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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPAX-TV | KPAX-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Missoula, Montana, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, it is part of the Montana Television Network, a statewide network of CBS-affiliated stations. KPAX-TV's studios are located on West Central Avenue in Missoula, and its transmitter is located on TV Mountain north of the city.
KAJJ-CD (channel 18) in Kalispell operates as a low-power, Class A semi-satellite of KPAX-TV; known on-air as KAJ, it broadcasts the same schedule as KPAX, but with local commercials and news segments. To comply with the requirements of its Class A license, KAJJ also produces its own weeknight 5:30 and 10 p.m. newscasts with a separate anchor, which premiered in 2010.
History
The signal of KXLF-TV in Butte had been received in Missoula since 1958, when a separately-owned translator was set up in the Rattlesnake Valley. KXLF-TV itself was approved to set up a translator in Missoula in December 1965, at the same time that KMSO-TV of Missoula was allowed to build a translator in Butte, which began broadcasting in February 1966.
Joe Sample, owner of the Montana Television Network, applied to replace the KXLF-TV translator with a full-power satellite for Missoula on October 15, 1969, through subsidiary Garryowen Butte TV. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the construction permit on December 23. KPAX-TV went on the air in two phases: provisionally from a tower on May 9, 1970, and from its full, 257,000-watt facility on June 5.
In January 1977, Sample remodeled a former television and appliance store on Regent Street into a local studio for KPAX. This allowed the station to sever the electronic umbilical cord with KXLF and begin the production of local news and commercials in the city, becoming Missoula's second full-fledged station. The year before, KXLF-KPAX had become a primary ABC affiliate, with CBS being shared with KGVO-TV/KTVM-TV in the Missoula and Butte areas.
In 1984, Sample sold the MTN stations to SJL, Inc. for $20 million. The network became exclusively affiliated with CBS that year; as a result, the airing of ABC programs in Missoula and Butte moved to the Eagle Communications network (KECI, KTVM, and KCFW), which signed an affiliation agreement with the network to air it alongside NBC.
MTN was split two years later when the stations outside Billings, including KPAX-TV, were sold to Evening Post Publishing Company, through its Cordillera Communications subsidiary, for $24 million in 1986. The hybrid local-state news format that had been used at MTN since 1971 was abolished, with each station beginning to produce full-length local newscasts.
While MTN was changing owners, a low-power TV station was going on the air at Kalispell. Owned by Thom Curtis and Daniel Coon of Billings, stockholders in KOUS-TV in Hardin, K18AJ made its debut on July 10, 1985, and primarily aired programming from the Satellite Program Network. It went silent in mid-1988 and was sold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecop%20%28TV%20series%29 | Timecop is an American science fiction television series. The show was broadcast on the ABC network and first aired in 1997. The series is based on the successful Jean-Claude Van Damme film, Timecop (1994) from Universal Studios, which was in turn inspired by the Dark Horse comic of the same name. Thirteen episodes of the series were ordered, but only nine episodes aired.
The show was broadcast on the ABC network and first aired in 1997, leading off the Monday night lineup at 8 p.m. before Monday Night Football. It did not use any cast from the film and only one character was reused.
Premise
In 2007, time travel is a reality using time sleds to enter the time stream. However, the technology has leaked beyond the United States government. Rogue time sleds built by other parties are sending criminals into the past for a price. The Time Enforcement Commission was formed to retrieve and arrest the criminals, preventing the alteration of history.
Cast and characters
Ted King as Officer Jack Logan
Cristi Conaway as Officer Claire Hemmings
Hemmings was originally part of the TEC’s science and research division providing support at headquarters. She eventually accompanies Logan in the field on missions. Originally adversarial, she becomes Logan’s romantic interest.
Don Stark as Captain Eugene Matuzek
Matuzek is in charge of the TEC and is the only character carried over from the film the show is based on, although recast with Stark replacing Bruce McGill.
Kurt Fuller as Dr. Dale Easter
The TEC's chief historian, Easter has a range of historical interests and is a film buff who can cite the major historical events in the year any film was released.
Episodes
Development
In 1996, the Los Angeles Times reported that ABC ordered a new prime-time series based on the 1994 science-fiction movie Timecop. The pilot was written by series creator Mark Verheiden.
Based on differences in cast, characters, costumes, TEC procedures and technology, episode 5, "Rocket Science," appears to be the original pilot episode and changes were made when the series entered production. Among them:
Amy Fuller and a young character named Kreutzer are in the historical department whereas Easter is the sole historian appearing in the series. Easter is present as chief historian here but his assistants do the mission research. He also appears to be angry, jaded, unfriendly, cynical and even more sarcastic than the laid-back history nerd of the series. Fuller and Kreutzer are not seen in any other episodes.
A scene was inserted to try to explain Hemmings' absence wherein Matuzek says Fuller was substituting for Hemmings, but Hemmings' specialty was science and technology, not historical research.
TEC headquarters is busier, with more personnel and numerous captured time fugitives in period costumes being led through in restraints.
Matuzek, Easter and other personnel in TEC headquarters were costumed in unconventional business suits suggesting the near future, while in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Burgess%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mark Burgess (born 19 February 1966) is an independent researcher and writer, formerly professor at Oslo University College in Norway and creator of the CFEngine software and company, who is known for work in computer science in the field of policy-based configuration management.
Early life and education
Burgess was born in Maghull in the United Kingdom to English parents. He grew up in Bloxham, a small village in Oxfordshire from the age of 5–18, attending Bloxham Primary School, Warriner Secondary School and Banbury Upper School. He studied astrophysics at the (then) School of Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he later switched to pure Physics and then Theoretical Physics for his bachelor's degree. He stayed on to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics (Quantum Field Theory) in Newcastle, in the field of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories, for which he received the Keith Runcorn Prize.
Burgess was invited to Norway for a two year Royal Society Post Doctoral fellowship in January 1991 by Professor Finn Ravndal of the University of Oslo, and stayed on for another two years funded by the Norwegian Research Council. While at the University of Oslo he developed an interest in the behaviour of computers as dynamic systems and began to apply ideas from physics to describe computer behaviour. He subsequently became the first professor with a title in Network and System administration at the same university. In 2023, in response to Brexit, Burgess applied for and became a citizen of Norway, following the acceptance of dual citizenship in Norway.
Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package CFEngine, but has also made important contributions to the theory of the field of automation and policy based management, including the idea of operator convergence and promise theory.
Career
Burgess has made contributions to theoretical and empirical computer science, mainly in the area of the behaviour of computing infrastructure and services. In the early 1990s, Burgess asserted that programmatic models of computer programs could not describe observed behaviour at the macroscopic scale, and that statistical physics could be used instead, thus likening artificial systems to a quasi-natural phenomenon. With the increasing interest in the role of information in physics, Burgess has argued that computer science and physics can be bridged using the concepts of promise theory, through the notion of semantic spacetime, a description of functional aspects of spacetime at multiple scales, which offers an alternative to Robin Milner's theory of bigraphs.
Configuration
In 1993, Burgess introduced the software CFEngine based in intuitions and practice, focusing on the idea of repeatable desired end-state 'convergence', to manage system configuration. The term convergence, used by Burgess, is now often inaccurately just called idempotence, as convergence i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOPE%20Alliance | The SCOPE Alliance was a non-profit and influential Network Equipment provider (NEP) industry group aimed at standardizing "carrier-grade" systems for telecom in the Information Age. The SCOPE Alliance was founded in January 2006 by a group of NEP's, including Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, and Siemens. In 2007, it added significantly to its membership.
Mission
Active between 2006 and 2012, its mission was to enable and promote the availability of open carrier-grade base platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware/software and free and open-source software building blocks, and promote interoperability between such components. SCOPE wanted to accelerate the deployment of carrier-grade base platforms (CGBP) for service provider applications so that NEP's could use them to build better solutions for their customers. By 2011, SCOPE achieved its aim, having accelerated innovation in carrier-grade communications technology and ATCA,
NEPs sell integrated hardware/software systems to carriers, with three Computing supply chains (Hardware, Operating system, and Middleware) with well-established industry groups promoting interoperability between products from different vendors. SCOPE published "profiles" aimed at influencing specification groups to focus on the needs of NEP customers (carriers). While SCOPE's focused on open standards like ATCA and Carrier Grade Linux, there is no reason "Proprietary Supplier" could not adopt the SCOPE standards.
Open Source Achievements
SCOPE's influence on adapting 'Open Standards' for carrier-grade open-source standards and software is summarized in the table:
NFV, SDN, 5G, Cloud transformation Age
SCOPE was also interested in advancing Network virtualization ("As a consortium of NEPs, it is important for SCOPE to address the lack of standardization in the area of virtualization"), publishing white papers on hardware virtualization, and a white paper on Java Virtualization describing "an environment where high availability Java EE and native application can co-exist and be supervised in the same fashion in a clustered environment". In 2010 SCOPE organized workshop to discuss the effect of Cloud Computing on traditional Carrier-Grade Platforms and telecom networks, publishing a Cloud Computing white paper in 2011.
SCOPE was placed into "hibernation", effectively retired, by NEPs in January 2012. Telecom carriers (NEP customers) wanted direct involvement in driving transformation, so instead, both groups combined forces on ETSI Network function virtualization standardization, Software-defined networking adoption, and 5G network slicing initiatives.
Publications
SCOPE published various publications, including the following:
SCOPE: Technical Position Paper (2008).
Virtualization for Carrier-Grade Telecommunications Solution (2008).
Virtualization: State of the Art (2008): focuses on system virtualization.
Virtualization: Use Cases (2008).
Virtualization: Requirements (2008)
CPU Be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%20Tsong%2C%20Si%20Tsang | Si Tsong, Si Tsang is a Philippine television silent situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Earl Ignacio and Susan Lozada, it premiered on April 3, 1997. The series concluded in 1998.
Premise
Tsong, a professional job applicant, witnessed a crime on his way home. The villains see him, he runs away, crosses the street, dodges bullets, hurdles fences, take a deep breath, jumps into the river and realizes that he can't swim.
Miraculously, a mannequin floats by and 'rescues' him, and in gratitude Tsong brings the mannequin home. Until it is struck by lightning and so is born the naive Tsang.
References
1997 Philippine television series debuts
1998 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxia | Vauxia is an extinct genus of demosponge that had a distinctive branching mode of growth. Each branch consisted of a network of strands. Vauxia also had a skeleton of spongin (flexible organic material) common to modern day sponges. Much like Choia and other sponges, Vauxia fed by extracting nutrients from the water.
Vauxia is named after Mount Vaux, a mountain in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Vauxia fossils are found in North America, specifically in the United States and Canada.
References
External links
Fauna and Flora of the Burgess Shale
Verongimorpha
Prehistoric sponge genera
Paleozoic sponges
Paleozoic life of British Columbia
Burgess Shale sponges
Maotianshan shales fossils
Cambrian first appearances
Silurian extinctions
Taxa named by Charles Doolittle Walcott
Fossil taxa described in 1920
Fossils of Canada
Fossils of Greenland
Fossils of the United States
Cambrian genus extinctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20TV%20K | All TV K is a Canadian exempt Category B Korean language specialty channel with English subtitles and is owned by All TV Inc. It broadcasts programming from KBS World as well as local Canadian content.
All TV K features programming from Korea's public broadcaster KBS. Programming includes news, movies, drama, sports, cultural programmes and documentaries.
History
KBS World, an unrelated channel owned by Seabridge Media, launched in June 2006. It is currently unclear due to lack of evidence, however, sometime in 2009, Seabridge Media shut down, leading to the closure of KBS World. Due to the closure of KBS World, All TV Inc stepped in and launched its own version of KBS World in July 2009 on Rogers Cable allowing the service to remain on the air, using its own licence granted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
In late 2012, KBS World Canada was renamed All TV K. On July 18, 2013, All TV K was added to Bell Fibe TV.
See also
All TV (Canada)
KBS World
External links
All TV K schedule
KBS America
World Canada
Korean-Canadian culture
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beh%20Bote%20Nga | Beh Bote Nga is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Janno Gibbs and Anjo Yllana, it premiered on March 9, 1999 on the network's KiliTV line up. The series concluded on April 16, 2003. It was replaced by Nuts Entertainment in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Janno Gibbs as Kot
Anjo Yllana as Tot
Joey de Leon as Tio Pot
Giselle Toengi as genie G
Steven Claude Goyong as genie G's assistant
Shermaine Santiago as Celine
Aubrey Miles as Dion
Dick Israel as Max
Tiya Pusit as Tweety
Jake Roxas as Tom
KC Montero as Jerry
Anne Curtis as genie Fer
Darlene Carbungco as Vanessa "Van"
Richard Gutierrez as Peter
Sherwin Ordoñez as Parker
Ina Raymundo as Tina
Ana Roces as Maan
Anjanette Abayari as Nina
Tom Taus Jr. as Newton
Bembol Roco
Lou Veloso
Diwata
Rod Navarro as Don Facundo
Diego Llorico
Assunta de Rossi
Joey "Pepe" Smith
Jojo Bolado
Mach Duran
Rey Aranas
VP Hernandez
Allan K. as Rocky
Gladys Guevarra
Bella Flores as genie Ginny
Ruby Rodriguez as genie Cole
Jimmy Santos as genie Santos
Natasha Ledesma
Rachel Alejandro
Accolades
References
External links
1999 Philippine television series debuts
2003 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEXP%20%28FM%29 | WEXP (101.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Brandon, Vermont. WEXP broadcasts an Americana music format featuring recent Americana and country music, with programming focused on Rutland County, Vermont, and surrounding areas. Branded as "Mud Radio", the station features live, daily dialog with community service.
History
The station's construction permit was originally owned by Tim Hoehn, Gary Savoie, and local resident Michael Carr who wound up selling a controlling interest to Jeff Shapiro. Although the transmitter is located a distance from Brandon, the tower site on Grandpa's Knob, in Castleton, Vermont, was the only place that would suffice to get a city grade signal over the majority of Brandon. An FCC waiver permitted this operation. A story in the Rutland Herald depicted a large type balloon being raised over a hilltop in Pittsford to describe how high a proposed tower could be. Several hunters shot the balloon down, since the people there did not want a tower erected in their town.
WEXP went on the air in April 1999 under "Program Test Authority" from the FCC with no sales staff, no disc jockeys and only a Technics CD player airing the same repeating dance music CD with a legal ID imbedded, calling itself "Express 101". A contract engineer, Neil Langer, oversaw the operation and kept the station's public file at his residence. In October 2000, WEXP began to simulcast its signal over WVAY 100.7 (now WTHK) in Wilmington, Vermont and its translator W284AB in Jamaica, Vermont.
On May 16, 2000, at noon, WEXP became Classic Rock 101, The Fox. The very first song played was "Long Live Rock" by The Who. The station's initial lineup included the syndicated Imus In The Morning show. Alicia Ty hosted the midday slot. Baker (from the Mason and Sheehan Show in Albany NY) was the first program director and afternoon host. John Roberts was hired a bit later, and handled the nighttime programming. A $1.01 Gas promotion at a Citgo gas station in Fair Haven, Vermont that brought in hundreds of vehicles, over a three-hour time span was a catalyst in establishing the station as a player in the local marketplace.
The station's signal is directional to the southwest since it is short spaced to WNYQ (101.7 FM) in Glens Falls, New York, and slightly to the southeast to protect WRSY (101.5 FM) in Marlboro, Vermont. At one time, all three radio stations were owned by Vox Radio Group. The original allocation for the Brandon frequency was 101.9 FM, and was moved to its current 101.5 frequency when WCVR-FM in Randolph upgraded from a class A at 102.3 FM to a class C3 at 102.1. The original call sign for WEXP was WADT, which was used from 1993 to 1998, though the station never made it on the air under the WADT calls. The WEXP calls were previously used on WKOL in Plattsburgh, New York, until 1995, and on WLGQ in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1975 until 1984.
WEXP, along with 29 other Nassau stations in northern New England, was purchased at bankruptcy a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigada%20Siete | Brigada Siete () is a Philippine television investigative documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on December 5, 1993. The show concluded on September 29, 2001. The show was revived in 2011 as Brigada.
After Louie Beltran's death by 1994, Tito Sotto took over on November 6 and continued his role until 2000. By that time, it was reformatted as a magazine show.
Hosts
Louie Beltran
Jessica Soho
Arnold Clavio
Tito Sotto
Accolades
References
External links
1993 Philippine television series debuts
2001 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Peabody Award winners
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyNet | MyNet may refer to:
MyNetworkTV, USA
Mynet, an Israeli news service and subsidiary of Ynet, providing local news
the internet service of Telepassport Telecommunications, Cyprus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGN | EGN may refer to:
Eagle Aviation France, a defunct French airline
Eastrington railway station, in England
EGN Australia, an online computer games network
Erie Gay News, a newsletter in Erie, Pennsylvania
Ergative-genitive case
European Geoparks Network
Geneina Airport, in Sudan
Uniform civil number, a Bulgarian administrative identification number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20%28data%20analysis%20software%29 | Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones and alternatives like LabPlot and SciDAVis.
Graphing support in Origin includes various 2D/3D plot types.
Data analyses in Origin include statistics, signal processing, curve fitting and peak analysis. Origin's curve fitting is performed by a nonlinear least squares fitter which is based on the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm.
Origin imports data files in various formats such as ASCII text, Excel, NI TDM, DIADem, NetCDF, SPC, etc. It also exports the graph to various image file formats such as JPEG, GIF, EPS, TIFF, etc. There is also a built-in query tool for accessing database data via ADO.
Features
Origin is primarily a GUI software with a spreadsheet front end. Unlike popular spreadsheets like Excel, Origin's worksheet is column oriented. Each column has associated attributes like name, units and other user definable labels. Instead of cell formula, Origin uses column formula for calculations.
Recent versions of Origin have introduced and expanded on batch capabilities, with the goal of eliminating the need to program many routine operations. Instead the user relies on customizable graph templates, analysis dialog box Themes which save a particular suite of operations, auto recalculation on changes to data or analysis parameters, and Analysis Templates™ which save a collection of operations within the workbook.
Origin also has a scripting language (LabTalk) for controlling the software, which can be extended using a built-in C/C++-based compiled language (Origin C). Other programming options include an embedded Python environment, and an R Console plus support for Rserve.
Origin can be also used as a COM server for programs which may be written in Visual Basic .NET, C#, LabVIEW, etc.
Older (.OPJ), but not newer (.OPJU), Origin project files can be read by the open-source LabPlot or SciDAVis software. The files can also be read by QtiPlot but only with a paid "Pro" version. Finally the liborigin library can also read .OPJ files such as by using the opj2dat script, which exports the data tables contained in the file.
There is also a free component (Orglab) maintained by Originlab that can be used to create (or read) OPJ files. A free Viewer application is also available.
Editions and support
Origin is available in two editions, the regular version Origin and the pricier OriginPro. The latter adds additional data analysis features like surface fitting, short-time Fourier Transform, and more advanced statistics.
Technical support is available to registered users via e-mail, online chat, and telephone.
A user forum is also available.
There are a few version types that have been offered from Origin and OriginPro as personal, academic, government and student versions. However, the student version is not avai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Hainsworth | Michael Hainsworth is a former business reporter for CTV Toronto and CTV affiliates across Canada. He anchored The Close on Canada's financial news network, BNN Bloomberg (formerly Business News Network). He also filed business reports for Toronto all-news channel CablePulse24 and national cable news network CTV News Channel. He is no longer with CTV or BNN, having left mainstream media in 2018 to launch an independent content creation studio. For 8 seasons, Hainsworth also co-hosted the podcast Geeks and Beats with Alan Cross. In September, 2022, Hainsworth relaunched the show as a web series Where's My Jetpack? about the technology we were promised as kids, what we actually got, and what's coming next in which he adopts a "rant" style delivery about news of the day tied to science-related topics. His rant Time to Bring Back the Experts has more than 17K views on Twitter.
Career
A veteran Toronto broadcaster, Michael got his start in radio at Mix 99.9 in Toronto 1988 producing overnight music and current affairs shows while still in high school. Hainsworth's 11 years in radio include six at the all-news station 680 News in Toronto. During his tenure as a reporter for the station, Hainsworth won the 1998 Best Spot News award from the Toronto Police Service for his breaking news coverage of the crash of the RAF Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft during the Canadian International Air Show. He later filled in as anchor the "afternoon drive" broadcast before moving to the business desk.
In 2000, Hainsworth moved to television, taking a position in the nascent BNN.
In addition to once hosting some of BNN's top rated programs, viewers may also have recognized Michael Hainsworth for his work distilling the day's financial news on local CTV newscasts across Canada and for CTV News Channel.
Hainsworth frequently refers to himself as a "computer geek" and maintains a technology and human interest oriented blog that features stories often covered for the networks. Hainsworth also used to operate a Mac-oriented First Class Bulletin Board System (BBS) called "Sanctuary". He regularly interviewed technology analyst, David Garrity, on the latest technology trends.
Education
Hainsworth is an honours graduate of the radio program at Humber College in Toronto.
Awards
Toronto Police Best Spot News Award, the crash of the RAF Nimrod, 1995
Days of Action Protest, RTNDA, 1995
References
External links
Hainsworth.com
Where's My Jetpack?
Canadian television journalists
Living people
Canadian business and financial journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSearch | AppleSearch was a client/server search engine from Apple Computer, first released for the classic Mac OS in 1994.
AppleSearch was a client/server application, although the vast majority of the logic was located in the server. The server portion periodically crawled a set of administrator-configured locations on hard drives, CD-ROMs and the network using AppleShare, indexing the documents it found after converting them to plain text using the Claris XTND document conversion system. A later version of the server, 1.5, could also be pointed at selected WAIS servers, using their indexes directly in addition to local ones. The same server also acted as a WAIS server, respond to WAIS requests sent to it over the internet. The server also offered a set of AppleEvents for use from Mac programs.
The server's query parser incorporated a number of features to help improve the ease-of-use of the query language. For instance, AppleSearch did not require the user to type in Boolean operators like AND or OR in their searches. While this is true for most search engines today, at the time this was a fairly uncommon feature. AppleSearch also supported stemming, which expanded search terms into similar words. Using stemming, a search on "pregnancy", for instance, would also find hits on "pregnant". Contractions, connecting words and punctuation were all handled as well.
Additionally, the search could be fed with the results of previous search in order to tune its results. For instance, if one searches on "turkey recipe", the first set of results might return a document on how to cook a turkey, but also one on middle-eastern cooking in Turkey. If the user then selected the document on cooking a turkey, they could then ask for more documents like that one. The engine would find key words in the document and use those as additional terms in the new search. This feature has since appeared in Google, under the Similar pages link.
AppleSearch also included the ability to summarize documents into a shorter form. It did this by selecting sentences from the document that contained a higher than normal number of key words, the key words being the same set that would be used for search tuning, as above. The user could request a version of the document some percentage of the original size, and the engine would then remove sentences it considered less important (those with less of the key words) until it reached the requested size.
The client portion was essentially a communications module that sent text-based requests to the server and received responses back. The client portion could be used within programs to integrate search capabilities with relative ease, the API was fairly small. Such applications were not common, instead, the client API was more commonly used as a gateway for internet software, including plug-ins for Gopher and web servers, notably MacHTTP and (later) WebSTAR. AppleSearch was also bundled with the Apple Internet Server Solution, a hardware/software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20%28programming%20language%29 | The Mouse programming language is a small computer programming language developed by Dr. Peter Grogono in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was developed as an extension of an earlier language called MUSYS, which was used to control digital and analog devices in an electronic music studio.
Mouse was originally intended as a small, efficient language for microcomputers with limited memory. It is an interpreted, stack-based language and uses Reverse Polish notation. To make an interpreter as easy as possible to implement, Mouse is designed so that a program is processed as a stream of characters, interpreted one character at a time.
The elements of the Mouse language consist of a set of (mostly) one-character symbols, each of which performs a specific function (see table below). Since variable names are limited to one character, there are only 26 possible variables in Mouse (named A-Z). Integers and characters are the only available data types.
Despite these limits, Mouse includes a number of relatively advanced features, including:
Conditional branching
Loops
Pointers
Macros (subroutines (which may be recursive))
Arrays
Code tracing
The design of the Mouse language makes it ideal for teaching the design of a simple interpreter. Much of the book describing Mouse is devoted to describing the implementation of two interpreters, one in Z80 assembly language, the other in Pascal.
Details
The language described here is the later version of Mouse, as described in the Mouse book. This version is an extension of the language described in the original magazine article.
Symbols
The following table describes each of the symbols used by Mouse. Here X refers to the number on the top of the stack, and Y is the next number on the stack.
Expressions
Common idioms
These expressions appear frequently in Mouse programs.
X: ~ store into variable X
X. ~ recall variable X
X. Y: ~ copy X into Y
N. 1 + N: ~ increment N by 1
P. Q. P: Q: ~ swap values of P and Q
? A: ~ input a number and store in A
P. ! ~ print variable P
Input
Mouse may input integers or characters. When a character is input, it is automatically converted to its ASCII code.
? X: ~ input a number and store into X
?' X: ~ input a character and store its ASCII code into X
Output
Mouse may print integers, characters, or string constants, as shown in these examples. If an exclamation point appears in a string constant, a new line is printed.
X. ! ~ recall number X and print it
X. !' ~ recall ASCII code X and print character
"Hello" ~ print string "Hello"
"Line 1!Line 2" ~ print strings "Line 1" and "Line 2" on two lines
Conditionals
A conditional statement has the general form:
B [ S ] ~ equivalent to: if B then S
Here B is an expression that evaluates to 1 (true) or 0 (false), and S is a sequence of statements.
Loops
Loops may have one of several forms. Most common are the forms:
( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20diagram | In object-oriented programming, an object diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a diagram that shows a complete or partial view of the structure of a modeled system at a specific time.
Overview
In the Unified Modeling Language (UML), an object diagram focuses on some particular set of objects and attributes, and the links between these instances. A correlated set of object diagrams provides insight into how an arbitrary view of a system is expected to evolve over time. Early UML specifications described object diagrams as such:
"An object diagram is a graph of instances, including objects and data values. A static object diagram is an instance of a class diagram; it shows a snapshot of the detailed state of a system at a point in time. The use of object diagrams is fairly limited, namely to show examples of data structure."
The latest UML 2.5 specification does not explicitly define object diagrams, but provides a notation for instances of classifiers.
Object diagrams and class diagrams are closely related and use almost identical notation. Both diagrams are meant to visualize static structure of a system. While class diagrams show classes, object diagrams display instances of classes (objects). Object diagrams are more concrete than class diagrams. They are often used to provide examples or act as test cases for class diagrams. Only aspects of current interest in a model are typically shown on an object diagram.
Object diagram topics
Instance specifications
Each object and link on an object diagram is represented by an InstanceSpecification. This can show an object's classifier (e.g. an abstract or concrete class) and instance name, as well as attributes and other structural features using slots. Each slot corresponds to a single attribute or feature, and may include a value for that entity.
The name on an instance specification optionally shows an instance name, a ':' separator, and optionally one or more classifier names separated by commas. The contents of slots, if any, are included below the names, in a separate attribute compartment.
A link is shown as a solid line, and represents an instance of an association.
Object diagram example
Consider one possible way of modeling production of the Fibonacci sequence.
In the first UML object diagram on the right, the instance in the leftmost instance specification is named v1, has IndependentVariable as its classifier, plays the NMinus2 role within the FibonacciSystem, and has a slot for the val attribute with a value of 0. The second object is named v2, is of class IndependentVariable, plays the NMinus1 role, and has val = 1. The DependentVariable object is named v3, and plays the N role. The topmost instance, an anonymous instance specification, has FibonacciFunction as its classifier, and may have an instance name, a role, and slots, but these are not shown here. The diagram also includes three named links, shown as lines. Links are instances of an association.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TW3%20%28Albany%2C%20New%20York%29 | TW3 was a cable television network owned by Time Warner Cable. It was carried on Time Warner Cable systems in the Capital District of New York and that area's suburbs including Saratoga County, the southern Adirondack region, the Mohawk Valley, and most of Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
TW3 was formed in October 2002 as the improved successor to Time Warner 9, a similar station that was succeeded on the Time Warner lineup by sister station Capital News 9 and taking over the channel 3 position which had been pay-per-view previews. On most of Time Warner's Albany-area systems, TW3 occupied the channel 3 position though there were several exceptions, namely former Adelphia systems or systems where an "actual" channel 3 (WCAX in Burlington, Vermont or WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut) has that channel position. Those systems are:
Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Channel 11
Ticonderoga, New York (Port Henry/Crown Point) and Schroon Lake, New York: Channel 14
North Adams, Massachusetts (ex-Adelphia): Channel 21
Canajoharie, New York, Queensbury, New York, and Lee, Massachusetts (Lenox/Great Barrington) (all ex-Adelphia): Channel 96
It was never an over the air station, just a program source carried by Time Warner.
Programming
Much of TW3's programming was locally originated. The more notable series produced for the station were as follows:
A simulcast of WAMC's The Round Table (Weekdays 9 a.m.–noon)
Saints Alive: A magazine show profiling Siena College athletics, hosted by Capital News 9 sports director Damian Andrew.
Hoop Games: A magazine show on University at Albany men's and women's basketball, hosted by UAlbany broadcaster and WNYT sports director Rodger Wyland.
Masterminds: A College Bowl formatted quiz show produced in conjunction with BOCES.
Tech Valley Report: A local business program focusing on the technology sector, produced in part with the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce.
In & Around Our Towns: A series of insertials that profile aspects of area towns which also airs as a monthly program.
Capital Tonight: TW3 airs replays of the week-in-review version of the Capital News 9-produced nightly political program. This arrangement dates back to when the show was a weekly program.
TW3 also served as the Albany-area affiliate of the SUNY-owned New York Network, the Educational-access television programming of which aired mostly during daytime hours though their Regents review specials often end up in primetime.
Sports coverage
TW3 produces and airs a sizeable slate of local sports coverage including high school athletics (football, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse), UAlbany and Siena athletics, Albany Devils hockey, Union College men's hockey and RPI Men's Hockey. Regionally and beyond, TW3 was the Albany affiliate for ESPN Plus coverage of Big East football and basketball as well as America East Conference network coverage alongside their UAlbany rights. New Jersey Nets games which are seen on WWOR in New York City air on TW3 as well. It also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Woman | Virtual Woman is a software program that has elements of a chatbot, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, a video game, and a virtual human. It claims to be the oldest form of virtual life in existence, as it has been distributed since the late 1980s. Recent releases of the program can update their intelligence by connecting online and downloading newer personalities and histories.
Program play
When Virtual Woman starts, the user is presented with a list of options and then may choose their Virtual Woman's ethnic type, personality, location, clothing, etc. or load a pre-built Virtual Woman from a Digital DNA file. Once the options are determined, the user is presented with a 3-D animated Virtual Woman of their selection and then can engage them in conversation, progressing in a manner similar to that of its predecessor, ELIZA and its successors, the chatbots. In most versions of Virtual Woman, this is done through the keyboard, but some versions also support voice input.
In popular culture
Virtual Woman's current publishing company, CyberPunk Software, claims that over one and a half million copies of Virtual Woman are in existence. Software sales and usage statistics from private companies are difficult to verify. WinSite, an independent Internet shareware distribution site that does publish public download counts, has for some time now listed some version of Virtual Woman in their top three shareware downloads of all time with well over seven hundred thousand downloads.
The Washington Post reported on April 6, 2007 that two bank security guards who had been distracted from their duties by playing Virtual Woman and then tried to cover up the fact that they allowed US$52,000 to be stolen. The bank manager refused to say whether they would be fired, but did say, "I don't think they are getting promoted."
Compadre
The group of beta testers and advisers for Virtual Woman are referred to as Compadre and have their own beta testing site and forum.
Criticisms
As Virtual Woman has developed the ability to conduct longer and more realistic interactions, particularly in recent beta releases, criticism has arisen that this may lead some users to social isolation, or to use the program as a substitute for real human interaction. However, these are criticisms that have been leveled at all video games and at the use of the Internet itself. A company representative, Nancy, indirectly responded to such accusations in an interview with ABC News reporter Mike Martinez in 1998 by stating that Virtual Woman played a valuable role by allowing some form of social interactions for people who may not normally be able to take part in them.
She cited a user who wrote to thank them because the program had relieved his boredom and isolation while he was recovering from a crippling accident in the hospital.
Release history
Versions of Virtual Woman with rough release dates and PC platforms for which they were designed:
Virtual Woman (????) (DOS)
Virtual Woma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Branch%20%28railway%20line%29 | The Ross Branch, officially known as the Hokitika Line since 2011, and previously as the Hokitika Industrial Line, is a branch line railway that forms part of New Zealand's national rail network. It is located in the Westland District of the South Island's West Coast region and opened to Hokitika in 1893. A further extension to Ross operated from 1909 until 1980.
Construction
The first line opened in the region was a bush tramway built to a gauge of 1,219mm (4 ft). It ran from Greymouth south to Paroa and opened in 1867. Ten years later, an extension inland to Kumara was opened, with the Taramakau River crossed by a cage suspended from a wire. Around this time, plans were formulated to replace the tramway with a railway and link Greymouth and Hokitika. Work began in 1879, but the economic conditions of the Long Depression brought construction to a halt the next year with only 5 km of track laid. Furthermore, the residents of Kumara, led by future Prime Minister Richard Seddon, were indignant that the railway was going to take a more coastal route than the tramway and thus bypass their town. In 1886, work restarted, and the continued attempts from Kumara residents to have the line's route changed failed to force an alteration to the plans. Work progressed steadily over the next few years, and on 18 December 1893, the complete line from Hokitika to Greymouth opened.
To the south of Hokitika was a thickly wooded country, and with the prospect of significant logging traffic, surveys for an extension of the railway were undertaken. In 1901, the government approved the construction of the extension, and preliminary work was well underway by August 1902. The first section, from Hokitika to Ruatapu, was opened on 9 November 1906, and the full line to Ross was completed on 1 April 1909.
Further expansion
Even before the line had been built, it was intended to be part of a main-trunk line from Nelson to Dunedin. This would involve linking Ross to the Otago Central Railway (which at the time terminated in Omakau) via the Haast Pass and Wānaka, and this proposal was viewed favourably by Richard Seddon during his Prime Ministership in the early 20th century as a tourist route.
Local demand for expansion of the line further south to Waitaha saw authorisation made for an extension of the line from Ross to the south-side of the Mikonui River however, in spite of a public pressure the earmarked funds were insufficient to construct the bridge and funding lapsed.
Despite the failure of the railway to progress beyond Ross, a number of bush tramways fanned out from the railway to provide more convenient access to sawmills and other industrial activity. The most notable of these was the one owned by Stuart and Chapman Ltd, which extended south from Ross for about 20 km to the Lake Ianthe area.
Stations
The following stations are or were located on the Ross Branch (in brackets is the distance from Greymouth):
Elmer Lane (1 km)
Wharemoa (2.25 km), also k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Sweetman | Daniel Albus Sweetman is the former co-host for Network Ten's national cartoon show Toasted TV. His father, John, works as a principal pastor while his mother, Debbie, is a piano teacher. He also has two younger siblings, Alex and Zac.
Sweetman has been playing instruments since the 3rd grade specializing in Guitar, Piano, Saxophone, Jazz Flute, Sitar and G chromatic kazoo. He has performed at the 2007 Australian Gospel Music Festival in Toowoomba, Queensland. Among his major influences are Bob Evans, Eminem, Bob Carlisle, The Kinks, a-ha, Ryan Adams, Rammstein, Ray Charles, Coldplay, Mozart, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tom Jones.
Sweetman has represented Queensland U/14s in Basketball and runs the Bridge to Brisbane every second year. Sweetman is the brainchild of the MS Brissie to the Bay ride and has received national recognition for this event. Many other charities have adopted this mode of fundraising since this ride commenced in 1990.
Prior to his 3-year stint on Ten's Toasted TV, Sweetman completed a Bachelor of Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology.
Sweetman has often stepped up to talk about bullying and other social issues such as child abuse. He is a Christian and is currently the senior pastor for the Life Point Church in Brisbane.
See also
Toasted TV
Pip Russell
References
External links
Toasted TV website
1985 births
Living people
Australian television personalities
Australian Christians
Queensland University of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Stewart%20Living%20Radio | Martha Stewart Living Radio was a 24-hour satellite radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 110 produced by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The station aired a variety of programming hosted by the company's team of experts, covering topics related to the domestic arts, including day and date reruns of the company's flagship television program Martha. In addition, Martha Stewart Living Radio also aired a weekday-evening talk show co-hosted by Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart, Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer.
Following the Sirius / XM merger, Martha Stewart Living Radio was added to XM on 2008-09-30 as part of its "Best of Sirius" package and broadcasts on channel 157, but was moved to channel 110 on May 4, 2011.
Martha Stewart Living Radio ceased production and broadcasting on February 18, 2013. Martha Steward hosted a 2-hour show on Sirius XM Stars channel 107 Mon-Fri from noon-2pm, called "Martha Live", from 2013 to 2015. Archives of broadcasts from the former Martha Stewart Living Radio can be accessed online and via SiriusXM radio app for smartphones.
Personalities
Jennifer Hutt
Marc Morrone
Christine Nagy
Alexis Stewart
Martha Stewart
Andrew Weil
See also
Martha Stewart
Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer
References
External links
Martha Stewart Living Radio
Martha Stewart Living Radio (XM Page)
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2006
Radio stations disestablished in 2013
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapInfo%20TAB%20format | The MapInfo TAB format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by MapInfo Corporation as a proprietary format.
File components
The basic file components for a MapInfo Professional data set relate to the two basic environments for working in MapInfo; "Browser View" and "Mapper View".
As with most other GIS packages, several files are required to allow the user to open a data set for viewing within MapInfo Professional. The most basic view would be the browser view only. This environment provides storage of attribute or object data and is represented like a spreadsheet. In this simplified scenario, no geographic information is available.
Minimum files required for the basic MapInfo Professional browser environment:
.TAB (The ASCII file that is the link between all other files and holds information about the type of data set file )
.DAT (The file that stores the attribute data. This is a dBase III DBF file)
As an alternative to the *.DAT file, MapInfo Professional can use other data formats such as, *.TXT, *.XLS *.WK*, *.MDB (and for each Microsoft Access format the software also makes another small file). MapInfo Professional still creates a .TAB file that contains information about the data set file, and the user interacts with the TAB file only.
There may also be a third file:
.IND (Optional index file for tabular data. This is present if any columns are indexed).
To view geographic information (the graphic representation of data) in MapInfo Professional, two additional files are required and added to the basic requirements for simply viewing data.
Minimum files required to view a map with the data previously discussed:
.MAP (Stores the graphic and geographic information needed to display each vector feature on a map)
.ID (Stores information linking graphic data to the database information. This contains a 4-byte integer index into the MAP file for each feature).
Each time a *.MAP file is saved by MapInfo Professional its objects are sorted into a storage sequence based on an R-tree spatial index. This optimises the read process of streaming data from disk to screen, at the cost of a relatively slow write process.
So the basic file set for viewing data and its graphic representation in vector form within MapInfo Professional requires a minimum of four files, normally the *.TAB, *.MAP, *.DAT and *.ID. If there is only textual information with no graphic objects, then a minimum of two files is needed: *.TAB and *.DAT.
While a data set is being edited by a user, temporary files are created by MapInfo Professional. The presence of any of these files locks the data set and prevents it from being edited by any other users. When the changes are saved, the temporary files are deleted by the software. In certain situations such as a power failure while editing is in progress, the temporary files may not be deleted and the changes will be lost. In this case the files should |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken%20Railway | The Brocken Railway () is one of three tourist metre gauge railways which together with the Harz Railway and Selke Valley Railway form the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways railway network in the Harz mountain range of Germany.
It runs from the station of Drei Annen Hohne at , where it joins the Harz Railway, via Schierke and the Bode River valley to the summit of the Brocken the highest mountain of the Harz at and part of the Harz National Park.
Route
The Brocken Railway leaves Drei Annen Hohne station (), like the Harz Railway, in a southwesterly direction. As it leaves the station, however, it crosses the road to Schierke/Elend and then enters the Harz National Park. It then heads west to Schierke station (688 m), where until 1963, there was a siding to Knaupsholz granite quarry at about the half-way point. The line then runs for some distance along the valley of the Cold Bode, which lies south and far below the line. Next the 971 m high mountain, the Wurmberg, appears on the left, and the train crosses the Brocken Road for the first time.
After a tight left hand bend before the Eckerloch Bridge and another right-hander, the line reaches Goetheweg station (956 m), which is now only used as a locomotive depot. Then the line runs directly to the Brocken, encircling it in a spiral 1 ½ times, during which it crosses the Brocken Road again, and then finally ends after 18.9 km at Brocken station (1,125 m).
History
As early as 1869 there was a design for the construction of a railway to the Brocken, but it was turned down. A resubmission in 1895 succeeded, however, and, on 30 May 1896, the construction permit was issued once Prince Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode had allocated the requisite land. The first section of the Brocken Railway, from Drei Annen Hohne to Schierke, was opened on 20 June 1898 and construction work for the remaining section up to the Brocken was begun on 4 October 1898. Initially services to the Brocken only ran between 30 April to 15 October; during the winter trains terminated at Schierke station. At the end of the Second World War significant damage occurred to the track, mainly through bombs and artillery shells, in the course of fighting in the Harz, which had been declared a fortress. The section to the Brocken was only reopened, therefore, in 1949.
The operator of the Brocken Railway until 5 August 1948 was the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company (NWE), after which it belonged from the Association of Publicly Owned Companies (VVB), part of Saxony-Anhalt's transport services, and, from 11 April 1949 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany. Only after the German winter sports championships in 1950, which took place in Schierke, did winter trains run up to the Brocken summit. A railway station at Eckerloch was also built for the championships which was closed again after they had ended. The location of the former sidings at Eckerloch station can still be easily seen.
Goods trains continued to work the Brocken Railwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Sweet%20%28programmer%29 | Michael R. Sweet is a computer scientist known for being the original developer of CUPS. He also developed flPhoto, was the original developer of the Gimp-Print software (now known as Gutenprint), and continues to develop codedoc, HTMLDOC, Mini-XML, PAPPL, and many other projects. Sweet has contributed to other free software projects such as FLTK, Newsd, and Samba. He co-owned and ran Easy Software Products (ESP), a small company that specialized in Internet and printing technologies and is now the Chief Technology Officer of Lakeside Robotics Corporation.
Career
Sweet graduated in Computer Science at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica-Rome. He then spent several years working for TASC and Dyncorp on real-time computer graphics. After releasing a freeware tool "topcl", in 1993 Sweet set up Easy Software Products (ESP) and developed the ESP Print software. He started work on the CUPS software in 1997 and in 1999 released it under the GNU GPL license along with the commercially licensed ESP Print Pro.
Apple included CUPS in its macOS operating system and in February 2007, they purchased the copyright to the CUPS source code which, unusually for an Open Source project, was wholly owned by ESP. Apple also hired Sweet to continue the development of CUPS.
While working for Apple, Sweet spent six years as the chair of the Printer Working Group (PWG).
Sweet left Apple in December 2019 to start Lakeside Robotics Corporation. Sweet continues to be secretary of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) working group, a designated expert for IPP and the Printer management information base (MIB) for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and is active in printing standards development within the PWG. He has written several books including Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems, OpenGL Superbible, and CUPS (Common Unix Printing System).
References
External links
Michael Sweet's homepage
Free software programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Forrester%20%28The%20Bold%20and%20the%20Beautiful%29 | Stephanie Forrester is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Stephanie is known for her marriages to the famed fashion designer, Eric Forrester, and for her rivalries with Brooke Logan, who has been involved with Eric and her sons, Ridge and Thorne, and with competing designer Sally Spectra. Both of these rivals later became two of her closest friends. She has been portrayed since the show's inception in 1987 by Emmy-winning actress Susan Flannery. Stephanie's lung cancer diagnosis played a central role in the series, and the character died of the disease on November 26, 2012.
Casting and creation
The role of Stephanie was created for actress Susan Seaforth Hayes (who played Julie Olson Williams on Days of Our Lives) but Hayes turned it down. The producers then contacted Hayes' former Days co-star, Susan Flannery, and she eventually won the role. Hayes did, however, appear in 2003 and 2005 as Joanna Manning, the mother of Lauren Fenmore. Jane Elliot had been contacted by producer Gail Kobe for the Stephanie role, but lost to Flannery at the behest of creator William J. Bell. Stephanie was played from the show's beginning in 1987 by Flannery, who also directed some of the show's episodes. In September 2007, Flannery asked for a medical leave, as she had fibromyalgia.
Flannery, along with John McCook as Eric Forrester, Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan and Ronn Moss as Ridge Forrester were referred to as the "core four", having been in the series from the start. However, on August 11, 2012, it was announced that after twenty-five years, Moss would be leaving the show, breaking up the core four, and leaving Flannery, Kelly Lang, and McCook as the sole remaining characters from the show's inception. On October 10, 2012, it was announced that Flannery had decided to quit the show also, after twenty-five years. During a 2012 interview with TV Guide, Bradley Bell announced that Stephanie's character would die of cancer. Bell said: "It is huge. And amazing. I knew this day was coming but I've been in denial about it. I've been loving and treasuring every one of these last few days we have with Susan." Flannery signed a contract that would allow the show to build a storyline surrounding her exit. Stephanie last appeared on-screen via flashback on November 26, 2012, and video recordings on December 7 and 10, 2012.
On February 9, 2018, Flannery returned for a cameo as the voice of Stephanie on Brooke and Ridge's wedding day.
Character development
Bradley Bell said that Stephanie: "has always been a woman of great strength and character." She is known for her long-running feud with Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang). However, in recent times, it has calmed down and they are extremely close. Bell has stated that: "Stephanie and Brooke are the true supercouple of B&B."
During a confrontation with Brooke, Stephanie collapsed. On September 24, 2010, after being taken to the hospital, Stepha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%3A%20Via%20Domus | Lost: Via Domus marketed as Lost: The Video Game in Europe) is a video game based on the ABC television series Lost. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows operating system, and the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles in February 2008, after the third season of the series. In Via Domus, players control Elliott Maslow, a survivor of the plane crash that Lost revolves around. Although Elliott is not featured in the television series, the game contains many characters from the show, as well as many locations from Losts mysterious island. Some of the original cast of the series provided the voices for their characters, and the Lost composer Michael Giacchino created the score for the game.
Plot
The game is split up into seven "episodes". Each episode was plotted by the show's executive producers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. The game's timeline coincides with the first 70 days portrayed in the television series.
Episode I – Force Majeure (Day 1)
Elliott Maslow wakes up on the Island after the crash of Flight 815 and starts to explore the jungle. He finds an unlucky passenger of Oceanic Flight 815 dead caught in some branches, and a mysterious woman standing beside the body. Elliott has flashes about a dead body and the woman's face. She disappears and reappears nearby.
Elliott follows her until he meets Kate. They have a brief conversation and when Kate gives him a bottle of water, Elliot has a flashback to when he is on the plane and sees the marshal and Kate in handcuffs, realizing that Kate was a fugitive, but promising to keep her secret. Elliott follows Walt's yellow Labrador, Vincent, to the crash site. Jack, who is seen trying to revive a man, tells Elliott to shut off the fuselage so that the engines do not explode. Later, Elliott tells Jack he cannot remember anything, which Jack diagnoses as amnesia. Jack recommends that he try to find any of his belongings. Kate tells him she found a backpack where they met and left it near the end of camp. Elliott gets attacked by a mysterious man, known as "Beady Eyes", who demands to know where the camera is and threatens to kill Elliott.
Episode II – A New Day (Day 2)
Elliott wakes up the next day and sees Jack, Kate and Charlie running from the Monster. Elliott talks to Kate about why Jack is guarding the only entrance to the jungle, and she tells him that Jack does not want anyone in the jungle after the encounter from the Monster. Elliott remembers to go to the cockpit when the flight attendant stowed away his camera. He thinks that the camera might restart his memory. Elliott sees the woman again at the edge of the beach. Elliott has a flashback to vacation in Thailand when the woman expresses her desire to explore a nearby island and tells a lie to steal a boat. He and the woman seem to be in a relationship. In the present, Elliott goes to Jack and tells a lie that Claire has fainted, and while Jack rushes to her, Elliott uses the opportunity to go to the cockpit. On th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF/EP | Tag Image File Format/Electronic Photography (TIFF/EP) is a digital image file format standard – ISO 12234-2, titled "Electronic still-picture imaging – Removable memory – Part 2: TIFF/EP image data format". This is different from the Tagged Image File Format, which is a standard administered by Adobe currently called "TIFF, Revision 6.0 Final – June 3, 1992".
The TIFF/EP standard is based on a subset of the Adobe TIFF standard, and a subset of the JEITA Exif standard, with some differences and extensions.
One of the uses of TIFF/EP is as a raw image format. A characteristic of most digital cameras (but excluding those using the Foveon X3 sensor or similar, hence especially Sigma cameras) is that they use a color filter array (CFA). Software processing a raw image format for such a camera needs information about the configuration of the color filter array, so that the raw image can identify separate data from the individual sites of the sensor. Ideally this information is held within the raw image file itself, and TIFF/EP uses the tags that begin "CFA", CFARepeatPatternDim and CFAPattern, which are only relevant for raw images.
This standard has not been adopted by most camera manufacturers – Exif/DCF is the current industry standard file organisation system which uses the Exchangeable image file format. However, TIFF/EP provided a basis for the raw image formats of a number of cameras. One example is Nikon's NEF raw file format, which uses the tag TIFF/EPStandardID (with value 1.0.0.0). Adobe's DNG (Digital Negative) raw file format was based on TIFF/EP, and the DNG specification states "DNG... is compatible with the TIFF-EP standard". Several cameras use DNG as their raw file format, so in that limited sense they use TIFF/EP too.
New Tags
The following new tags are defined in the TIFF/EP standard, all to be placed in the first TIFF Image File Directory (IFD)
Differences from TIFF and Exif
There are no major departures by the TIFF/EP standard from the TIFF standard, except that many of the TIFF tags are ignored.
The TIFF/EP standard does however have a few notable differences from the Exif standards:
All tags used by TIFF/EP which are defined by the Exif standard to reside within the Exif Sub-IFD now reside directly under the first (main) TIFF IFD.
The Exif IFD Sub-IFD, Interoperability Sub-IFD and the MakerNote Tag have all been omitted.
Unlike the TIFF 6.0 standard, the TIFF/EP standard defines a method of dealing with thumbnail images. This however is different from the method that is used in the Exif standard.
Several tags defined by the Exif standard have been re-defined in the TIFF/EP standard – see table below.
Compression
Images in TIFF/EP files may be stored in uncompressed form, or using JPEG baseline DCT-based lossy compression. TIFF/EP also allows usage of other compression methods, but TIFF/EP readers are not required to decompress these images. All TIFF/EP readers shall support the DCT (lossy) baseline version o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivalued%20dependency | In database theory, a multivalued dependency is a full constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation.
In contrast to the functional dependency, the multivalued dependency requires that certain tuples be present in a relation. Therefore, a multivalued dependency is a special case of tuple-generating dependency. The multivalued dependency plays a role in the 4NF database normalization.
A multivalued dependency is a special case of a join dependency, with only two sets of values involved, i.e. it is a binary join dependency.
A multivalued dependency exists when there are at least three attributes (like X,Y and Z) in a relation and for a value of X there is a well defined set of values of Y and a well defined set of values of Z. However, the set of values of Y is independent of set Z and vice versa.
Formal definition
The formal definition is as follows:
Let be a relation and let and be sets of attributes. The multivalued dependency (" multidetermines ") holds on if, for any legal relation and all pairs of tuples and in such that , there exist tuples and in such that:
Informally, if one denotes by the tuple having values for collectively equal to , then whenever the tuples and exist in , the tuples and should also exist in .
The multivalued dependency can be schematically depicted as shown below:
Example
Consider this example of a relation of university courses, the books recommended for the course, and the lecturers who will be teaching the course:
Because the lecturers attached to the course and the books attached to the course are independent of each other, this database design has a multivalued dependency; if we were to add a new book to the AHA course, we would have to add one record for each of the lecturers on that course, and vice versa.
Put formally, there are two multivalued dependencies in this relation: {course} {book} and equivalently {course} {lecturer}.
Databases with multivalued dependencies thus exhibit redundancy. In database normalization, fourth normal form requires that for every nontrivial multivalued dependency X Y, X is a superkey. A multivalued dependency X Y is trivial if Y is a subset of X, or if is the whole set of attributes of the relation.
Properties
If , Then
If and , Then
If and , then
The following also involve functional dependencies:
If , then
If and , then
The above rules are sound and complete.
A decomposition of R into (X, Y) and (X, R − Y) is a lossless-join decomposition if and only if X Y holds in R.
Every FD is an MVD because if X Y, then swapping Y's between tuples that agree on X doesn't create new tuples.
Splitting Doesn't Hold. Like FD's, we cannot generally split the left side of an MVD.But unlike FD's, we cannot split the right side either, sometimes you have to leave several attributes on the right side.
Closure of a set of MVDs is the set of all MVDs that can be inferred using the following rules (Armstrong's axioms):
Complementati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Sleepless" is the 4th episode of the second season and 28th overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on October 7, 1994. The episode was written by supervising producer Howard Gordon and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Sleepless" earned a Nielsen rating of 8.6 and was viewed by 8.2 million households. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder is assigned a new partner, Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea). The two investigate a case where doctors and marines who were part of a sleep deprivation experiment are being killed off.
"Sleepless" featured what would become the recurring character of Alex Krycek. Howard Gordon, the episode's writer, was inspired by various cases of insomnia. During the first season, Chris Carter had written a similar themed episode but stopped working on it when he became "unhappy" with the result.
Plot
In New York City, Dr. Saul Grissom finds a fire outside his apartment. Firefighters arrive and evacuate the building. One man who is being evacuated has a distinctive horizontal mark on the back of his neck; as he is being evacuated, he looks up at Grissom's apartment and smiles knowingly. The firefighters find no fire or any related damage, but discover Grissom's lifeless body in his apartment.
Fox Mulder anonymously receives a tape cassette of Grissom's 9-1-1 call. He tries to take the case, only to learn that another FBI agent, Alex Krycek, has opened it first. Deciding to leave Krycek out of the loop, Mulder calls Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and asks her to conduct Grissom's autopsy. He then heads to Grissom's clinic in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is confronted by an angered Krycek. The two travel back to Quantico to see Scully, who says that Grissom's body showed no signs of a fire, but yet seems to have biologically believed it was burning.
Meanwhile, in a Brooklyn apartment, Vietnam veteran Henry Willig is approached by a fellow ex-Marine, Augustus Cole. Suddenly a group of wounded Vietnamese appear and gun Willig down. Examining Willig's corpse, Mulder and Krycek find a scar on his neck and realize he was in a Marine reconnaissance unit stationed in Vietnam in 1970; he was one of only two survivors, the other being Cole. They head to the VHA hospital in New Jersey where they discover that Cole was discharged, despite the fact that his doctor does not remember doing so.
Mulder meets a mysterious informant named "X", who gives him information on a secret military project that Grissom performed where he eradicated the need for sleep through lobotomy. X provides him with the name of Salvatore Matola, a squad member who was mistakenly reported as killed in action.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCITA | DCITA may refer to:
Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20on%20demand | Music-on-demand (MOD) is a music recording industry certified multi-billion dollar music distribution & subscriber-based industry model conceived with the growth of two-way computing and telecommunications in the early 1990s originally architected by Dale Schalow. Primarily, high-quality music is made available to purchase, access by search, and play back instantly using software on set-top boxes (6MHz separated guard band channels), coaxial, fiber optics, cellular mobile devices, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, from an available distribution point, such as a computer host or server located at a telephone, cable TV & wireless data center facility.
History
Band uut Gruusbek!
In 1992, computer modem speeds were limited to less than 28 thousand bits per second (28 kbit/s), compared with uncompressed, pulse code modulated (PCM), music on compact disc (CD) that required 150 thousand bytes per second. As a result, additional bandwidth is required to accommodate delivering real-time audio at CD quality standards: 16-bit frame, 44.1 kHz sampling rate, stereophonic (two channel audio). This prompted telephony, CATV, cellular and satellite providers (Virginia Tech DoD cooperative) to consider changing standards, in terms of building higher capacity for existing telecommunications infrastructures and considering business use cases to offer supplemental, U.S. based private, affordable monthly on-demand service subscription plans with revenue split for compensation to music artists representation, licensing groups, telecommunications provider and music-on-demand solutions technology provider.
Early design, long range planning, and development of music-on-demand technology, in accordance with the laws of the United States such as the Home Recording Act of 1992, mechanical, copyright licensing include Access Music Network (AMN) by inventor & technology owner Dale Schalow. Mr. Schalow, in the early 1990s, was an independent audio engineer and programmer in Los Angeles, California, college educated in music industry with minor in keyboard, in the Shenandoah Valley, who helped record albums and music scores for David Bowie, Tin Machine, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Beastie Boys, Interscope, and Warner Brothers. A multiplexed music-on-demand model was deployed using PCM audio sampling devices, Apple IIci, the KERMIT, X-Modem, PCM CATV Guard-Band standards for computer file and sound data transfer protocols, and SCSI storage systems by Schalow to validate processing 16-bit multi-channel audio from point-to-point in a professional recording studio environment, including his own independently operated music composition studio and 38 Fresh Recordings. The model conceived was introduced by Schalow to Apple Computer (after Steve Jobs departed) in 1992 after he submitted an entry into the "I Changed the World" contest, essentially describing how an Apple computer helped shape and change the world forever based upon its usage. Apple acknowledged the "Accessib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20intrusion%20prevention%20system | In computing, a wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) is a network device that monitors the radio spectrum for the presence of unauthorized access points (intrusion detection), and can automatically take countermeasures (intrusion prevention).
Purpose
The primary purpose of a WIPS is to prevent unauthorized network access to local area networks and other information assets by wireless devices. These systems are typically implemented as an overlay to an existing Wireless LAN infrastructure, although they may be deployed standalone to enforce no-wireless policies within an organization. Some advanced wireless infrastructure has integrated WIPS capabilities.
Large organizations with many employees are particularly vulnerable to security breaches caused by rogue access points. If an employee (trusted entity) in a location brings in an easily available wireless router, the entire network can be exposed to anyone within range of the signals.
In July 2009, the PCI Security Standards Council published wireless guidelines for PCI DSS recommending the use of WIPS to automate wireless scanning for large organizations.
Intrusion detection
A wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) monitors the radio spectrum for the presence of unauthorized, rogue access points and the use of wireless attack tools. The system monitors the radio spectrum used by wireless LANs, and immediately alerts a systems administrator whenever a rogue access point is detected. Conventionally it is achieved by comparing the MAC address of the participating wireless devices.
Rogue devices can spoof MAC address of an authorized network device as their own. New research uses fingerprinting approach to weed out devices with spoofed MAC addresses. The idea is to compare the unique signatures exhibited by the signals emitted by each wireless device against the known signatures of pre-authorized, known wireless devices.
Intrusion prevention
In addition to intrusion detection, a WIPS also includes features that prevent against the threat automatically. For automatic
prevention, it is required that the WIPS is able to accurately detect and automatically classify a threat.
The following types of threats can be prevented by a good WIPS:
Rogue access points – WIPS should understand the difference between rogue APs and external (neighbor's) APs
Mis-configured AP
Client mis-association
Unauthorized association
Man-in-the-middle attack
Ad hoc networks
MAC spoofing
Honeypot / evil twin attack
Denial-of-service attack
Implementation
WIPS configurations consist of three components:
Sensors — These devices contain antennas and radios that scan the wireless spectrum for packets and are installed throughout areas to be protected
Server — The WIPS server centrally analyzes packets captured by sensors
Console — The console provides the primary user interface into the system for administration and reporting
A simple intrusion detection system can be a single computer, connec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Fabry | Robert Samuel Fabry, as a student at the University of Chicago worked on COMIT II and MADBUG, an interactive debugger for MAD both on CTSS.
Later while a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, conceived of the idea of obtaining DARPA funding for a radically improved version of AT&T Unix and started the Computer Systems Research Group.
See also
Unix File System
References
External links
Bob Fabry, PhD, N6EK - Heard Island Expedition 1997
BSD people
Living people
University of California, Berkeley faculty
1940 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run%20chart | A run chart, also known as a run-sequence plot is a graph that displays observed data in a time sequence. Often, the data displayed represent some aspect of the output or performance of a manufacturing or other business process. It is therefore a form of line chart.
Overview
Run sequence plots are an easy way to graphically summarize a univariate data set. A common assumption of univariate data sets is that they behave like:
random drawings;
from a fixed distribution;
with a common location; and
with a common scale.
With run sequence plots, shifts in location and scale are typically quite evident. Also, outliers can easily be detected.
Examples could include measurements of the fill level of bottles filled at a bottling plant or the water temperature of a dish-washing machine each time it is run. Time is generally represented on the horizontal (x) axis and the property under observation on the vertical (y) axis. Often, some measure of central tendency (mean or median) of the data is indicated by a horizontal reference line.
Run charts are analyzed to find anomalies in data that suggest shifts in a process over time or special factors that may be influencing the variability of a process. Typical factors considered include unusually long "runs" of data points above or below the average line, the total number of such runs in the data set, and unusually long series of consecutive increases or decreases.
Run charts are similar in some regards to the control charts used in statistical process control, but do not show the control limits of the process. They are therefore simpler to produce, but do not allow for the full range of analytic techniques supported by control charts.
References
Further reading
External links
Run-Sequence Plot
Statistical charts and diagrams
Quality control tools
Technical communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM%20usage%20fees | ATM usage fees are the fees that many banks and interbank networks charge for the use of their automated teller machines (ATMs). In some cases, these fees are assessed solely for non-members of the bank; in other cases, they apply to all users. There is usually a higher fee for use of White-label ATMs rather than bank owned ATMs.
Two types of consumer charges exist: the surcharge and the foreign fee. The surcharge fee may be imposed by the ATM owner (the bank or Independent ATM deployer) and will be charged to the consumer using the machine. The foreign fee or transaction fee is a fee charged by the card issuer (financial institution, stored value provider) to the consumer for conducting a transaction outside of their network of machines in the case of a financial institution.
Oceania
Australia
A number of ATM networks are operated in Australia, the largest are: Commonwealth Bank / Bankwest network with 3,400 machines, Westpac / St George Bank / BankSA / Bank of Melbourne with 2,800 machines, ANZ with 2,300 machines, the rediATM network with 1,800 machines, and National Australia Bank with 900 machines, The ATMs of CommBank, Westpac, ANZ, NAB and others are free to use. ING Australia, which does not operate its own ATMs nor have a branch network, reimburses any ATM fees of customers who deposit A$1,000 per month as part of a loyalty program. Australians made more than 250 million ATM withdrawals from banks other than their own in 2016.
In September 2017, the "Big Four" banks announced they would be abolishing non-customer ATM usage fees. The Commonwealth Bank was the first to make the announcement, shortly followed by the three other major banks; ANZ, NAB and Westpac. The rediATM network charges up to A$2.50 for domestic cards and A$5.00 for international cards.
Americas
Brazil
In Brazil, banks such as Caixa Econômica Federal, Banco do Brasil, Banco Bradesco, Banco Itaú and Banco Santander operate their own nationwide ATM networks. These ATMs can be found in many locations such as the bank branch itself, kiosks spread throughout a city or even supermarkets, gas stations, shopping malls and post offices, making it very convenient for the customer to make withdrawals and check balances without incurring any fees. There are also no denial fees (i.e. when trying to withdrawal more money than what's available in an account) as Brazilian businesses cannot charge for services not rendered. However, fees are assessed if there is excessive usage of the ATMs (i.e. one makes more withdrawals than what's allowed by their monthly maintenance fee). Fees and limits can be checked at the Brazilian Banking Federation (Febraban) website .
Brazilian banks have several partnerships in place in order to extend their coverage:
Correspondente bancário (banking agent) - a partnership with an establishment, who then use a small wireless ATM (much like a wireless EFTPOS) to process transactions for the bank, such as payments, deposits, and withdrawals. Use of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20O.C.%20characters | The O.C. is an American Television series created by Josh Schwartz for the FOX Network in 2003. Schwartz serves as executive producer while also writing and directing for the show, including the premieres and finales of all seasons.
The show began with seven main characters which eventually became 9 by the end of the first season. Since then, characters from that first season have left the show, with new main characters having been both written in and out of the series. Originally, it follows the life of Ryan Atwood, a troubled but tough young man from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as outsiders in the high-class world of Newport Beach. Ryan and Seth spend much time navigating their relationships with girl-next-door Marissa Cooper and Seth's childhood crush Summer Roberts.
Main characters
The following is a list of series regulars from The O.C..
Sandy Cohen
Portrayed by Peter Gallagher, an idealistic public defender who takes in Ryan Atwood in the pilot episode, much to the dismay of his wife, Kirsten. He is the husband of Kirsten, the father of Seth Cohen, and the legal guardian of Ryan Atwood. Although he lives in a large upper-class house, his politics are left-leaning and open-minded, causing friction between himself and the community. Peter Gallagher described the character as a "leftie Jewish guy from the Bronx". Sandy deals with many conflicts throughout the series, such as trying to gain acceptance from his father-in-law while being financially supported by his wife, and raising two teenagers in a (sometimes) corrupt environment.
Kirsten Cohen
Portrayed by Kelly Rowan, she is the wife of Sandy Cohen, the mother of Seth, adoptive mother of Ryan, and former CFO of her father's (Caleb Nichol) real estate company, the Newport Group. Before she met Sandy she dated and grew up with Jimmy Cooper father of Marissa Cooper, with whom she remains friends. Kirsten was very suspicious of Sandy's decision to bring Ryan into her home in the pilot episode, but in the third episode, she and Seth take Ryan back home after he is beaten in the juvenile detention center. By the end of the episode, Ryan's biological mother, Dawn Atwood, asks Kirsten to adopt Ryan, figuring he is better off in Newport than returning to Chino. She has had trouble with alcohol, which was triggered by the failing deteriorating relationship between her and her father, and had an abortion early in her life, which belonged to Jimmy. Kirsten continues to open a dating service with Julie, and becomes a mother of three at the end of the fourth season. The character's politics and lifestyle are more conservative than her husband's. Kelly Rowan described the character as seemingly more "together" than herself during an interview.
Ryan Atwood
Portrayed by Ben McKenzie, a troubled teenager from Chino who is brought into the privile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyd | Honeyd is an open source computer program created by Niels Provos that allows a user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network. These virtual hosts can be configured to mimic several different types of servers, allowing the user to simulate an infinite number of computer network configurations. Honeyd is primarily used in the field of computer security.
Primary Applications
Distraction
Honeyd is used primarily for two purposes. Using the software's ability to mimic many different network hosts at once (up to 65536 hosts at once), Honeyd can act as a distraction to potential hackers. If a network only has 3 real servers, but one server is running Honeyd, the network will appear running hundreds of servers to a hacker. The hacker will then have to do more research (possibly through social engineering) in order to determine which servers are real, or the hacker may get caught in a honeypot. Either way, the hacker will be slowed down or possibly caught.
Honeypot
Honeyd gets its name for its ability to be used as a honeypot. On a network, all normal traffic should be to and from valid servers only. Thus, a network administrator running Honeyd can monitor their logs to see if there is any traffic going to the virtual hosts set up by Honeyd. Any traffic going to these virtual servers can be considered highly suspicious. The network administrator can then take preventative action, perhaps by blocking the suspicious IP address or by further monitoring the network for suspicious traffic.
References
External links
"Deploying Honeypots with Honeyd"
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba%20algorithm | The Karatsuba algorithm is a fast multiplication algorithm. It was discovered by Anatoly Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962. It is a divide-and-conquer algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to three multiplications of n/2-digit numbers and, by repeating this reduction, to at most single-digit multiplications. It is therefore asymptotically faster than the traditional algorithm, which performs single-digit products.
The Karatsuba algorithm was the first multiplication algorithm asymptotically faster than the quadratic "grade school" algorithm.
The Toom–Cook algorithm (1963) is a faster generalization of Karatsuba's method, and the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm (1971) is even faster, for sufficiently large n.
History
The standard procedure for multiplication of two n-digit numbers requires a number of elementary operations proportional to , or in big-O notation. Andrey Kolmogorov conjectured that the traditional algorithm was asymptotically optimal, meaning that any algorithm for that task would require elementary operations.
In 1960, Kolmogorov organized a seminar on mathematical problems in cybernetics at the Moscow State University, where he stated the conjecture and other problems in the complexity of computation. Within a week, Karatsuba, then a 23-year-old student, found an algorithm that multiplies two n-digit numbers in elementary steps, thus disproving the conjecture. Kolmogorov was very excited about the discovery; he communicated it at the next meeting of the seminar, which was then terminated. Kolmogorov gave some lectures on the Karatsuba result at conferences all over the world (see, for example, "Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 1962", pp. 351–356, and also "6 Lectures delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm, 1962") and published the method in 1962, in the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The article had been written by Kolmogorov and contained two results on multiplication, Karatsuba's algorithm and a separate result by Yuri Ofman; it listed "A. Karatsuba and Yu. Ofman" as the authors. Karatsuba only became aware of the paper when he received the reprints from the publisher.
Algorithm
Basic step
The basic principle of Karatsuba's algorithm is divide-and-conquer, using a formula that allows one to compute the product of two large numbers and using three multiplications of smaller numbers, each with about half as many digits as or , plus some additions and digit shifts. This basic step is, in fact, a generalization of a similar complex multiplication algorithm, where the imaginary unit is replaced by a power of the base.
Let and be represented as -digit strings in some base . For any positive integer less than , one can write the two given numbers as
where and are less than . The product is then
where
These formulae require four multiplications and were known to Charles Babbage. Karatsuba observed that can be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20regional%20atmospheric%20modeling%20system | The Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (MRAMS) is a computer program that simulates the circulations of the Martian atmosphere at regional and local scales. MRAMS, developed by Scot Rafkin and Timothy Michaels, is derived from the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) developed by William R. Cotton and Roger A. Pielke to study atmospheric circulations on the Earth.
Key features of MRAMS include a non-hydrostatic, fully compressible dynamics, explicit bin dust, water, and carbon dioxide ice atmospheric physics model, and a fully prognostic regolith model that includes carbon dioxide deposition and sublimation. Several Mars exploration projects, including the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Phoenix Scout Mission, and the Mars Science Laboratory have used MRAMS to study a variety of atmospheric circulations.
The MRAMS operates at the mesoscale and microscale, modeling and simulating the Martian atmosphere. The smaller scale modeling of the MRAMS gives it higher resolution data points and models over complex terrain and topography. It is able to identify topography driven flows like katabatic and anabatic winds through valleys and mountains that produce changes in atmospheric circulation.
Structure
Dynamic Core
The dynamic core's role is to solve fluid mechanic equations related to atmospheric dynamics. The equations in the dynamic core of the MRAMS are based on primitive grid-volume Reynolds-averaged equations. The related equations are meant to solve for momentum, thermodynamics, tracers, and conservation of mass. The MRAMS dynamical core integrates equations for momentum, thermodynamics (atmosphere-surface heat exchange), tracers, and conservation of mass.
Parameterizations
The MRAMS dynamical core was developed from RAMS and has been changed excessively to account for the large difference in atmospheres between Mars and Earth. Some MRAMS models parameterize numerous features including dust and dust lifting, cloud microphysics, radiative transfer, and steep topography.
Grid
The MRAMS operates on the mesoscale and therefore is a regional tool not global, making it accurate for data collection around complex terrain and changing topography. The computational grid types developed for the MRAMS are of the Arakawa C-type. The grid spacing is irregular and requires the use of scaling. The high resolution of the MRAMS stems from the use of the nested two-way grid system. The two-way grid system incorporates a parent grid that establishes initial boundary layers to be used and by the finer grid for accurate data collection.
References
External links
MRAMS homepage.
Atmosphere of Mars
Physics software
Numerical climate and weather models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Brown%20%28blogger%29 | Ben Brown (born January 25, 1978, in San Francisco, California, United States) is a co-founder of the social networking website Consumating. Raised in Derwood, Maryland, he attended Colonel Zadok A. Magruder High School, he began attending the University of Maryland in 1996 but did not complete his degree in English and instead dropped out in 2000 in order to pursue personal interests.
Publishing
Ben has been a co-founder of several zines including FlabJab, TEETH, and Über. His personal website http://benbrown.com/ has been in existence since 1997 and has at times served as an outlet for his creative works of fiction, as a personal blog, and also as a connecting reference for his software and literary publications.
In 2001 he co-founded an "ultra-micro-mini" publishing company with James Stegall named So New Media and used it to create and publish the literary magazine Words! Words! Words! as well as the public performance venue Bookpunk.
Internet
In 1999, Brown co-founded the Deepleap website which provided an extensible utility for searching and interacting with various websites, social bookmarking, and eventually user-generated XML feeds for creating custom web applications. The site shut down in late 2000 for financial reasons.
In 2001, he moved to New Zealand where he was on the team that created an online tool for the certification of milk and dairy exports for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. While in New Zealand, he was also hired to write episodes of a popular children's television show, Squirt.
In 2002, he and Adam Mathes created the Personals sub-section on their zine Über, which served as the initial foundation for and was eventually renamed to Consumating.
Ben served as founding editor for the Austinist social event blog beginning in early 2005. In late December of that year, he announced the CNET purchase of Consumating, ceased work with Austinist, and moved to San Francisco to work on Consumating with Josh Goldberg.
On April 3, 2007, Ben announced he was leaving CNET and Consumating to work on a next-generation community site with extreme programmer Robert Swirsky.
In November 2018, Ben announced he had sold XOXCO, the Howdy chatbot, and the Botkit open source framework to Microsoft.
See also
Blogging
Notes and references
External links
http://ilovebenbrown.com/ - Ben Brown's current blog
https://www.flickr.com/groups/ilovebenbrown/ - Ben Brown fan group on Flickr
Ben physically assembled each book in the printing of:
American bloggers
1978 births
Living people
People from Derwood, Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Web%20Semantics | The Journal of Web Semantics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers knowledge technologies, ontology, software agents, databases and the semantic grid, information retrieval, human language technology, data mining, and semantic web development. The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.897.
References
External links
Preprint Server, News and Announcements
Computer science journals
Knowledge management journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 2003
Quarterly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYME | TYME ("Take Your Money Everywhere") is an ATM/interbank network in Florida, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It was one of the first shared EFT networks in the country.
Residents commonly referred to ATMs as a "TYME machine", which resulted in confusion when Wisconsinites visiting unfamiliar areas would ask the locals where they could find a "time machine".
History
In 1975, the TYME network was created by an agreement among First Wisconsin National Bank, Marshall & Ilsley, Marine Bank of Milwaukee, and Midland National Bank.
In 2002, the TYME network merged with the Pulse network, taking the Pulse brand name in 2004 and retiring the old TYME identity.
As of the 2010s, the combined Pulse/TYME network included about 81,000 ATMs and 457,000 merchant point-of-sale locations. For the purposes of familiarity, some bank locations retained the former slot for the TYME signage and use a replacement slide with "ATM" rendered in the Neil Bold font used by TYME.
In 2022, Wisconsin-based Landmark Credit Union convinced Pulse to allow the use of the old TYME logo and brand identity for marketing their next-generation ATM machines.
See also
ATM usage fees
References
Bibliography
External links
Pulse EFT Association Official Website
Financial services companies established in 1975
Banking terms
Interbank networks
1975 establishments in the United States
Financial services companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%20Beach%20Public%20Library | The Huntington Beach Public Library (HBPL) is a library system located in Huntington Beach, California. It offers online databases, print and electronic books and magazines, children's programs, computer lab, DVDs, CDs, and audiobooks for anyone with a Huntington Beach Library card. Library cards are free to California residents. Free wireless access is available at all locations without a card.
The library is financed and governed by the City of Huntington Beach, California. Volunteers also subsidize the library system by selling used books, operating a gift shop, and running charitable events. In 2015, volunteers donated 57,731 hours towards the library. The first library in Huntington Beach opened in 1909 and has since evolved to a five-location library system: Central, Main Street, Oak View, Helen Murphy, and Banning.
Central Library and branches
The Central Library resides in a park and features an open and light-filled floor plan, spacious reading decks, a public computer lab, and indoor fountains including a spiral ramp water feature. The Dion Neutra-designed facility opened in 1975 and was expanded by Huntington Beach architects Anthony and Langford in 1994. The Central library has seven meeting rooms available for rental to help support the library system. Local business and residents have held special events such as seminars, classes, weddings, auditions, jazz concerts and film festivals at the central location. Additionally, several community organizations utilize Central: Literacy Volunteers of America help adults learn to read; the Huntington Beach Art League hosts art shows; the Orange County, California Genealogical Society houses a depository of records; and the Huntington Beach Playhouse produces several shows a year in the library theater. The Central library is located at 7111 Talbert Ave. The size of the Central Library is as of 2009.
Main Street Branch
Main Street Branch served as the city's main library from 1951 up until April 1975 when the Central Library was finished. The architectural firm of McLellan, MacDonald and Marcwith designed the modernist Main Street Branch. The building encompasses . At the time it was built it was part of the Civic Center. Located 5 blocks up from the Huntington Beach pier at 525 Main Street, this branch is a pleasant oasis in the heart of downtown Huntington Beach. In 2013 the Main Street Branch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Oak View Branch
Oak View Branch Library is the newest branch library, having opened in 1995 on 17251 Oak Lane. Oak View is named for the adjacent Oak View elementary school and has a popular homework club program. The branch serves a largely Hispanic area of the city and offers a sizable Spanish language collection. The library is in area.
Helen Murphy Branch
Helen Murphy Branch is the smallest branch library and is located in Marina Park, adjacent to Marina High School. The branch located on 15882 Graham Street, was renamed in memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky%20bit | In computing, a bucky bit is a bit in a binary representation of a character that is set by pressing on a keyboard modifier key other than the shift key.
Overview
Setting a bucky bit changes the output character. A bucky bit allows the user to type a wider variety of characters and commands while maintaining a reasonable number of keys on a keyboard.
Some of the keys corresponding to bucky bits on modern keyboards are the alt key, control key, meta key, command key (⌘), super key, and option key.
In ASCII, the bucky bit is usually the 8th bit (also known as meta bit). However, in older character representations wider than 8 bits, more high bits could be used as bucky bits. In the modern X Window System, bucky bits are bits 18–23 of an event code.
History
The term was invented at Stanford and is based on Niklaus Wirth's nickname "Bucky". Niklaus Wirth was first to suggest an EDIT key to set the eighth bit of a 7-bit ASCII character sometime in 1964 or 1965.
Bucky bits were used heavily on keyboards designed by Tom Knight at MIT, including space-cadet keyboards used on LISP machines. These could contain as many as seven modifier keys: SHIFT, CTRL, META, HYPER, SUPER, TOP, and GREEK (also referred to as FRONT).
See also
Knight keyboard
References
External links
MIT Scheme reference
Character encoding
Computer keys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boo%20Crew | The Boo Crew (originally known as Thugaboo) is a series of children's animated television specials created by the Wayans Brothers. It was first aired on Nicktoons Network on August 11, 2006. To date, there have been two The Boo Crew specials. As of the year of 2017, both specials have been uploaded on YouTube by Shawn Wayans in the channel entitled "The Boo Crew TV" with the theme music omitted as the series was simply re-titled "The Boo Crew".
Plot
The show centers on the adventures of a group of neighborhood kids of diverse ethnic cultures known as "The Boo Crew" with D-Roc as the leader, often helping each other out and going to serious situations and learning a lesson in morals. The show features an abstract voice cast starring most of the Wayans family with the animation having some similarity to other black-centered shows such as The Proud Family. The show has a structure combination of African-American cultural endurance and adoration with ending music videos similar to Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and the kid-centered oriented program synopsis on young love and romance commonly found in the classic Peanuts cartoon specials.
Characters
The Boo Crew
D-Roc: (voiced by George Gore II) The leader of the Boo Crew who wishes to become a successful rapper. Without his hat or bandana, it is revealed that he has a large, balding head. He likes to create get-rich-quick schemes. A running gag in the show is that when he raps, he will forget a word that rhymes with one of his lines, and an angry off-screen listener will throw a tomato or pie in his face before shouting "It's (rhyming word), STUPID!" and driving off. And has a crush on Diane Johnson
Dee-Dee: (voiced by Countess Vaughn) D-Roc's loud-mouthed sister who aspires to be the first female president. She has a crush on DJ.
Darren "DJ" Jobeley III: (voiced by Michael Rapaport) A white boy who acts gangster with his friends, but sophisticated with his parents. As his name implies, he is a mixmaster and carries his own turntable and boombox. He claims to be mixed and believes that he is half-black, often getting offended by how black people were and are treated.
Lissette: (voiced by Linda Villalobos) A Latina girl who wants to become a singer and has a crush on D-Roc. She pushes her youngest brother, Luiz, around in a stroller. She is a skilled master at jump rope. Slim likes her, but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
Slim: (voiced by Shawn Wayans) An overweight boy, despite his name, who likes eating and speaks in a slurred voice. He has a crush on Lissette.
Dirty: (voiced by Marlon Wayans) A filthy boy who speaks in a gibberish language, often translated by the other gang members. The only thing that is clean about him are the sneakers he wears. He is a master at beatboxing, often doing it for the kids' raps.
Money: (voiced by Aries Spears) D-Roc's pet dog who can talk. He is seen wearing a baseball cap and red sneakers. When D-Roc gives him dog food, he ships it to Africa, where it i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPHAEROS | SOPHAEROS is a computer code, used by the AECL and French Nuclear program to simulate the transfer of fission products in the reactor chamber. It models fission product behaviour using a set of aerosol dynamic rules, and is used by AECL in fuel channel safety analyses.
References
Adrian V. Gheorghe and Ralf Mock. Risk Engineering: Bridging Risk Analysis With Stakeholders Values. Springer, Jan 1, 1999. pg. 72
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi%20Doi | is the owner of an English-language anime and voice actor information website, which was established on June 10, 1994.
Personal website and voice actor database
Born in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Doi got his undergraduate degree in Applied Math at University of Chicago in 1985, and his master's degree in Information and Computer Science at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1987. Following college, he worked as a software engineer where he has worked on operating systems. In an interview with Sailor Week, Doi said that the anime that turned him into an otaku fan was Kimagure Orange Road and Sailor Moon. When he was watching, he noticed the voices of many of the characters sounded familiar, and started comparing cast listings from the closing credits. He also learned that the voice actors sing songs, have radio shows and other things. He started collecting the data and created the seiyuu database. On June 10, 1994, he made his website public. Doi said that back then net access meant working in a science or math job, or majoring in that at school.
Doi's personal website contains over 94,000 individual pages, and he is considered to be one of the best known fans of anime and voice acting in the English-speaking world. In addition to personal information, his views on various anime and manga series, and information on his hobbies, Doi's site contains a massive "Voice Actor Database". In 2001, the database contained over 50,000 entries, and it is considered by anime fans to be a definitive source of Japanese voice acting information. In 1998, Mary Grigsby called two of his sites "two of the more informative World Wide Web URL addresses", and used his site as a reference.
Hitoshi Doi was interviewed on CBC's Undercurrents, about the otaku culture.
Doi was a guest of honor at the 1999 Anime North convention in Toronto.
See also
References
External links
1963 births
Living people
Anime and manga critics
People from Chigasaki, Kanagawa
University of Chicago alumni
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
Writers from Kanagawa Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Inglis | John Chris Inglis (born October 29, 1954), generally known as Chris Inglis, is an American government official who served as the first National Cyber Director. Inglis is also a former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency. On April 12, 2021 President Joe Biden nominated Inglis to serve as the first National Cyber Director. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on June 17, 2021. He was sworn into office on July 11, 2021. He resigned from the position on February 15, 2023.
Early life and education
Inglis was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 29 October 1954. He graduated from Andover High School, Linthicum in 1972. Inglis is a Distinguished Eagle Scout.
After high school, Inglis attended the United States Air Force Academy, graduating in 1976 as a Distinguished Graduate with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering Mechanics.
1996 – Graduate of Air War College, USAF Squadron Officers School, Air Command and Staff College
1990 – Graduated George Washington University, Professional Degree Computer Science
1984 – Graduated Johns Hopkins University, M.S. in Computer Science
1977 – Graduated Columbia University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Inglis' training includes undergraduate and Instructor Pilot Training, and he also attended the Air War College where he was designated Outstanding Graduate.
Career
Assignments
2015– – Robert and Mary M. Looker Professor in Cyber Security Studies, United States Naval Academy
2006–2014 – Deputy Director of the National Security Agency
2003–2006 – Special United States Liaison Officer – London
2001–2003 – Signals Intelligence Deputy Director for Analysis and Production
1999–2001 – Chief, Office of China and Korea, Operations Directorate
1998–1999 – Deputy Chief, Office of China and Korea, Operations Directorate
1997 – Promoted to the Senior Executive Service
1996–1997 – Senior Operations Officer, National Security Operations Center
1995–1996 – Deputy Chief, NSA Office of Encryption Policy
1992–1995 – Participant in Senior Cryptologic Executive Development Program Management and staff tours in the Directorates of Operations, Information Systems Security and Plans and Programs.
1991–1992 – Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
1986–1991 – Information Security Analyst and Manager up through division level within NSA's Information Systems Security Directorate.
1983–1986 – Mechanical Engineering professor at US Naval Academy
Significant awards
2014 – President's National Security Medal
2014 – Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal
2009 – Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service
2006 – U.S. Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
2004 – Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service
2002 – Exceptional Civilian Service Award
2000 – Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service
1992 – Department of the Army – Outstanding Civilian Service Award
Exter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Vitale | Thomas P. Vitale is a film and television writer/producer and network executive. As a cable television network executive, he was Executive Vice President of Programming & Original Movies for Syfy Channel and Chiller Network, where he was responsible for the acquisition and scheduling of all programming, as well as the development and commissioning of original movies and specials, for both networks. As a writer/producer, he has worked on numerous movies and TV shows, most in the sci-fi and horror genres.
Biography
Thomas P. Vitale is a television and film executive, writer, producer, and actor specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror/supernatural series and movies. Vitale joined Syfy (then “Sci-Fi Channel”) in 1993 where he rose to the rank of Executive Vice President of Programming & Original Movies for Syfy and Chiller Network, and was responsible for the acquisition and scheduling of all programming, as well as the development and commissioning of original movies, documentary specials, and co-production series, both scripted and reality, for both networks. While at the network, Vitale made Syfy into one of the largest producers of original movies on television when he created Syfy’s original Saturday movie franchise, “The Most Dangerous Night of Television.” The over 350 original movies made during Tom’s tenure include buzzy and unique titles like Mansquito, Ice Twisters, Roger Corman’s Sharktopus, Stan Lee’s Harpies and Lightspeed, and the social media sensations Sharknado 1 & 2. In the series world at Syfy, Vitale developed, commissioned, and supervised many original shows such as Z Nation, Dark Matter, Flash Gordon, Painkiller Jane, Lexx, the animated comedy Tripping the Rift, and the critically-acclaimed Farscape from Jim Henson Productions. Vitale was also responsible for bringing the immensely successful Stargate franchise to Syfy and worked on everything at the network from Battlestar Galactica to Stephen Spielberg Presents Taken to Eureka to Ghost Hunters to Paranormal Witness.
After leaving Syfy and Chiller in 2015, Vitale started his own independent production, distribution, and consulting company, Vital Signs Entertainment, where he has executive produced on the horror anthology series, Slasher, for Netflix and the Shudder streaming service. He was also writer and executive producer on Pandora, an original scripted science fiction series for the CW and Sony International. He was co-writer and producer on the film You Might Be the Killer, the first film ever developed from a Twitter conversation, which played in over 18 film festivals around the world. In 2023, Vitale produced and acted in the film 57 Seconds, starring Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson. 57 Seconds is based on the acclaimed short story by E. C. Tubb, "Lucifer" (also known as "Fallen Angel"). Vitale is also a producer and an interview subject of the documentary 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever, which premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain and subsequ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail2web | Mail2web.com is an e-mail retrieval service "from any computer anywhere in the world" started in 1997 by SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc., a private company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was conceptualized and developed by Tony Yustein, first CEO and cofounder of the company. The service functions as an email application, such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook, but from a web interface.
Mail2web is used by over sixteen million users monthly in over 200 countries. It also provides a Microsoft Exchange service entitled 'mail2web.com Mobile Email' with mobile device capabilities, and a chat service, connecting users to MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, and ICQ Instant Messaging accounts.
Mail2web provides other paid Microsoft Exchange services, some of which have BlackBerry support.
References
External links
Webmail
Internet technology companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyForge | RubyForge was a collaborative software development management system dedicated to projects related to the Ruby programming language. It was started in 2003 by Ruby Central in an effort to help the Ruby community by providing a home for open source Ruby projects.
In February 2014 it hosted 9,603 projects and had 103,899 registered users.
Shutting Down
On 10 Nov 2013, Evan Phoenix announced, without explanation, that RubyForge would be shutting down and unavailable as of May 15 2014.
See also
Comparison of source code hosting facilities
References
External links
Official website
Ruby (programming language)
Community websites
Project hosting websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20Quadro%20Plex | The Nvidia Quadro Plex is an external graphics processing unit (Visual Computing System) designed for large-scale 3D visualizations. The system consists of a box containing a pair of high-end Nvidia Quadro graphics cards featuring a variety of external video connectors. A special PCI Express card is installed in the host computer, and the two are connected by VHDCI cables.
Specifications
The Nvidia Quadro Plex system supports up to four GPUs per unit. It connects to the host PC via a small form factor PCI Express card connected to the host, and a Nvidia Quadro Plex Interconnect Cable. The system is housed in an external case that is approximately 9.49 inches in height, 5.94 inches in width, and 20.55 inches in depth and weighs about 19 pounds. The system relies heavily on Nvidia's SLI technology.
Targeted audiences
The Plex is aimed at large CGI animation companies, such as Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. This product is one of several professional graphics solutions on the market today, along with ATI's FireGL and Matrox's professional graphics cards.
See also
Sun Visualization System - uses Nvidia Quadro Plex for 3D rendering and graphics acceleration
SGI Virtu VS product line - supports Quadro Plex
External links
Nvidia.com Quadro Plex VCS
Quadro Plex Comparison Chart
RTX 3090 - NVIDIA GeForce Graphics
Third party information on the Quadro Plex:
Gizmodo: Nvidia Announces Quadro Plex, Monster Graphics for Pros
Graphics hardware
Quadro Plex
Visual effects
Multi-monitor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-medoids | The -medoids problem is a clustering problem similar to -means. The name was coined by Leonard Kaufman and Peter J. Rousseeuw with their PAM (Partitioning Around Medoids) algorithm. Both the -means and -medoids algorithms are partitional (breaking the dataset up into groups) and attempt to minimize the distance between points labeled to be in a cluster and a point designated as the center of that cluster. In contrast to the -means algorithm, -medoids chooses actual data points as centers (medoids or exemplars), and thereby allows for greater interpretability of the cluster centers than in -means, where the center of a cluster is not necessarily one of the input data points (it is the average between the points in the cluster). Furthermore, -medoids can be used with arbitrary dissimilarity measures, whereas -means generally requires Euclidean distance for efficient solutions. Because -medoids minimizes a sum of pairwise dissimilarities instead of a sum of squared Euclidean distances, it is more robust to noise and outliers than -means.
-medoids is a classical partitioning technique of clustering that splits the data set of objects into clusters, where the number of clusters assumed known a priori (which implies that the programmer must specify k before the execution of a -medoids algorithm). The "goodness" of the given value of can be assessed with methods such as the silhouette method.
The medoid of a cluster is defined as the object in the cluster whose average dissimilarity to all the objects in the cluster is minimal, that is, it is a most centrally located point in the cluster.
Algorithms
In general, the -medoids problem is NP-hard to solve exactly. As such, many heuristic solutions exist.
Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM)
PAM uses a greedy search which may not find the optimum solution, but it is faster than exhaustive search. It works as follows:
(BUILD) Initialize: greedily select of the data points as the medoids to minimize the cost
Associate each data point to the closest medoid.
(SWAP) While the cost of the configuration decreases:
For each medoid , and for each non-medoid data point :
Consider the swap of and , and compute the cost change
If the cost change is the current best, remember this m and o combination
Perform the best swap of and , if it decreases the cost function. Otherwise, the algorithm terminates.
The runtime complexity of the original PAM algorithm per iteration of (3) is , by only computing the change in cost. A naive implementation recomputing the entire cost function every time will be in . This runtime can be further reduced to , by splitting the cost change into three parts such that computations can be shared or avoided (FastPAM). The runtime can further be reduced by eagerly performing swaps (FasterPAM), at which point a random initialization becomes a viable alternative to BUILD.
Alternating Optimization
Algorithms other than PAM have also been suggested in the literature, including the f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brynglas%20Tunnels | The Brynglas Tunnels carry the M4 under Brynglas Hill in Newport, Wales. The tunnels are the first and only twin–bored tunnels in the UK motorway network.
The tunnels and adjacent M4 motorway Usk bridge were originally planned by Newport Corporation in August 1959 in a plan submitted to the Ministry of Transport. Work started on the £3m tunnels project - led by engineer Sir Owen Williams on 10 September 1962. Both structures were complete and open to traffic on 5 May 1967. During the construction several houses on Brynglas Road (where the modern Newport Lodge Hotel now stands) had to be demolished due to structural weaknesses caused by the tunnelling and prompting questions in the House of Commons.
Traffic congestion
Almost as soon as the M4 Newport bypass (junctions 24-28) had opened, the traffic levels had grown to such a degree that the road had to be widened to three lanes in each direction. This was finished in 1982 but with the exception of the tunnels and Usk bridge which remained as dual two-lane sections (Junctions 25-26).
M4 sliproads at Junction 25 (Caerleon Road) are diverted to reduce traffic through the tunnels. M4 Westbound traffic joining at Junction 25 is diverted via Junction 25A/A4042 (Heidenheim Drive)/A4051 (Malpas Road) to Junction 26. Similarly eastbound traffic wishing to exit at Junction 25 is diverted from Junction 26 via the A4051/A4042/Junction 25A. This adds to congestion on Malpas Road and other local roads near Newport city centre at peak times.
The tunnels remain a bottleneck on the motorway. Partly due to regular tailbacks at the tunnels, a variable speed limit is in place between junctions 24 and 28.
A new M4 relief road south of Newport was proposed, but on 15 July 2009 the scheme was dropped
by the National Assembly for Wales. Hence the A48 Southern Distributor Road, a two-lane dual carriageway connecting M4 junction 24 to junction 28, remains the alternative route.
In March 2012 the National Assembly for Wales published options for consultation including the option to bore further tunnels.
Fire
On 26 July 2011, a lorry fire caused both tunnels to be completely closed.
The articulated lorry, belonging to Hingley Transport, caught fire upon entering the west-bound tunnel entrance, but due to the nature of the damage to the lorry it was unable to exit the tunnel. Attempts by the driver to disconnect the cargo-section from the lorry cab failed, as the fire intensified tyres on the vehicle started to explode and the lorry driver was driven to safety by motorist Ashley Hall who had stopped further back towards the entrance of the tunnel to block and prevent vehicles behind from entering the smoke-filled tunnel, before rapidly accelerating into the tunnel to pick up the driver and escape the blaze and subsequent explosions. There were no fatalities recorded but the closure caused a considerable amount of traffic delay in both directions of travel.
Notes
References
External links
The Motorway Archive - M4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startalk%20%28Philippine%20talk%20show%29 | Startalk, formerly called as Startalk: The Only Showbiz Authority and Startalk TX is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Boy Abunda, Kris Aquino and Lolit Solis, it premiered on October 8, 1995, replacing Show & Tell. The show is the longest-running entertainment news and talk show in Philippine television. The show concluded on September 12, 2015, with a total of 1,024 episodes. Solis, Butch Francisco, Joey de Leon, Ricky Lo and Heart Evangelista served as the final hosts. It was replaced by CelebriTV in its timeslot.
Overview
Startalk premiered on October 8, 1995, and was filmed at the Fernandina Suites. Boy Abunda, Kris Aquino and Lolit Solis served as the hosts. Aquino left the show in 1996 and Dawn Zulueta later joined as a host. In 1997, Zulueta quit the show and Rosanna Roces served as her replacement. The show also featured Steve, Fayatollah and Pepita as segment hosts of T! The Tigbak Authority. Steve also served as a regular voice-over for the show. The show later added new segments such as Da Who, Startalk True Stories and Alok Bati. On June 5, 1999, Abunda departed the show and was replaced by Butch Francisco. In June 2004, Roces left the show.
Lorna Tolentino and Joey de Leon became guest co-hosts until they were promoted as regular hosts. In 2008, Tolentino left the show and Ricky Lo of The Philippine Star served as her replacement.
In April 2010, the show was retitled as Startalk TX. In 2013, Heart Evangelista joined as a host. The show's 1,000th episode aired on March 21, 2015, while its 1,024th episode served as the final episode. It featured a lookback on the show with clips of the previously aired episodes and a segment featuring Abunda.
Hosts
Lolit Solis
Boy Abunda
Kris Aquino
Dawn Zulueta
Rosanna Roces
Butch Francisco
Lorna Tolentino
Joey de Leon
Ricky Lo
Heart Evangelista
Segment hosts
Pepita
Fayatollah
Steve
Chariz Solomon
Jan Manual
Vaness del Moral
Alyssa Alano
Nina Kodaka
Nathalie Hart
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Startalk scored a 12.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
1995 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Entertainment news shows in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2O%3A%20Just%20Add%20Water | H2O: Just Add Water, also known as H2O, is an Australian fantasy children and teen drama TV show created by Jonathan M. Shiff. It first screened on Australia's Network Ten and as of 2009 ran in syndication in over 120 countries with a worldwide audience of more than 250 million. It was filmed on location at Sea World and other locations on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The show revolves around three teenage girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist: they become mermaids with unique, supernatural powers over water.
Only two series with a total of 52 episodes were originally planned, but due to popular demand, a third series was filmed. Series one premiered in July 2006, followed by series two in September 2007. Series three first aired in the United Kingdom in October 2009, with the Australian premiere occurring in May 2010.
Plot
Rikki Chadwick, Emma Gilbert, and Cleo Sertori are three teenage Australian girls who find themselves stranded on the mysterious Mako Island, where they end up in a pool under a dormant volcano just as a full moon passes above them, bathing the pool in light. The girls are rescued and brought back to shore, only to discover something strange. Ten seconds after coming into contact with water, the girls transform into mermaids. After further experimentation, the girls also discover they have supernatural powers over water. The trio enlist the help of Cleo's friend Lewis McCartney to help them keep their secret and find out more about it.
Everyday situations, such as bathing and dealing with rainy weather, become tricky as the girls struggle with their newfound abilities, which come with many advantages and disadvantages, while also trying to keep them a secret from everyone else, including their families. They soon adapt to their new abilities and lifestyles.
Series two introduces Charlotte Watsford, a rival to Cleo, for dating Lewis shortly after Cleo had broken up with him. She gains mermaid powers and becomes the main antagonist of series two. She has all three of the mermaids' powers. In the end, Charlotte loses both her powers and Lewis.
Series three sees the departure of Emma, who has left to travel the world with her parents. A new character, Bella Hartley, is introduced and it is discovered that she has been a mermaid since the age of nine. Rikki and Cleo become friends with Bella, but are soon beset by a mysterious tentacle of water with a connection to Mako Island. A new boy, Will Benjamin, also arrives and becomes friends with the trio when he discovers that they are mermaids. The girls learn that Earth is in the path of a comet that could destroy the planet. They try to think of a plan to stop the catastrophe.
Cast
Main
Cariba Heine as Rikki, the new girl in town at the start of the show, who tends to be aloof and rebellious. Her power is the ability to control heat in water, ranging from warming to boiling, which eventually grows to allow her to control fire and lightning. Heine ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchess | Microchess, sometimes written as MicroChess, is a chess program developed by Peter R. Jennings and released in 1976 by his publishing company Micro-Ware for the MOS Technology KIM-1 microcomputer. The game plays chess against the human player at a beginner level, with the player entering moves via a keyboard and the computer responding, both in a custom chess notation. The game was ported to many other microcomputers such as the TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET and Atari 8-bit family computers by Micro-Ware and its successor company Personal Software/VisiCorp between 1976 and 1980, with later versions featuring graphics. A dedicated chess computer version of the game, ChessMate, was produced by Commodore International in 1978, and the game engine was licensed to Novag for its dedicated Chess Champion Mk II in 1979.
The game was created by Jennings over the course of around six months in 1976. He created it with the aim of making a product that could be widely sold, rather than as the most advanced chess engine possible. It was possibly the first computer game to be sold commercially, the first commercial chess program for microcomputers, and the first software package to sell 50,000 copies. It ultimately sold over a million copies across all of its versions by the mid-1980s, and variants were sold into the early 1990s. Despite being commercially successful, Microchess was later regarded by critics as a poor chess game.
Gameplay
Microchess is a chess program which will play chess against the player at a low level. The original versions of the game did not have a video output; the player would enter their moves via the keyboard using a custom notation and the program would respond with its own in the same notation. The program could run at three levels of speed: responding instantly, responding after five to ten seconds, or taking long enough that a full game could take an hour. It looks up to three moves ahead when planning a move—three ply—and has been estimated to play at around Elo 1100, or around a beginner level. Later versions of the game for newer microcomputers had visual outputs of the chess board.
Development
Microchess was developed by Peter R. Jennings in 1976. He had wanted to create a chess program for many years after reading a Scientific American article about it, and after seeing an article about the new MOS Technology KIM-1 microcomputer decided to buy one and try to write his own program. Jennings wrote it with the intention of creating a game to sell, first for the KIM-1 and then for other microcomputers, rather than to create the best chess engine possible.
Jennings began work on the game in May 1976, and had a program that would play chess against a human player within weeks. He then spent six months iteratively expanding how well the computer could understand moves and strategies in chess, working within the limited one kilobyte of memory of the computer. The KIM-1 in 1976 did not have a video display or full keyboard, so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity%20%28programming%29 | In object oriented programming, viscosity refers to the ease at which a developer can add design-preserving code to a system. If it is easier to add a hack than it is to add code that fits into the program's design, then the system has high viscosity. If it is easy to add new code to the program while maintaining the design, then the program has low viscosity.
The name is a metaphor for viscosity in liquids.
See also
Viscosity, a measurement of resistance to change for the design of notations.
References
Object-oriented programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Shell | Donald L. Shell (March 1, 1924 – November 2, 2015) was an American computer scientist who designed the Shellsort sorting algorithm. He acquired his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1959, and published the Shellsort algorithm in the Communications of the ACM in July that same year.
Career
Donald Shell acquired a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology which is now Michigan Technological University. This was a four-year degree which he acquired in three years with the highest GPA given in the college's history. A record which persisted for more than 30 years. After acquiring his degree he went into the Army Corps of Engineers, and from there to the Philippines to help repair damages during World War II. When he returned after the war, he married Alice McCullough and returned to Michigan Technological University, where he taught mathematics. In 1949 they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, for Don to work for General Electric's engines division, where he developed a convergence algorithm and wrote a program to perform performance cycle calculations for GE's first aircraft jet engines. He also attended the University of Cincinnati, where in 1951 he acquired a M.S. in mathematics and, in 1959, acquired his Ph.D. in Mathematics. In July of that year he published the Shellsort algorithm and "The Share 709 System: A Cooperative Effort". In 1958, he and A. Spitzbart had published "A Chebycheff Fitting Criterion".
Although he is most widely known for his Shellsort algorithm, his Ph.D. is also considered by some to be the first major investigation of the convergence of infinite exponentials, with some very deep results of the convergence into the complex plane. This area has grown considerably and research related to it is now investigated in what is more commonly called tetration. In October 1962 he wrote "On the Convergence of Infinite Exponentials" in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.
After acquiring his Ph.D., Shell moved to Schenectady, New York, to become Manager of Engineering for General Electric's new Information Services Department, the first commercial enterprise to link computers together using the client–server architecture. This architecture is the fundamental design for the Internet. He worked with John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz to commercialize the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1963.
In 1971 Shell wrote "Optimizing the Polyphase Sort" in the Communications of the ACM, and in 1972 he joined with a colleague, Ralph Mosher (who designed the walking truck), to start a business, Robotics Inc., where he was the General Manager and chief software engineer. Four years later, in 1976, they sold the company and Shell returned to General Electric Information Services Corporation.
In 1984 he retired and moved to North Carolina.
Marriages and family
Donald Shell married Alice McCullough after returning from World War II. They had two sons. Alice became ill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKC | FKC may refer to:
Fehérvár KC, a Hungarian handball team
Fellow of King's College
Folkestone Central railway station, in England
Fuze Keeping Clock, a fire control computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Braunohler | Kurt Braunohler (born February 22, 1976) is an American comedian and co-host of the podcast Bananas on Exactly Right Podcast Network. He was previously the host of IFC's comedy game show Bunk and has appeared on Comedy Central, This American Life, and Radiolab. Braunohler is a frequent collaborator with Kristen Schaal, with whom he created the web series Penelope Princess of Pets.
Career
Braunohler's first major project was the performance project Kurtbot. This was a series of street comedy sketches along with an accompanying website. He had more success with the street theatre project Chengwin. His work with the group earned a number of awards, including being voted by the Village Voice as "Best Hilarious Insane Guerilla Theatre" in 2008.
In 2004, Braunohler began the Neutrino Video Projects. His work with the group garnered widespread praise, and in 2005 the group traveled to the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, as well as to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. The Neutrino Video Projects were awarded "Improv Ensemble of the Year" by the Chicago Improv Festival in 2004.
In 2005, Braunohler began co-hosting Hot Tub with Kristen Schaal, which was voted "Best Variety Show of 2005" by Time Out NYs reader poll.
In 2017, Braunohler had a supporting role in the widely acclaimed movie The Big Sick.
Standup
Braunohler was named one of Variety's "Top 10 Comics to Watch" in 2012, as well as Time Out NY'''s "50 Funniest New Yorkers". Among other venues Braunohler has performed at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, The Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and Chicago, New York Comedy Festival (named a "Comic to Watch"), SXSW, Bonnaroo, All Tomorrow's Parties, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (IF.Comedy Award nominee), Melbourne Comedy Festival (Barry Award Winner), the HBO Vegas Comedy Festival, the Chicago Improv Festival ("Improv Ensemble of the Year" Award Winner).
Braunohler's debut comedy album, How Do I Land? was released by Kill Rock Stars on August 20, 2013. The album was recorded live on February 13, 2013, in Seattle, Washington, and February 14, 2013, in Portland, Oregon. In March 2013, Braunohler completed a successful $4,000 Kickstarter campaign by hiring a professional pilot to skywrite "How Do I Land?" in Southern California, in promotion of the album.
Radio and podcasts
In February 2012, Braunohler was featured episode 457 of This American Life, "What I Did For Love," where he discussed his experience bringing the concept of rumspringa to his monogamous relationship of 13 years. He and his comedy partner Kristen Schaal also appeared on the "Loops" episode of Radiolab in October 2011, and in 2009 the two hosted "High Five! with Kurt and Kristen" on the Sirius XM Satellite Radio Raw Dog Channel. Braunohler also hosted The K Ohle with Kurt Braunohler podcast on the Nerdist network, as well as its spin-off, Emotional Hangs, with co-host Joe DeRosa. He has since become the co-host of Bananas, a podcast on E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7600 | 7600 may refer to:
The year 7600, in 8th millennium.
7600 Vacchi, a main belt asteroid
Remington Model 7600 rifle
Technology
CDC 7600, a supercomputer
Cisco 7600, a network router
NVIDIA GeForce 7600, a computer graphics card series
Nokia 7600, a mobile phone released in 2003
Power Macintosh 7600
RTM build number of Windows 7 operating system
Transport
Tokyu 7600 series, a Japanese train series
Aviation Transponder code for Lost Communications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIMEM.SYS | HIMEM.SYS is a DOS device driver which allows DOS programs to store data in extended memory according to the Extended Memory Specification (XMS). The memory beyond the first 1 MB of address space is required by Windows 9x/Me in order to load; therefore, these versions of Microsoft Windows require HIMEM.SYS to be loaded to be able to run.
HIMEM.SYS was first included with Windows 2.1 (1988).
In MS-DOS 5.0 (1991) and later, HIMEM.SYS can be used to load the DOS kernel code into the High Memory Area (HMA) to increase the amount of available conventional memory by specifying DOS=HIGH in CONFIG.SYS.
In DR DOS 5.0 (1990) and 6.0 (1991), the driver is named HIDOS.SYS rather than HIMEM.SYS, like the corresponding DCONFIG.SYS or CONFIG.SYS directive HIDOS=ON.
In FreeDOS, the matching file is named HIMEM.EXE and can be loaded from the FreeDOS configuration file named FDCONFIG.SYS or CONFIG.SYS.
In Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x, there is also a command-line loadable version of HIMEM.SYS called XMSMMGR.EXE. It can load extended memory services after the system boots into the command prompt. This allows Windows Setup to load even if HIMEM.SYS is not loaded.
History
The major version number of HIMEM.SYS indicates the Extended Memory Specification (XMS) version compatibility. e.g., HIMEM.SYS 3.07 is compatible with XMS version 3.0.
See also
Conventional memory
Extended memory
High memory area
Upper memory area
EMM386
Memory management
LOADALL
References
DOS files
DOS drivers
DOS memory management
Windows files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Cyber%20Condition%20Zebra | Operation Cyber Condition Zebra is a network operations campaign conducted by the United States Navy to deny network intrusion and establish an adequate computer network defense posture to provide defense-in-depth and warfighting capability. The operation specifies that perimeter security for legacy networks will deny intrusions and data infiltration, that firewalls will be maintained through risk assessment and formal adjudication of legacy application waiver requests, and that legacy networks will be shut down as quickly a possible after enterprise networks (such as the NMCI) are established.
Its name is an analogue of the term "material condition Zebra," which is a standard configuration of equipment systems set on a warship to provide the greatest degree of subdivision and tightness to the ship. It is set immediately and automatically when general quarters is sounded.
References
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%3A%20The%20Untold%20Stories | FBI: The Untold Stories is a police drama anthology series which was aired in the United States by ABC from 1991 to 1993.
Overview
Unlike ABC's The F.B.I., which was one of the network's major successes of the late 1960s and early 1970s, F.B.I.:The Untold Stories had no ongoing characters or storylines; each week's show was dramatized by different actors. Also unlike the earlier program, actual news and surveillance footage was incorporated into the program to add authenticity. One similarity with the predecessor program was that this one was also based on actual cases handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice, and was made with the Bureau's full cooperation and involvement. Providing continuity from week to week was the ongoing narration of actor Pernell Roberts.
Cases
The Hijacking of TWA Flight 541
Claude Dallas
The Murder of Judge John Wood
Suzie Jaeger Kidnapping
Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing
Alan Berg Case
Buried Alive
The Kidnapping of Tina Risico
Tony Kiritsis
Cooper/McCoy Hijacking
Conner and Dougherty
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
External links
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1990s American crime drama television series
1991 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings
1990s American anthology television series
Television series by Universal Television
Television series featuring reenactments
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody%20Wolf | , released in Europe as Battle Rangers, is a run and gun arcade game released by Data East in 1988. Two commandos take on an entire army with many weapons, and defeat bosses to advance levels.
Plot
Snake and Eagle, two commandos of the Bloody Wolf special forces, receive instructions from their commander to destroy the enemy's weapon base and rescue any allies who have been reported missing in action, as well as the President. In the Battle Rangers version, their commander is a Secretary of State and the instructions are simply "save the top urgent crisis of our nation."
In the end, the Colonel tells Snake and Eagle that their next mission is to rescue the President once again; however, after having decided to "party it up tonight", the men decline to take the mission and abandon the Colonel.
Gameplay
The game uses a side-view and employs a multi-directional attack method similar to many other arcade games of the run and gun genre, including Guerilla War, Ikari Warriors, Mercs and Data East's own Heavy Barrel.
Allowing up to two players to play simultaneously, once players create their own codename using up to three initials, they receive a quick mission briefing before the mission ensues. Players automatically begin the game with a machine gun containing unlimited ammo and a knife used exclusively for close quarters combat. The mission's levels are separated into "scenes" and usually consist of one or more players running through various terrain, attacking hordes of enemy soldiers, and reaching the end of the stage to battle a boss. Players have the option to rescue various hostages scattered throughout the levels to obtain new weapons or items.
Ports
The game was ported to the PC Engine (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America) by Data East in 1989, and published a year later in the US by NEC. The PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 version retains much of the same gameplay elements, level designs, enemies, and items as the arcade version.
Differences between the Arcade and PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 versions
Player names: Both versions allow the players to create their own codenames as a name entry. However, the default codenames of the two commandos in the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 version are Eagle and Snake, respectively.
Numbers of players: The arcade version allows up to two players to play whereas its PC Engine/Turbografx-16 counterpart offers only a single-player mode with the option to play as either Snake or Eagle.
Levels: The PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 version contains one additional level, making its total to eight.
Mission objectives: The mission briefing in the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 port differs slightly by attempting to provide some type of backstory and changing the scenario. The player receives information that the enemy has kidnapped the President and the mission is to rescue him.
Dialogue: Interaction between the player and hostages generates much more dialogue in the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 version. There is also an added pol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZBB-TV | DZBB-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the GMA network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent alongside GTV flagship DWDB-TV (channel 27). Both stations share studios at the GMA Network Center, EDSA corner Timog Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, while DZBB-TV's hybrid analog and digital transmitting facilities are located at the GMA Tower of Power, Tandang Sora Avenue, Barangay Culiat, Quezon City (sharing facilities with sister stations GTV 27 and Barangay LS 97.1).
History
DZBB-TV traces its history to Metro Manila radio station DZBB, owned by Loreto F. de Hemedes, Inc., later renamed Republic Broadcasting System, Inc. of Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart. After the success of its radio station, the company ventured into television. On October 29, 1961, RBS Channel 7, the fifth television station in the Philippines (after ABS Channel 3 and CBN Channel 9, which were owned by ABS-CBN Corporation which now owns Channel 2 in Manila, IBC Channel 13 by the (Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation), and ABC Channel 5 by the (Associated Broadcasting Corporation). The television network started its operations with just 25 employees (other stations had 200), a surplus transmitter, two old cameras and no lighting equipment and props.
The station was always in the red and Stewart was about to give up, when the program "Dancetime with Chito" suddenly became an instant hit and advertising revenues started to pour in. Canned programs from the United States further sustained its success.
In 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines and the station was forced to shut down, though it only lasted for more than 3 months, and returned on the air in late-December of that year; the station was blocktimed by the National Media Production Center (NMPC) with limited three-month permits. In 1974, RBS, including its TV and radio stations, were sold to a triumvirate composed of Felipe Gozon, Gilberto Duavit Sr., and Menardo Jimenez who introduced a programming concept catering to the new audience. The new management acquired new equipment and introduced new programs and a new name, GMA (Greater Manila Area) Radio-Television Arts with its new identity, "Where You Belong" in 1978.
In 1983, DZBB-TV broadcast the funeral of Senator Ninoy Aquino. At that time, it was a small item due to immediate censorship. But, the station bravely broadcast the coverage with a limit of 10 seconds on free TV. In response, President Ferdinand Marcos issued a warning to the station or else they will share the same fate of other networks, especially ABS-CBN.
When democracy in the Philippines was restored in the People Power Revolution in 1986, other television stations began to air, some with their original owners. The political instability of the country also added to the station's burden, when soldiers stormed into its studios for two days as part of a coup attempt to topple then P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWWX-TV | DWWX-TV was the flagship VHF station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN. The station was owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation with its studio and transmitter located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Sgt. Esguerra Avenue corner Mother Ignacia Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. It was the first and oldest television station in the Philippines. The station served as the originating channel of the network's national television programming, which broadcast to all its regional stations.
Beginning May 5, 2020, the station's broadcasting activities, together with that of its sister television and radio stations, were suspended following the cease-and-desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission due to the expiration of ABS-CBN's legislative license to operate.
History
Beginnings (1953–1972)
DWWX-TV traces its history to the first Philippine television station DZAQ-TV, owned by Bolinao Electronics Corporation. In 1949, James Lindenberg, owner of BEC, became the first applicant for a congressional license to establish a television station in the Philippines. His application was granted on June 14, 1950. Because of the strict import controls and the lack of raw materials needed to open a TV station during those days, Lindenberg branched to radio broadcasting instead.
Judge Antonio Quirino, brother of then President Elpidio Quirino, also tried to apply for a license but was denied. He later acquired shares of stock from BEC, gained controlling interest and renamed the company from BEC to Alto Broadcasting System (ABS).
DZAQ-TV Channel 3 began commercial television operations on October 23, 1953, the first fully licensed commercial television station in the Philippines. The first program that aired was a garden party at the Quirino residence in Sitio Alto, San Juan, Rizal. After the premiere telecast, the station followed a four-hour-a-day schedule, from six to ten in the evening.
The first program broadcast at 6:00 PST during the sign-on/opening ceremony with the playing of the national anthem of the Philippines "O, Sintang Lupa", followed by an announcement of that day's programs and the commencement of ABS television programming.
On June 16, 1955, Republic Act No. 1343 signed by President Ramon Magsaysay granted Manila Chronicle owners Eugenio Lopez, Sr. and former Vice President Fernando Lopez, a radio-TV franchise from the Congress and immediately established Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN) on September 24, 1956, which initially focused only on radio broadcasting. On February 24, 1957, Lopez called Judge Quirino to his house for breakfast and ABS was bought under a contract written on a table napkin. The corporate name was reverted to Bolinao Electronics Corporation immediately after the purchase by the Lopezes.
With the establishment by CBN of DZXL-TV Channel 9 on April 19 (or July), 1958, the Lopez brothers controlled both television channels in the archipelago, and plans were underway to build a new headquart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%20%281967%20TV%20series%29 | Hunter was an Australian espionage adventure television series screened by the Nine Network from Tuesday 4 July 1967 to March 1969. The series was created by Ian Jones and produced by Crawford Productions.
Cast
Tony Ward as John Hunter
Gerard Kennedy as Kragg
Nigel Lovell as Charles Blake
Fernande Glyn as Eve Halliday
Anne Morgan as Julie Coleman
Gordon Timmins as Doug Marshall
Ronald Morse as Mr Smith
Jack Hume as Vargon
Rod Mullinar as Gil Martin
Anne Charleston as Patricia French
Gerda Nicolson as Marion Tolhurst
Kevin Miles
Maurie Fields
Carmen Duncan
Jill Forster
Patricia Smith as Georgie Savage
Kevin Sanders as title sequence narrator
Series synopsis
The title character, John Hunter, was an agent working for SCU3, a sub-division of the ASIO-like COSMIC (Commonwealth Office of Security & Military Intelligence Co-ordination). While it is mentioned in episodes that "Hunter" is a status level for agents (similar to the "Double-O" status of James Bond), with the title character being "Hunter 5"; he gives "Hunter" as his surname both in current scenes and flashback sequences. He was played by Tony Ward.
However, he was quickly overshadowed by the show's main antagonist, Kragg, an agent employed by the Australian operation of the CUCW (Council for the Unification of the Communist World). Played by Gerard Kennedy, Kragg became the show's breakout character, with Kennedy winning a TV Week Logie Award for Best New Talent for his portrayal of the character.
SCU3 was the Melbourne-based arm of COSMIC, headed by Charles Blake (Nigel Lovell), with offices in the former National Mutual building or St Kilda Road. Blake's secretary was Eve Halliday (played by Fernande Glyn), who also acted as a field agent. Halliday was replaced for the second season by the recurring character of Julie Coleman (played by Anne Morgan), with real-life police detective Gordon Timmins appearing as agent Doug Marshall (Timmins played a character of the same name in Homicide, on which he also acted as police advisor, although the two roles were not the same character).
The CUCW or simply the Council was overseen by Mr. Smith (Ronald Morse), with sinister overseas superiors appearing from time to time, notably the bearded Vargon (Jack Hume).
Production
Screenplays were written by Ian Jones, Terry Stapleton and Howard Griffiths, who reputedly had a background in British military intelligence before emigrating. The line producer for the majority of the show's run was Allan Trevor, who also appeared occasionally as an actor. Most episodes were directed by Ted Gregory, a longtime Crawford studio director, with Jones supervising a lean and mobile film unit.
The series became extremely popular rating in the top-ten most popular programs in Australia for 1967, and had a run of 65 one-hour episodes. It also achieved a limited number of international sales. It was produced in black and white, with interior scenes recorded on videotape in the GTV-9 Richmond stud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voom%20HD%20Networks | Voom HD Networks is a suite of 25 original high-definition television channels owned by AMC Networks. The channels were produced in Crystal Clear Hi-Definition with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and were the largest suite of HD channels in the world as part of a 15-year agreement between AMC Networks and Dish Network.
History
The Voom HD Networks were originally part of the Voom DTH satellite platform launched by Cablevision and were operated by its subsidiary, Rainbow DBS Company. The original Voom DTH was primed as a competitor to the established DirecTV and Dish Network systems, with its goal to become the first television provider with a lineup consisting mainly of high-definition TV networks. As part of this endeavor, Voom launched in 2003 twenty-one original channels that were completely in HD.
Service was broadcast via the Rainbow-1 communications satellite, which was built by Lockheed Martin and launched on July 17, 2003. It continues to operate from the 61.5°W orbital location, over the Atlantic Ocean.
Voom used the same unique 8PSK Turbo-coded modulation scheme as Dish Network but with a symbol rate of 22 MSPs 5/6 FEC versus Dish Network's 21.5 MSPS 2/3 FEC resulting in a data rate of 50.5 Mbit/s per transponder versus Dish Network's 41 Mpbs. Despite the same modulation scheme, Voom and Dish Network were incompatible given Voom's choice of conditional access and the system's standard. Dish Network uses Nagravision and DVB whereas Voom used Motorola's Digicipher II scrambling and system information.
Voom broadcasts their MPEG-2 video in either low-rate standard definition or medium-rate high definition. Many of their channels were encoded as 1440x1080i versus the 1920x1080i the ATSC system was designed for. Additionally, the video bit rate was often far below the 15 Mbit/s rates chosen for ATSC with its multiplex rate of 19.3 Mbit/s. This resulted in poor video quality both in SD and HD. Dolby AC-3 was the audio standard like all Digicipher-based networks.
In early 2005, Voom's parent company Cablevision announced it would seek "strategic alternatives" for Rainbow Media Enterprises. This business unit contained its Voom satellite service, leaving the future of Voom in question. Cablevision's board proceeded to shut the Voom satellite service down: The satellite service ceased on April 30, 2005, and Rainbow-1 and VOOM's spectrum allocations were sold to EchoStar.
Work on the Voom HD channels continued. In April 2005, Rainbow Media and Dish Network entered into a 15-year affiliation agreement whereby EchoStar's Dish Network obtained the right to distribute the Voom channels until 2020 and agreed that it would pay Rainbow Media monthly subscription fees for the life of the agreement. The subscription fees started at $3.25 per subscriber in the first year of the contract and were to increase to $6.43 per subscriber by the year 2020. In a separate agreement, EchoStar's Dish obtained a 20% ownership interest in Rainbow Media (the b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Blair | Christine Blair is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Lauralee Bell, the daughter of series creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell. "Cricket" (as the character was originally called) was introduced in 1983 as a teen model, developing into a lawyer and district attorney. In 2001, Bell asked to be moved to recurring status after maternity leave, though she returned to regular status the following year. In 2005, she returned to recurring for another year. In 2007, the character was brought over to The Bold and the Beautiful by executive producer Bradley Bell, the actress' real-life brother, for a short-term stint, returning to The Young and the Restless in 2010, where she continues to make recurring appearances.
Christine has been married to rock singer Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian), a union that lasted four years until he left her to be with Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford), a woman he believed to be pregnant with his child. This sparked an ongoing rivalry between the two women that continues to present time. Later, she became involved with investigator Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) and, although their first marriage ended after five years, they continued as friends. After 12 years apart, Christine and Paul remarried at Katherine Chancellor's funeral. Bell's performance has garnered her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2016.
Casting
Beginning in 1983 at the age of thirteen, Lauralee Bell is the sole actress to portray the role. In 1986, she was given a contract. In 2001, after fifteen years as a regular, Bell only made sporadic appearances after returning from a maternity leave. The following year, she returned as a regular for a bigger storyline, though later took another leave of absence, slated to be shorter than the last. She returned in January 2003, remaining as a regular until 2005 when she was bumped back to recurring upon request. She appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful in June 2007. In 2008, Bell was asked for a short term reprisal, though declined the offer, explaining she would return if "the show crafts a substantial storyline for her". Bell explained in an interview that she'd "never been pressured so much in the nicest way when [she] was asked to come back".
In 2010, it was announced that Bell would return to The Young and the Restless. Since then, the actress has remained on recurring status.
Storylines
1983–2007
Cricket Blair, the teenage niece of Jabot Cosmetics photographer Joe Blair (John Denos), was introduced as a model for Jabot Cosmetics, and made her way to Genoa City in 1983. She befriended a young Nina Webster (Tricia Cast) and was engaged to Phillip Chancellor III (Thom Bierdz), before she discovered them in bed together. She was forced to grow and toughen up after being raped by Derek Stuart (Ken Olandt). Despite being traumatized, Cricket decided to press charges, which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20%28TV%20series%29 | Ryan is an Australian adventure television series screened by the Seven Network from 27 May 1973. The series was produced by Crawford Productions and had a run of 39 one-hour episodes.
Synopsis
The title character was a dashing private investigator played by Rod Mullinar. (A few years prior Mullinar had briefly taken the lead role in the similar Crawfords series Hunter (1967) in its closing episodes after the original lead actor Tony Ward left the show.) Ryan's assistant Julie King was played by New Zealand-born actor Pamela Stephenson, soon to leave for England and a successful television career. Other regular characters were Tony Angelini (Luigi Villani), a taxi driver and Ryan's regular informant, while Detective Cullen (Colin McEwan) was Ryan's main liaison with the police force.
Production
Ryan was shot entirely on film and in colour with an eye to potential international sales. An initial sale of 39 episodes to the Seven Network recouped only 55% of the series' relatively high production costs. An international sale was therefore crucial to the show's continued feasibility.
Australian television was still in the process of transitioning to colour broadcasting in 1973, while key international markets were already in colour and would more readily purchase a colour series. Though many Australian series shot their interior scenes on videotape in the studio using a multiple-camera setup with only outdoor scenes shot on film, many television studios were not yet equipped with colour equipment. This meant Ryan had to be shot entirely on film. In another concession to international marketability Mullinar was instructed to play the role using a Mid-Atlantic American accent.
The series premiered in May 1973, rating well in Brisbane and Adelaide, but failing in the crucial Melbourne and Sydney markets. A key reason for low ratings was the fact that the Nine Network had moved the highly popular police drama Division 4 to a new night to compete with the much-hyped new series. Ryan was moved around the schedules in order to find an audience, but ratings remained mediocre. After the initial 39 episodes were in the can the Ryan crew were, in expectation of a second series, retained by Crawfords and put to work on Homicide - whose output was increased to two episodes a week - on that show's second weekly episode. This resulted in one cross-over episode, with the Ryan regular characters appearing in an episode of Homicide. One regular cast member, Pamela Stephenson, did not appear, having opted to leave the series during the recess.
Ultimately Ryan was not renewed by the Seven Network due to insufficient ratings. The Homicide production reverted to one episode a week. While some of the Ryan crew were rolled into new Crawfords serial The Box, that show featured little outdoors filming so inevitably some of the Ryan crew were retrenched - the first time Crawfords had ever retrenched staff.
Cast
Main
Rod Mullinar as Michael Ryan
Pamela Stephenson as J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Mahia%20railway%20station | Te Mahia railway station is on the Southern Line of the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. It has an island platform layout and is reached by level crossings from Great South Road and Ferguson Street.
There have been proposals to relocate this station approximately north to a more visible location next to the Great South Road, near the overbridge. In 2013, it was instead discussed that Auckland Transport would potentially close the station, as patronage numbers had not improved significantly. About 1,000 locals opposed the closure option in a petition, and noted that a new residential subdivision was to start construction in the area. Auckland Transport however noted that the planned houses were generally too far away from the station for potential passengers to walk to it.
History
The station was opened on 16 August 1926. The station was opened due to the population growth in south Manurewa. It was renamed from Mahia to Te Mahia from 9 February 1951 by a decision of the New Zealand Geographic Board.
Upgrade
A multimillion-dollar upgrade to improve access, lighting, security and shelter was underway in August 2018. Upgrades to the station access from Great South Road commenced in July 2023, further improving visibility and access to the station.
Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart, Papakura and Pukekohe via Te Mahia. The typical weekday off-peak timetable is:
3 tph to Britomart, via Penrose and Newmarket
3 tph to Papakura
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
Rail transport in Auckland
Railway stations in New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Auckland
Railway stations opened in 1926
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1920s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUSSE | NUSSE (Norsk Universell Siffermaskin, Sekvensstyrt, Elektronisk) was the first Norwegian electronic computer.
It was constructed from 1950 through 1955 and unveiled at the University of Oslo in 1954 to an enthusiastic reception. The machine is considered to have played an important role in developing the commercial use of computers in Norway.
The environment around the NUSSE computer was the birthplace of the AUTOKON CAD/CAM system.
The computer is now on exhibit at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
References
1950s computers
Computer-related introductions in 1954
1954 in Norway
University of Oslo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20time | In telecommunication networks, the transmission time is the amount of time from the beginning until the end of a message transmission. In the case of a digital message, it is the time from the first bit until the last bit of a message has left the transmitting node. The packet transmission time in seconds can be obtained from the packet size in bit and the bit rate in bit/s as:
Packet transmission time = Packet size / Bit rate
Example: Assuming 100 Mbit/s Ethernet, and the maximum packet size of 1526 bytes, results in
Maximum packet transmission time = 1526×8 bit / (100 × 106 bit/s) ≈ 122 μs
Propagation delay
The transmission time should not be confused with the propagation delay, which is the time it takes for the first bit to travel from the sender to the receiver (During this time the receiver is unaware that a message is being transmitted). The propagation speed depends on the physical medium of the link (that is, fiber optics, twisted-pair copper wire, etc.) and is in the range of meters/sec for copper wires and for wireless communication, which is equal to the speed of light. The ratio of actual propagation speed to the speed of light is also called the velocity factor of the medium. The propagation delay of a physical link can be calculated by dividing the distance (the length of the medium) in meter by its propagation speed in m/s.
Propagation time = Distance / propagation speed
Example: Ethernet communication over a UTP copper cable with maximum distance of 100 meter between computer and switching node results in:
Maximum link propagation delay ≈ 100 m / (200 000 000 m/s) = 0.5 μs
Packet delivery time
The packet delivery time or latency is the time from when the first bit leaves the transmitter until the last is received. In the case of a physical link, it can be expressed as:
Packet delivery time = Transmission time + Propagation delay
In case of a network connection mediated by several physical links and forwarding nodes, the network delivery time depends on the sum of the delivery times of each link, and also on the packet queuing time (which is varying and depends on the traffic load from other connections) and the processing delay of the forwarding nodes. In wide-area networks, the delivery time is in the order of milliseconds.
Roundtrip time
The round-trip time or ping time is the time from the start of the transmission from the sending node until a response (for example an ACK packet or ping ICMP response) is received at the same node. It is affected by packet delivery time as well as the data processing delay, which depends on the load on the responding node. If the sent data packet as well as the response packet have the same length, the roundtrip time can be expressed as:
Roundtrip time = 2 × Packet delivery time + processing delay
In case of only one physical link, the above expression corresponds to:
Link roundtrip time = 2 × packet transmission time + 2 × propagation delay + processing delay
If the response p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Cain | Timothy Cain is an American video game developer best known as the creator, producer, lead programmer and one of the main designers of the 1997 computer game Fallout. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
Biography
Early life
Cain went to college at the University of Virginia and to graduate school in California. During this time, he helped out a friend programming a card game named Grand Slam Bridge for CYBRON Corporation which was released in 1986. In 1989, he received a Master's Degree in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine.
Interplay Entertainment
Began as a freelance programmer for Interplay where he worked on the fantasy role-play editor The Bard's Tale Construction Set. After finishing the game in 1991, he was employed full-time at Interplay. For the first time he worked with Leonard Boyarsky, who was a freelance artist at the time, as designer and programmer on the business simulator Rags to Riches: The Financial Market Simulation which was released in 1993.
In 1994 he started for a couple of months as the only employee working on a game which would later become the post-apocalyptic CRPG game Fallout. He laid out the basic concept based on the GURPS system and began programming the isometric game engine. He also took over the producer role from Thomas R. Decker who had to supervise multiple other projects at the time. With a development cycle of three and a half years Fallout was released in 1997. During this time he was also a programming consultant on Stonekeep (1995) and helped out coding Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997).
Before leaving Interplay to form his own company in January 1998, he wrote the main story arc as well as helping designing The Den area of Fallout 2. In an interview he criticized the bigger influence from sales/marketing department during Fallout 2 development, saying, "We were losing part of the game to a larger group who had bigger plans for it."
Troika Games
After forming Troika Games with fellow Interplay workers Leonard Boyarsky and Jason D. Anderson in 1998, he worked as a project leader and lead programmer on Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura a steampunk/fantasy an RPG game for Sierra On-Line, Inc. which was released in 2001.
His next game reunited him with Thomas R. Decker, the original Fallout producer. As project leader and lead designer he produced within 20 months the Dungeons & Dragons game The Temple of Elemental Evil for publisher Atari in 2003. While he loved making the game he was disappointed that it did not turn out what he wanted it to be.
After Bethesda secured the Fallout license from Interplay in 2004, Cain expressed disappointment.
Cain had mixed reactions to Fallout 3, praising Bethesda's understanding of Fallout lore as well as the adaptation of "S. P. E. C. I. A. L." system into a FPS-RPG, but criticized the humor and recycling of too many story elements from the earlier Fallout games.
He helped out programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH6%20%28highway%29 | Asian Highway 6 (AH6) is a route in the Asian Highway Network in Asia and Europe. It runs from Busan, South Korea (on ) to the border between Russia and Belarus. Altogether it is long.
For much of its Russian stretch, AH6 coincides with the unofficial Trans-Siberian Highway and, west of the Ural Mountains, with European route E30 of the International E-road network.
South Korea
: Busan-Centre - Busan-
National Route 7: Busan- Nopo-dong - Ulsan (Munsu Interchange)
Donghae Expressway: Ulsan - Pohang(S.Pohang IC)
National Route 7 () : Pohang - Samcheok
Donghae Expressway: Samcheok - Gangneung - Sokcho
National Route 7: Sokcho - Goseong
North Korea
: Kosong - Wonsan
Branch: Pyongyang–Wonsan Motorway: Wonsan - Pyongyang
(Marked as National Route 7 by South Korea): Wonsan - Hamhung - Sinpo - Tanchon - Kimchaek - Chongjin - Rason
Russia
05A-214: border with North Korea – Khasan - Razdolnoye
Razdolnoye – Artyom
05A-608 (branch): Vostochny Port – Nakhodka – Artyom
05A-615 / 05K-605: Artyom – Vladivostok
: Vladivostok - Ussuriysk
05A-215: Ussuriysk - Pogranichny - border with China
China
: Suifenhe - Harbin - Qiqihar - Manzhouli
Russia
: border with China - Zabaykalsk - Chita
: Chita - Ulan-Ude - Irkutsk
: Irkutsk - Krasnoyarsk - Kemerovo - Novosibirsk
: Novosibirsk - Omsk - Isilkul
Kazakhstan
: Karakoga - Petropavl - Chistoe
Russia
: Petukhovo - Kurgan - Chelyabinsk
: Chelyabinsk - Ufa - Samara - Penza - Ryazan - Moscow
: Moscow - Krasnoye (: M1 highway)
Asian Highway Network
Roads in Russia
Roads in North Korea
Roads in South Korea
Roads in Kazakhstan
Roads in China
Transport in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWET-TV | DWET-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the TV5 network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent; TV5 also provides certain services to One Sports flagship DWNB-TV (channel 41) under an airtime lease agreement with owner Nation Broadcasting Corporation. Both stations share studios at the TV5 Media Center, Reliance cor. Sheridan Sts., Brgy. Buayang Bato, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, while DWET-TV's alternate studios and hybrid analog/digital transmitting facilities are located at the TV5 Complex, 762 Quirino Highway, Brgy. San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The alternate digital transmitting facility is located at Block 3, Emerald Hills, Sumulong Highway, Antipolo, Rizal.
Digital television
Digital channels
DWET-TV's digital signal operates on UHF Channel 18 (497.143 MHz)1 and broadcasts on the following subchannels:
Prior to the NTC's assignment of channels 14 to 20 for major broadcast networks, the station utilized UHF Channel 51 (695.143 MHz)2 for its digital TV operations, although it remains active to this day.
Subchannel history
Since its addition to the subchannel lineup, One PH has been transmitted in widescreen on the channel 18 multiplex, while a 4:3 letterboxed feed is shown for the channel 51 multiplex; the latter would later mirror its widescreen feed with the former's multiplex sometime later. On April 16, 2023, output on DWET-TV began broadcasting its main channel in 16:9 widescreen output. For some reason, despite the main channel's shift to widescreen broadcasting, the One Sports subchannel remains transmitting in the 4:3 standard definition format.
Notes
1 – Permanent digital frequency assigned by NTC (through a Memorandum Circular).
2 – Licensed to Mediascape (Cignal TV), Inc.
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Metro Manila
Cavite
Bulacan
Laguna
Rizal
Secondary areas
Pampanga
Nueva Ecija
Tarlac
Portion of Pangasinan
Portion of Bataan
Portion of Batangas
Portion of Quezon
See also
TV5
One Sports
One PH
List of TV5 stations
92.3 Radyo5 True FM
References
Television stations in Metro Manila
TV5 (Philippine TV network) stations
Television channels and stations established in 1960
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside%20%28software%29 | Seaside, an acronym that stands for “Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server with Integrated Development Environment,” is computer software, a web framework to develop web applications in the programming language Smalltalk. It is distributed as free and open-source software under an MIT License.
Seaside provides a component architecture in which web pages are built as trees of individual, stateful components, each encapsulating a small part of a page. Seaside uses continuations to model multiple independent flows between different components. Thus, it is a continuation-based web framework based on the ability to manipulate the execution stack of some implementations of Small talk.
Key features
Although subsequent improvement of state handling in web browser JavaScript engines have meant this aspect is less important today, Seaside's method of handling of browser state (via continuations) was an initial point of interest in the first years following its 2002 release. This mechanism provides for rollback and resumption, resolving many common issues then occurring with running web applications, adequately sustaining the state on the server-side even when the web browser's 'back' and 'forward' or 'refresh' buttons are used. Continuation based servers give the developer the ability to maintain state on the server in a scalable manner.
A distinctive feature of Seaside is its integrated development environment, providing access to development tools and debugging support within an application. In development-mode, unhandled errors are reported to the web page; developers can access and alter the program code and state directly from the web page, allowing bug identifying and fixing processes to occur within an integrated development environment (IDE).
A Seaside application is a set of interacting components. Each one stores state across page views and can render itself to the HTML stream. Thus, it is straightforward to write a component once and then reuse it elsewhere in an application. Seaside also supports the notion of tasks, which allow a programmer to describe the high-level logic of component interaction.
Seaside is not template-oriented, and does not offer generating or using HTML templates; HTML markup is generated programmatically. (The Seaside-based Pier content-management framework does offer wiki-markup syntax for templating.) Seaside uses callbacks on closures to specify actions to be taken when clicking on a link or submitting a form. The developers and users of Seaside argue that this helps enforce separation of structure (markup) from content and presentation (Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)). Seaside's combination of components, callbacks, and closures can significantly reduce the semantic gap between a complex workflow and its representation in code.
Seaside supports Ajax through integration with script.aculo.us and jQuery. Seaside also supports Comet-style server-push technology.
Seaside can work with either Smalltalk-based web server |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20II%20Plus | The Apple II Plus (stylized as Apple ][+ or apple ][ plus) is the second model of the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. It was sold from June 1979 to December 1982. Approximately 380,000 II Pluses were sold during its four years in production before being replaced by the IIe in 1983.
Features
Memory
The Apple II Plus shipped with 16 KB, 32 KB or 48 KB of main RAM, expandable to 64 KB by means of the Language Card, an expansion card that could be installed in the computer's slot 0. The Apple's 6502 microprocessor could support a maximum of 64 KB of address space, and a machine with 48 KB RAM reached this limit because of the additional 12 KB of read-only memory and 4 KB of I/O addresses. For this reason, the extra RAM in the language card was bank-switched over the machine's built-in ROM, allowing code loaded into the additional memory to be used as if it actually were ROM. Users could thus load Integer BASIC into the language card from disk and switch between the Integer and Applesoft dialects of BASIC with DOS 3.3's and commands just as if they had the BASIC ROM expansion card. The Language Card was also required to use LOGO, Apple Pascal, and FORTRAN 77. Apple Pascal and FORTRAN ran under a non-DOS operating system based on UCSD P-System, which had its own disk format and included a "virtual machine" that allowed it to run on many different types of hardware.
The first-year Apple II Plus retained the original Apple II's jumper blocks to select the RAM size, but a drop in memory prices during 1980 resulted in all machines being shipped with 48K and the blocks being removed.
CP/M
Shortly after the introduction of the II Plus in 1979, Microsoft came out with the Z-80 SoftCard, an expansion card for the Apple II line that allowed the use of CP/M and contained its own Z80 CPU and logic to adapt the Z80 CPU to the Apple bus. The SoftCard was extremely popular and Microsoft's single most successful product for two years, although on the downside, it was limited to using the Apple II's GCR disk format and thus CP/M software either had to be obtained on Apple format disks or transferred via serial link from a different machine running CP/M. The SoftCard shipped with CP/M 2.2 and a special version of MBASIC that supported a subset of Applesoft BASIC's graphics commands. Other third party CP/M cards for the Apple II offered additional memory, CP/M 3.0, and CPU speeds up to 8 MHz.
Onboard Applesoft BASIC
The II Plus had the so-called "Autostart ROMs", meaning that it will attempt to boot from disk on power-up. If no system disk is present, Drive 0 will spin endlessly until the user presses Reset (or Ctrl+Reset on machines with the Ctrl+Reset safety switch enabled) to enter Applesoft BASIC. If DOS has not been booted up, the user will only be able to load and save files to cassette from BASIC. The II Plus had a revised version of BASIC known as Applesoft II which incorporated most of the functionality from Integer BAS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Australia | The Commonwealth of Australia possesses an extensive network of diplomatic and consular missions. They are mostly maintained by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with some smaller consular posts being run by Austrade. There are currently over 100 Australian missions overseas.
As Australia is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, its diplomatic missions in the capitals of other Commonwealth countries are referred to as High Commissions (as opposed to embassies).
Under the terms of the Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement, the two countries provide consular services to each other's citizens at a number of locations around the world. At this time, there are 12 cities where Canadians can obtain consular services from Australian offices, and 19 locations where Canadian offices provide consular services to Australians. In an emergency, Australians can also seek assistance from British diplomatic missions around the world in the absence of an Australian consulate or embassy.
Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.
History
After federation in 1901, Australia's presence abroad was largely limited to state and Commonwealth agents and trade offices. The United Kingdom played a defining role in Australia's foreign policy, limiting its need for missions abroad. In 1939 there were only two External Affairs officers posted overseas: one in London (known as Australia House), and one in Washington attached to the British Embassy.
The Second World War necessitated increased co-operation with foreign countries independent of the UK's Foreign Office. By 1940, a base of four missions had been established in Washington, Ottawa, London, and Tokyo, and as World War II progressed missions to Australia's wartime allies were established in Nouméa, Chongqing, and Moscow.
Australian diplomatic missions today number at over 100, although the number of Australian diplomats overseas has dramatically been reduced. Missions have been closed in Almaty, Damascus, Kupang, Lusaka, Algiers, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, and Bridgetown.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organisations
Gallery
Closed missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
See also
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Foreign relations of Australia
Visa policy of Australia
Notes
References
External links
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australian embassies, consulates and missions around the world
Australia
Diplomatic missions
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Nepal | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Nepal, excluding honorary consulates. Nepal's first semblance of a diplomatic network started in the reign of King Prithivi Narayan Shah, when in 1769 he established a foreign office called Jaishi Kotha. Over centuries the office slowly grew in stature until it became a government Department in 1934, although by the time of the revolution in 1950 Nepal only had diplomatic relations with India, Britain, France and the United States. The Nepalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rapidly expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, driven by Nepal's precarious strategic position sandwiched between India and China.
As of 2022, Nepal's diplomatic network consists of 31 embassies, 7 consulates-general, and 2 permanent missions.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organisations
Gallery
Closed missions
Europe
See also
Foreign relations of Nepal
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Nepal)
References
External links
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Nepal)
Nepal
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop%20algorithm | The Hilltop algorithm is an algorithm used to find documents relevant to a particular keyword topic in news search. Created by Krishna Bharat while he was at Compaq Systems Research Center and George A. Mihăilă University of Toronto, it was acquired by Google for use in its news results in February 2003.
When you enter a query or keyword into the Google news search engine, the Hilltop algorithm helps to find relevant keywords whose results are more informative about the query or keyword.
The algorithm operates on a special index of expert documents. These are pages that are about a specific topic and have links to many non-affiliated pages on that topic. The original algorithm relied on independent directories with categorized links to sites. Results are ranked based on the match between the query and relevant descriptive text for hyperlinks on expert pages pointing to a given result page. Websites which have backlinks from many of the best expert pages are authorities and are ranked well.
Basically, it looks at the relationship between the "expert" and "authority" pages: an "expert" is a page that links to many other relevant documents; an "authority" is a page that has links pointing to it from the "expert" pages. Here they mean pages about a specific topic with links to many non-affiliated pages on that topic. If a website has backlinks from many of the best expert pages it will be an "authority".
See also
PageRank
TrustRank
HITS algorithm
Domain Authority
Search engine optimization
References
External links
Interview with Krishna Bharat Business Today, June 6, 2004
When Experts Agree: Using Non-Affiliated Experts to Rank Popular Topics by K. Bharat and G. A. Mihaila is substantially the same, but under a different title.
Google Search
Reputation management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWP | The New Executive Programming Language (NEWP) is a high-level programming language used on computers running the Unisys operating system Master Control Program (MCP). The language is used to write the operating system and other system utility software, though it can also be used to write user software. Several constructs separate it from the extended ALGOL on which it is based. Language operators such as MEMORY, which allows direct memory access, are strictly used by programs running as the MCP. NEWP replaced Burroughs Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL).
Main constructs
NEWP is a block-structured language very similar to Extended ALGOL. It includes several features borrowed from other programming languages which help in proper software engineering. These include modules (and later, super-modules), which group together functions and their data, with defined import and export interfaces. This allows for data encapsulation and module integrity. Since NEWP is designed for use as an operating system language, it permits the use of several unsafe constructs. Each block of code can have specific unsafe elements permitted. Unsafe elements are those only permitted within the operating system. These include access to the tag of each word, access to arbitrary memory elements, low-level machine interfaces, etc. If a program does not make use of any unsafe elements, it can be compiled and executed by anyone. If any unsafe elements are used, the compiler marks the code as non-executable. It can still be executed if blessed by a security administrator.
Folklore
NEWP is rumored to really stand for "Nearly Every Word Pascal" after a West Coast engineering initiative to move Burroughs languages such as ALGOL over to a more Pascal-like syntax. Stories were also told that it stands for "No Executive Washroom Privileges," supposedly after its designers fell out of favor with management. Some engineers thought “Nothing Ever Works Perfectly” was a more fitting moniker. Alternately, NEWP was chosen as the name of the compiler/language at the spur of the moment by the designer when pressed for a name under which the compiler code would be managed. It stood for "NEW Programming Language", an essentially dull name with the unhappy property that the "new" part of the name would quickly become incorrect. The original designer of the project was a Texan and soon started to describe the name as the answer to the question, "Is it done yet?". NEWP sounded like a West Texas version of "nope". Once the project was released, the name was "redefined" to stand for "No Executive Washroom Privileges" - a description of the type of person who would likely use the language. For a while, a contest ran to come up with a better name for the compiler and language, but by that time, the name NEWP had sunk its roots too deeply.
See also
Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language
References
ALGOL 60 dialect
Systems programming languages
Procedural programm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pousargues%27s%20mongoose | Pousargues's mongoose (Dologale dybowskii), also known as the African tropical savannah mongoose, is a mongoose native to Central Africa. It is listed as data deficient on the IUCN Red List as little is known about its distribution and ecology. It is the only species in the genus Dologale.
Up to the late 20th century, it was known from only around 30 zoological specimens in natural history museum collections.
Characteristics
The Pousargues's mongoose is brown with a grey belly and face. Its tail is bushy, and its front feet have strong claws. Its body length is between with a long tail.
Taxonomy
In 1893, Eugène de Pousargues first described the Pousargues's mongoose on the basis of zoological specimens collected in 1892 near the Kémo River. The type locality corresponds to the former French garrison founded by the Dybowski Mission close to the settlement of Fort de Possel. It is named in honor of Jean Dybowski who collected the specimens. It was initially subordinated to the genus Crossarchus, but was later moved to its own genus, Dologale.
A genetic study focused on Carnivora highlighted the Pousargues's mongoose to be the sister-species of the genus Helogale.
Distribution and habitat
The Pousargues's mongoose ranges from northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Central African Republic to western Uganda.
Mongooses sighted and recorded by a camera-trap in 2011 and 2012 in the Central African Republic were preliminarily identified as Pousargues's mongoose.
In 2013, a group of Pousargues's mongooses was observed near Lake Albert in Uganda's Semliki Wildlife Reserve.
In 2016, an individual was observed and photographed in Garamba National Park.
Conservation
Field research for the collection of basic data on its ecology is indispensable for designing adequate conservation measures.
References
Pousargues's mongoose
Mammals of the Central African Republic
Mammals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mammals of South Sudan
Mammals of Uganda
Pousargues's mongoose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cases%20Computer%20Simulations | Cases Computer Simulations (known as CCS) was a video game developer and publisher which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, and IBM PC.
Their cassette inlays often featured quite stylized pictures and they were renowned for producing a succession of high quality games. Many of their later releases were written by well-known wargamers R T Smith & Ken Wright and received excellent reviews in the mid and late 1980s. They were based at 14, Langton Way, London. SE3 7TL.
Games
Battle 1917 (1983)
United (1984)
Arnhem (1985)
Desert Rats: The North Africa Campaign (1985)
Stalingrad (1988)
Encyclopedia of War: Ancient Battles (1988)
References
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20expeditor | Apostolic expeditors (in full, in Latin Expeditionarius literarum apostolicarum, Datariae Apostolicae sollicitator atque expeditor; in Italian simply Spedizionieri) are Roman Curial officials who attend to the sending of Papal Bulls, Papal Briefs and Papal Rescripts emanating from the Apostolic Chancery, the Dataria, the Sacred Paenitentiaria and the Secretariate of Briefs.
History
In a restricted and specific sense, expeditors or expeditioners are laymen approved by the Dataria, after an examination, to act as agents for bishops or others before the Dataria or Apostolic Chancery. They are members of the Roman Court.
They differ from solicitors as well as from procurators or agents in general, who transact business with the Roman Congregations. A solicitor, strictly speaking, is an assistant to a procurator, doing the mechanical work of preparing documents. An expeditor is more concerned with matters of favour, privileges, dispensations and so on, than with cases in litigation. It has been the practice of the Dataria and Apostolic Chancery to carry on business only with authorized agents or expeditors, whose office it is to draw up and sign the necessary documents, receive and forward the answer given.
They receive a certain fixed fee for each transaction, while procurators and solicitors generally receive a monthly stipend. The number of expeditors has varied. Cardinal Pacca, pro-datarius, decided in 1833 that the number, which was then one hundred, should be regulated by the amount of business to be transacted. Around 1900 there were about thirty. In reorganizing the Roman Court, Pope Pius X deprived these expeditors of their exclusive right to appear before the Dataria and Apostolic Chancery.
References
Source
Catholic ecclesiastical titles
Officials of the Roman Curia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZTV-TV | DZTV-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the IBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent. The station maintains studios at the IBC Compound, Lot 3-B, Capitol Hills Drive cor. Zuzuarregui Street, Brgy. Matandang Balara, Diliman, Quezon City; Its hybrid analog and digital transmitting facility is located at 125 St. Peter Street, Nuestra Señora Dela Paz Subdivision, Santa Cruz, Antipolo, Rizal.
Digital television
Digital channels
DZTV-TV's digital signal operates on UHF channel 17 (491.143 MHz) and broadcasts on the following subchannels:
NTC released implementing rules and regulations on the re-allocation of the UHF Channels 14-20 (470–512 Megahertz (MHz) band) for digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) service. All operating and duly authorized Mega Manila VHF (very high frequency) television networks are entitled to a channel assignment from Channels 14 to 20.
On March 18, 2022, IBC began to transmit its digital test broadcast on UHF Channel 17 (491.143 MHz) as its permanent frequency assigned by NTC.
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Metro Manila
Cavite
Bulacan
Laguna
Rizal
Secondary areas
Portion of Pampanga
Portion of Batangas
Portion of Quezon
Portion of Nueva Ecija
Portion of Tarlac
Portion of Zambales
Portion of Bataan
See also
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation channels and stations
References
Television stations in Metro Manila
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation stations
Television channels and stations established in 1960
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Sack | Brian Sack (born 1968) is an American writer and actor. From 2011–2014 he was the host of The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack, a sketch comedy show on TheBlaze television network.
He is the author of three books. In the Event of My Untimely Demise (HarperCollins, 2008) consisted of tongue-in-cheek advice for his new sons. His second book, The B.S. of A.: A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted (Simon & Schuster, 2011), inspired the television show he hosted. His third book, The United States vs. Santa Claus: The Untold Story of the Actual War on Christmas (Simon & Schuster, 2013), was a satire co-authored with B.S. of A. show runner Jack Helmuth.
Sack served as a contributing author to the New York Times bestseller Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Threshold, 2009) as well as Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say (Threshold, 2009)
He has written humor for Radar, The Independent, CRACKED, Glamour and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His work appears in two Best of McSweeney's compilations, Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans (Vintage, 2005) and Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something (McSweeney's, 2019).
As a voice talent Sack has appeared in numerous commercials and audiobooks as well as the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
Sack and musician John Mayer collaborated on a comedy short titled The Paul Reddy Show. The half-hour comedy appears on Mayer's Heavier Things DualDisc. Sack's clueless "Paul Reddy" character was based on PBS mainstay Charlie Rose and peppers Mayer with outlandish and often absurd questions.
Bibliography
Fiction
The United States vs. Santa Claus: The Untold Story of the Actual War on Christmas (2013), Simon & Schuster.
Nonfiction
The B.S. of A.: A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted (2011), Simon & Schuster.
In the Event of My Untimely Demise: 20 Things My Son Needs To Know (2008), HarperCollins.
References
External links
Vanity Fair interview
Brian Sack website
Banterist, Brian Sack's humor weblog
1968 births
Living people
American essayists
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male television actors
American satirists
American male comedians
21st-century American comedians
Ithaca College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZOE-TV | DZOE-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the A2Z network. It is owned by ZOE Broadcasting Network (alongside Light TV flagship DZOZ-DTV channel 33) and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation under a blocktime agreement. The station maintains studios at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Sgt. Esguerra Ave. corner Mo. Ignacia St., Diliman, Quezon City and 22nd floor, Strata 2000 Bldg., F. Ortigas Jr. Road (formerly Emerald Avenue), Ortigas Center, Pasig, while its hybrid analog and digital transmitting facility is located at Crestview Heights Subdivision, Brgy. San Roque, Antipolo, Rizal.
History
Prior history
The Channel 11 frequency, originally under the DWXI-TV call letters in Metro Manila, was granted to a joint venture between the leaders of two major Filipino religious movements, Mike Velarde (of the El Shaddai movement) and Eddie Villanueva (of the Jesus Is Lord Church). Disputes between the two leaders resulted in both parties wanting full control of channel 11's stake. With the intervention of the Philippine Congress, Villanueva and JIL successfully won the rights to the station. His organization paid compensation to Velarde's broadcast company Delta Broadcasting System, as part of the deal.
ZOE TV (1998–2005)
On April 13, 1998, JIL launched its own TV channel ZOE TV. Its callsign and corporate entity were renamed to reflect the channel's existence. ZOE TV broadcast independently with religious, news and public affairs, music videos, educational and lifestyle programs, as well as an amount of infomercial blocks, serving as an alternative to the major television networks that occupy the remainder of the VHF channel band. From its inception, ZOE occupies an office space, studio and master control equipment, and transmitter room at the Strata 2000 Building along the Pasig section of Ortigas Center (sharing space with Southern Broadcasting Network).
In 1999, broadcast distribution company Enternet of Mr. Benito Araneta entered into a channel lease agreement with DZOE-TV, allowing the former to simulcast CNBC Asia during channel 11's daytime hours, which later expanded to a 24/7 broadcast service. Contract disputes would lead to the agreement ending in 2002 with Enternet subsequently filing a case against Villanueva and ZOE. The ZOE TV branding remained in use throughout its era.
In 2001, ZOE TV became the first TV station to air the second EDSA Revolution that saw former president Joseph Estrada ousted by angered Anti-Estrada protesters due to various corruption allegations as well as he was violated by the 1987 Constitution.
From a 12 to 13-hour operation (which, during the CNBC on ZOE TV period, where it operated 24/7), the station reduced broadcast to just 10 hours per day from 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM in its final years of the brand.
QTV/Q/GMA News TV (2005–2019)
In April 2005, Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, Inc., a subsidiary of GMA Network, Inc., and ZOE TV entered an agre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchesne%20Academy%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Heart%20%28Texas%29 | Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart ( ) is a combined primary and secondary independent girls' school located at 10202 Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas. A member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, it offers a college preparatory curriculum for girls.
Duchesne, which enrolls girls from pre-K3 to the 12th grade, is part of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest.
Duchesne is in the Memorial area and is east of the city of Hunters Creek Village.
History
Duchesne was established in September 1960 as a part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, with 58 high-school pupils. The school is named after Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, the first member of the Society of the Sacred Heart to come to America. The school is part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
The campus was built around a large oak tree, in the center of its campus. It became a symbol for the school because the name "Duchesne" is French for "of the oak". The oak tree also represents a notable graduation tradition at Duchesne. As each senior is called up to receive her diploma, she passes under the oak tree.
On September 17, 2014, the original oak tree fell during a thunderstorm. it was over fifty years old and had been weakened after surviving a severe drought. On February 17, 2015, a new oak tree was transported by crane to a location near where the old oak tree previously stood and is currently still standing. The new oak tree allows the graduation tradition to continue.
Another fixture of the campus is a two-story white house that stood on the property when it was purchased for the school. It faces the oak tree and houses the RSCJ who live on campus. Some of the school's classes were originally conducted here.
Student life
The school is divided into three divisions: the Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School. The school has an annual tradition known as Congé - a day where classes are canceled and the Senior class organizes games and activities for the entire school to participate in.
Academics and culture
In 1974, Texas Monthly stated that students from Duchesne and nearby Saint Agnes Academy originated from "mostly business and professional people with money".
In 2017, Niche ranked Duchesne among the Best Private High Schools in the Houston metro area.
Upper School Curriculum
Upper school students must complete four years of English, history, science, and religion as well as three years of foreign language and mathematics to graduate. As a part of the student's religious studies, freshman and sophomores must complete two service projects each semester, while juniors and seniors take a social awareness course and volunteer throughout the Houston area. Additionally, Upper School students must have three fine arts bins, three computer science bins, and three PE bins by the time they graduate. Each 6 week module is one bin, three bins is the equivalent of one year-long course.
Athletics
Duchesne offers 11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWGT-TV | DWGT-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the government-owned People's Television Network. The station maintains studios and hybrid analog/digital transmitting facility at Broadcast Complex, Visayas Avenue, Brgy. Vasra, Diliman, Quezon City.
History
In 1961, the Philippine government, through the Philippine Broadcasting Service established a government TV station called DZFM-TV Channel 10 which it time-shared with two other organizations. It was financed by government subsidy but had a short life because of channel frequency allocation.
The frequency rights of Channel 4 were previously owned by one of the ABS-CBN stations in Metro Manila (DZXL-TV 4) when the station moved from channel 9 to channel 4 on November 14, 1969.
During the Martial Law era, the government seized the frequency of channel 4 of ABS-CBN, reopened it by the National Media Production Center on February 2, 1974, as Government Television (GTV). GTV was located at the former ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center complex on Bohol (now Sgt. Esguerra) Avenue, Quezon City, which was renamed Broadcast Plaza. In 1976, it began broadcasting in full color — becoming the last national network that transitioned from the then existing monochrome to color broadcasting. By 1980, GTV became MBS (Maharlika Broadcasting System), a full-blown media machinery for former president Ferdinand E. Marcos, and one of four TV stations in operation back then. Surprising, though, as Marcos banned Voltes V, MBS carried Daimos.
On February 24, 1986, during a live news conference in Malacañang, rebel forces tried to capture MBS and eventually succeeded. At the heat of exchanges between Marcos and then Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver, MBS suddenly went off the air when its facilities were taken over by rebel forces and by that afternoon started broadcasting for the people with its massive marathon coverage. Once the government then attempted not to broadcast the situation made by the rebels, only to fail.
During the administration of President Corazon Aquino, it became known as People's Television Network (PTV) after a brief period under the New TV-4 branding. The years following its broadcast, PTV's facilities, then housed on a major part of ABS-CBN's present studio complex in Bohol (now Sgt. Esguerra) Avenue, Quezon City, became a subject of a legal battle between the Lopezes and the Government.
To end the scuffle, the Aquino government, through the Bureau of Broadcast Services, which then newly revived the pre-Martial Law era Philippine Broadcasting Service, decided to expand the former National Media Production Center building in Visayas Ave. to eventually accommodate PTV. On January 22, 1992, the station moved its studios to the said complex with transmitters and other equipment largely donated from a grant of the French government. The Broadcast Center on the other hand, had been given back to ABS-CBN, who regained total control over the facility. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment%20analysis | Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining or emotion AI) is the use of natural language processing, text analysis, computational linguistics, and biometrics to systematically identify, extract, quantify, and study affective states and subjective information. Sentiment analysis is widely applied to voice of the customer materials such as reviews and survey responses, online and social media, and healthcare materials for applications that range from marketing to customer service to clinical medicine. With the rise of deep language models, such as RoBERTa, also more difficult data domains can be analyzed, e.g., news texts where authors typically express their opinion/sentiment less explicitly.
Examples
The objective and challenges of sentiment analysis can be shown through some simple examples.
Simple cases
Coronet has the best lines of all day cruisers.
Bertram has a deep V hull and runs easily through seas.
Pastel-colored 1980s day cruisers from Florida are ugly.
I dislike old cabin cruisers.
More challenging examples
I do not dislike cabin cruisers. (Negation handling)
Disliking watercraft is not really my thing. (Negation, inverted word order)
Sometimes I really hate RIBs. (Adverbial modifies the sentiment)
I'd really truly love going out in this weather! (Possibly sarcastic)
Chris Craft is better looking than Limestone. (Two brand names, identifying the target of attitude is difficult).
Chris Craft is better looking than Limestone, but Limestone projects seaworthiness and reliability. (Two attitudes, two brand names).
The movie is surprising with plenty of unsettling plot twists. (Negative term used in a positive sense in certain domains).
You should see their decadent dessert menu. (Attitudinal term has shifted polarity recently in certain domains)
I love my mobile but would not recommend it to any of my colleagues. (Qualified positive sentiment, difficult to categorise)
Next week's gig will be right koide9! ("Quoi de neuf?", French for "what's new?". Newly minted terms can be highly attitudinal but volatile in polarity and often out of known vocabulary.)
Types
A basic task in sentiment analysis is classifying the polarity of a given text at the document, sentence, or feature/aspect level—whether the expressed opinion in a document, a sentence or an entity feature/aspect is positive, negative, or neutral. Advanced, "beyond polarity" sentiment classification looks, for instance, at emotional states such as enjoyment, anger, disgust, sadness, fear, and surprise.
Precursors to sentimental analysis include the General Inquirer, which provided hints toward quantifying patterns in text and, separately, psychological research that examined a person's psychological state based on analysis of their verbal behavior.
Subsequently, the method described in a patent by Volcani and Fogel, looked specifically at sentiment and identified individual words and phrases in text with respect to different emotional scales. A current |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul%20Metro | The Istanbul Metro () is a rapid transit railway network that serves the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Apart from the M11 line, which is operated by TCDD Taşımacılık, the system is operated by Metro Istanbul, a public enterprise controlled by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The oldest section of the metro is the M1 line, which opened in 1989. As of April 2023, the system now includes 137 stations in service, with 56 more under construction.
The system consists of eleven lines: the lines designated M1A, M1B, M2, M3, M6, M7, M9 and M11 are on the European side of the Bosporus, while lines M4, M5 and M8 are on the Asian side. Due to Istanbul's unique geography and the depth of the Bosporus strait which divides the city, the European and Asian metro networks do not connect directly. The two parts of the city are linked through the Marmaray commuter rail line, which is connected to the metro in several places. Three metro lines are under construction on the Asian side: M10 (Pendik Merkez–Fevzi Çakmak), M12 (60. Yıl Parkı–Kazım Karabekir) and M14 (Altunizade–Kazım Karabekir). Additionally, extension works on the M3, M7, M9 and M11 lines (on the European side) and the M4 and M5 lines (on the Asian side) are underway.
In addition to the Marmaray commuter rail, the metro connects to the F1, Tünel (F2), F3 and F4 funicular lines and with the network of the Istanbul Tram, and the cable cars.
History
The oldest underground urban rail line in Istanbul is the Tünel, which entered service on 17 January 1875. It is the world's second-oldest underground urban rail line after the London Underground which was built in 1863, and the first underground urban rail line in continental Europe.
The first master plan for a full metro network in Istanbul, titled Avant Projet d'un Métropolitain à Constantinople and conceived by the French engineer L. Guerby, dates to 10 January 1912. The plan comprised a total of 24 stations between the Topkapı and Şişli districts and included a connection through the Golden Horn. Each station would have a platform next to the rail line, while the distance between stations varied from . The blueprints of the project, which was never realized, are today displayed at the Istanbul Technical University Museum.
In 1936 the French urban planner Henri Prost proposed a metro network between the districts of Taksim and Beyazıt, to the north and south of the Golden Horn, respectively. In October 1951 the Dutch firm Nedeco proposed a similar route between Taksim and Beyazıt, and in September 1952 the Director of the Paris Transportation Department, Marc Langevin, prepared a 14-chapter report together with his associate Louis Meizzonet for the implementation of the project and its integration with the other means of public transportation in the city. However, these plans never came into effect and all proposals were put on hold until 1987, when the planning for the current Istanbul Metro was made.
Construction works for the first 'modern' m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor%20effect | In statistics, a floor effect (also known as a basement effect) arises when a data-gathering instrument has a lower limit to the data values it can reliably specify. This lower limit is known as the "floor". The "floor effect" is one type of scale attenuation effect; the other scale attenuation effect is the "ceiling effect". Floor effects are occasionally encountered in psychological testing, when a test designed to estimate some psychological trait has a minimum standard score that may not distinguish some test-takers who differ in their responses on the test item content. Giving preschool children an IQ test designed for adults would likely show many of the test-takers with scores near the lowest standard score for adult test-takers (IQ 40 on most tests that were currently normed as of 2010). To indicate differences in current intellectual functioning among young children, IQ tests specifically for young children are developed, on which many test-takers can score well above the floor score. An IQ test designed to help assess intellectually disabled persons might intentionally be designed with easier item content and a lower floor score to better distinguish among individuals taking the test as part of an assessment process.
See also
Ceiling effect (statistics)
References
Further reading
Everitt, B.S. (2002) The Cambridge dictionary of Statistics, Second Edition. CUP.
Psychometrics
Psychological testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamlinux | Dreamlinux was a Brazilian computer operating system based on Debian Linux. It can boot as a live CD, from USB flash drive, or can be installed on a hard drive. The distribution's GUI aims to have a centered animated toolbar. As of October 2012, The Dreamlinux Project has been discontinued.
Editions
Dreamlinux 2.2 MM GL Edition (2007)
DreamLinux Multimedia Edition 2.2 with AIGLX provides Beryl-AIGLX by default, which can be utilized after the initial installation. One of its key features is its ability to configure AIGLX for NVIDIA and ATI cards automatically. The distribution received a favorable review for its appearance and functionality.
Dreamlinux 3.0 (2008)
Dreamlinux Desktop Edition 3.0 features a complete redesign. It supports a totally independent architecture named Flexiboost, based on overlaid modules. The feature allows the co-existence of two (or more) separate window managers (currently Gnome and Xfce), sharing the same customized appearance. Both working environments share all the applications available.
In addition to the 700MB iso file (CD image), a 130MB Multimedia Module is also available, including DVD support. This is primarily intended for use when running from USB flash drive, rather than from live-CD mode.
New applications
The following applications were not included in previous releases:
Gthumb (replacing GQview)
Pidgin instant messenger;
Ndiswrapper module
WineHQ + Wine Doors installer
Other improvements
Now booting from any CDROM or DVD-R/W unit
Improved Dreamlinux Control Panel
Improved Dreamlinux Installer
Improved Easy Install application
Theme-Switcher on Gnome changes theme without the need to restart X
Setup-Network Manager for stop, start, restart, stop network on booting, start network on booting. Network is now set up to automatically start during boot.
Cupsys also starts on boot
New wizard for emerald-themes
New wallpapers
New icons
New Avant Window Manager themes and AWN-Dock (check AWN Manager on DCP)
CompizFusion enabler in DCP switches default Engage dock to AWN Dock.
New GDM themes, now featuring countdowns
Dreamlinux 3.5 (2009)
Dreamlinux 3.5 is an update to the original Dreamlinux 3.0 desktop. This release features the XFCE desktop with the Gnome Desktop as an additional option in the form of a module. This release uses the Debian Lenny desktop. It features the Linux kernel version 2.6.28.5 as well as new icons and a new GTK+ theme.
There is also the option to install directly to a USB Memory Stick in two modes.
Live Dream
This runs the same as a Live CD, and does not save changes.
Persistent Dream
This runs as though Dream is installed onto the hard drive, and saves any changes to configuration that are made. It is only recommended for use on USB drives that are 2 GB.
DreamLinux 5.0 (2012)
DreamLinux 5.0 is based on Debian Wheezy 7.0 with Linux kernel 3.1. The only edition available is an ISO image around 956 MB. It features:
Xfce 4.8 desktop with quite similar l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi%20Nakamura | is a Japanese video game designer. A programming prodigy, Nakamura gained fame while still in high school; in 1982, he entered Enix's first national programming contest and claimed runner-up prize with his entry, Door Door. In 1984, he founded the video game company Chunsoft, where he remains its president.
Early game development
Nakamura was a member of the math club at Marugame High School in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. There he wrote a version of the video game Galaxy Wars in the BASIC programming language on a Tandy TRS-80.
In order to play games such as Galaxian that were ported to the NEC PC-8001 by Geimu Kyoujin from I/O magazine, Nakamura bought a PC-8001 using money he'd saved up by delivering newspapers. It was on that PC-8001 that he developed his program submissions. He submitted a machine code input tool to I/O magazine, which was published in the February 1981 issue as his debut publication, earning him ¥20,000 for his work.
During spring break of his first year in high school, Nakamura cloned the arcade video game Space Panic as ALIEN Part II. It was published in the May 1981 issue and released on cassette tape, earning ¥200,000 in royalties. In the January 1982 issue, his clone of Konami's Scramble (later renamed to Attacker) was also released on cassette, earning royalties of ¥1 million. A clone of River Patrol, called River Rescue, was published in the Maikon Game Book 4 special edition of I/O, bringing Nakamura's total high school earnings from submissions to I/O to over ¥2 million. Due to his activities with I/O, he became known among young PC enthusiasts.
Nakamura entered the first Annual Hobby Program Contest held by Enix during his 3rd year of high school in 1982. Submitting his first original game, Door Door, Nakamura was selected as the runner-up prize winner for programming excellence, and received ¥500,000 in prize money.
Career
In 1983, Nakamura moved to Tokyo and entered the University of Electro-Communications. Porting Door Door to various computers, his annual royalties as a university student exceeded ¥10 million.
Nakamura released his 2nd PC game Newtron and founded the 5-person Chunsoft on April 9, 1984, during spring break of his 2nd year of university. He started to work out of a room in a condominium in Chōfu, Tokyo. The first Chunsoft release was the 1985 PC-6001 version of Door Door mkII. Following that, joining Enix on the Famicom, Chunsoft began development on home video game consoles. While the PC version had sold 80,000 copies, the Famicom version recorded sales of 200,000 copies, leading subsequent development to focus on home consoles. From that, fellow Enix program contest winner Yuji Horii joined Nakamura in collaborating on the Famicom port of The Portopia Serial Murder Case
At the time, Nakamura and Horii were fans of the computer role-playing games Wizardry and Ultima, and so set out to develop a full-blown Famicom RPG called Dragon Quest. Prior to its release, Nakamura also cited Masanobu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20connector | A modular connector is a type of electrical connector for cords and cables of electronic devices and appliances, such as in computer networking, telecommunication equipment, and audio headsets.
Modular connectors were originally developed for use on specific Bell System telephone sets in the 1960s, and similar types found use for simple interconnection of customer-provided telephone subscriber premises equipment to the telephone network. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated in 1976 an interface registration system, in which they became known as registered jacks. The convenience of prior existence for designers and ease of use led to a proliferation of modular connectors for many other applications. Many applications that originally used bulkier, more expensive connectors have converted to modular connectors. Probably the best-known applications of modular connectors are for telephone and Ethernet.
Accordingly, various electronic interface specifications exist for applications using modular connectors, which prescribe physical characteristics and assign electrical signals to their contacts.
Nomenclature
Modular connectors are often referred to as modular phone jack and plug, RJ connector, and Western jack and plug. The term modular connector arose from its original use in modular wiring components of telephone equipment by the Western Electric Company in the 1960s. This includes the 6P2C used for telephone line connections and 4P4C used for handset connectors.
Registered jack designations describe the signals and wiring used for voice and data communication at customer-facing interfaces of the public switched telephone network. It is common to use a registered jack number to refer to the physical connector itself; for instance, the 8P8C modular connector type is often labeled RJ45 because the registered jack standard of that name specified 8P8C modular connectors. Similarly, various six-position modular connectors may be called RJ11. Likewise, the 4P4C connector is sometimes called RJ9 or RJ22 though no such official designations exist.
History
The first types of small modular telephone connectors were created by AT&T in the mid-1960s for the plug-in handset and line cords of the Trimline telephone. Driven by demand for multiple sets in residences with various lengths of cords, the Bell System introduced customer-connectable part kits and telephones, sold through PhoneCenter stores in the early 1970s. For this purpose, Illinois Bell started installing modular telephone sets on a limited scale in June 1972. The patents by Edwin C. Hardesty and coworkers, (1972) and (1975), followed by other improvements, were the basis for the modular molded-plastic connectors that became commonplace for telephone cords by the 1980s. In 1976, these connectors were standardized nationally in the United States by the Registration Interface program of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which designated a series of Registered Jack (RJ) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20constraint | A transition constraint is a way of enforcing that the data does not enter an impossible state because of a previous state. For example, it should not be possible for a person to change from being "married" to being "single, never married". The only valid states after "married" might be "divorced", "widowed", or "deceased".
This is the database-centric interpretation of the term.
In formal models in computer security, a transition constraint is a property that governs every valid transition from a state of the model to a successor state. It can be viewed as complementary to the state criteria that pertain to states per se but have no bearing on transitions between successive states.
References
Modelling Transition Constraints (ResearchIndex)
Data modeling |
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