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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20node | Terminal node may mean:
Leaf node, a node of a tree data structure that has no child nodes.
Lymph node, a terminal lymph node in the lymphatic system. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accel | Accel may refer to:
Accel (interbank network), an American payment network
Accel Animation Studios, an Indian animation studio
Accel Energy, Australian electricity generator
Accel Frontline, an Indian IT services company
Accel (company), an American venture capital company
Altium, formerly Accel Technologies a former San-Diego based CAD vendor
Accel TET, trade name for Disulfiram, a drug used to treat alcoholism
Accel Transmatic, an Indian research and development company
Rolls-Royce ACCEL, a protypal airplane
See also
Accell NV, Dutch bicycle company
Accel World, a 2009 Japanese light-novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by HiMA
Accel World: Infinite Burst, a Japanese animated film based on the novel series, released July 2016
Acceleration (disambiguation)
Accelerator (disambiguation)
Accelerate (disambiguation)
ACELL (disambiguation)
Acel (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Dourish | Paul Dourish (born 1966) is a computer scientist best known for his work and research at the intersection of computer science and social science. Born in Scotland, he holds the Steckler Endowed Chair of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000,
and where he directs the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and
Accessible Technology.
He is a Fellow of the AAAS,
the ACM, and
the BCS, and is a two-time winner of the ACM
CSCW "Lasting Impact" award, in 2016 and 2021.
Dourish has published three books and over 100 scientific articles, and holds 19 US patents.
Life
Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Dourish studied at St Aloysius' College. He then received a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. He moved to work at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later the Xerox Research Center Europe) in Cambridge, UK, during which time he completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at University College London (UCL).
After completing his Ph.D, he moved to California, working for Apple Computer in Cupertino, California. He worked in research laboratories at Apple Computer until they closed 10 months later and then at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.
In 2000, Dourish moved to Southern California, when he joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine. Since then, he has remained a full professor of Informatics. He has held visiting positions at Intel, Microsoft, Stanford University, MIT, the IT University of Copenhagen, and the University of Melbourne.
Work
His published work is primarily in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer supported cooperative work, and Ubiquitous computing. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications, and holds 19 US patents. He is amongst the most prolific and widely cited scholars in Human-Computer Interaction; Microsoft's academic search system lists him as the fourth most influential author in the area while Google Scholar calculates his h-index at over 50.
His research tends to draw both on technical and social domains, and speak to the relationship between them. His research topics have included the role of informal awareness in supporting coordination in collaborative systems, the relationship between 'place' and 'space' in information systems, and
methodological questions about the use of ethnographic techniques in information systems design.
At UC Irvine, he is a professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences department, where he is a member of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI), and in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Arts Computation Engineering. In addition to his appointment in Informatics, he has courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. From 2004–2006, he was Associate Director at the
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
He co-directed the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Han | Jefferson Y. "Jeff" Han (born 1975) is a computer scientist who worked for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences until 2006. He is one of the main developers of "multi-touch sensing", which, unlike older touch-screen interfaces, is able to recognize multiple points of contact.
Han also works on other projects in the fields of autonomous robot navigation, motion capture, real-time computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.
Career
He presented his multi-touch sensing work in February 2006 at the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference in Monterey, California. TED released the video online six months later and it spread quickly on YouTube.
Han founded a company called Perceptive Pixel to develop his touch screen technology further, and he has already shipped touch screens to parts of the military. Han's technology has been featured most notably as the "Magic Wall" on CNN's Election Center coverage. Han's company was acquired by Microsoft in 2012, where he became Partner General Manager of Perceptive Pixel (later Surface Hub). Han left Microsoft in late 2015, shortly before Surface Hub's launch.
Personal life
He is the son of middle-class Korean immigrants who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s.
Education
Han graduated from The Dalton School in New York in 1993 and studied computer science and electrical engineering for three years at Cornell University before leaving to join a start-up company to commercialize the CU-SeeMe video-conferencing software that he helped develop while an undergraduate at Cornell.
Honors
Han was named to Time magazine's 2008 listing of the "100 Most Influential People in The World".
References
External links
Jeff Han's Multitouch Demo (II) (2007Mar21)
Jeff Han: A year later (Wired Magazine)
Jeff Han demonstrating multi-touch interface on big screen
Jeff Han's 10 min Talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA
Jeff Han homepage at NYU
Specific Multi-Touch Sensing work – includes video
Transcript of a presentation delivered at ETech on 7 March 2006
Presentation over YouTube
Perceptive Pixel
The Untold Story of Microsoft's Surface Hub
"The radical promise of the multi-touch interface" (TED2006)
American computer scientists
1975 births
Living people
Scientists from New York (state)
New York University staff
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Dalton School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Computing%20%28journal%29 | Natural Computing is a scientific journal covering natural computing research. It has been published quarterly by Springer Verlag (Springer Netherlands) in print () and online () since 2002.
"Natural Computing refers to computational processes observed in nature, and human-designed computing inspired by nature ... molecular computing and quantum computing ... use of algorithms to consider evolution as a computational process, and neural networks in light of computational trends in brain research."
It includes 19 open access articles as of 19 June 2016 and has an impact factor of 1.310.
References
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupement%20des%20Cartes%20Bancaires%20CB | Groupement des cartes bancaires CB ("CB Bank card Group"), also known as simply CB, is France's national interbank network, with over 46,000 ATMs and over 1 million EFTPOS acceptance points.
Carte Bleue Visa is a brand often associated with CB. In fact, all Carte Bleue cards are part of CB but not all CB cards are Carte Bleue (they could also be Mastercard). CB offers the ATM and EFTPOS networking infrastructure, while Carte Bleue is the debit card or mode of payment.
CB GIE was created in 1984 by the six founding banks of Carte Bleue, plus Crédit Agricole and Crédit Mutuel. Since 1992, all CB cards are smart cards; France was the first country to bring into the mainstream the use of smart cards with PIN verification in lieu of magnetic stripe cards and signature verification.
In an example of a genericized trademark, it is commonplace in France to refer to any payment card as a carte bleue, whether or not this is in fact the case.
See also
Carte Bleue
References
External links
Official site of CB
Smart cards
Interbank networks
Financial services companies of France
Financial services companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberTracker | CyberTracker is software from a South African non-profit company, CyberTracker Conservation, that develops handheld data capture solutions.
The software was first developed as a way to allow illiterate animal trackers to communicate their environmental observations. A prototype was used in 2002 to record details of animals killed in an outbreak of ebola. It has since evolved to become a general purpose data capture and visualization system. However, it retains the ability to be used by illiterate and low-literate users.
CyberTracker's primary user base is wildlife biologists, conservationists and disaster relief workers.
References
External links
CyberTracker web site
Justin's CyberTracker Corner
Learning to Track Like a Bushman, Wired
Bazilchuk, Nancy. 2004. Backward compatible. Conservation in Practice 5(4):37-38.
Software companies of South Africa
South African inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTBO-TV | KTBO-TV (channel 14) is a religious television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located near the John Kilpatrick Turnpike/Interstate 44, on Oklahoma City's northeast side.
History
The channel 14 allocation in Oklahoma City was first assigned to KLPR-TV, which operated from May 31, 1966 to December 1967 as an independent station.
KTBO-TV first signed on the air on March 6, 1981, broadcasting from the former studios of KOCO-TV (channel 5) on Northwest 63rd Street. Channel 14 was the first station that was built from the ground up and signed-on by TBN, and also the fourth overall station in the network (after flagship station KTBN-TV in Santa Ana, California, KPAZ-TV in Phoenix and WHFT-TV in Miami). The current channel 14 (as KTBO) operates under a different license and has never claimed KLPR-TV as part of its history. The station's opening was marked with a live broadcast of TBN's flagship program Praise the Lord, with network co-founders Paul and Jan Crouch throwing a ceremonial switch to mark the beginning of TBN's operations in Oklahoma.
In September 1989, KTBO engaged in a campaign encouraging viewers to call local cable providers Cox Communications (which served Oklahoma City proper) and Multimedia Cablevision (which served most of the city's suburbs before its Oklahoma systems were acquired by Cox in 1999) and tell them to protest premium cable channel Cinemax's broadcast of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, which had garnered controversy among the religious community a year before for its depiction of Jesus Christ in an alternate reality after being tempted by what he later discovers to be Satan in the form of a beautiful child (particularly for depicting Christ imagining himself engaged in sexual activities). Although Multimedia responded by blacking out all of Cinemax's broadcasts of the film, Cox refused to preempt the broadcasts and briefly dropped KTBO from its lineup.
On October 27, 2020, KTBO's transmission tower, as well as a radio transmitter owned and operated by TBN, collapsed due to significant freezing rain accumulation created by a severe early-season ice storm that crippled much of Central Oklahoma; ice accumulations on the tower contributing to the collapse were observed to be around . TBN filed a special temporary authority request on November 5, asking to be allowed to remain dark for 180 days while it seeks a temporary transmitter facility from which it can resume broadcasts until the Hefner Road tower is rebuilt. In January 2021, KTBO resumed over-the-air transmission of its TBN programming under a temporary leasing agreement with The Edge Spectrum, Inc., relayed in standard definition over the second digital subchannel of KUOT-CD (channel 21). KTBO resumed over-the-air broadcasts via its new transmission tower on September 18, 2021.
Technical information
Subchannels
KTBO-TV began transmittin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/META%20II | META II is a domain-specific programming language for writing compilers. It was created in 1963–1964 by Dewey Val Schorre at UCLA. META II uses what Schorre called syntax equations. Its operation is simply explained as:
Each syntax equation is translated into a recursive subroutine which tests the input string for a particular phrase structure, and deletes it if found.
Meta II programs are compiled into an interpreted byte code language. VALGOL and SMALGOL compilers illustrating its capabilities were written in the META II language, VALGOL is a simple algebraic language designed for the purpose of illustrating META II. SMALGOL was a fairly large subset of ALGOL 60.
Notation
META II was first written in META I, a hand-compiled version of META II. The history is unclear as to whether META I was a full implementation of META II or a required subset of the META II language required to compile the full META II compiler.
In its documentation, META II is described as resembling BNF, which today is explained as a production grammar. META II is an analytical grammar. In the TREE-META document these languages were described as reductive grammars.
For example, in BNF, an arithmetic expression may be defined as:
<expr> := <term> | <expr> <addop> <term>
BNF rules are today production rules describing how constituent parts may be assembled to form only valid language constructs. A parser does the opposite taking language constructs apart. META II is a stack-based functional parser programming language that includes output directive. In META II, the order of testing is specified by the equation. META II like other programming languages would overflow its stack attempting left recursion. META II uses a $ (zero or more) sequence operator. The expr parsing equation written in META II is a conditional expression evaluated left to right:
expr = term
$( '+' term .OUT('ADD')
/ '-' term .OUT('SUB'));
Above the expr equation is defined by the expression to the right of the '='. Evaluating left to right from the '=', term is the first thing that must be tested. If term returns failure expr fails. If successful a term was recognized we then enter the indefinite $ zero or more loop were we first test for a '+' if that fails the alternative '-' is attempted and finally if a '-' were not recognized the loop terminates with expr returning success having recognized a single term. If a '+' or '-' were successful then term would be called. And if successful the loop would repeat. The expr equation can also be expressed using nested grouping as:
expr = term $(('+' / '-') term);
The code production elements were left out to simplify the example. Due to the limited character set of early computers the character / was used as the alternative, or, operator. The $, loop operator, is used to match zero or more of something:
expr = term $( '+' term .OUT('ADD')
/ '-' term .OUT('SUB')
);
The above can be expressed in English: An expr is a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWHS-FM | WWHS-FM was a Variety formatted broadcast radio station, which was licensed to and served Hampden Sydney, Virginia. WWHS-FM was owned and operated by Hampden-Sydney College.
Programming
WWHS broadcast student created programming from its studios in Hampden Sydney. WWHS retransmitted programming from World Radio Network at times when the station wasn't airing local programming.
Sign-Off
WWHS-FM signed off and turned in its license on September 29, 2014.
References
External links
1972 establishments in Virginia
2014 disestablishments in Virginia
Variety radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1972
Radio stations disestablished in 2014
WHS-FM
WHS-FM
Prince Edward County, Virginia
Defunct radio stations in the United States
WHS-FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucho | is an interbank network in Japan, owned and operated by the postal savings division of Japan Post Bank. It counts some 26,519 ATMs, of which 23,500 are at post offices and 2,869 are away from post offices. The number of ATMs correspond to about one for every post office in Japan, excluding a few post offices that are too small to support ATMs. It is one of the first interbank networks, having been set up in 1979.
Some 130 banks in Japan have access to the Yucho network and vice versa. However, rather than being members of Yucho, they are affiliates of the network. The network was set up primarily for Japan Post's postal finance systems, which include its savings accounts. Yucho ATMs are also linked internationally to the Cirrus, China UnionPay and PLUS interbank networks, and also accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Japan Credit Bureau and China UnionPay credit cards through those networks.
Yucho ATMs are categorized into two kinds: actual ATMs, which can accept passbooks to make deposits or withdrawals in addition to ATM cards, and cash dispensers, which only accept ATM cards. Unlike most interbank networks, Yucho ATMs do not operate 24 hours a day. Some ATMs close as early as 5:00 pm JST and as late as 11:00 pm JST.
References
External links
Yucho ATMs and cash dispensers
Yucho International ATM Service
Banks established in 1979
Banking in Japan
Interbank networks
Postal savings system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calla%20%28band%29 | Calla was formed in New York City in 1997 by Aurelio Valle (guitar, vocals), Sean Donovan (bass, keyboards, programming), and Wayne B. Magruder (percussion, programming). Their fifth album, Strength in Numbers, was released in 2007.
Texas
Valle was raised in South Texas and grew up listening to his Mexican parents' music, which included mariachi, conjuntos and rancheros. During his teen years in the 80's Valle listened to college music and punk rock. Drawing from these musical styles his guitar
influences are inspired by the likes of Rowland S. Howard, Duane Eddy, Kid Congo Powers, Chet Atkins, Lee Ronaldo, Will Sergeant, and Johnny Marr. He met Peter Gannon during his second year in high school. Both citing bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Smiths as influences, they decided to form a band. After high school, they relocated to Denton, Texas where the two met Wayne Magruder and immediately formed a band called The Factory Press named after Andy Warhol's Factory and Factory Records Their influences were Joy Division, Bauhaus and Wire and they were signed to Austin's ND Records.
New York City
The Factory Press relocated to New York City in 1995. The band played shows alongside NYC peers and friends Jonathan Fire Eater Speedball Baby and The Stiffs inc. They recorded their only full-length album The Smoky Ends of a Burnt Out Dayin 1997. The album was produced by Matt Verta-Ray (Madder Rose, Speedball Baby) and Kid Congo Powers (The Gunclub, The Cramps and
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). After recording their final record for ND Records, Valle and Magruder along with Sean Donovan formed CALLA in 1997 named after the lilies in Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs. One of the bands concepts was to write music that sounded
like Ennio Morricone meets Blade Runner. CALLA continued to draw from their early influences in addition to Tom Waits, John Cage, Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise, Talk Talk and Latin Playboys. CALLA's first self-titled record was released by the European experimental label Sub Rosa.
Sub Rosa/Quartermass
By 1997, CALLA was playing shows at The Cooler located on West 14th Street meat packing district in New York City alongside Alan Vega, Bush Tetras, Thurston Moore, Blonde Redhead, Bowery Electric, Labradford, and were invited to play a benefit for Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe. They also played CBGB's in 1998 with Speedball Baby. By this time the band had already toured heavily in Europe and was ready to set off on its first US tour.
Young God records
CALLA frequently played shows at Lower East Side Club Tonic where they eventually met Michael Gira of Swans and The Angels of Light. Gira signed CALLA to his label, Young God Records, in 1999, for which they recorded their second record titled Scavengers . Gira assisted in producing and sang backing vocals on the track "Love of Ivah". During this time the band continued to tour heavily in Europe. In 2000 they were selected by Alternative Press Magazine as "the number one band to wat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbus | Redbus or Red Bus refer to:
Corporate
Redbus Investments, formed by Cliff Stanford in the United Kingdom
Redbus Interhouse, a data- centre colocation operator in Europe
Redbus Film Distribution, movie underwriter in the United Kingdom now under Lionsgate
Bus operators
Midland Red Buses, a former provider in the West Midlands of England
Red Bus (New Zealand), an operator in Christchurch
Redbus.in, an Indian bus-based travel agency
Red Bus Services, an Australian transport operator
Red Jammers, an American red bus service at Glacier National Park, United States
Other
Red Bus (Mendoza), transport payment system used in Argentina
See also
AEC Routemaster bus design, painted red and synonymous with transport in London, United Kingdom
BEST Transport division, Mumbai, based on London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Gravis%20Computer%20Technology | Advanced Gravis Computer Technology, Ltd. was a manufacturer of computer peripherals and hardware. The company was founded in 1982 in British Columbia, Canada.
Their most famous products were the Gravis PC GamePad, at one time one of the most popular gaming controllers for the PC, the once-ubiquitous Gravis Joystick (black with red buttons), and the Gravis Ultrasound add-on card, competitor to the Sound Blaster. At its peak, the company had almost 300 employees with a European office in The Netherlands, and was at the time the world's largest manufacturer of computer joysticks and gamepads.
The company was acquired by Kensington Computer Products Group towards the end of 1997. Although the brand remained in use for some time after this, with the website still active until the mid-2000s it has since essentially disappeared.
References
External links
Gravis.com - Website archive from February 1997 (prior to Kensington takeover)
ftp.gravis.com drivers
Herní ovladače počátku 90. let photos of disassembled Gravis PC GamePad
Computer peripheral companies
Computer companies established in 1982
Companies based in British Columbia
1982 establishments in British Columbia
Defunct computer companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBM%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a DBM is a library and file format providing fast, single-keyed access to data. A key-value database from the original Unix, dbm is an early example of a NoSQL system.
History
The original dbm library and file format was a simple database engine, originally written by Ken Thompson and released by AT&T in 1979. The name is a three letter acronym for DataBase Manager, and can also refer to the family of database engines with APIs and features derived from the original dbm.
The dbm library stores arbitrary data by use of a single key (a primary key) in fixed-size buckets and uses hashing techniques to enable fast retrieval of the data by key.
The hashing scheme used is a form of extendible hashing, so that the hashing scheme expands as new buckets are added to the database, meaning that, when nearly empty, the database starts with one bucket, which is then split when it becomes full. The two resulting child buckets will themselves split when they become full, so the database grows as keys are added.
The dbm library and its derivatives are pre-relational databases they manage associative arrays, implemented as on-disk hash tables. In practice, they can offer a more practical solution for high-speed storage accessed by key, as they do not require the overhead of connecting and preparing queries. This is balanced by the fact that they can generally only be opened for writing by a single process at a time. An agent daemon can handle requests from multiple processes, but introduces IPC overhead.
Implementations
The original AT&T dbm library has been replaced by its many successor implementations. Notable examples include:
ndbm ("new dbm"), based on the original dbm with some new features.
GDBM ("GNU dbm"), GNU rewrite of the library implementing ndbm features and its own interface. Also provides new features like crash tolerance for guaranteeing data consistency.
sdbm ("small dbm"), a public domain rewrite of dbm. It is a part of the standard distribution for Perl and is available as an external library for Ruby.
qdbm ("Quick Database Manager"), a higher-performance dbm employing many of the same techniques as Tokyo/Kyoto Cabinet. Written by the same author before they moved on to the cabinets.
tdb ("Trivial Database"), a simple database used by Samba that supports multiple writers. Has a gdbm-based API.
Berkeley DB, 1991 replacement of ndbm by Sleepycat Software (now Oracle) created to get around the AT&T Unix copyright on BSD. It features many extensions like parallelism, transactional control, hashing, and B tree storage.
LMDB: copy-on-write memory-mapped B+ tree implementation in C with a Berkeley-style API.
The following databases are dbm-inspired, but they do not directly provide a dbm interface, even though it would be trivial to wrap one:
cdb ("constant database"), database by Daniel J. Bernstein, database files can only be created and read, but never be modified
Tkrzw, an Apache 2.0 licensed successor to Kyoto Cabin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nushi%20Tsuri%2064%3A%20Shiokaze%20Ninotte | is a fishing video game for the Nintendo 64. It was released only in Japan in 2000. The Sequel to Nushi Tsuri 64 which was released 1998. Players can transfer their notebook data from Kawa no Nushi Tsuri 4 for Game Boy Color via the Transfer Pak.
See also
List of River King video games
References
2000 video games
Fishing video games
Games with Transfer Pak support
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo 64 games
Nintendo 64-only games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Victor Interactive Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiodread | Radiodread is a 2006 tribute album by the Easy Star All-Stars that covers Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer in reggae, ska and dub styles.
History
Radiodread producer and arranger Michael Goldwasser said:
OK Computer has elements that are perfect [for reggae] – strong melodies, intense dynamics and trippy soundscapes. On the other hand, it has complex time signatures, lots of chord changes and things that typically aren't found in reggae. However, the more we looked at it, the more we realized that this was an album we had to do.
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke praised it and guitarist Jonny Greenwood described it as "truly astounding".
The track listing is identical to OK Computer'''s, and no songs were changed by the Easy Star All-Stars, except for "Fitter Happier" (which has slightly altered lyrics to fit the style, with permission from Radiohead), and "Paranoid Android". The new lyrics are essentially the same, but phrased differently, including some Jamaican patois. For example, "God loves his children" becomes "Jah loves his children".
Track listing
"Airbag" (featuring Horace Andy) – 5:00
"Paranoid Android" (featuring Kirsty Rock) – 6:27
"Subterranean Homesick Alien" (featuring Junior Jazz) – 4:41
"Exit Music (For a Film)" (featuring Sugar Minott) – 4:23
"Let Down" (featuring Toots & the Maytals) – 4:44
"Karma Police" (featuring Citizen Cope) – 4:48
"Fitter Happier" (featuring Menny More) – 2:20
"Electioneering" (featuring Morgan Heritage) – 4:34
"Climbing Up the Walls" (featuring Tamar-kali) – 4:56
"No Surprises" (featuring The Meditations) – 4:02
"Lucky" (featuring Frankie Paul) – 5:45
"The Tourist" (featuring Israel Vibration) – 4:07
"Exit Music (For a Dub)" – 4:39
"An Airbag Saved My Dub" – 4:50
"Dub Is What You Get" (Mad Professor/Joe Ariwa Mix) (Vinyl Only) – 4:38
"Lucky Dub A" (Mad Professor/Joe Ariwa Mix) (Vinyl Only) – 4:53
"High and Dry" (featuring Morgan Heritage) (track #15 on the Special Edition release) – 5:10
See alsoExit Music: Songs with Radio HeadsReferences
External links
"Radiodread: Music of Human Origin", The Peer'', 6 October 2006
2006 albums
Easy Star All-Stars albums
Radiohead tribute albums
Easy Star Records albums
Albums produced by Michael Goldwasser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ray%20Bradbury%20Theater | The Ray Bradbury Theater is an anthology series that ran for three seasons on First Choice Superchannel in Canada and HBO in the United States from 1985 to 1986, and then on USA Network, running for four additional seasons from 1988 to 1992; episodes aired on the Global Television Network in Canada from 1991 to 1994. It was shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel and later on the Retro Television Network. It currently airs on Comet and can be streamed on IMDb TV, Peacock, Pluto TV and The Roku Channel.
All 65 episodes were written by Ray Bradbury, based on short stories or novels he wrote, including "A Sound of Thunder", "Marionettes, Inc.", "Banshee", "The Playground", "Mars is Heaven", "Usher II", "The Jar", "The Long Rain", "The Veldt", "The Small Assassin", "The Pedestrian", "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl", "Here There Be Tygers", "The Toynbee Convector", and "Sun and Shadow".
Many of the episodes focused on only one of Bradbury's original works. However, Bradbury occasionally included elements from his other works. "Marionettes, Inc." featured Fantoccini, a character from "I Sing the Body Electric!". "Gotcha!" included an opening sequence taken from "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair". Characters were renamed, and elements added to the original works to expand the story to 23–28 minutes or to better suit the television medium.
Each episode would begin with a shot of Bradbury in his office, gazing over mementos of his life, which he states (in narrative) are used to spark ideas for stories. During the first season, Bradbury sometimes appeared on-screen in brief vignettes introducing the story. During the second season, Bradbury provided the opening narration with no specific embellishment concerning the episode. During the third season, a foreshortened version of the narration was used and Bradbury would add specific comments relevant to the episode presented. During the fourth and later seasons, a slightly shorter generic narration was used with no additional comments.
Famous actors appearing in the series included Richard Kiley, Paul Le Mat, Eileen Brennan, James Coco, William Shatner, Peter O'Toole, Patrick Macnee, Jeff Goldblum, Drew Barrymore, Hal Linden, Michael Ironside, Robert Vaughn, Eugene Levy, Saul Rubinek, Paul Gross, Donald Pleasence, Denholm Elliott, David Ogden Stiers, John Saxon, Harold Gould, Bruce Weitz, Barry Morse, Eddie Albert, David Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Vincent Gardenia, Robert Culp, Shawn Ashmore, Richard Benjamin, John Vernon, Elliott Gould, Tyne Daly, Lucy Lawless, Jean Stapleton, Marc Singer, Michael Hurst, Louise Fletcher, Magali Noël, John Glover, Howard Hesseman, Leslie Nielsen, Megan Follows, Shelley Duvall, and James Whitmore.
In the U.S., HBO originally aired the show for its first season, then it was moved to the USA Network from its second season onwards.
References
External links
Ray Bradbury Theater at bradburymedia.co.uk
"The Playground" episode synopsis by Phil Nichols
HBO original pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHCE-TV | KHCE-TV (channel 23) is a religious television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, airing programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is owned and operated by TBN's Community Educational Television subsidiary, which manages stations in Texas and Florida on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. KHCE-TV's studios are located on Capital Port Drive in northwest San Antonio, and its transmitter is located off Route 181 in northwest Wilson County (northeast of Elmendorf).
Background
The station first signed on the air on July 9, 1989; it was one of the first stations to be built and signed on the air by TBN subsidiary Community Educational Television. KHCE's programming was also previously simulcast on a low-power translator station, K20BW in San Antonio; this translator ceased operations in 2010, and has since been sold to Digital Networks - Southwest, LLC.
KHCE produces four local programs seen on the air: a local version of TBN's local public affairs franchise Joy in Our Town, the biblical studies program Up with the Son, the educational program We Speak Inglés y Español and a local edition of Praise the Lord. In addition to programming from TBN, the station airs educational programming to prepare local students for the General Educational Development (GED) test to fulfill the requirements under their license service.
Subchannels
References
External links
KHCE-TV information on TBN's website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Texas
Television stations in San Antonio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLDO-TV | KLDO-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Laredo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside two low-power, Class A stations: UniMás affiliate KETF-CD (channel 39) and Fox affiliate KXOF-CD (channel 31). The stations share studios on Loop 20 in Laredo, while KLDO-TV's transmitter is located in Ranchos Penitas West, Texas.
History
ABC affiliate
In the early 1980s, five applications were received to start a new TV station for Laredo, the city's third, on UHF channel 27. In December 1982, the Federal Communications Commission designated four of them for hearing, from K-RIO Broadcasting Company; Carlos Ortiz; Tierra del Sol Broadcasting Company, owner of KVEO-TV in Brownsville; and Panorama Broadcasting Company. Ortiz, a pastor proposing to operate channel 27 as a Christian station, later dropped his proposal because of the multiple competing applications from secular groups; Oro Broadcasting Company was disqualified because its principal owner was not a United States citizen.
As a result of a downturn in the regional economy, Tierra del Sol withdrew; Panorama then reimbursed K-RIO for its expenses in a settlement that paved the way for it to be granted the permit in April 1983. A tower was erected in the parking lot of Laredo's Riverdrive Mall, where studios were set up. Having been known as KJTB during construction, KLDO-TV signed on December 17, 1984, as an ABC affiliate; the affiliation had belonged to KGNS-TV. Laredo thus became among the last markets with three-network service. In addition to ABC programming, KLDO-TV produced local news under the title Laredo Eyewitness News. In January 1987, KLDO became a secondary affiliate of Fox.
Spanish-language programming
The station switched to Telemundo in October 1988, retaining select ABC programs including sports, Good Morning America, and Nightline. The move coincided with Panorama signing a management agreement with Francisco Javier Sánchez Campuzano, the president of Mexico City-based Grupo Siete, which at the time owned several radio stations in Nuevo Laredo. The switch to primarily Spanish-language programming led to an upturn in ratings, moving from dead last to first place in the February 1989 Nielsen survey.
In 1996, KLDO changed affiliations from Telemundo to Univision; by this time, in total-day audience ratings, it was the market's number-one station. Entravision acquired KLDO-TV in 1997, and the station moved out of the Riverdrive Mall and into a new facility on Loop 20 in 2000. KLDO-TV continued to be the most-watched station in the market, but KGNS-TV brought in twice as much revenue.
Until February 28, 2018, the station produced Spanish-language newscasts, branded as ; the KLDO news operation was discontinued in favor of a regional newscast produced out of McAllen sister station KNVO.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20Commander | R Commander (Rcmdr) is a GUI for the R programming language, licensed under the GNU General Public License, and developed and maintained by John Fox in the sociology department at McMaster University. Rcmdr looks and works similarly to SPSS GUI by providing a menu of analytic and graphical methods. It also displays the underlying R code that runs each analysis.
Rcmdr can be installed from within R, like any R package. Integration with Microsoft Excel is provided by the RExcel package, which also provides an RAndFriendsLight "bundle" graphical installer. R commander is used as a suggested learning environment for a number of R-centric academic statistics books for students and scientists.
See also
Comparison of statistical packages
R interfaces
References
Further reading
External links
Official home page
Rcmdr at CRAN
Free R (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Railcard | The Network Railcard is a discount card introduced in 1986 by British Rail, upon the creation of their Network SouthEast sector in parts of Southern England.
The card is intended to encourage leisure travel by rail by offering discounts for adults and accompanying children on a wide range of off-peak fares. The range of discounts available, and the price of the card, have varied since that time, but the card has always been valid for a year's unlimited frequency of use.
It can be purchased by any person aged 16 or over from any staffed National Rail station or Rail Appointed Travel Agent, by completing an application form - no photographic identification or other documentation is needed to buy or use the card. It is one of a number of concessionary fare schemes available on the British railway system.
History
The Network SouthEast brand was introduced to what had been the London & South East sector of British Rail on 10 June 1986. The railcard was then introduced on 29 September 1986, under the name Network Card. It offered a 34% discount on all off-peak fares for journeys wholly within the Network SouthEast area. Tickets valid at peak times, such as Day Returns and Open Returns, were excluded, as were First Class tickets (however, a supplement ticket could be bought to upgrade a discounted Standard Class ticket to First Class at weekends). On weekdays, journeys had to start after 10.00am, but there were no time restrictions at weekends or on Bank Holidays. Up to three adults could accompany the railcard holder and gain the same discount, while up to four accompanying children could travel for a £1.00 flat fare. This version of the railcard could be issued for either one person or two people. On a two-person "joint-holder" ticket, either or both of the named holders could travel - that is, the card was transferable between the two.
The first major change was made as from 28 September 1997. At this time, the name Network Railcard was adopted; the joint-holder option was removed; the price was increased to £20.00; and the First Class supplement facility was discontinued. All other benefits remained the same, however. New ticket stock was introduced with APTIS form number RSP 4599/188 (the Network Card was BR 4599/22 and, after privatisation, RSP 4599/22).
A larger and more controversial change occurred as from 2 June 2002, when the discount level was changed: a minimum adult fare of £10.00 was imposed for weekday journeys, and children now received an 81% discount on the full adult fare (equivalent to a 60% on the full child fare, and subject to a minimum fare of £1.00) instead of the former £1.00 flat fare for all journeys. This meant that on a weekday, holders would receive no discount if the standard adult full fare was £10.00 or less, and a discount of less than 34% on fares between £10.05 and £15.00. Longer journeys for children would also become more expensive. Transport pressure group Transport 2000 and environmental organ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.709 | ITU-T Recommendation G.709 Interfaces for the Optical Transport Network (OTN) describes a means of communicating data over an optical network. It is a standardized method for transparent transport of services over optical wavelengths in DWDM systems. It is also known as Optical Transport Hierarchy (OTH) standard. The first edition of this protocol was approved in 2001.
The G.709 OTUk signal is positioned as a server layer signal for various client signals, e.g. SDH/SONET, ATM, IP, Ethernet, Fibre Channel and OTN ODUk (where k=0, 1, 2, 2e, 3, 3e2, 4 or flex). Work on support for InfiniBand and Common Public Radio Interface client signals is currently in progress.
The frame structure defined in G.709 is constructed of 4 areas:
OPUk is the area in which payload is mapped.
ODUk contains the OPUk with additional overhead bytes (e.g. TTI, BIP8, GCC1/2, TCM etc.).
OTUk is the section and includes framing, TTI, BIP8 and GCC0 bytes.
FEC – The standard FEC code (described in G.975) is a Reed–Solomon coding calculated across the payload (OPU) columns. This allows detection and correction of bit errors due to signal impairments during transmission. The FEC code also extends the distance the optical signal can travel before requiring regeneration.
G.709 offers advanced OAM&P capabilities such as Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM), End to End performance monitoring, connectivity monitoring, signal quality supervision and General Communication Channel (GCC).
Typical client signals and corresponding G.709 rates
Unlike SDH/SONET, the line rate is increased by maintaining the G.709 frame structure (4 rows x 4080 columns) and decreasing the frame period (in SDH/SONET the frame structure is increased and the frame period of 125 µs is maintained).
Notes and references
See also
Generic Framing Procedure
External links
Download the G.709 Recommendation
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T G Series Recommendations
Optical Transport Network
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Hits%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Hits is a British pay television music channel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia that launched on 1 May 2001 replacing MTV Extra.
MTV Hits began broadcasting in widescreen on 28 March 2012.
In 2022, MTV Hits began heavily broadcasting 00s-themed programming, encouraging more linearity between the decade-themed MTV Channels. From 8:00pm on 31 December 2022 until 5:00am on 2 January 2023, the channel will broadcast only 00s songs.
European version
In 2014, MTV Hits Europe began broadcasting. The European version of the channel is registered with broadcasting regulators in Czech Republic.
Programming
Programmes on the MTV Hits schedule as of December 2022.
Today’s Top Hits
The Official UK Top 40/20
Newest Vids & Hot Hits!
No.1s On This Day: 2000-2009/2010-2020
Brand New Vid!
Artist: Official Top 20 - A countdown of a certain artist’s top 20 best selling songs.
Olly Murs Winter Wonderland Top 20
Artist: Official Top 10 - A countdown of a certain artist's top 10 best selling songs.
Leona Lewis' Xmas With The Girls
All The Jingle Ladies
Christmas Hits!
The Anton Du Beke Christmas Show: Top 50
MTV's Most Played Videos Of '22
Non-Stop 00s NYE Party
Every No.1 of the 00s!
Former logos
See also
MTV UK
References
External links
MTV Hits
MTV Hits Playlist
MTV Hits UK & Ireland - presentation, screenshots
MTV channels
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibanco | Multibanco is a portuguese interbank network. It is the largest interbank network in Portugal owned and operated by SIBS (Sociedade Interbancária de Serviços S.A.), that links the ATMs of 27 banks in Portugal, totaling 12,700 machines as of December 2014. The bank members of Multibanco control the SIBS. Multibanco is a fully integrated interbank network. One of the most notable characteristics of Multibanco is the wide range of services that can be utilised through its machines.
Multibanco in itself does not only encompass ATMs. It has a fully-fledged EFTPOS network called Multibanco Automatic Payment, and is also a provider of mobile phone and Internet banking services through the TeleMultibanco and MBNet services respectively. It is also the provider of the Via Verde automated toll payment service.
History
The Caixa Automático Multibanco (Multibanco ATM) was the first project developed by SIBS and started operating on September 2, 1985, with the installation of 12 terminals in the cities of Lisbon and Porto.
In 1995, the network had 3,745 ATMs; in 2006 had more than 11,200; and as of December 2014 it had 12,700, on which an average of more than 75 million operations are made every month.
Functionality
Multibanco is known for having more functionality than standard ATMs in other countries. Initially, the machines only offered withdrawal of cash, checking of balances and checking of recent transactions. Later, features such as service and shopping payments, Prepaid mobile phone top-up and show ticket sales, among others, were introduced. Nowadays, 60 different services are offered by the Multibanco network.
Usage
From 2001 to 2005, the average number of transactions by year is over 630 million. The number has been rising every year; 719 million were recorded in 2005. This has since grown substantially, with 900 million operations recorded in 2014.
Security
Multibanco allows users with a local (Portuguese) bank account to withdraw a maximum of 400 Euros daily (holders of foreign accounts can withdraw more, depending on their bank). If the user fails to enter the correct PIN after three attempts, the ATM will not return the card. If the user fails to take the money out of the ATM after a certain period of time, the ATM takes back the cash to prevent theft. A recent security measure has been introduced under the form of a tinting mechanism that releases ink and stains the money in the event of forced opening of the ATM. When in possession of a tinted bill, one must report it to the police (for further investigation, as it is likely to be from a stolen ATM) and can later have it traded at a bank for a non-tinted one, without additional charges. In addition to security cameras, many ATM terminals include a rear-view mirror above the interactive screen, and the money withdrawal slot is located at approximately waist-level, for quick and more secluded storage of the money.
Payment options
Point of sale
The Multibanco Automatic Payment is an EFT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITU-TV | KITU-TV (channel 34) is a religious television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, airing programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is owned and operated by TBN's Community Educational Television subsidiary, which manages stations in Texas and Florida on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. KITU-TV's studios are located on Interstate 10 in Orange, and its transmitter is located in Mauriceville.
Subchannels
References
External links
TBN official website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Texas
ITU-TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLUJ-TV | KLUJ-TV (channel 44) is a religious television station licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley with programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is owned and operated by TBN's Community Educational Television subsidiary, which manages stations in Texas and Florida on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. KLUJ-TV's studios are located on Loop 499 in Harlingen, and its transmitter is located near Palm Valley, Texas.
History
The station signed on the air on June 25, 1984 as the Lower Rio Grande Valley's first general-entertainment independent station before switching to TBN in 1986.
Subchannels
External links
KLUJ-TV information on TBN's website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1984
Harlingen, Texas
Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
1984 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Schroeder | Michael Schroeder (born 1945) is an American computer scientist. His areas of research include computer security, distributed systems and operating systems and he is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Needham–Schroeder protocol. In 2001 he co-founded the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley lab and was the assistant managing director until the lab was disbanded in 2014.
Early life and career
Schroeder was born in 1945 in Richland, Washington. He did his undergraduate work at Washington State University and went to graduate school at MIT, obtaining his PhD in 1972.
Starting in 1976 he has been on the MIT EECS department faculty, at Xerox PARC, and at the DEC Systems Research Center. At MIT he was involved with Multics, where his contributions included a seminal work on security architecture for shared information systems.
In 1977 Schroeder and Roger Needham designed a new (unclassified) computer network protocol for distributed authentication server using a Key Distribution Center (KDC).
This idea eventually led to the Kerberos authentication scheme used by the MIT's Project Athena.
Some other systems he has built are Grapevine (distributed system), the filesystem of Cedar, Topaz (distributed OS), Autonet (LAN) and Pachyderm (web based email).
Awards
In 2004, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2006, ACM SIGSAC presented him with the Outstanding Innovations Award "for technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems."
In 2007, NIST/NSA gave him the National Computer Systems Security Award. In 2008, ACM SIGOPS chose the paper Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing, which he coauthored, for a Hall of Fame Award "that recognizes the most influential operating systems papers in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten year old."
Gilbert Munger
He is a leading expert on the American landscape painter Gilbert Munger (1837–1903), for whom he authors a web-based catalogue raisonné and archive of period documents. With J. Gray Sweeney of Arizona State University he wrote the book Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction (Afton Historical Society Press, 2003).
References
External links
Michael D. Schroeder web page
The Gilbert Munger Web Site
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
People associated with computer security
1945 births
Living people
Scientists at PARC (company)
Multics people
Washington State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa%20Bonhomme | Tessa Bonhomme (born July 23, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and is a television sports reporter for The Sports Network (TSN). She was an Olympic gold medallist as a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and played for the Toronto Furies in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. She was also co-captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey team in the NCAA.
Playing career
Bonhomme was a member of the Sudbury Lady Wolves from 1998 to 2003 and served as a captain in 2003. During that same time she competed for the Lasalle Secondary School hockey team from 1999 to 2003 and was the captain in 2003. She was the leading scorer at Lasalle and the league leader for three consecutive years (2001–2003). In 2001, she led Lasalle to a second-place finish in its league and a city championship title in 2001.
Ohio State Buckeyes
The 2003–04 season marked Bonhomme's freshman year with the Buckeyes. She played in 34 of 35 games and her 20 points (5 goals, 15 assists) led the Buckeye freshman class and tied for third on the squad. In WCHA conference games, Bonhomme tied for fifth among freshmen and seventh among defencemen with 13 points. Her 107 shots paced the freshman class and was third on the team while her four power play goals tied for first on the team.
On October 17, 2003, she registered her first career assist versus Minnesota. Versus Wisconsin (on November 1), Bonhomme scored her first career goal. Said goal was also the game-winning goal. From October 25 to November 15, she had a five-game point streak. November 22 marked the first multi point game of her career. She had two assists versus Bemidji State.
Heading into her sophomore season (2004–05), Bonhomme appeared in 30 of 37 games. Her 27 points ranked third on the team while her 20 assists were second. Of her seven goals, three were scored on the power play. For the season, she was the only Buckeye to finish with positive rating at plus-3. On December 11, 2004, Bonhomme scored two goals against North Dakota in a 3–1 win. In a 5–4 win against the Yale Bulldogs (on January 14), Bonhomme registered three assists. During the season, she had a five-game point streak that began on January 21 and ended on February 4. In a WCHA tournament game (March 4), she had two assists vs. Minnesota State. Of note, she was the first Buckeye to compete for the Canadian women's national ice hockey team when she was one of 20 Canadian players selected to participate in the 4 Nations Cup from November 10–14.
Bonhomme returned to the Buckeyes in 2006 after redshirting the 2005–06 season while taking part in the Canadian Centralization Program in association with the women's national team. Through two seasons, the two-time letterwinner already ranked fourth all-time in defencemen scoring with 47 points. She was co-captain of the team along with Amber Bowman, Katie Maroney and Lacey Schultz.
In her first series back with Ohio State (October 6–7, 2006), Bonhomme had two goa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod%20%28distributed%20computing%29 | Nimrod is a tool for the parametrization of serial programs to create and execute embarrassingly parallel programs over a computational grid. It is a co-allocating, scheduling and brokering service. Nimrod was one of the first tools to make use of heterogeneous resources in a grid for a single computation. It was also an early example of using a market economy to perform grid scheduling. This enables Nimrod to provide a guaranteed completion time despite using best-effort services.
The tool was created as a research project funded by the Distributed Systems Technology Centre. The principal investigator is Professor David Abramson of Monash University.
References
External links
Nimrod Toolkit the official Nimrod project page at Monash eScience and Grid Engineering Laboratory (MeSsAGE Lab)
Nimrod: Tools for Distributed Parametric Modelling the former Nimrod project page at Monash University, via archive.org. Archived 22 July 2008.
Grid computing products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA%20on%20NBN/IBC | The PBA on NBN and The PBA on IBC were brandings used for presentations of Philippine Basketball Association games produced by Summit Sports and was aired on Philippine television networks National Broadcasting Network and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, respectively in 2003. The PBA on NBN and The PBA on IBC succeeded PBA's longtime TV partner Vintage Television.
Overview
The consortium of NBN and IBC took over the league's TV coverage after winning the TV rights over the league's longtime TV partner Vintage Television on November 8, 2002. The league considered the NBN-IBC bid because they can provide a wider coverage of the games not only in Metro Manila but also throughout the provinces. The consortium signed an agreement to the PBA to cover the games for three years, paying the league for almost P670 million.
NBN began airing the PBA games with the opening of the 2003 PBA season on February 23, 2003, while IBC first aired the PBA games on March 16, 2003.
The first week's ratings of the games over NBN were negligible when compared to those of IBC which had telecast the games for several years, while even the two networks combined ratings were way below those of Viva TV in 2002. The use of two networks to broadcast the PBA also led to an experiment during the first few months of the season where NBN and IBC would air separate telecasts of a game aimed at different audiences, NBN's broadcasts were more traditionally styled, while IBC's broadcasts were aimed at a younger audience, utilizing a separate pool of younger personalities. The format was eventually dropped and replaced with straight simulcasts later on in the season.
Due to allegations by IBC that NBN had not paid close to 30 million pesos in rights fees, IBC stopped broadcasting PBA games at the end of October 2003. NBN would continue on until the finals of the 2003 Reinforced Conference. The PBA gave the consortium a formal notice on December 1, 2003, to settle their debts of unpaid rights fees, that reached up to P134 million, plus the P60 million penalty due to the stoppage of IBC to simulcast the league's games, else their contract will be terminated. A bid would be held for a new contract, where the Associated Broadcasting Company (now TV5 Network, Inc.) was awarded the broadcast rights for the league beginning in the 2004 season.
Commentators
Play-by-play
Sandi Geronimo
Mico Halili
TJ Manotoc
Boom Gonzalez
Carlo Del Carmen
Sev Sarmenta
Vitto Lazatin
Noel Zarate
Color
Norman Black
Ramon Fernandez
Jayvee Gayoso
Vic Ycasiano
Andrew Cruz
Dominic Uy
Danny Francisco
Quinito Henson
Leo Isaac
Yeng Guiao
Courtside reporters
Patricia Bermudez-Hizon
Janelle So
Mabel Reyes
Chiqui Roa-Puno
Lala Roque
Paolo Trillo
Mark Zambrano
See also
Philippine Basketball Association
List of programs aired by People's Television Network
List of programs previously broadcast by Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
References
NBN IBC
People's Television Network original programming
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Film%20and%20Television%20Network | The Irish Film and Television Network is a company that provides news and a directory service of information related to the Irish film industry.
External links
Official web site
Mass media in the Republic of Ireland
Film organisations in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNVO%20%28TV%29 | KNVO (channel 48) is a television station licensed to McAllen, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Harlingen-licensed Fox affiliate KFXV, channel 60 (and translators KMBH-LD and KXFX-CD), primary CW+ affiliate and secondary PBS member KCWT-CD (channel 21), and Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD (channel 32). The stations share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen, while KNVO's transmitter is located on Farm to Market Road 493 near Donna, Texas.
History
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit on October 9, 1983, to build a television station licensed in McAllen. Originally, the station was approved to broadcast on UHF channel 48 with 4,071 kW effective radiated power, but was later changed to 3,162 kW on April 16, 1992. The station made its debut on October 12, 1992. During the station's first years on the air, KNVO quickly became the highest-rated station in the market.
In 1996, LS Broadcasting, Ltd., Mundo Vision Broadcasting Company and Larry Safir (the owners of the station) station sold the licensee of KNVO to Entravision Communications for $24,8 million. Sale was completed on January 24, 1997.
On October 11, 2001, the Federal Communications Commission granted a permit to construct the station's digital facilities (requested in 1999). The station completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in June 2006, and was granted a license on June 26, 2007.
News operation
KNVO's newscast debuted in 1999. The station presently broadcasts seven hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays). In September 2010, KNVO started broadcasting local news in high definition.
As of 2012, KNVO was the second highest-rated newscast in the market, behind ABC affiliate KRGV-TV (channel 5).
In early December 2015, Entravision canceled the morning newscasts at all of its stations in the United States, including KNVO's Alegre Despertar.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNVO shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 48.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Texas
Univision network affiliates
UniMás network affiliates
LATV affiliates
Ion Television affiliates
Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Entravision Communications stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUPB | KUPB (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Midland, Texas, United States, serving the Permian Basin area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Univision network. The station is owned by Entravision Communications, and has studios on Younger Road in Midland; its transmitter is located on University Boulevard in West Odessa.
History
The station commenced broadcasting on analog channel 18 on May 14, 2001. KUPB moved to digital broadcasting on June 12, 2009 at 9:00 a.m., "flash-cutting" to digital channel 18 after a temporary (3 minutes) signal outage. (KUPB was granted a construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission finalized the digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997; as a result, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.) KUPB moved to high definition (1080i) at 10 a.m. on May 3, 2010.
In 2013, KUPB added a secondary station, KUPB-DT2, and began airing ZUUS Latino on 18.2. In 2014, it removed ZUUS Latino and replaced it with LATV.
In 2018, KUPB added two additional subchannels that broadcast English programming.
News operation
Noticias 18 was launched on November 5, 2007 to provide news for the viewers in the Permian Basin. KUPB had been airing two-minute newsbriefs since August 2003. On October 13, 2008, the name of the newscast was changed to Noticias Univision Oeste de Texas and began to be simulcast on San Angelo sister station KEUS-LP. In 2015, Entravision transferred production of KUPB's newscasts to El Paso sister station KINT-TV.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Texas
UPB
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Entravision Communications stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Plastic%20Man%20Comedy/Adventure%20Show | The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show is an animated television series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions from 1979 to 1981; it was shown right after Super Friends on the ABC Network.
The show featured various adventures of the DC Comics superhero Plastic Man. The anthology show included several components, including Plastic Man, Baby Plas, Plastic Family, Mighty Man and Yukk, Fangface and Fangpuss, and Rickety Rocket.
By January 1980, it was cut down to 90 minutes, dropping off Rickety Rocket, amidst low ratings. By the 1980-81 season, the format was reduced to a half-hour and it was retooled into The Plasticman/Baby Plas Super Comedy alongside two other Ruby-Spears productions Thundarr the Barbarian and Heathcliff and Dingbat. The show was repackaged by Arlington Television into 130 half-hour episodes, and released into national, first-run-off-network daily syndication in 1984. The Plastic Man Comedy Show was produced and directed by Steve Whiting and featured a live-action "Plastic Man", played by Taylor Marks.
Premise
The origin of Plastic Man is never expressly stated on this series, but it is implied he was originally the small-time crook Patrick "Eel" O'Brian who reformed after he was left for dead by the mob and gained plastic stretch powers. Plastic Man, his girlfriend Penny, and his Polynesian sidekick Hula-Hula travel the world and are given their assignments from the Chief to stop any threat to the world. Plastic Man often retains his sense of humor even in dangerous situations, such as a giant octopus capturing Penny and Hula-Hula causing him to ask "What scout troop did he belong to?"
Only Plastic Man villains Doctor Dome, Doctor Honctoff, Carrot-Man and Spider came from the comics while every other villain was created for the series. The series has a regular consumer affairs public service announcement that presents simple consumer advice for viewers, such as shopping around various retailers for the best price, or going to the public library to see if a desired book is available to borrow instead of buying it.
In early episodes Penny has a crush on Plastic Man, who chooses to ignore it as he himself has a crush on the dark-haired female Chief. However, in the second season Plastic Man reciprocates Penny's crush on him and the two marry. The marriage produces a son who has the same powers as Plastic Man and spawns a lighter series of episodes featuring Baby Plas doing things such as saving his friends from neighborhood bullies.
Segments
Besides Plastic Man, Baby Plas, and the Plastic Family, the rest of the original lineup in the first season consists of:
Mighty Man and Yukk - The adventures of a tiny superhero (voiced by Peter Cullen) and his talking dog sidekick (voiced by Frank Welker) who wears a doghouse-helmet because he is so ugly that he can destroy practically anything just by looking at it. The two of them protect their city from various villains when called in by the unnamed Mayor (voiced by John Stephenson).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLM | KTLM (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Rio Grande City, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station maintains studios in the Chase Bank building in McAllen, and its transmitter is located near Rio Grande City.
History
The station's original construction permit was issued to the Starr County Historical Foundation on June 10, 1994, with the call sign KAIO issued on September 1. The foundation intended to run KAIO as a non-commercial station promoting tourism in the Rio Grande Valley; that idea, however, was later abandoned. On October 5, 1998, KAIO changed its call letters to KTLM and picked up the Telemundo affiliation from XHRIO-TV (channel 2), which had struggled with signal strength in the western parts of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The station went on the air August 1, 1999.
In 2000, the Starr County Historical Foundation sold KTLM to Sunbelt Multimedia, a division of the Starr Camargo Bridge Company, unrelated to Sunbelt Communications Company. Sunbelt Multimedia had been managing the station since its launch. On September 10, 2012, Sunbelt Multimedia put KTLM up for sale, with Patrick Communications managing partner Larry Patrick named to run the station while in receivership. Documents were forwarded to the FCC to officially put the station under Patrick's control. His media worked to try to earn enough money to repay creditors of Sunbelt Multimedia. A year later, a deal was reached to sell KTLM to Telemundo Rio Grande Valley LLC, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal; this made the station a Telemundo owned-and-operated station. The sale was finalized on December 31.
News operation
KTLM launched a news department in 2003, with a 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscast on weeknights originally anchored by Yolanda de la Cruz. In 2010, Dalia Garza was promoted from health reporter to the main anchor.
After NBC's purchase, local news was expanded to include the latest weekend news, a 9 a.m. morning show named Buenos Días Frontera, an in-house weather forecast with two new weather presenters, and a new public affairs program named Enfoque McAllen. On September 2, 2014, KTLM debuted a new anchor team. This team included a co-anchor for Dalia Garza and a new weather anchor to replace Marlen Sosa, who had left two months earlier with Elizabeth Robaina. An updated set named Noticias Telemundo 40 was inaugurated at the same time. On November 3, 2014, along with 14 other stations owned by NBC Universal and Telemundo, KTLM launched a new 4:30 p.m. newscast, moving Al Rojo Vivo to 3 p.m. and Lo Mejor de Caso Cerrado to a half hour slot at 4:00 p.m. This allowed room for an extended newscast running from 4:30 to 5 p.m. On May 26, 2016, the station launched a Consumer Investigative Unit Franchise called "Telemundo Responde". This was led by anchor and reporter Ana Cecilia Méndez, who took this new role in place of her p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gata%20Salvaje | Gata Salvaje (English: Wild Cat) is a telenovela which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela on May 16, 2002, and some days later was released on the Spanish language U.S. TV network Univision from mid-summer of 2002 until May 2003, and later aired in Mexico on Canal de las Estrellas from January 2003 to December 2003.
This is one of two telenovelas starring Marlene Favela and Mario Cimarro as the main protagonists, the other being Los Herederos Del Monte from Telemundo.
Venezuelan actresses Carolina Tejera and Marjorie de Sousa, Mexican actor Ariel López Padilla, Colombian actress Aura Cristina Geithner and Puerto Rican actress Mara Croatto stars as the main antagonists.
Plot
Marco Sealvaje fratello di Gata Sealvaje è sorella di Marco Sealvaje tells the story of Rosaura Rios, a beautiful and kind young woman who lost her mother and who lives with her drunkard father Anselmo, her sisters Mayrita and Karina, her stepmother Maria Julia and her brother Ivan. She has no choice but to work during day as a lunch girl picking up food from the workers in the Arismendi's land; and at night, as a bartender in a nightclub in order to be able to sustain her family who lives in a small house next to the fabulous ranch of the wealthy Arismendi family. They lost their house due to the hurricane in Tampa.
Luis Mario Arismendi is an educated and handsome young man, heir to the family fortune, who loses his wife, Camelia, in an accident at sea, and she is never recovered. This event keeps him in a sentimental limbo for quite some time. But before that, both of them were together enjoying their honeymoon while Patricio, Camelia's former lover called to threaten her that if she refuses to leave Luis Mario, he would tell Luis Mario that he and Camelia are lovers; and he is the only one who gives Camelia the kind of life that she desires and wants. But Camelia decided to leave Luis Mario forever to escape with him.
Luis Mario decides to return from New York to take over the family business – the ranch – which is not in good financial standing. As he returns, the small plane in which he travels suffers an accident very close by to the ranch. Rosaura, who is in the area, reaches him and rescues him. Luis Mario instinctively kisses Rosaura and Rosaura is smitten.
Eduarda, Luis Mario's sister, is determined to see Luis Mario married to Eva Granados, a beautiful but impulsive and demanding rich girl that will guarantee that they will not be financially ruined; but Luis Mario, in order to go against his sister, marries Rosaura, who is deeply in love with him although he doesn't share the same feelings.
When they get married Eva kisses him on the mouth, Rosaura reacts by scratching him on the face, thus getting the name of "Wild Cat". Eduarda and Eva plan to make Rosaura's and Luis Mario's life miserable. They form a plan and murder Rosuara's father by running him over. After trapping Rosaura in their games and turning Luis Mario against her, they finally manag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUHM-TV | KUHM-TV (channel 10) is a PBS member television station in Helena, Montana, United States. Owned by Montana State University (MSU), it is operated as part of the Montana PBS state network (a joint venture with the University of Montana (UM)). KUHM-TV's transmitter is located on Hogback Mountain; master control and internal operations are based at the network's headquarters in the Visual Communications Building on the MSU campus in Bozeman.
History
The station was originally granted its construction permit on July 23, 1996; on September 16, it was assigned the call letters KAQR. On October 1, 1997, the station changed its call letters to KBCC; on March 27, 1998, channel 10 took on the KMTF call sign which had been used prior in the central California region. On August 15, 1998, the station started broadcasting as the local Fox affiliate; KMTF also had a secondary affiliation with UPN. On July 1, 2001, due to low ratings and revenue, the station dropped the Fox affiliation and became an affiliate of Pax TV; area cable systems quickly added Foxnet to their lineups to continue carrying Fox programming. After KMTF's affiliation agreement with Pax TV expired in July 2005, the station switched to The WB; the switch made Helena the eighth market in which The WB 100+ Station Group (a predominantly cable-only service that brought WB programming to smaller markets) was seen on an over-the-air station. In September 2006, KMTF became the affiliate for The CW and become part of The CW Plus, the successor of The WB 100+ Station Group.
For most of its time as a commercial station, KMTF was owned by Rocky Mountain Broadcasting Company, which was 51% owned by Uhlmann/Latshaw Broadcasting (itself jointly owned by The Uhlmann Company and Latshaw Enterprises until early 2014, when Uhlmann bought Latshaw's stake) and 49% owned by Meridian Communications; a $60,000 purchase of Uhlmann/Latshaw's stake by Meridian, proposed in 2006, was dismissed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 4, 2014. From October 13, 1999, until August 15, 2005, Sunbelt Communications Company (now known as Intermountain West Communications Company), owner of NBC affiliate KTVH (channel 12), programmed KMTF under a time brokerage agreement; the agreement had been assigned to Sunbelt by Meridian, who had operated KMTF since its 1998 launch. Concurrent with the termination of the time brokerage agreement, Sunbelt entered into a joint sales agreement with Rocky Mountain, supplemented on August 30 with a shared services agreement. Through Meridian, KMTF's ownership included the daughter of IWCC's owner and founder. The arrangement was set up in such a way so as to circumvent FCC rules regarding ownership of competing stations by the same entity. However, as the original time brokerage agreement was made after November 5, 1996, it was not grandfathered after the FCC began to consider such agreements in excess of 15% to be attributable, and was thus required to be unwound by Aug |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20cohesion | In sociology, structural cohesion is the conception of a useful formal definition and measure of cohesion in social groups. It is defined as the minimal number of actors in a social network that need to be removed to disconnect the group. It is thus identical to the question of the node connectivity of a given graph in discrete mathematics. The vertex-cut version of Menger's theorem also proves that the disconnection number is equivalent to a maximally sized group with a network in which every pair of persons has at least this number of separate paths between them. It is also useful to know that -cohesive graphs (or -components) are always a subgraph of a -core, although a -core is not always -cohesive. A -core is simply a subgraph in which all nodes have at least neighbors but it need not even be connected.
The boundaries of structural endogamy in a kinship group are a special case of structural cohesion.
Software
Cohesive.blocking is the R program for computing structural cohesion according to the Moody-White (2003) algorithm. This wiki site provides numerous examples and a tutorial for use with R.
Examples
Some illustrative examples are presented in the gallery below:
Perceived cohesion
Perceived Cohesion Scale (PCS) is a six item scale that is used to measure structural cohesion in groups. In 1990, Bollen and Hoyle used the PCS and applied it to a study of large groups which were used to assess the psychometric qualities of their scale.
See also
Community cohesion
Social cohesion
Social network
References
Social network analysis
Graph connectivity
Network analysis
Sociological terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TE%20Connectivity | TE Connectivity is an American Swiss-domiciled technology company that designs and manufactures connectors and sensors for several industries, such as automotive, industrial equipment, data communication systems, aerospace, defense, medical, oil and gas, consumer electronics and energy.
TE Connectivity has a global workforce of 89,000 employees, including more than 8,000 engineers. The company serves customers in approximately 140 countries.
History
In 1941, Aircraft and Marine Products (AMP) was founded with solderless electrical connections for quick and removable wire connection used for aircraft and ships. After the war time boom, the company had to adapt to post-war economy and in 1956 the name was changed to AMP Incorporated when it incorporated. In 1999, Tyco International acquired American electronics connector manufacturer AMP Incorporated.
In September 2002 the CEO (L. Dennis Kozlowski) and CFO (Mark H. Swartz) of Tyco International Ltd. were indicted on charges including fraud, racketeering, stock manipulation, and more, amounting to more than 600 million dollars of theft.
In July 2007, Tyco separated into three publicly independent companies, Covidien Ltd (formerly Tyco Healthcare), Tyco Electronics Ltd, and Tyco International Ltd (formerly Tyco Fire & Security and Tyco Engineered Products & Services (TFS/TEPS)).
On March 10, 2011, Tyco Electronics Ltd changed its name to TE Connectivity Ltd, which the company said felt more relevant to its position as a connectivity and sensor component manufacturer.
On August 28, 2015, TE Connectivity announced that it has completed the sale of its broadband-networks business to CommScope Holding Co. for about US$3 billion.
Products and services
TE Connectivity's product portfolio is focused on connectors and sensors that are made to withstand harsh environments. The company operates three primary segments:
Communications
TE Connectivity's communications segment supplies electronic components for home appliances, including products for washers, dryers, refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, cooking appliances, water heaters, and microwaves.
Transportation
The transportation segment includes four business units: automotive, industrial and commercial transportation, application tooling, and sensors.
TE's products are used by the automotive industry for body and chassis systems, convenience applications, driver information, infotainment, miniaturization, motor and powertrain applications, and safety and security systems. Hybrid and electronic mobility include in-vehicle technologies, battery technologies, and charging. In addition, TE's products are used for on- and off-highway vehicles and recreational transportation, including construction, agriculture, buses, and other vehicles.
TE offers sensors for industries including automotive, industrial equipment, commercial transportation, medical, aerospace and defence, and consumer applications.
Industrial
The industrial segment su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Oldfield | Jim Oldfield is an author, editor, and reviewer famous for his work with Commodore computers. He is married to Deb Oldfield and is the father of James, Jon, and Jason Oldfield.
He was the founder of the pioneering Commodore magazine, the Midnite Software Gazette, and was Associate Editor of .info (magazine). He is currently Vice President and Publisher at Abacus, a computer book and software publisher that specializes in supporting simulation software.
References
Abacus
INFO Magazine History
External links
Oldfield Family Page
Technical writers
Commodore people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork%20%28disambiguation%29 | Zork is an interactive computer game.
Zork may also refer to:
Zork (wine), an alternative wine closure
ŽORK Jagodina, a handball club
ŽORK Napredak Kruševac, a handball club |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfield | Hopfield may refer to:
A field used for cultivating hops
Hopfield net, a type of neural network
John Joseph Hopfield (born 1933), American biologist and physicist, inventor of the Hopfield net
John J. Hopfield (spectroscopist) (1891–1953), American spectroscopist, with several eponymous spectral details:
Hopfield bands, one of the important molecular oxygen absorption bands
Lyman–Birge–Hopfield bands (LBH bands), one of the important molecular nitrogen absorption bands
Hopfield continuum, a band in the emission spectrum of helium
See also:
Adventure in the Hopfields, a 1954 black and white short (60 min) film, directed by John Guillermin and written by John Cresswell, thought to have been lost until 2002 when an American film fan found a copy in a rubbish skip outside a Chicago television studio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retransmission%20consent | Retransmission consent is a provision of the 1992 United States Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act that requires cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) to obtain permission from commercial broadcasters before carrying their programming.
Under the provision, a broadcast station (or its affiliated/parent broadcast network) can ask for monetary payment or other compensation, such as carriage of an additional channel. If the cable operator rejects the broadcaster's proposal, the station can prohibit the cable operator from retransmitting its signal.
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates this area of business and public policy pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Part II.
History
Since the 1960s, the Federal Communications Commission had established must carry rules, which required cable television operators to carry all significantly viewed local stations. In 1985 and 1987, the judiciary decided that the must carry rules were in violation of the First Amendment rights of the cable operators.
In response, the Congress passed the 1992 Cable Act, which established a combination of must carry and retransmission consent provisions. Stations were given the right to either require cable operators to carry their signal at no cost, or negotiate with cable operators for carriage fees that the latter could refuse.
Initially, cable carriers' reaction was to refuse to pay for broadcast programming. John Malone, head of cable giant TeleCommunications Inc. refused to pay to carry broadcasters' content saying, "I don't intend to pay any money ... I will scratch backs." Instead of monetary payment, some broadcast networks agreed to distribute secondary channels. America's Talking (now MSNBC), FX, and ESPN2 all originated through retransmission consent deals in the early 1990s. Many PBS stations received additional local channels.
However, in the mid 2000s the stations succeeded in earning carriage fees from cable/satellite systems.
Legislative history
Legislation governing the retransmission of broadcast television content by satellite companies is required to be renewed on a regular basis. As of 2018, the legislation has been enacted four times. These acts renewed statutory licenses that allow satellite TV companies to retransmit broadcast stations to their customers:
1999: Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act
2004: Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act
2010: Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act
2014: STELA Reauthorization Act
Debate
Retransmission consent has drawn criticism from the cable operators who redistribute programming, and therefore must seek consent from the broadcasters for their program content. Cable programmers have argued that there is a "shift in leverage toward broadcasters" within the market since introduction of retransmission compensation.
Broadcasters typically claim that the programming they provide costs money, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Point-to-Point%20Compression | Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC; described in RFC 2118) is a streaming data compression algorithm based on an implementation of Lempel–Ziv using a sliding window buffer. According to Hifn's IP statement, MPPC was patent-encumbered (last US patent granted on 1996-07-02).
Whereas V.44 or V.42bis operate at layer 1 on the OSI model, MPPC operates on layer 2, giving it a significant advantage in terms of computing resources available to it. The dialup modem's in-built compression (V.44 or V.42bis) can only occur after the data has been serially transmitted to the modem, typically at a maximum rate of 115,200 bit/s. MPPC, as it is controlled by the operating system, can receive as much data as it wishes to compress, before forwarding it on to the modem.
The modem's hardware must not delay data too much, while waiting for more to compress in one packet, otherwise an unacceptable latency level will result. It also cannot afford to, as this would require both sizable computing resources (on the scale of a modem) as well as significant buffer RAM. Software compression such as MPPC is free to use the host computer's resources, exceeding the modem's by several orders of magnitude. This allows it to keep a much larger buffer to work on at any one time, and it processes through a given amount of data much faster.
The end result is that where V.44 may achieve a maximum of 4:1 compression (230 kbit/s) but is usually limited to 115.2 kbit/s, MPPC is capable of a maximum of 8:1 compression (460 kbit/s). MPPC also, given the far greater computing power at its disposal, is more effective on data than V.44 and achieves higher compression ratios when 8:1 isn't achievable.
See also
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE)
LZ77
LZS
Stac Electronics
References
Modems
Microsoft initiatives
Lossless compression algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnesia | Mnesia is a distributed, soft real-time database management system written in the Erlang programming language. It is distributed as part of the Open Telecom Platform.
Description
As with Erlang, Mnesia was developed by Ericsson for soft real-time distributed and high-availability computing work related to telecoms. It was not intended as a general office-based data processing database management system, nor to replace SQL-based systems. Instead Mnesia exists to support Erlang, where DBMS-like persistence is required. It has more in common with embeddable DBMS such as Berkeley DB than with any SQL database server.
Database model
"Rows" in tables are represented as records that contain a key value and a data field. This data field may in turn be a tuple containing an Erlang data structure of any complexity.
Backend types
Mnesia has three inbuilt table types: ram_copies, disc_copies and disc_only_copies.
Ram_copies
Data resides in memory and table size is limited by available memory and are backed by ETS (erlang term storage) table.
Disc_copies
Data resides in memory but is also persisted on disk backed by disk_log. Disc_copies were backed by Dets tables until 30th September 2001 with the release of Erlang R7B-4.
Disc_only_copies
Data resides only on disc and are backed by Dets (disk version of ETS). Dets file format uses signed 32-bit integers for file offsets and has a limit of 2 GB so do disc_only_copies.
Backend plugins
Due to limits imposed by Dets, support for other backend plugins was suggested by Ulf Wiger and these were added to Mnesia. Klarna added the LevelDB backend plugin while Aeternity added the RocksDB backend plugin.
Relational features
The database model is relational, but isn't what someone familiar with SQL might expect. A database contains tables. Relationships between them are modelled as other tables.
A key feature of Mnesia's high-availability approach is that tables can be reconfigured within a schema and relocated between nodes, not only while the database is still running, but even while write operations are still going on.
Coding
The query language of Mnesia is Erlang itself, rather than SQL. It permits easy representation of transactions as a natural feature of Erlang by allowing developers to utilize a single language throughout an application.
Transactions
Erlang is a functional language. Mnesia builds on this to obtain ACID transaction support. The functional block which is run as a transaction is a commonplace Erlang construct called a Functional Object (or Fun) and is called by the single Mnesia statement mnesia:transaction(F). This can lead to clearer source code than the paired BEGIN / COMMIT syntax of SQL, and so avoids its problem of unclosed transactions within a procedure.
Again as a result of the functional nature of Erlang, nesting transactions is simple. It's also possible to distribute transactions across multiple nodes (i.e. separate servers). The semantics of using transactions in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker%20%28software%29 | Tinker, previously stylized as TINKER, is a suite of computer software applications for molecular dynamics simulation. The codes provide a complete and general set of tools for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics, with some special features for biomolecules. The core of the software is a modular set of callable routines which allow manipulating coordinates and evaluating potential energy and derivatives via straightforward means.
Tinker works on Windows, macOS, Linux and Unix. The source code is available free of charge to non-commercial users under a proprietary license. The code is written in portable FORTRAN 77, Fortran 95 or CUDA with common extensions, and some C.
Core developers are: (a) the Jay Ponder lab, at the Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Laboratory head Ponder is Full Professor of Chemistry, and of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics; (b) the Pengyu Ren lab , at the Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Texas in Austin, Austin, Texas. Laboratory head Ren is Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering; (c) Jean-Philip Piquemal's research team at Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Department of Chemistry, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Research team head Piquemal is Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry.
Features
The Tinker package is based on several related codes: (a) the canonical Tinker, version 8, (b) the Tinker9 package as a direct extension of canonical Tinker to GPU systems, (c) the Tinker-HP package for massively parallel MPI applications on hybrid CPU and GPU-based systems, (d) Tinker-FFE for visualization of Tinker calculations via a Java-based graphical interface, and (e) the Tinker-OpenMM package for Tinker's use with GPUs via an interface for the OpenMM software. All of the Tinker codes are available from the TinkerTools organization site on GitHub. Additional information is available from the TinkerTools community web site.
Programs are provided to perform many functions including:
energy minimizing over Cartesian coordinates, torsional angles, or rigid bodies via conjugate gradient, variable metric or a truncated Newton method
molecular, stochastic, and rigid body dynamics with periodic boundaries and control of temperature and pressure
normal mode vibrational analysis
distance geometry including an efficient random pairwise metrization
building protein and nucleic acid structures from sequence
simulated annealing with various cooling protocols
analysis and breakdown of single point potential energies
verification of analytical derivatives of standard and user defined potentials
location of a transition state between two minima
full energy surface search via a Conformation Scanning method
free energy calculations via free energy perturbation or weighted histogram analysis
fitting of intermolecular potential parameters to structural and thermodynamic data
global optimizing via energy surface smoothing, including a Potential Smooth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daidarasaurus | Daidarasaurus was a steel roller coaster located at Expoland in Suita, Osaka, Japan. According to some sources (i.e. the roller coaster database), Daidarasaurus was the second longest roller coaster in the world, behind Steel Dragon 2000. For reasons explained below, other sources (i.e. the Guinness Book of World Records) did not recognize Daidarasaurus's claim as longest roller coaster in the world from 1999 to 2000. Daidarasaurus has now been demolished as Expoland is now permanently closed.
Daidarasaurus was formerly a dual-track racing coaster. In 1999 the two tracks were combined to create one exceptionally long track with two lift hills. This also made it a Möbius Loop. This effectively doubled the length of the ride. What remains in dispute is whether this actually qualified as one long coaster or back-to-back rides on the same coaster.
References
Expoland to close 21 months after fatal roller coaster disaster accessed June 7, 2009.
Roller coasters in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op%20Solutions | CU Cooperative Systems, Inc. doing business as Co-op Solutions (formerly d.b.a. CO-OP Financial Services), is a company that operates an interbank network connecting the ATMs of credit unions in the United States, with locations also in Canada and certain United States Navy bases overseas. It is the largest credit union-owned interbank network in the US.
It is headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
History
The CO-OP Network began in 1981 when 20 credit unions in California united their 32 ATMs.
In 1986 the first CO-OP ATMs are deployed at 7-Eleven stores.
In 2002, the network added its first Canadian member, CS CO-OP.
In 2003, the network added 262 ATMs of the Navy Federal Credit Union which are located on U.S. Naval bases through the United States plus Africa, Bahrain, Cuba, Diego Garcia, Greece, Guam, Italy, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Spain. ATM access at these bases are restricted to individuals with the proper base security access.
In 2007, CO-OP members gained access to ATMs at 321 Costco Wholesale warehouses around the country.
In 2015, CO-OP acquired majority interest in Canadian payments solutions provider Everlink Payment Services Inc.
CO-OP acquired payment processor TMG in 2017, of which it held minority ownership since 2012.
In 2019 Co-op Solutions processed 7.6 billion financial transactions.
Shared branching
Co-op Solutions also provides what the company calls shared branching. Members of 1,800 credit unions can perform most teller transactions at any one of the network's 5,700 branches. This system was founded in 1975 by five Detroit-area credit unions to minimize costs associated with having their own branches.
References
External links
Interbank networks
Cooperatives in the United States
Financial services companies of the United States
Companies based in San Bernardino County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse%20Network | The Multiverse Network, Inc. was an American startup company creating a network and platform for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and 3D virtual worlds. Multiverse's stated aim was to lower the barrier of entry for development teams by providing a low-cost software platform for online game and virtual world development.
In 2009, the company extended its development platform to support Flash and built a series of real-time multiplayer games to demo the technology. As part of the worldwide marketing effort behind James Cameron's film Avatar, Multiverse built two Flash-based games, one with McDonald's and another with Coca-Cola Zero. Both games allow players to explore Pandora, where much of the film takes place.
In late 2011, Multiverse closed from lack of profits, releasing the source code to the Multiverse Foundation, a nonprofit group of volunteers who are presently updating the platform.
Technology
Multiverse provided technology known as MMOG middleware (Multiverse used the term platform). It included the client software Multiverse World Browser (for Microsoft Windows only), a server suite, development tools, sample assets, documentation, and a developer community. The goal was to provide consumers/users with a single client program that let them visit all of the virtual worlds built on the Multiverse Platform. From the consumer point of view, this enabled a de facto network of virtual worlds.
Like RealmForge, the Multiverse World Browser was written in C#, and based on the Axiom Engine. The Multiverse server suite was written in Java and used a publish/subscribe messaging system to provide reliability and scalability. The server also provided a plug-in API. The Windows-based tools used the COLLADA data interchange format, to enable artists to import 3D assets from popular tools such as Maya, 3D Studio Max, and Google SketchUp.
Business model
Multiverse provided its technology platform cost-free for development and deployment. Income came through revenue-sharing; Multiverse took a share of any payments made by consumers/users to the world developer. If a developer provided a world for free (or free for a period of time), Multiverse did not charge anything. When a developer started charging consumers/users, Multiverse took a share (10 percent), and also handled the financial transaction processing. Development teams hosted their own servers and retained 100 percent of their world's IP.
James Cameron joined the company's board of advisors, and Red Herring magazine selected it as one of the "Red Herring 100" privately held companies that play a leading role in innovating the technology business.
In December, 2006, Multiverse announced that it had optioned the rights to develop an MMOG based on Firefly, the science fiction television series. In 2008, Buffy and Titanic games were announced. None of them ever came to fruition.
Open source
After closing shop, the Multiverse Network released its code as open source under th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Prechter | Heinz Prechter (January 19, 1942 – July 6, 2001) was a German-born American entrepreneur who founded the American Sunroof Company (ASC). He also founded Heritage Network, Inc., made up of companies in transportation, hospitality, and communications. He was an entrepreneur, community leader, and philanthropist. He was also a close friend and strong fundraiser for the Bush Family.
Early life
Born in 1942 in Kleinhöbing, Germany, Prechter began his automotive career at the age of 13 as an apprentice in automotive trim, tool and die making, and coach and body building. Germany has had a strong apprentice system in skilled trades, enabling students to gain practical work experience and entry into valuable jobs. After completing his studies at the Berufs-Oberschule in Nuremberg, Prechter furthered his education at Nuremberg's Ohm Polytechnic Engineering School.
During his studies, Prechter gained a wide range of practical experience working for a number of German companies, including Faunwerke (a truck and military equipment supplier), Siemens (an electronics firm), and Deutz (a diesel engine manufacturer).
In 1963, he came to the U.S. as a 19-year-old exchange student. While studying Business Administration and English at San Francisco State College, he began installing sunroofs – then a virtually unknown product in the US.
Fifteen months later, in 1965, Prechter founded the American Sunroof Company (now ASC Incorporated) in Los Angeles. He spent US$764 on tools, built a workbench made from an old door covered with aluminum, and found a sewing machine at a junkyard. His one-man enterprise soon became well known for "custom" sunroofs, and his creative approach to supporting the development of specialty vehicles for the film industry.
American Sunroof Corporation
ASC was a supplier of highly engineered and designed roof systems, body systems and other specialty-vehicle systems for the world's automakers. Formerly headquartered in Southgate, Michigan, the company employed approximately 1,000 employees at facilities throughout the U.S.
In addition to ASC, Prechter founded Heritage Network Inc., a group of Michigan companies involved in the transportation, hospitality, and communications industries. His Heritage Network group included a weekly newspaper chain (one of the largest in the state of Michigan), a real estate development company, and a beef cattle business. In early 1997, he created Prechter Holdings, which owned the ASC and Heritage businesses.
Heinz Prechter was recognized for his entrepreneurial accomplishments, broad community involvement, and political achievements. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Harvard Business Club and received the Automotive Hall of Fame's Automotive Industry Leader of the Year award. He served on many community and corporate boards, including those of Detroit Renaissance, Comerica Bank and ThyssenKrupp's automotive supervisory board. He also served as a fundraiser for the Bush Family and was a frie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Sports%20%28disambiguation%29 | ABC Sports is the former name of ESPN on ABC, a name of sports programs on the American Broadcasting Company in the United States.
ABC Sports may also refer to:
ABC Sport, a sports programming division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia
One Sports, formerly known as ABC Sports, a sports programming division of The 5 Network in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPy%20fish | The MOPy fish is a freeware cyberpet, released in October 1997 for Microsoft Windows by The Global Beach Group on behalf of Hewlett-Packard. It had been downloaded more than 10 million times as of the year 2000. Based on the blood parrot cichlid fish, the MOPy fish has a complex behavior pattern.
History and Behavior
First released in 1997, the MOPy fish program was featured in the 2001 edition of the Guinness World Records as the most downloaded cyberpet. The MOPy fish can remember how it has been treated over the last week, and alters its behavior to correspond with the effort put into its care. It will, for example, become aggressive if not fed in five days, and may act depressed when starved for as many as ten days. If the MOPy fish is neglected and not fed for three weeks, it will fall sick and die. When the fish dies, all the MOPy points accumulated will be lost and the fish can only be brought back to life via a built-in menu. However, since MOPy fish is controlled by the operating system calendar, the fish can optionally also be brought back to life by manipulating the computer's date entry. Different versions of MOPy fish are still available for download at several websites.
MOPy Points
For each original document the user sends to their printer, they earn MOPy (Multiple Original Printouts) points. The user can spend points on accessories for the fish's environment, making it happier and enhancing the appearance of the screensaver. The available accessories are as follows:
20 points: Baby fish
800 points: Rock and plant
1600 points: Bubbles
2400 points: Thermometer
3200 points: Aphrodisiac Fish Food
The Aphrodisiac Fish Food must be downloaded using a key that you automatically receive upon obtaining 3200 points. HP no longer offers this download, but it can still be retrieved from the website of Bill Greganti, who authored some add-ons and patches for the program. Greganti also offers a download of the original MOPy Fish program and a hack to accumulate points.
Compatibility
Problems have been seen when running MOPy Fish on Windows XP and above, especially on 64-bit versions of the operating system, which do not support 16-bit software programs. On some 32-bit versions of Windows, "mopyfish" may not appear in the screen saver list, or will not start after the specified wait time. One known fix is to rename the mopyfish.scr file located in the Windows directory to SSmopyfish.scr. This works because some versions of Windows will only index screensaver files beginning with "SS".
References
External links
Global Beach website
MOPyFish.net - Courtesy Archive.org
Bill Greganti's Mopyfish Hacks Website - Courtesy Archive.org
1997 software
Virtual pets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dump%20analyzer | A dump analyzer is a programming tool which is used for understanding a machine readable core dump.
The GNU utils , , , and the powerful can all be used to look inside core files.
Introspector is a core dump analyzer for a compiler.
References
Debugging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFDA-FM | CFDA-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting an adult contemporary format at 101.9 FM in Victoriaville, Quebec. It shares the programming of sister station CKLD-FM in Thetford Mines.
The stations air the same programming at all times, although both stations produce a portion of the shared broadcast schedule from separate studios. Their CHR sister station CFJO-FM also produces programming in both cities, although it serves the region from a single 100-kilowatt transmitter.
History
The station was launched by Radio Victoriaville on October 19, 1951, airing on 1380 AM. It was sold to François Labbé's Radio-Mégantic in 1970, becoming a Radio-Canada affiliate as part of the Réseau des Appalaches from 1972 to 1979.
The station subsequently converted to its current FM frequency in 1999.
In April 2014, Montreal-based Attraction Radio announced plans to acquire all of Réseau des Appalaches' stations, including CFDA-FM; the decision is currently awaiting CRTC approval.
Pierre Bruneau, the current anchor of TVA's daytime newscasts, worked for CFDA early in his career.
References
External links
Plaisir 101,9
Fda
Fda
Fda
Victoriaville
Radio stations established in 1951
1951 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKLD-FM | CKLD-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting a soft adult contemporary format at 105.5 FM in Thetford Mines, Quebec. It shares the programming of sister station CFDA-FM in Victoriaville.
The stations air the same programming at all times, although both stations produce a portion of the shared broadcast schedule from separate studios. Their CHR sister station CFJO-FM also produces programming in both cities, although it serves the region from a single 100-kilowatt transmitter.
History
The station was launched on February 12, 1950 by Radio Mégantic. Broadcasting on 1230 AM, it was a private affiliate of the Radio-Canada network. François Labbé became president of the company in 1965.
The station moved to 1330 AM in 1976, and disaffiliated from Radio-Canada in 1979. The station moved to its current frequency in 1999.
In April 2014, Montreal-based Attraction Radio announced plans to acquire all of Réseau des Appalaches' stations, including CKLD-FM and CJLP-FM; the decision is currently awaiting CRTC approval.
Rebroadcasters
References
External links
Plaisir 105,5
Kld
Kld
Kld
Thetford Mines
Radio stations established in 1950
1950 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20transport%20network | An optical transport network (OTN) is a digital wrapper that encapsulates frames of data, to allow multiple data sources to be sent on the same channel. This creates an optical virtual private network for each client signal.
ITU-T defines an optical transport network as a set of optical network elements (ONE) connected by optical fiber links, able to provide functionality of transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of optical channels carrying client signals. An ONE may re-time, re-Amplify, re-shape (3R) but it does not have to be 3R it can be purely photonic. Unless connected by optical fibre links, it shall not be OTN. Mere functionality of switching, management, supervision shall not make it OTN, unless the signals are carried through optical fibre.
Comparing OTN and SONET/SDH
Standards
OTN was designed to provide higher throughput (currently 400G) than its predecessor SONET/SDH, which stops at 40Gbit/s, per channel.
ITU-T Recommendation G.709 is commonly called Optical Transport Network (OTN) (also called digital wrapper technology or optical channel wrapper). As of December 2009, OTN has standardized the following line rates.
The OTUk (k=1/2/2e/3/3e2/4) is an information structure into which another information structure called ODUk (k=1/2/2e/3/3e2/4) is mapped. The ODUk signal is the server layer signal for client signals. The following ODUk information structures are defined in ITU-T Recommendation G.709
Equipment
At a very high level, the typical signals processed by OTN equipment at the Optical Channel layer are:
SONET/SDH
Ethernet/FibreChannel
Packets
OTN
A few of the key functions performed on these signals are:
Protocol processing of all the signals:-
Mapping and de-mapping of non-OTN signals into and out of OTN signals
Multiplexing and de-multiplexing of OTN signals
Forward error correction (FEC) on OTN signals
Packet processing in conjunction with mapping/de-mapping of packet into and out of OTN signals
Switch Fabric
The OTN signals at all data-rates have the same frame structure but the frame period reduces as the data-rate increases. As a result, the Time-Slot Interchange (TSI) technique of implementing SONET/SDH switch fabrics is not directly applicable to OTN switch fabrics. OTN switch fabrics are typically implemented using Packet Switch Fabrics.
FEC Latency
On a point-to-point OTN link there is latency due to forward error correction (FEC) processing. Hamming distance of the RS(255,239) code is 17
See also
G.709
References
External links
Anritsu Poster - Details of all OTN areas including breakdown of the full frame
Optical Transport Network (OTN) Tutorial, ITU-T, only covers G.709 (2003/03)
Hot topics in Optical Transport Networks, Steve Trowbridge (Nokia), Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 15
ITU-T recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNN | BNN may refer to:
Badan Narkotika Nasional, a national anti-narcotics agency in Indonesia
Banana News Network, a comedy TV Show
Baltic News Network, a business news portal
Bart's Neverending Network (BNN), a radio and television broadcasting organization in the Netherlands
Bayesian neural network, a kind of artificial neural network
Binary neural network, a kind of artificial neural network
Boston Neighborhood Network
Business News Network, a Canadian financial news channel
Breaking News Network, a news company in the United States
Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy (by IATA code)
The radio navigation station upon which the Bovingdon stack (a section of airspace near London) is located |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Varona | Oscar Varona (born July 22 1949) is a former basketball player from Cuba, who won the bronze medal with the men's national team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
References
databaseOlympics
1949 births
Living people
Cuban men's basketball players
1970 FIBA World Championship players
1974 FIBA World Championship players
Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
Olympic medalists in basketball
Basketball players at the 1971 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball players for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in basketball
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20N.%20Hall | Joseph N. Hall (born January 8, 1966) is an American author, software developer and programming consultant. Hall is known in the Perl programming community as the author of the book Effective Perl Programming with Randal L. Schwartz, and as a contributor of software to the CPAN.
In the mid-1970s, Hall received US media coverage as a child prodigy and as a survivor of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Bibliography
Effective Perl Programming,
Effective Perl Programming, irregularly-appearing column in (the magazine of USENIX/SAGE)
Interviews
Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, television interview, 1975
ABC Evening News, news feature, November 21, 1975
References
1966 births
Living people
American technology writers
American computer programmers
Free software programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20manager | An object manager is a concept, and often a piece of software, found in object-oriented programming. The object manager provides rules for retention, naming and security of objects.
Object (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum%20Wound%20Profile | Optimum Wound Profile were an industrial metal band from Ipswich, England, active between the years 1991-1996. Combining elements of metal, crust punk, and sampling/programming technologies they released three albums and toured across Europe.
Formed in 1991 by guitarist Roki and vocalist Phil Vane, the pair quickly recruited Simon Finbow (vocals) and Ian Barnard (bass), followed by Dom Cattermole on drums. Picked up by an Ipswich promoter shortly after forming, the band entered the studio in the middle of 1991 to record two demos. On the strength of these OWP signed to Roadrunner Records at the end of the year.
Optimum Wound Profile's first album, Lowest Common Dominator, was released in the summer of 1992, and received positive reviews in Kerrang! and other music press. Featuring Niall Corr on drums, who had replaced the departed Dom Cattermole, the band's sound at this point was a hybrid of hardcore punk and industrial metal. A successful European tour, with Jason Whittaker of Whiteslug replacing Snapa Harvey, followed the release before the band returned to the UK to begin work on the follow-up.
Silver Or Lead was released in mid-1993 to much critical acclaim, and entered the UK Rock Chart at number 11, where it stayed for several weeks. This album saw the band's sound take a much more metal turn. By this stage all of the drums were programmed. The album was produced by Colin Richardson, who has worked with Slipknot, Machine Head and Bullet For My Valentine among a host of others. Another successful European tour followed, but Roadrunner Records declined the option of a third album.
In 1994, OWP signed to We Bite Records and in January 1995 released Asphyxia. Having parted company with Phil Vane, all vocals were provided by Simon Finbow. The album was the band's most critically acclaimed release to date.
Optimum Wound Profile spent two years after the release of Asphyxia writing a fourth album, 'Cult Of Saints 1425'. Only demo versions of these songs exist as the band decided to split up in 1996.
In 2007, Metal Mind Productions licensed the first two OWP albums from Roadrunner Records for re-release in August the same year.
Late in 2007 Optimum Wound Profile reformed with former members Simon, Roki and Jason being joined by Barnie Mills (bass) and Malcolm Peck (drums), to concentrate on the unreleased Cult Of Saints album. The band entered the recording studio for the first time in twelve years in spring 2008 to record demos. The project has since been put on hold.
Roki (Martyn Peck), Simon Finbow, Dom Cattermole and Mark Schorah now play in post-rock band These Are End Times. Phil Vane continued to sing for Extreme Noise Terror until his death in February 2011. Jason Whittaker and Martyn Peck also run Antigen Records, whose roster includes Henry Homesweet, The Waxing Captors, John Callaghan, Earth Mother F*cker, These Are End Times, Sealionwoman, Jack Rundell and Optimum Wound Profile.
Discography
Lowest Common Dominator CD, L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20School%2C%20Dhaka | The Aga Khan School, Dhaka, is an English Medium School, in Uttara, Dhaka under the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh (AKES,B). It is one of the earliest private English Medium schools in Bangladesh founded in 1988, in a small campus in Siddeshwari, Dhaka.
History
The Aga Khan School, Dhaka, was formed back in 1988, in the library of the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB), an institution of the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh. The foundations of the present system were laid by Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III, under whose guidance, over 200 schools were established during the first half of the 20th century, the first of them in 1905 in Zanzibar, Gwadur in Pakistan and Mundra in India. Since the creation of Aga Khan Education Service companies in the 1970s, the schools have been administered and managed centrally. The school started with 25 students and 7 teaching staff, occupying classes IX to XII.
In August of 1990, the present senior section opened in Uttara. The junior and primary sections were opened in 1999 and 2000 respectively.
The school achieved a major milestone in April 2009, when it was authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School.
In 2009, the longest serving Head of Education, George G. Kays, retired, serving the school from July 1998 to June 2009. Jacqueline Parai served as the Head of the School from 2009 to 2011.
Dale Taylor is the current Head of Education.
Description
As of 2013, the school consists of a student body of 1,222 and a faculty of 118 teachers. The school offers education from preschool to higher secondary levels (playgroup, nursery, kindergarten I and II and grades 1 to 12), following the British national curriculum, designed to prepare students for IGCSE and GCE Advanced Level examinations.
Fahmida Chowdhury is serving as Head of Secondary School, while Shatila Reza is serving as Head of Middle School. The Chairman of the Board is Mr. Suleiman Ajanee. The school organizes annual events, functions and concerts. Annually, the Ordinary and Advanced Level examinees of Aga Khan School perform impressively in the exams, as evidenced by their presence at The Daily Star Awards for schools following the Cambridge International Examinations.
International Baccalaureate certification
The school has been an IB World School since April 2009. It offers the IB Primary Years Program in English. Additionally, the school is moving to the complete IB Curriculum, which will be conducted at new premises at Bashundhara, Dhaka. The institute offering the IB program will be named The Aga Khan Academy.
The proposed Aga Khan Academy has been in the planning stages for several years, and the Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh (AKES,B) have obtained pre-authorization from the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to implement the IB Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) in pre-school (Play Group and Nursery), Kindergarten and Grad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Radio%20and%20Television%20Network | Arab Radio and Television Network (acronym: ART) is an Arabic-language television network characterized by its multitude of channels. It is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
History and profile
ART was founded in October 15, 1993 by Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a Saudi businessman and is a private company specializing in family entertainment, including movies, music and sport.
ART was particularly known in Saudi Arabia for its exclusive sports event broadcasts, especially the Saudi Leagues. The network lost a significant amount of its audience share after the launch of many similar free-to-air channels like the Rotana network, owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal. At the time of launch, ART produced over 6,000 live and recorded shows per year, including family-oriented dramas, series, plays, sports programs, music videos and documentaries.
ART is broadcasting via the Arabsat, Nilesat and Hot Bird satellites. Most ART Channels are encrypted using Irdeto 2 Encryption. ART's technical broadcast facilities are based in Jordan Media City in Amman, Jordan.
In November 24, 2009, Al Jazeera purchased all of ART's sport channels which had the license to broadcast the FIFA World Cup 2010 and 2014 matches. This decision led to calls to boycotts of Al Jazeera by Arab football fans who were accustomed to watching major football events for free; and turned broadcast rights into a political issue where governments —who often purchased broadcasts and aired them locally for no charge, had to be involved. ART Sports was subsequently rebranded as Al Jazeera Sports (since 2014, BeIN Sports). Later that year, ART also sold most of its remaining entertainment channels to Orbit Showtime Network.
ART channels list
Arab Radio and TV Network consists of the following channels:
Current channels
TV
ART Aflam 1: Arabic movie channel one
ART Aflam 2: Arabic movie channel two
ART Cinema: Arabic movie channel three
ART Hekayat: Arabic series Pop-up channel
ART Hekayat 2: Arabic series channel two
ART Hekayat HD: Arabic series Pop-up channel in HD during Ramadan
ART Hekayat 2 HD: Arabic series channel in HD during Ramadan
Cima: Arabic movie channel four
Iqraa: Arabic Islamic channel
ART Movies: Arabic movie channel five, broadcast in North America, Asia-Pacific and Australia
ART: International Arabic channel, broadcast in North America and Brazil
ART Tarab: Arabic classic music and opera channel, broadcast in North America and Australia
Iqraa International: Non-Arabic-speaking Islamic channel (English and French)
Iqraa Bangla: UK-based, Bengali Islamic channel
Radio
ART Music Radio
Dhikr Radio for the Holy Quran
Former channels
ART branded channels
ART Eye
ART Sport 1-9
ART Prime Sport
ART 1
ART 2
ART 3
ART 4
ART 5
ART Children
ART Music
ART Monasabat
ART Shopping
ART Hekayat Zaman
ART Teenz
ART Al-Talimiyah
ART Open University
Ayen Al-Awail
ART Travel
ART Movie World
ART Hekayat Kaman
ART Hekayat Kaman HD
ART America
ART Variety
Distributed ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Country%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pure Country is a 1992 film starring George Strait.
Pure Country may also refer to:
Pure Country (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film, by George Strait
Pure Country (radio network), a Canadian radio network
PureCountry, a radio station operated by the Australian Radio Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GumTree | GumTree is an open-source scientific workbench for performing scientific experiments under a distributed network environment. It provides a multi-platform graphical user interface for instrument data acquisition, online or offline data visualisation and analysis. GumTree is designed to provide a highly Integrated Scientific Experiment Environment (ISEE), allowing interaction between different components within the workbench. Several instrument control server systems including TANGO, EPICS and SICS have been adapted to GumTree. Current developments include acquisition, control and analysis on neutron and synchrotron beamlines. In the future it will be extended telescope control and other scientific instruments with distributed hardware.
History
GumTree was first started as a small graphical user interface project to fulfill the IT requirement for the Neutron Beam Instrument Project (NBIP) at ANSTO. Later in the year, the GumTree project has been approved to go open source for international collaboration.
02/2004 GumTree project started
08/2004 GumTree was approved to go open source
09/2005 GumTree 1.0 milestone 7 released
03/2006 GumTree has received the Best Open Source RCP Application from the Eclipse Foundation
01/2007 Codehaus has accepted to host the GumTree Project on their website
09/2008 GumTree 1.0 released
Architecture
GumTree is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). In order to support scientific operations, GumTree extends RCP with data handling framework and visualisation toolkit as part of the GumTree platform API.
GumTree Extension
Adapting GumTree on a particular instrument requires special customisation to fit the scientific workbench to its instrument ecosystem. Customisation of GumTree can be achieved by adding new plug-ins to the existing GumTree application. In a broader sense, the common base of GumTree is a generic platform which provides all the necessary infrastructure to realise the ISEE concept for the scientific instrument. This platform, known as the GumTree Platform, is built and modelled upon an award-winning Java based universal platform called Eclipse. The GumTree Platform consists of an Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) application, and an application framework for handling data exchange, experiment life cycle, device control (via distributed control system e.g. TANGO), application accessibility, data visualisation, and data analysis. All services from the platform can be extended and modified to suit any particular scientific instrument. A developer adds a GumTree workbench (or RCP based GumTree application) which integrates all services provided by the GumTree Platform. The GumTree Platform encourages developers to encapsulate the knowledge of an experiment method or procedure in the workbench.
External links
Official GumTree website (at web.archive.org) - Project Information, News and Issue Tracking
SourceForge project page - GumTree project at SF.net.
GumTree M7 – New and Noteworthy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KORO%20%28TV%29 | KORO (channel 28) is a television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside low-power, Class A UniMás affiliate KCRP-CD (channel 41). The two stations share studios on North Mesquite Street in Downtown Corpus Christi; KORO's transmitter is located between Petronila and Robstown.
History
In 1972, two groups filed applications for channel 28 in Corpus Christi with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Both sought to build and operate a Spanish-language television station. One group, U-Anchor Broadcasting, was a subsidiary of an Amarillo-based firm, while the other, Telecorpus, consisted mostly of local stockholders, with notable Spanish International Network (SIN) executives—including Emilio Nicolas Sr. and Danny Villanueva—on its board. At the time, there was only one full-time Spanish-language TV station in the state of Texas, KWEX-TV in San Antonio. The FCC heard the mutually exclusive Telecorpus and U-Anchor applications in 1974, with the FCC giving the nod—and the construction permit—to Telecorpus in November.
Two and a half years passed before KORO was built and began broadcasting. Technical and legal delays, including a dispute over whether the local cable system could import the signals of Mexican television stations, pushed back the launch. However, concrete steps were taken during the course of 1976 to put the station into service after the FCC denied the cable company's proposal. These included negotiating for studio space and purchasing equipment. Three banks turned down the company for loans before a fourth was willing to lend.
KORO began broadcasting April 19, 1977, having missed its intended start date by three days due to a lightning strike on a microwave dish. The station originally broadcast from the 600 Building downtown, but the studios moved to the present Mesquite Street facility in 1982, a long-delayed move. The station's only live local newscast aired at 5 p.m. until 1997, when a 10 p.m. newscast began production.
Citing consolidation and the expense of the eventual conversion to digital television, Telecorpus sold KORO to Entravision in 1998.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KORO shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 28, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27, using virtual channel 28.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1977
1977 establishments in Texas
Univision network affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Comet (TV network) affiliates
ORO
ORO
Entravision Communications stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTXD-TV | KTXD-TV (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Greenville, Texas, United States. Owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, it carries programming from the four digital multicast television networks operated by its partner company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, as well as religious broadcaster SonLife Broadcasting Network. KTXD's studios are located on Inwood Road in Farmers Branch, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.
The channel largely carried home shopping programming until 2006, when it began broadcasting religious programming from the Promiseland network. Under the ownership of London Broadcasting, KTXD switched to an entertainment-based format, initially as an affiliate of MeTV, and later as an independent station carrying a mix of classic television series, syndicated programs, and local news and lifestyle programming. KTXD was not included in the sale of most of London Broadcasting's stations to Gannett, resulting in its sale to Cunningham in 2017. In March 2018, Cunningham then flipped KTXD's main channel to sports programming from Sinclair's Stadium network.
History
Early years
This station first signed on the air on April 1, 1994 as KTAQ. During its early years, the station carried programming from shopping networks such as The Jewelry Network and Shop at Home. In 2000, the station affiliated with the America's Collectibles Network (now Jewelry Television), though most of the shopping programming was relegated to the nighttime hours. In 2004, the station switched to ShopNBC. In late 2006, KTAQ switched to a 24-hour religious programming format as the flagship station of the Promiseland Television Network after being acquired by Promiseland founder Mike Simons (through Simons Broadcasting, LP).
It was reported in February 2007 that KTAQ was fined $10,000 for failing to place its 2005 Biennial Ownership Report, all required TV issues/programs lists, and Children's Television Programming Reports in the station's public inspection file. The station admitted in its license renewal application that during the previous term, it had failed to timely place all of the documentation required by Section 73.3526 of the rules in its public inspection file.
In November 2008, Simons Broadcasting, LP filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas in Waco. Simons Broadcasting, LP debtor-in-possession sold the station to Platinum Equity, LLC in mid-2010. In early November 2010, KTAQ switched to an infomercial format.
Purchase by London Broadcasting
Platinum Equity later sold the station to the Addison-based London Broadcasting Company, which changed the station's call sign to KTXD-TV. London Broadcasting retained Continental Television to act as "national and local [advertising] sales" for the station, which suggested that KTXD would adopt a general entertainment format rather than a brokered, or foreign language format. The purchase was comple |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NJN%20News | NJN News was a half-hour daily broadcast television news program by the New Jersey Network which also aired in New York City on WNET Monday through Friday. It was sometimes preempted on holidays by special programming.
The program began in 1978 as New Jersey Nightly News, co-produced with WNET, although WNET also continued to air the newscast. In 1981, NJN assumed full control of the broadcast. NJN News had its final broadcast on June 30, 2011, when NJN went off the air to be replaced by NJTV, now known today as NJ PBS.
Talent included former presenter Kent Manahan, news anchor Jim Hooker, environmental reporter Ed Rodgers, science reporter Patrick Regan, health reporter Sara Lee Kessler, and general reporters Marie DeNoia Aronson, Kent Saint John and others.
References
External links
official NJN News website
Local news programming in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYVV-TV | KYVV-TV (channel 28) is a television station in Del Rio, Texas, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Grit. The station is owned by Stryker Media, and maintains transmitter facilities on US 277 southeast of Del Rio. Its signal is relayed in widescreen standard definition on the third digital subchannel of Univision owned-and-operated station KWEX-DT (channel 41.3) in San Antonio.
History
On July 10, 1991, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Republic Broadcasting Company for a new TV station on analog channel 10 in Del Rio. The company, headed by Thomas Robert Gilchrist, chose KTRG as call letters for the station. However, the station was not on air by December 1996, when the construction permit was sold to Ortiz Broadcasting Corporation. Under its ownership, channel 10 began broadcasting on September 1, 1997. On April 6, 1998, KTRG joined UPN. It also briefly aired a local newscast.
In May 1999, KTRG was switched to programming from the Faith Pleases God church owned by Ortiz (who also founded the Fe-TV and La Familia Network channels). This continued until 2005, when Ortiz Broadcasting Corporation took the station silent for financial reasons, having gone into bankruptcy. It was then sold to SATV 10, LLC, in 2006; this company was owned by Barbara Laurence. SATV10 undertook the lengthy process of finding a suitable site to resume operations, as the tower site lease was not included in the assets of the bankrupt estate. This was accomplished, but SATV10 filed for bankruptcy protection itself in 2009, emerging the next year.
In 2010, KTRG and another Laurence-owned station, KMCC in Laughlin, affiliated with VasalloVision, which they aired until August 13, 2012, when KYVV-TV (having changed its call letters to reflect the VasalloVision programming) became an affiliate of MundoFox (later MundoMax). The station went silent on May 12, 2016.
Stryker Media agreed to purchase KYVV-TV from SATV 10 for $450,000 on October 12, 2017. CNZ Communications, a sister company to Stryker, has operated the station under a local marketing agreement since June 26, 2017. The sale was completed on April 6, 2018. KYVV-TV returned to the air on July 1, 2018, as an affiliate of Grit.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Texas
Television stations in Texas
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Del Rio, Texas
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Buzzr affiliates
LATV affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNET | CESNET (Czech Education and Scientific NETwork) is developer and operator of national e-infrastructure for science, research, development and education in Czech Republic. The CESNET association was founded in 1996 by Czech public universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. An important part of CESNET's activities is research of advanced network technologies and applications from hybrid networking, programmable hardware, metacomputing to middleware and video transmissions. CESNET fulfils the role of NREN within the Czech Republic and represents it in international organisations such as the GÉANT Association (established through a merger between TERENA and DANTE), EGI and GLIF. CESNET is involved in the implementation of the European backbone network project called GÉANT. Within the Czech Republic CESNET fulfils the role of a coordinator of large infrastructures involved in the field of information technology.
CESNET e-Infrastructure
The CESNET e-infrastructure is a complex system of interconnected tools that provides a wide range of services necessary for transmission, storage and data processing. These include, for example, performance computing clusters with programs used in many areas, a large data repository used for data storage and sharing, multimedia communication tools making cooperation between distributed teams easier, and other services. These modern IT services are used for scientific and research work, and for problem solving focusing on a wide range of disciplines which are not confined to natural sciences, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science, but also include, for example, humanitarian sciences and art. The extensive e-infrastructure is composed of four basic logically coherent components:
• high throughput communication infrastructure with a transfer speed of 100 Gbit/s (CESNET2),
• grid infrastructure suitable for high performance computing,
• data storage infrastructure,
• infrastructure allowing collaboration between distributed teams and end user mobility.
The CESNET e-infrastructure includes institutions such as public, state and private universities, institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, university hospitals, scientific and other libraries, technological and innovation centres and science parks, important cultural institutions and many other scientific and research institutions. The total number of individual users with access to the CESNET e-infrastructure in the Czech Republic is about 450 thousand persons. Thanks to a direct connection with GÉANT, the backbone network for science, research and education, and also thanks to a connection to research networks in other world regions provided by GÉANT (Internet2 and ESnet in the USA, AfricaConnect in Africa, TEIN in Asia and CLARA in the Pacific and Latin America), the CESNET e- infrastructure even allows cooperation and operation of demanding and unique applications and data sharing in the mul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Max%202 | Metal Max 2 () is the second entry in the Metal Max series. It was a vehicle combat RPG published in Japan by Data East in 1993 for the Super Famicom in 1993. Ten years later in 2003, the game was ported to the Game Boy Advance with a few new bounties by Now Production under the title Metal Max 2 Kai. In December 8, 2011, a full remake with upgraded graphics in the vein of Metal Max 3 and using its game engine was released in Japan for the Nintendo DS and titled Metal Max 2 Reloaded.
Gameplay
Much of the gameplay is similar to its predecessor, Metal Max. The game is open-ended and non-linear, with the player given the freedom to decide where to go and what missions to do in whichever order. The player can choose the character classes, such as a mechanic or soldier, for the player characters. The battles are turn-based, with the characters able to fight either on foot or using tanks. The tanks can be created and customized by the player, who can modify and enhance each part of a vehicle, though there is a weight limit to each tank. In certain areas where tanks cannot pass, the characters must engage the enemies on foot. The game also features gambling machines where minigames can be played, including third-person shooter and racing games.
Synopsis
The Grappler Army led by Ted Broiler has attacked the village of Modo, the protagonist who is the one of survivors embarks on a journey to destroy Grapplers.
Release
Metal Max 2 Reloaded, the Nintendo DS remake, added a shared inventory, option to play as a female, okama or reijin, new character classes, subclasses and skills from Metal Max 3, new characters, bounties, bosses, sidequests, locations, items and vehicles, expanded storyline and backstories of characters and monsters, increased difficulty over the SNES and GBA versions, the final boss of the game has a third form and a New Game+ option has been added. An English fan translation of Metal Max 2 Reloaded is finished.
References
External links
Role-playing video games
Metal Max
Data East video games
Kadokawa Shoten games
Now Production games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Game Boy Advance games
Virtual Console games
Nintendo DS games
Video game sequels
Japan-exclusive video games
1993 video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Satoshi Kadokura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paloozaville | Paloozaville is an animated/live-action series for children and their parents on the Video On Demand network, Mag Rack.
The Mag Rack original series was created exclusively for On Demand and stars John Lithgow as Paloozaville's absent-minded mayor. The show is based on Lithgow's best selling children's books. Every episode begins with a boredom crisis that is subsequently solved by co-host Suza Palooza (Carmen De La Paz) and her team of kids. Every episode has a different theme centering on arts and crafts, music, history, dance, literature, and drama. The series strives to create educational children's entertainment that will allow parents to spend time with their children and learn at the same time.
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20060822014311/http://www.magrack.com/paloozaville/
Video on demand
2000s American children's television series
American television series with live action and animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20areas%20of%20Madagascar | This list of national parks of Madagascar includes all officially recognized protected areas as of 2015. The protected areas network of Madagascar is managed by the Madagascar National Parks Association (PNM-ANGAP). The network includes three types of protected areas: Strict Nature Reserves (IUCN category Ia), National Parks (IUCN category II) and Wildlife Reserves (IUCN category IV). At the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress in Durban, the Malagasy President, Marc Ravalomanana, announced an initiative to more than triple the area under protection from approximately to over (from 3% to 10% of Madagascar's area). This "Durban Vision", as it has been dubbed, involved broadening the definition of protected areas in the country and legislation has been passed to allow the creation of four new categories of protected area: Natural Parks (IUCN category II), Natural Monuments (IUCN category III), Protected Landscapes (IUCN category V), and Natural Resource Reserves (IUCN category VI). As well as allowing these new objectives for protected areas management, the new legislation also provided for entities other than PNM-ANGAP to manage protected areas, such as government ministries, community associations, NGOs and other civil society organizations, and the private sector.
System of Protected Areas
The protection of natural sites in Madagascar was initiated under the French colonial authority in 1927. These original sites were reserved for scientific research and were not open to the public. In 1971, the Malagasy government undertook a project to protect of mangrove forests, the first national effort to protect Madagascar's marine ecosystems. In 1986 the government of Madagascar, with support from the IUCN and the World Wildlife Fund, initiated a twelve-year process to review and assess existing protected areas and others requiring protection to create an initial list of Madagascar's conservation priority areas. The Association Nationale pour la Gestion des Aires Protégées (ANGAP), established in 1990, was the first government agency created with the express purpose of expanding and managing Madagascar's protected areas.
The creation of a national park system began in 1991 with the first major national policies for environmental protection and moved through three phases before concluding in 2002 with the establishment of the Système des Aires Protégées de Madagascar (SAPM). As co-president of this commission, the World Wildlife Fund supports the government of Madagascar in managing the parks while also developing management partnerships with a broader variety of partners, including local communities, civil society and the private sector. In 2003, an additional 92 areas were identified as meriting the status of protected area; some of these have since been accorded an official protected status, while others are pending review. Ensuring the legal status and protection of the complete list of areas added to meet the Durban Vision commitment requires an upd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EditDroid | The EditDroid is a computerized analog non-linear editing (NLE) system which was developed by Lucasfilm spin-off company, the Droid Works and Convergence Corporation who formed a joint venture company. The company existed up through the mid-'80s to the early '90s in an attempt to move from analog editing methods to digital. EditDroid debuted at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 62nd Annual meeting in Las Vegas in 1984 concurrent with another editing tool that would compete with the EditDroid for all its years in production, the Montage Picture Processor.
The EditDroid was never a commercial success and after the close of The Droid Works in 1987 and subsequent redevelopment of the product for seven years, the software was eventually sold to Avid Technology in 1993. Only 24 EditDroid systems were ever produced.
Features
The system is LaserDisc-based, relying on several LaserDisc players and a database system which queues up the clips in the order needed from the LaserDisc players in the most efficient way, so as to minimize skipping. This however isn't always possible. So if the edits aren't sufficiently close, the system isn't always fast enough to cue up the next clip.
It has three screens connected to it: one Sun-1 computer display as the graphical UI for the product, one small preview video monitor, and one large rear-projected monitor containing "the cut" which was controlled by a custom controller. The controller, called the TouchPad, features a KEM-style shuttle knob, a trackball, and a host of buttons with LED labels that changes in function depending on what the system was doing. The EditDroid pioneered the use of the graphical display for editing—introducing the timeline as well as digital picture icons to identify raw source clips.
Once the entire movie has been edited, an Edit Decision List of marked frames is turned over to a film laboratory where the actual pieces of film are spliced together in the correct order.
The EditDroid is obsolete by market standards, as the market for nonlinear editing systems has changed radically since its inception, with computer-based products like Final Cut Pro ranging entirely from the consumer to professional markets. In many respects the EditDroid was a concept demonstration of the future of editing, with a LaserDisc being a good 1980s simulation of what digital access would eventually become, and an editing interface and workflow that was more like today's methods than any of the videotape linear or analog nonlinear products leading up to the Avid/1 in 1990.
Advantages and disadvantages
There are numerous advantages of using a digital editing solution over the older analog solutions, such as the Moviola. Not only is it much faster to locate the clips needed, keeping track of what can in some cases amount to a staggering amount of footage, is also much easier digitally. Also, editing film digitally is a non-destructive process, whereas the analog process requires the actual cutt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%20%28system%20call%29 | On many computer operating systems, a computer process terminates its execution by making an exit system call. More generally, an exit in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running. For resource management, the operating system reclaims resources (memory, files, etc.) that were used by the process. The process is said to be a dead process after it terminates.
How it works
Under Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a process is started when its parent process executes a fork system call. The parent process may then wait for the child process to terminate, or may continue execution (possibly forking off other child processes). When the child process terminates ("dies"), either normally by calling exit, or abnormally due to a fatal exception or signal (e.g., SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGKILL), an exit status is returned to the operating system and a SIGCHLD signal is sent to the parent process. The exit status can then be retrieved by the parent process via the wait system call.
Most operating systems allow the terminating process to provide a specific exit status to the system, which is made available to the parent process. Typically this is an integer value, although some operating systems (e.g., Plan 9 from Bell Labs) allow a character string to be returned. Systems returning an integer value commonly use a zero value to indicate successful execution and non-zero values to indicate error conditions. Other systems (e.g., OpenVMS) use even-numbered values for success and odd values for errors. Still other systems (e.g., IBM z/OS and its predecessors) use ranges of integer values to indicate success, warning, and error completion results.
Clean up
The exit operation typically performs clean-up operations within the process space before returning control back to the operating system. Some systems and programming languages allow user subroutines to be registered so that they are invoked at program termination before the process actually terminates for good. As the final step of termination, a primitive system exit call is invoked, informing the operating system that the process has terminated and allows it to reclaim the resources used by the process.
It is sometimes possible to bypass the usual cleanup; C99 offers the _exit() function which terminates the current process without any extra program clean-up. This may be used, for example, in a fork-exec routine when the exec call fails to replace the child process; calling atexit routines would erroneously release resources belonging to the parent.
Orphans and zombies
Some operating systems handle a child process whose parent process has terminated in a special manner. Such an orphan process becomes a child of a special root process, which then waits for the child process to terminate. Likewise, a similar strategy is used to deal with a zombie process, which is a child process that has terminated but whose exit status is ignored by its parent process. Such a proce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20Corporation%20Tramways | Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK, and was built to a gauge of . It was the fourth largest tramway network in the UK behind London, Glasgow and Manchester.
There were a total of 843 trams (with a maximum of 825 in service at any one time), 20 depots, 45 main routes and a total route length of .
Birmingham Corporation built all the tramways and leased the track to various companies.
Birmingham was a pioneer in the development of reserved trackways which served the suburban areas as the city grew in the 1920s and 1930s.
History
The first trams operated in Birmingham from 1872, and the network expanded throughout the late 19th century. Initially these were horse and steam operated, the first electric trams operated from 1901. Under the terms of the Tramways Act 1870 the Birmingham Corporation owned all of the tracks within the city boundaries, however, they were forbidden from operating the trams themselves, and so various private companies operated them under lease. It wasn't until 1904 that the Birmingham Corporation took advantage of new legislation, which allowed it to operate trams in its own right as the original concessions expired. By 1912, the corporation had taken over all of the privately operated lines, it also took over other district tramways as the city boundaries were expanded. BCT continued to expand the network into a comprehensive system, and also took over routes extending into the Black Country. The last new route to Stechford was opened in 1928.
Decline set in during the 1930s, when several tram lines were converted to trolleybus operation, as this was seen as being a more economic option than replacing worn out track and rolling stock. Several of the least used lines were also abandoned, and replaced by diesel buses. Reflecting the fact that it now operated buses and trolleybuses as well as trams, BCT changed its name to Birmingham City Transport in 1937.
However, most of the tram network remained in operation until large scale closures began in 1947. The last three lines to Short Heath, Pype Hayes and Erdington were closed simultaneously on 4 July 1953.
Trams eventually returned to the streets of Birmingham on 6 December 2015, after a 62-year gap, when the first part of the Midland Metro city-centre extension was opened to Bull Street tram stop.
Timeline
Routes
Depots and Works
Arthur Street Depot see Coventry Road
Birchfield Road Depot, acquired from Handsworth District Council 1911, converted to motorbus use 28 October 1925
Bournbrook, Dawlish Road, acquired 1 January 1912, closed 11 July 1927 (replaced by Selly Oak)
Cotteridge Depot, acquired from King's Norton and Northfield District Council 1912
Coventry Road Depot (also known as Arthur Street Depot), opened 1907, converted to motorbus use 1 July 1951
Handsworth Sub-Depot
Highgate Road Depot, opened 25 November 1913
Hockley Depot, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Analysis%20and%20Ethnographic%20Problems | Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan is an anthropological and complexity science book by social anthropologists Douglas R. White, University of California, Irvine, and Ulla Johansen of the University of Cologne. It is considered an important publication in anthropology and the political science of Central Asia.
The breakthrough is to code and portray the data of a longitudinal ethnography of a given people as a complex interactive system, in this case from an ethnogenesis in the late 18th century in Turkey to the present date, based on the detailed genealogies and chronicles recorded in fieldwork carried out between 1956 and 2004 recorded by ethnographer Ulla Johansen. The analysis of these data provides for an account of social dynamics relevant to many parts of the Middle East.
Synopsis
The basis for the book is the complete genealogical network for a nomad community, its history, and its migrants and migrations. These form a relational web not just for description but for analysis of social dynamics. The picture that emerges is one of a complexly scalable social system that expands through reproduction, kinship alliances, and fissions, and overcomes internal conflicts and those with neighbors along routes of migration. These networks constitute a generative demographic engine for health, a potential for large sibling groups, and for extensive cooperation within and between these groups constructed through reciprocal ties of marriage. The book is lavishly illustrated with photos, network diagrams, and analytical tables showing how very simple principles of cohesion and scalable alliances between families are able to organize this social system through a series of shifting articulations at a variety of social and spatial levels. Thus continual reshuffling is capable of moving, and does move individuals and groups in the society through a variety of transformations in relation to life problems, social problems, technological problems, and the transmission and enrichment of a highly complex cultural system. The book shows how these adjust dynamically to changing social conditions.
Pedagogy
This book makes major methodological, substantive, and theoretical advances for the disciplines of ethnography, social anthropology, and social history; and marks some new understandings of several of the many forms of social complexity. No previous work has been able to connect dynamical historic and social network analysis with changes that can be visualized and analyzed through time in terms of structure, interaction, and social change, using the actual concrete data of the ethnography, person by person, relation by relation, group by group, change by change. This is a level of integration hitherto never achieved in anthropology. It builds on a methodology for analysis of structural changes that was developed by the lead author. Douglas R. White had previously developed new concepts and measures for the stud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20the%20Computer | Fred the Computer was launched in 1987 by the Middlesex News in Framingham, Massachusetts. A single-line BBS system, it was used to preview the next day's edition with news headlines and weather information. It was sometimes called Fred the Middlesex News Computer.
The original sysop for the system was Sharon Machlis, now an online editor at Computerworld, who built the system out of TBBS and a dual-floppy Leading Edge PC. Adam Gaffin (later editor of universalhub.com), took over after Machlis left and upgraded the system to a 286. Subscriptions from readers enabled him to purchase a 19.2k modem and a second phone line for the system. Later, Fred was used to organize and display the newspaper's archive of film reviews.
Along with 10 other members of the Associated Press, the Middlesex News in 1980 offered a digital text edition to CompuServe. The bulletin board service's subscribers could then, via dial-up, access News stories on their personal computers.
Dial-up newspapers
In 1987, when the Middlesex News debuted its own BBS, subscribers could dial into Fred and see the next day's headlines, submit press releases and write letters to the editor. This was one of the earliest online transmissions of news directly from a newspaper to its readers. Karen McKelvey's 1991 guide to dial-up libraries and newspapers lists only five: Fred the Computer, Newsday'''s Newsday Online, StarText (Fort Worth Star-Telegram), Omaha CityNet (Omaha World-Telegram) and the Electric Newspaper (Long Beach Press-Telegram).
In 1993, the Middlesex News set up a Gopher site, making it the first general-circulation United States newspaper on the Internet, offering daily headlines, movie reviews and restaurant reports. In 1998, the Middlesex News'' became the MetroWest Daily News which launched its online edition September 2001.
References
External links
Adam Gaffin at the Middlesex News
Commercial Online Newspaper Services (2/26/95)
Public Access to Library Catalogs
Bulletin board systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet | Roofnet was an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Research included link-level measurements of 802.11, finding high-throughput routes in the face of lossy links, link adaptation, and developing new protocols which take advantage of radio’s unique properties (ExOR). The software developed for this project is available free as open source.
Routing protocol
The routing protocol is called SrcRR. There are two broadcasts used with the protocol. The first is periodic broadcasts used to determine a metric called ETX. These public broadcasts measure the probability that a packet between two nodes in radio contact reaches its destination. The second broadcast type is used to build up routing tables. A node 0 will broadcast that it wants to find a route to D. Then each node that receives the broadcast will add its id to the route and forward the packet. When node D receives a packet, it will reply back along the route that was found for that packet. Then node 0 can use this information to determine the best route using the ETX metrics and the route information returned from its query.
Media access and forwarding
One media access and forwarding protocol tested with RoofNet was ExOR. ExOR simulates some advantages of multicasted data networks by using conventional 802.11 digital radios operated in broadcast modes.
The source radio uses routing data to establish a list of radios that could help reach the destination radio. The list is ordered so that radios closer to the destination are nearer to the head of the list. The destination is at the head of the list. The list is compactly stored in each packet.
Each packet also includes a list that shows the progress of each packet through the list of radios. This list has one entry per packet. Each entry is the number of radio that is closest to the destination and has retransmitted that packet. The source initially sets this list all to the source radio's number.
Then, the source broadcasts a batch of packets. Radios not on a packet's list discard the packet.
Radios on the list save the packet. They update their list of radios transmitting each packet. But they wait a calibrated time before they retransmit any packet. The time is less if they are closer to the destination. The time is a probabilistic estimate of the time to retransmit the packets that will be retransmitted by radios closer to the destination.
If a radio receives a packet transmitted from a radio that is closer to the destination, the farther radio throws away that packet, and never retransmits it. It also updates its list of packet progress.
As they work backwards toward the source, the retransmissions propagate the batch of packets' progress information back to the source radio.
At the end, a few packets of each batch sent by the source may never reach the destination. It sends these on by the most reliable r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Logic%20in%20Computer%20Science | The ACM–IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) is an annual academic conference on the theory and practice of computer science in relation to mathematical logic. Extended versions of selected papers of each year's conference appear in renowned international journals such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.
History
LICS was originally sponsored solely by the IEEE, but as of the 2014 founding of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation LICS has become the flagship conference of SIGLOG, under the joint sponsorship of ACM and IEEE.
From the first installment in 1988 until 2013, the cover page of the conference proceedings has featured an artwork entitled Irrational Tiling by Logical Quantifiers, by Alvy Ray Smith.
Since 1995, each year the Kleene award is given to the best student paper. In addition, since 2006, the LICS Test-of-Time Award is given annually to one among the twenty-year-old LICS papers that have best met the test of time.
LICS Awards
Test-of-Time Award
Each year, since 2006, the LICS Test-of-Time Award recognizes those articles from LICS proceedings 20 years earlier, which have become influential.
2006
Leo Bachmair, Nachum Dershowitz, Jieh Hsiang, "Orderings for Equational Proofs"
E. Allen Emerson, Chin-Laung Lei, "Efficient Model Checking in Fragments of the Propositional Mu-Calculus (Extended Abstract)"
Moshe Y. Vardi, Pierre Wolper, "An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Program Verification (Preliminary Report)"
2007
Samson Abramsky, "Domain theory in Logical Form"
Robert Harper, Furio Honsell, Gordon D. Plotkin, "A Framework for Defining Logics"
2008
Martin Abadi, Leslie Lamport, "The existence of refinement mappings"
2009
Eugenio Moggi, "Computational lambda-calculus and monads"
2010
Rajeev Alur, Costas Courcoubetis, David L. Dill, "Model-checking for real-time systems"
Jerry R. Burch, Edmund Clarke, Kenneth L. McMillan, David L. Dill, James Hwang, "Symbolic model checking: 10^20 states and beyond"
Max Dauchet, Sophie Tison, "The theory of ground rewrite systems is decidable"
Peter Freyd, "Recursive types reduced to inductive types"
2011
Patrice Godefroid, Pierre Wolper, "A partial approach to model checking"
Joshua Hodas, Dale A. Miller, "Logic programming in a fragment of intuitionistic linear logic"
Dexter Kozen, "A completeness theorem for Kleene algebras and the algebra of regular events"
2012
Thomas Henzinger, Xavier Nicollin, Joseph Sifakis, Sergio Yovine, "Symbolic model checking for real-time systems"
Jean-Pierre Talpin, Pierre Jouvelot, "The type and effect discipline"
2013
Leo Bachmair, Harald Ganzinger, Uwe Waldmann, "Set constraints are the monadic class"
André Joyal, Mogens Nielson, Glynn Winskel, "Bisimulation and open maps"
Benjamin C. Pierce, Davide Sangiorgi, "Typing and subtyping for mobile processes"
2014
, Thomas Streicher, "The groupoid model refutes uniqueness of identity proofs"
Dale A. Miller, "A mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucose%20%28data%20page%29 |
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi%20Broadcasting%20Aomori | , also known as ABA, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. It broadcasts to Aomori Prefecture from studio facilities located in Aomori City.
Headquarters
125-1, Arakawa aza Shibata, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Telephone Number:+81-17-762-1111
History
October 1, 1991 - Station launch.
July 1, 2006 - Start of digital terrestrial television service (Aomori main station).
July 24, 2011 - All-analogTVstations were abolished.
Stations
Analog stations
Aomori(Main Station) JOAH-TV 34ch
Hachinohe 31ch
Kamikita 57ch
Mutsu 56ch
Owani 24ch
Sannohe-Nanbu 40ch
Asamushi 58ch
Ajigasawa-Akaishi 61ch
Imabetsu 60ch
Odose 22ch
Kasose 40ch
Fukaura 23ch
Fukaura-Chokeidaira 58ch
Fukaura-Henashi 60ch
Nishi-Towada 58ch
Fukaura-Oirase 53ch
Owani-Nijikai 54ch
Ajigasawa-Hitotsumori 55ch
Kodomari 54ch
Nishi-Tsugaru-Maito 58ch
San'nohe-Nango 52ch
Ohata 52ch
Ajigasawa-Nakamura 36ch
Lake Towada 41ch
Hiranai-Uchidoji 39ch
Nagawa-Ken'yoshi 58ch
Hiranai-Yamaguchi 39ch
Hiranai-Sotodoji 39ch
Digital stations(ID:5)
Aomori(Main Station) JOAH-DTV 32ch
Hachinohe 24ch
Kamikita 36ch
Fukaura 36ch
Mutsu 41ch
Programs
Original programs
Super J Channel ABA - from 17:00 until 19:00 on Weekdays
From here Dream Late-night broadcasting LUCKY! - from 24:15 until 24:45 on Fridays
Message - from 9:30 until 9:35 on Saturdays(except to 5thSaturday・Reruns is from 24:15 until 24:20 on Tuesdays.)
From here Dream Live broadcasting HAPPY! - from 9:35 until 10:30 on Saturdays
Tsukaeru-kun no Enetan - from 17:25 until 17:30 on Sundays
ABA News
Syndicated
From TV Tokyo:
Pokémon
Card Fight Vanguard
Rival stations
Aomori Broadcasting Corporation(RAB)
Aomori Television(ATV)
Aomori FM Broadcasting(AFB)
Other links
Asahi Broadcasting Aomori
All-Nippon News Network
Companies based in Aomori Prefecture
Asahi Shimbun Company
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Mass media in Aomori (city)
1991 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCC | GCC commonly refers to:
Gulf Cooperation Council, an organization of Arab states
GNU Compiler Collection, a free and open-source cross-platform compiler
GCC may also refer to:
Education
Good Counsel College, Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
Greenwich Community College, England
Gazipur Cantonment College, Bangladesh
Grace Christian College, Quezon City, Philippines
Galahitiyawa Central College, Ganemulla, Sri Lanka
Canada
Garden City Collegiate, a high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Grenville Christian College, near Brockville, Ontario
United States
Genesee Community College, Batavia, New York
Germanna Community College, Virginia
Gila Community College, Arizona
Girls Catholic Central High School, in Detroit, Michigan
Glendale Community College (Arizona)
Glendale Community College (California)
Gloucester County College, former name of Rowan College at Gloucester County, New Jersey
Gogebic Community College, Michigan
Greenfield Community College (Massachusetts)
Greensburg Central Catholic High School, Pennsylvania
Grove City College, a private college in Pennsylvania
Guam Community College, Guam
Organizations
Gauhati Cine Club, a film society in Assam
Grand Challenges Canada, a Canadian non-profit organization
Global China Connection, a student-run non-profit organization
Companies
Gene Codes Corporation, a bioinformatics software company
General Cinema Corporation, a former theater chain acquired by AMC Theatres
General Computer Corporation, a computer printer manufacturer, formerly a video-game producer
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, a US chocolate company
Government and politics
, the Canadian Coast Guard
Gazipur City Corporation, one of the city corporations in Bangladesh
General Chiropractic Council, regulatory body for chiropractic in the UK
Georgia Cryptologic Center, a US National Security Agency facility in Augusta, Georgia
Glasgow City Council, United Kingdom
Global Climate Coalition, a defunct grouping of businesses opposing action on climate change
Global Certification Commission, an independent body of the World Health Organization for the eradication of wild polio
Grand Council of the Crees (GCC(EI)), Canada
Graphic Communications Conference, an American trade union
Great Council of Chiefs, a former constitutional body in Fiji
Greater Chennai Corporation, civic body that governs the city of Chennai in India.
Religion
Gateway Community Church, Baguio City, Philippines
Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, or Georgia-Cumberland Conference, US
Grace Community Church, California, US
Granger Community Church, Indiana, US
Great Commission Churches, Ohio, US
Sport
Glenorchy Cricket Club, Tasmania, Australia
Godalming Cricket Club, Surrey, England
Golden Coast Conference, an American collegiate water polo conference
Goodwood Cricket Club, Chichester, England
Greater Cleveland Conference, Ohio, US
Gulf Coast Conference, a defunct NCAA college athletic conference
Scien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Cross%20Route | South Cross Route (SCR) was the designation for the southern section of Ringway 1, the innermost circuit of the London Ringways network, a complex and comprehensive plan for a network of high speed roads circling and radiating out from central London designed to manage and control the flow of traffic within the capital.
The SCR was planned during the late 1960s along with the rest of the Ringway scheme but was never constructed due to large scale opposition from many quarters. The construction work required to pass a six-lane dual carriageway with grade separated junctions through the congested streets of south London would have been enormous and devastating to the communities through which it passed.
Route
The SCR would have started in Battersea at the south-west corner of Ringway 1 where it would have had a junction with the West Cross Route coming south-east across the River Thames from Earl's Court. The junction was planned to be located on the triangle of land between the railway lines around Falcon Park and crossing Latchmere Road (A3220). The junction would also have had a connection westwards to a feeder motorway to the planned terminus of the M3 motorway and the actual terminus of the M4 motorway at Gunnersbury. It is possible that this motorway would have been designated as a continuation of the M4.
In the mid-1960s the Ringways plan also included a motorway, known as the Balham Loop, heading south-west from the triangular junction through Clapham Junction station, then south towards Balham and east to Tulse Hill. This route was omitted from the plans in 1967.
Heading east, the SCR would have followed the route of the National Rail main line heading into Waterloo station crossing the tracks south-west of Queenstown Road station. Here the SCR would have had a junction with Queenstown Road (A3216) and passed over the railway and industrial land there to head south-east towards Heathbrook Park and Wandsworth Road station. The SCR would then have followed the south side of the line, requiring the demolition of most of the east side of Edgeley Road, then past Clapham High Street station to a junction with Clapham High Street (A3).
Continuing east, the SCR would have claimed much of the north side of Ferndale Road as well as most, if not all, of Dolman, Glendall and Bythorn Streets, three short cul-de-sacs between Ferndale Road and the railway tracks. The SCR would have next reached a difficult section through Brixton town centre where a complexity of railway tracks branching and crossing above one another to follow different routes, Brixton station and the narrow shopping streets would have needed considerable demolition to make a route for the elevated SCR. In conjunction with the road scheme, the Greater London Council proposed a scheme for the almost total clearance and reconstruction of the town centre including the construction of more than a dozen 50-storey blocks of flats as well as widespread low-rise residential and commercial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnable%20evolution%20model | The learnable evolution model (LEM) is a non-Darwinian methodology for evolutionary computation that employs machine learning to guide the generation of new individuals (candidate problem solutions). Unlike standard, Darwinian-type evolutionary computation methods that use random or semi-random operators for generating new individuals (such as mutations and/or recombinations), LEM employs hypothesis generation and instantiation operators.
The hypothesis generation operator applies a machine learning program to induce descriptions that distinguish between high-fitness and low-fitness individuals in each consecutive population. Such descriptions delineate areas in the search space that most likely contain the desirable solutions. Subsequently the instantiation operator samples these areas to create new individuals.
LEM has been modified from optimization domain to classification domain by augmented LEM with ID3 (February 2013 by M. Elemam Shehab, K. Badran, M. Zaki and Gouda I. Salama).
Selected references
Evolutionary computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2011%20missing%20tapes | The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost.
The data tapes were used to record all transmitted data (video as well as telemetry) for backup.
To broadcast the SSTV transmission on standard television, NASA ground receiving stations performed real-time scan conversion to the NTSC television format. The moonwalk's converted video signal was broadcast live around the world on July 21, 1969 (2:56 UTC). At the time, the NTSC broadcast was recorded on many videotapes and kinescope films. Many of these low-quality recordings remain intact. As the real-time broadcast worked and was widely recorded, preservation of the backup video was not deemed a priority in the years immediately following the mission. In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely the tapes were erased and reused at this time.
A team of retired NASA employees and contractors tried to find the tapes in the early 2000s but was unable to do so. The search was sparked when several still photographs appeared in the late 1990s that showed the visually superior raw SSTV transmission on ground-station monitors. The research team conducted a multi-year investigation in the hopes of finding the most pristine and detailed video images of the moonwalk. If copies of the original SSTV format tapes were to be found, more modern digital technology could make a higher-quality conversion, yielding better images than those originally seen. The researchers concluded that the tapes containing the raw unprocessed Apollo 11 SSTV signal were erased and reused by NASA in the early 1980s, following standard procedure at the time.
Although the researchers never found the telemetry tapes, they did discover the best visual quality NTSC videotapes as well as Super 8 movie film taken of a video monitor in Australia, showing the SSTV transmission before it was converted. These visual elements were processed in 2009, as part of a NASA-approved restoration project of the first moonwalk. At a 2009 news conference in Washington, D.C., the research team released its findings regarding the tapes' disappearance. They also partially released newly enhanced footage obtained during the search. Lowry Digital completed the full moonwalk restoration project in late 2009.
Background
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface on July 21, 1969, at 02:56 UTC; Buzz Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later. Only limited radio bandwidth was available to transmit the video signal from the lunar landings, which needed to be multiplexed with other communication and telemetry channels beamed from the Lunar Module Eagle, back to Earth. Therefore, Apollo 11's moonwalk video was transmitted from the Apollo TV camer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20University%20Computer%20Engineering%20Science%20School | Shanghai University School of Computer Engineering and Science is considered a leading school in computer science and engineering fields in Shanghai, China, the school was one of earliest established in Shanghai. Professor Sanli Li, Dean of the school, is one of China's pioneers in computer science and engineering.
The school undertakes around 150 projects every year with support from the Natural Science Foundation of China, the Committee of Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipal Government, the Shanghai Municipal Education Committee, as well as from many other private firms or companies. The school has also received nine national and ministerial awards for scientific and engineering advancement.
Departments:
Department of Computer Application Technology
Department of Computer Software and Theory
Department of Computer Architecture and Organization
Research Institutes:
High Performance Computing and Application Laboratory
Fault Tolerant Technology and Application Laboratory
Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory
Multi-media and Network Laboratory
Center for Advanced Computing and Applications Laboratory
Shanghai University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra%20%28TV%20series%29 | Lyra is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It stars Shaina Magdayao in the title role. It premiered on April 8, 1996 replacing Angelito. The series concluded on January 3, 1997 with a total of 200 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Shaina Magdayao as Lyra Monteverde
Supporting cast
Eula Valdez as Gina Monteverde
Lolit Solis as Marcia
Vina Morales as Edene
German Moreno as Kwaro
Krista Ranillo as Shayne
Accolades
References
1996 Philippine television series debuts
1997 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC3 | IC3 may refer to:
IC3 (train), or DSB Class MF, a Danish train
IC3, one of the IC codes used by British police
IC3 (certification), the Internet and Computing Core Certification
I-C3 (In-Cell Charge Control), a type of NiMH battery patented by Rayovac
IC3 Convention Center, convention center in Cebu City, Philippines
Internet Crime Complaint Center, an American cyber crime task force composed of the FBI, National White Collar Crime Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance
An abbreviation for indole-3-carbinol
"IC3", a song by British rapper Ghetts from his 2021 album Conflict of Interest
See also
ICCC (disambiguation)
ISEE-3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%E2%80%93Sochacki%20method | In mathematics, the Parker–Sochacki method is an algorithm for solving systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), developed by G. Edgar Parker and James Sochacki, of the James Madison University Mathematics Department. The method produces Maclaurin series solutions to systems of differential equations, with the coefficients in either algebraic or numerical form.
Summary
The Parker–Sochacki method rests on two simple observations:
If a set of ODEs has a particular form, then the Picard method can be used to find their solution in the form of a power series.
If the ODEs do not have the required form, it is nearly always possible to find an expanded set of equations that do have the required form, such that a subset of the solution is a solution of the original ODEs.
Several coefficients of the power series are calculated in turn, a time step is chosen, the series is evaluated at that time, and the process repeats.
The end result is a high order piecewise solution to the original ODE problem. The order of the solution desired is an adjustable variable in the program that can change between steps. The order of the solution is only limited by the floating point representation on the machine running the program. And in some cases can be either extended by using arbitrary precision floating point numbers, or for special cases by finding solution with only integer or rational coefficients.
Advantages
The method requires only addition, subtraction, and multiplication, making it very convenient for high-speed computation. (The only divisions are inverses of small integers, which can be precomputed.)
Use of a high order—calculating many coefficients of the power series—is convenient. (Typically a higher order permits a longer time step without loss of accuracy, which improves efficiency.)
The order and step size can be easily changed from one step to the next.
It is possible to calculate a guaranteed error bound on the solution.
Arbitrary precision floating point libraries allow this method to compute arbitrarily accurate solutions.
With the Parker–Sochacki method, information between integration steps is developed at high order. As the Parker–Sochacki method integrates, the program can be designed to save the power series coefficients that provide a smooth solution between points in time. The coefficients can be saved and used so that polynomial evaluation provides the high order solution between steps. With most other classical integration methods, one would have to resort to interpolation to get information between integration steps, leading to an increase of error.
There is an A-priori error bound for a single step with the Parker–Sochacki method. This allows a Parker–Sochacki program to calculate the step size that guarantees that the error is below any non-zero given tolerance. Using this calculated step size with an error tolerance of less than half of the machine epsilon yields a symplectic integration.
Disadvantages
Most met |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecom | Freecom is a German manufacturer of computer peripherals. Its products include USB hard disks (where the actual hard drive is manufactured by Samsung and others), USB flash drives, USB DVB-T television receivers and a data recovery service. The original President and CEO was Dick C. Hoogerdijk and Managing Director is Axel Lucassen. It is the first company to release an external hard drive to USB 3.02 standards.
The company was founded in 1989 and sold to Mitsubishi Chemical / Verbatim in 2009.
References
External links
Freecom
Companies established in 1989
Manufacturing companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20Quartermaine | Monica Quartermaine (also Bard and Webber) is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, played continually since August 17, 1977 by longtime soap opera actress Leslie Charleson. She is a cardiologist at the eponymous hospital, and widow of physician Alan Quartermaine (Stuart Damon). The role was originated by Patsy Rahn in 1976, who played the role until showrunners replaced her with Charleson. Charleson's tenure with the serial is one of the longest in American soap operas.
Character and casting
Monica becomes Chief of Staff at General Hospital following the death of her husband, Dr. Alan Quartermaine. Her specialty is cardiology. She was previously married to fellow doctor Jeff Webber. Her various affairs, primarily involving Jeff's older brother Rick Webber, and her quarrels with her second husband Alan and their dysfunctional family were all major stories on the show throughout the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
In her time on the show, Monica has battled breast cancer and dealt with outliving four of her children. She is the owner of the Quartermaine mansion, as she often reminds her family when they begin quarreling. She has been known to throw them out of her house.
In 2006, she only had rare appearances. New storylines developed in 2007 (an investigation into the murder of Rick Webber and the deaths of her husband and daughter Emily Quartermaine), and she has since featured more prominently.
With the returns of Denise Alexander (Lesley Webber), Genie Francis (Laura Spencer), and Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin), Monica remains the fourth oldest character on General Hospital and Charleson is the show's most tenured performer.
On August 24, 2010, it was announced that Charleson was being demoted to recurring status. In May 2011, newly appointed head writer Garin Wolf expressed his interest in having Charleson appear on a much more frequent basis.
In April 2018, it was announced that due to an injury Charleson sustained, the soap would temporarily recast the role of Monica to handle the advanced writing required for the character; Patty McCormack was announced as the temporary replacement of Charleson. McCormack first appeared on May 7, 2018.
Holly Kaplan filled in for Charleson for a single episode on March 15, 2022.
Storylines
Background
Monica grows up off-screen in an orphanage and was fostered by Dr. Gail Adamson Baldwin. Greg, Gail's husband, took advantage of Monica and raped her. Gail remained unaware of this for many years but they were able to reconcile once the truth came out. Monica was able to use her experience with Greg to help Laura Spencer when she was raped.
Monica later had an affair with David Langston and gave birth to a daughter, Dawn, whom she gave up for adoption.
Just prior to her arrival on General Hospital, Monica had been engaged to Rick Webber. He broke up with her and flew off to Africa where he became involved in a civil war and was presumed dead. Monica turned |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20%28TV%20series%29 | Madison is a Canadian teen drama television series that premiered on Global Television Network on September 21, 1993. The first season of the series was released in 1992 and 1993 to classrooms as a learning aid under the title of Working It Out at Madison, before becoming a television series for entertainment purposes.
The series was eventually sold to broadcasters in 88 countries worldwide and was nominated for the Best Dramatic Series award at Canada's Gemini Awards in 1995, 1996 and 1997, respectively.
Cast
Enuka Okuma as Sheri Davis (1994–1998; eps. 14-65)
Michelle Beaudoin as Penny Foster (1994–1995; eps. 14-39)
Will Sasso as Derek Wakaluk (1994–1998; eps. 14-65)
Jonathan Scarfe as R.J. Winslow (1994–1995; eps. 14-39)
Peter Stebbings as Kevin Sharpe (1994–1998; eps. 14-65)
Stacy Grant as Tia Winslow (1994–1995; eps. 14-39) (1997; eps. 53-65)
Chris William Martin as Jamie Novak (1994–1998; eps. 14-65)
Sarah Strange as Carol Lemieux (1994–1998; eps. 14-65)
Chad Willett as Tom Connor (1994–1995; eps. 14-39)
Joely Collins as Rachael Langston (1994–1998; eps. 14-65)
Barry Pepper as Mick
Shaira Holman as Beth (1994–1996)
References
External links
tvdb - Madison
1990s Canadian teen drama television series
1993 Canadian television series debuts
1998 Canadian television series endings
Global Television Network original programming
Television series about teenagers
Television shows filmed in Vancouver
Television shows set in Vancouver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharpling%20%26%20Wurster | Scharpling and Wurster are a long-form radio comedy duo composed of Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster. Scharpling was a writer/producer for the USA network program Monk. Wurster spent thirty-one years as the drummer for indie rock pioneers Superchunk, and has also drummed for The Ascended Masters and Guided by Voices vocalist Robert Pollard's solo touring band. He is currently the drummer for The Mountain Goats and Bob Mould.
Scharpling is the host of the long-running radio program The Best Show, which was originally broadcast on WFMU from 2000 to 2013 and has since begun broadcasting independently over the internet as of 2014, airing for three hours on Tuesday nights and released as a podcast the following day. Wurster's calls, which include a variety of characters who typically call from the fictional town of Newbridge, New Jersey (e.g. Timmy von Trimble, a two-inch tall racist, Corey Harris of the band Mother 13) or elsewhere (e.g. The Gorch, an elderly hoodlum who claims he was the basis for Fonzie, Philly Boy Roy, an enthusiast of all things Philly), are the main feature of the show.
Scharpling and Wurster released a series of "Best of the Best Show" CDs on Stereolaffs Records, a label they founded in 1999, between 2002 and 2007. A retrospective, 16 disc box set, The Best of The Best Show, was released by The Numero Group in 2015.
Scharpling and Wurster contributed to several episodes of the 2006 season of the Cartoon Network program Tom Goes to the Mayor. The duo also co-authored the "(Not So) Great Moments in Rock" for Harp Magazine.
In 2016, the duo guest-starred in Simpsons episode "The Marge-ian Chronicles," playing Paul and Barry, scientists leading a privately funded mission to Mars.
Discography (with Scharpling and Wurster)
Rock, Rot and Rule (Stereolaffs, 1999)
Chain Fights, Beer Busts and Service with a Grin (Stereolaffs, 2002)
New Hope for the Ape-Eared (Stereolaffs, 2004)
Hippy Justice (Stereolaffs, 2005)
The Art of the Slap (Stereolaffs, 2007) press bio
The Best of The Best Show (Numero Group, 2015)
Scharpling & Wurster: Live at Third Man Records (Third Man Records, 2016)
References
External links
Scharpling & Wurster home page
Stereolaffs
Stereolaffs Myspace
Best Show archives
Fotpedia archive of Best Show/Scharpling & Wurster ephemera
Onion interview with Jon Wurster
Fluxblog interview with S&W
A matter of characters (Mike Miliard, The Boston Phoenix, April 4, 2007)
American comedy duos
American comedy radio programs
Third Man Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Logic%20Programming | The International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) is the premier academic conference on the topic of logic programming, one of the main programming paradigms. It is organized annually by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). The conference consists of peer-reviewed papers with the post-proceedings published in the international journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), published by Cambridge University Press. The acceptance rate for TPLP papers is about 20%. Technical Communications are published as Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science.
The first ICLP was held in September 1982 in Marseille, France; the complete list is available on the ALP website. Every 4 years, ICLP is held in conjunction with several other logic conferences, in the Federated Logic Conferences (FLoC) series.
ICLP ranks as A (top 14.55%) in the CORE conference ranking.
References
External links
Computer science conferences
Logic conferences
Programming languages conferences
Department of Computing, Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon%20World%20Data%20Squad | is an action-adventure role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2, developed by BEC and published by Bandai Namco Games. The title was released in Japan in November 2006, and later in North America in September 2007, and is based on the Digimon Data Squad anime series. It is not part of the Digimon World series of games as its localized title implies.
Gameplay
The game is set in the anime's universe, and revolves around the Seven Great Demon Lords. In this game the player will be able to control the four main Savers characters, Marcus Damon, Thomas H. Norstein, Yoshino "Yoshi" Fujieda, along with their respective Digimon partners. The graphics for this game are cel-shaded and the battle system is similar to the Battle Terminal (a Japanese-only arcade game). The game is classified as a "special genre", called a "Dramatic/Innovative RPG", which means that the Digimon partners are affected by how you, the player, treat them. The way your Digimon evolves will be similar to Digimon World; the Digimon will be affected by how you take care of it and, depending on that, will digivolve into different types of Digimon. In Digimon World Data Squad, a new type of digivolution method is used, called the Galactica Evolution System: this will determine what Digimon your partner will evolve into. There will also be new, original characters for this game, meaning that these characters are exclusive to Digimon World Data Squad, and will not appear in any other Digimon Data Squad media.
Exclusive characters include Yuma Kagura, who has a Renamon as her partner; Kosaburo Katsura, a cocky private investigator who has an extremely clumsy, female Biyomon as his partner; Tsukasa Kagura, who is Yuma's older brother, and the new DATS technician, who graduated from the same academy as Thomas; Masaki Nitta, who is said to be a part of DATS' past, but is currently missing; and Manami Nitta, Masaki's daughter.
Plot
After a tutorial fight with an Otamamon, Marcus Damon and Agumon take on Tylomon who is sinking ships in the area of Walter Island. After Tylomon is defeated, Creepymon appears and defeats GeoGreymon. When Creepymon tries to take down Marcus and Agumon, Creepymon notices Marcus' Digivice iC and flees. Yoshino arrives to recall Marcus and Agumon to DATS HQ. Meanwhile, a girl named Yuma ends up kidnapped by two DemiDevimon and her Renamon arrives late.
At DATS HQ, Commander Sampson and Kudamon report that 5 children have gone missing throughout the world. He sends Marcus and Yoshino to Sneyato Forest to rendezvous with Thomas and take down Bakemon who is tampering with Earth's electricity. When they catch up with Thomas, a fight ensues with Bakemon. During battle, Bakemon Digivolves into Myotismon and a mysterious transmission tells them how to defeat Myotismon. After that is done, the DATS members return to DATS HQ and discover that Thomas' old friend Tsukasa Kagura has transferred here and was the one who gave them the tactics to defeat Myotismon. He also te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEPR | The acronym CEPR may refer to:
Centre for Economic Policy Research, a London-based European network of economists, founded in 1983
Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., founded in 1999
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, a subagency of the Public Health Agency of Canada
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, a subagency of the Health Protection Agency in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persil%20%28band%29 | Persil are a two piece electronic guitar pop band from Amsterdam.
Band members
David: guitar, keyboard, bass, drum programming.
Martine: vocals, keyboards, sampler.
History
Persil made its BBC Radio 1 debut in 1998, when John Peel played a track from the band's first demo in his show. Over the years John Peel played dozens of Persil tracks in his BBC shows, including eight tracks from Persil's first album Duotone. Persil recorded three Peel sessions.
Persil's debut album Duotone was released on Transformed Dreams in 2004. Since the album release Persil has played numerous gigs in the UK, Netherlands and USA, including showcases at the SXSW Festival in Texas, USA (2004), at the In The City Festival in Manchester, UK (2004), at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands (2006) and at the Go North Festival in Aberdeen, UK (2006).
After meeting Debbie Harry in New York, Persil were invited to support Blondie on their only Dutch show in June 2004.
In 2005 Persil supported The Wedding Present on nine sold out UK dates. They also released Tune-up, a new EP. Tracks from the Tune-up EP have been played by BBC DJ's Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens and Rob Da Bank.
Their second full-length album Comfort Noise was released in 2006.
Discography
Albums
Duotone CD (2004)
Comfort Noise CD (2006)
Singles / E.P.s
"Agony Aunt" / "Dear John" (1999)
Snapcracklepop EP (2002)
Tune-up EP (2005)
Other releases
Persil / Zea (split 7-inch) - split single with the band Zea.
"Table Tennis Star" (split w/ "Fishing Boat Song by Grandaddy and "Ballad of Never Rider" by Beachwood Sparks) (2000 Devil in the Woods #38)
External links
Official website
Official Persil myspace
Dutch pop music groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Sights | Night Sights, also known as The Void, is a 2011 science fiction drama film.
Plot
After losing his son, a grieving father stumbles upon a network of people that collect souls of the deceased, preparing them for their journey out of Purgatory.
Cast
Jonathon Lamer as Rich Hadley
Beth Pennington as Grace
Tom Virtue as Secretary Stirling
Lawrence Long as Andrew
Theresa Layne as Jamie Hadley
Peter Buitenhek as Palatier
Jerry Monroe as Lou Demoine
Robin Blaze as Jermaine
Charles Maze as Mr. Gibbons
Criston Mitchel as Mr. Whales
References
External links
2011 films
American science fiction drama films
2010s science fiction drama films
Fiction about purgatory
2011 drama films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
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