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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST%20Writer | ST Writer is a word processor program for the Atari ST series of personal computers. It was introduced by Atari Corporation in 1985 along with the 520ST. It is a port of Atari's AtariWriter Plus from the earlier 8-bit computer series, matching it closely enough to share files across platforms unchanged. Running on the ST allowed it to display a full 80-column layout, create much larger files, and support additional features.
ST Writer did not use a graphical user interface (GUI). Atari said it was intended as a stop-gap until a GUI word processor was available. When this became available at the end of 1985 in the form of 1st Word, ST Writer stopped being distributed with new machines. By this point, it had garnered a faithful following and Atari released the source code to one of its more vocal advocates. It continued to be supported through multiple major updates until 1992, when it was known as ST Writer Elite.
History
AtariWriter
When Atari began sales of the 8-bit series in late 1979, they released two models, the 400 and 800. The 800 was intended to be sold in professional settings, featuring a full mechanical keyboard and easily expandable memory. Sales of this model were initially slow due to a lack of suitable software and the company's reputation as a games developer. In 1981, Atari introduced Atari Word Processor. This required an 800 with 48 kB and a 810 disk drive, and left memory for about one page of text.
After a year on the market, Atari replaced Word Processor with the AtariWriter in 1982. This shipped on a ROM cartridge that allowed it to run on any machine in the Atari lineup. AtariWriter sold an estimated 800,000 copies of the US version, not including sales of the international versions or any of the later disk-based releases. (This means at least one in five of every 8-bit machine bought a copy of the program.) A updated version followed; AtariWriter Plus added 80-column typing using horizontal scrolling, a feature of the earlier Word Processor.
Release
In 1984, Atari was in serious financial trouble, losing about one million dollars a day. Its owners, Warner Communications, became desperate to sell the company. Jack Tramiel, recently forced out of Commodore, bought the company essentially for free, taking on its debt. Under new management, Atari sold existing stock of the 8-bit series cheaply while developing a new 16-bit machine, developing into the Atari ST series. The company wanted to release it with useful software to ensure the 520ST was not dismissed in the same fashion as the 800.
Lacking a word processor, the company decided to port AtariWriter Plus to the new platform. The screen editor, whose performance would be critical, was ported directly in assembler language by Dan Oliver. The less critical portions, like the menu operation and disk handling, were ported to C by John Feagans. Feagans left on holiday just as the effort started, and returned a week later to find that Oliver had already completed his ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing%20with%20Nancy | Sewing with Nancy is an American television show about sewing, hosted by Nancy Zieman. It made its debut on the now-defunct Satellite Program Network (SPN, later Tempo Television) in September 1982. On September 1, 1982, PBS began airing the series, which was distributed by National Educational Telecommunications Association. As of 2011, the show aired on 89% of Public Television stations in the United States. It was the longest-running sewing series in the history of North American television.
Sewing with Nancy was co-produced by Wisconsin Public Television at Vilas Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. Zieman had Bell's palsy, a one-sided facial nerve paralysis, and talked about the condition on an episode in 2011. On September 5, 2017, Zieman announced her retirement due to cancer; she died just over two months later, the day after the final episode was broadcast. Older episodes continue to be broadcast on PBS under the name The Best of Sewing with Nancy.
References
External links
Sewing with Nancy at Wisconsin Public Television
Sewing
PBS original programming
Arts and crafts television series
1980s American television series
1990s American television series
2000s American television series
2010s American television series
1982 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
Television series by WTTW |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%208 | Layer 8 is a term used to refer to user or political layer on top of the 7-layer OSI model of computer networking.
The OSI model is a 7-layer abstract model that describes an architecture of data communications for networked computers. The layers build upon each other, allowing for the abstraction of specific functions in each one. The top (7th) layer is the Application Layer describing methods and protocols of software applications. It is then held that the user is the 8th layer.
Layers, defined
According to Bruce Schneier and RSA:
Layer 8: The individual person.
Layer 9: The organization.
Layer 10: Government or legal compliance
Network World readers humorously report:
Layer 8: Money - Provides network corruption by inspiring increased interference from the upper layer.
Layer 9: Politics - Consists of technically ignorant management that negatively impacts network performance and development.
and:
Layer 9: Politics. "Where the most difficult problems live."
Layer 8: The user factor. "It turned out to be another Layer-8 problem."
7 through 1: The usual OSI layers
Layer 0: Funding. "Because we should always start troubleshooting from the lowest layer, and nothing can exist before the funding."
Since the OSI layer numbers are commonly used to discuss networking topics, a troubleshooter may describe an issue caused by a user to be a layer 8 issue, similar to the PEBKAC acronym, the ID-Ten-T Error and also PICNIC.
Political economic theory holds that the 8th layer is important to understanding the OSI Model. Political policies such as network neutrality, spectrum management, and digital inclusion all shape the technologies comprising layers 1–7 of the OSI Model.
An 8th layer has also been referenced to physical (real-world) controllers containing an external hardware device which interacts with an OSI model network. An example of this is ALI in Profibus.
A network guru T-shirt from the 1980s shows Layer 8 as the "financial" layer, and Layer 9 as the "political" layer. The design was credited to Evi Nemeth.
Similar pseudo-layers for TCP/IP
In the TCP/IP model, the four-layer model of the Internet, a fifth layer is sometimes analogously described as the political layer, and the sixth as the religious layer. This appears in a humorous April Fools' Day RFC, , published in 1998.
Other uses
Linux Gazette carries a regular column called Layer 8 Linux Security.
Layers 8, 9, and 10 are sometimes used to represent individuals, organizations, and governments for the user layer of service-oriented architectures. See OSI User Layers figure for details.
User-in-the-loop is a serious concept including Layer 8 as a system-level model.
In 2016, a company shipped a product called Layer8 to "bridge the universal divide between PC users and IT managers".
Layer 8 Conference & Podcast is a professional conference focusing on social engineering and OSINT. The podcast features experts in the fields of social engineering and OSINT.
See also
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20game%20magazines | This is a list of video game magazines. The primary focus of the magazines in this list is or was video game journalism for at least part of their run. For general computing magazines that may also cover games, consult the list of computer magazines.
Overview
Journalist reporting and evaluation of video games in periodicals began from the late 1970s to 1980 in general coin-operated industry magazines like Play Meter and RePlay, home entertainment magazines like Video, as well as magazines focused on computing and new information technologies like InfoWorld or Popular Electronics.
However, dedicated magazines focusing primarily on video game journalism wouldn't appear until late in 1981, when several magazines were launched independently of each other at about the same time. Computer and Video Games premiered in the U.K. in November 1981. It was soon followed by Electronic Games in the US, founded by Bill Kunkel, Arnie Katz and Joyce Worley, who had previously written the "Arcade Alley" column in Video. While Electronic Games covered arcade and console games as well as computer software, Computer Gaming World was focused entirely on the latter. The video game crash of 1983 badly hurt the market for North American video game magazines. Computer Gaming World, founded in 1981, stated in 1987 that it was the only survivor of 18 color magazines for computer games in 1984.
Meanwhile, in Japan, the first magazines entirely dedicated to video games began appearing from 1982, beginning with ASCII's LOGiN, followed by several SoftBank publications and Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq. The first magazine dedicated to console games, or a specific video game console, was Tokuma Shoten's Family Computer Magazine, which began in 1985 and was focused on Nintendo's Family Computer (Nintendo Entertainment System in the West). This magazine later spawned famous imitators such as Famicom Tsuushin (loosely, "Famicom Journal") in 1986 (now known today as Famitsu) and Nintendo Power in 1988.
In the mid-2000s, the popularity of print-based magazines started to wane in favor of web-based magazines. In 2006, Eurogamers business development manager Pat Garratt wrote a criticism of those in print games journalism who had not adapted to the web, drawing on his own prior experience in print to offer an explanation of both the challenges facing companies like Future Publishing and why he believed they had not overcome them.
List
See also
:Category:Game magazines
:Category:Video game magazines
List of video game websites
Video game journalism
Notes
References
External links
Collection of archived video game magazines on the Internet Archive
Game
Magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Rolston | Ken Rolston is an American computer game and role-playing game designer best known for his work with West End Games and on the computer game series The Elder Scrolls. In February 2007, he elected to join the staff of computer games company Big Huge Games to create a new role-playing game.
Tabletop role-playing games
Ken Rolston began working as a professional games designer in 1982. Rolston spent twelve years as an award-winning designer of tabletop role-playing games. His credits include games and supplements for Paranoia, RuneQuest, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Rolston was a Basic Role-Playing writer for Chaosium. Rolston had also done work for Chaosium's Stormbringer and Superworld lines. When Rolston was a new hire at West End Games in 1983, he became the fourth creator on Paranoia and was responsible for turning Greg Costikyan's dry rules into a highly atmospheric game, the results of which were published at GenCon in 1984. Rolston wrote a complete manuscript for a magic system for Games Workshop to use in their Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay RPG, but they rejected it; Rolston's manuscript circulated on the internet for years. Rolston left West End Games when Scott Palter decided to move the company from New York to rural Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1988. Chaosium stopped writing material for RuneQuest at Avalon Hill in 1989, but RuneQuest returned in 1992 with Rolston as editor. Rolston's first publication as part of the "RuneQuest Renaissance" was Tales of the Reaching Moon contributor Michael O'Brien's Sun County (1992). In 1994, Avalon Hill dropped Rolston from their regular staff, relegating him to freelancer status; his last two manuscripts, Strangers in Prax and Lords of Terror saw print that year, but afterward, Rolston moved on to work for a multimedia company.
Rolston also was winner of the H. G. Wells Award for Best Role-playing Game, Paranoia, 1985, and served as role-playing director for West End Games, Games Workshop, and Avalon Hill Game Company.
In 2016, Rolston joined Mongoose Games to assist in editing their newest edition of Paranoia, which was Kickstarted in 2014, in order to "hit all the right notes for both veteran players and newbies alike."
Video game industry
Rolston was the lead designer for Bethesda's role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, its expansions and was also lead designer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. He was lead designer for two Big Huge Games projects, both of which were canceled in 2009.
Rolston went on to be the lead creative visionary for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a single player RPG designed by Big Huge Games, a Baltimore subsidiary of 38 Studios.
Selected works
References
External links
American video game designers
Bethesda Softworks employees
Board game designers
Chaosium game designers
Dungeons & Dragons game designers
Living people
New York University alumni
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game designers
Year of birt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%C4%8Dany | Solčany () is a municipality in the Topoľčany District of the Nitra Region, Slovakia. Solčany Village is the center of the municipality. In 2011 it had 2467 inhabitants. It has good shopping networks, small health centers, sport clubs and sport facilities. Solčany is also the birthplace of known footballers, Anton Ondruš and Anton Švajlen.
Notable people
Anton Ondruš, footballer
Anton Švajlen, footballer
References
External links
http://en.e-obce.sk/obec/solcany/solcany.html
Official homepage
Villages and municipalities in Topoľčany District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDcast | UDcast was a company that provided products for Internet Protocol (IP) over broadcast media. It developed technology for IP networks over satellite and servers to provide television on mobile networks.
History
UDcast was involved in international standards organisations such as ETSI and the Internet Engineering Task Force.
UDcast was founded in June 2000 by members of the INRIA research center who had helped develop Unidirectional Link Routing (the UD stands for unidirectional, and the cast for broadcast). The mechanism was published in 2001 as number 3077 in the Request for Comments series.
Founders included Antoine Clerget, Patrick Cipière, Emmanuel Duros, and Luc Ottavj.
From at least 2003 through 2007, Hubert Zimmermann served as chief executive officer.
UDcast marketed wide-area network optimization appliances optimized for satellite infrastructures, with optimizations targeted at some specific satellite markets. They used acronyms such as DVB-H, DVB-SH, ATSC and WiMAX.
On 3 February 2011 OneAccess Networks announced they completed the acquisition of UDCast.
References
Satellite Internet access
Telecommunications companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru%20Tomita | is a Japanese scientist in the fields of systems biology and computer science, best known as the founder of the E-Cell simulation system and/or the inventor of GLR parser algorithm. He served a professor of Keio University, Director of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, and the founder and board member of various spinout companies, including Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc. and Spiber Inc. He is also the co-founder and on the board of directors of The Metabolomics Society. His father was the renowned composer and synthesiser pioneer Isao Tomita.
From Oct. 2005 to Sep. 2007, he served as Dean of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University.
He received an M.S. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1985) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under Jaime Carbonell, and two other doctoral degrees in electronic engineering and molecular biology from Kyoto University (1994) and Keio University (1998).
At CMU, starting in 1985, Tomita achieved a series of academic promotions from assistant professor to associate professor of computer science and from 1986 he became an associate director of the Center for Machine Translation.
In 1990, he returned to Keio University and served as associate professor, professor, and Dean of the faculty of Environmental Information. At Keio University, he shifted his research emphasis to the studies of molecular biology and systems biology. In 2001, he founded Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, and served as Director of the institute.
Tomita is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation of the USA (1988), IBM Japan Science Prize (2002), IBM Shared University Research Award (2003), Minister of Science and Technology Policy Award (2004), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2007), Audi Innovation Award (2016), International Metabolomics Society Lifetime Honorary Fellow (2017), 68th Kahoku Bunka Prize (2019), 5th Bioindustry Award Grand Prize (2021), and 27th Momofuku Ando Award Grand Prize (2023).
Selected papers
"Building Working Cells 'in Silico'", Science 1999; 284-5411:80 - 81
"Going for Grand Challenges", Nature 1999; 402:C70
"E-CELL: Software environment for whole cell simulation", Bioinformatics 1999; 15:72-84
"Computerized role models: Japan's push to create a virtual cell signals a new approach to research", Nature 2002; 417
"Multiple high-throughput analyses monitor the response of E. coli to perturbations", Science 2007; 316:593-7
References
External links
Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc.
The E-Cell Project
The Metabolomics Society
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Keio University alumni
Japanese computer scientists
Japanese molecular biologists
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse%20Modeling%20Framework | Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is an Eclipse-based modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model.
From a model specification described in XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), EMF provides tools and runtime support to produce a set of Java classes for the model, a set of adapter classes that enable viewing and command-based editing of the model, and a basic editor. Models can be specified using annotated Java, UML, XML documents, or modeling tools, then imported into EMF. Most important of all, EMF provides the foundation for interoperability with other EMF-based tools and applications.
Ecore
Ecore is the core (meta-)model at the heart of EMF. It allows expressing other models by leveraging its constructs. Ecore is also its own metamodel (i.e.: Ecore is defined in terms of itself).
According to Ed Merks, EMF project lead, "Ecore is the defacto reference implementation of OMG's EMOF" (Essential Meta-Object Facility). Still according to Merks, EMOF was actually defined by OMG as a simplified version of the more comprehensive 'C'MOF by drawing on the experience of the successful simplification of Ecore's original implementation.
Using Ecore as a foundational meta-model allows a modeler to take advantage of the entire EMF ecosystem and tooling - in as much as it's then reasonably easy to map application-level models back to Ecore. This isn't to say that it's best practice for applications to directly leverage Ecore as their metamodel; rather they might consider defining their own metamodels based on Ecore.
See also
Acceleo, a code generator using EMF models in input
ATL, a model transformation language
Connected Data Objects (CDO), a free implementation of a Distributed Shared Model on top of EMF
Generic Eclipse Modeling System (GEMS)
Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)
List of EMF based software
Model-driven architecture
Xtext
References
External links
EMF project page
Eclipse (software) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MountainWest%20Sports%20Network | The MountainWest Sports Network, also known as The Mtn. (stylized as the mtn.), was an American college sports television channel. Launched on September 1, 2006, it was dedicated to the Mountain West Conference (MWC), including studio programs following the conference, live events, and documentary-style programs profiling the conference's members. It was the first such network of its kind in the United States. The network was a joint venture between the conference's two rightsholders, CBS Corporation and NBCUniversal (initially via Comcast).
History
The MountainWest Sports Network launched as part of the conference's new television deals with CSTV and Versus (later known as CBS Sports Network and NBCSN), which jointly replaced ESPN. It was the first cable sports network in the United States to be devoted to a single college athletic conference —a business model that would later be emulated by Power Five conferences such as the Big Ten, SEC, and ACC.
The channel initially struggled to gain carriage; at launch, it was available to approximately one million subscribers, but it was unable to gain carriage on providers in Las Vegas and San Diego (two of the conference's major markets via the San Diego State Aztecs and the UNLV Rebels) nor on satellite television, at launch.
The lack of national distribution proved particularly frustrating for the BYU Cougars, as the team has a notable national fanbase via the LDS Church. The MountainWest Sports Network had narrower distribution than Brigham Young University's own BYU TV, and the conference's television partners CSTV and Versus. While the agreements limited the amount of events BYU TV could air, the MWC did promote that the deals would result in more televised events.
In June 2007, the presidents of BYU and the University of Utah issued a joint press release, stating that the schools had "retained a sports broadcasting attorney to explore all possible options in improving the distribution of athletic broadcasts to their fans." In an interview with KUTV, University of Utah president Michael K. Young stated that "President Samuelson and I have been clear about this for the last year and a half that it is absolutely essential that we get on satellite to make our games available to our fans. Anything short of that is unacceptable." He then added that "We are passionately committed to our having our football games being on TV this year."
The MountainWest Sports Network reached a carriage agreement with DirecTV in 2008.
Closure
In 2010, as part of a larger re-alignment of the Mountain West, Utah moved to the Pac-10. In mid-August 2010, after Fresno State and Nevada were invited to the MWC, it was reported that CBS and Comcast wanted to expand distribution of MountainWest Sports Network. It was also reported that BYU was contemplating becoming a football independent and joining the West Coast Conference (WCC) in all other sports, with dissatisfaction with the MountainWest Sports Network being a fac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Portugal | The diplomatic network of the Portuguese Republic is shaped by both its current interests in Europe and its historical linkages to its former colonies in Africa, South America, and Asia. This is reflected in its choice of cities in Asia where Portugal has opened missions – there are Portuguese missions in Dili, Macau, and Panaji. Following the restoration of diplomatic relations with Indonesia in 1999, broken after the 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor, there is now an embassy in Jakarta.
Circa 2006, the Portuguese government announced plans to close many of its consular missions, particularly in France and the United States, where there are consulates in comparatively small cities such as New Bedford and Providence whose links to Portugal are based on receiving Luso-American immigrants in the nineteenth century. This met with opposition from many people of Portuguese origin in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as Congressman Barney Frank.
The former Foreign Minister, Luís Amado, proposed reprioritising its diplomatic network in order to deepen diplomatic engagement in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He proposed closing missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Kenya, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Peru, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Uruguay, and opening missions in Bahrain, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Namibia, New Zealand, Philippines, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organisations
Gallery
Closed missions
Africa
Asia
Europe
References
Notes
See also
Foreign relations of Portugal
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal
Portugal
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20East%20Timor | This is a list of diplomatic missions of East Timor. As the poorest country in Asia with a limited number of trained personnel, East Timor is only slowly beginning to develop its network of embassies abroad. Most of its missions are located in countries which composed the Portuguese colonial empire, as well as in all member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which it seeks full membership.
Honorary consulates are not included in this listing.
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organisations
Gallery
See also
Foreign relations of East Timor
List of diplomatic missions in East Timor
Visa policy of East Timor
Notes
References
External links
Embassies, Missions and Consulates of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste Abroad
East Timor
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20Engineering%20Laboratories | Systems Engineering Laboratories (also called SEL) was a manufacturer of minicomputers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was one of the first 32-bit realtime computer system manufacturers. Realtime computers are used for process control and monitoring.
History
Systems Engineering Laboratories was founded and incorporated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1959, and were involved in the beginning of the breakout of minicomputers from 16-bit to larger architectures, with a 24-bit model in 1966.
SEL was purchased by Gould Electronics in 1981 and was operated essentially unchanged as the Gould Computer Systems Division (CSD). The parent company was acquired by Nippon Mining in 1988, but as part of the U.S. government approval of the deal, Nippon Mining was required to divest the Gould divisions that did work for the Department of Defense, including the Computer Systems Division. Later, in 1989, Encore Computer Corporation (about 250 employees) bought the computer division (about 2500 employees) from Nippon Mining. Parts of Encore were sold off over the years, with the last major spin-off being their Storage Products Group, sold to Sun Microsystems in 1997. This left the company consisting primarily of their real-time group (the original SEL core) and returned to this business niche after renaming themselves Encore Real Time Computing. In 2002, Compro Computer Services, Inc. (a former service competitor, and later service partner) obtained SEL/Gould/Encore real-time technological assets through its acquisition of Encore Real Time Computing, Inc., and continues support of the legacy SelBUS-based product line as far back as the 32/55 and offers an upgrade path using the Legacy Computer Replacement System (LCRS) hardware simulator. Compro Computer Services, Inc continue trading as Encore in Europe, COMPRO continues the tradition of long-term product support by offering replacement solutions (e.g., the Legacy Computer Replacement System, or LCRS) that emphasize backward-compatibility coupled with future-proofing. Gould (as well as its primary competitors MASSCOMP, Harris Computer Systems and Concurrent Computer Corporation) were driven into the ground by general purpose microprocessor Unix designs such as those by Sun and SGI.
Computer products
SEL 800 series
SEL's first computers the 810 and 840 use all silicon monolithic integrated circuits. The 810 has a 16 bit word size while the 840 has a 24 bit word size. Core memory for both is in 4096 word increments up to 32,768 words with a 1.75 μsec machine full cycle time. They featured a complete software package for real-time applications and a FORTRAN package for off-line scientific computation. Options included external disk or drum storage and any "standard" peripheral.
The 810A and 840A are somewhat enhanced versions of the earlier models.
The 810B has a 750 nanosec full cycle time with an 8K work memory expandable to 32K.
The multiprocessing 840MP can be configured for up to three CPUs with 32k 24-b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20I%20Am%20Weasel%20episodes | I Am Weasel is an American animated television series created for Cartoon Network by David Feiss, who directed all the episodes with the co-directions of Robin Steele and Robert Alvarez. The series follows the adventures of I.M. Weasel (voiced by Michael Dorn), a charismatic, genius, anthropomorphic weasel who is given great status in the world; and I.R. Baboon (voiced by Charlie Adler), a dimwitted, envious, and easily provoked baboon who constantly tries to outdo Weasel in his escapades.
The first four seasons were originally produced as segments featured on Feiss' other animated television series Cow and Chicken. Beginning in 1999, the segments were separated into a full series, which was joined by a fifth season. Overall the series includes 79 episodes.
Official airdates of seasons 3 to 5 are mostly unknown, including the last airdate. Only production dates for the episodes are entirely known.
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1 (1997)
Season 2 (1998)
Season 3 (1998)
Season 4 (1999)
Season 5 (1999–2000)
See also
List of Cow and Chicken episodes
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20algebraic%20data%20type | In functional programming, a generalized algebraic data type (GADT, also first-class phantom type, guarded recursive datatype, or equality-qualified type) is a generalization of parametric algebraic data types.
Overview
In a GADT, the product constructors (called data constructors in Haskell) can provide an explicit instantiation of the ADT as the type instantiation of their return value. This allows defining functions with a more advanced type behaviour. For a data constructor of Haskell 2010, the return value has the type instantiation implied by the instantiation of the ADT parameters at the constructor's application.
-- A parametric ADT that is not a GADT
data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a)
integers :: List Int
integers = Cons 12 (Cons 107 Nil)
strings :: List String
strings = Cons "boat" (Cons "dock" Nil)
-- A GADT
data Expr a where
EBool :: Bool -> Expr Bool
EInt :: Int -> Expr Int
EEqual :: Expr Int -> Expr Int -> Expr Bool
eval :: Expr a -> a
eval e = case e of
EBool a -> a
EInt a -> a
EEqual a b -> (eval a) == (eval b)
expr1 :: Expr Bool
expr1 = EEqual (EInt 2) (EInt 3)
ret = eval expr1 -- False
They are currently implemented in the GHC compiler as a non-standard extension, used by, among others, Pugs and Darcs. OCaml supports GADT natively since version 4.00.
The GHC implementation provides support for existentially quantified type parameters and for local constraints.
History
An early version of generalized algebraic data types were described by and based on pattern matching in ALF.
Generalized algebraic data types were introduced independently by and prior by as extensions to ML's and Haskell's algebraic data types. Both are essentially equivalent to each other. They are similar to the inductive families of data types (or inductive datatypes) found in Coq's Calculus of Inductive Constructions and other dependently typed languages, modulo the dependent types and except that the latter have an additional positivity restriction which is not enforced in GADTs.
introduced extended algebraic data types which combine GADTs together with the existential data types and type class constraints.
Type inference in the absence of any programmer supplied type annotations is undecidable and functions defined over GADTs do not admit principal types in general. Type reconstruction requires several design trade-offs and is an area of active research (; .
In spring 2021, Scala 3.0 is released. This major update of Scala introduce the possibility to write GADTs with the same syntax as ADTs, which is not the case in other programming languages according to Martin Odersky.
Applications
Applications of GADTs include generic programming, modelling programming languages (higher-order abstract syntax), maintaining invariants in data structures, expressing constraints in embedded domain-specific languages, and modelling objects.
Higher-order abstract syntax
An important application of GADTs is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Roberts%20%28Days%20of%20Our%20Lives%29 | Kate Roberts is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. The matriarch of the series' Roberts family, the role was originated by Deborah Adair in 1993, and is currently played by (and most associated with) Lauren Koslow, who has held the role since 1996. Kate is the mother of Austin Reed, Billie Reed, Lucas Horton, Philip Kiriakis, and the twins Cassie and Rex Brady. Kate is the ex-wife of Curtis Reed, Victor Kiriakis, Roman Brady and Stefano DiMera, and is the widow of André DiMera. She is known for getting what she wants via scheming.
Character conception
Casting
The character was created by Days of Our Lives head writer Sheri Anderson, and first portrayed by actress Deborah Adair in 1993. Adair exited the role on April 20, 1995, when she retired from acting. The character was reintroduced in 1996 under the pen of head writer James E. Reilly, and played by Lauren Koslow, who had previously starred on The Bold and the Beautiful. Other to audition for the role included Lois Chiles and Janice Lynde, both of whom Koslow auditioned with.
Anderson, who wrote for Adair, said in an interview in 2011 that Reilly put a bit of a different spin on the character of Kate to Anderson's initial conception.
Characterization
Kate's primary role within the narrative is that of a femme-fatale and villainess. She is portrayed as a stoic, aggressive and family-oriented woman who is generally loving and supportive, but often interferes in her friends and relatives lives through any means she thinks necessary. When Kate arrives in Salem (the town where the soap opera is set) in 1993 she is single, with one adult son, Lucas Roberts. As the story develops it is revealed that Kate has lived in Salem before, where she was married with two children; but when Kate got pregnant with Lucas by another man (Dr Bill Horton), her husband kicked her out, and vanished with their two children, faking their deaths. In the storyline, Kate discovers her elder children (Austin Reed and Billie Reed) are alive and living in Salem and she is reunited with them.
Some sources confuse Kate Roberts with 1970s Days of Our Lives character Dr Kate Winograd (played by Elaine Princi), who was Head of Anesthesiology at Salem University Hospital, and who had a friendship and attraction with her colleague Bill Horton in Days of Our Lives episodes broadcast from 1977 to 1979. However, the broadcast story of Dr Kate Winograd and the backstory of Kate Roberts are incompatibly different, and other sources, including Sony Pictures Television's official website, keep the two Kates as separate characters. Moreover, Days headwriter Sheri Anderson stated in 2011 that she "actually originally created the character of Kate" with her friend Deborah Adair initially playing her (in 1993); and actress Lauren Koslow showed no knowledge of Dr Kate Winograd in a 2015 interview with AfterBuzz TV.
Storylines
In February 1993, businesswoman Kate (Deborah Adair) arrives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Pollution%20Index | The Air Pollution Index (API; ) is a simple and generalized way to describe the air quality, which is used in Malaysia. It is calculated from several sets of air pollution data and was formerly used in mainland China and Hong Kong. In mainland China the API was replaced by an updated air quality index in early 2012 and on 30 December 2013 Hong Kong moved to a health based index.
Malaysia
The air quality in Malaysia is reported as the API (Air Pollutant Index) or in Malay as IPU (Indeks Pencemaran Udara). Four of the index's pollutant components (i.e., carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide) are reported in ppmv but PM2.5 particulate matter is reported in μg/m3.
This scale below shows the Health classifications used by the Malaysian government.
If the API exceeds 500, a state of emergency is declared in the reporting area. Usually, this means that non-essential government services are suspended, and all ports in the affected area are closed. There may also be a prohibition on private sector commercial and industrial activities in the reporting area excluding the food sector.
Former indices
China
China's State Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is responsible for measuring the level of air pollution in China. As of 28 August 2008, SEPA monitored daily pollution level in 86 of its major cities. The AQI level was based on the level of five atmospheric pollutants, namely sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), suspended particulates (PM10), carbon monoxide (CO), and ozone (O3), measured at the monitoring stations throughout each city.
AQI Mechanics
An individual score is assigned to the level of each pollutant and the final AQI is the highest of those five scores. The pollutants can be measured quite differently. SO2, NO2 and PM10 concentration are measured as average per day. CO and O3 are more harmful and are measured as average per hour. The final AQI value is calculated per day.
The scale for each pollutant is non-linear, as is the final AQI score. Thus an AQI of 100 does not mean twice the pollution of AQI at 50, nor does it mean twice as harmful. While an AQI of 50 from day 1 to 182 and AQI of 100 from day 183 to 365 does provide an annual average of 75, it does not mean the pollution is acceptable even if the benchmark of 100 is deemed safe. This is because the benchmark is a 24-hour target. The annual average must match against the annual target. It is entirely possible to have safe air every day of the year but still fail the annual pollution benchmark.
AQI and Health Implications (Daily Targets)
Hong Kong
The API was in use in Hong Kong from June 1995 to December 2013. It was measured and updated hourly by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD). Moreover, the EPD made forecasts of the API for the following day every day.
The API was based on the level of six atmospheric pollutants, namely sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), respirable suspended particulates, carbon monoxide (CO), ozon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very%20high-speed%20Backbone%20Network%20Service | The very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) came on line in April 1995 as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project to provide high-speed interconnection between NSF-sponsored supercomputing centers and select access points in the United States. The network was engineered and operated by MCI Telecommunications under a cooperative agreement with the NSF.
NSF support was available to organizations that could demonstrate a need for very high speed networking capabilities and wished to connect to the vBNS or later to the Abilene Network, the high speed network operated by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID, which operates Internet2).
By 1998, the vBNS had grown to connect more than 100 universities and research and engineering institutions via 12 national points of presence with DS-3 (45 Mbit/s), OC-3c (155 Mbit/s), and OC-12c (622 Mbit/s) links on an all OC-12c, a substantial engineering feat for that time. The vBNS installed one of the first ever production OC-48c (2.5 Gbit/s) IP links in February 1999, and went on to upgrade the entire backbone to OC-48c.
In June 1999 MCI WorldCom introduced vBNS+ which allowed attachments to the vBNS network by organizations that were not approved by or receiving support from NSF.
The vBNS pioneered the production deployment of many novel network technologies including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), IP multicasting, quality of service, and IPv6.
After the expiration of the NSF agreement, the vBNS largely transitioned to providing service to the government. Most universities and research centers migrated to the Internet2 educational backbone.
In January 2006 MCI and Verizon merged. The vBNS+ is now a service of Verizon Business.
References
History of the Internet
Academic computer network organizations
Science and technology in the United States
National Science Foundation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix%20and%20the%20Magic%20Cauldron | Asterix and the Magic Cauldron is a computer game for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers based on the popular French Asterix comic books. The game was released in 1986. In North America, the Commodore 64 version was released as Ardok the Barbarian, without the Asterix license.
Gameplay
Asterix and the Magic Cauldron is a graphical adventure game, where the player takes the role of Asterix, who has to find all the pieces of the missing cauldron, so that Getafix the druid can brew magic potion and the Gaulish village can stand against the Romans.
The game takes place in several interconnected "rooms", each of which take up one screen. The game starts at the Gaulish village, and Asterix can also travel out to the forest, and to Roman camps. When Asterix meets a wild boar or a Roman legionary, a separate fight scene ensues. Defeated wild boar can be eaten to provide extra sustenance.
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #43 (as "Asterix et le Chaudron Magique")
References
External links
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Beam Software games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games based on Asterix
Video games developed in Australia
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20Nightly%20News | The ITV Nightly News was the nightly news programme on British television network ITV, produced by ITN and broadcast Monday to Friday at 11:00pm. The 20-minute bulletin, originally presented by Dermot Murnaghan, was introduced as part of a major overhaul of news on ITV that saw its 5:40pm Early Evening News and prestigious News at Ten programmes axed.
These changes proved to be extremely unpopular with viewers and viewing figures declined. The ITV Nightly News was axed after less than two years and replaced by a reintroduced ITV News at Ten in order to halt the ratings loss. The revived 10:00pm bulletin followed the same 20-minute format as the ITV Nightly News, and although initially successful, eventually faltered in the ratings due to haphazard scheduling and delayed start times. The ITV News at Ten was replaced on 2 February 2004 by the ITV News at 10.30. On 14 January 2008, The Late News was reinstated to the ITV schedules on fridays only, with News at Ten reinstated Mondays to Thursday, but this only lasted until March 2009, when it was axed in favour of News at Ten airing five nights per week.
Presenters
References
External links
1999 British television series debuts
2001 British television series endings
British television news shows
English-language television shows
ITN
ITV news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csit | CSIT may refer to:
Education
Carleton School of Information Technology
Center for Information Security Technologies
Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of Technology
Cyber Security
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)
Computing
Computer Science Information Technology
Other uses
Channel state information at the transmitter, wireless communication term
Coral Sea Islands Territory, an external territory of Australia
CSIT - International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation () |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concern | Concern may refer to:
Constructs
Worry, an emotion
Concern (computer science), an abstract concept about program behavior
Enterprises and organizations
Concern (business), a German type of group company
Concern (organisation), a student society at the Indian Institute of Science, India
CONCERN Program, a Con Edison program that offers eligible customers a specially trained representative and advice about government aid programs, safety tips, and ways to save money on one's energy bill
Concern Worldwide, an Irish charity
Other uses
Concern (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
Care (disambiguation)
Concerned, a webcomic parodying the video game Half-Life 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20Networks | Epoch Networks (www.epochnetworks.com) was, at one time, the largest privately held first tier internet service provider ISP founded by Scott Purcell in 1994. It was the fourth commercial internet backbone in the United States. Epoch was also one of the first members of the Commercial Internet eXchange—for which, Scott Purcell served as a board member.
An article from ISP Planet states:
"The company got its start in Costa Mesa, California around 1994 when its entire staff consisted of four people with access to a local backbone. By the end of the year, the company was one of the first ISPs connected to the Commercial Internet eXchange, a predecessor of today's Network Access Points."
References
Internet service providers of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S4C%20Digital%20Networks | S4C Digital Networks (SDN) is a company that operates one of the six multiplexes of channels on digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom. It is now wholly owned by ITV plc.
History
When digital terrestrial television was first launched in the UK, it was decided that Multiplex A must carry Channel 5 nationally, S4C in Wales and TeleG in Scotland. The right to operate the multiplex (and therefore the rest of the space) was to be given to the highest bidder. S4C (who were already guaranteed their 'gifted' space on the multiplex), United News and Media and NTL set up S4C Digital Networks (each owned one-third of the company) and bid for the right to operate Multiplex A. In the event, they were the only bidder and, after having their business plan approved, were awarded the licence to operate Multiplex A by the Independent Television Commission in 1997. Before their licence became active, the name of the company was changed from S4C Digital Networks to SDN.
Upon the activation of the licence in 1998, SDN began broadcasting Multiplex A in 64QAM mode at 24 megabits/second (which allows many channels to broadcast, though makes it more difficult to get a good signal). They rented out their capacity to various free and subscription channels (though S4C did keep their gifted space in Wales to launch S4C2). After the launch of Freeview to replace ITV Digital, the free services carried on Multiplex A became effectively part of Freeview. As SDN was not a member of the Freeview consortium, they were technically not part of the service (though they were available to all Freeview viewers).
In 2004, Top Up TV launched on Multiplex A, though it sub-let its capacity from Five, and not SDN directly. Multiplexes A and 2 were the only options for Top Up TV as the regulations set out by Ofcom directed that only free-to-air television channels could be broadcast on multiplexes 1, B, C and D, despite there being available space on some of those multiplexes. This regulation has since been lifted.
In 2005, SDN was sold to ITV plc (which had previously been formed by the merger of Carlton Communications and Granada plc). As ITV plc was by then a member of the Freeview consortium, the free services on Multiplex A became officially part of Freeview.
ITV Digital
Prior to ITV Digital's collapse in 2002, SDN leased out most of its capacity to ITV Select (previously ONrequest). The ITV Select package consisted of five of SDN's streams, plus a sixth as a free "taster" channel. After 11pm, most of the ITV Select capacity was handed over to various adult channels, which included Television X and Adults Only channels 1–3. These channels have since left the platform, however SDN still holds the licences to broadcast these services. Other non-premium channels that were broadcast included BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Red Button, BBC Knowledge, QVC (and prior to that, Shop!), TV Travel Shop, Simply Money (now Simply Shopping), the ITN News Channel and an NTL EPG. The ITN News |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%961%20International | Radio Austria 1 International (Ö1 International) is the official international broadcasting station of Austria.
Austrian Radio 1 (Ö1) is its most successful cultural radio network. It replaced Radio Österreich International which was discontinued for financial reasons at the end of 2003.
The station's transmitters were in Moosbrunn, on the outskirts of Vienna.
Programming
The entire programme offering, with just a few changes, is broadcast worldwide as Ö1 International. This mix of information, culture, music, literature, education, science and religion reaches Austrians living abroad as well as a global audience with an interest in Austria.
Report from Austria
Report from Austria, a 15-minute news and current affairs programme on the air Monday to Friday, keeps the listener up to date on what is happening in Austria with news bulletins, as well as interviews and features from the world of domestic and international politics, business, culture and sports.
Time and frequency
Monday to Friday: 6:00 p.m. to 6:25 p.m. CET (17:00 to 17:25 UTC), 5.940 MHz
Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. CET (06:00 to 07:20 UTC), 6.155 MHz
Saturday and Sunday: 7 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. CET (06:00 to 07:10 UTC), 6.155 MHz
Monday to Saturday: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. CET (11:00 to 12:00 UTC), 13.730 MHz
See also
Ö1
ORF, the Austrian publicly funded broadcaster
List of international radio broadcasters
External links
Radio Austria 1 International Website
Ö1 Webradio (Live)
Radio stations in Austria
International broadcasters
Radio stations established in 2003
Radio stations disestablished in 2009
2003 establishments in Austria
2009 disestablishments in Austria
ORF (broadcaster) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma%20International | Programma International was one of the first personal computer software publishers. Established in the late 1970s by David Gordon, it published a line of approximately 300 game, programming utility, and office productivity products for the Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 and other personal computer systems. Hayden Publishing bought Programma International in 1980 and the company went out of business in 1983.
Notable titles published
References
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Software companies disestablished in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gordon%20%28software%20entrepreneur%29 | David Lawrence Gordon (July 22, 1943 – February 9, 1996) was an American entrepreneur who founded computer game publishers Programma International and Datamost.
References
American entertainment industry businesspeople
People in the video game industry
1943 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
People from Brooklyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert%20in%20the%20Mines | Cuthbert in the Mines (shown on the title screen as Cuthbert in the Mine) is a platform game for the Dragon 32 home computer published by Microdeal in 1984. It stars Cuthbert, a character who appeared in other releases, including Cuthbert Goes Walkabout and Cuthbert Goes Digging. The gameplay is based on Frogger, but with a vertical playfield. Tandy Corporation licensed it for the TRS-80 Color Computer.
Plot
The player guides Cuthbert from hell through levels of mines while avoiding railcars and the fireball-throwing devil.
References
1984 video games
Dragon 32 games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video game clones
Platformers
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Microdeal games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20Football%20Supporters%20Network | The Gay Football Supporters Network ("GFSN") is a U.K. non-profit organisation founded in early 1989 by a small group of gay football fans. This group went on to campaign for the view that homosexuality did not preclude an active interest in and support for the game and the GFSN now encompasses Supporting, Campaigning and Playing elements.
History and set-up
The Gay Football Supporters Network, founded by William Lehauli, began meeting at the Salmon & Compasses public house in Chapel Market, North London in early 1989; it later expanded into a truly national organisation across the UK and now also includes Republic of Ireland citizens as members.
Supporting
The GFSN divides the country up into "regions", with each region having a co-ordinator. This co-ordinator is responsible for arranging social events for members in that region, and members regularly meet to attend matches or simply watch a game at a local pub.
Football fans of different ages and genders meet regularly to discuss their favourite sport and chat. Each co-ordinator submits a monthly report on activities & social events, and these reports are then included in the network's monthly newsletter, which is emailed to members.
Campaigning
As well as providing a forum for gay football supporters to meet, the GFSN also campaigns against anti-homosexual discrimination in support of the FA's "Football For All" programme. The FA encourages all clubs to endorse a gay-tolerant position, parallelling similar calls in the 1980s for clubs to support racial tolerance. The GFSN has worked in collaboration with Paddy Power and Stonewall to support the anti-homophobia rainbow laces initiative.
A monthly GFSN newsletter regularly features articles taken from the national press relating to the topic. The network has also featured in articles printed in The Independent, AXM and The Times.
Playing
Some members prefer to play rather or as well as to watch, and around the UK new football clubs have emerged as members come together to play. The two longest established teams still in existence are Leicester Wildecats FC and Village Manchester FC; both formed in 1996. Teams from the Republic of Ireland are welcomed as associate members and often attend GFSN tournaments.
GFSN League
Rivalries formed between a number of the members and their clubs, leading to the formation of the GFSN National 11-a-side League in 2002.
Four clubs initially entered the league; Bristol Panthers F.C, Leftfooters F.C, Yorkshire Terriers F.C. and Leicester Wildecats F.C. The inaugural winners of this competition were the Bristol Panthers.
The current champions (2012-13 season) are London Falcons GFC.
Tournaments
5- or 6-a-side tournaments are hosted by clubs across the country, which are extremely popular events for teams and players to meet-up and socialise. Yorkshire Terriers and Leicester Wildecats have held annual tournaments for more than the last ten years. Other clubs to host tournaments include London Titans FC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbot | The Verbot (Verbal-Robot) was a popular chatbot program and artificial intelligence software development kit (SDK) for Windows and the web.
Early beginning
Virtual Personalities, Inc. traces its technology back to Michael Mauldin's work as a graduate student and post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and its artistry back to Peter Plantec's work in personality psychology and art direction.
Historic outline
In 1994, Michael Loren Mauldin, founder of Lycos, Inc., developed a prototype chatbot, Julia, which competed in the internationally known Turing test, for the coveted Loebner Prize. The Turing test matches computer scientist judges against machines to see if they can distinguish a computer from a real human. Julia was refined and developed, and in 1997, Dr. Mauldin and Peter Plantec, a clinical psychologist and animator, formed Virtual Personalities, Inc. (now Conversive, Inc.) in order to create a virtual human interface that would incorporate real-time animation as well as speech and natural language processing. The initial release, a stand-alone virtual person called Sylvie, was beta-tested to the public. This release was well received, and finally, after several versions, the production release (deemed version 3) of the Verbally Enhanced Software Robot, or Verbot, was deployed in fall 2000.
The grandfather of all Verbots is Rog-O-Matic, which, although it could not talk, could and did explore a virtual world.
Julia has been active on the internet in one form or another since 1989.
A close cousin of Julia is Lycos, a robot that explores the World Wide Web and answers questions about it.
Sylvie was the first Verbot with a face and a voice.
Sylvie was the first Virtual Human with advanced, flexible interfacing capability.
Beginnings
The Virtual Personalities story goes back to 1978, where Mauldin was attending Rice University. Fascinated by the idea of ELIZA, he proceeded to write a program called "PET" for his 8 kilobyte Commodore PET Computer. PET included simple induction as a way to post new information, for example:
Subject: I like my friend
(later)
Subject: I like food.
PET: I have heard that food is your friend.
Meanwhile, Plantec was separately designing a personality for "Entity", a theoretical virtual human that would interact comfortably with humans without pretending to be one. At that time the technology was not advanced enough to realize Entity. Mauldin got so involved with this that he majored in Computer Science and minored in Linguistics.
Rogue
In the late seventies and early eighties, a popular computer game at universities was Rogue, an implementation of Dungeons and Dragons where the player would descend 26 levels in a randomly created dungeon, fighting monsters, gathering treasure, and searching for the elusive "Amulet of Yendor". Mauldin was one of four grad students who devoted a large amount of time to bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%20Charles | Fran Charles (born October 19, 1968) is an American television personality formerly for MLB Network, formerly for NFL Network.
Career
Charles attended John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri; then earned a Bachelor's degree in Communication at Stanford University and a Master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.
Charles began his career in broadcasting in St. Louis, Missouri, as an overnight reporter, news writer and assignment editor at KSDK-TV. A year later, he became a weekend sports anchor at WDTN in Dayton, Ohio. After three years in Dayton, Charles became the weekend sports anchor at WHDH-TV in Boston.
Charles served as the blow-by-blow announcer for the HBO Sports series Boxing After Dark from 2000 to 2007 and has also worked on KO Nation, HBO Pay-Per-View Boxing and World Championship Boxing.
From 2002 to 2006, Charles was the host of the weekly golf show, PGA Tour Sunday on USA Network, serving as lead anchor for studio segments during PGA Tour events.
Charles was also an anchor and reporter for NBC Sports, where he anchored the weekend Sportsdesk show and provided live reports and interviews for NBA on NBC. He also anchored sports at WNBC in New York City while working for NBC Sports.
At the start of the 2006 season, Charles joined NFL Network, where he shared duties as host of NFL Total Access with Rich Eisen. From 2010 to 2013, Charles hosted NFL GameDay Final, joining Steve Mariucci, Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin to review each Sunday’s action with highlights, interviews, and analysis from each game. During that time, he also co-hosted NFL Network’s Thursday Night Kickoff Presented by Sears from Los Angeles alongside analysts Kurt Warner, Sterling Sharpe, Jay Glazer, Brian Billick and Jim Mora. He was also a studio host for NFL Network's coverage of the Arena Football League.
Charles was portrayed in EA Sports' Madden NFL 10 as the main host of “The Extra Point”, a weekly recap show that broke down the highs and lows in a network-style show. Alex Flanagan was his co-host.
Charles made his MLB Network debut as studio host during the 2013 World Baseball Classic on March 9. On February 20, 2023, it was reported that Charles had been let go by MLB Network.
References
External links
Fran Charles Bio at hbo.com
1968 births
Living people
African-American sports journalists
Arena football announcers
Boxing commentators
Golf writers and broadcasters
National Football League announcers
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football announcers
NFL Network people
MLB Network personalities
People from St. Louis
Stanford University alumni
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
John Burroughs School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRCN | KRCN (1060 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Catholic radio format. Licensed to Longmont, Colorado, the station is owned and operated by Catholic Radio Network, Inc., which has a network of stations in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. In Colorado, the Catholic Radio Network also operates KFEL 970 AM in Colorado Springs and KCRN 1120 AM in Limon.
KRCN broadcasts at 50,000 watts, the maximum power for FCC-licensed AM radio stations. But because AM 1060 is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A XEEP Mexico City and KYW Philadelphia, KRCN must greatly reduce nighttime power. It drops to only 111 watts at sunset. KRCN can also be heard on an FM translator station in Greeley, Colorado, 92.1 K221GI.
History
In December 1949, the station first signed on as KLMO, originally at 1050 kHz. It was a 250-watt daytimer, required to be off the air at night, and owned by the Longmont Broadcasting Company. In 1965, it shifted to 1060 kHz, and in the 1970s increased its power to 10,000 watts, but still daytime only. In the 1980s, KLMO received Federal Communications Commission approval to broadcast around the clock, but with only a small amount of power at night.
The station aired a full service country music format for Longmont and the northern suburbs of Denver. On March 22, 2000, the Radio Colorado Network was launched. The station's format switched to Business and Personal Finance programming, targeting the Denver radio market.
On January 1, 2015, KRCN became an owned and operated affiliate of the Catholic Radio Network, based in Kansas City, Missouri.
References
External links
Longmont, Colorado
Catholic radio stations
RCN
Radio stations established in 1949
1949 establishments in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful%20exit | A graceful exit (or graceful handling) is a simple programming idiom wherein a program detects a serious error condition and "exits gracefully" in a controlled manner as a result. Often the program prints a descriptive error message to a terminal or log as part of the graceful exit.
Usually, code for a graceful exit exists when the alternative — allowing the error to go undetected and unhandled — would produce spurious errors or later anomalous behavior that would be more difficult for the programmer to debug. The code associated with a graceful exit may also take additional steps, such as closing files, to ensure that the program leaves data in a consistent, recoverable state.
Graceful exits are not always desired. In many cases, an outright crash can give the software developer the opportunity to attach a debugger or collect important information, such as a core dump or stack trace, to diagnose the root cause of the error.
In a language that supports formal exception handling, a graceful exit may be the final step in the handling of an exception. In other languages graceful exits can be implemented with additional statements at the locations of possible errors.
The phrase "graceful exit" has also been generalized to refer to letting go from a job or relationship in life that has ended.
In Perl
In the Perl programming language, graceful exits are generally implemented via the operator. For example, the code for opening a file often reads like the following:
# Open the file 'myresults' for writing, or die with an appropriate error message.
open RESULTS, '>', 'myresults' or die "can't write to 'myresults' file: $!";
If the attempt to open the file myresults fails, the containing program will terminate with an error message and an exit status indicating abnormal termination.
In Java
In the Java programming language, the block is used often to catch exceptions. All potentially dangerous code is placed inside the block and, if an exception occurred, is stopped, or caught.
try {
// Try to read the file "file.txt"
Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File("file.txt"));
while (sc.hasNextLine())
System.out.println(sc.readLine());
sc.close();
} catch(IOException e) {
// The file could not be read
System.err.println("The file could not be read. Stack trace:");
e.printStackTrace();
}
In C
In C one can use the error(3) function, provided in GNU by the GNU C Library.
int fd;
if ((fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)) < 0) error(1, errno, "Open failed");
If the first parameter is non-zero this function will exit from the parent process and return that parameter.
See also
Graceful degradation
Fail-safe
References
Computer programming folklore
Control flow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asadata%20Dafora | Austin Dafora Horton (4 August 1890 – 4 March 1965), also known as Asadata Dafora, was a Sierra Leonean multidisciplinary musician. He was one of the first Africans to introduce African drumming music to the United States, beginning in the early 1930s. His artistic endeavours spanned multiple disciplines, but he is best remembered for his work in dance and music.
Dafora was a multifaceted artist, talented in opera and concert singing, dancing, choreographing and composing. In 1934, Dafora created Kykunkor (The Witch Woman), a successful musical/drama production using authentic African music and dance and is considered one of the pioneers of black dance in America.
Early years
Austin Dafora Horton was born into the Creole ethnic group on 4 August 1890 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone. He was the son of John "Johnnie" William Horton, the Freetown city treasurer, and his wife, a concert pianist. Dafora grew up in a privileged household. Some doubt surrounds his family surname. Horton may have come from his great-grandfather, Moses Pindar Horton, a liberated African slave originally from Benin. Despite Dafora's own assertion in program notes for Kykunkor that his great-grandfather was a freed slave, dates indicate it was in fact Dafora's grandfather [Moses Pindar Horton] who experienced slavery and who was repatriated to Sierra Leone. His half sister was Constance Cummings-John, a well known Creole Pan-Africanist.
Born into a prominent family, Dafora received a European education at the Wesleyan School in Freetown. However, he always maintained a keen interest in the study of indigenous African culture, especially traditions and languages, and 17 distinct African dialects. As a young man, Dafora travelled to Europe and studied at several opera houses in Italy to advance his musical training, learning English. French. Spanish. German and Italian. His crossover from choral music into the medium of dance happened purely by coincidence. He claimed that he went to a performance of West African songs in a German nightclub in 1910, and overwhelmed with homesickness, he broke out into traditional African dance. His performance was so well received that the club owner contracted him to train a group of dancers to celebrate the opening of the Kiel Canal. While touring with his dance troupe, Dafora was struck by how ignorant most people were about Africa and dedicated the rest of his career to exposing people to African culture.
Dafora arrives in New York
In 1929 Asadata Dafora journeyed to New York City to try to pursue his career as a musician. He was then 39 years old.
Despite his talent, at the start of the Great Depression creative performing careers were difficult to maintain, particularly for foreign African performers. However, his interactions with a group of African men at the National African Union soon led him back to his interests in African dance.
The company he formed was called Shogolo Oloba (sometimes known as the Federal Theater Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K47DR | K47DR was a low-power television station in Farmington, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 47 as an affiliate of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Founded June 4, 1990, the station was owned by Christian Broadcasting Communications.
In addition to TBN programming, the station also featured programming from Golden Eagle Broadcasting and aired locally produced programming as well.
The station's license, and that of translator K21HJ, were cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on October 7, 2014 for failure to file license renewal applications.
References
External links
Christian Broadcasting Communications homepage
TBN official site
Golden Eagle Broadcasting official site
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Religious television stations in the United States
Farmington, New Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2014
1990 establishments in New Mexico
2014 disestablishments in New Mexico
47DR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWJZ | WWJZ (640 AM) is a radio station licensed to Mount Holly, New Jersey, serving Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. The station airs Catholic talk programming and is owned and operated by Relevant Radio.
The transmitter is located near the intersection of U.S. Route 206 and CR-530 in Pemberton Township, New Jersey, and station offices are in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. WWJZ operates with 50,000 watts in the daytime, the maximum permitted for AM stations by the Federal Communications Commission. But because 640 kHz is a clear-channel frequency, WWJZ must reduce power to 950 watts at night to avoid interfering with other radio stations such as KFI 640 in Los Angeles, California and CBN in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada which are dominant Class A radio stations on 640 AM in the United States.
History
WWJZ was owned by John Farina, the originator of the sound adopted by Al Ham's Music of Your Life Adult standards format. Farina's dream was to re-establish the signal he had on 1460 kHz in Mount Holly in the 1960s as WJJZ. With the help of his long-time friend and engineer, Ted Schober, he got New Jersey its first 50 kilowatt AM radio station in many years and was able to put his beloved sound on the air again.
Until the inception of WWJZ operation in 1992, there were no broadcast stations on 640 kHz on the East Coast. This was because KFI in Los Angeles is the clear-channel station on 640, in the days when Class I-A stations had few lesser stations on their frequencies, even thousands of miles away. When the F.C.C. relaxed those regulations, it allowed several new stations, including WWJZ, to go on the air on the 640 frequency.
The music of Brook Benton, Tommy Dorsey, Margaret Whiting, Doris Day, Frankie Laine and many others aired from October 1992 into 1993, emanating from an ancient General Electric transmitter of the type used by the venerable WJZ in its early days as the flagship of the NBC Blue Network. Then a dispute between Farina and WWJZ's landlord, Edgar Cramer, put WWJZ off the air in August 1993.
Not to be defeated, Farina reestablished the station on a 1,700–watt temporary transmitter in Florence, New Jersey, with the help of Nick Grand and Schober. The sound was well received, but the weaker signal did not compare to the big transmitter. Shortly thereafter, Farina had a stroke and died. Nick Grand continued the temporary operation as executor through the end of 1999, unable to make peace with Cramer until The Walt Disney Company made an offer to buy the station, to air its Radio Disney format in the Philadelphia Media market. After playing Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye by Gracie Fields from the movie Shipyard Sally, WWJZ began airing the Radio Disney format on September 12, 1999. The first song WWJZ played as Radio Disney was Elvis Presley's cover of "Hound Dog". That marked the end of local feed on the signal.
On August 13, 2014, Disney put WWJZ and 22 other Radio Disney stations up for sale, in orde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20idiom | In computer programming, a programming idiom or code idiom is a group of code fragments sharing an equivalent semantic role, which recurs frequently across software projects often expressing a special feature of a recurring construct in one or more programming languages or libraries. This definition is rooted in the definition of "idiom" as used in the field of linguistics. Developers recognize programming idioms by associating meaning (semantic role) to one or more syntactical expressions within code snippets (code fragments). The idiom can be seen as an action on a programming concept underlying a pattern in code, which is represented in implementation by contiguous or scattered code fragments. These fragments are available in several programming languages, frameworks or even libraries. Generally speaking, a programming idiom's semantic role is a natural language expression of a simple task, algorithm, or data structure that is not a built-in feature in the programming language being used, or, conversely, the use of an unusual or notable feature that is built into a programming language.
Knowing the idioms associated with a programming language and how to use them is an important part of gaining fluency in that language. It also helps to transfer knowledge in the form of analogies from one language or framework to another. Such idiomatic knowledge is widely used in crowdsourced repositories to help developers overcome programming barriers. Mapping code idioms to idiosyncrasies can be a helpful way to navigate the tradeoffs between generalization and specificity. By identifying common patterns and idioms, developers can create mental models and schemata that help them quickly understand and navigate new code. Furthermore, by mapping these idioms to idiosyncrasies and specific use cases, developers can ensure that they are applying the correct approach and not overgeneralizing it.
One way to do this is by creating a reference or documentation that maps common idioms to specific use cases, highlighting where they may need to be adapted or modified to fit a particular project or development team. This can help ensure that developers are working with a shared understanding of best practices and can make informed decisions about when to use established idioms and when to adapt them to fit their specific needs.
A common misconception is to use the adverbial or adjectival form of the term as using a programming language in a typical way, which really refers to a idiosyncrasy. An idiom implies the semantics of some code in a programming language has similarities to other languages or frameworks. For example, an idiosyncratic way to manage dynamic memory in C would be to use the C standard library functions malloc and free, whereas idiomatic refers to manual memory management as recurring semantic role that can be achieved with code fragments malloc in C, or pointer = new type [number_of_elements] in C++. In both cases, the semantics of the code are i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20TTL%20security%20mechanism | The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) is a proposed Internet data transfer security method relying on a packet's Time to Live (IPv4) or Hop limit (IPv6) thus to protect a protocol stack from spoofing and denial of service attacks.
Introduction
The desired purpose of this proposal is to verify whether the packet was originated by an adjacent node and to protect router infrastructure from overload-based attacks.
Implementation
For protocols which GTSM is enabled, the following procedure is performed.
If the router is directly connected
Change the outbound TTL to 255 for its protocol connection
If the protocol is a configured protocol peerSet the Access Control List (ACL) to allow packets of the given protocol to only pass to the route processor (RP). The TTL must be set to either 255 if the destination is directly connect or 255 minus the range of acceptable hops if not connect directly. This method assumes however that the ACL designated by the receive path is configured to control packets passing to the RP.
If the inbound TTL is set to 255 or 255 minus the range of acceptable hops (when the peer is not directly connected), the packet will not be processed and will be sent to a low priority queue.
History
Many people have been given credit for creating the idea. Among them are Paul Traina and Jon Stewart. A similar method was also proposed by Ryan McDowell.
See also
Protocol stack
Denial-of-service attack
References
External links
The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM), RFC 5082
2015, a Record Year in CyberSecurity Breaches
Computer network security
Internet terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBCP%20%28disambiguation%29 | 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane or DBCP is the active ingredient in the nematicide Nemagon, also known as Fumazone.
DBCP may also refer to:
Data Buoy Cooperation Panel, a joint initiative concerned with drifting and moored ocean data buoys; see Global Drifter Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTT%20Communications | is a Japanese telecommunications company owned by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. It operates an international network across over 190 countries and regions, with locations in more than 70 countries and regions. The company has approximately 5,500 employees (NTT Communications Group: 11,500 employees) as of March 2020. Its headquarters are located in the Otemachi Place West tower, Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
NTT Communications Corporation was founded in July 1999 as a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and is one of the largest telecom companies in the world. NTT Communications provides network management, telecommunication services such as VPN, and communications technology (ICT) services including cloud, consulting, and managing services for companies and government agencies.
History
1996–2005 Founding and early years
In 1996, several new policies were issued for the Telecommunications Law, and as a result of this policy change, NTT Communications Corporation was established in July 1999. Since then, has served as a parent company, controlling NTT Communications which is responsible for long-distance and worldwide telephone services and two other local telecom companies.
In 2000, the firm launched new international services called “0033 SAMURAI Mobile”, which were intended to allow users to make an international phone call with reduced international calling fees. Moreover, the firm began Data center services both within Japan and overseas to provide support for E-business conducted by corporations.
On 1 March 2001, NTT Com accepted a license agreement with InterWise, a major provider of live electronic learning and services for software-based enterprises. Due to the agreement, NTT Communications could offer the InterWise system to their customers as a cross-corporation service. From this, the company was able to expand its presence in the electronic learning market by using technology developed by InterWise to encourage information sharing besides development of corporations.
In December 2003, NTT Communications took over operations from a major data communications services provider; Crosswave Communications Inc. (CWC), which had filed for bankruptcy. In addition, NTT Communications reached an agreement to acquire CWC for approximately 10 billion yen, NTT Communications PM Suzuki said.
On 3 October 2005, the company won the Best Customer Care award at the World Communication Awards 2005 held in London, becoming the first Asian company to earn the award in the communication field.
2006–2015 expansion
In 2006, NTT Communications started a new Open Computer Network, also known as OCN Hosting Service, serving mainly small and medium-sized enterprises domestically.
In May 2011, NTT purchased 70% of Frontline Systems, an Australian IT services provider. In October 2013, it merged Frontline Systems with NTT Australia to form NTT ICT.
On 17 July 2013, the world's first 100Gbit/s Ethernet technology on a cab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFQ | WYFQ (930 kHz) and WYFQ-FM (93.5 MHz) are two radio stations in the Charlotte metropolitan area of North Carolina that serve as the flagship stations of the Bible Broadcasting Network. The AM station operates with a power of 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime, and is licensed to Charlotte. A directional antenna system is used during the station's nighttime hours. The FM station operates with a power of 8,700 watts, and is licensed to the Wadesboro, North Carolina. The FM station serves mainly as a repeater for the eastern portion of the Charlotte radio market.
History
The 930 frequency first went on the air with the call sign WIST in 1951. WIST was founded by Cosmos Broadcasting Company, and was a sister station to Columbia, South Carolina's heritage station 560 WIS, as well as having an FM simulcast (now WNKS). Its first studios were on North Tryon Street, two blocks from the square in uptown Charlotte.
As WIST, the station was initially a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System, but by the late 1950s, it had dropped the network to become Charlotte's first independent radio station and later Charlotte's first Top-40 station. Popular DJ's at that time included Jimmy Kilgo, Bob Chessen and Jim Martin.
In 1960, in a rare move for broadcasters of the day, WIST traded frequencies with WSOC at 1240 on the dial (now WHVN). AM 1240 became WIST, while AM 930 became WSOC.
93-WSOC ("Good Music")
As WSOC, the 930 frequency became part of the legacy of Charlotte's second-oldest broadcasting company, and gained sister stations in WSOC-FM (103.7) and WSOC-TV (channel 9). The station's MOR music format and NBC Radio Network affiliation came to 930, as well as WSOC's heritage morning announcer Jack Knight.
Knight eventually was replaced as morning announcer by Denny Mills, and returned to the air on his old 1240 frequency on the then-WIST. Other popular announcers on WSOC in those days included Glenn Hamrick, Bill Currie and Jack Callaghan.
Carolina Basketball Network
In the early 1960s, WSOC made the first serious attempt to produce and network the basketball games of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels beyond the immediate area of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham. Bill Currie did the play-by-play announcing, and Jack Callaghan provided color commentary. The games aired in Chapel Hill on WCHL. Cox sold the network to the Village Broadcasting Company, owner of WCHL, in 1965.
NewsRadio 93
On August 16, 1976, WSOC dropped its music programming to become "NewsRadio 93," airing an all-news radio format. It was the first in the Carolinas to do so. Much of its programming came from NBC Radio's News and Information Service (NIS) during its first year.
When NBC dropped that service in 1977, WSOC remained all-news, adding local news personnel in the process. Popular newscasters on WSOC in those days included Jim Cundiff (air name Jim David) and the first female news director in North Carolina Leslie Wolfe (who mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel%20%28programming%20language%29 | Chapel, the Cascade High Productivity Language, is a parallel programming language that was developed by Cray, and later by Hewlett Packard Enterprise which acquired Cray. It was being developed as part of the Cray Cascade project, a participant in DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program, which had the goal of increasing supercomputer productivity by 2010. It is being developed as an open source project, under version 2 of the Apache license.
The Chapel compiler is written in C and C++ (C++14). The backend (i.e. the optimizer) is LLVM, written in C++. Python 3.7 or newer is required for some optional components such Chapel’s test system and c2chapel, a tool to generate C bindings for Chapel. By default Chapel compiles to binary executables, but it can also compile to C code, and then LLVM is not used. Chapel code can be compiled to libraries to be callable from C, or Fortran or e.g. Python also supported.
Goals
Chapel aims to improve the programmability of parallel computers in general and the Cascade system in particular, by providing a higher level of expression than current programming languages do and by improving the separation between algorithmic expression and data structure implementation details.
The language designers aspire for Chapel to bridge the gap between current high-performance computing (HPC) programming practitioners, who they describe as Fortran, C or C++ users writing procedural code using technologies like OpenMP and MPI on one side, and newly graduating computer programmers who tend to prefer Java, Python or Matlab with only some of them having experience with C++ or C. Chapel should offer the productivity advances offered by the latter suite of languages while not alienating the users of the first.
Features
Chapel supports a multithreaded parallel programming model at a high level by supporting abstractions for data parallelism, task parallelism, and nested parallelism. It enables optimizations for the locality of data and computation in the program via abstractions for data distribution and data-driven placement of subcomputations. It allows for code reuse and generality through object-oriented concepts and generic programming features. For instance, Chapel allows for the declaration of locales.
While Chapel borrows concepts from many preceding languages, its parallel concepts are most closely based on ideas from High Performance Fortran (HPF), ZPL, and the Cray MTA's extensions to Fortran and C.
See also
Coarray Fortran
Fortress
Unified Parallel C
X10
RaftLib
Notes
References
Further reading
Panagiotopoulou, K.; Loidl, H. W. (2016). "Transparently Resilient Task Parallelism for Chapel" Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 2016 IEEE International Symposium, Chicago, IL.
External links
99 bottles of beer in Chapel
Cray
Array programming languages
C programming language family
Concurrent programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages
Progra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional%20modeling | Dimensional modeling (DM) is part of the Business Dimensional Lifecycle methodology developed by Ralph Kimball which includes a set of methods, techniques and concepts for use in data warehouse design. The approach focuses on identifying the key business processes within a business and modelling and implementing these first before adding additional business processes, as a bottom-up approach. An alternative approach from Inmon advocates a top down design of the model of all the enterprise data using tools such as entity-relationship modeling (ER).
Description
Dimensional modeling always uses the concepts of facts (measures), and dimensions (context). Facts are typically (but not always) numeric values that can be aggregated, and dimensions are groups of hierarchies and descriptors that define the facts. For example, sales amount is a fact; timestamp, product, register#, store#, etc. are elements of dimensions. Dimensional models are built by business process area, e.g. store sales, inventory, claims, etc. Because the different business process areas share some but not all dimensions, efficiency in design, operation, and consistency, is achieved using conformed dimensions, i.e. using one copy of the shared dimension across subject areas.
Dimensional modeling does not necessarily involve a relational database. The same modeling approach, at the logical level, can be used for any physical form, such as multidimensional database or even flat files. It is oriented around understandability and performance.
Design method
Designing the model
The dimensional model is built on a star-like schema or snowflake schema, with dimensions surrounding the fact table. To build the schema, the following design model is used:
Choose the business process
Declare the grain
Identify the dimensions
Identify the fact
Choose the business process
The process of dimensional modeling builds on a 4-step design method that helps to ensure the usability of the dimensional model and the use of the data warehouse. The basics in the design build on the actual business process which the data warehouse should cover. Therefore, the first step in the model is to describe the business process which the model builds on. This could for instance be a sales situation in a retail store. To describe the business process, one can choose to do this in plain text or use basic Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) or other design guides like the Unified Modeling Language |UML).
Declare the grain
After describing the business process, the next step in the design is to declare the grain of the model. The grain of the model is the exact description of what the dimensional model should be focusing on. This could for instance be “An individual line item on a customer slip from a retail store”. To clarify what the grain means, you should pick the central process and describe it with one sentence. Furthermore, the grain (sentence) is what you are going to build your dimensions and fa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americana%20Music%20Association | The Americana Music Association is a not-for-profit trade organization advocating for American Roots Music around the world. It is a network for Americana artists, radio stations, record labels, publishers, and others with the goal of developing an infrastructure that will boost visibility and economic viability. Additionally, the organization works to increase brand recognition of Americana music and its artists. The Association produces events throughout the year, including the annual AMERICANAFEST: The Americana Music Festival and Conference and the Americana Music Honors & Awards, typically held together in the fall. The association also manages and publishes radio airplay charts. It publishes newsletters, conducts market research, and disseminates information about important events in the Americana community.
History of the Americana Music Association
Since 1999, the Americana Music Association has helped American roots music reach wider recognition in the general public. What began as an informal gathering of dedicated colleagues has grown into a movement endorsed by major media and important artists. The Recording Academy added the category of “Best Americana Album” in 2009, and Merriam-Webster added the musical term to its dictionary in 2011.
The Americana Music Association is a resource for upcoming artists, songwriters, musicians, and producers. Today, Americana is one of the best-selling music genres, according to Billboard’s Top 20 album charts; artists like Mumford & Sons, The Avett Brothers, The Civil Wars, The Lumineers, and more have entered the mainstream.
In the late 1990s, a group of about 30 volunteers from radio, record labels, and media met informally at the South by Southwest music industry conference in Austin, Texas, to discuss collective action that could help the Americana community, including the possibility of a trade association. A facilitated retreat in October 1999 galvanized the idea, and the Americana Music Association was born.
Early the following year, the Association hosted its first annual Americana Night at South by Southwest. In September 2000, the association held its first convention at the Hilton Suites in downtown Nashville, featuring showcase performances by Sam Bush, Rhonda Vincent, Rodney Crowell, and Jim Lauderdale. The Americana Honors and Awards were added to the convention the following year. Americana icons Emmylou Harris, Billy Joe Shaver, and T-Bone Burnett were given lifetime achievement awards for performing, songwriting, and executive achievement, respectively. After much behind-the-scenes planning, the audience was treated to a surprise performance by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash with members of the Cash family. That night, Johnny Cash accepted the association's first-ever “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award with a recitation of his song-poem “Ragged Old Flag,” and then, despite his failing health, he and June led their family band through a set of songs that reached back th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsWatch%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | RPN NewsWatch is a Philippine flagship television news program that aired on Radio Philippines Network (RPN) from June 1, 1970 until October 29, 2012. It was the longest-running English-language newscast of RPN. The program had a complicated history, undergoing several name changes until it was cancelled in 2012.
Its reportorial teams were tasked to gather news from every major beat in the Greater Manila Area as well as nearby provinces.
Broadcast chronology
Launched on June 1, 1970, it became one of the highly watched English newscasts on Philippine TV alongside The World Tonight of ABS-CBN and The Big News of ABC 5 (now TV5). It is dubbed as the "First TV Newspaper" in the Philippines. Prior to 2008, it produced some spin-offs and like:
RPN NewsWatch Balita Ngayon, a Filipino-language early evening newscast.
RPN NewsWatch sa Umaga, morning spin-off of the newscast.
RPN NewsWatch sa Tanghali, noontime spin-off of the newscast.
RPN NewsWatch Kids Edition, first youth spin-off of the newscast that aired from 1979 to 1993.
RPN NewsWatch Evening Cast, first English-language early evening newscast anchored by Cathy Santillan, then it was anchored by Cielo Villaluna, Rolly Lakay Gonzalo and Cristina Pecson; later with Buddy Lopa. It was also the first newscast from 1970 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, it was named as RPN NewsWatch Primetime Edition.
RPN NewsWatch Prime Cast, a late night edition also anchored by Harry Gasser, Cathy Santillan, Dodi Lacuna, Lulu Pascual, Mike Toledo and Coco Quisumbing and later Eric Eloriaga (Eloriaga, who is known for his very strong American English accent, also anchored rival newscast The Big News on ABC 5).
RPN NewsWatch Now, replacement of Primetime Balita aired from August 27, 2001 to March 9, 2007.
RPN Jr. NewsWatch, second youth spin-off that aired in 2005.
RPN Aksyon Balita, later NewsWatch Aksyon Balita, successor of NewsWatch from April 17, 2006 to January 4, 2008, first anchored by Erwin Tulfo, Connie Sison, Aljo Bendijo, Jake Morales, Vikki Sambilay and Bobby Yan.
RPN i-Watch News, replacement of NewsWatch Now anchored by former 103.5 K-Lite disc jockey Carlo Tirona, and Aryana Lim, who was replaced by Lexi Schulze after a few months. It aired from March 12, 2007 to January 11, 2008.
On July 3, 2000, NewsWatch made its one-year absence on television due to low ratings because of the premiere of the network's only Filipino-language late-afternoon newscasts RPN Arangkada Xtra Balita and late-night newscast Primetime Balita. It was during that time, that some television networks start airing late-night newscasts in Filipino-language from the last year of the 20th century. But Primetime Balita was replaced by RPN NewsWatch Now and returning its English-language news reporting on August 27, 2001, until its final broadcast on March 9, 2007. On January 7, 2008, when Solar Entertainment channel C/S started to air on free-TV, it went back on the air replacing RPN NewsWatch Aksyon Balita. It was anchored by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharsalia%20Technologies | Pharsalia Technologies, Inc. was founded in December 1999, located in Roswell, Georgia, as an emerging company developing network infrastructure products for the Internet market. Led by a team of over 28 software engineers, Pharsalia focused on developing software products for the rapidly escalating content delivery market. The company was headed by Chip Howes, whose team is the inventor of record for over 30 patents in the area of TCP/IP server load balancing, and are credited with the invention of the technology in 1996.
Pharsalia was acquired by Alteon WebSystems of San Jose, California on July 21, 2000 in a stock swap worth about $221 million. Subsequently, Alteon was acquired by Nortel Networks on October 4, 2000.
After integrating the company into Nortel Networks, most of the original team was laid off by August 2003. The founders went on to start another company, Steelbox Networks, and hired back many of the same engineers.
Trivia
Pharsalia is a name related to the location of Julius Caesar's victory over Pompey.
Pharsalia Technologies was named after Pharsalia Plantation in Massies Mill, VA, the birthplace of Sarah Howes, mother of founder, Chip Howes.
References
External links
Pharsalia Technologies
Pharsalia Technologies acquired by Alteon
Companies based in Roswell, Georgia
Defunct software companies of the United States
Networking companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies established in 1999
Defunct companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
1999 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20search%20engine | Computer networks are connected together to form larger networks such as campus networks, corporate networks, or the Internet. Routers are network devices that may be used to connect these networks (e.g., a home network connected to the network of an Internet service provider). When a router interconnects many networks or handles much network traffic, it may become a bottleneck and cause network congestion (i.e., traffic loss).
A number of techniques have been developed to prevent such problems. One of them is the network search engine (NSE), also known as network search element. This special-purpose device helps a router perform one of its core and repeated functions very fast: address lookup. Besides routing, NSE-based address lookup is also used to keep track of network service usage for billing purposes, or to look up patterns of information in the data passing through the network for security reasons .
Network search engines are often available as ASIC chips to be interfaced with the network processor of the router. Content-addressable memory and Trie are two techniques commonly used when implementing NSEs.
References
IDT Next Generation Search Engines.
Integrated circuits
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20West | Bally Sports West is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operated as part of Bally Sports, along with its sister network Bally Sports SoCal. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events in California, focusing primarily on teams based in the Greater Los Angeles area. Bally Sports West is available on cable providers throughout Southern California, the Las Vegas Valley and Hawaii; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
The network holds the regional broadcast rights to the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. The network also broadcast the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association until 2012, when broadcasts moved to Spectrum SportsNet.
History
1980s
Bally Sports West was launched under the Prime Ticket name on October 19, 1985; the channel was originally co-owned by Dr. Jerry Buss, majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings, and cable television pioneer Dr. Bill Daniels, who held a minority ownership interest in both franchises. Unlike many of the regional sports networks in operation at the time of Prime Ticket's launch, the channel was (and still is) structured as a basic cable channel, instead of a premium service. The network originally broadcast for seven hours a day, each evening from 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. The first contract with Prime Ticket was negotiated and signed by Tony Acone, who was appointed as president of the channel, and Bob Kerstein, chief financial officer of Falcon Cable TV. Leslie Watson, a certified public accountant employed by the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, joined Prime Ticket as its first financial controller through the early years of the channel.
Prior to the launch of Prime Ticket, Los Angeles Lakers basketball and Los Angeles Kings hockey games (primarily home games that were not televised nationally) were carried within the Los Angeles market on the over-the-air subscription services ONTV and SelecTV, in addition various local TV stations. Its original general offices were located in a small office building located across the street from the Great Western Forum in Inglewood.
Prime Ticket became one of the leading regional sports networks in the United States, rivaling the New York City-based Madison Square Garden Network. The network was founded at the height of the Lakers' 1980s championship run, and also got a boost from the trade that brought Wayne Gretzky to the Kings in 1988.
In late 1988, Daniels partnered with Tele-Communications Inc. to form a new group of regional sports networks, known as the Prime Sports Network. Prime Ticket served as the flagship charter affiliate, joined by the newly formed owned-and-operated outlet Prime Sports Rocky Mountain (now AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain), and two networks that served as affili |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20effort%20method | The analysis effort method is a method for estimating the duration of software engineering projects. It is best suited to producing initial estimates for the length of a job based on a known time duration for preparing a specification. Inputs to the method are numeric factors which indicate Size (S), Familiarity (F) and Complexity (C). These, with a duration for preparing the software specification can be used in a look up table (which contains factors based on previous experience) to determine with length of each of the following phases of the work. These being Design, Coding and Unit testing and Testing. The method does not include any times for training or project management.
This method should be used as one of a number of estimation techniques to obtain a more accurate estimate.
References
Software engineering costs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidMAN | MidMAN was one of the regional networks that comprise JANET, providing connectivity to schools, colleges and universities in the West Midlands area of England. The provision of services was managed by the West Midlands Regional Networking Company Ltd, whose network is operated by Synetrix and Telewest. Support was provided to connected institutions by the JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands which is based at the University of Wolverhampton.
In 2008 MidMAN was rebranded to "JANET West Midlands" and management of the network was transferred to the JANET NOC in London.
See also
JANET
References
External links
MidMAN Home Page
JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands
Regional academic computer networks in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in the West Midlands (county)
University of Wolverhampton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Network%20%28political%20party%29 | The Network (), whose complete name was Movement for Democracy – The Network (Movimento per la Democrazia – La Rete), was a political party in Italy led by Leoluca Orlando.
History
The party was formed on 24 January 1991 by Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo and member of the Christian Democracy, who had broken with this party in 1991 due to its relations with the Mafia. The party was Catholic-inspired, while including several former members of the Italian Communist Party (Diego Novelli, Alfredo Galasso, etc.), anti-Mafia and anti-corruption. It proposed an end to parliamentary immunity, greater judicial powers to tackle Mafia, and a parliament with fewer lawmakers. Describing itself as a movement rather than a party, the party aimed to be a loose "civic movement" without formal memberships or rigid party structure.
The party succeeded in gaining elected office in Sicily, including five seats in the 1991 regional election (thanks to 7.4% of the vote) and, again, the mayorship of Palermo in 1993. In the 1992 national election, the party won 1.9% (nationally), 12 deputies and 3 senators, who teamed up with those of the Federation of the Greens.
It later participated in the Alliance of Progressives, which included the Democratic Party of the Left, the Democratic Alliance, the Federation of the Greens, the Communist Refoundation Party, the Italian Socialist Party and the Social Christians. The coalition unsuccessfully contested the 1994 general election against Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalitions, the Pole of Freedoms and the Pole of Good Government, and the party had 1.9% of the vote, 6 deputies and 6 senators.
In the 1996 general election the party was part of The Olive Tree coalition and elected in single-member districts five deputies, who divided themselves between the Democrats of the Left and a sub-group named "Italy of Values", and one senator. After the election, Orlando stated the aim of creating a "Democratic Party" modelled on the Democratic Party of the United States and the party changed its name to The Network for the Democratic Party. In 1999 it was absorbed by The Democrats of Romano Prodi. Before that, some of its members had joined Antonio Di Pietro's Italy of Values, which was also merged into The Democrats.
After The Democrats (1999–2002), Orlando would later be active in Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, Italy of Values and The Network 2018.
Election results
Italian Parliament
European Parliament
Literature
References
External links
Official website of Leoluca Orlando – Biography
Political parties established in 1991
Political parties disestablished in 1999
Antimafia
Defunct political parties in Italy
1991 establishments in Italy
1999 disestablishments in Italy
Christian democratic parties in Italy
Catholic political parties
Anti-corruption parties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA%20C | MISRA C is a set of software development guidelines for the C programming language developed by The MISRA Consortium. Its aims are to facilitate code safety, security, portability and reliability in the context of embedded systems, specifically those systems programmed in ISO C / C90 / C99.
There is also a set of guidelines for MISRA C++ not covered by this article.
History
Draft: 1997
First edition: 1998 (rules, required/advisory)
Second edition: 2004 (rules, required/advisory)
Third edition: 2012 (directives; rules, Decidable/Undecidable)
MISRA compliance: 2016, updated 2020
For the first two editions of MISRA-C (1998 and 2004) all Guidelines were considered as Rules. With the publication of MISRA C:2012 a new category of Guideline was introduced - the Directive whose compliance is more open to interpretation, or relates to process or procedural matters.
Adoption
Although originally specifically targeted at the automotive industry, MISRA C has evolved as a widely accepted model for best practices by leading developers in sectors including automotive, aerospace, telecom, medical devices, defense, railway, and others.
For example:
The Joint Strike Fighter project C++ Coding Standards are based on MISRA-C:1998.
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory C Coding Standards are based on MISRA-C:2004.
ISO 26262 Functional Safety - Road Vehicles cites MISRA C as being an appropriate sub-set of the C language:
ISO 26262-6:2011 Part 6: Product development at the software level cites MISRA-C:2004 and MISRA AC AGC.
ISO 26262-6:2018 Part 6: Product development at the software level cites MISRA C:2012.
The AUTOSAR General Software Specification (SRS_BSW_00007) likewise cites MISRA C:
The AUTOSAR 4.2 General Software Specification requires that If the BSW Module implementation is written in C language, then it shall conform to the MISRA C:2004 Standard.
The AUTOSAR 4.3 General Software Specification requires that If the BSW Module implementation is written in C language, then it shall conform to the MISRA C:2012 Standard.
Guideline classification and categorization
When a new software project is started, the latest MISRA standard should be used. Previous standards are still available for use with legacy software projects that need to refer to it.
Classification
Each Guideline is classified as Mandatory (new for MISRA C:2012), Required or Advisory. Furthermore, the MISRA Compliance document permits Advisory guidelines to be Disapplied.
Mandatory guidelines shall always be complied with
Required guidelines shall be complied with, unless subject to a Deviation
Advisory guidelines are considered good practice, but compliance is less formal.
Categorization
The rules can be divided logically into a number of categories:
Avoiding possible compiler differences, for example, the size of C's int type may vary but int16_t (standardized in C99) is always 16 bits.
Avoiding using functions and constructs that are prone to failure, for example, ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Board | The Thunder Board was an 8-bit mono personal computer integrated circuit sound card from Media Vision, that had Sound Blaster compatibility at a reduced price. It was widely advertised as “proudly made in the USA”; possibly a reference to the Sound Blaster, manufactured by the competing Singapore-based Creative Technologies. Emulates SB 1.0 and 1.5
Other features included:
8 Bit mono record and playback of .VOC files
Yamaha YM3812 OPL2 FM Synth
2 Watt output
Joystick Port
8 Bit ISA bus
Volume Control
Powered Output Jack
Microphone Input Jack
Sound cards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Makinson | John Makinson (born 10 October 1954) is the Chairman of Kano, a London-based computing company which makes DIY computer and coding kits. He formerly served as chairman of the international publishing company Penguin Random House. He was chairman of The National Theatre from 2010 to 2016.
Biography
After being educated at Repton School and completing his degree at Cambridge University, John started working as a journalist, first at Reuters and then at the Financial Times, where he edited the influential "Lex" column. From there he moved to Saatchi and Saatchi's US holding company, before co-founding Makinson Cowell, a specialist independent financial consultancy firm. After five years, he returned to the Financial Times to become its managing director, before accepting a job as the Pearson Group finance director, where he worked until moving to the Penguin Group, a subsidiary of the Pearson Group. He was Chairman and CEO of Penguin Group (worldwide) from 2002 to 2013.
He was a co-chair of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organisation, for many years. He was also Chairman of the National Theatre from 2010 to 2016.
He is married to actor and activist Nandana Sen, daughter of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Padmashri-awardee Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
He has used his knowledge of business to help compile a report for the British government, called Incentives for Change, and received a CBE in 2001 for his services to public sector productivity. He was also photographed by Harry Borden for the National Portrait Gallery in Britain.
References
1954 births
Living people
English publishers (people)
English chief executives
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Directors of George Weston Limited
Financial Times people
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination%20analysis | In computer science, termination analysis is program analysis which attempts to determine whether the evaluation of a given program halts for each input. This means to determine whether the input program computes a total function.
It is closely related to the halting problem, which is to determine whether a given program halts for a given input and which is undecidable. The termination analysis is even more difficult than the Halting problem: the termination analysis in the model of Turing machines as the model of programs implementing computable functions would have the goal of deciding whether a given Turing machine is a total Turing machine, and this problem is at level of the arithmetical hierarchy and thus is strictly more difficult than the Halting problem.
Now as the question whether a computable function is total is not semi-decidable, each sound termination analyzer (i.e. an affirmative answer is never given for a non-terminating program) is incomplete, i.e. must fail in determining termination for infinitely many terminating programs, either by running forever or halting with an indefinite answer.
Termination proof
A termination proof is a type of mathematical proof that plays a critical role in formal verification because total correctness of an algorithm depends on termination.
A simple, general method for constructing termination proofs involves associating a measure with each step of an algorithm. The measure is taken from the domain of a well-founded relation, such as from the ordinal numbers. If the measure "decreases" according to the relation along every possible step of the algorithm, it must terminate, because there are no infinite descending chains with respect to a well-founded relation.
Some types of termination analysis can automatically generate or imply the existence of a termination proof.
Example
An example of a programming language construct which may or may not terminate is a loop, as they can be run repeatedly. Loops implemented using a counter variable as typically found in data processing algorithms will usually terminate, demonstrated by the pseudocode example below:
i := 0
loop until i = SIZE_OF_DATA
process_data(data[i])) // process the data chunk at position i
i := i + 1 // move to the next chunk of data to be processed
If the value of SIZE_OF_DATA is non-negative, fixed and finite, the loop will eventually terminate, assuming process_data terminates too.
Some loops can be shown to always terminate or never terminate through human inspection. For example, the following loop will, in theory, never stop. However, it may halt when executed on a physical machine due to arithmetic overflow: either leading to an exception or causing the counter to wrap to a negative value and enabling the loop condition to be fulfilled.
i := 1
loop until i = 0
i := i + 1
In termination analysis one may also try to determine the termination behaviour of some program depending on some unknown inpu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler%20distance | In computer science and statistics, the Jaro–Winkler similarity is a string metric measuring an edit distance between two sequences. It is a variant of the Jaro distance metric metric (1989, Matthew A. Jaro) proposed in 1990 by William E. Winkler.
The Jaro–Winkler distance uses a prefix scale which gives more favourable ratings to strings that match from the beginning for a set prefix length .
The higher the Jaro–Winkler distance for two strings is, the less similar the strings are. The score is normalized such that 0 means an exact match and 1 means there is no similarity. The original paper actually defined the metric in terms of similarity, so the distance is defined as the inversion of that value (distance = 1 − similarity).
Although often referred to as a distance metric, the Jaro–Winkler distance is not a metric in the mathematical sense of that term because it does not obey the triangle inequality.
Definition
Jaro similarity
The Jaro similarity of two given strings and is
Where:
is the length of the string ;
is the number of matching characters (see below);
is the number of transpositions (see below).
Jaro similarity score is 0 if the strings do not match at all, and 1 if they are an exact match. In the first step, each character of is compared with all its matching characters in . Two characters from and respectively, are considered matching only if they are the same and not farther than characters apart. For example, the following two nine character long strings, FAREMVIEL and FARMVILLE, have 8 matching characters. 'F', 'A' and 'R' are in the same position in both strings. Also 'M', 'V', 'I', 'E' and 'L' are within three (result of ) characters away. If no matching characters are found then the strings are not similar and the algorithm terminates by returning Jaro similarity score 0.
If non-zero matching characters are found, the next step is to find the number of transpositions. Transposition is the number of matching characters that are not in the right order divided by two. In the above example between FAREMVIEL and FARMVILLE, 'E' and 'L' are the matching characters that are not in the right order. So the number of transposition is one.
Finally, plugging in the number of matching characters and number of transpositions the Jaro similarity of FAREMVIEL and FARMVILLE can be calculated,
Jaro–Winkler similarity
Jaro–Winkler similarity uses a prefix scale which gives more favorable ratings to strings that match from the beginning for a set prefix length . Given two strings and , their Jaro–Winkler similarity is:
where:
is the Jaro similarity for strings and
is the length of common prefix at the start of the string up to a maximum of 4 characters
is a constant scaling factor for how much the score is adjusted upwards for having common prefixes. should not exceed 0.25 (i.e. 1/4, with 4 being the maximum length of the prefix being considered), otherwise the similarity could become larger than 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACLC | ACLC may refer to:
Alachua County Labor Coalition
Alameda Community Learning Center, Alameda, California
AMA Computer Learning Center (now ACLC College), part of AMA Education System, Philippines
American Clergy Leadership Conference
Army Cadet League of Canada
, the Québécois name of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches, based in the U.S. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYXX-TV | DYXX-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Iloilo City, Philippines, airing programming from the GMA network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent alongside GTV outlet DYKV-TV (channel 28). The station maintains studios and hybrid analog/digital transmitting facility at the GMA Compound, Phase 5, Alta Tierra Village, MacArthur Drive, Barangay Quintin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City.
The station has an audio simulcast, which can be heard on the frequency of 87.7 MHz on the FM band.
History
1967 – DYXX-TV Channel 6 was launched by the Associated Broadcasting Corporation (now TV5 Network Inc.) until Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972.
1974 – DYXX-TV Channel 6 was reopened and became an affiliate station of Republic Broadcasting System under Asian-Pacific Broadcasting Company. At the same time, the station's own variation of GMA Radio-Television Arts ident aside from sporting a light blue square logo with the network name in white, also had a circle 6 logo in use, in its final years the blue circle 6 logo used was similar to those used by the ABC in some cities of the U.S.
February 1987 – DYXX-TV upgrading into an originating station with its first local newscast "Banat" as a local version of "GMA Balita" from the national GMA 7.
January 1988 – The station launched first live coverage of Dinagyang Festival in Freedom Grandstand, Iloilo City.
November 12, 1990- The station's broadcast complex was badly damaged by flood after Typhoon Ruping (international name: Typhoon Mike) made a landfall in Iloilo City. The station's transmitter also collapsed, rendering GMA TV-6 and radio stations DYMK and DYXX inoperable for a short period. All television and radio operations were resumed after a month when a new transmitter was constructed.
First Quarter 1992 - DYXX-TV began broadcasting live programming from Manila.
April 30, 1992 – DYXX-TV officially introduced the Rainbow Satellite Network which commences its satellite broadcast from the flagship station in Manila to viewers in the Western Visayas, following the network's utilizes a new logo to correspond with the rebranding and a satellite-beaming rainbow in a multicolored striped based on the traditional scheme of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with GMA in a metallic form using a Futura Black fontface, and analogous gloominess of Indigo as its fonts in the letters.
May 16, 1996 – RBS formally changed its corporate name to GMA Network Inc., with GMA now standing for Global Media Arts.
July 1998 – GMA Channel 6 increased its transmitting power to 10,000 watts, and later upgraded their studio facilities & equipment and increase power to 30,000 watts with a new tower in Jordan, Guimaras in January 1999.
October 1999 – The station launched its local news program "Ratsada" and variety show "Bongga!".
November 2001 – "Bongga!" won the Best Regional Variety Show award at KBP Golden Dove Awards.
September 2005 – GMA Iloilo drew a record crowd of 60,00 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop%20%28software%29 | Snoop software is a command line packet analyzer included in the Solaris Operating System created by Sun Microsystems. Its source code was available via the OpenSolaris project.
See also
Comparison of packet analyzers
Network tap
References
External links
TCP/IP and Data Communications Administration Guide
docs.sun.com: man snoop(1M)
OpenSolaris: snoop source code
Sun Microsystems software
Network analyzers
Free network management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcom%20Network | Starcom Network began its life as Radio Distribution (Barbados) Limited, with the introduction of the first broadcast station then located at Wildey, St. Michael in 1935. At that time, the company transmitted its broadcast signal using a cable network system, known as subscription radio. As the only radio station in Barbados until the first wireless radio station 900 AM was started in 1963, subscribers used to pay for the radio on a monthly bases. The service (basically a large PA system) later renamed Barbados Rediffusion was broadcast via cable to wall-mounted textured wood finished receivers. Each device was connected to wires via telephone poles all the way back to the studio. The premier presenters were the incomparable Alfred Pragnell (now the late Alfred Pragnell), the incomparable Olga Lopes-Seale (now the late Olga Lopes-Seale), Maurice Norville and David Ellis. It was broadcast from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM. The service was later expanded, featuring soap operas of the day. With the passage of time, Barbados Rediffusion closed on 30 November 1997, Independence Day Public Holiday when it celebrated its 31st Independence Birthday.
Voice of Barbados then at the frequency 790 AM was introduced in 1981, as Barbados' second wireless radio station. Gospel 790 AM became Life 97.5 FM in 2013, also along with the change from 790 AM to VOB 92.9 FM it became as Barbados' fourth FM station. Sister station "Yess 104.1 FM" (now known as Love FM) was Barbados' third station that broadcast in a full 24-hour rotation. Love 104.1 FM became The Beat 104.1 FM, along with the greatest songs and hits of the '70s, '80s, '90s and today since 2016. Hott 95.3 FM started on 1 December 1997, Independence Day Bank Holiday, as Starcom's second FM station by the company. The company also started selling television and other electronic items for consumers. Starcom also started the resale of US-based DirecTV service. It changed to Starcom Network in 1999 with the studio headquarters now located on River Road in the capital city of Bridgetown, St. Michael.
See also
List of radio stations in Barbados
External links
Starcom Network – website
Starcom – Profile by ONE Caribbean Media
History of the Starcom Network
Radio broadcasting companies of Barbados |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNJ | DYNJ (98.3 FM) is a relay station of RJFM Manila, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. The station's transmitter is located along JM Basa St. corner Mapa St., Iloilo City.
History
The station was established in 1974 as DYRJ on 1152 kHz. At that time, it was located in Nabitasan, La Paz District. In 1980, it transferred to FM via 98.7 MHz and was dubbed as The Flava of The City. In 1990, it adopted the RJFM brand and switched to an album rock format. In 1996, it transferred to 98.3 MHz and changed its name to Boss Radio. In 2000, it rebranded as The Hive and switched to a modern rock format. In 2003, it became a relay station of RJ 100. In July 2009, it transferred its transmitter facilities to Casa Plaza Bldg.
References
External links
RJFM FB Page
Radio stations in Iloilo City
Radio stations established in 1974 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakulla%20High%20School | Wakulla High School is the only public four year high school located in Wakulla County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Wakulla County Public Schools network. The Florida Department of Education has labeled Wakulla High School as a "School of Excellence" in their school accountability reports for the years 2020 and 2021.
History
Wakulla High School opened in 1967. It combined (via desegregation) three former schools: Sopchoppy, Shadeville, and Crawfordville High Schools. The first year had 564 students and taught grades 7-12. Prior to the use of the War Eagle mascot, the school were the "rebels".
Career & Technical Education
Wakulla High School has many vocational training programs incorporated into the normal school day. Many of these programs lead to industry certification. Currently, WHS offers programs in the areas of auto mechanics, digital design, web development, carpentry, culinary arts, television production, welding, the nursing assisting program which is the major focus of the Wakulla High School's Medical Academy and the Engineering Academy. These programs articulate into college or technical education programs at the post-secondary level, if the student chooses to pursue this field.
Electives
Art
AVID
Band
Chorus
Foreign Languages (Spanish and French)
NJROTC
Theatre
Sports
As of 2022, Wakulla High offers 17 sports programs, many of which have both JV and varsity teams.
Baseball
Basketball (boys and girls)
Cheerleading
Cross Country
Flag Football
Football
Golf
Soccer (boys and girls)
Softball
Tennis
Track & Field
Volleyball
Weightlifting (boys and girls)
Wrestling
Demographics
Students
Enrollment Demographics (2019-20)
Total: 1,459
White: 1,175
Black: 147
Hispanic: 52
Asian: 8
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 1
American Indian/Alaska Native: 3
Two or more races: 73
Enrollment by grade (2019-20)
Freshman: 396
Sophomore: 370
Junior: 368
Senior: 325
Enrollment by Gender (2019-20)
Male: 737
Female: 722
Teachers
Classroom Teachers: 80 (2019-20)
Notable alumni
Nigel Bradham, former linebacker for the Florida State Seminoles and Former linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles (Class of 2008)
Alvin Hall, author, radio and television host, financial expert
Sam McGrew, former linebacker for the Florida State Seminoles and Miami Dolphins (Class of 2002)
Feleipe Franks, quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons (Class of 2016)
Jordan Franks, tight end for the Cleveland Browns
References
External links
Official website
High schools in Wakulla County, Florida
Public high schools in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoton%20TV-Computer | The TV-Computer (or TVC in short) is an 8-bit home computer which was manufactured by the Hungarian company Videoton around 1986. The computer was based on the Enterprise and had a built-in BASIC interpreter. Programs could be loaded via tape or floppy. It had a built-in joystick and a keyboard with Hungarian letters and nine function keys.
There are three different models of the TVC:
32k which has 32 Kb of RAM
64k which has 64 Kb of RAM
64k+ which has 64 Kb of RAM and a newer BASIC interpreter (v2.2) and more video RAM (64 Kb instead of 16 Kb)
The TVC has three graphical modes: 128×240/16 colors, 256×240/4 colors, and 512×240/2 colors (black and white). There were no text (character display) mode only graphical. This made the computer a bit slow and smooth scrolling is pretty challenging (though there are examples for vertical and horizontal scrolling games nowadays).
Few programs existed for the computer. Many of these were written by dedicated amateurs and were distributed by mail.
It has two tape ports, 1 A/V, 1 RGB monitor, 1 RF connector, 1 centronics printer port, 1 side (for program-modules - game cartridges) and 4 upper (computer internals are almost exposed) expansion ports and 2 joystick ports (compatible with Atari style joys, but may have 2 buttons).
The 4 upper expansion ports made this computer very versatile. The official floppy solution was connected to one of these ports, the RS232 card also was plugged here. The class-room network card also used this port, the planned game card (with sprite capabilities) also would have used this port - unfortunately we just have some pictures about the proto module and some documents mention it. Even a SID card was created, using a SID chip to enhance the TVC sound capabilities.
Current enhancements using these ports are: SD card reader, sound card (with 3 different sound chips), game card (+2 joy ports +SN76489 sound chip + 4 built-in games), HDMI output with several FPGA cores (ofc including TVC), USB/PS2 mouse handling (and an unreleased gamecard with SID and sprite support) and many more.
References
Home computers
Science and technology in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTBN%20%28shortwave%29 | KTBN (formerly known as KUSW) was the shortwave radio outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a large religious international broadcaster. The station's programming was a simulcast of the audio portion of the TBN television service.
History
KUSW, which was also branded "The Superpower", officially launched on December 26, 1987 during the peak years of the American commercial shortwave broadcasting boom triggered by the founding of WRNO Worldwide. Owned by Carlson Communications International, which owned a network of AM and FM stations in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, KUSW broadcast a combination of news and rock music. The station also carried selected Utah Jazz games. The station also offered a mail-order catalog of products made in the Rocky Mountains. The station's "theme song", used as an interval signal for sign-ons, sign-offs, and to signal frequency changes, was "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits.
Carlson sold the station to the TBN ministry in 1990 for approximately $2 million. The station signed off under its old format on December 16 of that year, to be relaunched under the KTBN callsign two days later. To celebrate the format/ownership change, TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch staged a televised demolition, whereas a false representation of KUSW's former library of rock albums was exploded in a Disco Demolition Night-esque manner.
As early as June 2004, KTBN broadcast warnings that it would leave the air due to "lack of [listener] response". Although the station continued for several years after these announcements, pages dedicated to the KTBN shortwave service were deleted from the TBN website in 2005. The station ceased operations on March 30, 2008.
After its final sign-off, the station equipment, including the transmitter and antenna array, was dismantled and shipped to Anguilla in the Caribbean to be incorporated into the Caribbean Beacon radio station.
Frequencies
At the time of its last broadcasts, KTBN could be heard on the following frequencies:
English to North America: 7.505 MHz from 0100 to 1500 UTC; 15.59 MHz from 1500 to 0100 UTC.
See also
Trinity Broadcasting Network
International broadcasting
Shortwave Radio
References
External links
Official Website
FCC info for KTBN
Shortwave radio stations in the United States
International broadcasters
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1987
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2008
1987 establishments in Utah
2008 disestablishments in Utah
TBN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20C.%20Seacord | Robert C. Seacord (born June 5, 1963) is an American computer security specialist and writer. He is the author of books on computer security, legacy system modernization, and component-based software engineering.
Education
Seacord earned a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in December 1983. He has also completed graduate-level courses at Carnegie-Mellon University in software design, creation and maintenance; user interfaces; software project management; formal methods; human factors; operating systems; and entrepreneurship.
Career
Seacord began programming professionally for IBM in 1984, working in processor development, then communications and operating system software, and software engineering. He led the Secure Coding Initiative in the CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania until 1991, working on the User Interface Project. He also has worked at the X Consortium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he developed and maintained code for the Common Desktop Environment and the X Window System. He returned to SEI in 1996, working on component-based software engineering and joined CERT in 2003. He left CERT and the SEI and joined NCC Group in 2015, as a Technical Director.
Seacord was an adjunct professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and in the Information Networking Institute. He was also a part-time faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh.
Seacord is on the Advisory Board for the Linux Foundation and convenor for the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 international standardization working group for the C programming language. He co-wrote the 2016 Facebook osquery audit.
In February 2022 Seacord joined Woven by Toyota, Inc., where he is Standardization Lead, working with Toyota and its suppliers on quality software development.
Selected publications
Books
Seacord, Robert. The CERT® C Coding Standard, Second Edition: 98 Rules for Developing Safe, Reliable, and Secure Systems (2nd Edition), Addison-Wesley Professional, 2014. .
Lon, Fred; Mohindra, Dhruv; Seacord, Robert; Sutherland, Dean F.; and Svoboda, David. Java Coding Guidelines: 75 Recommendations for Reliable and Secure Programs, Addison-Wesley, 2014. .
Seacord, Robert. Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2013.
Seacord, Robert; Long, Fred; Mohindra, Dhruv; Sutherland, Dean; Svoboda, David. The CERT® Oracle® Secure Coding Standard for Java, Addison Wesley, 2011.
Seacord, Robert. The CERT® C Secure Coding Standard, Addison Wesley, 2008.
Seacord, Robert; Plakosh, Daniel; Lewis, Grace. Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes, and Business Practices, Addison Wesley, 2003.
Seacord, Robert, Wallnau, Kurt; Hissam, Scott. Building Systems from Commercial Components, Addison Wesley, 2001.
Videos
Professional C Programming LiveLessons, (Video Training) Part I: Writing Robust, Secure, Reliable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-kernel%20web%20server | An in-kernel web server is an unlimited HTTP server that runs in kernel space or equivalent. It is also known as "accelerator".
Benefits
Performance: the path taken by data from a source device (i.e. a disk) to a destination device (i.e. a NIC). Proper asynchronous zero-copy interfaces would make this available from user-space.
Scalability: with respect to number of simultaneous clients. Event notification of comparable scalability seems unlikely in user-space.
Drawbacks
Security: Kernel processes run with unlimited privileges.
Portability. Every kernel needs a specific implementation route.
Reliability. Failure in the webserver may crash the OS.
Implementations
illumos/Solaris: NCAkmod aka Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA) kernel module
HP-UX: NSAhttp
Linux: TUX
Mesibo In-kernel real-time messaging server
Windows NT: http.sys (part of IIS)
SPIN: http
OpenVMS: WASD.trap
See also
Comparison of web server software
Service-oriented architecture
Unikernel/Exokernel (eg. SPIN's loadable kernel modules)
References
CITI_TR_00-4
High-Performance Memory-Based Web Servers: Kernel and User-Space Performance. Philippe Joubert, Robert B. King, Rich Neves, Mark Russinovich, John M. Tracey. IBM. T. J. Watson Research Center
Web server software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Griggs | Will Griggs (also Sebastian Barnes) is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Christian Clark. The character debuted on-screen in the episode airing on 12 October 2006. He was introduced into the serial as part of a group of four characters branded as "20 somethings". Clark quit the series prematurely to concentrate on a film career and Will departed on 23 January 2007. Upon his departure from the serial, his younger adoptive brother Oliver Barnes (David Hoflin) was written into storylines.
Development
Will was created in 2006 along with another three characters created at the same time as part of a new group of characters branded "20 somethings". Nicky Whelan, Ben Lawson and Natalie Saleeba were cast as Pepper Steiger, Frazer Yeats and Rosetta Cammeniti respectively, around the same time as Christian Clark was cast as Will. Clark said that his agent suggested he audition and received the part the thereafter he stated it all happened really quickly. Their inclusion in the serial was part of the producers attempts to introduce more contemporary characters, despite not knowing each other they all share the same house upon their on-screen debuts, a first for the series. Before appearing on-screen Will was described as "a drifter on a steep learning curve." Upon his arrival Will was described as a "slacker rich kid" and turning up on Ramsay Street made him "find rarefied air suffocating and decided to search out a "real" life."
A relationship is soon established between Will and Carmella Cammeniti (Natalie Blair), who falls in love with him and decides not to return to her convent. They consummate the relationship towards the end of 2006. Blair commented "She realised she really wanted to be with Will. I think she has put her life as a nun behind her now." It soon becomes clear to the audience that Will is lying and hiding something from Carmella. Blair called him "quite shady" and said that his stories do not add up, but Carmella initially accepts his excuses until they start to contradict one another. She continued, "He's weaving a bit of a web. Carmella really wants to get to the bottom of it, because she knows something is not right." Producer Peter Dobbs promised that there would be a big surprise in store when the serial returned in 2007. It was revealed that Will was imitating his brother Oliver Barnes (David Hoflin), who had left his family to find freedom. Network Ten publicity describe Will as being "shallow" and unable to cope with his new life, also branding him "irresponsible" they also compare him with Oliver, stating he does not have genuine sentiment behind his good-looking façade.
Before Will had appeared on-screen it was announced by Network Ten that after his initial 12-week contract had expired, Clark decided he did not want to renew his contract. After a short period of time Will departed from the serial. Clark later described Will during an interview stating: "Will was a great |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect%20Me | Protect Me may refer to:
"Protect Me" a song by James from Seven, 1992
"Protecting Me" a song by Aly & AJ from Into the Rush, 2006
"Protège-Moi", a song by Placebo, 2004
"Protect-Me", a cyber-security and Data-analysis company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRDN-LP | KRDN-LP was a low-power television station in Redding, California. It broadcast locally in analog on VHF channel 5 and is an affiliate of the Daystar Television Network. Founded June 13, 2002, the station was owned by KM Communications Inc. of Skokie, Illinois.
It had an application to flash-cut on channel 5 at 300 W.
KRDN went off the air on April 27, 2012, due to financial issues that resulted in the station losing its transmitter site; it never returned to the air, and the license was canceled on June 19, 2013.
References
Defunct television stations in the United States
RDN-LP
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in California
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012
2012 establishments in California
RDN-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosun%20Journal | The Chosun Journal or ChosunJournal.com was an independent, non-profit website based in New York that networked communities for human rights in North Korea. It was started in February 2001 by three Christian Korean Americans (Editor Edward Kim, Jeff Park, and Jay Lee) and purported to be North Korea's first virtual holocaust museum set in real-time.
In addition to serving as a portal to the latest news related to North Korean human rights, the journal networked rescuers, refugees, defectors, government officials, intelligentsia, and the media to bring further momentum to the North Korean human rights movement. It had been a resource for academic journals and bestselling books like Natan Sharansky’s The Case for Democracy.
The Journal was premised on the belief that the more people know about the human rights atrocities happening in North Korea, the more pressure the world will bring to bear on the Stalinist regime, resulting in less leeway for the regime to continue abusing the 21 million North Korean people with impunity. It had hosted survivors of North Korean concentration camps to share their testimonies at U.S. college campuses and churches, and was also reportedly behind the asylum of four North Korean refugees via an underground railroad.
Other journal activities involved lobbying government bodies to pass bills that assist persecuted North Korean refugees hiding in China, and petitioning officials to grant leniency to those that are caught seeking asylum.
References
External links
Asian Studies WWW Monitor Database: Chosun Journal
Human rights in North Korea
Internet properties established in 2001
Asian political websites
North Korean websites
Politics of North Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20and%20Technology%20Academy | The Design and Technology Academy (DATA), established in 1999, is a public technology based magnet school located on the Theodore Roosevelt High School campus in San Antonio, Texas. It offers technology-oriented curricula including architecture, graphic design, 3D animation, traditional art, digital art, and video production. The school also provides a college preparation program utilizing elective pathways and college-level courses.
History
DATA was founded in 1999 and is connected with the Ed White Middle School and Theodore Roosevelt High School in the North East Independent School District.
The middle school program opened at the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year with an initial class of 142 sixth-grade students. At that time, the program was available for students from sixth to eighth grades. After completing eighth grade, students would continue in an accelerated program at Roosevelt High School.
As of 2023, 457 students are enrolled at DATA.
See also
Engineering & Technologies Academy
Theodore Roosevelt High School
STEM Academy at Lee
International School of the Americas
References
External links
Design and Technology Academy Website
North East Independent School District
North East Independent School District high schools
High schools in San Antonio
Magnet schools in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIOV%20%28AM%29 | WIOV (1240 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Reading, Pennsylvania. The station is licensed to Major Keystone, LLC, and broadcasts an urban contemporary radio format. Its programming is also carried on FM translator W253CK (98.5).
WIOV previously broadcast all home and away games of the Reading Fightin Phils, the Double-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Reading Royals of the ECHL.
Cumulus Media sold the station to Major Keystone LLC on September 24, 2021. On January 17, 2022, following the sale's completion, WIOV changed its format from sports to urban contemporary, branded as "Loud 98.5"; the "Loud" programming, including the WQHT-based morning show Ebro in the Morning, had previously aired on W257CI (99.3 FM) and on the HD3 channel of WLEV.
Previous logo
References
External links
Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States
IOV
Radio stations established in 1946
1946 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Imaging%20Protocol | The Internet Imaging Protocol, or IIP, is an Internet protocol designed by the International Imaging Industry Association. IIP is built on top of HTTP to communicate images and their metadata and took inspiration from the FlashPix image architecture. It emerged to tackle the problem that image sizes and resolution was growing faster than internet bandwidth - so it was difficult to quickly browse high quality images in web browsers. IIP allows the detail to be fetched when the user needs it, so the whole data file is not downloaded before.
Practically it defines how software fetches image tiles from a server. This includes the scale of the image - so a small overview image can be retrieved initially. Zooming and panning are carried out by fetching higher resolution image tiles from server. This means any size of image can be viewed on the Web without downloading it all. IIP also makes it possible to use a variety of viewer software whereas other systems may force the use of one server, file format and one viewer.
IIP is currently in version 1.05 and is not actively developing further.
External links
Internet Imaging Protocol specification, Version 1.05
Martinez, K., Cupitt, J. and Perry, S. (1998) High resolution Colorimetric Image Browsing on the Web At WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web. , pp. 399-405
Object browsing using the Internet Imaging Protocol
IIPImage: IIP based open source visualization software
Internet protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPix | FlashPix is a bitmapped computer graphics file format where the image is saved in more than one resolution. Its design anticipated that when an HTTP request is sent for the file by a browser plugin implementing the format, only the image compatible with the current screen resolution is returned to the browser, saving on bandwidth and download time.
History
FlashPix is based on the IVUE file format, the tiled/multi-resolution image file format that was used by the Live Picture software (Live Picture Inc).
In 1995, a consortium of Eastman Kodak (PhotoCD), Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Live Picture Inc were looking for a powerful image file solution, and Live Picture's solution was the best approach for handling large image files.
Technical overview
FlashPix files have the .fpx file extension. FlashPix uses Microsoft's structured storage format which stores hierarchical data in a single file.
Each image is stored with its sub-resolutions. Each resolution is divided by 2, until the entire image can fit in a single tile. Tile size is variable, but the default usage is to have 64 x 64 pixel tiles (IVUE was using 256 x 256 pixels). Each tile can be compressed independently of other tiles using various algorithms (LZH, JPEG, RLE). Each pixel can have any number of channels of any size (for instance a 16-bit CMYK image), interleaved or not. Including Alpha channel.
The result is a file bigger than the original (at the same compression), but never more than 33% bigger. It allows efficient access to only the needed parts of the image without having to read the entire file.
For a 10200 x 7650 16-bit CMYK image using 64 x 64 tiles, as a normal uncompressed image would occupy 595 MB of disk space. FlashPix, however, will store:
The original image: 10200 x 7650 pixels in 160 x 120 tiles (~ 595 MB, but usually less using RLE or LZH per-tile)
Sub-resolution 1: 5100 x 3825 pixels in 80 x 60 tiles (~ 149 MB)
Sub-resolution 2: 2550 x 1913 pixels in 40 x 30 tiles (~ 37 MB)
Sub-resolution 3: 1275 x 957 pixels in 20 x 15 tiles (~ 9 MB)
Sub-resolution 4: 638 x 479 pixels in 10 x 8 tiles (~ 2.3 MB)
Sub-resolution 5: 319 x 240 pixels in 5 x 4 tiles (~ 598 KB)
Sub-resolution 6: 160 x 120 pixels in 3 x 2 tiles (~ 150 KB)
Sub-resolution 7: 80 x 60 pixels in 2 x 1 tiles (~ 37.5 KB)
Sub-resolution 8: 40 x 30 pixels in a single tile (~ 9 KB)
Total size: ~ 793 MB
A viewer (such as photo editing software) will access only the needed part. In the worst case, for a 1680 x 1050 display, 53 x 33 tiles (56 MB) are needed in memory, whatever portion of the image is being used.
Availability
A Flashpix OpenSource Toolkit (libfpx) is provided by ImageMagick. This code is mostly provided by Digital Imaging Group Inc and the Eastman Kodak Company in 1999, under a license (flashpix.h) similar to Apache License 1.0. Some code is adapted from IVUE code, and it also includes its own JPEG library by HP.
References
Graphics file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioPHP | BioPHP is a collection of open-source PHP code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, and other bioinformatics tools. BioRuby is released under the GNU GPL version 2 licence and is one of a number of Bio* projects, designed to reduce code duplication. As an open source bioinformatics project, BioPHP is affiliated with the Open Bioinformatics Foundation.
History
The BioPHP project grew out of GenePHP, which was started by Serge Gregorio in 2003. GenePHP was conceived as a PHP-based implementation of similar bioinformatics packages such as BioPerl and BioPython and BioRuby. BioPHP was developed in December 2005 by Joseba Bikandi at the University of the Basque Country, Spain as an extension of GenePHP. GenePHP is one of the four projects currently forming BioPHP.
Projects
BioPHP is divided into four 'projects'. The GenePHP project has a similar structure to other Bio* projects, with a number of classes representing (amongst other things) DNA and protein sequences and sequence alignments. Each class is designed to be general enough to be useful in a number of BioPHP projects. Similarly, the Functions project aims to create a number of functions to perform tasks on class objects and reduce code duplication between projects. The Minitools and Tools projects aim to generate a set of PHP scripts for small, repetitive tasks; scripts in the Tools project generally have special requirements, such as interfacing with non-PHP scripts and/or code (written in, for instance, Perl or C).
See also
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
References
External links
An object-oriented BioPHP
Lee Katz's biophp
Free bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAligner | JAligner is an open source Java implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Gotoh's improvement for biological local pairwise sequence alignment using the affine gap penalty model. It was written by Ahmed Moustafa.
See also
Sequence alignment software
Clustal
References
External links
Official website
Phylogenetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimetime%20Saturday | Crimetime Saturday is the official branding for a programming block that started in 2004–05 on the American CBS and Canadian CTV networks Saturday nights. However, the branding is only listed by CBS and industry sources as a placeholder for the time slot, and not as an official on-air branding for the night.
The first two hours feature reruns of CBS's crime drama procedural series, which over the years have included the four series of the CSI franchise, Criminal Minds, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Cold Case, Flashpoint (before its move to Ion Television), The Mentalist, Blue Bloods and FBI, with the final hour featuring a new or encore edition of the CBS News newsmagazine program 48 Hours, which focuses on true crime stories. Several times a year 48 Hours will air two-hour specials or consecutive episodes.
Beginning in the 2011–2012 season, the block was reduced to two hours from three to make room for Comedytime Saturday, a one-hour sitcom block, from 8 to 9 p.m. ET/PT. However, that hour was restored to Crimetime for the 2012–2013 season due to that block never being executed as planned and becoming a basic hour of repeat sitcoms. In a few cases, burned off shows such as Made in Jersey have aired in the first or both hours to minimize ratings damage, along with a new episode of Vegas in mid-April 2013 pushed up by a night due to CBS News coverage of the apprehension of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
The Crimetime block was re-reduced to two hours of Saturday night for the 2013–2014 season with the return of Comedytime Saturday, but returned for the full three hours in the 2014–2015 season after a reduction of CBS's comedy schedule.
In the 2020–21 season and again in the 2021–22 season, Crimetime Saturday was reduced to 1 hour in June and July due to Superstar Racing Experience (only 48 Hours aired during that time frame) the only other interruption is burn offs and Love Island during that time frame.
CBS Television Network
Saturday mass media
Television programming blocks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCLE%20%28alignment%20software%29 | MUltiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation (MUSCLE) is computer software for multiple sequence alignment of protein and nucleotide sequences. It is licensed as public domain. The method was published by Robert C. Edgar in two papers in 2004. The first paper, published in Nucleic Acids Research, introduced the sequence alignment algorithm. The second paper, published in BMC Bioinformatics, presented more technical details.
Algorithm
The MUSCLE algorithm proceeds in three stages: the draft progressive, improved progressive, and refinement stage.
Stage 1: Draft Progressive
In this first stage, the algorithm produces a multiple alignment, emphasizing speed over accuracy. This step begins by computing the k-mer distance for every pair of input sequences to create a distance matrix. UPGMA clusters the distance matrix to produce a binary tree. From this tree a progressive alignment is constructed, beginning with the creation of profiles for each leaf of the tree. For every node in the tree, a pairwise alignment is constructed of the two child profiles, creating a new profile to be assigned to that node. This continues until there is a multiple sequence alignment of all input sequences at the root of the tree.
Stage 2: Improved Progressive
This stage focuses on obtaining a more optimal tree by calculating the Kimura distance for each pair of input sequences using the multiple sequence alignment obtained in Stage one, and creates a second distance matrix. UPGMA clusters this distance matrix to obtain a second binary tree. A progressive alignment is performed to obtain a multiple sequence alignment like in Stage 1, but it is optimized by only computing alignments in subtrees whose branching orders have changed from the first binary tree, resulting in a more accurate alignment.
Stage 3: Refinement
In this final stage, an edge is chosen from the second tree, with edges being visited in decreasing distance from the root. The chosen edge is deleted, dividing the tree into two subtrees. The profile of the multiple alignment is then computed for each subtree. A new multiple sequence alignment is produced by re-aligning the subtree profiles. If the SP score is improved, the new alignment is kept, otherwise, it is discarded. The process of deleting an edge and aligning is repeated until convergence, or until a user-defined limit is reached.
Complexity and Comparison
In the first two stages of the algorithm, the time complexity is , the space complexity is . The refinement stage adds to the time complexity another term, . MUSCLE is often used as a replacement for Clustal, since it usually (but not always) gives better sequence alignments, depending on the chosen options. is significantly faster than Clustal, more so for larger alignments.
Algorithm Flowchart
Integration
MUSCLE is integrated into DNASTAR's Lasergene software, Geneious, and MacVector and is available in Sequencher, MEGA, and UGENE as a plug-in. MUSCLE is also available as a web service v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user%20development | End-user development (EUD) or end-user programming (EUP) refers to activities and tools that allow end-users – people who are not professional software developers – to program computers. People who are not professional developers can use EUD tools to create or modify software artifacts (descriptions of automated behavior) and complex data objects without significant knowledge of a programming language. In 2005 it was estimated (using statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) that by 2012 there would be more than 55 million end-user developers in the United States, compared with fewer than 3 million professional programmers. Various EUD approaches exist, and it is an active research topic within the field of computer science and human-computer interaction. Examples include natural language programming, spreadsheets, scripting languages (particularly in an office suite or art application), visual programming, trigger-action programming and programming by example.
The most popular EUD tool is the spreadsheet. Due to their unrestricted nature, spreadsheets allow relatively un-sophisticated computer users to write programs that represent complex data models, while shielding them from the need to learn lower-level programming languages. Because of their common use in business, spreadsheet skills are among the most beneficial skills for a graduate employee to have, and are therefore the most commonly sought after In the United States of America alone, there are an estimated 13 million end-user developers programming with spreadsheets
The programming by example (PbE) approach reduces the need for the user to learn the abstractions of a classic programming language. The user instead introduces some examples of the desired results or operations that should be performed on the data, and the PbE system infers some abstractions corresponding to a program that produces this output, which the user can refine. New data may then be introduced to the automatically created program, and the user can correct any mistakes made by the program in order to improve its definition. Low-code development platforms are also an approach to EUD.
One evolution in this area has considered the use of mobile devices to support end-user development activities. In this case previous approaches for desktop applications cannot be simply reproposed, given the specific characteristics of mobile devices. Desktop EUD environments lack the advantages of enabling end users to create applications opportunistically while on the move.
More recently, interest in how to exploit EUD to support development of Internet of Things applications has increased. In this area trigger-action programming seems a promising approach.
Lessons learned from EUD solutions can significantly influence the software life cycles for commercial software products, in-house intranet/extranet developments and enterprise application deployments.
Application specific low code development platforms
Roughly 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin%20Yi-bing | Lin Yi-bing or Jason Lin () ( Born: October 26, 1961 ) is a Taiwanese academic who has served as the Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) since 1995, and since 2002, the Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Management (CSIM), at Providence University, a Catholic university in Taiwan. He also serves as Vice President of the National Chiao Tung University.
Brief biography
Lin entered the National Cheng Kung University in 1980 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) in 1983. In 1985, he undertook a doctorate program at the University of Washington (Advisor: Ed Lazowska), and graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990. His research interests include personal communications, mobile computing, intelligent network signaling, computer telephony integration, and parallel simulation. He has developed an Internet of Things (IoT) platform called IoTtalk. This platform has been used for sustainable applications including AgriTalk for intelligent agriculture, EduTalk for intelligent education, CampusTalk for intelligent university campus, and so on.
Career chronology
1983 - 1985: Second Lieutenant Instructor, Communication and Electronics School of Chinese Army, Taiwan, R.O.C.
1990 - 1995: Research Scientist, Applied Research Area, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey
1995 - 1996: TRB Review Committee Member for Telecommunication Laboratories (TL), Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
1995–present: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
1996: Deputy Director, Microelectronics and Information Systems Research Center, (MIRC), NCTU
1996 - 1997: Consultant, Computer & Communication Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (CCL/ITRI)
1997 - 1999: Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
1999–present: Adjunct Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
2002–present: Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, Shalu, Taiwan
2004 - 2006: Dean, Office of Research and Development, National Chiao Tung University
2006 - 2011: Dean, College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University
Member of the International Advisory Board, Alpine Research and Development Lab for Networks and Telematics, University of Trento, Italy.
2009–present: Member, Board of Directors, Chunghwa Telecommunications
2011–present: Vice President, National Chiao Tung University
Source: Chiao Tung University webpage
Publications
Lin is the co-author of three books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (co-author with Imrich Chlamtac; published by John Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (co-author with Ai-Chun Pang, John Wiley, 2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (John Wiley, 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puredyne | puredyne is a discontinued live Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and Debian Live and dedicated to live audio-and-visual processing and streaming. Its focus was on the Pure Data audio synthesis system as well as SuperCollider, Csound and others, plus live video-processing systems such as Processing and Fluxus. It also included hardware related software such as arduino and came bundled with home-studio and graphic design software (Ardour, JACK, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.).
Development of puredyne was supported by the Arts Council England. Puredyne was a featured download on productivity weblog Lifehacker and was named as one of the two software of year 2010 by the PixelAche network of electronic festivals.
The conclusion of the Puredyne project was announced on the Puredyne mailing list in February 2012. Reasons stated for this decision involve difficulty in maintaining the distribution, and a lack of consensus with regard to future direction. The final version is the 10.10 Gazpacho beta.
Teaching
The main goal of puredyne was to provide a portable and easy to install live distribution to simplify the teaching of sound and video processing software which are either absent from the standard Linux distributions or incomplete. Its live form made it a perfect system for workshops or installation in locked down workstations which is the case in most universities and institutions.
Media art
Another aspect of puredyne is that it was maintained by media artists for media artists. The system provided particular optimizations at the kernel and compilation level to make the most out of i686 machines for real-time audio and video. As a consequence, this operating system is well suited for live performances and art installations. The modular aspect makes it easy for artists to customize and deploy it quickly to their own project needs.
Live distribution
Used as a Live CD, puredyne is a complete Linux multimedia desktop environment that can run from virtually any x86 machine. The system can be booted from a CD, DVD, or USB stick. Thanks to AuFS and the Debian Live system, it is possible to combine the CD and save all system changes, including new drivers and software, in any storage device (from hard-disk to USB sticks and other flash memory).
Installing puredyne can be done in several ways. The fastest is just a matter of copying a folder from the CD to the Hard-Drive (liveHD) or to a flash key (liveUSB). The system is truly a live distribution as it remains unchanged no matter which medium it is booted from.
The system also comes with GCC and special SDK tools to facilitate the modification of the distribution, the addition of new software and the creation of new ISO images.
History
Puredyne was started by Aymeric Mansoux, and for a long time, exclusively developed by members from the GOTO10 collective. It was initially based on the dyne:bolic multimedia linux distribution, and focused mostly on Pure Data, hence the name. The later "leek and potato" release |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20India | The Republic of India has one of the largest diplomatic networks, reflecting its links in the world and particularly in neighbouring regions: Central Asia, the Middle East, East Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the rest of the Indian subcontinent. There are also far-flung missions in the Caribbean and the Pacific, locations of historical Indian diaspora communities.
As a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Indian diplomatic missions in the capitals of other Commonwealth members are known as High Commissions. In other cities of Commonwealth countries, India calls some of its consular missions "Assistant High Commissions", although those in the cities of Birmingham and Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and the city of Hambantota in Sri Lanka are known as "Consulates-General".
As of March 2022, India has 202 missions and posts operating globally.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
International organisations
Gallery
Closed missions
Africa
Asia
Europe
Embassies to open
See also
Foreign relations of India
List of diplomatic missions in India
List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India
List of ambassadors and high commissioners to India
Visa policy of India
Visa requirements for Indian citizens
Notes
References
External links
Ministry of External Affairs of India
Indian embassies abroad
India
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATA%20%28band%29 | DATA was an electronic music band created in 1980 by Georg Kajanus, creator of such bands as Eclection, Sailor and Noir (with Tim Dry of the robotic/music duo Tik and Tok). After the break-up of Sailor in the late 1970s, Kajanus decided to experiment with electronic music and formed DATA, together with vocalists Francesca ("Frankie") and Phillipa ("Phil") Boulter, daughters of British singer John Boulter.
The classically orientated title track of DATA’s first album, Opera Electronica, was used as the theme music to the short film, Towers of Babel (1981), which was directed by Jonathan Lewis and starred Anna Quayle and Ken Campbell. Towers of Babel was nominated for a BAFTA award in 1982 and won the Silver Hugo Award for Best Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival of the same year.
DATA released two more albums, the experimental 2-Time (1983) and the Country & Western-inspired electronica album Elegant Machinery (1985). The title of the last album was the inspiration for the name of Swedish pop synth group, elegant MACHINERY, formerly known as Pole Position.
In 1995, Accumulator was released, a compilation album containing the complete albums 2-Time and Elegant Machinery, and the track "Fallout" from Opera Electronica.
Discography
Studio albums
Opera Electronica (1981)
2-Time (1983)
Elegant Machinery (1985)
Accumulator (1995, compilation album)
Singles
Over 21
・"Fallout" b/w "Politics" (1980 & 1981)
"Fever of Love" b/w "Talk" (1981)
"Cuckooland" b/w "Talk" (1981)
"Star" b/w "Talk" (1981)
"Living inside Me" b/w "A-O (No Bungalow)", "Data Plata" (1983)
"Stop" b/w "Blow" (1985)
"Blow" b/w "Blow", "D.J." (1985)
"Blow", "Fallout" b/w (1985)
"Ricocheted Love" b/w "In Blue", "D.J." (1986)
References
External links
Sailor Club info about DATA
Georg Kajanus Web Site
Georg Kajanus at myspace.com
DATA videos at youtube.com
English synth-pop groups
Musical groups from London
Sire Records artists
Virgin Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chicago%20Teddy%20Bears | The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17, 1971.
Synopsis
Unlike other shows set in Prohibition-era Chicago, The Chicago Teddy Bears was a sitcom. Any threats of violence were inferential rather than overt.
The main characters were Linc McCray (Dean Jones) and his Uncle Latzi (John Banner), partners in a speakeasy. A small-time gangster named "Big" Nick Marr (Art Metrano) wants to take it over. Marr is McCray's cousin and Latzi's nephew; the naive Latzi finds it hard to believe his nephew could be anything but a fine boy. However, Marvin the bookkeeper (Marvin Kaplan) and Linc's inept bodyguards, especially Duke (Jamie Farr), are very frightened of Marr.
The series was intended as a comeback vehicle for Ann Sothern, whose last regular role had been as the voice of My Mother the Car. She played a street flower vendor in the pilot and was meant to be a mediator between McCray and Marr. However, CBS wrote her out of the actual series.
The series received low ratings and was cancelled by CBS after only three months on the air. It ranked 70th out of 78 shows that season with an average 11.8 rating. The opening credits for this series can be found on YouTube.
Episodes
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
External links
1971 American television series debuts
1971 American television series endings
1970s American sitcoms
CBS original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television series set in the 1920s
Television shows set in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTSM | GTSM may refer to:
The Generalized TTL security mechanism, a proposed Internet data transfer security method.
The Gre Tai Securities Market, a foundation serving the OTC market in Taiwan. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun%20Netravali | Arun N. Netravali (born 26 May 1945 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian–American computer engineer credited with contributions in digital technology including HDTV. He conducted research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali was the ninth President of Bell Laboratories and has served as Lucent's Chief Technology Officer and Chief Network Architect. He received his undergraduate degree from IIT Bombay, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas, all in electrical engineering. Several global universities, including the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland, have honored him with honorary doctorates.
Netravali led Bell Labs research and development of high definition television (HDTV) and is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the development of digital video technology. He is the author of over 170 technical papers, 70 patents, and three books in the areas of picture processing, digital television, and computer networks.
Netravali is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He is also an IEEE fellow. He has received awards including the Marconi Prize, the Padma Bhushan Award from the Indian government, the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush, the Computers & Communications Prize, the Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Kilby Medal, the IEEE Frederik Philips Award, and the National Association of Software and Services Companies in India Medal.
Prior to joining Bell Labs, Netravali was an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at Bell Labs, he taught at City College of New York, Columbia University, and Rutgers University.
He was a resident of Westfield, NJ.
Awards and honors
Netravali has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including
the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal in 2001 (together with Thomas S. Huang)
the IEEE Frederik Philips Award in 2001
the U.S. National Medal of Technology
the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India
the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1991 (together with C. Chapin Cutler and John O. Limb)
elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1989
elected to IEEE Fellow in 1985
the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award in 1982 (together with John O. Limb)
Selected writing
Arun N. Netravali and Barry G. Haskell, Digital Pictures: Representation, Compression and Standards (Applications of Communications Theory), Springer (second edition, 1995),
References
External links
Laureate profile at The Spirit of American Innovation
Columbia University faculty
American people of Indian descent
Rice University alumni
Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
National Medal of Technology recipients
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering
1946 births
IIT Bombay alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American chief technology officers
Businesspeople from Mumbai
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Bell Labs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnect%20%28disambiguation%29 | An interconnect is a link between telecommunications networks.
Interconnect may also refer to :
Interconnect (integrated circuits)
Grid connection, a connection to or from an electrical grid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabata%20%28city%29 | Sabata or Sabdata (Plin. vi. 27. s. 31), was an ancient town of Sittacene, Assyria, probably the same place as the (Sabatha)of Zosimus (iii. 23), which that writer describes as 30 stadia from the ancient Seleuceia. It is also mentioned by Abulfeda (p. 253) under the name of Sabach.
References
Sittacene
Ancient Assyrian cities
Former populated places in Iraq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20TyTN | The HTC TyTN (also known as the HTC Hermes and the HTC P4500) is an Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC PDA designed and marketed by High Tech Computer Corporation of Taiwan. It has a touchscreen with a left-side slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The TyTN's functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player in addition to text messaging and multimedia messaging. It also offers Internet services such as e-mail (including Microsoft's DirectPush push e-mail solution, as well as BlackBerry services with applications provided by BlackBerry-partnered carriers), instant messaging, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band GSM phone with GPRS, and EDGE, and a single/dual band UMTS phone with HSDPA. It is a part of the first line of PDAs directly marketed and sold by HTC. On AT&T/Cingular, the TyTN was the successor to the HTC Wizard, known as the Cingular 8125. Also on AT&T, the TyTN was superseded by the HTC TyTN II, known as the AT&T 8925 and the AT&T Tilt.
Versions
Besides the branding differences, there are several models of the HTC TyTN: the TyTN 100, the TyTN 200, and the TyTN 300. The TyTN 100 has no front-facing camera or a .1-megapixel front-facing camera; the TyTN 200 has a .1-megapixel front-facing camera; and the TyTN 300 has a .3-megapixel front-facing camera.
The TyTN Model was sold as:
HTC TyTN 100
AT&T/Cingular 8525 (US)
Dopod 838Pro (Asia)
i-mate JASJAM (Middle East)
NTT DoCoMo hTc Z (Japan)
O2 XDA Trion
Orange United Kingdom SPV M3100
Qtek 9600
HTC TyTN 200
Dopod CHT 9000
HTC TyTN P4500
SoftBank X01HT (Japan)
Swisscom XPA v1605
Vodafone v1605 (Europe)
Vodafone VPA Compact III
HTC TyTN 300
T-Mobile MDA Vario II
ROM Updates
The TyTN shipped with Windows Mobile 5 AKU 2.3. HTC released AKU3 ROMs to carriers, though it was up to the carriers to provide updates to end users. In July 2007, HTC released a generic update to Windows Mobile 6, freely available to the public. In November 2007, AT&T released an update to Windows Mobile 6.
Official ROM updates are or were available for several versions of the TyTN, including the AT&T/Cingular 8525, the Dopod 838Pro, the i-mate JASJAM, the O2 XDA Trion, and the Orange SPV M3100 (AKU 3.3.0). Some of these updates update the TyTN to Windows Mobile 5 AKU 3.n.n, others update it to Windows Mobile 6.
Specifications
Screen size:
Screen resolution: 240×320 pixels at 139 ppi, 4:3 aspect ratio, flips into 320x240 landscape mode when keyboard is slid out.
Screen colors: 65536 (16-bit) colors
Input devices: Touchscreen interface, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and jog wheel
Battery: 1300 or 1350 mAh, user-accessible
Battery has up to 5–6 hours of talk on 3G network and up to 250 hours of standby.
1.9 megapixel camera with fixed focus lens, LED flash, self-portrait mirror, and macro mode
Location finding by detection of cell towers and Wi-Fi networks (through Google Maps Mobile)
Samsung SC32442A (400 MHz ARM ARM920T processor)
ATI Imageon Gra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games%20Computers%20Play | In the 1980s, Games Computers Play (GCP) was an online service written by Gardner Pomper and Greg Hogg and one of the first multiplayer online games (MOGs) to offer a graphical user interface (GUI). The service launched sometime in early 1985, beaten only by a few months by PlayNET on the Commodore 64, which ultimately became America Online.
The system was primarily accessible with Atari 8-bit computers, with a minimum of 48k of memory. A version for the Atari ST was also available late in the service's life. The service only garnered about 1,000 subscribers at its peak.
See also
GEnie, General Electric's online service (1985–1999)
References
External links
Antic Magazine Vol. 4, No. 6 (October 1985) Communications - Games Computers Play by Eric Clausen (review)
Games Computers Play, Inc. Manual (1986)
Games Computers Play, Inc. Flyer (1986)
Gardner Pomper 1956 - 2016 (legacy.com)
Pre–World Wide Web online services
Multiplayer video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Assurance%20Guard | A High Assurance Guard (HAG) is a Multilevel security computer device which is used to communicate between different Security Domains, such as NIPRNet to SIPRNet. A HAG is one example of a Controlled Interface between security levels. HAGs are approved through the Common Criteria process.
Operation
A HAG runs multiple virtual machines or physical machines - one or more subsystems for the lower classification, one (or more) subsystems for the higher classification. The hardware runs a type of Knowledge Management software that examines data coming out of the higher classification subsystem and rejects any data that is classified higher than the lower classification. In general, a HAG allows lower classified data that resides on a higher classified system to be moved to another lower classified system. For example, in the US, it would allow unclassified information residing on a Secret classified system to be moved to another Unclassified system. Through various rules and filters, the HAG ensures that data is of the lower classification and then allows the transfer.
On the application layer, the HAG runs an "evaluated mandatory integrity policy" that provides sensitive files, data and applications protection from inadvertent disclosure. At the operating system level, the HAG must have a multilevel kernel that ensures sensitive information, processes, and devices stored and running on the system at different sensitivity levels cannot intermingle in violation of the system's mandatory security model.
The systems are certified via the Common Criteria; depending on the classification, the system may require Common Criteria Evaluated Assurance Level (EAL) 3 or higher. For examples, in the US, an evaluation at the EAL 5 or EAL 5+ (EAL 5 Augmented) or higher is required to export from a Secret domain to an Unclassified domain.
Some manufacturers may use "Trusted Computer System" or "Trusted Applications with High Assurance" as an equivalent term to HAG.
Importance, risks
The HAG is mostly used in email and DMS environments as certain organizations may only have unclassified network access, and they need to send a message to an organization that has only secret network access. The HAG provides them this ability.
See also
Data Diode
Guard (information security)
Cross-domain solution
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20domain | A security domain is the determining factor in the classification of an enclave of servers/computers. A network with a different security domain is kept separate from other networks. For example, NIPRNet, SIPRNet, JWICS, and NSANet are all kept separate.
A security domain is considered to be an application or collection of applications that all trust a common security token for authentication, authorization or session management. Generally speaking, a security token is issued to a user after the user has actively authenticated with a user ID and password to the security domain.
Examples of a security domain include:
All the web applications that trust a session cookie issued by a Web Access Management product
All the Windows applications and services that trust a Kerberos ticket issued by Active Directory
In an identity federation that spans two different organizations that share a business partner, customer or business process outsourcing relation – a partner domain would be another security domain with which users and applications (from the local security domain) interact.
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSHP-FM | WSHP-FM (103.9 MHz, "His Radio Praise") is an FM radio station licensed to Easley, South Carolina and serving the Greenville radio market. Owned by Radio Training Network, it broadcasts a contemporary worship music radio format.
History
103.9 FM signed on in 1964 as WELP-FM, mostly simulcasting sister station, WELP 1360 AM. By the early 1980s, WELP-FM's tower was moved to a new location and the station's power was increased from 2.3 kW to 3 kW in order to get a better signal into nearby Greenville. The station at the time was known as WTLT "Lite 104", airing a Soft Adult Contemporary format.
Both WTLT and WELP-FM were sold to new ownership by 1987. In December of that year, WTLT changed to Urban Contemporary as WLWZ, adopting the "Z-104" nickname. After two months of cold segues and promos, a new airstaff debuted in February 1988, consisting of Greg Darden (from KRNB—Memphis, Tennessee) for mornings, Maxx Myrick (from WCIN: Cincinnati, Ohio) for middays as well as programming duties, Dave Hendricks (a holdover from the station's previous format) for afternoons, Tori Turner (also from WCIN) for nights as well as the station's music director, and "Brother" Bill Prater (from WJKC/Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands) for overnights. Ratings increased almost overnight from a 1.1 to a 9.4, despite having a limited signal that covered half of the Greenville-Spartanburg radio market.
In 1989, the Voyager broadcasting group purchased the radio station, and utilized Don Kelly & JC Floyd as consultants. Wayne Walker (from WFXC, also known as "FOXY107" in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina & WHYZ Greenville, South Carolina, was brought in as Program Director & Operations Manager, and the station was renamed MUSIC POWER Z-104. The successful lineup for a number of years included "Smooth Talker" Wayne Walker & Vince Davis on the Z-104 Wake-Up Patrol, also Rocky Valentine, Al Sullystone, Janice Henderson and Action Jackson.
In January 1993, WLWZ added a simulcast partner as 103.3 FM from nearby Greer signed on, becoming WLYZ, which helped the station to be heard in the Spartanburg part of the market. By that time, both stations were billed as "Double Z", but continued with the Urban format. This made the station receivable along Interstate 85 almost from the North Carolina to Georgia line on both 103s.
Emerald City Broadcasting purchased WWMM/107.3 in 1994 and added an urban format which became a direct competitor. WWMM was relaunched as WJMZ "107.3 Jamz". Emerald City purchased Double Z in 1994, and began programming Double Z with an Urban AC/Oldies format in order to better co-exist with 107.3. Eventually the Double Z 103 simulcast became Alternative rock "103-X" with 103.3 picking up the WXWZ call sign and 103.9 picking up the 'WXWX call sign in early 1995. All the Double Z Urban staff was fired with the exception of Action Jackson and Wayne Walker who did a short stint as midday personality on WJMZ until March 1995. Action Jackson continued to do weekends a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20scan | On computer networks, a service scan identifies the available network services by attempting to initiate many sessions to different applications with each device in a target group of devices. This is done by sending session initiation packets for many different applications to open ports on all of the devices specified in the target group of devices. This scan is done across a wide range of TCP, UDP (and other transport layer protocols if desired such as SCTP). A service scanner will identify each device it finds along with the services that it finds on the ports that it scans.
Most user-based network services are intended to be found by users. As an example, a web service may be made available on TCP port 80 on a device. TCP/80 is the standard port for HTTP and users would be able to access the content of that web server, the website, by directing their web browsers to that device where the user would be able to view the home page of the website. However, a web service may be opened on a different port, where different content may be shared. This may be in an attempt to hide some content from ordinary users and only to provide it to users who know how to access the web service on the nonstandard port. A port scan will be able to identify that a port is open on the device, but may not be able to determine what service is being offered on that port. A service scan of that device will be able to determine that the port is open and that it is a web service.
Service scanners can be set to target a single device, but they are more often set to target a large number of devices. For example, a service scanner may be configured to scan a subnet. A service scanner may also be configured to scan standardized, well-known, and otherwise unused ports and will attempt to initiate sessions to many known services for each port. This is different from a port sweep that will only identify open ports, which are assumed to be associated with the default service for that port. The difference is that a port scan and a port sweep will detect that a device has a port open and would assume that the port is associated with the service normally associated with that port. However, a service scanner would verify that the service is actually associated with that port, or would attempt to find and report the application actually associated with that port on the device.
Information security personnel may perform service scans to reduce risk. For example, a service scanner may be configured to only search for Microsoft SQL Servers on TCP ports from 1 to 50,000 on all of the devices in an enterprise private network. If the service scanner only finds the MSSQL service running on known and authorized servers at TCP/1433 (the assigned port) then they can be reasonably sure that there are no unauthorized SQL servers in their network. Tools such as nmap and nessus may be used for this purpose.
On the other hand, a network attacker may use a special type of service scanner, kn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton%20Smith | Ashton Smith is an American voice actor who has recorded voice-overs for many movie trailers, television commercials, and network promotions. He served as the narrator for the National Geographic documentary program Seconds From Disaster from 2004 to 2007.
History
References
Sources
External links
Living people
American male voice actors
1962 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking%20Raiders | Viking Raiders is a computer game developed by Mark Lucas for the ZX Spectrum and released by Firebird in 1984. It can be played by two to four players, both human and computer.
Gameplay
A turn-based strategy, which involves moving boats, men, and catapults to capture the castle of each opponent. Playing pieces can move in any direction up to a distance of nine grid squares in a straight line, obstacles permitting. Collecting extra gold in the game allows players to buy further units.
During the game, winter sets in and freezes over ever increasing sections of water, which in turn can trap the players' boats. To win the game the player must defeat all opponents by attacking their castles, which may take several attempts. When a castle is captured, the defeated player's units are transferred to the victor. Players also have to be wary of hazards such as drinking horns; men who drink these move around the playing area erratically, fighting any units they encounter, but may be captured by an opposing army. However, the drunk Vikings also have a random 'invincibility' about them, which can occasionally lead to one of them - laden with Dutch courage - taking out most of an opposition army.
External links
Viking Raiders at GameFAQs
1984 video games
Europe-exclusive video games
Telecomsoft games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games set in the Viking Age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20Wind%20II%3A%20Human%20Onslaught | War Wind II: Human Onslaught is a real-time strategy computer game from developer DreamForge Intertainment that was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1997. It is the sequel to DreamForge's 1996 release War Wind.
Overview
Though favorably reviewed overall, like its predecessor War Wind, Human Onslaught was overshadowed by higher-profile RTS titles such as Age of Empires and StarCraft.
Plot
The storyline of War Wind II involves the discovery of one of the tablets of Naga'Rom in the north pole of Earth. A military/scientific station is located at the site of the tablet's recovery. The tablet is inadvertently activated by the scientists at the facility, transporting all occupants of the facility and much of the surrounding ice to Yavaun.
Meanwhile, on Yavaun, the Eaggra have escaped Tha'Roon rule and have allied themselves with the Shama'Li, forming a faction called S.U.N. (Servants Under Naga'Rom). The Tha'Roon have retained their rule over the Obblinox and the Tha'Roon empire's mission is clear: destroy the S.U.N. Faction and rule Yavaun. As the Tha'Roon come close to victory, a sudden burst of light and a new race emerge on Yavaun: Humans. The Tha'Roon turn their attention to the new invaders and the S.U.N. slip away to regroup.
The game begins years into the conflict between all the inhabitants of Yavaun. The humans have splintered into two groups, or factions. The Marines (children of the soldiers of the facility), whose goal is to conquer the other races and rule Yavaun, and the Descendants (children of the scientists) who seek to return to Earth.
The plot for each faction varies dramatically. The Tha'Roon seek to destroy all other races, while the Marines have a similar goal. The Descendants want to simply return to earth. The S.U.N.'s objective is the most peculiar as they want to free the Obblinox, unite with the Descendants, and create peace on Yavaun.
Reception
GameSpot gave the game 8 out 10.
References
External links
1997 video games
Real-time strategy video games
Strategic Simulations games
Video game sequels
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set on fictional planets
Windows games
Windows-only games
DreamForge Intertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBEL%20%28AM%29 | WBEL (1380 AM) is a 90s hits radio station in South Beloit, Illinois with studios in Janesville, Wisconsin. Established in 1948, the station is owned by Big Radio. Its programming is simulcast on translator stations W222AU (92.3 FM) in Beloit, Wisconsin and W255CZ (98.9 FM) in Janesville.
History
WBEL was signed on in 1948 by pioneer broadcaster and engineer Russ Salter. The station originally focused primarily on the local Beloit, Wisconsin area, with an adult standards format and talk programming. In August 1998, the station made the switch to a sports radio format affiliated with ESPN Radio, changed its call letters to WTJK, "The Jock" and began marketing itself to the Janesville and Rockford, Illinois areas. In 2001, Shelly Salter, CEO of Salter Broadcasting Company (SBC) and daughter of Russ Salter, sold the station to Good Karma Broadcasting. WTJK became the first ESPN Radio station for Good Karma Broadcasting.
In January 2014, Good Karma announced that it would sell WTJK and sister station WWHG (105.9 FM) to Scott Thompson's Big Radio; as part of the deal, the new owners began operating the stations through a local marketing agreement on February 1. Big Radio announced that it would decrease WTJK's ESPN Radio programming and add more local news; on April 14, 2014, the station converted to a talk radio format, featuring local programming (including drive time simulcasts with sister station WEKZ-FM) from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.; ESPN Radio programming continued to be carried during nights and weekends. The sale was completed on May 12, 2014 at a purchase price of $1.45 million. On October 13, 2014, the call letters were changed back to WBEL.
On May 1, 2017, WBEL changed their format from news/talk to oldies. On October 9, 2017, WBEL changed their format from oldies to 90's hits, branded as "The Beat 92.3/98.9" (simulcast on translators W222AU 92.3 FM Beloit and W255CZ 98.9 FM Janesville).
Programming
Until 2014, ESPN Radio programming aired during most of the day, including Mike and Mike in the Morning, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and The Scott Van Pelt Show. The station also aired The Jim Rome Show middays, while Jock Talk, the only daily local sports talk show in the Rockford/Beloit/Janesville region, served as the station's evening drive program.
In 2011, WTJK debuted four football talk shows: Wisconsin Prep Preview, focusing on Southern Wisconsin high school football with emphasis on the WIAA Big Eight Conference; NIC-10 Tonight, focusing on Northern Illinois high school football with emphasis on the Northern Illinois Conference; Campus Kickoff, a weekly college football show with emphasis on Wisconsin Badgers football, Northern Illinois Huskies football, and Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks football; and The Sunday Sideline Report, a wide-ranging Sunday morning show with preps and college recaps, and NFL previews, with emphasis on the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. These shows run seasonally during the fall and winter. All of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Le%20Chevalier%20D%27Eon%20episodes | Le Chevalier D'Eon is a 24-episode anime television series produced by Production I.G. The series was originally broadcast on the WOWOW network in Japan every Saturday from August 19, 2006 to February 24, 2007. Loosely based on the historical figure Chevalier D'Eon, the story follows the exploits of D'Eon de Beaumont as he attempts to solve the mystery behind his sister's murder while serving as a knight of France. The series was initially licensed by ADV Films, but was one of over thirty titles that were transferred to Funimation Entertainment.
The series features one opening theme and one ending theme throughout all 24-episodes. The opening theme is "BORN" by Miwako Okuda, and the ending theme is "OVER NIGHT" by Aya. "OVER NIGHT" was written specially for the series.
As of October 2007, Media Factory released the series in twelve DVD volumes that contained two episodes each. ADV Films released the series in six DVD volumes with four episodes as of December 2007. In December 2008, Funimation released a complete box set of the series DVDs, which contains all the episodes in four discs. The first two discs contain commentaries along with some of the series' episodes, an additional disc with extra content such as promotional videos and interviews with the original Japanese cast is also included.
Episode list
Home Media release
English
References
General
WOWOW Episode List Japanese
Specific
Episodes
Le Chevalier D'Eon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20Computing | Rainbow Computing was an Apple II retailer and video game software publisher that was established in 1976 by Gene Sprouse and Glenn Dollar in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The original store was located in Granada Hills but was eventually relocated to Northridge. The company opened a second location in Woodland Hills, where it operated for nine years until the sale of the company to the Torrance-based Pathfinder Computer Centers retail chain in 1985.
Notable employees and customers
David Gordon (customer)
See also
References
Consumer electronics retailers in the United States
Defunct computer companies based in California
Retail companies based in California
Software companies based in California
Video game retailers of the United States
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Los Angeles
Northridge, Los Angeles
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
American companies established in 1976
Computer companies established in 1976
Retail companies established in 1976
Video game companies established in 1976
Retail companies disestablished in 1985
Video game companies disestablished in 1985
1976 establishments in California
1985 disestablishments in California
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles |
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