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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20City | Power City may refer to:
PowerCity (an electrical retail business in Ireland)
Global City (the concept of a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20model%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a conceptual model, or domain model, represents concepts (entities) and relationships between them.
Overview
In the field of computer science a conceptual model aims to express the meaning of terms and concepts used by domain experts to discuss the problem, and to find the correct relationships between different concepts. The conceptual model is explicitly chosen to be independent of design or implementation concerns, for example, concurrency or data storage. Conceptual modeling in computer science should not be confused with other modeling disciplines within the broader field of conceptual models such as data modelling, logical modelling and physical modelling.
The conceptual model attempts to clarify the meaning of various, usually ambiguous terms, and ensure that confusion caused by different interpretations of the terms and concepts cannot occur. Such differing interpretations could easily cause confusion amongst stakeholders, especially those responsible for designing and implementing a solution, where the conceptual model provides a key artifact of business understanding and clarity. Once the domain concepts have been modeled, the model becomes a stable basis for subsequent development of applications in the domain. The concepts of the conceptual model can be mapped into physical design or implementation constructs using either manual or automated code generation approaches. The realization of conceptual models of many domains can be combined to a coherent platform.
A conceptual model can be described using various notations, such as UML, ORM or OMT for object modelling, ITE, or IDEF1X for Entity Relationship Modelling. In UML notation, the conceptual model is often described with a class diagram in which classes represent concepts, associations represent relationships between concepts and role types of an association represent role types taken by instances of the modelled concepts in various situations. In ER notation, the conceptual model is described with an ER Diagram in which entities represent concepts, cardinality and optionality represent relationships between concepts. Regardless of the notation used, it is important not to compromise the richness and clarity of the business meaning depicted in the conceptual model by expressing it directly in a form influenced by design or implementation concerns.
This is often used for defining different processes in a particular company or institute.
See also
Information model
Mental model
Domain (software engineering)
Further reading
Halpin T, Morgan T: Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008. .
Fowler, Martin: Analysis Patterns, Reusable object models, Addison-Wesley Longman, 1997. .
Stewart Robinson, Roger Brooks, Kathy Kotiadis, and Durk-Jouke Van Der Zee (Eds.): Conceptual Modeling for Discrete-Event Simulation, 2010.
David W. Embley, Bernhard Thalheim (Eds.): Handbook of Conceptual Modeling, 2011. .
Object-oriented program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20L.%20Mohler | James Larue Mohler is a professor in the department of computer graphics technology at Purdue University, where he received his B.S. in technical graphics, M.S. in industrial technology and Ph.D. in education. Dr. Mohler has been an associate professor since 1996, and since 2002 he has also served as senior research scientist and acting director of informatics. In these capacities, he has received several major grants.
Mohler is a Purdue University Faculty Scholar, a faculty fellow for the Discovery Learning Center, and a member of the Purdue University Teaching Academy. He has been the recipient of several teaching awards beginning in 2000. From 1994 to 2000, he was founder and producer of Sunrise Productions; Frankfort, Indiana, a print and hypermedia design company that he founded as an undergraduate.
He has served on the review board of the WebNet Journal and as the executive editor for the Journal of Interactive Instruction Development. He is a member of the professional association in his field, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE, and ASEE, and has been active in various committees in SIGGRAPH.
Mohler has authored, co-authored, or contributed to over 21 texts related to computer graphics, multimedia, and hypermedia development.
References
External links
Official Website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Purdue University faculty
Purdue University alumni
People from Lafayette, Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku%20rules | Raku rules are the regular expression, string matching and general-purpose parsing facility of the Raku programming language, and are a core part of the language. Since Perl's pattern-matching constructs have exceeded the capabilities of formal regular expressions for some time, Raku documentation refers to them exclusively as regexes, distancing the term from the formal definition.
Raku provides a superset of Perl 5 features with respect to regexes, folding them into a larger framework called rules, which provide the capabilities of a parsing expression grammar, as well as acting as a closure with respect to their lexical scope. Rules are introduced with the rule keyword, which has a usage quite similar to subroutine definitions. Anonymous rules can be introduced with the regex (or rx) keyword, or simply be used inline as regexes were in Perl 5 via the m (matching) or s (substitution) operators.
History
In Apocalypse 5, a document outlining the preliminary design decisions for Raku pattern matching, Larry Wall enumerated 20 problems with the "current regex culture". Among these were that Perl's regexes were "too compact and 'cute'", had "too much reliance on too few metacharacters", "little support for named captures", "little support for grammars", and "poor integration with 'real' language".
Between late 2004 and mid-2005, a compiler for Raku style rules was developed for the Parrot virtual machine called Parrot Grammar Engine (PGE), which was later renamed to the more generic Parser Grammar Engine. PGE is a combination of runtime and compiler for Raku style grammars that allows any parrot-based compiler to use these tools for parsing, and also to provide rules to their runtimes.
Among other Raku features, support for named captures was added to Perl 5.10 in 2007.
In May 2012, the reference implementation of Raku, Rakudo, shipped its Rakudo Star monthly snapshot with a working JSON parser built entirely in Raku rules.
Changes from Perl 5
There are only six unchanged features from Perl 5's regexes:
Literals: word characters (letters, numbers and underscore) matched literally
Capturing: (...)
Alternatives: |
Backslash escape: \
Repetition quantifiers: *, +, and ?, but not {m,n}
Minimal matching suffix: *?, +?, ??
A few of the most powerful additions include:
The ability to reference rules using <rulename> to build up entire grammars.
A handful of commit operators that allow the programmer to control backtracking during matching.
The following changes greatly improve the readability of regexes:
Simplified non-capturing groups: [...], which are the same as Perl 5's: (?:...)
Simplified code assertions: <?{...}>
Allows for whitespace to be included without being matched, allowing for multiline regexes. Use \ or ' ' to express whitespace.
Extended regex formatting (Perl 5's /x) is now the default.
Implicit changes
Some of the features of Perl 5 regular expressions are more powerful in Raku because of their ability to encapsulat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20secret | In cryptography, a shared secret is a piece of data, known only to the parties involved, in a secure communication. This usually refers to the key of a symmetric cryptosystem. The shared secret can be a password, a passphrase, a big number, or an array of randomly chosen bytes.
The shared secret is either shared beforehand between the communicating parties, in which case it can also be called a pre-shared key, or it is created at the start of the communication session by using a key-agreement protocol, for instance using public-key cryptography such as Diffie–Hellman or using symmetric-key cryptography such as Kerberos.
The shared secret can be used for authentication (for instance when logging into a remote system) using methods such as challenge–response or it can be fed to a key derivation function to produce one or more keys to use for encryption and/or MACing of messages.
To make unique session and message keys the shared secret is usually combined with an initialization vector (IV). An example of this is the derived unique key per transaction method.
It is also often used as an authentication measure in web APIs.
See also
Key stretching – a method to create a stronger key from a weak key or a weak shared secret
Security question – implementation method
References
Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes, van Oorschot and Vanstone (2001), chapter 10 and 12.
Key management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crieff%20Junction%20Railway | The Crieff Junction Railway was opened in 1856 to link the town of Crieff to the main line railway network in Scotland, at a junction at the present day station (then called Crieff Junction). In the second half of the twentieth century railway business declined sharply, and despite economy measures the line closed in 1964.
History
The Scottish Central Railway
The Scottish Central Railway (SCR) was authorised by Act of Parliament on 31 July 1845. It was to build a main line from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway near Castlecary to Perth. Early on it allied itself with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the Caledonian Railway, as it was dependent on one or both of them for access to Glasgow and Edinburgh. For some years Parliament refused to allow amalgamation of the SCR with either of the other lines.
The authorising Act included a branch line to Crieff from "a location east of the summit near Greenloaning". This was the later Gleneagles, but at that time there was no settlement in the area, and the station at the junction was to be simply for exchange purposes. The SCR found that construction of its main line was more demanding, of time and of money, than it anticipated, and it allowed the Crieff branch to be put into abeyance.
The Crieff Junction Railway is formed
Crieff was the second largest town in Perthshire, and the branch line to Crieff had to be built. The SCR arranged for a nominally independent company, the Crieff Junction Railway (CJR) to be formed; it obtained its authorising Act of Parliament on 15 August 1853. The Scottish Central was to work the line at cost, with one-third of the feeder business brought to the SCR allowed to the Crieff Junction company.
The engineer Thomas Bouch was appointed as Engineer of the line. However at this time he had many other commitments and he was unable to devote much time to the Crieff Junction line. In consequence the construction process was very slow; promised dates for opening were repeatedly missed. Staff had been engaged for the earlier opening dates, and were then stood down when it was obvious there would be nothing for them to do. As completion day neared there was a serious dispute over payments with the contractor for the line, and further delay followed from that cause. Muthill station had three station masters in succession before the opening of the line.
Opening of the line
Opening day was finally set for 13 March 1856, but the troubles were not over yet. The SCR refused to allow its locomotive to traverse the pointwork at Crieff Junction station on the grounds that it was unsafe. The matter was resolved by a modification, but the first trains did not run until the following day.
The SCR considered Crieff Junction to be an interchange point only, and this led to a dispute with the CJR, as they wished to allow travellers to make round trips to the junction without alighting. This was finally agreed to by the SCR, but measures were put in place to ensure that no illicit onwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20cognition | Augmented cognition is an interdisciplinary area of psychology and engineering, attracting researchers from the more traditional fields of human-computer interaction, psychology, ergonomics and neuroscience. Augmented cognition research generally focuses on tasks and environments where human–computer interaction and interfaces already exist. Developers, leveraging the tools and findings of neuroscience, aim to develop applications which capture the human user's cognitive state in order to drive real-time computer systems. In doing so, these systems are able to provide operational data specifically targeted for the user in a given context. Three major areas of research in the field are: Cognitive State Assessment (CSA), Mitigation Strategies (MS), and Robust Controllers (RC). A subfield of the science, Augmented Social Cognition, endeavours to enhance the "ability of a group of people to remember, think, and reason."
History
In 1962 Douglas C. Engelbart released the report "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" which introduced, and laid the groundwork for, augmented cognition. In this paper, Engelbart defines "augmenting human intellect" as "increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems."
Modern augmented cognition began to emerge in the early 2000s. Advances in cognitive, behavioral, and neurological sciences during the 1990s set the stage for the emerging field of augmented cognition – this period has been termed the "Decade of the Brain." Major advancements in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) have been pivotal in the emergence of augmented cognition technologies which seek to monitor the user's cognitive abilities. As these tools were primarily used in controlled environments, their further development was essential to pragmatic augmented cognition applications.
Research
DARPA's Augmented Cognition Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been one of the primary funding agencies for augmented cognition investigators. A major focus of DARPA's augmented cognition program (AugCog) has been developing more robust tools for monitoring cognitive state and integrating them with computer systems. The program envisions "order of magnitude increases in available, net thinking power resulting from linked human-machine dyads [that] will provide such clear informational superiority that few rational individuals or organizations would challenge under the consequences of mortality."
The program began in 2001, and has since be renamed to Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress Program. By leveraging such tools, the program seeks to provide warfighters with enhanced cognitive abilities, especially under complex or stressful war conditions. As of 2002, the program vision is divided into four phases:
Phase 1: Real-time cognitive state detectio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcExplorer | ArcExplorer is a lightweight data viewer from ESRI for maps and GIS data in these formats:
ESRI Shapefile
ArcInfo coverages
ArcSDE layers
Images
ArcIMS Services (e.g., Geography Network sources)
ArcExplorer performs a variety of basic GIS functions, including display, query, and data retrieval applications.
The ArcExplorer installation can be freely distributed on spatial data CDs so recipients can view data effectively.
Esri regards ArcGIS Explorer as superseding ArcExplorer.
Versions
ArcExplorer 9.2 Java Edition
ArcExplorer Web
ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education - Created to allow educators using Mac OS X to utilize GIS in the classroom.
ArcExplorer 2
External links
ESRI's ArcExplorer website Archived product information page.
ArcExplorer deprecation notice ESRI deprecation notice for mobile device versions of ArcExplorer.
ArcExplorer on Microsoft Store for free Windows download.
Footnotes
Freeware
Esri software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGN%20%28company%29 | SGN (previously Scotia Gas Networks) is a British gas distribution company. It manages natural and green gas distribution networks in Scotland and in the south of England. As of 2014/15 SGN operates more than of pipes. In the same period, SGN spent £500million on upgrading the network.
History
The company was formed in 2005 as Scotia Gas Networks. From that year it was 50% owned by SSE plc. In September 2014 it was renamed SGN.
SSE sold 16.7% of the company to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in 2016.
In March 2021, SSE sold its remaining one-third share for £1225 million, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority sold its one-sixth holding. The purchasers were the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which increased its stock holding from 25% to 37.5%, and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, which bought 37.5%; the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System retained its 25% holding, which in December 2021 it sold to the American private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners. The financial terms of the sale were not disclosed, but the Globe and Mail reported the price was 1.6 billion Canadian dollars.
In September 2020 the company commissioned Wood to create a "decarbonisation roadmap" for the north-east and east coast of Scotland.
Funding for innovation
In 2014, SGN was awarded funding from the industry regulator, Ofgem, to develop two projects. "Opening up the Gas Market" is an investigation into whether the British Gas Safety Regulations could be changed to accept different types of gas. "Robotics" is a project to develop technology for repairing steel mains without interrupting the gas.
Thornton Heath gas explosion
A gas explosion in Croydon, London, on 8 August 2022 resulted in the death of a 4-year-old girl, Sahara Salman. Several other local residents were seriously injured. SGN was reported to have been notified of the gas leak on 30 July
References
External links
Energy companies established in 2005
Utilities of the United Kingdom
Natural gas companies of the United Kingdom
Natural gas pipeline companies
Companies based in Surrey
OMERS companies
British companies established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20driver | In electronics/computer hardware, a display driver is usually a semiconductor integrated circuit (but may alternatively comprise a state machine made of discrete logic and other components) which provides an interface function between a microprocessor, microcontroller, ASIC or general-purpose peripheral interface and a particular type of display device, e.g. LCD, LED, OLED, ePaper, CRT, Vacuum fluorescent or Nixie.
The display driver will typically accept commands and data using an industry-standard general-purpose serial or parallel interface, such as TTL, CMOS, RS-232, SPI, I2C, etc. and generate signals with suitable voltage, current, timing and demultiplexing to make the display show the desired text or image.
The display driver may itself be an application-specific microcontroller and may incorporate RAM, Flash memory, EEPROM and/or ROM. Fixed ROM may contain firmware and display fonts.
A notable example of a display driver IC is the Hitachi HD44780 LCD controller.
Other controllers are KS0108, SSD1815 (graphics capable) and ST7920 (graphics capable)
History
The use of integrated circuit technology to drive a display driver chip dates back to the late 1960s. In 1969, Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP Model 5082-7000 Numeric Indicator, an early LED display and the first LED device to use integrated circuit technology. Its development was led by Howard C. Borden and Gerald P. Pighini at HP Associates and HP Labs, who had engaged in research and development (R&D) on practical LEDs between 1962 and 1968. It was the first intelligent LED display, making it a revolution in digital display technology, replacing the Nixie tube and becoming the basis for later LED displays.
In the early 21st century, display driver chips are widely used for mobile displays in smartphones and other smart devices as well as larger flat-panel displays. Between 2003 and 2005, LCD display driver chips sold 9,821.2million units worldwide.
See also
Device driver
Printer driver
References
Graphics hardware
American inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20United%20States%20broadcast%20television%20realignment | In January 2006, the United States' two "second-tier" television networks, UPN and The WB, announced they would both cease operations on September 15 and 17 respectively, and their operations would be transferred to a new joint-venture "fifth" network, The CW. Meanwhile, Fox Television Stations (which owned several UPN and WB-affiliated stations in large cities that were blocked from affiliating with The CW) signed up with MyNetworkTV, a new "sixth" network owned by then-parent company News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group.
Background
In January 1995, The WB Television Network and the United Paramount Network (UPN) were launched, each hoping to recreate the success of the Fox network, which had launched in October 1986 and became one of America's "major" networks through the successes of several early series (such as The Simpsons, Married... with Children, The X-Files, Melrose Place, Martin, In Living Color, COPS, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Fox Kids' airings of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and its 1993 deal with the National Football League (NFL) to assume the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) from CBS. Like with Fox at the time, The WB targeted a mostly teenage and young adult audience; UPN, however, aimed its programming at a broader demographic of adults between 18 and 49 years of age.
All three networks had been joint ventures between major Hollywood studios and large owners of previously independent stations – The WB was owned by the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, in a joint venture with the Tribune Company, and UPN was founded by Chris-Craft Industries, in a programming partnership with Paramount Pictures. In October 1993, Chris-Craft and the Paramount Stations Group reached affiliation agreements with most of the independents owned by the respective groups to serve as charter UPN affiliates. That November, Tribune cut affiliation deals with The WB for all eight independents it owned at the time (including stations in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago) – as well as a station in Boston that Tribune bought from the Gannett Company the following year, though only seven would join the network at launch due to the company's Atlanta station affiliating with CBS (its New Orleans station would follow suit in 1996, switching its affiliation to ABC); Chris-Craft and Paramount also each owned independents in large and mid-sized markets (with the former owning stations in New York City and Los Angeles).
Both new networks launched to limited fanfare and generally poor results. Over the course of 11½ seasons, despite a number of minor-hit or cult-hit series such as Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, Girlfriends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity, Moesha, Dawson's Creek, The Parkers, One on One, Roswell, and Kids' WB's airing of the anime Pokémon, neither network was able to attain the stature that Fox had gained in its first decade, much less that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMP%20Project | The Downrange Anti-missile Measurement Program or DAMP was an applied research project to obtain scientific data, just prior to and during re-entry, on intermediate- and intercontinental-range ballistic missiles as they returned to earth. The program was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) under the technical direction of the Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) during the period 1 January 1959 through 30 September 1963.
Project organization
The downrange facility was a Liberty-class merchant vessel renovated and converted for its technical assignment and renamed the USAS American Mariner. Its measurement equipment complex included C-band, L-band and UHF radars; digital and analog recorders; gyroscope stabilization; timing generators; mode switching; telemetry acquisition apparatus; radiometers and riometers; boresight cine-TV and other photographic systems; communications and Transit Satellite navigation system.
As a complementary measurement facility to the DAMP ship, the Electromagnetic Research Laboratory at Moorestown, New Jersey, contained C- and L-band radar measurement equipment complete with digital and analog recording system in a range-support-tower combination for full-scale cross-section measurements under static conditions with orthogonal polarizations. Recorded analog data from this facility were provided for immediate use.
Data from both measurement facilities underwent necessary processing at the Riverton, New Jersey, data reduction center, a part of the Data Analysis Laboratory.
Foremost among DAMP Program objectives were to:
Support AMM system designs.
Support penetration aids program.
Support AICBM weapon-system evaluation
Provide scientific information on space environments and hypersonic flight
Advance the general fund of knowledge on re-entry physics and dynamics and the plasma phenomena association with re-entry.
Develop new data acquisition and processing techniques for expanded data quality.
USAS American Mariner
The DAMP ship, the USAS American Mariner, was essentially a floating measurements laboratory that employed various types of sensors, recording apparatus, and technical support equipment. It operated under conventional maritime regulations in the impact area of ballistic missile test firings, primarily in the Caribbean area and in the South Atlantic Ocean, near Ascension Island. During 1962, however, it operated in the Pacific Ocean in order to perform tracking duties during Operation Dominic atomic testing.
The shipboard crew, provided by Mathiasen Tankers Corp., was complemented by approximately sixty technical personnel provided by RCA and Barnes Engineering Corporation, who operated and maintained the radar and support equipment. Each mission required a minimum of 36 hours of on-station preparation and pre- and post-flight calibration. Targets were those of opportunity fired on missile ranges as part of the overall ballistic missile test program, which at the time was in its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20Nautical%20Highway%20System | The Philippine Nautical Highway System, also the Road Roll-on/Roll-off Terminal System (RRTS) or simply the RoRo System, is an integrated network of highway and vehicular ferry routes which forms the backbone of a nationwide vehicle transport system in the Philippines. It is a system of roads and ports developed by the Philippine government to connect the major islands of Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. The nautical highway was opened to the public on April 12, 2003 as the Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH).
Detailed description and impact
Its route covers the provinces and cities of Tagaytay and Batangas City of Calabarzon, Marinduque, Romblon and Oriental Mindoro in Luzon; Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo, Guimaras, Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, Siquijor, Cebu and Bohol in Visayas; and Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte, and Dapitan of Zamboanga del Norte in Mindanao.
This system reduced the previous usual travel time by 17 hours to the different key cities, enhancing the accessibility of the prime tourist destinations, minimizing the handling expenses of goods all over the country.
Several bus companies operate routes using the nautical highway, including ALPS The Bus, Partas, RORO Bus Transport, Ceres Transport, Bachelor Express, Gasat/Valisno Express and Philtranco. Each operates multiple daily bus trips over the SRNH between Manila bus terminals sited in Cubao and Pasay and Iloilo City, with connections available in Iloilo for onwards transportation. The SRNH segment between Manila and Iloilo runs by road to Batangas City, by ferry to Calapan, by road to Roxas, Oriental Mindoro, by ferry to Caticlan (gateway to Boracay, located in Malay, Aklan) and onwards by road to Iloilo City. Private van transport is generally available for hire over individual SRNH road segments, and the ferry segments accept walk-aboard passengers as well as vehicles.
Routes
See also
Philippine highway network
Transportation in the Philippines
Department of Transportation
Department of Public Works and Highways
References
External links
A map of the SRNH is available on the Philippines Department of Agriculture web site.
Roads in the Philippines
Water transportation in the Philippines
Transportation in Luzon
Transportation in Mindanao
Transportation in Palawan
Transportation in the Visayas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Madre | Terra Madre is a network of food communities. Terra Madre network was launched by the Slow Food grass roots organization, and the intent is to provide small-scale farmers, breeders, fishers and food artisans whose approach to food production protects the environment and communities. The network brings them together with academics, cooks, consumers and youth groups so that they can join forces in working to improve the food system.
The Terra Madre network holds a major biennial conference which are held in Torino, Italy intended to foster discussion and introduce innovative concepts in the field of food, gastronomy, globalization, economics. The first of these conferences was held in 2004.
The national and regional Terra Madre work closely with the Slow Food convivia to increase the capacity of local communities to provide good, clean and fair food.
The Terra Madre Foundation was created to conceive, finance and organize international gatherings and other emerging projects, to assure the continuity of Mother Earth.
The founding members of the Terra Madre Foundation include:
The Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies
The Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Piedmont Regional Authority
The City of Turin
Slow Food
History
The first Terra Madre conference took place in Turin in 2004 and was attended by 5,000 delegates from over 130 countries. The program included 61 Earth Workshops. The Torino (Turin) Terra Madre conference convenes every two years in the fall. In October 2006 (October 26 to October 30), Terra Madre drew over 9,000 participants. Terra Madre 2006 focused on the relationships between food communities, cooks, universities and scientists.
Terra Madre conferences
The format of Terra Madre is deliberately international, with presenters speaking in their native languages. Participants wear headsets which relay simultaneous translation. Admission to the event is charged to attendees.
Topics
Terra Madre seminars are intended to focus on topics such as opposing genetically modified foods (GM), the development of organic food, sustainability, water rights, and the impact of globalization on traditional food cultures.
References
External links
Official website (in Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian)
Cifor.cgiar.org
Eau.sagepub.com
Vitaminrelief.org
Rural community development
Slow Food
Italian food- and drink-related organisations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Radoff | Jon Radoff (born September 17, 1972) is an American entrepreneur, author and game designer. His work has focused on online communities, Internet media and computer games. He is CEO and co-founder of Beamable, a Live Game services platform that enables the creation of online games based on Unity.
Radoff began his career when he dropped out of college to found NovaLink, an early internet service provider. In 1991, while at NovaLink, he created Legends of Future Past, one of the first commercial MMORPGs.
In 1997, he founded Eprise Corporation, a creator of Web content management software. Eprise went public on the NASDAQ stock market in 2000 and was acquired by Divine Inc. in 2001.
On September 21, 2006, Radoff founded GamerDNA, a social media company that developed social gaming communities and a videogame advertising network. GamerDNA is now part of Live Gamer.
In March 2010, Radoff started a new social game company called Disruptor Beam that built games for Facebook. In February 2013, the company released Game of Thrones Ascent. The company ultimately sold its games to other publishers, underwent a reorganization, and relaunched as Beamable.
Writing
Radoff wrote Game On: Energize your Business with Social Games, which was published by Wiley in 2011. The book discusses social games, which Radoff views as a 5,000-year-old phenomena, and how games can be applied to businesses to make them more engaging and profitable. Radoff is generally critical of the gamification trend, and explains to businesses that they must incorporate story and immersion into their businesses if they really want to take advantage of the unique engagement offered by games.
Early career
Radoff lived in Northborough, Massachusetts and was a 1991 graduate of Algonquin Regional High School. During his high school years, he developed Space Empire Elite, a bulletin board system strategy game for Atari ST BBS systems. Much of the money Radoff earned from Space Empire Elite and his other Atari ST game, Final Frontier, later became seed capital which he used to start the company NovaLink.
Later authors who maintained or contributed to SEE include Jurgen van den Handel, Steven P. Reed, Carlis Darby, David Pence, Doc Wynne, David Jones, and Dick Pederson. Also while in high school, Radoff purchased the rights to port the Atari ST BBS software StarLink, which supported FidoNet, to the Amiga; Radoff named the ported software Paragon BBS. After a brief time studying at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Radoff dropped out to form his first company.
Games
The games developed, co-developed and/or directed by Jon Radoff:
References
External links
Jon Radoff's blog
Interview with Gamasutra
1972 births
Living people
American entertainment industry businesspeople
American video game designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifted%20%282006%20film%29 | Lifted is a 2006 American computer-animated short science fiction film written and directed by Gary Rydstrom and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. This is the directorial debut of Rydstrom, a seven-time Academy Award-winning sound designer, editor and mixer, and the first produced by Katherine Sarafian, who went on to produce Pixar's Brave released in 2012.
Inspired by Metropolis (1927), the short premiered on October 12, 2006 at the 42nd Chicago International Film Festival at Columbia College, and was released theatrically with Pixar's Ratatouille on June 29, 2007. Lifted was re-released theatrically in the United States on March 21, 2014 in 3D and IMAX formats.
Plot
A young alien named Stu is inside a spacecraft taking an alien abduction test. He must snatch a sleeping farmer named Ernie under the watchful eye of his impassive examiner, a gelatinous blob named Mr. B. Working from memory, Stu is expected to use an array of thousands of identical unlabeled toggle switches for this purpose; Mr. B's neutral expression gives no hints of which ones to use.
Stu's hesitant flicks of the switches turn out to be wrong, causing Ernie to bump into the walls and ceiling, albeit without waking him up. As Stu grows increasingly frustrated, he flies into an angry meltdown and swipes randomly at the array. Ernie bounces randomly around the room like a pinball, knocking over the furniture in the process but remaining asleep. Eventually, after checking his notes, Stu does succeed in maneuvering Ernie out the window and up into the ship, but he shuts off the tractor beam without closing the cargo hatch. As Ernie plummets toward the ground, Mr. B takes over and catches him, he then pushes Stu far away from him and starts working the switches with incredible speed to put him back in his bed and clean up the mess Stu created.
Dejected over his failure, Stu struggles to hold back tears. With a sigh, the sympathetic Mr. B allows him to launch the spaceship for the trip home. Stu cheerfully grabs the steering yoke and begins to maneuver; a moment later the ship slams to the ground, crushing Ernie's house. When it lifts off, its underside is covered with dirt and debris, and nothing is left of the house except a tall pillar of dirt in the center of a crater, cut out by the open cargo hatch. Atop this, Ernie is still sound asleep in bed.
As the end credits run, the sound of Ernie's alarm clock is heard, followed by his yawn, a scream and a thud – indicating that he has fallen into the crater.
Production
Production on the film began in mid-2005 and was completed in the summer of 2006. The short was inspired by Gary Rydstrom's own experiences as a sound mixer, and how uncomfortable and difficult it is to operate the large, complex piece of equipment when there are lots of people watching and taking notes. There were no large technological advances used in Lifted, only the use of a new program called Jiggle. This program gives the animators a way to resonate, or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Moore | Frank Moore may refer to:
Writers and artists
Frank Moore (journalist) (1828–1904), American journalist and compiler
Frank Moore (performance artist) (1946–2013), American performance artist
Frank C. Moore (painter) (1953–2002), New York-based painter
Frank Frankfort Moore (1855–1931), British dramatist, novelist and poet
Frank Gardner Moore (1865–1955), American Latin scholar
Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967), painter and the first director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Others
Frank Moore (American actor) (1880–1924), American stage actor; appeared in His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
Frank Moore (Canadian actor) (born 1946), Canadian film, television and stage actor
Frank Moore (baseball) (1877–1964), pitcher in Major League Baseball
Frank Moore (horse racing), Australian jockey
Frank Moore (rower), Irish Olympic rower
Sir Frank Moore (tourism advocate) (born 1930), major figure in tourism development in Australia
Frank A. Moore (1844–1918), American politician and judge in the state of Oregon
Frank C. Moore (politician) (1896–1978), American lawyer and politician
Frank E. Moore (1933–2019), Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Frank Moore (political activist) (1867–1940), New Zealand political activist
Frank Murchison Moore, United States Army Air Service officer
See also
Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925), American educator and writer
Frank Moore Cross (1921–2012), professor emeritus of the Harvard Divinity School
Francis Moore (disambiguation)
Moore (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20volcanoes%20in%20Tanzania | This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Tanzania.
References
Further reading
Global Volcanism Program, 2023. [Database] Volcanoes of the World (v. 5.1.1; 17 Aug 2023). Distributed by Smithsonian Institution, compiled by Venzke, E. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW5-2023.5.1
Tanzania
Volcanoes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xconq | Xconq is an open-source computer strategy game. This multiplayer video game was first posted to comp.sources.games on 9 July 1987.
Xconq is released as free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.
Gameplay
Originally a straightforward clone of Empire, later versions included the ability to define rulesets for different kinds of games, first using a Forth-like syntax, then a more powerful version based on Lisp syntax. It was also ported to other computer systems, including Macintosh, Amiga, and Windows.
Xconq is designed to be portable and re-definable. The default ruleset is similar to Empire, but the ruleset, graphics, and maps can be altered to represent different time periods and strategic scales. Example rulesets provided with the game include Napoleonic strategy, Beirut guerilla fighting, World War II grand strategy, and Godzilla destroying Tokyo. It can be played by multiple human or AI-controlled players over a network or via hot seat play.
History
Stan Shebs started working on a simple Empire clone in 1986, initially using Curses for its interface, then adding an X10 interface. He posted this version to comp.sources.games in July 1987. It used a map based on squares rather than hexes, and supported multiple players by exploiting X's capability for a single program to open windows on multiple displays, although it accepted input from only the player whose turn it was; other players could not even scroll their map display. Even this first version included support for three rulesets (the "standard" Empire-like game, a Napoleonic-era game, and ancient Greeks), but they were defined by C structures and had to be compiled in.
Shebs switched the game to use hex-based maps, added a postfix language to define the ruleset to be used when a game started, and changed the X interface to allow all players to interact simultaneously; these versions were numbered 2, 3, and 4, but were not released widely. After the addition of an X11 interface written by Chris Peterson, version 5.0 was posted to comp.sources.games (as "xconq5") in June 1988.
1989 saw the first attempt at a client/server version, uconq.
The Macintosh port was developed in 1993.
Although work had started on version 7.5, there has been little development since 2004, with the last CVS commit made in 2007.
See also
List of open source games
References
See also
List of 4X video games
External links
Official site
Downloads and info on sourceforge.net
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Open-source video games
Strategy video games
1987 video games
Windows games
Unix games
Amiga games
Linux games
Classic Mac OS games
MacOS games
Video game clones
4X video games
Video game engines
Video games developed in the United States
Free software that uses Tk (software) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoque%20languages | The Zoque () languages form a primary branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico by the Zoque people.
Central (Copainalá) Zoque-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XECOPA, broadcasting from Copainalá, Chiapas.
There are over 100,000 speakers of Zoque languages. 74,000 people reported their language to be "Zoque" in a 2020 census, and an additional 36,000 reported their language to be Sierra Popoluca. Most of the remaining 8,400 "Popoluca" speakers are presumably also Zoque.
Languages
Zoquean languages fall in three groups:
Gulf Zoquean (Veracruz Zoque)
Sierra Popoluca (Soteapan Zoque)
Texistepec Popoluca
Ayapa Zoque (Tabasco Zoque)
Oaxacan Zoque
Chimalapa Zoque (dialects: Santa María Chimalapa, San Miguel Chimalapa)
Chiapas Zoque
Copainalá Zoque
Francisco León Zoque
Rayón Zoque (a dialect cluster)
Justeson and Kaufman also classify Epi-Olmec as a Zoquean language, although this claim is disputed by Andrew Robinson.
Demographics
List of ISO 639-3 codes and demographic information of Mixean languages from Ethnologue (22nd edition):
References
Wichmann, Søren, 1995. The Relationship Among the Mixe–Zoquean Languages of Mexico. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City.
Recordings
Sierra Popoluca Collection of Lynda Boudreault at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains audio recordings and transcriptions of Zoque and Soteapan in a wide range of genres. Some files are restricted but may be available upon request.
See also
Epi-Olmec script
Indigenous languages of Mexico
Mesoamerican languages
Mixe–Zoque languages
Articles citing INALI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVQT-LD | KVQT-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Houston, Texas, United States, which maintains affiliations with several digital multicast networks. The station is owned by C. Dowen Johnson. KVQT-LD's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
History
The station was founded on May 1, 1990, on channel 24, but moved to channel 21 in 2005 due to displacement by KETH-TV's digital signal.
The station has had the KVQT call letters since August 2000.
KVQT was converted from analog to digital operation on June 12, 2009 by Skip Marsden of E.L. Marsden Wireless of Terrell, Texas, the manufacturer of the KVQT transmitter. KVQT began digital television broadcasting with two standard definition program streams, and has expanded to four.
The station was granted a minor change in call sign (from KVQT-LP to KVQT-LD) on May 4, 2010.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
See also
Jorge and Lorena Gamboa
References
External links
Independent television stations in the United States
VQT-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1990
VQT
1990 establishments in Texas
Retro TV affiliates
NOST affiliates
Heartland (TV network) affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist%20Finance%20Tracking%20Program | The Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) is a United States government program to access financial transactions on the international SWIFT network that was revealed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times in June 2006. It was part of the Bush administration's War on Terrorism. After the covert action was disclosed, the so-called SWIFT Agreement was negotiated between the United States and the European Union.
Overview
A series of articles published on June 23, 2006, by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times revealed that the United States government, specifically the US Treasury and the CIA, had developed methods to access the SWIFT transaction database after the September 11th attacks.
According to the June 2006 New York Times article, the program helped lead to the capture of an al-Qaeda operative known as Hambali in 2003, believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombing, as well as helped identify a Brooklyn man convicted in 2005 for laundering money for an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan. The Treasury Department and White House responded to the leak the day before it was published, claiming that the leak damaged counterterrorism activities. They also referred to the program as the "Terrorist Finance Tracking Program" ("TFTP"), similar to the Terrorist Surveillance Program in the NSA wiretapping controversy.
The Terrorist Finance Tracking Program was viewed by the Bush administration as another tool in the "Global War on Terrorism". The administration contends the program allows additional scrutiny that could prove instrumental in tracking transactions between terrorist cells. Some have raised concerns that the program might also be a violation of United States and European financial privacy laws, because individual search warrants to access financial data were not obtained in advance. In response to the claim that the program violates US law, some have noted that the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Miller (1976) has ruled that there is not an expected right to privacy for financial transaction records held by third parties and that "the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed".
Immediately following the disclosure, SWIFT released a press statement asserting that they gave information to the United States in compliance with Treasury Department subpoenas, but claimed that "SWIFT received significant protections and assurances as to the purpose, confidentiality, oversight and control of the limited sets of data produced under the subpoenas".
European privacy laws
On 27 June 2006, it was revealed by the media that Belgium's central bank, the National Bank of Belgium, had known about the US government' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlace%20Nicaragua | Enlace Nicaragua is a Christian television channel in Nicaragua, part of the international Enlace TBN network (Trinity Broadcasting Network). It broadcasts on UHF channel 21.
History
Enlace Nicaragua began its broadcasts in 1988 with a low-power transmitter providing it a coverage radius of . In 1991, the network began transmitting from Las Nubes, a high mountain south of the capital of Managua. It was Nicaragua's first UHF television station. The new station soon built studios to begin national program production, as well as a series of repeaters to give it national coverage.
In 2001, the network moved to a new studio location, which has since been expanded with a 500-seat auditorium and a new administration building.
A 2010 press release from the opposition Cambio Cristiano Democrático party described the then-director of Enlace Nicaragua, Guillermo Osorno, as having "sold out" to Daniel Ortega's government, calling on the public to stop giving to Enlace's telethons.
On November 9, 2021, Telcor visited the facilities of Enlace Nicaragua (branded at time of closure as TV21) for an act of "routine inspection" and arbitrarily cancelling the channel's terrestrial television license. Reverend Guillermo Osorno said that the shutdown of the channel was unjustified since most of the programs broadcast by the channel were spiritual and not political.
References
Television stations in Nicaragua
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRT | JRT may refer to:
Broadcasters
Yugoslav Radio Television (1956–1992)
Shikoku Broadcasting, Japan (founded 1952)
Languages
JRT (programming language), a 1980s implementation of Pascal
Chakato language, spoken in Nigeria (ISO 639-3:krt)
Other uses
Jack Russell Terrier, a dog breed
Journal of Reformed Theology (first published 2007)
Junctional reciprocating tachycardia, an abnormal heart condition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Junior%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Junior was a British and Irish pay television kids' TV channel that was owned by Disney–ABC Television Group that focused on preschool programming. It was launched on 29 September 2000 as Playhouse Disney. The channel was rebranded as Disney Junior on 7 May 2011, it later ceased broadcasting on 30 September 2020.
History
Early programming efforts
When Disney Channel changed its programming focus in 1997, "Disney Channel Underfives" was launched to fill its morning schedule.
On September 28, 1999, the time slot was given its own distinct identity and live-action continuity. By 2000, it had become Playhouse Disney, introducing that branding for the first time outside of the United States. The two main presenters were Dave Benson Phillips and Alex Lovell (referred to as Big Dave and Little Alex), presenting programming from the appropriately titled Playhouse.
Launch as a dedicated channel
On September 29, 2000, Disney Television International launched Playhouse Disney as a standalone channel alongside Toon Disney and Disney Channel +1 on the Sky Digital platform. Since the channel was exclusive to Sky Digital at this time, the Playhouse Disney block continued to broadcast on Disney Channel during school-term weekdays. Playhouse Disney was later launched on NTL and Telewest in 2002 and 2003 respectively. The Playhouse Disney block later reduced its hours of programming featured and was eventually disposed of in July 2004. The Playhouse presentation format hosted by Big Dave and Little Alex remained until late August 2006.
Transition to standard network
On 28 February 2006, Disney Media Networks and BSkyB announced that Playhouse Disney, in addition to its sister channel Disney Channel would cease as premium add-ons and transition to basic TV packages such as Sky's "Kids Mix" beginning on March 16, and that a new sister channel - Disney Cinemagic would take over Disney's premium offerings, replacing Toon Disney. The transition of Playhouse to a basic network led to a significant broadcast share increase of 83% by July.
In June 2006, a Playhouse Disney block was added to the morning schedule of ABC1. It was removed after Disney ceased transmission of ABC1 in September 2007. ABC1's slot itself on Sky would be used to launch a 25-minute timeshift of Playhouse Disney, which was added on 30 October, and launched on 3 November.
Rebrand as Disney Junior
On 29 January 2011, it was announced that Playhouse Disney would rebrand as Disney Junior on 7 May, as part of a worldwide rebranding. On the date of the rebrand, the channel transitioned to airing in a 16:9 widescreen ratio.
On 21 February 2013, Sky and Disney Channels Worldwide announced that a high-definition simulcast of Disney Junior would launch on Sky in May.
In September 2017, Disney XD +1 was turned into a pop-up channel titled Mickey and Pals, which aired various programming from Disney Junior.
Closure
Disney Junior, along with its sister channels Disney XD and Disney Channel, clos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20General | Star General is a computer wargame, last in SSI's series of hexagonal-movement games popularized by Panzer General. Star General bases its story setting on The Fleet, a series of books written by David Drake and Bill Fawcett. The game was developed by Catware and SSI in 1996.
Gameplay
Star General pits up to seven alien races against one another in a galactic battle of conquest. The seven races include the deceitful Cephalians, the reptilian Dragonians, the feline Hressa, the Humans, the barbarian Khalians, the insectoid Xritra, and fascist human separatists who belong to the Schleinel Hegemony.
There are 90 different types of units, from ground forces to spaceships. Among the space vessels there are a wide variety of specializations—including mine countermeasure vessels, assault vessels, troop transports, reconnaissance, battleships, missile boats, carriers and destroyers. There is also some use of older terms of reference for classifying warships—terms of reference that are not used in the navies of today. One example is that the term monitor is used to specify a kind of space warship. The general disposition of ship types is an approximation of navies in the era between the two world wars, before carriers became a major part of naval forces. On the planetary surface, there are space docks for launching ships, mines to produce monetary units, factories to manufacture ships, and industrial plants and biodomes to support population, as well as a range of ground forces, again roughly equivalent to military forces in mid to late 1930s to perhaps early WW2.
Reception
Star General sold at least 50,000 units by September 1997 and over 120,000 units by May 1999.
Computer Gaming Worlds Tim Carter panned the game as "all the flash and little of the gameplay" of what made the original a classic, but praised the clean interface, simple learning curve, and some fun moments in space fleet actions.
Star General was named the 85th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997.
References
External links
Star General at MobyGames
1996 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Science fiction video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games based on novels
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Kelly%20%28author%29 | Bob Kelly (born April 17, 1971, in Massachusetts) best known as an expert on the deployment of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Kelly was a cryptologic technician in the US Navy from 1989 to 1997, finishing his service as the systems administrator for communications system at the White House during the Clinton administration.
Bob Kelly is a subject-matter expert on Microsoft Windows deployment and Windows Installer technologies. He is the founder of AppDeploy.com – a resource focused on desktop management products and practices. He is author of the Start to Finish Guide to Scripting with KiXtart and The Definitive Guide to Windows Desktop Administration as well as several white papers and articles on similar topics. Kelly is also co-founder and president of iTripoli, Inc.– a software company focused on producing helpful tools for Windows administrators where he produces and supports applications like Admin Script Editor (a scripting editor for Windows Administrators).
References
Kelly, Bob. Start to Finish Guide to Scripting with KiXtart / Bob Kelly. Greenland, NH : Agility Press, 2004.
Kelly, Bob. The Definitive Guide To Windows Desktop Administration / Bob Kelly. San Francisco, CA : Realtimepublishers, 2004. eBook
Kelly, Bob. "Deploying and Administering Windows Vista Bible" /Bob Kelly. Wiley
1971 births
Living people
Writers from Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisi%C3%B3n%20Canaria | Televisión Canaria is a Spanish regional free-to-air television network in the Canary Islands belonging to the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC). It has two production centers in Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (where is legally registered), and has offices in the rest of the Canary Islands, as well as in Madrid .
The channel broadcasts on DTT throughout the Canary Islands. Televisión Canaria also broadcasts an international channel named which broadcasts in the rest of Spain, Europe, North and South America. Formerly TVC also broadcast two more channels: TV Canaria 2 and an online channel named Televisión Canaria Net.
History
The creation of the channel arose in the 1980s with promulgation of the law 8/1984 of the autonomous region of Canaries relating to Broadcasting and Televisión Canaria. The first broadcast was made on the 21 August 1999 under the name Televisión Autonómica de Canarias (TVAC), in 2001 the company adopted the simpler name of Televisión Canaria and the slogan la nuestra. In 2010 the channel launched its HD version.
In 2012 Televisión Canaria faced a financial crisis, in order to solve it it was necessary to lay off several workers and close down TV Canaria 2, the TVC's secondary channel.
Since 2012, the channel has faced different processes of administrative changes and interventions by the Canarian Parliament and Government due to problems in the election of its administrative council.
During September 2021, TV Canaria recorded its best audience numbers for the channel's coverage of the volcanic eruption on La Palma, in addition, the channel's signal was used by other media outlets to report on the event.
Programming
Televisión Canaria broadcasts a general programming, which is based on informative programs, contests, local culture, sports, music and typical Canarian festivals.
Logos and identities
References
External links
Official Site
TV Canaria at LyngSat Address
Mass media in the Canary Islands
Mass media in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Television stations in Spain
FORTA
Spanish-language television stations
Companies of the Canary Islands
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Canaria%202 | TV Canaria 2 was an exclusive channel available on Digital Terrestrial Television (TDT) in the Canary Islands.
The channel was an autonomous television network owned by Televisión Canaria. TV Canaria 2 mainly broadcasts programmes such as documentary, cultural programmes and news programmes. The principal place of TV Canaria 2 is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
External links
Official Site
Mass media in the Canary Islands
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Spanish-language television stations
Companies of the Canary Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20personalities%20on%20NFL%20Network | Past and present television personalities on the NFL Network.
Current NFL Network personalities
Kay Adams: (2016–present) host
Jill Arrington: (2018–present) host
Taylor Bisciotti:(2016-present) reporter/host
LaVar Arrington: (2013–present) analyst
Brian Baldinger: (2003–present) reporter/analyst
Kyle Brandt: (2016–present) host
Albert Breer: (2010–2016) reporter
Bucky Brooks (2010–present) analyst/reporter
Nate Burleson: (2016–present) host
Charley Casserly: (2008–present) analyst
Erin Coscarelli: (2014–present) host
Victor Cruz: (2017–present) analyst
Stacey Dales: (2009–present) reporter
Dave Dameshek: (2012–present) fantasy analyst
Chase Daniel: (2023–present) analyst
Charles Davis: (2007–present) analyst
Eric Davis: (2012–present) analyst
Terrell Davis: (2003–2012, 2013–present) analyst
Spero Dedes: (2006–present) host/play-by-play
Jamie Dukes: (2006–present) analyst
Rich Eisen: (2003–present) host
Michael Fabiano: (2012–present) fantasy analyst
Alex Flanagan: (2006–present) host/anchor/reporter
Leslie Frazier: (2023–present) analyst
Cynthia Frelund: (2016-present) analytics analyst/expert
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila: (2012–present) fantasy analyst
Jay Glazer: (2010–present) analyst
Rebecca Haarlow: (2011–present) reporter/host
Scott Hanson: (2006–present) reporter/host
DeAngelo Hall: (2019-present) analyst
Pep Hamilton: (2023-present) analyst
Dan Hellie: (2013–present) host/anchor/reporter
Michael Irvin: (2009–present) lead analyst
Kim Jones: (2007–2008, 2012–present) reporter
Mark Kriegel: (2012–present) analyst
Steve Mariucci: (2006–present) lead analyst''
Gerald McCoy: (2023–present) analyst Willie McGinest: (2012–present) analyst Randy Moss (2008–present) anchor/reporter Shaun O'Hara: (2012–present) analyst Tom Pelissero: (2018–present) reporter/analyst Kristina Pink: (2018–present) sideline reporter Ian Rapoport: (2012–present) reporter/analyst Lindsay Rhodes: (2009–present) anchor/reporter Chris Rose: (2012–present) host Peter Schrager: (2016–present) host Sterling Sharpe: (2003–present) analyst David Shaw: (2023–present) analyst Brad Sham: (2007–present) play-by-play Andrew Siciliano: (2012–present) host Jane Slater: (2016–present) host/reporter Matt "Money" Smith: (2011–present) fantasy analyst Melissa Stark: (2011–present) host/reporter Joe Theismann: (2009–present) analyst Amber Theoharis: (2012–present) host LaDainian Tomlinson: (2012–present) analyst Robert Turbin: (2023–present) analyst Kurt Warner: (2010–present) analyst Heidi Watney: (2022–present) host/reporter Sara Walsh: (2019–present) host/reporter Solomon Wilcots: (2003–present) analyst Ari Wolfe: (2010–present) host/reporter Colleen Wolfe: (2014–present) host Steve Weissman: (2015–present) host Steve Wyche: (2009–present) analyst David Carr: (2016-present) analystFormer NFL Network personalities
Elliot Harrison (?-2019) host of power rankings
Ernie Accorsi: (2008) analyst Troy Aikman: (2018–2021) analyst Jennifer Allen: (2004–2012) featu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema%20Sandinista%20de%20Televisi%C3%B3n | The Sandinist Television System (Sistema Sandinista de Televisión -SSTV) was a television network in Nicaragua, owned and operated by the government from 1979 to 1990.
History
When the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in Nicaragua in 1979, there were only two private television stations broadcasting in Nicaragua. Televicentro (Canal 2), founded in 1965 and owned by Televicentro de Nicaragua, S.A. of the Sacasa family and Canal 6 owned by the Somoza family and founded in 1959.
The SSTV was officially constituted by law on February 10, 1984 but both TV stations were nationalized from their former owners by the Sandinista government already in July 1979 and the SSTV existed de facto since then.
The network was under the administration of a Board of Directors with the following representatives from these institutions:.
the Council of National Reconstruction
the president of National Council for Higher Education
the Ministry of Education
the Ministry of Culture
the Ministry of Telecommunications
the National Teacher's Association
the Nicaraguan Journalists Union
as well as representatives of the two channels of SSTV and their station managers
In 1989 the Sandinista government decided to return Televicentro (Canal 2) to the Sacasa family. That was interpreted as an evidence of the political circumstances in the last years of Sandinistas rule with a more open and tolerant policy towards the opposition.
With Violeta Chamorro's triumph in the 1990 elections, the network was dismantled and Canal 6 became part of The National Television System (Sistema Nacional de Televisión - SNTV) until 1997 when it was legally declared in bankruptcy under Arnoldo Alemán's government. After 16 years of abandonment, on September 14, 2011, Channel 6 was again on the air, due to the investments made by the Nicaraguan government in the restoration of the channel.
Programming
In the beginning, because of the economic blockade imposed by the United States, the SSTV programming was composed of US series and Cuban productions used to educate according to the new government's ideology.
However, with the help of European professionals (especially from Soviet bloc countries) and Cubans, the network created programs of ample remembrance among the Nicaraguan population while at the same time forming talents that would influence the Nicaraguan television scene. Among the programs produced by SSTV are La Liga del Saber, El Chocoyito Chimbarón, Domingos Espectaculares (Spectacular Sundays) and several documentaries about the Sandinista Revolution.
Channel 6 offered a generalist programming while Channel 2 specialized in educational and cultural programming.
References
Defunct television networks
Television stations in Nicaragua
Television channels and stations established in 1979
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1990
Defunct mass media in Nicaragua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Tape%20Format | Digital Tape Format is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony. It uses a 1/2" wide tape, in a cassette with two reels, which is written and read with a helical scan process. The format is described by the ECMA 248 (adopted June 1998) and ISO/IEC 15731 standards. There are two sizes of tape cassettes, "S" and "L".
Generations
Notes:
Both used ALDC compression
DTF-2 used Fibre Channel or SCSI interfaces
The tape cassettes are similar to those of Sony Betacam.
External links
ECMA 248 Specification of DTF-1.
ECMA 315 Specification of DTF-2.
Brochure for DTF-1 drive with specs
DTF at the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, including images
Computer storage tape media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Poirier | Claude Poirier (born October 26, 1938, in Montreal, Quebec) is a negotiator and crime reporter for the Quebec-based Canadian French-language television network TVA. He is best known for negotiating with suspects during hostage situations.
Poirier's 60-year career as a crime reporter started in 1960 when he covered a bank robbery. He continued to do the job for several months without receiving a salary. Soon after, he reported on the assassinations of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In Quebec, he covered the kidnapping and subsequent murder of former Quebec Liberal Minister of Labor Pierre Laporte, by the FLQ militant group in 1970. He has, perhaps unwillingly, nicknamed the RCMP (Gendarmerie Royale du Canada in French) la "Genmarderie Royale du Canada" ("marde" is a slang term for excrement in French). Rumour has it that he does it on purpose because of a grudge he has against them. Due to such events, he is often portrayed in comedy sketches.
During his career Poirier has participated in numerous inquiries and trials as an expert and as a witness. He covered the widely publicized biker gang war that broke out in Quebec during the 1990s as well as trials in notorious murder or crime cases such as the trial of several biker gang members arrested during a province-wide police operation called "Printemps 2001" which significantly reduced their criminal activities around the province.
During hostage situations or similar events, criminals often asked police for a negotiation with Poirier. In August 2007, he was heavily involved over the well-publicized case of the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl, Cédrika Provencher, in Trois-Rivières, in a possible case of abduction.
Poirier received the Medal of Bravery frin the Canadian government in 1977. The Quebec government jas honoured him five times during his career.
Today, Poirier still comments on recent crime cases or cold ones on the TVA Nouvelles broadcast at 5:00 p.m. EDT on weekdays and during the LCN morning show. During his commentary, he also discusses the judicial system as well as federal or provincial laws related to crime measures such as gun control, prison sentences and related matters. He is also the host of Le Vrai Négociateur on LCN, a 60-minute show that discusses various cases involving the juridical system in Quebec or Canada as well as various crime or disappearance cases.
Poirier also played an important role in the production of the television series "Le Negociateur" which aired in 2005. The second season began on October 23, 2006, on the TVA television network. The series features well-known figures in Quebec culture such as Elvis Gratton star actor Julien Poulin, Frederick de Grandpré, Pierre Curzi, Les Boys actors Serge Thériault and Roc Lafortune, 2004 Star Académie winner Stephanie Lapointe and Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge.
References
External links
Biography of Claude Poirier
1938 b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Roadhouse | The Roadhouse was a Classic Country radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 62, XM Satellite Radio channel 10 and DISH Network channel 6062. As of February 9, 2010, Direct TV dropped Sirius XM programming in favor of SonicTap.
Originally airing only on Sirius, the channel was added to the XM platform (replacing XM's America) in November 2008.
From December 7-December 25, 2009, the Roadhouse was temporarily pre-empted for "Country Christmas", a format of country Christmas music.
On May 4, 2011, The Roadhouse and Willie's Place was merged to make Willie's Roadhouse. Willie's Roadhouse will take over the Grand Ole Opry broadcasts on Friday and Saturday nights.
Programs
Bill Anderson Visits with the Legends, Country Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson talks with and looks at influential moments and people in the history of country music.
The Grand Ole Opry, encore presentations of the Grand Ole Opry performances, which aired live on Nashville! XM11.
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Digital-only radio stations
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2001
Radio stations disestablished in 2011
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass%20%28Sirius%29 | Bluegrass was a Bluegrass music satellite radio channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 65 and DISH Network channel 6065
The channel was merged with XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction in November 2008, following the merger of the two services.
See also
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
External links
Sirius Bluegrass
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaneTele | BaneTele was a Norwegian part state owned telecommunications company previously part of the Norwegian State Railways. The company provided stem fiberoptic cable network in Norway along the railway and power grid. The company had its headquarters in Oslo.
The company only offered the central network capacity, not any content. Along with Telenor it was the only company to offer central network services, covering 70 cities north to Tromsø. The company sold its products to smaller customers through agents or other operators while larger customers could purchase directly from BaneTele. In total the BaneTele network was 12,500 km long.
History
The Norwegian State Railways (NSB) built a parallel copper network along the railway for internal communication and signaling; by 1899 this network was complete. In 1985 NSB started the construction of a fibre network. By 1996 this was made a division of the Jernbaneverket, the newly created track operator, with the name BaneTele. The division was made a limited company in 2001. The same year BaneTele bought the remains of the bankrupt company Enitel which was created by numerous Norwegian electricity companies to build a national fibre network along the power grid. Enitel had also bought Telia Norway after the failed merge between Telia and Telenor. Enitel went bankrupt in 2001 and the power grid network was merged with the railway network. In 2002 the ownership of BaneTele was transferred from Jernbaneverket to the government. In 2006 50% of BaneTele was sold to Bredbåndsalliansen, which in turn is owned by 6 Norwegian electricity companies, thereby reinstating some of the ownership that was lost when Enitel went bankrupt.
Telecommunications companies of Norway
Formerly government-owned companies of Norway
Telecommunications companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in Norway
Norwegian National Rail Administration
Government-owned telecommunications companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20and%20Rescue%20%281977%20TV%20series%29 | Search and Rescue is a 1977-1978 family-oriented adventure television series co-produced by the CTV television network in Canada and NBC in the United States. The program was aired in prime time in Canada and on Saturday mornings by NBC. It was later syndicated overseas. The American broadcasts of the series carried the modified title Search and Rescue: The Alpha Team. The show aired on NBC from September 10, 1977 to January 28, 1978.
The series starred Michael J. Reynolds (an actor later known for appearing in many commercials for Nabob coffee) as Dr. Bob Donell, the leader of a unique rescue team that includes his two children Katy (Donann Cavin) and Jim (Michael Tough). What makes the team unique is that it conducts its rescues using a veritable zoo of specially trained animals. Each episode would see the Alpha Team utilizing specific animals to handle specific incidents, ranging from birds to dogs.
A total of 26 episodes were produced, although the American broadcast of the series was cancelled after thirteen episodes.
References
External links
Series profile webpage
1970s Canadian drama television series
1977 Canadian television series debuts
1978 Canadian television series endings
CTV Television Network original programming
NBC original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartComputing | Smart Computing was a monthly computing and technology magazine published by Sandhills Publishing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. First released under the name PC Novice, it was published from 1990 to 2013.
Content
The magazine featured articles, reviews of hardware and software, editorial content and classified advertising. It was geared more toward newer users than its sister publications, Computer Power User and CyberTrend (previously known as PC Today).
Articles and Features
Technology News and Notes, by Christian Perry - News and a monthly Q/A help desk
Tech Diaries, various authors - Reviews
Software Head-to-Head, various authors - a comparison of software
September 2006: Anti-Spam: , SonicWALL Email Security Desktop, OnlyMyEmail, VQme Anti Spam with Webmail. Winner: SonicWALL Email Security Desktop
October 2006: Instant Messaging clients: Yahoo! Messenger 8, AIM Triton 1.5, Google Talk, ICQ 5.1, Trillian 3.1, Windows Live Messenger. Winner: Yahoo! Messenger
January 2007: Office suites: StarOffice 8, Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition, Corel WordPerfect X3 Standard Edition, Ability Office Standard Edition. Winner: StarOffice 8
Software Reviews, various
Staff Picks, various - staff's choices of hardware
Windows Tips & Tricks, various - helpful hints for using Microsoft Windows
General Computing, various - articles about no specific topic
Reader's Tips, by readers - readers give hints to other readers
Learning Linux, by Vince Cogley, NEW COLUMN - teach yourself using Linux with the Ubuntu distribution
Plugged In, various - tips on using the Internet
Mr. Modem's Desktop, by Mr. Modem - various tips and Internet links
Quick Studies, various - tips on and fixing problems with using very commonly used software
Tidbits, by Marty Sems - information on new stuff
Tech Support, various - consists of:
What to Do When... - a guide on fixing road-block problems
Examining Errors - the magazine helps readers with errors
Fast Fixes - information on new software updates
Q&A - answers to tech support questions
FAQ - answers to frequently asked questions; each month all questions are about the same topic
Action Editor, unknown - Action Editor comes to the rescue when companies deny service or give bad service
Tales From The Trenches, by Gregory Anderson - his bad experiences when using computers and what to do about them if they happen to you
Editorial License, by Rod Scher - description unknown
See also
Computer magazines
References
External links
Publisher's website
1990 establishments in Nebraska
2013 disestablishments in Nebraska
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Home computer magazines
Magazines established in 1990
Magazines disestablished in 2013
Magazines published in Nebraska
Mass media in Lincoln, Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Today | PC Today (Later Cyber Trend) was a monthly mobile computing and technology computer magazine published by Sandhills Publishing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, US.
History and profile
The article and editorial content focused primarily around mobile and wireless technologies, notebooks, mobile phones, PDAs, Windows, and office and home software. The magazine was renamed CyberTrend in 2014, which was distributed to business-class hotels, airline clubs, and fixed-base operators. The magazine also included classified advertising. Nancy Hammel served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine when it was published under the title of PC Today. The magazine ceased publication in July 2017.
References
External links
Publisher's website
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Home computer magazines
Magazines with year of establishment missing
Magazines disestablished in 2017
Magazines published in Nebraska
Mass media in Lincoln, Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20Hall%20%28Sirius%20XM%29 | Symphony Hall is a Sirius XM Radio station featuring exclusively classical music. It is located on Sirius XM Radio channel 76 and DISH Network channel 6076. Originally Sirius only, it was merged with the XM Classics channel on November 12, 2008.
Pablo Salazar is the current Program Director for Symphony Hall, Symphony Hall Just Music, SiriusXM Pops and Strings.
Martin Goldsmith (former longtime host of the then-National Public Radio program Performance Today), Preston Trombly, Robert Aubry Davis, Lauren Rico, John Clare and Vincent Caruso are the channel's current on-air voices. Special programs include: SiriusXM Presents The Philadelphia Orchestra, Living American, Classics On Film, Weekend Pops, Millennium of Music, Vox Choral, Baroque and Beyond, The weekend show with Martin Goldsmith and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The channel also carried the syndicated daily program Exploring Music prior to April 2010.
Between 12 AM and 6 AM (ET), the channel's programming consists of automated classical music selections, with no on-air hosts.
Since the Sirius XM merger, Symphony Hall competed with Sirius XM Pops for classical music listeners. However, on July 10, 2014, Sirius XM announced Sirius XM Pops would close and merge with Symphony Hall. The former Sirius XM Pops station is still available as an online-only station on the Sirius XM app.
Holiday Pops
Beginning on noon Christmas Eve through Christmas Day each year Symphony Hall is preempted on the Satellite service by Holiday Pops, one of Sirius XM's holiday stations that plays classical Christmas music featuring both vocal and instrumental holiday pieces. During this time, the regular Symphony Hall programming is still available as an online station. Holiday Pops is available for a longer period online where it begins on the first Monday in December and runs until Christmas Day.
Core artists
John Adams
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Joshua Bell
Johannes Brahms
Antonin Dvorak
Gustavo Dudamel
Joseph Haydn
Jennifer Higdon
Yuja Wang
Alan Hovhaness
Arcangelo Corelli
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aaron Copland
See also
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
References
External links
Symphony Hall - Canadian Communication Foundation
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels
Classical music radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Hospital%20East | Community Hospital East is a hospital located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is part of the Community Health Network group of hospitals in Indiana.
History
Community Hospital was founded on August 6, 1956, at the corner of 16th Street and Ritter Avenue on the east side of Indianapolis.
The hospital was the result of a fundraising effort started by volunteers who envisioned a hospital closer to the East side of Indianapolis. Volunteers began a door-to-door fundraising campaign. Soon donations came in from businesses and civic organizations. The name "Community Hospital" was chosen by leaders because of the involvement of the neighbors and community of the east side in helping build the hospital.
Ground was broken in 1954 on a site donated by farmer Edward F. Gallahue. The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by then-Vice President Richard Nixon. When opened, the $5 million hospital had the still novel installation of air conditioning technology,piped in oxygen, 300 beds, and 111 employees. W.C. McLin was the hospital's first administrator.
In 1964, "The Towers," an extension to the hospital, opened. The building's design - with two circular towers allowing central nursing stations to observe patients at all times was one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Throughout the next few years, Community Hospital underwent many expansions and upgrades, including the opening of psychiatric inpatient units, a coronary care unit, and specialized services including ambulatory care and a cardiac catheterization lab. In 1972, Allen Hicks was chosen to lead the hospital following the death of W.C. McLin in 1971. In 1974, Building 3 opened at Community Hospital, dedicated to W.C. McLin, adding 250 more beds.
More additions included the Hook Rehabilitation Center, Gallahue Mental Health Center, pain and cancer centers, plus surgery suites and education facilities. In 1981, a laboratory opened, along with a medical office building. Community hospital was, at that time, the second-largest hospital in the city of Indianapolis with approximately 800 beds, and it was considered one of the leading health-care facilities in the state.
William E. Corley became the CEO of Community Hospital in 1985 after Allen Hicks left in 1983. A new satellite hospital for Community was planned in 1982 on the north side of Indianapolis. What is now Community Hospital North opened in 1985 and has since outgrown its satellite status. Community Hospital was subsequently renamed Community Hospital East. The Same-Day Surgery Center opened at Community East in 1988 and a new main lobby, entrance, and professional building opened in 1991.
Community East marked the birth of its 100,000th baby in 1993. In 1996, Community East adopted the Family Rooms concept in the maternity unit. The unit features LDRP - labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum - rooms, allowing mothers and babies to remain in the same room throughout their stay.
The Indiana Surgery Center opened on the Community Eas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumb%C3%B3n%20%28Sirius%20XM%29 | Rumbón is a Discontinued Spanish-language classic salsa radio station on Sirius XM. It was formerly a tropical and reggaeton radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 83 and DISH Network channel 6092. The station was titled "Tropical" until September 29, 2005, when it increased its programming of reggaeton to nearly 50 percent. The channel was added to Sirius Canada in June 2008. Rumbón was retired on November 12, 2008 in result of the Sirius XM merger. The station that took over is Caliente, Sirius 83 and XM 85. Rumbón was later relaunched on the 533 frequency. The channel launched the very popular program La Jungla de Rumbon hosted by George Nenadich. George Nenadich is a pioneer in the Latin music industry. Launching his career in 1989 as one of the first employees of a very young record label RMM Records who were responsible for artist like Tito Nieves, Jose Alberto, Marc Anthony and La India
See also
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
External links
Dish Network Official Website
Sirius XM Radio channels
Internet radio stations in the United States
Spanish-language radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Boyer | Robert Boyer may refer to:
Robert S. Boyer, professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy
See List of Charles Whitman's victims for Robert Hamilton Boyer, professor killed at The University of Texas in 1966
Robert Boyer (artist) (1948–2004), Canadian artist of aboriginal heritage
Robert Boyer (chemist) (1909–1989), chemist employed by Henry Ford
Robert James Boyer (1913–2005), former politician in Ontario, Canada
Bob Boyer (wrestler), retired Canadian professional wrestler
See also
Robert Boyers (1876–1949), American football coach
Robert Bowyer (1758–1834), British painter and publisher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita%20Asahi%20Broadcasting | , also known as AAB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Akita Prefecture.
Headquarters
233-209 Kawajiri-machi aza Okobata Akita-city, Akita 010-0941 JAPAN
History
1992 October 1: It was set up as Akita Prefecture's third broadcasting station.
1 October 2006: The first digital terrestrial television broadcasts were started from their Akita main station.
Stations
Analog Stations
Akita (Main Station) JOXX-TV 31ch
Omagari 41ch
Noshiro 19ch
Takanosu 41ch
Kakunodate 27ch
Yuzawa 59ch
Futatsui 60ch
Odate 59ch
Hanawa 56ch
Tazawako 60ch
Honjo 61ch
Maego 44ch
Ioka 48ch
Digital Stations (ID:5)
Akita (Main Station) JOXX-DTV 29ch
Omagari 33ch
Odate 20ch
Programs
Yajiuma Plus - from 06:00 until 07:30 on weekdays
Super Morning - from 07:30 until 09:55 on weekdays
Wide!Scramble - from 11:30 until 13:05 on weekdays
Super J Channel Akita - from 17:00 until 19:00 on weekdays
AAB News and Weather - from 19:54 until 20:00 on weekdays
Goshomaga - from 20:54 until 21:00 on Fridays
Rival stations
Akita Broadcasting System (ABS)
Akita Television (AKT)
Other links
Akita Asahi Broadcasting
Akita Northern Happinets
Akita Prefecture
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Companies based in Akita Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Japanese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Mass media in Akita (city)
1992 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20J-Gate | Open J-Gate was a free database of open access journals, launched in February 2006, and hosted by Informatics Ltd. of India.
Informatics started metadata aggregation from open access journals as part of the development of J-Gate. Open J-Gate claimed to aggregate metadata from more than 4,000 open access journals published in the English language around the globe. Open J-Gate indexed articles from available e-journals in the open access domain, both from the scholarly and popular domains. It indexed peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed professional magazines, as well as trade and industry journals.
See also
List of open-access journals
References
Issues In Scholarly Communication: News for the University of Illinois Community (March 1, 2006). Retrieved 5.09.2017.
United Kingdom Serials Special Interest Group description of Open J-Gate
Chemical Informatics Letters, Volume 13, Issue 2; August 2006. Editor: Jonathan M Goodman. Retrieved 25.09.2017.
External links
J-Gate
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Open-access archives
Publications established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tada%2C%20Tirupati%20district | Tada is a place in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh.
Transport
National Highway 16, a part of Golden Quadrilateral highway network, bypasses the village.
References
External links
Towns in Tirupati district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic | Symbolic may refer to:
Symbol, something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity
Mathematics, logic, and computing
Symbolic computation, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas
Symbolic dynamics, a method for modeling dynamical systems by a discrete space consisting of infinite sequences of abstract symbols
Symbolic execution, the analysis of computer programs by tracking symbolic rather than actual values
Symbolic link, a special type of file in a computer memory storage system
Symbolic logic, the use of symbols for logical operations in logic and mathematics
Music
Symbolic (Death album), a 1995 album by the band Death
Symbolic (Voodoo Glow Skulls album), a 2000 album by the band Voodoo Glow Skulls
Social sciences
Symbolic anthropology, the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to better understand a particular society
Symbolic capital, the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition in sociology and anthropology
Symbolic interaction, a system of interaction in sociology
Symbolic system, a structured system of symbols in anthropology, sociology and psychology
The Symbolic or Symbolic Order, Jacques Lacan's attempt to contrast with The Imaginary and The Real in psychoanalysis
See also
Symbol (disambiguation)
Symbolism (disambiguation)
Symbolic representation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate%20Asahi%20Television | , also known as IAT, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture.
History
A license to operate a fourth television station in Iwate Prefecture was established on 19 June 1995. The company that was awarded that license, known as Iwate Asahi Television (founded 21 June 1995), began construction on the station a month later. JOIY-TV began operations on 1 October 1996, seven days after conducting its first transmission tests. Before the station began operations, Iwate Prefecture was the only area of northeastern Japan that lacked a full affiliate of the All-Nippon News Network (ANN, which in general is an affiliation with TV Asahi). JODF-TV and JOII-TV functioned as secondary affiliates of ANN (formerly NET) between the early 1970s and the fall of 1996. The Asahi network's full schedule was available on some local cable television providers via JOEM-TV (from Sendai), which was receivable over the air in portions of the prefecture's southern areas.
Digital terrestrial television broadcasts commenced on 1 October 2006, and analog broadcasts were expected to continue until 24 July 2011. The 11 March 2011 earthquake resulted in an indefinite postponement of the shutdown of all analog broadcasts across Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. JOIY-TV finally shut down its analog signal on 31 March 2012 shortly before 0:00 JST, with regular programming having ended twelve hours earlier.
Stations
Analog
Morioka(Main Station) JOIY-TV 31ch
Ninohe 27ch
Kuji 44ch
Nishine-Matsuo 38ch
Morioka-Asagishi 61ch
Morioka-Kawame 49ch
Shizukuishi 62ch
Miyako 44ch
Tono 44ch
Kamaishi 62ch
Ofunato 26ch
Toyota-Suzuki-Honda-Civic 29ch
Ichinoseki 23ch
Ninohe-Horino 61ch
Morioka-Matsuzono-Kita 61ch
Morioka-Matsuzono-Minami 39ch
Daito-Uchino 38ch
Yamada 43ch
Iwaizumi 30ch
Iwaizumi-Ureira 60ch
Tono-Nukamae 37ch
Kamaishi-Osawa 39ch
Rikuzen-Shimappe 52ch
Esashi-Kotashiro 46ch
Ichinoseki-Tsuriyama 61ch
Noda 61ch
Otsuchi 37ch
Miyamori 36ch
Sawauchi 44ch
Hanamaki-Yuguchi 62ch
Iwate-Numakunai 61ch
Yuda 40ch
Daito-Osozawa 39ch
Fudai-Tanohata 39ch
Niisato 60ch
Otsuchi-Sakuragi 51ch
Daito-Kami-Ohara 56ch
Senmaya 31ch
Digital(ID:5)
Morioka(Main Station) JOIY-DTV 22ch
Programs
Original
IAT Super J Channel Iwate at 18:15 to 19:00 on Weekday
Rakutima at 9:30 to 10:25 on Saturday
Rival Stations
Iwate Broadcasting Company(IBC)
Television Iwate(TVI)
Iwate Menkoi Television(mit)
External links
Iwate Asahi Television
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Iwate Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Mass media in Morioka, Iwate
1996 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Fish%20Games | Big Fish Games is a casual game company based in Seattle, with a regional office in Oakland, California, owned by Aristocrat Leisure. It is a developer and distributor of casual games for computers and mobile devices. It has been accused of knowingly deceiving customers into signing up for monthly purchases without informed consent. It was also the subject of a class action lawsuit over its app Big Fish Casino, resulting in a settlement of $155 million after a federal appeals court ruled that it constituted illegal online gambling.
History
The company was founded in 2002. In 2009, it announced the opening of their European headquarters in Cork, Ireland.
In July 2010, the company passed one billion game downloads from its online portal.
In August 2013, the company announced the closing of its cloud-based games service, Vancouver studio and Cork offices.
In 2014, the company was acquired by Churchill Downs Inc. in a deal valued at up to $885 million.
In 2018, Churchill Downs sold Big Fish to Australian gambling machine manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure for $990 million.
In September 2018, Big Fish cut 15% of its workforce, and September 2020, it cut nearly 50% of its workforce.
Big Fish Studios
Big Fish Games has a number of studios split between the Seattle office and Oakland office that develop games: Self Aware Games, Triton Studios, Epic Ventures and ARC Studios.
Games developed by the various Big Fish studios include:
Drawn series: Dark Flight, The Painted Tower, Trail of Shadows
Fairway Solitaire HD
Hidden Expedition series
Mystery Case Files series
Online games
The company entered browser gaming with its acquisition of the game website Ion Thunder in 2007; the service was re-branded as Atlantis following the acquisition. The service, which was later revamped as Big Sea Games in 2009, was shut down in 2010 as part of the company's shift from traditional online games to social games on Facebook and mobile apps.
References
External links
2002 establishments in Washington (state)
American companies established in 2002
Casual games
Companies based in Seattle
Mobile game companies
Video game companies established in 2002
Video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
2014 mergers and acquisitions
2018 mergers and acquisitions
American subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6henkirchen-Siegertsbrunn%20station | Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn is a station on the Munich S-Bahn network on the Munich-Giesing–Kreuzstraße railway. It is located in the community of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, south-east of Munich. It has two side-platforms with a large distance between the tracks. It is served by line S7 in a twenty-minute rhythm. A third of the outbound trains terminate here, the rest continues further to Aying or Kreuzstraße. Before 2005 the station had one island-platform, which was demolished after the opening of the two side-platforms in 2005. The station is staffed: tickets can be purchased at the DB store. The station facilities are: toilets, a bus stop, bicycle stands and P+R (park and ride). The station is located at the ground level so it is accessible by wheelchair. The north half of both platforms is covered by a roof. The travel time to Marienplatz is approximately 30 minutes.
References
Munich S-Bahn stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich%20Marienplatz%20station | Munich Marienplatz is an important stop on the Munich S-Bahn and U-Bahn network, located under the square of the same name in Munich's city centre. The S-Bahn lines , , , , , and intersect with the U-Bahn lines and . The station is one of the most frequently used stations in the network, with up to 24,400 people transferring and 8,000 passengers entering or exiting each hour. In 2007, 175,400 people used the station daily on weekdays, including entries, exits and transfers.
History
In October 1966 construction was started, finishing in October 1971 as part of the new S-Bahn network for the 1972 Summer Olympics. Until early 2003 there were almost no further refurbishments done at the station. From 2003 to 2006, the platforms of the U-Bahn were widened to expand passenger capacity and were lifted by 4 cm to secure same-level boarding.
The increase in traffic and the new Allianz Arena also required a larger capacity of this already overcrowded pivotal transfer station. New pedestrian tunnels were built, which provide more room for passengers transferring from and to the S-Bahn. They lie parallel to the existing platforms and are connected to them by 11 portals. At the south end, they meet the transverse tunnel, where the escalators to the S-Bahn platforms are located.
Under the Zweite Stammstrecke ("Second main line") tunnel project, Marienplatz station is to be connected to a second station further north, Marienhof, via the enlarged subway access tunnels on the fourth level.
Parts the music video for Four Out of Five by the Arctic Monkeys features the station as Alex Turner walks down a tunnel called the U-Bahn.
Station layout
Marienplatz station is completely underground and consists of four levels:
First Level: The first level sprawls underneath the Marienplatz, with exits on all four ends of the square (clockwise from north-west: Weinstraße, north-east: Fischbrunnen/Tal, south-east: Rindermarkt, south-west: Sendlinger Straße). It contains a shopping passage, an MVG service centre, ticket booths, and the entrances to the S- and U-Bahn.
Second Level: The second level contains the eastbound S-Bahn track with two side platforms, in Spanish solution. The larger platform is for embarking, the smaller for disembarking and connection to the subways. The platforms are each 210 metres long and 96 cm high. The Olympic Park station in Sydney copies this arrangement, albeit with two tracks and four platforms.
Third Level: The third level contains the westbound S-Bahn track with two side platforms, also laid out in Spanish solution.
Fourth Level: The fourth level, accessible directly from all three levels, contains the two U-Bahn tracks on two side platforms connected to the rest of the station by wide newly built access tunnels.
The services
S-Bahn
All S-Bahn lines service Marienplatz, except . Most lines service Marienplatz in 20 minute intervals, except the lines , and , which run every 10 minutes during rush-hours. This equals a train e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Your%20Play | Make Your Play was a live, interactive quiz show, showing in the UK on the ITV Network, from Monday to Saturday, beginning after midnight. The show was launched on Friday 29 September 2006 on ITV and ITV Play.
The prizes were greater than usually available on ITV Play (often exceeding £20,000), but as a result of this, callers are usually taken less often.
In order to win money, viewers had to either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, or enter through the ITV website. If they were successful, they would have been placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they was lucky, where they then went on to deliver their answer.
Make Your Play had given over £3 million. It went over the £3 million mark on 1 July 2007, when a contestant by the name of Mr Joseph Percy said "next day". An on screen graphic was then shown saying "£3 Million Given Away" accompanied with a siren sound effect.
Controversy
A game where viewers were invited to "add the pence" was criticised for providing a solution which was all but impossible to reach.
In February and March 2007, ITV Play and all shows associated with it were suspended after allegations that consumers were being cheated. ITV decided to suspend these services – which included phone-in votes and competitions on shows such as Dancing on Ice and This Morning – while an independent review was carried out to see if members of the public were getting a fair deal when they rang in. The problem was shortly resolved, and the ITV Play channel was closed down "permanently".
An announcement on 12 September 2007 confirmed that the show, along with similar late night phone ins, would be phased out by the end of 2007.
ITV Play's Glitterball ended on 30 September 2007. As a result, Make Your Play was extended, running six nights a week until the closure of ITV Play, with the last Make Your Play being broadcast on the morning of 23 December 2007.
On 1 July 2009, former presenter Ben Baldwin announced via his Twitter page that Make Your Play would launch as a stand-alone channel on Freeview and Sky on 19 January 2010. So far, Make Your Play has yet to return to the air.
Presenters
Presenters at time of original demise
Ben Baldwin
Zö Christien
Yolly Koppel
Charlie McArdle
Russ Spencer
Other presenters
Emily Booth
Alex Kramer
Dave O'Riley
Katy Pullinger
Guest Presenters
Anna Fowler
Mel Peachey
References
2000s British game shows
2006 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
ITV game shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Phone-in quiz shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Radio | Astro Radio Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Airtime Management and Programming Sdn Bhd or AMP Radio Networks) is a Malaysian radio network company which operates radio broadcasting services and more since 1996. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad. Astro Radio owns and manages 10 private radio stations which are transmitted through the FM (frequency modulation) radio spectrum. As of November 2021, Astro Radio still remains as the number one and largest radio network company in Malaysia with 77.7% of Peninsular Malaysians and 15.6 million listeners tuning in to its stations weekly, together with its Media Prima counterpart, Media Prima Audio, according to the GfK Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) Wave 1 in October 2021. ERA being at top of the list with the most audience reach estimated at 6,000,000 listeners, followed by SINAR and GEGAR.
Company background
Astro Radio was officially launched on 1 June 1996 as Airtime Management & Programming Radio Network with the very first time five opened audio only including Hitz, Mix, Light & Easy, Classic Rock and TalkRadio.
Airtime Management & Programming Radio Network Sdn Bhd (AMP Radio Networks) operates eight terrestrial FM networks: Era FM, MY FM, Hitz FM, Mix FM, LiteFM, Sinar FM, Melody FM & THR (Raaga and Gegar). AMP broadcasts in four languages with 11.5 million Malaysians tuning in weekly.
AMP is the sole provider of 19 satellite radio services (which include the nine FM services and are available to all ASTRO subscribers in Malaysia and Brunei), the first South-East Asian broadcaster to utilise LIU (local insertion units) for local or regional advertisers and utilises Dynamic RDS (Radio Data System) as a commercial tool. Internationally, AMP also had involvement in the growth of radio industries in India, Indonesia and China.
AMP develops complementary platforms including on-air, on-ground, on-line and mobile technologies.
In 2012, as part of the expansion of its operations, AMP Radio Networks became Astro Radio Sdn Bhd.
In October 2017, Astro Radio announced the launch of two new radio brands - goXuan and Zayan for a new generation of smart, technology and socially connected along with the new generation of listeners who are trendsetters and influencers in the digital and social media space. Zayan is the first Malaysian radio brand for modern Muslims, it aspires to serve this growing community by delivering music, content and dialogue that reverberates among them. While goXUAN goes where the trendsetting Chinese Gen Z are making their mark. Astro Radio has built a state of art live broadcast studio from which the brand will stream live entertainment content via its digital platforms throughout the whole day. Unlike any other radio brand in Malaysia, goXUAN is visually-led.
On 1 January 2018, Astro Radio dropped the suffix “FM” as part of the rebranding for all its 11 radio stations, to focus on digital platform, inline with the current technology development.
Oth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication%20Company%20of%20Iran | Telecommunication Company of Iran, or TCI (, romanized: Sherkat-e Moxaberat-e Iran), is the fixed-line incumbent operator in Iran offering services in fixed telephony, DSL and data services for both residential and business customers, all throughout the country. It was established in 1971 with a new organizational structure as the main responsible administration for the entire telecommunication affairs.
TCI maintains 30 provincial subsidiaries and two brands - MCI (Hamrahe Avval or Mobile Company of Iran) and FCI (Ashenaye Avval or Fixed-line Company of Iran) that provide fixed-line telephone service, data services, mobile services, high-speed internet and soon wireless services. About 99% of the fixed-line telephone subscribers and 61% of the mobile subscribers in Iran belong to TCI's affiliates.
By 2008 TCI employed 38,000 permanent employees—13,500 of which are slated to retire during the next three years—and about 45,000 temporary employees through private subcontractors, which will no longer be used after privatization (March 2009).
On 2016 the Director of TCI announced the merger of its provincial subsidiaries and the MCI into a single business unit that allow to utilize the powerful synergies and maintain leading positions on the national telecoms market.
TCI has utilized equipment and services such as digital switching centers, optical fiber cables, mobile phones, data networks, satellite services, and telephone special services. TCI manufactures more than 80% of the required equipment inside Iran.
Iran Telecommunication Industries (ITI) was also founded in the same year to manufacture the required equipment for the national long-distance network. TCI has monopoly over Iran's fixed line infrastructure, and it was until 2010, Iran's largest cellular operator (MCI) and Internet service provider and data communication operator (DCI). As of November 2010, MCI accounts for more than 70% of TCI's profit.
TCI is exporting technical and engineering services, as well as consulting and contracting services. It is also responsible for censoring most of the internet in Iran, as serves as a bottleneck for the monitoring of all communications.
Privatization and IPO
Privatization Organization has forecast that shares of Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) will be floated in the stock market by late September 2007.
In March 2007, TCI and its provincially affiliated companies received the government's permission to be privatized. TCI's Infrastructure Telecom Company will be detached from it and would continue its activities as a part of the ICT Ministry. Close to 33 companies in the telecom sector are expected to be privatized.
In September 2007, the Ministry of ICT announced that 51% of TCI would be privatized before the end of the Iranian calendar year on 20 March 2008. As a forerunner to the sale of a controlling stake in TCI, a 5% stake in the operator was scheduled be floated on the Tehran Stock Exchange before the end of December 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence%20of%20tobacco%20use | Prevalence of tobacco use is reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), which focuses on cigarette smoking due to reported data limitations. Smoking has therefore been studied more extensively than any other form of consumption.
Smoking is generally five times more prevalent among men than women; however, the gender gap differs across countries and is smaller in younger age groups. In developed countries smoking rates for men have peaked and have begun to decline, and also started to stall or decline for women. Smoking prevalence has changed little since the mid-1990s, before which time it declined in English-speaking countries due to the implementation of tobacco control. However, the number of smokers worldwide has increased from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012 and the number of cigarettes smoked increased from 4.96 trillion to 6.25 trillion due to population growth.
In Western countries, smoking is more prevalent among populations with mental health problems, with alcohol and drug problems, among criminals, and among the homeless. In 2002, about 20% of young teens (aged 13–15) smoked worldwide. 80,000 to 100,000 children begin smoking every day. Half of those who begin smoking in adolescent years are projected to go on to smoke for 15 to 20 years.
One of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of the United Nations (to be achieved by 2030) is to "Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate." The indicator that is used to measure progress is the prevalence of tobacco use.
Background
WHO states that "Much of the disease burden and premature mortality attributable to tobacco use disproportionately affect the poor". Of the 1.22 billion smokers, 1 billion of them live in developing or transitional economies. Rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in the developed world. In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year as of 2002.
The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally, from which 5.4 million are tobacco-attributed, and 4.9 million as of 2007. As of 2002, 70% of the deaths are in developing countries.
One of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of the United Nations (to be achieved by 2030) is to "Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate." The indicator that is used to measure progress is the "age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older".
Worldwide
Prevalence of tobacco use (% of adults) worldwide
Countries
The following is a list of countries by the percentage of age-standardized prevalence of tobacco use (including products such as snus) among persons 15 years and older as published by the World Health Organization.
Australia
In the 20th century, smoking was common. There were social events like the smoke night wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB%20UNIX | Columbus UNIX, or CB UNIX, is a discontinued variant of the UNIX operating system used internally at Bell Labs for administrative databases and transaction processing. It was developed at the Columbus, Ohio branch, based on V6, V7 and PWB Unix. It was little-known outside the company.
CB UNIX was developed to address deficiencies inherent in Research Unix, notably the lack of interprocess communication (IPC) and file locking, considered essential for a database management system. Several Bell System operation support system products were based on CB UNIX such as Switching Control Center System. The primary innovations were power-fail restart, line disciplines, terminal types, and IPC features.
The interprocess communication features developed for CB UNIX were message queues, semaphores and shared memory support. These eventually appeared in mainstream Unix systems starting with System V in 1983, and are now collectively known as System V IPC.
References
Bell Labs Unices
Discontinued operating systems
Unix history |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20Network%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29 | NHL Network is an American sports-oriented cable and satellite television network that is a joint venture between the National Hockey League (NHL), which owns a controlling 84.4% interest, and NBCUniversal, which owns the remaining 15.6%. Dedicated to providing broadcast coverage of ice hockey, the network features live game telecasts from the NHL and other professional and collegiate hockey leagues, as well as NHL-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries.
History
Launched on October 1, 2007, the NHL Network was developed out of a joint venture between the NHL and cable provider Comcast, as part of a broadcast rights agreement that resulted in the NBC Sports Network (then known as Outdoor Life Network) acquiring partial cable television rights to regular season, and Stanley Cup playoff and finals games from the National Hockey League. It became the third sports-oriented cable network devoted to programming from and controlled by one of the Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, following the National Basketball Association-owned NBA TV (which launched in March 1999) and the National Football League-owned NFL Network (which launched in November 2003); Major League Baseball would launch its own sports channel, MLB Network, on January 1, 2009.
On June 1, 2015, The Globe and Mail columnist David Shoalts reported that NHL Network in Canada would cease operations on September 1, 2015; national media rights to the NHL in Canada had been acquired by Rogers Communications beginning in the 2014–15 season, and the Bell Media employees who managed the network's Canadian arm on behalf of the NHL were laid off that July.
In August 2015, it was announced that the NHL had reached a six-year deal with Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) to take over the management of the NHL's digital properties, as well as NHL Network. Operations and production of NHL Network's programming was shifted from Toronto to the Secaucus, New Jersey facilities of MLB Network. There has been minor talent sharing between the networks, and MLB Network cross-promoted an NHL Stadium Series game at Coors Field by building a scale hockey rink in its Studio 42 (which itself is designed to resemble a scaled baseball field). For much of the 2015–16 season, NHL Network studio programs originated from redecorated versions of MLB Network's existing studio sets (enabled by a lack of major overlap between the two leagues' regular seasons). In April 2016, coinciding with the start of the playoffs, NHL Network introduced its own 1,200 square-foot set, "The Rink".
The network will continue to operate under the league's new television contract consortium of ESPN and Turner Sports beginning with the 2021–22 season (which excludes NBCUniversal). NHL Network will continue to nationally air selected games not broadcast by either ESPN or Turner.
SiriusXM NHL Network Radio launched in 2013.
Carriage agreements
Comcast, owners of the leag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20user%20interface | A human-to-computer user interface is said to be "reactive" if it has the following characteristics:
The user is immediately aware of the effect of each "gesture". Gestures can be keystrokes, mouse clicks, menu selections, or more esoteric inputs.
The user is always aware of the state of his/her data. Did I just save those changes? Did I just overwrite my backup by mistake? No data is hidden. In a figure-drawing program, the user can tell whether a line segment is composed of smaller segments.
The user always knows how to get help. Help may be context-sensitive or modal, but it is substantial. A program with a built-in help browser is not reactive if its content is just a collection of screen shots or menu item labels with no real explanation of what they do.
Reactivity was a major goal in the early user interface research at MIT and Xerox PARC.
A computer program which was not reactive would not be considered user friendly no matter how elaborate its presentation.
Early word-processing programs whose on-screen representations look nothing like their printer output could be reactive. The common example was WordStar on CP/M. On-screen, it looked like a markup language in a character cell display, but it had deep built-in help which was always available from an on-screen menu bar, and the effect of each keystroke was obvious.
User interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoEdge%20Networks | NeoEdge Networks was a Silicon Valleybased technology and in-game advertising company that enabled casual game publishers and developers to deliver television-like commercials within their products frequently in the context of free-to-consumer casual game play. NeoEdge powered advertising for a variety of game publishers including Yahoo. NeoEdge provided both peer-to-peer game distribution (to reduce costs of distributing games) and in-game advertising (to help increase consumer game play and monetization).
It was renamed Blue Noodle in early 2011 and shut down later that year.
Introduction
NeoEdge provided advertising inside online casual games. The online video advertising platform provides advertisers a medium that reaches a key demographic (adults over 18 years of age) with television-like commercials in an engaged environment that casual gamers have accepted in exchange for free game play.
History
NeoEdge was founded in 2002 by Steven Woods, Jeromy Carriere, Kelly Slough, Dave Simons, and Michael Babiak, former Netscape and America Online employees, under the name "Kinitos". While at Quack.com the founders created the first consumer-based Voice Portal, acquired by America Online in 2000. In 2007, Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell joined the NeoEdge board as Chairman.
Under the Kinitos brand, the company participated in Microsoft Smart Client program intended to help companies deliver Web 2.0 Internet services. These services were intended to help companies deliver consumer services that transcended traditional browsers helping to provide downloadable application-style capabilities to consumer and enterprise companies without the past problems associated with installed applications. Downloadable games with embedded web services are one class of such solutions, the MostFun.com Game Player, owned by NeoEdge, is one example of such an application - others include all manner of browser extensions and plugins, or downloadable web services applications like instant messaging, Google Earth, Bittorrent, iTunes, and many others.
In 2005, Kinitos reorganized to support game developers and distributors to deliver ad-enabled game play to consumers as an alternative to traditional "try and buy" models. NeoEdge became a leader in changing the current business model of the casual game industry. According to the Casual Game Association, 200 Million people worldwide play casual games every month. The industry struggled as a “hits” based business with a “Try and Buy” business model made long-term revenue generation difficult.
In 2010, the company was merged with Offspring Games and started a game studio in San Francisco, California. Titles released include Prize-O-Rama and Happy Thoughts. The game studio was unable to produce a profitable title and the company fell on hard financial times during the Great Recession.
It was shutdown in July 2011.
References
External links
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Companies based in Mountai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1dio%20Nacional | Rádio Nacional (National Radio) is a Brazilian radio network belonging to the government-owned corporation EBC (Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, Brazil Communication Company), formerly known as Radiobrás.
History
The Brazilian system of public radio began to be assembled from the nationalization of the Rádio Nacional, a Rio de Janeiro-based station in 1936, by President Getúlio Vargas. In 1958, two years before the inauguration of new capital Brasília, Rádio Nacional Brasília was founded, and in 1976 the FM version, Nacional FM was assembled in the same city. In 1977, the shortwave service Rádio Nacional da Amazônia was created, covering much of Brazil with the aim of showing the Amazon culture to the rest of the country. In 2006, Nacional launched the Radio Nacional do Alto Solimões, covering municipalities of the Alto Solimões region of Amazonas state.
On May 7, 2021, five EBC transmitters on 87.1 FM—four of them for Rádio Nacional—were among the 10 charter stations to operate in the FM extended band in Brazil. The new stations filled some of Rádio Nacional's largest coverage gaps, bringing the station to Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Recife and São Paulo.
Rádio MEC
In 1936, Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro was donated to the Brazilian government and renamed Rádio Ministério da Educação e Cultura (Ministry of Education and Culture Radio) or simply Rádio MEC. Later, the acronym was changed to Rádio Música, Educação e Cultura (Music, Education and Culture Radio). In 2008, the three stations of Rádio MEC were incorporated to the EBC radio networks, along with Rádio Nacional stations.
Rádio Nacional-owned stations
Brazilian Federal District
Rádio Nacional AM Brasília (980 kHz) - Generalist station with speech-based programming, news, popular music and service to the Brasilia region.
Rádio Nacional FM Brasília (96.1 MHz) - Musical programming concentration on MPB, samba, instrumental, local artists and world music.
Rádio Nacional da Amazônia (SW 11780 kHz and 6180 kHz) - Speech programming, news, music, radio drama and service to the Amazon region.
State of Minas Gerais
Rádio Nacional Belo Horizonte (eFM 87.1 MHz)
State of Pernambuco
Rádio Nacional Recife (eFM 87.1 MHz)
State of Rio de Janeiro
Rádio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (AM 1130 kHz and eFM 87.1 MHz) - Generalist station with speech-based programming, news, sports and popular music.
State of São Paulo
Rádio Nacional São Paulo (eFM 87.1 MHz)
State of Amazonas
Rádio Nacional do Alto Solimões (AM 670 kHz and FM 96.1 MHz - Tabatinga region) - Seven daily hours with news, music, local culture and service to the Alto Solimões region, in network with Nacional da Amazônia for the rest of the day.
Rádio MEC owned stations
Brazilian Federal District
Rádio MEC AM Brasília (800 kHz and eFM 87.1 MHz) - In network with MEC FM Rio de Janeiro.
State of Rio de Janeiro
Rádio MEC AM Rio de Janeiro (800 kHz) - Musical programming with MPB, choro, bossa nova and instrumental music.
Rádio MEC FM Rio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Baldwin%20%28game%20designer%29 | Mark Lewis Baldwin is a computer game designer, most noted for his work on The Perfect General and Empire Deluxe. He has three games on Computer Gaming World's list of the best games of all time.
He has formerly been involved with the management of several games companies, including Quantum Quality Productions, Moto1 where he was vice-president and White Wolf Productions where he was CEO.
Mark is currently a Professor of Practice at Colorado School of Mines. His career has been quite varied including Captain in the US Air Force, lead engineer for ascent flight design for the Space Shuttle, award-winning game designer, entrepreneur, consultant, and academic.
Early life and education
Mark was born to William and Bette Baldwin in Lansing, Michigan on January 29, 1952. His father was an officer in the USAF, and therefore he grew up as a military dependent traveling throughout the globe. In the US, he lived in Indiana, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. He also grew up in Japan (3 yrs) and Germany (3 yrs).
In 1970, Mark attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana obtaining both a BS and MS in Engineering Sciences, graduating in December 1974.
Career
While at Purdue, Mark received an Air Force ROTC scholarship. Upon completion of his degree, he was commissioned in the Air Force. Initially, he was a combat engineer (Red Horse) but quickly changed over to Missile Flight Officer at SAC headquarters in Omaha Nebraska where he planned and modeled both US and Soviet nuclear war plans.
Upon leaving the Air Force in 1979, Mark was employed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace as a contractor for NASA at Johnson Space Center. Initially, he was responsible for developing abort techniques for the first four flights of the Space Shuttle. He then was promoted to Lead Engineer for ascent flight design for the Space Shuttle, where he was responsible for all flight designs between STS-5 and STS-51L. He left NASA two days before the Challenger Disaster (1986) to do similar work for Martin Marietta in Denver Colorado.
One of Mark's early interest and hobbies going back to the 1960s was strategy games. He published a science fiction paper game (Lensman) in his teens that was well received. With the advent of personal computers, Mark started developing computer games in his evenings while working at NASA. After moving to Denver Colorado, he decided that Martin Marietta was not a company he wanted to work for, so he left Aerospace in 1987 to work full-time on computer games.
Mark has authored or was involved with many games, including Starbase 13, Empire, Star Fleet I, Star Fleet II, D.R.A.G.O.N. FORCE, and Star Legions. In 1991, Mark cofounded White Wolf Productions, one of the top computer game design houses in the country. White Wolf's products include the award-winning The Perfect General, Empire Deluxe and most recently Empire II: The Art of War. One innovative work he is quite proud of was the Empire Deluxe Scenarios for which M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20in%20the%20Night | Child in the Night is a 1990 American television film broadcast during the 1990 May sweeps. It aired on the CBS Network before a subsequent release to home video and syndication. The psychological thriller stars JoBeth Williams as a child psychologist, Tom Skerritt as a local police chief and introduced Elijah Wood as a troubled witness to a brutal slaying. Darren McGavin co-starred.
It was the final film on-screen role appearance of Rick May, who died 30 years later on April 8, 2020.
Plot
In Seattle, nine-year-old Luke Winfield (Elijah Wood) is the only witness to his father's murder at the hands of a rain-slicker-wearing killer with a cargo hook. However, the boy fantasizes the murderer as Captain Hook, in an escape from the traumatic reality. Detective T. Bass (Tom Skerritt), who is in charge of the investigation enlists child psychologist, Dr. Hollis (JoBeth Williams) whose failed marriage was caused by her inability to have children. While getting closer to Luke she has an affair with Bass. She also discovers some troubling family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.
Cast
Production
JoBeth Williams chose to perform in the film due to the romance subplot between her character and Tom Kerritt's, as she found filming it fun. Child in the Night also marks Elijah Wood's first role.
Release
Child in the Night aired on CBS on May 1, 1990. The film received a VHS release in the 1990s through Triboro and in 2021 was released as part of a box set of made-for-TV movies entitled Televised Terror: Volume One, through Vinegar Syndrome.
Reception
Critical reception was negative and the Honolulu Advertiser wrote "A condemnation of 1980s greed or an overblown two-hour sitcom without the laugh track? You decide." Kay Gardella of the Daily News panned Child in the Night, as she felt that it lacked credibility. A syndicated reviewer for the United Feature Syndicate was similarly dismissive, stating that partway through it "becomes just another whodunit with the standard woman-in-jeopardy climax."
Horror Society reviewed the film as part of the Televised Terror: Volume One box set, stating that it was the weakest of the set but that it was also "a well put together murder mystery."
References
External links
1990 films
1990 television films
1990s mystery films
1990s psychological thriller films
American thriller television films
Films scored by Mark Snow
Films about dysfunctional families
Films shot in Washington (state)
CBS network films
Films directed by Mike Robe
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIT%2C%20C.A. | VIT, C.A. (Venezolana de Industria Tecnológica, Compañía Anónima) is a Venezuelan manufacturer of desktop computers and laptops, supported by the Venezuelan government and a Chinese information technology company Inspur (former ). The first computer they produced was called Computador Bolivariano (English: Bolivarian Computer), which came with the Kubuntu Linux operating system.
Since April 28, 2009, VIT computers are pre-installed with Canaima GNU/Linux.
By 2015, the second production line was expanded, which increased the assembly capacity of servers and computers by 150,000 units.
See also
Canaima (operating system)
GendBuntu
Inspur
LiMux
Nova (operating system)
Ubuntu Kylin
Notes
External links
VIT homepage
Ministry of Science and Technology
Companies established in 2005
Computer hardware companies
Government-owned companies of Venezuela
Manufacturing companies of Venezuela
Venezuelan brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Do%20I%20Look%3F | How Do I Look? was a makeover show airing on the Style Network. The show was originally hosted by English soap opera veteran Finola Hughes; the latest season was hosted by celebrity stylist Jeannie Mai. The show features "fashion victims," purportedly turned in by their friends, coworkers, and family members. Although there are variations in each episode tailored to the individual contestant, every episode follows the same basic pattern.
Overview
Each episode begins with a short montage introducing the subject of the makeover. Contestants typically are victims of a combination of poor fashion sense and lifestyle situations that exacerbate the problem. The makeover often coincides with a turning point in the person's life, such as starting college, changing careers, or losing weight. Two "accomplices" who are close to the contestant express concern over the negative effect of the contestant's appearance on their life. The accomplices express their view that the contestant's physical appearance is socially unacceptable and can only be repaired through the application of new clothes, new hair and new make-up. Accomplices openly express their contempt for the clothing and style choices the contestant has made heretofore. Accomplices may be family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings, etc.), friends, or coworkers.
These two people will be joined by a third accomplice, a professional stylist. Together the three go through the contestant's entire wardrobe, each choosing pieces to throw out. Accomplices will be realistic about the contestant's type of style and they will also criticize it.
The host and the contestant will then confront the accomplices who will then detail their reactions to the contestant's wardrobe. In the first season, accomplices were limited to only one item, but in subsequent seasons, they are shown removing multiple or many items. Contestants are often distressed and hurt as the accomplices throw out favorite items and critique the contestant's style, though some are more open to change than others. The hosts are often seen throwing clothes into a tube. The contestant has an opportunity to respond to the criticism and make requests regarding the makeover.
The contestant then has a one-on-one conversation with the host about the reasons behind their clothing choices, feelings about the critiques, and fears and expectations for the rest of the makeover. The segment ends with the host sending the accomplices to shop for clothing. Occasionally, the shopping period is paired with a special trip for the contestant that somehow reflects their needs. Such trips include spa visits, dancing lessons, and therapy sessions.
Each accomplice is given $1200 to spend on a collection of three outfits for the contestant. Two of the three outfits must fit set themes based on the contestant's lifestyle and needs and are generally given titles that are puns or clichéd phrases that play on these elements. For example, the episode featuri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Werder | Ed Werder (born May 3, 1960 in Longmont, Colorado) is an American sports reporter. He is the Dallas-based bureau reporter for ESPN, Werder is a reporter for the network's NFL coverage, and contributes to shows such as SportsCenter, NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown. Werder originally worked for ESPN between 1998–2017, and returned in 2019.
Early life
Werder graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1982.
Early career
Prior to joining ESPN, Werder was an NFL correspondent for CNNSI on CNN's Sports Tonight and CNN's Sunday NFL Preview from its launch in 1996 until 1998. He was a Dallas Cowboys beat writer for the Dallas Morning News from 1992 to 1996 and the Fort Worth Star Telegram in 1989. He served as the NFL beat writer for the Orlando Sentinel in 1991 and was a Denver Broncos beat writer for the Boulder Daily Camera from 1984 to 1989. During that time he was also an NFL reporter for The National, from 1990 to 1991, and a correspondent for Sports Illustrated from 1987 to 1995.
While at The Dallas Morning News, Werder won several awards for chronicling the demolished relationship between Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the then head coach Jimmy Johnson.
ESPN and Radio
Hired by ESPN in 1998, Werder primarily reported on NFL news concerning the Dallas Cowboys. During this time, he appeared on such programs as Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, Sportscenter, and NFL Live. In 2017, Werder was laid off from the network amid budget cuts. He joined Westwood One radio as a sideline reporter for select NFL games during the 2017 season.
In 2019, Werder returned to ESPN.
Personal
He is married with two children. On June 14, 2017, Werder was selected as the 2017 Dick McCann Memorial Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America.
References
External links
Ed Werder at ESPN.tv
Ed Werder's ESPN Bio
1960 births
Living people
American sportswriters
American television sports announcers
National Football League announcers
People from Longmont, Colorado
The Dallas Morning News people
University of Northern Colorado alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom%20Data%20Recorder | Famicom Data Recorder (HVC-008) is a compact cassette tape data interface introduced in 1984, for the Famicom which had been introduced in 1983. It is compatible with four Famicom games, for saving user-generated content to tapes. As Nintendo's first rewritable storage medium, it was replaced by the Famicom Disk System in 1986.
History
Home game consoles may present the player with the opportunity for storing game positions and original user-generated content such as custom game levels. Based on the read-only memory cartridge medium, the premium cost of easy-to-use solid-state data storage technology, such as battery-backed memory, drove the 1980s market to seek cheaper compromises. Utilizing standard compact cassette tapes, Nintendo began with the Famicom Data Recorder. A compatible game runs on cartridge and optionally allows the creation of user-generated content to be saved onto cassette tapes using this tape drive.
Manufactured by Matsushita/Panasonic for Nintendo, the cassette tape drive was released in 1984 only in Japan for . Available to any game developer, it was launched as a peripheral for Nintendo's Family BASIC Keyboard to save BASIC programs written by users. In addition to Family BASIC, this compatible game library is Nintendo's Programmable Series with Excitebike (1984), Mach Rider (1985), and Wrecking Crew (1985)and the third party games Castle Excellent (1989), Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh, Lode Runner (1984), and Nuts & Milk.
As production costs decreased over the years, Nintendo later developed the floppy disk based Famicom Disk System, and ASCII Corporation created an external battery-backed RAM-disk called the Turbo File.
Operation
The Famicom Data Recorder is powered either by a 6 volt adapter or 4 AA batteries. The Recorder can be used as a conventional sound recorder, and includes a built in microphone in the bottom left hand corner of the unit. The Recorder has mono sound output from a built in speaker on the top of the unit. A convenient volume control is accessible on the left hand side.
The Recorder has two data ports that use a conventional 3.5mm mono phone connector. The port on the left hand side is labeled "ear" and "load". The port on the right is labeled as "Mic" and "Save". When used as a data storage device the phone cables connected to the corresponding "write" and "save" ports on the Family BASIC keyboard.
The Data Recorder set includes an instruction manual, a data cable, a Nintendo-branded compact cassette, a 6 volt AC adapter, and a carrying handle that extends from the front bezel.
References
Nintendo Entertainment System accessories
Computer-related introductions in 1984
Japan-only video game hardware
Video game storage media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flying%20Dogtor | The Flying Dogtor is an early Australian animated television series made by Crawford Productions between 1962 and 1964. It was shown on the Australian Television Network, which later became the Seven Network.
Its central character is a Great Dane who conducts a medical practice by aeroplane in outback Australia, similar to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
The series was devised and written by the leading Melbourne architect Robin Boyd.
Characters
The Great Dogtor Dane - the Flying Dogtor
Granny Goanna
Liz Lizard
The bush children
Colin Kanga
Polly Possum
Katie Koala
Crafty Carson Carpetbag - the sneaky snake from Steamy Swamp
Elvis Eagle - the bodgie bird
Old Man Redback
Production
The show was produced by Hector Crawford. Cartoons were drawn by Joy Murray and Janice Male who studied together at Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University). The cameraman was Ian Crawford. All characters' voices were read by Roly Barlee who was well known in Melbourne radio. Script and character advice was provided by Dr E.A. Murray, a lecturer in psychology, and Jean Lawson, a school counsellor.
The theme music was written and performed by Horrie Dargie and his quintet. Additional music came from a small 78 rpm record library, together with characters' voices, narration and some basic sound effects were added together to produce a master sound mix.
The animation technique was basically a moving plane running across the frame from left to right. The plane was about 5 inches high made of thick high quality art paper. It was pulled through by an electric motor in a machine that was also designed and built by Robin Boyd.
Episode list
The Great Doctor Dane
Crafty's Secret Hideout
Fire!
Fireworks
References
Helleur, I. "A canine Kildare is star of TV series", PIX, 8 August 1964.
The National Collection. National Film and Sound Archive. 17 April 2007 <http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/>
External links
The Flying Dogtor at the National Film and Sound Archive
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's animated television series
Aviation television series
1962 Australian television series debuts
1964 Australian television series endings
Animated television series about dogs
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20field | In computer vision, the motion field is an ideal representation of motion in three-dimensional space (3D) as it is projected onto a camera image. Given a simplified camera model, each point in the image is the projection of some point in the 3D scene but the position of the projection of a fixed point in space can vary with time. The motion field can formally be defined as the time derivative of the image position of all image points given that they correspond to fixed 3D points. This means that the motion field can be represented as a function which maps image coordinates to a 2-dimensional vector. The motion field is an ideal description of the projected 3D motion in the sense that it can be formally defined but in practice it is normally only possible to determine an approximation of the motion field from the image data.
Introduction
A camera model maps each point in 3D space to a 2D image point according to some mapping functions :
Assuming that the scene depicted by the camera is dynamic; it consists of objects moving relative each other, objects which deform, and possibly also the camera is moving relative to the scene, a fixed point in 3D space is mapped to varying points in the image. Differentiating the previous expression with respect to time gives
Here
is the motion field and the vector u is dependent both on the image position as well as on the time t. Similarly,
is the motion of the corresponding 3D point and its relation to the motion field is given by
where is the image position dependent matrix
This relation implies that the motion field, at a specific image point, is invariant to 3D motions which lies in the null space of . For example, in the case of a pinhole camera all 3D motion components which are directed to or from the camera focal point cannot be detected in the motion field.
Special cases
The motion field is defined as:
where
.
where
is a point in the scene where Z is the distance to that scene point.
is the relative motion between the camera and the scene,
is the translational component of the motion, and
is the angular velocity of the motion.
Relation to optical flow
The motion field is an ideal construction, based on the idea that it is possible to determine the motion of each image point, and above it is described how this 2D motion is related to 3D motion. In practice, however, the true motion field can only be approximated based on measurements on image data. The problem is that in most cases each image point has an individual motion which therefore has to be locally measured by means of a neighborhood operation on the image data. As consequence, the correct motion field cannot be determined for certain types of neighborhood and instead an approximation, often referred to as the optical flow, has to be used. For example, a neighborhood which has a constant intensity may correspond to a non-zero motion field, but the optical flow is zero since no local image motion can be mea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX2%20Media%20Labs | SX2 Media Labs LLC was a New York City based company which owned and published two United States technology magazines: Computer Shopper (1979–2009) and the once-yearly College Buying Guide.
The company was formed in 2005 by David Sills, and Barry Schwimmer of Stoneybrook Capital, with the goal of becoming a "become a major information provider for technology enthusiasts". Stills and Schwimmer previously worked together as Distance Education Company, which bought distance learning company Home Study Schools Corporation then was sold off in 2004. On 2006-02-06, SX2 purchased Computer Shopper and College Buying Guide from CNET Networks, and 20 days later, on 2006-02-26, Cyber Media (India) Ltd. obtained a 20% stake in SX2. In 2009, SX2 Media Labs ceased publishing Computer Shopper magazine and went fully digital. In 2012, SX2 Media Labs sold the properties to Ziff Davis and ceased operations.
References
External links
SX2 Media Labs — official site
Companies based in New York City
Publishing companies established in 2005
Computer magazine publishing companies
Magazine publishing companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Way | Craig Stephen Way (born 1960) is the current play-by-play announcer for the Texas Longhorns sports network. He does live radio play-by-play coverage for all major Texas Longhorn sports such as Longhorn football, men's and women's basketball and baseball. Additionally, he serves as a host on High School Scoreboard Live on Bally Sports Southwest.
As the voice of the Longhorns, Craig has had the opportunity to cover several large sporting events, including the 2006 Rose Bowl, in which Texas won college football's National Championship. He has also covered Texas in the 2003 Final Four along with two baseball National Championships for Texas in the College World Series in 2002 and 2005.
References
1960 births
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
College baseball announcers in the United States
High school football announcers in the United States
Living people
Texas Longhorns
Texas Longhorns baseball announcers
Texas Longhorns men's basketball announcers
Texas Longhorns football announcers
University of Texas at Austin people
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States
American radio sports announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYFM-FM | DYFM (101.9 FM), broadcasting as 101.9 Radyo5 True FM, is a radio station owned by the Nation Broadcasting Corporation and operated by TV5 Network Inc. The station's studio is located at TV5 Complex, Capitol Road, Camp Marina, Brgy. Kalunasan, Cebu City, while its transmitter is located at Busay Hills, Cebu City. This station operates daily from 4:00 AM to 12:00 MN. It is considered to be the first stereo FM station in Cebu City.
History
1975-1998: MRS
DYNC was Cebu's first FM station established on February 1, 1975, as MRS 101.9 (Most Requested Song). It carried an adult contemporary format, known for playing the most requested song every hour. Back then, it was located at Vacation Hotel Cebu along Juana Osmeña Ext. and later moved to Krizia Bldg. along Gorordo Ave.
1998-2008: Charlie
On September 1, 1998, after NBC was acquired by PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund's broadcasting division MediaQuest Holdings, Inc from the consortium of the Yabut family and then House Speaker Manny Villar, the station was reformatted as Charlie @ Rhythms 101.9 with a Top 40 format. On August 1, 2005, the Rhythms tag was dropped and became 101.9 Charlie, with the slogan "Get your Groove On". At the same time, it reformatted into a Smooth AC station. However, in 2008, lack of advertisers' and financial problems led to 101.9 Charlie's closure of operations in Cebu after 33 years of broadcasting.
2009-2011: WAV FM
On September 27, 2009, DYNC returned on the air, this time as DYFM. On October 1, Makati-based Audiowav Media (WAV Atmospheric) took over the station's operations, along with NBC's stations in Visayas and Mindanao, and relaunched it as 101.9 WAV FM. It carried a Top 40 format with the slogan "Philippines' Hit Music Station". At that time, its studios moved from Krizia Bldg. along Gorordo Ave. to its transmitter site in Antuwanga Road, Quiot Pardo. The Radio Station was programmed by Caloy Hinolan. It went off the air for the second time in mid-2011.
2011-present: Radyo5
On December 1, 2011, seven months after TV5 Cebu was relaunched, ABC Development Corporation (TV5) took over the station's operations and relaunched it as Radyo5 101.9 News FM, the first and only originating news/talk radio station on the FM band that delivers news and information. The station transferred to its current home at TV5 Complex in Kalunasan, while its transmitter moved to Busay Hills and upgraded its power to a newly improved 10,000-watt stereo.
It began simulcasting Manila's 92.3 FM since then. On November 12, 2012, the station launched its local programming. It began its main broadcast at 5:30am with the first local radio program entitled Frankahai Ta!, anchored by Atty. Frank Malilong Jr. After his resignation on May 2014 due to health reasons, the show was replaced by Rated JP with Jaypee Lao-Kwatsera as host. In September 2016, following the cancellation of Aksyon Bisaya, Radyo5 Cebu ceased its local programming as part of cost-cutting measures. As a result, it was downgrad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois%20Rodden | Lois Rodden (22 May 1928 - 5 June 2003) was an astrologer, astrological data collector and founder of Astrodatabank. She was a pioneer in raising awareness of the sourcing of data being foundational in the credibility of astrology.
Early life
Lois was born Lois Mae Fast on May 22, 1928, at 12:22 am MST (rectified by her) in Lang, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Rodden's study of astrology with the Church of Light, began in 1962 when she moved to Los Angeles.
Career
She sold her first astrology article in February, 1968, and in September, 1968, was invited to become a charter member of Professional Astrologers Inc. At the same time, she was invited to give a series of astrology lectures in San Jose and to teach at the Hollywood Astrological Society. She believed that her career as an astrologer began at that time.
Beginning around 1973, she built up a clientele mainly of people in the entertainment industry, keeping to practical rather than psychological concerns in the client's charts. In 1976 she wrote a list of transit definitions for one of the first computer companies to sell monthly forecasts. She also wrote Sun signs for the astrology scrolls that sell from vending machines, annual sun sign books for checkout stands and astrologically-based advertising copy.
In 1985 Rodden moved to a less urban part of California to concentrate more on research than clients. She first went to Europe in 1990. Lois was an active member of Inland Empire Mensa.
Publications
In addition to being editor/publisher of the long-running journal, Data News Rodden wrote five books of astrological data (the Astro-Data series), and three textbooks, The Mercury Method of Chart Comparison; Modern Transits, and Money, How to Find it With Astrology.
Of her publication, she said (Data News, August 2001)
Astro-Databank and the Rodden Rating System
Rodden was best known for avidly collecting exact data of births and times of public figures and celebrities. Lois Rodden applied her rating system to all the older US data she had collected. This came from astrological organizations – like The Church of Light – data collections – like Sabian Symbols– and the astrological magazines that were very popular during the 1930s and 1940s. It was a huge task. She collected thousands of data over many years that revealed just how undisciplined the astrological community was in the first half of the 20th-century.
She emphasised the importance of calculating charts using time zones, time signatures, longitudes and latitude, deploring the tendency of many astrologers to use inaccurate or non-sourced information as an easy alternative to proper research.
Rodden had high standards - she believed in a kind of public responsibility for the astrologer to choose "clean " (accurate) data over the flawed type ("dirty"). She constantly lobbied publishers, editors and fellow astrologers to make them aware of her concerns. Over 40 years she amassed tens of thousands of data, both private and public, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20for%20a%20Supermodel | Search for a Supermodel was a reality television series on Network Ten in Australia that aired from 2000 to 2002 where regional finalists competed for a contract with Ford Models. The winner of each series went on to compete in the international version of the show. The third series had both female and male contestants.
Series One (2000)
Contestants
Gillian Kellett
Sophie Barton
Gail Browne
Daniela Cristea
Alana Crossman
Francesca Elnaugh (winner)
Sara-Jane Herbert
Sarah Marie Kamoen
Jacqui Lawson
Michelle Lee
Silvana Lovin
Parris Maflin
Rebecca Bull
Deanna Margaritis
Amber McGrath
Genevieve McLeod
Belinda Melhuish
Kasia Ozog
Kathryn John
Adria Richardson
Amelie Sauvage
Cheryl Tay
Sophie Turner
Paula Vesely
Haldaana Wells
Sydney James
Sara Wuj
Tarryn Wilson
Tarin Mckimmie
Elouise Yantsch
Katie Linney
Kristy Warrick
Lauren Murray
Alice Webb
Shelley Dragun
Aliera French
Yin Chiew
Sommer Shiels
(this is an incomplete list of contestants)
Series Two (2001)
Contestants
Akush Atar
Alysha Rowatt
Belinda Willsher
Emily Thorpe
Gemma Bidstrup (winner)
Gemma Johnson
Jessica Elsegood
Katie Lange
Kristji Powell
Laura Midalia
Pia Loyola (Pia Miller)
Shadae Magson
Tahnee O'Shaughnessy
Dragana Ljubicic
Laura Spalding
Series Three (2002)
Contestants
Female
Alex Venema
Amy Brookman
Anastasia Schrieder
Anna George
Emily Stone
Josephine Wilkins
Kate O'Connell
Kate Peck
Kerry Doyle (People's choice winner)
Nicole Trunfio (winner)
Ruby Brown
Tara Edwards
Tiah Eckhardt Tiah Delaney
Vanessa DellaBona
Male
David Genat (winner)
Justin Hogg
Justin Pearce
Mark Bendeli
Matthew Kopp
Michael Lavens
Ross Laurence
Ryan Sathre
Scott Hansen
Simon Pocock
Zen Crosby
References
See also
America's Next Top Model
Australia's Next Top Model
Network 10 original programming
Modeling-themed reality television series
2000 Australian television series debuts
2002 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20of%20Stupid | World of Stupid is an American television series which aired on the Fox Reality network in the U.S., and on the Razer network in Canada. The show is seemingly inspired by the American television series Jackass. World of Stupid chronicles ten groups of people in 10 different cities performing often dangerous stunts and pranks.
The show has featured such stunt groups as The E-jets, formed in Rhyl, North Wales in the UK and The Dudesons of Finland.
References
Martin, Denise, "Fox expands world with reality formats", Variety, July 26, 2005 (URL last accessed October 3, 2006).
Razer, "Razer Fall '06 Highlights", Press Release, CNW Group, August 3, 2006 (URL last accessed September 30, 2006).
2000s American reality television series
2000s American comedy television series
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid%20Technologies | Ovid Technologies, Inc. (or just Ovid for short), part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies, provides access to online bibliographic databases, academic journals, and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database was once its chief product but, as this is now freely available through PubMed, Ovid has diversified into a wide range of other databases and other products. Ovid has its global headquarters in New York City.
History
Ovid was founded in 1984 by Mark Nelson, who had developed an interface to MEDLINE, the world's largest and oldest medical database, produced by the US National Library of Medicine. The company at that time was known as Online Research Systems, a name Nelson chose to disguise the fact that he was the only employee of the company, operating out of an apartment in Spanish Harlem, New York City. The interface was designed to connect over the phone lines to mainframe computers of vendors, primarily BRS Online, which were running in-house search engines designed for Medline. However, fearing potential competition, these vendors shut off access for the interface. Nelson then decided to write his own Medline search engine, one of the first that was based on PCs.
Nelson had attempted, unsuccessfully, to obtain funding for the company. In order to fund operations, Nelson began building computers in his apartment, selling them along with the software. When the first product was released in 1988, the company changed its name to CD Plus. The product quickly became successful, fueled by innovations in search engine technology. Most importantly, Nelson had devised algorithms that encapsulated much of the complexity of Medline's lexicon, enabling end-users to achieve a high level of search precision without the need to master Medline's intricate taxonomy. The company's first Microsoft Windows interface to MEDLINE was named Ovid and released in 1992. Nelson, who had majored in English Literature and minored in classical languages, chose the name Ovid as a homage to the ancient Roman poet's most famous work, Metamorphoses. Several years later, Nelson started the Alpheios Project, non-profit software to facilitate the reading of ancient Greek and Latin.
The company's primary competitor continued to be BRS Online. CD-Plus gained significant market share from its competitor, and in 1994 acquired the company. Shortly after, CD-Plus went public at $6/share, and listed on NASDAQ. It then changed to its present name in 1995, reflecting the importance of its Ovid product.
In 1998, Nelson, who still retained the majority of Ovid shares, was wary of the market bubble that had been building for several years. He engaged Goldman Sachs to sell the company. Wolters Kluwer acquired the company in October, 1998, for $24.59/share.
Ovid continued to make inroads against its competitors. In 2001, Wolters Kluwer purchased the rival SilverPlatter company and merged it into Ovid duri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTX%20Family%20Card | KTX Family Card is the loyalty program and membership card of Korail. This card is issued by Korail Networks, subsidiary of Korail.
History
In the 1980s, the National Railroad Administration started to issue Railroad Membership Cards. This membership card only had a 10-digit membership number on it, this type of card is widely used until 1998. In 1998, quick-ticket machines and a new membership card with a magnetic strip were introduced. Although the quick-ticket machine had many benefits, the machine and new card were not widely used. The current version of KTX Family Card with IC chip (Smart card) was introduced in 2004.
Benefits
5% mileage for the money spent on rail ticket
Mybi·T-money transportation card service (X-cash, a part of KS transportation card system. All Mybi area and Seoul Subway, Buses, AREX accepts this card.)
e-ticket service (X-ticket, 1% discount)
‘SMS Ticket’ service (1% discount)
self-printing ‘Home Ticket’ service (1% discount)
ticket home delivery service
free admission for the Railroad Museum of Korea, and KTX Family Lounge in selected station
See also
Korail
External links
Official Homepage
on-line reserve
Customer loyalty programs
Contactless smart cards
Fare collection systems in South Korea
Korea Train Express |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%ADragon | Síragon, C.A. is a Venezuelan manufacturer and assembler of computer hardware and other electronic products such as digital cameras, tablet, computers and LCD televisions. Siragon also designs and manufactures its own RAM and flash memory and printed circuit boards. The company was created in an alliance between Venezuela and Japanese investors. Its plant is located in the North Industrial Zone of Valencia, Carabobo, in Venezuela.
In November 2009, Síragon started to distribute its product line in Argentina, Allied with the Argentinian computer wholesale vendor Greentech. Síragon manufactures its own designs and also builds under license, all-in-one computers from Brazilian Itautec.
Siragon products are all manufactured in Venezuela. At the 2012 international consumer electronics show Siragon formally announced its intent to enter the US market by the end of 2012. Siragon is engaged in a design partnership with BMW for which it both manufactures electronics for and collaborates on electronic designs with.
Siragon currently holds the third largest share of the electronics market in Venezuela.
Products
Digital cameras
Video cameras
Desktop computers
Laptop computers
Netbooks
Computer servers
LCD televisions and monitors
LED television
Plasma TV screens
Sound systems
Peripherals
Tablet computers
References
External links
Síragon Webpage
Electronics companies of Venezuela
Venezuelan brands
Computer hardware companies
Computer memory companies
Display technology companies
Netbook manufacturers
Home appliance manufacturers
Electronics companies established in 2004
2004 establishments in Venezuela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Instrumentation%20Recorder | Digital Instrumentation Recorder is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony. It uses a ¾" wide tape, in a cassette with two reels, which is written and read with a helical scan process.
Generations
D1
Up to 64 MB/s data transfer speed
Up to 96 GB data capacity
ANSI ID-1 standard
External links
Entry in Computer Desktop Encyclopedia
Other information
Computer storage tape media
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reelz | Reelz (formerly known as Reelz Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. The network's programming was formerly devoted to entertainment-oriented programming focusing on the Hollywood film and entertainment industry, with programs featuring information on theatrical film releases as well as information on movies released on DVD and airing on cable television. Currently, outside a few entertainment programs, and some reality series and films, the network mainly airs original and acquired films, series, and programming relating to true crime and celebrity scandals.
As of February 2015, Reelz is available to approximately 68.2 million pay television households (58.6% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
History
The network launched on September 27, 2006 as ReelzChannel, initially available on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network. The network originally maintained a programming focus similar to the original format of E! (and its predecessor MovieTime), focusing on programs about the entertainment industry including movie review and junket interview series. The network eventually signed carriage agreements with various cable providers including Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Charter Communications and Altice. The network's programming then was tailored to allow insertion of order details and channel positions for film titles being offered through each provider's pay-per-view and video on demand systems.
In early 2009, ReelzChannel moved its operations from Los Angeles, California, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Hubbard owns that city's NBC-affiliated television station KOB. KOB and ReelzChannel, however, maintain separate facilities. At that point, the network shifted its programming focus to incorporate acquired series alongside its entertainment news programs. In August 2011, ReelzChannel debuted its first miniseries, The Kennedys. An unauthorized biopic centering on President John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy and the Camelot empire, ReelzChannel acquired the rights to the film after it was dropped by History.
In February 2023, Reelz reached an agreement with NBCUniversal-owned streaming service Peacock, which would carry a linear feed of Reelz and the network's library of programming for subscribers. MLW Underground Wrestling from Major League Wrestling is blacked out and replaced with alternate programming on Peacock due to WWE's exclusivity agreements with the service.
Programming
Reelz original programming is produced both in the US and internationally. For example, the network premiered a docudrama in 2017, Titanic: Sinking The Myths, starring Ed Asner, examining the circumstances surrounding the ocean liner disaster. In 2020, Reelz ordered The Story of the Songs from ViacomCBS Networks UK, in association with the British branch of Paramount Network.
In June 2022, Reelz acquired Cops and later greenlit On Patrol: Live, a spiritual successo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice%20sampling | Slice sampling is a type of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling, i.e. for drawing random samples from a statistical distribution. The method is based on the observation that to sample a random variable one can sample uniformly from the region under the graph of its density function.
Motivation
Suppose you want to sample some random variable X with distribution f(x). Suppose that the following is the graph of f(x). The height of f(x) corresponds to the likelihood at that point.
If you were to uniformly sample X, each value would have the same likelihood of being sampled, and your distribution would be of the form f(x) = y for some y value instead of some non-uniform function f(x). Instead of the original black line, your new distribution would look more like the blue line.
In order to sample X in a manner which will retain the distribution f(x), some sampling technique must be used which takes into account the varied likelihoods for each range of f(x).
Method
Slice sampling, in its simplest form, samples uniformly from underneath the curve f(x) without the need to reject any points, as follows:
Choose a starting value x0 for which f(x0) > 0.
Sample a value uniformly between 0 and f(x0).
Draw a horizontal line across the curve at this position.
Sample a point (, ) from the line segments within the curve.
Repeat from step 2 using the new value.
The motivation here is that one way to sample a point uniformly from within an arbitrary curve is first to draw thin uniform-height horizontal slices across the whole curve. Then, we can sample a point within the curve by randomly selecting a slice that falls at or below the curve at the x-position from the previous iteration, then randomly picking an x-position somewhere along the slice. By using the x-position from the previous iteration of the algorithm, in the long run we select slices with probabilities proportional to the lengths of their segments within the curve.
The most difficult part of this algorithm is finding the bounds of the horizontal slice, which involves inverting the function describing the distribution being sampled from. This is especially problematic for multi-modal distributions, where the slice may consist of multiple discontinuous parts. It is often possible to use a form of rejection sampling to overcome this, where we sample from a larger slice that is known to include the desired slice in question, and then discard points outside of the desired slice.
This algorithm can be used to sample from the area under any curve, regardless of whether the function integrates to 1. In fact, scaling a function by a constant has no effect on the sampled x-positions. This means that the algorithm can be used to sample from a distribution whose probability density function is only known up to a constant (i.e. whose normalizing constant is unknown), which is common in computational statistics.
Implementation
Slice sampling gets its name from the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg%20Murphy | Gregg Murphy (born 1971) is a sports broadcaster and reporter who currently serves as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies Radio Network broadcast team. He formerly worked for NBC Sports Philadelphiafrom 2008 to 2020, and was also part of CN8's sports coverage.
Career
Murphy spent two years as co-host and reporter for The Inquirer High School Sports Show alongside Joe Briscella. Prior to coming to Philadelphia, Murphy was the weekend sports anchor and reporter for WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Murphy then worked at CN8 where he hosted Out of Bounds, an hour-long sports program airing at 7 p.m. on weeknights that examined various sports stories across the nation, specifically those within CN8's viewing area from Maine to Virginia. He also served as a contributor to various other sports productions by CN8, including serving as the lead sports anchor for the 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. broadcasts of CN8 News each weeknight.
Murphy began appearing on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (now NBC Sports Philadelphia) in 2008, and he hosted his first edition of Daily News Live on December 30 of that year. Starting with the 2012 season, Murphy began serving as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies' broadcast team on the network, where he provided reports from various locations at Citizens Bank Park throughout the game. He also occasionally filled in for Tom McCarthy as the TV play-by-play announcer. In August 2020, NBC Sports Philadelphia announced that Murphy would not be returning as a field reporter for the Phillies after the 2020 season.
In April 2021, Murphy started a podcast with SBC Media Partners called Glove Stories with Murph. The podcast featured former Phillies players, former members of the Phillies organization, and Phillies analysts. In the 2021 season, Murphy joined the broadcast team for the Phillies Radio Network, and he currently serves as host of pre-game and post-game shows before and after all Phillies games. Murphy also occasionally fills in for radio play-by-play announcer Scott Franzke.
Personal life
Murphy was raised in Mount Laurel, New Jersey and attended Holy Cross Academy. He graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1993, and he currently resides in Swedesboro, New Jersey with his wife and three children.
References
External links
Living people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
American sports announcers
Holy Cross Academy (New Jersey) alumni
Philadelphia Phillies announcers
Saint Joseph's University alumni
Television personalities from Philadelphia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Harrison Township, New Jersey
People from Mount Laurel, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCOS | UCOS may refer to:
MicroC/OS-II, an operating system for microprocessors
Unsolved Crime and Open case Squad, a fictional department of the Metropolitan Police in New Tricks (TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUVM-CD | KUVM-CD (channel 34) is a low-power, Class A television station in Houston, Texas, United States. Owned by HC2 Holdings, the station maintains affiliations with multiple digital networks. KUVM-CD's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
History
The station began as a construction permit in Victoria, Texas, granted to Community Television of Victoria. Planned as a translator of San Antonio television station KWEX-TV, to broadcast on UHF channel 25, the new station was almost immediately displaced by new full-service station KAVU-TV. It was instead built on UHF channel 55 and was licensed as K55CP on November 30, 1981. By 1982, it was on the air with programs from the Satellite Program Network. Community Television sold the station to Number 1 TV, Inc. on April 13, 1983, but re-acquired the station from bankruptcy in 1985. In December 1981, the station had applied to move to channel 53; the FCC granted the permit on June 30, 1988, and the station was licensed as K53CZ on channel 53 on December 29, 1989, though it remained on channel 55 well into the 1990s. The station moved to channel 28 in 2000 and adopted new calls KVIT-LP.
In the mid-2000s, the station was relocated to DeWalt, a suburb of Houston. During this time, at least c. 2006, the station showed programming from the Home Shopping Network. In 2003, the station moved to channel 34.
The station's call sign was changed to KUVM-CA on May 16, 2007. On July 1, KUVM-CA began airing Azteca América when KUBE-TV (channel 57) stopped carrying it.
KUVM-CA ceased its analog signal on October 22, 2009 (Due to its low-power status, it was not required to end analog broadcasting when full-power analog broadcasting ended on June 12). Azteca América programming shifted to K10PY-D (channel 10, now KUVM-LD).
A minor change in call sign to KUVM-CD was granted on April 26, 2010.
On July 1, 2010, the FCC consented to the sale of the station to Mako Communications.
KUVM-CD returned to the air from the Missouri City tower farm in July 2010. RTV was added to 34.2 on August 26, 2010, and the Mexican Telestai network was added to 34.1 on October 12, 2010, apparently running from an Internet stream. That feed proved unstable, and Telestai was dropped in November 2010. AMGTV also aired on a subchannel from April 2011 to April 2012.
In June 2013, KUVM-CD was slated to be sold to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations; the sale fell through in June 2016.
On November 30, 2016, MundoMax ceased operations, leaving KUVM-CD without any programming briefly until the beginning of 2017 when they affiliated with LATV.
Mako Communications sold its stations, including KUVM-CD, to HC2 Holdings in 2017.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
UVM-CD
UVM-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1980
Retro TV affiliates
Spanish-language television stations in Texa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHLM-LD | KHLM-LD (channel 12) is a low-power religious television station in Houston, Texas, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network. The station's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
History
In its early years, this station did not broadcast a TV service at all. Instead, it was used to run an Internet Service Provider called AccelerNet, which delivered the downstream part of the service using UHF channel 43 and the upstream using a traditional dial-up modem or ISDN line.
Prior to 2020, KHLM-LD was the American flagship of the Monterrey, Nuevo León-based network Multimedios, and coordinated many of that network's talent appearances around the Houston area and southern Texas. Its local programming was also carried over the American feed of the network for cable and satellite providers, replacing Monterrey only-specific content.
The station temporarily ceased over-the-air broadcasting as of December 1, 2018, in preparation for the broadcast band repack in 2019 and a re-sort from UHF channel 43 onto VHF channel 10. KHLM-LD's main channel carrying Multimedios Houston is still available as a basic offering on most of the area's cable providers.
On June 4, 2021, it was announced that Lotus Communications would sell KHLM-LD to the Christian Television Network for $1.1 million. The sale was completed on August 18.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
HLM-LD
Christian Television Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1996
HLM
1996 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-oblique%20Mercator%20projection | Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization of the oblique Mercator projection that incorporates the time evolution of a given satellite ground track to optimize its representation on the map. The oblique Mercator projection, on the other hand, optimizes for a given geodesic.
History
The space-oblique Mercator projection (SOM) was developed by John P. Snyder, Alden Partridge Colvocoresses and John L. Junkins in 1976. Snyder had an interest in maps, originating back to his childhood and he regularly attended cartography conferences while on vacation. In 1972, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) needed to develop a system for reducing the amount of distortion caused when satellite pictures of the ellipsoidal Earth were printed on a flat page. Colvocoresses, the head of the USGS's national mapping program, asked attendees of a geodetic sciences conferences for help solving the projection problem in 1976. Snyder attended the conference and became motivated to work on the problem armed with his newly purchased pocket calculator and devised the mathematical formulas needed to solve the problem. After submitting his calculations to Waldo Tobler for review, Snyder submitted these to the USGS at no charge. Impressed with his work, USGS officials offered Snyder a job with the organization, which he accepted. His formulas were used to produce maps from Landsat 4 images launched in the summer of 1978.
Projection description
The space-oblique Mercator projection provides continual, nearly conformal mapping of the swath sensed by a satellite. Scale is true along the ground track, varying 0.01 percent within the normal sensing range of the satellite. Conformality is correct within a few parts per million for the sensing range. Distortion is essentially constant along lines of constant distance parallel to the ground track. The space-oblique Mercator is the only projection presented that takes the rotation of Earth into account.
Equations
The forward equations for the Space-oblique Mercator projection for the sphere are as follows:
References
John Hessler, Projecting Time: John Parr Snyder and the Development of the Space Oblique Mercator Projection, Library of Congress, 2003
Snyder's 1981 Paper Detailing the Projection's Derivation
Map projections |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese%20Communication%20Group | The Lebanese Communication Group is a company set up by the Lebanese Islamist political group Hezbollah, to manage both Al-Manar and Al-Nour networks. The Lebanese Communication Group is sometimes called the Lebanese Media Group.
Hezbollah Secretary General Nasrallah publicized an invitation for all Lebanese citizens to volunteer for Hezbollah military training on al-Manar and al-Nour, who have been the media arms of the Hezbollah network and have facilitated its activities supported by the IRIB and IRGC. Members of Hezbollah's Executive Council, notably Nasrallah, controlled the budgets of al-Manar and al-Nour.
References
Hezbollah
Mass media in Lebanon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser%20Grammar%20Engine | The Parser Grammar Engine (PGE, originally the Parrot Grammar Engine) is a compiler and runtime for Raku rules for the Parrot virtual machine. PGE uses these rules to convert a parsing expression grammar into Parrot bytecode. It is therefore compiling rules into a program, unlike most virtual machines and runtimes, which store regular expressions in a secondary internal format that is then interpreted at runtime by a regular expression engine. The rules format used by PGE can express any regular expression and most formal grammars, and as such it forms the first link in the compiler chain for all of Parrot's front-end languages.
When executed, the bytecode generated by PGE will parse text as described in the input rules, generating a parse tree. The parse tree can be manipulated directly, or fed into the next stage of the Parrot compiler toolchain in order to generate an AST from which code generation can occur (if the grammar describes a programming language).
History
Originally named P6GE and written in C, PGE was translated to native Parrot and renamed not long after its initial release in November 2004. Its author is Patrick R. Michaud. PGE was written in order to reduce the amount of work required to implement a compiler on top of Parrot. It was also written to allow Perl 6 to easily self-host, though current Pugs development no longer uses PGE as its primary rules back-end in favor of a native engine called PCR.
Internals
PGE combines three styles of parsing:
Raku rules
an operator precedence parser
custom parse subroutines
The primary form is Raku rules, so a PGE rule might look like this for an addition-only grammar:
rule term { <number> | \( <expr> \) }
rule number { \d+ }
rule expr { <term> ( '+' <term> )* }
The operator precedence parser allows an operator table to be built and used directly in a Perl 6 rule style parser like so:
rule expr is optable { ... }
rule term { <number> | \( <expr> \) }
rule number { \d+ }
proto term: is precedence('=')
is parsed(&term) {...}
proto infix:+ is looser('term:') {...}
This accomplishes the same goal of defining a simple, addition-only grammar, but does so using a combination of a Raku style regex/rules for term and number and a shift-reduce optable for everything else.
Code generation
Though PGE outputs code which will parse the grammar described by a rule, and can be used at run time to handle simple grammars and regular expressions found in code, its primary purpose is for the parsing of high level languages.
The Parrot compiler toolchain is broken into several parts, of which PGE is the first. PGE converts source code to parse trees. The Tree Grammar Engine (TGE) then converts these into Parrot Abstract Syntax Trees (PAST). A second TGE pass then converts a PAST into Parrot Opcode Syntax Trees (POST) which can be directly transformed into executable bytecode.
References
External links
Perl
Formal languages
Pattern matching
Beta software
Compilers
Interpre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Order%20Language%20Working%20Group | The High Order Language Working Group (HOLWG) was a working group instrumental in developing the Ada computer programming language. The group was established in 1975 with the goal of establishing a single high-level programming language appropriate for United States Department of Defense (DoD) real-time embedded computer systems. Colonel William A. Whitaker chaired the group.
The group was centered in the US, but input was solicited from international experts. European experts responded well, which was valuable since language research there, during the prior decade, was more active than in the US. Some highly accomplished academics were paid including Edsger W. Dijkstra, Charles Antony Richard Hoare, and Niklaus Wirth.
HOLWG had three objectives:
formulate the requirements for common DoD high order languages;
compare those requirements with existing languages; and
recommend adoption or implementation of the necessary common languages.
References
Ada - The Project The DoD High Order Language Working Group, William A. Whitaker, Colonel USAF, Retired
Working groups
Ada (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Spector | Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. He is a visiting scholar in the MIT EECS Department and was previously CTO of Two Sigma Investments. Before that, he was Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google.
Education
Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1981. His research explored communication architectures for building multiprocessors out of network-linked computers and included measurements of remote procedure call operations on experimental Ethernet. His dissertation was titled Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks, and his advisor was Forest Baskett III.
Career
Spector was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). While there, he served as doctoral advisor to Randy Pausch, Jeff Eppinger and Joshua Bloch and seven others. Spector was a founder of Transarc Corporation in 1989 which built and sold distributed transaction processing and wide area file systems software, commercializing the Andrew File System developed at CMU. After Transarc was acquired by IBM, he became a software executive and then vice president of global software and services research for IBM and finally vice president of strategy and technology within IBM's Software Group.
Spector joined Google as vice president of research in November 2007 and retired in early 2015. In October 2015 he was hired by technology-driven hedge fund Two Sigma Investments to serve as the CTO, which he did until mid-2020.
Advisory committees
Spector is involved with academic computer science and has served on numerous advisory committees, including chairing the NSF CISE Advisory Committee from 2004–2005; various university advisory committees including at City College of New York, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard, Rice University and Stanford. He has served on the National Academy Computer Science and Telecommunication Board from 2006 to 2013 and chaired the Computer Science and Engineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering.
Speaking/writing
Spector has written and spoken on diverse topics related to computer science and engineering. In 2004, he described the expanding sphere of Computer Science and proposed the need to infuse computer science into all disciplines using the phrase CS+X. He and his co-authors Peter Norvig and Slav Petrov proposed a model for computer science research in industry, based on their experience at Google in their paper, Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research. Since 2016 Spector advocated for a balanced and critical perspective on data science, and in the presentation Opportunities and Perils in Data Science, he argued for a trans-disciplinary study of data science that includes the humanities and social sciences.
As a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in the 2018–19 academic year, Spector has presented these positions at vario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Verrett | Stan Verrett (born ) is an American sportscaster on the ESPN and ESPNEWS networks. Most of his appearances are on SportsCenter at 11 p.m or 1 a.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday. He has also hosted studio segments on ESPN's college basketball and college football telecasts, and has appeared as a sideline reporter, working ArenaBowl XXII.
Life and career
Verrett attended St. Augustine High School in New Orleans and Howard University in Washington, D.C. Verrett is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
He was a radio DJ on WOWI 103 Jamz in the Hampton Roads, VA area. While in the area, Verrett was a sports anchor on ABC affiliate WVEC-TV 13 and also had a stint on local NBC affiliate WAVY-TV 10.
In April 2009, Verrett began working from ESPN's then-new L.A. Live studios, anchoring the 10:00 p.m. PST SportsCenter along with Neil Everett. In August 2016, he was named studio host for ESPN's college football coverage airing on sister network ABC, replacing John Saunders, who died earlier that month.
He is the cousin of Jason Verrett.
References
External links
Stan Verrett's ESPN Bio
Mass media people from New Orleans
African-American sports announcers
Arena football announcers
American television sports announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
African-American sports journalists
American sports journalists
African-American television personalities
Living people
Howard University alumni
ArenaBowl broadcasters
St. Augustine High School (New Orleans) alumni
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20House | Clean House is a home makeover and interior design television show, originally broadcast from 2003 until 2011 which aired 10 seasons of programs on the Style Network. Originally hosted by Niecy Nash and later by Tempestt Bledsoe, the show brings a four-person cleanup-and-renovation crew to the homes of families to clean up clutter.
In 2010, Nash announced that she would be leaving the series, though it will continue on without her. Her final episode aired on December 1, 2010. Later that month, the Style Network confirmed that former Cosby Show cast member Tempestt Bledsoe would take over as host. Her first episode aired on December 15, 2010. As of 2013, the show is believed to have been canceled due to low ratings after Nash's departure.
Series overview
Episode structure
Each episode begins with a short montage introducing the subjects of the makeover. The host guides family members through the process of letting go of things with the assistance of "Go-to-Guy," handyman Matt Iseman, "Yard Sale King," Joel Steingold and designer Didi Snyder. Previous seasons featured "Designer with all the magic" Mark Brunetz, "Yard Sale Guy" Allan Lee Haff, "Yard Sale Diva" comedic actress Trish Suhr, "Organizer" Linda Koopersmith, and "Designer" Michael Moloney.
The Clean House team will negotiate and make deals with family members in order to convince them to sell belongings. The excess belongings are sold at a yard sale to raise money for the makeover. The show's production budget matches up to $1000 of the yard sale proceeds to be used on the makeover, and supplies all paint, labor, and in later seasons, the organizing costs.
Commercial breaks are often trailed with segments featuring quick interior design tips directed at the viewer usually presented by Brunetz and Nash, and organizational tips presented by Suhr.
Behind-the-scenes
Debi Gutierrez filled in for Niecy Nash in four episodes in 2007, "The Blount Family", "The Cohen Family", "The Bunce Family, and "The Freitz Family", while Nash was away filming Reno 911!: Miami. Style network stated that they were not replacing Nash with Gutierrez. Some people say Gutierrez was not chosen due to her "bullying" in one episode she hosted. She was attempting to convince a woman to give up her shoes. When she said, "Then do it without bitching", the woman gave up the shoes, and ran out crying to her husband saying that Debi bullied her.
In April 2015, some of the former cast members, including Niecy Nash, Mark Brunetz, Trish Suhr, and Matt Iseman, met up for a reunion and interview on The Hallmark Channel, discussing former home remodels, their time on the show, and past Clean House yard sales.
Cast
Timeline of cast members
Roles
Host
Niecy Nash (season 1–9)
Tempestt Bledsoe (season 9–10)
Lisa Arch (backup, season 8–10)
Yard sale
Allen Lee Haff ("Yard Sale Guy", season 1–4)
Trish Suhr ("Yard Sale Diva", season 5–10)
Joel Steingold ("Jack-of-All-Trades", season 9–10; "Yard Sale King", season 10)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNWS-LD | KNWS-LD (channel 64) is a low-power television station in Brownsville, Texas, United States, owned by Innovate Corp. Its programming is also seen on KAZH-LD (channel 35) and KRZG-CD (channel 32) in McAllen, Texas.
The Rio Grande Valley was one of three markets to receive both Azteca América and the original TV Azteca channels (San Diego, El Paso and Laredo are the others). Much of KNWS-LD's programming from Azteca America could also be seen on XHOR-TV (Azteca 7) or XHMTA-TV/XHREY-TV (Azteca 13), sometimes simultaneously.
KNWS-LD was formerly known as KBDF-LP, and KAZH-LD was formerly known as KNDF-LP; the call letters were changed in 2011, after Una Vez Más acquired the former KNWS-TV in Houston and renamed it KYAZ. The KBDF and KNDF call letters both referred to XHDF-TV, one of TV Azteca's flagship stations.
Newscast
In early 2007, KBDF-LP, which was then renamed as KNWS-LP in 2011, planned to start a local newscast, which would be produced in Davenport, Iowa, by the Independent News Network. However, as of September 2007, it had not yet debuted.
Subchannels
References
Buzzr affiliates
NOST affiliates
Innovate Corp.
Mass media in Brownsville, Texas
Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
NWS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simm | Simm may refer to:
SIMM (single in-line memory module), a type of memory module used in computers
Simm (hill), a hill in the British Isles that is over 600 m high and has a prominence of at least 30 m
Simm (surname)
See also
Sim (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darklands | Darklands or Dark Lands can refer to:
Films
Darklands (film), a 1996 Welsh horror film
Darkland (2017 film), a 2017 Danish film
Games
Darklands (video game), a computer role-playing game by Microprose
Dark Lands (video game), a video game by Mingle Games
Dark Lands, a location in the Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer Fantasy setting
Literature
Darklands Trilogy, a series of books by Anthony Eaton
Darklands, a fictional realm in the gamebook series Lone Wolf
Dark Land, a continent in stories of J. R. R. Tolkien
Music
Darklands (album), a 1987 album by The Jesus and Mary Chain
"Darklands" (song), a song and 1987 single by The Jesus and Mary Chain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MITM | MITM may refer to:
Man-in-the-middle attack, a computer networking attack
Meet-in-the-middle attack, a cryptographic attack
Modern Institute of Technology and Management, India
Master of Information Technology Management, a master's degree
Malcolm in the Middle, an American sitcom
See also
Man-in-the-mobile (MitMo), a computer security attack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Photonics | American Photonics, Inc. (API) was a very early developer of local area network technologies in the 1980s, based first in Brewster, New York, moving later to Brookfield Center, Connecticut.
History
American Photonics, Inc., was founded in 1982 by James Walyus (1938–2000) while he was employed by Exxon Optical Information Systems (Exxon OIS) of Elmsford, New York. His intention was to create an organization that would develop leading-edge, yet commercially viable, optical communication technologies that could be sold into large potential markets.
After some initial research in networking technologies, API was contracted by Interlan (another early Ethernet networking company, subsequently acquired by Micom and then by Racal Electronics PLC) to develop an adjunct to its 10BASE5 Ethernet transceivers and network interface cards (NICs, or network cards). This adjunct product was to extend the distance between the transceiver and the NIC by way of fiber optics, as the distance was severely limited by the 15-pin Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) cable used in this connection.
Building upon this early success, API developed the RL1000 line of Ethernet 10BASE5 transceivers. The RL1000 physical design was patterned on the rugged 3Com 3C107 transceiver, with the added feature of indicator lamps much like the Cabletron Systems ST500 transceiver, and it became relatively popular as a result.
Another early Ethernet product designed by API was the RL6000 Ethernet Repeater. This unit directly competed with the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) DEREP-AA repeater, but had the advantages of being modular (allowing for fiber interfaces, Thinnet or AUI Cable interfaces) and smaller (occupying less than half the space of a DEREP-AA). Consequently, API was able to overtake DEC in sales of this product in 1984, a significant feat for a start-up in the Ethernet industry.
One of the last Ethernet products developed by API was the RL8000 Modular Ethernet Hub. This unit was released at about the same time as the Cabletron Systems MMAC-8 modular hub and the Astra Communications (soon to be SynOptics) LattisNet concentrator. The RL8000 was complete with network management software and modular AUI and fiber optic ports, and was supplied with RL3000 fiber-to-AUI adapters for the remote ends of the fiber optic cables. This product was successfully installed in its first customer application in 1986.
Despite raising $6 million from investors such as Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Mura Corp. over the course of four investment rounds, American Photonics ran aground in 1987 due to a variety of reasons, among them product distribution problems, insufficient funding for growth, and the stock market crash of October 19, 1987, also known as Black Monday. Investors brought in a CEO to replace James Walyus in November 1987 and the decision to close down was made in January 1988. The company was placed in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and its assets sold to the public in mid-1988. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Harvey | Peter Michael St Clair Harvey (16 September 19442 March 2013) was an Australian journalist and broadcaster. Harvey was a long-serving correspondent and contributor with the Nine Network from 1975 to 2013.
Career
Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph and won a Walkley Award in 1964. He worked at radio stations 2UE and 2GB before moving to London and working for BBC Radio. He then went on to The Guardian (where he received the British Reporter of the Year Award for a series of articles about the sale of confidential information) and the American Newsweek magazine as a reporter in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Harvey changed to television when he joined the Nine Network in 1973 and served as its news director in the network's Canberra bureau for many years. One of his first major stories was the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in November 1975.
It was from this work, and his regular political reporting on Nine's flagship nightly news bulletins, that his sonorous closing line of "Peter Harvey, Canberra" and deep baritone voice became something of a catchphrase and was lampooned by numerous comedians, including Australian television's Full Frontal and The Late Show.
Harvey also reported for the network from numerous international trips by Australian prime ministers and was based in Saudi Arabia in 1990 with American forces at the commencement of the first Gulf War. He transferred from Canberra to the network's Sydney headquarters in February 1997. In later years he contributed to Today and 60 Minutes, where he presented a weekly viewers' feedback segment.
Harvey was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001, for service to Australian society in journalism. He was posthumously inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame on 27 April 2014.
Illness and death
On 11 October 2012, Harvey announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He stated that he had found out about his illness three weeks earlier when he was holidaying in Venice with his wife.
On 2 March 2013, Harvey died at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney at the age of 68.
Personal life
Harvey was born and raised in Bellevue Hill near Bondi in Sydney. He was married to Anne and had two children, Claire and Adam, who both went into careers in journalism. Claire is deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper and Adam is a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney. Adam's wife Eliza is a daughter of journalist Geraldine Doogue, from her first marriage with Tim Blue.
In a 2008 interview, Harvey stated, "I believe very strongly in God and Jesus Christ, but not so much on organised religion. I had a boarding school knock that out of me."
References
1944 births
2013 deaths
60 Minutes (Australian TV program) correspondents
Australian political journalists
Australian radio journalists
Australian television journalists
Australian war correspondents
Deaths from cancer in New South Wales
Deaths from pancreatic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20%28miniseries%29 | Jessica is an Australian television miniseries based on the historical novel by Bryce Courtenay. Originally broadcast by Australia's Network Ten in 2004 and set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised. Jessica won a 2005 Logie award for best mini-series or telemovie, plus two awards at the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival - one of them for the direction of Australian Peter Andrikidis.
Plot
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica (Leeanna Walsman) is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg (Megan Dorman) is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas (Oliver Ackland), who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche (Sam Neill), a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released.
Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt. Jessica later dies from a snake bite and the film ends with Joey (aged 16) visiting Jessica's grave.
Cast
Leeanna Walsman as Jessica Bergman
Megan Dorman as Meg Bergman
Lisa Harrow as Hester Bergman
Tony Martin as Joe Bergman
Sam Neill as Richard Runche
John Howard as George Thomas
Oliver Ackland as Jack Thomas
Heather Mitchell as Ada Thomas
Nikki Osborne as Gwen Thomas
Natasha Wanganeen as Mary Simpson
Huw Higginson as Prosecutor
John Gregg as Justice Wall
Edmund Pegge as Sneddon
Peter Sumner as Rennie
Mark Furze as Joey, age 16
Awards and nominations
External links
Jessica at Power
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian television miniseries
2004 Australian television series debuts
2004 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
2000s Australian drama television series
Works by Peter Yeldham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Distributed%20Management | Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM, pronounced wisdom) is a web service standard for managing and monitoring the status of other services.
The goal of WSDM is to allow a well-defined network protocol for controlling any other service that is WSDM-compliant. For example, a third-party digital dashboard or network management system could be used to monitor the status or performance of other services, and potentially take corrective actions to restart services if failures occur. Some aspects of WSDM overlap or displace functionality of SNMP.
Specifications
WSDM 1.0 was approved as an OASIS standard on March 9, 2005. The approval of the WSDM 1.1 specification occurred on September 7, 2006.
WSDM consists of two specifications:
Management Using Web Services (MUWS) — WSDM MUWS defines how to represent and access the manageability interfaces of resources as Web services. It defines a basic set of manageability capabilities, such as resource identity, metrics, configuration, and relationships, which can be composed to express the capability of the management instrumentation. WSDM MUWS also provides a standard management event format to improve interoperability and correlation.
Management Of Web Services (MOWS) — WSDM MOWS defines how to manage Web services as resources and how to describe and access that manageability using MUWS. MOWS provides mechanisms and methodologies that enable manageable Web services applications to interoperate across enterprise and organizational boundaries.
See also
OASIS (organization) (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
References
External links
OASIS WSDM Page.
Web standards
Web services
Grid computing
Computer-related introductions in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matita | Matita
is an experimental proof assistant under development at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bologna. It is a tool aiding the development of formal proofs by man-machine collaboration, providing a programming environment where formal specifications, executable algorithms and automatically verifiable correctness certificates naturally coexist.
Matita is based on a dependent type system known as the Calculus of (Co)Inductive Constructions (a derivative of Calculus of Constructions), and is compatible, to some extent, with Coq.
The word "matita" means "pencil" in Italian (a simple and widespread editing tool). It is a reasonably small and simple application, whose architectural and software complexity is meant to be mastered by students, providing a tool particularly suited for testing innovative ideas and solutions. Matita adopts a tactic-based editing mode; (XML-encoded) proof objects are produced for storage and exchange.
Main features
Existential variables are native in Matita, allowing a simpler management of dependent goals.
Matita implements a bidirectional type inference algorithm exploiting both inferred and expected types.
The power of the type inference system (refiner) is further augmented by a mechanism of
hints
that helps in synthesizing unifiers in particular situations specified by the user.
Matita supports a sophisticated disambiguation strategy
based on a dialog between the parser and the typechecker.
At the interactive level, the system implements a small step execution of structured tactics
allowing a much better management of the proof development, and naturally leading
to more structured and readable scripts.
Applications
Matita has been employed in CerCo (Certified Complexity): a
FP7 European Project
focused on the development of a formally verified, complexity preserving compiler from a large subset of C to the assembler of a MCS-51 microprocessor.
Documentation
The Matita tutorial provides a pragmatic introduction to the main functionalities of the Matita interactive theorem prover, offering a guided tour through a set of non-trivial examples in the field of software specification and verification.
See also
Curry–Howard correspondence
Interactive theorem proving
Intuitionistic type theory
List of proof assistants
References
External links
Proof assistants
Free theorem provers
Dependently typed languages
Educational math software
OCaml software
Free software programmed in OCaml
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