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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Pearce | Albert Pearce (July 25, 1898 – June 2, 1961) was an American comedian, singer and banjo player who was a popular personality on several radio networks from 1928 to 1947.
Biography
After selling insurance door-to-door during the 1920s, Pearce began selling real estate. With his brother Cal, he sang on the air in 1928 as part of the San Francisco Real Estate Glee Club. He moved from music to comedy on KFRC, San Francisco, after the writer Jack Hasty gave him a comedy sketch about a nervous door-to-door salesman named Elmer Blurt. As Pearce rose to fame, Blurt's running gag, "Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I hope", became a national catch phrase.
Radio
When Pearce's The Happy Go Lucky Hour (sometimes titled Al Pearce and His Gang) began on KFRC in 1928, his gang consisted of his brother Cal, Abe Bloom, Charles Carter, Jean Clarimoux, Edna Fisher, Harry K. McClintock, Tommy Harris, Norman Nielsen, Monroe Upton (as Lord Bilgewater), Hazel Warner and Cecil Wright. The musical-variety show was such a success in San Francisco from 1928 until 1932 that it moved to the Blue Network on January 13, 1934, airing on Saturdays at 6 pm until September when the 30-minute series split into two 15-minute shows heard on Mondays and Fridays at 5 pm. It continued in those time slots until March 29, 1935.
Pearce had a sponsor with Pepsodent Toothpaste for Friday afternoon shows on both the Blue Network and NBC from May 13, 1935, until April 3, 1936. His mid-1930s gang included the comic Morey Amsterdam, "human chatterbox" Arlene Harris, vocalist Mabel Todd, singing comic Andy Andrews (who later achieved regional fame as "Ranger Andy", the host of a popular Hartford children's program) and nutty cooking and health expert "Tizzie Lish", portrayed by Bill Comstock.
On January 5, 1937, Pearce moved to CBS for the Ford Motor-sponsored series, Watch the Fun Go By, airing on Tuesdays at 9 pm until June 28, 1938. In 1937, Arthur "Artie" Auberbach joined the show as the Yiddish-accented "Mr. Kitzel", staying until about 1946, when he took the character to Jack Benny's show.
Sponsored by Grape Nuts, Pearce returned to NBC on Mondays at 8 pm from October 10, 1938, to July 31, 1939.
Back at CBS, under the sponsorship of Dole Pineapple, he broadcast on Wednesdays at 8 pm from October 11, 1939, until April 3, 1940.
Camel Cigarettes was his sponsor for his CBS series on Fridays at 7:30 pm from May 3, 1940, until January 2, 1942.
In 1944, his sponsor was Dr. Pepper (which still had the dot in the name then), and when he was replaced on the Blue Network by an audience participation show, Darts for Dough, Pearce continued elsewhere while Dr. Pepper stayed on as the sponsor of Darts for Dough.
Pearce was also a frequent guest on the popular Armed Air Force Radio Service during World War II on shows such as Mail Call and Command Performance.
Film
Pearce starred as himself in The Hit Parade (1937) and Here Comes Elmer (1943) both for Republic Pictures, which featured his Elmer Blur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDMR | KDMR (1190 AM) is a radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station is owned by the Catholic Radio Network, Inc. It airs a Roman Catholic religious radio format. KDMR airs both local shows and national programming from EWTN Radio.
KDMR operates with 5000 watts by day. Because AM 1190 is a clear-channel frequency reserved for Class A stations KEX in Portland, Oregon, and XEWK in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, KDMR must reduce power at night to 500 watts to avoid interference. Programming is simulcast on FM translator station K237GQ in Kansas City, Kansas, at 95.3 MHz.
History
On September 1, 1971, the station went on the air as KAYQ. It used the slogan "Fresh Air for Kansas City", and aired a Middle of the Road music and news format, competing with ratings leader KMBZ 980. The format later changed to country music for several years.
On December 20, 1978, the station changed its call sign to KJLA under Owner/General Manager Wilton "Chip" Osborn, and played 24-hour disco hits until that music phenomenon faded in 1980. Even the newscasts had a disco beat in the background. In the fall of 1981, KJLA switched to "The Music of Your Life," a syndicated adult standards format, and dropped all local newscasts. Yet several months later, the station received a national Associated Press award for its coverage of the deadly Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
On October 12, 1992, the station's call letters were changed to KFEZ, to reflect the "easy" sound of the station as a Music of Your Life network affiliate. On March 3, 1997, the format switched to Business News and the call letters were changed again to KPHN. During this time, the station carried the syndicated Imus in the Morning.
On July 19, 2002, at 2 PM, Radio Disney made its debut in Kansas City, with the first song being "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne. In June 2013, Disney put KPHN and six other Radio Disney stations in medium-sized markets up for sale, in order to refocus the network's broadcast distribution in the top 25 markets.
On July 31, 2013, KPHN dropped the Radio Disney affiliation and went silent. In April, Disney filed to sell KPHN to the Catholic Radio Network (a Missouri Non-Profit Corporation), owner of KEXS. The sale was consummated on July 25, 2014, at a purchase price of $700,000, and accepted by the FCC on July 28, 2014. After almost one year, KPHN resumed operations on July 25, 2014.
On December 11, 2016, which is the vigil of the feast day for Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, the station switched to a Spanish-language Catholic radio format. It has since returned to English-language Catholic programming, although sometimes different than sister stations 1090 KEXS and 890 KMVG, which also serve Kansas City as Catholic radio stations.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KDMR
DMR
DMR
Catholic radio stations
Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPOM | WPOM (1600 AM) is a radio station broadcasting ethnic programming. Licensed to Riviera Beach, Florida, United States, the station serves the West Palm Beach area. The station is currently owned by Carline Clerge, through licensee Caribbean Media Group, Inc.
History
The station went on the air as WHEW on August 17, 1959. In 1969, the station changed its call letters to WXVI; by 1970, the station had a middle-of-the-road format. In 1971, the station became WPOM, with a contemporary format. In the intervening years, WPOM would adopt several other formats, including all-news in the late 1970s, disco in the early 1980s, and a split format of gospel and blues by 1999.
Hibernia Broadcasting, whose stations were all affiliated with Radio Disney, acquired WPOM in 1999, and switched the station to Radio Disney on June 16, 1999; to better reflect the format, the station adopted the WMNE callsign, referring to Minnie Mouse, on July 9. Hibernia was acquired by Disney, through ABC, in 2000.
Disney sold WMNE to Travis Media, LLC in January 2010. In the interim, Disney took the station, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22. The station resumed broadcasting on May 6; on June 2, the call letters were changed to WHTY.
In March 2015, Carline Clerge, who already owned 42% of the station, agreed to acquire the remaining 58% from Robert Travis and David Urbach; upon taking control on August 24, 2015, Clerge transferred WHTY from Travis Media to Caribbean Media Group, another company she controls. The call sign was changed back to WPOM on August 24, 2015.
References
External links
Former station website
POM
Radio stations established in 1959
1959 establishments in Florida
Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Diaries | Ice Diaries is a documentary TV series on the TLC network that follows four up-and-coming American figure skaters through the 2005/2006 Olympic season as each tries to make the 2006 Olympic team. The four skaters are Beatrisa "Bebe" Liang, Alissa Czisny, Danielle Kahle, and Sandra Rucker. Rucker did not make it out of Regionals, the first step for qualifying for the United States Figure Skating Championships. Kahle won both her Regionals and Sectionals and placed twelfth at Nationals. Czisny placed second at Skate America and won Skate Canada International, but finish in last place at the Grand Prix Final and had two bad skates at Nationals and finished seventh. Liang came in fourth at Skate America and finished fifth at Nationals, the highest placement of the four skaters. After Rucker's season ended before the series did, the show profiled Jennifer Kirk and her decision to quit competitive skating the year before an Olympic year. None of the profiled skaters made the Olympic team. Created by co-executive producer Scott Williams and Dan Marinelli, Ice Diaries was produced by IMG Media in association with Turtle Island Productions.
Factual errors
The series repeatedly refers to Rucker as the defending champion. This is not the case. Rucker was the 2005 Champion on the junior level. Had she been the defending senior champion, she would not have had to qualify for the championships.
The series also glosses over competitions that were not on the Grand Prix or national qualifying competitions. Liang, for example, began her season at the Nebelhorn Trophy, not Skate America.
See also
2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
References
External links
TLC - Ice Diaries - Official Site
Figure skating on television
TLC (TV network) original programming
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%20at%20the%201932%20Summer%20Olympics | Finland competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Medalists
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1932 Summer Olympics
1932
1932 in Finnish sport
Finnish-American culture in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-cost%20flow%20problem | The minimum-cost flow problem (MCFP) is an optimization and decision problem to find the cheapest possible way of sending a certain amount of flow through a flow network. A typical application of this problem involves finding the best delivery route from a factory to a warehouse where the road network has some capacity and cost associated. The minimum cost flow problem is one of the most fundamental among all flow and circulation problems because most other such problems can be cast as a minimum cost flow problem and also that it can be solved efficiently using the network simplex algorithm.
Definition
A flow network is a directed graph with a source vertex and a sink vertex , where each edge has capacity , flow and cost , with most minimum-cost flow algorithms supporting edges with negative costs. The cost of sending this flow along an edge is . The problem requires an amount of flow to be sent from source to sink .
The definition of the problem is to minimize the total cost of the flow over all edges:
with the constraints
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Relation to other problems
A variation of this problem is to find a flow which is maximum, but has the lowest cost among the maximum flow solutions. This could be called a minimum-cost maximum-flow problem and is useful for finding minimum cost maximum matchings.
With some solutions, finding the minimum cost maximum flow instead is straightforward. If not, one can find the maximum flow by performing a binary search on .
A related problem is the minimum cost circulation problem, which can be used for solving minimum cost flow. This is achieved by setting the lower bound on all edges to zero, and then making an extra edge from the sink to the source , with capacity and lower bound , forcing the total flow from to to also be .
The following problems are special cases of the minimum cost flow problem (we provide brief sketches of each applicable reduction, in turn):
Shortest path problem (single-source). Require that a feasible solution to the minimum cost flow problem sends one unit of flow from a designated source to a designated sink . Give all edges infinite capacity.
Maximum flow problem. Let all nodes have zero demand, and let the cost associated with traversing any edge be zero. Now, introduce a new edge from the current sink to the current source . Stipulate that the per-unit cost of sending flow across edge equals , and permit infinite capacity. (This reduction is also mentioned in Circulation problem).
Assignment problem. Suppose that each partite set in the bipartition has vertices, and denote the bipartition by . Give each supply and give each demand . Each edge is to have unit capacity.
Solutions
The minimum cost flow problem can be solved by linear programming, since we optimize a linear function, and all constraints are linear.
Apart from that, many combinatorial alg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation%20problem | The circulation problem and its variants are a generalisation of network flow problems, with the added constraint of a lower bound on edge flows, and with flow conservation also being required for the source and sink (i.e. there are no special nodes). In variants of the problem, there are multiple commodities flowing through the network, and a cost on the flow.
Definition
Given flow network with:
, lower bound on flow from node to node ,
, upper bound on flow from node to node ,
, cost of a unit of flow on
and the constraints:
,
(flow cannot appear or disappear in nodes).
Finding a flow assignment satisfying the constraints gives a solution to the given circulation problem.
In the minimum cost variant of the problem, minimize
Multi-commodity circulation
In a multi-commodity circulation problem, you also need to keep track of the flow of the individual commodities:
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There is also a lower bound on each flow of commodity.
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The conservation constraint must be upheld individually for the commodities:
Solution
For the circulation problem, many polynomial algorithms have been developed (e.g., Edmonds–Karp algorithm, 1972; Tarjan 1987-1988). Tardos found the first strongly polynomial algorithm.
For the case of multiple commodities, the problem is NP-complete for integer flows. For fractional flows, it is solvable in polynomial time, as one can formulate the problem as a linear program.
Related problems
Below are given some problems, and how to solve them with the general circulation setup given above.
Minimum cost multi-commodity circulation problem - Using all constraints given above.
Minimum cost circulation problem - Use a single commodity
Multi-commodity circulation - Solve without optimising cost.
Simple circulation - Just use one commodity, and no cost.
Multi-commodity flow - If denotes a demand of for commodity from to , create an edge with for all commodities . Let for all other edges.
Minimum cost multi-commodity flow problem - As above, but minimize the cost.
Minimum cost flow problem - As above, with 1 commodity.
Maximum flow problem - Set all costs to 0, and add an edge from the sink to the source with , ∞ and .
Minimum cost maximum flow problem - First find the maximum flow amount . Then solve with and .
Single-source shortest path - Let and for all edges in the graph, and add an edge with and .
All-pairs shortest path - Let all capacities be unlimited, and find a flow of 1 for commodities, one for each pair of nodes.
References
Network flow problem
Mathematical problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntop | ntop is computer software that probes a computer network to show network use in a way similar to what the program top does for processes.
Software
In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a web server, creating a HTML dump of the network status. It supports a NetFlow-sFlow emitter-collector, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRDtool (RRD) for persistently storing traffic statistics.
ntop is available for both Unix and Win32-based platforms. It has been developed by Luca Deri, an Italian research scientist and network manager at University of Pisa.
Common usage on a Linux system is to start the ntop daemon (), then one can use the web interface to ntop via visiting provided the loopback device has been started () and the listening port for ntop is 3000 (look out for the option in ).
See also
Netsniff-ng
iftop
ntopng
References
External links
Network analyzers
Unix network-related software
Linux security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon%20Bazira | Amon Bazira (sometimes referred to as Amon Kabunga Bazira; 1944–1993) was a Ugandan Pan-Africanist leader and an organiser who created an extensive intelligence network that was a clandestine component of the struggle to end the regime of Ugandan military dictator and president, Idi Amin. After helping to remove Idi Amin, Bazira served as Deputy Director of intelligence, and then as Director of Intelligence in Uganda in 1979. He produced a government report predicting that there would be a massive genocide in Rwanda that would lead to the collapse of order in Central and Eastern Africa, and proposed granting citizenship to Rwandan refugees and other displaced Africans in Uganda, as a means of preventing genocidal warfare. In August 1993, Amon Bazira was assassinated in between Nairobi and Nakuru in Kenya.
Background and education
Amon Bazira studied at Bwera Junior Secondary School then Nyakasura School in present day Fort Portal. He later joined Makerere University where he offered Philosophy, History and Law and graduating in 1970.
Career
Amon Bazira served as Member of Parliament for the then Kasese West Constituency between 1980 and 1985.He also served as the deputy minister for Lands, Water and Surveys in the Obote II administration, a position he occupied until the fall of this administration on July 27, 1985.
Personal life
Amon Bazira was married to Mary Bazira and is the father of Daniel Bazira Kashagama, who was appointed King of Busongora Kingdom.
He was also father-in-law to Obiora Chinedu Okafor through his daughter Annette Atugonza.
References
External links
The African Front website
1944 births
1993 deaths
Ugandan pan-Africanists
Assassinated Ugandan politicians
Ugandan people murdered abroad
People murdered in Kenya
Makerere University alumni
Ugandan prisoners sentenced to death
Prisoners sentenced to death by Uganda
Ugandan people imprisoned abroad
Prisoners and detainees of Rwanda
1990s assassinated politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-commodity%20flow%20problem | The multi-commodity flow problem is a network flow problem with multiple commodities (flow demands) between different source and sink nodes.
Definition
Given a flow network , where edge has capacity . There are commodities , defined by , where and is the source and sink of commodity , and is its demand. The variable defines the fraction of flow along edge , where in case the flow can be split among multiple paths, and otherwise (i.e. "single path routing"). Find an assignment of all flow variables which satisfies the following four constraints:
(1) Link capacity: The sum of all flows routed over a link does not exceed its capacity.
(2) Flow conservation on transit nodes: The amount of a flow entering an intermediate node is the same that exits the node.
(3) Flow conservation at the source: A flow must exit its source node completely.
(4) Flow conservation at the destination: A flow must enter its sink node completely.
Corresponding optimization problems
Load balancing is the attempt to route flows such that the utilization of all links is even, where
The problem can be solved e.g. by minimizing . A common linearization of this problem is the minimization of the maximum utilization , where
In the minimum cost multi-commodity flow problem, there is a cost for sending a flow on . You then need to minimize
In the maximum multi-commodity flow problem, the demand of each commodity is not fixed, and the total throughput is maximized by maximizing the sum of all demands
Relation to other problems
The minimum cost variant of the multi-commodity flow problem is a generalization of the minimum cost flow problem (in which there is merely one source and one sink ). Variants of the circulation problem are generalizations of all flow problems. That is, any flow problem can be viewed as a particular circulation problem.
Usage
Routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) in optical burst switching of Optical Network would be approached via multi-commodity flow formulas.
Register allocation can be modeled as an integer minimum cost multi-commodity flow problem: Values produced by instructions are source nodes, values consumed by instructions are sink nodes and registers as well as stack slots are edges.
Solutions
In the decision version of problems, the problem of producing an integer flow satisfying all demands is NP-complete, even for only two commodities and unit capacities (making the problem strongly NP-complete in this case).
If fractional flows are allowed, the problem can be solved in polynomial time through linear programming, or through (typically much faster) fully polynomial time approximation schemes.
Applications
Multicommodify flow is applied in the overlay routing in content delivery.
External resources
Papers by Clifford Stein about this problem: http://www.columbia.edu/~cs2035/papers/#mcf
Software solving the problem: https://web.archive.org/web/20130306031532/http://typo.zib.de/opt-long_projects/Software/Mcf/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axtell%2C%20Texas | Axtell is an unincorporated community in eastern McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area.
U.S. Census data is not readily available for the bedroom community of Axtell, but 2000 Census numbers show a population of 2,284 for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 76624, the U.S.Postal ZIP for Axtell.
The Axtell Independent School District serves area students. The school mascot is a Longhorn and school colors are red and white. The district has two campuses - an elementary school located on Longhorn Parkway and the junior and senior high school located at North 5th Street and Ottawa Street.
In 2010, Axtell was reclassified as a 2A school. The student population averages 200 students, often causing the district's classification to fluctuate between 1A and 2A.
History
Axtell was established in the early 1880s as a rail stop along the historic Cotton Belt Route between Corsicana and Waco during the golden era of railroad expansion. The town was granted a post office in 1882 and named in honor of a railroad officer.
Notable people
John H. Miller, USMC
David Koresh, American cult leader
References
External links
Axtell I.S.D.
Unincorporated communities in McLennan County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZYB | DZYB (102.3 FM) is a radio station owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation and operated by TV5 Network, Inc. It currently serves as a relay station of Radyo5 in Manila. The station's transmitter is located at Mt. Sto. Tomas, Tuba, Benguet.
History
The station began operations in 1978 as MRS 102.3, airing an adult contemporary format. In 1998, after NBC was acquired by PLDT subsidiary MediaQuest Holdings, the station rebranded as Jesse @ Rhythms 102.3 and switched to a Top 40 format. In 2005, the name was shortened to 102.3 Jesse as the station switched to an urban contemporary format. On February 21, 2011, months after TV5 took over operations of the stations, it became a relay station of 92.3 Radyo5 in Manila.
References
Radio stations in Baguio
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20and%20Victoria | Albert and Victoria is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1971. Starring Alfred Marks, it was written by Reuben Ship. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television.
In Albert and Victoria, Marks plays Albert Hackett, a middle-class man in late 19th-century England. He and his wife Victoria have nine children, and he is used to getting his own way.
Cast
Albert and Victoria saw a substantial change of cast between the two series, with new actors for the characters of Victoria, Emma and Maud. The replacement of Zena Walker as Victoria by Barbara Murray was intended to last for the entire second series; however, during filming, Murray had a miscarriage. She was then replaced by Frances Bennett for the final four episodes.
Series One
Alfred Marks - Albert Hackett
Zena Walker - Victoria Hackett
John Alkin - George Hackett
Petra Markham - Lydia Hackett
Kika Markham - Emma Hackett
Helen Cotterill - Maud
Series Two
Alfred Marks - Albert Hackett
Barbara Murray - Victoria Hackett (episodes 1 and 2)
Frances Bennett - Victoria Hackett (episodes 3 to 6)
John Alkin - George Hackett
Petra Markham - Lydia Hackett
Gay Hamilton - Emma Hackett
Julia Sutton - Maud
Plot
Albert Hackett is a middle-class man in late 19th-century Britain, who is used to getting the final word over his wife Victoria and their five children.
Episodes
The first series of Albert and Victoria aired for six thirty-minute episodes on ITV from 13 June to 18 July 1970, airing on Saturday evenings at 6.45pm. On Christmas Day 1970, a short special aired as part of All-Star Comedy Carnival. A second series, also of six thirty-minute episodes, aired from 14 August to 17 September 1971 on Saturday evenings, mostly at 5.40pm. While all the episodes survived the wiping policy of the era, the 1970 Christmas short is lost and thought to have been destroyed.
Series One (1970)
Series Two (1971)
References
General
Specific
External links
1970 British television series debuts
1971 British television series endings
1970s British sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television series by Yorkshire Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Panther%20%28video%20game%29 | Black Panther (Japanese title name: ブラックパンサー ) is a beat 'em up arcade video game released by Konami in 1987. The player controls a cybernetic black panther cat who has to save the Earth by clawing, jumping, and shooting at enemies, collecting power-ups, and defeating bosses to advance levels.
Gameplay
References
1987 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Konami beat 'em ups
Video games about cats
Konami arcade games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRR | WRR may refer to:
Water Resources Research, a peer-reviewed scientific journal
Watford and Rickmansworth Railway (W&RR), a company in England, 1860–1952
Weighted round robin, a computer network scheduling algorithm
Western Ring Route, a motorway system in Auckland, New Zealand
Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, the Scientific Council for Government Policy, an advisory board to the Dutch government
WRR (FM), a classical radio station in Dallas, Texas
DWRR 101.9, a defunct radio station in the Philippines
KTCK (AM), a radio station in Dallas, Texas which used the WRR call letters from 1921–1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDDO%20%28AM%29 | WDDO (980 AM) is a Christian radio station broadcasting a gospel music format, with programming provided mostly from the Sheridan Gospel Network. Licensed to Perry, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by The Glory Media Group, LLC.
External links
Radio stations established in 1956
DDO (AM)
1956 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Gospel radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYJB-TV | DYJB-TV, channel 12, is a television station of Philippine television network Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation in Iloilo City. Its offices are located at Datu Puti Subdivision, Brgy. Cubay, Jaro, Iloilo City and its transmitter is located at Purok 7, Brgy. Alaguisoc, Jordan, Guimaras. This station is currently operates on a low powered signal.
DYJB-TV 12 history
1975 - First broadcast and became the first TV station in Panay Island.
April 27, 2022 - IBC Iloilo commenced digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 17 covering Metro Iloilo and the provinces of Iloilo and Guimaras.
IBC 12 Iloilo previously aired programs
12 Under Club (1975-1998) - first TV kid show in the whole Region VI.
Ikaw Kabuhi Ko (1975-1997; 1999-2003) - first and longest humanitarian public service show in the Western Visayas region.
Kampeon sa Rehiyon (1975-2001) - first talent show in Region VI.
Tele-Radyo (1975-2016) - first local noon time talk show now dubbed as "PaniudTALK".
Digital television
Digital channels
DYJB-TV's digital signal operates on UHF channel 17 (491.143 MHz) and broadcasts on the following subchannels:
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Iloilo City
Iloilo Province
Guimaras
Secondary areas
Bacolod
Portion of Negros Occidental
Trivia
IBC TV-12 Iloilo reaches even outside Iloilo as a translator signal via DYXX TV-2 in Roxas City, Capiz. But due to weather disturbance, IBC 2 Roxas went off the air as of this time since it was last on air in 1993, when the typhoon struck the city causing the transmitter to be heavily damaged.
Only one IBC-owned radio station DYJJ-AM 1296 khz in Roxas City is still active on air across Panay Island.
See also
List of television and radio stations in Iloilo City
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation channels and stations
Television stations in Iloilo City
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation stations
Television channels and stations established in 1966
Television channels and stations established in 1975
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20President%20%28radio%20series%29 | Mr. President was a radio series that ran on the ABC Network from June 26, 1947, to September 23, 1953.
Format
Each half-hour episode was based on an incident in the life of one of the people who have held the office of President of the United States, but the dialogs were written in such a way as not to reveal the name of the President until the last line of dialog at the end of the program, when the President would be addressed by name. An advertisement for the program noted, "Each week the suspense mounts from his first question, 'Which one of our 32 Presidents am I?'" The audience was thus encouraged to guess, from the plot of the episode, which President it was.
Personnel
The series was created by Robert G. Jennings and written by a team that included Jean Holloway, Bernard Dougall and Ira Marion. A research staff made certain that the stories were accurate. It was produced and directed by Dick Woolen.
The President each week was played by Edward Arnold, with supporting performances by Bea Benaderet, Gil Stratton, Hans Conried, Lurene Tuttle, Nina Bara and Herb Butterfield. The announcer was Owen James.
Award
In 1953, Mr. President received the Award of Merit from the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization.
References
Description
Description of the program on Premier Collections site
Logs
Program log (and more) from The Digital Deli Too
Program log from Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Program log from RadioGOLDINdex
Streaming audio
Episodes for streaming or download from the Internet Archive
Episodes for streaming or download from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library
American radio dramas
1940s American radio programs
1950s American radio programs
ABC radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Henderson | Jason Douglas Henderson (born September 4, 1971) is an American writer of computer games, novels and several comic book series.
He is the writer of the young adult novel series Alex Van Helsing from HarperCollins and the comic book series Sword of Dracula from Image Comics, Strange Magic from Marvel Comics, and Soulcatcher. His book Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising was added to the 2011 Texas Library Association Lone Star Reading List, a list of the top 20 books published in the previous year for middle grade readers.
He was the writer of Locus best-seller The Element of Fire, the first novel in the Highlander (franchise), and was a co-creator on the Tokyopop manga series Psy-comm. He hosts the cult film podcast Castle of Horror with manga collaborator Tony Salvaggio.
Personal life
Henderson currently resides in Colorado. He graduated from the University of Dallas in 1993 with a BA in History and from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law in 1996 with a Juris Doctor (JD) degree in Law.
Bibliography
Novels
The Iron Thane, Baen Books, 1993.
The Spawn of Loki, Baen Books, 1995.
Highlander: the Element of Fire, Warner Aspect Books, 1995.
The Incredible Hulk: Abominations, Berkley Books, 1997.
X-Men/Spider-Man: Time’s Arrow, Book 1 (with Tom DeFalco), Berkley Books, 1998.
The Darkling Band, Dragon Moon Press, 2007.
Alex Van Helsing
Vampire Rising, HarperCollins, 2010.
Voice of the Undead, HarperCollins, 2011.
The Triumph of Death, HarperCollins, 2012.
Young Captain Nemo
Young Captain Nemo, Feiwel & Friends, 2019.
Quest for the Nautilus, Feiwel & Friends, 2020.
Graphic novels
Soulcatcher, Alias Comics, 2005.
Vampire The Masquerade Volume 3: Blood and Loyalty (with Bryan Edwards, Mike Reynolds, Chris Marrinan, Steve Ellis), White Wolf, 2003.
Sword of Dracula, IDW Comics, 2005.
Hulk: Broken Worlds (with various), Marvel Comics, 2009.
What If: Dark Reign, Marvel Comics, 2011.
Shadowland: Daughters of the Shadow, Marvel Comics,
Volume 1 (illustrated by Ivan Rodriguez), Marvel Comics, 2010.
Volume 2 (illustrated by Ivan Rodriguez), Marvel Comcis, 2010.
Volume 3 (illustrated by Ivan Rodriguez and Jean-Baptiste Andreae), Marvel Comcis, 2010.
Shadowland: Street Heroes (collects volumes 1-3 with various other comics), Marvel Comics, 2011.
Psy-Comm (with Tony Salvaggio)
Volume 1 (illustrated by Shane Granger), Tokyopop, 2005.
Volume 2 (illustrated by Ramanda Karmaga), Tokyopop, 2007.
Volume 3 (illustrated by Ramanda Karmaga), Tokyopop/Right Stuf, 2012.
Volume 1: Kaplan SAT/ACT Vocabulary-Building Manga, Tokyopop, 2007.
Clockwerx (with Tony Salvaggio; illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Hostache)
Tome 1: Genese (French Language Version), Humanoids, 2008 (French). .
Tome 2: Deluge (French Language Version), Humanoids, 2009.
Clockwerx Integral, Vol. 1 & 2 (English Language Version), Humanoids, 2013.
References
External links
Texas Library Association Lone Star Reading List
McLatchy article on Alex Van Helsing, Jason Henderson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNY-TV | DYNY-TV channel 42 is a UHF television station owned by Information Broadcast Unlimited (IBU) and operated by Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International (BMPI), the network's content provider and marketing arm and Christian religious organization Members Church of God International (MCGI). The station's transmitter is located in Jordan, Guimaras with the power of 5,000 watts.
Television stations in Iloilo City
Television channels and stations established in 2002
Members Church of God International
2002 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYRJ-TV | RJTV 24 Iloilo is a UHF, free to air television channel in the Philippines, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network, Inc. owner by Ramon "RJ" Jacinto. RJTV 29 broadcast from BOC Bldg., Mapa Street, Iloilo City.
References
Television stations in Iloilo City
2nd Avenue (TV channel) stations
Television channels and stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sys | .sys is a filename extension used in MS-DOS applications and Microsoft Windows operating systems. They are system files that contain device drivers or hardware configurations for the system.
Most DOS files are real mode device drivers. Certain files using this extension are not, however:
MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS are core operating system files in MS-DOS and Windows 9x.
CONFIG.SYS is a text file that contains various configuration options and specifies what device drivers will be loaded.
COUNTRY.SYS is a binary database containing country and codepage related information for use with the CONFIG.SYS COUNTRY directive and the NLSFUNC driver.
KEYBOARD.SYS is a binary database containing keyboard layout related information including short P-code sequences to be executed by an interpreter inside the KEYB keyboard driver.
File location
In Windows Vista and its successors, the .sys files are mainly found under the following paths:
C:\Windows\system32\drivers
C:\Windows\WinSxS
In MS-DOS, the file named MSDOS.SYS is used to copy the system files from one drive to another, allowing the second drive to be bootable. MSDOS.SYS is located in the root directory of the bootable drive/partition (normally C:\ for hard disks) and has the hidden, read-only, and system file attributes set.
See also
VxD
Windows Driver Model
Windows Driver Frameworks
Fat binary (for crash-protected system files)
References
sys
Executable file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20file | A system file in computers is a critical computer file without which a computer system may not operate correctly. These files may come as part of the operating system, a third-party device driver or other sources. Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS mark their more valuable system files with a "system" attribute to protect them against accidental deletion. (Although the system attribute can be manually put on any arbitrary file; these files do not become system files.)
Specific example of system files include the files with .sys filename extension in MS-DOS. In Windows NT family, the system files are mainly under the folder C:\Windows\System32. In Mac OS they are in the System suitcase. And in Linux system the system files are located under folders /boot (the kernel itself), /usr/sbin (system utilities) and /usr/lib/modules (kernel device drivers).
Computer files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveWire%20Professional | LiveWire Professional is a MS-DOS program made by CableSoft. It was first introduced in 1988 as software/expansion board combination, which allowed to convert Financial News Network ticker from television receivers into ASCII for further analysis. The software is designed for stock brokers and financial analysts, allowing them to record and analyse the stock market, through the use of live feeds. However, its user interface was criticized as cumbersome.
References
External links
LiveWire homepage
Definition at computing dictionary
Financial software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYMK-FM | DYMK (93.5 FM), broadcasting as Barangay FM 93.5, is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network. The station's studio is located at the GMA Broadcasting Complex, Phase 5, Alta Tierra Village, Jaro, Iloilo City, and its transmitter is located at the GMA Transmitter Complex, Brgy. Alaguisoc, Jordan, Guimaras.
History
The station was established in 1980 under the call letters DYXI with a smooth jazz format. In 1985, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Company acquired the station from Allied Broadcasting Center, changed its callsign to DYMK and rebranded it as K-Lite with an easy listening format. In 1989, GMA jointly acquired the station and rebranded it as Campus Radio with a mass-based format. On February 17, 2014, as part of RGMA's brand unifying, the station rebranded as Barangay 93.5.
In 2010s DYMK-FM is a strongest FM station of Western Visayas with the power of 30 kW (75 kW ERP to 100 kW ERP) and the FM transmitter located in Jordan, Guimaras then FM station was reverted to current 10 kW power (60 kW ERP)
References
External links
Barangay FM stations
Radio stations in Iloilo City
Radio stations established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding%20interval%20hierarchy | A bounding interval hierarchy (BIH) is a partitioning data structure similar to that of bounding volume hierarchies or kd-trees. Bounding interval hierarchies can be used in high performance (or real-time) ray tracing and may be especially useful for dynamic scenes.
The BIH was first presented under the name of SKD-Trees, presented by Ooi et al., and BoxTrees, independently invented by Zachmann.
Overview
Bounding interval hierarchies (BIH) exhibit many of the properties of both bounding volume hierarchies (BVH) and kd-trees. Whereas the construction and storage of BIH is comparable to that of BVH, the traversal of BIH resemble that of kd-trees. Furthermore, BIH are also binary trees just like kd-trees (and in fact their superset, BSP trees). Finally, BIH are axis-aligned as are its ancestors.
Although a more general non-axis-aligned implementation of the BIH should be possible (similar to the BSP-tree, which uses unaligned planes), it would almost certainly be less desirable due to decreased numerical stability and an increase in the complexity of ray traversal.
The key feature of the BIH is the storage of 2 planes per node (as opposed to 1 for the kd tree and 6 for an axis aligned bounding box hierarchy), which allows for overlapping children (just like a BVH), but at the same time featuring an order on the children along one dimension/axis (as it is the case for kd trees).
It is also possible to just use the BIH data structure for the construction phase but traverse the tree in a way a traditional axis aligned bounding box hierarchy does. This enables some simple speed up optimizations for large ray bundles while keeping memory/cache usage low.
Some general attributes of bounding interval hierarchies (and techniques related to BIH) as described by are:
Very fast construction times
Low memory footprint
Simple and fast traversal
Very simple construction and traversal algorithms
High numerical precision during construction and traversal
Flatter tree structure (decreased tree depth) compared to kd-trees
Operations
Construction
To construct any space partitioning structure some form of heuristic is commonly used. For this the surface area heuristic, commonly used with many partitioning schemes, is a possible candidate. Another, more simplistic heuristic is the "global" heuristic which only requires an axis-aligned bounding box, rather than the full set of primitives, making it much more suitable for a fast construction.
The general construction scheme for a BIH:
calculate the scene bounding box
use a heuristic to choose one axis and a split plane candidate perpendicular to this axis
sort the objects to the left or right child (exclusively) depending on the bounding box of the object (note that objects intersecting the split plane may either be sorted by its overlap with the child volumes or any other heuristic)
calculate the maximum bounding value of all objects on the left and the minimum bounding value of those on the right for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIB%20World%20Service | IRIB World Service, also known as Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran, is the official international broadcasting radio network of Iran.
The radio network started to work in 1956 with the aim of familiarizing different world nations with Iran's history and culture as well as its different regions and historical sites. Following the Iranian Revolution, elaborating on the revolution's stances and the ideals of the Islamic Republic system were put high on the radio's agenda.
The radio's schedule includes news and talk programmes, political and religious commentaries, different series and features on special occasions.
Languages
The IRIB World Service currently broadcasts in 32 languages:
English Radio
English Radio is the English language output of the IRIB World Service, aimed to the listeners in the English-speaking world. Voice of Justice is a 60-minute-long programming block, aimed to listeners in the United States.
See also
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the Iranian publicly funded broadcaster.
References
External links
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
International broadcasters
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20memory%20model | The Java memory model describes how threads in the Java programming language interact through memory. Together with the description of single-threaded execution of code, the memory model provides the semantics of the Java programming language.
The original Java memory model developed in 1995, was widely perceived as broken, preventing many runtime optimizations and not providing strong enough guarantees for code safety. It was updated through the Java Community Process, as Java Specification Request 133 (JSR-133), which took effect back in 2004, for Tiger (Java 5.0).
Context
The Java programming language and platform provide thread capabilities. Synchronization between threads is notoriously difficult for developers; this difficulty is compounded because Java applications can run on a wide range of processors and operating systems. To be able to draw conclusions about a program's behavior, Java's designers decided they had to clearly define possible behaviors of all Java programs.
On modern platforms, code is frequently not executed in the order it was written. It is reordered by the compiler, the processor and the memory subsystem to achieve maximum performance. On multiprocessor architectures, individual processors may have their own local caches that are out of sync with main memory. It is generally undesirable to require threads to remain perfectly in sync with one another because this would be too costly from a performance point of view. This means that at any given time, different threads may see different values for the same shared data.
In a single-threaded environment, it is easy to reason about code execution. The typical approach requires the system to implement as-if-serial semantics for individual threads in isolation. When an individual thread executes, it will appear as if all of the actions taken by that thread occur in the order they appear in the program, even if the actions themselves occur out of order.
If one thread executes its instructions out of order, then another thread might see the fact that those instructions were executed out of order, even if that did not affect the semantics of the first thread. For example, consider two threads with the following instructions, executing concurrently, where the variables x and y are both initialized to 0:
If no reorderings are performed, and the read of y in Thread 2 returns the value 2, then the subsequent read of x should return the value 1, because the write to x was performed before the write to y. However, if the two writes are reordered, then the read of y can return the value 2, and the read of x can return the value 0.
The Java Memory Model (JMM) defines the allowable behavior of multithreaded programs, and therefore describes when such reorderings are possible. It places execution-time constraints on the relationship between threads and main memory in order to achieve consistent and reliable Java applications. By doing this, it makes it possible to rea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator%3A%20The%20Sarah%20Connor%20Chronicles | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (sometimes abbreviated as Terminator: TSCC or simply TSCC) is an American cyberpunk television series that aired on Fox from January 13, 2008 to April 10, 2009. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Television, and C2 Pictures (C2 Pictures was replaced by The Halcyon Company in season two). It is a spin-off from the Terminator series of films. It revolves around the lives of the fictional characters Sarah and John Connor, disregarding the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and picking up shortly after Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off. The series premiered on Sunday, January 13, 2008, on the U.S. television network Fox. Production for the series was provided by the Judgment Day and Rise of the Machines producers and C2 Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment (International) co-presidents Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna, C2 Senior Vice President James Middleton, David Nutter and Josh Friedman, who not only served as executive producer but also wrote the script for the first two episodes.
The show opened mid-season with a shortened run of nine episodes, January through March 2008. It was the highest-rated new scripted series of the 2007–08 television season
and was renewed for a second season,
which began on September 8, 2008, and ended April 10, 2009 (the same year Warner Bros. and the Halcyon Company produced McG's Terminator Salvation). On May 18, 2009, despite fan efforts,
Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly announced Fox would not renew the show for a third season.
Plot
Back story
In the year 1995 (1997 in the show), at the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor, her son John and the 800-series Terminator successfully destroy the T-1000, as well as the arm and CPU chip from the Terminator sent back to 1984 in the first film. The T-800 from the second film, at its own request, is then also destroyed to eliminate any future technology that could be used to create Skynet through reverse engineering. Despite this, at the beginning of the television series, a T-888 using the name "Cromartie" is sent back to 1999 to kill John. "Cameron", a Terminator that John sent back from 2029 to protect his younger self, leaps forward in time with John and Sarah to 2007 to prevent a delayed Judgment Day once and for all. Now wanted fugitives with the fear of pending leukemia preying on Sarah's mind, they must also face the reality that other enemies from the future could be after them.
Summary
Four years after the events of the second film, Sarah, her son John, and Cameron (a Terminator that has been re-programmed to protect John), are being pursued by a Terminator, Cromartie, sent back through time to assassinate John and also by FBI Special Agent James Ellison, who initially believes Sarah is an insane criminal (based on the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day).
Sarah is romantically involved with a paramedic named Charley Dixon, but ends her relationship with him to stay on the run.
Durin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Elliott%20Bell | David Elliott Bell (born in 1945) is an American mathematician and computer security pioneer. While working at MITRE Corporation, he and Leonard J. LaPadula co-developed the highly influential Bell–LaPadula model. In 2012, Bell was interviewed as part of an effort by the National Science Foundation to document the “Building an Infrastructure for Computer Security History.” In recognition of his contributions to the computer security field, Bell was inducted into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame in 2013.
The first step in the Bell-LaPadual model development provided tools for guiding and analyzing computer systems under development. The last step in the model development was the application of the general model to the Multics operating system. When the Computer Security Center at the Department of Defense published its Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria in 1983, the Bell-La Padula model was the only security model included to illustrate the "security model" required at the B2 level and above.
At the 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference in Tucson, Arizona in 2005, Bell presented a look back at the Bell-LaPadula model. In 2006, Bell published an addendum to his 'Looking Back at the Bell-LaPadula Model.
For NSA, he was Deputy Chief of the Research Office of the Computer Security Center, Acting Chief of the Research Office, and COR for a major acquisition. At Trusted Information Systems, he was the Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary. He ran his own consulting company (BBND, Incorporated) before returning to the technical path at Mitretek Systems and EDS.
While working at Trusted Information Systems, Bell presented two papers, "Lattices, Policies and Implementations", and "Trusted Xenix Interpretation: Phase 1". At the 13th National Computer Security Conference.
The two papers Bell published in 1991 and 1992, "Lattices, Policies and Implementations" and "Putting Policy Commonalities to Work", together showed that all the apparently different security policies that had been published were Boolean-Lattice policies, and were thus identical under the skin. His constructive result demonstrated how to realize each of the published policies using a single "Universal Lattice Machine." This work consolidated the apparently different security policies and made them one.
At the 1994 New Security Paradigms and Workshop (NSPW), Bell presented his paper on "Modeling the 'multi-policy machine' ". Paper Abstract: A method of treating several unspecified policies is presented. Precise notions of policy combination, policy conflict, conflict resolution, and policy precedence are introduced. Necessary and sufficient conditions for policies to be combined without conflict are established.
In 1996, while working for Mitretek Systems, Bell published a paper on "Generic Model Interpretations POSIX.1 and SQL" as an improvement to trusted systems that conform to industry standards that are conducive to generic model interpre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20T.%20Russell | Richard Thomas Russell is the creator of the BBC BASIC for Windows programming language and the author of the Z80 and MS-DOS versions of BBC BASIC.
He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and Hertford College, Oxford graduating with a degree in physics in 1973. The same year he began work at the BBC as a design engineer. During his career with the BBC he was involved with several high-profile projects including the BBC Microcomputer and the BBC Domesday Project. He retired from the BBC in 2006.
His "2D DVE for Virtual Studios" won Video R&D Achievement of the Year at the International Broadcasting Awards 1996, and his hardware implementation of the BBC's patented Transform PAL Decoder has been acclaimed as probably the best PAL decoder in the world.
In 2008 he developed a technique for recovering the colour from the black-and-white telerecordings of TV programmes, making it possible to restore full colour versions of some programmes for which no conventional colour recordings exist. He is featured in the documentary "The Story of Are You Being Served?" talking about his work on the colour restoration process.
In addition to creating BBC BASIC for Windows, Russell also runs a support group for the language to which he regularly contributes tips, advice and comments on other users' code. He is married and lives in Norfolk in the United Kingdom.
Notes
External links
Richard Russell's website
Richard Russell's blog
Richard Russell's career in the BBC, Part 1
Richard Russell's career in the BBC, Part 2
Richard Russell's family tree
British computer scientists
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People educated at Gravesend Grammar School
People from Gravesend, Kent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20over%20USB | Ethernet over USB is the use of a USB link as a part of an Ethernet network, resulting in an Ethernet connection over USB (instead of e.g. PCI or PCIe).
USB over Ethernet (also called USB over Network or USB over IP) is a system to share USB-based devices over Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or the Internet, allowing access to devices over a network. It can be done across multiple network devices by using USB over Ethernet Hubs.
Protocols
There are numerous protocols for Ethernet-style networking over USB. The use of these protocols is to allow application-independent exchange of data with USB devices, instead of specialized protocols such as video or MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). Even though the USB is not a physical Ethernet, the networking stacks of all major operating systems are set up to transport IEEE 802.3 frames, without needing a particular underlying transport.
The main industry protocols are (in chronological order): Remote NDIS (RNDIS, a Microsoft vendor protocol), Ethernet Control Model (ECM), Ethernet Emulation Model (EEM), and Network Control Model (NCM). The latter three are part of the larger Communications Device Class (CDC) group of protocols of the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). They are available for download from the USB-IF (see below). The RNDIS specification is available from Microsoft's web site. Regarding de facto standards, some standards, such as ECM, specify use of USB resources that early systems did not have. However, minor modifications of the standard subsets make practical implementations possible on such platforms. Remarkably, even some of the most modern platforms need minor accommodations and therefore support for these subsets is still needed.
Of these protocols, ECM could be classified the simplest—frames are simply sent and received without modification one at a time. This was a satisfactory strategy for USB 1.1 systems (current when the protocol was issued) with 64 byte packets but not for USB 2.0 systems which use 512 byte packets.
One significant problem is, the Ethernet frames are about 1500 bytes in size—about 3 USB 2.0 packets, and 23 USB 1.1 packets. The USB system works by each packet being sent as a transfer, a series of maximum-length packets terminated by a short packet or a special ZLP (zero-length packet). After this, there is bus latency, where nothing is sent until another transfer can be initiated. Such reduces bus occupancy, meaning that nothing is sent for considerable fractions of bus time. A gap every 23 frames is not noticeable, but a gap every three frames can be viewed as very costly to throughput.
As USB has become faster, devices utilize more data and hence there is now demand for sending large amounts of data—either to be stored on the device, or be relayed over wireless links (see 3GPP Long Term Evolution).
These new devices are still much lower in power than desktop PCs, thus the issue of careful data handling arises, to maximize use of DMA resources on the device and minimize (or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulldome | Fulldome refers to immersive dome-based video display environments. The dome, horizontal or tilted, is filled with real-time (interactive) or pre-rendered (linear) computer animations, live capture images, or composited environments.
Although the current technology emerged in the early-to-mid 1990s, fulldome environments have evolved from numerous influences, including immersive art and storytelling, with technological roots in domed architecture, planetariums, multi-projector film environments, flight simulation, and virtual reality.
Initial approaches to moving fulldome imagery used wide-angle lenses, both 35mm and 70 mm film, but the expense and ungainly nature of the film medium prevented much progress; furthermore, film formats such as Omnimax did not cover the full two pi steradians of the dome surface, leaving a section of the dome blank (though, due to seating arrangements, that part of the dome was not seen by most viewers). Later approaches to fulldome utilized monochromatic vector graphics systems projected through a fisheye lens. Contemporary configurations employ raster video projectors, either singly or grouped together to cover the dome surface with full-color images and animations.
Newer emerging technologies being utilized include flexible curved LED displays currently being installed at the fulldome MSG Sphere with assistance from Industrial Light and Magic. They are working together with 360-degree content creators to create feature-length fulldome content utilizing 360 degree cameras including Red Digital Cinema.
Video technology
Fulldome video projection can use a variety of technologies in two typical formats: single- and multiple-projector systems. The individual projector(s) can be driven by a variety of video sources, typically feeding material rendered in either real-time or pre-rendered modes. The result is a video image that covers an entire domed projection surface, yielding an immersive experience that fills a viewer's field of view.
Single-projector versus multiple-projector systems
Single-projector fulldome video systems use a single (or mixed) video source displayed through a single fisheye lens, typically located at or near the center of a hemispherical projection surface. A single projector has the benefit of avoiding edge blends (see below) between multiple projectors. The main disadvantage of single fisheye systems is that they are limited to the resolution of one projector, and in the smallest dimension of the video image to cover a full dome. Another disadvantage of central projectors is the loss of the center of the dome for optimal viewing of the reconstructed perspective view provided by true hemispheric projection, a problem shared with traditional planetarium projectors. However, this disadvantage fades as audience size increases (everyone cannot be at the center of the dome anyway).
Single-projector mirror systems, pioneered by Mirrordome from Swinburne, but now offered by a plethora of manuf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20calling%20conventions | This article describes the calling conventions used when programming x86 architecture microprocessors.
Calling conventions describe the interface of called code:
The order in which atomic (scalar) parameters, or individual parts of a complex parameter, are allocated
How parameters are passed (pushed on the stack, placed in registers, or a mix of both)
Which registers the called function must preserve for the caller (also known as: callee-saved registers or non-volatile registers)
How the task of preparing the stack for, and restoring after, a function call is divided between the caller and the callee
This is intimately related with the assignment of sizes and formats to programming-language types.
Another closely related topic is name mangling, which determines how symbol names in the code are mapped to symbol names used by the linker. Calling conventions, type representations, and name mangling are all part of what is known as an application binary interface (ABI).
There are subtle differences in how various compilers implement these conventions, so it is often difficult to interface code which is compiled by different compilers. On the other hand, conventions which are used as an API standard (such as stdcall) are very uniformly implemented.
Historical background
Prior to microcomputers, the machine manufacturer generally provided an operating system and compilers for several programming languages. The calling convention(s) for each platform were those defined by the manufacturer's programming tools.
Early microcomputers before the Commodore Pet and Apple II generally came without an OS or compilers. The IBM PC came with Microsoft's fore-runner to Windows, the Disk Operating System (DOS), but it did not come with a compiler. The only hardware standard for IBM PC-compatible machines was defined by the Intel processors (8086, 80386) and the literal hardware IBM shipped. Hardware extensions and all software standards (save for a BIOS calling convention) were thrown open to market competition.
A multitude of independent software firms offered operating systems, compilers for many programming languages, and applications. Many different calling schemes were implemented by the firms, often mutually exclusive, based on different requirements, historical practices, and programmer creativity.
After the IBM-compatible market shakeout, Microsoft operating systems and programming tools (with differing conventions) predominated, while second-tier firms like Borland and Novell, and open-source projects like GCC, still maintained their own standards. Provisions for interoperability between vendors and products were eventually adopted, simplifying the problem of choosing a viable convention.
Caller clean-up
In these types of calling conventions, the caller cleans the arguments from the stack (resets the state of the stack just as it was before the callee function was called).
cdecl
The cdecl (which stands for C declaration) is a calling convention for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidity | Solidity is an object-oriented programming language for implementing smart contracts on various blockchain platforms, most notably, Ethereum. Solidity is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0. Solidity was designed by Gavin Wood and developed by Christian Reitwiessner, Alex Beregszaszi, and several former Ethereum core contributors. Programs in Solidity run on Ethereum Virtual Machine or on compatible virtual machines.
History
Solidity was proposed in August 2014 by Gavin Wood The language was later developed by the Ethereum project's Solidity team, led by Christian Reitwiessner.
Solidity is the primary language on Ethereum as well as on other private blockchains, such as the enterprise-oriented Hyperledger Fabric blockchain. SWIFT deployed a proof of concept using Solidity running on Hyperledger Fabric.
Description
Solidity is a statically typed programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) or compatible virtual machines.
Solidity uses ECMAScript-like syntax which makes it familiar for existing web developers; however unlike ECMAScript it has static typing and variadic return types. Solidity is different from other EVM-targeting languages such as Serpent and Mutan in some important ways. It supports complex member variables for smart contracts, including arbitrarily hierarchical mappings and structs. Solidity smart contract support inheritance, including multiple inheritance with C3 linearization. Solidity introduces an application binary interface (ABI) that facilitates multiple type-safe functions within a single smart contract (this was also later supported by Serpent). The Solidity proposal also includes "Natural Language Specification", a documentation system for specifying user-centric descriptions of the ramifications of method-calls.
Example of a Solidity program:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0
pragma solidity ^0.8.4;
contract Coin {
// The keyword "public" makes variables
// accessible from other contracts
address public minter;
mapping(address => uint) public balances;
// Events allow clients to react to specific
// contract changes you declare
event Sent(address from, address to, uint amount);
// Constructor code is only run when the contract
// is created
constructor() {
minter = msg.sender;
}
// Sends an amount of newly created coins to an address
// Can only be called by the contract creator
function mint(address receiver, uint amount) public {
require(msg.sender == minter);
balances[receiver] += amount;
}
// Errors allow you to provide information about
// why an operation failed. They are returned
// to the caller of the function.
error InsufficientBalance(uint requested, uint available);
// Sends an amount of existing coins
// from any caller to an address
function send(address receiver, uint amount) public {
if (amount > ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYRI | DYRI (774 AM) RMN Iloilo is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. Its studio is located at the St. Anne Bldg., Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City, and its transmitter is located along Coastal Rd., Brgy. Hinactacan, La Paz, Iloilo City. Established in 1960, DYRI is the pioneer station in the city and since 2019, the only station in the market operating 24 hours a day.
References
External links
Website 1
Website 2
Radio stations established in 1960
Radio stations in Iloilo City
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYSI | DYSI (1323 AM) Super Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. The station's studio is located inside the GMA Compound, Phase 5, Alta Tierra Village, Brgy. Quntin Salas, Jaro, Iloilo City, and its transmitter is located at Brgy. Navais, Mandurriao, Iloilo City.
The station formerly held the call letters DYXX (Double X), inspired from DZXX/DWXX in Manila, from its inception on September 1, 1985, to On April 13, 1997, when it changed to its current callsign and switched to a news and music format.
References
Super Radyo stations
Radio stations in Iloilo City
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarion | Alvarion Technologies is a global provider of autonomous Wi-Fi networks designed with self-organizing capabilities for carrier-grade Wi-Fi, enterprise connectivity, smart city planning, smart hospitality, connected campuses, and connected events.
History
Alvarion was originally incorporated as BreezeCOM Ltd. in September 1992. In March 2000, BreezeCOM had an initial public offering, selling 5 million shares of its common stock at a price of $20 per share. BreezeCOM's shares were listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol BRZE.
In August 2001, BreezeCOM merged with another Israeli company, Floware Wireless Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: FLRE), which was founded in 1993, changing its name to Alvarion.
In April 2003, Alvarion acquired InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems Ltd, from ECI Telecom.
In July 2003, Alvarion signed a strategic partnership agreement with Intel to co-develop WiMAX based Broadband wireless access systems, using Intel's WiMAX chips.
In December 2004, Alvarion acquired interWAVE Communications International (NASDAQ: IWAV) of Mountain View, California, which expanded the company's product range into the mobile GSM equipment market and provided new expertise in mobile systems. Most of the interWAVE operations became Alvarion's Cellular Mobile business unit, which was sold to LGC Wireless, Inc. in November 2006.
In February 2009, Alvarion announced that it was hired by Orange Botswana for WiMAX deployment, initially to cover Botswana’s two largest cities Gaborone and Francistown.
In November 2009, Alvarion started deploying a WiMAX wireless broadband network for the Australian ISP Adam Internet across metropolitan Adelaide, as a part of Australian government's Broadband Guarantee Program.
In November 2011, Alvarion acquired Wavion, a provider of outdoor Wi-Fi applications for metro and rural areas with deployments in more than 75 countries. This acquisition is part of Alvarion's strategic plan for shifting its primary focus from WiMAX-based radio access network to becoming a multi-technology wireless broadband solution provider.
In February 2013, Alvarion's BWA division (Carrier licensed) was acquired by Telrad Networks.
In July 2013, Alvarion filed for bankruptcy.
In September 2013 Alvarion was bought by Intechnology plc, owned by Peter Wilkinson, as a strategic investment. After the acquisition, Alvarion and Intechnology WiFi, together with the City of Edinburgh Council, announced the roll-out of an outdoor, free Wi-Fi service in Edinburgh city centre – providing residents and visitors access to fast internet connectivity.
In February 2015, Alvarion laid off a third of its work force due to a change of strategy.
in 2016 Alvarion was acquired by SuperCom, an electronic identity company that provides monitoring services for the e-Government, Public Safety, Health Care, and Finance sectors as part of its expansion into Secure IoT solutions.
Products and technology
Alvarion Technologies provides Wi-Fi solutions for Smart Cities, mobile car |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Franks | Steve Franks is an American screenwriter, director and musician based in Orange County, California. He is best known as the creator of the USA Network original series Psych.
Education
Franks graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He also attended a graduate program at Loyola Marymount University.
Career
He devised the story for the 1999 comedy Big Daddy and wrote the screenplay with Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. It went on to be the seventh highest-grossing film of 1999, and was Sandler's highest-grosser domestically until Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015).
Franks created Psych, about a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive eidetic memory allow him to convince people that he solves cases with psychic abilities. Psych debuted on Friday, July 7, 2006. He also created the band The Friendly Indians, which recorded the show's theme song. He wrote several episodes of the series, and also directed many. Franks co-wrote and directed Psych: The Movie, a two-hour USA Network TV movie, which aired on December 7, 2017. On February 14, 2019, it was announced Psych: The Movie 2 was greenlit and all the main cast would return for the TV movie.
Franks also served as an executive producer and the showrunner on the CBS series Rush Hour, which was cancelled in May 2016.
Filmography (Psych)
The extended "Pilot"
"Spellingg Bee"
"Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece"
"Woman Seeking Dead Husband — Smokers Okay, No Pets"
"From the Earth to the Starbucks"
"Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" (with James Roday Rodriguez)
"American Duos" (with Rodriguez)
"65 Million Years Off"
"Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (with Rodriguez)
"Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead" (Franks also directed)
"Ghosts"
"Six Feet Under the Sea" (Franks also directed)
"Tuesday the 17th" (with Rodriguez)
"Extradition: British Columbia" (Franks also directed)
"Bollywood Homicide" (with Anupam Nigam)
"A Very Juliet Episode" (with Tim Meltreger; Franks also directed)
"Think Tank" (with Andy Berman)
"The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode" (with Meltreger)
"Romeo and Juliet and Juliet" (Franks also directed)
"Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part" (Franks also directed)
"In Plain Fright" (with Meltreger)
"Shawn Rescues Darth Vader" (Franks also directed)
"Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger" (Franks also directed)
"Santabarbaratown 2" (with Bill Callahan)
"Psych: The Musical" (Franks also directed)
"Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire" (with Kell Cahoon; Franks also directed)
"The Break-Up" (Franks also directed)
References
External links
Steve Franks bio at the USA Network
American male screenwriters
American television directors
Television producers from California
American television writers
Living people
University of California, Irvine alumni
Place of birth missin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Chance | Matthew Gerald Chance (born March 14, 1970) is a British journalist working for CNN as one of the network's Senior International Correspondents.
Career
Chance is based in London. Chance was one of the journalists held by forces of Colonel Gaddafi at the Rixos al Nasr hotel in Tripoli, Libya, in August 2011. He reported by Twitter throughout the ordeal, and was live on CNN as the International Committee of the Red Cross finally evacuated the detainees.
Some of the other notable news stories he has covered include the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces, the 2005 London bombings, the ongoing Middle East crisis, the Beslan school hostage crisis, Russia under President Vladimir Putin's leadership, the devastating 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the 2008 South Ossetia war and the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war.
Chance was one of the few Moscow-based foreign reporters to have secured an interview with Vladimir Putin, Russia's leader.
Since returning to London after the Libya War, Chance reported from Italy on the fall of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and the release of Amanda Knox. He reported from Greece on the Greek government-debt crisis, and from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on the nuclear program of Iran.
Chance officially joined CNN in 2001. He replaced correspondent Steve Harrigan in Northern Afghanistan after Harrigan famously left CNN for Fox News Channel while on assignment. Before joining CNN, Chance was a freelance journalist based in Asia.
References
External links
Matthew's profile on CNN.com
Interview with CNN Media Info
Living people
1970 births
People from Stourbridge
Alumni of the University of London
British television journalists
CNN people
People educated at Old Swinford Hospital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Norris | Craig Norris is a Canadian rock singer and radio personality. He is the lead singer for The Kramdens, and is also a host on CBC Radio. Originally heard on CBC Radio 3, including the network's weekly record chart show The R3-30, he was also a host of the CBC Radio One program Laugh Out Loud. In the summer season of 2011 he also hosted Know Your Rights, a show that explored the parameters of human rights in Canada.
In 2013, he became the host of The Morning Edition, CBC Radio One's new local morning program on CBLA-FM-2 in the Kitchener-Waterloo market, launching on March 11, 2013. He also hosts the Ontario-themed weekend music program In the Key of C, which airs provincewide except in the Greater Toronto Area.
References
External links
Craig Norris
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Musicians from Guelph
Canadian rock singers
Canadian male singers
Canadian indie rock musicians
CBC Radio hosts
Canadian talk radio hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWNX | DWNX (91.1 FM) RMN Naga is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the RMN Broadcast Center, Maharlika Highway, Brgy. Del Rosario, Milaor.
History
DWNX was inaugurated on February 14, 1992 with the CHR format with the slogan NXFM, the Naga's FM station. On August 16, 1992, the station was rebranded as Smile Radio, with a mass-based format. On June 1, 1996, it was relaunched with an AM on FM format, this time using the RMN branding. At that time, the station's reformat was initially criticized by some listeners; some said that the change become radical, and it took some time to suit the taste of the listeners. It eventually went on to become the number 1 radio station in that format in Bicol. In 2017, DWNX opened a relay station on 1611 AM to serve areas outside Bicol region. There were plans for DWNX to transfer its broadcast to AM and launch iFM on its current frequency. However, due to consistent success of the station, the plan was shelved. On May 25, 2022, DWNX changed its new frequency to 1296 AM, from the former 1611 AM.
References
Radio stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Radio stations established in 1992
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Television%20Service | The Paramount Television Service (or PTVS for short and also known as Paramount Programming Service) was the name of a proposed but ultimately unrealized "fourth television network" from the U.S. film studio Paramount Pictures (then a unit of Gulf+Western, now owned by Paramount Global). It was a forerunner of the later UPN (the United Paramount Network), which launched 17 years later.
History
Background
PTVS was not Paramount's first attempt at launching a television network. The first attempt occurred in 1949 with the launch of the Paramount Television Network, which never extended beyond a few stations and folded after only a few years.
In 1974, Barry Diller started his tenure as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation. With Diller at the helm, the studio produced television programs such as Laverne & Shirley (1976), Taxi (1978), and Cheers (1982). With his television background, Diller kept pitching an idea of his to the board: a fourth commercial network.
The plan
Paramount Pictures purchased the Hughes Television Network including its satellite time in planning for PTVS in 1976. They also hired Rich Frank of KCOP-TV and a member of the Operation Prime Time steering committee. Plans relating to the proposed launch of the Paramount Television Service were first announced on June 17, 1977. Set to launch in April 1978, its programming would have initially consisted of only one night a week. Thirty "Movies of the Week" would have followed Star Trek: Phase II on Saturday nights. Planned too was a series derived from Paramount's version of The War of The Worlds (1953) as "backup" for Phase II; a pilot presentation was completed by the film's producer George Pal. PTVS was delayed until the 1978-79 season due to cautious advertisers.
At the time, Star Trek was being broadcast on 137 stations in the United States in syndication, and it was expected that the new television service would provide a single evening package which could be broadcast by these independent stations as well as Paramount's recently acquired Hughes Television Network. It was hoped that this station could become the fourth national network in the United States; Diller and his assistant Michael Eisner had hired Jeffrey Katzenberg to manage Star Trek into production with a television film due to launch the new series at a cost of $3.2 million – which would have been the most expensive television movie ever made.
The plans fizzle out
Despite Barry Diller's best efforts, the Paramount board, and studio chief Charles Bluhdorn, passed on the network, as Bluhdorn worried that PTVS would lose too much money. Six months before the launch, Paramount canceled the network before PTVS was set to debut. Ultimately, Star Trek: Phase II was transformed into Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Diller then took his fourth network idea with him when he moved to 20th Century Fox to start the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Beyond the Paramount Television Ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile%20configuration%20file | A .pcf file can be profile configuration file or a configuration file for setting the client parameters in a virtual private network. The file is in INI file format and contains information about a VPN connection which is necessary for the client software, such as the username, password, tunneling port, DNS settings.
The .pcf-files were originally used for Cisco Systems VPN Client, but are now used also in other VPN systems to distribute configuration information to clients.
For different versions of VPN client software there are different .PCF files (It is different from other organization).
The .pcf extension is also used to indicate PreComp or a PreCompressed File. This file is basically a compressed file.
References
Cisco Systems
Configuration files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOTR-LD | KOTR-LD (channel 7) is a low-power television station licensed to Monterey, California, United States, serving as the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Monterey Bay area. The station is owned by Mirage Media 2, LLC, and maintains studios on Garden Road south of Monterey Regional Airport in Monterey; its transmitter is located on Mount Toro, south of Salinas.
History
Mirage Media acquired the broadcast license of K02DC, a translator of Monterey's NBC affiliate KSBW (channel 8) licensed to serve the Sycamore Flat area near Greenfield, California, from the Arroyo Seco Citizens Association. Shortly after the sale, the company applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move the transmitter site to serve Gonzales and increase the effective radiated power from 44 watts to 3000 watts. On May 23, 2006, the station went silent pending construction of the new broadcast facilities.
On June 15, 2006, it was announced that KOTR-LP would become the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Monterey–Salinas–Santa Cruz market.
On December 6, 2006, KOTR-LP began operation as cable channel 11 on Monterey County's Comcast system. The station launched over-the-air on April 9, 2007.
On March 6, 2018, it was reported that KOTR-LP's license in Santa Cruz was being sold to South Asian broadcaster Diya TV for $50,000. The station's programming and intellectual property would move to another station owned by Mirage Media.
Programming
News operation and syndicated programming
Until 2012, the station simulcast newscasts from fellow MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV in San Francisco. Newscasts aired weekdays from 6–9 a.m., and at 5, 6 and 11 p.m., and weekends at 8 p.m. Paid programming has since replaced the newscasts.
Current syndicated programming includes American Ninja Warrior and Judge Mathis, among others.
Broadcast of San Francisco Giants games
KOTR-LD serves as the San Francisco Giants broadcast affiliate for mostly Friday night games carried on KNTV in the Bay Area rather than NBC Sports Bay Area.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
See also
Channel 7 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 11 branded TV stations in the United States
References
External links
Official website
MyNetworkTV Adds 10 Affils from Adweek
MyNetworkTV affiliates
OTR-LD
OTR
Television channels and stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia%20Earhart%20Memorial%20Bridge | The Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge is a network tied arch bridge over the Missouri River on U.S. Route 59 between Atchison, Kansas and Buchanan County, Missouri. It opened in December 2012, replacing a previous truss bridge with the same name.
The bridge is decorated with LED lighting which can be programmed to change for various functions. Pictures of the bridge with its arch lights in red, white, blue giving the illusion of a fluttering American flag when reflected in the Missouri River is widely circulated in social media.
History
Plans for replacement of the old bridge with a new four-lane span with 10 foot shoulders were announced in the fall of 2007 by KDOT and MoDOT with construction slated on a new bridge for 2009–2011. The bridge was designed by HNTB.
Because of the Missouri River flood during the summer and fall of 2011, construction was stopped. Work on the bridge was started again toward the end of 2011. The bridge's arch was built on-site, rather than barged in like some tied-arch bridges, and completed on June 14, 2012. The new bridge was opened to traffic in December 2012.
Previous bridge
The previous, 2-lane, cantilever bridge was built in 1937–1938 by the Works Progress Administration. It was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel. The bridge was originally named the Mo-Kan Free Bridge because it did not charge a toll (the adjacent railroad bridge served as a crossing for rail traffic as well as cars and pedestrians prior to the construction of the free bridge). The bridge was renamed for aviator Amelia Earhart, a native of Atchison, in 1997 to honor the centennial of her birth in Atchison. The illumination along the trusses and xenon spotlights that shine straight up into the sky from the top of the bridge's two peaks were installed and debuted during the Amelia Earhart Centennial Celebration on July 24, 1997.
The bridge was the topic of a preservation debate on whether to replace it with a new four-lane bridge or to keep it and build a second bridge. The old bridge was demolished on October 9, 2013 using linear shaped charges.
See also
List of crossings of the Missouri River
References
External links
Atchison Daily Globe profile
Historic Bridge Foundation article
MoDOT Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge
KDOT Amelia Earhart Bridge Construction Progress Featured Online Webcam
EarthCam Amelia Earhart Bridge Project Webcam
Article and video of the demolition, with a view of the new bridge
Bridges completed in 1939
Bridges completed in 2012
Buildings and structures in Atchison County, Kansas
Buildings and structures in Buchanan County, Missouri
Bridges over the Missouri River
U.S. Route 59
Works Progress Administration in Missouri
Works Progress Administration in Kansas
Road bridges in Missouri
Road bridges in Kansas
Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
Monuments and memorials to Amelia Earhart
Steel bridges in the United States
Tied arch bridges in the United States
Truss bridges in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20Drummond | Dwight Drummond (born September 22, 1968) is a Canadian television journalist who currently hosts Canada Tonight on CBC News Network. He previously worked as the anchor of CBC Toronto News with Dwight Drummond at CBLT, CBC Television's station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Career
Drummond moved to Canada in 1976 and was raised in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood. He attended high school at Runnymede Collegiate Institute, and is a graduate of the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University.
Drummond was Citytv's crime specialist. He started out at Citytv as a security guard on Electric Circus in 1989. He has since worked as a teleprompter operator, floor director, studio cameraman, deputy chief of assignment, anchor of CityNews Streetbeat, and videographer for CityNews. During this time, he appeared in the Maestro Fresh-Wes music video "Let Your Backbone Slide" as the cameraman at the beginning sequences.
In 1995, Drummond was accosted by two Toronto Police officers in what the officers described as a "high-risk takedown", but which was characterized by outside observers as a racial profiling assault as there was no evidence that Drummond had done anything besides driving while black. The allegation of police misconduct was one of several which contributed to a wildcat strike by police officers in the summer of 1995; Bill Blair, a supporter of community policing models, was assigned to head the affected police division in response to the strike (Blair later rose to be Toronto police chief). The incident also reportedly contributed to Drummond's own decision to move from a technical to an on-air journalist's role with Citytv.
Drummond previously anchored CityNews at Noon and was later made anchor for another newscast, CityNews at Five. Due to the Citytv layoffs in January 2010, Drummond lost his anchoring job, but continued to work as the station's crime specialist. He left the station September 6, 2010.
On October 12, 2010, he joined Anne-Marie Mediwake as co-anchor for supper hour newscasts for CBC News: Toronto on CBC Toronto. Mediwake left the program to join CTV's Your Morning in 2016. Drummond was the principal anchor of the renamed CBC Toronto News with Dwight Drummond until October 2022, when he joined CBC News Network as the host of the Canada Tonight; he fills in for regular host Ginella Massa, who is on maternity leave for a year.
Awards
In May 2021, Drummond won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local News Anchor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards. He was previously nominated in the same category at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, and the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
References
External links
CBC.ca profile
1968 births
Black Canadian broadcasters
People from Montego Bay
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Jamaican emigrants to Canada
Living people
Journalists from Toronto
CBC Television people
Canadian Scree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20liquidator | A computer liquidator buys computer technology and related equipment that is no longer required by one company, and resells ("flips") it to another company. Computer liquidators are agents that act in the computer recycling, or electronic recycling, business.
There are several reasons why companies will sell, or liquidate, used Information Technology (I.T.) equipment: bankruptcy, downsizing and expanding, or technological advancement. Technological advancement is the most common reason, as the equipment is no longer performing the tasks required of it, usually because it has been rendered obsolete by more advanced technology coming on to the market. This used or obsolete technology is often referred to as electronic waste. Equipment designated as outdated for one company is still viable for another company, whose operations may not require advanced solutions. Often, an information technology audit will be performed to help a company decide if their equipment needs updating, and if so, what the requirements are.
Reasons for Liquidation
Computer liquidation is a sustainable solution and is environmentally friendly. Rapid technology change, low initial cost, and planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-growing surplus of computers and other electronic components around the globe. The purpose of computer liquidators is to keep as many computers and electronic parts out of landfills. As newer and better technology replaces hardware at an ever-increasing speed, the amount of technical trash increases as the technology is being replaced. The speed at which hardware changes and innovates in the last few years follows, to some degree, Moore's Law. Predictions were made that every landfill would soon be overflowing with discarded computer screens and computers, along with associated equipment such as keyboards and mouses and all the other hardware associated with use of the Internet. Most electronic waste is sent to landfills or incinerated, which releases toxic materials such as lead, mercury, or cadmium into the soil, groundwater, and atmosphere, thus having a negative impact on the environment. The best liquidating companies have clearly outlined policies regarding the disposal of dangerous substances which are often an issue with information technology.
The act of liquidation avoids the possible toxins and pollution that comes with putting electronic waste in landfills and also avoids the extra costs that go into recycling. For example, New York passed a law in 2015 that banned putting electronic devices in landfills. Now waste facilities in rural counties are being forced to either turn people away or eat the cost of recycling cathode ray tubes. Outside New York City, counties are spending from $6 million to $10 million a year to deal with the problem, according to Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties. The option of liquidation actually incentivizes people to get rid of their electronic waste in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20the%20Greatest | Alexander the Greatest is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1971 to 1972. Starring Gary Warren, it was written by Bernard Kops and made for the ITV network by ATV.
Cast
Gary Warren – Alexander Green
Sydney Tafler – Joe Green
Libby Morris – Fay Green (series 1)
Stella Moray – Fay Green (series 2)
Adrienne Posta – Renata Green
Peter Birrel – Murray (series 1)
Cyril Shaps – Barney (series 1)
Vic Wise – Archie (series 1)
David Lodge – Sam (series 2)
Plot
Alexander Green is a 16-year-old boy, who lives in Golders Green in London and who wants to leave his middle-class Jewish home. He is based on the writer's fourteen-year-old son Adam. Alexander's parents, Joe and Fay Green, try to understand him and he has a sister Renata.
Episodes
Series One (1971)
"A Week to Live" (15 July 1971)
"The Third World Starts Tonight" (22 July 1971)
"The All Night Party" (29 July 1971)
"The Match" (5 August 1971)
"The Disengagement of Murray and Renata" (12 August 1971)
"Happy Anniversary" (19 August 1971)
Series Two (1972)
"Charity Ends at Home" (1 March 1972)
"The New Policy" (22 March 1972)
"Israel Needs You" (29 March 1972)
"Kicking the Filthy Habit" (5 April 1972)
"The 21 Year Itch" (3 May 1972)
"Sam Leaves Home" (10 May 1972)
"Renata's Secret Affair" (31 May 1972)
Archival existence
Copies of all 13 episodes still exist, but (as of September 2013), 11 of these are in monochrome only as the original colour tapes were wiped in the mid 70's by ATV. The only 2 episodes left in colour are numbers 1 and 3 from the first series.
References
Mark Lewisohn, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
Alexander the Greatest at British TV Comedy
External links
1971 British television series debuts
1972 British television series endings
1970s British sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television shows produced by Associated Television (ATV) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Digital%20Rights | European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi is a network collective of non-profit organizations (NGO), experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights across the continent. As of October 2022, EDRi is made of more than 40 NGOs, as well as experts, advocates and academics from all across Europe.
History
European Digital Rights (EDRi) is a not-for-profit association registered in Belgium.
EDRi was founded in June 2002 in Berlin by ten non-profits from seven countries, as a result of a growing awareness of the importance of European policymaking in the digital environment. The group was created in response to some of the earliest challenges in this policy area. Its founding board members were Maurice Wessling from Bits of Freedom, Andy Müller-Maguhn from the Chaos Computer Club and Meryem Marzouki from Imaginons un Réseau Internet Solidaire. Since inception, EDRi has grown significantly.
In October 2014, 34 privacy and civil rights organisations from 19 different countries in Europe had EDRi membership, and the organisation continued to grow. The need for cooperation among digital rights organisations active in Europe was increasing as more regulation regarding the Internet, copyright and privacy is proposed by European institutions, or by international institutions with strong effect in Europe.
In March 2021, EDRi is made of 44 NGOs, as well as experts, advocates and academics from all across Europe.
The current President of the Board of EDRi is Anna Fielder, Vice President is Thomas Lohninger.
Activities
EDRi's objective is to promote, protect, and uphold civil rights in the field of information and communication technology. This includes many issues relating to privacy and digital rights, from data retention to copyright and software patents, from the right to data protection and privacy to freedom of speech online, from privatised enforcement to cybersecurity.
EDRi provides a strong civil society voice and platform to ensure that European policy, which affects the digital environment, is in line with fundamental rights.
Recently, EDRi highlighted fundamental rights issues in the current collective rights management regime and privacy implications of online tracking. The organisation continues to defend citizens' right to private copying, air travellers' privacy and the right to freedom of expression in the notice and takedown debates in Europe. It supports improving citizens' access to audiovisual online content and promotes a legal protection of Net neutrality in Europe. EDRi also fights for an update of copyright, and against blanket retention of communications data. EDRi's key priorities are currently privacy, surveillance, net neutrality and copyright reform.
In addition to regular publications, such as booklets known as the "EDRi papers", EDRi publishes yearly reports and a bi-weekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe, the E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20XM%20Love | Sirius XM Love is a music channel that plays love songs from soft-AC artists and airs on Sirius XM Radio, and Dish Network. It airs on channel 708 on Sirius XM Radio. On XM, it replaced former channel The Heart on November 12, 2008. On Sirius XM Canada, the channel retained the old Sirius Love name, Until February 9, 2010, Sirius XM Love was on DirecTV channel 819, but all of the Sirius XM programming was dropped in favor of Sonic Tap.
From 2009–2014, Sirius XM Love was pre-empted annually during the Christmas season and replaced with "Holly," a seasonal format devoted to contemporary pop Christmas music. This format change typically occurred during the first two weeks of November and continued until the end of the year. (Holly is also available year-round through Sirius XM's online service.) From 2015–2016, Holly pre-empted Sirius XM's Velvet instead. On May 22, 2015, Sirius XM Love became a limited-run James Taylor Channel. Later, it was the home of Yacht Rock Radio. On August 17, 2017, SiriusXM Love moved to channel 70 and was replaced by PopRocks on Channel 17. For 2018, Love was pre-empted by a different Christmas music channel known as Hallmark Channel Radio—which was hosted by the channel's talent as an extension of its seasonal programming lineup "Countdown to Christmas".. In 2020 and 2021, Love was once again pre-empted for the limited-run Billy Joel channel and Yacht Rock Radio, and in October 2021 it was announced that Love would move to online-only on channel 708. It was replaced by Siriusly Sinatra on channel 70.
Selected artists played
Gloria Estefan, Luther Vandross, Bryan Adams, Mariah Carey, Kenny G, Barry Manilow, Kelly Clarkson, Bette Midler, Lionel Richie, Pink, Celine Dion, Bruno Mars, Kenny Rogers, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Adele, Barbra Streisand
References
See also
List of Sirius XM Radio channels
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Soft adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Sirius XM Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%20Bin | MTV's Buzz Bin was a select group of music videos by up and coming artists and bands that the network deemed "buzz worthy", "cutting edge", or "the next big thing". As such, the selected videos received heavy rotation on the channel, and were also featured in special promotional commercials that highlighted the latest Buzz Bin selections, which were sometimes known as Buzz Clips.
The Buzz Bin began in 1987, and featured artists and bands from all genres of music (not just alternative rock or modern rock acts, although those were the majority). Many music industry trade publications have noted the direct effect Buzz Bin selection has had on album sales, with some sources stating that upwards of 75% of the selected acts have gone on to achieve RIAA Gold Certification or better. In 1992, The New York Times noted the Buzz Bin label's power in increasing sales and creating hit songs and Entertainment Weekly called it "Alternative rock's best friend."
In an article published in the journal of Music and Science, Osborn, Rossin, and Weingarten conducted a thorough content analysis of 288 Buzz Clips videos to "assess the kinds of people and cultural practices MTV promoted as buzzworthy in the 1990s." The study found high degrees of correlation between gender ethnicity, instrumentation, and genre: BIPOC musicians' videos were often coded as hip-hop or R&B, featuring drum machines and keyboards; white musicians' videos featured more electric guitars; and women were shown playing instruments with less frequency than men.
The Buzz Bin ended in 2004 and was split in half into MTV's "Discover and Download" and VH1's "You Oughta Know".
MTV released two compilation CDs of Buzz Bin tracks, on Mammoth Records.
Artists featured in the Buzz Bin
#
10,000 Maniacs
311
3rd Bass
50 Cent
A
AFI
Christina Aguilera
Akon
The Alarm
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
The All-American Rejects
Amerie
Tori Amos
Sunshine Anderson
Andy Prieboy
Fiona Apple
Tasmin Archer
Arrested Development
At The Drive-In
The Ataris
Audioslave
Aztec Camera
B
The B-52s
Erykah Badu
BBMak
Beastie Boys
Beck
Adrian Belew
Belly
Tony Bennett
Better Than Ezra
Big Audio Dynamite
Bingoboys
Björk
The Black Eyed Peas
Blind Melon
Blink-182
The Blue Nile
Blur
Tracy Bonham
Brand New
Brand New Heavies
The Brandos
The Breeders
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Buckcherry
Jeff Buckley
Joe Budden
Bush
Kate Bush
Butthole Surfers
C
Cake
The Call
Camouflage
Camper Van Beethoven
Cam'ron
The Cardigans
Vanessa Carlton
The Charlatans
The Chemical Brothers
Neneh Cherry
Toni Childs
Chingy
The Church
CIV
Coheed and Cambria
Cold
Coldplay
Edwyn Collins
Common
Concrete Blonde
Julian Cope
Cornershop
Nikka Costa
Elvis Costello
Counting Crows
Cowboy Junkies
Cracker
The Cranberries
Crash Test Dummies
The Cure
Mark Curry
Cypress Hill
D
D'Angelo
Terence Trent D'Arby
Daddy Freddy
Daft Punk
The Dandy Warhols
Danzig
The Darkness
Dashboard Confession |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20statistical%20packages | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
General information
Operating system support
ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Regression
Support for various regression methods.
Time series analysis
Support for various time series analysis methods.
Charts and diagrams
Support for various statistical charts and diagrams.
Other abilities
See also
Comparison of computer algebra systems
Comparison of deep learning software
Comparison of numerical-analysis software
Comparison of survey software
Comparison of Gaussian process software
List of scientific journals in statistics
List of statistical packages
Footnotes
References
Further reading
Statistical packages
Statistics-related lists
Mathematical and quantitative methods (economics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordongianus | Fordongianus, () (Ancient Greek: Hydata Hypsitana, or Forum Trajani,) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about northwest of Cagliari and about northeast of Oristano. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,037 and an area of .
Fordongianus borders the following municipalities: Allai, Busachi, Ghilarza, Ollastra, Paulilatino, Siapiccia, Villanova Truschedu.
History
In antiquity, Fordongianus was called Forum Trajani in honor of Roman emperor Trajan, who is credited with the building of what are now considerable Roman remains, including those of a bridge, and of thermae on a scale of great magnificence (Valéry, Voy. en Sardaigne, vol. ii. c. 35). The city, in the interior of Sardinia, is known from the Itineraries, which place it on the road from Tibula, through the interior of the island, to Othoca. (Itin. Ant. p. 82.) Fordongianus sits on the left bank of the river Tirsi (ancient Thyrsus), about from Oristano.
Demographic evolution
References
External links
www.comunefordongianus.it/
Spa towns in Italy
Cities and towns in Sardinia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Radio%20%28disambiguation%29 | Capital Radio is a London-based radio station that launched in 1973, now part of the Capital radio network.
Capital Radio or Radio Capital may also refer to:
Radio stations
Europe
Capital (radio network), a group of radio stations operating across the United Kingdom
Capital Radio (pirate), a pirate radio station operating off the Dutch coast in 1970
Radio Capital, an Italian national radio station
Capital Radio, a radio station broadcasting in Spain
Capital Radio, the original name of Dublin commercial station FM104
Capital Radio Malta, a defunct radio station that broadcast from the Republic of Malta
Other places
Capital Radio Network, an Australian network of radio stations
Capital Radio 93.8, a radio station broadcasting in Cyprus on 93.8 MHz
Capital Radio Malawi, a national radio station broadcasting in Malawi
Capital Radio Sierra Leone, a radio station broadcasting in Sierra Leone on 104.9 MHz
Capital Radio 604, a radio station broadcasting in South Africa on 604 kHz
XEITE-AM, in Mexico City, known as Radio Capital
Radio Capital (Dhaka), Bangladesh
Other uses
Capital Radio One, or Capital Radio, a song and EP by The Clash
"Radio Capital", a song by La Vida Bohème from the 2010 album Nuestra
See also
Capital FM (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%20Burdett | Winston Burdett (December 12, 1913 – May 19, 1993) was an American broadcast journalist and correspondent for the CBS Radio Network during World War II and later for CBS television news. During the war he became a member of Edward R. Murrow's team of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys. From 1937 to 1942 Burdett was involved with the Communist Party. He testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1955, detailing his espionage work for the Soviet Union in Europe and naming dozens of other party members.
Early life
Winston Burdett was born December 12, 1913 in Buffalo, New York where his father was a civil engineer. Burdett attended Harvard University graduating summa cum laude in three years, leaving at age 19 in 1933. Burdett continued his education with graduate work in Romance languages at Columbia University.
Career and spy work
Early career and spying
Burdett stayed at his first job, at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, for five years. During his time at the Eagle Burdett worked as a film, theater and book critic. Burdett first joined the Communist Party in 1937 while working at the Eagle, through a group there that was affiliated with the American Newspaper Guild (ANG). He was approached about spying by Nathan Einhorn. Einhorn, a reporter and executive secretary of the New York ANG local, wanted Burdett to meet with Joseph North, the editor of New Masses, the Communist Party USAs journal. At the meeting North suggested a spy mission and introduced him to an unnamed man. At another meeting in New York's Union Square Burdett learned that his mission was in Finland. Finland had fought a 1939 Soviet invasion to a stalemate. His contact at Union Square was later identified by Burdett in a photo as the liaison between CPUSA and the KGB, Jacob Golos.
Burdett left the United States in February 1940, funded by CPUSA and using his press credentials to travel as a roving correspondent. Burdett first traveled to Stockholm and met another contact, "Mr. Miller". Burdett was disillusioned by the party when he met the liaison for his work as a spy in Finland - a tough, crude and offensive KGB man. Miller handed him $200 and detailed the mission. Burdett was to report back on the morale of the Finnish population and troops. Three weeks later, Burdett was visiting Finnish troops in the field when Finland signed the Moscow peace treaty. He returned to Stockholm where he told Miller that the Finnish were mostly ready to continue fighting. Miller paid Burdett another $400, thanked him and left.
Burdett detailed his involvement with the Communist Party and his work as a spy at a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearing in 1955. Burdett spied intermittently for another two years. He visited the Soviet consulate in Bucharest twice and made a contact in Belgrade, neither resulted in a mission. Burdett worked in Ankara under a Soviet embassy official. Burdett left the party and his spying behind in March 1942.
Work at CBS
Burdett was o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20World%20News%20Roundup | The CBS World News Roundup is the longest-running network radio newscast in the United States. It airs weekday mornings and evenings on the CBS Radio Network.
It first went on-air on March 13, 1938, at 8 p.m. ET as a one-time special in response to growing tensions in Europe—specifically the Anschluss, during which Adolf Hitler invaded Austria.
The early years
When the show first went on the air it was hosted by veteran radio personality Robert Trout. The first show gave the world the voices of Edward R. Murrow and William L. Shirer. In fact, it was the first time Murrow had ever delivered a news report. During the early years of the war, Murrow's reports from London and Shirer's reports from Berlin were essential listening to anyone trying to keep informed on events unfolding in Europe. War correspondents, including members of the Murrow Boys, broadcast from around Europe throughout the war.
The program was a 35-minute special report from multiple locations around the world as the pre-war crisis mounts. It was the first time that on-the-scene European field correspondents were linked with a central anchor in New York for a national broadcast. A recording of the first episode, as well as some others, is available at the Internet Archive.
Most broadcast references credit either CBS President William S. Paley or News Director Paul White as coming up with the idea for the show, as a way to trump Max Jordan's NBC coverage of the Anschluss. The previous day, Shirer had flown from Vienna to London at the request of Murrow (the CBS European chief) to give the first uncensored eyewitness account of Germany's takeover of Austria.
It was White who relayed the order to Murrow and Shirer for the first Roundup. The two, Murrow in Vienna and Shirer in London, then had the responsibility of linking up reporters and circuits that same day...a Sunday, when many of the key people would be mostly unreachable.
The format was so successful that it was repeated the following evening, and then revived later that year during the Sudetenland crisis. Eventually, it evolved into a daily show.
As World War II raged in Europe, the Roundup format spawned a weekend edition, The World Today. It was just before one 2:30 p.m. Eastern broadcast, on December 7, 1941, that White and World Today anchor John Charles Daly received word in New York that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. Daly's report at the top of the show, among the first on any radio station or network, is the one most often used in audio retrospectives. (For more on that, see John Charles Daly.)
The show today
The CBS World News Roundup remains an active part of the CBS Radio Network lineup, making it America's longest running network newscast on radio or TV. The 10-minute newscast airs every morning on CBS Radio affiliates nationwide at 8 a.m. Eastern and 7 a.m. Pacific. A late edition airs at 7 p.m. Eastern time and runs for 9 minutes. Skyview Networks handles the distribution.
Despite the name |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADARSAT%20Constellation | The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is a three-spacecraft fleet of Earth observation satellites operated by the Canadian Space Agency. The RCM's goal is to provide data for climate research and commercial applications including oil exploration, fishing, shipping, etc. With satellites smaller than RADARSAT-2, the RCM will provide new applications—made possible through the constellation approach—as well as continuing to provide C-band radar data to RADARSAT-2 users. One of its most significant improvements is in its operational use of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data. The primary goal of RCM is to provide continuous C-band SAR data to RADARSAT-2 users, as SAR imagery at a high temporal resolution is required by several users in the Canadian government. Other improvements include more frequent area coverage of Canada and reduced risk of a service interruption. The RCM will provide the world's most advanced, comprehensive method of maintaining Arctic sovereignty, conducting coastal surveillance, and ensuring maritime security.
The three satellites were launched on 12 June 2019 at 14:17 UTC on board a Falcon 9 rocket. Originally booster B1050 was planned to be used for this mission. However, after the failed landing of B1050, B1051 was used in this mission.
Overview
Working alongside industry partners, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is in charge of mission planning and operations from their headquarters in Saint-Hubert, Quebec. The project was accepted given these three objectives would be met: deliver C-band data to users within the Canadian government, produce daily coverage for ice, ship, and oil spill detection, and meet financial constraints to minimize cost of the program. The Canadian Government will own the satellites and data and will be responsible for its dissemination. Several requirements were established for the RCM by the Canadian government. RCM is required to be able to access 95% of any point on the globe on an average day. It is also required to have a multi-polarization function to increase flexibility in its function, as well as be able to capture subsidence in terrain using Phase Preserving ScanSAR Processing. The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) includes three identical Earth observation satellites. The prime contractor on the project is MDA and it was designed for three main uses:
Maritime surveillance (ice, surface wind, oil pollution and ship monitoring)
Disaster management (mitigation, warning, response and recovery)
Ecosystem monitoring (agriculture, wetlands, forestry and coastal change monitoring)
RADARSAT collects data mainly from the land surface of Canada and the oceans around the country. Its synthetic aperture radars (SAR) have a mass of 400 kg each, and a resolution of 1 × 3 m. As secondary payload, it includes Automatic Identification System for ships (AIS).
See also
RADARSAT
Technological and industrial history of Canada
References
External links
RADARSAT Constellation Mission - Canadian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderstruck%20%28TV%20series%29 | Wonderstruck is a Canadian children's television series that aired on CBC Television. It was hosted by Bob McDonald.
External links
Profile of Wonderstruck
IMDb
CBC Television original programming
1980s Canadian children's television series
1990s Canadian children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20red-sided%20opossum | The northern red-sided opossum or the Guianan short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis brevicaudata, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil. French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Characteristics
Body length is 11–14 cm (– in). Tail length is 4.5–6.5 cm (– in). They are red-legged mouse like marsupials that weigh anywhere between 67 and 95 g. There is no recognizable sexual dimorphism between the males and females, though the males are slightly larger than the females. The distinctive feature of the M. brevicaudata is the short, dense, grey or black fur they on their dorsal side with red fur on the lateral side that continues down to the feet.
Habitat
They are found in the rainforest, typically in mature, secondary rainforest. plantations, or gardens, including the edges of clearings. It is not as often found in dry deciduous forests. They reside in shrubby areas with lots of vegetation and often are found in the hollows of trees. Being in this environment also exposes them to their predators such as owls, coyotes, foxes and bobcats. It is regularly found up at 1,2000m in elevation.
Behavior
Life span in the wild is unknown but in captivity they are live, on average, about 3.9 years. They live in forested areas, but are poor climbers and stay on the forest floor. They are nocturnal and during the day they stay in nests in hollow logs or tree trunks and are active during twilight. Their diet consists of seeds, shoots and fruits, carrion, insects such as cockroaches, crickets and spiders, and some small rodents. Rodents are killed with a powerful bite in the back of the head.
Reproduction
They are polygynous and become sexually mature at around 4 to 5 months. The males in the groups may be violent and fight one another for territory and mates. There are 7 young born per litter, and if healthy enough, females can have 4 litters per year. Breeding season is typically from May to August, but are seen to be similar to that of Monodelphis domestica. It is speculated that the females may show some form of parental care since they need to care for the young after birth for about 50 days. The pouch of the M. brevicaudata is not as developed as in other marsupials. The young cling to the mother's fur and nipples and ride on her back when they are old enough to hold on.
The shape of the urethral grooves of the males' genitalia is used to distinguish between Monodelphis brevicaudata, Monodelphis domestica, and Monodelphis americana. The grooves form 2 separate channels that form the ventral and dorsal folds of the erectile tissue.
Taxonomy
M. brevicaudata was previously thought to have been a member of Monodelphis glirina. After close examination and gene sequence studies in 2010, it was determined that there were actually three different species in the Bolivian area: M. brevicaudata and M.domestica.
References
Opossums
Marsupials of South America
Mammals of Brazil
Mammals of Colombia
Mammals of French Guiana
Mammals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%20Do%20Cry%20%28Family%20Guy%29 | "Boys Do Cry" is the 15th episode of the fifth season of the American animated sitcom Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 29, 2007. The episode follows the Griffin family after Lois gets a job as an organist at the local church, and she insists that the rest of the family go to church with her. This eventually leads to Stewie drinking and throwing up the host during a sermon, which causes a mob to form around the Griffin household. In an attempt to prevent the town from supposedly exorcising the devil out of Stewie, the family escape and seek refuge in Texas.
It was written by series regular Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and directed by Brian Iles. The episode received generally mixed reviews from critics for its storyline and many cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 8.13 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Drew Barrymore, Bill Engvall, Gilbert Gottfried and Camilla Stull, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. "Boys Do Cry" was released on DVD along with four other episodes from the season on October 21, 2008.
Plot
Lois gets a job as the new organist at the local church and forces her family to start attending mass on Sundays. After Stewie mistakes Communion wine for punch, he drinks too much and throws it up, leading the citizens of Quahog to believe Stewie is possessed by Satan. When the priest wants to exorcise him, aided by everyone in town, the Griffin family escapes to Lois's sister Carol's house in Texas. Upon arriving at the home, Peter fits in well with the cowboys, but Brian is disgusted by the bigotry of the local residents. Stewie, disguised as a girl to protect his identity, begins using the name "Stephanie Griffin" and, after being convinced by Lois, enters a "Little Miss Texan" beauty pageant. Meanwhile, as part of an initiation into an after-school club, Meg and Chris sneak into George W. Bush's Crawford ranch to steal a pair of his underwear.
Lois soon hears that the search for Stewie has ended after people got distracted by news of the Super Devil (an entity described as 6 inches taller than the Devil, driving a flying motorcycle and armed with a jar of marmalade), but since she was hoping to instill "new moral values" in her family she decides not to mention that they can go home. Meanwhile, after branding a cow, things turn worse when Peter reveals that he is mentally retarded. The men with him, who explain that Texas "executes the retarded", tie him to an electric chair, in an attempt to put him to death, but he is soon rescued by his trusty horse, revealed to be voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
Later, Brian finds out from his girlfriend Jillian back in Quahog about the town calling off the search, and rushes to the pageant tells Lois, who says she has known for weeks which horrifies Brian. Stewie manages to win, but when his wig falls off during the crowning ceremony, the audience la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Whitney | Willard "Bill" Whitney is an American broadcast journalist. He is best known for his work as an anchor and correspondent for the CBS Radio Network, where he hosted the evening edition of the World News Roundup.
Early career
Before joining CBS News, Whitney, who began his career in broadcasting at the age of 17, worked his way up through the ranks at a variety of local radio stations including WKEN in Dover, Delaware; WGSM in Huntington, New York; WLIX in Islip, New York; and WGBB in Freeport, New York.
From 1979 to 1982, Whitney worked as anchor/news director at WCBS-FM in New York City. He began his employ with the national CBS Radio unit in the early 1980s as one of the original anchors for CBS' young-adult oriented news service, RadioRadio.
CBS News
Whitney moved full-time to the main CBS Radio Network in 1984. During that time he filled in for Charles Osgood on The Osgood File and did commentaries under the Sidebar title. He covered a number of major news stories, including Pope John Paul II's U.S. tour and the Balkan peace talks in Dayton, Ohio which led to the Dayton Accord.
Whitney anchored the CBS World News Roundup - Late Edition as well as hourly news broadcasts throughout the day. He also served as a substitute anchor for the morning edition of the Roundup.
Whitney did his final broadcast for CBS on December 1, 2016. A number of executives and on-air personnel (including Whitney) had taken buyouts in the face of a wave of layoffs.
Personal life
Whitney lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey with his wife Peg and glorious Labrador, Ernie. The Whitneys have four daughters: Maggie, Alice, Grace and Mary.
Honors
Edward R. Murrow Award: (2000) For Best Network Newscast
Edward R. Murrow Award: (2001) For Best Writing
References
Bill Whitney's bio from Westwood One
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male journalists
American reporters and correspondents
People from Wyckoff, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJKP-LD | WJKP-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station licensed to Corning, New York, United States, serving the Elmira area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC alongside Fox affiliate WYDC (channel 48). Both stations share studios on East Market Street in Downtown Corning; WJKP-LD's transmitter is located on Higman Hill.
In addition to its own low-power digital signal, WJKP-LD also receives full-market over-the-air coverage on WYDC's second digital subchannel. This airs on channel 48.2 from the same Higman Hill transmitter.
Coastal acquired WYDC and WJKP-LD from Waypoint Media on January 4, 2022, as part of a larger transaction that saw nine stations be sold to Coastal for $36.9 million.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in New York (state)
JKP-LD
JKP
MyNetworkTV affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid%20Productions | Pyramid Productions is a Canadian television series producer that has aired over 20 series around the world. Since 2015, Pyramid has won critical acclaim for its edgy-styled programming in True Crime.
History
Formed in 1983, Pyramid’s first series The Movie Show aired for 17 years. It was broadcast in over 70 countries.
The company’s best-known series include Whatever Happened To?, Inside Hollywood and numerous episodes of Biography for A&E. Other clients include PBS, CBC, ABC Australia, ZDF, History Channel UK, Global Television, CTV, Movie Central, Bravo!, HBO Asia, Court TV, Animal Planet and The Movie Network.
Pyramid’s first dramatic feature, based on the play, In a World Created by a Drunken God, was nominated for three Gemini Awards. It won Best Feature at the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards and was chosen to open the 33rd annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.
The Film Festival Project won a Silver Medal at the New York Festivals International TV Broadcasting Awards, while Pyramid’s global-warming documentary Thin Ice: Saattuq was screened at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, Planet in Focus International Environmental Film and Video Festival and Greendance Film Festival. Pyramid was a finalist for the 2007 CTV Canadian Documart competition and winner of the 2008 Pitch It! UKTV Lifestyle competition.
The company was originally formed by president Larry Day, who died at the age of 69 in year 2021, under the name Larry Day Productions and changed its name to Pyramid Productions in 1996. Kirstie McLellan Day was the CEO. Pyramid Productions was a recipient of an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Alberta Chambers of Commerce’s Alberta Business Award of Distinction. Since 2015, Pyramid has focused on true crime films, including, “Casey Anthony: Her Friends Speak,” “Charles Manson: The Final Words,” “Sex, Lies & Murder,” and “The Shocking Truth.”
References
External links
Official website
Television production companies of Canada
Companies based in Calgary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn%20Cycle | Burn Cycle (stylized as Burn:Cycle) is a 1994 point-and-click adventure video game for the CD-i that incorporates full motion video and is set in a surrealist cyberpunk world. The game follows Sol Cutter, a computer hacker and data thief, whose latest theft causes a virus named Burn Cycle to be implanted in his head. The game features a two-hour countdown timer to defuse the virus, with the player jumping back and forth between a fictional ingame virtual reality world known as the Televerse in order to destroy the Burn Cycle virus and solve the mystery of its creation.
The game was re-released for personal computers in 1995. In 1996 Philips Interactive Media announced that all of their CD-i games would be ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation during the third quarter of 1996, starting with Burn Cycle. However, these ports were never released.
Gameplay
The game is generally played in a first-person point and click style, similar to games like Myst and The 7th Guest. This is interspersed with various minigames, puzzles, and skill sequences, which the player must complete to progress. Failing certain minigames or puzzles, like the opening escape from the Softech building, will cause a game over.
At any point, the player can bring up a menu showing the remaining time before the Burn Cycle virus wipes Cutter's mind, which decreases in realtime during gameplay. From this screen, the player can save the game anywhere, and Cutter gives hints and additional information in monologue as to where to go next. When the timer reaches zero, the virus will activate, killing Sol Cutter.
The amount of time on this clock can be extended by trading for treatment drugs with Zip, an underground cybertechnology dealer at the Zero Sum Bar. Various electronic tools and keys can be collected throughout the game's world, which can either be traded or used to progress the story. The goal of the game is to fully cure Cutter of the Burn Cycle virus, and figure out why he was infected with it in the first place.
Story
Sol Cutter is a former corporate operative and current small-time data thief in an unnamed metropolis who acts as a courier for stolen data using a hard drive surgically implanted in his brain. As the game opens, Cutter is on a job; breaking and entering into the corporate offices of SoftTech, his former employers, when a shock blasts him across the room. Cutter realizes his mind has been infected with a virus called Burn Cycle which will kill him in two hours. With the help of his girlfriend Kris, who is guiding him from outside the complex, Cutter barely escapes, but Kris is shot in the back and killed.
Cutter makes his way to into the city and withdraws funds from a virtual bank (which doubles as a new age style church). Realizing that his hotel room is being watched, Cutter instead makes his way to the Zero Sum Bar to deal with Zip, his friend and colleague who is strung out on "Rushing", or experiencing digitally augmented highs and adrenalin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20overlay | Video overlay is any technique used to display a video window on a computer display while bypassing the chain of CPU to graphics card to computer monitor. This is done in order to speed up the video display, and it is commonly used, for example, by TV tuner cards and early 3D graphics accelerator cards. The term is also used to describe the annotation or inclusion of interactivity on online videos, such as overlay advertising (mid-roll overlay).
Various methods to achieve video overlay are in use:
A video overlay device can be connected between the graphics card analog VGA output and the monitor's input forming a "VGA passthrough". The device modifies the VGA signal and inserts the analog video signal overlay into the picture; the rest of the screen is filled by the signal coming from the graphics card. The driver software informs the video overlay device about the desired position of the video window on screen. Because of the much greater processing power of modern graphics cards, and the awkwardness of adding additional analog hardware signal processing path, this method is now little used.
Some video overlay devices write the digital video signal directly into the graphics card's video memory or provide it to the graphics card's RAMDAC.
Hardware overlay is a technique implemented by most modern graphics cards that allows an application to write to a dedicated part of video memory, rather than to the part shared by all applications. In this way, clipping, moving and scaling of the image can be performed by the graphics hardware rather than by the CPU in software. Some solid state video recording systems now include a hardware overlay, which uses dedicated video processing hardware built into the main processor (for example the Texas Instruments DM355) to combine each frame of video with an area of memory configured as a frame buffer which is used to store the graphics.
Overlay advertising is a technique used by online video producers to monetize video content through using an overlay layer to deliver and display an ad unit. This can be in the form of a video advertisement, hypervideo a product placement or a contextual link, clickable graphic or text that provides information related to the content of the video and/or the target of the link being placed.
See also
Hardware overlay
Texture mapping
Subtitle (captioning)
X video extension
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Works | IBM Works is an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, database and PIM applications.
Originally developed as Legato by IBM UK, it was later taken over by Footprint in Canada, also known as Footprint Works.
IBM Works is included in the BonusPak with OS/2 Warp Version 3 (1994). The last version was shipped with OS/2 Warp Version 4 (1996). IBM Works is not included in any of the later distributions of OS/2 such as ArcaOS, but is still possible to install it.
See also
Comparison of office suites
References
External links
Tech Document: Read Me for IBM Works Version 3.0
Screenshots of Footprint Works
Office suites
Works
OS/2 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Donaldson%20%28journalist%29 | Archibald Gordon Clark Donaldson (18 August 1926 – June 2001) was a Scottish-Canadian author and journalist. He appeared on television and also produced television programming.
Early life
Donaldson was born in Glasgow. He went to school until he was 16 and then worked for the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald. In 1944 he joined the British Army. Donaldson explained his ambitions by saying, "I became a reporter at 16 and never wanted to be anything else, except a foreign correspondent."
Career
During the close of World War II, Donaldson worked for the British Intelligence Corps. He did much reporting on anti-Semitism in Germany after the war. After immigrating to Canada with his wife Nina in 1954, Donaldson took up a job at the newspaper Toronto Telegram, and indeed one of his obituaries recalls him as having worked for the paper "during the wild circulation wars with the Toronto Star in the 1950s and 1960s." As part of that competition between the papers, in 1955, under the auspices of the Toronto Telegram Donaldson built the first fallout shelter in Canada and lived in it for two days while the Telegram published articles about it. Between 1963 and 1966 he was based in Washington, D.C. while working for the Toronto Telegram, and while in Texas the United States Secret Service restrained him for coming near U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Donaldson began working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1966. In his work for the CBC, Donaldson covered space exploration, including the visits to the Moon. Afterwards, he worked for CTV television and was featured on the television series W-FIVE.
As a television producer, Donaldson's credits included The Military Man (1970) on the Canadian Forces during the Pearson-Trudeau years. He also produced a documentary on Vladimir Lenin.
Donaldson's written works include histories such as Battle for a Continent. His biographies on the Prime Ministers of Canada, contained in a single volume, was published in 1969 under the title Fifteen Men. With continual updates starting in 1975, it eventually had to be renamed Sixteen Men and Eighteen Men. It was finally titled The Prime Ministers of Canada after Kim Campbell became Canada's first woman prime minister. As Donaldson said in his 1993 preface, "Twenty Persons didn't have the same ring to it."
One critic recommended The Prime Ministers of Canada for students, saying it was "straightforward and thoroughly enjoyable," and "accessible and helpful." Canadian humourist Will Ferguson, in his book Bastards & Boneheads, cited Donaldson's book on the prime ministers as one of the two "most rewarding" sources on prime ministers, along with Michael Bliss' Right Honourable Men. However, Ferguson gave some criticism, in that Donaldson allegedly used "the word 'squaw'" more than once, which was "somewhat disturbing."
In 1984, Donaldson became president of the Toronto Press Club and also worked for its News Hall of Fame. In the latter position in 1999, he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream%20%28disambiguation%29 | A bitstream is a series of bits in a computing or telecommunications system.
Bitstream may also refer to:
Bitstream Inc., a type foundry
Bitstream (DAC), a 1-bit digital-to-analogue converter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDOS | HDOS is an early microcomputer operating system, originally written for the Heathkit H8 computer system and later also available for the Heathkit H89 and Zenith Z-89 computers. The author was Heath Company employee Gordon Letwin, who later was an early employee of Microsoft and lead architect of OS/2.
HDOS originally came with a limited set of system software tools, including an assembler, but many commercial and large set of freeware programs from HUG (Heath User Group) became available for it eventually.
HDOS 2.0 is notable because it was one of the first microcomputer operating systems to use loadable device drivers to achieve a degree of device independence and extensibility. Device names followed the RSX-11-style convention of DKn: where the first two letters were the device driver file name and n was a number (DK0:, DK1:, and so on would all be handled by DK.SYS). Other similarities to RSX included the use of PIP for file transfer, and the use of EOT for file termination.
Similar to how Heath/Zenith published complete schematics and part lists for its computers, the company sold to users the source code for HDOS. The full source paper listing is held at yesterpc.org, old computer museum. Item references (Heathkit part number) are HOS-1-SL part number 595–2466.
Commands
The following list of commands are supported by HDOS.
BOOT
BYE
CAT
COPY
DATE
DELETE
DISMOUNT
FLAGS
HELP
MOUNT
ONECOPY
PIP
RENAME
RUN
SET
STAT
STATUS
TYPE
VER
Versions
HDOS 1.0 – written in 1978 by J. Gordon Letwin
HDOS 1.5 – Gregg Chandler
HDOS 1.6 – Gregg Chandler
HDOS 2.0 – released in 1980, written by Gregg Chandler, released into the public domain in April 1988
HDOS 3.0 – released into the public domain in August 1986
HDOS 3.02 – enhanced version by Richard Musgrave
See also
Heathkit
Zenith Data Systems
List of operating systems
References
External links
HeathDOS
Michael A. Pechuria, Comparing Two Microcomputer Operating Systems: CP/M and HDOS. Communications of the ACM, March 1983, vol. 26, no. 3.
Society of Eight-Bit Heathkit Computerists A web site dedicated to preserving the Heathkit 8-bit computers, source listing in PDF form
Free software operating systems
Public-domain software with source code
1978 software
Zenith Data Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese%2C%20Texas | Reese is a rural unincorporated community in Cherokee County, in the U.S. state of Texas, situated in the East Texas region. Its population was last estimated at 75, but no current U.S. Census data is available. It is located within the Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area.
Geography and topography
Reese is located on U.S. Highway 175, northwest of Rusk in northwestern Cherokee County.
History, Economy and Infrastructure
Reese was first settled sometime after the American Civil War and the Reese community developed when a logging camp was established in the 1890s. By the end of that decade, it had a store, a mill, a gin, and several scattered houses. It had a population of 15 in 1896. All three businesses were the focal point of the community. In 1914, the community had a church, a drugstore, a cotton gin, two sawmills, two general stores, and 50 residents. It remained prosperous throughout the 1920s and the population grew to 100 in 1929. It subsequently declined when U.S. Highway 175 was built north of Reese that same year. The decline continued after World War II. Its population was 75 in 2000.
Other businesses included a candle factory, a fish farm, a Ford dealership, a mechanic shop, as well as agriculture (farms, ranches, and production of hay, tomatoes, and peaches, among other produce items).
Reese had its own post office starting in 1895; Miss Angie Lane was the first postmistress there and had the name "Andy" established (for a Jacksonville postmaster, A.J. "Andy" Lane) initially at the settlement. The area had a post office until the mid-1900s, but since then residents have received rural route service from nearby Jacksonville; otherwise, letter drop service and stamps can be found much closer, at the post office in Cuney.
In 1901, a rail line with a switch came through, originally operated by the Texas & New Orleans Railroad, which later became part of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This rail line connected Dallas to Nacogdoches and was mostly treated as a freight railroad. The site of the switch was named for Reese Lloyd, a T&NO conductor. When it was made known about the naming of the switch, the next local postmaster had the name of the settlement changed to "Reese" from "Andy". For the first few years, passenger service was offered through the Reese station but eventually that was discontinued while freight runs would still pass through the area. As railroad companies were streamlining and restructuring in later years, some rail corridors proved to be too costly or were found obsolete, including the rail line through Reese. Southern Pacific abandoned the line in 1985, closing a chapter on the community's early economic prominence.
Even though Reese lost one connection, it still has another. The community is bisected west to east by U.S. Highway 175, providing residents with direct access to the nearby cities of Jacksonville, Cuney, and Frankston, as well as distant cities like Athens and Dallas, farther west. This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20Legends | NASCAR Legends is a NASCAR racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group for Windows-based personal computers and released by Sierra On-Line in late 1999. It was based on the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series (the precursor to the NASCAR Cup Series), and featured drivers, cars, and venues from that year. The game used the same game engine as NASCAR Racing 3. However, the game play reflects the performance of the 1970 race cars.
Players can choose to drive and also customize the four different cars available, with the game choosing the aero version of the car for speedways and road courses, using the base car for the short tracks. The game includes 16 of the 48 real events from the 1970 season, such as Bowman Gray Stadium, North Wilkesboro Speedway and the Riverside Raceway road course.
Reception
The game received very strong reviews when released, with IGN giving it an 8.9, GameSpot a 9/10, amongst other strong reviews.
References
1999 video games
NASCAR video games
Papyrus Design Group games
Racing simulators
Sierra Entertainment games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Exit%20Network | Final Exit Network, Inc. (FEN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit right to die advocacy group incorporated under Florida law. It holds that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness, intractable pain, or irreversible physical (though not necessarily terminal) conditions have a right to voluntarily end their lives. In cases deemed valid, Final Exit Network arranges what it refers to as "self deliverances". Typically, the network assigns two "exit guides" to a client and are present when they die, but the network states, and has proven in court, that it does not provide physical assistance in anyone's death; rather, their role is that of compassionate advisors and witnesses.
Final Exit Network was founded in 2004 by former members of the Hemlock Society, including that organization's co-founders, Derek Humphry and Dr. Faye Girsh. It was named after Humphry's 1991 book of the same name. It is a member of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.
The organization has occasionally been the subject of controversy and criticism due to its methodology. It favors the inhalation of inert gasses such as helium or nitrogen in conjunction with an "exit hood".
Final Exit Network and individual members have been prosecuted in Arizona, Georgia, and Minnesota. The defenses have largely centered around what constitutes aiding or assisting in suicides. The defendants conceded that while volunteer exit guides give their clients information about how to ensure a swift, pain-free death, they do not physically take part in the suicides, and they maintain that prohibitions against informing clients how to take their lives violate the free speech clause of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. The Minnesota case resulted in the first and only conviction of either Final Exit Network or any of its personnel. In the Minnesota trial, it was established that Final Exit Network personnel did not provide any physical assistance in the "suicide" of the "victim." The State openly acknowledged that the corporation (and only the corporation) was convicted solely for communicating "words" that "enabled" a suicide, not for any physical conduct. For its sentence, the corporation was ordered to pay $30,000 in fines and $2,975.63 in restitution. The Minnesota Court of Appeal affirmed the corporation's conviction in December 2016 (confirming there was no physical assistance but rejecting Final Exit Network's free speech argument); the Supreme Court of Minnesota declined to review the conviction in March 2017, and the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari review in October 2017.
History
The Final Exit Network traces its history to the Hemlock Society. It was founded in 1980 primarily by British-born American journalist and author Derek Humphry, his late wife Ann Wickett Humphry, Canadian former Presbyterian minister-turned-skeptic Gerald A. Larue, and psychologist Dr. Faye Girsh. However, in the early 2000s, a faction decided they did no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder | An autoencoder is a type of artificial neural network used to learn efficient codings of unlabeled data (unsupervised learning). An autoencoder learns two functions: an encoding function that transforms the input data, and a decoding function that recreates the input data from the encoded representation. The autoencoder learns an efficient representation (encoding) for a set of data, typically for dimensionality reduction.
Variants exist, aiming to force the learned representations to assume useful properties. Examples are regularized autoencoders (Sparse, Denoising and Contractive), which are effective in learning representations for subsequent classification tasks, and Variational autoencoders, with applications as generative models. Autoencoders are applied to many problems, including facial recognition, feature detection, anomaly detection and acquiring the meaning of words. Autoencoders are also generative models which can randomly generate new data that is similar to the input data (training data).
Mathematical principles
Definition
An autoencoder is defined by the following components: Two sets: the space of decoded messages ; the space of encoded messages . Almost always, both and are Euclidean spaces, that is, for some . Two parametrized families of functions: the encoder family , parametrized by ; the decoder family , parametrized by .For any , we usually write , and refer to it as the code, the latent variable, latent representation, latent vector, etc. Conversely, for any , we usually write , and refer to it as the (decoded) message.
Usually, both the encoder and the decoder are defined as multilayer perceptrons. For example, a one-layer-MLP encoder is:
where is an element-wise activation function such as a sigmoid function or a rectified linear unit, is a matrix called "weight", and is a vector called "bias".
Training an autoencoder
An autoencoder, by itself, is simply a tuple of two functions. To judge its quality, we need a task. A task is defined by a reference probability distribution over , and a "reconstruction quality" function , such that measures how much differs from .
With those, we can define the loss function for the autoencoder asThe optimal autoencoder for the given task is then . The search for the optimal autoencoder can be accomplished by any mathematical optimization technique, but usually by gradient descent. This search process is referred to as "training the autoencoder".
In most situations, the reference distribution is just the empirical distribution given by a dataset , so that
where and is the Dirac measure, and the quality function is just L2 loss: . Then the problem of searching for the optimal autoencoder is just a least-squares optimization:
Interpretation
An autoencoder has two main parts: an encoder that maps the message to a code, and a decoder that reconstructs the message from the code. An optimal autoencoder would perform as close to perfect reconstruction as possible, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketExchange | PacketExchange is a British multinational network services provider based in London. Founded in 2002 by Jason Velody and Kieron O'Brien, both supported by Nigel Titley, Giles Heron, and Katie Snowball as the founding team, its network connected 45 points of presence across Europe, Asia, and the United States over a private backbone consisting primarily of multiple 10 Gigabit Ethernet links over dedicated wavelengths on a fiber-optic mesh.
PacketExchange's services include the Ethernet Private Line (EPL or EVPL), wide-area peering, community of interest networking, content delivery network, single and multi-homed Internet transit, and dedicated Internet access. The company also offers expertise in peering, or BGP, and infrastructure to support cloud computing.
Company history
The company was founded to act as a wide-area Internet Exchange Point and application delivery service provider. The company's original business model was to use Ethernet and MPLS technology to build a distributed Internet Exchange Point as well as to provide point-to-point Ethernet connectivity. Using the model, over 140 networks peered traffic over the PacketExchange network. The commoditization of the IP market forced the company to evolve.
In January 2005, PacketExchange acquired and integrated XchangePoint. In October 2007, PacketExchange was hired by the rock band Radiohead for the internet release of their album In Rainbows. In February 2008, Rick Mace became the new CEO, and PacketExchange secured an additional $12 million investment. The company added two network points of presence during 2008: one in the Telx colocation facility in New York, and another in Singapore.
In January 2010, Mzima Networks announced that its network assets were acquired by PacketExchange. Grant Kirkwood became PacketExchange's CTO. The two companies merged customer bases and operations, resulting in a combined company with an extensive global network footprint that leverages its 10 Gigabit backbone to provide global Ethernet private line services, MPLS and VPLS networking, IP transit, and peering services.
Mzima Networks
The Mzima Network was a data network and Internet Protocol (IP) computer network extending across the United States, Europe, and Asia. The word Mzima means “alive” in the Kiswahili language.
The network was started in California in 2001 by Mzima Corporation, N.A, which acquired several companies with Internet networks. In 2005, the Mzima Network became the first all-10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone through a partnership with Force10 Networks. In 2006, the Mzima IP backbone network expanded into Europe, providing connectivity for content providers, enterprise companies, and international telecommunication carriers. The fault-tolerant designed backbone network connected Tier 1 network carriers and network providers that engage in private peering.
It incorporated the Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) standard to adapt Ethernet technology to carrier ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Austria | Rail transport in Austria is mainly owned by the national rail company ÖBB. The railway network consists of 6,123 km, its gauge is and 3,523 km are electrified.
Austria is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Austria is 81.
History
The history of Austrian rail transport starts with the Reisszug, a private, horse-drawn funicular serving Hohensalzburg Fortress. Built at the end of the 15th century and first documented in 1515, it is the oldest known funicular in the world, and possibly the oldest existing railway line.
In the 19th century, after building of several horse tramways, the Nordbahn line Vienna–Břeclav opened in 1837. The Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (Kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen, kkStB), a company serving the Austrian side of Austria-Hungary, was created in 1884 and in 1923, some years after the dissolution of the empire, the national company BBÖ (Bundesbahnen Österreich) was founded.
Following the Anschluss of Austria to National-socialist Germany in 1938, the BBÖ were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. After the end of World War II, the Austrian federal railways were re-installed in 1945, soon under the name of Österreichische Bundesbahn (ÖBB).
In 1998 the market was liberalised and had one of the highest degrees of market openness in the EU according to the 2011 Rail Liberalisation Index, although the market share of ÖBB remains above 90% for passenger rail.
Network
The Austrian network, aside from the principal rail system, also enfolds some funiculars, rack railways and lot of heritage railways mainly derived from part of disused lines. Some secondary lines are set up in narrow gauge.
Operators
ÖBB
WESTbahn
Urban railways
Vienna counts a system of S-Bahn, U-Bahn, and a large tramway network.
Graz counts a regional S-Bahn, an extended tramway network and a funicular.
Linz counts a regional S-Bahn and a tramway network including the Pöstlingbergbahn.
Salzburg counts a regional S-Bahn and a funicular.
Innsbruck counts a regional S-Bahn, a tramway network and a funicular.
The little town of Gmunden counts a tramway line.
The village of Serfaus, with the U-Bahn Serfaus, is sometimes considered as the smallest town with a subway in the world.
Narrow gauge railways
In Austria, many narrow gauge railways were constructed due to the difficult mountainous terrain. Many survive as a common carrier or a heritage railway.
See also
Austrian Federal Railways (history)
ÖBB Rolling Stock
Transport in Austria
:Category:Railway stations in Austria
Railjet, the national high speed train
S-Bahn in Austria
List of town tramway systems in Austria
Rail transport in Liechtenstein
High-speed rail in Austria
Notes and references
External links
ÖBB official website
Railway network map of Austria
Austrian rail transport gallery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20multimedia%20access | The Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) addresses the delivery of multimedia resources under different and varying network conditions, diverse terminal equipment capabilities, specific user or creator preferences and needs and usage environment conditions. UMA refers to the truly ubiquitous access to and consumption of multimedia content, aiming at guaranteeing unrestricted access to multimedia content:
from any device;
through any network;
independently of the original content format;
with guarantees and efficiently and
satisfying user preferences and usage environment conditions.
Requirements
The fulfilment of UMA requires that:
Content is remotely accessible and searchable;
Availability of useful descriptions about the content;
Availability of useful descriptions about the context (e.g., knowledge about the terminal capabilities);
Existence of content mediation/delivery systems able to use the above information to provide the intended value to their users independently of location, type of terminal devices being used or network connections, regardless of the format of the content, respecting user preferences, environmental conditions and content owners and usage rights.
Approach
One feasible approach to implement UMA, is to develop context-aware systems that use the content and context descriptions to decide upon the need to adapt the content before delivering it to the end-user. The use of open ontologies and standards to structure, represent and convey those descriptions as well as to specify the kind of adaptation operations is vital for the success of UMA. This is especially true in loosely coupled environments such as the Internet, where heterogeneous end-users devices, varied content formats, repositories and networking technologies co-exist. Standards from the W3C such as OWL (Web Ontology Language) or CC/PP (Content Capability/Preferences Profile) and from ISO/IEC such as MPEG-7 and especially MPEG-21, are well-suited for the implementation of UMA-enabler systems.
References
Telecommunication services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom%3A%20Knightmare%20III | is a 1987 adventure video game developed and published by Konami for the MSX home computer. It was re-released digitally for Microsoft Windows. It is the third and final entry in the Knightmare trilogy. Set a century after the events of The Maze of Galious, the plot follows a Japanese high school student teleported into the Grecian Kingdom who must prevent the resurrection of the ancient demon lord Gog. Gameplay revolves around interaction with characters and exploration, while taking part in battles against enemies and bosses. The game was created by the MSX division at Konami under the management of Shigeru Fukutake. The process of making original titles for the platform revolved around the person who came up with the characters. Development proceeded with a team of four or five members, lasting somewhere between four and six months. It received a mixed reception from contemporary critics and retrospective commentarists.
Gameplay
Shalom: Knightmare III is an adventure game.
Synopsis
Setting and characters
Plot
Development and release
Shalom: Knightmare III was developed by the MSX division at Konami under the management of Shigeru Fukutake, who revealed its creation process in a 1988 interview with the Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine. Fukutate explained that the staffer who came up with the characters was in charge of designing and facilitating the development of the project, as the process of making original titles for the MSX revolved around the person who came up with the characters being assigned to do both planning and the story. Fukutate further explained that the planner would then lead a team of four or five members to proceed with development, which would last somewhere between four and six months. The game was published for the MSX exclusively in Japan by Konami on December 23, 1987. Its ending theme was featured alongside music tracks from other Koanmi games in a compilation album titled Konami Ending Collection, distributed in Japan by King Records in 1991. Although it was not officially released outside Japan, English and Portuguese fan translations exist. It was re-released in digital form for Microsoft Windows through D4 Enterprise's Project EGG service on January 26, 2016.
Reception
Shalom: Knightmare III garnered mixed reception from contemporary critics and retrospective commentarists.
Notes
References
External links
Shalom: Knightmare III at GameFAQs
Shalom: Knightmare III at Giant Bomb
1987 video games
Adventure games
D4 Enterprise games
Japan-exclusive video games
MSX games
Konami games
Video games developed in Japan
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational%20Programming%20System | Conversational Programming System or CPS was an early Time-sharing system offered by IBM which ran on System/360 mainframes circa 1967 through 1972 in a partition of OS/360 Release 17 MFT II or MVT or above. CPS was implemented as an interpreter, and users could select either a rudimentary form of BASIC or a reasonably complete version of PL/I. A third option provided remote job entry (RJE) features allowing users to submit JCL job streams for batch processing. A fourth option was called control mode. Normally, only the system operator would be permitted to use control mode. The available features in control mode included:
Send a message to an individual user or all users.
Clobber (today it would be called re-boot) a specific user's virtual CPS machine.
Monitor the activity of an individual user.
Terminate the entire CPS system.
CPS provided a highly interactive user experience. It accomplished this by giving an immediate syntax error (when necessary) as soon as each line of a program was entered.
CPS was also offered with a firmware-assisted interpreter, on the IBM System/360 Model 50, only, but few Model 50 installations elected to install this RPQ. This RPQ executed the EVAL function of CPS's programming stack using a firmware assist.
The IBM-released version of CPS was designed to run on the IBM 1050 terminal and the IBM 2741 terminal with the "break feature". User groups later added support for the IBM 2260 video display terminal.
CPS support for the IBM 2741 "break feature" most likely influenced the eventual user group support for the "break feature" and the IBM 1050 terminal on IBM Administrative Terminal System (ATS/360), as many IBM customers which operated CPS also operated ATS/360.
CPS was ultimately superseded by TSO. An IBM program product was offered which provided limited CPS functionality under TSO, intended mainly as a "bridge" between CPS and TSO.
References
External links
Conversational Programming System (CPS) development at computerhistory.org
IBM software
Time-sharing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20and%20radio%20stations%20in%20Metro%20Cebu | The following are the lists of television and radio stations broadcasting in Cebu City in the Republic of the Philippines.
TV stations
Analog
VHF
DYSS-TV GMA TV-7 (GMA Network Inc.)
DYKC-TV RPN TV-9 (Radio Philippines Network)
DYPT-TV PTV 11 (People's Television Network)
DYTV-TV IBC TV-13 (Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation)
UHF
DYET-TV TV5 Channel 21 (TV5 Network Inc.)
DYGA-TV Hope Channel Central Philippines TV-25 (Gateway UHF Broadcasting)
DYLS-TV GTV 27 (GMA Network Inc.)
DYAN-TV One Sports 29 (Nation Broadcasting Corporation / TV5 Network Inc.)
DYNU-TV UNTV 39 (Progressive Broadcasting Corporation; operated by Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International)
DYCS-TV CCTN 47 (Radio Veritas Global Broadcasting, Inc. / Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu)
Digital
UHF
(PA) 16 (Advanced Media Broadcasting System) (Pending)
DYTV-DTV 17 IBC Cebu (Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation)
DYET-DTV 18 TV5 Cebu (TV5 Network Inc.)
DYKC-DTV 19 RPN Cebu (Radio Philippines Network) (Soon on DTT)
DYNZ-DTV 20 ZOE TV Cebu (ZOE Broadcasting Network)
(PA) 24 (Swara Sug Media Corporation) (Pending)
DYGA-DTV 25 Hope Channel Central Philippines (Gateway UHF Broadcasting) (Soon on DTT)
DYSS-DTV 26 GMA Cebu (GMA Network Inc.)
(PA) 28 (Asia Pacific Business and Industrial Systems, Inc.) (Pending)
DYCT-DTV 31 BEAM TV (Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media)
(PA) 32 (Baycomms Broadcasting Corporation); licensed in Minglanilla (Pending)
(PA) 41 (Christian Era Broadcasting Service International) (Pending)
DYPT-DTV 42 PTV Cebu (People's Television Network)
DYBU-DTV 43 DZRH TV (Manila Broadcasting Company)
(PA) 44 (Sarraga Integrated And Management Corporation) (Pending)
DYFA-DTV 45 Golden Nation Network (Global Satellite Technology Services) (Soon on DTT)
DYFX-DTV 49 Net 25 (Eagle Broadcasting Corporation)
Defunct/Inactive
DYCB-TV ABS-CBN TV-3 (ABS-CBN Corporation)
DYCP-TV SBN 6 (Southern Broadcasting Network)
DYAC-TV S+A TV-23 (AMCARA Broadcasting Network)
DYCT-TV BEAM TV 31 (Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media)
DYNJ-TV RJTV 33 (Rajah Broadcasting Network)
DYPN-TV Prime Channel 37 (Prime Broadcasting Network)
DYBU-TV TV Natin 43 (Manila Broadcasting Company)
DYFA-TV GNN 45 (Global Satellite Technology Services)
DYFX-TV Net 25 Channel 49 (Eagle Broadcasting Corporation)
DYGC-TV GMA TV-51 (RGMA Network Inc.)
Cable Providers
Sky Cable Cebu
Cebu Cable TV
Cine Cebu Television Cable
Cignal TV
G Sat Direct TV
Radio stations
AM
DYRB Radyo Pilipino 540 (Radyo Pilipino Corporation, a subsidiary of Radyo Pilipino Media Group)
DYMR Radyo Pilipinas 576 (Presidential Broadcast Service)
DYHP RMN 612 (Radio Mindanao Network)
DYRC Aksyon Radyo 648 (Manila Broadcasting Company)
RPN DYKC Radyo Ronda 675 (Radio Philippines Network)
DYAR Sonshine Radio 765 (Swara Sug Media Corporation)
DYLA 909 (Vimcontu Broadcasting Corporation)
DYMF Bombo Radyo 963 (People's Broadcasting Service Inc.; part of Bombo Ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-jet | An N-jet is the set of (partial) derivatives of a function up to order N.
Specifically, in the area of computer vision, the N-jet is usually computed from a scale space representation of the input image , and the partial derivatives of are used as a basis for expressing various types of visual modules. For example, algorithms for tasks such as feature detection, feature classification, stereo matching, tracking and object recognition can be expressed in terms of N-jets computed at one or several scales in scale space.
See also
Scale space implementation
Jet (mathematics)
References
Computer vision
Image processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAP | XAP might refer to:
XAP processor, a CPU architecture for computers, developed by Cambridge Consultants since 1994
XAP (Extensible Authoring Publishing), an old name for Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
XAP (file format), container format for mobile apps and Silverlight web apps
XAP, The IATA airport code for Chapecó Airport
xAP Home Automation protocol
XAP, The ICAO Code for Midway Connection, operated by Fischer Brothers Aviation of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20A.%20Leadon | Steven A. (Tony) Leadon is a former professor of radiation oncology at the University of North Carolina.
In 2003, a university found that Leadon had fabricated and falsified data in his research on DNA repair. In 2006, the United States Office of Research Integrity came to the same conclusion, saying that "Leadon engaged in scientific misconduct by falsifying DNA samples and constructing falsified figures for experiments done in his laboratory to support claimed findings of defects in a DNA repair process that involved rapid repair of DNA damage in the transcribed strand of active genes, included in four grant applications and in eight publications and one published manuscript".
In the wake of the investigations, papers have been retracted from several journals including Science and Mutation Research, while more articles were partially retracted from journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
See also
List of scientific misconduct incidents
External links
Living people
Cancer researchers
DNA repair
People involved in scientific misconduct incidents
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blob%20detection | In computer vision, blob detection methods are aimed at detecting regions in a digital image that differ in properties, such as brightness or color, compared to surrounding regions. Informally, a blob is a region of an image in which some properties are constant or approximately constant; all the points in a blob can be considered in some sense to be similar to each other. The most common method for blob detection is convolution.
Given some property of interest expressed as a function of position on the image, there are two main classes of blob detectors: (i) differential methods, which are based on derivatives of the function with respect to position, and (ii) methods based on local extrema, which are based on finding the local maxima and minima of the function. With the more recent terminology used in the field, these detectors can also be referred to as interest point operators, or alternatively interest region operators (see also interest point detection and corner detection).
There are several motivations for studying and developing blob detectors. One main reason is to provide complementary information about regions, which is not obtained from edge detectors or corner detectors. In early work in the area, blob detection was used to obtain regions of interest for further processing. These regions could signal the presence of objects or parts of objects in the image domain with application to object recognition and/or object tracking. In other domains, such as histogram analysis, blob descriptors can also be used for peak detection with application to segmentation. Another common use of blob descriptors is as main primitives for texture analysis and texture recognition. In more recent work, blob descriptors have found increasingly popular use as interest points for wide baseline stereo matching and to signal the presence of informative image features for appearance-based object recognition based on local image statistics. There is also the related notion of ridge detection to signal the presence of elongated objects.
The Laplacian of Gaussian
One of the first and also most common blob detectors is based on the Laplacian of the Gaussian (LoG). Given an input image , this image is convolved by a Gaussian kernel
at a certain scale to give a scale space representation . Then, the result of applying the Laplacian operator
is computed, which usually results in strong positive responses for dark blobs of radius (for a two-dimensional image, for a -dimensional image) and strong negative responses for bright blobs of similar size. A main problem when applying this operator at a single scale, however, is that the operator response is strongly dependent on the relationship between the size of the blob structures in the image domain and the size of the Gaussian kernel used for pre-smoothing. In order to automatically capture blobs of different (unknown) size in the image domain, a multi-scale approach is therefore necessary.
A straightforward wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20industrial%20mission | British industrial mission is a network of people who engage in christian ministry to people in economic life. This is often done by lay or ordained chaplains who build relationships with people in workplaces. They may also take part in support or campaigning roles for economic justice, such as for a living wage, protection for precarious workers or assisting people facing redundancy. In workplaces the chaplains may have a role in staff welfare, or facilitating faith provision.
The intention of these faith actors
(predominantly from Christian denominations), is to establish an engagement between the church and the world of work, money and employment. Chaplains form relationships with local employers and visit workplaces on a regular basis and also use their experience to help churches to understand and respond to the needs and issues. Their role is not to try to convert employees but to establish a dialogue between employers, employees and the church and provide a religious presence in the workplace. Chaplains are often independent of the business owners, and offer confidentiality.
History
The history of industrial mission in Britain is strongly associated with the city of Sheffield, where the first industrial mission team was established in 1944. Bishop Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield, was concerned that the Church of England had been losing touch with people in the industrialised cities during the inter-war years, and sent the Revd. Ted Wickham into factories to engage with workers. This mission was well received by working people, and the Sheffield Industrial Mission was set up under Ted Wickham's direction. The purpose of Wickam’s role was to address the ‘problem’ of the progressive estrangement of the working classes from the church which had adversely affected church attendance since the industrial revolution, particularly in industrial cities like Sheffield. Wickham sought to build and sustain an engagement with the working population by visiting steelworks and other heavy industries. His style was participatory. He and his chaplains made regular factory visits engaging people in informal conversation and holding formal break-time discussions about issues of importance to them. The Sheffield model involved development of a theology and set of methods that provided a template which was followed by mission teams in other parts of the country.
In 1959 the Industrial Mission Association was formed with the intention of ensuring the ongoing development of industrial mission. At its height during the late 1970s it is estimated there were 115 full-time and 175 part-time clergy engaged in industrial chaplaincy in Britain and most industrial towns had some form of industrial mission activity. However, deindustrialization and in particular the loss of heavy industries such as mining and shipbuilding where industrial mission traditionally focussed its attention led in the 1980s to the development of a more issue-based approach that sought t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDNU-LD | KDNU-LD (channel 7) is a low-power television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, airing programming from the 24/7 headline news service NewsNet. It is owned and operated by Bridge Media Networks. The station's transmitter is located on Mount Arden in Henderson.
History
Built by the Trinity Broadcasting Network as an analog station in 1986, the station was sold to Enlace Christian Television in 2009, Craig A. Ruark, LLC in July 2021, and to LVNV Broadcasting Company, LLC in April 2022.
On September 26, 2022, NEWSnet's parent company Bridge Media Networks (backed by 5-hour Energy creator Manoj Bhargava) announced it would acquire KDNU-LD for $900,000. Upon completion of the transaction, KDNU-LD would become the first NEWSnet owned-and-operated station in the West Coast (ironically, Scott Centers, the station's then-current owner, is also the Vice President of Broadcast Division at Bridge Media Networks); the sale was consummated on November 16.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Nevada
DNU-LD
Low-power television stations in Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunch | Bunch may refer to:
Bunch (surname)
Bunch Davis (), American baseball player in the Negro leagues
BUNCH, nickname of five computer manufacturing companies, IBM's main competitors in the 1970s
Tussock (grass) or bunch grass, members of the family Poaceae
Bunch, Oklahoma, United States
Bunch Creek, Placer County, California, United States
The Bunch, a 1972 folk rock group
, a United States Navy destroyer escort
Humpback whale, sometimes called a bunch
See also
Bunch Reservoir, Apache County, Arizona, United States
Wild Bunch (disambiguation)
Brunch
Bunches
Bunching (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub%20Culture | Sub Culture is a submarine action/adventure computer game, developed by Criterion Games and published by Ubi Soft. It was released in 1997, and was often praised as a solid title, but received little recognition and had only limited sales. A spiritual successor, also developed by Criterion and published by Ubi Soft, was released in 2000 under the name Deep Fighter.
Story
In the opening sequence of the game, a soup can discarded from a boat smashes the home of a race of tiny submarine humanoids. The player takes the role of the survivor of this disaster, a freelance sub captain who must buy, sell, trade, and pirate his way to the top in a cutthroat world of underwater adventure. The Bohines, a nation in the game, are at war with the Prochas, another nation.
To survive and prosper, the player character can engage in various mining or salvage operations, recovering enormous bottle caps, cigarette butts, thorium crystals, and pearls, all of which are valuable commodities sellable in cities. However, both mutant fish and pirate subs lie in wait. Once the player has built up enough cash, they can begin to exploit a form of 'stock market' in which various commodities can be purchased and resold at other locations or times for higher prices.
The player can also take on various missions for either of the two warring nations. These missions become progressively more difficult, ranging from dropping depth charges down the air vents of an underground base to attacking nuclear-powered torpedo-firing walking tanks. Eventually the two nations come to terms in order to meet and defeat their mutual foe, the Pirates. The final mission consists of an all-out assault by both nations against the concealed Pirate city, with the player shooting their way through heavily guarded tunnels to plant a bomb next to the city.
Gameplay
The gameplay is rather straightforward, placing the emphasis on buying and trading goods found in the environment for weapon, shield, and utility upgrades. There are also missions available, which depict some of the turmoil between the Bohine, Procha, and the Pirates. By accepting missions for different cities, the player can unlock new technologies, equipment, and is given discounts for certain goods.
Reception
Next Generation rated it four stars out of five, and stated that "All in all, Sub Culture creates a compelling world, and if the thought of undersea exploration and adventure appeals to you, this game is probably the best of its kind." Sub Culture was the runner-up for GameSpots 1997 "Most Original Game" award, which ultimately went to Dungeon Keeper.
Sub Culture was a commercial failure. In the United States, its sales totaled 11,083 units by April 1999. Analyzing its performance, Ubisoft's Tammy Schachter wrote that "the 3D was beautiful, the gameplay was top of the line, and all of the marketing was in place... so perhaps this is a niche game genre that then appealed to only a small segment of the hard-core gaming community."
R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Blair | Ralph Blair is an American psychotherapist and founder of The Homosexual Community Counseling Center in New York City. In 1975, he founded Evangelicals Concerned, Inc. (or EC), a U.S.-wide network of gay and lesbian evangelical Christians and friends.
Blair founded EC to provide hope, encouragement, teaching and fellowship to gays and lesbians seeking to integrate their sexuality with a theologically sound and committed Christian faith. EC uses conferences, publications and other venues to spread the Good News of God's grace and peace in Christ to a people called to lives of grateful service. EC sponsors summer regional conferences, winter Bible study retreats, and fall preaching festivals. The latter focus on contributions from historical Christian leaders such as John Wesley, George MacDonald, John Newton and J. Gresham Machen. Blair also publishes a quarterly review of literature published about religion and literature.
For the Eastern and Western EC conferences, Blair invites as keynoters only evangelicals who support monogamous same-sex partnerships. These keynoters are invited only once.
Education
Blair is a graduate of Bowling Green State University, The University of Southern California Graduate School of Religion, and The Graduate School of The Pennsylvania State University. He also studied at Bob Jones University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary.
Books
Undoing Every Do / Doing Every Don't (The Ten Commandments, The Religious Right & The Lesbigay Left) (2000)
Christ2000 (1999)
One Foolishness or Another (1999)
Trust (1996)
Anger (1995)
Homosexualities: Faith, Facts, and Fairy Tales (1991)
Jesus Who? (1986)
Hope's Gays and Gays’ Hopes (1983)
Getting Close: Steps Toward Intimacy (1980)
Homophobia in the Churches (1979)
An Evangelical Look at Homosexuality (1972)
Etiological and Treatment Literature on Homosexuality (1972)
See also
LGBT-welcoming church programs
Religion and homosexuality
History of Christianity and homosexuality
Queer Theology
List of LGBT religious organizations
References
External links
Evangelicals Concerned, Inc. website
Evangelicals Concerned Western Region website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American religious writers
LGBT Protestants
American LGBT rights activists
Bob Jones University alumni
Bowling Green State University alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Queer theologians
University of Southern California alumni
Westminster Theological Seminary alumni
LGBT and Protestantism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit | cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems.
cdrkit is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, and Ubuntu all include cdrkit.
Joerg Jaspert is cdrkit's leader and release manager.
It was created in 2006 by Debian developers as a fork of cdrtools based on the last GPL-licensed version when cdrtools licensing changed.
Features
The cdrkit includes many features for CD and DVD writing, such as
creation of audio, data, and mixed (audio and data) CDs
burning CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-r.
usage without root identity is possible in many cases, some device drivers still may fail, show unexplainable problems
can use device node instead of scsi id numbers on Linux
Components
Major components include:
wodim (an acronym for write optical disk media), which was forked from the cdrecord program in cdrtools.
icedax (an acronym for incredible digital audio extractor), which was forked from the cdda2wav program in cdrtools.
genisoimage (short for generate ISO image), which was forked from the mkisofs program in cdrtools.
Front-ends
Other software can use cdrkit tools in the back-end. cdrkit tools will maintain interface compatibility with cdrtools 2.01.01a08 at least for the near future. Numerous programs can therefore use it, including Brasero (the default GNOME Desktop CD/DVD application), K3b (the default KDE desktop application), and X-CD-Roast (desktop environment independent).
History
A license dispute arose between the Debian maintainers and the since deceased cdrtools author Jörg Schilling. The Debian developers said that the GPL license is not compatible with the CDDL license that covers part of the cdrtools code. In contrast, cdrtools maintainer Jörg Schilling stated that there is no problem with the license, and also felt that the Debian fork is not legally redistributable. The Red Hat legal team differed with Schilling's position, saying that he has not provided them with any proof of either license or copyright violation in cdrkit.
Schilling also said that the cdrkit fork reintroduced various bugs from the first versions of cdrtools, which were already fixed in later cdrtools versions. Debian developers considered that some of these changes were necessary to solve existing problems, rather than being bugs.
References
External links
cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test (fork announcement)
Cdrtools - why do Linux distributions create bad forks?, essay by Jörg Schilling referring to cdrkit without mentioning its name
Debburn SVN repository which contains cdrkit
Debian
Free optical disc authoring software
Optical disc authoring software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Tres | MTV Tres is an American owned by Paramount Media Networks, a subsidiary of Paramount Global.
The channel is targeted toward bilingual Latinos and non-Latino Americans aged 12 to 34, and its programming formerly included lifestyle series, customized music video playlists, news documentaries that celebrate Latino culture, music and artists and English-subtitled programming in Spanish, imported from MTV Spain and MTV Latin America, as well as Spanish-subtitled programming from MTV. The network's logo is rendered as tr3s, with an acute accent over the number 3 (which in the actual audible name is a reversed capital É).
As of August 2013, MTV Tres was available to approximately 36 million pay television households (totaling 32% of households with television) in the United States.
History
MTV Español
On August 1, 1998, MTV Networks launched a 24-hour digital cable channel, MTV S (the "S" standing for "Spanish"). On October 1, 2001, the channel was relaunched as MTV Español, focusing on music videos by Latin rock and pop artists. The rebranded network mainly utilized the eight-hour automated music video playlist wheel used by sister networks MTV2, MTV Hits and MTVX (later MTV Jams) without any original programming, except for repurposed content from MTV's Latin America networks.
Acquisition of MásMúsica TeVe
Más Música TeVe, founded in 1998, was a network distributed in the United States on pay television that aired music videos from diverse Latin music styles, including salsa, cumbia, regional Mexican, and contemporary Spanish-language hits. Founded by Eduardo Caballero of Caballero Television, MásMúsica TeVe carried the minimum requirements of educational and public affairs programming on weekends, and it was carried mainly on low-power television stations throughout the United States.
In December 2005, Viacom acquired MásMúsica and ten of the network's affiliated stations. The sale was closed down in January 2006.
Launch of MTV Tres
MTV Tres unofficially launched on September 4, 2006, when it became available on all subscription providers that recently carried MTV Español. On September 25, 2006, MTV Español and MásMúsica TeVe officially merged. The first program to air on the newly formed channel was the premiere of Mi TRL at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
In its beginnings, MTV Tres's programming schedule was significantly more repetitive than MTV Español was in its last days. The channel aired shows such as Hola, My Name is MTV Tres, the Top 20 Countdown, Los Hits, Mis #1s, Sucker Free Latino (only running two new shows per week), Latina Factor, Mi TRL, MTV Trespass, Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2006, Making the Video and Diary; the latter two and many other programs from MTV are merely subtitled into Spanish rather than carrying re-dubbed versions. These programs were repeated for most of the day, which greatly reduced the amount of freeform music videos played on the channel. As months passed, however, the programming became more varied |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20S.%20Miller | Victor Saul Miller (born 3 March 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American mathematician as a Principal Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1968, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1975. He was an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1973 to 1978. In 1978 he joined the IBM 801 project in the Computer Science Department of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and moved to the Mathematics Department in 1984. From 1993-2022 he was on the Research Staff of Center for Communications Research (CCR) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. In 2022 he was a Research Scientist in that Statistics and Privacy Group of Meta Platforms.
From 1984 through 1987 he was the editor of SIGACT news.
His main areas of interest are in computational number theory, combinatorics, data compression and cryptography. He is one of the co-inventors of elliptic-curve cryptography. He is also one of the co-inventors, with Mark Wegman, of the LZW data compression algorithm, and various extensions, one of which is used in the V.42bis international modem standard. He received an IEEE Millennium medal for this invention. He is also the inventor of Miller's Algorithm<ref>V. Miller Short Programs for functions on curves", unpublished manuscript (1986)</ref> which is of fundamental use in pairing-based cryptography. He is also one of the co-inventors of the Lagarias-Miller-Odlyzko'' prime counting algorithm.
Miller is the recipient of the Certicom Recognition Award, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics which was given in the RSA Conference 2009, the Eduard Rhein Stiftung Technology Award for 2020 and the Levchin Prize all for the invention of Elliptic Curve Cryptography. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also a member of Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame
References
External links
Miller's Weil Pairing Algorithm
1947 births
Living people
Harvard University alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Modern cryptographers
IBM employees
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
University of Massachusetts Boston faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPLO | WPLO ("La Bonita 610 AM") is an Atlanta area AM broadcasting station, licensed to Grayson, Georgia, that broadcasts Spanish language music programming. It transmits at a frequency of 610 kHz with 1,500 Watts of power during the daytime and 225 Watts during nighttime using a non-directional antenna. WPLO is a Class-D AM broadcasting station according to the Federal Communications Commission. The station has applied to the Federal Communications Commission to change its licensed city to Lawrenceville, Georgia, the location of its current transmitting facility and tower.
History
The radio station is not to be confused with the other AM broadcasting station in the Atlanta radio market which carried the WPLO call signs from 1959 until 1987. The 610 kHz station adopted the WPLO call signs in 1990 when it switched from its previous WGNN call signs. WLAW were the original call signs of this station before switching to WGNN in 1987.
The station was branded as "RadioMex 610 Atlanta" until 2009. Late in 2009, the station changed to the "La Bonita 610 AM" branding.
AM stereo
WPLO is the Atlanta area's last remaining analog AM stereo radio station using the C-QUAM AM Stereo system.
External links
Official WPLO Website
PLO
Radio stations established in 1959
Hispanic and Latino American culture in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDU | Idu or IDU may refer to:
Indoor unit of an Australian National Broadband Network fixed wireless connection, see NTD (NBN)
International Democrat Union, an international alliance of political parties
Idu, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Idu, Abuja, a neighbourhood of Abuja, Nigeria
Idu script, archaic writing system that represents the Korean language using hanja
Idu Mishmi language, the language of the Idu Mishmi people
Hongcheon Idu FC, South Korean football club
Injecting drug user, see Drug injection
Idu G7102, an official during the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, buried in tomb G7102 of the Giza East Field
Idu (novel), a 1970 novel by Flora Nwapa
See also
Idu Mishmi (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%206 | Fox 6 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States that are currently affiliated or were former affiliates of the American broadcast network Fox:
Currently affiliated
KEQI-LD, Dededo, Guam (virtual channel 22, brands with cable channel)
KFDM-DT3, a subchannel of KFDM in Beaumont, Texas; brands with cable channel
KIDY, San Angelo, Texas; brands with cable channel 10
WABG-DT2, a subchannel of WABG-TV in Greenville/Greenwood, Mississippi; brands with cable channel
WBRC, Birmingham, Alabama
WGGB-DT2, a subchannel of WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts; brands with cable channel
WITI (TV), Milwaukee, Wisconsin (owned and operated)
WLUC-DT2, a subchannel of WLUC-TV in Marquette, Michigan; brands as "Fox U.P."
Formerly affiliated
WCIX (now WFOR-TV), Miami, Florida (1986–1989)
XETV-TDT, San Diego, California (licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; 1986–2008) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20Without%20a%20Gun | Man Without a Gun is an American Western television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television and presented on the NTA Film Network and in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near Yellowstone National Park in the then Dakota Territory during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as newspaper editor Adam MacLean, who brought miscreants to justice without the use of violence or gunplay but through his Yellowstone Sentinel. The co-star was Mort Mills, as Marshal Frank Tallman, who intervened when the "pen" proved not to be "mightier than the sword".Harry Harvey, Sr., was cast in twenty-one episodes as Yellowstone Mayor George Dixon.
The program is considered to have been unique because it showcased MacLean's moral ethics and common sense to bring outlaws to justice. The show was also used as a schoolroom to teach the youngsters of the 1950s about decency and the differences between right and wrong.
Guest stars
Chris Alcaide - as Johnny Kansas in two episodes ("Teen-Age Idol", "The Hero")
John Anderson ("Eye Witness")
Whit Bissell - as Mark Ryan in the "Aftermath" episode
Lloyd Corrigan
Dennis Cross - as Cheotah in the "Indian Fury" episode
John Doucette - as Dan Kester in "The Fugitive" episode
James Drury - as Cort Hamish in the "Aftermath" episode
Stanley Fafara - as Boy in the "Eye Witness" episode
Stanley Farrar - as Auges in two episodes ("Guilty", "Eye Witness")
Bruce Gordon - as Wolf Manson in the "Headline" episode
Don Gordon ("Jailbreak")
Dabbs Greer - as Ben McLaren in the "Hangtree Inn" episode
Ron Hagerthy - as Tod Wilburn in the "Witness to Terror" episode
Myron Healey - as Yank Sullivan in the "Decoy" episode
Diane Jergens - as Ellen in the "Night of Violence" episode
Robert Karnes - as Jonas in the "Invisible Enemy" episode
Dayton Lummis - as Fred Hawkins in "The Fugitive" episode
Carole Mathews - as Rose in the "Lady from Laramie" episode
Doug McClure - as Albert (or Ollie) Ketchum in "The Kidder" episode
Patrick McVey - as Forester in the "Special Edition" episode
James Philbrook - as Troy in the "Decoy" episode
Dorothy Provine - as Lucy in the "Man Missing" episode
Denver Pyle ("Shadow of a Gun")
Victor Rodman ("Devil's Acre")
Robert F. Simon - as Hamish Sr. in the "Aftermath" episode
Olan Soule - as Henry Holbrook in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode
Ray Teal ("The Day The West Went Wild")
Marie Tsien - as Chi Ying in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode
Robert J. Wilke - as Hackett in the "Buried Treasure" episode
Victor Sen Yung - as Ho Wang in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode
Episodes
Season 1 (1957-1958)
Season 2 (1959)
References
External links
Classic TV Archive episode listing
1950s Western (genre) television series
Black-and-white American television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
1957 American television series debuts
1959 American television series endings
Television series by 20th Century Fox Te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Embeddable%20Language | The Extensible Embeddable Language (EEL) is a scripting and programming language in development by David Olofson. EEL is intended for scripting in realtime systems with cycle rates in the kHz range, such as musical synthesizers and industrial control systems, but also aspires to be usable as a platform independent general purpose programming language.
Philosophy
As to the language design, the general idea is to strike a practical balance between power, ease of use and safety. The intention is to help avoiding many typical programming mistakes without resorting to overly wordy syntax or restricted functionality.
History
The first incarnation of EEL was in the form of a simple parser for structured audio definitions, used in the sound engine of the Free and Open Source game Kobo Deluxe, an SDL port of the X11 game XKobo. This was a simple interpreter with very limited flow control, and a syntax that's quite different from that of current versions. This initial branch of EEL was first released in 2002, and is still used in Kobo Deluxe as of version 0.5.1.
In December 2003, EEL was split off into a stand-alone project and subject to a major rewrite, in order to be used for real time scripting in an embedded rheology application. This is where the switch from interpreter to compiler/VM was made, and the actual programming language EEL materialized. The first official release was in January 2005. Since then, EEL has evolved slowly, driven mostly by the personal and professional needs of its author.
Features
General
The language is not strictly designed for any particular programming paradigm, but supports object oriented programming, or more specifically, prototype-based programming, through a minimal set of syntax sugar features. Other styles and paradigms of programming, such as functional, modular and metaprogramming are also supported.
As a result of avoiding pointers and providing fully managed structured data types, EEL is "safe" in the sense that EEL programs should not be able to crash the virtual machine or the host application.
Highlights
C-like syntax.
Opaque references (as opposed to raw pointers).
Dynamic typing.
Automatic memory management.
Exception handling.
Built-in structured data types, such as:
string - immutable string.
dstring - dynamic string.
vector - fixed type numeric array.
array - array of dynamically typed elements.
table - associative array.
Example code
The classic hello world program can be written as follows:
export function main<args>
{
print("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
The following is an example of a recursive function:
export function main<args>
{
print("Recursion test 1:\n");
procedure recurse(arg)
{
print("arg = ", arg, "\n");
if arg
recurse(arg - 1);
}
recurse(10);
print("Recursion test 2; Mutual Recursion:\n");
procedure mrecurse2(arg);
procedure mrecurse1(arg)
{ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit%20Schools%20Network | The Jesuit Schools Network of North America (JSN) is the member association for secondary and pre-secondary schools run by the Society of Jesus in North America. It is affiliated with the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., the network serves 55,000 students in 89 Jesuit schools throughout Canada and the United States, and in Belize and the Federated States of Micronesia. The three models of Jesuit education in North America are Nativity middle schools, Cristo Rey high schools, and Jesuit middle and high schools.
History
The network's predecessor, the Jesuit Educational Association (JEA), was founded in 1936 to serve the apostolate of secondary and postsecondary schools in the United States. In 1970, the JEA split into the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA). In 2015, the JSEA was restructured under the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States and renamed to the Jesuit Schools Network of North America.
Leadership
Seven Jesuits led the JSEA as president: Frs. Edwin J. McDermott, S.J., Vincent J. Duminuco, S.J., Charles P. Costello, S.J., Carl E. Meirose, S.J., Joseph F. O’Connell, S.J., Ralph E. Metts, S.J. and James A. Stoeger, S.J.
Fr. William H. Muller, S.J., served as the first executive director of the JSN, and Fr. Robert E. Reiser, S.J., has served as executive director since 2021.
References
External links
1970 establishments in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Private and independent school organizations in the United States
Christian organizations established in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Sports | CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. The CBC's sports programming primarily airs on CBC Television, CBCSports.ca, and CBC Radio One. (The CBC's French-language Radio-Canada network also produces sports programming.)
Once the country's dominant sports broadcaster, in recent years it has lost many of its past signature properties – such as the Canadian Football League, Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Canadian Curling Association championships, the Olympic Games for a period, the FIFA World Cup, and the National Hockey League – to the cable specialty channels TSN and Sportsnet. The CBC has maintained partial rights to the NHL as part of a sub-licensing agreement with current rightsholder Rogers Media (maintaining the Saturday-night Hockey Night in Canada and playoff coverage), although this coverage is produced by Sportsnet, as opposed to the CBC itself as was the case in the past.
As a result of funding reductions from the federal government, increased costs for licensing, and decreased revenues, in April 2014, the CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sports broadcasting rights. The CBC has since used its digital platforms to provide overflow coverage of events not on television, and simulcasts of television coverage. Since then, the CBC's in-house sports coverage has been largely focused on Olympic sports, other domestic amateur and semi-professional competitions such as the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), along with coverage of Spruce Meadows' show jumping competitions.
The majority of CBC Television's sports coverage is broadcast on weekend afternoons, under the blanket title CBC Sports Presents (formerly Road to the Olympic Games from 2015 to 2022, and CBC Sports Weekend prior to 2015). CBC Sports also streams all of its programming, as well as other event coverage not shown on television, via its website and digital platforms.
Former CEO of Curling Canada Greg Stremlaw was the head of CBC Sports from April 10, 2015 to January, 2019.
Sports properties
Current/upcoming
Olympics and Pan Am
2024 Summer Olympics
Hockey
National Hockey League - Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
Produced by Sportsnet (Rogers Sports & Media) since the 2014-15 season under a sub-licensing deal.
Weekly Saturday night doubleheader and at least one playoff game each night a playoff game is played.
Canadian Hockey League (2021–present)
Early-season weekend games across its constituent leagues.
Additional streaming regular-season games.
U Sports Hockey
Alpine Skiing
FIS World Cup races
Baseball
Little League Canadian Championships
Curling
Grand Slam of Curling (weekend coverage of selected events) - 2007–present
Cricket
Global T20 Canada
All matches streaming (2023–), championship match on CBC Television.
Equine sports
Spruce Meadows
Figure Skating
World Figure Skating Championships and other International Skating Union competitions, excluding domestic events (ri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%20Susilo | Willy Susilo () is an Australian cybersecurity scientist and cryptographer. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences University of Wollongong, Australia.
Willy Susilo is a fellow of IEEE (Computer Society), IET, ACS, and AAIA. He is the director of Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong. Willy is an innovative educator and researcher. Currently, he is the Head of School of Computing and Information Technology at UOW (2015 - now). Prior to this role, he was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2009. He was the former Head of School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (2009 - 2010) and the Deputy Director of ICT Research Institute at UOW (2006 - 2008).
He is currently serving as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) and has served an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Computer Standards and Interface and the Information journals. His research interest is cybersecurity and cryptography.
Willy obtained his PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2001. He has published more than 400 papers in journals and conference proceedings in cryptography and network security. He has served as the program committee member of several international conferences.
In 2016, he was awarded the "Researcher of the Year" at UOW, due to his research excellence and contributions. His work on the creation of short signature schemes has been well cited and it is part of the IETF draft.
Biography
Willy received his Bachelor degree from the Faculty of Engineering at Universitas Surabaya, Indonesia. He went to the University of Wollongong, Australia, to pursue his Master's and Ph.D. degrees. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Research
Willy Susilo's research is in the area of cybersecurity and cryptography. His primary research focus is to design solutions and cryptographic algorithms to contribute towards securing the cyberspace. In 2023 he was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship to further his research in cryptography and cloud computing.
Publications and awards
Distinguished Professor Willy Susilo is author and co-author of over 400 research papers. His work in cryptography, computer-security, information-technology, cyber-security, and network-security.
2021, IET Fellow
2021, IEEE Fellow
2021, ACS Fellow
2021, AAIA Fellow
2020, "Vice Chancellor's Global Strategy Award"
2019, "Vice-Chancellor's Award For Research Supervision"
2016, "Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award for Researcher of the Year"
Books
F. Guo, W. Susilo and Y. Mu. Introduction to Security Reduction. Springer, 2018.
K.C. Li, X. Chen, and W. Susilo. Advances in Cyber Security: Princ |
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