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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER/Studio | ER/Studio is data architecture and database design software developed by IDERA, Inc. ER/Studio is compatible with multiple database platforms and is used to create and manage database designs, as well as to document and reuse data assets. In 2015, Embarcadero Technologies was acquired by database and infrastructure management software company IDERA, Inc. Since the acquisition by IDERA, Inc., ER/Studio has been renamed to ER/Studio Data Architect with updated features.
Features
Logical and physical design support
support for wide range of relational database platforms
support for NoSQL platforms such as MongoDB
support for JSON and JSON schema
Automation and scripting support
Forward- and reverse- engineering
Automated database code generation
Integration of models and metadata
Collaboration support including sub model management, repository, “where used”
Presentation formats include HTML, RTF, XML Schema, PNG, JPEG and DTD Output
Integrate model metadata with other platforms such as BI, ETL, and other modeling tools.
Data lineage documentation
Dimensional modeling
Model completion validation
Automatic foreign key migration
Capacity planning
Built-in Business Glossary
XML Schema generation from either the logical or physical models
Integration with Data Governance tools like Collibra
Overview
ER/Studio has a computer-aided software engineering tool (or CASE tool). Users can utilize ER/Studio as a way to take conceptual data model and create a logical data model that is not dependent on a specific database technology. This schematic model can be used to create the physical data model. Users can then forward engineer the data definition language required to instantiate the schema for a range of database-management systems. The software includes features to graphically modify the model, including dialog boxes for specifying the number of entity–relationships, database constraints, indexes, and data uniqueness. ER/Studio supports four data modeling languages: IDEF1X, two variants of information technology engineering developed by James Martin, and a form of dimensional modeling notation.
Version History
Version 16.0:
Represent master data and transactional concepts with Business Data Objects
Assign naming standards to models and submodels
Provide product usage statistics on application use (optional)
Additional platform support for Azure and Teradata
Version 16.5:
Universal mappings and enhancements to data modeling and lineage
Improved relationship diagramming
Extended database platform support to include DB2 for z/OS v11 and SQL Server 2016
Model change management enhancements
Spell check and revisable text format for editable descriptions
Relationship color inheritance
Token-based repository check-out and check-in
Version 17.0:
Updates for several MetaWizard common model bridges
Numerous bug fixes
Version 17.1:
Add SQL Server 2017 support for modeling and repository platform
Extend MongoDB platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai%20Beach%20railway%20station | Chennai Beach (formerly known as Madras Beach) (station code: MSB) is a railway terminus of the Southern Railway network in Parry's Corner, Chennai, India. Built on reclaimed land, the station serves the suburban services of the Chennai Suburban Railway and Mass Rapid Transit System (Chennai) and a few passenger trains. It serves as the northern terminus for the Chennai MRTS line. The station is named after High Court Beach, which was later built up as part of Chennai Port, and not after the Marina Beach, which is located a few kilometres away and is served by , Triplicane and Lighthouse stations of the MRTS line. The station consists of 1500 square metres of open parking area.
The station is located adjacent to the High Court and Broadway. There is also Burma Bazaar, which sells foreign merchandise in small shops outside of the station. Most of the government offices and headquarters of some banks, and Parry Group's offices are also located near the station.
In addition to being a focal terminus for much of Chennai's rail network, the station is also a major bus transportation hub for passengers destined to north and northwest Chennai. Most of these local buses are situated near the station.
It acts as the access point for Chennai port for the port employees.
History
With the development of the port, the surrounding areas were reclaimed and railway lines to connect the port were laid on the reclaimed land with a station built on it. Until the introduction of the electric trains, the city had the single steam rail line between Harbour and Tambaram, used by both passenger and goods trains. The plan to electrify railway lines in Madras was first initiated in 1923 by Sir Percy Rothera, an agent of the South Indian Railways, who felt the need for such a service. This was in a time when the city was expanding, with largely agricultural areas such as Saidapet, St. Thomas Mount and Tambaram developing into residential quarters. However, the plan was realised only in the following decade. Plan to build a new line between Beach and Egmore and two lines between Egmore and Tambaram was announced as part of the suburban remodelling initiative of South Indian Railways. On 27 December 1930, the first consignment of 25 electric carriages from England was received by the railway. The trains were painted in dull green with a black wheel base and featured wide sliding doors, a better-designed seating arrangement, and thick glass fronts. The new carriages were parked in Tambaram station.
The first electrically operated rail service in Madras began on 2 April 1931 between Madras Beach and , which became the earliest metre gauge to be electrified in the country. It was launched by Sir George Fredrick Stanley, the then governor of Madras, who was reported to have said at the opening ceremony that the new train services would transform "desolate south Madras into burgeoning garden cities". However, the service was opened to the public only a month later on 11 May |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Sky%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Big Sky was an Australian television drama series produced by John Edwards that ran for two seasons on Network Ten from 1997 to 1999.
The show centred on the adventures of the pilots of a small aviation company in Australia called "Big Sky Aviation" and the battles of the owner to keep the company running. Chief pilot Chris Manning is determined to look after his team, even if that conflicts with the new boss, Lauren Allen, who has inherited the company following the death of her father.
Cast
Main/Recurring
Gary Sweet as Chris Manning
Ally Fowler as Lauren Allen
Rhys Muldoon as Jimbo James
Martin Henderson as Scotty Gibbs
Lisa Baumwol as Lexie Ciani (season 1)
Robyn Cruze as Shay McWilliam
Bille Brown as Lightfoot (season 2)
Danielle Nuss as Paula Niessen (season 2)
Tim Campbell as Blake Wallace (season 2)
Peta Brady as Rosie Day (season 2)
Sheila Kennelly as Betty
Guests
Malcolm Kennard as Larsen (1 episode)
Felicity Price as Kirstie (1 episode)
Peter Kowitz as Warwick (1 episode)
Ling-Hsueh Tang (1 episode)
Wendy Playfair as Mrs. Twohey
Simon Chilvers as Rex
Daniel Roberts
Leslie Dayman
Locations
Sydney Airport
Episodes
Season One (1997)
Season Two (1998)
Home media
It was announced by Via Vision Entertainment in March 2019 that they would be releasing the complete collection of Big Sky on DVD in three Collections.
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Australian Television Information Archive
1990s Australian drama television series
Network 10 original programming
1997 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
Aviation television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television shows set in New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20SQL | Embedded SQL is a method of combining the computing power of a programming language and the database manipulation capabilities of SQL. Embedded SQL statements are SQL statements written inline with the program source code, of the host language. The embedded SQL statements are parsed by an embedded SQL preprocessor and replaced by host-language calls to a code library. The output from the preprocessor is then compiled by the host compiler. This allows programmers to embed SQL statements in programs written in any number of languages such as C/C++, COBOL and Fortran. This differs from SQL-derived programming languages that don't go through discrete preprocessors, such as PL/SQL and T-SQL.
The SQL standards committee defined the embedded SQL standard in two steps: a formalism called Module Language was defined, then the embedded SQL standard was derived from Module Language. The SQL standard defines embedding of SQL as embedded SQL and the language in which SQL queries are embedded is referred to as the host language. A popular host language is C. Host language C and embedded SQL, for example, is called Pro*C in Oracle and Sybase database management systems, ESQL/C in Informix, and ECPG in the PostgreSQL database management system.
SQL may also be embedded in languages like PHP etc.
The SQL standard SQL:2023 is available through purchase and contains chapter 21 Embedded SQL and its syntax rules.
Database systems that support embedded SQL
Altibase
C/C++
APRE is an embedded SQL precompiler provided by Altibase Corp. for its DBMS server.
IBM Db2
IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows supports embedded SQL for C, C++, Java, COBOL, FORTRAN and REXX although support for FORTRAN and REXX has been deprecated.
IBM Informix
IBM Informix version 14.10 for Linux, Unix, and Windows supports embedded SQL for C. }
Microsoft SQL Server
C/C++
Embedded SQL for C has been deprecated as of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 although earlier versions of the product support it.
Mimer SQL
Mimer SQL for Linux, macOS, OpenVMS and Windows support embedded SQL.
C/C++
Embedded SQL for C/C++ is supported on Linux, macOS, OpenVMS and Windows.
COBOL
Embedded SQL for COBOL is supported on OpenVMS.
Fortran
Embedded SQL for Fortran is supported on OpenVMS.
Oracle Database
Ada
Pro*Ada was officially desupported by Oracle in version 7.3. Starting with Oracle8, Pro*Ada was replaced by SQL*Module but appears to have not been updated since. SQL*Module is a module language that offers a different programming method from embedded SQL. SQL*Module supports the Ada83 language standard for Ada.
C/C++
Pro*C became Pro*C/C++ with Oracle8. Pro*C/C++ is currently supported as of Oracle Database 11g.
COBOL
Pro*COBOL is currently supported as of Oracle Database 11g.
Fortran
Pro*FORTRAN is no longer updated as of Oracle8 but Oracle will continue to issue patch releases as bugs are reported and corrected.
Pascal
Pro*Pascal was not released with Oracle8.
PL/I
Pro*PL/I was n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TW%20Telecom | TW Telecom (styled tw telecom), was a business telecommunications company headquartered in Littleton, Colorado, United States. The company provided business voice services, transport, Internet, data services and wholesale fiber capacity. It was an early leader in the deployment of Ethernet for metropolitan areas, dubbed Metro Ethernet. The company was acquired by Level 3 Communications on November 1, 2014. Exactly three years later, CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies) acquired Level 3 Communications.
History
Founded in 1993 as Time Warner Communications, the company was a joint venture between US West and Time Warner Cable, a division of Time Warner Entertainment, to deliver data and telecommunication services over a hybrid fiber and coaxial network. The company was successful in their efforts, but at the time the cost to build fiber directly to consumer's homes proved too expensive to be profitable. In the mid-1990s the company evolved into a "carriers carrier" selling "dark fiber" capacity to other telecom and Internet providers to supplement their networks.
The company played a role in growth of the Internet as it built and assembled a national fiber network. Management realized that to continue to grow it needed to offer communication solutions alongside its wholesale network offerings.
In July 1998, Time Warner Communications became a separate entity and was reorganized into Time Warner Telecom LLC. In May 1999, the company made an initial public offering. In 1997, the company began delivering communications services to medium and large business customers, carriers and governmental entities. In March 2003, the company introduced Metro Ethernet services, an expansion of the Ethernet model of building-wide communications networks. The metro capability basically expanded the use of Ethernet across a city or region allowing for seamless connectivity of locations that were on the network of connected Ethernet rings. This capability enabled the company to offer advanced Internet, data and voice services.
In July 2006, Time Warner Telecom acquired Xspedius Communications for $531.5 million, adding additional metropolitan markets. TW Telecom had operations in 75 markets across the U.S..
Name Change
On July 1, 2008, the company was renamed TW Telecom. The company had used the name Time Warner Telecom under an agreement with Time Warner Inc., its former parent company. The name was changed when Time Warner Inc. declined to renew the agreement allowing the use of its name. The company had considered several names, but elected to use the initials "tw" to help maintain its brand legacy in the marketplace.
Acquisition
On June 16, 2014, the company agreed to be acquired by Level 3 Communications Inc. for $5.7 billion in cash and stock.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Content delivery networks
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Level 3 Communications
Lumen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Deal%20%28Japanese%20game%20show%29 | is the Japanese franchise of the game show Deal or No Deal. It is hosted by Shinsuke Shimada and aired on the TBS network. So far, the show has been aired only twice: on September 8, 2006 as both a "birthday program" and a Friday-night Special (known in the channel as ) and on April 5, 2007. While the show is called as such, Shimada uses the familiar catchphrase "Deal or No Deal".
Overview
The show follows a modified version of the traditional Dutch format, and it is modeled after the US version: 26 briefcases each held by a model. The case values range from just one yen up to ten million yen (about US$86,000).
Since Japanese law at the time prohibited game shows from giving monetary prizes that are worth more than two million yen to a single person, each game is played by a contestant with three beneficiaries or a team of up to four people (with beneficiaries numbered according to the number in the team) who would share the prize they would win. As is common practice in Japanese game shows, all contestants have thus far been Japanese celebrities.
The case values in the first episode are as follows.
The case values in the second episode are as follows.
In the show, the case values are written in kanji, so for instance ¥8,000,000 would be written as 800 (happyaku man en).
Below are the certain modifications to the game:
The number of rounds have been reduced to just six to speed up the game. The first round involves opening seven cases, the second round involves six, the third round involves opening five, and the fourth round has four briefcases opened. In each of the last two rounds, one case is opened. Of course, at the end of each round, the banker makes his offer.
When the banker gives Shimada the offer, Shimada then writes the offer (again in 万円, man-en or "ten thousands-of-yen" format) on a whiteboard and shows it to the team. In many other versions, the host orally states the offer, which is then flashed on a screen nearby.
The contestant/team does not have to say "Deal" or "No Deal" or even do hand gestures. They just have to raise a sign that states their response to the offer ("Deal" or "No Deal").
In the first episode aired so far, the largest amount won was by the team of Tsutomu Sekine, Tomomi Nishimura, Yuko Ogura, and Masayuki Watanabe, who all took the banker's offer of ¥4,000,000 at the end of the fourth round; their suitcase contained twice that amount. Each of other teams in that episode played on to the end, but won four-digit prizes (two teams won ¥8,000, one got ¥3,000). In the second episode, the largest amount won was by the team of two duos, Kano sisters and FUJIWARA, who all took the banker's offer of ¥5,000,000 at the end of the last round; their suitcase also contained twice that amount, which was the top prize.
It is unknown at this time if the show will become a full-fledged series, although there have been two episodes so far. At this point in time, plans for the series have been shelved.
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, has a wide network of diplomatic missions worldwide.
Excluded are honorary consulates and "Czech Centres", offices without diplomatic status responsible for promoting trade, tourism, and Czech culture abroad. On the other hand, the economic and cultural office in Taipei is included in this list, as it function's as Czechia's de facto embassy to Taiwan.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organizations
Gallery
Closed missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
See also
Foreign relations of the Czech Republic
List of diplomatic missions in the Czech Republic
Visa policy of the Schengen Area
Notes
External reference
Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic
References
Diplomatic missions
Czech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg%20S-Bahn | The Nuremberg S-Bahn () is an S-Bahn network covering the region of Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen which started operations in 1987 and is now integrated into the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg). The full length of the five current lines is about 277.6 kilometres.
The S-Bahn trains are operated by DB Regio Mittelfranken, a subsidiary of DB Regio Bayern. From December 2018 the service was due to be taken over by National Express Germany; however, it withdrew from the bidding process on 25 October 2016, so the lines will continue to be operated by DB Regio Mittelfranken for the foreseeable future.
The service between Fürth and Erlangen-Bruck has been marred by frequent delays and service restrictions due to the slow construction for four-track expansion. No completion date is given. The original plans for the upgrade of the Nuremberg Bamberg line to four tracks called for a new alignment of S-Bahn tracks east of the current two tracks to serve a (planned but now canceled) industrial development between Nuremberg Fürth and Erlangen. The city of Fürth sued against these plans, halting the construction and leaving sections of half built track without use. As an "interim solution" switches are planned to be installed to connect existing quadruple track sections to the legacy alignment, but a completion date is not yet known.
Current lines
Day services
Night services
There is also a night service every 60 minutes between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on the lines S1, S2, S3, S4 and S6 on days before Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
Rolling stock
Initially the rolling stock consisted of Class 141 locomotives, later Class 143 locomotives hauling 3–4 x-Wagen coaches. Additional commuter trains were sometimes hauled by Class 111 locos.
In 2007 electric multiple units of DB Class 442 (Bombardier Talent 2) were bought to supplement and replace the loco hauled units. They were to go into service in 2010, but due to technical problems they had to be sent back to the producer. Meanwhile n-Wagen sets with rented locomotives were used instead of them. The Class 442 finally went into service in 2012.
In late 2020 a new batch of class 1440 Alstom Coradia Continental were brought into service, replacing the last x-Wagen sets. Three x-Wagen sets will, however, be kept at least until the smaller timetable change in June 2021 for replacement and additional commuter services with Class 111 locomotives. The Class 1440 were introduced primarily on S1 where they freed up the older class 442 sets to serve other routes. A few Class 1440 sets are also used on S4 and the new S5. As the line S5 uses the Nuremberg-Ingolstadt High Speed Line, the two units used on S5 had to be equipped with LZB. A large scale advertisement campaign was launched to inform the public of the new rolling stock.
Similar to the subway, for big events the S-Bahn often lent Class 423 trains from the Munich S-Bahn to support the rather small Nuremberg fleet.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B%20Gateway | Business-to-Business (B2B) Gateways integrate data from back-end systems, enabling information exchange across trading partners. B2B Gateways also provide a centralized point for transformation of multiple data sources through interoperability standards such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), cXML(Commerce XML) and EDI (Electronic data interchange). B2B Gateways provide businesses an e-commerce platform for integrating with key suppliers and customers quickly and easily. The platform is often a component of a company's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) architecture. Other capabilities of the B2B Gateway include trading partner management and security control. B2B Gateways help to bridge the collaboration gap across the supply chain partners and transform the data flow between companies from a batch oriented manner into a real time process. This streamlines the processing and enables for business activity monitoring(BAM) systems to be implemented, which provides the enterprise with greater visibility and proactive control over the applications. B2B Gateways continue to be in high demand for organizations of every size.
References
See also
B2B e-Marketplace
Business Interoperability Interface
Business-to-consumer
Business-to-employee
Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development
Consumer-to-consumer
E-business
E-Business XML (ebXML)
Electronic Commerce
Online shopping
Private Electronic Market
UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM)
Service-oriented (business computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet%20Rock%20%28radio%20station%29 | Planet Rock is a British digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Kiss Network. The station broadcasts classic rock music.
As of September 2023, the station has a weekly audience of 1.3 million listeners according to RAJAR.
Overview
The station was established in 1999, initially run by the GWR Group as part of the launch lineup of Digital One stations. Ahead of GWR's purchase by Global, the station was sold to Malcolm Bluemel's 'Rock Show' consortium in 2008, and from there was sold on to become part of Bauer Radio’s portfolio of brands in 2013.
Planet Rock is a digital-only service, transmitting on the DAB network (and through digital TV and online platforms). It is available nationally on Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat and Online, and to some locations via DAB.
On 1 March 2016, Planet Rock ceased on national DAB, transferring to the part-national Sound Digital multiplex, losing transmission in Devon, Cornwall, parts of Scotland, Wales, East Anglia and other areas of the UK. Some of these areas regained access to the station with the introduction of additional transmitters to the SDL network in autumn 2018.
History
Planet Rock was founded in 1999 as the only classic rock radio station in the UK at that time.
On 11 February 2008, the previous owner GCap Media (now Global Radio), announced that the station would close by 31 March 2008, along with sister station theJazz, unless a buyer was found. According to a statement by former presenter Fish, this was not due to the profitability of Planet Rock itself, which had been reported to be good, but rather to GCap's overall financial state. The station's relative popularity on digital radio brought controversy to the closure threat. Although theJazz ceased broadcasting on schedule, a campaign by listeners meant that a number of buyers expressed interest in Planet Rock, including a consortium publicly headed by Queen guitarist Brian May.
On 4 June 2008, the station was sold to a consortium led by Malcolm Bluemel and supported by Tony Iommi, Ian Anderson, Gary Moore, and Fish. There was no break in transmission and the programming remained unchanged.
On 25 September 2012, it was reported that Malcolm Bluemel was looking for a buyer for the station.
On 6 February 2013, the station was sold to Bauer Media for a deal worth between £1 million and £2 million.
On 23 May 2013, Bauer Media announced that the output of Planet Rock would become available on FM in the West Midlands on the frequency used by Kerrang! Radio in Birmingham from 14 June 2013. All programming now comes from London with the Birmingham studios closed and Kerrang! continuing in a different form on digital platforms.
From 8am on 7 September 2015, the 105.2 FM frequency was taken over by Absolute Radio.
From 1 March 2016, Planet Rock moved from the Digital One DAB multiplex to the Sound Digital DAB multiplex. Devon, Cornwall, parts of Scotland and Wales and some other areas could not receive Planet Rock on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masbia | Masbia (, lit., "satiate") is a network of kosher soup kitchens in New York City. Its three locations in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Midwood, as well as the Queens neighborhood of Rego Park, serve over 500 free, hot kosher meals nightly. Masbia is the only free soup kitchen serving kosher meals in New York City. The organization receives 10% of its budget from government aid, relying heavily on private donations of money and food to meet its $2 million annual operating budget.
Name
The Hebrew name Masbia comes from a verse in the Book of Psalms: "Poteach es yadecha u'masbia l'chol chai ratzon – You open Your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing" ().
History
Masbia is the brainchild of Mordechai Mandelbaum, a Hasidic Jewish resident of Brooklyn who donated the seed money for the first restaurant in Borough Park in 2005. He and co-founder Alexander Rapaport, another member of the Brooklyn Hasidic community, were aware of many families who had fallen on hard times and were struggling with the high costs of rent and tuition. Back in 2003, a report by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty had shown that 30% of Brooklyn Jews were living at or below the poverty line. Mandelbaum proposed the idea of feeding Jewish families in a more "formal, systematic way" through a free kosher restaurant which would be supported by others in the community who were still well-off. Masbia was set up as a restaurant in order not to humiliate singles and families who were unused to eating in a soup kitchen. Many Masbia patrons are men from the Hasidic community, for whom poverty is a cultural sign of shame.
The Borough Park restaurant opened in April 2005 in a converted railroad apartment. On opening night, the staff prepared 25 meals and only eight people showed up. Six months later, 120 patrons were frequenting the restaurant nightly. The restaurant's logo, a tent with openings on all four sides, recalls the tent of Abraham, the Jewish paragon of hospitality whose tent was open to all comers.
Beginning in 2009, the worsening recession prompted the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty to ally with Masbia, resulting in the opening of additional free restaurants in Williamsburg (opened November 2009), Midwood (opened November 2009), and Rego Park, Queens (opened March 2010). The new locations increased Masbia's overall patronage by 300%. In fiscal year 2010–2011, Masbia served 82,292 meals, a 50% increase over the previous year. In fiscal year 2012–2013, nearly 450,000 meals were served. In 2013 the Williamsburg location closed due to funding shortfalls and lack of customers.
Operations
Masbia serves over 500 meals nightly in Brooklyn and Queens. Rain or snow usually decreases the nightly patronage to about 400 diners, while Thursday nights can see up to 600 diners.
The dining rooms, open Sunday through Thursday from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., have an upscale look, with polished wood floors, cloth-covered tables, and wall paintings. Fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALDIC | CALDIC (the California Digital Computer) was an electronic digital computer built with the assistance of the Office of Naval Research at the University of California, Berkeley between 1951 and 1955 to assist and enhance research being conducted at the university with a platform for high-speed computing.
CALDIC was designed to be constructed at a low cost and simple to operate, by standards of the time, note that in a pre-1965 context there is no interactive user IO or human readable output in printed characters in most computers. And a "computer" is exclusively a device taking several large buildings worth of electrical devices and constructed of thousands of vacuum tubes. Thus, a "low-cost computer" in 1951 - 55 is by modern standards either a failure or simply contextualized as costing less than an entire mass manufacturing plant, and not something economically accessible to consumers. This applications funding was geared by a need to investigate how to make one that could be installed in a battle cruiser. "Easy to understand" means, easy to understand if you are familiar with contemporary mechanical targeting computers / calculators. Hence there is no human readable user interface. It was a serial decimal machine with an , 10,000-word magnetic drum memory. (As CALDIC's decimal words were 10 digits each, the magnetic memory could store about 400,000 bits.) It contained 1,300 vacuum tubes, 1,000 crystal diodes, 100 magnetic elements (for the recording heads), and 12 relays (in the power supply). It weighed about . It was capable of speeds of 50 iterations per second. CALDIC was a stored program computer with a six-digit instruction format (two digits for the opcode and four digits for the memory address).
The computer was initially planned by Paul Morton, Leland Cunningham, and Dick Lehmer; the latter two had been involved with the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, and Lehmer had given one of the Moore School Lectures. Morton oversaw the design and construction with a team comprising electrical engineering graduate and undergraduate students at the university, more than 35 in total, including Doug Engelbart (who later invented the computer mouse) and Al Hoagland (a pioneer of the computer disk industry).
The machine was first ready for use in the summer of 1953 and mostly operational in 1954. Development cost through July 1955 was approximately $150,000.
See also
List of vacuum-tube computers
References
External links
Berkeley Hardware Prototypes
A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems
CALDIC photos and diagrams
One-of-a-kind computers
Decimal computers
Vacuum tube computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20sex%20addiction | Internet sex addiction, also known as cybersex addiction, has been proposed as a sexual addiction characterized by virtual Internet sexual activity that causes serious negative consequences to one's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being. It may also be considered a subset of the theorized Internet addiction disorder. Internet sex addiction manifests various behaviours: reading erotic stories; viewing, downloading or trading online pornography; online activity in adult fantasy chat rooms; cybersex relationships; masturbation while engaged in online activity that contributes to one's sexual arousal; the search for offline sexual partners and information about sexual activity.
Internet sex addiction can have several causes according to the American Association for Sex Addiction Therapy. The first cause is the neural physiological attachment that occurs during orgasms - reinforcing and attaching the images or scenarios to the addictive behavior concurrently. Secondly, psychological defects like abandonment, unimportance or lack of genuine attachment are sometimes medicated by the instances of sex addiction behavior. Thirdly, the internet sex addict may be using the addiction to balance a legitimate chemical imbalance due to major depression, a bipolar disorder or a manic depressive disorder. The cybersex addict may also struggle with intimacy anorexia since the cyber world feels safer than real relationships.
General
Cybersex addiction is a form of sexual addiction and Internet addiction disorder. As a form of a compulsive behavior, it can be identified by three criteria: the failure of making a decision about engagement in the behavior, obsession with the behavior, and the inability to stop the behavior despite negative consequences.
Adults with this type of addiction engage in at least one of the relevant behaviors. The majority of reasons why individuals experiment with such forms of sexual expression are diverse, and can be associated with an individual's psychological disorders or issues. Individuals who suffer from low self-esteem, severely distorted body image, untreated sexual dysfunction, social isolation, depression, or are in recovery from a prior sexual addiction are more vulnerable to cybersexual addictions. Other psychological issues that may arise with this addiction include struggles for intimacy, self-worth, self-identity, self-understanding.
The impact of cybersex addiction may also impact the spouse, partner or others in relationships with the addict. The resulting effects on others may include depression, weight gain and lower self-esteem. If cyber sex addicts have children, their actions may also impact those children (whether they are grown adult children or younger dependents).
DSM classification
There is an ongoing debate in the medical community concerning the insufficient studies, and of those, their quality, or lack thereof, and the resulting analysis and conclusions drawn from them, such as they are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWAC-TV | DWAC-TV, Channel 23, was the flagship UHF station of Philippine all-sports television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its studios and transmitter are located at ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Mother Ignacia Avenue corner Sergeant Esguerra Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
History
The station was acquired from Ermita Electronics Corporation in July 1996, which initially owned the frequency of the station that began airing in May 1992 from a densely populated commercial area in Quezon City with a rebroadcast of MTV Asia, then telecasting from the STAR TV platform. It was later showing Channel [V] refeeds from 1994 onwards as MTV made the decision to split from STAR and form its own satellite TV portal in Asia.
Just two years later in 1996, MTV Asia returned to the Philippine airwaves after establishing a new regional base in Singapore. ABS-CBN was picked as the broadcast arm of MTV Asia in the Philippines at the time, and Channel 23 started test broadcasts in September 1996 with rebroadcasts of the new MTV Asia from Singapore. A month later, it launched its own programming under the station name Studio 23 and adopted the slogan "Premium Television". It also became the first UHF TV station in Metro Manila to broadcast in full surround stereo, and the fourth television station in the country to broadcast in stereo (after GMA-7 in 1987, RPN 9 in 1994, and SBN 21 in 1992). The station initially ran MTV rebroadcasts in the day, and ran its own shows at primetime. It also ran for 24 hours, but later reneging to a 21-hour broadcast (from 6 am to 3 am), owing to financial limitations. That has been the broadcast arrangement ever since.
Five years later, MTV Asia acquired a new local UHF frequency, Channel 41 owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation (which is now One Sports, now co-owned by TV5) and Studio 23 formally became a full-fledged station, adopting rebroadcasts of its in-house cable channel Myx to fill in the void left by MTV Asia, and came up with intensified programming led by the popular reality TV game show Survivor, and several top rate US shows like 7th Heaven, Will and Grace and Charmed, among others.
By 2004, the channel opened its doors to Taglish programs. It also by that time adopted a new slogan, "Kabarkada Mo!". Previous to this trend, the station was already running its own English newscast, News Central, from 1998 to 2010, effectively replacing the network's News 23. It also geared its mostly young viewers to trends in the tech world with Digital World. With the intensified Taglish presence, Studio 23 launched the nightly Tagalog gag newscast Wazzup Wazzup, the interactive youth talk show Y-Speak, and several others. It even provided support shows to its highly successful local reality programs Pinoy Big Brother and Pinoy Dream Academy, both acquired from Endemol of the Netherlands and are big hits on Channel 2.
Expansion to sports programming
In 1998, ABS-CBN, through its spor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%20Internet%20Users%20Essential%20Tool | Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool (Minuet) is an integrated Internet package for DOS operating systems on IBM-compatible PCs.
Background
Minuet was created at the University of Minnesota, in the early days of the World Wide Web (1994–1996). At that time, Internet software for the PC was immature — the only programs available were NCSA Telnet and NCSA FTP. Both are glitchy, hard to configure, and TTY-oriented.
The microcomputer support department at the university decided to come up with something better. Their design goals were:
Runnable on any PC with at least 384 KiB of RAM, even an original 4.77 MHz PC.
GUI interface
Would run under DOS; not requiring Windows
Easy to use
Little or no configuration needed
Multi-tasking
The result was "Minuet". Minuet was quite successful at its time, being used at many colleges and institutions. Its usage peaked around 1996, going down as Windows 95 and its free e-mail reader and web browser proliferated.
Implementation
The program was written in Turbo Pascal, using the Turbo Vision GUI. This base is a good match for the PCs of that time. Turbo Vision in its early incarnations uses the 80×25 character text mode, meaning very speedy screen updates, even on slow PCs. Later Minuet versions - including the last one 1.0 Beta 18A - also support graphical modes up to 1600 × 1200 pixels (UXGA) while displaying up to 16.7 million colors, depending on the capabilities and VESA compatibility of the hardware used.
A homebrew multi-tasking kernel allows users to have several Minuet windows active at the same time. An FTP session could be transferring files, while in another window, the user could be composing an e-mail. All the parts of Minuet use multi-tasking, the user does not have to wait for a slow operation to complete.
Features
Email
Email in Minuet resembles most standard email programs — From:, To:, cc:, Bcc:, and Message body fields. Attachments use the BinHex and UUCP encoding schemes, which predated MIME and were popular in Minuet's days.
Newsgroups
In Minuet, Newsgroups appear much like e-mail folders. An innovative concept is included — Minuet would not attempt to download the whole newsgroups file, which even then included thousands of newsgroups. Instead, a Perl server is contacted to search for interesting newsgroups. This cuts down the newsgroup searching startup time from many minutes to a few seconds.
Gopher
Minuet also comes with a built-in Gopher client.
FTP
Minuet is one of the first programs to have a graphical tree-structured approach to FTP. At the time, most FTP clients required an almost endless sequence of "cd", "ls" commands to browse servers.
Web browser
In its last version 1.0 Beta 18A from 1994, Minuet also includes a WWW browser for the very first time. However, it is only HTTP/1.0-compliant, renders web sites in a pre-HTML 2.0 standard and therefore comes with no web form or table support. Later common web browser features such as JavaScript, CSS or proxy se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch%20Over%20Me | Watch Over Me is an American television series that debuted on December 6, 2006 on MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 66 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial is an adaptation of Argentine series Resistiré.
Dayanara Torres, a former Miss Universe, played a woman torn between her bioterrorist fiancé (Marc Menard) and her bodyguard, played by Todd Cahoon. Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien also appeared as villains.
Telefe, which produced the original version, syndicates a 64-episode run of the series in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It promotes the show as mixing a classic Latin genre with Hollywood aesthetics. From July 2009, it was aired in Slovakia on TV Markíza taking the slot of Latin American telenovelas, but the show was not very successful.
As of 2021, it is currently available for streaming on TubiTV.
Production notes
Watch Over Me was first intended to run as A Dangerous Love under the Secret Obsessions umbrella title. A Secret Obsessions logo appeared in the show's opening credits—and the MyNetworkTV Web site said that the serial was "part of the Secret Obsessions series."
MyNetworkTV had a special promotional deal with Wal-Mart, which provided wardrobe for the cast from the Metro 7 women's line. Dayanara Torres had previously modeled for the brand.
The theme song was performed by The Transcenders.
The house used as Michael Krieger's compound is located in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Most scenes were filmed at Stu Segall Productions in San Diego.
Recap shows originally aired on Saturdays, but were replaced by movies on February 3, 2007.
Mexico's Televisa commissioned its own version of this story in 2006, titled Amar sin limites ("Love Without Limits"). Univision is expected to air this 135-episode serial in the USA this fall. The Jack and Julia characters are named Diego Moran and Azul Toscano, while the villain is named Mauricio Duarte.
Clive Robertson turned down a role in this series, calling the part "a waste of time. He later accepted the male lead on Wicked Wicked Games.
Alex Thomas, a main character on Desire, appears in this series. Actor Zack Silva, shown using footage from the previous MyNetworkTV telenovela, was uncredited.
Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien were married in real life and have two children.
Cast
References
External links
Three New Primetime Drama Strips for MyNetworkTV
Wal-Mart Tarts up for TV, New York Post, September 15, 2006.
2000s American LGBT-related drama television series
2006 telenovelas
2007 telenovelas
2006 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
American telenovelas
American television series based on telenovelas
American television soap operas
MyNetworkTV original programming
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows set in Los Angeles
English-language television shows
American television series based on Argentine television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20stations%20in%20East%20Asia | This is a list of television stations in East Asia.
China
China Central Television
China Education Television
China Weather TV
China Xinhua News Network Corporation
China Global Television Network
Hong Kong
Fantastic Television Limited
HK Television Entertainment
Radio Television Hong Kong
Television Broadcasts Limited
ViuTV
Japan
Animax
BS
Fuji TV
J Sports
NHK
NTV
Open University
Star Channel
TBS
Tokyo MX
TV Asahi
TV Tokyo
Macau
Lotus TV Macau
Macau Asia Satellite Television
Teledifusão de Macau
Mongolia
Central Television (Mongolia)
C1
Channel 25 (Mongolia)
Dish TV
Eagle TV
Edutainment TV
Mongolian News Channel
NTV
Sportbox
Supervision Broadcasting Network
TM Television
TV5 (Mongolia)
TV8 (Mongolia)
TV9 (Mongolia)
Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System
North Korea
Korean Central Television
Mansudae Television
South Korea
Educational Broadcasting System
Korean Broadcasting System
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Seoul Broadcasting System
Taiwan
Formosa Television
Hakka Television Station
Public Television Service
Taiwan Television
See also
Lists of television channels
List of television stations in Central Asia
List of television stations in Southeast Asia
List of television stations in West Asia
References
Asia-related lists
East Asia
Television stations|East Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmedilla%20de%20Eliz | Olmedilla de Eliz is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 21, according to census data from 2011.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Cuenca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20X%20Radio | Channel X Radio is a network of adult contemporary/oldies/full-service formatted American radio stations in Aroostook County, Maine. With studios in Caribou the stations are heard through various transmitters throughout Aroostook County.
History
The CanXus Broadcasting Corporation was founded in Maine in May 1986. Shortly after that, CanXus submitted an application to put a 3,000–watt transmitter on the Green Ridge Road, or on the Caribou/Fort Fairfield town line. On November 15, 1986 at 6:00 p.m., WCXU Caribou began operation on 97.7 MHz. The studios and offices were in a single-wide trailer while the transmitter was 400 feet away.
With a 3 kW signal and a small transmitter, people north of Caribou couldn't get the signal. Madawaska was the first place to get a satellite station. On January 30, 1988 WCXX 102.3 Madawaska began atop 11th Avenue Extension in a tiny studio, rebroadcasting WCXU. The signal reached all the way to Caribou.
Because of the valley-like nature, and the small power that WCXX transmits, the signal is degraded in most of Fort Kent. In late 1994, CanXus applied for W276AY on 103.1 MHz. This very small signal is located near the Northern Maine Medical Center and reaches only Fort Kent and surrounding towns. At the same time WCXU doubled its power to 6 kW, then later increased the output to 20 kW. Now the signal can go all the way to Houlton and Fort Kent in a radius. Since then, the transmitter building has doubled in size, the transmitter has become a little bigger (now Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT) of 90 m) and in 1998, Channel X moved to its new studio-office with state-of-the-art computerized broadcasting equipment.
In late 2006 WCXV in Van Buren began to simulcast Channel X Radio. It broadcast at a lower power until December 27, 2007 when WCXV began broadcasting at the full 6 kW. Recently CanXus changed their construction permit to decrease its HAAT to 1 m.
Programing
Channel X Radio plays a mix of adult contemporary, oldies, and local music. It is home to one of the longest running oldies and retro music programs in the region. Furthermore, Channel X Radio covers local events and broadcasts live interviews from around the region. The station broadcasts local sports updates and news stories on a daily basis.
References
External links
Mass media in Aroostook County, Maine
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Presque Isle, Maine
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Maine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%20of%20Alien%20Detectors | Bureau of Alien Detectors (commonly initialized as BAD) is a 1996 American animated series by Saban Entertainment that aired on the UPN network's weekend-morning cartoon block UPN Kids. It was touted as "X-Files meets the A-Team," and only lasted for one season.
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment.
Plot
The series follows the exploits of the Phalanx Squad of the titular organization, led by war veteran Ben Packer, and consisting of resident psychic Casey Taylor, biologist Shane Sanderson, computer expert Colin Marcus, and super powered alien encounter survivor Moose Trengannu. But as they protect humanity from threats beyond the stars, some of the higher ups in B.A.D. have their own plans for the aliens.
Cast
Michael McConnohie as Ben Packer
Bree Anderson as Casey Taylor
Peter Spellos as Moose Trengganu
Tyrone Week as Colin Marcus
Reuben Daniels as Shane Sanderson
Sammy Lane
Walter Rego as Major V
Broadcast history
Bureau of Alien Detectors premiered on UPN during the fall of 1996 in the US, airing regularly on the network through to August 1997. Repeats later aired on Fox Family Channel in 1999 and as part of Jetix on Toon Disney in 2006. In Australia, the series was first shown on Network Ten's Cheez TV block beginning in May 1998. It aired again on Cheez TV in July 1999 and November 2000. In the UK, it aired during 2004 as part of the international Fox Kids channel.
Episodes
Reception
A 1997 report on violence in television by UCLA identified Bureau of Alien Detectors as one of the most violent children's programs to debut during the 1996-97 television season. It states "The show’s protagonists are a humorless lot who are principally characterized by their brooding natures and desire to 'kick alien butt.' This is consistent with the menacing and intense tone that permeates the program. Consisting principally of heavy amounts of laser gunfire and alien attacks, scenes of violence are almost non-stop throughout the show and occasionally result in characters being killed. This latter point is especially surprising since characters are virtually never killed in children’s cartoons."
In its entry for B.A.D. (Bureau of Alien Detectors; 1996-1997), the 2018 book The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows states "Despite being promoted as both educational and entertaining, it was neither, borrowing too many tropes and concepts from live-action predecessors to be enjoyable on its own. Clearly, it was a series designed to fill its time slot—and do nothing else."
References
External links
UPN Kids
UPN original programming
1996 American television series debuts
1996 American television series endings
1990s American animated television series
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated horror television series
American children's animated science f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickSilver%20%28project%29 | The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure.
Among the partners on this project are DARPA funding under the SRS program, the United States Air Force. Raytheon, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.
The principal investigators are Cornell Professors Kenneth P. Birman, Johannes Gehrke, and Paul Francis
External links
Project home page with links to the over 140 published papers from 1999-2006.
DARPA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochem | AutoChem is NASA release software that constitutes an automatic computer code generator and documenter for chemically reactive systems written by David Lary between 1993 and the present. It was designed primarily for modeling atmospheric chemistry, and in particular, for chemical data assimilation.
The user selects a set of chemical species. AutoChem then searches chemical reaction databases for these species and automatically constructs the ordinary differential equations (ODE) that describe the chemical system. AutoChem symbolically differentiates the time derivatives to give the Jacobian matrix, and symbolically differentiates the Jacobian matrix to give the Hessian matrix and the adjoint. The Jacobian matrix is required by many algorithms that solve the ordinary differential equations numerically, particular when the ODEs are stiff. The Hessian matrix and the adjoint are required for four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4D-Var). AutoChem documents the whole process in a set of LaTeX and PDF files.
The reactions involving the user specified constituents are extracted by the first AutoChem preprocessor program called Pick. This subset of reactions is then used by the second AutoChem preprocessor program RoC (rate of change) to generate the time derivatives, Jacobian, and Hessian. Once the two preprocessor programs have run to completion all the Fortran 90 code has been generated that is necessary for modeling and assimilating the kinetic processes.
A huge observational database of many different atmospheric constituents from a host of platforms are available from the AutoChem site.
AutoChem has been used to perform long term chemical data assimilation of atmospheric chemistry. This assimilation was automatically documented by the AutoChem software and is available on line at CDACentral. Data quality is always an issue for chemical data assimilation, in particular the presence of biases. To identify and understand the biases it is useful to compare observations using probability distribution functions. Such an analysis is available on line at PDFCentral which was designed for the validation of observations from the NASA Aura satellite.
See also
Chemical kinetics
CHEMKIN
Cantera
Chemical WorkBench
Kinetic PreProcessor (KPP)
SpeedCHEM
References
Computational chemistry software
Chemical kinetics
Environmental chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20in%20One | Four in One is the umbrella title for a wheel series broadcast in the United States on the NBC television network as part of its 1970-71 schedule in the Wednesday 10 PM Eastern time slot.
Four in One consisted of six episodes of each of four dramatic series: McCloud, San Francisco International Airport, Night Gallery and The Psychiatrist. All six episodes of each program were run in order; then all were rerun interspersed with each other with a different series being shown each week.
After the season, McCloud had proven sufficiently popular to be included as an element in a new wheel-format series, NBC Mystery Movie, while Night Gallery was picked up as a stand-alone series. The other two elements, San Francisco International Airport and The Psychiatrist, were cancelled.
Episodes
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows
NBC original programming
1970 American television series debuts
1971 American television series endings
Television series by Universal Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20%26%20John%20to%20the%20Rescue%21 | Chris & John to the Rescue! is a reality television series originally broadcast on the Canadian network OutTV in 2006. The series follows best friends and self-proclaimed "culture aficionados" Chris Carter and John Simpson as they come to the rescue of people in need of their unique services. Chris & John to the Rescue! is the follow-up series to the hit show Chris & John's Road Trip!.
Season one of Chris & John to the Rescue! began production in July 2006 after being delayed due to Shavick Entertainment's acquisition as majority shareholder of OUTtv . Filming locations included Toronto, Michigan, New Jersey, Vermont, New York City and Hawaii.
Season two began production in August, 2007 with most of the shooting taking place on location in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The season premiered on OutTV on 19 November 2007 at 10:00pm, EST. During the commercial breaks in the season's pilot episode, clips and interviews from the premier party (held at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Ontario) were shown.
Season three began production in August, 2008. The premise for the season is a "summer camp" concept. Season three premiered on February 15, 2009 on OUTtv in Canada.
The theme song is "Do I" by The Joys.
Distribution
Seasons one and two of Chris and John to the Rescue, are now available on DVD at their website, www.chrisandjohn.com.
International broadcasters
Netherlands/Belgium/Sweden - OutTV
United States - here!
Episodes
Season one
Episode #101: Gay Me Over!
Chris & John meet Brennan, a university student fresh out of the closet. Brennan's way off track when it comes to all things gay, so Chris & John decide to find him a fag hag and give him a gay-over.
Episode #102: Find Me a Match!
Chris & John meet Jamie, a most eligible teen bachelor. Jamie's way off track when it comes to love, so Chris and John decide to set him on a date with a supernatural twist.
Episode #103: Save My Pride!
Chris & John meet Adam, the coordinator of a small-town pride. Adam's way off track when it comes to all things fundraising, so Chris & John decide to stage a series of cash grabs that go awry.
Episode #104: Write My Article!
Chris & John visit Xtra Magazine, who are in dire need of a replacement reporter to write an article on the bear community. Chris & John are the ones who are way off track when their entry in a bear film festival doesn't exactly go over as planned.
Episode #105: Chris & John Rescue Christmas!
In this special episode, Chris & John are visited by three gurus of Christmas and attempt to bring Christmas spirit to the ultimate Scrooge, in hopes of saving his relationship with his holiday-obsessed boyfriend.
Episode #106: Make Me A Star!
Chris & John meet Brian Doyle, an aspiring Broadway diva. Brian Doyle's way off track when it comes to pretty much everything, so Chris & John decide to give him a crash course in what it takes to become a star.
Episode #107: Show Me More!
Chris & John become camp counselors at Camp Moun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20endpoint | A communication endpoint is a type of communication network node. It is an interface exposed by a communicating party or by a communication channel. An example of the latter type of a communication endpoint is a publish-subscribe topic or a group in group communication systems.
See also
Node (networking)
Terminal (telecommunication)
Connection-oriented communication
Data terminal equipment
Dial peer
End system
Host (network)
References
Computing terminology
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Entertainment%20Network | Digital Entertainment Network (often abbreviated as DEN and stylized as > e n™̣) was a multimedia dot-com company founded in the late-1990s by Marc Collins-Rector and his partner, Chad Shackley. Rector and Shackley had sold their ISP, Concentric Network, and used the proceeds of that sale, along with additional investor funding, to launch DEN. In February 1999, Jim Ritts resigned as commissioner of the LPGA to become chairman of DEN.
DEN's goal was to deliver original episodic video content over the Internet aimed at niche audiences. DEN was one of a crop of dot-com startups that focused on the creation and delivery of original video content online in the late 1990s prior to wide adoption of broadband internet access.
In May 1999, DEN announced that their business model had earned them $26 million USD in investments from Microsoft, Dell, Chase Capital Partners, and others. In September 1999, Microsoft announced that DEN was one of their partners in the Windows Media Broadband Jumpstart initiative, focusing on the creation of video and audio entertainment for the Windows Media format for high-speed connections. By 1999, the company was reportedly valued at $58,500,000 USD and included former Walt Disney Television President David Neuman, Garth Ancier, David Geffen, Gary Goddard, and Bryan Singer as investors.
DEN was slated for a $75 million USD IPO in October 1999 but the IPO was withdrawn in the wake of allegations of sexual assault against Collins-Rector, Shackley, and fellow executive Brock Pierce. All three executives subsequently resigned. Layoffs followed in February 2000. While a new executive team led by former Capitol Records President Gary Gersh and former Microsoft executive Greg Carpenter tried to salvage the company and relaunch in May 2000, DEN filed for bankruptcy and shut down in June 2000.
Programs
DEN produced and distributed a number of programs aimed at specific young male demographics. That included Chad's World, which targeted gay viewers and included Seann William Scott in the cast, Tales from the Eastside, which targeted Latinos, The Chang Gang, which targeted Asians, Redemption High which starred Judge Reinhold and targeted Christians, Frat Ratz, which targeted frat boys, and Fear of a Punk Planet, which targeted punks, included Joe Escalante from The Vandals in the cast, and shared a name with the band's 1990 album.
Controversies
DEN became indicative of excess in the era of the dot-com bubble, with high pay for executives while not generating any revenues and very little traffic.
In October 1999, a young man from New Jersey identified only as Jake W. filed a lawsuit alleging that Collins-Rector had sexually molested him for 3 years beginning in 1993 when he was 13-years-old. The lawsuit was filed just prior to DEN's scheduled IPO, causing concern among potential investors. and leading to the resignations of Collins-Rector, Shackley, and Pierce, leaving Ritts in charge
In July 2000, Alex Burton, then an 18-ye |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus%20test | Omnibus tests are a kind of statistical test. They test whether the explained variance in a set of data is significantly greater than the unexplained variance, overall. One example is the F-test in the analysis of variance. There can be legitimate significant effects within a model even if the omnibus test is not significant. For instance, in a model with two independent variables, if only one variable exerts a significant effect on the dependent variable and the other does not, then the omnibus test may be non-significant. This fact does not affect the conclusions that may be drawn from the one significant variable. In order to test effects within an omnibus test, researchers often use contrasts.
Omnibus test, as a general name, refers to an overall or a global test. Other names include F-test or Chi-squared test. It is a statistical test implemented on an overall hypothesis that tends to find general significance between parameters' variance, while examining parameters of the same type, such as:
Hypotheses regarding equality vs. inequality between k expectancies vs. at least one pair , where and , in Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA);
or regarding equality between k standard deviations vs. at least one pair in testing equality of variances in ANOVA;
or regarding coefficients vs. at least one pair in Multiple linear regression or in Logistic regression.
Usually, it tests more than two parameters of the same type and its role is to find general significance of at least one of the parameters involved.
Definitions
Omnibus test commonly refers to either one of those statistical tests:
ANOVA F test to test significance between all factor means and/or between their variances equality in Analysis of Variance procedure ;
The omnibus multivariate F Test in ANOVA with repeated measures ;
F test for equality/inequality of the regression coefficients in multiple regression;
Chi-Square test for exploring significance differences between blocks of independent explanatory variables or their coefficients in a logistic regression.
These omnibus tests are usually conducted whenever one tends to test an overall hypothesis on a quadratic statistic (like sum of squares or variance or covariance) or rational quadratic statistic (like the ANOVA overall F test in Analysis of Variance or F Test in Analysis of covariance or the F Test in Linear Regression, or Chi-Square in Logistic Regression).
While significance is founded on the omnibus test, it doesn't specify exactly where the difference is occurred, meaning, it doesn't bring specification on which parameter is significantly different from the other, but it statistically determines that there is a difference, so at least two of the tested parameters are statistically different. If significance was met, none of those tests will tell specifically which mean differs from the others (in ANOVA), which coefficient differs from the others (in regression) etc.
In one-way analysis of variance
The F-test in ANOVA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Everett | Peter Everett is an Australian television host. He is probably best known for hosting the Australian adaptation of cook show Ready Steady Cook, which aired on Network Ten. He is known for appearing on Changing Rooms which aired on the Nine Network in the late 1990s. He has also taken part in two reality television competition series: Skating on Thin Ice in 2005 and The Celebrity Apprentice Australia in 2013.
Early life
Everett was born in Charleville, Queensland. He moved to Brisbane in his adolescence. Everett has lived in the United States and Hong Kong. He then moved to Sydney to run the Queen Street Brasserie.
Career
Early career (1998–2005)
In 1998, Everett worked as an interior designer on the Australian adaptation of Changing Rooms. He co-hosted Renovation Rescue, and hosted Amazing Homes. He also took part in reality figure skating series Skating on Thin Ice in 2005.
Ready Steady Cook (2006–2011)
In 2006 Everett replaced Nick Stratford as host of the Australian adaptation of Ready Steady Cook, a cooking game show with a similar format to that of the original British program. It features two teams, each with a chef and a guest, competing to prepare meals from given ingredients. Everett opens each show and poses questions to teams about the meal's preparation. The show premiered on Network Ten in 2005.
In June 2011 Everett left Ready Steady Cook; he was replaced by comedian Colin Lane.
Post-2011 career
After having a year off being on television in 2012, Everett competed on season 3 of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia on the Nine Network in 2013.
References
External links
Up Close and Personal with Peter Everett
Living people
Australian interior designers
Australian television presenters
People from Charleville, Queensland
The Apprentice Australia candidates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrorail%20Western%20Cape | Metrorail Western Cape is a network of commuter and suburban rail services in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality (metropolitan area of Cape Town) and in the surrounding towns of Malmesbury, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Wellington in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
It is operated by Metrorail, which operates commuter rail services in the major cities of South Africa. The network is fairly comprehensive, however, some key areas have no service, notably the Atlantic Seaboard, Western Seaboard and Durbanville.
There are 85 operational trainsets, made up of 1094 coaches. There are 671 scheduled trains per weekday, operating over of the track to 122 stations and 4 halts. In 2018 there were around 500,000 daily users of the service. The services are divided into three areas, each of which has various branches.
All services either commence or terminate at the main Cape Town station in the centre of the city, which has 24 platforms. All services are by electric multiple units, aside from the daily train to Malmesbury which is on a non-electrified line.
Routes
Southern Line
The Southern Line travels from central Cape town through the Southern Suburbs to Muizenberg, and then along the edge of False Bay to Simon's Town. Although Simon's Town is the southern terminus, many trains terminate at Fish Hoek because the line south is single-track.
Cape Flats Line
The Cape Flats Line travels east from Cape Town as far as Maitland, then turns south through Athlone, rejoining the Southern Line at Heathfield. The service terminates at the Retreat.
Central Line
The Central Line serves areas to the southeast of the city centre. Trains run from Cape Town to Langa on two different routes, one around the southern side and the other around the eastern side of Pinelands. From Langa they travel on one of three lines, going either to Mitchell's Plain, to Khayelitsha, or through Belhar to Bellville.
Northern Line
The Northern Line serves the northern suburbs of Cape Town as well as some outlying towns. Some trains travel from Cape Town station to Bellville along the old main line through Salt River, Maitland, Goodwood and Parow, while others travel along the relief main line via Century City. After Bellville, trains run on one of three routes: through Kraaifontein and Paarl to Wellington; via Kuils River and Stellenbosch to Muldersvlei; or Kuils River and Somerset West to Strand.
Two "Business Express" trains provide a luxury commuter service, travelling from the suburbs to Cape Town in the morning and the reverse in the afternoon. One train runs from Huguenot (Paarl) via Kraaifontein and Brackenfell to Cape Town, while the other runs from Strand via Somerset West and Kuils River to Cape Town.
There are also two longer-distance trains stopping at all stations en route daily. One along the main line to Worcester and at the longest possible route on a commuter train in South Africa. The other is the only diesel-hauled commuter train in the We |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token%20Ring | Token Ring is a physical and data link layer computer networking technology used to build local area networks. It was introduced by IBM in 1984, and standardized in 1989 as IEEE 802.5.
It uses a special three-byte frame called a token that is passed around a logical ring of workstations or servers. This token passing is a channel access method providing fair access for all stations, and eliminating the collisions of contention-based access methods.
Token Ring was a successful technology, particularly in corporate environments, but was gradually eclipsed by the later versions of Ethernet. Gigabit Token Ring was standardized in 2001, but development has stopped since.
History
A wide range of different local area network technologies were developed in the early 1970s, of which one, the Cambridge Ring, had demonstrated the potential of a token passing ring topology, and many teams worldwide began working on their own implementations. At the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Werner Bux and Hans Müller, in particular, worked on the design and development of IBM's Token Ring technology, while early work at MIT led to the Proteon 10 Mbit/s ProNet-10 Token Ring network in 1981the same year that workstation vendor Apollo Computer introduced their proprietary 12 Mbit/s Apollo Token Ring (ATR) network running over 75-ohm RG-6U coaxial cabling. Proteon later evolved a 16 Mbit/s version that ran on unshielded twisted pair cable.
1985 IBM launch
IBM launched their own proprietary Token Ring product on October 15, 1985. It ran at 4 Mbit/s, and attachment was possible from IBM PCs, midrange computers and mainframes. It used a convenient star-wired physical topology and ran over shielded twisted-pair cabling. Shortly thereafter it became the basis for the IEEE 802.5 standard.
During this time, IBM argued that Token Ring LANs were superior to Ethernet, especially under load, but these claims were debated.
In 1988 the faster 16 Mbit/s Token Ring was standardized by the 802.5 working group. An increase to 100 Mbit/s was standardized and marketed during the wane of Token Ring's existence and was never widely used. While a 1000 Mbit/s standard was approved in 2001, no products were ever brought to market and standards activity came to a standstill as Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet dominated the local area networking market.
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Comparison with Ethernet
Ethernet and Token Ring have some notable differences:
Token Ring access is more deterministic, compared to Ethernet's contention-based CSMA/CD.
Ethernet supports a direct cable connection between two network interface cards by the use of a crossover cable or through auto-sensing if supported. Token Ring does not inherently support this feature and requires additional software and hardware to operate on a direct cable connection setup.
Token Ring eliminates collision by the use of a single-use token and early token release to alleviate the down time. Ethernet alleviates collision by carrier sense multi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation%3A%20Comedy | Situation: Comedy is a reality show that aired on the Bravo network from July 26 until September 9, 2005. It was produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner. The winner of the series was "Stephen's Life". The runner up was "The Sperm Donor".
The Sperm Donor
"The Sperm Donor" was written by Mark Treitel and Shoe Schuster and directed by Amanda Bearse. It starred Maggie Wheeler, David DeLuise, Richie Keen, and Lauren Schaffel.
External links
Situation: Comedy page at BravoTV.com
2000s American reality television series
2005 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20system | Vision system may refer to:
Visual system, the neurobiological circuitry and processing that enable living beings to see
Machine vision, a computer-based system where software performs tasks assimilable to "seeing", usually aimed to industrial quality assurance, part selection, defect detection etc.
Computer vision, an interdisciplinary study that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDU | TDU may stand for:
Test Drive Unlimited, a 2006 racing computer game
Tour Down Under, a cycling competition in Australia
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, a movement to reform the Teamsters labor union
Trash disposal unit, a life support system on submarines
Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, a private university in India
Tokyo Denki University, a private university in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sunday%20Edition | The Sunday Edition is a television programme broadcast on the ITV Network in the United Kingdom focusing on political interview and discussion, produced by ITV Productions. The show was hosted by Andrew Rawnsley and Andrea Catherwood.
The live studio show continued the tradition of live political programming on ITV at the weekend and featured the traditional "long format" interview as well as incisive debate by key players in politics, the arts and business.
The programme included an ITV News Summary at the beginning and end of the programme.
The programme has three distinct segments:
Breaking news and political stories will kick off the programme and be brought up to the minute by interviews with key figures and commentators.
The in-depth political interview will lie at the heart of the show.
Discussion of major issues and interviews with big names from across the range of arts, business and culture will offer insight and provoke debate.
When the programme changed its time slot, to the earlier time of 09:25, low ratings of 250,000 cast doubt over its future. The programme ended in November 2007.
References
External links
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2006 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
British television news shows
Current affairs shows
English-language television shows
ITV (TV network) original programming
ITV news shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door%20Door | is a single-screen puzzle-platform game developed by Enix and published in Japan in 1983. Originally released for the NEC PC-8801, it was ported to other platforms, including the Family Computer. Controlling a small character named Chun, the player is tasked with completing each stage by trapping different kinds of aliens behind sliding doors. Chun can jump over the aliens and climb ladders, and must also avoid obstacles such as large nails and bombs.
Door Door was designed and programmed by Koichi Nakamura, known as one of the creators of Dragon Quest. The game was the runner-up in the Enix-sponsored "First Game and Hobby Program Contest" in 1982, winning the Outstanding Program Award with a prize of 500,000 yen. Enix was given the rights to the game and ported it to several Japanese home computers. Chun, the name of the protagonist, was a nickname given to Nakamura by one of his friends. Door Door was a critical and commercial success— the PC-8801 port alone had sold 200,000 copies, and is considered a classic title for the Famicom.
Gameplay
Players control Chun, a small, egg-shaped creature outfitted with a baseball cap. Chun is relentlessly pursued by a quartet of aliens traveling in deterministic algorithm paths. The most predictable aliens Namegon and Amechan follow Chun in the most direct path possible, Invekun deviates and follows roundabout paths using ladders, and Otapyon shadows Chun's jumps.
The player's objective is to trap the aliens behind sliding doors positioned throughout each level, courses composed of platforms conjoined by assorted ladders. To trap the aliens, players approach the door from the side its handle is on, open it by running across it, lure the advancing villains inside, and shut the door before they escape. Trapped doors cannot be opened again. Chun can jump to avoid the aliens, who can kill him on touch. Bombs and nails, which sometimes appear on the screen, are also lethal. When the player dies (provided they have continues) they restart the level with previously trapped aliens vanished, and all doors are accessible again.
The status bar running along the top of the playing screen gives the player's score, the high score, the level number, and the number of lives remaining. Points are awarded for trapping aliens behind doors (with extra points going to players who corral multiple aliens behind one door) and collecting confectionery that intermittently appear and disappear on the playing screen, which include a striped piece of candy, an ice pop, a lollipop, a bowl of ice cream, a slice of cake, and a Mahjong tile. Players begin with three lives. Scoring 10,000 points awards the player an extra life; scoring intervals of 20,000 points thereafter awards the player more lives. If the player loses all lives, the game is over, forcing the player to restart from the first level.
As players advance, the levels become more complicated, many requiring abstract strategies. The eighth level pits Chun against a lone O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDO | VDO may refer to:
VDO (company), a German automotive parts producer
Vertical dimension of occlusion, in dentistry
Vincent D'Onofrio (born 1959), actor
Virtual Data Optimization, a feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
Van Don International Airport, the IATA code VDO
See also
Video |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20function | In computer programming, an anonymous function (function literal, lambda abstraction, lambda function, lambda expression or block) is a function definition that is not bound to an identifier. Anonymous functions are often arguments being passed to higher-order functions or used for constructing the result of a higher-order function that needs to return a function.
If the function is only used once, or a limited number of times, an anonymous function may be syntactically lighter than using a named function. Anonymous functions are ubiquitous in functional programming languages and other languages with first-class functions, where they fulfil the same role for the function type as literals do for other data types.
Anonymous functions originate in the work of Alonzo Church in his invention of the lambda calculus, in which all functions are anonymous, in 1936, before electronic computers. In several programming languages, anonymous functions are introduced using the keyword lambda, and anonymous functions are often referred to as lambdas or lambda abstractions. Anonymous functions have been a feature of programming languages since Lisp in 1958, and a growing number of modern programming languages support anonymous functions.
Names
The names "lambda abstraction", "lambda function", and "lambda expression" refer to the notation of function abstraction in lambda calculus, where the usual function would be written ( is an expression that uses ). Compare to the Python syntax of lambda x: M.
The name "arrow function" refers to the mathematical "maps to" symbol, . Compare to the JavaScript syntax of x => M.
Uses
Anonymous functions can be used for containing functionality that need not be named and possibly for short-term use. Some notable examples include closures and currying.
The use of anonymous functions is a matter of style. Using them is never the only way to solve a problem; each anonymous function could instead be defined as a named function and called by name. Some programmers use anonymous functions to encapsulate specific, non-reusable code without littering the code with a lot of little one-line normal functions.
In some programming languages, anonymous functions are commonly implemented for very specific purposes such as binding events to callbacks or instantiating the function for particular values, which may be more efficient, more readable, and less error-prone than calling a more-generic named function.
The following examples are written in Python 3.
Sorting
When attempting to sort in a non-standard way, it may be easier to contain the sorting logic as an anonymous function instead of creating a named function.
Most languages provide a generic sort function that implements a sort algorithm that will sort arbitrary objects.
This function usually accepts an arbitrary function that determines how to compare whether two elements are equal or if one is greater or less than the other.
Consider this Python code sorting a list of st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlgaeBase | AlgaeBase is a global species database of information on all groups of algae, both marine and freshwater, as well as sea-grass.
History
AlgaeBase began in March 1996, founded by Michael Guiry.
By 2005, the database contained about 65,000 names.
In 2013, AlgaeBase and the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) signed an end-user license agreement regarding the Electronic Intellectual Property of AlgaeBase. This allows the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) to include taxonomic names of algae in WoRMS, thereby allowing WoRMS, as part of the Aphia database, to make its overview of all described marine species more complete. Synchronisation of the AlgaeBase data with Aphia and WoRMS was undertaken manually until March 2015, but this was very time-consuming, so an online application was developed to semi-automate the synchronisation, launching in 2015 in conjunction with Michael Guiry and the chief programmer of AlgaeBase, Pier Kuipers. After a long phase of further development and testing, the AlgaeBase harvester tool was implemented by the WoRMS data management team in early 2019. Since then, newly-added species in AlgaeBase are added to Aphia and, if marine, to WoRMS as well.
Description
The database is hosted at the National University of Ireland's Ryan Institute, in Galway. It includes about all types of algae, as well as one group of flowering plants, the sea-grasses. Information about each species' taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution is included, and the algae covered include terrestrial as well as marine and freshwater species, such as seaweeds, phytoplankton, and freshwater algae. marine species have the best coverage, and sea-grass is included, although it is a flowering plant rather than an alga.
As of 2014 there were nearly 17,000 images, and the database was being used by 2,000–3,000 individual visitors each day.
As of 2023, there were about 170,000 species and infraspecies in AlgaeBase.
Support and funding
The compilation of the data was funded by the Irish Government Department of Education and Science's Programme for Research in Third-level Institutions (PRTLI) 2, 3 and 4 programmes, to the Ryan Institute and the Environmental Change Institute, as well as by Atlantic Philanthropies, and the European Union.
The synchronisation between AlgaeBase and Aphia was possible through support of the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone. LifeWatch, the E-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, is a distributed virtual laboratory, which is used for different aspects of biodiversity research.
the main sponsors of the database are the Phycological Society of America, the British Phycological Society, the International Phycological Society, and the Korean Phycological Society. Programming is carried out by Pier Kuipers and Caoilte Guiry, and Michael Guiry. Jonathan Guthrie was responsible for programming much of earlier versions.
References
Further reading
External links
Algae
Biodiversity dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20transfer | File transfer is the transmission of a computer file through a communication channel from one computer system to another. Typically, file transfer is mediated by a communications protocol. In the history of computing, numerous file transfer protocols have been designed for different contexts.
Protocols
A file transfer protocol is a convention that describes how to transfer files between two computing endpoints. As well as the stream of bits from a file stored as a single unit in a file system, some may also send relevant metadata such as the filename, file size and timestamp – and even file-system permissions and file attributes.
Some examples:
FTP is an older cross-platform file transfer protocol
SSH File Transfer Protocol a file transfer protocol secured by the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol
Secure copy (scp) is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol
HTTP can support file transfer
BitTorrent, Gnutella and other distributed file transfers systems use peer-to-peer
In Systems Network Architecture, LU 6.2 Connect:Direct and XCOM Data Transport are traditionally used to transfer files
Many instant messaging or LAN messenger systems support the ability to transfer files
Computers may transfer files to peripheral devices such as USB flash drives
Dial-up modems null modem links used XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM and similar
See also
File sharing
Managed file transfer
Peer-to-peer file sharing
Pull technology
Push technology
Sideloading
References
Internet terminology
Network file transfer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20data%20inertial%20reference%20unit | An Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU) is a key component of the integrated Air Data Inertial Reference System (ADIRS), which supplies air data (airspeed, angle of attack and altitude) and inertial reference (position and attitude) information to the pilots' electronic flight instrument system displays as well as other systems on the aircraft such as the engines, autopilot, aircraft flight control system and landing gear systems. An ADIRU acts as a single, fault tolerant source of navigational data for both pilots of an aircraft. It may be complemented by a secondary attitude air data reference unit (SAARU), as in the Boeing 777 design.
This device is used on various military aircraft as well as civilian airliners starting with the Airbus A320 and Boeing 777.
Description
An ADIRS consists of up to three fault tolerant ADIRUs located in the aircraft electronic rack, an associated control and display unit (CDU) in the cockpit and remotely mounted air data modules (ADMs). The No 3 ADIRU is a redundant unit that may be selected to supply data to either the commander's or the co-pilot's displays in the event of a partial or complete failure of either the No 1 or No 2 ADIRU. There is no cross-channel redundancy between the Nos 1 and 2 ADIRUs, as No 3 ADIRU is the only alternate source of air and inertial reference data. An inertial reference (IR) fault in ADIRU No 1 or 2 will cause a loss of attitude and navigation information on their associated primary flight display (PFD) and navigation display (ND) screens. An air data reference (ADR) fault will cause the loss of airspeed and altitude information on the affected display. In either case the information can only be restored by selecting the No 3 ADIRU.
Each ADIRU comprises an ADR and an inertial reference (IR) component.
Air data reference
The air data reference (ADR) component of an ADIRU provides airspeed, Mach number, angle of attack, temperature and barometric altitude data. Ram air pressure and static pressures used in calculating airspeed are measured by small ADMs located as close as possible to the respective pitot and static pressure sensors. ADMs transmit their pressures to the ADIRUs through ARINC 429 data buses.
Inertial reference
The IR component of an ADIRU gives attitude, flight path vector, ground speed and positional data. The ring laser gyroscope is a core enabling technology in the system, and is used together with accelerometers, GPS and other sensors to provide raw data. The primary benefits of a ring laser over older mechanical gyroscopes are that there are no moving parts, it is rugged and lightweight, frictionless and does not resist a change in precession.
Complexity in redundancy
Analysis of complex systems is itself so difficult as to be subject to errors in the certification process. Complex interactions between flight computers and ADIRUs can lead to counter-intuitive behaviour for the crew in the event of a failure. In the case of Qantas Flight 72, the captai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogge%E2%80%93Stone%20adder | In computing, the Kogge–Stone adder (KSA or KS) is a parallel prefix form carry look-ahead adder. Other parallel prefix adders (PPA) include the Sklansky adder (SA), Brent–Kung adder (BKA), the Han–Carlson adder (HCA), the fastest known variation, the Lynch–Swartzlander spanning tree adder (STA), Knowles adder (KNA) and Beaumont-Smith adder (BSA).
The Kogge–Stone adder takes more area to implement than the Brent–Kung adder, but has a lower fan-out at each stage, which increases performance for typical CMOS process nodes. However, wiring congestion is often a problem for Kogge–Stone adders. The Lynch–Swartzlander design is smaller, has lower fan-out, and does not suffer from wiring congestion; however to be used the process node must support Manchester carry chain implementations. The general problem of optimizing parallel prefix adders is identical to the variable block size, multi level, carry-skip adder optimization problem, a solution of which is found in Thomas Lynch's thesis of 1996.
An example of a 4-bit Kogge–Stone adder is shown in the diagram. Each vertical stage produces a "propagate" and a "generate" bit, as shown. The culminating generate bits (the carries) are produced in the last stage (vertically), and these bits are XOR'd with the initial propagate after the input (the red boxes) to produce the sum bits. E.g., the first (least-significant) sum bit is calculated by XORing the propagate in the farthest-right red box (a "1") with the carry-in (a "0"), producing a "1". The second bit is calculated by XORing the propagate in second box from the right (a "0") with C0 (a "0"), producing a "0".
4-bit Kogge-Stone adder, Radix-2, without Cin on Borland Turbo Basic 1.1:
'Step 0
P00 = A0 XOR B0 '1dt, S0, dt - delay time
G00 = A0 AND B0 '1dt, C0
P10 = A1 XOR B1 '1dt
G10 = A1 AND B1 '1dt
P20 = A2 XOR B2 '1dt
G20 = A2 AND B2 '1dt
P30 = A3 XOR B3 '1dt
G30 = A3 AND B3 '1dt
'Step 1, Distance=Radix^(Step-1)=2^0=1, valency-2
G11 = G10 OR (P10 AND G00) '3dt, C1
P21 = P20 AND P10 '2dt
G21 = G20 OR (P20 AND G10) '3dt
P31 = P30 AND P20 '2dt
G31 = G30 OR (P30 AND G20) '3dt
'Step 2, Distance=Radix^(Step-1)=2^1=2, valency-2
G22 = G21 OR (P21 AND G00) '4dt, C2
G32 = G31 OR (P31 AND G11) '5dt, C3
'Sum
S0 = P00 '1dt
S1 = P10 XOR G00 '2dt
S2 = P20 XOR G11 '4dt
S3 = P30 XOR G22 '5dt
S4 = G32 '5dt
4-bit PPA radix-4 (valency-2,3,4) adder (is 4-bit CLA radix-4 (valency-2,3,4) adder and 4-bit Sklansky radix-4 (valency-2,3,4) adder and 4-bit Kogge-Stone radix-4 (valency-2,3,4) adder and 4-bit Beaumont-Smith radix-4 (valency-2,3,4) adder):
'Step 0
P00 = A0 XOR B0 '1dt, S0
G00 = A0 AND B0 '1dt, C0
P10 = A1 XOR B1 '1dt
G10 = A1 AND B1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPSE | WPSE (stylized as WP$E) (AM 1450/FM 107.1) is a commercial radio station with a programming emphasis on business talk radio that serves the Erie, Pennsylvania area. It is owned by the Board of Trustees at Penn State University and its studio is on the campus of Penn State Behrend in Erie.
Programming
Business
WPSE carries content from Bloomberg Radio, the Dave Ramsey Show, the Lou Dobbs Business Report, CNBC Business Radio Reports, Gordon Deal, the Rich Eisen Show, CBS's Jill Schlesinger, Motley Fool Money, CBS News Radio, CBS MoneyWatch, FOX News Radio, Our American Stories, Real Money Pros, and commentaries by regional business leaders.
Sports
WPSE airs sports programming including local high school football and basketball, Cleveland Browns football, Penn State football, and NFL primetime and postseason football including the Super Bowl.
References
External links
WPSE website
PSE
Business talk radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desde%20Gayola | Desde Gayola (en English "From Armchairs") was a Mexican late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Horacio Villalobos. The show premiered on the music video network Telehit in February 2002 as a sketch into the variety show Válvula de Escape. The show revolves around a series of parodies about Mexican culture, sexuality and politics, performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members.
The TV show followed a format similar to the famous American show Saturday Night Live with each episode approximately 25 minutes in length and containing an average of five sketches per episode. The show included several transgender actors, who play female characters.
Origin of the name
"La Gayola" was the site into a theater, in which critics were located and from where they issued their judgments about a montage. For us, Desde Gayola is the place from where we criticize the political, social, religious and entertainment realities". -Horacio Villalobos
Format
The format of the show was inspired by the American TV show Saturday Night Live of NBC. The cast includes actors of diverse gender identities.
Telehit
The show began airing in November 2001 as a sketch on the Válvula de Escape show, hosted and produced by Horacio Villalobos on Telehit. Since February 2002, the show was scheduled for the Friday at 3:00 pm slot.
In its firsts seasons, from 2002 to 2003, the show had a more modest list of characters, highlighting the transgender actress Alejandra Bogue, transgender actress Daniel Vives "Ego", Dario T. Pie and Francis García, as well Villalobos himself. Since 2003, more actors began to be integrated into more sketches, highlighting Carlos Rangel "La Maniguis", Gerardo Gallardo, Javier Yepes, Mauricio Barcelata, Miguel Romero and others.
The musical opening was Dulce Amor by Ana Martín, extracted from the Mexican telenovela Gabriel y Gabriela. Horacio Villalobos welcomed the audience and presented the sketches of the program. These sketches, of some which stood out were Tesoreando con La Tesorito, La Roña, Las Aventuras de La Supermana, El Mundo de Maniguis, Las Chicas V.I.P., Panal-Gastronómico, La Charla Ecclesiastica, Joterías con Ligia, Mirosnada, una historia real, El Rincón de Pita Amor, TV Churros, Las Aventuras de Dieguito Gardel Lamarque, Las Menopausicas and others.
From one sketch to another, a curtain of characters from the show dancing to the rhythms like Shortcut To The End, by Quartz and Lady Marmalade from Labelle appear. Each episode lasted 27 minutes and had about 5 sketches.
Out of Telehit
On August 3, 2006, Horacio Villalobos and the cast left Telehit, in protest at what they called "abuse and mistreatment."
In 2006, the cast received a proposal for the series on a transnational network television, but that plan fell through.
52MX
Nocturninos and Nocturninos presents: Desde Gayola
After leaving Telehit in 2006, the cast of Desde Gayola returned to television on August 4, 2008, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAGW-CD | KAGW-CD (channel 26) is a low-power, Class A television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with several digital multicast networks, including Cozi TV on its main channel. The station is owned by the Great Plains Television Network, LLC, which also operates low-power Heartland-affiliated station KSMI-LD (channel 30) through a local marketing agreement (LMA) with owner Get After It Media. The two stations share offices on South Greenwood Street in Wichita; KAGW-CD's transmitter is located in rural northwestern Sedgwick County (north-northeast of Colwich).
History
The station first signed on the air on June 6, 1998 as K53EO, broadcasting on UHF channel 53. It was originally an affiliate of both America's Voice and ZDTV. On November 16, 1998, the station's call letters were changed to KTQW-LP, in reference to its slogan "Total Quality Wichita". At first, it was the sole broadcast affiliate of the otherwise cable and satellite network that evolved into TechTV, carrying the network's programming 20 hours a day, with the remaining four hours allocated to locally produced programs. The station relocated its signal to UHF channel 49 on June 10, 2004, and upgraded its license to Class A status, modifying its call sign to KTQW-CA.
In 2006, Knowledge LC sold the station to Great Plains Television Network, LLC; the sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 14, 2006, and was completed one week later on December 21. On January 8, 2007, the station's call letters were officially changed to KGPT-CA to match the name of the company, Kansas Great Plains Television Network. The station has applied to increase its effective radiated power from 4.8 to 13.91 kilowatts.
On August 6, 2013, at 1:30 p.m., the station moved its signal to UHF channel 26 and began operating its digital signal from a newly constructed transmission tower located north-northeast of Colwich; the station also increased its effective radiated power to 15 kilowatts, resulting in a significant increase in the station's coverage area.
A Kansas court ordered the station into receivership in December 2020 after former owner Urban Investment Broadcasting sued, claiming GPTN had failed to meet the terms of the promissory note it had used to acquire the station; Tyler Brown was appointed as receiver. On July 1, 2021, the call sign changed to KAGW-CD. On July 4, the station rebranded to KAGW 26 (KAGW stands for Keep America Great Wichita, while their slogan is actually Keep America Great Kansas).
The station slogan is a variation of the "Keep America Great" slogan used in Donald Trump's campaign during the 2020 presidential election.
Programming
Formerly, In addition to carrying programming from eight networks on its digital subchannels, the station also produced locally produced programs (such as WichitaLiberty.TV and Ascension Café).
Yellow Ribbons from Home
KAGW also produced a special saluting U.S. military personnel and their families titled |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSMI-LD | KSMI-LD (channel 30) is a low-power television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with several digital multicast networks. Owned by Get After It Media, it is operated by Great Plains Television Network, LLC under a local marketing agreement (LMA), making it sister to Class A Independent and Cozi TV-affiliated station KAGW-CD (channel 26). The two stations share offices on South Greenwood Street in Wichita; KSMI-LD's transmitter is located in rural northwestern Sedgwick County (north-northeast of Colwich).
History
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1990. In the early 2000s, KSMI-LP became an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo (now on KSNW-DT2); a few years later, it affiliated with Azteca América. Luken Communications purchased the station in 2010, and entered into a local marketing agreement with Great Plains Television Network, LLC to manage the station; that year, the station flash cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 51. Luken also began providing the station with affiliations from the company's various networks.
On October 17, 2013, KSMI-LP began transmitting its digital signal (which moved to UHF channel 30) from a new, taller tower near Colwich and increased its effective radiated power to 15 kilowatts. Even though this change resulted an increase in its overall coverage area, the signal is only adequately receivable in the immediate Wichita area with marginal reception south of the city due to adjacent channel interference (a phenomenon in which part of the signal "spills into" an adjacent frequency, making it harder for digital tuner to detect which channel to use) with Univision affiliate KDCU-DT on channel 31 and in areas north of Wichita—particularly Hutchinson—due to both adjacent channel and co-channel interference. KGBD in Great Bend, a semi-satellite of ABC affiliate KAKE (channel 10), also broadcasts on UHF channel 30, making it difficult, if not impossible, to receive KSMI-LP, as the receiver cannot tell decipher between the two stations. The co-channel interference problem is amplified at night due to DXing from signals bouncing off the ionosphere, which permits the signal to travel farther than normal.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
KAGW 26 official website
Broadcast TV: A lot to see for free
SMI-LD
Heartland (TV network) affiliates
Retro TV affiliates
Rev'n affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Kansas
SMI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookish | Bookish.com is a content discovery and ecommerce website, which launched in February 2013, devoted to books. The site allows users to browse an extensive database of books and authors, add books to user-created digital "shelves", get custom book recommendations, read editorial content and purchase physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.
History
Bookish was founded in 2011 in a joint venture backed by three of the big six publishing companies – Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuster – with the goal of increasing the presence of book publishers in the book-buying industry (which was becoming increasingly dominated by Amazon.com due to the increased popularity of online bookstores), as well as to expand the overall book-buying market.
The site was expected to launch in the summer of 2011, but the launch was delayed due to technical issues relating to data compilation, as well as a lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice in 2012 against Apple Inc. and five major publishing companies regarding the pricing of ebooks. The site officially launched in February 2013 with the support of sixteen additional publishing companies.
Features
Online bookstore
Custom book recommendations
User-created digital bookshelves
Goodreads shelf-import feature
Book lists, reviews, and listicles
eReader app for Android/iPhone
Articles, newsletters, and author interviews
Acquisition
In early 2014, online ebook retailer Zola Books, attracted by the site's sophisticated “algorithmic software” that offers reading suggestions, acquired Bookish.
See also
aNobii
Babelio
BookArmy
Readgeek
References
External links
Official Website
Flemming Christensen
Book Reviews By Shalini
American book websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20inference%20in%20phylogeny | Bayesian inference of phylogeny combines the information in the prior and in the data likelihood to create the so-called posterior probability of trees, which is the probability that the tree is correct given the data, the prior and the likelihood model. Bayesian inference was introduced into molecular phylogenetics in the 1990s by three independent groups: Bruce Rannala and Ziheng Yang in Berkeley, Bob Mau in Madison, and Shuying Li in University of Iowa, the last two being PhD students at the time. The approach has become very popular since the release of the MrBayes software in 2001, and is now one of the most popular methods in molecular phylogenetics.
Bayesian inference of phylogeny background and bases
Bayesian inference refers to a probabilistic method developed by Reverend Thomas Bayes based on Bayes' theorem. Published posthumously in 1763 it was the first expression of inverse probability and the basis of Bayesian inference. Independently, unaware of Bayes' work, Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes' theorem in 1774.
Bayesian inference or the inverse probability method was the standard approach in statistical thinking until the early 1900s before RA Fisher developed what's now known as the classical/frequentist/Fisherian inference. Computational difficulties and philosophical objections had prevented the widespread adoption of the Bayesian approach until the 1990s, when Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms revolutionized Bayesian computation.
The Bayesian approach to phylogenetic reconstruction combines the prior probability of a tree P(A) with the likelihood of the data (B) to produce a posterior probability distribution on trees P(A|B). The posterior probability of a tree will be the probability that the tree is correct, given the prior, the data, and the correctness of the likelihood model.
MCMC methods can be described in three steps: first using a stochastic mechanism a new state for the Markov chain is proposed. Secondly, the probability of this new state to be correct is calculated. Thirdly, a new random variable (0,1) is proposed. If this new value is less than the acceptance probability the new state is accepted and the state of the chain is updated. This process is run thousands or millions of times. The number of times a single tree is visited during the course of the chain is an approximation of its posterior probability. Some of the most common algorithms used in MCMC methods include the Metropolis–Hastings algorithms, the Metropolis-Coupling MCMC (MC³) and the LOCAL algorithm of Larget and Simon.
Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
One of the most common MCMC methods used is the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, a modified version of the original Metropolis algorithm. It is a widely used method to sample randomly from complicated and multi-dimensional distribution probabilities. The Metropolis algorithm is described in the following steps:
An initial tree, Ti, is randomly selected.
A neighbour tree, Tj, is selected f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic%20application | In software engineering, a monolithic application is a single unified software application which is self-contained and independent from other applications, but typically lacks flexibility. There are advantages and disadvantages of building applications in a monolithic style of software architecture, depending on requirements. Alternative styles to monolithic applications include multitier architectures, distributed computing and microservices.
The design philosophy is that the application is responsible not just for a particular task, but can perform every step needed to complete a particular function. Some personal finance applications are monolithic in the sense that they help the user carry out a complete task, end to end, and are private data silos rather than parts of a larger system of applications that work together. Some word processors are monolithic applications. These applications are sometimes associated with mainframe computers.
In software engineering, a monolithic application describes a software application that is designed as a single service. Multiple services can be desirable in certain scenarios as it can facilitate maintenance by allowing repair or replacement of parts of the application without requiring wholesale replacement.
Modularity is achieved to various extents by different modular programming approaches. Code-based modularity allows developers to reuse and repair parts of the application, but development tools are required to perform these maintenance functions (e.g. the application may need to be recompiled). Object-based modularity provides the application as a collection of separate executable files that may be independently maintained and replaced without redeploying the entire application (e.g. Microsoft's Dynamic-link library (DLL); Sun/UNIX shared object files). Some object messaging capabilities allow object-based applications to be distributed across multiple computers (e.g. Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM)). Service-oriented architectures use specific communication standards/protocols to communicate between modules.
In its original use, the term "monolithic" described enormous mainframe applications with no usable modularity. This, in combination with the rapid increase in computational power and therefore rapid increase in the complexity of the problems which could be tackled by software, resulted in unmaintainable systems and the "software crisis".
References
Software architecture
History of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeTV | MeTV, an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television, is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. Marketed as "The Definitive Destination for Classic TV", the network airs a variety of classic television programs from the 1930s through the 1990s.
The concept began as a 1950s to 1980s programming block on Chicago's WFBT-CA in 2003, growing until becoming a national network in 2010. Since 2010, the network has spun off six sister networks: MeTV+, the male-targeted, action/adventure-oriented Heroes & Icons, the sitcom-oriented Catchy Comedy, the film-centered Movies! (joint venture with Fox Television Stations), the female-targeted, drama-oriented Start TV (joint venture with CBS News and Stations), and the history/documentary network Story Television.
MeTV is carried on digital subchannels of affiliated television stations in most markets; however, some MeTV-affiliated stations carry the network as a primary affiliation on their main channel, and a small number of stations air select programs from the network along with their regular general entertainment schedules, with a few carrying the network in high definition. The network is also available nationwide on DirecTV and DirecTV Stream, free-to-air C band satellite via SES-1 in the DVB-S2 format, and in some markets on AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS and cable television through cable TV providers nationwide. As of March 28, 2022, MeTV is available on the streaming service Frndly TV. As of August 9, 2022, MeTV is available on another streaming service Philo. MeTV's operations are located in Weigel Broadcasting's corporate headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois.
History
Chicago beginnings
MeTV was originally developed as a programming block that launched on January 6, 2003, on Class A television station WFBT-CA (channel 23) in Chicago, Illinois, an independent station owned by Weigel that otherwise maintained a format featuring programming aimed at the market's diverse ethnic demographics. The block – which initially aired for three hours daily from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m., before expanding to seven hours a day (from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) by 2004 – featured a broad mix of series from the 1950s to the 1980s, which included among others The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, The Carol Burnett Show, One Day at a Time, and Hogan's Heroes; although the programs that aired as part of the lineup changed occasionally.
On January 1, 2005, Weigel rechristened the Chicago low-power station as WWME-CA and removed the ethnic-oriented programming that filled its late afternoon and nighttime schedule, adopting the MeTV format and on-air branding full-time. Channel 23's former ethnic programming and WFBT-CA call letters were transferred to its sister station on UHF channel 48, which used the W48DD call letters prior to the format change.
On August 4, 2007, WWME launched a weekend morning block that primarily featured Spanish dubs of select classic series, " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEJL | WEJL (630 AM) is a radio station broadcasting in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The station, known on-air as "Northeast PA's ESPN Radio", carries sports radio programming from ESPN Radio. WEJL is owned by Times-Shamrock Communications, publishers of Scranton's daily newspaper, The Times-Tribune.
The station serves as the Northeastern Pennsylvania outlet for Philadelphia Phillies baseball, Philadelphia Eagles football, Notre Dame football and Villanova Wildcats basketball.
History
Early years
Effective December 1, 1921, the U.S. Department of Commerce, which regulated radio communication at this time, adopted regulations to formally establish a broadcast service category. It set aside the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) for "entertainment" broadcasting, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for "market and weather reports". By mid-1922 hundreds of radio stations had been established, many of which were owned by, or had close affiliations, with newspapers.
In November 1922, the Radio Sales Corporation in Scranton, headed by J. H. "Casey" Jones, received a broadcasting station license with the call sign WRAY. E. J. Lynett, publisher of The Scranton Times (now The Times-Tribune), believed radio was a natural business for a newspaper, and decided to get involved in the new medium as well. He contracted with Radio Sales to also construct a station for the Times, and in the meantime made arrangements to provide programming for WRAY, beginning on November 29, 1922.
The Times was issued its first broadcasting station license, with the sequentially assigned call letters of WQAN, on January 4, 1923. (WRAY remained licensed to the Radio Sales Corporation until it was deleted in mid-1924.) WQAN made its debut broadcast on January 8, 1923, under the slogan "The Voice of the Anthracite". (Anthracite coal was mined nearby.)
WQAN's initial grant authorized broadcasting on the 360 meter "entertainment" wavelength. In early 1923 the station was further authorized for the 485 meter "market and weather report" wavelength. Later that year it was reassigned to 1070 kHz. In late 1924 WQAN changed frequency to 1200 kHz, which was followed in 1927 by a move to 1300 kHz, now sharing the frequency with Scranton's other station, WGBI (now WAAF). WQAN and WGBI were moved to 880 kHz on November 11, 1928 as part of a major reallocation made under the provisions of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40. In 1941, implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) resulted in the two stations changing their shared frequency to 910 kHz.
Move to AM 630
The frequency sharing agreement between WQAN and WGBI lasted for 21 years, ending in 1948 when the Lynett family built a tower atop the Times Building in downtown Scranton for WQAN-FM at 92.3 MHz, and at the same time WQAN moved to 630 AM, transmitting from the same tower, which remains in use today.
WQAN-FM's call sign was changed in the early 1950s to WEJL-FM. The FM station was shut down in July 1955, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20sector | A bad sector in computing is a disk sector on a disk storage unit that is unreadable. Upon taking damage, all information stored on that sector is lost. When a bad sector is found and marked, the operating system like Windows or Linux will skip it in the future. Bad sectors are a threat to information security in the sense of data remanence.
Details
Bad sectors can be "soft" (logical) or "hard" (hardware, physical), depending on what is making the sector inaccessible. In case of power loss, bit rot (more likely on floppy disks), or firmware issues, the on-disk format can be corrupt beyond what the error correcting code can fix. This is a "soft" bad sector: writing over the corruption would succeed.
On the other hand, sectors broken physically cannot be restored: writing would fail, forcing a remap. A new drive may start with some innocuous bad sectors due to manufacturing flaws. Larger patches occur throughout use, due to head crash, wear-and-tear, physical shock, or dust intrusion.
Handling
Operating system
Bad sectors may be detected by the operating system or the disk controller. Most file systems contain provisions for sectors to be marked as bad, so that the operating system avoids them in the future. Disk diagnostic utilities, such as CHKDSK (Microsoft Windows), Disk Utility (on macOS), or badblocks (on Linux) can actively look for bad sectors upon user request.
With the advent of SMART-enabled disk controllers (see below), the burden of avoiding bad sectors more commonly falls to the disk. Some newer file systems such as Btrfs and ZFS do not have a bad-block avoidance feature at all. Software tools that look for bad blocks still have a use case: by issuing writes at detected bad sectors, one can expedite the remapping process, avoiding further attempts at reading the bad sector.
Disk controller
When a sector is found to be bad or unstable by the firmware of a disk controller, a modern (post-1990) disk controller remaps the logical sector to a different physical sector. Typically, automatic remapping of sectors only happens when a sector is written to – failed reads remain marked "pending". In the normal operation of a hard drive, the detection and remapping of bad sectors should take place in a manner transparent to the rest of the system and in advance before data is lost. There are two types of remapping by disk hardware: P-LIST (mapping during factory production tests) and G-LIST (mapping during consumer usage by disk microcode).
Utilities can read the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) information to tell how many sectors have been reallocated, and how many spare sectors the drive may still have. Because reads and writes from G-list sectors are automatically redirected (remapped) to spare sectors, it slows down drive access even if data in drive is defragmented. Once the G-list is filled up, the storage unit must be replaced.
Compared to ATA, the SCSI command set allows finer-grained management of ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20parsing | Statistical parsing is a group of parsing methods within natural language processing. The methods have in common that they associate grammar rules with a probability. Grammar rules are traditionally viewed in computational linguistics as defining the valid sentences in a language. Within this mindset, the idea of associating each rule with a probability then provides the relative frequency of any given grammar rule and, by deduction, the probability of a complete parse for a sentence. (The probability associated with a grammar rule may be induced, but the application of that grammar rule within a parse tree and the computation of the probability of the parse tree based on its component rules is a form of deduction.) Using this concept, statistical parsers make use of a procedure to search over a space of all candidate parses, and the computation of each candidate's probability, to derive the most probable parse of a sentence. The Viterbi algorithm is one popular method of searching for the most probable parse.
"Search" in this context is an application of search algorithms in artificial intelligence.
As an example, think about the sentence "The can can hold water". A reader would instantly see that there is an object called "the can" and that this object is performing the action 'can' (i.e. is able to); and the thing the object is able to do is "hold"; and the thing the object is able to hold is "water". Using more linguistic terminology, "The can" is a noun phrase composed of a determiner followed by a noun, and "can hold water" is a verb phrase which is itself composed of a verb followed by a verb phrase. But is this the only interpretation of the sentence? Certainly "The can can" is a perfectly valid noun-phrase referring to a type of dance, and "hold water" is also a valid verb-phrase, although the coerced meaning of the combined sentence is non-obvious. This lack of meaning is not seen as a problem by most linguists (for a discussion on this point, see Colorless green ideas sleep furiously) but from a pragmatic point of view it is desirable to obtain the first interpretation rather than the second and statistical parsers achieve this by ranking the interpretations based on their probability.
(In this example various assumptions about the grammar have been made, such as a simple left-to-right derivation rather than head-driven, its use of noun-phrases rather than the currently fashionable determiner-phrases, and no type-check preventing a concrete noun being combined with an abstract verb phrase. None of these assumptions affect the thesis of the argument and a comparable argument can be made using any other grammatical formalism.)
There are a number of methods that statistical parsing algorithms frequently use. While few algorithms will use all of these they give a good overview of the general field. Most statistical parsing algorithms are based on a modified form of chart parsing. The modifications are necessary to suppo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXL%20%28programming%20language%29 | TXL is a special-purpose programming language originally designed by Charles Halpern-Hamu and James Cordy at the University of Toronto in 1985. The acronym "TXL" originally stood for "Turing eXtender Language" after the language's original purpose, the specification and rapid prototyping of variants and extensions of the Turing programming language, but no longer has any meaningful interpretation.
Modern TXL is specifically designed for creating, manipulating and rapidly prototyping language-based descriptions, tools and applications using source transformation. It is a hybrid functional / rule-based language using first order functional programming at the higher level and term rewriting at the lower level. The formal semantics and implementation of TXL are based on formal term rewriting, but the term structures are largely hidden from the user due to the example-like style of pattern specification.
Each TXL program has two components: a description of the source structures to be transformed, specified as a (possibly ambiguous) context-free grammar using an extended Backus–Naur Form; and a set of tree transformation rules, specified using pattern / replacement pairs combined using first order functional programming. TXL is designed to allow explicit programmer control over the interpretation, application, order and backtracking of both parsing and rewriting rules, allowing for expression of a wide range of grammar-based techniques such as agile parsing.
The first component parses the input expression into a tree using pattern-matching. The second component uses Term-rewriting in a manner similar to Yacc to produce the transformed output.
TXL is most commonly used in software analysis and reengineering tasks such as design recovery, and in rapid prototyping of new programming languages and dialects.
Examples
BubbleSort
%Syntax specification
define program
[repeat number]
end define
%Transformation rules
rule main
replace $ [repeat number]
N1 [number] N2 [number] Rest [repeat number]
where
N1 [> N2]
by
N2 N1 Rest
end rule
Factorial
%Syntax specification
define program
[number]
end define
%Transformation rules
function main
replace [program]
p [number]
by
p [fact][fact0]
end function
function fact
replace [number]
n [number]
construct nMinusOne [number]
n [- 1]
where
n [> 1]
construct factMinusOne [number]
nMinusOne [fact]
by
n [* factMinusOne]
end function
function fact0
replace [number]
0
by
1
end function
See also
Turing (programming language)
Refal (programming language)
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
Program transformation
References
J.R. Cordy, C.D. Halpern and E. Promislow, 1991. TXL: A Rapid Prototyping System for Programming Language Dialects. Computer Languages 16,1 (January 1991), 97-107.
J.R. Cordy, 2006. The TXL Source Transformation Language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNN%20%28Dutch%20broadcaster%29 | BNN or Bart's Neverending Network (formerly Bart's News Network, as a pun on CNN) was a Dutch public broadcasting association supported by Netherlands Public Broadcasting. BNN was founded in 1997 by Bart de Graaff, Gerard Timmer and Frank Timmer and targeted teenagers and young adults. It produced entertainment and information television programming, radio programming, and feature films. Some of BNN's programming dealt with controversial subject matter, including most famously, a hoax reality special made to help raise awareness of the shortage of organ donors in the Netherlands.
History
BNN became a public broadcasting association as a part of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system on 15 August 1997, replacing former member Veronica. While Dutch media in general is known to be liberal in coverage of sexuality and drugs, even BNN's programming has been considered controversial.
Some of BNN's programs have included "Try Before You Die" – where presenters attempted to do things that they think people should do at least once in their life, made headlines when presenter Sander Lantinga acted as a streaker during a quarter-finals match at Wimbledon between Maria Sharapova and Elena Dementieva.
In May 2007, five years after the death of Bart de Graaff, who had suffered from kidney failure for almost all of his life, BNN announced "De Grote Donorshow" (The Big Donor Show), an initiative for promoting the filling in of a codicil for organ donation, in which three contestants would strive to be the recipient of a kidney donated by a terminally ill woman. The show aired on 1 June; at the end of the show it was revealed to be a hoax, attempting to draw attention to the low number of organ donors in the country.
BNN merged with the VARA on 1 January 2014 to form BNN-VARA.
Notable television shows
Cash Cab (Dutch version)
De Grote Donorshow
De Lama's
Spuiten en Slikken
Presenters
Bart de Graaff (1998–2002)
Bridget Maasland (2000–2005)
Eric Corton (2005–)
Edo Brunner (2006)
Hanna Verboom (2004–2006)
Katja Schuurman (2001–2008)
Ramon Stoppelenburg (2005–2006)
Nicolette Kluiver (2006–2014)
Patrick Lodiers (2001–)
Ruud de Wild (1998–2004)
Sander Lantinga (2005–)
Wouter van der Goes (2004–2006)
Yolanthe Cabau van Kasbergen (2006–)
Floortje Dessing (2010–)
References
External links
BNN – official website
BNN TV at the Internet Movie Database
Dutch public broadcasting organisations
Netherlands Public Broadcasting
Dutch-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted%20Peak%20Performance | Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) is a metric introduced by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to more accurately predict the suitability of a computing system to complex computational problems, specifically those used in simulating nuclear weapons. This is used to determine the export limitations placed on certain computer systems under the Export Administration Regulations 15 CFR.
Further details can be found in the document "Practitioner's Guide To Adjusted Peak Performance".
The (simplified) algorithm used to calculate APP consists of the following steps:
Determine how many 64 bit (or better) floating point operations every processor in the system can perform per clock cycle (best case). This is FPO(i).
Determine the clock frequency of every processor. This is F(i).
Choose the weighting factor for each processor: 0.9 for vector processors and 0.3 for non-vector processors. This is W(i).
Calculate the APP for the system as follows: APP = FPO(1) * F(1) * W(1) + ... + FPO(n) * F(n) * W(n).
The metric was introduced in April 2006 to replace the Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) metric which was introduced in 1993. APP was itself replaced in November 2007 when the BIS amended 15 CFR to include the December 2006 Wassenaar Arrangement Plenary Agreement Implementation's new metric - Gigaflops (GFLOPS), one billion floating point operations per second, or TeraFLOPS, one trillion floating point operations per second.
The unit of measurement is Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT) to specify Adjusted Peak Performance (APP).
The weighting factor is 0.3 for non-vector processors and 0.9 for vector processors. For example, a PowerPC 750 running at 800 MHz would be rated at 0.00024 WT due to being able to execute one floating point instruction per cycle and not having a vector unit. Note that only 64 bit (or wider) floating point instructions count.
Notes:
Processors without 64 bit (or better) floating point support have an FPO of zero.
The current APP limit is 0.75 WT.
References
External links
U. S. Bureau of Industry and Security—High Performance Computers (HPCs)
Intel's microprocessor export compliance metrics
APP values for Oracle systems
APP values for Intel processors
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20School%20Stories | High School Stories: Scandals, Pranks, and Controversies is an original program that aired on the MTV network from 2004 to 2010, that featured stories of pranks, scandals, and controversies kids took part in when they were in high school. MTV searched for interesting stories across the United States via the internet and news reports. It moved to MTV2 starting with the final season starting on October 4, 2010.
Format
Each episode is 30 minutes long and focuses on one American high school per episode. The first half of the episode is generally focused on the planning and execution of the prank while the second half focuses on the controversy and disciplinary consequences that follow. The show occasionally focuses on events or controversies a high school or its students have faced—the show does not necessarily involve a prank or practical joke.
References
External links
High School Stories: Scandals, Pranks, and Controversies at MTV Online
MTV original programming
2000s American high school television series
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2004 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
2010s American high school television series
2010 American television series endings
Television series about teenagers
MTV reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatomer | The coatomer is a protein complex that coats membrane-bound transport vesicles. Two types of coatomers are known:
COPI (retrograde transport from trans-Golgi network to cis-Golgi network and endoplasmic reticulum)
COPII (anterograde transport from ER to the cis-Golgi)
Coatomers are functionally analogous and evolutionarily homologous to clathrin adaptor proteins, also known as adaptins, which regulate endocytosis from the plasma membrane and transport from the trans-Golgi network to lysosomes.
Structure
The coatomer protein complex is made up of seven nonidentical protein subunits. These seven nonidentical protein subunits are part of two protein subcomplexes. The first subcomplex consists of Ret1(α-COP), Sec27(β’-COP), and Sec 28(ε-COP). The second subcomplex consists of Sec26 (β-COP), Sec21 (γ-COP), Ret2(δ-COP), and Ret3 (ζ-COP).
COP I
COPI is a coatomer that coats the vesicles transporting proteins from the Golgi complex to the ER. This pathway is referred to as retrograde transport. Before the COP I protein can coat vesicles on the Golgi membrane, it must interact with a small GTPase called ARF1 (ADP ribosylation factor). ARF1 that is bound to GDP interacts with the golgi complex membrane. Next, guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) in the golgi complex membrane exchange the GDP bound to ARF1 for GTP. This activates ARF1, allowing it to insert an amphipathic alpha helix into the lipid bilayer of the Golgi complex. Next, the ARF1 protein recruits COP1 to the golgi complex membrane by interacting with β-COP and γ-COP. Once the vesicle is coated, it begins to travel to the ER. Before the vesicle can fuse with the ER membrane, the coats surrounding the vesicle must dissociate. ARF-GAP1 is responsible for deactivating the ARF1 protein by activating the GTPase. When ARF1 switches to its GDP- bound conformation, it causes the COP1 coat to destabilize.
The COP1 proteins recognize the proper cargo by interacting with sorting signals on the cytoplasmic domains of the protein. The most common sorting signals include the amino acid sequence KKXX or KDEL. KKXX signals are associated with transmembrane ER domains and KDEL signals are associated with proteins in the ER lumen. COP1 coated vesicles also contain p24 proteins that assist with cargo sorting.
COP II
COP II is a coatomer that coats the vesicles transporting proteins from the ER to the golgi complex. This pathway is referred to as anterograde transport. The first step in the COP II pathway is the recruitment of a small GTPase named Sar1 to the ER membrane. Once Sar1 interacts with the ER membrane, a membrane protein called Sec12 acts a guanine nucleotide exchange factor and substitutes GTP for GDP on Sar1. This activates the Sar1 protein, causing its amphipathic alpha helix to bind to the ER membrane. Membrane bound Sar1 attracts the Sec23-Sec24 protein heterodimer to the ER membrane. Sar1 directly binds to Sec23 while Sec24 directly binds to the cargo receptor located on the ER membr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20en%20Marsha | John en Marsha () was a Philippine television sitcom that aired on the Radio Philippines Network (RPN) from May 1973 to July 30, 1990. Created by Adíng Fernando, the series starred Dolphy, Nida Blanca, Rolly Quizon, Dely Atay-Atayan and Maricel Soriano.
A spin-off from the series, John en Shirley, aired on ABS-CBN in 2006 with Dolphy and Maricel Soriano reprising their roles from the original series.
Plot
Marsha Jones marries the impoverished John Puruntong, much to the dismay of her wealthy mother, Doña Delilah. The latter often pays a visit to their house along with her serving-maid Matutina (played by comediene Evelyn Bontogon). When money was needed, she would tell Matutina to go sweep peso bills off the floor.
Despite this, John rejects all the financial assistance Doña Delilah offers his family, resulting in a hilarious exchange of insults between the two. The show usually ends with Doña Delilah screaming her catchphrase "Kaya ikaw, John, magsumikap ka!" ("Therefore, John, you must work hard!") to insult John's capability as the father of the household. They end up making amends, giving each other abrupt hugs with Doña Delilah exclaiming "Peace, man!"
Cast
Dolphy as John H. Puruntong
Nida Blanca as Marsha J. Puruntong (John's wife)
Dely Atay-Atayan as Doña Delilah G. Jones (John's mother-in-law)
Evelyn Bontogon-Guerrero as Matutina (Doña Delilah's maid and sidekick)
Rolly Quizon as Rolly J. Puruntong (eldest son)
Maricel Soriano and Sheryl Cruz as Shirley J. Puruntong (daughter)
Madel de Leon as Madel Puruntong (daughter-in-law)
Atong Redillas as John-John J. Puruntong (son; Vandolph played the role in the spin-off John en Shirley)
Isko Salvador as Isko (the neighborhood storekeeper and Shirley's suitor)
Films
The series spawned multiple movie incarnations from 1974 to 1991:
John & Marsha (1974)
John & Marsha sa Amerika (Part Two) (1975)
John & Marsha '77 (1977)
John & Marsha '80 (1980)
Da Best of John en Marsha sa Pelikula (1983)
Da Best of John & Marsha sa Pelikula Part II (1984)
John & Marsha '85 (Sa Probinsya) (1985)
John & Marsha '86: TNT sa Amerika (1986)
John en Marsha Ngayon '91 (1991)
Awards and nominations
Songs used
Aside from "Rubber Ducky" by Quincy Jones, "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson was also used.
See also
List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network
Home Along Da Riles
Stan Freberg
External links
References
1970s Philippine television series
1973 Philippine television series debuts
1980s Philippine television series
1990 Philippine television series endings
1990s Philippine television series
Philippine television sitcoms
Radio Philippines Network original programming
Filipino-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGS-NOPEC%20Geophysical%20Company | TGS, formerly TGS NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA is an energy data and analytics company. It gathers, interprets, and markets seismic and geophysical data regarding subsurface terrains worldwide in order to evaluate oil and gas formations for drilling operations. TGS is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, was founded by a 1998 merger of TGS (Tomlinson Geophysical Services Inc.), Calibre Geophysical Co. Inc (founded 1981), and NOPEC (Norwegian Petroleum Exploration Consultants) International ASA founded in 1981, with financial headquarters in Oslo, Norway and operational headquarters in Houston, Texas.
The Company is led by CEO Kristian Johansen with nearly 500 employees around the globe with main offices located in Oslo, Houston, London, and Perth.
See also
List of Norwegian companies
Engineering companies of Norway
Oil companies of Norway
Companies based in Asker
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1981
1981 establishments in Norway
Companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vislink%20Technologies | Vislink Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company that specializes in the collection, delivery, management and distribution of high quality live video and data. Founded as xG Technology in Sarasota, Florida in 2002, the company had acquired both Vislink and Integrated Microwave Technologies by 2017. In February 2019, xG Technology formally changed its name to Vislink Technologies. The company is headquartered in Hackettstown, New Jersey and has regional offices in Billerica, Massachusetts and Anaheim, California, as well as global offices in the United Kingdom, Dubai and Singapore. Vislink is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
Vislink has created a portfolio of intellectual property that includes cognitive radio, interference mitigation and self-organizing wireless network technologies for mobile services using licensed or unlicensed radio spectrum. In November 2020, Vislink was named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 winner, and was among the fastest-growing North American technology companies.
In February 2021, the company announced its "Connected Edge" strategy and began a pivot towards edge computing aimed at further expansion into sporting events, military contracts, satellite communications and first responder networks.
XMax
xMax developed by xG Technology, Inc. is a cognitive radio based mobile VoIP and computer networking system operating in the license-free ISM 900 MHz band (902–928 MHz). xMax is built upon an end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP) system infrastructure that includes a line of base stations, mobile switching centers (MSC), handsets and modems.
xMax currently operates in the unlicensed 900 MHz ISM band, although it has been designed to be programmed for operation in any licensed or unlicensed frequency from approximately 300 MHz to 3 GHz.
The xMax system is designed to allow mobile operators to utilize free, unlicensed 902–928 MHz spectrum, which is available in most of the Americas.
Unlicensed spectrum is an affordable alternative to licensed spectrum – such as what broadcasters use to transmit their signals. Any company or consumer can use unlicensed spectrum simply by following well-known rules.
Performance claims
A press report was published in 2005 quoting inventor Joseph Bobier.
The technology was said to compete with WiMax, but details were initially not disclosed.
By 2006, the company announced it had "completed" the technology after six years of development.
In 2009, a blogger wrote that he witnessed a xMax mobile VoIP pilot network operated by the company in Fort Lauderdale: "xMax worked well and is real. When you realize that this company may have found a way to take a frequency riddled with wireless garbage and turn it into a fully functioning wireless voice and data network you start to see how much of a game changer this could be for the wireless industry."
Antenna: commercially off the shelf antenna
Range: typically 2–5 miles depending upon tower height and terrain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural%20modeling | Procedural modeling is an umbrella term for a number of techniques in computer graphics to create 3D models and textures from sets of rules. L-Systems, fractals, and generative modeling are procedural modeling techniques since they apply algorithms for producing scenes. The set of rules may either be embedded into the algorithm, configurable by parameters, or the set of rules is separate from the evaluation engine. The output is called procedural content, which can be used in computer games, films, be uploaded to the internet, or the user may edit the content manually. Procedural models often exhibit database amplification, meaning that large scenes can be generated from a much smaller number of rules. If the employed algorithm produces the same output every time, the output need not be stored. Often, it suffices to start the algorithm with the same random seed to achieve this.
Although all modeling techniques on a computer require algorithms to manage and store data at some point, procedural modeling focuses on creating a model from a rule set, rather than editing the model via user input. Procedural modeling is often applied when it would be too cumbersome to create a 3D model using generic 3D modelers, or when more specialized tools are required. This is often the case for plants, architecture or landscapes.
Procedural modeling suites
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about specific procedural modeling software products.
See also
Parametric models in statistics
Parametric design in Computer-Aided Design
Procedural generation in video games
References
External links
"Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach", Ebert, D., Musgrave, K., Peachey, P., Perlin, K., and Worley, S
Procedural Inc.
CityEngine
"Procedural Modeling of Cities", Yoav I H Parish, Pascal Müller
"Procedural Modeling of Buildings", Pascal Müller, Peter Wonka, Simon Haegler, Andreas Ulmer and Luc Van Gool
"King Kong – The Building of 1933 New York City", Chris White, Weta Digital. Siggraph 2006.
Tree Editors Compared:
List at Vterrain.org
List at TreeGenerator
"LAI4D Reference manual", Usage of the "program" entity type for algorithmic modelling with JavaScript
3D computer graphics
Procedural generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nera%20%28company%29 | Nera Networks AS (part of Nera) was a Norwegian company working in the field of wireless telecommunications using microwave and satellite technology. Nera Networks AS was a subsidiary of Eltek based in Bergen, with offices in 26 countries and more than 1,500 employees. The company was acquired by Ceragon Networks in 2011
Nera was operational through its three subsidiaries:
Nera Networks AS (transmission systems). Provided radio link equipment and systems, antenna systems and turnkey telecommunications transmission networks. Mainly sold to telecommunication equipment makers and mobile and broadcast network operators. Nera Networks AS was acquired by Ceragon in 2011.
Nera SatCom AS (satellite communications business). Provided satellite communication equipment for global data and voice at land, sea, and air. In 2007 Nera SatCom was purchased by Thrane and Thrane. Later Cobham purchased Thrane and Thrane.
Nera Telecommunications Ltd (broadband access). Provided wireless broadband access, infrastructure, payment solutions, and broadcasting.
Nera Telecommunications Ltd with HQ in Singapore was the only subsidiary not sold and is today listed in Singapore stock exchange as NeraTel.
References
Nera Telecommunications Ltd (ref. www.nera.net)
External links
Nera Telecommunications Ltd
https://web.archive.org/web/20160910212021/http://www.evosat.com/ (Nera and Thrane & Thrane hardware in Africa)
https://www.cobham.com/communications-and-connectivity/satcom/news/thrane-thrane-rebrands-to-cobham/
Engineering companies of Norway
Manufacturing companies of Norway
Companies based in Bergen
Electronics companies established in 1947
Norwegian companies established in 1947
Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
2007 mergers and acquisitions
2011 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HWS | HWS may refer to:
Hatif Welfare Society
Hay–Wells syndrome
Health web science
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hollywood (programming language)
Hong Wen School, in Singapore
Hypersonic Weapon System
Holographic Weapon Sight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-safe | A binary-safe function is one that treats its input as a raw stream of bytes and ignores every textual aspect it may have. The term is mainly used in the PHP programming language to describe expected behaviour when passing binary data into functions whose main responsibility is text and string manipulating, and is used widely in the official PHP documentation.
Binary-safe file read and write
While all textual data can be represented in binary-form, it must be done so through character encoding. In addition to this, how newlines are represented may vary depending on the platform used. Windows, Linux and macOS all represent newlines differently in binary form. This means that reading a file as binary data, parsing it as text and then writing it back to disk (thus reconverting it back to binary form) may result in a different binary representation than the one originally used.
Most programming languages let the programmer decide whether to parse the contents of a file as text, or read it as binary data. To convey this intent, special flags or different functions exist when reading or writing files to disk. For example, in the PHP, C, and C++ programming languages, developers have to use fopen($filename, "rb") instead of fopen($filename, "r") to read the file as a binary stream instead of interpreting the textual data as such. This may also be referred to as reading in 'binary safe' mode.
References
Subroutines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum%20V | Scrum V (pronounced Scrum Five) is the brand used by BBC Cymru Wales for its rugby union programming. The brand extends to BBC Wales' live coverage, Scrum V Live, highlights and discussion programmes, radio discussion and website.
Television
Prior to the introduction of Scrum V, BBC Wales broadcast a discussion-based rugby union programme called Rugby Special Wales which had been on the air since 1986. In September 1995, this was replaced by Scrum V. In addition, live rugby matches in Wales that are not shown across the UK are shown under the title Scrum V Live. This primarily consists of games in the Pro12/Pro14 league to which the BBC held rights to. The Scrum V Red Zone available via the red button on satellite TV was hosted by Rick O'Shea. However, after the BBC lost the rights to the league, the programme was scaled back – the only games currently shown are in the Welsh Premiership alongside S4C.
The show was initially presented by Alan Wilkins and Eddie Butler. Graham Thomas joined the presentation team in 1998. In 2006, following disputes between the Welsh Rugby Union and the BBC, both Thomas and Butler left the show. Gareth Lewis took over presentation of both the live match coverage and discussion show. In 2011, Ross Harries took over as presenter when Lewis took up a new role with BBC Radio Wales.
Alternative commentary for live matches is also broadcast via the Red Button, and is available outside Wales on Freeview even though the ordinary programme is not available on Freeview outside Wales.
Website
The Scrum V website contains information about the programme, further features centred on Welsh rugby as well as the ability to watch previous editions of the show. The Scrum V website also houses the BBC Rugby Union messageboards. Like the television programme, the website uses a different visual style to that of the rest of BBC Sport, although quotes from the Scrum V messageboard are incorporated into the main BBC Sport website. The original website was produced and run by Welsh historian and author Sean Davies and later continued by Welsh writer Dave Lewis.
Radio
For the 2006/07 season it was announced that a Thursday night discussion programme would be broadcast on BBC Radio Wales under the Scrum V branding.
Footnotes
External links
Breakaway Forum
BBC Cymru Wales television shows
Sports television in Wales
BBC Sport
Rugby union on television
1995 British television series debuts
1990s Welsh television series
1990s British sports television series
2000s Welsh television series
2000s British sports television series
2010s Welsh television series
2010s British sports television series
2020s Welsh television series
2020s British sports television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsplash | A bootsplash, also known as a bootscreen, is a graphical representation of the boot process of the operating system.
A bootsplash can be a simple visualization of the scrolling boot messages in the console, but it can also present graphics or some combinations of both.
Unlike splash screens, a bootsplash is not necessarily designed for marketing purposes; it can be intended to enhance the experience of the user as eye candy, or provide the user with messages (with an added advantage of color-coding facility) to diagnose the state of the system.
Microsoft Windows
All versions of Microsoft Windows feature a boot screen, which is loaded during the startup process. With extra, third-party utilities, it is possible to replace the default Windows boot screen with custom images, text, and/or animations.
Windows Vista
In Windows Vista, the default boot screen is represented by a green indeterminate progress indicator. The boot screen can be changed so that it displays a static image of an aurora with the text, "Starting Windows Vista" by enabling the "No GUI boot" option within the Windows System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe). Microsoft would update the aurora image throughout the lifecycle of the operating system, starting with the first service pack, where it was altered to match the image displayed during the operating system's hibernation screen.
You can also get this boot screen in Windows 7, if the display doesn't support 1024x768 or higher and also you can get this boot screen, if run program command line as administrator: bcdedit /set {current} bootux basic in later versions of Windows.
Windows 7
In Windows 7, the boot screen will initially display the "Starting Windows" text, then a Windows flag animation will appear at the center of the screen. On unsupported systems, and sometimes when booting into recovery environment, the Windows Vista boot screen will be used instead as the fallback.
Changes of the boot screen, although possible through third-party utilities, is extremely risky and may cause the system to be unable to boot. Also, the hidden "Aurora" boot screen was removed.
Windows 8 and later
In Windows 8 and later, the boot screen will display the Windows logo along with the loading circle. On Legacy boot, the boot screen is displayed in 1024×768 resolution, and the boot screen is squished to accommodate for the 16:9 aspect ratio. On UEFI boot, the boot screen is displayed in highest resolution available. If the ACPI BGRT table is present, the boot screen will display the OEM logo instead.
Linux distributions
Bootsplash – the first and original implementation of a Linux kernel bootsplash, superseded by Splashy
fbsplash – Gentoo implementation as bootsplash program
Plymouth – uses Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) and KMS driver
Splashy – a graphical boot process designed to replace the aging Bootsplash program
usplash – former bootsplash program used by Ubuntu
XSplash – new splash program used by Ubuntu startin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20module | In computing, a memory module or RAM (random-access memory) stick is a printed circuit board on which memory integrated circuits are mounted. Memory modules permit easy installation and replacement in electronic systems, especially computers such as personal computers, workstations, and servers. The first memory modules were proprietary designs that were specific to a model of computer from a specific manufacturer. Later, memory modules were standardized by organizations such as JEDEC and could be used in any system designed to use them.
Types of memory module include:
TransFlash Memory Module
SIMM, a single in-line memory module
DIMM, dual in-line memory module
Rambus memory modules are a subset of DIMMs, but are normally referred to as RIMMs
SO-DIMM, small outline DIMM, a smaller version of the DIMM, used in laptops
Compression Attached Memory Module, thinner than SO-DIMM
Distinguishing characteristics of computer memory modules include voltage, capacity, speed (i.e., bit rate), and form factor.
For economic reasons, the large (main) memories found in personal computers, workstations, and non-handheld game-consoles (such as PlayStation and Xbox) normally consist of dynamic RAM (DRAM). Other parts of the computer, such as cache memories normally use static RAM (SRAM). Small amounts of SRAM are sometimes used in the same package as DRAM. However, since SRAM has high leakage power and low density, die-stacked DRAM has recently been used for designing multi-megabyte sized processor caches.
Physically, most DRAM is packaged in black epoxy resin.
General DRAM formats
Dynamic random access memory is produced as integrated circuits (ICs) bonded and mounted into plastic packages with metal pins for connection to control signals and buses. In early use individual DRAM ICs were usually either installed directly to the motherboard or on ISA expansion cards; later they were assembled into multi-chip plug-in modules (DIMMs, SIMMs, etc.). Some standard module types are:
DRAM chip (Integrated Circuit or IC)
Dual in-line Package (DIP/DIL)
Zig-zag in-line package (ZIP)
DRAM (memory) modules
Single In-line Pin Package (SIPP)
Single In-line Memory Module (SIMM)
Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM)
Rambus In-line Memory Module (RIMM), technically DIMMs but called RIMMs due to their proprietary slot.
Small outline DIMM (SO-DIMM), about half the size of regular DIMMs, are mostly used in notebooks, small footprint PCs (such as Mini-ITX motherboards), upgradable office printers and networking hardware like routers.
Small outline RIMM (SO-RIMM). Smaller version of the RIMM, used in laptops. Technically SO-DIMMs but called SO-RIMMs due to their proprietary slot.
Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM), a proprietary Dell format which they expect to be adopted as a standard.
Stacked vs. non-stacked RAM modules
Stacked RAM modules contain two or more RAM chips stacked on top of each other. This allows large modules to be manufactured using cheaper lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Choice | TV Choice is a British weekly TV listings magazine published by H. Bauer Publishing, the UK subsidiary of family-run German company Bauer Media Group. It features weekly TV broadcast programming listings, running from Saturday to Friday, and goes on sale every Tuesday. A double issue is released to cover the Christmas & New Year period at a higher price.
Overview
Regular issues
Launched on 14 September 1999, the magazine includes features on UK TV shows, including the British soap operas, and films, as well as puzzles, crosswords, a letters page and prize competitions.
Prices
The following prices have been effective.
Christmas and New Year issues
A special Christmas & New Year double-issue was originally priced at £1, double the normal price. As of January 2023, the seasonal issue is priced at £1.50, twice the price of the regular 75p weekly issues.
Podcast
In February 2022, it was announced that TV Choice would release its first ever podcast entitled My TV Years, with television presenter and radio DJ Mel Giedroyc hosting. The podcast ran for eight weeks, on a Wednesday, with the first airing 23 February 2022, and the final episode on 13 April 2022.
Episodes
Circulation
In February 2008, TV Choice became the biggest selling (actively purchased) magazine of all categories in the UK, a position it has held ever since. It sells over 1.2 million copies a week and has an adult readership of 1.8 million. It has a target market among C1 C2 young, mass market adults.
Awards
TV Choice also has its own annual awards ceremony, the TV Choice Awards originally called the TV Quick Award, awarded on the basis of a public vote by readers of TV Choice. The following categories and winners are shown from the 2009 awards to the present day.
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! Category !! Winners
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| Best Reality Show
| The ApprenticeI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
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| Best Actor
| Philip GlenisterJack O'ConnellDavid TennantBenedict CumberbatchTom HiddlestonCillian MurphyAdrian Dunbarand more
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| Best Game Show
| Deal or No DealTotal WipeoutThe Cubeand more
|-
| Best Talent Show
| Britain's Got TalentThe Great British Bake OffStrictly Come Dancingand more
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| Best Comedy Show
| The InbetweenersGavin & StaceyMrs Brown's BoysBenidormBirds of a FeatherPeter Kay's Car ShareAfter Lifeand more
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| Best Soap Actress
| Katherine KellyMichelle KeeganAlison KingLacey TurnerJessie WallaceLindsay CoulsonCharlotte BellamyEmma Atkinsand more
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| Best Daytime Show
| Loose WomenThe Jeremy Kyle ShowThis MorningThe Chase
|-
| Best Soap Actor
| Simon GregsonDanny MillerShane RichieDanny DyerRyan Hawleyand more
|-
| Best Entertainment Show
| Ant & Dec's Saturday Night TakeawayAlan Carr: Chatty ManCelebrity JuiceThe Graham Norton Show
|-
| Best Soap Newcomer: Actresses
| Lauren CracePaula LaneKirsty-Leigh PorterSally DexterKara-Leah Fernandes
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| Best Soap Newcomer: Actors
| Adam ThomasTony DisciplineDavid WittsDavood GhadamiShayne WardNed Porteous
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| Outs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Worch | Matthias Worch (born 1976) is a German video game designer and computer graphics artist. He started out creating custom Doom and Quake levels. Matthias entered the computer game industry in 1998 when he moved to Dallas, Texas to work on Ritual Entertainment's 3D First Person Shooter SiN. He has since contributed to various 3D action games. Matthias has spoken at the Game Developers Conference and the IGDA. Matthias is working at Epic Games as a Design Lead on the special projects group.
Games worked on
SiN – Windows (1998)
Unreal Mission Pack - Return to NaPali – Windows, Mac OS (1999)
The Wheel of Time – Windows (1999)
Unreal 2 – Windows (2003)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike – GameCube (2003)
Lair – PlayStation 3 (2007)
Dead Space 2 – Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 (2011)
Star Wars 1313 - (Cancelled) (2013)
Mafia III - Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 (2016)
Unreal Engine
Fortnite
References
External links
German video game designers
1976 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Florida | Bally Sports Florida is an American regional sports network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local sports coverage in the state of Florida, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Miami, Tampa and Orlando.
Bally Sports Florida maintains production facilities and offices located in Fort Lauderdale, alongside sister network Bally Sports Sun. The channel is available on cable television providers throughout Florida, and in parts of southern Alabama and Georgia; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
History
Bally Sports Florida was launched on December 29, 1987, as SportsChannel Florida. It was originally owned by Rainbow Media (a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation), and was the fourth regional network of SportsChannel America. The network originally featured coverage of local college teams, holding the broadcast rights to televise select games from the University of Florida, Florida State University, University of Miami, University of South Florida and Jacksonville University. In addition to national SportsChannel programming, the channel also showed a combined 100 baseball games that featured the New York Yankees and New York Mets from SportsChannel New York, and Chicago White Sox games broadcast by SportsChannel Chicago.
In the spring of 1988, SportsChannel Florida obtained the regional cable television rights to broadcast NBA games from the Miami Heat, effective with the 1988–89 season. In 1992, SportsChannel lost the television contract to the Heat to then-rival Sunshine Network. Heat games would return to the channel in the late 1990s when both networks came under the ownership of Fox Sports parent News Corporation.
In 1996, Florida Panthers owner Wayne Huizenga purchased a 70% controlling interest in SportsChannel Florida, with Rainbow Media (by that time, a joint venture between Cablevision and NBC) retaining a minority 30% interest. That led Huizenga to move the NHL franchise's game telecasts from Sunshine Network to SportsChannel Florida for the 1996–97 season. The following year in 1997, SportsChannel Florida obtained the rights to the Florida Marlins – also owned by Huizenga – which moved 35 games (half the schedule) from the Sunshine Network in that year's Major League Baseball season, with all games moving the following season. In 1998, SportsChannel Florida also gained the regional cable rights to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Major League Baseball expansion team.
Unlike the other networks that were members of the SportsChannel America chain, Huizenga's control of SportsChannel Florida prevented the channel from joining Fox Sports Net. Shortly after Cablevision and Fox Sports announced the merger in 1997, Cablevision ceased production of its national SportsChannel programming in favor of Fox Sports Net's programming (though the networks would not officially rebrand until early the next year). Since SportsChannel Florida did |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddworld%20Inhabitants | Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. is an American video game, film and television company founded in 1994 by special-effects and computer-animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning. The company is primarily known for the Oddworld, series of video games about the fictional planet of Oddworld and its native creatures. The series debuted with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 1997 and continued with Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee in 2001 but the studio has also developed standalone titles Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 1998 and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath in 2005.
Oddworld Inhabitants took a break from game development for a time following the release of Stranger's Wrath, even though it had already begun preliminary work on its next Oddworld title, The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot. However, it remained an active, operating company during this period, primarily through the development of a movie called Citizen Siege, though to this day it has not been released.
The company returned to the video game industry with UK-based developer Just Add Water in resurrecting the Oddworld franchise through remastering existing titles and developing new ones. In the March 2011, Lorne Lanning confirmed that a high definition rebuild of the studio's first game, was being developed by Just Add Water, called Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! It was released for PlayStation 4 on 22 July 2014, 25 February 2015 for PC, Mac and Linux, 27 March 2015 for Xbox One, 21 April 2015 for PlayStation 3, 19 January 2016 for PlayStation Vita, and 11 February 2016 for the Wii U. On 14 March 2016, Oddworld Inhabitants announced their next title, Oddworld: Soulstorm, with a release aim of 2018. The release date has been pushed back to 2019, then again to 2020 and then finally 2021, with an official release date of April 6, 2021 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and the Epic Games Store
History
Independent era
Founding
Founded in 1994, Oddworld Inhabitants came from the partnership between Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna. In 1992, Lanning began posing the idea of starting Oddworld Inhabitants with McKenna. He showed her Doom running on a PC, but McKenna was initially not very receptive to the idea, believing games to be "ugly and confusing," and liking Lanning's story of Abe for a movie rather than a video game. They were inexperienced in the gaming industry, which allowed him to get away with a story that otherwise would not have been accepted. Lanning returned to McKenna with three and a half million dollars that he borrowed based on his 3D expertise, and they moved from Hollywood to San Luis Obispo in September 1994, where Oddworld Inhabitants was started.
Video game development era (1997–2005)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)
The first game to come out of Oddworld Inhabitants, Inc. was 1997's Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, a 2D side-scrolling platform game published by GT Interactive for PlayStation and PC. They used flip screens to make a flip book effect, with the pre-rendered bitmaps like digital painting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Bermeister | Kevin Bermeister (born 1960 in South Africa) is an entrepreneur that has developed several businesses in the computer, multimedia and Internet industries.
He is a technology innovator, real estate investor, philanthropist, and the founder, chairman and CEO of Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc. (BDE). Bermeister is a founding investor in a number of successful technology and real estate ventures including Skype.
Career
In 1983, Bermeister established Ozisoft, one of the first interactive multimedia companies. By 1990, Ozisoft was Australia's largest video games distributor. In 1992, Bermeister and Mark Dyne successfully led a management buyout, together with Sega Enterprises, to form Sega Ozisoft Pty Limited representing exclusively the world's largest video game publisher.
In 1994, Bermeister and his property consortium Jacfun negotiated rights to property at Sydney's Darling Harbour and established the interactive Sega World Sydney amusement park, operated through a joint venture including shareholders Sega Enterprises Japan, Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui Corp.
Bermeister founded Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc. in 1996, focusing on 3D graphics streaming and compression for which it was granted 8 patents. BDE was the founding member of the Distributed Industry Computing Association. The company developed a number of Internet interests including Altnet, a joint venture with Joltid Ltd., to develop and market secure distributed storage for content using P2P technology to reduce distribution costs and reach new audiences. In 2003 Altnet, using its distributed storage technology, became the largest provider of secure DRM content, having distributed 75 million licensed files to users of various P2P file sharing software applications. Another initiative undertaken by Altnet under Bermeister's stewardship is Global File Registry, which enables governments and copyright owners to police the distribution of illegal or infringing material over distributed systems and the Internet.
In 2006 BDE, Altnet and Kazaa settled major litigation with leading music and motion picture industry plaintiffs. Since then, Bermeister has focused on building and acquiring content, technology and distribution assets for BDE.
During 2006, BDE was acquired by Kinetech Inc., a company with interests in patents and intellectual property licensing relating primarily to certain key distributed technologies that had been licensed by Altnet since 2002 and important to P2P storage and Global File Registry businesses of Altnet. Kinetech's patent and technology portfolio is often referred to as the True Name Patent Portfolio.
In 2008, BDE acquired the Kazaa Trademark and relaunched Kazaa with music licenses from major music labels Universal, Sony, Warner Music Group and EMI, major independent record labels, and leading music publishers.
In 2011, BDE subsidiary Kinetech acquired a majority interest in PersonalWeb LLC PersonalWeb, a Tyler, Texas-based technology company. Perso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH2 | Asian Highway 2 (AH2) is a road in the Asian Highway Network running from Denpasar, Indonesia to Merak, and Singapore to Khosravi, Iran. The route is connected to M10 of the Arab Mashreq International Road Network. The route is as follows:
Indonesia
National Routes:
National Route 1 (Bali Island): Denpasar — Jembrana
National Route 1 (Java Island): Banyuwangi — Probolinggo — Surabaya
National Route 15: Surabaya — Mojokerto — Surakarta
National Route 16: Surakarta — Salatiga — Semarang
National Route 1 (Java Island): Semarang — Pekalongan — Tegal — Cirebon — Cikampek — Bekasi — Jakarta — Tangerang — Serang — Cilegon (Merak)
National Route 4: Cikampek — Padalarang
Parallel toll roads:
Bali Mandara Toll Road
Parts of Trans-Java Toll Road:
Gempol–Pasuruan Toll Road, Pasuruan–Probolinggo Toll Road, Probolinggo–Banyuwangi Toll Road (planned)
Surabaya–Gempol Toll Road
Kertosono–Mojokerto Toll Road, Surabaya–Mojokerto Toll Road
Solo–Kertosono Toll Road
Semarang Toll Road, Semarang–Solo Toll Road
Cikopo–Palimanan Toll Road, Palimanan–Kanci Toll Road, Kanci–Pejagan Toll Road, Pejagan–Pemalang Toll Road, Pemalang–Batang Toll Road, Batang–Semarang Toll Road
Jakarta–Cikampek Toll Road
Jakarta–Tangerang Toll Road, Tangerang–Merak Toll Road
Trans-Java Toll Road complements:
Cipularang Toll Road
Ferry:
Port of Gilimanuk, Jembrana Regency
Port of Ketapang, Banyuwangi Regency
Port of Tanjung Priok, Jakarta
Singapore
Clementi Road: West Coast Highway - Jalan Anak Bukit
Jalan Anak Bukit: Clementi Road - PIE (Anak Bukit Flyover)
Pan Island Expressway: Jalan Anak Bukit — BKE
Bukit Timah Expressway: PIE — Woodlands Checkpoint
Johor–Singapore Causeway
Malaysia
EDL : Johor Bahru (CIQ checkpoint) — Bakar Batu — Pandan
NSE: Johor Bahru (Pandan) — Kulai — Batu Pahat — Muar — Ayer Keroh (Malacca) — Seremban — Nilai (North)
ELITE: Nilai (North) — Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) — Bandar Saujana Putra — Putra Heights — USJ — Shah Alam
NKVE: Shah Alam — Subang — Damansara — Kota Damansara — Bukit Lanjan
NSE: Bukit Lanjan — Rawang — Tanjung Malim —Tapah — Ipoh — Taiping — Butterworth (Penang) — Sungai Petani — Alor Setar Bukit Kayu Hitam
Thailand
Route 4: Sa Dao — Hat Yai — Phatthalung, Chumphon — Pran Buri, Cha-am — Nakhon Chai Si (Concurrent with from Ban Pong — Nakhon Chai Si)
Route 41: Phatthalung — Chumphon
Route 37: Pran Buri — Cha-am (Hua Hin Bypass)
Route 338: Nakhon Chai Si — Bangkok Outer Ring Road (Concurrent with )
Route 9: Bangkok Outer Ring Road — Bang Pa-in
Route 32: Bang Pa-in — Ayutthaya (Bang Pahan) — Chai Nat (Concurrent with ) (Merges again at Bang Pahan)
Route 347 :Bang Pa In — Bang Pahan
Route 1: Chai Nat — Nakhon Sawan — Tak — Chiang Rai — Mae Sai (Concurrent with from Chai Nat — Tak)
Myanmar
National Highway 4: Tachilek — Kengtung — Meiktila
Yangon–Mandalay Expressway: Meiktila — Mandalay
National Highway 7 (Concurrent with ): Mandalay — Tamu
India (Northeast)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming%20Public%20Radio | Wyoming Public Radio (WPR) is the statewide public radio network in Wyoming, and is licensed to the University of Wyoming.
Programming and operation
Wyoming Public Radio was founded in 1966, and the station's format is similar to that of many other American public radio stations. Although licensed to the University, the network does not produce student-derived programming. Twice a year, in the fall and in the Spring, the station conducts Pledge Drives, which is where a majority of the station's budget comes from.
From the UW campus in Laramie, the network produces local news and music programming, mostly consisting of jazz, classical and adult album alternative music. The network also airs a variety of syndicated programs from National Public Radio, Public Radio Exchange, Native Voice One, and American Public Media. Some NPR, PRX and BBC World Service programming includes Morning Edition, All Things Considered, BBC World Service, and many others.
Wyoming Public Radio also produces Classical Wyoming, a 24-hour classical format. It is available as an analog radio service in Laramie, Rock Springs and Lander. It is also available on HD-2 throughout the state.
In September 2016, Wyoming Public Radio launched a fourth radio service named Wyoming Sounds. Wyoming Sounds is a rock-based format with emphasis on singer-songwriters and a wide variety of styles including acoustic, folk, blues, soul, reggae, world and Americana music. It is carried as an analog radio service in Laramie, Torrington, Lander, Riverton and Worland. It is also available on HD-3 channels throughout the state. Its website is wyomingsounds.org.
WPR is the only public radio network produced in Wyoming. Other public radio networks and stations (including Yellowstone Public Radio, KUER-FM, KUNC, and KUVO) also reach into parts of the state.
Stations
Notes
Wyoming Sounds
Wyoming Public Media operates an adult album alternative network, branded Wyoming Sounds.
Two of the transmitters in this network, KTWY and KXWY, were previously commercial licenses held by Cochise Broadcasting which only broadcast periodically to maintain their licenses. In 2017, the FCC entered into a consent decree with Cochise by which it surrendered these stations, KWWY (in the Classical Wyoming network), and other stations for donation to other entities. KNWT operated independently from 2009 to 2017 as a service of Northwest College in Powell.
Classical Wyoming
Three stations air their own programming, consisting mostly of classical music:
KUWL
KUWL airs its own programming, consisting mostly of jazz music:
Some of the affiliates are broadcasting digitally via HD Radio, with a subchannel consisting of full-time classical music, mostly from the Classical 24 network.
See also
Wyoming Public Television
References
External links
University of Wyoming
Online Streaming - Main Service
Online Streaming - Classical Wyoming
Online Streaming - Jazz Wyoming
HD Radio stations
NPR member net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGJC | WGJC (97.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from University Park, Pennsylvania. It operates as part of the network of Christian adult contemporary stations based out of WGRC in Lewisburg. The station's license is held by Jim Loftus of Covenant Communications, through licensee JFLIV, LLC, which also owns WFXS, WLGJ, and WNLI.
History
On June 28, 2019, the then-WOWY began simulcasting on WHUN 1150 AM and WHUN-FM 103.5 Huntingdon and W249DD 97.7 FM Huntingdon and rebranded as "97.1 97.7 103.5 WOWY".
On August 24, 2021, WOWY, WHUN, and WHUN-FM completed their evolution from 1960s-1970s oldies to 1970s-1980s classic hits.
On December 30, 2022, it was announced the station would be simulcasted on WAPY within days.
On January 1, 2023, Covenant Communications consummated the purchase of WOWY and four sister stations from Seven Mountains Media for $1 million. On January 3, 2023, WOWY dropped its classic hits format (which moved to WAPY) and began stunting towards a new format. The station changed its call sign to WGJC on January 10, 2023.
On February 27, 2023, WGJC ended stunting and switched to a simulcast of contemporary Christian-formatted WGRC. WGRC's owner, Salt and Light Media Ministries, filed to acquire the station outright for $300,000 in May 2023.
References
External links
GJC
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in Pennsylvania
GJC
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTLR | WTLR is a Christian formatted broadcast radio station licensed to State College, Pennsylvania, serving Central Pennsylvania.
WTLR simulcasts its programming on co-owned WQJU 107.1, which broadcasts to the Mifflintown area as well as on WPCL 97.3 to the Northern Cambria/Ebensburgarea, WPMU 89.3 in DuBois, and on W230CC 93.9 Altoona.
WTLR, WQJU, WPCL, WPMU and W230CC are owned and operated by the Central Pennsylvania Christian Institute.
WTLR first signed on the air on January 1, 1978.
WTLR, WQJU, WPCL, WPMU, and W230CC are known on air as "Way Truth Life Radio". This is based on Jesus Christ's declaration in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Programming
Way Truth Life Radio is a full service Christian Inspirational radio ministry featuring quality Bible teaching, quality Christian music, helpful programs on family life, news and information.
Some of the programs heard on Way Truth Life Radio include:
"Insight for Living" with Chuck Swindoll
"Summit Life" with J.D. Greear
"Living on the Edge" with Chip Ingram
"The Alternative" with Dr. Tony Evans
"Family Life Today"
"Focus on the Family"
"Revive Our Hearts" with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
"MoneyWise" with Rob West
"Truth for Life" with Alistair Begg
"A New Beginning" with Greg Laurie
"Grace to You" with John MacArthur
"Turning Point" with Dr. David Jeremiah
"In the Market With Janet Parshall" featuring Janet Parshall
"Haven Today" with Charles Morris
The ministry website is WTLR official website.
WTLR in the News
On Friday, July 25, 2008, Ferguson Township police were dispatched to the Cato Avenue studios of WTLR as a man with a gun was on the way to the station.
When 50-year-old Brian Neiman of Pottersdale arrived at the radio station, police ordered him to stop. Neiman refused and reportedly became violent. Police say Neiman brandished a gun and drove at them in his Ford Bronco. Witnesses say "dozens of shots" were fired as Neiman exchanged gunfire with police.
After Neiman hit a second police cruiser, his SUV struck the side of a neighboring building and stopped. Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers pronounced Neiman dead on the scene.
Police aren't sure why Neiman targeted the radio station.
Neiman's ex-wife told The Centre Daily Times that "he struggled with bipolar disorder".
After the shooting, WTLR issued a statement and a recount of events on their website.
References
External links
Way Truth Life Radio Online
TLR
TLR
Radio stations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKPA%20%28FM%29 | WKPA (107.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting Contemporary Christian music programming from the K-Love radio network. Licensed to serve Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, the station services the State College area. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF).
History
On October 17, 1994, WXXZ Port Matilda came on air quickly changing call sign to WIKN. Wink 108 programmed a rock-leaning CHR format. Due to a dispute between the license holder and the management group running the station, it went dark April 1, 1995.
The station was sold to Tele-Media and became a sister station to 97.1 WQWK and 1390 WRSC. The station then came back on the air in the summer of 1995, again as Wink 108, but with a Hot AC format. In 1999, 107.9's tower was later moved north, power increased to 6,000 watts, and call sign changed to WNCL, at which time the station became "Cool 107nine, All Oldies, All the Time" and later "Good Time Oldies, Cool 107nine" playing an oldies format focusing mostly on top 40 music of the 1960s. DJs on this station included Dave Shannon in the morning, "Little" Liane Margaret, Tom Howard, "Jesuit" Jay Stevens, and "Sultry" Sammi Craig, the nicknames having been bestowed by Shannon.
The call sign was later changed to WJHT (Hot 107.9) with a rhythmic CHR format that included several popular DJs like Mayor Mike Jax, The Rob and DJ Grooves. Mayor Mike Jax now does afternoons for WAMO 100 in Pittsburgh, PA. DJ Grooves was most recently the music director at Wired 96.5 in Philadelphia and 98.7 Amp Radio in Detroit. He also produces a popular mixshow that is syndicated on many stations throughout the United States. The Rob is now the morning talent at 106.1 Kiss FM in Evansville, IN. All three still stay in touch and return to State College on occasion.
The frequency was sold in 2004 and became the Christian contemporary radio format of today.
The call sign was changed from WKVB to WKPA on March 6, 2020; this was concurrent with EMF transferring the WKVB call sign to their newly-acquired station in Worcester-Boston, Massachusetts.
See also
Other K-LOVE stations in Pennsylvania include:
WKVP, Philadelphia, PA
WLKA, Scranton, PA
WLKJ, Johnstown, PA
WPKV, Pittsburgh, PA
W269AS, Harrisburg, PA
References
External links
KPA (FM)
Radio stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Pennsylvania
KPA (FM)
K-Love radio stations
Educational Media Foundation radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Witch%27s%20Tale | The Witch's Tale is a horror-fantasy radio series which aired from May 21, 1931, to June 13, 1938, on WOR, the Mutual Radio Network, and in syndication. The program was created, written, and directed by Alonzo Deen Cole (February 22, 1897, St. Paul, Minnesota - April 7, 1971).
Production and casting
The first horror drama on radio, Cole's spooky show was hosted by Old Nancy, the Witch of Salem, who introduced a different terror tale each week. The role of Old Nancy was created by stage actress Adelaide Fitz-Allen, who died in 1935 at the age of 79. Cole replaced her with 13-year-old Miriam Wolfe, and Martha Wentworth was also heard as Old Nancy on occasion. Cole himself provided the sounds of Old Nancy's cat, Satan. Cole's wife, Marie O'Flynn, portrayed the lead female characters on the program, and the supporting cast included Mark Smith and Alan Devitte.
The majority of the scripts were original stories, but there were literary adaptations as well, including:
1931: "The Bronze Venus," adapted from La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée.
1932: "In the Devil's Name," adapted from the confessions of supposed real-life witch Isobel Gowdie. (Only the first half of this episode has survived.)
1934: "The Wonderful Bottle," adapted from The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson.
1934: "The Flying Dutchman," based on the legend of the ghost ship The Flying Dutchman.
1935: an adaptation of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
There were likely other adaptations that have not survived.
For syndication, the shows were recorded live during broadcast and distributed to other stations. These recordings were destroyed by Cole in 1961, so few episodes survive. Cole was also the writer, producer, and director of the radio mystery-crime drama, Casey, Crime Photographer.
In November 1936, Alonzo Deen Cole edited The Witch's Tales magazine with the lead story by Cole. It ran for only two issues.
Television
An effort was made to bring the series to television. In 1958, Television Programs of America made plans to film a pilot with Cole as consultant and story supervisor. The associate story editor was Raymond Levy. However, the show never made it to TV.
Influence
EC Comics' publisher Bill Gaines was inspired by Cole's Old Nancy host to create the character the Old Witch, illustrated by Graham Ingels as the host of EC's The Haunt of Fear.
See also
Lights Out
References
Further reading
Cole, Alonzo Deen, edited by David S. Siegel with introduction by Miriam Wolff. The Witch's Tale (253 pages). Dunwich Press, 1998. 13 scripts plus episode log and biographical sketch of Cole.
External links
Radio Lovers: The Witch's Tale (four 1934-37 episodes)
SF Site: Lisa DuMond review of The Witch's Tale script collection (1998)
Radio Horror Hosts: The Witch's Tale
Internet Archive: The Witch's Tale
OTR Plot Spot: The Witch's Tale - plot summaries and reviews.
American radio dramas
Anthology radio series
Fantasy radio programs
Horror fiction radio programmes
1930s Ameri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible%20Mission%202025 | Impossible Mission 2025 is a side scrolling platform and action game for the Amiga computer system. It's a remake of the 1984 game Impossible Mission. It was released by MicroProse in 1994 as two different versions. One for the Amiga 500 and 600 systems, and a version for the AGA enhanced Amiga 1200, 4000 and CD32 systems. Console conversions were being developed for the Super NES and Sega Genesis, but never released.
Characters
The player can take control of either the female Tasha, male Felix Fly, or robot RAM 2. Each have different strengths and weaknesses.
Tasha: Tasha, full name Natassia Tambor, graduated from the Moscow Republic University in 2023. She was the youngest woman to receive a PhD in Applied Cybernetics. Tasha decided not to become a scientist and instead chose to follow a career of gymnastics, an obsessive love of hers. Tasha is a 100% organic contender in the 21st century sport of Augmented Gymnastics, a sport where people transform themselves into ugly, part human, part machine athletes and then perform in front of millions of viewers on TV.
RAM 2: RAM 2 is one of the SORIU series of robots that were designed and built for the Pacific Alliance by Elvin Enterprises. He is made of an alloy that can shift between solid and liquid states. The SORIU series of robots remain the backbone of the Alliance's Automated Defence Force (ADF). RAM 2 is one of only 2 RAM (Recon and Mediation) units ever constructed. After RAM 1 was destroyed by Elvin, RAM 2 decided to seek vengeance against the evil man.
Felix Fly: Felix graduated top of his class at the Pacific Alliance Military Academy and moved onto a short but glorious career with the Nova Tigers: The 8th Squadron, Orbital Marine Corps. He became a national hero and retired after being nearly killed in the Algarski Conflict.
The player can choose to play as any of the three characters.
Development
Producer Stuart Whyte explained the motivation behind Impossible Mission 2025:
The source code for Impossible Mission had been lost in an earthquake, so programmers Tim Cannell and Paul Dunning had to hack the Commodore 64 version of the game and retrieve its assets so that the game could be included in Impossible Mission 2025. For the new game, lead designer Scott Johnson recalled, "We really wanted to have scrolling included but still retain the essence of the original gameplay. What I really wanted to keep was the awesome animation from the originals. We ended up building the characters as 3D meshes in 3DS and rendering the animation out as bitmaps."
The appearance of Elvin Atombender was difficult to pull off, according to artist Drew Northcott. To get a visual image of the powersuit's "mix of encumbrance and empowerment", Northcott taped bricks to his bike boots and mic stands to his arms, then stomped around an empty office while art director Andy Cook videotaped him.
The game was originally developed for the Super NES and Genesis, with the Amiga versions to follow after. The Super |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWB | EWB may refer to:
Earl Weaver Baseball, a computer game
Education Without Borders (Canadian organization)
Education Without Borders (Sudan)
Engineers Without Borders
European Western Balkans, a web portal
New Bedford Regional Airport in Massachusetts, United States
Exploding Wire Bridge a type of detonator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Type%20II%20VOC | The introduction of Motorola Type II SmartZone introduced the IntelliRepeater. An IntelliRepeater, or IR, site is a bare-bones trunked site which has no database of users or talkgroups. It is simply sophisticated software running on a Quantar repeater. It is meant to be controlled by the Zone Controller and to be commanded as to who has permission and who does not. There are some very basic restrictions in the event Site Trunking (a site loses its link to the Zone Controller) does occur but for all intents and purposes once an IR site is in Site Trunking mode it's a free-for-all site.
IR sites are generally used for a small geographic area or to fill in holes. For sites that are used to fill in coverage traffic is very limited. To allow as limited a number of channels for use, and to be spectrum efficient, Voice On Control (VOC) was developed to permit the control channel to temporarily act as a voice channel. This allows as little as one channel per site, but access must be severely restricted to the site or communication problems will occur.
When all channels at a VOC enabled site are in use, or a single channel site gets a call request, there is specific data sent out over the control channel to notify all radios at the site that the control channel will be momentarily switching to voice channel mode. Once this happens radios resort to their programmed information which contains timing values that determine what to do once the timer runs out and there is still no control channel (Signal "Out of Range," switch sites, etc.) available.
References
Trunked radio systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTR%20Standard | Within radio technology, LTR (Logic Trunked Radio) Standard systems have no dedicated control channel. All control data is sent as subaudible data along with voice transmissions. Systems can have any number of channels from 1 through a maximum of 20. Each channel in the system is assigned a unique number (01 through 20) and these need not be sequentially assigned. Each subscriber radio must be programmed with all channels in the system in proper logical channel order (the same requirement as EDACS systems).
LTR Standard Talkgroups are written in the format A-HH-GGG.
"A" is the area code and is either 0 or 1. The area code is the same for all Talkgroups in a given system and is arbitrarily chosen by the system operator; the most common use is to simply distinguish between Talkgroups on multiple systems.
"HH" is the home repeater number and has twenty possible values, 01 through 20. Talkgroups usually use their home repeater by default, unless the repeater is already in use by other Talkgroups. If the home repeater is in use, the controller will assign another free repeater at random. If no repeater is free (all are in use), then the radio will receive a busy signal.
"GGG" is the group number and has 254 possible values, 001 through 254.
References
Logic Trunked Radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PassPort%20NTS | PassPort is a type of LTR Trunked radio system designed by Trident Micro Systems, which consists of multiple radio repeater sites linked together to form a wide-area radio dispatch network.
Purpose
Radio signals have a limitation due to distance and terrain. If two radios are far apart, or there is a mountain in the way, they will not be able to communicate. To alleviate this, radio repeaters are installed on mountaintops to repeat the signal from one radio to another, or group of others. This is a standard repeater site. The signal is received by the repeater from the originating radio and re-broadcast so the receiving radio(s) can receive the radio signal. A repeater site gives approximately a 50-mile radius of coverage.
Trunk ed radio is a method of using a bank of channels (frequencies) to repeat for multiple "Talk Groups" or fleet of radios. Many Talk Groups can share the channels, without hearing each other's conversation. A Passport system combines both of these technologies as a network of linked repeaters over a wide area that repeat the signal from several mountaintops simultaneously.
Operation
A Talk Group, or fleet of radios, has a "Home Site". The talk group information, which consists of the talk group and radio IDs of a fleet, are stored in this site. When a user turns a radio on, it attempts to register on the Home Site based on the frequencies programmed in the radio. If the radio sees a signal from the home site, and the signal is of usable strength, it registers on the home site. If the radio cannot see the signal from the home site, it starts trying other programmed frequencies of other PassPort sites in the network. When the radio finds a site that has sufficient signal strength, it attempts to register as a "Roamer". The site that the radio is attempting to log on to query the home site for permission to register the Roamer radio. If permission is granted, the radio is registered to the remote site. After that, any voice traffic from the Talk Group of the roamer is not only repeated at the Home Site, but also to the remote site which the radio is registered. When the Roamer roams to a different site, or back to its home site, the Talk Group voice traffic ceases to be repeated at the first site the roamer registered to. The radio monitors signal strength constantly and when the strength falls below a set threshold, the radio starts searching for a site with a stronger signal. If the radio finds a stronger signal, it attempts to register to that site.
Channels
Each PassPort Trunked radio site has 3 important channels:
A "Home" channel that carries voice traffic for units that are homed at this site.
A "Group" channel that carries voice traffic for units that are roaming to this site.
A "Collect" channel that is used by roaming units to register with the site.
The local home channel and Seed List are programmed into the radio by the dealer. When a radio registers on a site, whether it is a home or roam site, it is a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPT-1327 | MPT 1327 is an industry standard for trunked radio communications networks.
First published in January 1988 by the British Radiocommunications Agency, and is primarily used in the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and even China. Many countries had their own version of numbering/user interface, including MPT1343 in the UK, Chekker (Regionet 43) in Germany, 3RP (CNET2424) in France, Multiax in Australia, and Gong An in China.
MPT systems are still being built in many areas of the world, due to their cost-effectiveness.
Digital alternatives
The TETRA trunked radio standard was developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), as a digital alternative to analogue trunked systems. However, TETRA, with its enhanced encryption capability, has developed into a higher tier (public safety) product, currently mainly used by governments, some larger airports and government-owned utilities.
DMR (digital mobile radio), and dPMR (digital private mobile radio) are more recent ETSI-standards for digital mobile radio using two-slot TDMA and FDMA respectively. The Tier 3 standard for these systems defines a trunking protocol very similar to MPT1327 and is intended as a potential migration path for existing and perhaps future trunking customers. Tier 3 equipment is (late 2011) now becoming available, so the impact on TETRA and MPT 1327 is yet to be seen, but may well be significant. However, it is unlikely that in terms of cost that the complicated new DMR/dPMR equipment will be able to compete with the simpler MPT1327 equipment for some time, if ever.
It is worth noting that whilst many comparisons are made between Digital and Analog radio technologies, when it comes to applying these arguments to MPT1327, many of the distinctions become blurred, since MPT1327 with its digital control channel, already offers most of the features being offered by the DMR/dPMR/TETRA counterparts.
Furthermore, most MPT1327 systems are engineered to a far higher standard than conventional FM systems, partially due to the lack of CTCSS within the standard. As such arguments with regards to "noisy FM audio quality", can become misleading, since the squelch levels tend to be set rather high on MPT1327 systems, such that weak/noisy signals do not generally open the mute.
MPT1327 advantages and features
The advantage of MPT 1327 over TETRA is the increased availability, lower cost of equipment, the ease of installation, the familiarity with the equipment, and many believe that MPT 1327 is superior to TETRA, due to its uncompressed FM audio, and greater receiver sensitivity. MPT1327 control channel signalling is more resilient, since the TETRA protocol uses a complex modulation scheme that requires a far higher Signal to Noise ratio to function than 1,200 bit/s FFSK signalling.
Systems based on MPT 1327 only require one, but usually use two or more radio channels per site. Channels can be 12.5 or 25 kHz bandwidth, and can be any |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra%20Asia%20Network | The Intra Asia Network, or IAN, is a loose consortium of cultural workers and creative spaces, artist exchange projects, community engagement initiatives and artist residency programmes operating throughout Asia. This consortium was founded to facilitate the greater mobility of Asia's cultural producers, practitioners, and creative people through the development, promotion and empowerment of artist-in-residency and artist-in-community projects. Membership represents over 15 countries and hundreds of Asian art spaces and initiatives.
History of IAN
Through the support of Asian Cultural Council Taiwan and other local and funders, a meeting of 35 Asian artist directors from 15 countries was held in July 2005 in Taiwan. The thrust of the gathering was to discuss the issues and difficulties concerning Asian artists’ mobility and cultural exchange. Asia is in need of understanding itself in both a traditional and contemporary context: a premise of IAN is that 21st century cultural identity in Asia will be understood through movements, projects, and residencies of its own culture workers. The Intra Asia Network for artist residency, mobility, and exchange now comprises members from Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and even Australia and New Zealand.
A second meeting of IAN representatives was held, with the support of Asia Europe Foundation, during the annual conference of Res Artis in Berlin, convened by the ufaFabrik. That gathering involved the leaders of 40 Asian culture NGOs and reaffirmed the need for an action group to share knowledge, resources, experience and collaboration across Asian borders.
The third conference of IAN was held in South Korea in September 2006. The workshops were held in conjunction with the 2006 Gwangju Bienniale, while the second half of the gathering was held at Ssamzie Space in Seoul. The objectives focused on the common concerns of many Asian directors and cultural leaders: professional development, management of artist’s space and initiatives, and new models for funding, operating, and advocating for the role of artists' mobility and cultural exchange. This most recent gathering was co-sponsored by Artists Forum International (AFI), with support from Arts Council of Korea, City of Gwangju, the Korean Nonprofit Alternative Space Network, and the Prince Claus Fund.
Background
Intra Asia Network is an open source platform for culture organizations.
Following the 2005 workshop and conferences, there was a consensus that a formal initiative be formed to help foster more intra-Asian exchanges and cultural dialogue. This objective was further confirmed at the more recent meeting of arts leaders in Seoul in September 2006. Thus Intra Asia Network, a collective consortium, has been established based on a shared vision to use Asian art and culture, and innovative project development, as the medium for a balanced social condition for all parts of Asia.
Structure of Network
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20master%20patient%20index | An enterprise master patient index or enterprise-wide master patient index (EMPI) is a patient database used by healthcare organizations to maintain accurate medical data across its various departments. Patients are assigned a unique identifier, so they are represented only once across all the organization's systems. Patient data can include name; gender; date of birth; race and ethnicity; social security number; current address and contact information; insurance information; current diagnoses; and most recent date of hospital admission and discharge (if applicable).
EMPIs are intended to ensure patient data is correct and consistent throughout the organization regardless of which system is being updated. Non-healthcare organizations also face similar issues maintaining customer records across different departments.
Many software vendors use EMPI and MPI (master patient index) synonymously, because an MPI is only workable if it is used by all software applications across an entire enterprise; that is, "master" implies enterprise-wide scope.
EMPIs use match engines along with the technique of referential matching to more easily identify duplicate patient records.
Overview
In computing, an enterprise[-wide] master patient index is a form of customer data integration (CDI) specific to the healthcare industry. Healthcare organizations and groups use EMPI to identify, match, merge, de-duplicate, and cleanse patient records to create a master index that may be used to obtain a complete and single view of a patient. The EMPI will create a unique identifier for each patient and maintain a mapping to the identifiers used in each records' respective system.
An EMPI will typically provide an application programming interface (API) for searching and querying the index to find patients and the pointers to their identifiers and records in the respective systems. It may also store some subset of the attributes for the patient so that it may be queried as an authoritative source of the "single most accurate record" or "source of truth" for the patient. Registration or other practice management applications may interact with the index when admitting new patients to have the single best record from the start, or may have the records indexed at a later time.
An EMPI may additionally work with or include enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities to update the originating source systems of the patient records with the cleansed and authoritative data.
Even the best tuned EMPI will not be 100% accurate. Thus an EMPI will provide a data stewardship interface for reviewing the match engine results, handling records for which the engine does not definitively determine a match or not. This interface will provide for performing search, merge, unmerge, edit and numerous other operations. This interface may also be used to monitor the performance of the match engine and perform periodic audits on the quality of the data.
EMPI can be used by organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCG | GCG may refer to:
Biochemistry
GCG, a codon for the amino acid alanine
Gallocatechin gallate, a flavonol
Proglucagon, a protein
GCG (General Computer Group) was collection of programs for the analysis of gene and protein sequences, now defunct
Medical
Ghost cell glaucoma
Other
Gallantry Cross, Gold of the Republic of Venda
Geological Curators' Group, a UK charity promoting geology
Global Church of God, a Sabbatarian church based in England
Government College Gujranwala, in Pakistan
The Grilled Cheese Grill, an American restaurant chain
Guardian Capital Group, a Canadian financial services company
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, a village in Neath Port Talbot, Wales
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, a Hanoverian order of chivalry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Environmental%20Bureau | The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is a network of around 180 environmental citizens' organisations based in more than 40 countries. The EEB is a democratic federation, representing local, national, European and international groups in European Union Member States, plus some accession and neighbouring countries. It plays a prominent role in defending and promoting environmental interests and legislation at the different EU institutions.
History
Before the first Environmental Action Plan was adopted by the European Community, environmental NGOs from Europe met in the United Kingdom, together with the European Commission, the UNECE, the UNEP and the IUCN. During the meeting, the creation of a federation of non-governmental organizations within the European Community was proposed, which later become an information clearinghouse for the EC countries.
In order to give its members a central location to follow and respond to the developing environmental policy of the EU, the EEB headquarters was established in Brussels in 1974.
In 1998, the EEB led the issue group on public participation of the pan-European coalition on environmental citizens' organizations, later named as European ECO Forum, which was closely involved in the negotiating phase of the UNECE Aarhus Convention.
By 2013, it was considered as one of the seven core environmental organizations in Europe, together with Friends of the Earth Europe (FFoE), Greenpeace International, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Climate Network Europe (CAN-E), the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E), and BirdLife International.
EU political institutions had a large role in the formation and maintenance of Brussel-based umbrella- and federation type groups representing EU civil society, through direct funding relationships (estimated around 80 per cent in 2005) from the Union budget, and by virtue of an early preference of the Commission for engaging only with EU level groups.
Mission
The EEB's mission is to be "the largest and most inclusive European network of environmental citizens’ groups – and the only one that works on such a broad range of issues", while advocating "for progressive policies to create a better environment in the European Union and beyond."
Activities
The EEB has an information service, runs working groups with its members, produces position papers on topics that are, or EEB feels should be, on the EU agenda, and represents its members in discussions with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. It closely coordinates EU-oriented activities with members at national level, and also closely follows the EU enlargement process and some pan-European issues such as follow-up to the Aarhus Convention (the UNECE 'Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters').
The organisation has consultative status at, and relations with: the Council of Eu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiducial%20inference | Fiducial inference is one of a number of different types of statistical inference. These are rules, intended for general application, by which conclusions can be drawn from samples of data. In modern statistical practice, attempts to work with fiducial inference have fallen out of fashion in favour of frequentist inference, Bayesian inference and decision theory. However, fiducial inference is important in the history of statistics since its development led to the parallel development of concepts and tools in theoretical statistics that are widely used. Some current research in statistical methodology is either explicitly linked to fiducial inference or is closely connected to it.
Background
The general approach of fiducial inference was proposed by Ronald Fisher. Here "fiducial" comes from the Latin for faith. Fiducial inference can be interpreted as an attempt to perform inverse probability without calling on prior probability distributions. Fiducial inference quickly attracted controversy and was never widely accepted. Indeed, counter-examples to the claims of Fisher for fiducial inference were soon published. These counter-examples cast doubt on the coherence of "fiducial inference" as a system of statistical inference or inductive logic. Other studies showed that, where the steps of fiducial inference are said to lead to "fiducial probabilities" (or "fiducial distributions"), these probabilities lack the property of additivity, and so cannot constitute a probability measure.
The concept of fiducial inference can be outlined by comparing its treatment of the problem of interval estimation in relation to other modes of statistical inference.
A confidence interval, in frequentist inference, with coverage probability γ has the interpretation that among all confidence intervals computed by the same method, a proportion γ will contain the true value that needs to be estimated. This has either a repeated sampling (or frequentist) interpretation, or is the probability that an interval calculated from yet-to-be-sampled data will cover the true value. However, in either case, the probability concerned is not the probability that the true value is in the particular interval that has been calculated since at that stage both the true value and the calculated interval are fixed and are not random.
Credible intervals, in Bayesian inference, do allow a probability to be given for the event that an interval, once it has been calculated, does include the true value, since it proceeds on the basis that a probability distribution can be associated with the state of knowledge about the true value, both before and after the sample of data has been obtained.
Fisher designed the fiducial method to meet perceived problems with the Bayesian approach, at a time when the frequentist approach had yet to be fully developed. Such problems related to the need to assign a prior distribution to the unknown values. The aim was to have a procedure, like the Bayesian metho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%20for%20Cats%20%28TV%20series%29 | Cool for Cats was one of the first shows on British TV to feature music for a teenage audience. It was produced by Associated Rediffusion, part of the ITV network, and ran from December 1956 to February 1961.
The show was presented by Kent Walton. It lasted 15 minutes. Discs were played and then commented upon. Sometimes The Dougie Squires Dancers, which included the then unknown Una Stubbs, performed dance routines to the music, and sometimes Tony Hart would draw a relevant cartoon while the record played. The programme was originally broadcast on Mondays at 7:15 pm and later moved to Thursdays. Owing to its success, it was a twice-weekly show (the second a repeat), later expanding to half an hour. The show's initiator was director Joan-Kemp Welch, the drama innovator, and the first—and the show's longest-running—choreographer was Dougie Squires.
Kent Walton took the title from a show of the same name he hosted on Radio Luxembourg.
External links
The TV Rock n' Roll Years at Whirlygig TV
Music in Bradford 1956 at the Bradford time line
Something about Una Independent on Sunday, 22 February 2004
1956 British television series debuts
1961 British television series endings
1950s British music television series
1960s British music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVN%20Gra | TVN Gra was an interactive games channel that launched in March 2005 as part of the TVN network, owned by ITI Group. It featured contests, game shows and quizzes. It also used technology to allow the viewer to interact and play along at home. Series included: Rozbij Bank ("Hit the Bank"), an interactive show consisting of different letter and picture games; and Seans Filmowy ("Movie Show"), a program featuring film-based quizzes and games..
Unfortunately the channel didn’t reach that goal and closed down on 31 May 2008 due to low viewership. It has survived only two years in the television market. The channels frequencies were taken by Mango 24 (also a channel from ITI Group) on the satellite, but since Mango 24 already had a slot on the satellite, after 3 months of broadcasting it stopped airing on the new frequencies.
References
TVN (Polish TV channel)
Defunct television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2008
2005 establishments in Poland
2008 disestablishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-booting%20disk | A self-booting disk is a floppy disk for home computers or personal computers that loads—or boots—directly into a standalone application when the system is turned on, bypassing the operating system. This was common, even standard, on some computers in the late 1970s to early 1990s. Video games were the type of application most commonly distributed using this technique.
The term "PC booter" is sometimes used in reference to self-booting software for IBM PC compatibles. On other computers, like the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family, almost all software is self-booting. On the IBM PC, the distinction is between a self-booting program and one which is started by the user via an operating system such as MS-DOS or IBM PC DOS. The term "PC booter" was not contemporaneous with when self-booting games were being released.
Purpose
On some home computers like the Apple II, software is loaded by inserting a floppy disk and turning on or resetting the machine. It's analogous to cartridges on game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System. It does not require using a command-line interface or other method to launch software.
It was common for self-booting disks to use non-standard disk formatting, so the contents could not be viewed or copied via a system's normal disk operating system. They could still be copied by other utilities.
Most self-booting programs are written to not need features of an existing operating system, such as MS-DOS, and access the hardware directly or use low-level functions that are built into read-only memory. Other programs provide a specialized replacement for the operating system.
Drawbacks
Self-booting disks require the system to turned on or rebooted to use the software. The user cannot switch between programs. The software can only exist on its own floppy disk, not stored on a disk with multiple programs, such as a hard disk drive.
The self-booting game or application cannot easily use computer hardware normally accessed through device drivers in the operating system. The program needs built-in support for each specific peripheral, and it doesn't automatically get the benefit of improvements or bug fixes or support for updated versions.
Examples
Between 1983 and 1984, Digital Research offered several of their business and educational applications for the IBM PC on bootable floppy diskettes bundled with SpeedStart CP/M, a reduced version of CP/M-86 as a bootable runtime environment.
Infocom offered the only third-party games for the Macintosh at launch by distributing them with its own bootable operating system.
A scaled down version of GeoWorks Ensemble was used by America Online for their AOL client software until the late 1990s. AOL was distributed on a single 3.5-inch floppy disk, which could be used to boot GeoWorks as well.
In 1998, Caldera distributed a demo version of their 32-bit DPMI web-browser and mail client DR-WebSpyder on a bootable fully self-contained 3.5-inch floppy. On 386 PC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Moore%20%28journalist%29 | Frank Moore (1828–1904)
was an American journalist and compiler, a brother of George Henry Moore. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire, but removed to New York City and became a journalist and general writer. In 1869-72 he was Assistant Secretary of Legation in Paris. He edited:
Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution (1856)
Cyclopedia of American Eloquence (1857)
Diary of the American Revolution (two volumes, 1860)
The Rebellion Record (twelve volumes, 1861-68), a collection of original material bearing on the Civil War
The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution (1862)
Lyrics of Loyalty (1864)
Songs of the Soldiers (New York: George P. Putnam, 1864)
Confederate Rhymes and Rhapsodies (1864)
Personal and Political Ballads (1864)
Speeches of Andrew Johnson (1865)
Life and Speeches of John Bright (1865)
Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865 (1866)
Women in the War, 1861-66 (1866)
Songs and Ballads of the Southern People, 1861-65 (1887)
The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 (New York: P. F. Collier, 1889)
The Rebellion Record
Twelve volumes reporting on the American Civil War were published by David Van Nostrand. Each volume contains a diary of events, documents and narratives, and poetry. Most are now available from Internet Archive:
First Volume: Introductory address by Edward Everett, Volume 1 (1861)
Second Volume: Volume 2
Third Volume: Volume 3
Fourth Volume: Volume 4
Fifth Volume: Volume 5
Eighth Volume: Volume 8
Ninth Volume: Volume 9
References
External links
1828 births
1904 deaths
American male journalists
Historians from New York (state)
Journalists from New York City
People from Concord, New Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVN%20International | TVN International or iTVN is a Polish pay television channel that was launched on April 2004. It is part of the TVN network and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery It is aimed at the Polish diaspora living abroad, mainly in Europe and North America. TVNi's programming consists of TV series, newscasts, Polish football matches, movies and entertainment programmes, mostly of Polish origin.
Distribution
TVN International is available via satellite in the U.S. and Australia, cable in Germany, France, United States and Canada.
As of 30 April 2010, RCN Corporation, a cable provider that provides its services to customers in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Eastern Pennsylvania and Chicago areas, broadcasts iTVN and TVN24 channels on 485 and 486 respectively (958 and 959 in Leigh Valley).
As of July 2011, TVN International started to be carried by Cablevision in the US.
References
External links
International broadcasters
TVN (Polish TV channel)
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leabra | Leabra stands for local, error-driven and associative, biologically realistic algorithm. It is a model of learning which is a balance between Hebbian and error-driven learning with other network-derived characteristics. This model is used to mathematically predict outcomes based on inputs and previous learning influences. This model is heavily influenced by and contributes to neural network designs and models. This algorithm is the default algorithm in emergent (successor of PDP++) when making a new project, and is extensively used in various simulations.
Hebbian learning is performed using conditional principal components analysis (CPCA) algorithm with correction factor for sparse expected activity levels.
Error-driven learning is performed using GeneRec, which is a generalization of the recirculation algorithm, and approximates Almeida–Pineda recurrent backpropagation. The symmetric, midpoint version of GeneRec is used, which is equivalent to the contrastive Hebbian learning algorithm (CHL). See O'Reilly (1996; Neural Computation) for more details.
The activation function is a point-neuron approximation with both discrete spiking and continuous rate-code output.
Layer or unit-group level inhibition can be computed directly using a k-winners-take-all (KWTA) function, producing sparse distributed representations.
The net input is computed as an average, not a sum, over connections, based on normalized, sigmoidally transformed weight values, which are subject to scaling on a connection-group level to alter relative contributions. Automatic scaling is performed to compensate for differences in expected activity level in the different projections.
Documentation about this algorithm can be found in the book "Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain" published by MIT press. and in the Emergent Documentation
Overview of the leabra algorithm
The pseudocode for Leabra is given here, showing exactly how the pieces of the algorithm described in more detail in the subsequent sections fit together.
Iterate over minus and plus phases of settling for each event.
o At start of settling, for all units:
- Initialize all state variables (activation, v_m, etc).
- Apply external patterns (clamp input in minus, input & output in
plus).
- Compute net input scaling terms (constants, computed
here so network can be dynamically altered).
- Optimization: compute net input once from all static activations
(e.g., hard-clamped external inputs).
o During each cycle of settling, for all non-clamped units:
- Compute excitatory netinput (g_e(t), aka eta_j or net)
-- sender-based optimization by ignoring inactives.
- Compute kWTA inhibition for each layer, based on g_i^Q:
* Sort units into two groups based on g_i^Q: top k and
remaining k+1 -> n.
* If basic, find k and k+1th highest
If avg-based, compute avg of 1 -> k & k+1 -> n.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFRAC | TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator) was the first computer developed in India, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. Initially a TIFR Pilot Machine was developed in the 1950s (operational in 1956). Based on the IAS machine design, the development of the final machine was started in 1955 and was formally commissioned (and named TIFRAC, by Jawaharlal Nehru) in 1960. The full machine was in use until 1965.
TIFRAC included 2,700 vacuum tubes, 1,700 germanium diodes and 12,500 resistors. It had 2,048 40-bit words of ferrite core memory. This machine was an early adopter of ferrite core memory.
The main assembly of TIFRAC, which had vacuum tubes was housed in a massive steel rack measuring 18 feet x 2.5 feet x 8 feet. It was fabricated from modules of 4 feet x 2.5 feet x 8 feet. Each module had steel doors on either side for accessing the circuits.
A cathode ray tube display system was developed to serve as an auxiliary output to the computer for analogue and digital display of both graphs and alpha-numeric symbols.
A manual console served as the input/output control unit of the computer. The software of TIFRAC were written in a series of commands of 0s and 1s (machine code).
A British-built HEC 2M computer, happened to be the first digital computer in India, which was imported and installed in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, during 1955. Prior to that, this institute had developed a small analog computer in 1953, which is technically the first computer in India.
See also
List of vacuum tube computers
References
Specific
Vacuum tube computers
Information technology in India
History of Mumbai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Air%20Combat | Ultimate Air Combat (known as Aces: Iron Eagle III in Japan) is a semi-realistic combat flight simulator developed and published by Activision for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer. Having relatively good graphics for the console, Ultimate Air Combat differs from other similar games by having both a cockpit view and an isometric view throughout the missions.
The game seems to be set in the near future due to some of the highly advanced weapons systems but modern-day planes. In Japan, the game is known as Aces: Iron Eagle III and is barely based on the film of the same name (as both involved aircraft).
Story
The story begins when the White House calls an emergency meeting, where they reveal that the military dictator Don Gwano is using the high revenue from his large oil exports to fund his large army and navy. He is now attacking neighbouring countries and the president's military advisers have agreed that action needs to be taken. Rather than a full-scale invasion, they propose a tactic of quick lightning strikes to take out specific systems vital to Don Gwano's militaristic regime. As the top pilot in the military, the player is chosen to perform these attacks.
Gameplay
Ultimate Air Combat has thirty-seven different missions (nine groups of four missions then the final, slightly longer mission). Each mission is grouped into two parts. The first part of the mission has the player flying to the destination from the view of the pilot, within the cockpit. In this mode, the player will receive helpful information from the co-pilot such as when damage has been inflicted, when danger of stalling the plane and when an enemy plane is spotted. After destroying three enemy planes the mission moves onto the second half of the mission. This half of the mission is from an isometric view of the plane and the surrounding area where the player completes the actual mission target, usually destroying a particular structure or structures. The aircraft has limited fuel (though a fuel tank can be added at the weapon selection screen for more fuel to allow for a longer time to complete the mission) .
If the aircraft being piloted is destroyed by enemy fire, crashes into the sea or runs out of fuel, the pilot survives but the plane being piloted is crashed and unable to be flown again at any further point in the game, so in essence, the player has three lives throughout the game.
Aircraft
Three aircraft are available to pilot within the game: F14 Tomcat, F18 Super Hornet, Harrier. The cockpit layout is slightly different within each plane. Each plane has its own specific weapon later in the game and some other weapons are available for a specific plane or planes. Also there are minor differences in handling, the Harrier being notably easier to control during the first part of a mission where the player's view is from within the cockpit.
Weapons
Professor Newron updates the planes, either by adding new weapons systems or by adding new h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20F.%20Ferguson | Donald Ferguson (born 1960) is a Technical Fellow and Chief SW Architect at Ansys, Inc. Before joining Ansys, Ferguson was a Professor of Professional Practice in Computer Science at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia in 2018, he was vice president and CTO for software at Dell. Previously he was CTO, Distinguished Engineer and Executive VP at CA, Inc., formerly known as Computer Associates.
Education
Ferguson graduated with a BA from Columbia University in 1982, a MS in 1984, and a PhD in computer science in 1989. His thesis studied the application of economic models to the management of system resources in distributed systems.
Career
IBM
From 1985 to 2007, Ferguson worked for IBM, being appointed IBM Fellow in 2001, and chief architect for IBM's Software Group (SWG). He provided overall technical leadership for IBM WebSphere, Tivoli Software, IBM DB2, Rational Software and Lotus Software products. He also chaired the SWG Architecture Board (SWG AB). The SWG AB focused on product integration, cross-product initiatives and emerging technology. Some of the public focus areas were web services, patterns, web 2.0 and business-driven development. Ferguson guided IBM's strategy and architecture for SOA and web services, and co-authored many of the initial web-service specifications.
Previously, he had been the chief architect for WebSphere and the WebSphere products, which provide support for dynamic web applications. Prior to transferring to IBM SWG, Ferguson was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Microsoft
From 2007 to 2008, he worked at Microsoft as a technical fellow in platforms and strategy in the office of the CTO.
CA
Ferguson joined CA in March 2008.
Dell
Ferguson joined Dell in June 2012 as VP and CTO for Dell Software.
Awards
Ferguson received the 2013 Columbia School of Engineering and applied Science Alumni Association Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering Achievement.
Books
Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More, Prentice Hall PTR, , March 22, 2005
References
External links
WWISA
Birth of a Platform
The Architecture Journal
BPM 2006 Keynotes
Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture 2006
2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
1960 births
Living people
IBM employees
IBM Fellows
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny%20General%20Hospital | Allegheny General Hospital is a large urban hospital located at 320 East North Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is part of the larger Allegheny Health Network.
History
Allegheny General Hospital, also known locally by the acronym "AGH", is located in the Central Northside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. AGH was the first hospital in Pennsylvania to be designated as a Level 1 shock trauma center. It was also the first hospital in the northeastern United States to offer an aeromedical service.
Now the academic flagship of Allegheny Health Network, Allegheny General Hospital began as a 50-bed infirmary, housed in two adjoining brick rowhouses in what was then Allegheny City, immediately north of Pittsburgh. Starting in 1881, the mayor of Allegheny City began meeting with a committee of physicians and prominent residents of Allegheny City, to discuss the construction of, and fund-raising for, a new North Side hospital. Three years later, the committee bought two adjacent properties along Stockton Avenue.
The hospital was chartered in 1882 and on February 15, 1886, the forerunner to today's Allegheny General Hospital opened its doors. In 1887, the hospital established a children's wing, and in 1889, an ambulance was donated to the hospital; AGH would operate its own ambulance service for the next 64 years. At the turn of the century, the hospital's directors began collecting funds for a new AGH, to be built just a block away, also along Stockton Avenue.
The seven-story, 400-bed facility cost $620,000, and opened in 1904. The new space included more modern laboratory facilities: separate rooms for urinalysis, blood work, bacteriology, and autopsies.
In the 1920, hospital leaders began looking for another new home. New York architecture firm York and Sawyer was hired to draw plans for what would be one of the nation's first "skyscraper" hospitals, and by 1929, construction was underway, just to the north of the Stockton Avenue location. The cornerstone was laid in 1930, but the Great Depression interrupted construction for several years. and the new 22-story, $8 million hospital wasn't completed until 1936.
Over the years, the hospital grew; a new East Wing was added, and in 1981, a new inpatient tower, the $104 million Snyder Pavilion, was completed.
Today, Allegheny General is a 576-bed quaternary care and educational hospital, and it is AHN's highest-volume hospital, seeing 24,000 inpatient admissions, 23,000 surgeries, and nearly 56,000 emergency department visits each year. Over the last five years, AGH has built a new orthopaedic center, a new cardiovascular intensive care unit, a new cardiac MRI center, new hybrid operating rooms, and a new surgical arts center.
In 2018, construction began on a new academic cancer center on the AGH campus.
See also
Western Pennsylvania Hospital
References
External links
Allegheny Health Network website
Hospitals in Pittsburgh
Hospitals in Pennsylvania
Hospitals established in 1885
Pittsburgh Hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defcon%20Robot%20Contest | The Defcon Robot Contest was a robotics competition which was held at the annual Defcon computer security conference in Las Vegas.
History
Defcon 12 (2004)
The first competition was held at Defcon 11 in 2003. The objective was to transport ping pong balls from one corner of an arena to the other. Only Irvine Underground entered a team and they were able to successfully complete the task.
Defcon 13 (2005)
The task this year was to first follow a line around a maze, scooping up ping pong balls along the way, then fire them at cans on a wall at one end of the arena. Two teams entered this year, with the team from Florida winning.
Defcon 14: (2006)
Since the previous contests proved to be too expensive, the Defcon 14 rules were changed to make it easier for the smaller teams to compete. The requirement for battery power was dropped, but the requirement to be fully autonomous was enforced. The goal was to shoot down 1, 2, and 3 inch white targets from 10 feet away. 6 teams entered and all teams were able to shoot down many targets. Team Octopi, a team of four computer science and computer engineering students from The University of Utah won the contest. They shot down 28 targets in 37 seconds.
Defcon 15: (2007)
This year's task was very similar to Defcon 14, with only minor changes. The main change was that targets were no longer infrared (so no special IR camera was required). Also, to make it more exciting, the format was changed from timed match to head-to-head match (double elimination). The winners were Team Octopi again, shooting 24 targets in 16.6 seconds.
Team Octopi's bot has shown significantly better results than other teams (second place was 35.6 seconds, almost twice as slow), so to encourage more people to compete they have promised not to participate in next year's competition.
Defcon 16: (2008)
This year's rules were exactly the same as previous years. First place was taken by Team Yozhik, shooting 24 targets in 15.7 seconds. This was the first time that team participated in DefconBots competition. Before that, the team took first place in RoboGames 2008 competition in San Francisco.
The contest's organizer, Kallahar, has stated that next year's competition will be in a different format. One reason for that was the high complexity of building a shooting robot—winning teams used expensive parts like industrial AC servo motors, commercial AC/micro-stepping controllers and high precision Harmonic drive gearboxes. While the teams did not pay the full price for them (because of eBay or corporate donations), other teams would have to spend large amounts of money to replicate the winning designs.
Prizes
Each year the prizes change, but the real prize is the respect earned. The prizes do not even come close to covering the cost of building the bot.
Since Defcon 14, the prize includes Black Badge, which gives lifetime unlimited entry to all future Defcons.
External links
Official Contest Page
Winners of the Defcon 13 robot contest
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