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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHAW-TDT | XHAW-TDT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 25), is the flagship station of the Multimedios television network, licensed to Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The station is owned by Grupo Multimedios.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
XHAW and sister station XHSAW broadcast in HDTV; XHSAW formerly shared virtual channel 12. XHSAW broadcasts on channels 12.1 through 12.4; XHAW broadcasts channels 6.1 and 6.2. 6.1 and 6.2 are the only channels available in Saltillo and Guadalupe/Juárez/Cadereyta, as there is no shadow XHSAW there. Even though XHAW broadcast on analog channel 11 in Saltillo, it used virtual channel 12 there even prior to 2016. On February 24, 2018 (the station's 50th anniversary date), the station began to use the channel 6 virtual channel along with most other Multimedios stations as part of the network's national expansion.
XHAW Saltillo broadcast on physical channel 51 because channel 25 was in use by analog XHSTC-TV there. It was relocated to channel 25 after the digital television transition.
Analog-to-digital conversion
On September 24, 2015, XHAW shut off its analog signals, both in Monterrey and Saltillo; its digital signals remained.
References
External links
Multimedios Television
Television stations in Monterrey
Grupo Multimedios
Television channels and stations established in 1968
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
Canal 6 (Mexico) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe%20Flood%20Network | The Tribe Flood Network or TFN is a set of computer programs to conduct various DDoS attacks such as ICMP flood, SYN flood, UDP flood and Smurf attack.
First TFN initiated attacks are described in CERT Incident Note 99-04.
TFN2K was written by Mixter, a security professional and hacker based in Germany.
See also
External links
Tribe Flood Network
TFN2K - An Analysis by Jason Barlow and Woody Thrower of AXENT Security Team
TFN2K source code
Botnets
Denial-of-service attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabella%20%28talk%20show%29 | Arabella was a German talk show hosted by Arabella Kiesbauer airing on the German television network ProSieben from 1994 to 2004. It was modelled after The Oprah Winfrey Show.
1994 German television series debuts
2004 German television series endings
German television talk shows
ProSieben original programming
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinoo | The trinoo or trin00 is a set of computer programs to conduct a DDoS attack. It is believed that trinoo networks have been set up on thousands of systems on the Internet that have been compromised by remote buffer overrun exploits.
The first suspected trinoo attacks are described in CERT Incident Note 99–04. A trinoo network has been connected to the February 2000 distributed denial of service attack on the Yahoo! website.
Trinoo is famous for allowing attackers to leave a message in a folder called cry_baby. The file is self replicating and is modified on a regular basis as long as port 80 is active.
Trinoo was authored by a teenager from New Orleans who went by the alias phifli.
Using Trinoo
Step 1
The attacker, using a compromised host, compiles a list of machines that can be compromised. Most of this process is done automatically from the compromised host, because the host stores a mount of information including how to find other hosts to compromise.
Step 2
As soon as the list of machines that can be compromised has been compiled, scripts are run to compromise them and convert them into the Trinoo Masters or Daemons. One Master can control multiple Daemons. The Daemons are the compromised hosts that launch the actual UDP floods against the victim machine.
Step 3
The DDoS attack is launched when the attacker issues a command on the Master hosts. The Masters instruct every Daemon to start a DoS attack against the IP address specified in the command, many DoSs comprise the DDoS attack.
See also
References
External links
Trinoo description by Symantec
Trinoo Analysis by David Dittrich
Trinoo source code
Botnets
Denial-of-service attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyreton%20Branch | The Eyreton Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network. Located in the Canterbury region of the South Island, it left the Main North Line in Kaiapoi and was built a mere ten kilometres south of the Oxford Branch. It opened in 1875 and operated until 1954, except for the first portion, which remained open until 1965.
Despite the implication of the branch's name, it passed north of Eyreton, though its original terminus was located in West Eyreton.
Construction
At the start of the 1870s, a number of plans were made for a branch line from the Main North Line, then under construction, to Oxford. This was in response to the realities of the appalling communication and slow transport of the time. One plan, made in 1871, called for a line from Kaiapoi to Oxford, but this was seen as a threat to the interests of a proposed line from Rangiora to Oxford. Intense campaigning from groups in support of either line led to the government's decision to build two branches, one from Rangiora to Oxford and another from Kaiapoi to West Eyreton.
Despite warnings the line to West Eyreton would never be profitable, contracts for construction were let in 1873, and by 1875, construction was proceeding well, with the line opened to West Eyreton on 17 December 1875. This was intended to be the terminus of the branch, but in an attempt to make it profitable, work began the next year to link it with the Oxford Branch. This was completed on 1 February 1878 and linked West Eyreton with Bennetts Junction.
Break of Gauge
For a while, a break-of-gauge existed at the junction with the Main North Line in Kaiapoi. The Main North Line had been built with the Canterbury Provincial Railways' broad gauge of , while the Eyreton Branch was built to the then newly accepted national standard of (internationally, a narrow gauge).
In 1876 provincial governments were abolished and Canterbury Provincial Railways were absorbed by the central government. By 1877 the Main North Line was converted to a gauge of and the break-of-gauge was eliminated.
Operation
For many years, the line was serviced by one service each way per day. These initially ran to West Eyreton, but with the opening of the link through to Bennetts Junction they ran right through to Oxford. From this time, much traffic carried on the Eyreton Branch was actually freight from Oxford using the Eyreton route as a shortcut to the Main North Line.
However, concerns that the line would not be profitable were fulfilled by low traffic volumes even before the era of widespread competition from the road. As road transport increased in competitiveness, freight dwindled. By 1927, only four services ran per week, and in 1930, a Royal Commission suggested that the line be closed unless locals wished to fund the line.
Nonetheless, the Railways Department kept operating the line, though on 9 February 1931 the link with Bennetts Junction on the Oxford Branch was closed. The Eyreton B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20W.%20Jones | Douglas W. Jones is an American computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting.
Jones received a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1980 respectively.
Jones' involvement with electronic voting research began in 1994, when he was appointed to the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems. He chaired the board from 1999 to 2003, and has testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the United States House Committee on Science and the Federal Election Commission on voting issues. In 2005 he participated as an election observer for the presidential election in Kazakhstan. Jones was the technical advisor for HBO's documentary on electronic voting machine issues, "Hacking Democracy", that was released in 2006. He was a member of the ACCURATE electronic voting project from 2005 to 2011. On December 11, 2009, the Election Assistance Commission appointed Douglas Jones to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.
Together with Barbara Simons, Jones has published a book on electronic voting entitled Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?. Jones's most widely cited work centers on the evaluation of priority queue implementations. This work has been credited with helping relaunch the empirical study of algorithm performance. In related work, Jones applied splay trees to data compression and developed algorithms for applying parallel computing to discrete event simulation. Jones's PhD thesis was in the area of capability-based addressing, and he has occasionally published on other aspects of computer architecture. He has published work on computer architecture on an occasional basis, such as his proposal for a one-instruction set computer.
References
External links
Douglas Jones' website
NPR Science Friday interview on voting technology
NPR Talk of the Nation interview on voting technology
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Illinois alumni
American computer scientists
University of Iowa faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditch%20Davey | Kristian "Ditch" Davey is an Australian actor known for his role as Evan Jones in the Seven Network's Blue Heelers from 2001 to 2006, and for playing the lead role of Julius Caesar in Netflix Season 2: Master of Rome Roman Empire in 2018.
Early life and education
Davey attended Frenchs Forest Public School and Forest High School, Frenchs Forest, where he completed year twelve in 1993.
Davey graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Perth in 1998.
Career
Not long after leaving the WAAPA in 1998 and the state of Western Australia, he got his first acting job on a Wrigley's Eclipse chewing gum ad. Following this, he was seen on Australian dramas such as All Saints, Above the Law, Water Rats, and the telemovie Do or Die. In 2001, he auditioned for the role of Evan Jones on Blue Heelers. After winning the role, he quit his job as a part-time barman in Sydney and relocated to Melbourne. He also cut his long blonde hair and dyed it brown. His first episode was "Dragged".
In 2006, Blue Heelers was axed after a 12-year-run. Davey hosted Channel Seven's Police Files: Unlocked before leaving to work on Sea Patrol. In the 2008 series, Davey played SAS officer Jim Roth on a semi-regular basis. He also portrayed Romeo in the 2012 Australian Science-Fiction Film "Crawlspace". He also had a supporting role in the final season of "Spartacus: War of the Damned". In 2014, Davey starred in the ABC-TV series Black Box, as Dr. Ian Bickman, chief neurosurgeon, opposite Kelly Reilly. In 2017, he joined the cast of the comedy-drama series 800 Words.
In 2018, he landed the lead role of Julius Caesar in Netflix Season 2: Master of Rome Roman Empire,
alongside Jessica Green who played Cleopatra.
From September 2020, Davey began playing neurosurgeon Dr. Christian Green in the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away.
Personal life
Davey has been married to actress Sophia Dunn since 2010. They have two sons. In 2020, the family relocated to Sydney to accommodate Davey's filming commitments with Home and Away.
Awards and nominations
In 2002, Davey won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Male Talent.
Filmography
References
External links
Australian male television actors
Living people
Logie Award winners
Male actors from Melbourne
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts alumni
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gtk2-Perl | Gtk2-Perl is a set of wrappers for the Perl programming language around the GTK and further GNOME libraries. Gtk-Perl is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1. Developers and interested parties can usually be found on the IRC channel #gtk-perl on irc.gnome.org.
Gtk2-Perl is part of the official GNOME Platform Bindings release.
Example
use Gtk2 '-init';
$window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel');
$window->set_title("Hello World!");
$button = Gtk2::Button->new("Press me");
$button->signal_connect(clicked => sub { print "Hello again - the button was pressed\n"; });
$window->add($button);
$window->show_all;
Gtk2->main;
0;
The sample program creates a GTK Window titled "Hello World!". The window contains a Button labelled "Press me." When the button is pressed, the message "Hello again - the button was pressed" is displayed on the console via the callback inside the anonymous subroutine connected to the "clicked" signal.
References
External links
GTK2-Perl homepage on SourceForge.net
https://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Gtk2/
https://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Gtk3/
A tool helps compile gtk2-perl under Windows
GTK language bindings
Perl modules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BasicX | BasicX is a free programming language designed specifically for NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller and based on the BASIC programming language. It is used in the design of robotics projects such as the Robodyssey Systems Mouse robot.
Further reading
Odom, Chris D. BasicX and Robotics. Robodyssey Systems LLC,
External links
NetMedia Home Page
BasicX Free Downloads
Sample Code
, programmed in BasicX
Videos, Sample Code, and Tutorials from the author of BasicX and Robotics
BASIC compilers
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dky%C5%ABsei%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | is an adult-themed dating sim series created by ELF Corporation. The original Dōkyūsei, originally released in 1992 for the NEC PC-9801 microcomputer, is generally considered to be the forerunner of the modern dating sim. It was followed by sequels: Dōkyūsei 2 and Kakyūsei (下級生, meaning Underclassmates), both of which were also very successful. There was a four-episode OVA made from Dōkyūsei, a 12-episode OVA was made from Dōkyūsei 2, and both an OVA and TV series from Kakyūsei. In 2004, ELF released the next in the series of games, Kakyūsei 2, which also received a TV series and OVA adaptation.
A Game Boy Color mahjong game with Dōkyūsei 1 characters called Jankyūsei (雀級生) was also created. The Dōkyūsei 2 expansion disk (Nanpa 2 Special), Dōkyūsei 2 SP, was also made into an OVA, this expansion is also referred to as Sotsugyōsei (卒業生, meaning The Graduate).
Despite its title, most of the girl characters are not classmates of the main character.
External links
Brief history of Dōkyūsei and Kakyūsei (archive article)
1999 anime television series debuts
ELF Corporation games
Eroge
Pink Pineapple
Video game franchises introduced in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E73 | European route E73 forms part of the United Nations International E-road network, connecting Hungary and eastern Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Adriatic Sea in the vicinity of the port of Ploče. This route is also designated as the Pan-European Corridor Vc, a branch of the fifth Pan-European corridor. The route largely consists of two-lane roads with at-grade intersections, although in the 2000s, about a third of the route was upgraded to motorway standards. The remainder of the route is currently being upgraded in all the countries spanned. The longest part of this corridor goes through Bosnia and Herzegovina and is widely touted as a road instrumental to the development of the country. The road also serves as the shortest connection of the eastern and southern parts of Croatia.
Route description
The European route E73 is a part of the International E-road network, long, connecting parts of Hungary and Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Adriatic Sea coast near the port of Ploče. The route is a Class A intermediate north–south road, consisting of of motorways, and a substantial proportion of two-lane roads with at-grade intersections. The E73 starts at the Budapest ring motorway, providing connection to the Hungarian motorway network, as well as the European routes E60, E71 and E75, at an interchange with the M6 motorway taking the E73 route south, past Dunaújváros and Szekszárd towards Bóly, where the motorway (as of August 2011) terminates, and the E73 switches to routes 57 and then 56 past Mohács to Udvar/Duboševica border crossing where the route crosses to Croatia. The Hungarian section of the E73 is long, and all but the last has been upgraded to the motorway standards. The final section of the motorway to the Croatian border is planned to extend to a new border crossing at Ivándárda.
The E73 route through Croatia starts at Duboševica border crossing, following the D7 state road to Beli Manastir and Osijek. South of Beli Manastir, there is a junction with the European route E662, signposted as the D212 state road. The D7 road carries the E73 through Osijek, to the southern city bypass, an expressway signposted as the D2 state road providing a connection to the A5 motorway to the west of Osijek. The A5 is scheduled for extension north to the Hungarian border, where it would link up with the Hungarian M6 motorway. The A5 extends south to the Sredanci interchange whee it meets the A3 motorway, which carries the E70. The A5 continues further south to the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Svilaj border crossing at the Sava River. First segment of the E73 through Croatia, between Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina, is long, including of motorways.
The E73 route in Bosnia and Herzegovina starts at Svilaj border crossing, following the A1 motorway for to Odžak. Near Odžak the E73 switches from the A1 motorway to a short road connector which carries the E73 to the M-14.1 road. The M-14.1 road carries the E73 to Vuko |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20fingerprint | Digital fingerprint may refer to:
Message digest, the output of a one-way function when applied to a stream of data
Public key fingerprint, short sequence of bytes used to identify a longer public key
Fingerprint (computing)
Acoustic fingerprint, a condensed digital summary generated from an audio signal
Device fingerprint, a compact summary of software and hardware settings collected from a remote device, for example a computer or a web browser
Digital video fingerprinting, a technique to summarize characteristic components of a video recording
TCP/IP stack fingerprinting, the remote detection of the characteristics of a TCP/IP stack
Content ID (algorithm), a Google technology used on YouTube to identify content protected by copyright |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20bridge | Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software. After years of limited progress, since around the end of the 20th century the field of computer bridge has made major advances. In 1996 the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) established an official World Computer-Bridge Championship, to be held annually along with a major bridge event. The first championship took place in 1997 at the North American Bridge Championships in Albuquerque. Since 1999 the event has been conducted as a joint activity of the American Contract Bridge League and the World Bridge Federation. Alvin Levy, ACBL Board member, initiated this championship and has coordinated the event annually since its inception. The event history, articles and publications, analysis, and playing records can be found at the official website.
World Computer-Bridge Championship
The World Computer-Bridge Championship is typically played as a round robin followed by a knock-out between the top four contestants. Winners of the annual event are:
Computers versus humans
In Zia Mahmood's book, Bridge, My Way (1992), Zia offered a £1 million bet that no four-person team of his choosing would be beaten by a computer. A few years later the bridge program GIB (which can stand for either "Ginsberg’s Intelligent Bridgeplayer" or "Goren In a Box"), brainchild of American computer scientist Matthew Ginsberg, proved capable of expert declarer plays like winkle squeezes in play tests. In 1996, Zia withdrew his bet. Two years later, GIB became the world champion in computer bridge, and also had a 12th place score (11210) in declarer play compared to 34 of the top humans in the 1998 Par Contest (including Zia Mahmood). However, such a par contest measures technical bridge analysis skills only, and in 1999 Zia beat various computer programs, including GIB, in an individual round robin match.
Further progress in the field of computer bridge has resulted in stronger bridge playing programs, including Jack and Wbridge5. These programs have been ranked highly in national bridge rankings. A series of articles published in 2005 and 2006 in the Dutch bridge magazine IMP describes matches between five-time computer bridge world champion Jack and seven top Dutch pairs including a Bermuda Bowl winner and two reigning European champions. A total of 196 boards were played. Jack defeated three out of the seven pairs (including the European champions). Overall, the program lost by a small margin (359 versus 385 IMPs).
In 2009, Phillip Martin, an expert player, began a four-year project in which he played against the champion bridge program, Jack. He played one hand at one table, with Jack playing the other three; at another table, Jack played the same cards at all four seats, producing a comparison result. He posted his results and analysis in a blog he titled The Gargoyle Chronicles. The program was no match for Martin, who won every contest by large margins.
Cardplay algorithms
Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%20security%20software | Rogue security software is a form of malicious software and internet fraud that misleads users into believing there is a virus on their computer and aims to convince them to pay for a fake malware removal tool that actually installs malware on their computer. It is a form of scareware that manipulates users through fear, and a form of ransomware. Rogue security software has been a serious security threat in desktop computing since 2008. An early example that gained infamy was SpySheriff and its clones, such as Nava Shield.
Propagation
Rogue security software mainly relies on social engineering (fraud) to defeat the security built into modern operating system and browser software and install itself onto victims' computers. A website may, for example, display a fictitious warning dialog stating that someone's machine is infected with a computer virus, and encourage them through manipulation to install or purchase scareware in the belief that they are purchasing genuine antivirus software.
Most have a Trojan horse component, which users are misled into installing. The Trojan may be disguised as:
A browser plug-in or extension (typically toolbar)
An image, screensaver or archive file attached to an e-mail message
Multimedia codec required to play a certain video clip
Software shared on peer-to-peer networks
A free online malware-scanning service
Some rogue security software, however, propagate onto users' computers as drive-by downloads which exploit security vulnerabilities in web browsers, PDF viewers, or email clients to install themselves without any manual interaction.
More recently, malware distributors have been utilizing SEO poisoning techniques by pushing infected URLs to the top of search engine results about recent news events. People looking for articles on such events on a search engine may encounter results that, upon being clicked, are instead redirected through a series of sites before arriving at a landing page that says that their machine is infected and pushes a download to a "trial" of the rogue program. A 2010 study by Google found 11,000 domains hosting fake anti-virus software, accounting for 50% of all malware delivered via internet advertising.
Cold-calling has also become a vector for distribution of this type of malware, with callers often claiming to be from "Microsoft Support" or another legitimate organization.
Common infection vectors
Black Hat SEO
Black Hat search engine optimization (SEO) is a technique used to trick search engines into displaying malicious URLs in search results. The malicious webpages are filled with popular keywords in order to achieve a higher ranking in the search results. When the end user searches the web, one of these infected webpages is returned. Usually the most popular keywords from services such as Google Trends are used to generate webpages via PHP scripts placed on the compromised website. These PHP scripts will then monitor for search engine crawlers and feed them with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptana | Aptana, Inc. is a company that makes web application development tools for use with a variety of programming languages (such as JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python). Aptana's main products include Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud and Aptana Jaxer.
Aptana Studio
Aptana Studio is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for building web applications. Based on Eclipse, it supports JavaScript, HTML, DOM and CSS with code-completion, outlining, JavaScript debugging, error and warning notifications and integrated documentation. Additional plugins allow Aptana Studio to support Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Perl, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia WRT (Web Runtime). Aptana Studio is available as a standalone on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, or as a plugin for Eclipse.
Language & platform support
PHP
Aptana Studio 3 provides the following support for PHP application development:
Syntax Coloring according to the selected theme in the preferences;
Code Assist;
Syntax error annotations;
Auto indentation and Code Formatting;
Hyper-linking to classes, functions and variables by hovering over elements and pressing the Ctrl key;
PHPDoc popups when hovering over items that have attached documentation;
Read and write Occurrences Markers when clicking on specific PHP elements.
In the 2.0 version, Aptana did not provide its own PHP plugin, but transferred development efforts to the PDT project.
Aptana version 1.5 provided support for developing PHP applications via the add-on PHP plugin. This included:
Built-in PHP server for previewing within Aptana Studio,
Full code assist, code outlining and code formatting,
Integrated PHP debugger,
Built in Smarty,
Type hierarchy view,
Go to declaration,
Integrated PHP manual (online or local).
Ruby on Rails
Aptana Studio supports Ruby on Rails development using RadRails, an open source plugin for the Ruby on Rails framework. This includes:
Integrated Ruby on Rails shell console,
Default-install and configuration of the Ruby interpreter, database and debugger,
code completion with type inferencing,
Code Assist for Ruby, CSS, JavaScript and HTML inside RHTML files,
Type hierarchy view,
Go to declaration,
Call hierarchy,
Full implementation of RDT (Eclipse's Ruby Development Tools project).
Python
Aptana Studio provides support for Python in the form of the PyDev plugin. This provides the following advantages:
Color syntax highlighting;
Code completion;
Code outlining;
Debugging
Refactoring tools
Interactive console
Unittest integration
Integrated support for the CPython, Jython and IronPython interpreters.
Aptana announced that their previously commercial Pydev Extensions are now open sourced.
Adobe AIR
Aptana IDE provides considerable support for Adobe AIR.
Nokia Web Runtime
The Nokia Web Runtime provides support for developing rich mobile apps for Nokia S60 series phones. This includes over 30 models and tens of millions of units in use around the world. The Nokia WRT Plug-in for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Public%20Radio | Colorado Public Radio (CPR) is a public radio state network based in Denver, Colorado that broadcasts three services: news, classical music and Indie 102.3, which plays adult album alternative music. CPR airs its programming on 15 full-power stations, augmented by 17 translators. Their combined signal reaches 80 percent of Colorado. CPR also manages KRCC, the NPR member station in Colorado Springs, in partnership with the station's owner, Colorado College.
As of 2013, CPR had 440,000 weekly listeners, 47,000 contributing members and annual revenue of $14 million. In early-March 2019, CPR acquired hyperlocal news site Denverite from Spirited Media to bolster its web news coverage for locals.
CPR is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. Private support from listeners, corporations, foundations and partners accounts for approximately 95 percent of CPR's total budget.
History
The first station in what would become Colorado Public Radio, KCFR (90.1 FM) in Denver, went on the air in 1970. The station was initially licensed to the University of Denver. In 1973, KCFR began carrying programming from National Public Radio (NPR), beginning with All Things Considered. Morning Edition was added in 1979. More NPR programming was added the following year when the network began to distribute programming via satellite.
KCFR separated from the University of Denver in 1984, becoming a community-licensed public radio station. That same year, KPRN in Grand Junction signed on the air. In 1991, KPRN merged with KCFR, forming the new entity, Colorado Public Radio. The original plan as proposed to the Western Slope listeners and the FCC during the license acquisition phase was to continue providing original localized programming for the needs of the Western Slope audience. But despite protests from those listeners, within a few years the KPRN studios were closed, all volunteers and news staff positions were eliminated and it became a satellite station of KCFR.
CPR added more satellite stations in the following years, including KPRE Vail in 1994, KCFP Pueblo in 1996, and KPRH Montrose in 1998. CPR also began adding other low-power translators, sometimes in competition with existing public radio stations. Stations in other areas not served by CPR, like KDNK in Carbondale, complained that CPR would also send out fundraising solicitation letters to KDNK listeners leaving the impression that they could thank CPR for receiving popular NPR programs like All Things Considered or Morning Edition, sometimes resulting in misdirected donations.
Until 2001, CPR's format was a mix of NPR programming and classical music. However, in 1999, CPR bought Denver classical music station KVOD, a prelude to providing both a 24-hour news format and a 24-hour classical format.
In 2001, CPR attempted to purchase the University of Northern Colorado's FM station KUNC in a closed-door deal with then-UNC president Hank Brown. When the pending deal was announced to the public, KUNC immediately ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCFC | KCFC (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to Boulder, Colorado. The station is owned by Colorado Public Radio (CPR), and airs CPR's "Colorado News" network, originating from KCFR-FM in Denver, Colorado.
The station signed on in 1947 as KBOL. Herb Hollister was President, and Russ Shaffer was vice president and general manager. Shaffer acquired majority interest in the station in 1953. Russ Shaffer's son Rusty became General Manager in the mid-70s and would become sole owner by 1985.
Programming
KCFR-FM and KCFC broadcast programming from National Public Radio (including Morning Edition and All Things Considered), American Public Media (including A Prairie Home Companion & its successor, Live From Here), and Public Radio International (including This American Life and The World), as well as an original daily interview show called Colorado Matters.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KCFC
cpr.org
CFC
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1946
1946 establishments in Colorado
CFC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefuse | Prefuse is a Java-based toolkit for building interactive information visualization applications. It supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity.
Prefuse uses the Java 2D graphics library, and is easily integrated into Swing applications or Java applets. Prefuse is licensed under the terms of a BSD license, and can be used freely for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Overview
Prefuse is a Java-based extensible software framework for creating interactive information visualization applications. It can be used to build standalone applications, visual components and Java applets. Prefuse intends to simplify the processes of visualizing, handling and mapping of data, as well as user interaction.
Some of Prefuse's features include:
Table, graph, and tree data structures supporting arbitrary data attributes, data indexing, and selection queries, all with an efficient memory footprint.
Components for layout, color, size, and shape encodings, distortion techniques and more.
A library of controls for common interactive, direct-manipulation operations.
Animation support through a general activity scheduling mechanism.
View transformations supporting panning and zooming, including both geometric and semantic zooming.
Dynamic queries for interactive filtering of data.
Integrated text search using a number of available search engines.
A physical force simulation engine for dynamic layout and animation (s.a. Force-directed graph drawing)
Flexibility for multiple views, including "overview+detail" and "small multiples" displays.
A built in, SQL-like expression language for writing queries to prefuse data structures and creating derived data fields.
Support for issuing queries to SQL databases and mapping query results into prefuse data structures.
(and perhaps most importantly)
Simple, developer-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs) for creating custom processing, interaction, and rendering components.
Prefuse has been used in school course projects, academic and industrial research, and commercial software development.
Architecture
The design of the prefuse toolkit is based upon the information visualization reference model, a software architecture pattern that breaks up the visualization process into a series of discrete steps. "Prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization" provides more details on implementation and evaluation.
The information visualization reference model was developed in the Ph.D. thesis work of Ed Chi, under the name of the data state model. Chi showed that the framework successfully modeled a wide array of visualization applications. Later, Chi's work showed that the model was functionally equivalent to the data flow model used in existing gra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20ETL | Spatial extract, transform, load (spatial ETL), also known as geospatial transformation and load (GTL), provides the data processing functionality of traditional extract, transform, load (ETL) software, but with a primary focus on the ability to manage spatial data (which may also be called GIS, geographic, or map data).
A spatial ETL system may translate data directly from one format to another, or via an intermediate format; the latter being more common when transformation of the data is to be carried out.
Transform
The transformation phase of a spatial ETL process allows a variety of functions; some of these are similar to standard ETL, but some are unique to spatial data.
Spatial data commonly consists of a geographic element and related attribute data; therefore spatial ETL transformations are often described as being either geometric transformations – transformation of the geographic element – or attribute transformations – transformations of the related attribute data.
Common geospatial transformations
Reprojection: the ability to convert spatial data between one coordinate system and another.
Spatial transformations: the ability to model spatial interactions and calculate spatial predicates
Topological transformations: the ability to create topological relationships between disparate datasets
Resymbolisation: the ability to change the cartographic characteristics of a feature, such as colour or line-style
Geocoding: the ability to convert attributes of tabular data into spatial data
Additional features
Desirable features of a spatial ETL application are:
Data comparison: Ability to carry out change detection and perform incremental updates
Conflict management: Ability to manage conflicts between multiple users of the same data
Data dissemination: Ability to publish data via the internet or deliver by email regardless of source format
Semantic processing: Ability to understand the rules of different data formats to minimize user input whilst preserving meaning
Spatial ETL uses
Spatial ETL has a number of distinct uses:
Data cleansing: The removal of errors within a dataset
Data merging: The bringing together of multiple datasets into a common framework – conflation is a good example of this
Data verification: The comparison of multiple datasets for verification and quality assurance purposes
Data conversion: Conversion between different data formats.
Spatial ETL – origins and history
Although ETL tools for processing non-spatial data have existed for some time, ETL tools that can manage the unique characteristics of spatial data only emerged in the early 1990s.
Spatial ETL tools emerged in the GIS industry to enable interoperability (or the exchange of information) between the industry's diverse array of mapping applications and associated proprietary formats. However, spatial ETL tools are also becoming increasingly important in the realm of management information systems as a tool to help organizations integrate spatial data w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20St-Laurent%20%28broadcaster%29 | Bernard St-Laurent is a Canadian retired journalist and radio personality, best known as a longtime host of programming on CBC Radio. In 2012, he was given the Award of Excellence – Promotion of Linguistic Duality by the Commissioner of official languages Graham Fraser for having "dedicated his life to keeping English-speaking Canadians informed of what's happening in the other official language".
Background
Originally from Compton, Quebec, he began his career as a journalist with the Sherbrooke Record before joining CJAD in Montreal in 1976 as a political reporter covering the National Assembly of Quebec.
Louis St. Laurent, a former prime minister of Canada, is his great uncle. He has attributed his passion for politics and journalism to the childhood exposure he had to that world, particularly when Louis St. Laurent visited his family with media always in tow.
CBC
He joined the CBC in 1981, initially continuing as a national reporter on Quebec politics.
He left CBC between 1987 and 1991 for various jobs at the Montreal Daily News (columnist, city editor, 1988–1989), MétéoMedia (executive producer, 1989–1990) and the Gazette in Montreal (columnist, 1990–1991).
After rejoining the CBC in 1991, he continued to work as a political analyst for both the English and French services, and served as host of various programs, including the Quebec edition of Radio Noon, Montreal's local afternoon program Homerun and C'est la vie, a national radio program which he created in 1998. He was also a guest host of numerous other programs on the network, including The Current, Sounds Like Canada, As It Happens, The House and Cross Country Checkup.
He retired from the CBC in 2015.
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Canadian male journalists
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Canadian talk radio hosts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEFB | KEFB (channel 34) was a religious television station licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, which served the Des Moines area as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Owned by Family Educational Broadcasting, the station maintained a transmitter southwest of Ames. In addition to TBN programming, KEFB also served the community as an independent educational station.
History
The station was originally granted a construction permit on July 12, 1996, as provisional station 960712KL. The station would not be officially granted a full license until 2005, when they were granted the call letters KEFB.
Shutdown
On September 20, 2016, Family Educational Broadcasting announced it was permanently discontinuing all operations of KEFB and returning the station's license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). KEFB's license was formally canceled and its callsign deleted on October 5, 2016. TBN programming remains available in the Des Moines–Ames area via the network's national feed on Mediacom channel 92.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal was multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KEFB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on June 12, 2009, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 34. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20V120c | The Motorola V120c is a CDMA cell phone sold in 2002 by Motorola. It was mainly used with Verizon and Alltel networks, and included a number of simple features. It had an extendable antenna.
The model existed in black and in silver, but there were other plastic covers from third party manufacturers.
It was very similar to the Motorola v60, but it had only one screen and it was a candybar format phone instead of a clamshell.
A big criticism was the unreliable software that the phone had, with several bugs.
There also exists a TDMA version, called v120t. It had a fixed antenna.
It was rated number three on the list of the ten highest radiation-emitting cell phones.
V120c
Mobile phones introduced in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPIF | KPIF (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Pocatello, Idaho, United States, serving the Idaho Falls–Pocatello media market as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Grit. It is owned by Ventura Broadcasting alongside Ion Television affiliate KVUI (channel 31, also licensed to Pocatello). The two stations share studios on West Alameda Road in Pocatello; KPIF's transmitter is located on Howard Mountain.
History
The original construction permit for KPIF was granted on March 2, 2001, to Pocatello Channel 15, L.L.C., a partnership between KM Communications, Inc. of Skokie, Illinois, Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas (a subsidiary of Equity Broadcasting Corporation), and Potelco Broadcasting of Greensboro, North Carolina. The three companies had been competing applicants for a channel 15 television station in Pocatello, and agreed in 2000 to form a partnership in order to expedite construction of the station. In 2003, due to irreconcilable differences that caused delays in development of the permit, Myoung Hwa Bae of KM Communications extended an offer to buy out the other two members. KM Communications completed construction of the station and signed on in March 2004 under Program Test Authority from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The station applied for a license to cover the construction permit on March 1, 2004, and was granted the license on October 11, 2006.
Initially, KPIF was affiliated with America One, but the station picked up a WB affiliation in July 2004. It became an affiliate of The CW on September 18, 2006. At one point, KBEO (channel 11) from Jackson, Wyoming (which was the first to sign on, on March 30, 2001) became a satellite of KPIF (KBEO has since gone dark).
After The CW moved to a digital subchannel of ABC affiliate KIFI-TV (channel 8) on September 7, 2009, the station switched to RTV (later RTN, now Retro TV).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
As of November 2021, Grit moved from 15.2 to the main subchannel. A few other subchannels changed their affiliations too, including 15.2 (Heroes & Icons to Defy TV), 15.3 (Grit to TrueReal), 15.4 (Stadium to Bounce TV; the latter network previously aired on 15.4 from 2020 to June 2021), and 15.7 (Pursuit Channel to Newsy).
Analog-to-digital conversion
KPIF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 15, on June 12, 2009, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 15, as they were granted original construction permits after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997.
While KPIF did broadcast a digital signal after the analog shutdown, it did not apply for a license to cover or an extension of the digital construction permit (which expired on June 12, 2009) until 2014. KPIF was granted a broadcast license for its digital signal on February 6, 2016.
References
External links
Post Register article on station sign-on
Television channels and statio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBB-CFF-FFS%20RBDe%20560 | The RBDe 560 (in the old naming style, the RBDe 4/4) and its derivatives provide motive power for S-Bahn, suburban, and regional traffic on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) network. The derivative versions belong to the SBB as well as various private railroads. The locomotive and its matching Bt model Steuerwagen (translation: control car/cab car/driving trailer) form compositions generally known as the Neuer Pendelzug (New Push-pull Train), which is the source of the acronym NPZ. An NPZ trainset usually includes one or more intermediate cars.
General information
In 1984 four pre-series sets (each consisting of a motor car and a driving trailer) were delivered. Ordered in 1981, they originally bore the RBDe 4/4 designation and road numbers 2100-2103. All four trainsets (RBDe 560 + Bt) were delivered in different color schemes, one of which was the livery used for the main series (blue over white sides, yellow doors, and red faces). The striking contrast to the green color scheme of previous SBB passenger stock led to the name Kolibri (Hummingbird), which is, however, rarely used. Nearly all the RBDe 560 sets have been named after smaller municipalities along the lines served by these trainset received the appropriate coat of arms.
A full order for 80 trainsets followed. A few years later an additional order for a further 42 trainsets was placed. 6 trainsets were ordered by private railroads (Südostbahn (SOB), PBr, MThB, Montafonerbahn, etc.), resulting in a total production of 134 series trainsets. The last were put in service in 1996.
For cost reasons, up to the procurement of new low floor intermediate cars Domino starting in 2006, modernized Einheitswagen (EW) I and II coaches are used to achieve the desired passenger capacity. A standard set has a second class and a combined first/second class car, but sets with zero or up to three intermediate cars are being operated.
The motor cars have a power output of 1650 kW, a maximum speed of 140 km/h, a weight of 70 tons, and are 25 meters long. The series (560 000-083 through 560 100-141) forms the largest group of regional/suburban traffic motor cars of SBB, with 126 vehicles.
In May 2006 a modernization program was begun by the SBB for 120 of its trainsets. The motor cars and driving trailers are being refurbished and then matched with new air-conditioned low floor intermediate coaches to form Domino trains. The existing EW I and II coaches will, after well over 40 years of service, be scrapped. Further use of the trucks on these coaches is being considered. The 188 new intermediate cars are to be delivered coinciding with the modernization, which is forecast to take 7 years and should be complete by 2013.
Special liveries
The NPZ color scheme mentioned above is generally common today. The second production series (560 100 - 560 141) has the blue window strip extended all the way to the driver's compartment. In addition, numerous examples have logos of the various Swiss S-Bahn systems (Z |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Media | ON Media Corporation ("Orion Network Media"), is a South Korean broadcasting company. Formerly a subsidiary of Korean food company Orion Confectionery, it was acquired by the CJ Group in 2010. Established in 2000, the company is headquartered in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do and is a leader in the pay television industry in South Korea. On-Media also delivers cable TV and broadband services.
Television networks
Present
Badook TV ()
Catch On ()
Catch On Plus ()
OnStyle ()
Ongamenet ()
Orion Cinema Network (OCN)
Story On ()
Super Action ()
Tooniverse ()
Former
MTV Korea (
See also
Orion Confectionery
References
External links
On-Media - Official Website
CJ E&M
Orion Group subsidiaries
Broadcasting companies of South Korea
South Korean companies established in 2000
Mass media companies established in 2000
Mass media in Seongnam
Companies based in Gyeonggi Province
2010 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasting%20on%20Asphalt | Feasting on Asphalt is a television series starring Alton Brown of the Food Network programs Good Eats and Iron Chef America.
Brown's third series, Feasting on Asphalt explores "road food" (eating establishments which cater to travelers) in the historical and present-day United States, with an emphasis on unique restaurants and regional cuisine. In the first two seasons, Brown and his crew seek "good eats" across the country, via Brown's BMW motorcycle. "As far as I’m concerned, there’s no better way to experience the road than from the back of a bike," says Brown. During the third season (titled Feasting on Waves), Brown trades the motorcycle for a boat to island hop throughout the Caribbean with a similar mission.
Season 1
Season 1 consisted of four episodes, initially broadcast July 29, August 5, August 12, and August 19, 2006 (Shot Spring/Summer '06). Brown traveled from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and sampled food along his travel route. The episodes included segments documenting famous journeys and travelers (from the Odyssey to the Crusades, to Lewis and Clark, and Jack Kerouac), and interviews with many of the restaurant owners and patrons he met en route.
Brown suffered a motorcycle crash during the shooting of the Nevada segment, injuring his right clavicle. This injury was caught on camera and was shown in episode 4.
Brown began his trip in Mount Pleasant, SC, then wound his way through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and then to the California coast.
Episode 1
Title: "The South Shall Fry Again"
Places Visited:
Episode 2
Title: "I Smell Pork"
Places Visited:
Episode 3
Title: "High Plains Feaster"
Places Visited:
Episode 4
Title: "California or Bust"
Places Visited:
Note: Coordinates were incorrectly shown in ddmmss format on the program.
Alton Brown is shown wearing a sling for three quarters of this episode after his motorcycle accident in Nevada and resulting shoulder injury. On the sling is written: "If you can read this odds are I'm about to scream." The Chicago Tribune said of the incident that Brown was "surely the only Food Network celeb to have broken bones in a motorcycle crash on camera".
Season 2
The second season, Feasting on Asphalt 2 – The River Run, began airing August 4, 2007 on the Food Network. The journey began in Venice, Louisiana, with Brown and his crew tracing the Mississippi River north. According to Brown's website, Feasting on Asphalt 2 was filmed during April and May 2007, and consists of six episodes along the Great River Road. Brown deviates from the Great River Road, however, missing several of the cities that travel along the Mississippi River; rather than following the river through towns such as Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and Bemidji, Minnesota, Brown cuts straight over from Crosby, Minnesota to Itasca State Park in order to reach the source of the Mississippi River.
Episode 1
Title: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF%20Class%20B%2081500 | The B 81500 (often called BGC) is a class of bi-mode multiple units built by Bombardier for SNCF and used on the TER network in France. They are primarily used on suburban and regional services. It has been in operation since 2005 on the TER Aquitaine, TER Bourgogne, TER Centre, TER Champagne-Ardenne, TER Languedoc-Roussillon, TER Limousin, TER Midi-Pyrénées, TER PACA, TER Pays de la Loire, and TER Rhône-Alpes lines.
The Class B 81500 trains are composed of four or five cars, and have a capacity of around 300 passengers. They feature air-conditioning, comfortable seating, and are equipped with power outlets and onboard passenger information systems. They are designed to be accessible to passengers with reduced mobility, with features such as wheelchair ramps and audio announcements.
The trains are capable of operating on diesel power as well as a 1.5 kV DC electricity supply, and have a top speed of 160 km/h (99 mph). They have a modern and aerodynamic design, which helps to reduce energy consumption and improve their performance.
The class B 81500 trains are known for their reliability, comfort and energy efficiency. They are widely used in the french railway network and have been a key element in the modernization of the suburban and regional services in France.
Gallery
B 81500
Bombardier Transportation multiple units
Hybrid multiple units of France
1500 V DC multiple units of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah3D | Cheetah3D is a computer graphics program for 3D modelling, animation and rendering. It is written in Cocoa for macOS. The program is aimed at beginning and amateur 3D artists.
It offers a number of medium and high-end features in conjunction with an intuitive user interface. Its simplicity is what makes it stand apart from other programs.
It was initially released in 2003 and is currently available on Intel based Macs. A single user license is $99 US. A free demo version is available, with the limitation of the ability to save or export models.
Features
Cheetah3D is aimed primarily at amateur artists, and so focuses on providing features for creating simple 3D scenes. Its selection of features is narrow but focused to add in its usefulness and simplicity.
It supports a variety of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes and Bezier curves. Its features also allow for box modeling with subdivision surfaces In addition, it has some simple animation support, including spline-based camera paths and targeted objects, skeletal deformations, morph targets, and subdivision surfaces, making its character animation effective.
The program also has several advanced rendering settings, which allow for antialiasing, raytraced shadows, depth of field, HDRI, ambient occlusion, caustics lighting, soft shadowing and photon-mapped caustics.
Many common 3D file formats are supported, including 3ds, obj, sia, and FBX. Media produced by the program can also be used in Unity, which is a game development tool.
Cheetah3D 5.0 was released on 8 October 2009 and requires at least Mac OS X v10.4. This was also the last version to support the PowerPC. Features include a node-based material system, an improved render engine, new modelling tools such as a bevel tool and a bend modifier, and Collada file format support.
Official video tutorials Cheetah3D for Beginners are currently available based on this version.
Cheetah3D 6.0 was released on 13 April 2012 and requires Mac OS X v10.6 or later. Added features include Bullet Physics integration including rigid body and soft body simulation and integration with the existing particle system, isosurfaces, and support for Mac OS X Lion.
A third-party manual Learn 3D With Cheetah 3D was released simultaneously with this version.
Cheetah3D 6.0.1 - 6.3.2 were released between 26 July 2012 and 28 September 2014. Added features include support for Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Retina Display support, support for spline IK, improved Ring and Loop selection, ABF unwrapping, and an added split joint tool. Also included are improved Mac OS X Mavericks compatibility & support for GateKeeper v2 signatures.
Cheetah3d 7 Beta was released on 1 May 2016. It added a UI update, a new renderer, NGon Booleans, movie textures, soft selections, Collada support, layers, motion blur for frame sequences (via the new renderer) and more.
Cheetah3d 7.0 was released in October of 2017.
References
External links
Official Web Site
3D graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFFV | KFFV (channel 44) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, United States, airing programming from MeTV. It is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting alongside Bellingham-licensed Heroes & Icons station KVOS-TV, channel 12 (which KFFV simulcasts on its third digital subchannel). Both stations share studios on Third Avenue South in Seattle, while KFFV's transmitter is located on Capitol Hill east of downtown.
History
Early years
The former KHCV call letters were assigned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with a construction permit on October 2, 1989. The station signed on the air on January 1, 1999, on Channel 45 after many permit extensions.
Channel launches
During the week of August 11, 2006, KHCV started carrying Azteca América on its analog channel 45 and on its digital channel 44.2.
On December 20, 2006, Navarre's FUNimation Entertainment announced that the FUNimation channel would be broadcast on KHCV 44.3.
On March 1, 2007, KHCV started broadcasting content from GNF Entertainment Network on its digital subchannels 44.3 and 44.4. 44.3 carried GNF "Game & Music" and 44.4 carried GNF "Movie".
Network changes
The analog broadcast (UHF 45) had been exclusively Azteca América, while the Comcast broadcast of this channel (Channel 15) is Jewelry TV. On September 10, 2007, analog UHF channel 45 carried the same Jewelry TV content as digital UHF channel 44.1 and Comcast channel 15.
On October 15, 2007, programming from AAT Television started broadcasting on digital channel 44.3.
On April 19, 2008, America One content on channel 44.4 was replaced by Sportsman Channel; it was later replaced with MBC-D, a Korean television channel.
On November 13, 2008, KHCV filed for a request for silent state for its analog signal.
On September 28, 2009, KHCV became KPST. On December 22, 2009, KPST went silent. The station was evicted from its studios and its STL link couldn't be operated from the new location. KPST hoped to have the station up and running within a few weeks. The station resumed broadcasting on February 4, 2010. During that time, KPST aired only infomercials on its main channel, 24 hours a day.
As KFFV-TV
The call letters were changed to KFFV on November 15, 2010. The station was purchased at bankruptcy auction by OTA Broadcasting on June 30, 2011; the sale was completed on October 12.
In January 2013, WeatherNation was added to channel 44.5. It was later replaced by Cozi TV.
On March 12, 2015, KFFV's sister station KVOS-TV's main channel, MeTV, had "soft-launched" to sub-channel 44.6.
Weigel Broadcasting agreed to acquire KFFV and KVOS-TV, along with KAXT-CD and KTLN-TV in San Francisco, in a $23.2 million deal on October 18, 2017. The sale was closed on January 15, 2018, with KFFV and KVOS now under Weigel ownership.
On January 17, 2018, Weigel terminated KFFV's carriage agreements with the networks aired under OTA ownership, and switched to a near-duplication of KVOS' services, with MeTV replacing Evine on cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetab%20Banking%20System | Shetab (), officially the Interbank Information Transfer Network (), is an electronic banking clearance and automated payments system used in Iran. The system was introduced in 2002 with the intention of creating a uniform backbone for the Iranian banking system to handle ATM, EFTPOS and other card-based transactions.
Prior to its introduction, some Iranian banks were issuing cards that only worked on the issuing banks ATMs and POS machines. Since the introduction of Shetab, all banks must adhere to its standards and be able to connect to it. Furthermore, all issued credit or debit cards must be Shetab capable. As of the end of 2017, the Shetab system had 54,300 ATMs connected to it.
History
Shetab was introduced in 2002, and now all card issuing banks in Iran are required to connect to the system. In 2002, when the system was introduced there were at approximately 2.8 million domestic debit cards in circulation, of those approximately 530,000 were capable of using the Shetab system.
In 2005, the government obliged the Central Bank of Iran and the Iranian banks, mostly state owned, to set up all the necessary infrastructures (regulatory, hardware, software) for fully launching e-money in Iran by March 2005. While this plan has not yet fully materialised, local debit/credit cards are now commonplace and have removed the main obstacle to the growth of e-commerce (in the national scale) as well as the full roll out of e-government initiatives. By 2010 it is expected that 12 million cards would be issued, all of which work with the Shetab system.
The Agricultural Bank (Keshavarzi Bank) was the first Iranian bank to connect to the Shetab system. Saman Bank was the first bank to introduce online banking services in Iran. Since, it has been at the forefront of expansion and enhancement of electronic banking.
In 2007, before the imposition of new sanctions against Iran, Tetra-Tech IT Company announced that using Visa and Mastercard is now possible for online sales and in Iranian e-card terminals at shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, and travel agencies for Iranians and foreign tourists. Iran's electronic commerce will reach 10,000 billion rials ($US1 billion) by March 2009.
In 2010 nearly every bank branch in Iran had a Shetab system Connected ATM unit. More than 70% of shops, restaurants and markets are connected to the Shetab system. Many online stores are also linked to the Shetab system., Mobile and SMS Banking are recent additions to the Shetab system.
Connectivity
In March 2005 agreements were reached between the Iranian Central Bank and Bahrain's ATM network Benefit as well as the United Arab Emirates's UAES to connect their systems to the Shetab network.
In October 2005, Iran and China linked their banking systems.
In July 2006 the Shetab system was linked with Qatar's ATM network (NAPS).
In May 2008, the automated teller machine (ATM) network of Iran has been linked to those in Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, enabling customers to have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Branch%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | The Oxford Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network. It was located in the Canterbury region of the South Island, and ran roughly parallel with the Eyreton Branch that was located some ten kilometres south. It opened to Oxford in 1875 and survived until 1959.
It was unusual in that for much of its life it linked two main lines, the Main North Line and the Midland Line, the only portion of the proposed Canterbury Interior Main Line to be completed.
Construction
In the late 1860s, the Oxford region had poor transport, and as it had one of Canterbury's two major stands of timber (the Little River Branch was built to the other) it was seen as economically important to build a branch line to transport the timber. The Main North Line up the east coast from Christchurch was under construction and a number of proposals were made of routes from the mainline to Oxford. Two proposals were accepted, from Rangiora to Oxford and from Kaiapoi to West Eyreton (the Eyreton Branch).
Construction was undertaken by central government even though the Canterbury Provincial Railways were building the Main North Line, and work began in mid-1872, four months before the mainline reached Rangiora. The mainline was being built to while the branch was the newly nationally accepted narrow gauge, and this created a break of gauge in Rangiora for a brief period until the Canterbury Provincial Railways were converted to narrow gauge.
On 1 December 1874, the branch was opened from Rangiora to Cust, and to Oxford on 21 June 1875 with two stations in Oxford, East and West: East Oxford was considered to be the main station. In early 1877, the Public Works Department decided to extend the Eyreton Branch to the Oxford Branch at Bennetts Junction, opened on 1 February 1878. An extension of the Oxford Branch soon followed, despite the Long Depression of the 1880s and the disapproval of a Royal Commission in 1880, to Sheffield, then known as Malvern and the terminus of a branch line that became the Midland Line. This opened on 28 July 1884 with its most notable engineering feat being a combined road/rail bridge over the Waimakariri Gorge. At this stage, the branch from Kaiapoi to Sheffield was seen as the most northerly portion of the proposed Canterbury Interior Main Line, but it was the only portion to be built.
Operation
From its opening, the branch saw two mixed trains each way per day and a locomotive depot was established in Oxford. Once the connection with the Eyreton Branch was established, one daily train ran to Oxford from that line too. The trip from Christchurch to Oxford took three hours, including an hour and 40 minutes from Rangiora to the terminus.
The extension from Oxford to Sheffield saw only light local traffic, and its sole moment of significant worth came during World War I. The war stimulated enough traffic to justify two trains daily, but with the coming of peace trains fell to a single weekly servic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Wheeler | Kate Wheeler is a Canadian broadcast journalist and former Network Managing Editor at Global News.
Career
Wheeler began her on-air news career in 1987 at CFTO in Toronto as a reporter, where she would become an anchor the following year and the weekend news anchor in 1990. The next year she was promoted to co-anchor of CFTO's News at 6 with Tom Gibney.
Wheeler sat in for both Lloyd Robertson and Sandie Rinaldo on CTV National News and also handled long term fill in duties for news and hosting on Canada AM.
She served as senior reporter and daytime news anchor for CTV News Channel from February 2001 to November 2008 before moving to Corus Entertainment to launch the CBC affiliate in Durham.
In 1985, she was featured in a five-part Citytv news serial The Kate Wheeler Story: Diary of a Victim which detailed her previous experience as the victim of a random stabbing attack.
Until September 2013 Wheeler was the news director and anchor for Studio 12 News on CHEX Durham, which launched in September 2010.
From February 2014 to June 2016 Wheeler co-hosted the show What She Said on Sirius XM Canada's Canada Talks channel, with Christine Bentley and Sharon Caddy.
What She Said! with Kate Wheeler and Christine Bentley moved to the Jewel Radio Network (Evanov Radio Group) starting July 9, 2016 and in December, 2017 were brought on board @1059TheRegion.
Wheeler is a part-time lecturer at Durham College.
In January 2019 Wheeler became a Network Managing Editor at Global News.
References
External links
Unicef Canada celebrity supporters
CTV Globemedia Layoffs
Canadian television news anchors
Living people
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors
Canadian women television journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Fuchs | Michael J. Fuchs (pronounced "Fewks") (born New York City, U.S., 9 March 1946) is an American executive producer for premium cable television network HBO.
Career
Fuchs is the son of Charles Fuchs a real estate executive. He was educated at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he obtained a B.A. in political science in 1967, and a J.D. degree at New York University in 1971.
After gaining experience in entertainment law, Fuchs joined HBO and became active in sports TV production. Fuchs held various senior positions by the early 1980s and was chief executive officer and chairman of the board in 1984.
Then in May 1995 he became vice president of Time Warner and then chairman and CEO of the Warner Music Group. However, due to his extensive changes during his position as chairman which saw the dismissals of several important executives at the company, he was fired by Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, leaving the company with a reported US$60 million severance package.
Fuchs has produced many concerts for HBO featuring such performers as Bette Midler, Diana Ross, and
Johnny Cash, and he is highly active in C-SPAN (the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network) and Comedy Central, which is an advertiser-supported network owned by Viacom.
Fuchs is also chairman of the Bryant Park Corporation and is credited for being the inventor of the HBO Bryant Park Summer Movie Festival, one of New York's most popular free summer events.
Awards
CableACE Governor's Award (1993)
CableAce Award Dramatic or Theatrical Special "In the Gloaming" (1997)
References
External links
1946 births
American Jews
Television producers from New York City
Living people
HBO people
Union College (New York) alumni
New York University School of Law alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactik%20Football | Galactik Football is an Irish-French animated television series produced by Gaumont Alphanim that mixes conventional 2D animation with 3D computer graphics. It originally aired from 3 June 2006 to 27 October 2011.
Premise
In the far future, the inhabited worlds of the Zaelion Galaxy compete in Galactik Football, a sport much like association football, but played seven to a side. The game is complicated by the Flux, a cosmic energy that enhances a player's attributes such as speed, strength, and agility, or grants special powers such as teleportation. The story follows the fate of an inexperienced Galactik Football team, the Snow Kids, as they aim to compete in and win the Galactik Football Cup.
Plot
Season 1
During a soccer match between the home team of planet Akillian and the Shadows, Aarch, captain of the former, takes a direct free kick. An explosion and then an avalanche mark the beginning of the Akillian Ice Age and the loss of The Breath, Akillian's Flux. Fifteen years later, Aarch forms a new Akillian Galactik Soccar out of a group of talented teenagers for his team, called the Snow Kids. There are intra-team tensions caused by romantic interest between players. Meanwhile, they have been affected by the Meta-Flux, a synthetic undetectable Flux. This is coveted by the ruthless General Bleylock, who endangers the Snow Kids to get his hands on it. The Snow Kids escape General Bleylock's machinations and win the Galactik Soccar Cup.
Season 2
Ahito falls ill and is replaced as a goalkeeper by his cousin Yuki. Also, Rocket is suspended from the team due to illegal use of The Breath and is replaced by Mark, another young Akillian soccar player, who had previously been considered as a substitute player. In Rocket's absence, D'Jok is made captain. After Ahito's recovery he and Yuki share duties as goalkeeper and upon finding in his favor the League allows Rocket to return to the team, which he eventually did. D'Jok remains captain on Rocket's return and leads the team to a second consecutive GFC victory.
Season 3
The mysterious Lord Phoenix invites everyone in the galaxy to a special mixed-flux tournament on the planet Paradisia. After a bad friendly match against the Shadows, D'Jok and Mei have an argument. Mei dumps D'Jok and joins the Shadows. Yuki leaves the Snow Kids temporarily to join the Elektras, and D'Jok leaves the team after being recruited by Team Paradisia. A Wamba named Lun-Zia joins the Snow Kids for the mixed-flux tournament.
Due to the injection of flux in the core of the Planet Paradisia, Paradisia explodes but luckily everyone was evacuated from the planets with the help of the Galactik Soccar Players. There is also the Galactik Soccar Cup which was won by the Snow Kids vs Team Paradisia. This made the Snow kids win the 3 cups.
Broadcast
Disney XD UK aired the first 8 episodes of season 3 in 2010. It was 10 October 2011 before Disney XD was able to air episode 9 of season 3. The remaining episodes have been aired on c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hotel%20Inspector | The Hotel Inspector is an observational documentary television series which is broadcast on the British terrestrial television station, Channel 5, and by other networks around the world.
In each episode, celebrated hotelier and businesswoman Alex Polizzi visits a struggling British hotel to try to turn its fortunes around by giving advice and suggestions to the owner. The current host, Alex Polizzi (since 2008), has featured in nineteen series of The Hotel Inspector, including four series of The Hotel Inspector: Returns and one series of Hotel Inspector: Checking In, Checking Out. Her predecessor, Ruth Watson, presented four series between 2005 and 2008, including the first and only series of The Hotel Inspector: Revisited.
Summary
The series began in late September 2005 and was an instant ratings hit; the show attracted 2.5 million viewers at its peak and this prompted Channel 5 to commission another series. The second series was broadcast in July 2006, followed by a third series in September 2007. The show won a Royal Television Society Award in November 2006.
Accompanied with the third series, an additional complementary series, The Hotel Inspector: Unseen ran on Fiver (now 5*), one of Channel 5's digital channels, immediately after the main show. It showed unseen footage, including video diaries shot by the hoteliers, revealing their reactions to the inspector's opinions.
After three series of The Hotel Inspector, Ruth Watson left a message on her website stating that she would not be filming another series, despite it being one of the channel's most watched shows. Watson subsequently signed an exclusive contract with Channel 4 and fronted shows such as Country House Rescue and Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue (which is similar in format to The Hotel Inspector).
Hotelier and businesswoman Alex Polizzi, the niece of Sir Rocco Forte, took over as The Hotel Inspector for the show's fourth series, and has remained in this role since. Polizzi has also hosted five other series: the first in which she inspects and improves failing family businesses (BBC Two's The Fixer), a second and third in which she explores her ancestral Italy (Secret Italy and Italian Islands), a fourth in which she auditions head chefs for various hotels and restaurants (Chefs on Trial), and a fifth in which she finds employment for military veterans (Help Our Heroes).
Transmission of the twelfth series of the show began in June 2016. Use of a separate narrator was dropped with the commencement of this series, with Polizzi herself providing the voiceover narrative as well as talking directly to the viewer in segments filmed separately. Mark Halliley was nevertheless retained as narrator of The Hotel Inspector Returns, which followed series 12. The show's opening theme, titles, and on-screen graphics were also revised, with a notable new feature being the inclusion of a computer-generated smartphone graphic reproducing excerpts from each hotel's reviews as given on such website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapahoe%20Branch | The Rapahoe Branch is a branch line railway that forms part of New Zealand's national rail network and is located on the West Coast of the South Island. It has been operational since 1923 and was named the Rapahoe Industrial Line until 2011.
History
Construction
The line was built as a sub-branch of the now-closed Rewanui Branch, with the junction in Runanga. Approximately four kilometres in length, it was opened on 3 September 1923 to serve the Strongman Mine. When the Rewanui Branch closed on 19 August 1985, the Rapahoe Branch gained the six kilometres from Greymouth to Runanga that was opened 1 December 1904.
Upgrade
The most recent significant upgrade on the line involved the replacement of Bridge No. 1 in 2006. The original 'S' shaped wooden structure, built by the Greymouth Point Elizabeth Coal Company in 1896, was considered to be structurally unsound.
The new bridge, using a concrete channel design with a ballasted deck, was built by contractors HEB Smithbridge Limited using designs drawn up by ONTRACK in consultation with their building contractors. The $15m project was funded largely by state coal miner Solid Energy and took 18 months to build. Located upstream from the original bridge, it is slightly longer than the original at 285 meters. Its southern end has also been reorientated away from Greymouth to a new junction at Omoto, a move designed to eliminate the need for trains to and from the branch to need to enter Greymouth to reposition the locomotives and the attendant road and rail disruption this caused.
The last northbound train to cross the old bridge was empty coal shunt X-1 on 28 May 2006. The following day, the track at the Cobden end of the old bridge was severed and a day later, the track at the Greymouth end was also cut. Over the next four days, work was carried out on switching the line over to the new bridge. The first revenue train over the new bridge was No. 834, a Christchurch-bound coal train, on 2 June 2006.
Despite being offered by ONTRACK to the Department of Conservation for preservation, the old bridge was demolished in July. The Department cited the unsound nature of the structure and noted that the funds that would be required to restore it would exceed its budget for the area. Two truss sections have been preserved. One is located on the southern bank of the Grey River. The other is on the Cobden side of the river, in its original position.
Operation
In the era of steam locomotives, the line was typically worked by members of the A, B, and BA classes. In 1969, the line was dieselised and members of the DJ and DSC classes became the typical motive power.
The line was slightly abbreviated in the first years of the 21st century. The mines served at the terminus had closed, so the Rapahoe terminus was moved to Rocky Creek, closer to its current source of business.
The only traffic on the line is coal. It was originally exported via coastal shipping from Greymouth's wharf, but it i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20minimum%20spanning%20tree | The distributed minimum spanning tree (MST) problem involves the construction of a minimum spanning tree by a distributed algorithm, in a network where nodes communicate by message passing. It is radically different from the classical sequential problem, although the most basic approach resembles Borůvka's algorithm. One important application of this problem is to find a tree that can be used for broadcasting. In particular, if the cost for a message to pass through an edge in a graph is significant, an MST can minimize the total cost for a source process to communicate with all the other processes in the network.
The problem was first suggested and solved in time in 1983 by Gallager et al., where is the number of vertices in the graph. Later, the solution was improved to and finally
where D is the network, or graph diameter. A lower bound on the time complexity of the solution has been eventually shown to be
Overview
The input graph is considered to be a network, where vertices are independent computing nodes and edges are communication links. Links are weighted as in the classical problem.
At the beginning of the algorithm, nodes know only the weights of the links which are connected to them. (It is possible to consider models in which they know more, for example their neighbors' links.)
As the output of the algorithm, every node knows which of its links belong to the minimum spanning tree and which do not.
MST in message-passing model
The message-passing model is one of the most commonly used models in distributed computing. In this model, each process is modeled as a node of a graph. Each communication channel between two processes is an edge of the graph.
Two commonly used algorithms for the classical minimum spanning tree problem are Prim's algorithm and Kruskal's algorithm. However, it is difficult to apply these two algorithms in the distributed message-passing model. The main challenges are:
Both Prim's algorithm and Kruskal's algorithm require processing one node or vertex at a time, making it difficult to make them run in parallel. For example, Kruskal's algorithm processes edges in turn, deciding whether to include the edge in the MST based on whether it would form a cycle with all previously chosen edges.
Both Prim's algorithm and Kruskal's algorithm require processes to know the state of the whole graph, which is very difficult to discover in the message-passing model.
Due to these difficulties, new techniques were needed for distributed MST algorithms in the message-passing model. Some bear similarities to Borůvka's algorithm for the classical MST problem.
GHS algorithm
The GHS algorithm of Gallager, Humblet and Spira is one of the best-known algorithms in distributed computing theory. This algorithm constructs an MST in the asynchronous message-passing model.
Assumptions
The GHS algorithm requires several assumptions.
The input graph is connected and undirected.
Each edge in the input graph has distinct fin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Vischjager | Philip Vischjager (born 27 October 1958, Rotterdam) is a Dutch backgammon player. Although he began playing backgammon in 1975, he started training more intensively using computer software in 2001. At the same time, he became a regular participant in Dutch backgammon competitions at the highest national levels. In the period 2001-2005, he won the Dutch Open and the Amsterdam Open twice, and reached the Dutch Open finals three times. In 2006 Vischjager won the 31st World Championship Backgammon held in Monte Carlo.
Vischjager is a real estate investor and lives in Amsterdam.
References
1958 births
Living people
Dutch backgammon players
Sportspeople from Rotterdam
Sportspeople from Amstelveen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annwyn%2C%20Beneath%20the%20Waves | Annwyn, Beneath the Waves is the second album by Faith and the Muse.
Track listing
Credits
All instruments and voices performed by William Faith and Monica Richards
Treatments and Programming by Chad Blinman
Produced by Faith and the Muse and Chad Blinman
All titles composed by Faith and the Muse c and p Elyrian Music, BMI, 1996 except:
"Hob Y Derri Dando," Traditional Welsh song
"The Sea Angler," text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Rise and Forget," by Monica Richards, William Faith and Stevyn Grey
Recorded and mixed October 1995-March 1996 by Chad Blinman at The Eye Socket, Venice, California
Mastered by Joe Gastwirt and Ramón Bretón at Ocean View Digital, Los Angeles, California
Cover painting "Annwyn, Beneath the Waves" by Monica Richards, acrylic and glass on canvas, 1995 (with a nod to the great Gustav Klimt)
Layout, Artwork and Design by Monica Richards
All Photography and additional Graphics by Clovis IV of Vertigo Graphic Arts, Santa Barbara, California
Original lyrics by Monica Richards, except "The Hand of Man" and "Cernunnos", written by William Faith, "Rise & Forget" cowritten by Monica & William.
References
Faith and the Muse albums
1996 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20Semiconductor | Jazz Semiconductor is a semiconductor wafer foundry that is a wholly owned United States subsidiary of Israel-based Tower Semiconductor. Its customers include developers of wireless, optical networking, power management, storage, and aerospace/defense applications. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Jazz passed through a number of acquisitions including the short-lived company Acquicor Technology, which renamed itself Jazz Technologies and then sold it two years later.
History
Jazz Semiconductor Systems was founded on February 15, 2002, renamed itself Specialtysemi, Inc. later in February 2002 and to Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. in May 2002. Prior to March 12, 2002, it was Conexant's fabrication facility, as subsidiary Newport Fab, LLC. It was initially funded by Conexant and affiliates of the Carlyle Group. Shu Li was its chief executive since May 2002. RF Micro Devices invested $60 million in October 2002, and became a customer.
Jazz reported losses for each year of 2003, 2004, and 2005.
It filed for an attempted initial public offering (IPO) several times from January 2004 through July 2006, to be listed on Nasdaq under symbol JAZZ, but failed to attract investor interest.
Acquicor Management LLC was jointly formed by Gil Amelio, Steve Wozniak and Ellen Hancock, all of whom had worked for Apple Computer.
Founded in August 2005, Amelio was Acquicor's chief executive.
Acquicor Technology was known as a blank-check company: it existed only to make acquisitions in unspecified areas of the technology sector, with the management partnership as its only stock-holder. It filed for an IPO of its own in February 2006, expected to raise about $142 million adopting the symbol AQR on the American Stock Exchange.
Although the company had to disclose that it had no revenues nor products, and companies previously led by its principals had failed, the celebrity status of the founders attracted attention.
The demand for the March 14 IPO caused an exercise of the over-allotment, resulting in net proceeds of $164 million.
One analyst said it was "faith-based investing taken to the extreme".
In September 2006, Acquicor announced it would acquire Jazz for $260 million in cash. Jazz withdrew its own registration statement. To help finance the acquisition, Acquicor raised $145 million from convertible notes on December 19, 2006 and another $21.75 million on December 22, 2006. Conexant made a $10 million equity investment in Jazz while waiting for the deal to close, which it did on February 16, 2007.
On February 21, 2007, Acquicor changed its name to Jazz Technologies, and its symbol to JAZ.
In March 2007 Li resigned and Amelio became chief executive of the subsidiary company, still doing business as Jazz Semiconductor.
Jazz had specialized in analog-intensive mixed-signal integrated circuit manufacturing services. On June 11, 2007, it was announced that Hancock had left, and there were no plans to replace her. By the end of 2007, the company struggled to d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna%20atricaudata | Echidna atricaudata (a taxonomic synonym) may refer to:
Cerastes cerastes, a.k.a. the desert horned viper, a venomous viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East
Cerastes vipera, a.k.a. the sahara sand viper, a venomous viper found in the deserts of North Africa and the Sinai Peninsula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESWAT | ESWAT may refer to:
Cyber Police ESWAT , a 1989 scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Sega
ESWAT: City under Siege, a 1990 side scrolling platform video game for the Mega Drive/Genesis video game console
ESWAT, a fictional force in Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina, name: Extra Special Weapons and Tactics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Law%20Enforcement%20Analysis%20and%20Reporting | Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting, also known as CLEAR, is a system of relational databases used by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in Chicago, Illinois. These databases allow law enforcement officials to easily cross-reference available information in investigations and to analyze crime patterns using a geographic information system (GIS). CLEAR includes a network of remotely operated cameras that exhibit a small amount of artificial intelligence, in that they can sense gunshots, loiterers, and suspicious activity, and alert the CPD.
Uses
The unified CLEAR system is used for a wide variety of tasks:
Checking driver's licenses
Checking names or addresses
Checking for outstanding arrest warrants
Communication between police officers
Entering evidence into an electronic tracking database
Retrieving information for a mission
Checking investigative reports
Origins
In the 1990s, the Chicago Police Department developed the Criminal History Records Information System (CHRIS). This system was immediately unpopular with officers – so much so that a detective's newsletter warned that the IT employees who had developed the system had better "watch out" on the streets. The Police Department soon teamed with Oracle Corporation to create CLEAR, a set of web-based applications to increase the functionality and usability of the CHRIS system. CHRIS remains as a backbone, but CLEAR serves as the user interface.
Criticisms
A number of groups have expressed concerns about CLEAR, particularly regarding privacy and discrimination. Critics have charged that the system uses racial profiling, and that constant electronic monitoring evokes images of a Big Brother–like world.
Some individuals have raised concerns about the cameras used in the CLEAR system. Designed to be visible so as to deter criminal activities, the cameras sit in large checkered boxes with flashing blue lights. Neighbors have complained that these boxes flash light into their bedrooms at night, scare away customers from local businesses, and stigmatize the local community.
References
External links
CLEAR Program Evaluation
IMEDGE System used for digitizing paper records and more here
GIS Description (WORD)
Government of Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Airbus%20A300%20operators | A list of orders, deliveries, and current and previous operators of the Airbus A300 .
Data of planes that are still in operation through October 2023.
References
Operators
Airbus A300 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Engemann | Paul Engemann (born October 15, 1957) is an American former musician and current network marketing entrepreneur. He is best known for his 1983 song "Scarface (Push It to the Limit)", which was featured prominently in the film Scarface.
Music career
With his sister Shawn (now the widow of Larry King), Paul had a small (#91) national chart record, "For Your Love", in 1975, billed as Christopher Paul, and Shawn. His younger sister Shannon Engemann (born 1964) is an actress and a model.
Together with Giorgio Moroder, he had a number one hit in Germany (#81 in USA) with "Reach Out", that became the official song of the 33rd Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles. Among other releases were "American Dream" (with Giorgio Moroder 1984), "Face to Face" (1985), "Shannon's Eyes" (1985, 1986), "Brain Power" (Summer School soundtrack) (1987), "To Be Number One" (1990), and "NeverEnding Story" (2000).
Paul Engemann was the frontman of the 1980s band Device, whose only album, the futuristically titled 22B3, was released in the spring of 1986. It produced a Top 40 single with "Hanging on a Heart Attack", which peaked at number 35. Device was formed by musician-songwriter Holly Knight, with Engemann serving as lead vocalist along with Knight, and session guitarist Gene Black. Producer-songwriter Mike Chapman, who had worked with Knight in the past, produced the album.
Engemann joined the band Animotion as co-lead singer with actress Cynthia Rhodes (who replaced Astrid Plane) in 1988 (Engemann took the place of the former male lead Bill Wadhams) and had a top-ten hit with the single "Room to Move" from the Dan Aykroyd movie My Stepmother Is an Alien. Animotion dissolved in 1990.
Business career
Since retiring from the music business, Engemann opened a design business which he ran for approximately 17 years with his wife, Suzanne Barnes. Their work was featured on the cover of Architectural Digest. He later worked as a spokesperson and distributor for MXI Corporation and their Xocai dark chocolate. When MXI was sued in 2016 for their use of multi-level marketing that allegedly amounted to a pyramid scheme, Engemann was named as a defendant.
Personal life
Engemann has been married to actress and former model Suzanne Barnes since 1985. They have one son, Austin.
Discography
Device
22B3 (1986)
Animotion
Animotion (1989)
Solo songs
"For Your Love" as Christopher Paul with Shawn Engemann (1975)
"Scarface (Push It to the Limit)" (from Scarface soundtrack) (1983)
"American Dream" (1984)
"Reach Out" (from 1984 Summer Olympics soundtrack) (1984)
"Shannon's Eyes", "Face to Face" (from Giorgio Moroder's Innovisions) (1985)
"Brain Power" (from Summer School soundtrack) (1987)
"To Be Number One" (from Giorgio Moroder Project's To Be Number One) (1990)
References
External links
Recent article
[ Allmusic Entry]
American pop musicians
Living people
Scarface (1983 film)
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20May%20Be%20Right%20%28game%20show%29 | You May Be Right is an Australian television game show, jointly produced by and the Seven Network, and hosted by Dancing with the Stars judge Todd McKenney. The show was aired on Sunday nights at 7:30pm and premiered on 13 August 2006. The format pitted two teams of Australian celebrities against each other, testing their knowledge on movies, music and television. Among the games involved are: Check It Out, Crate Expectations, Face Race, Looney Tunes, Slay That Song and What Happened Next. The show's in-house band was the Scared Weird Little Guys. The original working title for the pilot was Famous, but was later changed to its current title. The show was based on the Swedish concept Doobidoo.
Criticism
The show was heavily criticised for its obvious similarities to the ABC's Spicks and Specks:
On one of the first episodes of Spicks and Specks taped after You May Be Rights cancellation, host Adam Hills introduced the show by saying "Welcome to Spicks and Specks, the music quiz show that may be right."
Production problems
Seven bosses ordered a major overhaul, including new sets and lighting, after the first show was plagued by embarrassing production problems. It took over four hours to tape the first one-hour show, due to various technical problems, faulty buzzers, over-running segments, and host Todd McKenney's repeated flubbing of his teleprompted lines. Ten episodes were originally planned, but after declining ratings the show was cancelled within a month of being on air.
See also
Big Questions
References
External links
You May Be Right – Yahoo!7 Official Site
Official Seven Corporate press release
Production company site – dSPBeyond
Sydney Confidential article: Show May Not Be Right – 22 August 2006
2000s Australian game shows
Seven Network original programming
2006 Australian television series debuts
2006 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP/CSS | VP/CSS was a time-sharing operating system developed by National CSS. It began life in 1968 as a copy of IBM's CP/CMS, which at the time was distributed to IBM customers at no charge, in source code form, without support, as part of the IBM Type-III Library. Through extensive in-house development, in what today would be termed a software fork, National CSS took VP/CSS in a different direction from CP/CMS. Although the two systems would eventually share many capabilities, their technical implementations diverged in substantive ways.
VP/CSS ran on IBM and IBM plug compatible hardware owned by NCSS (and by a few customers with site licenses, including Bank of America and Standard Oil of California). After an initial period running on the IBM System/360-67 platform used by CP/CMS, VP/CSS was ported to the System/370 series, made possible when IBM added virtual memory capabilities to the S/370 series in 1972.
VP/CSS was notable for supporting very large numbers of interactive users per machine, when compared with other IBM mainframe operating systems. Technical, operations, and commercial factors all played a role in making National CSS a commercially viable service business.
Architecture
VP/CSS shared the basic architecture and concepts of CP/CMS, which were revolutionary for their time. A control program (called CP in CP/CMS, VP in VP/CSS) created multiple independent virtual machines (VMs), implementing a full virtualization of the underlying hardware – meaning that each time-sharing user was provided with a private virtual machine. Each appeared to be an entire, stand-alone computer, capable of running any software that could run on the bare machine, including other operating systems. (This concept was pioneered with IBM's research system CP-40 in the first version of CP/CMS.)
This design was a departure from IBM's other monolithic operating systems. Isolating users from each other improved system stability: a bug in one user's software could not crash another user's virtual machine, nor the underlying control program. This approach made CP/CMS a superior choice for commercial time-sharing, and thus a strong foundation for National CSS as it broke new ground in what would become an important new industry.
Each VM created by VP ran a simple, single-user operating system called CSS, derived from IBM's Cambridge Monitor System. CSS allowed users to run programs, manipulate a file system, and manage virtual devices.
Since VP and CSS began life as CP and CMS, respectively, they closely resembled these systems, particularly in their early days. Continuous development and introduction of new features in both VP/CSS and IBM's VM led to significant differences over time; but the systems retained an obvious family resemblance.
IBM's decision to add virtualization and virtual memory features to the S/370 reflects the success of the virtual machine approach to time-sharing. Some credit for this belated decision has been attributed to IBM's awareness o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISCES | PISCES (Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System) is a border control database system largely based on biometrics developed by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc..
Overview
The PISCES-project was initiated by the Department of State, Terrorist Interdiction Program (TIP) in 1997, initially as a system for countries in improving their watchlisting capabilities by providing a mainframe computer system to facilitate immigration processing in half a dozen countries. Foreign authorities used the technology to watchlist and exchange information with the United States Department of State about suspected terrorists appearing at their borders. The information is used to track and apprehend individual terrorists, not for wide-ranging analysis of terrorist travel methods", according to US-government reports. It matches passengers inbound for the United States against facial images, fingerprints and biographical information at airports in high-risk countries. A high-speed data network permits U.S. authorities to be informed of problems with inbound passengers.
PISCES workstations installed throughout a country are linked by wide area network to the participating nation’s immigration, police or intelligence headquarters. The headquarters is provided with the automated capability to monitor activities at immigration points, evaluate traveler information and conduct real time data analysis.
Currently the PISCES-project falls under The Terrorist Interdiction Program (TIP), an ongoing programme of the United States Department of State. TIP provides all necessary software and hardware (mostly commercial and off-the-shelf, such as cameras and passport scanners), full installation, operator training, and system sustainment. Additionally, TIP assists with immigration business process improvement at ports of entry chosen for PISCES installation.
For FY 2007, funds will be used to support enhancements to the existing watch listing system software in order to provide a fraudulent document detection capability, a biometrics search capability, and improved name-searching effectiveness.
Starting in FY 2010 and onward to FY 2011, PISCES funding will be increased in what the United States Department of State considers "high risk" countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. A project to verify US visas via limited access to a US government database will go under trial in select outposts.
Controversy
Effectiveness
Although PISCES was operational in the months prior to September 11, 2001 it apparently failed to detect any of the terrorists involved in the attack.
According to the US Department of State,
TIP provided photos and travel history to Pakistan of three of the four July 7, 2005 London Metro bombers.
Within one week of TIP's introduction, a ring of human traffickers were identified at Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Hundreds of travelers have been interdicted in Pakistan on suspicion of using stolen passports.
"... in terms of linking it to speci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%27s%20Tom%20Sawyer | is a role-playing video game produced by Square that was released exclusively in Japan in 1989 for the Family Computer (the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System). The game is directly based on Mark Twain's renowned 1876 novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and was developed in the role-playing video game niche that made Square famous with its acclaimed Final Fantasy series of video games.
Gameplay
Players control Tom Sawyer and his friends as they join the party, such as Jim and Huck, and they each have RPG game statistics such as health, power, and speed. Characters can equip no weapons, and fight with their fists, but there are a large number of collectible items. Key cards and black magic are also present in the game. The game features an enemy that triggers the reset button on a players controller bringing them back to the title screen.
Plot and setting
Square's Tom Sawyer is based on Mark Twain's 19th century book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and features many characters from that book. The plot takes place in 1855 on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. The game begins with Tom Sawyer having a dream saying that in a southern location a pirate treasure is buried. Aunt Polly wakes Tom the next morning, and Tom sets out to find the treasure.
Development
Square's Tom Sawyer was scored by famed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, who is described as taking a more "scenic" approach to the game than his previous works. Artist Katsutoshi Fujioka worked on the game title as well. Around the time that Sakaguchi was writing scenarios for what would become the original Final Fantasy, Hiromichi Tanaka decided to make a game based on "Tom Sawyer" at the same time and formed a team to make it. Takashi Tokita developed some of the graphics, and designed Tom Sawyer as well, but working on the game was difficult for Square to do as teams struggled to finish both games at once, and help was given by the different teams to complete the titles.
Being released between Final Fantasy II and III, the game was similar to Final Fantasy II in that there was no experience point system. Many of the gameplay systems were later seen in an evolved form in the SaGa series. Goto Komori, a detective writer, created the games scenarios. The game had the name "Square" added to the front as another video game about Tom Sawyer came out earlier the same year. Tom hunting for buried treasure is a plot point taken from the original story. According to Nobuo Uematsu, the game was not immediately released after it was completed, and came out a long time after in order to avoid big game releases by Square or their rivals.
Reception and legacy
The game was never localized outside Japan, and was noted by IGN as an example of racism in video games. In 2010, UGO ranked it as the #4 most racist video game in history.
The portrayal of black people as blackfaced caricatures with huge lips has been noted about the game. In Game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%2010g | As of the Oracle Database 10g release, Oracle Corporation seems to have started to make an effort to standardize all current versions of its major products using the "10g" label. Major products include:
Oracle Database 10
Oracle Application Server 10g (aka Oracle AS 10g) — a middleware product
Oracle Applications Release 11i (aka Oracle e-Business Suite, Oracle Financials or Oracle 11i) — a suite of business applications
Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4)
Oracle JDeveloper 10g — a Java integrated development environment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otocky | is a video game released in 1987 for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan. Developed by SEDIC and published by ASCII Corporation, the game was conceived and designed by Toshio Iwai. Natsuki Ozawa endorsed the game.
Gameplay
Otocky can be described as a musical side-scrolling shoot 'em up. The player's spaceship has a ball for a weapon, which can be fired in eight directions; each direction corresponds to a different musical note. The note plays when the player presses the fire button, and is also quantized in time so that it matches the beat playing in the background. By using the weapon selectively the player can improvise music while playing.
The ball is used to destroy enemies by touching them, and also to catch various types of objects:
Musical Notes which must be collected to finish the level.
Letter 'A's which change the musical instrument sound produced by the ball.
Letter 'B's which provide a secondary weapon.
The ball gets smaller when the player is touched by an enemy, until the player loses a life.
Completing a certain number of levels unlocks a music editor which makes it possible for the player to freely compose their own melodies.
Legacy
Otocky is notable for being one of the first games that include creative/procedural generative music, as well as developing the concept of the "musical shoot 'em up".
Otocky is a precursor of Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's 2002 Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 game exploring similar themes of player action and musical evolution. Jake Kazdal, the only North-American member of United Game Artists, has confirmed that while the team did become acquainted with the Disk System game during the process of creating Rez, it has not been much of an influence in fact.
See also
List of Family Computer Disk System games
Sound Fantasy
SimTunes
Electroplankton
Rez
References
External links
HardcoreGaming 101 Otocky Page
1987 video games
ASCII Corporation games
Famicom Disk System games
Famicom Disk System-only games
Japan-exclusive video games
Music video games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge%20Branch%2C%20New%20Zealand | The Southbridge Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network. It was located in the Canterbury region of the South Island and operated from 1875 until 1967. Five kilometres of the line remains open as the Hornby Branch, formerly the Hornby Industrial Line.
Construction
On 2 November 1870, the Canterbury provincial government resolved to build a line from Rolleston to Southbridge, as the district around Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora had become an economically significant grain-growing region that produced almost a quarter of all wheat in New Zealand in the late 1860s. However, by April 1872, the decision had been taken to establish the junction with the Main South Line in Hornby and work began on the line's formation.
Financial difficulties and delays in acquiring materials slowed construction initially, but on 26 April 1875, the line was opened to Springston. This gave the line a length of . On 13 July 1875, the rest of the line to Southbridge was opened, giving the branch a total length of In 1880, construction of a sub-branch line off the Southbridge Branch to Little River from Lincoln began; this became the Little River Branch.
Stations
The following stations were located on the Southbridge Branch (in brackets is the distance from the junction at Hornby):
Prebbleton (5 km)
Ladbrooks (9 km)
Lincoln (13 km) – Little River Branch junction
Springston (18 km)
Goulds Road (20 km)
Ellesmere (24 km)
Lake Road (26 km)
Irwell (29 km)
Doyleston (32 km)
Leeston (34 km)
Hills Road (36 km)
Southbridge (41 km)
Operation
In the very early years of the line, a passenger train ran once each way daily between Christchurch and Lincoln, but this service ceased before 1880 and the line settled down to a pattern of "mixed" trains that carried both goods and passengers. These trains ran twice daily in 1914, along with a daily goods-only service, and a locomotive depot operated in Southbridge. Passenger numbers peaked in 1924, with approximately 34,000 carried, and picnic trains to Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora were popular, but competition from road transport began to markedly increase, and the line was losing money in the late 1920s. In 1930, the decision was taken to close the Southbridge locomotive depot and operate all trains directly out of Christchurch, and this had a notable short-term impact, as the line made a profit in 1938.
However, in 1939, the Southbridge Branch again lost money and never returned to profitably. Post-World War II shortages and other economic factors led to the cancellation of passenger provisions on the line from 12 April 1951. After this stage, freight trains were only required to operate three or four times a week, and as traffic declined further, the decision was taken to abbreviate the line. On 30 June 1962, the 28 km section of line between Lincoln and Southbridge closed to all traffic. The Hornby-Lincoln section was then redesignated as the Hornby Industrial Line, which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipziger%20Verkehrsbetriebe | The Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB), literally translated into English as the Leipzig Transport Authority, operates the tramway and bus transport services in Leipzig, Germany. The LVB network is a part of the regional public transport association, the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund (MDV). The LVB was formed by the merger, from 1 January 1917, of two predecessor undertakings, the Großen Leipziger Straßenbahn (GLSt, "Greater Leipzig Tramway Company") and the Leipziger Elektrischen Straßenbahn (LESt, "Leipzig Electric Tramway Company"). The merged undertaking was also known as GLSt until it was reorganized and renamed as the LVB, from 29 July 1938.
Organization
The company is organized as a holding company. LVB owns infrastructure such as track, depots and land, and all vehicles. It holds the concession ("license") for public transport in Leipzig, and is responsible for organization, planning and management of public transport. It provides these services through its various subsidiary undertakings. The LVB Group consists of the following undertakings:
LeoBus GmbH (organized from 1 November 2005 from the transport undertakings Regionalverkehr Leipzig (RVL, "Regional Transport Leipzig"); Regionalverkehr Taucha (RVT, "Regional Transport Taucha), Regionalverkehr Riesa (RVR, "Regional Transport Riesa"), Deutsche Nahverkehrsgesellschaft (DNVG, German Suburban Transport Company) and the motorbus division of Leipziger Stadtverkehrsbetriebe (LSVB, Leipzig City Transport Company). Operates regular public transport and school bus services in the region surrounding Leipzig, and other transport services . LeoBus also provides servicing for the motor vehicle and bus fleet.
Leipziger Stadtverkehrsbetriebe GmbH & Co. KG (LSVB, "Leipzig City Transport Company LLP") operates the Leipzig tramway and bus networks under contract to LVB .
LTB Leipziger Transport und Logistik Betriebe GmbH ("Leipzig Transport and Logistics Services LLC") manages the vehicle fleet, vehicle maintenance and also provides transport and vehicle leasing services .
Verkehrs-Consult Leipzig GmbH (VCL, "Transport Consulting Leipzig LLC") provides consulting, planning and project engineering services for passenger and goods transportation .
IFTEC GmbH & Co. KG, organized from the predecessor undertakings LFB and LIB, provides "custom maintenance solutions" for rail infrastructure and vehicles. IFTEC is a joint undertaking of LVB and Siemens AG, with each holding 50 percent of the shares. (LFB, Leipziger Fahrzeugservice-Betriebe GmbH ("Leipzig Vehicle Service Enterprises LLC") provided "industrial service and technical systems solution in the field of transport, with special emphasis on rail vehicle maintenance;" it once built vehicles." LIB, Leipziger Infrastruktur Betriebe GmbH & Co. KG ("Leipzig Infrastructure Enterprises LLP") provided maintenance and construction of rail and road transport infrastructure.)
LEOLINER Fahrzeugbau Leipzig GmbH ("LEOLINER Vehicle Construction Leipzig LL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dinneen | Michael J. Dinneen is an American-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist working as a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is co-director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. He does research in combinatorial algorithms, distributive programming, experimental graph theory, and experimental algorithmic information theory.
Selected bibliography
Michael J. Dinneen, Georgy Gimel'farb, and Mark C. Wilson. Introduction to Algorithms, Data Structures and Formal Languages. Pearson (Education New Zealand), 2004. (pages 253).
Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, and Chi-Kou Shu. Computing a glimpse of randomness. "Experimental Mathematics", 11(2):369-378, 2002. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cristian/Calude361_370.pdf
Joshua J. Arulanandham, Cristian S. Calude, and Michael J. Dinneen. A fast natural algorithm for searching. "Theoretical Computer Science", 320(1):3-13, 2004. http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0304397504001914
Michael J. Dinneen, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, André Nies (eds.). Computation, Physics and Beyond - International Workshop on Theoretical Computer Science, WTCS 2012, Dedicated to Cristian S. Calude on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Auckland, New Zealand, February 21-24, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7160, Springer 2012. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642276538
External links
Michael J. Dinneen Home Page
List of publications of Michael J. Dinneen
CDMTCS at the University of Auckland
List of publications of Michael J. Dinneen at DBLP
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Living people
New Zealand mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Extreme | PC Extreme was a computer magazine published in the UK by Live Publishing International Ltd.
It focussed on modding, overclocking, hardware, hacking (primarily in the technical, rather than the cracking, sense) and video games.
It appeared in December 2002, and was published monthly until August 2005. At that point it was suspended, shortly after which the publishing company went into administration.
References
2002 establishments in the United Kingdom
2005 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20River%20Branch | The Little River Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network. It diverged from the Southbridge Branch in Lincoln and ran down Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of the South Island. It was opened to Little River in 1886 and operated until 1962.
Construction
Little River contained one of only two significant stands of timber in the Canterbury region (the other, near Oxford, was serviced by the Oxford Branch), and accordingly, plans were made to build a line to provide convenient transportation and stimulate economic activity. These were finalised in 1879, and construction was under way by the next year. On 16 May 1882, the first 27.44 km of the line were opened to Birdling's Flat, and almost four years later, the next nine kilometres were opened to Little River. There were proposals to extend the line as far as Akaroa, but these did not eventuate and Little River remained the terminus.
Operation
In the early years of the line, it operated profitably as large quantities of timber were transported by rail to destinations off the branch. This freight was mainly but not solely loaded in Little River. There was also significant agricultural activity in the area; livestock and farming supplies were important commodities at all stations. As time progressed, the timber traffic declined as no effort was made to replant and sustain the industry, and accordingly, the line's traffic became increasingly focused on the agricultural industry that was expanding into the felled areas.
Passenger numbers totalled over 10,000 in the line's first year of operation, though no dedicated passenger trains ran. Instead, until 1927, passengers were carried on mixed trains. In 1927, an experiment was conducted on the Little River Branch when the Edison battery-electric railcar was trialled. It provided a twice daily dedicated passenger service each way between Christchurch and Little River, completing the trip in 69 minutes. Affordable and efficient, the railcar proved popular with travellers, but its life was abruptly cut short in 1934 when it was destroyed in a depot fire and not replaced due to the poor economic conditions of the Great Depression, forcing passengers back to the slower mixed trains.
Around this time, traffic started to seriously decline. Timber traffic was becoming non-existent because resources were almost exhausted, and road transport was increasingly competitive with rail. A Royal Commission in 1930 had recommended that passenger services be cancelled and freight trains operated only thrice weekly, but provisions were made for passengers until 14 April 1951, and in 1952, goods trains were still operating nine times a week. However, the line was making a financial loss and service cuts could not alleviate it. With the line becoming too uneconomic to continue to operate, it was closed on 30 June 1962, along with the Southbridge Branch beyond Lincoln.
The branch today
The Little |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20User | Web User, branded as WebUser, was a fortnightly magazine published in the United Kingdom from 2001 until 2020. It covered topics relating to computing. Its sister magazine was ComputerActive.
Overview
Web User was founded by IPC Media in 2001. The first issue appeared on 22 March. The bulk of the magazine's content consisted of internet news, website reviews and features on web-related topics. Additionally, it offered product evaluations, free apps and software, step-by-step workshops, and advice on how to use websites, computer hardware, and software. The magazine was complemented by a website, launched in tandem in 2001. It was sold in 2010 to Dennis Publishing. It ceased publication after 516 issues in December 2020.
Topics covered include free software; PC security and maintenance; browser add-ons; the best Google tools; and the latest web trends and developments, such as Web 2.0 and social networking.
References
External links
Biweekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2001
Magazines disestablished in 2020
Magazines published in London
2001 establishments in England
2020 disestablishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Music%20%28magazine%29 | Computer Music is a monthly magazine published by Future plc in the UK. It covers the topic of creating digital music on a computer. In the past, each issue included a DVD-ROM with samples, plug-ins, software demos, tutorials, and other content related to the issue. Currently content is offered via a download website.
References
External links
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
Computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1998
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Music magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QtJambi | QtJambi is a Java binding of the cross-platform application framework Qt. It enables Java developers to use Qt within the Java programming language. In addition, the QtJambi generator can be used to create Java bindings for other Qt libraries and future versions of Qt. Unlike GTK, there are no Swing LAF implementations that use Qt for rendering.
QtJambi supports Linux and other flavours of Unix such as macOS, as well as Microsoft Windows.
QtJambi was originally developed by TrollTech (currently known as "The Qt Company") until March 2009, but development didn't continue after being bought by Nokia, as official support for QtJambi by Nokia ended in March 2010. The project was spun off into an open source project, which was later adopted by Omix Visualization.
QtJambi hello world
package org.wikipedia.qt;
import io.qt.widgets.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
QApplication.initialize(args);
QMessageBox.information(null, "QtJambi", "Hello World!");
QApplication.shutdown();
}
}
References
External links
QtJambi fork with support for Qt5 and Qt6 at GitHub
Latest QtJambi reference documentation
Legacy QtJambi source code repository at GitHub
Legacy QtJambi 4.5 reference documentation
Articles with example Java code
Java APIs
Qt (software) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Relations%20and%20Security%20Network | The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) was part of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which is located in Zurich, Switzerland. It was an online information service that provided a range of open access products and resources that concentrated on international relations (IR) and security studies. In 2016, the ISN ceased to be a stand-alone project and was fully integrated into its parent organization as CSS Resources.
Overview
The ISN was established in 1994 as a means of improving cooperation between security policy institutes and to make research programs, projects and papers widely available on the internet. It was initially sponsored by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and the Center for Security Studies.
Its mission developed to promote dialogue and cooperation in the fields of international relations and security studies, primarily by creating, distributing and processing open access information on these issues. The ISN was also a co-organizer of the Swiss-sponsored International Security Forum (ISF), which is a large conference held every two years in Geneva and Zurich on a rotating basis.
Directors
Kurt R. Spillmann (1994–2002)
Andreas Wenger (2002–2016)
Activities
The ISN's web-based, information-providing activities and services were divided into three main categories.
Digital Library – The ISN's Digital Library began as a repository of declassified Cold War documents and conference proceedings relevant to PfP countries. Prior to the end of the project, the library contained over 70,000 downloadable publications including journal articles, books, working papers and government reports. The Digital Library also included an archive of web articles, blog posts, podcasts and videos as well as a directory of international organizations, NGOs, research institutes and other organizations active in the field of international relations and security.
Editorial Products – In cooperation with its partner network, the ISN published daily expert analyses, commentaries and blog posts as well as regular multimedia features on current IR- and security-related issues. It also provided Dossiers on a range of topics relevant to the international relations and security community.
Communities and Partners – The ISN provided an online knowledge network of 249 partner institutions and affiliates, consisting of international organizations (IOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), state ministries, think tanks, universities and research institutes.
References
External links
International Relations and Security Network (ISN). (official website)
Center for Security Studies (CSS) .
CSS Resources
Swiss websites
International security
Research institutes of international relations
Political r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20network%20positioning | Global network positioning is a coordinates-based mechanism in a peer-to-peer network architecture which predicts Internet network distance (i.e. round-trip propagation and transmission delay). The mechanism is based on absolute coordinates computed from modeling the Internet as a geometric space. Since end hosts maintain their own coordinates, the approach allows end hosts to compute their inter-host distances as soon as they discover each other. Moreover, coordinates are very efficient in summarizing inter-host distances, making the approach very scalable.
References
T. S. Eugene Ng and Hui Zhang, "Predicting Internet Network Distance with Coordinates-Based Approaches", In IEEE INFOCOM, 2002.
Demo of GNP algorithm, IPTV Research - Global Network Positioning
See also
Vivaldi coordinates
Pharos Network Coordinates
Internet architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Shopper%20%28US%20magazine%29 | Computer Shopper was a monthly consumer computer magazine published by SX2 Media Labs. The magazine ceased print publication in April 2009. The website was closed and redirected to the PCMag website in late May 2018.
History
Computer Shopper magazine was established in 1979 in Titusville, Florida. It began as a tabloid-size publication on yellow newsprint that primarily contained classified advertising and ads for kit computers, parts, and software. The magazine was created by Glenn Patch, publisher of the photo-equipment magazine Shutterbug Ads, in the hopes of applying its formula to a PC-technology magazine. The magazine expanded into prebuilt home computers and white box IBM PC compatibles through the 1980s.
The magazine grew to several hundred pages, mostly of advertisements. It was during this time that the magazine was sold to Ziff Davis Publishing, first as a limited partnership, then solely owned. It was sold in 2000, along with Ziff-Davis' ZDNet Web site, to CNET. CNET sold Computer Shopper to new owners, SX2 Media Labs, in 2006. In April 2009, SX2 Media Labs discontinued the print version of the magazine. The business continued on as a Web entity, ComputerShopper.com, which was reacquired by Ziff-Davis in 2012.
Magazine
Computer Shopper, the print magazine, comprised the following sections at the end of its publication:
Boot Up. A commentary and product-news section written by the magazine's expert editors. A column written by Senior Editor Sarah E. Anderson examined tech-buying and related issues from a working mother's perspective.
Reviews. Each issue contained more than two dozen reviews.
Features. Typically two or three per issue, the feature stories were often product-centric, comprising product comparisons and buying guides.
Help and How-To. These articles provided assistance for technical problems and gave step-by-step directions on how to perform common tasks.
Shut Down. A retrospective look at technology through the archives of Computer Shopper.
A user-submitted listing of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) throughout the US and Canada.
List of editors-in-chief
Stan Veit (1983–1989)
Bob Lindstrom (1989–1991)
John Dickinson (1991–1994)
John Blackford (1994–2000)
Janice Chen (2000–2006)
Rik Fairlie (2006–2007)
John A. Burek (2008–2017)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Shopper | Computer Shopper could refer to the following publications:
Computer Shopper (UK magazine) (1988-2020), a home computer magazine published in the United Kingdom
Computer Shopper (US magazine) (1979–2009), a home computer magazine published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%20%282001%20film%29 | is a 2001 Japanese animated futurist cyberpunk drama film loosely based upon Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga of the same name. The film was directed by Rintaro, written by Katsuhiro Otomo, and produced by Madhouse, with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions.
Plot
Humans and robots coexist in the multi-layered city of Metropolis, although robots are discriminated against and segregated to the lowest levels of the city. Most humans in Metropolis are unemployed and impoverished, with many blaming robots for taking their jobs.
Duke Red, Metropolis's unofficial ruler and wealthiest citizen, has recently completed construction of The Ziggurat, a massive skyscraper which he claims will allow mankind to extend its power across the planet. A wayward robot disrupts the Ziggurat's opening ceremony, prompting Duke Red's adopted son Rock, the leader of an anti-robot paramilitary organization known as the Marduks, to shoot it down. Meanwhile, private detective Shunsaku Ban and his young nephew/assistant Kenichi Shikishima have traveled from Japan to Metropolis to apprehend rogue scientist Dr. Laughton, wanted for organ trafficking and human rights violations. Unbeknownst to Shunsaku, Duke Red has hired Dr. Laughton to secretly build a highly advanced android, modeled and named after his deceased daughter Tima, with the intention of using her as the central control unit for a powerful superweapon hidden at the top of the Ziggurat. Duke Red's plans are disrupted however when Rock learns of Tima's existence, and fearing for his father's safety, shoots Laughton and sets his laboratory ablaze.
Discovering the burning laboratory, Shunsaku locates the dying Laughton, who directs Shunsaku to a notebook containing his research. Meanwhile, Kenichi stumbles upon the newly activated Tima. The two fall into the sewers and are separated from Shunsaku. While Shunsaku searches for his nephew, Kenichi and Tima search for a way back up to the street level. They grow close as Kenichi teaches Tima how to speak, both unaware that she is a robot. Learning that Tima survived the lab's destruction, Rock and his subordinates hunt them relentlessly. The pair encounter a group of unemployed human laborers who stage an armed revolution against Metropolis's leaders and robot workers.
Unhappy with the Duke's popularity and influence, the president and the mayor of Metropolis try to use the revolution to overthrow Red and regain control of Metropolis. However, the president's top military commander, General Kusai Skunk is revealed to be one of Red's subordinates and assassinates them both. Red then imposes martial law and violently suppresses the revolution. In the aftermath, Kenichi reunites with Shunsaku, but Rock, who exposes Tima as a robot, wounds him. Red disowns Rock and removes him from command of the Marduks for attempting to kill Tima before taking her and Kenichi away to the Ziggurat.
Still determined to eliminate her and regain his father's affection, Rock kidnaps and deac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitona | Aitona is a municipality in the comarca of Segrià in Catalonia, Spain. Its population is 2,523 by 2016. Its main industry is the agriculture.
References
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Government data pages
Municipalities in Segrià
Populated places in Segrià |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pink%20Panther%3A%20Passport%20to%20Peril | The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril is an adventure computer game (released on October 31, 1996) that teaches players about six countries as the Pink Panther explores them to solve a mystery. The countries Pink visits are: England, Egypt, China, Bhutan, India and Australia. Based on the 1990s TV series The Pink Panther, the traditionally non-speaking title character speaks audibly throughout.
The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink is a sequel to Passport to Peril that was released on October 18, 1997.
Plot
The Pink Panther works as a secret agent for Inspector Clouseau, who sends him to Camp ChillyWawa, a summer camp for gifted children, to investigate and protect the camp from a mysterious threat. Once there, he meets a group of multiethnic youths as well as the Little Man stock character from Pink's animated shorts in the role of a camp counselor. He also reconnects with an old friend of his, Von Schmarty, a scientist and caricature of Albert Einstein who shows him his numerous inventions.
Soon after Pink arrives, the children start acting strangely and contradictory to their nature, hating their camping experience despite Pink's efforts to reason with and comfort them. Pink finds himself traveling around the world, followed by three dogs who claim to represent the "Better Camping Bureau", to solve the mystery and restore order to the camp.
Armed with a PDA (which stands for "Pink Digital Assistant") that contains information on the indigenous people, languages, clothing, entertainment, art, history, nature, and foods of each pertinent country in the game, Pink travels the globe fulfilling various tasks based on the children's needs and whereabouts. He eventually gathers enough evidence to prove that the dogs' leader, the Dogfather, intends to ruin Camp ChillyWawa's reputation so it will be closed down, allowing him to open a lucrative fast food restaurant in its place. The Dogfather then reveals to Pink that he replaced the children with robotic clones programmed to hate the camp unconditionally. Pink engages in a final confrontation with the Dogfather and his henchmen, Pugg and Louie, as well as a traitorous Little Man that ends with all four villains sucked into a powered suction pump and the captured children released. The game ends as he quits working for Clouseau after being told his next mission is an undercover cafeteria worker.
References
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Windows games
Windows-only games
Passport To Peril
1996 video games
Adventure games
MGM Interactive games
Point-and-click adventure games
ScummVM-supported games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Video games set in Australia
Video games set in Egypt
Video games set in India
Video games set in Bhutan
Video games set in China
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BMG Interactive games
Simon & Schuster Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Wheel | The Green Wheel is an network of cycleways, footpaths and bridleways in Peterborough, England. Designed as part of a sustainable transport system for the city, it was created as part of a project by the Millennium Commission.
The name Green Wheel alludes to the circular nature of the major part of the path, which encircles Peterborough, with cycle route "spokes" leading from this perimeter, which passes through several peripheral settlements around Peterborough, into the city centre, allowing easy transport around the network, much of which required no new construction, instead using or improving already existing cycle routes or roads. The only major new construction for the project was that of a curved cycle bridge over the River Nene near Whittlesey, from where the path can be accessed northwards towards Flag Fen, into the city centre or southwards towards the Ortons. The network is fully signposted. As well as this, three circular pipe tunnels were constructed near Etton village in order to allow the Green Wheel route to pass underneath the A15.
The project also encourages recreational use and has created a sculpture trail, which provides functional, landscape artworks along the Green Wheel route and a ‘Living Landmarks’ project involving the local community in the creation of local landscape features such as mini woodlands, ponds and hedgerows.
The project cost £11 million and was 50% funded by the National Lottery through the Millennium Commission and has also been the winner of many awards including a RIBA award for Architecture in 2003.
See also
National Cycle Network
References
Transport in Peterborough
Cycleways in England
2000 establishments in England
Sustainable transport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady%20state%20%28electronics%29 | In electronics, steady state is an equilibrium condition of a circuit or network that occurs as the effects of transients are no longer important. Steady state is reached (attained) after transient (initial, oscillating or turbulent) state has subsided. During steady state, a system is in relative stability.
Steady state determination is an important topic, because many design specifications of electronic systems are given in terms of the steady-state characteristics. Periodic steady-state solution is also a prerequisite for small signal dynamic modeling. Steady-state analysis is therefore an indispensable component of the design process.
Calculation methods
Steady state calculation methods can be sorted into time-domain algorithms (time domain sensitivities, shooting) and frequency-domain algorithms (harmonic balance) methods, are the best choice for most microwave circuits excited with sinusoidal signals (e.g. mixers, power amplifiers).
Time domain methods
Time domain methods can be further divided into one step methods (time domain sensitivities) and iterative methods (shooting methods). One step methods require derivatives to compute the steady state; whenever those are not readily available at hand, iterative methods come into focus.
See also
Frequency response
Stiff circuits
Harmonic balance
Time domain sensitivities
Shooting method
Transient response
Further reading
Jan Ogrodsky - Circuit Simulation and Algorithms. CRC Press
Electrical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS-wide%20Clearing%20Service | The NWCS was the NHS-wide Clearing Service for NHS England and NHS Wales. It was a method of data exchange between NHS organisations, for non-clinical purposes such as statistical analysis set up in 1996. Previously Hospital Episode Statistics were collected by regional health authorities.
It was operated by McKesson, who supplied the ClearNET IT system and was superseded in 2007 by the Secondary Uses Service (SUS).
References
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2007 disestablishments in England
Statistical organisations in the United Kingdom
2006 establishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix%20network | Mix networks are routing protocols that create hard-to-trace communications by using a chain of proxy servers known as mixes which take in messages from multiple senders, shuffle them, and send them back out in random order to the next destination (possibly another mix node). This breaks the link between the source of the request and the destination, making it harder for eavesdroppers to trace end-to-end communications. Furthermore, mixes only know the node that it immediately received the message from, and the immediate destination to send the shuffled messages to, making the network resistant to malicious mix nodes.
Each message is encrypted to each proxy using public key cryptography; the resulting encryption is layered like a Russian doll (except that each "doll" is of the same size) with the message as the innermost layer. Each proxy server strips off its own layer of encryption to reveal where to send the message next. If all but one of the proxy servers are compromised by the tracer, untraceability can still be achieved against some weaker adversaries.
The concept of mix networks was first described by David Chaum in 1981. Applications that are based on this concept include anonymous remailers (such as Mixmaster), onion routing, garlic routing, and key-based routing (including Tor, I2P, and Freenet).
History
David Chaum published the concept of Mix Networks in 1979 in his paper: "Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms". The paper was for his master's degree thesis work, shortly after he was first introduced to the field of cryptography through the work of public key cryptography, Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. While public key cryptography encrypted the security of information, Chaum believed there to be personal privacy vulnerabilities in the meta data found in communications. Some vulnerabilities that enabled the compromise of personal privacy included time of messages sent and received, size of messages and the address of the original sender. He cites Martin Hellman and Whitfield's paper "New Directions in Cryptography" (1976) in his work.
How it works
Participant A prepares a message for delivery to participant B by appending a random value R to the message, sealing it with the addressee's public key , appending B's address, and then sealing the result with the mix's public key .
M opens it with his private key, now he knows B's address, and he sends to B.
Message format
To accomplish this, the sender takes the mix's public key (), and uses it to encrypt an envelope containing a random string (), a nested envelope addressed to the recipient, and the email address of the recipient (B). This nested envelope is encrypted with the recipient's public key (), and contains another random string (R0), along with the body of the message being sent. Upon receipt of the encrypted top-level envelope, the mix uses its secret key to open it. Inside, it finds the address of the recipien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20file%20system | A grid file system is a computer file system whose goal is improved reliability and availability by taking advantage of many smaller file storage areas.
Components
File systems contain up to three components:
File table (FAT table, MFT, etc.)
File data
Metadata (user permissions, etc.)
A grid file system would have similar needs:
File table (or search index)
File data
Metadata
Comparisons
Because file systems are designed to appear as a single disk for a single computer to manage (entirely), many new challenges arise in a grid scenario whereby any single disk within the grid should be capable of handling requests for any data contained in the grid.
Features
Most file storage utilizes layers of redundancy to achieve a high level of data protection (inability to lose data). Current means of redundancy include replication and parity checks. Such redundancy can be implemented via a RAID array (whereby multiple physical disks appear to a local computer as a single disk, which may include data replication, and/or disk partitioning).
Similarly, a grid file system would consist of some level of redundancy (either at the logical file level, or at the block level, possibly including some sort of parity check) across the various disks present in the "grid".
Framework
First and foremost, a file table mechanism is necessary. Additionally, the file table must include a mechanism for locating the (target/destination) file within the grid.
Secondly, a mechanism for working with file data must exist. This mechanism is responsible for making file data available to requests.
Implementation
With BitTorrent technology, a parallel can be drawn to a grid file system, in that a torrent tracker (and search engine) would be the "file table", and the torrent applications (transmitting the files) would be the "file data" component.
An RSS feed like mechanism could be utilized by file table nodes to indicate when new files are added to the table, to instigate replication and other similar components.
A file system may incorporate similar technology (distributed replication, distributed data request/fulfillment).
If both such systems (file table, and file data) were capable of being addressed as a single entity (i.e. using virtual nodes in a cluster), then growth into such a system could be easily controlled simply by deciding which uses the grid member would be responsible (file table and file lookups, and/or file data).
Availability
Assuming there exists some method of managing data replication (assigning quotas, etc.) autonomously within the grid, data could be configured for high availability, regardless of loss or outage.
Challenges
The largest problem currently revolves around distributing data updates. Torrents support minimal hierarchy (currently implemented either as metadata in the torrent tracker, or strictly as UI and basic categorization). Updating multiple nodes concurrently (assuming atomic transactions are required) presents latency during upda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTiger | CyberTiger (also known as Cyber Tiger Woods Golf) is a 1999 golf video game featuring Tiger Woods, for PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color. Woods is the main opponent and best-rated player in the game.
Gameplay
The main objective is to play in tournaments through each circuit and defeat Cyber Tiger and other golfers to win the championship as a professional in career mode. This is the first game to feature Tiger Woods as a character in video game other than Tiger Woods PGA Tour.
Players begin as either Tiger Woods or a created character on Spyglass Hill, the featured golf course in the game. After winning in the Career mode, players can unlock the other championship courses. The Career mode begins players as children, from which they may earn their way to adulthood. Players start off on the Junior Tour as young golfers playing in a one-round tournament. After that, players compete in three more tournaments. Winning any one of them allows players to go to the Amateur Tour, where they must win one of two events to qualify for the Pro Tour. After that, cash is awarded for winning.
CyberTiger includes Power-Up Balls which may give players an advantage or rescue them in desperate times. Balls include "superballs" that bounce on any terrain, and eyeballs that go straight during their flight. Other options include SuperDrive, hidden tricks, hidden golfers and power-ups. The game also introduces Tiger Control, which allows players to put spin (topspin and backspin) on the ball while it is in flight; real-time analog swing and ball control; and the ability to fade or draw. CyberTiger supports vibration feedback devices as well as analog control. In addition, two blocks of memory are required for saving and a Multi Tap compatible adapter is needed for play by up to four players.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.
See also
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000
References
External links
1999 video games
Game Boy Color games
Golf video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo 64 games
PlayStation (console) games
Tiger Woods video games
Video games developed in the United States
Xantera games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els%20Alam%C3%BAs | Els Alamús is a town situated in the comarca of Segrià in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Its population is 799 inhabitants.
References
External links
City council site
Government data pages
Municipalities in Segrià
Populated places in Segrià |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLR | NLR may refer to:
National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg
National LambdaRail, a high-speed computer network
Nazi Lowriders, a white prison and criminal organization
New Left Review, a political academic journal
Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, a marker of subclinical inflammation
Newark Light Rail, New Jersey, U.S.
Newcastle Light Rail, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptor/NOD-like receptor, a family of intracellular immunoreceptors
North London Railway
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Northampton and Lamport Railway, England
Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop%20battle | A laptop battle is a competitive event for an electronic musician to match their skills against others. Competition rules limit equipment to a laptop computer and an external pointing device (mouse). Some competitions allow external hardware, usually a single MIDI controller (this set-up is very similar to those used for live PA). There are typically three or four rounds, following a single elimination bracket or similar structure. Each round consists of a number of head-to-head matches between two randomly selected participants. Rules vary, but typically the competitors are allowed two to three minutes on stage to play their individual compositions. Stage presence is often a key element for judging, in addition to technical finesse and an ability to engage the audience.
A panel of judges decide which contestant advances to the next round, single elimination style. Usually, there are no restrictions on the type of material performed other than it must be the competitor's original creation. This aids in providing a distinction from DJ battles, wherein competitors play music created by others. Musical genres vary widely, with tendencies towards intelligent dance music, glitch, experimental electronica, mashups, house and technoid.
Various local and national laptop battles have garnered the attention of electronic music and sound design production sponsors, such as Ableton, Mackie, and Native Instruments. Sponsor products are often included in competition prizes. Laptop battles are becoming a worldwide phenomenon with battles organized in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, and Italy.
Formats
All formats vary in length of rounds (usually 2–3 minutes) and competition bracket style (single or double elimination). Some battles also include alternating sets by each performer, such as two 2-minute sets each. Mouse and keyboard rules may vary as well, and sometimes will allow for a USB version of the peripheral if the on-board peripheral is disabled or unused on the laptop.
Laptop only
This format was used in the 2006 Atlanta Laptop Battle I, II, and III.
This format only allows the following equipment:
One laptop
One external sound card
Single MIDI controller
This format was used for the 2006 US National Finals, the 2006 Atlanta Laptop Battle Finals, and the Laptop Battle UK competitions.
This format has the following restrictions:
One laptop computer
One external sound card
One MIDI controller
All equipment must fit in a 2' x 2' square
Exhibition matches
This format was featured in the 2007 Atlanta Preliminaries I Laptop Battle. It involves two competitors not included in the single- or double-elimination tournament structure, and may include more experienced performers or the judges from the ongoing laptop battle. This format is unique in that the actual sonic material utilized in the battle is limited, and performers have a limited amount of time to create their pieces.
This format has the following restrictions:
One laptop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Targ | Joan Fischer Targ (July 8, 1937 – June 2, 1998) was an American educator who was an early proponent of computer literacy and initiated peer tutoring programs for students of all ages.
As a child, she bought her younger brother, Bobby Fischer, his first chess set and taught him how to play the game.
Early life
Joan Fischer was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1937 to Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, a German-born biophysicist, and his wife, Regina Wender Fischer, a Swiss-born naturalized American citizen of Russian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish ancestry.
Regina Fischer left Moscow because of the persecution of Jews in the 1930s, bringing her child with her to the United States. She spoke seven languages fluently and was a teacher, registered nurse and eventually a physician.
After living in several cities in various parts of the United States, in 1948 the family moved to Brooklyn, where Regina worked as an elementary school teacher and nurse. One year later, in Brooklyn, Joan taught her younger brother, future chess world champion Bobby Fischer, to play chess.
Proponent of computer education
Targ founded a number of programs to study the teaching of computer literacy, including programs in the Palo Alto Unified School District, as well as the Institute of Microcomputing in Education at Stanford University.
Her educational techniques included the creation of peer tutoring systems whereby a student, trained by peers in a basic course in computer programming, would then tutor the next students. In the early 1980s, she created and led a programs sponsored by Stanford University in which elementary school teachers were taught the basics of programming by high school students.
One focus of her work was bringing computer literacy to girls, senior citizens, and other groups that were underrepresented in computing.
She coauthored the book Ready, run, fun: IBM PC edition with Jeff Levinsky.
Personal life
Targ later lived in Palo Alto, California and Portola Valley, receiving a Master's degree in education from the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California. Her husband, Russell Targ, worked at SRI International as a parapsychologist, and her daughter, Elisabeth, also became a parapsychologist.
Joan Targ was noted for her activism for organic farming, having built an organic farm soon after she married Russell Targ in 1958. In 1976, she, her husband, and another family bought 80 acres of land in Portola Valley they hoped to turn into another such farm; a lawsuit from her neighbors attempting to block this use was settled in her favor shortly before her death.
Death
Joan Fischer Targ died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Portola Valley at the age of 60 in 1998.
In popular culture
In the 2014 Bobby Fischer biopic Pawn Sacrifice, Targ was portrayed by Lily Rabe, with Sophie Nélisse appearing as the teenage Joan.
References
Additional sources
Anything to Win: The Mad Genius of Bobby Fischer, television documentary, produced by Frank Sinton and Anthony Storm
1937 birt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Multimedia | Oracle Multimedia (formerly Oracle interMedia from versions 8 to 10gR2) is a feature available for Oracle databases, which provides multimedia utilities in a database environment, generating as a result a multimedia database (MMDB).
Oracle Multimedia was deprecated in Oracle 18c and desupported in Oracle 19c.
Functionalities
Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:
as a general-purpose feature enables the management and retrieval of image, audio, and video data
recognizes the most popular multimedia formats and can automate metadata extraction and basic image-processing
facilitates the development of multimedia applications using JSPs, servlets, PL/SQL (with new packages) or tools such as JDeveloper (ADF/UIX) and Oracle Portal.
Oracle Multimedia manages multimedia data within an Oracle database under transaction control (see transaction processing); using by default database schemas named ORDSYS and ORDPLUGINS (the "ORD" prefix designates "object-relational data").
ORDSYS provides four media classes:
ORDAudio
ORDDoc
ORDImage
ORDVideo
Alternatively, an Oracle database can use Oracle Multimedia to store and index meta-information together with external references that enable efficient access to media-content stored outside the database.
References
See also
Oracle Spatial and Graph
Proprietary database management systems
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADI | Multichannel Audio Digital Interface (MADI) standardized as AES10 by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) defines the data format and electrical characteristics of an interface that carries multiple channels of digital audio. The AES first documented the MADI standard in AES10-1991 and updated it in AES10-2003 and AES10-2008. The MADI standard includes a bit-level description and has features in common with the two-channel AES3 interface.
MADI supports serial digital transmission over coaxial cable or fibre-optic lines of 28, 56, 32, or 64 channels; and sampling rates to 96 kHz and beyond with an audio bit depth of up to 24 bits per channel. Like AES3 and ADAT Lightpipe, it is a unidirectional interface from one sender to one receiver.
Development and applications
MADI was developed by AMS Neve, Solid State Logic, Sony and Mitsubishi and is widely used in the audio industry, especially in the professional audio sector. It provides advantages over other audio digital interface protocols and standards such as AES3, ADAT Lightpipe, TDIF (Tascam Digital Interface), and S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface). These advantages include:
Support for a greater number of channels per line
Use of coaxial and optical fiber media that support transmission of audio signals over 100 meters, up to 3000 meters over multi-mode and 40,000 meters over single-mode optical fiber
The original specification (AES10-1991) defined the MADI link as a 56-channel transport for linking large-format mixing consoles to digital multitrack recording devices. Large broadcast studios also adopted it for routing multi-channel audio throughout their facilities. The 2003 revision (AES10-2003) adds a 64-channel capability by removing varispeed operation and supports 96 kHz sampling frequency with reduced channel capacity. The latest AES10-2008 standard includes minor clarifications and updates to correspond to the current AES3 standard.
Audio over Ethernet of various types is the primary alternative to MADI for transport of many channels of professional digital audio.
Transmission format
MADI links use a transmission format similar to Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) networking. Since MADI is most often transmitted on copper links via 75-ohm coaxial cables, it more closely compares to the FDDI specification for copper-based links, called CDDI. AES10-2003 recommends using BNC connectors with coaxial cables and SC connectors with optic fibers. MADI over fibre can support a range of up to 2 km.
The basic data rate is 100 Mbit/s of data using 4B5B encoding to produce a 125 MHz physical baud rate. Unlike AES3, this clock is not synchronized to the audio sample rate, and the audio data payload is padded using JK sync symbols. Sync symbols may be inserted at any subframe boundary, and must occur at least once per frame. Though the standard disassociates the transmission clock from the audio sample rate, and thus requires a separate word clock connection to maintain synchroni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumby%2C%20British%20Columbia | Lumby is a small community of 2,063 people, located near the edge of the Monashee Mountains. It is mainly a logging, manufacturing and agriculture community.
The village is home to a network of trails along the creek beds, known collectively as the Salmon Trail.
Hang gliding and paragliding are very popular in Lumby. The village has hosted many national and international events, usually taking place at nearby Cooper Mountain.
Schools administered by School District 22 Vernon in Lumby include Charles Bloom Secondary School, Crossroads Alternate School and J W Inglis Elementary School.
The community was also home to the Lumby Fighting Saints of the now defunct WHA Junior West Hockey League.
Some of Lumby's prominent employers include: Tolko Industries, Rouck Brothers Sawmill, Valley Pallet Plus, Super A Grocery, Irly Building Centres, Mac's Convenience Stores, Fields, Lumby Hotel and Blue Ox Pub.
Annually, the "Lumby Days" family fair takes place in the beginning of summer, attracting many people from around the valley.
The Village also hosts a winter outhouse race featuring creative entries of three sided outhouses mounted on skis.
On 8 October 2014 a WWII-era Japanese balloon bomb was discovered in the mountains near Lumby by forestry workers. The next day, they reported it to the RCMP. It was then disposed of on site using explosives, as it was too dangerous to move it. All of this happening 70 years after it had been launched.
Lumby had been known as White Valley but one year after his death, the town name was changed to honour Moses Lumby (1842–93). He had a varied career including serving as Government Agent in Vernon, British Columbia and vice-president of the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway.
Climate
Lumby has a humid continental climate with hot summers days and cool nights. Spring and fall are the driest seasons, and summer and winter are the wettest seasons. Fog often sets in during the winter, and can last for days at a time. Lumby is wetter and cooler than Vernon, but is still dry enough to contain natural grasslands, especially on south facing slopes.
During the summer months, Lumby has one of the highest diurnal temperature variations in Canada. The daily temperature swing of in August is only exceeded by Beaverdell.
Lumby is at a transition point between the semi-arid dry belt to the west and the interior rainforest to the east. Thus, both wet and dry vegetation are common in Lumby.
Weather facts:
Driest Year (1967) =
Wettest Year (1982) =
Warmest Year (1998) =
Coldest Year (1996) =
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lumby had a population of 2,063 living in 836 of its 861 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,833. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Religion
According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Lumby included:
Irreligion (1,325 persons or 65.8%)
Christianity (670 persons or 33.3%)
Buddhism (10 person |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Vision%20Limited | Tropical Vision Limited, or as it is locally known, Channel 7, is a Belize City based television station operating since 1981.
Its Managing Director is Nestor Vasquez.
Programming
Channel 7 airs a mix of American and Belizean programmes.
7 News
Prior to 1994, Channel 7 got its news from local radio powerhouse Radio Belize. Beginning on February 14, 1994, 7 News began producing its own newscast, running opposite Great Belize Television's News 5 Live at 6:30 PM Central. There are no regular weekend newscasts other than Friday repeats; 7 News has aired two one-time only Saturday evening newscasts, the latest coming in April 2005 in the midst of the protests in Belize.
Criticism
Channel 7 is usually more critical of Government foibles than rival Channel 5, and Government officials have pointedly criticized 7 for its hard-hitting analysis of national issues.
Employees of Channel 7
Nestor Vasquez (Managing Director)
Jules Vasquez (News Director/chief news Editor/reporter)
Indira Craig (Newscaster)
Courtney Weatherburne (Reporter/newscaster)
Daniel Ortiz (Reporter)
Sahar Vasquez(Reporter)
Angel Noble (Camera)
Cody Noralez (Camera)
Dennis Ellis (Camera)
Melissa Ramsey (Office Manager)
Trivia
In the late 1990s, poet Leroy "Grandmaster" Young got his start on Channel 7 reciting poems at the end of the newscast. Other former employees of Seven include Rodel Beltran Perera, Dennis Peyrefitte, Carla Ayres, Dawn Sampson, Deadra Isaacs (now Haylock), Alfonso and Fortunato Noble and Jim McFadzean and Jacqueline Woods
External links
Official Site
1981 establishments in Belize
Television channels and stations established in 1981
Television stations in Belize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-Phase%20Systems | Four-Phase Systems was a computer company, founded by Lee Boysel and others, which built one of the earliest computers using semiconductor main memory and MOS LSI logic. The company was incorporated in February 1969 and had moderate commercial success. It was acquired by Motorola in 1981.
History
The idea behind Four-Phase Systems began when Boysel was designing MOS components at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1967. Boysel wrote a manifesto explaining how a computer could be built from a small number of MOS chips. Fairchild made Boysel head of a MOS design group, which he used to design parts satisfying the requirements of his putative computer. After doing this, Boysel left to start Four-Phase in October 1968, initially with two other engineers from his Fairchild group as well as others. Boysel was not sued by Fairchild, perhaps because of chaos caused by a change in Fairchild management at that time. When the company was incorporated in February 1969, he was joined by other engineers from the Fairchild group. Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel, was an early board member.
Boysel arranged for chips to be fabricated by Cartesian, a wafer-processing company founded by another engineer from Fairchild. Four-Phase showed its system at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1970. By June 1971, Four-Phase IV/70 computers were in use at four different customers, and by March 1973, they had shipped 347 systems to 131 customers. The company enjoyed a substantial level of success, having revenues of $178 million by 1979.
In 1982, Four-Phase was sold to Motorola for a $253 million stock exchange (equivalent to $ today). The former location of the business on N De Anza Blvd is now Apple's Infinite Loop campus.
System
The Four-Phase CPU used a 24-bit word size. It fit on a single card and was composed of three AL1 chips, three read-only-memory (ROM) chips, and three random logic chips. A memory card used Four-Phase's 1K RAM chips. The system also included a built-in video controller which could drive up to 32 terminals from a character buffer in main memory.
The AL1 was an 8-bit bit slice which contained eight registers and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). It was implemented using four-phase logic and used over a thousand gates, with an area of 130 by 120 mils (3.3 mm by 3 mm). The chip was described in an April 1970 article in Computer Design magazine. Although the AL1 was not called a microprocessor, or used as one at the time, it was later dubbed one in connection with litigation in the 1990s, when Texas Instruments claimed to have patented the microprocessor. In response, Lee Boysel assembled a system in which a single 8-bit AL1 was used as part of a courtroom demonstration computer system, together with ROM, RAM and an input-output device. The AL1 is erroneously considered to be the first microprocessor used in a commercial product (vs the Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor), although it cannot qualify as a micro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station%20group%20%28railway%29 | In the ticketing system of the British rail network, tickets are normally issued to and from individual stations. In some instances, when there is more than one station in a town or other locality—especially where these are on different routes—it may be desirable for passengers to be able to travel to one station and back from another, or more generally to be able to choose which of the stations they wish to travel to. To accommodate this requirement, British Rail introduced a series of station groups: notional "common locations" to which tickets from stations outside that group would be issued.
For example, Penge in South London has two stations: Penge East and Penge West. The former is served by trains from London Victoria to Orpington; the latter is on the route from London Bridge to West Croydon. For a traveller arriving at, for example, a London terminal station and intending to go to Penge, it makes little difference which route is chosen. Both stations are close together and serve the same area. Therefore, a ticket issued specifically to one of the Penge stations would be unduly restrictive—it would remove the opportunity to travel by a choice of equally convenient routes. A notional "Penge group" solves this problem: a ticket issued in this way would be interavailable.
The concept is explained in the National Fares Manuals (NFMs) issued approximately three times per year by the British Railways Board (and, since privatisation, by the Association of Train Operating Companies) to stations, Rail Appointed Travel Agents and other ticket issuing authorities: "Fares for certain ... cities and towns are shown to and from a notional common station[.] All fares are quoted and all tickets should be issued to and from [these notional group] stations except for local journeys between two stations in the same group. Tickets issued to and from these [notional group] stations are valid to or from any of their associated stations, subject to normal route availability."
Terminology and appearance on tickets
These "locations" had to be shown in a standard, easily identifiable way on tickets. The method chosen by the British Railways Board was as follows:
Take the name of the actual location where the stations are: for Penge East and Penge West, PENGE.
Add the suffix BR to this: PENGE BR.
Each station group was also allocated its own National Location Code (NLC)—a four-digit code used for accounting and to attribute revenue to locations on the railway network. Most station group codes were between 0250 and 0500. This NLC appeared on PORTIS/SPORTIS tickets, which by convention always showed the "origin" and "destination" NLCs as well as the code of the issuing point; but tickets from the APTIS system and its replacements always showed the NLC of the actual station of issue, even where a ticket was issued from a "station group" (except for some short-lived anomalies).
After privatisation, the designation "BR" was no longer appropriate, alt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger%3A%20Helmet%20Chaos | Frogger: Helmet Chaos is a video game of the action-adventure genre released in 2005 by Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii. It was released on the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable. It is the first 3D portable Frogger title.
Story
The story starts when young Frogger is enjoying a sunny day with his friend Lumpy. Frogger then spots a moon fruit in the trees, and he goes off to retrieve it. He comes back and notices that Lumpy wandering off and he is wearing what appears to be a metal object on his head. The journey begins Frogger follows Lumpy all the way to the beach. That's when he realizes the metal object is a mind control helmet. He startles Lumpy which causes him to jump and break the helmet. Frogger then finds out that a crocodile named Dr. Wani and his assistant Ronin are behind the mind control helmets. Now it is up to Frogger to jump, swing and fight as he sets on his quest to defeat Dr. Wani before he takes over the world. The ending of the story depends on how the player chooses to end the levels.
Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to the original 1981 arcade game with some modern elements of platforming games. The goal of each level is for Frogger to weave through the traffic to reach the other side. In the Nintendo DS version, the action moves from the top to the bottom, while in the PSP version players must rotate the console 90 degrees. After a number of levels, Frogger battles a boss. As a bonus, Helmet Chaos includes the original 1981 Frogger arcade game. The story has multiple endings, depending on how and where the player chooses to end the levels.
Reception
Helmet Chaos has a 71% rating on the review aggregator GameRankings. IGN hailed the game as a "solid portable title." Frank Provo of GameSpot said that players looking for a 3D platformer with Frogger mechanics would be pleased with the game.
Game Revolution named Helmet Chaos as #50 on their 50 worst video game names of all-time list.
References
2005 video games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation Portable games
Action-adventure games
Platformers
Frogger
Video games developed in the United States
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Fiction about mind control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seekg | In the C++ programming language, seekg is a function in the fstream library (part of the standard library) that allows you to seek to an arbitrary position in a file. This function is defined for ifstream class - for ofstream class there's a similar function seekp (this is to avoid conflicts in case of classes that derive both istream and ostream, such as iostream).
istream& seekg(streampos position);
istream& seekg(streamoff offset, ios_base::seekdir dir);
position is the new position in the stream buffer. This parameter is an object of type streampos.
offset is an integer value of type streamoff representing the offset in the stream's buffer. It is relative to the dir parameter.
dir is the seeking direction. It is an object of type ios_base::seekdir that can take any of the following constant values:
ios_base::beg (offset from the beginning of the stream's buffer).
ios_base::cur (offset from the current position in the stream's buffer).
ios_base::end (offset from the end of the stream's buffer).
Note: If you have previously got an end of file on the stream, seekg will not reset it but will return an error in many implementations.
- use the clear() method to clear the end of file bit first. This is a relatively common mistake and if seekg() is not performing as expected, it is wise to clear the fail bit, as shown below.
Example of seekg
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
// Open a new file for input/output operations discarding any current
// content in the file (assumes a length of zero on opening)
std::fstream myFile("test.txt", std::ios::in | std::ios::out | std::ios::trunc);
// Add the characters "Hello World" to the file
myFile << "Hello World";
// Seek to 6 characters from the beginning of the file
myFile.seekg(6, std::ios::cur);
// Read the next 5 characters from the file into a buffer
char buffer[6];
myFile.read(buffer, 5);
// End the buffer with a null terminating character
buffer[5] = 0;
// Output the contents read from the file and close it
std::cout << buffer << std::endl;
myFile.close();
}
Example clearing the fail bit
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string line;
// Creates a new ifstream object and associates it with a file passed in via the parameters.
// The object is then checked to see if the end-of-file has been reached, if the file has data
// then this will be false.
std::ifstream myFile(argv[1], std::ios::in);
std::cout << myFile.eof() << std::endl;
// Continuously loops over each line of the file until the end of the file
while (!myFile.eof()) {
std::getline(myFile, line);
}
// Again outputs the end-of-file status for the stream, this time the answer will be true
std::cout << myFile.eof() << std::endl;
// Seeks to the very beginning of the file, clearing any fail bits first (such as t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic | Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup company, founded by former members of OpenAI. Anthropic develops general AI systems and large language models. It is a public-benefit corporation, and has been connected to the effective altruism movement.
, Anthropic had raised billion in funding. In September, Amazon announced an investment of up to US$4 billion, followed by a $2 billion commitment from Google the next month.
History
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former senior members of OpenAI, principally siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, the latter of whom served as OpenAI's Vice President of Research. The Amodei siblings were among others who left OpenAI due to directional differences, specifically regarding OpenAI's ventures with Microsoft in 2019.
By late 2022, Anthropic had raised million in funding, out of which million came from Alameda Research. Google's cloud division followed with an investment of million for a 10% stake, in a deal requiring Anthropic to buy computing resources from Google Cloud. In May 2023, Anthropic raised million in a round led by Spark Capital.
In February 2023, Anthropic was sued by Texas-based Anthrop LLC for use of their registered trademark "Anthropic A.I."
Kevin Roose of The New York Times described the company as the "Center of A.I. Doomerism". He reported that some employees "compared themselves to modern-day Robert Oppenheimers".
Journalists often connect Anthropic with the effective altruism movement; some founders and team members were part of the community or at least interested in it. One of the investors of Series B round was Sam Bankman-Fried of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX that collapsed in 2022.
On September 25, 2023, Amazon announced a partnership in which Anthropic, with Amazon becoming a minority stakeholder by investing up to US$4 billion, including an immediate investment of $1.25bn. As part of the deal, Anthropic would use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider and plans to make its AI models available to AWS customers. The next month, Google invested $500 million in Anthropic, and committed to an additional $1.5bn over time.
Projects
Claude
Consisting of former researchers involved in OpenAI's GPT-2 and GPT-3 model development, Anthropic began development on its own AI chatbot, named Claude. Similar to ChatGPT, Claude uses a messaging interface where users can submit questions or requests and receive highly detailed and relevant responses.
Initially available in closed beta through a Slack integration, Claude is now accessible via a website claude.ai.
The name, "Claude", was chosen either as a reference to Claude Shannon, or as "a friendly, male-gendered name designed to counterbalance the female-gendered names (Alexa, Siri, Cortana) that other tech companies gave their A.I. assistants".
Claude 2 was launched in July 2023, and is available in US and UK. The Guardian reported that safety was a priority during the model training. A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular%20ad%20hoc%20network | Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are created by applying the principles of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) – the spontaneous creation of a wireless network of mobile devices – to the domain of vehicles. VANETs were first mentioned and introduced in 2001 under "car-to-car ad-hoc mobile communication and networking" applications, where networks can be formed and information can be relayed among cars. It was shown that vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside communications architectures will co-exist in VANETs to provide road safety, navigation, and other roadside services.
VANETs are a key part of the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) framework. Sometimes, VANETs are referred as Intelligent Transportation Networks. They are understood as having evolved into a broader "Internet of vehicles". which itself is expected to ultimately evolve into an "Internet of autonomous vehicles".
While, in the early 2000s, VANETs were seen as a mere one-to-one application of MANET principles, they have since then developed into a field of research in their own right. By 2015, the term VANET became mostly synonymous with the more generic term inter-vehicle communication (IVC), although the focus remains on the aspect of spontaneous networking, much less on the use of infrastructure like Road Side Units (RSUs) or cellular networks.
Applications
VANETs support a wide range of applications – from simple one hop information dissemination of, e.g., cooperative awareness messages (CAMs) to multi-hop dissemination of messages over vast distances.
Most of the concerns of interest to mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are of interest in VANETs, but the details differ. Rather than moving at random, vehicles tend to move in an organized fashion. The interactions with roadside equipment can likewise be characterized fairly accurately. And finally, most vehicles are restricted in their range of motion, for example by being constrained to follow a paved highway.
Example applications of VANETs are:
Electronic brake lights, which allow a driver (or an autonomous car or truck) to react to vehicles braking even though they might be obscured (e.g., by other vehicles).
Platooning, which allows vehicles to closely (down to a few inches) follow a leading vehicle by wirelessly receiving acceleration and steering information, thus forming electronically coupled "road trains".
Traffic information systems, which use VANET communication to provide up-to-the minute obstacle reports to a vehicle's satellite navigation system
Road Transportation Emergency Services – where VANET communications, VANET networks, and road safety warning and status information dissemination are used to reduce delays and speed up emergency rescue operations to save the lives of those injured.
On-The-Road Services – it is also envisioned that the future transportation highway would be "information-driven" or "wirelessly-enabled". VANETs can help advertise services (shops, gas stations, restaurants, et |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT%20Managed%20Security%20Solutions | BT Counterpane, formerly Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., is a company that sells managed computer network security services. Counterpane offered a range of managed security services including vulnerability scanning, security device monitoring, incident response, and consulting. Their core offering was Managed Security Monitoring, in which Counterpane analysts proactively monitored and responded to security threats on customer networks remotely and 24/7. This outsourced approach aimed to improve enterprise security operations.
The company was founded by American cryptographer Bruce Schneier in August 1999.
Their "Enterprise Protection Suite" is a service package that includes network scanning, security device management and consulting services based on their "Managed Security Monitoring" service. BT Counterpane is the world's biggest network data security company.
The company was acquired by BT Group on 25 October 2006.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota%20Jazz%20Club | The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant is a jazz club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The club opened in 1985 at Bandana Square in St. Paul as a restaurant with local jazz in the bar. In 1988, the programming expanded to national artists with performances by McCoy Tyner and Ahmad Jamal. In 2003, the Dakota moved to downtown Minneapolis on Nicollet Mall.
History
The list of jazz musicians who have played the Dakota includes Patricia Barber, Charles Brown, Ray Brown, James Carter, Bill Carrothers, Regina Carter, Larry Coryell, Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Elling, Sonny Fortune, Von Freeman, Benny Green, Roy Hargrove, Roy Haynes, Zakir Hussain, Ahmad Jamal, Billy Higgins, Bobby Hutcherson, Charles Lloyd, Frank Morgan, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Pat Martino, Nicholas Payton, Madeleine Peyroux, Joshua Redman, Wallace Roney, Arturo Sandoval, Toots Thielemans, McCoy Tyner, Joe Williams, and Chucho Valdés.
The Dakota opened as a restaurant that featured jazz. Although music has become what it is now most widely known for, food has continued to be a significant part of the Dakota. The Dakota was one of the first Minnesota restaurants featuring "farm-to-table," working closely with Minnesota growers and developing a new "Midwestern Cuisine" under original Chef Ken Goff. The Dakota was one of three midwestern restaurants (along with Prairie in Chicago) to be featured in a major New York Times article about the emergence of a regional cuisine in the Midwest. Since then, the Dakota has continued to emphasize fresh ingredients from sustainable sources and continues its creative culinary approach.
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Urban listening room: Dakota
"City Pages" Best Jazz Club 2011
Jazz Police Dakota Jazz Club Review
Jazz clubs in the United States
Music venues in Minnesota
Music venues completed in 1985
1985 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Club%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Club is an Australian reality television show about an Australian rules football sporting side, the Hammerheads, which was screened on the Seven Network in 2002 for one series. It was seen as a way for Seven to stay involved in football after losing the broadcast rights to the Australian Football League after the 2001 season.
The show featured a handpicked team of amateur footballers coached by former VFL/AFL legend David Rhys-Jones which played against various Victorian football sides from the Western Region Football League second division, following the trials and tribulations of its players.
Unlike normal clubs, the home audience were able to influence who was selected in the team each week by voting to keep their favourite players in the side. Viewers also got to vote on many of the club's other key aspects including its name, coach, captain and song.
The show was considered trailblazing and generated a cult following, with several crowds at games featuring the Hammerheads pushing 5,000 spectators and many claiming the Hammerheads as their second favourite sporting team. After finishing the regular season in third position, the Hammerheads went on to win the Grand Final and claim the flag in their first – and only – season.
Despite the show's success, it did not return to television.
Controversy
The show also achieved its share of controversy and publicity. The Hammerheads attempted to have a woman, Debbie Lee, play on their team in competition games but were ultimately stopped by the league. There were also criticisms of personal attacks by coach Rhys-Jones on players.
Seven Sport
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Television shows set in Victoria (state)
2002 Australian television series debuts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Casarez | Jean Ann LeGrand-Casarez ( LeGrand; born April 20, 1960) is an American lawyer and news correspondent for CNN and its sister network HLN. She formerly worked for TruTV until that network eliminated daytime trial coverage. As a correspondent for Court TV/TruTV, Casarez provided live daytime trial coverage, reporting on courtroom trials across the country; she covered such cases as the Coral Eugene Watts trial, the Kobe Bryant rape case, and Scott Peterson sentencing hearings. She was an anchor for Court TV's hourly Newsbreak. In addition to her current work for CNN, she is occasionally a substitute host for HLN's Current affairs show, Primetime Justice.
Career
A graduate of the University of Southern California and Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, Casarez is a member of the Nevada and Texas bars, licensed in the Southern District of Texas Federal Court. She joined Court TV in January 2003 from KOLO-TV in Reno, Nevada, where she was a weekend anchor and legal reporter. Prior to working in Reno, Casarez produced the news magazine show First Edition and served as the City Hall reporter and fill-in anchor at KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas.
In addition to her legal background and journalism career, Casarez, under the name Jean LeGrand, has recorded six albums of Tejano music in Spanish for the International divisions of CBS and Capitol EMI Records, thus touring throughout the U.S. and Mexico; Casarez has also been nominated for numerous awards as a journalist, and received a 2010 Peabody Award for CNN Network’s coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill.
Casarez is married and currently resides in New York City.
Discography (partial) (as Jean LeGrand)
Tirano (CBS International, 1987)
Jean Le Grand (EMI Latin, 1990)
It Takes 2 Duets (EMI Latin, 1991)
Enamorada (EMI Latin, 1992)
Todo Para Ti (EMI Latin, 1994)
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People from Long Beach, California
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American women singers
American musicians of Mexican descent
Tejano pop musicians
Spanish-language singers of the United States
American women lawyers
Lawyers from New York City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20intelligence | Distributed intelligence may refer to:
Group mind (science fiction)
Collective intelligence, superorganism
Distributed artificial intelligence, innovation system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffold%20%28programming%29 | Scaffolding, as used in computing, refers to one of two techniques:
Code generation:
It is a technique related to database access in some model–view–controller frameworks.
Project generation:
It is a technique supported by various programming tools.
Code generation
Scaffolding is a technique supported by some model–view–controller frameworks, in which the programmer can specify how the application database may be used. The compiler or framework uses this specification, together with pre-defined code templates, to generate the final code that the application can use to create, read, update and delete database entries, effectively treating the templates as a "scaffold" on which to build a more powerful application.
Scaffolding is an evolution of database code generators from earlier development environments, such as Oracle's CASE Generator, and many other 4GL client-server software development products.
Scaffolding was made popular by the Ruby on Rails framework. It has been adapted to other software frameworks, including OutSystems Platform, Express Framework, Blitz.js, Play framework, Django, web2py, MonoRail, Brail, Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP, Phalcon PHP, Model-Glue, PRADO, Grails, Catalyst, Mojolicious, Seam Framework, Spring Roo, JHipster, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, KumbiaPHP and ASP.NET MVC framework's Metadata Template Helpers.
Run-time vs. design-time scaffolding
Scaffolding can occur at two different phases of the program lifecycle: design time and run time. Design time scaffolding produces files of code that can later be modified by the programmer to customize the way the application database is used. However, for large-scale applications this approach may be difficult to maintain due to the sheer number of files produced, and the fact that the design of the files was largely fixed when they were generated or copied from the original templates. Alternatively, run time scaffolding produces code on the fly. It allows changes to the design of the templates to be immediately reflected throughout the application. But modifying the design of the templates may be more difficult or impractical in the case of run time scaffolding.
Scaffolding in Ruby on Rails
When the line scaffold :model_name is added to a controller, Rails will automatically generate all of the appropriate data interfaces at run time. Since the API is generated on the fly, the programmer cannot easily modify the interfaces generated this way. Such a simple scaffold is often used for prototyping applications and entering test data into a database.
The programmer may also run an external command to generate Ruby code for the scaffold in advance: rails generate scaffold model_name. The generate script will produce files of Ruby code that the application can use to interact with the database. It is somewhat less convenient than dynamic scaffolding, but gives the programmer the flexibility of modifying and customizing the generated APIs.
Note: As of Rails |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg%20%28disambiguation%29 | A cyborg is a cybernetic organism.
Cyborg may also refer to:
People
Cris Cyborg (born 1985), a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
Evangelista Santos (born 1977), a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter sometimes known as "Cyborg"
Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu (born 1980), a super heavy weight Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
The Ukrainian military during the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport are collectively known as "Cyborgs"
Comics
Cyborg (DC Comics), a fictional character appearing in publications by DC Comics
Cyborg Superman, a persona that has been used by two fictional characters in the DC Universe
"Cyborg", the working title and initially announced name for the Marvel Comics character Deathlok
Games
Cyborg, a main protagonist from Rise of the Robots
Cyborg (board game), a 1978 fantasy wargame by Excalibre Games, now owned by Decision Games
Cyborg (play-by-mail game), a 1981 game by Integral Games
Cyborg (video game), a 1982 computer game
Cyborg, a 1987 computer game by CRL Group
Film and television
Cyborg, working title of The Six Million Dollar Man, a 1970s American TV series
Cyborg (film), a 1989 science fiction action film
Cyborg 2, a 1993 science fiction action film
Cyborg 3: The Recycler, a 1994 science fiction action film
Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die, a 2017 Ukrainian film about the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport
Music
Cyborg (Klaus Schulze album), 1973
Cyborg (Nekfeu album), 2016
"Cyborg", a song by WhoMadeWho
Novels
Cyborg (novel), a 1972 novel by Martin Caidin
Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Cyborg, a 1986 novel by William F. Wu
Cyborg: The Second Book of the Clone Codes, a 2011 novel by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Other uses
Cyborg theory, a postmodern feminist theory
Cyborg (truck), a USHRA monster truck
Cyborg (social media), a category of social media accounts, a bot-assisted human
See also
List of fictional cyborgs
Android (disambiguation)
Robot (disambiguation)
Cyber (disambiguation)
Cybernetics (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20software | Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or users. This includes terminal emulators, file transfer programs, chat and instant messaging programs, as well as similar functionality integrated within MUDs. The term is also applied to software operating a bulletin board system, but seldom to that operating a computer network or Stored Program Control exchange.
History
E-mail was introduced in the early 1960's as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Basic text chat functionality has existed on multi-user computer systems and bulletin board systems since the early 1970s. In the 1980s, a terminal emulator was a piece of software necessary to log into mainframes and thus access e-mail. Prior to the rise of the Internet, computer files were exchanged over dialup lines, requiring ways to send binary files over communication systems that were primarily intended for plain text; programs implementing special transfer modes were implemented using various de facto standards, most notably Kermit.
Chat
In 1985 the first decentralized chat system was created called Bitnet Relay, whereas Minitel probably provided the largest chat system at the same time. In August 1988 the Internet Relay Chat followed. CU-SeeMe was the first chat system to be equipped with a video camera. Instant messaging featuring a buddy list and the notion of online presence was introduced by ICQ in 1996. In the days of the Internet boom, web chats were very popular, too.
Chatting is a real-time conversation or message exchange that takes place in public or in private groupings called chat rooms. Some chatrooms have moderators who will trace and block offensive comments and other kinds of abuse. Based on visual representation chats are divided into text based chat room just as were IRC and Bitnet Relay Chat, 2D – supporting graphic smilies; and 3D the conversation in which takes place in 2D graphic surrounding.
References
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New media
Multimedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongsan%20Electronics%20Market | Yongsan Electronics Market () is a retail area in Seoul, South Korea. Comprising over 20 buildings, housing 5,000 stores that sell appliances, stereos, computers and peripherals, office equipment, telephones, lighting equipment, electronic games and software, videos and CD's. A variety of electronic components for constructing computers and other items can also be found. Korean-made products generally cost 20% less here than other retail outlets, while imported items can be as much as 50% cheaper.
The market has a variety of stores, each with different operating procedures. Some stores operate like traditional retail shops, with set prices, name brands, and warranties. Other shops accept, or even expect, customers to bargain and may not have any posted prices for items.
The Composition of Electronics Market
Wonhyo Electronic Market
Located in the western part of Yongsan Electronics Market, it mainly handles electricity and lighting equipment.
Yongsan ETLand
It is a large shopping mall located in the western part of Yongsan Electronics Electronics Market, and it handles products like electronic devices, home appliances and computers. On the fourth and fifth floors, Lotte Cinema Yongsan Hall (formerly Land Cinema), a multiplex, is located, and on the fifth floor there is a store selling Gundam-related goods.
Najin Mall
Located in the central part of Yongsan Electronics Electronics Market. The handling items depend on the district, while 12 and 13 districts handle electronic devices such as mobile phones and game consoles, while 17-20 districts mainly handle computers and their peripherals.
Sunin Plaza
It is located in the southern part of Yongsan Electronics Shopping Center. It handles computers and their peripherals.
It also deals with parts needed for upgrading and exchanging computer hardware parts.
Terminal Market
It was a shopping mall connected to Yongsan Station on Subway Line 1 in the Seoul metropolitan area, but it was all demolished around May 2014. The existing passageways are kept accessible by installing elevators and stairs at the end.
After the demolition, the Yongsan Tourist Hotel began construction in 2014, and in June 2017, the largest Yongsan Tourism Hotel in Korea was completed and connected to Yongsan Station.
Location and Hours
The Electronics Market is located on Subway line 1, at Yongsan Station. Entrance is from the train station through the Terminal Shopping Center or by walking around the station at ground level to enter the market. It may also be reached by the subway line to Sinyongsan station. The major stores are open from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, while many smaller stores keep a variety of hours. Most stores in the area are closed on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month. The department stores and many shops in Seoul are closed on alternating Sundays (twice a month).
There is an outdoor flea market in the area on the first and third Sunday of the month, when things are even cheaper. The shops open |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin%27s%20Getting%20Married | Yasmin's Getting Married was a short-lived Australian reality television program that aired live on Network Ten in early August 2006. It was based on the successful Scandinavian show Kerry's Getting Married, which revolves around a single woman's quest to find a partner and get married. It was produced by Screentime, which purchased the format from Strix Television.
The show debuted on Tuesday, 1 August 2006, and was hosted by Jo Stanley from FOX FM Melbourne. She was also joined by Ryan Phelan, anchor of Sports Tonight, and Christine Chinchen, a relationship counsellor. Guests included comedian Matt Hardy, wedding planner Kathy Apostolidis, and Bree Amer.
The show's theme song was a cover of Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'", sung by Neighbours star Stephanie McIntosh. The track appears on her album Tightrope.
Overview
The Bride
Yasmin Dale, a 29-year-old recruitment manager, was the star contestant in the show. Her goal during the series was to find a groom during the nine-week run of the show and marry him in a wedding broadcast live on Channel Ten at the end of the series.
Dale was not the original subject of the show. The original bride was a woman named Rene, and the show was subsequently originally titled and advertised as Rene's Getting Married. However, the original contestant pulled out of the show and pursued a relationship independent of the program two weeks before the premiere of the series, thus facilitating the need for a title and contestant change.
The potential grooms
On the first episode, viewers were introduced to the first six candidates to be Yasmin's husband: Vincent, Adam, Athan, Max, Peter and Deryn. At the end of the first episode the panel of "experts" had whittled the number down to three: Vincent, Peter and Deryn. Viewers were then given around 24 hours to vote to decide which of these three would receive the honour of a date with Yasmin.
In the second episode, Vincent was the first of the three to be eliminated. Later, Peter was chosen as the lucky man.
Cancellation
The program was axed by Network Ten on Sunday, 6 August 2006, just four episodes into its projected nine-week run.
Network Ten's chief programming officer, David Mott, said that "Ten has a reputation for taking risks with new formats, as evidenced by our success with The Biggest Loser, Thank God You're Here and The Wedge—to name just three hits we've launched this year. While we all had very high hopes for Yasmin's Getting Married, it is clear at this early stage that our audience has not embraced this bold new initiative. We have therefore elected to cease production on the Screentime-produced reality program and move on."
A statement from the network cites disappointing ratings as the primary reason for the cancellation. Network Ten and Screentime have indicated that Yasmin will have to find the love of her life by more conventional means, although they will assist her with the costs of the wedding. As of now, Yasmin is still wai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo%20TV | Bravo TV may refer to:
Bravo (American TV network), U.S. cable TV channel owned by NBCUniversal
Bravo (British TV channel), former British television channel owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of British Sky Broadcasting
Bravo (New Zealand), a New Zealand TV channel
Bravo TV (TV series), a German youth television show related to a German youth magazine called Bravo
CTV Drama Channel, Canadian cable TV channel, branded as Bravo from 1995 to 2019
See also
Bravo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Zoo | Midnight Zoo was an Australian late-night interactive game show broadcast in parts of Australia on the Seven Network. Midnight Zoo debuted on 31 July 2006 and was broadcast from Sydney. It was shown live throughout Victoria and in the capital cities of Sydney and Brisbane, and ran from 12:30 am to 2:00 am Weekday mornings. The final airing of the show was on 21 October 2006. The show was hosted by Steven O'Donnell, Angie Richards, and Charlotte Connell.
Etymology
The somewhat unusual name of the show stems from the name of the show's creator, Jack Dita aka 'The Zoo Keeper'. The presence of 'Midnight' in the name also hints at the show's late timeslot.
Cast
Midnight Zoo was hosted by:
Angie Richards – Host, Hollywood Set
Charlotte Connell – Host, Bikini Beach Cabana Set
Steven O'Donnell – Host, Cash Corner Set
Format
Midnight Zoo was similar in concept to the Ten Network's 'Up Late Game Show', hosted by former Big Brother housemate, Simon Deering aka Hotdogs.
The 90 minute runtime of Midnight Zoo was split into three 30 minute slots. Each slot was allocated to one host/location pair. The puzzles were mostly brain teasers and questions relating to popular culture and are regarded as relatively simple (for example, 'Name a movie starting with B'). Money is awarded via the gameboard, which dictates the amount of money won for a particular answer. A puzzle featured in a previous slot was carried over to the next slot, suggesting that one puzzle can sometimes occupy the entire 90 minute runtime.
To maintain interest in the show over the course of its duration, there were several segments featured during each slot. These were mostly to encourage callers during slow periods, which in turn encourages human interaction with the show. These include:
Cash Grab – A 5-minute period where all money on the game board is doubled.
Double Money – If successful, the next 2 callers will be awarded double their winnings.
Call Rush – A "short amount of time" where callers are further encouraged to call by on-screen graphics.
All segments came with the added incentive of being featured on live television as a caller. At the same time, a puzzle's jackpot amount steadily increased throughout the show. A popular segment from host Stephen was how to build nether portals in Minecraft.
As an added bonus, all successful callers were offered a chance at the Bonus Board. The Bonus Board featured 12 numbers, of which the contestant much choose 3. If the contestant chose all three correctly, their winnings were increased by a jackpot amount which varies from $2500–$12000
Criticism and problems
On 11 August 2006 satirical comedy series The Chaser's War on Everything featured a segment on the influx of late night phone-in quiz shows. The segment mocked the standard of all late night quiz programs and their questions. For Midnight Zoo, particular reference was made to the female hosts wearing bikinis.
One Australian TV critic has even classed Midnight Zoo as the wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quizmania%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Quizmania is an Australian phone-in quiz show, based on the British program of the same name, and broadcast on the Nine Network in the late night time slot (post-midnight). The show was produced from Nine's Richmond studios in Melbourne. Its main Director was Rick Maslan.
Quizmania was first broadcast live on Nine Network stations GTV, TCN, QTQ, and NTD, and affiliates NBN and WIN Television on 25 July 2006. The show was unique in that it was broadcast live to South Australia, Western Australia, and Northern Territory with the presenters welcoming SA and NT to the show half an hour after it started, due to those states being thirty minutes behind the Australian east coast, and welcoming WA 2 hours after commencement. Similarly during daylight saving months, Queensland viewers were welcomed an hour later when the broadcast began in that state.
Sometimes due to varying program schedules in each capital city or regional area, some cities and/or areas did not broadcast Quizmania while other cities and/or areas still received the broadcast.
Only contestants aged 18 or over were allowed to participate. Underage callers were a regular occurrence on the show especially during school holidays.
Programme history
When it first aired on Tuesday 25 July 2006, Quizmania was to soon run in direct competition with the established The Up-Late Game Show on Channel Ten, returning a week later on Monday 31 July, after the 2006 Big Brother series had ended with its UpLate late-night show finished. A few days after, Seven Network introduced a similar phone-in quiz show, Midnight Zoo. Both competing programmes soon ceased broadcasting – Midnight Zoo only lasted three months. Quizmania remained on air for the longest period.
During the 2007 Big Brother series, Quizmania faced competition with the return of the UpLate program (see Notable dates).
Hosts
Quizmania originally started out with three hosts, Nikki Osborne, Amy Parks and Brodie Young. In early January 2007, Katrina Conder and Suze Raymond were added to the lineup. On 12 May 2007, Nikki Osborne hosted her last Quizmania show after she announced a few days earlier that she was leaving to work on the new Channel Nine show The Nation with Mick Molloy.
Amy now works as a news reporter on Seven News Melbourne.
Two hosts appeared on weekday episodes. On Fridays and Saturdays there were three hosts due to the four-hour running time.
Games
Some of the games played on Quizmania include:
Tower game
This game was created by Quizmania in Britain. It consisted of seven blank spaces increasing in value, ranging from anywhere up to $500. At the top of the tower was either be a phrase with a missing word or a topic to guess. For example, one game could be HOT _, viewers could call in and guess hot weather, hot water, hot pants, etc. Alternatively, the game could be "Boys Names Beginning With T" and viewers could call and guess Trevor, Timothy, Thierry, etc.
Games of this type came under particular criticism becaus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive%20computing | Defensive computing is a form of practice for computer users to help reduce the risk of computing problems, by avoiding dangerous computing practices. The primary goal of this method of computing is to be able to anticipate and prepare for potentially problematic situations prior to their occurrence, despite any adverse conditions of a computer system or any mistakes made by other users. This can be achieved through adherence to a variety of general guidelines, as well as the practice of specific computing techniques.
Strategies for defensive computing could be divided into two categories, network security and the backup and restoration of data.
Network security
Users put their computers at risk when accessing the Internet and other networks. The use of either of these allows others to gain access to a user's system and important information. By implementing certain strategies, defensive users aim to reduce the risk associated with network access.
Firewall
A firewall is a collection of security measures that protects a computer from harmful inbound and outbound traffic on the Internet and prevents the unauthorized access of computer systems. These security measures are integrated into the form of special software that runs autonomously either on individual computer systems, or externally through built in software within routers and modems.
Not all firewall software will protect computers from sending unauthorized or harmful outbound traffic.
An important defensive computing strategy is to seek and implement quality firewall software that filters both inbound and outbound traffic.
Anti-malware software
A basic strategy for all defensive computer users is to install and use anti-malware software.
Firewalls may not completely protect a computer. Malicious software may be able to get through a firewall and onto a system. Anti-Malware such as anti-virus, anti-phishing and email filtering software offer some protection against harmful software that reside within a computer. The amount of malicious software available over the Internet is steadily increasing. It is important for defensive users to use to anti-malware that is both effective and easily updated in order to combat new strains of malicious software that are developed.
The other side of anti malware is that it contains serious vulnerabilities itself. A malware could use vulnerabilities of anti-malware to launch malicious code.
Anti-malware works by scanning files a network connections for known signatures. Those signatures can never be up to date. To be able to scan network connections, encryptions (SSL/TLS) need to be bypassed or even broken by anti-malware software. When monitoring emails anti-malware opens all attachments for analysis, a bug in this scanner can be used as a starting point for malware. Attackers just need to send malware to a mailbox that is scanned automatically.
It is questionable if malware scanners are even useful at all. Ex Mozilla developer Rober O'Callaha |
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