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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraTec | TerraTec Electronic GmbH is a German manufacturer of sound cards, computer speakers, webcams, computer mice, video grabbers and TV tuner cards. TerraTec is mainly known for its sound cards, and is the largest German producer of them.
The company was founded by Walter Grieger and Heiko Meertz in 1994 in Nettetal, Germany. Both Grieger and Meerts are still CEOs of the company.
There was a time when Terratec mainly produced graphic cards. But it dropped the production later and focused on sound cards.
Furthermore, TerraTec is distributing hardware and software products like professionally studio software Cubase for musicians or hardware like PhonoPreAmpiVinyl to digitalizing recordings from vinyl or tapes to digital audio formats.
TerraTec also produces the "Axon" brand of Pitch-to-MIDI or guitar synthesizer converters. AXON's current models include the AX100 and the AX50USB.
Products
Sound cards
Terratec Aureon 7.1
Terratec Aureon 7.1 Universe
Terratec DMX 6Fire
Terratec Promedia SoundSystem DMX
See also
Cubase
References
External links
Manufacturing companies established in 1994
Computer hardware companies of Germany
Audio equipment manufacturers of Germany
Computer peripheral companies
German brands
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishan%20Public%20Library | The Bishan Public Library is a library in the National Library Board network situated at Bishan, Singapore just behind Junction 8 Shopping Centre. It opened on 1 September 2006 by Deputy Prime Minister, Wong Kan Seng.
History
The library was conceived in the late 1990s because of high traffic in the Toa Payoh Community Library and Ang Mo Kio Community Library. Plans for the library commenced in 2002, and construction took place from 2003 to 2006 at a cost of about S$10 million. Designed by Look Boon Gee, it has about 250,000 titles spread over four floors and a basement, with a Café Galilee on the first floor. Windows that protrude out of the building are actually reading "pods", for readers who want to read quietly or use their laptops there.
The design of the library won a number of awards for its architecture, locally and internationally. The awards won include the President's Design Award in 2007 and the International Architecture Award in 2009.
Accessibility
The library serves a population of around 90,000 in the Bishan area, including the needs of several nearby schools such as Catholic High School, Guangyang Secondary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, Whitley Secondary School, Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College.
It is easily accessible to residents of Bishan via the buses which ply to and from Bishan Bus Interchange. However, library users have to walk a short distance to access the library. The library is also a short walk away from the Bishan MRT station.
References
2006 establishments in Singapore
Buildings and structures in Bishan, Singapore
Libraries established in 2006
Libraries in Singapore
Library buildings completed in 2006
Education in Central Region, Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Salzberg | Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology.
Early life and education
Salzberg was born in 1960 as one of four children to Herman Salzberg, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and Adele Salzberg, a retired school teacher. Salzberg did his undergraduate studies at Yale University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1980. In 1981 he returned to Yale, and he received his Master of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees in Computer Science in 1982 and 1984, respectively. After several years in a startup company, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1989.
Career
After obtaining his undergraduate degree, he worked for a local power company in South Carolina, where he gained programming experience using IBM mainframe. He also learned COBOL and IBM Assembler. He then joined a Boston-based AI startup upon completion of his masters degree in Computer Science.
After earning his Ph.D., Salzberg joined Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and was promoted to associate professor in 1997. From 1998 to 2005, he was the head of the Bioinformatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research, one of the world's largest genome sequencing centers. Salzberg then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science as well as the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In 2011, Salzberg returned to Johns Hopkins University as a professor in the Department of Medicine. From 2014, he was a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Medicine; the Department of Computer Science in the Whiting School of Engineering; and in the Department of Biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In 2013, Salzberg won the Benjamin Franklin award in bioinformatics.
In March 2015, he was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching the next generation of scholars. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships were established in 2013 by a gift from Michael Bloomberg. Salzberg holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Research
Salzberg has been a prominent scientist in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology since the 1990s. He has made many contributions to gene finding algorithms, notably the GLIMMER program for bacterial gene finding as well as several related programs for finding genes in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Module%20Device | Storage Module Drive (SMD) is a family of storage devices (hard disk drives) that were first shipped by Control Data Corporation in December 1973 as the CDC 9760 40 MB (unformatted) storage module disk drive. The CDC 9762 80 MB variant was announced in June 1974 and the CDC 9764 150 MB and the CDC 9766 300 MB variants were announced in 1975 (all capacities unformatted). A non-removable media variant family of 12, 24 and 48 MB capacity, the MMD, was then announced in 1976. This family's interface, SMD, derived from the earlier Digital RP0x interface, was documented as ANSI Standard X3.91M - 1982, Storage Module Interfaces with Extensions for Enhanced Storage Module Interfaces.
The SMD interface is based upon a definition of two flat interface cables ("A" control and "B" data) which run from the disk drive to a controller and then to a computer. This interface allows data to be transferred at 9.6 Mbit/s. The SMD interface was supported by many 8 inch and 14 inch removable and non-removable disk drives. It was mainly implemented on disk drives used with mainframes and minicomputers and was later itself replaced by SCSI.
Control Data shipped its 100,000th SMD drive in July 1981. By 1983 at least 25 manufacturers had supplied SMD drives, including, Ampex, Century Data Systems, CDC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Micropolis, Pertec, Priam, NEC and Toshiba.
CDC 976x disk geometry
The CDC 9762 80 MB variant has 5 × 14" platters. The top and bottom platters are guard platters and not used for storage. The top and bottom guard platters are exactly the same size as the data platters, and are usually made from a data platter which had too many errors to be usable as a data platter. The remaining 3 platters give 5 data surfaces and one servo surface for head positioning, being the upper surface of the center platter.
The CDC 9766 300 MB variant has 12 × 14" platters. Again the top and bottom platters are guard platters and not used for storage. The remaining 10 platters give 19 data surfaces and one servo surface for head positioning, again being the upper surface of the center platter.
Common to both the 80 MB and 300 MB disks, they have 823 cylinders and the servo surface is on one of the central platters. The sector size and sectors per track depend on how the disk is initialized. For example on the GEC 4000 series minicomputers a configuration of 34 sectors of 512 data bytes each per track is used.
SMD disk packs (as the Storage Module itself was most commonly called) required head alignment to assure interchangeability of media between drives.
References
Computer storage devices
Computer storage buses
Control Data Corporation hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing%20Television%20Broadcast%20Group | Nanjing Broadcast Television Station, is a television network in the Nanjing, China area. It is the owner of the Nanjing Broadcasting Network and Nanjing Radio.
External links
Official Website
Official Website (translated to English with Babelfish)
Nanjing Broadcasting Network (translated to English with Babelfish)
Television networks in China
Mass media in Nanjing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean%20Dynasty | Archimedean Dynasty (German: Schleichfahrt, meaning silent running) is the first of the AquaNox series of computer games, developed by Massive Development and published by Blue Byte in 1996. On July 29, 2015, after years of commercial non-availability, the game was re-released on the digital distributor gog.com with Windows support.
Plot
By the middle of the 27th century, Earth has become a desolate wasteland, with surface polluted by the worldwide nuclear war and continents submerged due to the ice caps melting. Humanity was forced to flee into the depths of the ocean. Here, in a world called Aqua, the democratic Atlantic Federation, the oligarchy of the Indo-Arabic Clansunion, the totalitarian monarchist Sino-Russo-Japanese Shogunate in the western Pacific, and the lawless Tornado Zone in the eastern Pacific along the coastline of South America stand as the remnants of a fractured civilization.
The plot develops around a mercenary named Emerald "Deadeye" Flint, who takes up a seemingly simple task to escort a cargo ship, transporting the nearly worthless delivery of sulfur, through quiet waters. Shortly after the beginning of the voyage, the protagonist becomes the sole hostage after an anarchistic group of Shogunate mercenaries raid the convoy. However, he is released by their leader, Hóng Lóng, who is a well-known arch-enemy of, and has formed a love–hate relationship with the protagonist after helping him escape prison.
Emerald "Deadeye" Flint is soon picked up by a freighter and dropped off in Magellan where his first mission is to bring himself and an attache to Emerald's boss, El Topo's base in a rusty old ship named 'Hiob'. After the player completes several missions as repayment to El Topo for the failure of the escort mission, the player is ordered to move to another location to look for a mercenary to assist him in obtaining the black box of the submarine Big Fat Mama.
Eventually the player's ship is replaced by a faster scout called the 'Gator'. As the player continues to progress through the main story line his ship is replaced two more times, first by the slightly sluggish Atlantic Federation bomber 'Zorn', which introduces the player to a ship with significantly greater firepower. Finally the player ends up in a prototype EnTrOx bomber called 'Succubus', which is the fastest and most advanced submarine in Aqua. The Succubus gets confiscated from EnTrOx after their CEO is impeached and the company dissolved to end their monopoly on and control over Aqua's energy, transport, and oxygen resources.
After several other missions, the player encounters a mysterious mothership during a simple recon mission that is traveling at higher speeds than any other submarine in Aqua. As the game progresses, they encounter more and more scouts of similar make, dubbed Bionts, due to the ships being of a bionic build where pilot and machine are fused together. In one mission, the player is required to paralyse a Biont scout (using EMP weapons) an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing%20Broadcasting%20Network | Nanjing Broadcasting Network (), is a television network in the Nanjing, China area.
External links
Official Site
Television networks in China
Mass media in Nanjing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRN%20Digital%20Talk%20Radio%20Networks | CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks, sometimes simply referred to as CRN or CRN Digital Talk, is a syndicator and distributor of radio programs and talk radio networks.
History
CRN was founded in 1983 as Cable Radio Network to provide commercial radio programming to local cable television systems. CRN founder Michael Horn (who, at the time, was an on-air personality at Los Angeles’ KFI AM) read an article in the trade publication Radio & Records that mentioned Los Angeles radio station KMET earned ratings points in the Phoenix market. Horn learned KMET was the audio source for a channel on a local cable system in Phoenix.
Horn brought the radio-on-television idea to San Fernando Valley cable provider King Cable, where he soon programmed a country music channel. Seeking a more mass appeal, Horn changed the channel's format to oldies music. Two other cable systems – Valley Cable and Falcon Cable – then became interested and was used on a few Electronic Program Guides across America.
Broadcast hookups were initially conducted through phone lines before the method became cost prohibitive. Horn invested more money and switched to satellite transmission. A branding change from "Cable Radio Network" to "CRN Networks" eventually followed.
Noncommercial music channels from companies such as Digital Planet and DMX eventually were picked up by cable providers. Instead of competing with them, Horn switched CRN's programming to a talk radio platform. CRN Networks then became "CRN Talk" and, in 2007, "CRN Digital Talk Radio". The company's legal name remains Cable Radio Networks, Inc.
Horn commissioned a company that worked with Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) to determine CRN.s listenership. Results indicated that CRN shared a similar-size audience as MSNBC, Cinemax, and Fox Sports.
In 2013, CRN Digital Talk Radio Launched CRN Digital Magazine, its own online magazine (no association with CRN Magazine) featuring lifestyle and entertainment stories written by CRN personalities.
Programming
CRN programs are produced both in house and in collaboration with other broadcasters. CRN broadcasts eight audio feeds: a main feed that carries mostly in-house offerings; direct network feeds from Sports Byline USA, The Answer, Talk Radio Network, Radio America; Fox News Radio, Westwood One; iHeart Radio, and others. CRN also airs a simulcast of XEAAA-AM (a female-oriented Spanish-language station based in Guadalajara, Mexico); and a seventh channel that duplicates and timeshifts some of the other feeds' programs. It is distributed, as its former name implies, mostly through various cable television providers, much in the way the more widely available Music Choice is distributed. However, it is also available via C band satellite, various terrestrial stations across the nation and on the Internet.
Some of CRN’s first talk offerings included “Polka Parade” with Dick Sinclair and television and radio personality George Putnam’s “Talk Back” (which became a CRN exclusive). F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioke | Ioke is the Hawaiian language equivalent for the name Joyce (name). It may also refer to:
Hurricane Ioke (2006)
Ioke (programming language)
Ioke (mythology), personification of pursuit in Greek mythology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Macaulay | Marc Macaulay (born October 13, 1957) is an American actor.
Early life and career
He was born and raised in Millinocket, Maine. He graduated with a BFA in theater. He appeared in the USA Network Series Burn Notice for five episodes as Agent Harris, and as "Blaine Bauer" in the horror film Thirteen Floors.
Some of his most prominent film roles have included Monster, Premonition, Palmetto, Passenger 57, and The Hawk is Dying. In television, he has had guest appearances on Miami Vice, seaQuest DSV, and he played the role of Agent Ives on the television series Prison Break. He also appeared in the episode of Robert Dirscherl in Unsolved Mysteries playing an agent.
Selected filmography
1985-1989: Miami Vice (TV Series) as Brookings
1988: Grave Robbers as Salesman
1989-1991: The Adventures of Superboy (TV Series)
1989: No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers as Terrorist
1990: Cop Target
1990: Edward Scissorhands as Reporter #1
1992: Dead Boyz Can't Fly as O'Brien
1992: Passenger 57 as Vincent
1993: Matinee as Shopping Cart Crook
1993: Cop and a Half as Waldo
1993: The Real McCoy as Karl
1993: Hidden Fears as Marty Vanbeeber
1994: China Moon as CSU Technician
1994: Tollbooth as Cop #2
1994-1995: Matlock (TV Series) as Detective Bob Garrison
1994-1995: seaQuest DSV (TV Series) as Colonel Manheim
1995: Bad Boys as Noah Trafficante
1995: The Perez Family as Male volunteer
1995: Fair Game as Navigator
1995: Point of Betrayal as Ted's Attorney
1995: Smoke n Lightnin as Jones
1996: Up Close & Personal as Police Spokesman
1996: Shootfighter II as Malo
1996: Blood and Wine as Guard
1997: Rosewood as Bobby
1997: Contact as NASA Technician
1997: Catherine's Grove as William Mason
1998: Great Expectations as Cop on Boat
1998: Palmetto as Miles Meadows
1998: Wild Things as Walter
1998: The Truman Show as Citizen Searching Truman (uncredited)
1998: Holy Man as Cameraman - Brutus
1999: Instinct as Foley
2000: The Crew as Driver
2000: Tigerland as Tigerland CO
2002: as Airport Officer Arch Ridley
2002: Big Trouble as Airport Officer Arch Ridley
2002: The Code Conspiracy as Commander
2002: Bending All the Rules as Sargeant
2003: 2 Fast 2 Furious as Agent #1
2003: From Justin to Kelly as Mr. O'Mara
2003: Monster Will / Daddy 'John'
2004: Wild Things 2 as Jayson
2004: The Punisher as Dante
2005: Red Eye as Coast Guard Officer
2005: Transporter 2 as U.S. Marshal Brown
2005: Natale a Miami as Cop #1
2005: Planet Ibsen as Dr. Rank
2006: Descansos as Attendent
2006: The Hawk Is Dying as Alonzo
2006: Hoot as Drill Sergeant
2006: Lonely Hearts as Warden Broady
2006: Miami Vice as Air Traffic Supervisor
2006: Prison Break (TV Series) as Agent Ives
2006: South Beach Dreams as Mr. Ellison
2007: Walking Tall: The Payback as Herb Sherman
2007: Premonition as Sheriff Reilly
2007: Cleaner as Vic
2007: Matrimonio alle Bahamas as Senator Jones
2007: Naked Under Heaven as Bennett
2007: Thirteen Floors as Blaine Bauer
2007: Burn Notice (TV Series) as Agent Harris
2008: Mad Money |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festering%20Hate | Festering Hate (also known as hate) and CyberAIDS are the names of the first two Apple ProDOS viruses. CyberAIDS appears to have been a series of viruses with minor changes in the code, culminating in the final version called Festering Hate, which appeared in 1988 (The Festering Hate World Tour - Festering Hate in '88). When the virus went off, the title page credited "Rancid Grapefruit" and "Cereal Killer" of the "Kool/Rad Alliance!"
The phone number embedded in the detonation page was apparently the home number of John Maxfield (also known as "Cable Pair") a well-known FBI informant and private investigator of the era, whose specialty was computer crime and hackers.
Unlike the few Apple viruses that had come before, such as the Elk Cloner virus, that were essentially annoying but did no damage, the Festering Hate series of viruses was extremely destructive, spreading to all system files it could find on the host computer (hard drive, floppy and system memory) and then destroying everything when it could no longer find any uninfected files.
CyberAIDS
Although there are references and message threads about CyberAIDS appearing on Usenet as early as 1985 and 1986, CyberAIDS seems to have attained critical mass in 1987 when it finally spread out of the pirate underground, where the payload was originally attached to cracked software, and hit the mainstream networks of the time and began affecting legitimate users.
Festering Hate
Festering Hate was the last iteration of the CyberAIDS code-base and seems to have bridged the virus from underground pirate BBS systems to the mainstream, by way of a shareware telecommunications application called Zlink. In fact, the original impression was that Zlink itself was nothing but a Trojan horse that delivered a viral payload.
During the spread of CyberAIDS, there were apparently a variety of Apple II programmers of the time who wrote virus detection software and sold it to protect people from Apple ProDOS viruses. Since the only viruses that existed at the time (and the only viruses that such programs would detect) were CyberAIDS and Festering Hate, the "Kool/Rad Alliance" appears to have released the final version of the code-base to include a sarcastic taunt directed at Glen Bredon, one of the programmers who was selling anti-virus software.
The last strain of the CyberAIDS/Festering Hate variants appears to have been released in 1988 and was fixed by Morgan Davis, who put an end to feud between the "Kool/Rad Alliance" and the writers of anti-virus software by releasing VirusMD for free. Even so, within months VirusMD became a commercial product. By this point the authors of the CyberAIDS and Festering Hate code-base appear to have lost interest in their virus and the Apple II platform itself.
Legacy
A description of the behaviour of CyberAIDS was published in the Summer 1988 issue of 2600 Magazine, by The Plague of MOD. The source code is not known to be available. The article which appeared in 2600 w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart%20%28software%29 | Upstart is a discontinued event-based replacement for the traditional init daemon—the method by which several Unix-like computer operating systems perform tasks when the computer is started. It was written by Scott James Remnant, a former employee of Canonical Ltd. In 2014, Upstart was placed in maintenance mode, and other init daemons, such as systemd, were recommended in place of Upstart. Ubuntu moved away from Upstart with the release of version 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) in favor of migrating to systemd. As of March 2023, there have been no updates released for Upstart since September 2014.
Rationale
The traditional init process was originally only responsible for bringing the computer into a normal running state after power-on, or gracefully shutting down services prior to shutdown. As a result, the design is strictly synchronous, blocking future tasks until the current one has completed. Its tasks must also be defined in advance, as they are limited to this prep or cleanup function. This leaves it unable to handle various non-startup-tasks on a modern desktop computer elegantly, including:
The addition or removal of USB flash drives and other portable storage or network devices while the machine is running
The discovery and scanning of new storage devices, especially when a disk may not even power on until it is scanned
The loading of firmware for a device, which may need to occur after it is detected but before it is usable
Upstart's event-driven model allows it to respond to events asynchronously as they are generated.
Design
Upstart operates asynchronously; it handles starting of the tasks and services during boot and stopping them during shutdown, and also supervises the tasks and services while the system is running.
Easy transition and perfect backward compatibility with sysvinit were the explicit design goals; accordingly, Upstart can run unmodified sysvinit scripts. In this way it differs from most other init replacements (beside systemd and OpenRC), which usually assume and require complete transition to run properly, and do not support a mixed environment of traditional and new startup methods.
Upstart allows for extensions to its event model through the use of initctl to input custom, single events, or event bridges to integrate many or more-complicated events. By default, Upstart includes bridges for socket, dbus, udev, file, and dconf events; additionally, more bridges are possible.
Adoption
Linux distributions and other operating systems based on the Linux kernel which use Upstart as the default init system:
Upstart is used in Google's ChromeOS and ChromiumOS.
Linux distributions that support or have supported Upstart to some extent, but moved away since or no longer use it as their default init system:
Debian decided that systemd will be the default init system beginning with the Jessie release, after considering switching to Upstart. It was eventually removed from the Debian archives in December 2015.
Upstart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang%20Networking%20Transmission%20Limited | Xinjiang Networking Transmission Limited (), also known as Xinjiang Broadcast Network, consists of media broadcasting to Ürümqi and the Xinjiang province area. It operates the Urumqi People's Broadcasting Station and the Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station, broadcasting in the Mandarin (dialect), Uyghur (dialect), Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Mongolian languages.
External links
Official Website
Official Website (translated to English with Babelfish)
Chinese-language radio stations
Mandarin-language radio stations
Mass media in Ürümqi
Radio stations in China
Uyghur-language mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi%20People%27s%20Broadcasting%20Station | Ürümqi People's Broadcasting Station (short: UBS) was a radio station broadcasting to Ürümqi and the Xinjiang province area. It was operated by the Xinjiang Networking Transmission Limited in Mandarin and Uyghur. It existed from 1979 until 2019 when it merged with Ürümqi Television forming Ürümqi Radio and TV Station ().
Furthermore from 1949 to 1951 the Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station was named after Ürümqi instead of Xinjiang in Uyghur ( Díhuà in Chinese).
List of programmes
See also
Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station
Ürümqi
External links
Directory of FM radio stations in the region Xinjiang Uygur
Chinese-language radio stations
Mandarin-language radio stations
Mass media in Ürümqi
Radio stations in China
Radio stations established in 1979
1979 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang%20Television | Xinjiang Television (XJTV) (; ; ) is a local television network station in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It is the major television station in Xinjiang and is located in the capital Ürümqi. It was founded and started to broadcast on October 1, 1970. XJTV currently broadcasts in Mandarin, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Mongolian languages. In May 2019, Xinjiang Television signed a strategic cooperation and technical assistance agreement with Huawei. So far, it is the only TV channel using the Turkic language based in a communist country.
TV Channel
Xinjiang TV Chinese 新疆卫视(汉语)
Xinjiang TV Uyghur 新疆卫视(维吾尔语)
Xinjiang TV Kazakh 新疆卫视(哈萨克语)
Chinese Variety channel(汉语综艺频道)
Uyghur Variety channel(维吾尔语综艺频道)
Chinese Drama channel(汉语影视频道)
Chinese Economic-life channel(汉语经济生活频道)
Kazakh Variety channel(哈萨克语综艺频道)
Uyghur Economic-life channel(维吾尔语经济生活频道)
Sport Health channel(体育健康频道)
Law Information channel(法制信息频道)
Children channel(少儿频道)
Tianshan Theatre channel(天山剧场频道)
Entertainment Baza channel(娱乐巴扎频道)
Education Online channel(教育在线频道)
References
External links
Official websites:
Chinese
Uyghur
Kazakh
Television networks in China
Mass media in Ürümqi
Television channels and stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in China
Television in minority languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Drive%20Optimizer | Microsoft Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase data access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation. Defragmenting a disk minimizes head travel, which reduces the time it takes to read files from and write files to the disk. As a result of the decreased read and write times, Microsoft Drive Optimizer decreases system startup times for systems starting from magnetic storage devices such as a hard drive. However, defragmentation is not helpful on storage devices such as solid state drives, USB drives or SD cards that use flash memory to increase speeds, as these drives do not use a head. Defragmentation may decrease lifespan for certain technologies, e.g. solid state drives. Microsoft Drive Optimizer was first officially shipped with Windows XP.
From Windows 8, the program was renamed to Microsoft Drive Optimizer, with some references changed to say Defragment and Optimize Drives or simply Optimize Drives.
Early history
As early as the end of 1982, the IBM PC DOS operating system that shipped with early IBM Personal Computers included a Disk Volume Organization Optimizer to defragment the 5¼-inch floppy disks that those machines used. At this time, Microsoft's MS-DOS did not defragment hard disks. Several third party software developers marketed defragmenters to fill this gap. MS-DOS 6.0 introduced Microsoft Defrag. Windows NT, however, did not offer a Defrag utility, and Symantec was suggested by others as a possible alternative for the utility.
Initial releases of Windows NT lacked a defragmentation tool. Versions through Windows NT 3.51 did not have an application programming interface for moving data clusters on hard disks. Executive Software, later renamed Diskeeper Corporation, released Diskeeper defragmentation software for Windows NT 3.51, which shipped with a customized version of the NT kernel and file system drivers that could move clusters.
Microsoft included file system control (FSCTL) commands to move clusters in the Windows NT 4.0 kernel, which worked for both NTFS and FAT partitions. However, Windows NT 4.0 did not provide a graphical or command-line user interface.
Debut
Disk Defragmenter was first shipped as part of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, and was licensed from Symantec Corporation. It could be scheduled using a Maintenance Wizard and supported command line switches. In the version included with Windows 95 and 98, if the contents of the drive changed during defragmentation, the program paused, rescanned the entire drive, and then resumed the process from where it had left off. In Windows Me, this limitation was lifted.
The Disk Defragmenter in Windows 2000 was a stripped-down version of Diskeeper, licensed from Diskeeper Corporation. It uses the following techniques:
Moving all the index or directory information to one spot. Moving this spot into the center of the dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSlam | CyberSlam was a professional wrestling supercard event and fan convention produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1996 to 2000.
Background
It began in 1995 with the Double Tables event, held at the ECW Arena. The event was held for those who were posting on Usenet's rec.sport.pro-wrestling to be able to meet performers in person and see some live pro wrestling. ECW's Tod Gordon assisted the ECW fans in organizing this. Prior to the ECW Arena show on February 4, 1995, there was a show held at the Flagstaff in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The red shirts seen on some wrestlers and fans say "To The Extreme" and was the nickname given to the event. In addition to the two shows, there was also a question-and-answer session held at the ECW Arena itself. The main guests were Tod Gordon, the Sandman and The Public Enemy. Once the wrestlers began to arrive for the show, they came out to mingle and chat with the fans. Another event was held during the summer of 1995, called "Back to the Extreme". This time, the Q&A session was held at the Holiday Inn in Essington, Pennsylvania.
In 1996, Paul Heyman christened the event "CyberSlam". There were two events of CyberSlam in 1997. Every year, the convention included a question and answer session.
Dates, venues and main events
See also
List of professional wrestling conventions
References
External links
Recurring events established in 1996
Recurring events disestablished in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir%20simulation | Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering in which computer models are used to predict the flow of fluids (typically, oil, water, and gas) through porous media.
The creation of models of oil fields and the implementation of calculations of field development on their basis is one of the main areas of activity of engineers and oil researchers. On the basis of geological and physical information about the properties of an oil, gas or gas condensate field, consideration of the capabilities of the systems and technologies for its development create quantitative ideas about the development of the field as a whole. A system of interrelated quantitative ideas about the development of a field is a model of its development, which consists of a reservoir model and a model of a field development process. Layer models and processes for extracting oil and gas from them are always clothed in a mathematical form, i.e. characterized by certain mathematical relationships. The main task of the engineer engaged in the calculation of the development of an oil field is to draw up a calculation model based on individual concepts derived from a geological-geophysical study of the field, as well as hydrodynamic studies of wells. Generally speaking, any combination of reservoir models and development process can be used in an oil field development model, as long as this combination most accurately reflects reservoir properties and processes. At the same time, the choice of a particular reservoir model may entail taking into account any additional features of the process model and vice versa.
The reservoir model should be distinguished from its design scheme, which takes into account only the geometric shape of the reservoir. For example, a reservoir model may be a stratified heterogeneous reservoir. In the design scheme, the reservoir with the same model of it can be represented as a reservoir of a circular shape, a rectilinear reservoir, etc.
Fundamentals
Traditional finite difference simulators dominate both theoretical and practical work in reservoir simulation. Conventional FD simulation is underpinned by three physical concepts: conservation of mass, isothermal fluid phase behavior, and the Darcy approximation of fluid flow through porous media. Thermal simulators (most commonly used for heavy crude oil applications) add conservation of energy to this list, allowing temperatures to change within the reservoir.
Numerical techniques and approaches that are common in modern simulators:
Most modern FD simulation programs allow for construction of 3-D representations for use in either full-field or single-well models. 2-D approximations are also used in various conceptual models, such as cross-sections and 2-D radial grid models.
Theoretically, finite difference models permit discretization of the reservoir using both structured and more complex unstructured grids to accurately represent the geometry of the reservoir. Local grid refinements (a fin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing%20Broadcasting%20Group | Chongqing Broadcasting Group (CBG; () is a government-owned television network based in the city of Chongqing in southwestern China. Established in 1981, Chongqing Television has been the leading broadcasting network in Chongqing and its affiliated counties and districts. After Chongqing became a direct-controlled municipality in 1997, Chongqing Television became the official TV program to represent and propagate the cultures and development of Chongqing. Chongqing Television became a subdivision of Chongqing Broadcasting Group (along with People's Radio Broadcasting Station of Chongqing and many other subdivisions) in 2004 with a headquarter in Jiulongpo District. Its main channel, CTV (formerly CQTV) is carried on cable systems in urban areas throughout mainland China and is available nationwide on both analogue and digital satellites.
List of CBG channels
Chongqing Broadcasting Group currently provides more than ten TV channels, and most of those channels are broadcast in the Municipality of Chongqing. The flagship channel of Chongqing Television, Chongqing Satellite Television Channel or CQTV-1, is broadcast in more than 25 provinces in mainland China. The international channel has oversea broadcasts.
CBG talent show controversy
On 15 August 2007, a CBG talent show was suspended following criticism from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). The show, titled First Heartthrob () was condemned for "stunts and sensationalism". CQTV has been ordered to take disciplinary measures against relevant staff. The programme is one of many idol-style shows carried on Chinese provincial stations, in an attempt to emulate the success of Super Girl. This particular show also includes elements of reality television programmes like Big Brother.
According to Chinese media reports, programme director Zhou Zhishun claimed that the suspension was due to an incident on Friday 12 August, when contestant-judges clashes resulted in tears. He is reported to have said, "This sudden event caused a loss of control on the set, and hence the restructuring was requested by SARFT." There may also be a political element: the Administration urged other broadcasters to "voluntarily abide by political discipline and propaganda discipline", and the AP news agency linked this with the upcoming 17th Party Congress.
SARFT's action has received praise from some Chinese commentators. Chang Ping, an editor in the popular Southern Metropolis Daily, wrote "After Chongqing TV's First Heartthrob (第一次心动), similar programs Guangdong TV's Date With Beauty (美丽新约) and Shenzhen TV's Super Date (超级情感对对碰) were ordered to stop broadcasting. In the eyes of viewers, they all share one quality: vulgarity... [SARFT] has won wide acclaim. According to the results of a survey by China Youth Daily's survey center, 96.4% of those respondents who were aware of what First Heartthrob was cast their vote in support of SARFT's action."
References
External links
Official website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWN | GWN may refer to:
Global Wrestling Network
Gowerton railway station, in Wales
Great White North (disambiguation)
Guild Wars Nightfall, a video game
Gwandara language
GWN7, a former Australian television network, formerly known as the Golden West Network
Gwynedd, preserved county in Wales, Chapman code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20Object%20Description%20Schema | The Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) is an XML-based bibliographic description schema developed by the United States Library of Congress' Network Development and Standards Office. MODS was designed as a compromise between the complexity of the MARC format used by libraries and the extreme simplicity of Dublin Core metadata.
About MODS
History and development
The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, developed the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) in 2002 for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications. As an XML schema it is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. It includes a subset of MARC fields and uses language-based tags rather than numeric ones, in some cases regrouping elements from the MARC 21 bibliographic format. MODS was first announced for trial use in June 2002. Since September 16, 2022 it is at version 3.8.
The number of users of MODS is unknown. Implementers are encouraged to register their uses of MODS in the implementation registry on the official MODS website. To date there are about 35 projects listed in the registry, although it is assumed that many others are making use of the standard. Users are primarily operating in the area of digital libraries, and some of the registered uses are in digital library projects at the Library of Congress.
Relationship to MARC
The MODS record has been designed to carry key data elements from the MARC record but does not define all of the MARC fields and does not use the field and subfield tagging from the MARC standard. There are data elements in MODS that are not compatible with the MARC record so there is some loss translating from MARC to MODS and from MODS to MARC. There is no commitment on the part of the Library of Congress to maintain compatibility between the two metadata formats beyond what is convenient to the community of MODS users.
The Library of Congress maintains crosswalks in XSLT format for mapping from MARC to MODS, and from MODS to MARC.
Relationship to Dublin Core and qualified Dublin Core
Dublin Core is a simple schema. MODS is far more complex.
The Library of Congress maintains crosswalks in XSLT format for mapping from Dublin Core to MODS, and from MODS to Dublin Core. However, no crosswalks are available for mapping between qualified Dublin Core and MODS.
Advantages
The use of MODS provides several advantages compared to other metadata schemas:
High compatibility with existing resource descriptions
Less detail than MARC so various internal record element sets can be mapped to MODS
Item descriptions from outside in DC and other simpler formats can be mapped and enhanced
Maintenance board
Revisions to the schema are suggested and discussed on the MODS listserv, and approved by the MODS Editorial Com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marpole%20Loop | Marpole Loop is a public transit exchange in the Marpole neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The exchange is a part of Metro Vancouver's TransLink transit network. It is the southernmost transit exchange located within the city of Vancouver.
History
Marpole Loop originally opened on July 4, 1905 as an interurban station on the BCER Lulu Island line. Interurban services continued to operate until February 28, 1958, coinciding with the completion of the "Rails-to-Rubber" transition.
On September 7, 2009, suburban routes that served Marpole Loop from Delta, Richmond, Surrey and White Rock, were rerouted to terminate at Bridgeport station on SkyTrain's Canada Line. On the same date, trolley bus route 17 Oak was rerouted away from Marpole Loop to terminate at Marine Drive station and route 10 Granville was extended from Marpole to the same new terminus.
In mid-2019, TransLink installed a charging station at the loop for its battery-electric bus pilot project. Revenue operation for the charging station began on September 11, 2019.
Location
Located on Southwest Marine Drive at the northern foot of the Arthur Laing Bridge, which connects Vancouver to Richmond and Vancouver International Airport. Part of the exchange is located on Marine Drive itself, and part of it is located in an area separated from regular traffic. Because of this arrangement, the loop covers a large area; TransLink maps sometimes designate the loop as "Hudson" to avoid confusion.
The loop is located next to the Vancouver Transit Centre, which replaced the Oakridge Transit Centre in September 2006. The transit depot houses the city of Vancouver's public transit fleet. Marpole Loop can accommodate trolley buses, regular-length diesel buses and articulated buses.
Routes
As of October 2020, Marpole Loop was served by the following routes:
References
External links
TransLink (British Columbia) bus stations
1905 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YLC-4%20Radar | YLC-4 is a Chinese UHF solid-state, fully coherent 2D long range surveillance radar, which is mainly used for long range surveillance. The radar has the ability to synthesize data from up to four other radars with a large data capacity, and to communicate and display the data and state of the system through the net to realize remote control and detection. When equipped with height-finding radar, it can perform the function of guidance and providing target data for an air traffic control system. With long range detection range, high reliability and easy maintenance, YLC-4 radar is a main radar in air defense network. The manufacturer of the system is Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology (NRIET)/Nanjing Institute No. 1 /南京电子技术研究所.
Design
The YLC-4 system consist of four components: the antenna, the signal cabin, transmitter and the power generators (2 x 120 kW diesel generators).
Specifications
Frequency range: P band
Range (at σ= 2 m2 and Pf=10−6):
Rmax: 410 km (Pd=0.5)
Rmax: 380 km (Pd=0.8)
Coverage:
Azimuth: 0° < 360°
Elevation: 0° < 25°
Reliability
MTBFC: => 500 hours
MTTR: <=0.5 hours
Other features:
Super cosecant square beam in elevation
Solid-state, full coherent, pulse compression and AMTI technology, DMTI adaptive system
Employing various frequency agilities and low sidelobe antenna (< -30 dB), dynamic factor => 45 dB
External links
NRIET
Ground radars
Military radars of the People's Republic of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RES-1%20Radar | RES-1 radar is a mobile radar designed to provide precise position data of medium & low altitude aircraft, which is mainly used in the air defense, coastal defense or battlefield air defense.
It is manufactured and exported by the Nanjing Changjiang Machinery Group Co Ltd.
External links
Nanjing Changjiang Machinery Group Co Ltd
Ground radars
Military radars of the People's Republic of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Highway%2068 | King's Highway 68, commonly referred to as Highway 68, was a provincially maintained highway on Manitoulin Island, linking the island to the mainland. It was connected to the rest of the network at McKerrow, where it met Highway 17. The road was built in the 1920s as a trunk road for the Department of Northern Development (later merged into the Department of Highways, today's Ministry of Transportation), but was assumed as a provincial highway in 1937, as the only King's Highway on the island. Highway 68 stretched from South Baymouth in the south, through the towns of Manitowaning and Little Current north through Espanola on the mainland, before terminating at Highway 17 in McKerrow.
The entire route was later redesignated as an extension of Highway 6 in 1980. It remains part of the provincial highway system under its new designation.
Route description
Highway 68 was a route that crossed the eastern side of Manitoulin Island in a north–south orientation between South Baymouth and Little Current. North of there, it travelled through the La Cloche Mountains en route to Espanola and Highway 17. However, in 1980 the route was renumbered as a northern "extension" of Highway 6. The two segments of the highway are connected by the seasonal Chi-Cheemaun ferry service that travels between Tobermory and South Baymouth. This service only operates from May through October.
Today, the former routing is surrounded by farms and ranges outside of the numerous communities it interconnects on Manitoulin Island. On the mainland, the highway passes through mountainous terrain and the rugged Canadian Shield.
Communities along the route include South Baymouth, Squirrel Town, Manitowaning, Sheguiandah, Little Current, McGregor Bay, Whitefish Falls, West River and Espanola.
History
The history of Highway 68 dates to 1929, when the Department of Northern Development (DND) constructed a gravel road between McKerrow and Goat Island. From there, a railway and ferry crossed the North Channel to Little Current on Manitoulin Island. On April 1, 1937, the DND merged into the Department of Highways (DHO), and the latter began to assume and number trunk roadways in central and northern Ontario. On August 11, 1937, the DHO took control of the Little Current Road.
At its northern terminus, Highway 17 was rerouted in 1939, bypassing the old alignment between Webbwood and McKerrow. As a result, Highway 68 was extended north by to meet this new alignment.
During World War II, the rail bridge over the North Channel was abandoned, and subsequently redecked for highway use in 1945. Highway 68 was extended across the channel to Little Current, increasing its length by . However, Manitoulin Island would still remain without a highway of its own until the mid-1950s. On December 7, 1955, the route was extended across the island to South Baymouth.
While the road was re-aligned somewhat throughout its history (many of the re-alignments took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Bauer | Friedrich Bauer may refer to:
Friedrich Bauer (1903–1970), German type designer
Friedrich L. Bauer (1924–2015), German computer scientist
Friedrich Franz Bauer (1903–1972), German photographer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKF%20International | PKF International (previously known as Pannell Kerr Forster) is a global network of firms. The network's 224 independent member firms operate under the PKF brand in 150 countries across 5 regions. PKF International has 20,000 professionals and is currently ranked 14th international accountancy network by International Accounting Bulletin.
In 2018 PKF was ranked as 11th largest global accounting firm in the United Kingdom.
The International Accounting Bulletin placed PKF at 15th globally based on their world survey, conducted in February 2019.
History
Pannell Kerr Forster was founded in 1969 when four accountancy firms from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States joined to create an international association. The four firms were:
Pannell Fitzpatrick & Co, founded in 1869 by William Henry Pannell (UK);
Harris, Kerr, Forster & Co, founded in 1911 as Harris, Kerr & Co by William Harris & Errol Kerr, and in 1923 as WJ Forster & Co by William Forster (USA);
Campbell, Sharp, Nash & Field (Canada); and
Wilson, Bishop, Bowes & Craig (Australia).
In 1980, member firms decided to use Pannell Kerr Forster as their common brand name to create an international accountancy brand. In 2000, member firms decided to shorten their name to PKF. Member firms are now adopting this name in their home markets, or adding PKF as a prefix to the existing firm name.
, over 21,000 staff were employed by PKF International member firms.
In 2013, PKF's associate firm in UK defected and joined BDO after a fall in revenue and staff reduction.
In 2016, PKF's associate firm in Hong Kong was banned by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for three years due to not co-operating with a probe.
References
External links
PKF London & Leeds: PKF Littlejohn
Spain: PKF Attest
South Africa
UK & Ireland:
Accounting firms of the United Kingdom
Financial services companies established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Ukraine%20International | Radio Ukraine International, abbreviated RUI, is the official international broadcasting station of Ukraine, with foreign language news and programming being produced by Ukrainian Radio's main editorial department for broadcasting in EBU languages. RUI broadcasts in Belarusian, Bulgarian, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Slovak. The Ukrainian language programming aired on RUI is produced by the domestic First Channel.
Radio Ukraine International provides listeners with up-to-date information in a format of short podcasts.
Broadcast platforms
Online (see External Links)
Satellite - Astra 4A with the following parameters: 4.8° East, frequency 12.13 GHz, vertical polarization, SR 27.500 Ms/s, FEC 3/4
Medium waves - in Europe on 1386 kHz from 21:00 until 03:30 UTC via Lithuania's Radio Baltic Waves International
Programme schedule
As of April 2023, RUI broadcasts in foreign languages can be heard daily starting at:
0000 UTC - English
0200 UTC - Slovak
0300 UTC - Hungarian
1800 UTC - Romanian
1900 UTC - Bulgarian
2100 UTC - Belarusian
2200 UTC - Polish
2300 UTC - German
Former daily English language program schedule
Monday: News, Ukrainian Perspective, Insight, Reading Lounge.
Tuesday: News, Ukrainian Perspective, Panorama, Famous Ukrainians.
Wednesday: News, Ukrainian Perspective, Highlights, Reading Lounge.
Thursday: News, Ukrainian Perspective, Close Up, Start Ups.
Friday: News, World.ua, Roots.
Saturday: News, Ukrainian Diary, Hello from Kyiv, Sports and Fun.
Sunday: News, Ukrainian Diary, Music from Ukraine.
Former English language program details
"Close Up" Analytical program of International political and economical aspirations and perspectives of Ukraine.
"Famous Ukrainians" - Essays about outstanding people of Ukraine, poets, musicians, scientists, scholars, and historical figures.
"Hello from Kyiv" - Listeners letters question and answer program, musical requests, entertaining commentaries.
"Highlights" - Program about Ukrainians, their aspirations and life style.
"Insight" - Program about Ukraine, its people, spiritual, and day-to-day life.
"Music from Ukraine" - Musical concert of different genres each week.
"News" - A current news report begins each broadcast.
"Panorama" - Program about the most important trends in Ukrainian cinematography, literature, music and social projects.
"Reading Lounge" - Readings of literary works by famous Ukrainian writers and poets.
"Roots" - Cultural, educational, and history programs including the feature "Ukraine Land of the Cossacks"
"Sports and Fun" - Program about sports shaping our bodies and lives, and people who dare to push the limits.
"Start Ups" - Program about cutting-edge ideas and grass root initiatives in Ukraine.
"Ukrainian Diary" - Digest of the most important news and events of the past week.
"Ukrainian Perspective" - Daily in depth digest of the day's news, and commentary of current affairs.
"World.ua" - Review of Ukrainian and International press rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%27s%20Two%20Dads | "Peter's Two Dads" is the tenth episode in the fifth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 2007. The episode was written by Danny Smith and directed by Cyndi Tang, with Greg Lovell as co-director. The plot follows Peter travelling to Ireland, along with Brian, to find his biological father, after he accidentally kills his stepfather at Meg's birthday party. Meanwhile, after Lois hits Stewie, he becomes fascinated with it and goes to great lengths to have her hit him again.
It received mostly positive reviews from critics for its storyline and many cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 7.97 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Dan Conroy, Phyllis Diller, Charles Durning and Fred Tatasciore, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. It was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, for the episode's song entitled "Drunken Irish Dad", at the 59th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Plot
Meg, who is turning seventeen, asks Lois and Peter if she can have a birthday party, preferably a teenager-type party with a band playing at her house. Unfortunately, Peter and Lois offend her by throwing her a kiddie-type party, with games such as Pin the Tail on the Donkey, and reveal that they got her age wrong as they bought sixteen candles. At the party, Peter dresses up as "Pee Pants the Inebriated Hobo Clown", and tells Meg that he got her "a dozen scarves" as a gift which he then proceeds to regurgitate as one long scarf, as he has actually tied and swallowed them (which Lois says he was not supposed to do), causing him to cough and vomit. Peter hands Meg the long scarf, regurgitates his long johns from his stomach, and then crouches in pain following the ordeal. He then gets drunk, and attempts to ride a unicycle down the steps, but falls off and crushes his father, Francis, who later dies in the hospital from the accident after calling Peter a "fat stinking drunk".
A disappointed Peter feels Francis did not care about him, and after giving up drinking and trying crack (which Brian notes is not a good substitute), he sees a hypnotherapist (Bruce), who helps him discover that Francis was not his biological father. When Peter confronts his mom, Thelma Griffin, she reveals that she had an affair with an Irish man named Mickey McFinnigan, who is Peter's biological father. Brian and Peter travel to a village in Ireland to find Mickey, who they discover is the town drunk. At first horrified, Peter finds out it is considered an honorable position in Ireland by the locals. Mickey refuses to believe that Peter is his son and mocks him.
Lamenting that he would only be able to convince Mickey of the truth if he were a "fat stinking drunk", Peter recalls Francis' last words to him and challenges Mickey to a drinking contest, which he wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Prisoner%20%28video%20game%29 | The Prisoner is a 1980 Apple II computer game produced by Edu-Ware. The game was loosely based on the 1960s television series The Prisoner and incorporates that show's themes about the loss of individuality in a technological, controlling society. The player's role is that of an intelligence agent who has resigned from his job for reasons known only to himself, and who has been abducted to an isolated island community that seems designed to be his own personal prison. The island's authorities will use any means—including coercion, disorientation, deception, and frustration—to learn why their prisoner has resigned, and every character, location, and apparent escape route seem to be part of a grand scheme to trick the player into revealing a code number representing the prisoner's reason for resigning. The game occasionally breaks the fourth wall by acknowledging that a game is being played.
Considered unique among interactive fiction games of its era, The Prisoner was reportedly used as a training tool by the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1982, Edu-Ware released a remake, Prisoner 2, with improved graphics and a limited number of design changes.
Themes
The game's documentation explained Edu-Ware's view that the Prisoner television series was "a political and social statement concerning the problem of keeping one's individuality and personal freedom in a technological society... [which] is a collective prison and [where] each one of us is, in fact, a prisoner." With the year 1984 looming only four years away from the date of the game's publication, Edu-Ware held that many of the issues raised in the 1969 television series were as relevant as ever, and thus it was "appropriate that a show concerned with the theme of loss of individuality and influence over... [our] own lives should inspire a game to be played on a computer."
Differences between the TV series and the game
The game was reportedly not officially licensed, and despite the fact it used the same font (a modified version of Albertus ) as the series, the game's documentation states, "it is not meant to be an adaption of the television series". Consequently, a number of changes were made to distance the game from specific elements of the show while preserving its spirit and message:
The television show's protagonist is called Number 6, while the game's protagonist is referred to as # (the "number sign" in the United States and Canada).
The setting of the TV series is known as The Village, whereas the game's setting is called The Island.
In the television show, Number 6 is kidnapped from his home. In the game, # is taken from an airport to the Island.
The protagonist's residence in the Village is in a building with the numeral 6 on a sign in front of the door. The analogous building on the Island is called the Castle, and it too is labelled with the number 6.
The authority figure in the Village is called Number 2. On the Island he is called the Caretaker, and the building in w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20in%20the%2012%20Dancing%20Princesses | Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses is a 2006 computer-animated dance film. It first premiered on Nickelodeon on September 10, 2006, and it was later released to DVD on September 19.
The film was directed by Greg Richardson and loosely based on the German fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses". It is the ninth entry in the Barbie film series and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonist. This is the first Barbie film to be distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment in North America, to-which Universal's international subsidiary already handled distribution to the previous films under a deal with Entertainment Rights.
Music for the film was composed by Arnie Roth. "Shine", the end title song written by Roth, Amy Powers and Rob Hudnut, was nominated for a 2007 Emmy Award.
Plot
Genevieve is one of twelve princesses who share a passion for dancing and live in a castle with their widowed father, King Randolph. Unbeknownst to the princesses, other people consider them improper for having unique but unladylike hobbies and interests. King Randolph summons his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help educate them into proper ladies. However, the Duchess wants the throne and removes all color, music, and joy from the palace, trying to break the girls' spirits.
On their youngest sisters' birthday, the other sisters gift a copy of their late mother's favorite story, wherein a princess discovers a magical land and dances there for three nights before it vanishes. Looking at the story and the tiles on their bedroom floor, Genevieve discovers how to open a portal into the magical land. Upon entering, they dance the night away. They learn the hanging golden flowers grant wishes, the statues can come to life, and the water has healing properties.
The next day, the princesses appear tired and Rowena finds their new dancing shoes worn out, arousing her suspicions. King Randolph falls ill, so Genevieve asks the royal cobbler, Derek, to investigate Rowena's true intentions. That night, the princesses return to the magical land; Derek confronts a local apothecary and deduces that Rowena has been poisoning the King.
The next morning, the sisters are again exhausted. Rowena, refusing to believe the sisters when they tell her the truth, forces them into servitude. After overhearing Rowena maneuver the King into referring to his daughters as burdens, the heartbroken princesses return to the magical land for a third time, and Rowena finds them missing the next morning.
After learning that the princesses are missing, Derek figures out how to open the portal and makes his way into the magical land. Rowena's pet monkey, Brutus, spies on Derek and leads Rowena through after him; she steals one of the wish-granting flowers. The princesses decide to go home and help their father; however, Rowena returns to the palace ahead of them and has her henchman, Desmond, destroy the portal. Derek and Genevieve figure out how to activate another portal by d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Grisenthwaite | David Grisenthwaite from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, is an amateur phenological data recorder. Since 1984 he has meticulously recorded the dates he has mowed his lawn. When his data was discovered by meteorologists it was hailed as an important find in recording climate change. Mr Grisenthwaite's first cut of the year was 13 days earlier in 2004 than in 1984, while his last cut was 17 days later, thus providing evidence for an earlier onset of spring and a warmer climate in general. He has been featured in several newspaper articles, touted as a "Great British eccentric."
David Grisenthwaite's work was credited in an article for Weather, the Royal Meteorological Society journal, entitled "The Grass is Greener – For Longer."
References
People from Kirkcaldy
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Zoo | Total Zoo is an American family television program narrated by Andy Chanley. It was shown on the channel Animal Planet in 2000.
External links
Animal Planet original programming
2000 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitometer%20log | Pitometer logs (also known as pit logs) are devices used to measure a ship's speed relative to the water. They are used on both surface ships and submarines. Data from the pitometer log is usually fed directly into the ship's navigation system.
History
All nautical instruments designed to measure the speed of a ship through water are known as logs.
This nomenclature dates back to days of sail when sailors tossed a log attached to rope knotted at regular intervals off the stern of a ship. The sailors would count the number of knots that passed through their hands in a given period of time. Today sailors still use the unit of knots to express a ship's speed. The speed of the ship was needed to navigate the ship using dead reckoning, which was standard practice in the days before modern navigation instruments like GPS.
During World War II, pitometer logs were often interfaced directly into warship fire control systems. This interface was necessary to allow gunnery and torpedo fire control systems to automatically track targets.
The pitometer log was patented
in 1899 by Edward Smith Cole.
Technology
Principles of operation
The basic technology of the pitometer log is similar to that of the pitot tube on an aircraft. Typically, the pitometer has a long tube that penetrates the ship's hull near the keel. The part of the pitometer protruding from the ship is sometimes called a pit sword or rodmeter. This tube usually has two openings: one facing the direction of seawater motion that is used to measure the dynamic pressure of the seawater and one at 90° to the direction of seawater motion that is used to measure the static seawater pressure. The dynamic pressure of the seawater is a function of the depth of the water and the speed of the vessel.
In early realizations of the pitometer log, mercury manometers
were used to measure the pressure differences (see Figure 1). Later realizations used approaches that would generate equalizing pressures within the pitometer that would balance out the dynamic pressure. This eliminated the need for mercury manometers.
Analysis
An expression can be derived for the velocity of water impacting the ship as a function of the difference in dynamic and static water pressure using Bernoulli's principle. The total pressure of the water in the tube with moving seawater can be described by Equation 1.
where
pTotal is the total fluid pressure.
pStatic is the static pressure, which strictly depends on depth.
pDynamic is the fluid pressure caused by fluid motion.
Since water is an incompressible fluid, the dynamic pressure component of the total pressure can be expressed in terms of the water density and the water velocity as is shown in Equation 2.
where
vWater is the speed of the fluid flow.
ρ is the fluid density.
Equation 2 can be solved for the velocity of water in terms of the difference in pressure between the two legs of the manometer. Equation 3 shows that velocity is a function of the square root of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle%20%28syntax%29 | In computing, Terse RDF Triple Language (Turtle) is a syntax and file format for expressing data in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. Turtle syntax is similar to that of SPARQL, an RDF query language. It is a common data format for storing RDF data, along with N-Triples, JSON-LD and RDF/XML.
RDF represents information using semantic triples, which comprise a subject, predicate, and object. Each item in the triple is expressed as a Web URI. Turtle provides a way to group three URIs to make a triple, and provides ways to abbreviate such information, for example by factoring out common portions of URIs. For example, information about Huckleberry Finn could be expressed as:
<http://example.org/person/Mark_Twain>
<http://example.org/relation/author>
<http://example.org/books/Huckleberry_Finn> .
History
Turtle was defined by Dave Beckett as a subset of Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly's Notation3 (N3) language, and a superset of the minimal N-Triples format. Unlike full N3, which has an expressive power that goes much beyond RDF, Turtle can only serialize valid RDF graphs. Turtle is an alternative to RDF/XML, the original syntax and standard for writing RDF. As opposed to RDF/XML, Turtle does not rely on XML and is generally recognized as being more readable and easier to edit manually than its XML counterpart.
SPARQL, the query language for RDF, uses a syntax similar to Turtle for expressing query patterns.
In 2011, a working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started working on an updated version of RDF, with the intention of publishing it along with a standardised version of Turtle. This Turtle specification was published as a W3C Recommendation on 25 February 2014.
A significant proportion of RDF toolkits include Turtle parsing and serializing capability. Some examples of such toolkits are Redland, RDF4J, Jena, Python's RDFLib and JavaScript's N3.js.
Example
The following example defines 3 prefixes ("rdf", "dc", and "ex"), and uses them in expressing a statement about the editorship of the RDF/XML document:
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/> .
<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar>
dc:title "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" ;
ex:editor [
ex:fullname "Dave Beckett";
ex:homePage <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/>
] .
(Turtle examples are also valid Notation3).
The example encodes an RDF graph made of four triples, which express these facts:
The W3C technical report on RDF syntax and grammar has the title RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised).
That report's editor is a certain individual, who in turn
Has full name Dave Beckett.
Has a home page at a certain place.
Here are the triples made explicit in N-Triples notation:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar> <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" .
<http://www.w3.org/TR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Film%20Special | The Friday Film Special was a slot for children on the UK television network BBC1, shown between 1985 and 1989.
Every Friday during each season, they showed a children's film, made by the Children's Film Foundation. The films were mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, with some from the 1960s.
Here is a list of some of the films that were screened:
Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978)
4-D Special Agent (1981)
Tightrope to Terror (1982)
Cry Wolf (1968)
Fern the Red Deer (1976)
Paganini Strikes Again (1973)
A Hitch in Time (1978)
Sky Pirates (1976)
One Hour to Zero (1976)
Haunters of The Deep (1984)
The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
The Glitterball (1977)
References
External links
BBC children's television shows
1985 British television series debuts
1989 British television series endings
Children's Film Foundation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby | The Chumby was a consumer electronics product formerly made by Chumby Industries, Inc. It is an embedded computer which provides Internet and LAN access via a Wi-Fi connection. Through this connection, the Chumby runs various software widgets. In 2010 Sony introduced a single product based on an offshoot version of Chumby, the Sony Dash.
Devices
Roughly resembling a small clock radio, the original Chumby features a small resistive touch-screen housed in a leather and plastic exterior with six color options. Power to the original Chumby and the Chumby 8 is supplied through an AC adapter. A later model, the Chumby One, also offered the option of a 9v backup battery. Related devices, the Infocast 3.5 and Infocast 8, devices manufactured by Best Buy based on the Chumby software, are also only AC powered. The device is designed to be customizable by users: after agreeing to the Chumby HDK License, users may download schematics and other hardware information. Wired magazine named Chumby one of its top gadgets for 2008. Its software is mostly open source, running on Linux.
In 2012, Chumby ceased operation and was liquidated, with the assets being purchased by Duane Maxwell, the former Chief Technology Officer of Chumby Industries, who formed Blue Octy, LLC ("Blue Octy"). The server needed to keep the devices running was kept online as a full service by Blue Octy until March 2013. At that point, the server went offline and all devices only displayed a single widget, referred to as the "Space Clock." Blue Octy relaunched the full Chumby service on July 1, 2014 as a paid subscription service, currently charging US$3 per month. An open source firmware is available for free that allows existing devices some of the functionality of the paid service at no cost, although this may violate the copyright of those who developed the Chumby widgets. Devices without a subscription still receive the Space Clock widget; they can be used as alarm clocks and to stream music.
History
Andrew "bunnie" Huang was the lead hardware engineer at Chumby.
The Chumby premiered on August 25, 2006 at Foo Camp and was released to around 100 alpha release testers at the event.
Shortly after Foo Camp, Chumby announced a free offer, where applicants would receive the same alpha-level Chumby as those previously given away. Applicants submitted ideas for software applications or hardware modifications. One of the goals for the free offer was to have Chumbys in the hands of developers who were willing to begin building applications.
In July 2007, a First 50 was released to 50 random applicants, who received the next generation of Chumbys. This was followed, in September, with an Insiders Release. Interested parties could send e-mail to Chumby requesting release information, and were given the opportunity to join in the Insiders Release. Finally, in February 2008, the commercial release was made public on the Chumby Store. In May 2008, the price was $179.95 for any one of three colors, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrot | A hybrot (short for "hybrid robot") is a cybernetic organism in the form of a robot controlled by a computer consisting of both electronic and biological elements. The biological elements are typically rat neurons connected to a computer chip.
This feat was first accomplished in 2003 by Dr. Steve M. Potter, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology:
What separates a hybrot from a cyborg is that the latter term is commonly used to refer to a cybernetically enhanced human or animal; while a hybrot is an entirely new type of creature constructed from organic and artificial materials. It is perhaps helpful to think of the hybrot as "semi-living", a term also used by the hybrot's inventors.
Another interesting feature of the hybrot is its longevity. Neurons separated from a living brain usually die after only a couple of months. However, a specially designed incubator built around a gas-tight culture chamber selectively permeable to carbon dioxide, but impermeable to water vapor, reduces the risk of contamination and evaporation, and may extend the life of the hybrot to one to two years.
See also
Animat
Artificial intelligence
Biorobotics
Brain–computer interface
Neurorobotics
Semi-biotic systems
References
Notes
Shkolnik, A. C. Neurally Controlled Simulated Robot: Applying Cultured Neurons to Handle and Approach/Avoidance Task in Real Time, and a Framework for Studying Learning In Vitro. In: Potter, S. M. & Lu, J.: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science. Emory University, Atlanta (2003).
External links
Georgia Tech Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Control Robotic Device
Georgia Tech researchers use lab cultures to control robotic device
A hybrot, the Rat-Brained Robot
Multielectrode Array Art – A hybrot artist.
Rise of the rat-brained robots
FuturePundit: Hybrot Robot Operated By Rat Brain Neurons
How to Culture, Record and Stimulate Neuronal Networks on Micro-electrode Arrays (MEAs)
Biocybernetics
Cybernetics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDATA | ORDATA is a United States government database of landmines and other unexploded ordnance, developed to assist humanitarian demining work. The original version of ORDATA released in 1997 was CD-ROM based, and incorporated material from the earlier Minefacts program. ORDATA 2.0 was distributed on a CD-ROM and on the Internet. The database is hosted on the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery website, a part of James Madison University. In 2014-15 the interface underwent a revision and the data partially updated. The new site is known as the Collaborative ORDnance Data Repository (CORD) and is available online at https://www.jmu.edu/cisr/research/cord.shtml. An offline version is in development.
References
External links
Collaborative ORDnance Data Repository
Center for International Stabilization and Recovery
James Madison University
Mine warfare
Mine action |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine%20%28software%29 | Tangerine is a cross-platform music server for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Tangerine uses the Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) protocol to allow the user to listen to music over a network using a client such as Rhythmbox, Banshee, or iTunes. Tangerine uses SQLite as its database.
External links
Tangerine official web page
Media players
Audio streaming software for Linux
Audio software that uses GTK
GNOME Applications
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in C Sharp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-language%20writing%20aid | A foreign language writing aid is a computer program or any other instrument that assists a non-native language user (also referred to as a foreign language learner) in writing decently in their target language. Assistive operations can be classified into two categories: on-the-fly prompts and post-writing checks. Assisted aspects of writing include: lexical, syntactic (syntactic and semantic roles of a word's frame), lexical semantic (context/collocation-influenced word choice and user-intention-driven synonym choice) and idiomatic expression transfer, etc. Different types of foreign language writing aids include automated proofreading applications, text corpora, dictionaries, translation aids and orthography aids.
Background
The four major components in the acquisition of a language are namely; listening, speaking, reading and writing. While most people have no difficulties in exercising these skills in their native language, doing so in a second or foreign language is not that easy. In the area of writing, research has found that foreign language learners find it painstaking to compose in the target language, producing less eloquent sentences and encountering difficulties in the revisions of their written work. However, these difficulties are not attributed to their linguistic abilities.
Many language learners experience foreign language anxiety, feelings of apprehensiveness and nervousness, when learning a second language. In the case of writing in a foreign language, this anxiety can be alleviated via foreign language writing aids as they assist non-native language users in independently producing decent written work at their own pace, hence increasing confidence about themselves and their own learning abilities.
With advancements in technology, aids in foreign language writing are no longer restricted to traditional mediums such as teacher feedback and dictionaries. Known as computer-assisted language learning (CALL), use of computers in language classrooms has become more common, and one example would be the use of word processors to assist learners of a foreign language in the technical aspects of their writing, such as grammar. In comparison with correction feedback from the teacher, the use of word processors is found to be a better tool in improving the writing skills of students who are learning English as a foreign language (EFL), possibly because students find it more encouraging to learn their mistakes from a neutral and detached source. Apart from learners' confidence in writing, their motivation and attitudes will also improve through the use of computers.
Foreign language learners' awareness of the conventions in writing can be improved through reference to guidelines showing the features and structure of the target genre. At the same time, interactions and feedback help to engage the learners and expedite their learning, especially with active participation. In online writing situations, learners are isolated without face-t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Forat | Al Forat Network () is a satellite television network in Iraq. The Arabic language network is owned by Ammar al-Hakim, an Iraqi Shi'a cleric and politician. Al-Forat has 300 employees, with offices located in the city of Karrada in Baghdad.
References
External links
Arabic-language television stations
International broadcasters
Television stations in Iraq
Mass media in Baghdad
Television channels and stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEEN-CD | KEEN-CD (channel 17) is a low-power, Class A religious television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located on Black Mountain southeast of Henderson.
History
On August 21, 1990, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit to Charles K. "Harry" Tootle to build a low-power television station serving the Las Vegas metropolitan area on UHF channel 17. The station was given callsign K17CT and was licensed on September 14, 1993. Early programming mostly consisted of locally produced talk shows and seminars on videotape from the conservative "Patriot" community, which were also shown on Tootle's other licensed station, K19CS.
Tootle sold the station to Innovative Technologies, Inc. of Las Vegas in August 1996. The new owners changed the station's call letters to KEEN-LP in October 1997 and on January 2, 2001, the license for KEEN-LP was upgraded to Class A, although the station at that time kept the "-LP" suffix instead of changing to "-CA". It operated as a local independent station and earned recognition for its, appropriately, innovative use of the Internet. In addition to over-the-air viewing (the station was not carried by the local cable companies), KEEN-LP broadcast over the Internet, and while that was not notable in itself, the station made it possible for viewers of any given program to participate in live chat sessions, making the experience truly interactive.
VMG Broadcasting Company acquired the station in September 2003, transferred control of the station to Christian Communications of Chicagoland two months later, then sold the station outright in September 2004. On August 12, 2008, the call sign was changed from KEEN-LP to KEEN-CA, and again to KEEN-CDon August 4, 2010.
On February 5, 2018, it was announced that LeSEA Broadcasting (now Family Broadcasting Corporation) would sell KEEN, along with KWHS-LD in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and full-power station WHNO in New Orleans, to Clearwater, Florida-based Christian Television Network. The sale was completed on April 23, 2018.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Programming
As a LeSEA O&O, KEEN-CA broadcast programming that can be defined as a mix between sacred and secular. Religious programming was interspersed throughout the day, but the station also aired classic family television programming, such as Ozzie & Harriet, Make Room for Daddy, and Little House on the Prairie. A three-hour block of Saturday morning children's programming meets the station's E/I requirements, and a two-hour block of Saturday evening Spanish-language programming caters to the area's large Hispanic population.
The programming mix, unique for LeSEA and tailored for the Las Vegas market, has met with some success. The National Religious Broadcasters organization named KEEN-LP its Low Power Station of the Year in 2005.
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20fuel%20cycle%20information%20system | The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System (NFCIS) is an international database of civilian and commercial nuclear fuel cycles maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The NFCIS is one of the five databases that comprise the Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System. The NFCIS is a database that is housed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). According to the IAEA website, on Jun 14, 2016, the NFCIS held information pertaining to 650 different facilities, located in 54 countries throughout the world. The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System's information comes from countries that are members of the IAEA and other public information sources. The IAEA's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System is considered a nuclear safeguard.
The NFC Information System database has evolved since its original development during the 1980s. The current layout of the database provides information on the types of facilities currently monitored and facilities that are intended to be monitored in the future, by the IAEA's Nuclear Fuel Cycle database. Other information that is stored within the database includes: the operational activities at each facility, as well as, what level of production operations are occurring at each particular plant. Short descriptions of facilities that are participating in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System is also included. The information is gathered through questionnaires that participating countries respond to, every few years, regarding their nuclear fuel storage and production facilities.
Purpose of the NFCIS
The primary objective of the NFCIS is to provide the IAEA, its member states, and members of the general public with accurate information about the past, present, and future operations of nuclear fuel cycle facilities around the world. More broadly, the NFCIS contributes to the IAEAs aims of facilitating the peaceful maintenance of atomic energy around the world
History of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System
NFCIS was created during the 1980s. The NFCIS was a necessary program introduced by the IAEA since nuclear fuel had been discovered and many countries were starting to produce and stock this material. There was no way to return to a life without them. This database could help the International Atomic Energy Agency maintain an element of control over these hazardous weapons and allow one system to monitor the worldwide supply. Since its inception, the database has undergone various updates, beginning in 1985 when the database was computerized. Most recently, in 1998, the NFCIS was updated to optimize internet access. In its current iteration, the NFCIS consists of a structural database on a server. Users can query results through a series of search options.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The nuclear fuel cycle involves the whole process of developing and preparing nuclear energy. It begins with the mining of the ore, followed by the transformation of these substances into nuclear f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillow%20Head%20Hour | The Pillow Head Hour was a one-hour block of E/I-compliant programming on the now-defunct Kids' WB, featuring two half-hour series and framed by segments hosted by Pillow Head reporter "Gisselle".
History
2005
The Pillow Head Hour originated on June 4, 2005, to promote the final episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures. Airing at 8:00 am (Eastern time), 7:00 am (Central/Pacific time), it consisted of two new episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures, along with certain promotions of characters from Kids' WB! shows talking about and showing off their "Pillow Head Hair" (what their hair would look like if they had just woken up from bed). Activities included "1001 Uses for Pillow Head Hair," in which the character shows what their Pillow Head Hair can be used for, as well as "Guess the Pillow Head," where a silhouette of a Kids' WB! character with Pillow Head Hair was shown at the beginning of a commercial break, and when the show returned it was revealed who the Pillow Head was. There was no host at this time, only an unseen announcer. Actor Field Cate was one of the featured children waking up in a bed with Pillow Head Hair, surrounded by cartoon characters. This was discontinued on July 2, 2005, when Kids' WB! changed schedule, replacing Jackie Chan Adventures with Teen Titans and The Batman. On KidsWB.com, however, Gisselle, the "Pillow Head Reporter," could be seen doing a "Pillow Head Report," where viewers asked her questions about various elements of pop culture, including Kids' WB!
2006
Earlier in 2006, Kids' WB! had announced that they would be discontinuing their weekday afternoon block, extending the Saturday block by one hour and thus it would not be affected by time zone. Therefore, the Pillow Head Hour was reborn in the new hour at 7 am on January 7, 2006, but this time, it consisted of two episodes of a Kids' WB! show, and was hosted by Gisselle, who was interviewing guests talking about and showing off their "Pillow Head Hair." Gisselle also spoke during the promos that tell you what show is coming up next, as well as acting during the commercial bumpers with guests saying things like, "Wake up, Pillow Heads!"
On July 1, 2006, the Pillow Head Hour aired for the final time before being discontinued again on July 8, when it was replaced by two Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes to reformat the lineup to the "Sizzlin' Summer Lineup."
Gisselle's Pillow Head reports were removed from KidsWB.com on November 4, 2006, when KidsWB.com reformatted their website.
See also
Kids' WB
Television programming blocks in the United States
Kids' WB original shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20stations%20in%20the%20San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area | The San Francisco Bay Area is currently defined by Nielsen Media Research as the sixth-largest television market in the United States, with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region. All but one of the major U.S. television networks are directly owned by the networks; the one exception is secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV (now The CW), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group.
Television stations that primarily serve the San Francisco Bay Area include:
1 KAXT-CD Santa Clara (Catchy Comedy)* (transmit channel 22)
2 KTVU Oakland (Fox)* (transmit channel 26)
4 KRON-TV San Francisco (The CW [primary]/MyNetworkTV [secondary])* (transmit channel 7)
5 KPIX-TV San Francisco (CBS)* (transmit channel 29)
6 KBKF-LD San Jose (Air1) (transmit channel 6)
7 KGO-TV San Francisco (ABC)* (transmit channel 12)
8 KQSL Cloverdale (TLN West) (transmit channel 8)
9 KQED San Francisco (PBS) (transmit channel 30)
11 KNTV San Jose (NBC)* (transmit channel 13)
14 KDTV-DT San Francisco (Univision)* (transmit channel 20)
16 KSCZ-LD San Jose (Hải Lê/Vietnamese) (transmit channel 23)
18 KQRM-LD San Francisco (Crossings TV)
20 KOFY-TV San Francisco (Grit) (transmit channel 21)
22 KRCB Cotati (PBS) (transmit channel 5)
26 KTSF San Francisco (Ethnic independent) (transmit channel 20)
28 KCNZ-CD San Francisco (LATV) (transmit channel 21)
32 KMTP-TV San Francisco (Non-commercial independent) (transmit channel 21)
36 KICU-TV San Jose (Independent) (transmit channel 36)
38 KCNS San Francisco (ShopHQ) (transmit channel 32)
42 KTNC-TV Concord (TCT)* (transmit channel 32)
44 KPYX San Francisco (Independent) (transmit channel 28)
48 KSTS San Jose (Telemundo)* (transmit channel 19)
50 KEMO-TV Fremont (Estrella TV) (transmit channel 32)
54 KQEH San Jose (PBS) (transmit channel 30)
60 KPJK San Mateo (Non-commercial independent) (transmit channel 27)
65 KKPX-TV San Jose (Ion Television)* (transmit channel 33)
66 KFSF-DT Vallejo (UniMás)*
68 KTLN-TV Palo Alto (Heroes & Icons)* (transmit channel 22)
Asterisk (*) indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station.
KBKF-LD additionally transmits with an experimental analog FM radio subcarrier that is accessible at .
Defunct stations
42 KCFT-TV/Concord (1966)
27 KEXT-CD/San Jose (1994–2017)
32 KSAN-TV–KNEW-TV–KQEC/San Francisco (1954–1972, 1977–1979, 1980–1988)
38 KUDO–KVOF-TV/San Francisco (1968–1985)
SF/SJ Cable Stations
CBS News Bay Area - Pairs with KPIX (CBS) & KPYX (KPIX+)
Comcast Hometown Network - Cable TV in SF
CreaTV San Jose - Public access channel
NBC Sports Bay Area - Broadcasts some games on KNTV/San Jose & KSTS/San Jose
NBC Sports California - Broadcasts some games on KNTV/San Jose & KSTS/San Jose
Logos of former callsigns
KTEH (now KQEH)
References
Television
San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Vision%20Pro%20AudioSpectrum | The Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum (commonly referred to as "PAS") family of personal computer sound cards included the original 8-bit Pro AudioSpectrum (1991), the 8-bit Pro AudioSpectrum Plus, 16-bit Pro AudioSpectrum 16, Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Basic and 16-bit Pro Audio Studio. All PAS cards with the exception of Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Basic could connect to CD-ROM drives—variants having SCSI or various proprietary interfaces—and many were sold in multimedia kits with compatible CD-ROM drives.
Though the 8-bit Pro AudioSpectrum cards were only modestly successful, the 16 bit-series cards aimed toward semi-professional users and hobby musicians were quite popular. These gave serious competition to the SoundBlaster 16. Most games in the mid-1990s had genuine support for the PAS cards, thus the lack of Sound Blaster Pro and Sound Blaster 16 compatibility was not much of a problem.
Media Vision was the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the Logitech SoundMan (also marketed as Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Basic) card, which was compatible with the PAS and could thus use the same drivers.
The relevance of the PAS faded quickly as Media Vision was rocked by financial scandal and faded from existence.
Hardware description
Digital and FM audio
The 16-bit PAS cards employed a relabeled CODEC chip made by Crystal Semiconductors of Austin, Texas (now part of Cirrus Logic) for digital audio playback and recording and an AdLib-compatible Yamaha OPL3 FM music synthesizer. The 8-bit versions used different DAC and ADC parts for playback and recording and used dual AdLib-compatible Yamaha OPL2 FM music synthesizers to create stereo sound.
Sound Blaster compatibility
To provide true compatibility with the Sound Blaster's 8-bit playback on its 8-bit Pro AudioSpectrum Plus and 16-bit Pro AudioSpectrum 16, Media Vision included the same sound processor chip it used on its Thunder Board card. Thus, there were actually two digital audio playback devices on these cards that could also be used at the same time. The analog output of each of the two digital audio channels was combined in the on-board analog mixer.
CD-ROM interface
All Pro AudioSpectrum cards included a CD-ROM interface.
Most PAS cards were equipped with a NCR-designed 5380 SCSI controller made by Zilog that boasted a data transfer rate of 690 kB/s using PIO (DMA was not supported); though intended for use with CD-ROM drives, these could interface with other SCSI devices with drivers written by Trantor Systems; Windows 95 includes drivers for the PAS SCSI interface and autodetects it as a PAS 16 Trantor SCSI host adaptor.
Other PAS cards included proprietary interfaces to CD-ROM drives they were packaged with. These included drives made by Sony and Matsushita (Panasonic). There was also variant with LMSI controller for LMSI Philips CM205, CM206 CD-ROM drives.
MIDI and game port
Each Pro AudioSpectrum sound card included a MPU401-compatible MIDI and Gameport interface similar to those on Sound Blaste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20antivirus%20software |
Legend
The term "on-demand scan" refers to the possibility of performing a manual scan (by the user) on the entire computer/device, while "on-access scan" refers to the ability of a product to automatically scan every file at its creation or subsequent modification.
The term "CloudAV" refers to the ability of a product to automatically perform scans on the cloud.
The term "Email Security" refers to the protection of emails from viruses and malware, while "AntiSpam" refers to the protection from spam, scam and phishing attacks.
The term "Web protection" usually includes protection from: infected and malicious URLs, phishing websites, online identity (privacy) protection and online banking protection. Many antivirus products use "third-party antivirus engine". This means that the antivirus engine is made by another producer; however, the malware signature and/or other parts of the product may (or may not) be done from the owner of the product itself.
Desktop computers and servers
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS
Linux
Solaris
FreeBSD
OS/2, ArcaOS
Mobile (smartphones and tablets)
Google Android
iOS
Windows Mobile
This list excludes Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 as they do not support running protection programs.
Symbian
BlackBerry
See also
Antivirus software
Comparison of firewalls
International Computer Security Association
Internet Security
List of computer viruses
Virus Bulletin
References
Antivirus software
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20Process%20Group | A Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) is an organization's focal point for software process improvement activities. These individuals perform assessments of organizational capability, develop plans to implement needed improvements, coordinate the implementation of those plans, and measure the effectiveness of these efforts. Successful SEPGs require specialized skills and knowledge of many areas outside traditional software engineering.
Following are ongoing activities of the process group:
Obtains and maintains the support of all levels of management.
Facilitates software process assessments.
Works with line managers whose projects are affected by changes in software engineering practice, providing a broad perspective of the improvement effort and helping them set expectations.
Maintains collaborative working relationships with software engineers, especially to obtain, plan for, and install new practices and technologies.
Arranges for any training or continuing education related to process improvements.
Tracks, monitors, and reports on the status of particular improvement efforts.
Facilitates the creation and maintenance of process definitions, in collaboration with managers and engineering staff.
Maintains a process database.
Provides process consultation to development projects and management.
Sorts of SEPGs
Every SEPG has a different approach and mission. Some of the flavors include:
"Working" SEPGs that actually develop and deploy process as a type of internal consulting team.
"Oversight" SEPGs that oversee the process architecture, approve it, manage changes, and prioritize it (sort of a process CCB)
"Deliberative" SEPGs that debate the process approach and develop strategy for a process architecture and deployment
"Virtual" SEPGs that are made up of representatives from throughout the organization that dedicate a certain amount of time to the effort and are responsible for deploying and training everyone else in the organization
See also
Capability Maturity Model Integration
References
External links
Software Engineering Institute
European SEPG
Software development process
Quality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%27s%20Kitchen%20Australia | Jamie's Kitchen Australia is a 10 part Australian television show which premiered Thursday 14 September 2006 on Network Ten. The show stars international chef Jamie Oliver and Tobie Puttock. Puttock is a friend of Oliver's and having previously worked for Oliver in England, is in charge of establishing the restaurant, Fifteen Melbourne.
Based upon the original Jamie's Kitchen that aired in 2002 in the UK, 25 disadvantaged youth were selected to train and hopefully become part of the staff at the newly opened Fifteen restaurant in Melbourne. Prior to the opening of the restaurant, initial training of the young apprentice chefs took place at Box Hill Institute of TAFE.
Fifteen was located at 115 Collins Street, Melbourne, replacing Mo Mo restaurant. Fifteen was opened to the public from 22 September 2006. However, it has now closed, being replaced by another restaurant called The Kitchen Cat which opened in 2011 also run by Tobie Puttock. The Kitchen Cat is also now closed.
External links
Fifteen Review by The Age
Australian cooking television series
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2006 Australian television series debuts
2006 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWQW | DWQW (101.5 FM), broadcasting as Barangay FM 101.5, is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the GMA Broadcast Complex, Roxas Ave., Brgy. Concepcion Pequeña, Naga, Camarines Sur.
References
External links
Radio stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Radio stations established in 1998
Barangay FM stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPS | NIPS or Nips may refer to:
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Network Intrusion Prevention System
New Ideal Public School, Mathura, India
Nips, derogative word for Japanese people
The Nips, punk band
Northern Ireland Prison Service
Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening, see Prenatal testing
Miniature (alcohol) - liquor bottles 50-60 mL
See also
NIP (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien%20Leith | Damien Leo Leith (born 18 January 1976, in Dublin) is an Irish-Australian singer–songwriter. He was the winner of the Network Ten music contest Australian Idol in 2006. Since winning the title, Leith has released nine studio albums, four of which peaked in the top two of the ARIA Charts, including two number ones. He has been awarded seven platinum and one gold certification for albums and singles by ARIA, which equates to sales of just over half a million.
Early life
As a teenager Leith formed a family band, "Leaf", with his sister Áine and brothers Paul and Darren. Leaf recorded in New York City and then again later under the new name "Releaf", which made an appearance in the Irish Top 100. After moving to Sydney, he played in a number of high-profile venues, as front-man for a band known as Revelate. His first Australian performance was at The Basement in Sydney's Circular Quay.
Before auditioning for Australian Idol, Leith worked in Sydney as a chemist with Pharmalab utilising the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Chemistry he obtained from University College, Dublin and postgraduate experience within the Metallosupramolecular Research Group in the Chemistry Department of Trinity College, Dublin.
Australian Idol 2006
Only following determined coaxing by friends, Leith auditioned for the 4th series of Network Ten's Australian Idol along with some 25,000 other contestants. He was selected by the judges as one of the final 24 contestants, and was the first person voted into the competition's top 12 as the result of a nationwide viewer vote. He was praised by the show's judges for his falsetto technique, which he used regularly in performances. For the first time, Australian Idol 2006 permitted contestants to perform with instruments, and Leith accompanied himself on guitar for his renditions of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game", Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", Alex Lloyd's "Never Meant to Fail" and Ben Harper's "Waiting on an Angel", and on piano for his rendition of Split Enz's "Message to My Girl". Leith also played piano for the non-competition round "Up Close and Personal" night, when he performed his original song "Sky".
Despite adverse comments from judges Mark Holden and Kyle Sandilands in relation to Leith's appearance and a performance of Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" on the "Disco" theme night, which drew ridicule from Holden, the judges' assessments of Leith's performances were usually positive with Holden labelling him a 'darkhorse' early in the competition. His renditions of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game", Roy Orbison's "Crying", Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" each earned Leith a "Touchdown" from Mark Holden, Holden's ultimate accolade for an excellent performance.
Leith holds the record (with Australian Idol 2004 winner Casey Donovan) for being awarded the most touchdowns, at four apiece. Sandilands also stated that the family of Roy Orbison had contacted the Australian Idol producers requesting a copy of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20Dataria | The Apostolic Datary (Latin: Dataria Apostolica) was one of the five Ufficii di Curia ("Offices of the Curia") in the Roman Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was instituted no later than the 14th AD. Pope Paul VI abolished it in 1967.
Origin
According to the De officio et jurisdictione datarii necnon de stylo Datariae of Amydenus and other authorities, the Dataria Apostolica was of very ancient origin, but the previous transaction by other offices of the business that was gradually assigned to it contradicts these authorities. The Dataria was principally entrusted with concession of matrimonial dispensations of external jurisdiction and with collation, i. e., conferral, of benefices and rescripts that were reserved to the Apostolic See. To this double faculty was later added the third of granting many other indults and favors. Until the pontificate of Pope Pius IV, matrimonial dispensations were granted through the Apostolic Penitentiaria. Regarding the authority of collation of reserved benefices, it could not have been granted in ancient times because the institution of those reservations is comparatively recent: although some vestige of the reservations is found prior to the twelfth century, the custom was not frequent before Pope Innocent II, and the reservation of benefices was instituted as a general rule (De pract. et dignit., 3, 4, c. 2 (6°)) only from the pontificate of Pope Clement IV. While the office certainly existed in the fourteenth century, and as an independent one, the date of its institution is unknown.
Constitution
The Dataria consisted of a cardinal as its principal who was titled the "Pro-Datary" ("Prodatarius") until Sapienti Consilio of Pope Pius X, and thereafter was titled "Datarius" ("Datary"). There was formerly as much discussion of the title of "pro-datary" as of that of "vice chancellor" of the Apostolic Chancery: some contend that the title is derived from the fact that the office dated the rescripts of the Supreme Pontiff, while others that it is derived from the right to grant (dare) the indults and rescripts for which petition was made to the Supreme Pontiff. It is certain that, on account of these faculties, the Datary enjoyed great prestige during the flourishing of the office, when he was denominated the "Oculus Papae" ("Eye of the Pope"). After the Cardinal Datary came the "Subdatary" ("Subdatarius"), a prelate of the Roman Curia who assisted the Datary and assumed almost all of the faculties of the Datary as his substitute on occasion. After the Subdatary came a number of subordinate officials who, as De Luca stated, had enigmatical and sibyllic titles, e. g. the "Prefect of the Per Obitum", "Prefect of the Concessum", "Cashier of the Componenda", and "Officer of the Missis".
Reform
Pope Leo XIII reformed the organization of the Dataria to conform it to contemporary requirements. Pope Pius X reduced its faculties and re-organized it in his apostolic constitution Sapienti Consilio, according to which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20France | The French Republic has one of the world's largest diplomatic networks, and is a member of more multilateral organisations than any other country.
France's permanent representation abroad began in the reign of Francis I, when in 1522 he sent a delegation to the Swiss. Despite its reduced presence following decolonization, France still has substantial influence throughout the world.
Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.
Current missions
Africa
Algiers (Embassy)
Annaba (Consulate-General)
Oran (Consulate-General)
Luanda (Embassy)
Cotonou (Embassy)
Gaborone (Embassy)
Ouagadougou (Embassy)
Bujumbura (Embassy)
Yaoundé (Embassy)
Douala (Consulate-General)
Praia (Embassy)
Bangui (Embassy)
N'Djamena (Embassy)
Moroni (Embassy)
Brazzaville (Embassy)
Pointe Noire (Consulate-General)
Kinshasa (Embassy)
Djibouti (Embassy)
Cairo (Embassy)
Alexandria (Consulate-General)
Malabo (Embassy)
Asmara (Embassy)
Addis Ababa (Embassy)
Libreville (Embassy)
Banjul (Embassy Office)
Accra (Embassy)
Conakry (Embassy)
Bissau (Embassy)
Abidjan (Embassy)
Nairobi (Embassy)
Monrovia (Embassy)
Tripoli (Embassy)
Antananarivo (Embassy)
Antsiranana (Consular Office)
Mahajanga (Consular Office)
Toamasina (Consular Office)
Bamako (Embassy)
Nouakchott (Embassy)
Port Louis (Embassy)
Rabat (Embassy)
Agadir (Consulate-General)
Casablanca (Consulate-General)
Fez (Consulate-General)
Marrakesh (Consulate-General)
Tangier (Consulate-General)
Maputo (Embassy)
Windhoek (Embassy)
Niamey (Embassy)
Abuja (Embassy)
Lagos (Consulate-General)
Kigali (Embassy)
Dakar (Embassy)
Victoria (Embassy)
Pretoria (Embassy)
Cape Town (Consulate-General)
Johannesburg (Consulate-General)
Juba (Embassy)
Dar es Salaam (Embassy)
Lomé (Embassy)
Tunis (Embassy)
Kampala (Embassy)
Lusaka (Embassy)
Harare (Embassy)
Americas
Buenos Aires (Embassy)
La Paz (Embassy)
Brasília (Embassy)
Rio de Janeiro (Consulate-General)
São Paulo (Consulate-General)
Recife (Consulate-)
Ottawa (Embassy)
Moncton (Consulate-General)
Montreal (Consulate-General)
Quebec City (Consulate-General)
Toronto (Consulate-General)
Vancouver (Consulate-General)
Santiago de Chile (Embassy)
Bogotá (Embassy)
San José (Embassy)
Havana (Embassy)
Santo Domingo (Embassy)
Quito (Embassy)
San Salvador (Embassy)
Guatemala City (Embassy)
Port-au-Prince (Embassy)
Tegucigalpa (Embassy)
Kingston (Embassy)
Mexico City (Embassy)
Monterrey (Consulate-General)
Managua (Embassy)
Panama City (Embassy)
Asunción (Embassy)
Lima (Embassy)
Castries (Embassy)
Paramaribo (Embassy)
Port of Spain (Embassy)
Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
Atlanta (Consulate-General)
Boston (Consulate-General)
Chicago (Consulate-General)
Houston (Consulate-General)
Los Angeles (Consulate-General)
Miami (Consulate-General)
New Orleans (Consulate-General)
New York City (Consulate-General)
San Francisco (Consulate-Gener |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMN | BMN may refer to:
Beijing Media Network, a television network in China
Bloc of National Minorities, a political party in the Second Polish Republic
the ISO 639-3 code for the Bina language (Papua New Guinea)
the National Rail station code for Bromley North railway station, London, England
BMN Painter, an Attic vase painter active during the 6th century BC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYPD%20Blue%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of NYPD Blue, an American television police drama set in New York City, aired as part of the 1993–94 United States network television schedule for ABC, premiering on September 21, 1993 and concluding on May 17, 1994. The show explores the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast. The season led to a record 26 Emmy nominations. and six awards.
Plot
John Kelly and Andy Sipowicz are detectives in the 15th squad. Sipowicz is the elder partner but is a drunk and a threat to the partnership lasting much longer. Kelly has a genuine affection for his partner but becomes increasingly exasperated by Sipowicz's behavior. In the pilot, Sipowicz is shot, and nearly killed, by Alphonse Giardella, a gangster whom Sipowicz, while drunk, insulted badly in public. This leads to his decision to stay sober (after involuntarily drying out while in a coma) and save his job. While his partner is recuperating, Kelly is teamed up by the squad's Lieutenant, Arthur Fancy, with a young cop from Anti-Crime, James Martinez.
Kelly's personal life is no less complicated, as he is reluctantly going through a divorce from his wife, Laura, and is embarking on an affair with a uniformed cop, Janice Licalsi. To complicate matters further, Licalsi has been ordered to do a 'hit' on Kelly by mob boss Angelo Marino, otherwise Marino will turn in Licalsi's father, who is on his payroll. Instead, Licalsi murders Marino and the repercussions come back to haunt both her and Kelly.
Sipowicz begins a relationship with A.D.A. Sylvia Costas while another detective in the squad, Greg Medavoy, embarks on an affair of his own with the squad's new police administrative aide (P.A.A.), Donna Abandando.
Cast
Main
Recurring guest roles
Season 1's recurring guest roles include:
David Schwimmer as Josh '4B' Goldstein (Episodes 1-4), Laura Michaels' neighbor, whose stint as a vigilante ends badly. Dies in episode 4.
Robert Costanzo as Alphonse Giardella (Episodes 1-3, 5-7), a mobster who, after shooting and nearly killing Sipowicz in the pilot, turns State's evidence. Assassinated in episode 7.
Joe Santos as Marino (Episodes 1-2), head mobster who wants Kelly dead for continued "business" interference. Murdered in episode 2.
Larry Romano as Richie Catina (Episodes 2, 9-12),
Daniel Benzali as James Sinclair, Esq. (Episodes 1, 2, 22)
Luis Guzman as Hector Martinez (Episodes 5, 9), Detective Martinez' father
Michael Harney as Detective Mike Roberts (Episodes 6, 8-9, 15, 18)
Michael DeLuise as Andy Sipowicz, Jr. (Episode 7, 19, 22)
Bradley Whitford as Norman Gardner (Episodes 13, 21), a crusading reporter.
Episodes
Each NYPD Blue episode entry includes its original airdate in the United States, the writing and directing credits, and a plot summary. The credits and airdates are taken from the pamphlet accompanying the Region 1 Season 1 DVDs.
References
NYPD Bl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biological%20Cybernetics | The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft).
The institute is studying signal and information processing in the brain. We know that our brain is constantly processing a vast amount of sensory and intrinsic information by which our behavior is coordinated accordingly. How the brain actually achieves these tasks is less well understood, for example, how it perceives, recognizes, and learns new objects. The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics aim to determine which signals and processes are responsible for creating a coherent percept of our environment and for eliciting the appropriate behavior. Scientists of three departments and seven research groups are working towards answering fundamental questions about processing in the brain, using different approaches and methods.
Departments
Department for Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems (Zhaoping Li)
Department for High-field Magnetic Resonance (Klaus Scheffler)
Department for Computational Neuroscience (Peter Dayan)
Research groups
Dynamic Cognition Group (Assaf Breska)
Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience (Manuel Spitschan)
Computational Principles of Intelligence (Eric Schulz)
Systems Neuroscience & Neuroengineering (Jennifer Li & Drew Robson)
Former departments
Department for Physiology of Cognitive Processes (Nikos Logothetis)
Department for Human Perception, Cognition and Action (Heinrich H. Bülthoff)
Empirical Inference (Bernhard Schölkopf)
Information Processing in Insects (Werner E. Reichardt)
Structure & Function of Natural Nerve-Net (Valentin von Braitenberg)
External links
Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Biological Cybernetics
Biological research institutes
Systems science institutes
Organisations based in Tübingen
Education in Tübingen
Cybernetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAWA%20%28FM%29 | KAWA (89.7 MHz) is an American contemporary Christian music (CCM) formatted radio station located in Dallas, Texas. It is a WAY-FM Network owned and operated station through Hope Media Group (a non-profit entity). As a non-profit under previous ownership of Research Educational Foundation, Inc., it annually hosted two fund-raising drives to remain on the air. It broadcasts at 95,000 watts from a tower in Sanger, Texas.
History
After a two-year stay in Florida, Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas returned to the Dallas area and decided to start a Christian radio station. Through other business interests, Mr. Thomas learned of KVTT, now KKXT, an existing station that operated as an extension of Elkins Institute, a broadcasting training facility. With retirement looming, Bill Elkins, the founder and president of the Elkins Institute, wanted to find someone to continue with the station he had operated since 1950. In March 1976, Mr. Thomas became the president of Research Educational Foundation, Inc. and General Manager of KVTT. (Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas are now both deceased and KVTT's FM 91.7 frequency was sold to local public broadcaster KERA in 2009.)
In 1994, KVTT applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin broadcasting a full-time Christian rock station for the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Around the same time, 1995, the station began to target the area youth with their music programming in the evenings with "Power Mix" on weeknights, "Youth Wake" (later "Lighthouse 21") on Saturday nights and Spin 180 on Sunday nights. "Lighthouse 21" also ran a TV show on KSTR 52 in Dallas.
It took over four years for the application to be processed and granted by the FCC. On January 18, 1999, a license was granted to broadcast at 14,000 watts as KTPW and transmit from a tower north of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Sanger, Texas. The new station began broadcasting on July 27, 1999.
In 2004 REF Inc. released its responsibility to KVTT and became responsible only for Power FM. The KVRK call letters were established on June 14, 2004. Power FM also had a TV show on JCTV called FM..
In May 2015, WAY-FM announced plans to acquire the station. The said acquisition was completed effective on September 16, 2016, at a purchase price of $2 million. The call sign was changed to KAWA on September 24, 2015, and a slight format change from Christian Rock to CCM was made. The previous "Power FM" format is still available to stream live through its internet presence and their app.
As of late September 2016, KAWA holds a construction permit to increase power from 14,000 to 45,000 watts and an application to further increase to 90,000 watts.
Signal
Unlike most of the area's FM stations like competitor KLTY, which transmit their signals from Cedar Hill, KAWA transmits its signal from an area West of Collinsville. Therefore, KAWA's signal is much stronger in the Northern parts of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex including Dallas, Denton, and McKinney as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYPD%20Blue%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of NYPD Blue, an American television police drama set in New York City, aired as part of the 1994-95 United States network television schedule for ABC, premiering on October 11, 1994 and concluding on May 23, 1995. The show explores the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast.
The season earned three Primetime Emmy Awards, one for "Outstanding Drama Series", another for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series" (Shirley Knight), and a Creative Arts Emmy for its casting. The show received an additional 10 nominations.
Production
In the hiatus between Seasons 1 and 2, David Caruso reportedly demanded a raise from $40,000 per episode to around $100,000/per, and also that the show simultaneously shift the series back to a primary focus on his Det. John Kelly (away from the S1 balance between Caruso/Kelly and Dennis Franz/Andy Sipowicz focal points) while giving him mandated time off to film movies in-season. David Milch and Steven Bochco agreed that they could not work with Caruso anymore and informed him that he would be permanently written off the series before Season 2 began. After intense negotiations, Caruso and Milch/Bochco reached an agreement for four episodes of work to write off Kelly to start Season 2. By this point, the show had cast Jimmy Smits to play Andy's new partner, Det. Bobby Simone.
Plot summary
Licalsi is found guilty of the manslaughter of Marino and his driver and is given a two-year sentence. Because of his involvement with Licalsi, and the belief that he withheld evidence that could have given her a longer sentence, Kelly is transferred out of the 15th and chooses to leave the department altogether. He is replaced by Bobby Simone, a widower whose previous job was that of driver for the Police Commissioner. This does not sit well with Sipowicz but in time he learns to accept his new partner and, as his relationship with Sylvia leads down the aisle, asks Simone to be his best man.
After an affair with a journalist who uses information that he gives her in an article, Simone begins a relationship with another new officer in the squad, Diane Russell. Sipowicz, a recovering alcoholic, recognizes in Russell's behavior that she also has a problem and, after much prompting, she herself goes to AA. Elsewhere, due to his lack of self-belief that a woman like Donna could love him, Medavoy's relationship with her breaks down, due in no small part to Donna's visiting sister.
Cast
Recurring guest roles
Season 2's recurring guest roles include:
Justine Miceli was introduced as Det. Adrienne Lesniak during the season, in a recurring role as the partner of Det. James Martinez. Miceli became a cast member during the following season.
Kim Delaney as Det. Diane Russell; Delaney also became a cast member starting at the end of second season.
Melina Kanakaredes played an ambitious reporter, Benita Alden, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20hospitalier%20universitaire%20de%20Qu%C3%A9bec | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) is a network of three teaching hospitals affiliated with the medical school of Université Laval and several specialized institutions in Quebec City.
It was created by the merger in December 1995 of three large teaching hospitals:
Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise
Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CHUL)
It also includes:
Maison Paul-Triquet
Centre de l'ouïe et de la parole (Hearing and Speech Centre)
Centre de traitement dans la communauté (Community Treatment Centre)
Centre de pédopsychiatrie (Child and Youth Psychiatry Centre)
Foyer des vétérans (Veterans' Home)
The Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval site offers extensive and specialized pediatric services.
The CHU de Québec Research Center houses a Biosafety level 3 laboratory for pathogens of human and animal provenance.
CHUQ is the largest institutional employer in Quebec City: its staff includes 672 specialist doctors, 237 family doctors, 2659 nurses, 96 pharmacists, 19 dentists, and 1492 other health care professionals and technicians.
References
External links
Official site
1995 establishments in Quebec
Hospital networks in Canada
Teaching hospitals in Canada
BSL3 laboratories in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDO%20USA%2C%20LLP | BDO USA, P.A. is the United States member firm of BDO International, a global accounting network. The company is headquartered in Chicago. The firm adopted its current moniker in 1973, each letter corresponding to a surname of an original founder of the corporation: Binder, Dijker, and Otte.
History
BDO USA, P.C was founded as Seidman and Seidman in New York City in 1910 by three immigrant brothers: Maximillian L. Seidman, Francis E. Seidman, and Jacob S. Seidman. At that time the accounting profession was in its infancy, with fewer than 2,200 practicing CPAs in the United States. Shortly thereafter in 1913, the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, followed by the Revenue Act of 1913 with new impositions of U.S. federal income tax enacted by Congress in that year. M. L. Seidman saw the potential of the accountant's role to provide tax services to individuals. By 1917, Congress enacted the first revenue bills and the U.S. entry into World War I created the need for corporate income and excess profit taxes. At the same time, federal spending rose to $18.9 billion with 58 percent of the federal revenues provided from income taxes. M.L. Seidman and his siblings, who joined him in his new accounting firm, seized the opportunity to provide tax services to businesses in addition to individuals.
Expansion
An era of expansion began. Fostered by the federal government's conversion of furniture and woodworking companies to aircraft production for the war effort, the firm opened an office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1917. Seidman and Seidman quickly established itself as a leader in serving the furniture industry by developing the first effective furniture plant costing system. Today, BDO Seidman's furniture industry practice remains in the industry.
In 1925, the firm rapidly expanded, opening offices in Jamestown, Illinois, and Rockford, Illinois, followed by Chicago in 1921, and Gardner, Massachusetts, in 1924. In 1922, J. S. Seidman joined the firm as a founding member.
The 1930s brought another new beginning for the accounting profession. In 1933, Congress passed the Securities Act, requiring public corporations to have financial statements included in registration statements and periodic reports reported on by independent CPAs. A year later, the Securities and Exchange Commission was created to administer the new legislation.
In 1950, L. William Seidman joined the firm and ultimately became its managing partner before leaving for government service, most notably as chair of the FDIC.
Development of the national firm
The firm continued to grow and by the 1960s, truly became a national firm. On April 1, 1968, the firm was converted into a national general partnership. This marked the beginning of a new era of expansion. Over the years to the present, the firm established many offices throughout the United States.
Present
Today, BDO USA, P.A. has more than 60 offices and more than 400 independent alliance firm locations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunabula%20%28video%20game%29 | Incunabula is a video game designed by Steve Estvanik and released by Avalon Hill for IBM PC compatibles in 1984. It is the original computerized version of Civilization board game, preceding Sid Meier's Civilization which was published in 1991.
Gameplay
The gameplay loosely follows the rules of Francis Tresham's Civilization board game. It consists of three type of "scenarios", Incunabula, Imperium, and Traders. Incunabula resembles the board game most. One to three players can play and the computer players can be randomly assigned basis of law and "personality". The personalities determine how likely a computer opponent is to attack you. Personalities are:
Choleric
Phlematic
Melancholic
Sanguine
The choices for basis of law are:
Theocracy
Oligarchy
Utopia
Khanate
Combat follows Civilization rules with a one for one unit loss. There are no technologies to obtain but each player's progress is tracked through phases such as clan and tribe. The game is won on the basis of accumulating trade.
The different laws and personalities, and random starting positions, are the only game variations. There is only one map, and no varying difficulty level.
Reception
Jerry Pournelle in 1985 reported that Avalon Hill's Incunabula and By Fire and Sword "snaffled off more of my time than I could afford". Computer Gaming World that year noted the resemblance to Avalon Hill's Civilization board game and wondered why the company did not call the video game Computer Civilization, and cautioned that because of the lack of map variations or difficulty levels, "the probable solitaire life of the game could be rather limited". It nonetheless concluded, "Incunabula is an interesting and enjoyable multi-player game. The combination of combat, good trading, and diplomacy will give a wide variety of gamers something worth a closer look". In 1990 and 1993 the magazine gave the game three stars out of five.
See also
List of 4X video games
References
External links
1984 video games
4X video games
Avalon Hill video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMF | MDMF may refer to:
Merlin Depth Maintenance Facility
Multiple Data Message Format, a function within Caller ID |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Instrumentation is the art and science of measurement and control.
Instrumentation may also refer to:
Science and technology
Instrumentation (computer programming), the ability to monitor a product's performance and to diagnose errors
Virtual instrumentation
Instrumentation amplifier, an integrated circuit sometimes used in measurement instruments
Instrumentation, in the internal validity of the scientific study
Other
Instrumentation (music)
See also
Instrument (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20V525 | The Motorola V525 is a mobile phone made by the company Motorola and is a phone which is exclusive to the Vodafone network or otherwise has to be unblocked to be used on any other network. This is a stylish flip phone which is similar in looks to the Motorola V500.
Product Features
Integrated camera
Bluetooth wireless technology
Make calls globally with Quad Band
MP3 & Polyphonic Ringtones
Picture Phonebook
Built-in Speakerphone
MMS (Picture / photo + text + sound)
EMS 5.0
SMS Chat one-to-one
21 Embedded Polyphonic ringtones, 4 MP3 Ringtones
22 kHz Polyphonic Speaker, 22 Chord support
Downloadable Themes: animated screensavers, wallpapers and ringtones
Java ME Games: Stuntman & Monopoly (Embedded & downloadable)
MotoMixer (Remixable MIDI ringer software)
User-customisable Softkey Functions, Main Menu and Shortcuts
Caller Group Profiling (Ringer & Icon)
Phone Book: Up to 1000 entries
Time and Date Stamp
VibraCall
Voice-activated Dialling
Technical data
Form factor: Clam
Internal memory 5 MB
Colour: Silver
Dimensions (h × w × d): 89 × 49 × 24.8 mm
Volume: 86 cm³
Weight including the battery: 123 g
Weight excluding the battery: 113 g
Display: Internal: 65k TFT Colour (176 × 220)
4 lines of text and 1 line of icons
Display: External: 2 line (96 × 32, with blue backlight)
Bands: Quad Band (900/1800/1900/850 MHz)
Standard battery: SNN5704 battery min 650 mAh
Standby time (hours): 120-200
Talk time (mins): 180-390
GPRS (2u/4d) AMR
WAP Browser version 2.0
Connectivity Bluetooth wireless technology (1.1)/CE Bus
(USB/Serial)
Firmware
Language Package 0001 (US English)
Language Package 0002 (UK English)
Language Package 0003 (US English, Canadian French, American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese)
Language Package 0014 (UK English, Complex Chinese)
Language Package 0015 (US English, Simplified Chinese)
Language Package 0016 (US English, Complex Chinese)
Language Package 001B (US English, Canadian French, American Spanish)
Language Package 0021 (UK English, Thai, Vietnamese, Bahasa)
Language Package 0024 (UK English, Simplified Chinese)
Language Package 002C (UK English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, Russian)
Language Package 002D (UK English, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Polish, Russian)
Language Package 002E (UK English, German, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Spanish, Portuguese)
Language Package 002F (UK English, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian)
Language Package 0030 (UK English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, German)
Language Package 0031 (UK English, Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Italian, German, and Russian)
Language Package 0032 (UK English, French, Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish, Turkish)
Language Package 0033 (UK English, French, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Turkish)
Language Package 0034 (UK English, French, Urdu, Farsi, Arabic, Russian, Spanish)
Language Package 0035 (UK English, Swedish, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, and Greek)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron%20plot | A chevron plot is a way of representing protein folding kinetic data in the presence of varying concentrations of denaturant that disrupts the protein's native tertiary structure. The plot is known as "chevron" plot because of the canonical v, or chevron shape observed when the logarithm of the observed relaxation rate is plotted as a function of the denaturant concentration.
In a two-state system, folding and unfolding rates dominate the observed relaxation rates below and above the denaturation midpoint (Cm). This gives rise to the terminology of folding and unfolding arms for the limbs of the chevron. A priori information on the Cm of a protein can be obtained from equilibrium experiments. In fitting to a two-state model, the logarithm of the folding and unfolding rates is assumed to depend linearly on the denaturant concentration, thus resulting in the slopes mf and mu, called the folding and unfolding m-values, respectively (also called the kinetic m-values). The sum of the two rates is the observed relaxation rate. An agreement between equilibrium m-value and the absolute sum of the kinetic m-values is typically seen as a signature for two-state behavior. Most of the reported denaturation experiments have been carried out at 298 K with either urea or guanidinium chloride (GuHCl) as denaturants.
Experimental methodology
To generate the folding limb of the chevron, the protein in a highly concentrated denaturant solution is diluted rapidly (in less than a millisecond) in an appropriate buffer to a particular denaturant concentration by means of a stopped flow apparatus. The relaxation to the new equilibrium is monitored by spectroscopic probes such as fluorescence or less frequently by circular dichroism (CD). The volume of the dilution is adjusted to obtain the relaxation rate at a specific denaturant concentration. The final protein concentration in the mixture is usually 1-20 μM, depending on the constraints imposed by the amplitude of relaxation and the signal-to-noise ratio. The unfolding limb is generated in a similar fashion by mixing denaturant-free protein with a concentrated denaturant solution in buffer. When the logarithm of these relaxation rates are plotted as a function of the final denaturant concentration, a chevron plot results.
The mixing of the solutions determines the dead time of the instrument, which is about a millisecond. Therefore, a stopped-flow apparatus can be employed only for proteins with a relaxation time of a few milliseconds. In cases where the relaxation time is shorter than the dead-time of the instrument, the experimental temperature is lowered (thus increasing the viscosity of water/buffer) to increase the relaxation time to a few milliseconds. On the other hand, for fast-folding proteins (i.e., those with a relaxation rate of 1 to 100 microseconds), pressure jump (dead time~few microseconds), temperature jump (T-jump; dead time~few nanoseconds) or continuous flow mixing (dead time~few microseconds), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20County%20Council%20Tramways | The London County Council Tramways was an extensive network of public street tramways operated by the council throughout the County of London, UK, from 1899 to 1933, when they were taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board.
Acquisition of tramways
Under the Tramways Act 1870 local authorities were permitted to acquire privately operated tramways in their area after they had been operating for twenty-one years. Accordingly, in October 1891 the LCC decided to exercise its option to take over four and a half miles of route operated by the London Street Tramways Company. The company disagreed with the price offered by the council, and the sale did not go through until 1 March 1895. As the LCC had no powers to operate tramways itself, it put the operation of the line out to tender, which the incumbent London Streetways won, being the only applicant.
In 1896 the London Street Tramways offered its network for sale to the county council, as did the North Metropolitan Tramways Company. The council purchased the lines, and the North Metropolitan was awarded a fourteen-year lease to operate them.
The council succeeded in having the London County Council Act 1896 passed, which gave it powers to operate trams. The next system to be acquired was that of the London Tramways Company in 1899, and from that date all lines taken over were operated by the county council itself. By 1909 most of the tramways in the county had been taken over, the LCC operating of tramways.
Electrification
In 1900 a further Act of Parliament gave the council the power to electrify its system. On 15 May 1903 the first electrified section from Westminster to Tooting was opened by The Prince and Princess of Wales who rode the route in a specially decorated tramcar, and paid their fares with halfpenny coins minted for the occasion. The last horse tram ran on 30 April 1915. Much of the system used overhead power pickup, but also the conduit system of electric current, as the metropolitan boroughs had the power of veto on the installation of overhead wires.
Expansion
The tramways north and south of the River Thames were almost completely separate until the opening of the Kingsway Subway in 1908.
From 1 July 1921 the LCC Tramways assumed operation of the Leyton Urban District Council Tramways trams.
In 1933, the LCC Tramways had of tracks in operation, of which about nine were in Leyton, and a quarter of a mile owned by the City of London. Much of Central London was never served by trams, these being excluded from the area by legislation passed in 1872.
LCC trams could also be seen outside the county of London. Apart from operating the Leyton system, there were connections and joint running arrangements with the neighbouring company and municipal systems. This brought council trams to Purley on the Croydon Corporation system, Barnet and Enfield on that of Metropolitan Electric Tramways, and Hampton Court on London United Tramways metals.
The council opened a coal-fire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie%20Mediwake | Anne Marie Abeyesinghe Mediwake is a Canadian television news anchor. Formerly co-anchor of Global Toronto's 6 p.m. News Hour, she was hired in September 2009 by the CBC News Network. In October 2010, she became co-anchor of CBC News Toronto's supper hour newscasts, alongside Dwight Drummond. Prior to joining CBC, Mediwake co-anchored Global Television's Toronto flagship newscast. She also helmed CTV's investigative current affairs show 21c and reported for CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson, Canada AM and CTV Newsnet. On April 27, 2016, Mediwake left her position as co-host of CBC Toronto News at 6 p.m., returning to CTV as co-host of their new national morning show, Your Morning, in summer 2016.
Biography
Mediwake was born in Sri Lanka. Her parents immigrated to Canada when she was a child, settling in southern Alberta. Her father is Sri Lankan while her mother is of Scottish origin. In 1993, she started her television career in Lethbridge. Six years later she moved to Toronto where she was a reporter for CTV. While at CTV, she co-hosted the award-winning 21c, a current-affairs program aimed at Canada's younger generation, and reported for Canada AM and CTV National News.
She is married to Darryl Konynenbelt, who is also a journalist and together they have triplets Annabel Abeyesinghe, Maxim Bandara and Libby Abeyesinghe who were born in 2007. An ongoing series on the pregnancy and the births was carried in the National Post. In 2010, Konynenbelt announced that he was seeking the provincial nomination as candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in the Ontario electoral district of Mississauga South (Konynenbelt lost the nomination to Geoff Janoscik, who lost the 2011 election to incumbent Charles Sousa).
Mediwake and Konynenbelt reside in Oakville, Ontario.
References
External links
Global TV biography
1975 births
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Sri Lankan people of Scottish descent
Sri Lankan emigrants to Canada
Living people
People from Oakville, Ontario
People from Kandy
Canadian women television journalists
CTV Television Network people
CBC Television people
21st-century Canadian journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rango%20%28TV%20series%29 | Rango is an American Western situation comedy starring comedian Tim Conway, which was broadcast in the United States on the ABC television network in 1967 and lasted 17 episodes.
Synopsis
Rango is an inept, bumbling Texas Ranger in the Old West who has been assigned to the supply room at the quietest post the Rangers have, Deep Wells Ranger Station, so as to keep him from creating unnecessary trouble. He seems to bring his own trouble with him, however, as after his arrival, crime suddenly returns to the Deep Wells area, a place that had seen very little of it during the previous 20 years.
Rango's assistant in the supply room is Pink Cloud, an overly assimilated American Indian who is very fond of the ways of the white people and prefers reading a book in a comfortable bed to living the traditional life of a Plains Indian. Pink Cloud's command of the English language is generally better than those of the white people around him; for example, in one episode, he says, "Rango say him return when sun high over teepee. By that, I presume he meant that he would be back by noon."
Also at the Deep Wells Ranger Station is Captain Horton, Rango's long-suffering company commander. Horton wants to transfer Rango out of Deep Wells, but cannot because Rango's father is the head of the Texas Rangers.
Cast
Tim Conway...Rango
Guy Marks...Pink Cloud
Norman Alden...Captain Horton
Production
Tim Conway previously starred in McHale's Navy from 1962 to 1966 and in two theatrical films spun off from the series, McHale's Navy in 1964 and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force in 1965. Rango was the first of several unsuccessful attempts at giving Conway a starring role in a situation comedy of his own.
Rango′s theme song, "Rango", was co-written by Earle Hagen and Ben Raleigh and sung by Frankie Laine.
Reception
TV Guide ranked the series number 47 on its "TV Guide′s 50 Worst Shows of All Time" list in 2002.
Broadcast history
Rango premiered on ABC on January 13, 1967. It lasted only half a season, and its 17th and final new episode aired on May 5, 1967. Reruns of Rango then aired during its regular time slot until September 1, 1967. The show was broadcast at 9:00 pm on Friday throughout its run.
Episodes
SOURCES trakt.tv Rango: Season 1 1x01 Rango the Outlaw Accessed 26 November 2021Rango: Season 1 1x11 Shootout at Mesa Flats Accessed 26 November 2021
References
External links
Rango opening credits on YouTube
Promotional spot for Rango on YouTube
Stars of Rango interviewed on American Bandstand in 1967 on YouTube
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
1960s American sitcoms
1967 American television series debuts
1967 American television series endings
Television series about the Texas Ranger Division
Television series by CBS Studios
1960s Western (genre) television series
Fictional characters of the Texas Ranger Division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Fulton | Gregory Fulton is an American computer game designer best known for his work on the Heroes of Might and Magic series.
Published works
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995)
Heroes of Might and Magic: Millennium Edition (1999)
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (1999)
Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade (1999)
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death (2000)
Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002)
References
External links
Gregory Fulton at MobyGames
American video game designers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCN | WCN may represent:
Warrior Care Network, a U.S. military veteran mental health program
Westminster Cable Network, television station of Westminster College
Wildlife Conservation Network, a non-profit wildlife conservation organization
Wimco Nagar railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (Indian Railways station code)
Windows Connect Now, a Microsoft scheme for configuring wireless routers
Wireless community network, a community wireless network project for Chicago, USA
World Carfree Network, an international network of car-free advocates
World Chess Network, formerly a commercial Internet site on which to play chess
World Classical Network, a satellite service in Massachusetts, USA
World Congress of Neurology, annual meeting of the World Federation of Neurology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogrun%21 | Frogrun! (also Frog Run) is a Frogger clone published by Anirog Software for the VIC-20 home computer in 1983. A Commodore 64 version programmed by Jef Gamon was published in 1984 as Frogrun 64. A ZX Spectrum version by S.J. Dann was released with the name Frog Run.
Gameplay
The game follows the structure of Frogger: maneuver across a busy road, then hop on floating objects to reach the frog homes on the other side of a river.
Taken from the games instructions:
10 points for moving frog forward.
200 points for getting a frog home.
A bonus for all the frogs home.
A bonus for jumping on a lady frog.
There is a time limit of 25 seconds to get a frog home.
References
External links
1983 video games
Action games
Anco Software games
Commodore 64 games
Single-player video games
VIC-20 games
Video game clones
Video games about amphibians
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob | Gottlob is a family name, which may refer to:
Georg Gottlob, Austrian computer scientist
Gottlob is a given name, which may refer to:
Gottlob Berger (1896–1975), senior German Nazi official
Gottlob Burmann (1737–1805), German Romantic poet and lipogrammatist
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), German philosopher, logician and mathematician
Gottlob Frick (1906–1994), German operatic bass
Gottlob E. Weiss (1820–1900), American politician
Gottlob as a middle name may refer to:
Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (1769–1845), German writer
Christian Gottlob Heine (1729–1812), German classical scholar and archaeologist
Johann Gottlob Lehmann (disambiguation)
Johann Gottlob Lehmann (classicist) (1782–1837) German expert in classical studies and noted director of the Gymnasium at Luckau, Germany
Johann Gottlob Lehmann (scientist) (1719–1767) German mineralogist and geologist
Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (1715–1794), German doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect
Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710–1792), Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat
Christoph Gottlob Müller (1785–1858), Considered to be the founder of the Wesleyan Church in Germany
Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798), German opera composer and conductor
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850), Danish poet and playwright
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750–1822), German classicist and naturalist
Eugen Gottlob Winkler (1912–1936), German writer and essayist
Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1792–1849), German classical scholar known for his work in the field of Latin philology
Gottlob may also refer to the following places:
Gottlob, a commune in the Timiș County, Romania
See also
Gottlober
Gottlieb
German masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure-adaptive%20architecture | Pertaining to web services, Secure-Adaptive Architecture (SAA) refers to a particular approach towards the security management issues inherent in data transfer over computer networks, relating to certain services, such as micropayments.
Minimalist approach
In SAA, personal information (such as an end-user's name, banking information, or personal identity numbers such as Social Security numbers) is not retained. This has two main benefits: For the end-user, the chance of identity theft and fraud is considerably reduced. For the service provider, it means that direct communication with the end-user's financial institution is unnecessary.
Security techniques
SAA uses "best in class" proven security techniques to ensure the safe transfer of data through network resources. These include protocols such as SSL communications, client-side authentication and AES encryption.
Monitoring
SAA requires consistent and pervasive, real-time monitoring of network resources to ensure security.
See also
Adaptive architecture
Web services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Public%20Radio%20Stations | The Association of Public Radio Stations was a radio network in the United States from 1973 to 1977.
It was formed on May 24, 1973, becoming the main public radio representative to federal agencies and Congress. In 1977 it merged with National Public Radio (NPR), which was then primarily a distributor of radio content. It was only after this merger that NPR became the broader public radio body it is today.
See also
America's Public Television Stations: A similar trade organization for non-profit TV
References
External links
Kenneth J. Garry papers at the University of Maryland libraries. Garry worked at the Association of Public Radio Stations and his papers include correspondence, board minutes, financial reports, satellite and information technology reports, and other documents from his time working for the Association of Public Radio Stations.
Radio organizations in the United States
Public radio in the United States
Trade associations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1973
Organizations disestablished in 1977 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebei%20Television | Hebei Television (HEBTV), () is a television network in Hebei province and all parts of the Beijing and Tianjin television viewing areas. Hebei Television also covers parts of Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. More than 120 million people enjoy access to the programs the television provides. Hebei Television has two channels, broadcasting 136 hours of programs and rebroadcasts programs from two other television stations. Besides, HEBTV broadcasts 2 hours of programs to North America each month via the Oriental Satellite Television.
Channels
HEBTV-1- A comprehensive channel, which broadcasts news, programs in the arts, movies and plays
Its major programs are Hebei News Broadcast (Hebei Xinwen Lianbo), Economy Watch (Jingji Guancha), Society Focus (Shehui Shidian), Movie World (Dianying Da Shijie) and Sports Circle (Titan Neiwai).
HEBTV-2- Focuses on the economy
It broadcasts major programs such as Economy Watch (Jingji Guancha), Economy Express (Jingji Chuanzhen), Securities Today (Jinri Zhengquan) and Economy Life (Jingji Shenghuo).
HEBTV-3 (HEBTV-都市) – City
Major programs: City Life (Dushi Shenghuo), Sports News (Tiyu Xinwen)
HEBTV-4 (HEBTV-影视) – Movie & Television
Major Programs: Circulation of Entertainment (Ying shi quan), Movie World (Ying shi da shi jie), Movie & TV Dictionary (Ying shi bao dian)
HEBTV-5 (HEBTV-少儿科教) – Children & Education
Major Programs: Military Files (Jun shi dang an), Growing (Cheng zhang), Children World (Shao er tian di), SF Movie Review (Kehuan yingshi shangxi)
HEBTV-6 (HEBTV-公共) – Public
Major Programs: Happy 50 mins (Kuaile 50 fen), Law Time (Fazhi tian di), Chatroom (Liao tian shi)
HEBTV-Farmer (HEBTV-农民) – Farmer & Agriculture
Major Programs: San nong zui qian xian
The television station has three studios. Both the 800-square-meter and 400-square-meter studios are equipped with digital devices.
Programs
Let's Go Together
Perhaps Love
Couple List
Season 3 (2016)
Heechul of Super Junior & Li Feier
References
External links
Official Site
China Culture
Television networks in China
Mass media in Shijiazhuang
Television channels and stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuntdawgs | Stuntdawgs is a Canadian documentary mini-series co-created and hosted by veteran stunt double Peter H. Kent. The miniseries premiered on January 13, 2006 on The Movie Network. Kent was a stunt double for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 14 movies.
A 13 half-hour mini-series, Peter H. Kent takes the viewer on a behind-the-scenes look at stunt work in Hollywood films and television series, by re-creating and explaining various stunts, including a motorcycle plunge from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Cast
Peter H. Kent
Jeff Sanca
Rikki Gagne
Lars Grant
Jimmy Broyden
Peter Boulanger
Kory Grimolfson
David Campbell
Ninon Parent
Rob Wilton
Leah Wagner
Christopher Gordon
Kirk Caouette
Brett Armstrong
Curt Bonn
Awards and nominations
2006 Gemini Award winner for Best General/Human Interest Series
2006 Leo Awards nomination for Best Documentary Program or Series - Nature/Environment/Adventure/Science/Technology (David Gullason, Gabriela Schonbach)
References
External links
Stuntdawgs website
2000s Canadian documentary television series
2000s Canadian television miniseries
Crave original programming
Television series by Entertainment One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Computing%20Olympiad | The Indian Computing Olympiad is an annual computer programming competition that selects four participants to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics. ICO is conducted by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science. The competition is held in three stages. For the first stage, students may compete in the Zonal Computing Olympiad (a programming contest), or the Zonal Informatics Olympiad (a paper-based algorithmic test). The following two rounds are the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics and the International Olympiad in Informatics Training Camp.
Stages of competition
Students first attempt the Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO), which is a written paper. Most of the questions can be solved with the use of algorithmic techniques, although logic is usually sufficient. Alternatively, students can attempt the Zonal Computing Olympiad (ZCO), an online programming contest. In 2017, students can attempt both the ZIO and ZCO.
The second round of competition is the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI), a programming competition round. Students are expected to solve two algorithmic problems in 3 hours in C++. Questions in this round are similar to those in the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Based on the results of these competitions, about 30 students are selected for the International Olympiad in Informatics Training Camp, at which students are selected and trained to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics. The training camp is usually held at The International School, Bangalore. In 2017, the training camp was held at Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai.
Incentives
The top students in the Indian Computing Olympiad receive several incentives for admission to undergraduate institutions in both India and abroad. A list of some of the incentives in India is as follows:
Amrita University offers a fully funded BTech Honors CSE program for students who perform well in ICO.
Chennai Mathematical Institute offers direct admission to students selected for IOITC in Class 12.
IIIT Delhi offers 2 bonus percentile points (considered with JEE Mains Percentile) to students selected for IOITC, and 1 bonus percentile point to students selected for INOI.
IIIT Hyderabad offers admission via the Olympiad category to students selected for IOITC.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni (medals at IOI) include Akshat Bubna, Harpreet Singh, Malvika Raj Joshi, Keshav Dhandhania, Kshitij Bansal, Srijon Mukherjee, Adhiraj Somani, Adhyyan Sekhsaria, Akashnil Dutta, Anish Shankar, Rajat De, Raziman Valapu, Amartya Biswas, Sampriti Panda, Srivatsan Balakrishnan, Ajay Ravindran, Archit Karandikar, Arindam Saha, Arjun Pitchanathan, Arnold Noronha, Indraneel Mukherjee, Ishan Behoora, Kushagra Juneja, Nadeem Moidu, Nihal Pednekar, Nikhil Tadigoppula, Pradeep Mathias, Prashant Vasudevan, Prateek Karandikar, Preyas Popat, Rajarshi Basu, Shreevatsa Rajagopalan, Siddharth Krishna, Sidhant Bansal, Swarnendu Datta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRNS-CD | KRNS-CD (channel 46) is a low-power, Class A television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Univision affiliate KREN-TV (channel 27). Both stations share studios on Wells Avenue in Reno, while KRNS-CD's transmitter is located on Slide Mountain between SR 431 and I-580/US 395/US 395 ALT in unincorporated Washoe County.
History
The station began with an original construction permit granted on June 14, 1988, to Que Television Production Inc. to build low-power television station K47CO to serve the Reno area. Shortly after getting the permit, Que Television Production sold the station to K-Fun Television Inc. After several extensions of the construction permit, K-Fun Television sold the station to Kidd Communications. There were more extensions of the permit, but Kidd Communications completed the construction, and the station was granted its initial license on July 12, 1995. Initial programming for the station is unknown.
Less than one month after licensing, Pappas Telecasting acquired the station, eventually making it a Univision affiliate. In December 1996, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Pappas Telecasting a permit to move the station to UHF channel 68. Callsign K68HO was reserved for the station to take effect upon licensing, but the calls were never used. Instead, the station took the call letters KUVR-LP in February 1998, reflecting their status as the Univision station for Reno. KUVR-LP moved to channel 68 in April 1999.
In November 2001, Pappas Telecasting dropped the Univision network for a fledgling Spanish-language network starting up in the United States, controlled in part by Pappas. The new network was called Azteca América and was an offshoot of the Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca. Pappas also obtained a Class A license for KUVR-LP, granted March 25, 2002, giving the station a measure of protection during the switchover to digital television that was beginning. The station changed call letters, this time to KUVR-CA. Later in the year, the station was granted a license to operate channel 68, but couldn't stay there, since their new status as a Class A station required them to be within the "core spectrum", i.e., channels 2–51. They requested and were granted permission to move to UHF channel 46 in January 2003 and was licensed on channel 46 on December 5, 2005. In the midst of the move, the station changed call letters, this time to KAZR-CA to reflect their Azteca affiliation.
Pappas Telecasting terminated KAZR's affiliation agreement with Azteca América effective July 1, 2007; by this time, Pappas had divested their share in Azteca América. After that date, KAZR officially became a part of Pappas' independent Spanish language network, TuVision.
News operation
As a Class A station, KAZR-CD is required to air a certain amount of locally produced programming. The station once fulfilled that requirement with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Educational%20Radio%20Network | The National Educational Radio Network (NERN) was a means of distributing radio programs in the United States between 1961 and 1970. With funding from the Ford Foundation (who also funded the National Educational Television and Radio Center (who later spun off its radio assets)), the network began broadcasting on six radio stations on April 3, 1961.
A forerunner was formed in 1925 as the Association of College and University Broadcasting Stations, then renamed the National Association of Educational Broadcasters in 1934. In 1951 a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation enabled the network to become the "(NAEB) Tape Network", based at the University of Illinois.
NAEB Tape Network became part of the National Educational Radio Network in 1963. As a result of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 NERN became part of National Public Radio in 1970.
Prior to the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the NERN had commissioned a study by Herman W. Land to assess the history of and future possibilities for educational radio. The publication and circulation of this study helped to jumpstart lobbying to include radio in the act, which was ultimately successful.
References
External links
NERN Creative Mind and Method Series
History at U. Wisconsin
Edwin G. Burrows helped to charter the NERN. His papers at the University of Maryland Libraries.
Digitized audio tape reels of the NERN in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Collection at the University of Maryland Libraries.
Public radio in the United States
Educational broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondwell | Bondwell Industrial Co. Inc. was a US and Hong Kong manufacturer of personal computers during the 1980s (1981-1993).
History
In the early 1980s, Bondwell sold a line of Z80, CP/M-80 based Osborne-like luggables such as the models Bondwell-12, Bondwell-14 and Bondwell-16. An exceptional feature in these was a built-in speech synthesizer. Their prices were exceptionally affordable for the time, although significant trade-offs were made in regard to durability, for instance the chassis was rather flimsy plastic, falling far short of the ruggedness usually expected of luggables. The fanless power supply unit, located under the motherboard, often caused trouble. The choice of peripheral I/O devices made the use of interrupts virtually impossible.
The Bondwell-12, introduced in 1984, was a "luggable" portable computer with a built-in 9 inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, equipped with 64 KB of internal memory, CP/M 2.2 and two single-sided, double density, 5.25 inch floppy disk drives (180 KB).
The Bondwell-14, introduced in 1984, had 128 KB of memory, CP/M 3.0 and two double-sided drives (360 KB).
The Bondwell-16, introduced in 1985, had CP/M 3.0, one double-sided drive and a hard disk drive with a capacity of a bit less than 10 MB.
The Bondwell-2, introduced in 1985, was a portable computer with 64 KB of memory, CP/M 2.2 and one single-sided, double density 3.5 inch floppy disk (360 KB). 256 and 512 KB memory extensions were available. It was one of the earliest portables, as well as one of the few battery-powered CP/M computers.
The more advanced Bondwell-18 model featured MS-DOS and the x86 architecture.
Bondwell Model 8, introduced in 1986, was a 5.5 kg, 284 x 78 x 310 mm, lap-top portable computer. It featured an Intel 80C88 processor running at 4.77 MHz, a back-lit LCD display with 80 x 25 characters or 640 x 200 graphic a built in battery and a 3.5" 720 KB floppy drive.It had a 76 keys keyboard and the US version had a built-in 300 baud modem.
Bondwell also produced a range of 286-based portable computers such as the B310 Plus. Later models were 386 based machines.
Circa 1988, Bondwell also got involved in creating one of the first universal remote controllers BW-5010. The BW-5010 could control up to 5 devices and featured a backlight.
Bondwell was later transformed into Remotec Technology Ltd in 1993.
References
External links
Bondwell 12 & 14, Albert's Virtual Computer Museum
American companies established in 1981
American companies disestablished in 1993
Computer companies established in 1981
Computer companies disestablished in 1993
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Electronics companies established in 1981
Electronics companies disestablished in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System%20Management%20Facilities | IBM System Management Facility (SMF) is a component of IBM's z/OS for mainframe computers, providing a standardised method for writing out records of activity to a file (or data set to use a z/OS term). SMF provides full "instrumentation" of all baseline activities running on that IBM mainframe operating system, including I/O, network activity, software usage, error conditions, processor utilization, etc.
One of the most prominent components of z/OS that uses SMF is the IBM Resource Measurement Facility (RMF). RMF provides performance and usage instrumentation of resources such as processor, memory, disk, cache, workload, virtual storage, XCF and Coupling Facility. RMF is technically a priced (extra cost) feature of z/OS. BMC sells a competing alternative, CMF.
SMF forms the basis for many monitoring and automation utilities. Each SMF record has a numbered type (e.g. "SMF 120" or "SMF 89"), and installations have great control over how much or how little SMF data to collect. Records written by software other than IBM products generally have a record type of 128 or higher. Some record types have subtypes - for example Type 70 Subtype 1 records are written by RMF to record CPU activity.
SMF record types
Here is a list of the most common SMF record types:
RMF records are in the range 70 through to 79. RMF's records are generally supplemented - for serious performance analysis - by Type 30 (subtypes 2 and 3) address space records.
RACF type 80 records are written to record security issues, i.e. password violations, denied resource access attempts, etc. TopSecret, another security system, also writes type 80 records. ACF2 provides equivalent information in, by default, type 230 records but this SMF record type can be changed for each installed site.
SMF type 89 records indicate software product usage and are used to calculate reduced sub-capacity software pricing.
IBM Db2 writes type 100, 101 and 102 records, depending on specific Db2 subsystem options.
CICS writes type 110 records, depending on specific CICS options.
Websphere MQ writes type 115 and 116 records, depending on specific Websphere MQ subsystem options.
WebSphere Application Server for z/OS writes type 120. Version 7 introduced a new subtype to overcome shortcomings in the earlier subtype records. The new Version 7 120 Subtype 9 record provide a unified request-based view with lower overhead.
Evolving records
The major record types, especially those created by RMF, continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Each release of z/OS brings new fields. Different processor families and Coupling Facility levels also change the data model.
SMF data recording
SMF can record data in two ways:
The standard and classical way: Using buffers the SMF address space, together with a set of preallocated datasets (VSAM datasets) to use when a buffer fills up. The standard name for the datasets is SYS1.MANx, where x is a numerical suffix (starting from 0).
The relatively new way: Using log streams. S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCVB-LD | KCVB-LD (channel 26) is a low-power independent television station licensed to Logan, Utah, United States. Founded on November 30, 1993, the station is currently owned by Bridge Media Networks. Its transmitter is located south of the Cache Valley, near Brigham City, Utah.
History
KCVB-LD began on November 30, 1993 with the grant of an original construction permit to Valley Channel Broadcasting, Inc., later known as KUTN LLC and Cache Valley Broadcasting LLC. Originally built on VHF channel 12, it was given the callsign K12OT and was licensed on April 1, 1994. The station aired classified ads and some local programming. In November 1996, the station took the call letters KVWB-LP as a Network One affiliate , then changed to KUTN-LP in December 1997. When full-service television station KUTH (now KUTF) was granted a construction permit for channel 12 in October 1999, KUTN-LP was forced to find a new broadcast frequency. They applied to move to channel 3 in November 2000, and by July 2001, had applied for a license for their new facilities. At the same time, the station was again renamed, this time to KCVB-LP, which changed to KCVB-CA upon the station being granted a Class A license on August 28, 2001, along with the license to cover the move to channel 3. The station's call sign was changed again on January 12, 2012 to KCVB-CD, then on January 10, 2023 to the current KCVB-LD.
On February 15, 2023, Bridge Media Networks (the parent company of 24/7 headline news service NewsNet, backed by 5-hour Energy creator Manoj Bhargava) announced it would acquire KCVB-LD for $150,000. Upon the completion of the transaction, KCVB-LD will become Bhargava's first TV station property in the state of Utah; the sale was consummated on April 4.
Technical information
Programming
KCVB-CD airs an abbreviated Ion Television schedule, with network shows only from 7 pm - 9 pm weekdays. The full Ion Television schedule is carried on owned-and-operated station KUPX-TV, which is available on cable in Logan. The majority of KCVB-CD's schedule is local programming, with infomercials overnight. Cache Valley Today is a local one-hour talk show that airs seven times during each weekday, and Let's Talk Cache Valley is a local half-hour talk show that airs weekdays, once a day, although at a different time each day. KCVB-CD shows hockey games from local Utah State University and basketball games from a local high school.
References
Cache Vision, The Utah Statesman, February 9, 2005
External links
Official site
TV Fool Map for KCVB
Ion Television affiliates
CVB-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSRP | VSRP may refer to:
Visiting Students Research Programme, a summer programme organised by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol, a computer network switching protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Edison | Matthew Edison (born 22 August 1975) is a Canadian actor known for his roles in Fortunate Son, The Detail, and Nero Wolfe, and as Cameron Coleman in the web series Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman and the third season of The Boys.
Early life and education
A great-great-great-grandnephew of Thomas Edison, Edison was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He graduated from Canterbury High School and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City.
Career
He has appeared in the television series At The Hotel and A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and in various television movies. Edison was nominated for a Dora Award for the role of Hal in Proof in Toronto at The Canadian Stage Company, and for his original play The Domino Heart, produced at Tarragon Theatre Extra Space in 2003.
In 2021, Edison starred in Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman, a web series set within the universe of The Boys, as Cameron Coleman, before reprising the role in the series' third season.
Filmography
Film
Television
Online
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male stage actors
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinhenge%40Home | Spinhenge@home was a volunteer computing project on the BOINC platform, which performs extensive numerical simulations concerning the physical characteristics of magnetic molecules. It is a project of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in cooperation with the University of Osnabrück and Ames Laboratory.
The project began beta testing on September 1, 2006 and used the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm to calculate and simulate spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets.
On September 28, 2011, a hiatus was announced while the project team reviewed results and upgraded hardware. As of July 10, 2022 the hiatus continues and it is likely that the project has been closed down permanently.
See also
Spintronics
BOINC
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
Project Website
More Information about Spinhenge@Home
Project Statistics at BOINCStats
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSTa | Valencia's Simple Tasker (VSTa) is an operating system with a microkernel architecture, with all device drivers and file systems residing in userspace mode. It mostly complies with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), except where such compliance interferes with extensibility and modularity. It is conceptually inspired by QNX and Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Written by Andy Valencia, and released under a GNU General Public License (GPL). As of 2020, the licensing for VSTa is Copyleft.
It was originally written to run on Intel 80386 hardware, and then was ported to several different platforms, e.g., Motorola 68030 based Amigas.
VSTa is no longer developed. A fork, named Flexible Microkernel Infrastructure/Operating System (FMI/OS), did not make a release.
User interface
The default graphical user interface provided as a tar-ball with the system was ManaGeR (MGR).
References
External links
http://www.vsta.org/distro/ download site
Free software operating systems
Unix variants
Discontinued operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intute | Intute was a free Web service aimed at students, teachers, and researchers in UK further education and higher education. Intute provided access to online resources, via a large database of resources. Each resource was reviewed by an academic specialist in the subject, who wrote a short review of between 100 and 200 words, and described via various metadata fields (such as which subject discipline(s) it would be useful to) what type of resource it was, who created it, who its intended audience was, what time-period or geographical area the resource covered, and so on. As of July 2010, Intute provided 123,519 records. Funding was stopped in 2011, and the site closed.
A partial archive of the Intute library is maintained at XtLearn.net
History of Intute
Intute was formed in July 2006 after the merger of the eight semi-autonomous "hubs" that formed the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). These hubs each served particular academic disciplines:
Altis - Hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism
Artifact - Arts and creative industries
Biome - Health and life sciences
EEVL - Engineering, mathematics, and computing
GEsource - Geography and the environment
Humbul - Humanities
PSIgate - Physical sciences
SOSIG - Social sciences
The restructuring and rebranding was undertaken to create a service with a more uniform identity and appearance, better cross-searching facilities, and more focused technical and management teams. As part of the restructuring, the eight RDN hubs were initially reorganised into four subject groups. This process also incorporated the Virtual Training Suite , a series of continually updated, free online Internet training tutorials for over 65 subject areas.
The Intute service was geographically distributed, with staff based at several UK universities.
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University College Birmingham
In July 2010, funding for Intute was significantly reduced and the Consortium was disbanded. Intute was then maintained by Mimas at the University of Manchester, and the Virtual Training Suite was maintained and developed by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at the University of Bristol.
The Intute.ac.uk service ended July 2011. The educational social bookmarking service XtLearn.net now maintains an unofficial archive of the majority of the Intute content set.
Funding
Intute was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Some of the subject groups received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Wellcome Trust was a partner of Intute: Health and Life Sciences and contributed content to this section.
In 2010, funding from Jisc was significantly reduced, and ceased in August 2011. In July of that year Intute stopped updating and actively maintaining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunsui | Shunsui (written: 春水, 春翠 or 舜水) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
, Japanese benshi
, 18th-century Japanese painter and printmaker
, pen name of Sasaki Sadataka, Japanese writer
, Chinese scholar in Japan
Fictional characters
Shunsui Kyōraku, a character in the manga series Bleach
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isan%20%28band%29 | Isan (sometimes written isan or ISAN) are an English electronic music duo. The name was initially explained as Integrated Services Analogue Network - a play on ISDN, reflecting their preference for analogue synthesisers.
Robin Saville and Antony Ryan met in Leicester in 1996, and have released several singles and albums since then, mainly for Morr Music. Saville now lives in Leiston and Ryan, who is also part of Seavault, in Fredericia, Denmark - since the band's inception, the two musicians have lived in different parts of Europe, working separately and collaborating using the internet.
Discography
Albums
Single
Trois Gymnopedies (7") (Morr, 2006)
Remixes
Int (Arc Mix) on Refract!ons (CD on Disasters by Choice Records) Layer remix 2005
Underwater (7") Televise remix (2007)
External links
Official band website
Morr Music
British electronic music groups
Media containing Gymnopedies
Morr Music artists
Darla Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Sch%C3%B6ffer | Nicolas Schöffer (; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist. Schöffer was born in Kalocsa, Hungary and resided in Paris from 1936 until his death in Montmartre in 1992.
He built his artworks on cybernetic theories of control and feedback primarily based on the ideas of Norbert Wiener. Wiener's work suggested to Schöffer an artistic process in terms of the circular causality of feedback loops that he used on a wide range of art genres. His career spans painting, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, film, theatre, television and music. The quest for dematerialisation of the artwork and the pursuit of movement and dynamics became the central themes of his work. He worked with the immaterial media space, time, light, sound and climate that he called the five topologies.
He liberated art genres from their spatial and temporal constraints by creating never-ending sound structures that can be heard all over the cybernetic city of the future and by designing SCAM1, an automobile sculpture.
Schöffer declared the socialization of art as an important goal. According to his ideas, art as a cultural asset should be available equally to everyone without any limitation. The playful and spectacular aspects of his works served the goal of gaining the attention of the audience and involving the viewer through participation in the creative processes. In order to make art universally available, he explored the possibilities of serial production.
Life and career
Schöffer was born in Kalocsa in the south of Hungary. The archdiocese of the town looks back on a thousand-year-old Catholic tradition.
The parents had a great influence on his development. The mother was a violinist and took care of the musical education of the child. He received piano lessons from the age of seven and his mother also encouraged him to draw. The father was a lawyer.
After completing elementary school, Schöffer continued to study with the Jesuits, despite his Jewish descent. This duality of religious education led to an openness towards other religious attitudes that is expressed by his idea of a universal religion in the cybernetic city of the future.
It is thanks to the influence of his father, who doubted that one can make a living as an artist, that Schöffer left his hometown to study law at the Faculty of Law of the Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University in Budapest. After receiving his doctor title in law, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts without completing this study in Hungary. In 1932 he took part in the Winter Exhibition of the National Salon in Budapest. It was his only public appearance before the war in Hungary.
In 1936 he left Hungary and settled in Paris. After arriving in Paris, Schöffer continued his studies in the atelier Fernand Sabatté at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1937 he participated in the Salon d'Automne and in 1938 in the Salon des Indépendants.
The Exposition Internationale des Arts et T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pict%20%28programming%20language%29 | Pict is a statically typed programming language, one of the very few based on the π-calculus. Work on the language began at the University of Edinburgh in 1992, and development has been more or less dormant since 1998. The language is still at an experimental stage.
References
Sources
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Pict: A programming language based on the pi-calculus. Technical report, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 1997
External links
, links to a compiler, manuals, tutorial
Experimental programming languages
Functional languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Akers | Dave Akers is a video game programmer and designer who worked on the M Network ports of BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump, and Star Strike for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game Klax with Mark Stephen Pierce and worked on Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.
Akers prototyped Klax in AmigaBASIC in just a few weeks, then ported it line-by-line to C.
As of the spring of 2006, Akers was working as an English teacher in Numazu, Japan.
In 2013, Dave Akers developed Paddle Party, a game for Intellivision released by Elektronite.
References
Atari people
Video game designers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquafondata | Acquafondata (Campanian: , ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located in the Monti della Meta area, about southeast of Rome and about east of Frosinone.
History
During World War II, Acquafondata was occupied by the Germans, who guarded the Gustav Line on the Cassino side and the Reinhard Line on the Molise side. The liberation of Acquafondata took place on 12 January 1944 by the French Expeditionary Corps who broke through on the Venafro side. Two survivors, Romano Neri and Domenico Mancone, were awarded knighthoods by the Presidency of the Republic for their role in the liberation.
Geography
Located in the middle of a valley and surrounded by the Monti della Meta, the built-up area is located at 926 m asl, on a limestone hillock dominated by Monte Monna Casale, (1395 m asl) in the southern Mainarde area. The valley produces potatoes and legumes. Reclamation work, through the construction of a tunnel for draining unhealthy waters, began in 1882 and saw its completion in 1901. Near the hamlet of Casalcassinese there are the springs of the Rava stream, which flows south-east, in the direction of Pozzilli, before flowing into the San Bartolomeo River, a tributary of the Volturno.
Architecture
The commune contains the Chiesa parrocchiale di sant'Antonio di Padova, Santuario della Madonna del Carmin, Chiesa di san Rocco and Chiesa di Santa Maria in Centumcellis and a number of notable World War II monuments, including to the Italians and the Polish.
The small sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine , in the parish of San Giovanni Battista in Acquafondata , stands on the provincial road 41, near the pass of the "Serre ", on the extreme offshoots of the Meta mountains at almost 1000 meters. above sea level.
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Acquafondata)
It is immersed in the green of suggestive pine forests, surrounded by large secular lime trees, is 1 km from the center of Acquafondata and less than 2 km from the border with the municipal area of Vallerotonda . According to tradition, the sanctuary was erected on the site of the apparition of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel to Nicolina Carcillo, which took place on July 16, 1841.
The sanctuary is a point of reference for Marian devotion , especially in the month of July, for the inhabitants of the neighboring towns and for those who wish to spend time dedicated to peace, relaxation and spirituality. In the evocative setting of an uncontaminated mountain landscape, the visitor restores himself in contact with nature; the pilgrim is favored in personal and community prayer in specially prepared spaces, such as the ascent path to the " Little Mount Carmel " or the "Path of the XII stars".
History
The foundation of the first chapel dedicated to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Acquafondata dates back to 1841 , as can be seen from the date carved in the architrave of the access door. The small rock construction, built in local stone and pozz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landolt%E2%80%93B%C3%B6rnstein | Landolt–Börnstein is a collection of property data in materials science and the closely related fields of chemistry, physics and engineering published by Springer Nature.
History
On July 28, 1882, Dr. Hans Heinrich Landolt and Dr. Richard Börnstein, both professors at the "Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule" (Agricultural College) at Berlin, signed a contract with the publisher Ferdinand Springer on the publication of a collection of tables with physical-chemical data. The title of this book "Physikalisch-chemische Tabellen" (Physical-Chemical Tables) published in 1883 was soon forgotten. Owing to its success the data collection has been known for more than a hundred years by each scientist only as "The Landolt-Börnstein".
1250 copies of the 1st Edition were printed and sold. In 1894, the 2nd Edition was published, in 1905 the 3rd Edition, in 1912 the 4th Edition, and finally in 1923 the 5th Edition. Supplementary volumes of the latter were printed until as late as 1936. New Editions saw changes in large expansion of volumes, number of authors, updated structure, additional tables and coverage of new areas of physics and chemistry.
The 5th Edition was eventually published in 1923, consisting of two volumes and comprising a total of 1,695 pages. Sixty three authors had contributed to it. The growth that had already been noticed in previous editions, continued. It was clear, that "another edition in approximately 10 years" was no solution. A complete conceptual change of the Landolt–Börnstein had thus become necessary. For the meantime supplementary volumes in two-year intervals should be provided to fill in the blanks and add the latest data. The first supplementary volume of the 5th Edition was published in 1927, the second in 1931 and the third in 1935/36. The latter consisted of three sub-volumes with a total of 3,039 pages and contributions from 82 authors.
The 6th Edition (1950) was published in line with the revised general frame. The basic idea was to have four volumes instead of one, each of which was to cover different fields of the Landolt–Börnstein under different editors. Each volume was given a detailed table of contents. Two major restrictions were also imposed. The author of a contribution was asked to choose a "Bestwert" (optimum value) from the mass of statements of an experimental value in the publications of different authors, or derive a "wahrscheinlichster Wert” (most possible value). The other change of importance was that not only diagrams became as important as tables, but that text also became necessary to explain the presented data.
The New Series
The New Series represents over 520 books published between 1961 and 2018 and includes more than 220,000 pages covering mechanical, optical, acoustical, thermal, spectroscopic, electrical and magnetic properties among others. The New Series offers critically evaluated data by over 1,000 expert authors and editors in materials science.
Landolt-Börnstein Online
Landolt–Börnstei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20Loss%20Priority | Cell Loss Priority (CLP) is a flag bit in the ATM cell header that determines the probability of a cell being discarded if the network becomes congested. Cells where the CLP = 0 are insured traffic and unlikely to be dropped. Cells with CLP = 1 are best-effort traffic, which may be discarded in congested conditions in order to free up resources to handle insured traffic.
CLP is used as a control for a network traffic "policing mechanism". Policing is a process that determines if the cells meet predefined restrictions as they enter an ATM network. These restrictions include traffic rates and "burst sizes" that are agreed upon by the customer and the network provider.
Link protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen%20Media%20Group | Xiamen Media Group (XMG; ), is a television and radio broadcasting network in Xiamen, China owned by local government. XMG is joined from former media entities in Xiamen, i.e. Xiamen Television and People's Radio Station of Xiamen.
Television channels
XMTV-1 (News Channel)
XMTV-2 (Cross-Strait Channel)
XMTV-3 (Life Channel)
XMTV-4 (Drama & Movie Channel)
Xiamen Star (Satellite Channel)
Xiamen Mobile TV
Radio broadcast frequencies
News broadcast: FM99.6 MHz&AM1107kHz
Music broadcast: FM90.9 MHz
Min-nan-hua broadcast: FM101.2 MHz&AM801kHz
Economy and traffic broadcast: FM107MHz&AM1278kHz
External links and references
Television networks in China
Mass media in Xiamen
Television channels and stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine%20Video%20Activists%20Network | The Maine Video Activists Network (MVAN) was a monthly video newsreel produced by activists throughout the state of Maine in the United States. It was an extension of the Indymedia movement, in which grassroots organizers and average citizens produce their own media content and distribute it through non-commercial avenues such as the internet, Public-access television, print, and radio. In the spirit of highly subjective (yet non-commercial and non-corporate) journalism, MVAN produced material on a diverse range of topics: racial discrimination on college campuses, eco-terrorism legislation, anti-war activity, universal healthcare, low-income community organizing and direct action, union organizing, hate crimes, critical mass, disability rights, and student activism. The program was founded by video activists Craig Saddlemire and Ryan Conrad in Lewiston, Maine. MVAN regular received contributions from other producers in Biddeford, Freeport, Portland, and Madison. All of the work behind MVAN was done by unpaid volunteers and the show consistently airied on Democracy Player and Maine Public-access television stations from January 2006 to 2010.
References
External links
Official website
Mass media in Maine
Citizen journalism
Indymedia
American journalism organizations
American news websites
American online journalism
News agencies based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast%20Television | Southeast Television (SETV; ) formerly Fujian Television, is a television network in Fujian, China. It is part of the Fujian Media Group, which in itself is part of the Fujian Radio Film and TV Group conglomerate. SETV currently broadcasts in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, Fuzhounese and Hokkien.
See also
Fujian Radio Film and TV Group
References
External links
Official Website
Television networks in China
Mass media in Fujian
Companies based in Fuzhou
1994 establishments in China
Television channels and stations established in 1994 |
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