 50 Albums of 2000.
In terms of how C-Tec sounded, Darker contains a downbeat, moody collection of songs, showing strong electronic influences but with more ambient textures than would be suggested by the industrial music backgrounds of the main participants. Cut is faster in tempo, with De Meyer’s vocal mixed low. Most of the material on the two full-length C-Tec albums was co-written by Marc Heal and Jean-Luc De Meyer.
C-Tec effectively went dormant after the release of Cut. In 2018, both "Darker" and "Cut" were remastered and re-released on UK label Armalyte Industries as Darker/Cut. C-Tec reformed for a corresponding North American tour, featuring DeMeyer, Heal, and Denton, as well as Sean Payne of Cyanotic on drums.
Discography
Studio albums
Darker (1997, Synthetic Symphony)
Cut (2000, Synthetic Symphony)
Extended plays
Cyber-Tec (1995, Synthetic Symphony)
Singles
Foetal (1998, Wax Trax!/TVT)
Compilation albums
Darker/Cut (2018, Armalyte Industries)
Compilation appearances
Neurostyle Vol. IX (1997, Neuro Style/Sub Terranean)
Full Tilt Volume 1: Past, Present, Future (1997, JVC)
One Nation Under a Groove! (1997, SPV)
We Came to Dance - Indie Dancefloor Vol. 11 (1998, Sub Terranean)
Transmission 05. Binary Application Extension (1998, Genocide Project)
Euphoria ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | Póvoa de Varzim' is served by a transportation network that employs maritime, aerial and terrestrial travel. The terrestrial access infrastructure is composed of national motorways (freeways), the national roads system, and light rail metro. These infrastructures and the airport, bus terminal, marina and harbour are daily used by commuters.
Public transportation within the city is provided by private-owned companies. The Central de Camionagem is a terminus for urban and long distance buses that provide mass transit in the surrounding region, namely the city's countryside, Porto, Minho Region, and Galicia in Spain. Litoral Norte as a wholly urban transportation network with 5 lines, while Linhares has the oldest bus network operating in the city, now owned by Transdev.
Póvoa de Varzim taxis are black with an olive green hardtop. The main taxi stands are located in Praça do Almada, in Póvoa de Varzim metro station and Largo das Dores. There are taxi centrals: Central Táxis Ribamar, Táxis Póvoa and a few others. Ribamar has a tourist service to tourist attractions away from the city center, including the Discovery Age carrack replica in Vila do Conde's riverside, the medieval Romanesque churches of Rates and Rio Mau, Cividade de Terroso and São Félix Hill.
Air
The Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) is located south of Póvoa de Varzim. The airport, known outside the region as Porto Airport, is the second-busiest international airport in Portugal, moving over 9.3 million passengers in 2016. By car or taxi, it is quickly accessible (17 minutes) via the A28 motorway, linked to the A41 motorway and the airport's drop-off and pick-up areas, or the EN13 highway, the latter using the airport's EN107 accessway. Póvoa Aerodrome, officially known as S. Miguel de Laundos, is small, only 270 meters long for ultralight aviation and other small planes for leisure activities.
Rail
Line B of Porto Metro links Póvoa de Varzim to Porto and the airport with two services: a standard and a shuttle (the Expresso). Through Verdes station, Metro trains link the city and the airport. This waiting station to reach Póvoa de Varzim is a small public park near the airport, and it literally means the green park station. The line operates on a former railway, which opened in 1875 and closed in 2002 to give way for the metro. The railway network was expanded and reached Famalicão in 1881, it was closed entirely in 1995 due to an accident with a bus and became a rail trail.
Roads
The city is connected by road on a north-south axis reaching Viana do Castelo and the Spanish border to Porto by the A28 motorway. In Greater Porto, the A28 has the most popular suburban commercial areas of Northern Portugal with suburban shopping centers, large stand-alone stores, retail parks and outlets and reaches Porto's major thoroughfares and ring roads, including the VCI inner orbital motorway. Póvoa is also reached by the A7 (from Guimarães and Vila Nova de Famalicão) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJKE | WJKE (101.3 FM, "K-Love") is a contemporary Christian music radio station licensed to Stillwater, New York, United States, and serving Saratoga County as an affiliate of the K-Love network. It is owned by the Educational Media Foundation and broadcasts at 2,900 watts ERP from a tower in Stillwater. In addition to its key coverage area, WJKE is a rimshot into both the Glens Falls/Lake George area and the tri-cities of Albany, Schenectady and Troy.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1988 as WSSV, a full-service adult contemporary station that served mainly the nearby city of Saratoga Springs. Sold by its original owners in April 1994, the station reimaged itself as WJKE ("The Jockey"), a name referring to the nearby Saratoga Race Course. When WJKE became the first station bought by the Anastos Media Group in October 1998, the station was rebranded again as WQAR ("Star 101.3"). As WQAR, the adult contemporary format featured an emphasis on gold-based soft and upbeat music from the 1980s and 1990s, along with some currents.
Ernie Anastos sold his Albany-area stations—WQAR, WABY, WUAM and its translator W291BY, and WVKZ—to Empire Broadcasting Corporation in June 2012 at a purchase price of $1.2 million. The transaction was consummated on September 7, 2012. On September 8, 2012, the station reverted to the WJKE call sign. On February 27, 2013, WJKE returned to the "Jockey" branding.
WJKE previously aired several nationally syndicated radio shows including "Intelligence For Your Life" with John Tesh, Your Weekend with Jim Brickman, and "Retro Pop Reunion" with Joe Cortez. The station no longer carries these programs as of 2013.
On November 15, 2017, Empire Broadcasting sold WJKE to Educational Media Foundation for $550,000. EMF flipped the station to its K-Love network upon the sale's closure on February 1, 2018. The signal was paired with WYKV, as its coverage contour nearly ends where WJKE's begins.
References
External links
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Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
K-Love radio stations
Radio stations established in 1988
1988 establishments in New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Trueman | William Peter Main Trueman (December 25, 1934 – July 23, 2021) was a Canadian television and radio personality, best known for his work for the Global Television Network between 1974 and 1977, and from 1978 to July 1988. In the 1960s and early 1970s he was a reporter, editor and producer for CBC News.
Early life
Trueman was born in Sackville, New Brunswick, on December 25, 1934. He was the son of Albert Trueman, an academic and arts administrator. His journalism career began as a print reporter with the Ottawa Journal in the 1950s.
Career
When Trueman was 23, he moved to the Montreal Star to be their New York City-based columnist and would cover the assassination of John F. Kennedy for the paper. His print career also took him to the Toronto Star. In 1970, he moved to television as executive producer of CBC's flagship newscast The National.
Trueman produced The National during the FLQ Crisis in 1970. In his memoirs, he recalled being ordered to censor the CBC's coverage of the crisis: "We were to avoid commentary and speculation of all kinds. We were not to use man-on-the-street interviews or shoot film of any public demonstration. We were to air no panel discussions on the October Crisis and were to avoid reporting speculation, particularly speculation about what the government was doing." Trueman also reprimanded reporter Tim Ralfe for his memorable confrontation with Pierre Trudeau on the steps of parliament in which Ralfe debated the Prime Minister asking how far he was willing to go which prompted Trudeau's famous "Just watch me" line. Trueman later apologised for not challenging the CBC's censorship and for reprimanding the reporter saying, "I should have given Ralfe a medal."
Trueman became the first anchor for Global News in 1974. He became well known for his commentaries in the last minutes of each broadcast which he would end by saying, "That is not news. But that, too, is reality".
Trueman briefly left Global in 1977 to join rival network CTV, becoming one of the co-hosts of CTV Reports, a short-lived, unsuccessful attempt to replace two of the network's news magazine/documentary shows, W5 and Maclear; within a few months, Trueman would return to Global.
Trueman retired permanently from Global News in 1988 "in disgust" over the declining quality of news coverage at the network. He later joined Vision TV to host a 26-part series called North-South about Canada's relation to the Third World.
Trueman also served as host and managing editor of the Discovery Channel's award-winning series Great Canadian Parks in 1996 and oversaw a series of documentaries for the History Channel featuring national historic sites. In 2002, he hosted Destination Parks with Peter Trueman on the CTV Travel network.
Awards and honors
Trueman was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in May 2001 and invested in October of the following year. He was conferred the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
Personal life
Trueman married Ele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTRF%20%28AM%29 | KTRF (1230 kHz) is an AM radio station in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The station is part of the Ingstad Minnesota Radio Network. KTRF reports local news, sports, weather, community information and obituaries. KTRF is part of Thief River Falls Radio, which also includes: KTRF-FM 94.1, KKAQ AM 1460, and KKDQ FM 99.3, Sjoberg's Cable Channel 3 and a weekday news letter publication - The Radio Gram.
KTRF covers local sports, Minnesota Twins baseball, and Minnesota Vikings football, and Minnesota Timberwolves basketball, as well as regional and high-school tournament play.
Local flavor is added with personality shows: The Good Morning Show with Bob Hultgren, Mid Mornings with Mark Allen, Team 1230 at noon, as well as the local news and local sports.
In the evening KTRF airs Fox Sports Radio, Coast to Coast AM, and other nationally syndicated programming.
External links
KTRF website
TRF
Radio stations in Minnesota
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in Minnesota
Thief River Falls, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Ten%20Network | Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, and other content focusing on the conference's member schools. It is a joint venture between Fox Sports and the Big Ten, with Fox Corporation as 61% stakeholder and operating partner, and the Big Ten Conference owning a 39% stake. It is headquartered in the former Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalog House building at 600 West Chicago Avenue in Chicago.
Big Ten Network is carried by most major television providers and as of 2014, had an estimated 60 million U.S. subscribers—the number had been boosted by the addition of Rutgers University and the University of Maryland to the conference.
Big Ten Network was the second U.S. sports network to be devoted to a single college sports conference, having been preceded by the MountainWest Sports Network one year prior to its launch. BTN was later followed by rival cable channels by the Pac-12, SEC and ACC with a similar array of programming.
History
The network's foundation traces back to 2004, following negotiations between the Big Ten and ESPN on an extension of the conference's broadcast contract with the network. With three years remaining in the existing deal, the conference sought a significant increase in rights fees. ESPN, however, balked, causing Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany to begin exploring the creation of his own network.
The launch of the Big Ten Network was announced on June 21, 2006, as a 20-year joint project between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Entertainment Group. At launch, the conference owned 51% of the network, while Fox owned a minority interest and handled its operations. The network was positioned to be the first ever cable channel dedicated to a single collegiate conference. The network also has a commitment to "event equality", stating it would produce and distribute an equal number of men's and women's events across all platforms, within three years of its launch. The deal was meant to replace the Big Ten's television contract with ESPN's ESPN Plus regional television package. ESPN Plus games were typically only seen on one broadcast television station in a team's local market (for example, the Illinois Fighting Illini aired its games on Champaign, Illinois CBS affiliate WCIA (channel 3)).
Big Ten Network was launched at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 30, 2007, with Big Ten Tonight as its inaugural program. The network aired its first live telecasts two days later on September 1, which included a football game between Appalachian State and Michigan – the game gained national attention for its upset victory; being the first win by a Division I FCS team over a ranked Division I FBS team since Division I was split into two subdivisions by the NCAA in 1978. On September 2, the network aired its first women's sports event (a soccer mat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito%20F3%20System | The Taito F3 Package System (Taito Cybercore in North America) is a 32-bit arcade system board released by Taito in 1992.
Specifications
CPU: Motorola MC68EC020;
Sound CPU: Motorola MC68000;
Sound chip: Ensoniq ES5505 and ES5510 (DSP);
Video resolution: 320×224;
Board composition: Board and F3 cartridge;
Hardware features: four scrolling layers, two sprite banks, Alpha blending
Games
Arabian Magic
Arkanoid Returns
Bubble Memories
Bubble Symphony / Bubble Bobble 2
Cleopatra Fortune
Command War - Super Special Battle & War Game
Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk
Dungeon Magic
Elevator Action Returns
Gekirindan
Grid Seeker
International Cup '94
Kaiser Knuckle / Global Champion / Dan-Ku-Ga
Kirameki Star Road
LandMaker
Puzzle Bobble 2 / Bust-A-Move Again
Puzzle Bobble 2x
Puzzle Bobble 3
Puzzle Bobble 4
Pop 'N Pop
Puchi Carat
Quiz Theater
Moriguchi Hiroko no Quiz de Hyuu! Hyuu!
RayForce
Recalhorn
Riding Fight
Ring Rage
Super Cup Finals
Space Invaders '95 - The Attack of Lunar Loonies
Top Ranking Stars
Twin Cobra II
References
External links
System16 - The Arcade Museum
Taito F3 System arcade hardware games list and statistics
Taito arcade system boards
68k-based arcade system boards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris%20Trusted%20Extensions | Solaris Trusted Extensions is a set of security extensions incorporated in the Solaris 10 operating system by Sun Microsystems, featuring a mandatory access control model. It succeeds Trusted Solaris, a family of security-evaluated operating systems based on earlier versions of Solaris.
Solaris 10 5/09 is Common Criteria certified at Evaluation Assurance Level EAL4+ against the CAPP, RBACPP, and LSPP protection profiles.
Overview
Certain Trusted Solaris features, such as fine-grained privileges, are now part of the standard Solaris 10 release. Beginning with Solaris 10 11/06, Solaris now includes a component called Solaris Trusted Extensions which gives it the additional features necessary to position it as the successor to Trusted Solaris. Inclusion of these features in the mainstream Solaris release marks a significant change from Trusted Solaris, as it is no longer necessary to use a different Solaris release with a modified kernel for labeled security environments. Solaris Trusted Extensions is an OpenSolaris project.
Trusted Extensions additions and enhancements include:
Accounting
Role-Based Access Control
Auditing
Device Allocation
Mandatory Access Control Labeling
Solaris Trusted Extensions enforce a mandatory access control policy on all aspects of the operating system, including device access, file, networking, print and window management services. This is achieved by adding sensitivity labels to objects, thereby establishing explicit relationships between these objects. Only appropriate (and explicit) authorization allows applications and users read and/or write access to the objects.
The component also provides labeled security features in a desktop environment. Apart from extending support for the Common Desktop Environment from the Trusted Solaris 8 release, it delivers the first labeled environment based on GNOME. Solaris Trusted Extensions facilitate the access of data at multiple classification levels through a single desktop environment.
Solaris Trusted Extensions also delivers labeled device access and labeled network communication (through the CIPSO standard).
CIPSO is used to pass security information within and between labeled zones.
Solaris Trusted Extensions complies with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
Trusted Solaris history
1999 Trusted Solaris 7
1996 Trusted Solaris 2.5.1 - ITSEC Certified for E3 / F-B1
1995 Trusted Solaris 1.2 - ITSEC Certified for E3 / F-B1
1992 SunOS Compartmented Mode Workstation 1.0 - ITSEC Certified for E3 / F-B1
1990 SunOS Multilevel Security 1.0 - TCSEC Conformance (1985 Orange Book)
References
External links
Solaris Trusted Extensions Official Website
OpenSolaris: Solaris Trusted Extensions project
Solaris Trusted Extensions press release
Operating system security
Sun Microsystems software
Proprietary operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-memory%20BFGS | Limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS or LM-BFGS) is an optimization algorithm in the family of quasi-Newton methods that approximates the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm (BFGS) using a limited amount of computer memory. It is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in machine learning. The algorithm's target problem is to minimize over unconstrained values of the real-vector where is a differentiable scalar function.
Like the original BFGS, L-BFGS uses an estimate of the inverse Hessian matrix to steer its search through variable space, but where BFGS stores a dense approximation to the inverse Hessian (n being the number of variables in the problem), L-BFGS stores only a few vectors that represent the approximation implicitly. Due to its resulting linear memory requirement, the L-BFGS method is particularly well suited for optimization problems with many variables. Instead of the inverse Hessian Hk, L-BFGS maintains a history of the past m updates of the position x and gradient ∇f(x), where generally the history size m can be small (often ). These updates are used to implicitly do operations requiring the Hk-vector product.
Algorithm
The algorithm starts with an initial estimate of the optimal value, , and proceeds iteratively to refine that estimate with a sequence of better estimates . The derivatives of the function are used as a key driver of the algorithm to identify the direction of steepest descent, and also to form an estimate of the Hessian matrix (second derivative) of .
L-BFGS shares many features with other quasi-Newton algorithms, but is very different in how the matrix-vector multiplication is carried out, where is the approximate Newton's direction, is the current gradient, and is the inverse of the Hessian matrix. There are multiple published approaches using a history of updates to form this direction vector. Here, we give a common approach, the so-called "two loop recursion."
We take as given , the position at the -th iteration, and where is the function being minimized, and all vectors are column vectors. We also assume that we have stored the last updates of the form
.
We define , and will be the 'initial' approximate of the inverse Hessian that our estimate at iteration begins with.
The algorithm is based on the BFGS recursion for the inverse Hessian as
For a fixed we define a sequence of vectors as and . Then a recursive algorithm for calculating from is to define and . We also define another sequence of vectors as . There is another recursive algorithm for calculating these vectors which is to define and then recursively define and . The value of is then our ascent direction.
Thus we can compute the descent direction as follows:
This formulation gives the search direction for the minimization problem, i.e., . For maximization problems, one should thus take instead. Note that the initial approximate inverse Hessian is chosen as a diagonal matrix or even a multiple of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20Pursuit | Highway Pursuit is a computer game remake of the arcade game Spy Hunter created by British developer Adam Dawes in association with Retrospec, initially released in 2003. Highway Pursuit puts players in control of a powerful sports car, in a world filled with enemy agents, seeking to take control of the road. Their mission is to destroy as many of these enemy agents as possible, without putting any civilians at risk. Along the way, players will encounter varied terrain and weather conditions, a number of different enemy vehicles intent on their destruction, and also a few helpful pointers from their colleague Ashley, back at HQ.
Development history and future
The initial version of the game was developed over an 18-month period from mid-2002 until its release date on 12 November 2003. A subsequent version, v1.1, was released on 6 January 2005 with a variety of small improvements to the controls and flow of the game. On 13 November 2015, game gained a new update to version 1.2.3, that contains many fixes & 1920x1080 resolution support.
While the main game dynamic is based on the arcade game Spy Hunter, the design attempts to include new feature not included within the original game in order to add some originality. The main feature is the addition of voice communication from the player's base of operations, provided by a game character named Ashley. The inspiration for this was provided by another classic racing game, Chase HQ.
The author has stated that there are no current plans for a sequel.
Cheats
The original game did not contain any cheat modes, although a number of players found ways to hack into the game and adjust its score and life counters. Strangely, a German web site, spieletipps.de, published a number of cheat codes for the game, none of which actually existed. After receiving numerous puzzled emails, the author decided to include the cheats into the second release of the game, adding several more at the same time.
Media coverage
Highway Pursuit has appeared on the cover discs of a variety of computer magazines.
More notable appearances include:
a mention on the April 2004 British edition of PC Gamer magazine (in which it was described as "A SpyHunter remake. It's better than the terrible update that the game received on the consoles. A simple left-right car-skidder makes for a playable and difficult game.").
a review on the Sky One TV programme Gamezville on Sunday 22 August 2004.
featured as cool site of the day on Kim Komando's web site on 27 June 2007.
Reception
References
External links
Retrospec
2003 video games
Racing video games
Spy Hunter
Video game remakes
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Windows-only games
Windows-only freeware games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFF | WFF may refer to:
Wallops Flight Facility, a NASA facility
Well-formed formula, in logic, linguistics, and computer science, a symbol or string of symbols that is generated by the formal grammar of a formal language
Montreal World Film Festival
Woodhull Freedom Foundation & Federation, a nonprofit created "to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right"
World's Funniest Fails, a U.S. TV series
World Fitness Federation
See also
WFF 'N PROOF, a game developed to teach principles of logic through well-formed formulas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Brady | Eric Brady is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network, played since 2012 by Greg Vaughan, the longest tenured actor in the role. Eric was introduced in the episode of October 16, 1984, together with his twin sister, Sami Brady.
Initially played by a series of child actors, Jensen Ackles was cast in the role of Eric when the character was rapidly-aged from a pre-teen to a young adult in July 1997 under the pen of headwriter James E. Reilly. Ackles' Eric appeared for three years until August 2000, when he departed. Vaughan has played Eric for eleven years; the longest of any prior performer.
Eric and Sami are the children of supercouple Roman Brady and Marlena Evans. The twins Eric and Sami care deeply about each other, but have completely different personalities. Eric's saintly behavior sets him up as the better half to his very troubled and trouble-making sister Sami. A notable storyline for Eric is his passionate, but frustrated, love affair with Nicole Walker (Arianne Zucker). Having once been a priest, Eric is a community-orientated person, briefly running the Horton Center, which helps people in need.
Both Ackles and Vaughan's performances have been met with favorable reception from audiences and critics. Ackles received three Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1998, 1999 and 2000, as well as a Soap Opera Digest Award in 1998. Vaughan received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2018.
Casting
As a baby, Eric was portrayed by Rory Beauregard (October 19, 1984 to May 30, 1985) and Jesse Davis (December 6, 1985 to March 17, 1986). Child actor Edward Palma appeared briefly when Eric was rapidly-aged about two years (August 7 to September 9, 1986), and then child actor Bradley Hallock played Eric over an almost six-year period (December 18, 1986 to July 1, 1992). In 1997, Scotty Hauser portrayed Eric in a voiceover.
Jensen Ackles took up the role of Eric as a regular player on July 28, 1997. Ackles had auditioned for the role of Eric several times before he was actually hired. The extensive process led to him rethinking his budding career as an actor. In the summer of 2000, during an interview Soap Opera Digest, Ackles revealed he would soon exit from the series after obtaining a development deal with ABC. Ackles' final appearance was on August 23, 2000, but Ackles thought that he might return. In December 2000, it was reported that NBC had approached Ackles to reprise the role in early 2001, but he had respectfully declined. Reports also surfaced that the producers had considered actor Shane McDermott, who was previously known for his portrayal of Scott Chandler on ABC's All My Children to take over the role, but executive producer Ken Corday shot down the rumors, saying there were no plans to recast the role.
In February 2011, it was reported that Greg Vaughan, known for his roles as General Hospitals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Poutanen | Elias Poutanen (also known by his alias Olmoor) is a former host/computer-game critic. He has worked for the magazine Pelaaja and for a number of related television programmes. Though officially a Finnish citizen, he was born in Australia.
He started out as the replacement for Thomas Puha who previously hosted the programme called Play on MoonTV. The name of the show was changed to Player during this transition. He became noted by some fans as the channel's cute nerd. He remained the official host for all console-gaming involved shows until MoonTV's cancellation in the early summer of 2003.
After MoonTV's demise, Poutanen appeared only abruptly on television. Though, he resurfaced as a critic on the show Play on Nelonen, hosted by former MoonTV personnel, Thomas Puha and Miika Huttunen. Towards the end of the show's run in 2005, Poutanen ended up replacing the show's female hosts who became either sick or unavailable for other reasons. Throughout its second season, Play's ratings were not promising and as the show's cancellation became evident, Poutanen was made its permanent host for the remaining last episodes.
On the final episode, he interviewed Jarno Sarkula, another former MoonTV host and game-critic.
References
Finnish television presenters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere%20%28website%29 | Sphere was a blog search engine. The Sphere search engine delivered blog posts based on algorithms that combine semantic matching with authority factors to deliver results relevant to the search query.
Sphere also organized bloggers by topic.
The company produced an application called Sphere It! allowing users to seek blog posts related to news articles based on the contents of a particular web page they're viewing. The function was accessed from a browser navigation bar plug-in. Upon clicking the plug-in button, a semantic analysis was performed on the text within the page and blog posts related to the text of the article were returned. The search engine required that JavaScript is turned on in the visitor's browser.
Sphere had a variety of content distribution venues among major publishers where blog results from Sphere were presented, contextually, within news stories or other content.
Sphere was founded by Tony Conrad, CEO, Martin Remy, CTO, Steve Nieker, CIO and Toni Schneider, Advisor. The company was based in San Francisco, CA.
In April, 2008, Sphere was acquired by AOL to be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary.
In 2010, Sphere was merged into AOL News.
See also
Bloglines
Technorati
References
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Defunct internet search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Pagbabago | () is a 2006 Philippine television reality show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Diana Zubiri and Alfred Vargas, it premiered on July 10, 2006. The show concluded on September 1, 2006 with a total of 40 episodes.
References
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colel%20Chabad | Colel Chabad () was founded in 1788 and is the oldest continuously operating charity in Israel. The institution runs a network of soup kitchens and food banks, dental and medical clinics, daycare centers, widow and orphan support, and immigrant assistance programs. It also provides interest-free loans, camp scholarships, career training and job placement, subsidized weddings for the poor, and many other social-welfare projects.
Colel Chabad was founded by the first Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, and was headed by each Lubavitcher Rebbe thereafter. It is also known as the charity of Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes. Its current director is Rabbi Sholom Duchman.
In 2005, Colel Chabad ranked #117 among the top Canadian registered charities by expenditures outside Canada, with $2,623,290 in expenditures.
Services
Colel Chabad presently operates 19 soup kitchens in Israel: 3 in Jerusalem, 3 in Safed, 4 in Ashdod, 4 in Lod, and one each in Ashkelon, Beersheva, Dimona, Ramle, and Yerucham. These kitchens feed 3,000 poor and elderly people daily. One of the Jerusalem soup kitchens is located directly opposite the Western Wall.
A Meals on Wheels program delivers 1,500 meals daily to the homebound, sick and elderly through five kitchens nationwide.
The charity's food banks, constituting Israel's largest food-bank network, distribute crates of foodstuffs to 5,000 impoverished families monthly and 25,000 families before Passover and Rosh Hashana. The charity also distributes 700 brown-bag lunches to poor children in Safed schools.
In 2009, Colel Chabad opened its own chain of at-cost stores located in Beitar Illit, Bnei Brak, and Safed. An estimated 12,000–15,000 shoppers per month patronize the stores, realizing savings of 30–40% off groceries and cleaning supplies.
Colel Chabad sponsors several medical centers serving the poor. These include the Grabski Multiple Sclerosis Center in Migdal HaEmek, the Grabski Pediatric Dental Clinic in Safed and the Konigsberg Pediatric Dental Clinic in Jerusalem, and two mobile pediatric dental clinics that travel to low-income, outlying communities which lack dental clinics of their own.
Colel Chabad also pioneered the concept of hospital summer camps. Volunteers bring counselors, activities, carnivals, music, and arts and crafts directly to hospitalized children.
Colel Chabad daycare centers are located in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beitar Illit, Rishon LeZion, and Safed. These centers care for over 750 children ages 6 months to 5 years daily.
Colel Chabad has a separate division catering to the needs of widows and orphans. It provides food, clothing and social services for nearly 300 widows and more than 620 children annually. It also arranges tutors for more than 800 children, regular physical testing of each child, and home visits by social workers.
Each summer, Colel Chabad runs a two-week widows' therapeutic retreat while caring for participants' children in summer camps.
Colel Chabad offers absorption s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFM%20Holiday%20Network | The SFM Holiday Network was an 'occasional' network from SFM Media which aired on holiday weekends (such as the 4th of July, Christmas, etc.) from 1978 until 1991.
The network would usually clear 88% of the U.S.
History
After the success of the Mobil Showcase Network, SFM Media launched its own occasional network, SFM Holiday Network in 1978. For 1982, 11 films were scheduled by the network. In 1983, the Network started its season in March with 150 stations.
Format
Popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher hosted the show (his company was a main sponsor of the Holiday Network), in special segments with his grandson. The theme song used for many of the SFM Holiday Network broadcasts, including the commercial "bumpers", was Johnny Pearson's "Heavy Action", which was also used as the instrumental theme for Monday Night Football.
Programs
SFM would arrange for programming by giving part of the advertising to the movie companies, while the station would get about half the ad time. SFM would end up with 7.5 to 15 minutes of advertising time to sell for each 2 to 3 hour movie.
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
King of the Khyber Rifles (January 15–17, 1982)
Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)
See also
Mobil Showcase Network
Fourth television network
External links
SFM Entertainment official site
References
1978 American television series debuts
1991 American television series endings
American motion picture television series
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
1970s American television series
1980s American television series
1990s American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer%20machine | In theoretical computer science, a pointer machine is an atomistic abstract computational machine whose storage structure is a graph. A pointer algorithm could also be an algorithm restricted to the pointer machine model.
Some particular types of pointer machines are called a linking automaton, a KU-machine, an SMM, an atomistic LISP machine, a tree-pointer machine, etc.
Pointer machines do not have arithmetic instructions. Computation proceeds only by reading input symbols, modifying and doing various tests on its storage structure—the pattern of nodes and pointers, and outputting symbols based on the tests. In this sense, the model is similar to the Turing machine.
Types of "pointer machines"
Both Gurevich and Ben-Amram list a number of very similar "atomistic" models of "abstract machines"; Ben-Amram believes that the "atomistic models" must be distinguished from "high-level" models. The following atomistic models will be presented below:
Schönhage's storage modification machines (SMM),
Kolmogorov–Uspenskii machines (KUM or KU-Machines).
Ben-Amram also presents the following varieties, not further discussed in this article:
Atomistic pure-LISP machine (APLM)
Atomistic full-LISP machine (AFLM),
General atomistic pointer machines,
Jone's I language (two types).
Schönhage's storage modification machine (SMM) model
The following presentation follows van Emde Boas.<ref name="vEB">Peter van Emde Boas, Machine Models and Simulations pp. 3–66 in: Jan van Leeuwen, ed. "Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. Volume A: Algorithms and Complexity, The MIT PRESS/Elsevier, 1990. (volume A).</ref>
The machine consists of a fixed alphabet of input symbols, a fixed program, and a mutable directed graph with its arrows labelled by alphabet symbols. The graph is the machine's storage. Each node of the graph has exactly one outgoing arrow labelled with each symbol, although some of these may loop back into the original node. One fixed node of the graph is identified as the start or "active" node.
Each word of symbols in the alphabet can then be translated to a pathway through the machine; for example, 10011 would translate to taking edge 1 from the start node, then edge 0 from the resulting node, then edge 0, then edge 1, then edge 1. Thus a word identifies a node, the final node of the path, but this identification will change as the graph changes during the computation.
The machine can receive instructions which change the layout of the graph. The basic instructions are:
(1) new w instruction, which creates a new node at the end of the path w, with all its edges directed to the next-to-last node in w.
(2) set w to v instruction which (re)directs an edge to a different node. Here w and v represent words. The instruction results in changing the destination of the last edge in the path w.
(3) If v = w then instruction z : Conditional instruction that compares two paths represented by words w and v to see if they end at the same node; if so j |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amie%20Street | Amie Street was an indie online music store and social network service created in 2006 by Brown University seniors Elliott Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch, in Providence, Rhode Island. The site was notable for its demand-based pricing. The company was later moved to Long Island City in Queens, New York. In late 2010, the site was sold to Amazon who redirected customers to their own website.
History
Founded in early 2006, Amie Street opened to the public with a pre-alpha version on July 4, 2006, and was quickly scooped by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. It grew and creating partnerships with various record labels including CD Baby, The Orchard, Nettwerk Music Group, and Daptone Records. A beta version was launched on October 4, 2006. On December 11, 2007, Amie Street Japan launched in partnership with Turbolinux.
On August 5, 2007, Amie Street announced a site redesign and, led by Amazon.com, closed their Series A round of venture capital funding. Notable angel investors include Robin Richards, former president of MP3.com and David Hirsch, director of Google's B2B vertical markets group.
In an email to Amie Street members on September 8, 2010, the website announced it would be redirecting all customers to Amazon.com starting on September 22, 2010, and ceasing to operate as amiestreet.com. Amie Street members had until September 22 to spend any credit they currently have with Amie Street, as it did not transfer to Amazon. Amazon shut down Amie Street soon after.
Website features
Artists could upload their music directly to the site in MP3 format at whatever quality bit rate they choose, but when a record label or music distributor requires Amie Street to encode the music, they strive to achieve an average bit rate of 256 kbit/s using a variable bitrate. (Other formats such as AAC, FLAC, and Ogg are "on the way.") As users buy songs, the artist is credited quarterly. Artists keep 70% of the proceeds after US$5 in sales for each song. Albums were priced at the current total cost for each individual song on the album, capped at US$8.98 in most cases. PayPal, Payoneer prepaid MasterCards, or checks were used to make payments to artists.
Amie Street used an algorithm to determine song prices based on demand. The price for a track started at zero when a song was uploaded, then rose according to demand and purchases of the song. The maximum price was 98¢.
A ringtone service was announced on September 17, 2007, with variable pricing.
On May 15, 2007, the web series lonelygirl15 teamed up with Amie Street to sell music featured in episodes of the show.
RECs
Non-artist users could earn credit as well. They did this by RECing a song. When a user finds a song they believe will be a hit, they can REC it. If the song price increased from the moment they REC it, they will receive compensation based on the price increase. For example, if one RECs a song currently at 5¢ and it rises to 95¢, the user will cash out half the just for RECing the song. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Caves | City of Caves is a visitor attraction in Nottingham based on a network of caves, carved out of sandstone that have been variously used over the years as a tannery, public house cellars, and as an air raid shelter. The caves are listed as a scheduled monument by Historic England under the name Caves at Drury Hill, Drury Hill being the medieval street under which they were formerly located until it was demolished to make way for the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre. The newer City of Caves name refers to the fact that the city of Nottingham has hundreds of man-made caves, which have been in use for over a thousand years.
The City of Caves was accessed from the upper level of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre but can currently be accessed from Garner's Hill due to construction works in the Broadmarsh Centre, scheduled to finish in 2021. The attraction, part of the National Justice Museum, has been run by the Egalitarian Trust since opening 2004.
History
Nottingham sits upon a soft sandstone ridge which can easily be dug with simple hand tools to create artificial cave dwellings. Indeed, Nottingham was described as Tig Guocobauc in Old Brythonic meaning Place of Caves by the Welsh Bishop of Sherborne Asser in his The Life of King Alfred (893). The caves here are some of the oldest remaining in the city, with pottery finds dating some of them to 1270–1300, and were inhabited from at least the 17th century until 1845 when the St. Mary's Inclosure Act banned the renting of cellars and caves as homes for the poor. None of the caves are natural; they were all cut into the sandstone for use as houses, cellars and places of work by the inhabitants of the city.
more than 800 caves in the city have been catalogued by Nottingham's City Archaeologist, Scott Lomax, including approximately 200 that were only rediscovered, through research by the City Archaeologist, since 2016.
Construction of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre began in the late 1960s, but the opening up of the caves to vandals and plans to fill them in with concrete caused a public outcry. A detailed study by Nottingham City Council, assisted by The Nottingham Historical Arts Society, led to the caves being scheduled as an ancient monument and the development plans were subsequently changed to preserve most of the caves. The caves were cleared by volunteers from the 2418 Sherwood Squadron Air Training Corps and Rushcliffe School and opened to public tours by the Friends of Nottingham Museum in 1978.
Caves in Nottingham from medieval to now
Medieval tannery
Two caves cut into the cliff face and opening out to daylight housed the only known underground tannery in Britain. The Pillar Cave was originally cut around 1250 but had been filled in by a rockfall by 1400. It was cleared and reopened as part of the tannery in 1500, with circular pits cut to hold barrels. A second cave was also cut with rectangular clay-lined vats. The small size of the vats in these caves indicates that they were probably used fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20Theatre%20Group | Center Theatre Group is a non-profit arts organization located in Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest theatre companies in the nation, programming subscription seasons year-round at the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Center Theatre Group is led by Artistic Director Michael Ritchie and Managing Director/CEO Meghan Pressman.
Premieres include:
Me and Bessie
9 to 5
Angels in America
Biloxi Blues
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Children of a Lesser God
Curtains
Flower Drum Song (revival)
Smokey Joe's Cafe
The Drowsy Chaperone
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Water and Power
Sleeping Beauty Wakes
13
Zoot Suit
Marjorie Prime
Chavez Ravine
Awards and nominations
External links
Official website
League of Resident Theatres
Tony Award winners
Regional theatre in the United States
Theatre companies in Los Angeles
Performing groups established in 1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%20tee | A bias tee is a three-port network used for setting the DC bias point of some electronic components without disturbing other components. The bias tee is a diplexer. The low-frequency port is used to set the bias; the high-frequency port passes the radio-frequency signals but blocks the biasing levels; the combined port connects to the device, which sees both the bias and RF. It is called a tee because the 3 ports are often arranged in the shape of a T.
Design
Conceptually, the bias tee can be viewed as an ideal capacitor that allows AC through but blocks the DC bias and an ideal inductor that blocks AC but allows DC. Although some bias tees can be made with a simple inductor and capacitor, wideband bias tees are considerably more complicated because practical components have parasitic elements.
Bias tees are designed for transmission-line environments. Typically, the characteristic impedance will be 50 Ohms or 75 Ohms. The impedance of the capacitor () is chosen to be much less than , and the impedance of the inductor () is chosen to be much greater than :
where is the angular frequency (in radians per second) and is the frequency (in Hertz).
Bias tees are designed to operate over a range of signal frequencies. The reactances are chosen to have minimal impact at the lowest frequency.
For wide-range bias tees, the inductive reactance must be large in value, even at the lowest frequency, hence the dimensions of the inductor must be large in size. A large inductor will have a stray capacitance (which creates its self-resonant frequency). At a high enough frequency, the stray capacitance presents a low-impedance shunt path for the RF signal, and the bias tee becomes ineffective. Practical wide-band bias tees must use elaborate circuit topologies to avoid the shunt path. Instead of one inductor, there will be a string of inductors in series, each with its own high resonant frequency, in addition to lower composite resonances shared between them. Additional resistors and capacitors will be inserted to prevent resonances. For example, a Picosecond Pulse Labs model 5580 bias tee works from 10 kHz to 15 GHz. Consequently, the simple design would need an inductance of at least 800 μH ( about 50 ohms at 10 kHz), and that inductor must still look like an inductor at 15 GHz. However, a typical commercial 820 μH inductor has a self-resonant frequency near 1.8 MHz – four orders of magnitude too low.
Johnson gives an example of a wideband microstrip bias tee covering 50 kHz to 1 GHz using four inductors (330 nH, 910 nH, 18 μH, and 470 μH) in series. His design cribbed from a commercial bias tee. He modeled parasitic element values, simulated results, and optimized component selection. To show the advantage of additional components, Johnson provided a simulation of a bias tee that used just inductors and capacitors without suppression. Johnson provides both simulated and actual performance details. Girardi duplicated and improved on Johnson's design a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurow%20Branch | The Kurow Branch (also known as the Hakataramea Branch) was part of New Zealand's national rail network. In the North Otago region of the South Island, it was built in the 1870s to open up the land behind Oamaru for development, and closed in 1983.
Construction
The branch started as a tramway when the Awamoko Tramway Company was formed in 1873. Construction of a tramway from the Main South Line at Awamoko (now Pukeuri) to Duntroon commenced the next year with approval from the Otago provincial government. In 1875, after the realisation that tramway standards were not sufficient for the line's purposes, an upgrade to railway standards commenced. Almost everything that had already been constructed had to be rebuilt; the rails were too light, the sleepers were too small, and insufficient ballast had been laid. Nonetheless, only a fortnight after reconstruction began, the official opening ceremony took place on 1 December 1875. Freight trains did not begin running for another three weeks, and passengers were not carried until 16 August 1876, when the reconstruction programme had been completed. The line had not reached Duntroon; it terminated on the opposite (east) bank of the Maerewhenua River due to bridging difficulties.
The Duntroon and Hakataramea Railway Company was formed in 1878 after the 1877 District Railways Act was passed, with the intention of building a railway from Duntroon to Kurow and then further up the Waitaki Valley. Construction commenced in 1879, the Maerewhenua River was bridged on 2 July 1881, and when the Waitaki River was bridged on 7 November 1881 the line was completed to Hakataramea, 1.76 km beyond Kurow by rail on the northern side of the Waitaki. There were plans to extend to a proposed town that was to have 10,000 residents, but the town never came to fruition and Hakataramea remained the terminus. The Duntroon and Hakataramea Railway Company did not purchase its own equipment; the branch was always operated by the New Zealand Railways Department. This arrangement lasted for over three years while the company and government disputed ownership, primarily due to the fact the line terminated at Hakataramea rather than being built to the full extent of original plans. The government purchased the line in April 1885 and charged a tariff beyond Duntroon until 1897.
Further construction took place in 1928, when the Public Works Department built 6.4 kilometres of railway from Kurow to the site of the Waitaki hydro-electric dam. This line was never owned or operated by NZR, though NZR trains did occasionally use it, when a Public Works Department locomotive took over from Kurow. Works and freight services began on 20 December 1928 and passengers were carried from 25 February 1929.
Stations
The following stations were on the branch. In brackets is the distance from the junction at Pukeuri:
Papakaio (6.94 km)
Gibsons (10.18 km)
Peebles (12.75 km) - gravel pits west of the station.
Aitchisons (17.52 km)
Uxbridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOUB-FM | WOUB-FM (91.3 MHz) is a public radio station in Athens, Ohio. Owned by Ohio University, it is the flagship of a five-station network known as Ohio University Public Radio. The studios and offices are on South College Street in Athens.
WOUB-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts, the current maximum for Ohio FM stations. The transmitter is on Bittersweet Lane, near Ohio State Route 56 in Athens, co-located with the tower for WOUB-TV 20.
Programming
By day, WOUB-FM airs mostly news and informational programs, many from NPR. Daytime shows include Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here and Now, 1A and Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
At night, it broadcasts music shows, focusing on a mix of musical genres: Adult Album Alternative, Bluegrass, Americana and World Music. Nighttime music shows include Crossing Boundaries, World Cafe, The Thistle & Shamrock, Afropop Worldwide and Mountain Stage.
History
WOUB debuted in 1942 as WOUI, a carrier current station broadcasting from Ewing Hall on the Ohio University campus. It became a fully licensed FM station, signing on the air on . On July 10, 1959, it changed its call sign to WOUB-FM.
In its early years, it aired educational programs and classical music. Many of the voices were students or staff at the university. In 1963, WOUB-TV channel 20 made its debut. WOUB-FM later became a member of National Public Radio and added its news and music shows to its line up.
Rebroadcasters
The station serves most of southern and southeastern Ohio, plus portions of neighboring West Virginia and Kentucky, through a network of repeater stations:
Ohio University Public Radio also operates WOUB AM 1340, which offers a public radio schedule different from FM.
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External links
Ohio University Public Radio
FCC History Cards for WOUB-FM
OUB
Ironton, Ohio
Ohio University
NPR member stations
Mass media in Athens, Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Community%20College%20System | The North Carolina Community College System (System Office) is a statewide network of 58 public community colleges. The system enrolls nearly 600,000 students annually. It also provides the North Carolina Learning Object Repository as a central location to manage, collect, contribute, and share digital learning resources for use in traditional or distance-learning environments.
History
In the years following World War II, North Carolina began a rapid shift from an agricultural to an industrial economy. With that change came an awareness that a different kind of education was needed in the state. People who did not desire a four-year baccalaureate education nevertheless had the need for more than a high-school diploma.
In 1950, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction authorized a study of the need for a system of tax-supported community colleges. The resulting report, by Dr. Allan S. Hurlburt, was published in 1952. It proposed a plan for development of state supported community colleges. In 1957, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted the first Community College Act and provided funding for community colleges.
The same (1957) General Assembly also provided funding to initiate a statewide system of industrial education centers, to train adults and selected high-school students in skills needed by industry. By 1961, the five public junior colleges were emphasizing arts and sciences, and seven industrial education centers were focusing on technical and vocational education.
In 1961, North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford appointed a Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School with Irving E. Carlyle as its chairman. Commonly referred to as the "Carlyle Commission", the body produced a set of proposals in August 1962 aimed at increasing college enrollment in North Carolina. One of its recommendations was the consolidation of the state's "public junior colleges" and "industrial education centers" under a single system of community colleges. In May 1963, the General Assembly responded by creating a Department of Community Colleges under the State Board of Education.
By 1966, 43 institutions had 28,250 full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments. In 1969, 54 institutions had 59,329 FTEs. The system had grown very rapidly, exceeding 10% annually nearly every year until the late 1970s; in 1974–75, growth reached 33%. The system continues to grow in enrollments nearly every year, but by much more modest margins. The number of colleges has not increased since Brunswick Community College became the 58th in 1978. In 1991, the North Carolina Center for Applied Textile Technology became subject to the management of the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges. In July 2005, Gaston College, part of the North Carolina Community College System, absorbed the textile center.
The original legislation placed the community college system under the purview of the State Board of Education, and created a State Department of Community Col |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20Data%20Group | The Particle Data Group (PDG) is an international collaboration of particle physicists that compiles and reanalyzes published results related to the properties of particles and fundamental interactions. It also publishes reviews of theoretical results that are phenomenologically relevant, including those in related fields such as cosmology. The PDG currently publishes the Review of Particle Physics and its pocket version, the Particle Physics Booklet, which are printed biennially as books, and updated annually via the World Wide Web.
In previous years, the PDG has published the Pocket Diary for Physicists, a calendar with the dates of key international conferences and contact information of major high energy physics institutions, which is now discontinued. PDG also further maintains the standard numbering scheme for particles in event generators, in association with the event generator authors.
Review of Particle Physics
The Review of Particle Physics (formerly Review of Particle Properties, Data on Particles and Resonant States, and Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States) is a voluminous, 1,200+ page reference work which summarizes particle properties and reviews the current status of elementary particle physics, general relativity and big-bang cosmology. Usually singled out for citation analysis, it is currently the most cited article in high energy physics, being cited more than 2,000 times annually in the scientific literature ().
The Review is currently divided into 3 sections:
Particle Physics Summary Tables—Brief tables of particles: gauge and higgs bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, baryons, constraints for the search for hypothetical particles and violation of physical laws.
Reviews, Tables and Plots—Review of fundamental concepts from mathematics and statistics, table of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, periodic table of elements, table of electronic configuration of the elements, brief table of material properties, review of current status in the fields of Standard Model, Cosmology, and experimental method of particle physics, and with tables of fundamental physical and astronomical constants (many from CODATA and the Astronomical Almanac).
Particle Listings—Comprehensive version of the Particle Physics Summary Tables, with all significant measurements fully referenced.
A condensed version of the Review, with the Summary Tables, a significantly shortened Reviews, Tables and Plots, and without the Particle Listings, is available as a 300-page, pocket-sized Particle Physics Booklet.
The history of Review of Particle Physics can be traced back to the 1957 article Hyperons and Heavy Mesons (Systematics and Decay) by Murray Gell-Mann and Arthur H. Rosenfeld, and the unpublished update tables for its data with the title Data for Elementary Particle Physics (University of California Radiation Laboratory Technical Report UCRL-8030) that were circulated before the actual publication of the original article. In 1963, Matts Roos inde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiprix | Familiprix is a Canadian group of independent pharmacists. , Familiprix consists of almost 400 pharmacies with over $1 billion in retail sales. Familiprix's network employs more than 6,000 and covers all of Quebec and part of New Brunswick. The banner's pharmacies are organized by surface area into three categories: clinic, commercial, and extra. Familiprix is the 29th largest company in Quebec's top 500 list and is among the 150 most admired companies in Quebec.
History
Médico-Prix started in 1977 in Eastern Quebec. It was renamed Familiprix on 17 October 1979. In the mid-1990s, it expanded into Montreal. In 2001, Familiprix acquires a large piece of land in the Armand-Viau industrial park in Québec City for its new head office and distribution centre in order to centralize its operations. The distribution centre was expended in 2009 and in 2018.
During the 2000s, actor Sylvain Marcel became the star of a series of Familiprix humorous TV commercials and Familiprix's corporate website. He plays a pharmacist in a white lab coat that blends in everyday situations, only to suddenly yell "Ah-ha! Familiprix!" when the help of a pharmacist is needed: when a shopper bangs herself against a window, when an ex-smoker bums a cigarette or when a young couple is home alone for the week-end. The signature song of these ad campaigns is Huey "Piano" Smith's "Don't You Just Know It."
References
External links
Official Website
Companies based in Quebec City
Canadian pharmacy brands
Retail companies established in 1977
1977 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Barto | Andrew G. Barto (born 1948) is an American computer scientist, currently Professor Emeritus of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Barto is best known for his foundational contributions to the field of modern computational reinforcement learning.
Early life and education
Barto received his B.S. with distinction in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970, after having initially majored in naval architecture and engineering. After reading work by Michael Arbib and McCulloch and Pitts he became interested in using computers and mathematics to model the brain, and five years later was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science for a thesis on cellular automata.
Career
In 1977, Barto joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a postdoctoral research associate, was promoted to associate professor in 1982, and full professor in 1991. He was department chair from 2007 to 2011 and a core faculty member of the Neuroscience and Behavior program.
During this time at UMass, Barto co-directed the Autonomous Learning Laboratory (initially the Adaptive Network Laboratory), which generated several key ideas in reinforcement learning. Richard Sutton, with whom he co-authored the influential book Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (MIT Press 1998; 2nd edition 2018), was his first PhD student. Barto graduated 27 PhD students, thirteen of which went on to become professors.
Barto published over one hundred papers or chapters in journals, books, and conference and workshop proceedings. He is co-author with Richard Sutton of the book Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, MIT Press 1998 (2nd edition 2018), and co-editor with Jennie Si, Warren Powell, and Don Wunch II of the Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004.
Awards and honors
Barto is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow and Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Society for Neuroscience.
Barto was awarded the UMass Neurosciences Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019, the IEEE Neural Network Society Pioneer Award in 2004, and the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, 2017. His citation for the latter read:Professor Barto is recognized for his groundbreaking and impactful research in both the theory and application of reinforcement learning.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
1940s births
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Artificial intelligence researchers
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Towsley%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Donald Fred Towsley (born 1949) is an American computer scientist who has been a
distinguished university professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His research interests include network measurement, modeling, and analysis. Towsley currently serves as editor-in-chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. He is currently the chair of the IFIP Working Group 7.3 on computer performance measurement, modeling, and analysis. He has also served on numerous editorial boards, including those of IEEE Transactions on Communications and Performance Evaluation. He has been active in the program committees for numerous conferences, including IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, and IFIP Performance conferences for many years, and has served as technical program co-chair for ACM SIGMETRICS and Performance conferences. He has received the 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Award, the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, the 1999 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett Award, and several conference/workshop best paper awards. He is also the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal and the Outstanding Research Award from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts. He is one of the founders of the Computer Performance Foundation.
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American computer scientists
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1949 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxburgh%20Branch | The Roxburgh Branch was a branch line railway built in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island that formed part of the country's national rail network. Originally known as the Lawrence Branch, it was one of the longest construction projects in New Zealand railway history, beginning in the 1870s and not finished until 1928. The full line was closed in 1968.
Construction
The original reason for the line's construction was to provide better transport access to Lawrence, then known as Tuapeka, the site of New Zealand's first significant discovery of gold. Contracts for construction were let by mid-1873, and work on the line was well under way by the next year, with a junction with the Main South Line established at Clarksville. Slips and contractor bankruptcies presented delays, but on 22 January 1877, the line opened to Waitahuna, followed by Lawrence on 2 April 1877, 35.27 km from Clarksville.
Calls were made to extend the Lawrence Branch further, with some proposals suggesting a route via Roxburgh could serve as the railway to Alexandra and Central Otago in general (instead, the Otago Central Railway followed a more circuitous route via the Taieri and Maniototo). Decades passed until approval was granted to extend the line beyond its Lawrence terminus, with the next section to Big Hill (location of a tunnel between the Bowlers Flat and Craigellachie stations) opened on 4 October 1910. Upon completion of the Big Hill tunnel, the line was opened to Beaumont on 15 December 1914, but World War I delayed construction and the next section to Millers Flat was not opened until 16 December 1925. The line was finally completed when the section from Millers Flat to Roxburgh was opened on 18 April 1928. A modified form of the proposal to use Roxburgh as the route to Central Otago resurfaced, proposing that the branch be extended to meet the Central Otago Railway in Alexandra, but this did not come to fruition.
The junction of the Roxburgh Branch with the Main South Line did not always remain in Clarksville. In 1907, an extension of 2.8 km was built alongside the Main South Line into Milton to provide for better operation, and until this extension was closed on 19 September 1960, Milton rather than Clarksville acted as the junction.
Stations
The following stations were located on the Roxburgh Branch (in brackets is the distance from Clarksville):
Glenore (5 km)
Mount Stuart (8 km)
Manuka (11 km)
Round Hill (16 km)
Johnstone (20 km)
Waitahuna (24 km)
Forsyth (29 km)
Lawrence(35 km)
Evans Flat (41 km)
Bowlers Creek (44 km)
Craigellachie (52 km)
Beaumont (56 km)
Craig Flat (68 km)
Rigney (71 km)
Minzion (76 km)
Millers Flat (79 km)
Teviot (88 km)
Roxburgh (95 km)
Six of these stations possessed goods sheds and eight had cattle and sheep yards.
Operation
Like many other branch lines in rural New Zealand, the line typically operated with one mixed train of passengers and freight each way per day. Roxburgh is located in an imp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Big%20Girl | "Little Big Girl" is the twelfth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 2007. It was written by Don Payne, and directed by Raymond S. Persi. Natalie Portman guest starred as a new character, Darcy. The title is a play on the Dustin Hoffman movie Little Big Man. The last time the title was parodied was in season 11's "Little Big Mom."
Plot
At his farm, Cletus is milking his cow when he accidentally kicks over a lantern, prompting a series of Rube Goldberg-esque events that leads to a chicken starting a fire. Cletus's cow succeeds in extinguishing the fire, but Cletus drops his smoking pipe, leading to a wildfire around Springfield. The townspeople try to extinguish it, to no avail. At Springfield Elementary, Principal Skinner asks Groundskeeper Willie to get the fire extinguisher, but all of them have been stolen by Bart to propel his wagon. As Bart rockets around town, the foam released from the extinguishers puts out the wildfire. Bart is cheered as a hero by everyone and rewarded with a driver's license by Mayor Quimby.
Bart starts using Homer's car for his own pleasure, but is eventually tabbed for family errands, mostly chauffeuring Homer. After many inappropriate requests, Bart flees to North Haverbrook, where he meets a 15-year-old girl named Darcy, who believes Bart is much older. They begin a romantic relationship and Darcy soon proposes marriage. At the court house, Bart reveals his age, whereupon Darcy reveals that she is pregnant, much to Bart's depression. Darcy admits that Bart is not the father as they have not consummated the relationship - the real father is a Norwegian exchange student, and she wants to get married because her parents would be upset about her premarital pregnancy. Bart agrees to marry Darcy, and they drive to Utah, where marriage restrictions are looser and they can start a new life together.
Eventually, Homer, Marge and Darcy's parents catch up with them to stop the wedding, where Darcy's father tries to reason with Bart as he believes that Bart took advantage of a girl much older than him and got her pregnant. Darcy confesses to her parents that Bart is not the father, and that she did not want her parents to be disappointed by her pregnancy. Darcy's mother, thrilled, confesses that she is pregnant too, and the family agrees to pass the two babies off as twins. Darcy and Bart end their relationship, while Bart assures her they will meet again, to which she agrees. Later, Bart admits to Homer that he looked forward to being a father, and Homer cheers him up by going with him on a ride around town at night.
In the subplot, when Lisa struggles to find excitement and intrigue in her family heritage for a school presentation, she decides to take creative license. Inspired by Bart's "Indian butter trick" and the well-known kitchen curtains, with their stalks-of-corn pattern, Lisa claims |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cem%20Kaner | Cem Kaner is a professor of software engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an advocate of software usability and software testing.
Prior to his professorship, Kaner worked in the software industry beginning in 1983 in Silicon Valley "as a tester, programmer, tech writer, software development manager, product development director, and independent software development consultant." In 1988, he and his co-authors Jack Falk and Hung Quoc Nguyen published what became, at the time, "the best selling book on software testing," Testing Computer Software. He has also worked as a user interface designer.
In 2004 he cofounded the non-profit Association for Software Testing.
Education
Kaner received a Bachelor's Degree from Brock University in 1974, having focused on mathematics and philosophy. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from McMaster University in 1984, with a dissertation in the area of psychophysics (the measurement of perceptual experiences). He later attended Golden Gate University Law School, with a primary interest in the law of software quality, graduating with a J.D. in 1994.
Consumer and Software Quality Advocacy
Kaner worked as a part-time volunteer for the Santa Clara, California Department of Consumer Affairs, investigating and mediating consumer complaints. In the 1990s, he got trial experience working as a full-time volunteer Deputy District Attorney, and later counselled independent consultants, technical book writers, and independent test labs on contract and intellectual property issues as an attorney. He also did legislative work as a consumer protection advocate, including participation in the drafting of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (as an advocate for customers and small software development firms), and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and he participated in the United States Department of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law: Study Group on Electronic Commerce. In 1999, he was elected to the American Law Institute, after being in practice for only five years.
This experience led him, in collaboration with David Pels, to publish Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails in 1997. This book was intended "to help people who had bought a defective computer program, with advice on troubleshooting their own problems, interacting with technical support, reporting problems to consumer protection agencies, bringing a lawsuit in small claims court, and if necessary, hiring a lawyer to bring a formal lawsuit."
Publications
Books
(with coauthors Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen)
(with coauthor David L. Pels)
(with coauthors Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen) (Received the Award of Excellence from the Society for Technical Communication, Northern California Technical Publications Competition.)
(with coauth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory%20information%20tree | A directory information tree (DIT) is data represented in a hierarchical tree-like structure consisting of the Distinguished Names (DNs) of directory service entries.
Both the X.500 protocols and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) use directory information trees as their fundamental data structure.
Typically, an X.500 or LDAP deployment for a single organization will have a directory information tree that consists of two parts:
a top level name structure for the name of the organization itself
a representation of the data model structure within the organization
Top level naming
The top level of a directory information tree frequently represent political and geographic divisions.
The original assumption of X.500 was that all directory servers would be interconnected to form a single, global namespace. The entries at the top level of the tree corresponded to countries, identified by their ISO 3166 two letter country code. The entries subordinate to a country's entry would correspond to states or provinces, and national organizations. The naming system for a particular country was determined by that country's national standards body or telecommunications provider.
A limitation of the original directory information tree structure was the assumption that applications searching for an entry in a particular organization would navigate the directory tree by first browsing to the particular country where that organization was based, then to the region where that organization was based, then locate the entry for the organization itself, and then search within that organization for the entry in question. The desire to support searching more broadly for an individual person when all the particulars of that person's location or organization were not known led to experiments in directory deployment and interconnection, such as the Common Indexing Protocol.
Today, most LDAP deployments, and in particular Active Directory deployments, are not interconnected into a single global naming space, and do not use national country codes as the basis for naming. Instead, these deployments follow a directory structure which at the top level mirrors that of the Domain Name System, as described by RFC 2247. For example, the entry for an organization with domain name "example.com" would have a distinguished name of dc=example, dc=com, and all entries in that organization's directory information tree would contain that distinguished name suffix.
Organizational structure
The elements of an organization represented in the directory (e.g., people, roles, or devices) in a DIT may be modeled by a variety of techniques. The determining factors include:
requirements of the applications which will be searching and updating the directory
the requirement to provide a unique name for each entry
the desire for stability of the directory structure
the desire for human-readability of the Distinguished Names of entries in the directory
the ease of importi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Varghese | George Varghese (born 1960) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining MSR's lab in Silicon Valley in 2013, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego, where he led the Internet Algorithms Lab and also worked with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Internet Epidemiology. He is the author of the textbook Network Algorithmics, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2004.
Education
Varghese received his B.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981, his M.S. in computer studies from NCSU in 1983 and his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1993, where his advisor was Nancy Lynch. He is a Fellow of the ACM since 2002.
Research
Transparent Bridge Architecture
Before his Ph.D., George spent several years as part of the network architecture and advanced development group at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he wrote the first specification for the first transparent bridge architecture (based on the inventions of Mark Kempf and Radia Perlman). After several iterations and other authors, this became the IEEE 802 bridge specification, a widely implemented standard that is the basis of the billion dollar transparent bridging industry{{According to whom}}. He was also part of the DEC team that invented the Gigaswitch and the Giganet (a precursor to Gigabit Ethernet).
Network Algorithmics
Varghese is best known for helping define network algorithmics, a field of study which resolves networking bottlenecks using interdisciplinary techniques that include changes to hardware and operating systems as well as efficient algorithms.
His contributions to network algorithmics include Deficit Round Robin (co-invented with M. Shreedhar), a scheduling algorithm that is widely used in routers, and timing wheels (with Tony Lauck), an algorithm for fast timers that is used as the basis of fast timers in Linux and FreeBSD.
IP lookup and packet classification
Varghese has also worked extensively on fast IP lookup and packet classification. His work with G. Chandranmenon on Threaded indexes predates the work done at Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks on tag switching. His work on multibit tries (with V. Srinivasan) has been used by a number of companies including Microsoft. His work on scalable IP packet lookup (with Waldvogel and Turner) for longer addresses such as IPv6 is being considered for use by Linux.
George also worked with Eatherton and Dittia on the Tree bitmap IP lookup algorithm that is used in Cisco's CRS-1 router, which many believe to be the fastest router in the world. Tree bitmap and hypercuts (with Sumeet Singh and Florin Baboescu) appear to be among the best algorithms (excluding CAMs) for IP lookup and packet classification today.
Self stabilization
George is also known for his contributions to the theoretical field of self-stabilization (a form of fault-tolerance), where he has helped (with various colleagues) pioneer several general techniques such as local che |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cran | Cran may refer to:
C-RAN, cellular network architecture
CRAN (R programming language)
Cran (unit), of uncleaned herring
Representative Council of France's Black Associations
Surname
Chris Cran (born 1949), a Canadian painter
James Cran (born 1944), a British politician
Places
Rivière des Sept Crans, a river in Quebec, Canada
Rivière du Cran, a river in Quebec, Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transterm | Transterm is a database of mRNA sequences, codon usage, and associated cis-regulatory elements that regulate gene expression. Many of these elements are in the 3' UTR. Transterm is a database provided by the Biochemistry department of The University of Otago. Transterm is used to look at the protein binding sites within mRNA. Transterm is continually updated based upon results in peer-reviewed journals.
References
External links
Transterm database online
Biological databases
Biology websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K25AL | K25AL was a television station serving Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It broadcast in analog on UHF channel 25 as an independent station. Formerly a Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) affiliate until 2018, K25AL was locally owned by Lake Havasu Christian Television. The station's transmitter was located near downtown Lake Havasu City.
History
An original construction permit for a low-power station on channel 25 was issued on July 10, 1984 to Lake Havasu Christian Television. Given the call sign K25AL, it was licensed on October 1, 1985 and upgraded its license to Class A on September 10, 2001. On October 19, 2007, the station was granted a construction permit to flash cut to digital, good for three years. The station surrendered its class A license to the Federal Communications Commission on April 8, 2013, reverting to a standard low-power license.
On July 20, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission cancelled the license for K25AL, as it did not convert to digital operation prior to the July 13, 2021 deadline.
Programming
K25AL broadcast the entire TBN schedule.
In the late 1980, K25AL broadcast locally produced programming in conjunction with Lake Havasu High School. K25AL broadcast a weekly student produced newscast called "Knight Life News". Segments were shot in the field, and student anchors introduced segments and performed interviews in a studio located in "I-Hall" on the LHHS campus. K25AL also owned a field production truck, mostly used to broadcast LHHS football games. Both home and away games were switched live to tape using a three camera setup. The recorded games were broadcast the following day. K25AL also occasionally broadcast LHHS basketball games and other city events such as the London Bridge Days parade. It is unknown when K25AL stopped producing local programming. The field production truck was still parked at K25AL as of November 2010.
K25AL also ran some syndicated programming in the '80s, such as fishing programs.
References
External links
Trinity Broadcasting Network
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Religious television stations in the United States
25AL
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Arizona
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
2021 disestablishments in Arizona
25AL
Television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Steph%20Show | The Steph Show is an Australian reality television series starring singer and actress Stephanie McIntosh. The show premiered on Australian TV at 6pm 28 July 2006 on Network Ten. The show, in the same vein as The Ashlee Simpson Show, had cameras following McIntosh as she recorded her debut album Tightrope which was released on 9 September 2006. The first single "Mistake" was released the day after the season premiere. The theme song is "Tightrope" by Stephanie McIntosh. The last episode is to coincide with the release of "Tightrope".
The final show was aired on 15 September 2006. The finale included McIntosh shooting the music video for "Tightrope".
References
External links
Stephanie McIntosh - Official site
Stephanie Mcintosh Myspace - Official Myspace
- Official Site
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2006 Australian television series debuts
2006 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunback%20and%20Makareao%20Branches | The Dunback and Makareao Branches were two connected branch line railways, part of New Zealand's national rail network. Located in the Otago region of the South Island, both lines were 15 km in length and shared the first 11 km. The Dunback Branch, also known as the Waihemo Branch, opened in 1885 and closed in 1968; the Makareao Branch, also known as the Inch Valley Railway or the Inch Valley Branch, opened in 1900 and operated for 89 years to 1989.
Construction
The first few kilometres of the Dunback Branch were under construction by March 1880 to access a deposit of shingle for use on railway construction and maintenance elsewhere and in operation by 1882. This spur left the Main South Line just north of Palmerston with its points facing south towards Palmerston station. These initial kilometres were built with a further extension in mind, and by 1884 work on completing the line to Dunback was under way. The branch followed the Shag River, and on 29 August 1885 it was formally opened. An extension of this line to Ranfurly and beyond was proposed as a possible route for a railway to Central Otago, but the route of the Otago Central Railway ultimately reached Ranfurly by passing through the Taieri and Maniototo regions.
The Makareao Branch followed approximately 15 years later, with the four kilometres of track constructed by the Public Works Department and opened on 31 March 1900. Its ownership passed through a series of government departments before ultimately coming under the control of New Zealand Railways. This line was built through a rural district, serving no towns or localities; it was built solely to access a lime works and had a steep climb from its junction with the Dunback Branch at Inch Valley to the terminus in Makareao.
Stations
The following stations were on the Dunback and Makareao Branches (in brackets is the distance from Palmerston):
Meadowbank (4.38 km) - loop for 14 wagons, name sometimes spelt "Meadow Bank".
Glenpark (7.23 km) - loop for 31 wagons, goods shed, passenger platform, and loading bank.
Inch Valley (10.17 km) - loop for 15 wagons, passenger platform and shelter shed, and loading bank.
The line then split and had two termini:
Dunback (14.8 km) - multiple loops, goods shed, water tank for steam locomotives, passenger platform, loading bank.
Makareao (15.06 km) - lime bins and loop for 26 wagons.
Dunback was the only manned station. 100 m before Inch Valley, a short siding ran to a ballast pit and had a 39-wagon loop. The points faced towards Dunback.
Operation
The Dunback Branch was the nearest railhead to the Maniototo region at its opening in 1885 and initially catered for traffic from beyond just the local Dunback area. This included providing supplies for the construction of the Otago Central Railway. When the Otago Central was opened to Ranfurly in 1898, the Dunback Branch was deprived of its wider importance and it was relegated to catering for solely local traffic.
The 1900 opening of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GST%20Computer%20Systems | GST was a group of computer companies based in Cambridge, England, founded by Jeff Fenton in June 1979. The company worked with Atari, Sinclair Research, Torch Computers, Acorn Computers, Monotype Corporation and Kwik-Fit, amongst others.
The group included:
GST Computer Systems: the original name of the company.
GST Professional Services: a software consultancy that was sold and became OTIB A.T.
GST Software Products: produced retail software, most notably Timeworks Publisher.
GST Training Centre: a class based software training provider in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Electric Software: a games software label, producing titles for home computers such as the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and MSX-compatible models in the early 1980s.
GST Computer Systems started as a contract software development company. In 1983, it became involved with Sinclair Research, producing the 68K/OS operating system (later rejected by Sinclair) and development software for the Sinclair QL. In 1985 it was approached by Atari Corporation to port products from the QL on to the just to be launched Atari ST. The word processing package 1st Word was bundled with every Atari ST for the first two years of its life and GST became the leading software supplier for the Atari ST platform.
In 1987 GST developed its first desktop publishing application, Timeworks Publisher. This was sold in the US by Timeworks, Inc. (a Chicago based software publisher) as Publish-It!. This product went on to become the world-leading budget DTP product until competition from Microsoft Publisher in 1993 caused the eventual demise of Timeworks, Inc. The product was sold under new names including NEBS PageMagic (changed after objections from Adobe), Macmillan Publisher, Canon Publisher, and many other brands, distinguished by use of the file extension. The latest version was sold as Greenstreet Publisher 4 and is downwards file compatible with earlier versions.
In 2001 GST merged with eGames Europe as a new company, Greenstreet Software. It remains a developer and publisher of computer software for Windows operating systems. In July 2008 the company was reconstructed and now trades as Greenstreet Online Limited.
In November 2012, Greenstreet Online Limited was declared insolvent, and went into voluntary liquidation.
See also
GEM/5
References
External links
greenstreet Softwrap product announcement
Defunct software companies of the United Kingdom
Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom
Software companies established in 1979
Software companies disestablished in 2001
1979 establishments in England
2001 disestablishments in England
British companies disestablished in 2001
British companies established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MTV%20award%20shows | MTV, the first and most popular music television network in the U.S. has a long history of hosting live music events in which awards are presented. Along with MTV's related channels around the world, the network produces over 20 award shows annually. This list of MTV award shows links to further information about each of these shows.
MTV award shows in the U.S.
NOTE: Includes all MTV networks.
CMT Music Awards (1967–present*)
Acquired by MTV Networks in May 2000. Originally known as the Music City News Awards when founded in 1967.
MTV Video Music Award (1984~present)
BET Soul Train Awards (1987-2007, 2009-present)
Acquired by Paramount Global in 2016.
MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992~present)
MTVU Woodie Awards (2004~present)
MTV Fandom Awards (2014~2017)
MTV award shows around the world
Current shows
MTV Europe Music Award
MTV Millennial Awards
MTV Millennial Awards Brazil
MTV Video Music Awards Japan
MTV Africa Music Awards
TIM MTV Awards
Previous awards shows
MTV Video Music Brazil
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica
MTV Asia Awards
MTV Australia Awards
MTV Italian Music Awards
MTV Immies (and its related Gimmies)
MTV Israel Music Awards
MTV Mandarin Music Awards
MTV Mandarin Music Honors
MTV Pakistan Music Video Awards
Penghargaan MTV Indonesia
MTV Pilipinas Music Award
MTV Romania Music Awards
MTV Russia Music Awards
MTV Student Voice Awards (Japan)
TMF Awards
Movies
MTV Movie Awards Mexico
MTV Asia Movie Awards
MTV Indonesia Movie Awards
MTV Russia Movie Awards
Fashion
MTV India Style Awards
MTV China Style Awards
MTV Philippines Style Awards
Fashionista Mtv (Latin America)
Video games
MTV Game Awards (Germany)
MTV Game Awards (Mexico)
References
External links
MTV Asia Awards
MTV Australia Vidqwqweeo Music Awards
MTV Europe Music Awards
MTV India Immies
MTV Mandarin Music Awards
MTV Penghargaan
MTV Pilipinas
MTV Romania Music Awards
MTV Russia Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Video Music Brasil Awards
MTV Video Music Awards Japan
MTV Video Music Awards Latin America
MTVU Woodie Awards
TMF Awards
TRL Awards USA
MTV Movie Awards
MTV Movie Awards Latin America
MTV Asia Movie Awards
MTV Indonesia Movie Awards
MTV Russia Movie Awards
MTV India Style Awards
MTV China Style Awards
MTV India GIMMIES
MTV Game Awards
MTV
MTV award shows
American television-related lists
American music-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime%20Festival%20Orlando | Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) is an annual three-day anime convention held during June at the Rosen Plaza in Orlando, Florida.
Programming
The convention typically offers an Artist Alley, cosplay contents, maid cafe, panels, rave, vendors, and a video game room. An interactive game "Orlandia" occurs during the convention. The convention's charity event in 2009 benefited Child's Play.
History
The conventions organization began in December 1999. AFO shared space with another convention hosting Governor Jeb Bush in 2006. Anime Festival Orlando 2020 was moved from June to November due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was later cancelled. Anime Festival Orlando was also cancelled in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event history
Gallery
References
External links
Anime Festival Orlando Website
Anime conventions in the United States
Festivals established in 2000
2000 establishments in Florida
Annual events in Florida
Festivals in Orlando, Florida
Tourist attractions in Greater Orlando
Tourist attractions in Orange County, Florida
Tourist attractions in Orlando, Florida
Conventions in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20Events | In computer science and web development, XML Events is a W3C standard for handling events that occur in an XML document. These events are typically caused by users interacting with the web page using a device, such as a web browser on a personal computer or mobile phone.
Formal definition
An XML Event is the representation of some asynchronous occurrence (such as a mouse button click) that gets associated with a data element in an XML document. XML Events provides a static, syntactic binding to the DOM Events interface, allowing the event to be handled.
Motivation
The XML Events standard is defined to provide XML-based languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces. The result is to provide a declarative, interoperable way of associating behaviors with XML-based documents such as XHTML.
Advantages of XML Events
XML Events uses a separation of concerns design pattern, and is technology-neutral with regard to handlers. It gives authors freedom in organizing their code and allows separation of document content from scripting.
Legacy HTML and early SVG versions bind events to presentation elements by encoding the event name in an attribute name, such that the value of the attribute is the action for that event at that element. For example, (with JavaScript’s onclick attribute):
Stay <a href="http://www.example.org" onclick="window.alert('Hello!'); return false;">here</a>!
This design has three drawbacks:
it hard-wires the events into the language, so that adding new event types requires changes to the language
it forces authors to mix the content of the document with the specifications of the scripting and event handling, rather than allowing them to separate them.
it restricts authors to a single scripting language per document.
Relationship to other standards
Unlike DOM Events, which are usually associated with HTML documents, XML events are designed to be independent of specific devices. XML Events are used extensively in XForms and in version 1.2 of the SVG specification, , which is still a working draft.
Example of XML Events using a listener in XForms
The following is an example of how XML events are used in the XForms specification:
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">
<head>
<ev:listener event="DOMActivate" observer="myButton"
handler="#doit"/>
</head>
<xf:trigger xml:id="myButton"><xf:label>Do it!</xf:label></xf:trigger>
<script xml:id="doit" type="application/ecmascript">
alert("test");
</script>
</html>
In this example, when the DOMActivate event occurs on the data element with an id attribute of myButton, the handler doit (for example, a JavaScript element) is executed.
See also
ECMAScript
JavaScript
DOM Events
XForms
XHTML
References
External links
W3C XML Events Specification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoface | Videoface Digitizer is a video digitizer interface for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was produced by Data-Skip from The Netherlands and later on by Romantic Robot UK Ltd from UK in 1987. It was originally sold for GBP 69, but the price dropped to 30 GBP within few years.
Videoface takes signal from any video source with composite video out capability. It produces a 256 × 192 pixel 4-bit screen. Scanning speed is just below four frames per second. These screens can be saved as single pictures or animations with variable speed, and later loaded into any drawing program for editing. During scanning, the contrast of the picture can be adjusted by turning the knob on top of the Videoface, and the picture can be shifted horizontally and vertically.
External links
References
ZX Spectrum
Home computer peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20search | Indexed search, also called the cutpoint method, is an algorithm for discrete-distribution pseudo-random number sampling, invented by Chen and Asau in 1974.
References
Sources
Fishman,G.S. (1996) Monte Carlo. Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications. New York: Springer.
Ripley, B. D. (1987) Stochastic Simulation. Wiley.
Non-uniform random numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cable%20distribution | Single-cable distribution is a satellite TV technology that enables the delivery of broadcast programming to multiple users over a single coaxial cable, and eliminates the numerous cables required to support consumer electronics devices such as twin-tuner digital video recorders (DVRs) and high-end receivers.
Without single-cable distribution, providing full-spectrum access for multiple receivers, or receivers with multiple tuners, in a single-family home has required a separate coaxial cable feeding each tuner from the antenna equipment (either multiple LNBs, a multi-output LNB or a multiswitch distribution system) because of the large bandwidth requirement of the signals.
Single-cable distribution technology enables one coaxial cable from the antenna equipment to multiple tuners, to provide independent tuning across the whole range of satellite reception for each tuner.
A European industry standard for distributing satellite signals over a single coaxial cable - CENELEC EN50494 - was defined in 2007 and developed by a consortium led by SES.
Single-cable distribution technology can be found in commercial equipment with the Unicable trademark from FTA Communications Technologies. Unicable uses an integrated software and hardware solution that allows Unicable-certified DVRs and receivers to multiplex selected programming when using Unicable LNB or multiswitching products.
The Unicable Interoperability Platform is open to companies designing and/or marketing satellite and other broadcast-related products. The platform is designed to facilitate the acceptance of Unicable-certified solutions in the consumer TV broadcast market.
How it works
Each satellite receiver in the installation has a dedicated user band of a bandwidth approximately the same as a transponder. The receiver requests a particular transponder frequency via a DiSEqC-compliant command. A mixer in the dish-end equipment (an LNB or distribution unit) converts the received signal to the correct user band IF centre frequency for that receiver.
The converted transponders of the various users are then combined, and sent via the single coaxial cable to the receivers. The combined signal is tapped or split to reach every user.
Silicon vendors have developed complex integrated circuits that greatly reduce the cost of implementing the single-cable distribution function. A channel-stacking switch IC is a multiple-input multiple-output device. It typically has N inputs that can be cascaded to additional chips as required (to expand output capacity). These inputs are fed into a large N-pole M-Throw switch that outputs to . Each mixer path then translates only the user requested transponder to a predetermined fixed frequency within the band. This fixed frequency is unique for each tuner on the single cable output. Each tuner in the STB always stays at this fixed frequency while the CSS IC translates the user requested content down the cable to this exact frequency. This architecture req |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Data%20Protection%20Agency | The Danish Data Protection Agency () was created, following the implementation of EU Directive 95/46/EC, regarding the protection of individuals with regard to the process of personal information and the movement of such.
The agency exercises surveillance over the processing of data to which the act applies, however the agency primarily deals in specific cases on the basis of inquiries from public authorities or private individuals or cases taken up by the agency on its own initiative.
See also
General Data Protection Regulation
ePrivacy Regulation
Privacy law in Denmark
External links
Official website
Government agencies of Denmark
Data protection authorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20Art%20Nouveau%20Network | Réseau Art Nouveau Network (RANN) was established in 1999 by European cities with a rich art nouveau heritage. Enterprise and commitment are the Network's chief hallmarks; as well as championing a rigorously scientific approach, it aims to keep professionals informed and to make the general public aware of the cultural significance and European dimension of the art nouveau heritage. As of April 2019, the network consists of different institutions from the following cities and regions:
: Vienna
: Brussels
: La Habana
: Bad Nauheim, Darmstadt
: Nancy
: Budapest, Szeged
: Lombardy, Palermo
: Riga
: Ålesund
: Aveiro
: Oradea
: Ljubljana
: Barcelona, Melilla, Terrassa
: La Chaux-de-Fonds
: Glasgow
: Subotica
Candidate cities
: Timișoara
References
External links
Réseau Art Nouveau Network, a European network of Art Nouveau cities.
The list of RANN members
Art Nouveau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20Number%20Theory%20Symposium | Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS) is a biennial academic conference, first held in Cornell in 1994, constituting an international forum for the presentation of new research in computational number theory. They are devoted to algorithmic aspects of number theory, including elementary number theory, algebraic number theory, analytic number theory, geometry of numbers, arithmetic geometry, finite fields, and cryptography.
Selfridge Prize
In honour of the many contributions of John Selfridge to mathematics, the Number Theory Foundation has established a prize to be awarded to those individuals who have authored the best paper accepted for presentation at ANTS. The prize, called the Selfridge Prize, is awarded every two years in an even numbered year. The prize winner(s) receive a cash award and a sculpture.
The prize winners and their papers selected by the ANTS Program Committee are:
2006 – ANTS VII – Werner Bley and Robert Boltje – Computation of locally free class groups.
2008 – ANTS VIII – Juliana Belding, Reinier Bröker, Andreas Enge and Kristin Lauter – Computing hilbert class polynomials.
2010 – ANTS IX – John Voight – Computing automorphic forms on Shimura curves over fields with arbitrary class number.
2012 – ANTS X – Andrew Sutherland – On the evaluation of modular polynomials.
2014 – ANTS XI – Tom Fisher – Minimal models for 6-coverings of elliptic curves.
2016 – ANTS XII – Jan Steffen Müller and Michael Stoll – Computing canonical heights on elliptic curves in quasi-linear time.
2018 – ANTS XIII – Michael Musty, Sam Schiavone, Jeroen Sijsling and John Voight – A database of Belyĭ maps.
2020 – ANTS XIV – Jonathan Love and Dan Boneh – Supersingular curves with small non-integer endomorphisms.
2022 – ANTS XV – Harald Helfgott and Lola Thompson – Summing mu(n): a faster elementary algorithm.
Proceedings
Prior to ANTS X, the refereed Proceedings of ANTS were published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The proceedings of ANTS X, ANTS XIII, and ANTS XIV were published in the Mathematical Sciences Publishers Open Book Series (OBS). The proceedings of ANTS XI and ANTS XII were published as a special issue of the LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (JCM). The proceedings for ANTS XV will be published in Research in Number Theory.
Conferences
1994: ANTS I – Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) – LNCS 877
1996: ANTS II – Universite Bordeaux 1 (Talence, FR) – LNCS 1122
1998: ANTS III – Reed College (Portland, OR, USA) – LNCS 1423
2000: ANTS IV – Universiteit Leiden (Leiden, NL) – LNCS 1838
2002: ANTS V – University of Sydney (Sydney, AU) – LNCS 2369
2004: ANTS VI – University of Vermont (Burlington, VT, USA) – LNCS 3076
2006: ANTS VII – Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, DE) – LNCS 4076
2008: ANTS VIII – Banff Centre (Banff, AB, CA) – LNCS 5011
2010: ANTS IX – INRIA (Nancy, FR) – LNCS 6197
2012: ANTS X – University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA, USA) – OBS 1
2014: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20Meteorological%20Data%20Relay | Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) is a program initiated by the World Meteorological Organization.
AMDAR is used to collect meteorological data worldwide by using commercial aircraft.
Data is collected by the aircraft navigation systems and the onboard standard temperature and static pressure probes.
The data is then preprocessed before linking them down to the ground either via VHF communication (ACARS)
or via satellite link ASDAR.
A detailed description is given in the AMDAR Reference Manual (WMO-No 958) available from the World Meteorological Organization,
Geneva, Switzerland
Usage
AMDAR transmissions are most commonly used in forecast models as a supplement to radiosonde data, to aid in the plotting of upper-air data between the standard radiosonde soundings at 00Z and 12Z.
References
External links
(Information no longer available)
WMO AMDAR Observing System site
(Dead link) NOAA AMDAR site
Meteorological data and networks
Meteorological instrumentation and equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal%20%CE%BC-calculus | In theoretical computer science, the modal μ-calculus (Lμ, Lμ, sometimes just μ-calculus, although this can have a more general meaning) is an extension of propositional modal logic (with many modalities) by adding the least fixed point operator μ and the greatest fixed point operator ν, thus a fixed-point logic.
The (propositional, modal) μ-calculus originates with Dana Scott and Jaco de Bakker, and was further developed by Dexter Kozen into the version most used nowadays. It is used to describe properties of labelled transition systems and for verifying these properties. Many temporal logics can be encoded in the μ-calculus, including CTL* and its widely used fragments—linear temporal logic and computational tree logic.
An algebraic view is to see it as an algebra of monotonic functions over a complete lattice, with operators consisting of functional composition plus the least and greatest fixed point operators; from this viewpoint, the modal μ-calculus is over the lattice of a power set algebra. The game semantics of μ-calculus is related to two-player games with perfect information, particularly infinite parity games.
Syntax
Let P (propositions) and A (actions) be two finite sets of symbols, and let Var be a countably infinite set of variables. The set of formulas of (propositional, modal) μ-calculus is defined as follows:
each proposition and each variable is a formula;
if and are formulas, then is a formula;
if is a formula, then is a formula;
if is a formula and is an action, then is a formula; (pronounced either: box or after necessarily )
if is a formula and a variable, then is a formula, provided that every free occurrence of in occurs positively, i.e. within the scope of an even number of negations.
(The notions of free and bound variables are as usual, where is the only binding operator.)
Given the above definitions, we can enrich the syntax with:
meaning
(pronounced either: diamond or after possibly ) meaning
means , where means substituting for in all free occurrences of in .
The first two formulas are the familiar ones from the classical propositional calculus and respectively the minimal multimodal logic K.
The notation (and its dual) are inspired from the lambda calculus; the intent is to denote the least (and respectively greatest) fixed point of the expression where the "minimization" (and respectively "maximization") are in the variable , much like in lambda calculus is a function with formula in bound variable ; see the denotational semantics below for details.
Denotational semantics
Models of (propositional) μ-calculus are given as labelled transition systems where:
is a set of states;
maps to each label a binary relation on ;
, maps each proposition to the set of states where the proposition is true.
Given a labelled transition system and an interpretation of the variables of the -calculus, , is the function defined by the following rules:
;
;
;
;
;
, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSMS-TV | KSMS-TV (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Monterey, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Class A UniMás affiliate KDJT-CD (channel 33, licensed to both Salinas and Monterey). KSMS-TV and KDJT-CD share studios on Garden Court south of Monterey Regional Airport in Monterey; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using KDJT-CD's spectrum from an antenna atop Fremont Peak.
History
KSMS-TV was founded by Bill Schuyler on September 1, 1986. In the same year, KCBA, the only television station broadcasting in Spanish in the area, was sold to the Ackerley Group. Ackerley decided to make KCBA an English-language station affiliated with the then-emerging Fox network, which would have left the Salinas–Monterey–Santa Cruz television market without a Spanish-language television station. Knowing that Schuyler had a permit to build a station in the market, a former manager of KCBA encouraged Schuyler to seize the opportunity to create a new station to serve the Hispanic community as an affiliate of the Spanish International Network (the predecessor of Univision).
Schuyler assembled a team of four television professionals and challenge them to develop the new station before KCBA's relaunch. The multiple tasks of creating a new station from the ground up were divided among the four individuals. The group found an old building on Garden Road, which coincidentally had been the first home of KMST-TV (now KION-TV), which Schuyler had started in 1969 and sold a decade later. After negotiating the lease, the remodeling of the old building started immediately. A studio was built in the first floor, along with a small production area, a sound booth and the master control area. After much searching for a suitable transmitter, one was found and installed along with an antenna, atop of Fremont Peak, overlooking the Salinas Valley. Production and broadcasting equipment was purchased and installed, support personnel hired, a small news team was assembled and the station went on the air on time.
News operation
KSMS operates its 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, each running about 30 minutes each, totaling 10 hours per week. KSMS does not broadcast any local news on weekends. KSMS currently competes with the recent addition of rival KMUV-LP, after KMUV-LP's newscasts were added in September 2009 under its current ownership by the Cowles Publishing Company. KSMS also covers national news and news from Latin America. KSMS started its newscasts in November 1987, a few days after Fidel M. Soto joined the station. Soto is currently the longest tenured personality since KSMS's inception.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
In June 2010, KSMS began broadcasting in 16:9 HDTV ratio in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSMS-TV shut down its analog sig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction%20with%20Life%20Index | The Satisfaction with Life Index was created in 2007 by Adrian G. White, an analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations.
In this calculation, subjective well-being correlates most strongly with health (.7), wealth (.6), and access to basic education (.6).
This is an example of directly measuring happiness—asking people how happy they are—as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured effectively.
This Index, however, is not solely based on directly asking "how people feel", but also on its social and economic development.
The Happy Planet Index was used along with data from UNESCO on access to schooling, from the WHO on life expectancy, and from the CIA on GDP per capita to perform a new analysis to come to a unique and novel set of results. Specifically, the extent of correlation between measures of poverty, health and education, and the variable of happiness.
Satisfaction Index
The subjective well-being index represents the overall satisfaction level as one number.
Analysed data to create the index comes from UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR. These sources are analysed to create a global projection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness.
Whilst collecting data on subjective well-being is not an exact science, the measures used are very reliable in predicting health and welfare outcomes.
International rankings 2007-2017
See also
Social Progress Index
Happy Planet Index
Human Development Index
List of countries by Human Development Index
Quality of life
Gross National Happiness
References
Happiness indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumber%20%26%20Dumberest | Dumber & Dumberest was a comedy programme produced by Square Donkey for British television channel Five.
Channel 5 (British TV channel) original programming
2000s British comedy television series
2003 British television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands-On%20Mobile | Hands-On Mobile formally known as Mforma is a wireless entertainment company, established in 2000.
The company develops, publishes and distributes mobile content via network operators and portals. It offers its content in or via Java ME, BREW, SMS, MMS, and WAP in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese and Korean.
Hands-On Mobile is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has further offices in San Diego, London and Manchester (UK), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), Beijing and Shanghai (China), and São Paulo (Brazil).
Hands-On Mobile's investors include eFund International, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, General Catalyst Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
History
Mforma was founded in 2000. The company changed its name to Hands-On Mobile in April 2006.
Senior officers
Judy Wade, CEO
Harjeet Singh Director
Partners
Notable customers
AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, US Cellular, Bell Mobility,
Notable media partners
Activision, Billboard, CBS, NASCAR, NBA, and World Poker Tour.
Published applications
Heroes Lore:Wind of Soltia
Acquaria
Alien Fish Exchange
Amazing Spider-Man: Webslinger
Barry Bonds Home run History
Baseball 2005 by CBS Sportsline
Baywatch Beach Volleyball
Blade: Trinity
California Games
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
CBS Sportsline Track & Field
Chip's Challenge
Connect 4
Darkest Fear: Grim Oak's Hospital (US)
Ducati Extreme
Duckshot
Elektra: Assassin
Face-Off Sergei Fedorov Hockey
Fantastic Four
Ghost Rider
Gold Mahjong
Guitar Hero III Mobile
Gumball 3000
Heroes Lore
IHRA Drag Racing
Impossible Mission
Iron Man
IQ Academy
Largo Winch
LEGO Bricks
LEGO Racers
LEGO World Soccer
Little Miss Naughty
Lucky Luke Outlaws
Ludo
Milton Bradley Board Games
Monopoly Tycoon
NCAA Football 1st down and 10
Operation
Popeye Kart Racing
Pro Bowling
Pro Euro Football
Renaissance
Riverboat Blackjack
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Santa Claus Revolution
Scratch City Pool
Sudoku Garden
Star Trek Nemesis
Summer Games
Super Putt
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold
The Incredible Hulk: Rampage
The Italian Job
Top Gun
Top Gun 2
Top Gun: Gulf Crisis
Tour Championship Tennis by Venus Williams
Treasure Chest Slots
True Crime: New York City
True Crime: Streets of LA
Ultimate Spider-Man
Universal Monsters: Dracula (a/k/a Vampire Bloodline)
Winter Games
Woody Woodpecker: Wacky Challenge
World Poker Tour 7-Card Stud
World Poker Tour Texas Hold'em
X-Men 2: Battle
X-Men: Last Stand
X-Men: Rise of Apocalypse
X-Men 3 Mindmaze
References
External links
Mobile software
Mobile game companies
Entertainment companies established in 2001
Software companies established in 2001
Telecommunications companies established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyharmonic%20spline | In applied mathematics, polyharmonic splines are used for function approximation and data interpolation. They are very useful for interpolating and fitting scattered data in many dimensions. Special cases include thin plate splines and natural cubic splines in one dimension.
Definition
A polyharmonic spline is a linear combination of polyharmonic radial basis functions (RBFs) denoted by plus a polynomial term:
where
( denotes matrix transpose, meaning is a column vector) is a real-valued vector of independent variables,
are vectors of the same size as (often called centers) that the curve or surface must interpolate,
are the weights of the RBFs,
are the weights of the polynomial.
The polynomial with the coefficients improves fitting accuracy for polyharmonic smoothing splines and also improves extrapolation away from the centers See figure below for comparison of splines with polynomial term and without polynomial term.
The polyharmonic RBFs are of the form:
Other values of the exponent are not useful (such as ), because a solution of the interpolation problem might not exist. To avoid problems at (since ), the polyharmonic RBFs with the natural logarithm might be implemented as:
or, more simply adding a continuity extension in
The weights and are determined such that the function interpolates given points (for ) and fulfills the orthogonality conditions
All together, these constraints are equivalent to the symmetric linear system of equations
where
In order for this system of equations to have a unique solution, must be full rank. is full rank for very mild conditions on the input data. For example, in two dimensions, three centers forming a non-degenerate triangle ensure that is full rank, and in three dimensions, four centers forming a non-degenerate tetrahedron ensure that B is full rank. As explained later, the linear transformation resulting from the restriction of the domain of the linear transformation to the null space of is positive definite. This means that if is full rank, the system of equations () always has a unique solution and it can be solved using a linear solver specialised for symmetric matrices. The computed weights allow evaluation of the spline for any using equation (). Many practical details of implementing and using polyharmonic splines are explained in Fasshauer. In Iske polyharmonic splines are treated as special cases of other multiresolution methods in scattered data modelling.
Discussion
The main advantage of polyharmonic spline interpolation is that usually very good interpolation results are obtained for scattered data without performing any "tuning", so automatic interpolation is feasible. This is not the case for other radial basis functions. For example, the Gaussian function needs to be tuned, so that is selected according to the underlying grid of the independent variables. If this grid is non-uniform, a proper selection of to achieve a good interpolat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC%20National%20Prevention%20Information%20Network | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Prevention Information Network (CDC NPIN) is a source of information and materials for both international and American HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Disease education and prevention organizations.
NPIN is located on the Corporate Square Campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and includes a small resource library, a call center, training facilities, and educational materials. The CDC NPIN project also supports/manages GetTested.cdc.gov, the national HIV and STD testing site locator web site and FindTBResources.cdc.gov, a site dedicated to partners in TB education.
External links
NPIN website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Incident%20Advisory%20Capability | Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) was the original computer security incident response team at the United States Department of Energy. CIAC was formed in February 1989, and jointly sponsored by the DOE Office of the CIO and the Air Force. The primary function of CIAC was, as the name implies, to advise people of computer incidents. Primarily, this means security vulnerabilities, virus and hoax alerts and similar information security concerns. CIAC was a founding member of GFIRST, the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and FIRST, an international incident response and security organization. CIAC published incident reports and bulletins up until it was officially renamed to DOE-CIRC and relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in October 2008.
References
External links
Official DOE-CIRC site.
DOE Incident Management site.
Computer security organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspex%20Systems | Auspex Systems was a computer data storage company founded in 1987 by Larry Boucher, who was previously CEO of Adaptec. It was headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Auspex introduced the first network-attached storage (NAS) devices. After an initial public offering in 1993, shares were traded on the NASDAQ exchange under symbol ASPX.
One of the unique features of their systems was the ease with which volumes could be transparently mirrored and migrated between physical disks. Auspex systems used Functional Multiprocessing, essentially Asymmetric multiprocessing, that allowed the systems to scale functions independently -- such as networking, file processing, or storage processing. There was a Host Processor running Unix that controlled the whole system. This 'system within a system' could even be rebooted without interrupting file servicing. They became a leading provider of data center storage in the mid-1990s but fell behind NetApp in the field.
Early cabinet rack models held sets of 3-4gb disks the size of small shoeboxes.
Bruce N. Moore joined in 1995 as president and chief executive officer.
Boucher left the company in 1997 to found Alacritech.
Their 4Front or NS2000 model, initially offered in 1999 as a stackable system, held drawers of disks and was plagued by Mylex RAID controller issues which contributed to their bankruptcy in June 2003. Their last product, the NSc3000, was the first multi-vendor SAN-NAS gateway and essentially kept the same NAS front-end but could connect via Fibre Channel to any SAN disk array.
After the burst of the dot-com bubble, in February, 2000, the company worked with Regent Pacific to select Gary J. Sbona as interim chief executive. When the company was liquidated in 2003, its patent portfolio was acquired by NetApp and its services business went to GlassHouse Technologies for about $280,000.
References
American companies established in 1987
American companies disestablished in 2003
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Computer companies established in 1987
Computer companies disestablished in 2003
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%2BShare | 3+Share, also known simply as 3+ or 3 Plus, was a pioneering file and print sharing product from 3Com. Introduced in the early 1980s, 3+Share was competitive with Novell's NetWare in the network server business throughout the 1980s. It was replaced by the joint Microsoft-3Com LAN Manager in 1990, but 3Com exited the server market in 1991.
History
In 1984, Microsoft announced MS-Net, a framework for building multitasking network servers that ran on top of single-tasking MS-DOS. MS-Net implemented only the basic services for file and print sharing, and left out the actual networking protocol stack in favor of a virtual system in the form of IBM's NetBIOS. Vendors, like 3Com, licensed the MS-Net system and then added device drivers and other parts of the protocol stack to implement a complete server system.
In the case of 3+Share, 3Com based their networking solution on the seminal Xerox Network Systems (XNS), which 3Com's CEO Robert Metcalfe had helped design. XNS provided the networking protocol as well as connections to the underlying Ethernet hardware it ran on, which Metcalf had also helped design. They also modified MS-Net's servers to produce what they called EtherShare and EtherPrint protocols, which could be accessed with any MS-DOS computer that had the MS-Net client software installed.
Internally, 3+Share had a network stack, file and print server modules, disk caching, user handling and more, all running simultaneously inside the DOS memory space. Because they were not limited by the PC memory map, 3+Share could support a megabyte or so of flat memory, breaking the x86 PC's 640 kByte barrier. This was a large amount of RAM for the time.
They later added the XNS Name Service, which mapped network addresses to human-readable names and allowed users to look up devices by looking for strings like "3rd floor printer". Name services were part of the IBM-created NetBIOS in MS-Net, but Microsoft had left those commands out of the server, and it was common for 3rd party implementations like 3+ to add these sorts of services back in. A significant problem with this was that the name service entries could not be synchronized between departmental or enterprise deployments.
3Com soon partnered 3+Share with dedicated server hardware called the 3Server, a combination which can be seen to be the first network-attached storage system.
3Com and Microsoft jointly developed LAN Manager 2.0 as a successor to 3+Share, a product which was introduced in 1990. 3Com soon lost interest in the network software market, handing over its LAN Manager product (now called 3+Open) as well as its intellectual property to Microsoft in 1991. This work was absorbed into Microsoft and IBM's Server Message Block protocol, which is still used today.
Technical details
3+Share client drivers uses less memory than corresponding ones for LAN Manager.
3+Share uses a primitive security mechanism in which the client's security level access is stored in the client's RAM. By s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20educational%20software | This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.
Educational software by subject
Anatomy
3D Indiana
Bodyworks Voyager – Mission in Anatomy
Primal Pictures
Visible Human Project
Chemistry
Aqion - simulates water chemistry
Children's software
Bobo Explores Light
ClueFinders titles
Delta Drawing
Edmark
Fun School titles
GCompris - free software (GPL)
Gold Series
JumpStart titles
Kiwaka
KidPix
Lola Panda
Museum Madness
Ozzie series
Reader Rabbit titles
Tux Paint - free software (GPL)
Zoombinis titles
Computer science
JFLAP - Java Formal language and Automata Package
Cryptography
CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts
Dictionaries and reference
Britannica
Encarta
Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite
Geography and Astronomy
Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas
Celestia
Google Earth - (proprietary license)
Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator
KGeography
KStars
NASA World Wind - free software (NASA open source)
Stellarium
Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America - a game that teaches geography to children
Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series
WorldWide Telescope - a freeware from Microsoft
Health
TeachAids
History
Encyclopedia Encarta Timeline
Euratlas
Back in Time (iPad)
Balance of Power
Lemonade Stand
Number Munchers
Odell Lake
Spellevator
Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game
Word Munchers
Literacy
Accelerated Reader
AutoTutor
Compu-Read
DISTAR
Managed learning environments
ATutor (GPL)
Blackboard Inc.
Chamilo
Claroline
eCollege
eFront (CPAL)
Fle3 (GPL)
GCompris (GPL)
Google Classroom
ILIAS (GPL)
Kannu
LON-CAPA - free software (GPL)
Moodle - free software (GPL)
OLAT - free software
Renaissance Place
Sakai Project - free software
WebAssign
Mathematics
Accelerated Math
Cantor (software)
Compu-Math: Fractions
DrGeo
Geogebra
The Geometer's Sketchpad
Maple
Matlab / GNU Octave
Mathematica
Matheass
Math Blaster
Microsoft Mathematics
RekenTest
MathFacts in a Flash
SAGE - free software (GPL)
TK Solver
Tux, of Math Command- free software (GPL)
Music
Comparison of music education software
EarMaster
Yousician
MuseScore
Syntorial
Programming
BlueJ
Hackety Hack
Racket
RoboMind
Scratch
Swift Playgrounds
Science
Betty's Brain
Science Sleuths
Simulation
Simulation games
Caesar titles
Capitalism
Civilization
The Oregon Trail
Sid Meier's Colonization
SimCity
Zoo Tycoon
Spaced Repetition
Anki
Memrise
SuperMemo
Synap
Mnemosyne
Touch-Typing Instruction
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Mario Teaches Typing
Smorball
Tux Typing - free software (GPL)
Visual Learning and Mind Mapping
ConceptDraw MINDMAP
Freemind - free software (GPL)
Perception
SpicyNodes
Notable brands and suppliers of educational software
Dorling Kindersley
Promethean World
Renaissance Learning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technolog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome%3A%20Pathway%20to%20Power | Rome: Pathway to Power (released as Rome: A.D. 92 in Europe) is an adventure video game with strategy elements for Amiga and MS-DOS home computers. It was published in Europe by Millennium Interactive in 1992 and in the United States by Maxis in 1993. Set in ancient Rome, the objective of the game is to advance a character from a Roman slave through the ranks of Roman society and eventually become Caesar.
Rome: Pathway to Power uses an isometric interface and was based on an engine developed by Steve Grand in 1979 called Microcosm. Microcosm was the base of several educational adventures for children before Rome. Another game by Grand using the same engine is 1991's The Adventures of Robin Hood.
The game is divided into six chapters:
Herculaneum: You have to advance from slave to citizen and escape the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Rome 1: You have to warn the emperor about a planned assassination.
Britain: You have to fight the Britons.
Rome 2: You have to be elected to the Roman Senate.
Egypt: You have to protect Cleopatra.
Rome 3: You have to become emperor.
Reception
The One gave the Amiga version of Rome: A.D. 92 an overall score of 80%, stating "[Rome: A.D. 92 is a] huge game with plenty to do and action a-plenty. The way the plot develops is good and the overall storyline is well written and neat ... Cleverly, the way that the game is split into stages, each with their own map area, means that although there's lots to see and do, the game's size never becomes frustrating or overwhelming." The review criticized the graphics, however, expressing that how the backdrops are presented and the isometric viewpoint "gives the impression of playing in a shoe-box", and furthermore calling the sprites "too small" and visuals "eye-straining".
References
External links
Rome AD92: The Pathway To Power at the Hall of Light
1992 video games
Adventure games
Amiga games
Cultural depictions of Cleopatra
DOS games
Historical simulation games
Maxis Sim games
Millennium Interactive games
Single-player video games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Richard Joseph
Video games set in the Roman Empire
Video games set in Rome
Video games set in Egypt
Video games set in England
Video games with isometric graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumong%20%28TV%20series%29 | Jumong () is an epic South Korean historical series that aired on MBC from 2006 to 2007 as the network's 45th anniversary special. Originally scheduled for 60 episodes, MBC extended it to 81 because of its popularity.
The series examines the life of King Dongmyeong, founder of the kingdom of Goguryeo. The fantastic elements surrounding the original Jumong legend (such as those concerning his birth) have been replaced with events more grounded in reality. Jumong is considered part of the Korean Wave (Hallyu), with viewer ratings in Iran exceeding 80 percent.
Plot
Following the conquest of Gojoseon by Han China in 108 BCE, the surviving tribes and city-states of Manchuria and the northern Korean Peninsula are harshly subjugated as tributaries to the Han, who are portrayed as ruling with an iron fist from the Four Commanderies. Haemosu, the leader of the local resistance in the form of the Damul Army, covertly teams up with Prince Geumwa of Buyeo to defend and rescue Gojoseon refugees throughout the land. After being injured in a battle, Haemosu is rescued by Lady Yuhwa of the Habaek tribe (to whom Geumwa has taken a fancy), and they fall in love. Haemosu is subsequently ambushed and captured by Han forces (and after falling off a cliff is presumed dead by the outside world), and Lady Yuhwa is forced to seek shelter in Buyeo, where she becomes Geumwa's concubine and gives birth to a son, Jumong. They maintain that Geumwa is Jumong's father, when in fact Haemosu is his father.
Twenty years later, the young Jumong is a weak and cowardly prince overshadowed and scorned by his elder "half-brothers" Daeso and Youngpo, who are vying for inheritance of the Buyeo throne from their father (the now-King Geumwa). Because they believe Jumong is Geumwa's son, they assume that he has a justifiable claim to the throne, and their mother's hatred of Lady Yuhwa reinforces a feud between the half-brothers who aren't really brothers at all. This culminates in an assassination attempt by his brothers, setting in motion a sequence of events that leads to Jumong leaving the palace and, by a twist of fate, encounters his father, the now-elderly and blind Haemosu. Jumong becomes skilled in combat under Haemosu's covert tutelage, but is unaware of their father-son relationship. At the same time, Jumong forms a close relationship with Lady Soseono of the Gyeru trading clan of Jolbon. Following Haemosu's assassination by Daeso and Youngpo, Jumong learns the truth and vows to avenge his father and drive out the Han. He returns to Geumwa and leads the Buyeo army in a campaign against the Lintun and Zhenfan Commanderies, but is reported missing in action and presumed dead following an injury in battle. Subsequently, Daeso seizes power in Buyeo by colluding with Xuantu Commandery and forces Soseono to be his wife. In desperation, Soseono weds her trading partner Wootae (not knowing Jumong is still alive). Jumong, however, is rescued by the Hanbaek tribe and nursed back to healt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVW%20%28Washington%29 | TVW is Washington's public affairs network, providing gavel-to-gavel coverage of Washington State Legislature sessions and coverage of the Washington State Supreme Court and public affairs events. It is widely considered the model state level equivalent of C-SPAN. TVW was founded in 1993 by Stan Marshburn and Denny Heck, who was formerly Chief of Staff to Governor Booth Gardner, who served as the host of TVW show Inside Olympia, and who would later represent Washington in the United States House of Representatives, after which he would go on to serve as the Lieutenant Governor of the state.
The channel is available via cable throughout Washington state, and as a subchannel on Tacoma PBS member station KBTC.
In 2017 TVW partnered with Central Washington University to add live and recorded "world-class speakers and cultural events" to its programming.
References
External links
Official site
Television stations in Washington (state)
Legislature broadcasters in the United States
Commercial-free television networks
Washington State Legislature
Television channels and stations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tnftp | tnftp (formerly lukemftp) is an FTP client for Unix-like operating systems. It is based on the original BSD FTP client, and is the default FTP client included with NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and MidnightBSD. It is maintained by Luke Mewburn.
It is notable in its support of server-side tab completion, a feature that the FTP client in GNU inetutils lacks.
References
BSD software
Free FTP clients
NetBSD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libervis%20Network | The Libervis Network is a network of websites related to free culture. The name comes from the Latin adverb meaning "most freely" (continuing from libervor meaning "more freely" and liberv meaning "freely").
Libervis.com
Libervis.com, founded in June 2004 as a free software community center, is now a site about the philosophical aspects of free culture. It uses Internet forums, essays, news and a wiki to discuss this.
In June 2008, Libervis.com was relaunched as a project for technology enthusiasts interested in building freedom with the core topic being the advances of technology and the way its use affects individual freedom today and in the future.
Nuxified.org
Nuxified.org is a free software technical support site with forums, blogging (about free software only) and articles (usually tutorials or software reviews). It was founded in response to LinuxForums.org switching its forum software from the free phpBB to the non-free vBulletin after being bought out in December 2005. Common users of Libervis.com and LinuxForums.org felt that was hypocritical and set a bad example for a FOSS site.
In July 2006, Nuxified started a partnership with GetGNULinux.org. Nuxified hosts forums for discussing GetGNULinux.org. In August 2006, Nuxified started a similar partnership with PolishLinux.org.
References
External links
Libervis.com
Nuxified.org
Free software websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canes%20Venatici%20I | Canes Venatici I or CVn I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Canes Venatici constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is one of the most distant known satellites of the Milky Way as of 2011 together with Leo I and Leo II. The galaxy is located at a distance of about 220 kpc from the Sun and is moving away from the Sun at a velocity of about 31 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) meaning that it has an elliptical (ratio of axes ~ 2.5:1) shape with the half-light radius of about 550 pc.
CVn I is a relatively faint satellite of the Milky Way—its integrated luminosity is about 230,000 times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of about −8.6). However, its mass is about 27 million solar masses, which means that the galaxy's mass to light ratio is around 220. A high mass to light ratio implies that CVn I is dominated by the dark matter.
The stellar population of CVn I consists mainly of old stars formed more than 10 billion years ago. The metallicity of these old stars is also very low at , which means that they contain 110 times less heavy elements than the Sun. There are also about 60 RR Lyrae stars. The galaxy also contains a small fraction of younger (1–2 billion years old) more metal-rich () stars, which account for about 5% of its mass and 10% of its light. These younger stars are concentrated in the center of the galaxy. There is currently no star formation in CVn I and the measurements have so far failed to detect neutral hydrogen in it—the upper limit is 30,000 solar masses.
References
External links
The Universe within 500000 light-years The Satellite Galaxies (Atlas of the Universe)
Two New Galaxies Orbiting the Milky Way (Ken Croswell) April 19, 2006
Strange satellite galaxies revealed around Milky Way Kimm Groshong (New Scientist) 17:00 24 April 2006
New Milky Way companions found: SDSS-II first to view two dim dwarf galaxies (SDSS) May 8, 2006
Astronomers Find Two New Milky Way Companions (SpaceDaily) May 10, 2006
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
Canes Venatici
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