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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20NRG | Hard NRG, NRG, nu-NRG, filthy hard house, or more recently just filth, is an electronic dance music genre similar in structure (with regard to sequencing and programming) to UK hard house form, taking influences from German hard trance. The main difference is in the musical/thematic content of each style.
Where UK hard house has uplifting, playfully fun and tough elements, NRG is ominous, dark, aggressive and relentless with its distressed, menacing and gritty sounds on a slightly faster BPM (155–165 average) than UK hard house (150–155 average).
In regard to the mechanics of the scene, many of the labels have made a shift from purely vinyl releases to CD single releases and digital downloads.
Record labels which produce the genre include Vicious Circle, Flashpoint, Tidy Trax, Kaktai, Tonka Trax, Tinrib Digital, Noir Records and Noir Digital.
History
1980s–early 1990s: Roots in UK hard house and EU techno
Acid house of the late 1980s was the 'happier' (playful/fun) side of dance music exemplified by Italian piano-house (Italo disco/hi-NRG of the early 1990s) and this began to progress into a scene of its own. Throughout the first half of the 1990s, house music which was more akin to the soulful, disco influenced dance music of the 1980s, continued to flourish. By the mid 1990s, uplifting house music in this vein was in abundance and producers in the UK such as The Sharp Boys were providing their own interpretation of the sound. They upped the BPMs a little, chopped up the disco samples into bite size loops, chucked a load of filters in and created music that was pure dance floor business. This was the sound that provided the basis for the origins of UK hard house. At the time, it was exclusive to the gay scene in the UK and for a while known as "Hand Bag House" or "Hard Bag". Hard house as a style was epitomized in the early days by producers such as Paul Janes, The Tidy Boys, Pete Wardman, Steve Thomas, Ian M, Alan Thompson, Captain Tinrib, DJ Ziad and Tony De Vit. Some of the above-mentioned names were heavily involved in the club night 'Trade', which is widely regarded as the home and birthplace of UK hard house with Tony De Vit as the 'godfather' of UK hard house.
In the early 1990s, producers like Joey Beltram had transposed the sound of U.S. techno to Belgium, and added their own twist to it. This new brand of techno was darker, harder, and generally nastier than anything that had preceded it. The techno that had emerged from Detroit in the US had the seemingly paradoxical quality of somehow being soulful while at the same time being 100% electronic. The Belgian techno sound ripped out this soul, and replaced it with something altogether more sinister. It was this style of music that gave birth to the sound of the "Hoover", a gritty sound produced by the Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesizer and so called because of its apparent similarity to the noises made by vacuum cleaners.
Late 1990s–2000s: From nu-NRG to hard NRG
By 1996–97, there |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Coroner | State Coroner could refer to:
Coroner an officer of law responsible for investigating deaths
State Coroner (TV series) an Australian television series on Network ten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBTF-CD | KBTF-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Class A Univision outlet KABE-CD (channel 39) and Twist affiliate KUVI-DT (channel 45). The three stations share studios on Truxtun Avenue in the western section of Bakersfield; KBTF-CD's transmitter is located atop Breckenridge Mountain.
In addition to its own digital signal, KBTF-CD is simulcast in high definition on the third digital subchannel of KUVI (45.3) from a transmitter atop Mount Adelaide.
History
Univision acquired the channel 39 license for Bakersfield during 1980. During the station's first years when it began broadcasting on the day after Memorial Day in 1988, it would be named as "Univision 39 K39AB" because it served as a translator for KFTV. Univision later moved the frequency to channel 31 in 1998 and it was renamed KABE-LP. It served as a repeater for KSUV-LP and was co-branded as "KSUV Univision 39 & KABE 31". Univision's original station in Bakersfield, KSUV-LP (channel 39, now KABE-CA) became a charter station of TeleFutura (now UniMás) when it was launched in 2002 and was renamed "KBTF-LP TeleFutura 39”. Univision remained on channel 31 branded as "KABE Univision 31". In 2004, the station swapped callsigns with KBTF-LP and became the new KABE-LP while TeleFutura moved to channel 31. During 2014 the station obtained Class A status.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
BTF
BTF-CD
UniMás network affiliates
Get (TV network) affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
BTF-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1988
1991 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDTF-LD | KDTF-LD (channel 36) is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Class A Univision affiliate KBNT-CD (channel 17); it is also sister to Azteca América affiliate XHAS-TDT (channel 33) and Milenio Televisión affiliate XHDTV-TDT (channel 49). The latter two stations are owned by Mexican-based Televisora Alco, which is 40% owned by Entravision. All four stations share studios on Ruffin Road in San Diego's Kearny Mesa section; KDTF-LD's transmitter is located on San Miguel Mountain in Spring Valley.
History
The station affiliated with Telefutura, the forerunner to UniMás, sometime in 2006, after talks reportedly broke down with sister station and former UPN affiliate XHUPN (channel 49, now XHDTV-TDT).
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
KDTF began broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 51 on May 14, 2009, multicasting KBNT-CA and XHDTV.
References
External links
DTF
UniMás network affiliates
DTF-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1997
DTF-LD
Entravision Communications stations
1997 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaceCam | RaceCam is a video camera system used primarily in motor racing, which uses a network of car-mounted cameras, microwave radio transmitters, and relays from helicopters to send live images from inside a race car to both pit crews and television audiences.
History
Although a vehicle-mounted 16mm motion picture camera was used as early as 1973, the technology was first developed in the late 1970s by the Seven Network in Australia, who introduced it for the 1979 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 endurance race at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales with Sydney-based driver Peter Williamson able to give commentary from his Toyota Celica.
RaceCam in Australia was unique in that the drivers were often wired for sound and able to converse with the television commentary team during races with top touring car drivers such as Dick Johnson, Allan Grice, Peter Brock and later Glenn Seton, Jim Richards, Mark Skaife, Wayne Gardner and Channel Seven's own commentator turned racer Neil Crompton all becoming regular users of the system. RaceCam (with drivers doing their own commentary) became a staple of Seven's Australian Touring Car Championship and Bathurst 1000 broadcasts during the 1980s and 1990s.
American audiences were first introduced to RaceCam at NASCAR's 1979 Daytona 500 on CBS network with Benny Parsons' Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and later at the 1983 Indianapolis 500, when ABC acquired the rights to use a streamlined version of the technology for their coverage of the race. The first Indy winning car with a RaceCam was that of Rick Mears in 1991.
Over the years, the camera location varied from "over-the-shoulder" in 1983, to rear-mounted (looking backwards) in 1988, nosecone-mounted in 1994, and rollbar/above-mounted in 1997. Later, the above-mounted cameras were improved to be able to rotate 360°. Other camera views have included the rear wing (just above the rear tyre), the gearbox, the driver's helmet ("Visor cam"), a "footcam" looking at the driver's feet (to illustrate the heel-and-toe shifting process in road racing), and a view from the sidepod. Additional mounting locations inside the cockpit gave a face view of the driver, but usually little or no view of the track. The "CrewCam" was another view, mounted on a pit crew member's hat or helmet, showing the point of view of a pit crew member performing his duties on pit road.
In the same time-frame, CBS and ESPN began using on-board cameras during NASCAR telecasts from different developers. The large, boxy interior of the NASCAR stock cars allowed modified, nearly regular-sized video cameras to be mounted in the cockpit. CBS used a remote controlled, 360° rotating camera, and 1984 Daytona 500 winner Cale Yarborough carried one to victory.
While Racecam units had become common place in NASCAR, unlike in Australian touring car racing the drivers generally refused to be wired to talk to the television commentators while driving, saying that it was too distracting. In a NASCAR first, at the 1988 Goodye |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Programs%20Directive | The European Union Computer Programs Directive controls the legal protection of computer programs under the copyright law of the European Union. It was issued under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome. The most recent version is Directive 2009/24/EC.
History
In Europe, the need to foster the computer software industry brought attention to the lack of adequate harmonisation among the copyright laws of the various EU nations with respect to such software. Economic pressure spurred the development of the first directive which had two goals (1) the harmonisation of the law and (2) dealing with the problems caused by the need for interoperability.
The first EU Directive on the legal protection of computer programs was Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May 1991. It required (Art. 1) that computer programs and any associated design material be protected under copyright as literary works within the sense of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
The Directive also defined the copyright protection to be applied to computer programs: the owner of the copyright has the exclusive right to authorise (Art 4):
the temporary or permanent copying of the program, including any copying which may be necessary to load, view or run the program;
the translation, adaptation or other alteration to the program;
the distribution of the program to the public by any means, including rental, subject to the first-sale doctrine.
However, these rights are subject to certain limitations (Art. 5). The legal owner of a program is assumed to have a licence to create any copies necessary to use the program and to alter the program within its intended purpose (e.g. for error correction). The legal owner may also make a back-up copy for his or her personal use. The program may also be decompiled if this is necessary to ensure it operates with another program or device (Art. 6), but the results of the decompilation may not be used for any other purpose without infringing the copyright in the program.
The duration of the copyright was originally fixed at the life of the author plus fifty years (Art. 8), in accordance with the Berne Convention standard for literary works (Art. 7.1 Berne Convention). This has since been prolonged to the life of the author plus seventy years by the 1993 Copyright Duration Directive (superseded but confirmed by the 2006 Copyright Term Directive).
Council Directive 91/250/EEC was formally replaced by Directive 2009/24/EC on 25 May 2009, which consolidated "the various minor amendments the original directive had received over the years".
Implementation
See also
Copyright law of the European Union
Software copyright
References
External links
Text of the original directive on the legal protection of computer programs (no longer in force)
Consolidated version of the directive (1993-11-19) no longer in force
Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP%20Group | CAP Group was a British software house. Computer Analysts and Programmers Ltd (CAP) was founded in May 1962 and grew to be one of the foremost IT companies in the UK before merging with French company Sema-Metra in 1988 to form Sema Group.
History of CAP Group
Computer Analysts and Programmers Ltd (CAP) was founded by Alex d’Agapeyeff, Barney Gibbens, and Harry Baecker in May 1962 and chaired by d’Agapeyeff for the following 20 years.
CAP initially worked on compilers and system software. Its first job was the creation of a version of ALGOL for the English Electric KDF6 computer, and later the Elliott 503.
During the 1960s it produced CORAL compilers and a real time operating system for the Royal Navy.
d'Agapeyeff coined the term 'middleware' to describe the interface between application and system software at a presentation to a NATO conference in 1968.
By 1974, CAP operated three divisions – commercial, financial, and industrial – which covered mainframe and minicomputer systems and industrial control systems. It had offices in London, Reading, and Alderley Edge (Cheshire).
In 1975, CAP UK split from CAP Europe, a partnership formed in 1966 with CAP France, which was a separately-founded company. The name 'CAP' in Europe remained with CAP Gemini Sogeti. CAP UK formed CAP International, which operated outside Europe and had several branches in the Middle East.
In the mid 1970s, d'Agapeyeff recognised the potential of microprocessors and the newly developed microcomputers. He created BOS (Business Operating System), a portable environment to run commercial software on the emerging microcomputers. In 1976, CAP Microsoft was formed to market services based on BOS and MicroCobol.
In 1978, CPP (Computer Program Products) was formed to sell IBM mainframe products and subsequently CAP was renamed CAP-CPP to distinguish itself from the European CAP, but later it changed to CAP Group.
CAP Scientific, which did defence-related work, was formed in 1979.
By the late 1980s, CAP Group PLC consisted of the following:
CAP Financial Services Ltd, with offices in London and Watford.
CAP Industry Ltd, with offices in Reading, London, Wilmslow, Manchester and the Netherlands.
CAP Scientific Ltd, with offices in London and Dorchester.
YARD Ltd, with offices in Charing Cross Tower in Glasgow, Chippenham, Aberdeen, Bristol, and Bath. YARD Ltd and YARD International Ltd became part of CAP Group when CAP merged with Yarrow PLC in mid-1986.
YARD International Ltd, with offices in London, Canada and the USA.
CORDA Ltd was a business unit jointly owned by CAP Scientific and YARD.
Data Networks Ltd, with offices in Tipton and London.
Baddeley Associates Ltd, with offices in Cambridge.
In the late 1980s, 84% of CAP's turnover was in the UK, and 16% overseas. The turnover by market was:
Science and engineering 37.7%
Industry 31.2%
Financial services 17.7%
Information services 13.4%
In 1988, CAP merged with Sema-Metra, a French company and the merged group was ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20server | Communications servers are open, standards-based computing systems that operate as a carrier-grade common platform for a wide range of communications applications and allow equipment providers to add value at many levels of the system architecture.
Based on industry-managed standards such as AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, Carrier Grade Linux and Service Availability Forum specifications, communications servers are the foundational platform upon which equipment providers build network infrastructure elements for deployments such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), IPTV and wireless broadband (e.g. WiMAX).
Support for communications servers as a category of server is developing rapidly throughout the communications industry. Standards bodies, industry associations, vendor alliance programs, hardware and software manufacturers, communications server vendors and users are all part of an increasingly robust communications server ecosystem.
Regardless of their specific, differentiated features, communications servers have the following attributes: open, flexible, carrier-grade, and communications-focused.
Attributes
Open
Based on industry-managed open standards
Broad, multi-vendor ecosystem
Industry certified interoperability
Availability of tools that facilitate development and integration of applications at the standardized interfaces
Multiple competitive options for standards-based modules
Flexible
Designed to easily incorporate application-specific added value at all levels of the solution
Can be rapidly repurposed as needs change to protect customer investment
Multi-level, scalable, bladed architecture
Meets needs of multiple industries beyond telecommunications, such as medical imaging, defense and aerospace
Carrier grade
Designed for
Longevity of supply
Extended lifecycle (>10 years) support
High availability (>5NINES)
“Non-disruptively” upgradeable and updatable
Hard real time capability to ensure quality of service for critical traffic
Meets network building regulations
Industry-managed standards
Several industry-managed standards are critical to the success of communications servers, including:
AdvancedTCA
The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) is a series of PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG) specifications, targeted to meet the requirements for carrier grade communications equipment. This series of specifications incorporates the latest trends in high speed interconnect technologies, next generation processors and improved reliability, manageability and serviceability.
AdvancedMC
The PICMG Advanced Mezzanine Card specification defines the base-level requirements for a wide range of high-speed mezzanine cards optimized for, but not limited to, AdvancedTCA Carriers. AdvancedMC enhances AdvancedTCA's flexibility by extending its high-bandwidth, multi-protocol interface to individual hot-swappable modules.
MicroTCA
This PICMG specification provides a framework for combining AdvancedMC modul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | Boomerang is an Australian pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division. It is a sister service of Cartoon Network.
History and branding
Prior to becoming a standalone channel on 14 March 2004, Boomerang was its own block dedicated to older Hanna-Barbera cartoons launched in 1995.
Cartoon Network's sister TV channel Boomerang was originally a Cartoon Network block for the lesser-known Hanna-Barbera classic cartoons that didn't already have regular half-hour slots. It began in April 2001 as a morning block airing at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, but in August 2001 also aired as an hour-long mini-block in Cartoon Network After Dark. The shows on Boomerang changed randomly every week, for both the morning and the evening block. The Boomerang blocks had bumpers which featured children's toys of characters in Hanna-Barbera cartoons coming to life, identical to the Boomerang bumpers used in the United States. These bumpers were sometimes also used on the TV channel. The evening block last aired in March 2002, and the morning block last aired in September 2004. However late-night airings of Boomerang on Cartoon Network continued until early 2005, when the Boomerang channel received a face-lift. In late 2012, it received the looks of Boomerang (UK & Ireland).
The Australian feed of the Boomerang Asia service was launched on 14 March 2004, as a part of the Foxtel Digital launch with a line-up very similar to that of the American and British version. Originally devoted to classic animation from studios such as Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Hanna-Barbera, the channel has since expanded to include more contemporary programming including Poochini. This channel is available as a free trial in a subscription entertainment package on Fetch TV by some ISPs and was added 26 January 2017.
On 1 December 2012, Boomerang launched a refreshed look, using the logo used by Boomerang UK and other European countries, and converted to 16:9 aspect ratio.
On 3 November 2014, Boomerang received a new logo and branding as part of a global rebranding effort. In late 2014, Boomerang had launched Art&Graft redesign which by 2015 came to Asian and Oceanian territories, the United States, and later to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
On 22 April 2021, the channel was discontinued on Fetch TV, alongside its sister channel Cartoon Network.
A Cartoonito block launched on 4 July 2022, alongside its Asia counterpart.
Programming
Current programming
Bunnicula
Camp Lazlo
Chowder
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
New Looney Tunes
Petronix Defenders
Taffy
Talking Tom and Friends
Tom and Jerry Tales
The Tom and Jerry Show (1975 TV series)
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Cartoonito programming
Baby Looney Tunes
Batwheels
Brave Bunnies
Bugs Bunny Builders
Esme & Roy
Mumfie
Ranger Rob
Former programming
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
ALF: The Animated Series
Alice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Lone%20Ranger%20episodes | The Lone Ranger is an American Western television series that originally aired on the ABC network. The series starred Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as the Lone Ranger and Tonto, except for season three when John Hart played the role of the Lone Ranger. The first 2 seasons aired for 78 consecutive weeks without a rerun, but some in between years were made up entirely of reruns. It premiered on September 15, 1949, and ended on June 6, 1957, with a total of 221 episodes over the course of 5 seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1949–50)
Season 2 (1950–51)
Season 3 (1952–53)
(John Hart takes over the role of the Lone Ranger.)
Season 4 (1954–55)
(Clayton Moore returns as the Lone Ranger.)
Season 5 (1956–57)
(This season was filmed in color.)
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Availability
In the United States the first 16 episodes from Season One are in the public domain. "A Message from Abe" (episode 204, Season Five) is also in the public domain.
References
External links
Lists of American Western (genre) television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcGIS%20Server | ArcGIS Server is the core server geographic information system (GIS) software made by Esri. ArcGIS Server is used for creating and managing GIS Web services, applications, and data. ArcGIS Server is typically deployed on-premises within the organization’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) or off-premises in a cloud computing environment.
Background
ArcGIS Server services supply mapping and GIS capabilities via ArcGIS Online for Esri Web and client applications, such as ArcGIS Desktop, ArcLogistics, the ArcGIS.com Viewer, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS Explorer Online, ArcGIS Viewer for Flex, ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint, Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO), and applications built with ArcGIS for iOS or BAO for iOS. Numerous third-party applications are licensed to use ArcGIS Server services, as well.
ArcGIS Server extensions allow GIS functionality available within a subset of ArcGIS Desktop extensions to be deployed as Web Services. ArcGIS Server extensions include 3D, Spatial, Geostatistical, Network, Geoportal, Image, Data Interoperability, Workflow Manager, and Schematics.
Typical customer applications include using ArcGIS Server mapping and spatial analysis services in geoportals and spatial data infrastructure, integration with the organization’s asset, customer relationship, natural resource, or work order management system, development of situational awareness or common operating picture solutions, online store and resource locators, public-facing Web portals for government transparency, online tracking of weather events, resource movement, or visualizing change over time, sharing of scientific research and modeling, management and delivery of remote sensing data, collaborative mapping and user-generated content applications, as well as managing data collection projects using mobile devices and global positioning system (GPS) and supporting mobile data intelligence.
ArcGIS Server is available for the Microsoft Windows .NET Framework and the Java Platform. ArcGIS Server ships in three functional editions, Basic, Standard, and Advanced, with the Advanced edition providing the most functionality. ArcGIS Server Basic edition is used primarily to manage multiuser geodatabases and geodata services. Both ArcGIS Server Standard and Advanced editions support the following types of Web services: Feature (for Web editing), Geodata (for geodatabase replication), Geocode (for finding and displaying addresses/locations on a map), Geometry (for geometric calculations such as calculating areas and lengths), Geoprocessing (for scientific modeling and spatial data analysis), Globe (for 3D and globe rendering), Image (for serving raster data and providing control over imagery delivery, such as satellite imagery or orthophotos), Keyhole Markup Language (KML), Map (for cached and optimized map services), Mobile (for running services on field devices), Network Analyst (for routing, closest facility location, or service area analys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPython | VPython is the Python programming language plus a 3D graphics module called Visual. VPython allows users to create objects such as spheres and cones in 3D space and displays these objects in a window. This aids with the creation of simple visualizations, allowing programmers to focus more on the computational aspect of their programs. VPython is a common tool for the illustration of simple physics, especially in the educational environment, due to its simplicity.
History
In 1985, the cT programming language was created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Contributors to the project included David Andersen, Bruce Sherwood, Judith Sherwood, and Kevin Whitley. The cT programming language was largely spawned from the TUTOR (1965) and the MicroTutor (1977) programming languages. Although cT had many applications, its primary usage was 2D graphics for the classroom setting. Many prize-winning educational programs were written in cT (see VISQ), especially in the area of physics. In 1997, students at Carnegie Mellon were taught cT in a new introductory physics course created by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood.
In 1998, David Scherer entered the university as a freshman and enrolled in one of the introductory physics classes that used cT. Although cT offered a relatively easy 2D graphics programming environment, Scherer saw the possibility of creating an even better tool. In the spring and summer of 2000, with the assistance of David Andersen, Ruth Chabay, Ari Heitner, Ian Peters, and Bruce Sherwood, Scherer created Visual, a module for Python that was not only easier to use than the cT programming language, but also rendered objects in three dimensions. The combination of Python plus Visual is called VPython. Further development of the cT programming language was ended and the newly created VPython was used in its place. Since VPython's creation, several versions have been released to the public.
In 2016, developers announced that classic VPython would no longer be developed. Instead, development will concentrate on Glowscript and Jupyter implementations of the language.
Usage
VPython is a simple rendering tool for 3D objects and graphs. Its main use has been in education, but it has also been used in commercial or research settings. VPython was first used in introductory physics courses at Carnegie Mellon and then spread to other universities and eventually high schools, especially in connection with the Matter & Interactions curriculum.
A related development due to David Scherer and Bruce Sherwood is GlowScript, which makes it possible to write and run VPython programs in a browser, including on mobile devices, thanks to the RapydScript Python-to-JavaScript compiler, created by Alexander Tsepkov. Programs can be written, run, and stored at glowscript.org, and the compiled-to-JavaScript code can be exported and embedded in one's own web page. John Coady has created the ivisual version for use in the IPython, now Jupyter environment, using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%21%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Oh! was an Australian cable TV channel owned by Optus Television. It served as the services's premier general entertainment channel until it was replaced by FOX8 in 2002. Programming was mostly sourced from Warner Brothers Television. After the channel's closure, the content was given to Foxtel and XYZnetworks channels, with most of the Warner Brothers shows moving to Arena.
Programming
77 Sunset Strip
Action
ALF
Behind the Music (TV Series VH-1)
Baby Blues
Babylon 5
Batman: The Animated Series
The Client
The Crocodile Hunter
The Drew Carey Show
The Dukes of Hazzard
Family Matters
Friends
Full House
Gloria's House
Growing Pains
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Head of the Class
Here's Lucy
WCW Thunder
WCW Saturday Night
I'll Fly Away
La Femme Nikita
Lawless
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
The Jenny Jones Show
Maverick
Men in Black: The Series
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Oblongs
The Road Runner Show
Oz
SeaChange
The Secret Life of Us
The Sopranos
Suddenly Susan
Superman: The Animated Series
Trinity
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Static Shock
The Zeta Project
Wicked!
References
Defunct television channels in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2002
English-language television stations in Australia
1999 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Centric%20Operations%20Industry%20Consortium | The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) is an international not-for-profit, chartered in the United States, whose goal is to facilitate the adoption of cross-domain interoperability standards. Formed in September 2004, the organization is composed of more than 50 members and advisors representing business, government organizations and academic institutions in 12 countries.
NCO is the application of the fundamental tenets of network-centric warfare to aspects of national security, especially industry support for the missions of both the United States Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). NCOIC does not only subscribe to the military use of this theory, but also works to apply NCO and interoperability across nations and industries, including emergency response, health care, aerospace, information technology cyber security & cloud computing, energy and financial services.
NCOIC’s technical teams have developed resources to further the use of network-centric systems and interoperability in both the public and private sectors. These resources – including processes, tools, frameworks, patterns, principles and databases—are available free of charge on the NCOIC website. They are aimed at helping an organization lower engineering costs, speed program implementation, increase capability and reduce risk. The consortium also provides training and services such as interoperability demonstrations, acquisition strategies, evaluations and verification.
NCOIC focuses on four interdependent areas in identifying solutions that will enable cross-domain interoperability: business, culture, governance and technical. The interaction, influence and impact of factors—such as financial objectives, business goals, laws and regulations, and cultural considerations – are all taken into account when planning and/or implementing technology change.
Key Technical Resources
Systems, Capabilities, Operations, Programs, & Enterprises (SCOPE) Model
• The SCOPE interoperability assessment model is designed to characterize interoperability-relevant aspects or capabilities of a system or set of systems over a network in terms of a set of dimensions and values along those dimensions.
NCOIC Interoperability Framework (NIF)
• The NIF is a development framework that helps system architects and system engineers to embed interoperability elements throughout the life cycle of programs, beginning with requirements. Whenever possible, those resources are based upon standards.
Net Centric Patterns
• NCOIC Net Centric Patterns contain prescriptive recommendations on approaches and standards in specific interoperability domains.
Network Centric Analysis Tool (NCAT)
• NCAT is a collaborative, web-enabled questionnaire-based tool developed to assist NCOIC teams and member companies to enhance the likelihood and reduce the time and effort of member companies developing interoperable systems consistent with customers’ policies and guidelines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueBEEP | BlueBEEP was a popular blue boxing computer program for MS-DOS written between 1993–1995 by the German programmer Stefan Andreas Scheytt, known by the pseudonym Onkel Dittmeyer. Used correctly, it could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in the CCITT Signaling System No. 5, used by international telephone switches of this era, to make free calls around the world. The program spread via the bulletin board systems and was popular with phreaks, hackers and the warez community.
The Pascal source code was released to the public along with the final version on April 1, 1995.
BlueBEEP has been praised as "the most finely programmed phreaking tool ever coded".
The install docs report the build system as follows: "386-40 8meg with 530meg HDD and SB/16+SVGA, a Philips 102-key soft-keyboard, a 2001 canadian keyboard and a GENIUS 4-year-old shoplifted 3-button mouse."
References
External links
BlueBEEP Executable
BlueBEEP v1.00 Pascal Source Code
DOS software
Phreaking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided%20market | A two-sided market, also called a two-sided network, is an intermediary economic platform having two distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits. The organization that creates value primarily by enabling direct interactions between two (or more) distinct types of affiliated customers is called a multi-sided platform. This concept of two-sided markets has been mainly theorised by the French economists Jean Tirole and Jean-Charles Rochet and Americans Geoffrey G Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne.
Two-sided networks can be found in many industries, sharing the space with traditional product and service offerings. Example markets include credit cards (composed of cardholders and merchants); health maintenance organizations (patients and doctors); operating systems (end-users and developers); yellow pages (advertisers and consumers); video-game consoles (gamers and game developers); recruitment sites (job seekers and recruiters); search engines (advertisers and users); and communication networks, such as the Internet. Examples of well known companies employing two-sided markets include such organizations as American Express (credit cards), eBay (marketplace), Taobao (marketplace in China), Facebook (social medium), LinkedIn (professional media), Mall of America (shopping mall), Match.com (dating platform), AIESEC (leadership development for youth by placing talent in companies), Monster.com (recruitment platform), and Sony (game consoles).
Benefits to each group demand economies of scale. Consumers, for example, prefer credit cards honored by more merchants, while merchants prefer cards carried by more consumers. Two-sided markets are particularly useful for analyzing the chicken-and-egg problem of standards battles, such as the competition between VHS and Beta. They are also useful in explaining many free pricing or "freemium" strategies where one user group gets free use of the platform in order to attract the other user group.
Overview
Two-sided markets represent a refinement of the concept of network effects. There are both same-side and cross-side network effects. Each network effect can be either positive or negative. An example of a positive same-side network effect is end-user PDF sharing or player-to-player contact in PlayStation 3; a negative same-side network effect appears when there is competition between suppliers in an online auction market or competition for dates on Match.com. The concept of network effects was first proposed in 1985 by Katz and Shapiro who distinguished between direct and indirect network effects. They defined direct network effects as consumers benefiting directly from others buying the network good and indirect network effects as consumers benefiting from others buying the network good due to the increase in complementary goods.
Multi-sided platforms exist because there is a need for an intermediary in order to match both parts of the platform in a more efficient way. Indeed, this interme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems%20on%20the%20Underground | Poems on the Underground (POTU) is a project, started in 1986, to bring poetry to a wider audience by displaying various poems on the London Underground rapid transit network and participating websites. Poems on the Underground displays poems by contemporary and classic poets three times a year. POTU also produces booklets free of charge to the public and publishes anthologies.
History
Launched in 1986, the Poems on the Underground programme was the idea of three writers, Judith Chernaik, Gerard Benson, and Cicely Herbert whose aim was to bring poetry to a wider audience. Judith Chernaik, Cicely Herbert, Imtiaz Dharker, and George Szirtes now select poems for inclusion in the programme. London Underground provides space on its fleet of trains, and they and POTU's partners also display the poems on their websites during the duration of the print display. The posters are designed by Tom Davidson.
The first book containing all the featured poems was not published until much later, having been initially rejected by Faber as unlikely to prove commercially viable. In the end, towards the end of the decade, a young Publisher's Representative (salesman) persuaded his employers – Cassell Publishing – to publish the tome when, having failed in his attempt to buy the as-yet non-existent publication as a birthday present for his mother, he felt sufficiently confident of making it a bestseller. He was set a target by the publishing house of selling 5,000 copies by the Christmas following publication, or risk losing his job. But the book – which is still very much in print 27 years later and must rank as one of the best-selling poetry books of all time – immediately sold out and went straight to reprint prior to publication.
Partners for Poems on the Underground include London Underground, which generously supports the programme, and the Arts Council of England, the British Council, London Arts and the Poetry Society.
The programme
A series of different poems are displayed at any given time, ranging from classical and historical works by such well-loved poets as Blake, Shakespeare and Shelley, to contemporary and emerging poets from around the world. The works are displayed three times a year and have proved extremely popular with the travelling public.
Recent booklets, distributed free to the public, include Young Poets on the Underground, London Poems on the Underground, Irish Poems on the Underground, and World Poems on the Underground. Poems on the Underground also publishes anthologies of Poems on the Underground and the most recent edition is Poems on the Underground, A New Edition, Penguin, 2012.
See also
Wall poems in Leiden — public poems in many languages in Leiden, Netherlands
Art on the Underground
References
External links
Poems on the Underground, Transport for London.
English poetry collections
London Underground in popular culture
Train-related introductions in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20Systems%20Drum%20Computer | The Movement Drum System I/II (generally referred to as the Movement MCS Percussion Computer) is a British-made drum machine produced approximately between 1981 (MKI) and 1983 (MKII). Around 10 MKI were built and 50 MKII. The Movement was exceptionally futuristic for its time. The Movement was used by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics on "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
History
Both retailed at £1999 ex vat at March 1983 from 'Movement Audio Visual', 61 Taunton Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3LP, UK. Both models combined two technologies; analogue synthesized drum sounds similar to Simmons SDS-V and basic digital 8-bit drum samples. In total 14 independent voice modules could be played (5 of which can be digital). Also notable for its computer-like design and its ability to display drum notes and sequencing graphically on a green black cathode ray tube display unit perhaps similar to page R on the Fairlight CMI. The Movement Drum Systems are known to have been expensive upon release, and it is estimated that approximately thirty were made.
The original designers were John Dickenson (owned the company Movement) and Dave Goodway. Dickenson supplied sounds and the idea (the design, look, how it should work, layout etc.) and Dave Goodway did the electronic side of the drum machine. The Nascom 2 computer was used as the controller.
Its most famous user was David A. Stewart of the Eurythmics, who excelled in the use of this drum computer on their 1983 worldwide hit "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". The machine (MKI) makes an appearance in the video, in a scene in which singer Annie Lennox is seated on top of a table in a meadow, as Dave Stewart types on the Drum Computer's keyboard. In this video the version used is the prototype model with a two-piece base unit and separate monitor. This is the model that also appears briefly near the beginning of the video for "Love On Your Side" by Thompson Twins. Phil Collins used an orange smaller 'one piece' MKII. David Stewart also used this machine on the album Touch and soundtrack album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother). The last commercial track release on which the Eurythmics used this machine was on Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four). At this time the Eurythmics chose to use a lot of heavy ambient audio outboard processing to "beef-up" the rather mild and dated sound of this classic machine.
In 1984, Dave Goodway and Jonathan (JJ) Jowitt added MIDI to create an additional 8 track sequencer. Other hardware modifications, like battery-backed memory and disk drives, were added, but the operation was small (only a two-man team). Eventually, the big companies reigned supreme.
Vince Clarke purchased a black version of the MK2 originally owned by Stewart for only £500.
Usage
In addition to the above, the drum machine was also used on the tracks and albums:
Kim Wilde (Cambodia) and most of her 1982 album Select
Hot Chocolate (Girl Crazy) and most of their 1982 studio album Mystery
Thompson Twins on their Quick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20Industries%20Mutual%20Aid | The Channel Industries Mutual Aid (CIMA) is an American Houston-area non-profit mutual aid network. It is a cooperative among over one hundred emergency response agencies in Harris, Chambers, and Brazoria counties and industrial fire departments from petrochemical refineries along the Houston Ship Channel. CIMA coordinates the distribution of vital resources in short timeframes during man-made or natural disasters, providing rapid and unified fire-fighting, hazardous material, rescue, and safety assistance.
CIMA was formed in 1955 under its original name Houston Ship Channel Industries Disaster Aid Organization, and it adopted its current name in 1960.
References
External links
Official website
Disaster preparedness in the United States
Organizations based in Texas
1955 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Y | Control-Y is a common computer command. It is generated by holding and pressing the key on most computer keyboards.
In most Windows applications this keyboard shortcut functions as Redo, reversing a previous Undo. In some programs such as Microsoft Office it repeats the previous action if it was something other than Undo.
Apple Macintosh systems use for Redo. In general a shortcut on Macintosh using matches up with a shortcut on Windows using , this is one of the most noticeable conflicts. Many programs (on all systems including Linux) support both and for Redo to resolve this conflict. But quite a few remain where only one or the other shortcut works.
Other uses
The OpenVMS operating system command-line uses as its "abort" character, stronger in effect than the ordinary "interrupt" character.
deleted the current line in the WordStar word processor for CP/M and MS-DOS. In the 1980s, many text editors and word processors mimicked the WordStar command set, making a common synonym for "delete line."
In Borland IDEs it also deletes the current line.
In emacs it does a paste action (known as "yank"). Emacs uses for Undo and Redo.
In vi and vim it scrolls the display up one line.
In the pico and nano text editors this shortcut scrolls one page up.
In SAP GUI it enters block-select mode.
See also
Undo / redo
Cut, copy, and paste
Ctrl-Z
References
Computer keys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s%20method | In statistics, Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test, is a technique for data fusion or "meta-analysis" (analysis of analyses). It was developed by and named for Ronald Fisher. In its basic form, it is used to combine the results from several independence tests bearing upon the same overall hypothesis (H0).
Application to independent test statistics
Fisher's method combines extreme value probabilities from each test, commonly known as "p-values", into one test statistic (X2) using the formula
where pi is the p-value for the ith hypothesis test. When the p-values tend to be small, the test statistic X2 will be large, which suggests that the null hypotheses are not true for every test.
When all the null hypotheses are true, and the pi (or their corresponding test statistics) are independent, X2 has a chi-squared distribution with 2k degrees of freedom, where k is the number of tests being combined. This fact can be used to determine the p-value for X2.
The distribution of X2 is a chi-squared distribution for the following reason; under the null hypothesis for test i, the p-value pi follows a uniform distribution on the interval [0,1]. The negative logarithm of a uniformly distributed value follows an exponential distribution. Scaling a value that follows an exponential distribution by a factor of two yields a quantity that follows a chi-squared distribution with two degrees of freedom. Finally, the sum of k independent chi-squared values, each with two degrees of freedom, follows a chi-squared distribution with 2k degrees of freedom.
Limitations of independence assumption
Dependence among statistical tests is generally positive, which means that the p-value of X2 is too small (anti-conservative) if the dependency is not taken into account. Thus, if Fisher's method for independent tests is applied in a dependent setting, and the p-value is not small enough to reject the null hypothesis, then that conclusion will continue to hold even if the dependence is not properly accounted for. However, if positive dependence is not accounted for, and the meta-analysis p-value is found to be small, the evidence against the null hypothesis is generally overstated. The mean false discovery rate, , reduced for k independent or positively correlated tests, may suffice to control alpha for useful comparison to an over-small p-value from Fisher's X2.
Extension to dependent test statistics
In cases where the tests are not independent, the null distribution of X2 is more complicated. A common strategy is to approximate the null distribution with a scaled random variable. Different approaches may be used depending on whether or not the covariance between the different p-values is known.
Brown's method can be used to combine dependent p-values whose underlying test statistics have a multivariate normal distribution with a known covariance matrix. Kost's method extends Brown's to allow one to combine p-values when the covar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20wheel | A code wheel is a type of copy protection used on older computer games, often those published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It evolved from the original "manual protection" system in which the program would require the user to enter a specific word from the manual before the game would start up or continue beyond a certain point. This system was popular because it allowed the actual media to be backed up and replaced freely while retaining security, but with the increased availability of photocopiers, those wishing to distribute the games simply started copying their manuals as well to defeat the measure.
Although whole code wheels could not be directly photocopied, the component wheels could be disassembled and individually photocopied; these components could then be crafted together into a duplicate wheel. The contents of code wheels could also be copied onto paper and the user of an unlicensed copy could simply apply a mathematical formula to the presented challenges to calculate the correct response. Once a suitable formula was found, code wheels actually made the process of copying easier since the amount of information they could contain was low compared to a manual of potentially unlimited size. Thus, code wheels were rapidly phased out in favor of regular manual protection and protection based around color, as public access to color photocopying at the time was expensive and uncommon. This was itself made obsolete by a return to protection based on the game media itself, when CD-ROMs were introduced.
Code wheel forms
A code wheel itself is a physical object consisting of several circular sheets of paper or card of different sizes, fastened in the center, creating a set of concentric circles. The game issues the user with a set of challenges (symbols, words, or other identifiers), which instruct the user in how to manipulate the wheel in order to reveal a response, a single symbol or word that the user must enter in order to start the game. Entering anything other than the expected response would result in the game halting or performing other behaviour associated with unauthorised usage of the software (for example, the game Starflight would send unbeatable "police ships" to destroy the player's spaceship).
2-ply
A simple 2-ply code wheel consisted of two circular sheets, both with challenge symbols printed at intervals around the rim, and with the back sheet containing a table of responses printed to fit to the circle, and the front sheet a series of holes allowing the responses to be viewed, each hole labelled with a challenge symbol. The computer would present three challenge symbols, and the user would read the response by rotating the front sheet until the first two challenge symbols were aligned with each other on the rim of the wheel, then read the response from the hole indicated by the third challenge symbol. This type of codewheel was used for a large number of games, such as Neuromancer, and Cybercon 3 (which u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned%20technology | Orphaned technology refers to computer technologies that have been abandoned by their original developers. As opposed to deprecation, which tends to be a gradual shift away from an older technology to newer technology, orphaned technology is usually abandoned immediately or with no direct replacement. Unlike abandonware, orphaned technology refers to both software and hardware and the practises around them.
Users of orphaned technologies must often make a choice continuing to use the technology, which may become harder to maintain over time, or switch to other supported technologies, possibly losing capabilities unique to the orphaned technology.
Reasoning
While technology can be abandoned due to an unfavourable design or poor implementation, abandoning a technology can happen for a variety of reasons. There are instances where products are phased out the market because they are no longer viable as business ventures, such as certain medical technologies.
Some orphaned technologies do not suffer complete abandonment or obsolescence. For instance, there is the case of IBM's Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, which is a program that produced an in situ doped alloy as a replacement for the conventional implantation step in silicon semiconductor bipolar process. The technology was previously orphaned but was continued again by a small team at IBM so that it emerged as a leading product in the high-volume communications marketplace.
Technologies orphaned due to failure on the part of their startup developers can be picked up by another investor. One example is Wink, an IoT technology orphaned when its parent company Quirky filed for bankruptcy. The platform, however, continued after it was purchased by another company, Flex.
Examples
Some examples of orphaned technology include:
Coleco ADAM - 8-bit home computer
TI 99/4A - 16-bit home computer
Mattel Aquarius
Apple Lisa - 16/32-bit graphical computer
Newton PDA (Apple Newton) - tablet computer
DEC Alpha - 64-bit microprocessor
HyperCard - hypermedia
ICAD (KBE) - knowledge-based engineering
Javelin Software - modeling and data analysis
LISP machines - LISP oriented computers
Classic Mac OS - m68k and PowerPC operating system
Microsoft Bob - graphical helper
Windows 9x - x86 operating system
OpenDoc - compound documents (Mac OS, OS/2)
Prograph - visual programming system
Poly-1 - parallel networked computer designed in New Zealand for use in education and training
Mosaic notation program - music notation application by Mark of the Unicorn
Open Music System - Gibson
Symbolics Inc's operating systems, Genera and OpenGenera, were twice orphaned, as they were ported from LISP machines to computers using the Alpha 64-bit CPU.
User groups
User groups often exist for specific orphaned technologies, such as The Hong Kong Newton User Group, Symbolics Lisp [Machines] Users' Group (now known as the Association of Lisp Users), and Newton Reference. The Save Sibelius group sprang into e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20publishing | Semantic publishing on the Web, or semantic web publishing, refers to publishing information on the web as documents accompanied by semantic markup. Semantic publication provides a way for computers to understand the structure and even the meaning of the published information, making information search and data integration more efficient.
Although semantic publishing is not specific to the Web, it has been driven by the rising of the semantic web. In the semantic web, published information is accompanied by metadata describing the information, providing a "semantic" context.
Although semantic publishing has the potential to change the face of web publishing, acceptance depends on the emergence of compelling applications. Web sites can already be built with all contents in both HTML format and semantic format. RSS1.0, uses RDF (a semantic web standard) format, although it has become less popular than RSS2.0 and Atom.
Semantic publishing has the potential to revolutionize scientific publishing. Tim Berners-Lee predicted in 2001 that the semantic web "will likely profoundly change the very nature of how scientific knowledge is produced and shared, in ways that we can now barely imagine". Revisiting the semantic web in 2006, he and his colleagues believed the semantic web "could bring about a revolution in how, for example, scientific content is managed throughout its life cycle". Researchers could directly self-publish their experiment data in "semantic" format on the web. Semantic search engines could then make these data widely available. The W3C interest group in healthcare and life sciences is exploring this idea.
Two approaches
Publish information as data objects using semantic web languages like RDF and OWL. Ontology is usually developed for a specific information domain, which can formally represent the data in its domain. Semantic publishing of more general information like product information, news, and job openings uses so-called shallow ontology. The SWEO Linking Open Data Project maintains a list of data sources that follow this approach as well as a list of Semantic Publishing Tools.
Express structured data in markup languages with RDFa, embed or publish information using JSON-LD, Turtle, TriG syntaxes.
Examples
Examples of free or open source tools and services
Ambra Project is open source software designed to publish open access journals with RDF. Used by PLoS.
Semantic MediaWiki: An extension to the wiki application MediaWiki that allows users to semantically annotate data on the wiki, and then publish it in formats such as RDF XML.
D2R Server: Tool for publishing relational databases on the Semantic Web as Linked Data and SPARQL endpoints.
Utopia Documents Interactive documents
dokieli is a client-side editor for decentralized article publishing in HTML+RDFa (and embeddable TriG, Turtle, JSON-LD), annotations and social interactions. It implements W3C specifications: Web Annotation, Linked Data Notifications, Activity Streams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected-component%20labeling | Connected-component labeling (CCL), connected-component analysis (CCA), blob extraction, region labeling, blob discovery, or region extraction is an algorithmic application of graph theory, where subsets of connected components are uniquely labeled based on a given heuristic. Connected-component labeling is not to be confused with segmentation.
Connected-component labeling is used in computer vision to detect connected regions in binary digital images, although color images and data with higher dimensionality can also be processed. When integrated into an image recognition system or human-computer interaction interface, connected component labeling can operate on a variety of information. Blob extraction is generally performed on the resulting binary image from a thresholding step, but it can be applicable to gray-scale and color images as well. Blobs may be counted, filtered, and tracked.
Blob extraction is related to but distinct from blob detection.
Overview
A graph, containing vertices and connecting edges, is constructed from relevant input data. The vertices contain information required by the comparison heuristic, while the edges indicate connected 'neighbors'. An algorithm traverses the graph, labeling the vertices based on the connectivity and relative values of their neighbors. Connectivity is determined by the medium; image graphs, for example, can be 4-connected neighborhood or 8-connected neighborhood.
Following the labeling stage, the graph may be partitioned into subsets, after which the original information can be recovered and processed .
Definition
The usage of the term connected-components labeling (CCL) and its definition is quite consistent in the academic literature, whereas connected-components analysis (CCA) varies in terms of both terminology and problem definition.
Rosenfeld et al. define connected components labeling as the “[c]reation of a labeled image in which the positions associated with the same connected component of the binary input image have a unique label.” Shapiro et al. define CCL as an operator whose “input is a binary image and [...] output is a symbolic image in which the label assigned to each pixel is an integer uniquely identifying the connected component to which that pixel belongs.”
There is no consensus on the definition of CCA in the academic literature. It is often used interchangeably with CCL. A more extensive definition is given by Shapiro et al.: “Connected component analysis consists of connected component labeling of the black pixels followed by property measurement of the component regions and decision making.” The definition for connected-component analysis presented here is more general, taking the thoughts expressed in into account.
Algorithms
The algorithms discussed can be generalized to arbitrary dimensions, albeit with increased time and space complexity.
One component at a time
This is a fast and very simple method to implement and understand. It is based on graph tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20SimRacing | NASCAR SimRacing, abbreviated NSR, is a computer racing simulator developed by EA Tiburon and released on February 15, 2005, by EA Sports for Microsoft Windows. The game includes all of the 2004 NEXTEL Cup Series drivers (including Jeremy Mayfield, who was absent from NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup) and tracks except Pocono Raceway, which was also absent from NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup, due to failed negotiations with licensing. Content from the 2004 NASCAR Busch Series (branded as "NASCAR National Series" in-game due to alcohol advertising regulations) and Craftsman Truck Series (excluding manufacturer branding in the latter) are also included.
The game features NASCAR's top 3 series, the NASCAR Cup Series, Busch Series, and Craftsman Truck Series. The game features a single-player career mode as well as multiplayer online gameplay. The game also features many paint schemes used during the 2004 and 2005 Cup Series; however the original release featured the 2005 cars replaced with their 2004 counterparts. This game was the last NASCAR game to be released for the PC by EA; the next NASCAR game for PC would be NASCAR The Game: 2013 by Eutechnyx.
Drivers
While a large number of real drivers are present in the Cup, Busch and Truck Series in NASCAR SimRacing, fantasy drivers are still present, sponsored by fictional or unused sponsors. A patch is available at installation to download the 2005 NEXTEL Cup cars as a separate mod. In October 2006 EA Sports shut down the GameSpy multiplayer servers.
Reception
GameSpot rated the game an 8.5 of 10 stating "NASCAR SimRacing looks to be in good hands and should only improve beyond its already praiseworthy state as time goes on."
References
NASCAR video games
2005 video games
EA Sports games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ed%2C%20Edd%20n%20Eddy%20episodes | Ed, Edd n Eddy is a 69-episode (130-segment) animated comedy television series created by Danny Antonucci and produced by Canada-based a.k.a. Cartoon. The series debuted on Cartoon Network in the United States on January 4, 1999, and ended on November 8, 2009, with the film Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. The series was originally planned to air for four seasons, but Cartoon Network ordered two additional seasons, four specials, and a film as a result of its popularity, for a total of 135 stories. The series revolves around three adolescent boys collectively known as "the Eds", who live in a suburban cul-de-sac. Unofficially led by Eddy, the Eds frequently try to obtain money from other children in their cul-de-sac in order to purchase jawbreakers. The Eds' plans usually fail and leave them in various predicaments.
Feeling confined to gross and edgy work, such as his previous series The Brothers Grunt, artist Danny Antonucci decided to produce an animated children's television show similar to classic cartoons from the 1940s to the 1970s. Antonucci spent months designing the show and then pitched the series to Nickelodeon, but the network declined to give him creative control, which Antonucci refused. He then pitched the series to Cartoon Network. The network commissioned the show after agreeing to let Antonucci go in his own direction. The first two seasons were released on DVD in 2006 and 2007. Two DVD volumes were also released: Edifying Ed-Ventures on May 10, 2005, in Region 1 and in Region 2 on May 16, 2006, and Fools' Par-Ed-Ise on March 31, 2006, in Region 1. Selected episodes were featured in Cartoon Network compilation DVDs. The first five seasons, in addition to the Big Picture Show film are available for download on the iTunes Store. The Halloween special "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw" is available as part of "Cartoon Network's Super Scary Showcase" on the iTunes Store, but only to the UK. The complete first and second season DVDs can be rented from Netflix, while all the seasons can be currently streamed on HBO Max. The third season can be downloaded from the Google Play store and Amazon.com.
Ed, Edd n Eddy received generally positive reviews from critics. Viewed from 31 million households worldwide in 29 countries, Ed, Edd n Eddy was popular among both younger and older viewers. During its run, the series won a Reuben Award, two Leo Awards and a SOCAN Award out of a total of 11 award nominations, which include one Reuben Award, six Leo Awards, one Annie Award, two Kids' Choice Awards and the SOCAN Award. It remains the longest-running original Cartoon Network series and Canadian-made animated series to date.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1999)
Season 2 (1999–2000)
Season 3 (2001–2002)
Season 4 (2002–2004)
Holiday specials (2004–2005)
Season 5 (2005–2007)
CN Invaded Special (2007)
Season 6 (2008)
Television film (2009)
References
General
Specific
External links
List of Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%20Murphy | Father Murphy is an American Western drama television series that aired on the NBC network from November 3, 1981 to September 18, 1983. Michael Landon created the series, was the executive producer, and directed the show in partnership with William F. Claxton, Maury Dexter, Victor French, and Leo Penn.
Synopsis
The series stars former NFL Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle football player and Little House on the Prairie actor Merlin Olsen as an 1870s frontiersman named John Michael Murphy who teams up with prospector Moses Gage (Moses Gunn) to shelter a group of orphans who are being threatened with internment in a workhouse. Murphy disguises himself as a priest and befriends a schoolmarm to help the children find a home.
At the end of the first season, John's true identity is revealed to the head of the workhouse, and the orphans seem destined for a life of labor. Instead, Murphy marries the schoolmarm and they get custody of the children.
Production
Many of the episodes were filmed at the Old Tucson Studios and theme park just outside Tucson, Arizona. The main village featured in the show was located at Big Sky Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, California; this was also the filming location for the television series Little House on the Prairie. The village was located approximately uphill from the Ingalls' farm set.
Father Murphy is an NBC production and is syndicated outside of the U.S. by MGM Worldwide Television, but MGM does not own the video rights.
Cast
Notable guest appearances on the series include: Shannen Doherty, Mykelti Williamson, Kellie Martin, John M. Pickard, Eddie Quillan, Christina Applegate, Amanda Peterson, Donna Wilkes, Tina Yothers, Mary Beth Evans, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jerry Hardin, James Cromwell, and Christopher Stone.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (1981–82)
Season 2 (1982–83)
Home media
Image Entertainment (under license from NBC Studios) released both seasons of Father Murphy on DVD in Region 1 in 2004/2005.
References
External links
1981 American television series debuts
1983 American television series endings
1980s American drama television series
NBC original programming
1980s Western (genre) television series
Period family drama television series
Television series by Universal Television
English-language television shows
Catholic drama television series
Television shows set in Kansas
Television series set in the 1870s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Balanced%20Configuration%20Unit | The IBM Data Warehousing Balanced Configuration Unit is a family of data warehousing servers from IBM. IBM introduced the Balanced Configuration Unit (BCU) for AIX in 2005, and the BCU for Linux in 2006. The BCU is a "balanced" combination of computer server hardware (cpus, I/O channels, and storage) combined with DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (DB2 DWE) software to form a data warehouse "appliance like" system to compete with systems such as Greenplum, DATAllegro, Netezza Performance Server, and Teradata.
See also IBM Linux Solution Optimizes Enterprise Data Warehousing.
External links
IBM's InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse web page:
Balanced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denel%20Land%20Systems | Denel Land Systems is a division of the Denel group.
It was formerly Lyttelton Engineering Works (LIW - from ), a subsidiary part of the commercial network from Armscor. It then became the Systems division of the Land Systems Group of Denel.
They are responsible for the design and manufacture of systems ranging from artillery (such as G5 howitzer and G6 howitzer) to small arms such as the R4 assault rifle.
Products
Rooikat - 8x8 armoured combat vehicle with a GT4 gun in turret
Badger IFV - 8x8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle
G7 - T7-52 light howitzer
G5 - T6-52 towed howitzer
G6 Rhino - T6-52 self-propelled howitzer
G6 Marksman - G6 base vehicle combined with a British Marksman SPAAG turret
MCT 12.7 - Turret with machine gun
LCT 20 - Turret with a GA-1 gun
LCT 30 - Turret with a GI-30 gun
MCT 30 - Turret with a GI-30 gun
LCT 30 ATGM - Turret with a GI-30 gun and four Ingwe ATGM launchers
LMT 105 - Turret with a GT7 tank gun
T7-52 - Turret with a GT7 howitzer gun
T6-52 - Turret with a Denel 155mm Howitzer Gun howitzer gun
T5-52 - Turret with a Denel 155mm Howitzer Gun truck-mounted howitzer gun
MCT 60 Mortar - Turret with a M10 Mortar mortar
MCT Missile - Turret with two Ingwe ATGM launchers
Vektor GA-1 - gun for turrets
Denel GI-2 gun for turrets or naval applications
Denel GI 30 - gun for turrets
Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun - naval gun close-in weapons system
Denel GT4 - rifled gun for turrets
Denel GT7 - light gun for turrets
Denel 155mm Howitzer Gun - heavy gun for turrets
60/81mm Mortar Systems
M10 Mortar - mortar for turrets
M4 60 - commando mortar
M6 60 - mortar
M8 81 - mortar
Small arms
Vektor SP1 - semi-automatic pistol
Vektor R1/R2/R3 - battle rifle
Vektor R4/R5/R6 - assault rifle
Vektor CR-21 - bullpup assault rifle (prototype only)
Vektor Mini-SS - light machine gun
Vektor Mini-SS Compact - compact light machine gun
Vektor SS-77 - medium machine gun
Vektor DMG-5 - medium machine gun
Denel NTW-20 - , & is an anti-materiel rifle
Denel Y3 AGL - automatic grenade launcher
References
External links
Weapons manufacturing companies
Denel
Military vehicle manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20fusion | Data fusion is the process of integrating multiple data sources to produce more consistent, accurate, and useful information than that provided by any individual data source.
Data fusion processes are often categorized as low, intermediate, or high, depending on the processing stage at which fusion takes place. Low-level data fusion combines several sources of raw data to produce new raw data. The expectation is that fused data is more informative and synthetic than the original inputs.
For example, sensor fusion is also known as (multi-sensor) data fusion and is a subset of information fusion.
The concept of data fusion has origins in the evolved capacity of humans and animals to incorporate information from multiple senses to improve their ability to survive. For example, a combination of sight, touch, smell, and taste may indicate whether a substance is edible.
The JDL/DFIG model
In the mid-1980s, the Joint Directors of Laboratories formed the Data Fusion Subpanel (which later became known as the Data Fusion Group). With the advent of the World Wide Web, data fusion thus included data, sensor, and information fusion. The JDL/DFIG introduced a model of data fusion that divided the various processes. Currently, the six levels with the Data Fusion Information Group (DFIG) model are:
Level 0: Source Preprocessing (or Data Assessment)
Level 1: Object Assessment
Level 2: Situation Assessment
Level 3: Impact Assessment (or Threat Refinement)
Level 4: Process Refinement (or Resource Management)
Level 5: User Refinement (or Cognitive Refinement)
Level 6: Mission Refinement (or Mission Management)
Although the JDL Model (Level 1–4) is still in use today, it is often criticized for its implication that the levels necessarily happen in order and also for its lack of adequate representation of the potential for a human-in-the-loop. The DFIG model (Level 0–5) explored the implications of situation awareness, user refinement, and mission management. Despite these shortcomings, the JDL/DFIG models are useful for visualizing the data fusion process, facilitating discussion and common understanding, and important for systems-level information fusion design.
Geospatial applications
In the geospatial (GIS) domain, data fusion is often synonymous with data integration. In these applications, there is often a need to combine diverse data sets into a unified (fused) data set which includes all of the data points and time steps from the input data sets. The fused data set is different from a simple combined superset in that the points in the fused data set contain attributes and metadata which might not have been included for these points in the original data set.
A simplified example of this process is shown below where data set "α" is fused with data set β to form the fused data set δ. Data points in set "α" have spatial coordinates X and Y and attributes A1 and A2. Data points in set β have spatial coordinates X and Y and attributes B1 and B2. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20S.%20C.%20Ehrenberg | Andrew Ehrenberg (1 May 1926 – 25 August 2010) was a statistician and marketing scientist. For over half a century, he made contributions to data reduction/analysis and presentation, and to understanding buyer behaviour and how advertising works.
Biography
Andrew Ehrenberg was born in Germany in 1926 into a well-known academic family. His father was Hans Ehrenberg, his uncle was the historian Victor Ehrenberg, and Geoffrey and Lewis Elton his cousins. He moved to England with his parents in 1938, and attended Queen's College, Taunton. Subsequently, he studied statistics at Kings College, Newcastle and Cambridge University.
In 1951, he became Lecturer in Statistics at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and in 1955 moved into commercial marketing research and consulting, where his writings on statistical methodology in marketing research and wider fields soon became well-known. In 1970, he was invited to take the Chair of Marketing and Communication at the London Business School, where he remained for 23 years, eventually taking up a Research Chair.
In 1993, Ehrenberg became Professor of Marketing at the London South Bank University where he founded the Centre for Research in Marketing, and started the Research and Development Initiative which was funded by businesses internationally to pursue and disseminate quantitative marketing knowledge. The R. and D. I. became closely associated with the Marketing Science Centre at the University of South Australia and in 2004, Ehrenberg was succeeded as Director of the R. and D. I. by Professor Byron Sharp of the School of Marketing at UNISA. In 2005, Ehrenberg retired completely from the R. and D. I.
The Marketing Science Centre has now been expanded by the University of South Australia to form The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science and the Centre for Research in Marketing at LSBU was renamed the Ehrenberg Centre for Research in Marketing in 2005, and Dr. Dag Bennett is now the director. The former R. and D. I. has been incorporated into both the above.
Ehrenberg held the rare distinction of having been awarded the Gold Medal of the British Market Research Society twice, first in 1969 and again in 1996. He also held the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society. In December 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of South Australia. In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the (American) Advertising Research Foundation.
Ehrenberg wrote six books and over 200 publications. He retired at the age of 80.
Research methods
An early interest in social science applications of statistics had already begun to show through in Cambridge (such as extensive experiments into the reliability of trained taste-testers for quality assessments and into price subsidies in the food industry). Also developed were two early aversions, the first to multivariate techniques imposed on simple data, and the second to mathematics for its own sake in applied statisti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWITCH%20Information%20Technology%20Services | SWITCH is a Swiss foundation managing the .ch and .li country-code top-level domains for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively. As the Swiss national research and education network organisation, SWITCH also manages the educational networks among Swiss universities and research facilities, and the links to other (non Swiss) university networks.
References
External links
SWITCH.ch homepage
switch network
Internet in Switzerland
Liechtenstein–Switzerland relations
National research and education networks
Telecommunications in Switzerland
Telecommunications in Liechtenstein
Information technology organisations based in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphelandra%20rigida | Aphelandra rigida is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae, which is native to Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil.
External links
UNEP-WCMC Species Database: Aphelandra rigida
rigida
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Atlantic Forest
Plants described in 1930
Taxa named by Johannes Mildbraed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InspecVision | InspecVision Ltd. is a UK engineering company based in Mallusk, Northern Ireland, established in 2003. It is a manufacturing company that produces computer vision inspection systems. The company is one of several local companies created as spinoffs or inspired by research conducted at the Queen's University of Belfast.
Technology
InspecVision specializes in the design and manufacture of 2D and 3D computer vision based measurement systems for inspection and reverse engineering. The product range includes the Planar 2D, the SurfScan, the Opti-Scan 3D, and the Acuity.
While there are many manufacturers of 3D computer vision systems, these systems utilize either 3D scanning technologies or a moving camera to measure an object or scene. InspecVision Ltd. produces primarily 2D or 2&1/2D as well as 3D computer vision systems. Customers include manufacturers of 2D and 3D components such as sheet metal components, O-rings, gaskets or plastic moldings. InspecVision has developed a technology which requires no moving parts, rather a single fixed ultra-high resolution digital camera is used to measure the entire object with a single image. These systems perform measurement times that are usually much less than a second. A completely static system also precludes the rigorous recalibration requirements of other moving camera or computer vision systems.
The InspecVision 2D inspection system Planar is the world's fastest, using only a table, lights and a PC hundreds of thousands of measurements are taken in 0.2 seconds. There are no moving components and the measurements are taken using a very high resolution camera, which scans parts placed on a backlit glass surface. It can be used for inspection and reverse engineering of flat opaque and semi-transparent parts. The Planar system has been designed specifically for speed, accuracy and ease of use. The 2D process can measure every feature completely. Planar can produce multiple report types automatically with minimal input from the operator. To inspect, the operator places the part on the measurement surface and with a single click or scan of a barcode. This patented technology has been the recipient of several international awards, including "Best Quality Control System" at the MACH 2006 MWP Awards and 2 SMART Awards.
The SurfScan integrates with the Planar 2D automatic inspection software to allow inspection of both the parts 2D shape and its 2 ½D features with a single click. The high-resolution digital camera of the measurement system captures more than 20 million data points in one second with a single scan.
The Opti-Scan 3D is a non-contact white light scanning system. The system consists of a projector and a high resolution camera mounted side by side. Scans are achieved by projecting a series of stripes onto the part; the projected stripes are then captured with the camera and the images analysed to produce a 3D point cloud of the scanned surface. Because the system measures every visible surfa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSUM | WSUM (91.7 MHz FM) is a student radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The station schedule consists of a wide range of music and talk programming serving the campus and wider Madison community.
History
The radio station was founded in 1952 as WLHA, but went off the air in 1993.
An effort to reinstate the station began in 1995 by a group of volunteers, including Stephen Thompson, who would later have a successful journalism career. This group submitted a budget and proposal to the UW–Madison administration.
In June 1995, Dr. James Hoyt (former chair of the UW–Madison School of Journalism) and Dave Black, a graduate student studying journalism at the university, were asked to lead the effort to bring a student radio station back to UW-Madison. Dr. Hoyt’s involvement added long-term stability to the project.
The station began in 1997 with an internet-only broadcast. In 2001, after an application was submitted by the station, the FCC agreed to a radio tower being built in the town of Montrose in southern Dane County. The proposal was met with contention from local citizens of Montrose, but after a legal battle, the tower was constructed. Terrestrial broadcasting of WSUM began on February 22, 2002, at 2:22 PM.
Since then, WSUM has expanded to near-24/7 programming. The station currently has over 250 members.
Programming
Programming on WSUM is entirely free-form, in that hosts are allowed to completely program their own show. Programming schedules operate on a semesterly schedule. A typical schedule consists of a variety of sports, talk shows, and music shows, including indie rock, funk, house music, folk, and community affairs. Most of the programmers are students (of any area college), although there are some community members with shows.
On Wisconsin Radio
On Wisconsin Radio is the station's flagship public affairs program. The show covers the Badgers and everything Wisconsin, featuring the latest in political news, sports, music, culture, and community events through quality journalism, creative pre-production and energetic live performance. Previous guests include politicians Senator Tammy Baldwin, Mary Burke, and Madison mayor Paul Soglin, comedians Julian McCullough, Christopher Titus, Steve Byrne, and Adam Cayton-Holland, and former Green Bay Packer Ahman Green.
The podcast debuted in February 2015.
Student Staff
Educating future broadcasters is one of the core objectives of WSUM, according to its mission statement. As such, the staff at WSUM operates as a professional radio station.
The station manager is elected each year in November by the members of WSUM, while the rest of the staff is hired by the station manager. The program director is in charge of scheduling shows and training future hosts each semester. The music director is in charge of talking to promoters and planning Snake on the Lake. The production director creates on-air fare for the station.
The general manager |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access%20stored-program%20machine | In theoretical computer science the random-access stored-program (RASP) machine model is an abstract machine used for the purposes of algorithm development and algorithm complexity theory.
The RASP is a random-access machine (RAM) model that, unlike the RAM, has its program in its "registers" together with its input. The registers are unbounded (infinite in capacity); whether the number of registers is finite is model-specific. Thus the RASP is to the RAM as the Universal Turing machine is to the Turing machine. The RASP is an example of the von Neumann architecture whereas the RAM is an example of the Harvard architecture.
The RASP is closest of all the abstract models to the common notion of computer. But unlike actual computers the RASP model usually has a very simple instruction set, greatly reduced from those of CISC and even RISC processors to the simplest arithmetic, register-to-register "moves", and "test/jump" instructions. Some models have a few extra registers such as an accumulator.
Together with the register machine, the RAM, and the pointer machine the RASP makes up the four common sequential machine models, called this to distinguish them from the "parallel" models (e.g. parallel random-access machine) [cf. van Emde Boas (1990)].
Informal definition: random-access stored-program model (RASP)
Nutshell description of a RASP:
The RASP is a universal Turing machine (UTM) built on a random-access machine RAM chassis.
The reader will remember that the UTM is a Turing machine with a "universal" finite-state table of instructions that can interpret any well-formed "program" written on the tape as a string of Turing 5-tuples, hence its universality. While the classical UTM model expects to find Turing 5-tuples on its tape, any program-set imaginable can be put there given that the Turing machine expects to find them—given that its finite-state table can interpret them and convert them to the desired action. Along with the program, printed on the tape will be the input data/parameters/numbers (usually to the program's right), and eventually the output data/numbers (usually to the right of both, or intermingled with the input, or replacing it). The "user" must position the Turing machine's head over the first instruction, and the input must be placed in a specified place and format appropriate to both the program-on-tape and the finite-state machine's instruction-table.
The RASP mimics this construction: it places the "program" and "data" in the holes (registers). But unlike the UTM the RASP proceeds to "fetch" its instructions in a sequential manner, unless the conditional test sends it elsewhere.
A point of confusion: two sets of instructions: Unlike the UTM, the RASP model has two sets of instructions – the state machine table of instructions (the "interpreter") and the "program" in the holes. The two sets do not have to be drawn from the same set.
An example of a RAM working as a RASP
The following example of a program will move |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious | Spurious may refer to:
Spurious relationship in statistics
Spurious emission or spurious tone in radio engineering
Spurious key in cryptography
Spurious interrupt in computing
Spurious wakeup in computing
Spurious, a 2011 novel by Lars Iyer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuppa | Cuppa may refer to:
British slang for a cup of tea
Cuppa Coffee Studios, an animation studio in Toronto
Cuppa (Java library) (in computer programming), a unit testing framework
Bay of Cuppa in the Shetland Islands, Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20in%20Halifax%2C%20Nova%20Scotia | Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the largest urban population in Atlantic Canada, is a major sporting centre.
Community sport
The municipal and provincial governments maintain a network of public parks, sports fields, skating arenas, and other facilities throughout urban and rural areas of the municipality. Additionally, many schools in the Halifax Regional School Board and several universities make use of their gymnasiums and sports fields for community use outside of school programs. Ranging from walking trails and provincial parks to tennis courts, swimming pools, shooting ranges and artificial turf soccer fields, Halifax residents have access to virtually every type of sport facility, with organized leagues available throughout the area.
Gaelic sports
The Gaelic games of Hurling and Gaelic football, governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association, are played in Halifax. The local team is the Halifax Gaels. The team competes in the Eastern Canada GAA division. Beginners are actively encouraged.
Paddling
HRM's plentiful sheltered lakes in the urban core of Dartmouth and Halifax provide private paddling clubs with some of the best race courses in Canada, in particular Lake Banook. Lake Banook and all the clubs on the lake hosted World Senior Canoe Kayak Championships in 1997, 2009 and 2023.
Mic Mac AAC - Lake Banook
Banook Canoe Club - Lake Banook
Senobe Canoe Club - Lake Banook
Abenaki Aquatic Club - Bell Lake
Cheema Aquatic Club- Lake Charles
Maskwa Aquatic Club- Kearney Lake
Orenda Canoe Club - Lake Echo
Kinap Athletic Club - Porters Lake
Sailing
The Armdale Yacht Club, Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, Dartmouth Yacht Club and Bedford Yacht Club provide organized sailing competitions on a daily or weekly basis throughout the summer sailing season. St. Margarets Bay in the western part of the municipality, along with areas of the Eastern Shore, provide additional support to sailing sport enthusiasts.
Swimming
The city hosts two of the four 50 metre swimming pools in Atlantic Canada: Centennial Pool, built for the 1969 Canada Games, and the pool at Dalhousie University. Smaller 25-metre pools exist at the Dartmouth Sportsplex, the Canada Games Centre, Cole Harbour Place, Captain William Spry Centre, Stadplex, Sackville Sports Stadium, the Waegwoltic Club, and the Shearwater Fitness and Sports Centre. There are also several smaller public pools of about 20 metres length.
The YMCA in the Spring Garden district is being rebuilt and will include a 25-metre competition pool. The facility is set to open in 2017 or 2018.
Several lakes in the city are popular places for swimming in the summer. The city posts lifeguards to the most popular lakes.
University sport
Dalhousie University, St. Mary's University and Mount St. Vincent University all field varsity and intramural teams for sports, enjoyed by members of the public and university communities.
The Saint Mary's Huskies Canadian Interuniversity Sport football team is a popular draw, and pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia | Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006. Intellipedia consists of three wikis running on the separate JWICS (Intellipedia-TS), SIPRNet (Intellipedia-S), and DNI-U (Intellipedia-U) networks. The levels of classification allowed for information on the three wikis are Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS SCI), Secret (S), and Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU or FOUO) information, respectively. Each of the wikis is used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 18 agencies of the US intelligence community and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands and other federal departments. The wikis are not open to the public.
Intellipedia is a project of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Community Enterprise Services (ICES) office headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland. It includes information on the regions, people, and issues of interest to the communities using its host networks. Intellipedia uses MediaWiki, the same software used by the Wikipedia free-content encyclopedia project. To the contrary of mainstream Wikipedia, its intelligence analogue encourages editing that incorporates personal points of view regardless of rank as it was decided that, "much of the self-corrective knowledge in the Intelligence Community resides in personal points of view," and that "not all good ideas originate at the top."
The Secret version connected to SIPRNet predominantly serves Department of Defense and the Department of State personnel, many of whom do not use the Top Secret JWICS network on a day-to-day basis. Users on unclassified networks can access Intellipedia from remote terminals outside their workspaces via a VPN, in addition to their normal workstations. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) users share information on the unclassified Intelink-U wiki.
History
Intellipedia was created to share information on some of the most difficult subjects facing U.S. intelligence and to bring cutting-edge technology into its ever-more-youthful workforce. It also allows information to be assembled and reviewed by a wide variety of sources and agencies, to address concerns that pre-war intelligence did not include robust dissenting opinions on Iraq's alleged weapons programs. A number of projects are under way to explore the use of the Intellipedia for the creation of traditional Intelligence Community products. In the summer of 2006, Intellipedia was the main collaboration tool in constructing a National Intelligence Estimate on Nigeria.
Intellipedia was at least partially inspired by a paper written for the Galileo Award (an essay competition set up by the CIA and later taken over by the DNI), which encouraged any employee at any intelligence agency to submit new ideas to improve information sharing. The first ess |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20R.%20Ford%20Jr. | Lester Randolph Ford Jr. (September 23, 1927 – February 26, 2017) was an American mathematician specializing in network flow problems. He was the son of mathematician Lester R. Ford Sr.
Ford's paper with D. R. Fulkerson on the maximum flow problem and the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm for solving it, published as a technical report in 1954 and in a journal in 1956, established the max-flow min-cut theorem. In 1962 they published Flows in Networks with Princeton University Press. According to the preface, it "included topics that were purely mathematically motivated, together with those that are strictly utilitarian in concept." In his review, S.W. Golomb wrote, "This book is an attractive, well-written account of a fairly new topic in pure and applied combinatorial analysis." As a topic of continued interest, a new edition was published in 2010 with a new foreword by Robert G. Bland and James B. Orlin.
In 1956, Ford developed the Bellman–Ford algorithm for finding shortest paths in graphs that have negative weights, two years before Richard Bellman also published the algorithm.
With Selmer M. Johnson, he developed the Ford–Johnson algorithm for sorting, which is of theoretical interest in connection with the problem of doing comparison sort with the fewest comparisons. For 20 years, this algorithm required the minimum number of comparisons.
In 1963 along with his father Lester R. Ford, he published an innovative textbook on calculus. For a given function f and point x, they defined a frame as a rectangle containing (x, f(x)) with sides parallel to the axes of the plane (page 9). Frames are then exploited to define continuous functions (page 10) and to describe integrable functions (page 148).
Personal information
Lester was born in Houston, Texas on September 23, 1927. He learned to play piano and the flute and was frequently heard whistling. For higher education he considered Harvard and Oberlin Conservatory, but chose the University of Chicago which provided him a scholarship. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1949 and a masters in 1950. Ford continued his studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1953.
Ford's employers included the U. S. Army, University of North Carolina and RAND Corporation. The Defense Research Corporation of Goleta, California employed him for forty years as he kept pace with digital revolution. Ford married twice. His first wife, Janet Johnson, gave him nine children, including Fred Ford, programmer of the Star Control Universe. His second wife was Naoma Gower.
References
1927 births
2017 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American operations researchers
American textbook writers
University of Chicago alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
People from Houston
People from Goleta, California
RAND Corporation people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor | Flavor or flavour is either the sensory perception of taste or smell, or a flavoring in food that produces such perception.
Flavor or flavour may also refer to:
Science
Flavors (programming language), an early object-oriented extension to Lisp
Flavour (particle physics), a quantum number of elementary particles related to their weak interactions
Flavor of Linux, another term for any particular Linux distribution; by extension, "flavor" can be applied to any program or other computer code that exists in more than one current variant at the same time
Film and TV
Flavors (film), romantic comedy concerning Asian-Indian immigrants in America
Music
Artists and bands
Flavor Flav (born 1959), former rap/hip-hop promoter and current reality television actor
Flavour N'abania (born 1983), Nigerian singer-songwriter
Flavor (band), minor hit with "Sally Had A Party" in 1968
Albums
Flavours (album), 1975 album by The Guess Who
Flavors (album), by American R&B girl group Tiffany Affair
Songs
"Flavor", 1994 song by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion from their album Orange
"Flavors", a song by Gomez from their 2000 compilation album Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
"Flavor", 2003 song by Every Little Thing from their album Many Pieces
"Flavor" (Iyanya song), 2012 single by Iyanya from his album Desire
"Flavor" (Tori Amos song), 2012 single by Tori Amos from her album Gold Dust
See also
Flava (disambiguation), for the slang pronunciation of the word
Deliciousness (TV series), an American comedy clip show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Top%2020 | American Top 20 was the name given to two weekly spinoffs of the music countdown program American Top 40. They were both hosted by Casey Kasem for Premiere Networks (originally AMFM Radio Networks) and premiered on the weekend of March 28, 1998, the same weekend Kasem returned to host American Top 40.
In contrast with its parent series, which catered to popular music stations, American Top 20 provided the same service to adult contemporary stations. One of the weekly countdowns was produced for hot adult contemporary stations, while the other was produced for mainstream adult contemporary stations. The latter of the two series would see its survey cut in half starting with the week ending on March 20, 2004, becoming known as American Top 10.
Beginnings
Both versions of American Top 20 had their roots in two other countdowns done by Kasem during his time with the Westwood One Radio Network. In 1992, Westwood One decided to launch a new adult contemporary countdown using the airplay survey data compiled by Radio & Records, the music trade newspaper that at the time was a subsidiary of the company and was already providing information to Kasem for his weekly pop countdown show at the time, Casey's Top 40. The AC program was titled Casey's Countdown and launched on March 7, 1992 as a three-hour program featuring the twenty-five biggest hits of the week.
In April 1994, Radio & Records added a hot adult contemporary survey to its tracking dossier and Westwood One launched another weekly countdown on November 5. This program was titled Casey's Hot 20 and was structured in a similar manner to Casey's Countdown, which saw its survey cut to the top twenty songs of the week around the same time.
Background
Kasem brought his countdown shows to what was then known as AMFM Radio Networks after a contentious battle with Westwood One over his contract status. Just before he had left, Kasem had reacquired the rights to the American Top 40 name and branding from ABC Radio, which he signed over to his new employer.
Source material
Continuing the practice that all of Kasem's countdowns had utilized since 1992, both editions of American Top 20 used the weekly mainstream and hot adult contemporary radio airplay surveys compiled by the trade paper Radio & Records. The survey later was conducted through Mediabase 24/7 and published in R&R, save for a brief period in 2000 and 2001 when the results were unpublished. After R&R folded, Mediabase began publishing the weekly survey in USA Today.
Show format
Each countdown was three hours in length. A brief rundown of the format appears below.
Songs That Topped The Chart Last Week: Kasem's standard practice of recounting the top three songs from the week before.
Chart Extras: To fill out the three hours, past chart hits from the 1970s onward would be played at various intervals. The ones dubbed Extras would have a story behind them, as Kasem was known to do.
Long Distance Dedications: Kasem's signature segment where lis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUP%20%28software%29 | The IUP Portable User Interface is a computer software development kit that provides a portable, scriptable toolkit to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) using the programming languages C, Perl, Lua, Nim and Zig, among others. This allows rapid, zero-compile prototyping and refinement of deployable GUI applications.
IUP's purpose is to allow programs user interface to run in different systems in unmodified form.
It provides this ability by binding Lua with its C/C++ code, or simply writing C to the application programming interface (API). It handles user interface elements by using native controls provided by native APIs, such as Windows API in Windows, GTK+ in Linux, and Motif-LessTif in older Unices. It also provides some custom developed controls using graphics APIs such as CD - Canvas Draw or OpenGL.
Features
IUP's distinguishing features include:
ANSI C API, one of the few plain C-capable toolkits,
Single API for Windows or Linux,
Built in support for Lua scripts calling IUP functions (controlled by Lua script),
Removal of the restriction of class/instance object types, but retaining the prototype Lua-style hierarchy of inheritance.
An abstract layout model, in which sizes and positions are calculated from horizontal and vertical containers, rather than explicit X and Y coordinates. Coordinate-based layout is also supported with a third container type.
Small API, on the order of about 100 functions.
Use of an event loop-callback mechanism. This main loop can be called inside Lua.
Interface elements are created before they are mapped to the native elements. This is the reverse of the usual situation for assembling GUI elements.
Available as source or pre-built static or dynamic libraries for a wide variety of compilers, including turnkey example source.
The Lua scripting is done by binding Lua and IUPLua in (at least) a small C program called a host application. This program creates a Lua state, passes the Lua state to IUPLua for initialization, and then opens and executes a Lua script against the Lua state. Or, the entire IUP state can be dynamically loaded via use of a Lua require or package.loadlib of IUPLua.
The script(s) can later be compiled with the Lua compiler if needed.
Support for UTF-8 was added to the Windows target in November 2013 with the release of version 3.9.
License, copyright
IUP is liberally-licensed for free use, modification, sale, and redistribution under the MIT license.
IUP has been in development at least since the 1.8 version issued in 1998. It was begun in collaboration with Petrobras.
References
External links
Lua (programming language) software
Widget toolkits
Application programming interfaces
Free computer libraries
Cross-platform free software
Software using the MIT license
Software development kits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima%2C%20Inc. | Machinima, Inc. was an American multiplatform online entertainment network owned by WarnerMedia. The company was founded in January 2000 by Hugh Hancock and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
It originated as a hub for its namesake, machinima, which uses and manipulates video-game technology to create animation, as well as featuring articles on machinima and content about film and technology. The website initially helped to bring attention to machinima as an art form and to encourage productions based on game engines other than those of id Software's first-person shooter computer game series Quake. Over time, the website's focus shifted to general entertainment programming centered around video game culture, comic books and fandom.
In 2016, the company was acquired by Warner Bros. Digital Networks. In turn, Warner Media was acquired by AT&T in 2018. That December, the company would be re-organized into Otter Media and eventually subsumed by its multi-channel network Fullscreen. In January 2019, Machinima abruptly discontinued their YouTube channels, with their videos set to private. In February 2019, Machinima officially ceased operations.
History
In December 1999, id Software released Quake III Arena. According to Paul Marino, executive director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, filmmakers who had been using prior versions of the Quake series to record animated videos, then called "Quake movies", were initially excited, but the enthusiasm dampened when id announced that, in an attempt to curtail cheating in multiplayer video games, it would take legal action against anyone who released details of Quake IIIs networking code, which was included in the game's game demo file format. This precluded the use of custom demo-editing tools that had facilitated the creation of videos that used the older Quake and Quake II demo file formats, slowing the release of new Quake movies. Another contributing factor to this decline was that the self-referential nature of the gameplay-related situations and commentary of Quake movies was losing novelty. Marino explained bluntly that "the joke was getting old". Therefore, the Quake movie community needed to reinvent itself.
In January 2000, Hugh Hancock started Machinima.com, a resource for video makers who used computer and video games as a medium. The site's name was foreign to the Quake movie community. The term machinima was originally machinema, from the words machine and cinema. However, Hancock had misspelled the term in a previous email, and the new name stuck because he and Anthony Bailey, who had worked on Quake done Quick, liked the now-embedded reference to anime.
The site opened with multiple articles, interviews, and tutorials, and was soon able to acquire exclusive releases of new productions. One such work, Quad God, was the first to use Quake III Arena and the first to be released in a conventional video file format instead of a demo file format exclusive to a certain gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%2080%27s | The Big 80's is a series of music videos broadcast on VH1 starting in 1995 and sporadically airing until 2000. The show ran for 90 minutes.
External links
VH1 original programming
VH1 music shows
1990s American music television series
1997 American television series debuts
2000s American music television series
2000 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts%20in%20fantasy | Many writers have been drawn to the idea of the Picts and created fictional stories and mythology about them in the absence of much real data. This romanticised view tends to portray them as sometimes wearing the modern Kilt or as noble savages, much as the view of Europeans on Native Americans in the 18th century.
The usage of the word Pict
Popular etymology has long interpreted the name Pict as if it derived from the Latin the word Picti meaning "painted folk" or possibly "tattooed ones"; and this may relate to the Welsh word Pryd meaning "to mark" or "to draw". Julius Caesar, who never went near Pictland, mentions the British Celtic custom of body painting in Book V of his Gallic Wars, stating
"Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem, atque hoc horridiores sunt in pugna aspectu" ("In fact all Britanni stain themselves with vitrum, which produces a dark blue colour, and by this means they are more terrifying to face in battle.")
Robert E. Howard
The Picts were an especial favourite race of Robert E. Howard and are mentioned frequently in his tales, having a continuity from the Thurian Age tales of King Kull of Valusia, where they are his allies, to the Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, where they are the mortal enemies of the Cimmerians (who are actually descended from the old Atlanteans, though they don't remember their ancestry or old alliance). Howard also wrote tales about the last King of the Picts Bran Mak Morn set in real historical time, and they figure commonly as enemies of Cormac Mac Art. Of all the races and civilizations in Howard's writings, the Picts are the race or civilization with the longest history. They even appear in his story "The Valley of the Worm", set long before Kull, where a tribe of Picts help the protagonist, Niord, battle a giant snake and a creature which resembles a shoggoth. Howard gave the Picts a sense of continuity between different ages by making Bran Mak Morn a descendant of Kull's ally Brule the Spear Slayer, and then describing how the king's soul had been affixed to a black stone statue worshiped by the medieval Picts. The status of the Picts and their civilization generally declined over time; the Picts of the Thurian Age were far more sophisticated than their primitive, brutish descendants.
Howard's Picts are said to have originated on "islands far out on the Western ocean" and gradually migrated into the Mediterranean area. At one point, they spread across large areas of the world, but gradually vanished except for several splinter groups. Although some of these groups lived in remote jungles and southern continents, the most prominent body of Picts settled in the British isles, where they displaced a supposedly mongoloid race that had been the initial residents of the isles (though their origins were elsewhere). This previous race sought refuge underground, where over a millennia they evolved into stunted and hideous creatures, who were the initial subjects of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipcom | Chipcom was an early pioneering company in the Ethernet hub industry. Their products allowed Local Networks to be aggregated in a single place instead of being distributed across the length of a single coaxial cable. They competed with now-gone companies such as Cabletron Systems, SynOptics, Ungermann-Bass, David Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and American Photonics, all of which were early entrants in the "LAN Hub" industry. Chipcom also was involved in Token Ring, FDDI, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
Some of Chipcom's innovations at the time are well-documented in the trade press of the era, such as Computerworld.
In 1995, Chipcom was acquired by 3Com for $700 million in stock., although Cabletron was also interested in buying the company. 3Com was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011. The firm's CEO at the time was John Robert Held.
References
Ethernet
Networking companies of the United States
Defunct networking companies
Computer companies established in 1983
Computer companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datangshan | Datangshan () is the name of a hill in the Changping District of Beijing, China.
Transportation
N 6th Ring Road
Beijing Metro Changping Line
Attractions
It is the site of China's largest aviation museum, the China Aviation Museum.
Jiuhua Resort and Convention Centre
Xiaotangshan Hot Springs
Landforms of Beijing
Changping District
Hills of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPS.tv | PPS.tv (PPStream) is a Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software. Since the target users are on the Chinese mainland, there is no official English version, and the vast majority of channels are from East Asia, mostly Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore. Programmes vary from Chinese movies to Japanese anime, sports channels, as well as popular American TV and films.
It had an 8.9% market share in China in Q3 2010, placing it third, behind Youku and Tudou. In May 2013, the online video business of PPS.tv was purchased by Baidu for $370 million. After the acquisition, PPS.tv continued to operate as a sub-brand under iQIYI, Baidu's online video platform.
Applications
However, the nature of peer to peer serving means that each user of the system is also a server. The upload speed of standard home broadband connections is usually a fraction of the download speed, so several upload sources may be required by each additional peer. Additionally, on services with high contention ratios or poorly configured switches, large numbers of people attempting to use the service may slow all internet usage to unusable speeds. Acting as an upload server to the limit of one's uploads, bandwidth increases the round trip time for webpage requests, making web browsing while using PPS.tv difficult.
See also
PPLive
References
External links
Official site
IQIYI
Chinese entertainment websites
File sharing networks
Streaming television
Peercasting
Software that uses Qt
Peer-to-peer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20block | A census block is the smallest geographic unit used by the United States Census Bureau for tabulation of 100-percent data (data collected from all houses, rather than a sample of houses). The number of blocks in the United States, including Puerto Rico, for the 2010 Census was 11,155,486.
Census blocks are grouped into block groups, which are grouped into census tracts. There are on average about 39 blocks per block group. Blocks typically have a four-digit number; the first number indicates which block group the block is in. For example, census block 3019 would be in block group 3.
Blocks are typically bounded by roads and highways, town/city/county/state boundaries, creeks and rivers, etc. In cities, a census block may correspond to a city block, but in rural areas where there are fewer roads, blocks may be delimited by other features such as political boundaries, rivers and other natural features, as well as parks and similar facilities, etc. The population of a census block varies greatly. As of the 2010 census, there were 4,871,270 blocks with a reported population of zero, while a block that is entirely occupied by an apartment complex might have several hundred inhabitants.
Census blocks covering the entire country were introduced with the 1990 census. Before that, back to the 1940 census, only selected areas were divided into blocks.
References
United States Census Bureau geography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20clarification%20form | A data clarification form (DCF) or data query form is a questionnaire specifically used in clinical research. The DCF is the primary data clarification tool from the trial sponsor or contract research organization (CRO) towards the investigator to clarify discrepancies and ask the investigator for clarification. The DCF is part of the data validation process in a clinical trial.
See also
Case report form
Clinical data acquisition
Clinical research associate (CRA)
Clinical trial
Clinical trial protocol
Drug development
Electronic data capture
Patient-reported outcome
References
Celine Clive (2004), Handbook of SOPs for Good Clinical Practice, CRC,
External links
DCF entry in Clinical Research Dictionary
Clinical research
Clinical data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Paragon | The Intel Paragon is a discontinued series of massively parallel supercomputers that was produced by Intel in the 1990s. The Paragon XP/S is a productized version of the experimental Touchstone Delta system that was built at Caltech, launched in 1992. The Paragon superseded Intel's earlier iPSC/860 system, to which it is closely related.
The Paragon series is based on the Intel i860 RISC microprocessor. Up to 2048 (later, up to 4096) i860s are connected in a 2D grid. In 1993, an entry-level Paragon XP/E variant was announced with up to 32 compute nodes.
The system architecture is a partitioned system, with the majority of the system comprising diskless compute nodes and a small number of I/O nodes interactive service nodes. Since the bulk of the nodes have no permanent storage, it is possible to "Red/Black switch" the compute partition from classified to unclassified by disconnecting one set of I/O nodes with classified disks and then connecting an unclassified I/O partition.
Intel intended the Paragon to run the OSF/1 AD distributed operating system on all processors. However, this was found to be inefficient in practice, and a light-weight kernel called SUNMOS was developed at Sandia National Laboratories to replace OSF/1 AD on the Paragon's compute processors.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory operated a Paragon XP/S 150 MP, one of the largest Paragon systems, for several years.
The prototype for the Intel Paragon was the Intel Delta, built by Intel with funding from DARPA and installed operationally at the California Institute of Technology in the late 1980s with funding from the National Science Foundation. The Delta was one of the few computers to sit significantly above the curve of Moore's Law.
Compute nodes
The computer boards was produced in two variants: the GP16 with 16 MB of memory and two CPUs, and the MP16 with three CPUs. Each node has a B-NIC interface that connects to the mesh routers on the backplane. The compute nodes are diskless and performed all I/O over the mesh. During system software development, a light-pen was duct-taped to the status LED on one board and a timer interrupt was used to bit bang a serial port.
The B-NIC ASIC is the square chip with the circular heat-sink.
I/O nodes
The IO boards have either SCSI drive interfaces or HiPPI network connections and are used to provide data to the compute nodes. They do not run any user applications. The MP64 I/O node has three i860 CPUs and an i960 CPU used in the disk controller.
References
External Links
Intel products
Massively parallel computers
Supercomputers
Very long instruction word computing
32-bit computers
Intel supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Burtner | Matthew Burtner (born 1970, Naknek, Alaska) is a contemporary American composer. His most recent work at the University of Virginia includes MICE, the mobile interactive computer ensemble.
Life and music
Born into a fishing family, Burtner heard music in the ice and snow melting as well as other nature sounds. Once into grade school, he began learning the saxophone, playing in jazz bands, school bands and performance groups throughout his young years.
In college, he studied philosophy, composition, saxophone and computer music at St. Johns College, Tulane University (BFA 1993), Iannis Xenakis's UPIC Studios, the Peabody Institute of JHU (MM 1997), and Stanford University's CCRMA (DMA 2002). At Stanford he studied and worked closely with Max Mathews, Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough and Jon Berger.
Burtner is currently Professor of composition and computer music at the University of Virginia where he is Associate Director of the VCCM Computer Music Center and the Chair of the University of Virginia's Music Department. He was an Invited Researcher at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2005, an Artist in Residence at the Cite International des Arts in Paris, as well as Composer-in-Residence at Musikene in San Sebastian, Spain.
There are many works by Burtner, including music and sound art for instrumental ensembles, digital sound and multimedia, as well as pieces that he performs on the Metasax. Excerpts of his music can be heard in the "Listening Room" on his website. They are also available on several published recordings.
Metasax
Burtner developed the Metasaxophone in 1999. The Metasax, an acoustic tenor saxophone retrofitted with an onboard computer microprocessor, and an array of sensors that convert performance data into independent continuous control messages for a computer. It is also with a unique microphone system allowing for detailed control of the amplified sound. While maintaining full acoustic functionality, the metasax is a versatile computer controller and an electric instrument.
Ecoacoustics
Musical Ecoacoustics is an approach to embedding environmental systems into musical and performative structures using new technologies. It draws on techniques of sonification, acoustic ecology and soundscape composition (Truax, Westerkamp, Keller and others). The data from nature may be audio information from wind or ocean waves, or it may be some measurable parameter such as temperature, geological change, etc.
Burtner's instrumental and electroacoustic music draws environment into the musical structure, and attempts to decentralize human notions of time and form, searching for more universal, ecology-centered forms.
Works
Electroacoustic theater and new media opera:
"Kuik" (2003–2006) for voices, percussion, computer sound, dance/movement, theater, video and interactive media
"Windcombs/Imaq" (2005) for mixed instrumental ensemble, computer sound, video, dance/movement, voices and theater
"Ukiuq Tulugaq (Winter Raven)" (1998–2002) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYDA | KYDA (101.7 FM) is a radio station based in the Fort Worth, Texas area, and is the local outlet of EMF's Air1 network, airing a Christian worship format. The station is licensed to Azle, Texas, with a transmitter site located north of Decatur, Texas. It is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation after its purchase from Liberman Broadcasting in early November 2012. Air1 is a Christian worship music radio network in the United States.
History
Early beginnings
For the first three decades in operation, KDSX-FM was licensed for Denison–Sherman beginning on June 29, 1967. In late 1976, B.V. Hammond, Jr. and Lofton L. Hendrick sold the station to Grayson County Broadcasters, Inc., which sold the station the next year to Radiozark Broadcasters. As Radiozark did not buy its sister-station KDSX-AM radio (now KKLF in Richardson), it changed the callsign to KDSQ. The station ran a longtime Top 40/CHR format under the branding "Q102". The "Q102" name has nothing to be confused with Dallas–Fort Worth's rock station at the time, KTXQ. However, during its earlier days as a Top 40 station in the first quarter of the 1980s, it competed against KIKM-AM, but both stations were compared completely differently in their formats and routines. KIKM-AM was mainstream and contained a highly commercial orientation, while KDSQ offers a conservative alternative playlist (but still mostly contains mainstream titles) and has a low commercial orientation. A short time later, KDSQ became mainstream with its format full-time. After KIKM-AM dropped its Top 40 format in 1986, KDSQ became the only Top 40/CHR station in the Red River region and the Sherman/Denison/Durant area.
In the 1990s, KDSQ made a series of technical improvements, changing from class A to C3 in October 1991 and becoming a full class C station with 92 kW ERP from a transmitter northeast of Decatur in 1999. These improvements allowed the station to enter the Dallas-Fort Worth radio market.
The station changed calls and formats multiple times throughout the 1990s. The station dropped its longtime CHR format in early 1993 and flipped to a country format but it only lasted for a few months. In July of that same year, both KDSQ and oldies station KTCY split formats. The split led KDSQ to flip to a hot adult contemporary format but downgraded towards a gold-based adult contemporary format a short time later. In late 1994, KDSQ dropped AC and flipped to a classic rock format, which didn't last long. After a short stint in January 1995, the station went silent. A few months later, the station returned back on the air and became KDVE with a soft adult contemporary format in mid-1995. In 1997, KDVE became KIKM-FM and flipped to a country station competing against KMKT, and two years later in 1999, the station became KZMP and changed its format to Spanish. Entravision Communications bought Z Spanish Media in 1999, resulting in its acquisition of KZMP. The callsign changed again in 2003, to KTCY.
Liberman Broa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Halifax%2C%20Nova%20Scotia | Halifax Regional Municipality has a multi-modal transportation network.
Air
Halifax Stanfield International Airport, located in Goffs, is the municipality's airport. It is located approximately from Downtown Halifax.
Pedestrian
As of 2021, Halifax Regional Municipality has an extensive network of cycling lanes, multi-use paths, and sidewalks. There are proposals for a Halifax Urban Greenway, which is envisioned to ultimately connect or construct trails around the entire perimeter of the Bedford Basin and Halifax Harbour to link Downtown Dartmouth and Downtown Halifax. Some statistics:
Cycling
As of 2006, there are 338 bicycle-racks which can hold 800 bicycles located throughout the municipality.
The first protected cycling lane in Halifax opened in November 2015 as a pilot project. The lanes are separated from automotive traffic by a painted median and plastic bollards.
All Ages & Abilities Bikeway Network
The Halifax Regional Municipality is in the process of creating an All Ages & Abilities (AAA) cycling network within the Regional Centre.
Once complete, the network will be approximately in length, and it will create a more-connected, safer AAA network throughout the Regional Centre.
Multi-use pathways
Within Halifax Regional Municipality, there are many multi-use pathways.
Walking
Built-up communities within the municipality have a better-established multi-use path--and--sidewalk connectivity, although there are still many sections that are not well connected. The less built-up the community, the likelihood of poor-connectivity increases. However, the municipality is working to improve bicycle-lane, multi-use path, sidewalk, and public transit services..
Public
Public transit within Halifax Regional Municipality is provided by Halifax Transit. The main modes of public transportation are transit buses as well as ferries that operate on Halifax Harbour between Dartmouth-and-Halifax.
Rural
Halifax Transit's MetroX provides transit-routes for rural communities throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality. The communities served are Fall River, Goffs (Halifax Stanfield International Airport), Hubley (Sheldrake Lake), Porters Lake, and Upper Tantallon.
Most rural parts of Halifax Regional Municipality do not have public transit access, specifically the eastern, northern, and western areas. Rural areas are dependent upon privately operated bus-and-shuttle services. The municipality is currently studying the possibility of implementing a series of expanded bus rapid transit services along highways such as Highways 102, 103 and 107.
Urban
Public transportation within the urban area of Halifax is more connected. Along with buses, Halifax Transit provides a ferry service alternative for transit users who wish to travel from Dartmouth-to-Halifax, and vice versa.
Proposed
Rapid ferry service
There have been proposed high-speed ferry routes to Larry Uteck, Mill Cove, and Shannon Park. The ferries would travel at speeds between , and wou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogynidae | The Heterogynidae are a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera. Only two genera are currently recognized: Heterogynis and Janseola.
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Moth families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest%20common%20ancestor | In graph theory and computer science, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) (also called least common ancestor) of two nodes and in a tree or directed acyclic graph (DAG) is the lowest (i.e. deepest) node that has both and as descendants, where we define each node to be a descendant of itself (so if has a direct connection from , is the lowest common ancestor).
The LCA of and in is the shared ancestor of and that is located farthest from the root. Computation of lowest common ancestors may be useful, for instance, as part of a procedure for determining the distance between pairs of nodes in a tree: the distance from to can be computed as the distance from the root to , plus the distance from the root to , minus twice the distance from the root to their lowest common ancestor .
In a tree data structure where each node points to its parent, the lowest common ancestor can be easily determined by finding the first intersection of the paths from and to the root. In general, the computational time required for this algorithm is where is the height of the tree (length of longest path from a leaf to the root). However, there exist several algorithms for processing trees so that lowest common ancestors may be found more quickly. Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm, for example, preprocesses a tree in linear time to provide constant-time LCA queries. In general DAGs, similar algorithms exist, but with super-linear complexity.
History
The lowest common ancestor problem was defined by , but were the first to develop an optimally efficient lowest common ancestor data structure. Their algorithm processes any tree in linear time, using a heavy path decomposition, so that subsequent lowest common ancestor queries may be answered in constant time per query. However, their data structure is complex and difficult to implement. Tarjan also found a simpler but less efficient algorithm, based on the union-find data structure, for computing lowest common ancestors of an offline batch of pairs of nodes.
simplified the data structure of Harel and Tarjan, leading to an implementable structure with the same asymptotic preprocessing and query time bounds. Their simplification is based on the principle that, in two special kinds of trees, lowest common ancestors are easy to determine: if the tree is a path, then the lowest common ancestor can be computed simply from the minimum of the levels of the two queried nodes, while if the tree is a complete binary tree, the nodes may be indexed in such a way that lowest common ancestors reduce to simple binary operations on the indices. The structure of Schieber and Vishkin decomposes any tree into a collection of paths, such that the connections between the paths have the structure of a binary tree, and combines both of these two simpler indexing techniques.
discovered a completely new way to answer lowest common ancestor queries, again achieving linear preprocessing time with constant query ti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Play | The Intel Play product line, developed and jointly marketed by Intel and Mattel, was a product line of consumer "toy" electronic devices. The other toys were the Digital Movie Creator, the Computer Sound Morpher, and the Me2Cam.
The Intel Play product line was discontinued on March 29, 2002 when it was purchased by Tim Hall's holding company Prime Entertainment. Hall founded Digital Blue, which continued the Intel Play product line under the Digital Blue brand. The "Play" logo of Intel Play became a staple of 2K Play in 2007.
QX3 Computer Microscope
The QX3 Computer Microscope was a product in the Intel Play product line and was continued in the Digital Blue product line. The upgraded QX5 model was available.
The QX3 is a small electronic microscope that can connect to a computer via a USB connection. It has magnification levels of 10x, 60x, and 200x. The microscope comes with software which allows a computer to access the microscope and use it to either take pictures or record movie. The specimen can be lit either from underneath or from above by one of two incandescent bulbs (3.5V, 300mA). The specimen platform is adjustable to focus the image. The Vision CPiA (VV0670P001) is interfaced to a CIF CCD sensor, sampled at a resolution of 320x240 pixels.
QX5 Computer Microscope
The QX5 Computer Microscope is a Digital Blue product and upgraded the QX3 with multiple improvements, including a 640x480 image capture device and brighter light source.
Digital Movie Creator
The Digital Movie Creator was a product in the Intel Play product line and was continued in the Digital Blue product line. The upgraded 2.0 and 3.0 was available. Intel Play Digital Movie Creator is featured as an easy-to-use digital video camera and movie-making software package that allows children to use the PC to script and star in their own feature movies. At the time of development and release in 2001, the goal of the Intel Play products is to extend the value and utility of powerful PCs, like ones based on the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor.
References
External links
QX3 Support Page
QX3 Download Finder: Drivers and Software Page
QX3 Manual by Brian Ford
QX3 Tutorials at Marly Cain's Amazing Micronautic Adventures
QX3 Microscope Tutorials at Molecular Expressions
QX3 Review by Microscopy UK
DigiBlue Downloads Page
Linux drivers and technical information
Play
Mattel
2000s toys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomastown%20railway%20station | Thomastown Railway Station serves the town of Thomastown in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford Intercity route.
Unlike most other railway stations on the network, there is no ticket office however tickets can still be purchased at a digital kiosk.
There is a disused low platform and signal box across the track. The track was removed from it in 2004 when mini-CTC signalling was installed.
History
The station opened on 12 May 1848.
Services
The current Monday to Saturday service pattern is:
7 trains per day to Waterford
7 trains per day to Dublin Heuston
On Sundays, the service pattern is:
4 trains per day to Waterford
4 trains per day to Dublin Heuston
Gallery
See also
List of railway stations in Ireland
References
External links
Irish Rail Thomastown Station Website
Iarnród Éireann stations in County Kilkenny
Railway stations in County Kilkenny
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1848 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20Nationale%20des%20Autoroutes%20du%20Maroc | The Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM) is Morocco's national authority for the management of over 1400+ km of Moroccan expressways. ADM is based in Rabat.
ADM runs the network on a pay-per-use basis, with toll stations placed along its length. Rental-income from rest-areas and services (fuel, food and drink outlets etc.) form a second income beside the collected toll-revenues.
Not only the management of existing roads is ADM's responsibility, management of construction projects and planning of future extensions is part of their mission.
History
The total length of paved roads in Morocco has grown dramatically over the past decades, and doubled from 14.500 km in 1956 to over 30.000 km now. Studies in the early seventies predicted a growth in traffic-load of 6% a year, meaning that every twelve years the traffic doubles.
In 1975 construction started on the first stage of the motorway between Casablanca and Rabat. Financial restrictions slowed down development and the opening of the last section had to wait until 1987. Two years later the ADM was officially formed.
Since that date other motorways were developed. One instrument to allow faster construction was introduction of toll. Revenues could then be used to repay investments.
Road construction
After completion of the Casablanca-Rabat expressway new developments contributed in completing the much wanted North-South and East-West main links. The East-West link runs from Rabat via Fez to Oujda. The first stage is completed as the Rabat-Fes expressway and the Fes-Oujda expressway is under construction.
The North-South link is formed with Casablanca as startpoint:
Casablanca to Tanger, Tétouan and Fnideq using Rabat-Tangier expressway
Casablanca via Marrakech to Agadir using Casablanca-Marrakesh expressway and Marrakech-Agadir expressway
Casablanca to El Jadida
Managing projects
ADM uses projects to manage the development of new roads. Each project has its own finances (budget, investors) and most projects split up in segments. Call for bids for each segment are then published and generly open for national and international bidders.
Recently completed roads
Two projects were completed in the last years:
Fes-Oujda expressway - 320 km road built between 2007 and 2011 Total actual investment: 10800 MDH
Marrakech-Agadir expressway- 223 km road built between 2006 and 2010 Total actual investment: 6025 MDH
widening the Casablanca-Rabat expressway from 2 x 2 to 2 x 3 lanes
Realisation between 2009 and 2012, projected budget 800 MDH
Berrechid- Beni Mellal expressway - built between 2010 and 2015
Rabat Ringroad - built between 2011 and 2016
El Jadida - Safi expressway - 144 km built between 2011 and 2016.
The company
ADM is set up as a société anonyme and its market capital of 6.507.628.500 dirhams has been brought together by:
Fonds Hassan II (the Hasan II Fund): 61,47%
Trésor public of Morocco : 33,11%
Public corporations : 2,09%
Banks and (other) institutional investors : 0,76 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Gilchrist | Lara Gilchrist is a Canadian actress who voiced the role of Susan Storm (Invisible Woman) in the Cartoon Network & NickToons animated TV show Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes. She also provided the voice for the character Angela in the movie Braver, and has appeared in TV shows such as Smallville and Battlestar Galactica.
In 2011 she appeared in the Hallmark Movie Channel movie Goodnight for Justice.
She has done TV commercial voice work for the Edmonton Eskimos, Future Shop, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Subway, and Super Seven lotteries. On stage, she has appeared in Victoria Maxwell's Life Line put on by Solo Collective, Hippies and Bolsheviks,
Ramifications of a Particular Crash,
True Love Lies,
and Enchanted April'' (based on a 1992 film).
Early life
Gilchrist is an alum of Studio 58.
Filmography
References
External links
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian video game actresses
Canadian voice actresses
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian stage actresses
Living people
21st-century Canadian actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Studio 58 people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option | Option or Options may refer to:
Computing
Option key, a key on Apple computer keyboards
Option type, a polymorphic data type in programming languages
Command-line option, an optional parameter to a command
OPTIONS, an HTTP request method
Literature
Options (novel), a novel by Robert Sheckley
Option (car magazine), a Japanese car magazine
Option (music magazine), a defunct American music magazine
Legal rights
Option (aircraft purchasing)
South Tyrol Option Agreement, a forced resettling contract between fascist Italy and Nazi Germany regarding the German-speaking inhabitants of South Tyrol
Option (filmmaking), a contractual agreement between a film producer and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer before a certain date.
Option (finance), an instrument that conveys the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction (for example, on some underlying security or on a parcel of real property), or in a futures contract
Option contract, a type of legal contract
Music
"Options" (Luke James song), 2014
"Options" (NSG song), 2018
"Options", a song by Doja Cat from Planet Her, 2021
"Options", a song by EarthGang, 2020
"Options", a song by Iñigo Pascual, 2019
"Options", a song by Loren Gray, 2019
"Options", a song by Internet Money, 2022
"Options", a song by NF from The Search, 2019
"Options", a song by PartyNextDoor from PartyNextDoor Two, 2014
"Options", a song by Pedro the Lion from Control, 2002
"Options", a song by Pitbull from Climate Change, 2017
Sport
Option (baseball), a baseball player who can be moved back and forth between major and minor league teams
Option offense, an offensive scheme in American football primarily predicated on option runs
Option run, a play in American and Canadian football
Other uses
"Options" (Welcome to Paradox), an episode of Welcome to Paradox
Option N.V., a company providing wireless technology devices
"The Option", an alternate name for the South Tyrol Option Agreement, a resettlement program of German speakers living in Italy initiated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
Flight Options, an American fractional ownership airline founded by Kenn Ricci that uses the callsign "Options" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20ID | A circuit ID is a company-specific identifier assigned to a data or voice network connection between two locations. This connection, often called a circuit, may then be leased to a customer referring to that ID. In this way, the circuit ID is similar to a serial number on any product sold from a retailer to a customer. Each circuit ID is unique, so a specific customer having many circuit connections sold to them would have many circuit IDs to refer to those connections. As an example of a use of the circuit ID, when a subscriber/customer has an issue (or trouble) with a circuit, they may contact the Controlling Local Exchange Carrier (Controlling LEC) telecommunications provider, identifying the circuit that has the issue by giving the LEC that circuit ID reference. The LEC would refer to their internal records for this circuit ID to take corrective action on the designated circuit.
Telecom circuit ID formats
Although telecommunication providers are not required to follow any specific standard for circuit IDs, many do. In the United States, LECs typically generate circuit IDs based on Telcordia Technologies' Common Language Information Services. Using the Telcordia standards for circuit naming allow a LEC the ability to build a certain amount of intelligence into the name of a circuit. The way Telcordia has developed circuit IDs, different types of circuit connections require different formats for the circuit ID. In each format, different segments of the ID have very specific meaning.
At one time, abbreviations used for circuit types were meaningful (for example, HC for high capacity) but the complexity of the business no longer allows for it. Now, with many different technologies and uses for circuit connections, different types of circuits may use different types of circuit ID formats that provide more meaning for that type of circuit. Below are "examples" of how one telecommunications provider, CenturyLink, has published their choice for circuit IDs for three different types of circuit connections.
Carrier-facility format
For "carrier circuits", CenturyLink uses a format like: AAAAA/BBBBBB/CCCCCCCCCCC/DDDDDDDDDDD
Where:
A = Prefix: 3–5 Alphanumeric characters. This is a unique identifier. Required.
B = Facility Type: 1–6 Alphanumeric characters. Describes the "type" of facility circuit. Required.
C = CLLI Code for the A-location: 8 or 11 alphanumeric characters. Required.
D = CLLI Code for the Z-location: 8 or 11 alphanumeric characters. Required.
Example:
HN101/T3U/MPLSMNDT000/GLVYMNORIII
The above example circuit ID represents an unframed T3 circuit between two locations in Minnesota with a "serial number" of HN101. Some telecom providers also build a bit of intelligence (or meaning) into this unique prefix information. For instance, a T3U circuit type that carries a specific type of network traffic might use the HN designation at the beginning followed by a number in the 100-block for another specific purpose, 200-block for yet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20TV | Wine TV or Wine Network was a digital cable & satellite television channel that aired programming about Wine and Spirits. It was the only such channel in the world, featuring programming dedicated to wine lovers including shows about wine making, wine growing, wine selection, cooking with wine and many others. It also focused on wine culture with topics such as cigars, travel, fashion, entertainment and art & culture.
Wine TV launched on September 17, 2004 and is independently owned and operated. At launch, it was unable to secure a carriage deal with any provider in the United States, so the decision was made to launch the channel internationally where it has been quite successful. Wine TV secured distribution in 22 countries, 4 continents. Wine TV was also available in Germany, where it was known as Wein TV, on Kabel Deutschland, ish TV (cable) & Primacom (IPTV). The German version ceased broadcasting in late January 2009. Wine TV which was also available in the UK and Ireland on the Sky Digital platform, where it went by the name Wine TV however that also ceased broadcasting in late January. In the Philippines, the channel was available in SkyCable. In Australia, Selectv offered this channel until September 8, 2008.
Programming
Wine TV features a wide array of programming covering many different aspects of Wine culture and the wine industry. Among the programs aired on Wine TV include:
The Wine Route - A series exploring various acclaimed Wine regions around the world
Wine 101 - A program designed to educate viewers on world of wine, with trips to various wine regions in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal & the United States
A Taste Of Brittany - A cooking show that gives viewers a look at the wine and cuisine of Brittany region in France
Off the Vine - A behind-the-scenes look at the Australian wine industry
Wine Television - A lifestyle program that combines stories about wine with tales of travel and good food
References
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
Television channels and networks about wine
Defunct television channels in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGN%20%28disambiguation%29 | IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media.
IGN may also refer to:
National mapping institutes
Institut géographique national, the French national geographic institute, now called Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Guatemala), the Guatemalan national geographic institute
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain), the Spanish national geographic institute
Nationaal Geografisch Instituut - Institut Géographique National, the Belgian national geographic institute, often referred to by the abbreviation "IGN" in Walloon and "NGI" in Flemish
Other uses
Imperial German Navy, navy for the German Empire from 1871 to 1919
Intergovernmental Negotiations framework, a process to reform the United Nations Security Council
International-Great Northern Railroad (I&GN), a railroad in the US state of Texas
Iodine Global Network, a nonprofit organization
Maria Cristina Airport, serving the general area of Iligan, Mindanao, Philippines, IATA airport code IGN
Initialization of 'In-game Name'
See also
IGE (Internet Gaming Entertainment), an MMORPG services company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4KQ | 4KQ is a commercial radio station in Brisbane, Australia owned by Sports Entertainment Network (SEN).
History
Planning for the station began after a licence with the callsign 4KQ was granted in August 1946. It began broadcasting on 7 May 1947 on 650 kHz under the ownership of the Australian Labor Party. The station was involved in number of controversies relating to this ownership.
On 1 September 1948, the station changed to 690 kHz, although was marketed in the 1970s and 1980s as 4KQ 700. Originally transmitting with 1,000 watts at launch, approval was given to upgrade to 2000W in April 1954.
In 1978 the station moved to 693 kHz. In 1980, Michael Edgley, Col Joye and Michael Willesee purchased a combined 48.5% shareholding. In 1986, 4KQ was purchased by Wesgo.
4KQ broadcasts from Brisbane suburb of Milton, after moving with its sister station 97.3 FM from Stones Corner in 2020. It presented a classic hits format of music from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with some 1990s, aimed at listeners 40–54 years of age.
Sale to SEN and rebrand
Following its purchase of Grant Broadcasters in November 2021, Here, There & Everywhere announced its intention to sell the station to comply with Australian Communications & Media Authority regulations that limit the number of radio stations an owner can have in one city. In May 2022, Sports Entertainment Network purchased the station.
Following the sale, SEN announced a rebrand to 693 SENQ and a programming change to "constant sporting content" as "Queensland's only dedicated sports station". On 30 June 2022 the station's former format ended, ending the long running service of breakfast announcers Laurel Edwards (30 years), Gary Clare (31 years), and Mark Hine (16 years).
Programming
4KQ's main programming component was formerly classic hits music. News Bulletins were also aired hourly weekdays, with an increased half-hourly frequency during the Breakfast programme. Traffic reports were also aired hourly, with an increased 15-minute frequency during the weekday Breakfast programme, and 20-minute frequency during the weekday Drive programme.
References
External links
Archived website for 4KQ prior to 2022 sale
Australian Radio Network
Sports radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 1947
Radio stations in Brisbane
1947 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20of%20nanotechnology | The impact of nanotechnology extends from its medical, ethical, mental, legal and environmental applications, to fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, materials science, and communications.
Major benefits of nanotechnology include improved manufacturing methods, water purification systems, energy systems, physical enhancement, nanomedicine, better food production methods, nutrition and large-scale infrastructure auto-fabrication. Nanotechnology's reduced size may allow for automation of tasks which were previously inaccessible due to physical restrictions, which in turn may reduce labor, land, or maintenance requirements placed on humans.
Potential risks include environmental, health, and safety issues; transitional effects such as displacement of traditional industries as the products of nanotechnology become dominant, which are of concern to privacy rights advocates. These may be particularly important if potential negative effects of nanoparticles are overlooked.
Whether nanotechnology merits special government regulation is a controversial issue. Regulatory bodies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate of the European Commission have started dealing with the potential risks of nanoparticles. The organic food sector has been the first to act with the regulated exclusion of engineered nanoparticles from certified organic produce, firstly in Australia and the UK, and more recently in Canada, as well as for all food certified to Demeter International standards
Overview
The presence of nanomaterials (materials that contain nanoparticles) is not in itself a threat. It is only certain aspects that can make them risky, in particular their mobility and their increased reactivity. Only if certain properties of certain nanoparticles were harmful to living beings or the environment would we be faced with a genuine hazard. In this case it can be called nanopollution.
In addressing the health and environmental impact of nanomaterials we need to differentiate between two types of nanostructures: (1) Nanocomposites, nanostructured surfaces and nanocomponents (electronic, optical, sensors etc.), where nanoscale particles are incorporated into a substance, material or device (“fixed” nano-particles); and (2) “free” nanoparticles, where at some stage in production or use individual nanoparticles of a substance are present. These free nanoparticles could be nanoscale species of elements, or simple compounds, but also complex compounds where for instance a nanoparticle of a particular element is coated with another substance (“coated” nanoparticle or “core-shell” nanoparticle).
There seems to be consensus that, although one should be aware of materials containing fixed nanoparticles, the immediate concern is with free nanoparticles.
Nanoparticles are very different from their everyday counterparts, so their adverse effects cannot be derived from the known toxicity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Internet%20exchange%20points%20by%20size | This is a list of Internet exchange points by size, measured by peak data rate (throughput), with additional data on location, establishment and average throughput.
Generally only exchanges with more than ten gigabits per second peak throughput have been taken into consideration. The numbers in the list represent switched traffic only (no private interconnects) and are rounded to whole gigabits. Take into consideration that traffic on each exchange point can change quickly, and be seasonal.
This list is not exhaustive, as it includes only exchanges willing to make traffic data public on their website. Particularly data of IXPs from the United States and China is hard to come by. Examples of large peering points without public data are NAP of the Americas or PacketExchange.
See also
Autonomous system (Internet)
Border Gateway Protocol
Internet exchange point
List of Internet exchange points
Peering
Notes
References
External links
Packet Clearing House – Internet Exchange Directory (automatically updated daily list)
TeleGeography: The Internet Exchange Points Directory
Euro-IX Member IXPs
IXP Database (IXPDB) - collects data directly from IXPs through a recurring automated process (2022-11-30)
LookinGlass.Org: IXP's with BGP LG service in the World
Routing
exchange points
de:Internet-Knoten#Tabelle internationaler Internet-Knoten (GIX) (nach Traffic sortiert) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Mil%C3%A1n | Victor Woodward Milán (August 3, 1954 – February 13, 2018) was an American writer known for libertarian science fiction and an interest in cybernetics.
Life and career
Milán was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In 1986 Milán won the Prometheus Award for Cybernetic Samurai. He has also written several shared universe works for the Forgotten Realms, Star Trek, BattleTech and Wild Cards series. He has also written books under the pseudonyms Richard Austin (Jove Books "The Guardians" series), Robert Baron (Jove Books "Stormrider" series), and S. L. Hunter ("Steele" series with Simon Hawke, who used the pen name J. D. Masters). He also wrote at least nine novels under the "house name" of James Axler for the Harlequin Press/Gold Eagle Books "Deathlands" and "Outlanders" series. He has published almost 100 novels and numerous short stories.
Milán was also known as the longtime masquerade emcee of Archon, the multi-genre convention held annually in Collinsville, Illinois.
Victor Milán died February 13, 2018, in Albuquerque, New Mexico after a battle with cancer.
Bibliography
Series and shared universes
Guardians series [as Richard Austin]
The Guardians (1985)
Trial by Fire (1985)
Thunder of Hell (1985)
Night of the Phoenix (1985)
Armageddon Run (1986)
War Zone (1986)
Brute Force (1987)
Desolation Road (1987)
Vengeance Day (1987)
Freedom Fight (1987)
Valley of the Gods (1988)
The Plague Years (1988)
Devil's Deal (1989)
Death from Above (1990)
Stormrider series [as Robert Baron]
Stormrider (1992)
River of Fire (1993)
Lord of the Plains (1993)
Donovan Steele series [as S. L. Hunter]
Fugitive Steele (1991)
Molten Steele (1991)
Battletech series
Close Quarters (1994)
Hearts of Chaos (1996)
Black Dragon (1996)
Tokugawa
The Cybernetic Samurai (1985)
The Cybernetic Shogun (1990)
War of Powers
The Sundered Realm (1980) with Robert E. Vardeman
The City in the Glacier (1980) with Robert E. Vardeman
The Destiny Stone (1980) with Robert E. Vardeman
The Fallen Ones (1982) with Robert E. Vardeman
In the Shadow of Omizantrim (1982) with Robert E. Vardeman
Demon of the Dark Ones (1982) with Robert E. Vardeman
Star Trek: TOS
From the Depths (1993)
Wild Cards
Turn of the Cards (1993)
Forgotten Realms
War in Tethyr (1995) with Walter Velez
Mechwarrior
Flight of the Falcon (2004)
A Rending of Falcons (2007)
Rogue Angel series [as Alex Archer]
Solomon's Jar (2006)
The Chosen (2007)
The Lost Scrolls (2007)
Secret of the Slaves (2007)
The Dinosaur Lords Series
This was intended to be a series of six books set in a world named Paradise. The first trilogy of the main six books is called The Ballad of Karyl's Last Ride. The author stated in 2017 that he planned to write other short stories, novellas, and novels that take place in Paradise beside the main series. However, he died before they were completed.
The Dinosaur Lords (28 July 2015)
The Dinosaur Knights (5 July 2016)
The Dinosaur Princess (15 August 2017)
Stand-alone n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20mine%20%28disambiguation%29 | Diamond mine may refer to:
Diamond mine
Diamond Mine (Blue Rodeo album), 1989
Diamond Mine (King Creosote and Jon Hopkins album), 2011
Diamond Mine (video game), a 1980s home computer game
Diamond Mine, a 2000 game from PopCap Games, now Bejeweled
The Diamond Mine (album), a 2005 mixtape from Diamond D
"The Diamond Mine" (short story), a short story by Willa Cather
Diamond Mine (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hungry%20Detective | The Hungry Detective is a show on Food Network which premiered on October 17, 2006. The host is Chris Cognac, a police detective from Southern California. Cognac earlier appeared in Episode 4 of Food Network's Feasting on Asphalt.
Chris Cognac's mom is Louisa Tennille and his aunt is Toni Tennille, the singing half of Captain & Tennille.
References
External links
Food Network original programming
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2006 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPrime | SuperPrime is a computer program used for calculating the primality of a large set of positive natural numbers. Because of its multi-threaded nature and dynamic load scheduling, it scales excellently when using more than one thread (execution core). It is commonly used as an overclocking benchmark to test the speed and stability of a system.
Background information
In August 1995, the calculation of Pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was achieved by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program used to achieve this was ported to personal computers, for operating systems such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super-PI. SuperPrime is another take on this procedure, substituting raw floating-point calculations for the value of Pi with more complex instructions to calculate the primality of a set of natural numbers.
Landmarks
On September 29, 2006, a milestone was broken when bachus_anonym of www.xtremesystems.org broke the 30 seconds barrier using a highly overclocked Core 2 Duo machine
See also
Erodov.com, the 'home forum' for the SuperPrime benchmark.
References
External links
Main Thread @ www.erodov.com
Prime numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Shinshu | , also known as TSB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with NNN and NNS. Their headquarters are located in Nagano Prefecture.
History
In July 1971, Kiichiro Takizawa applied for the license of the third private TV station in Nagano prefecture under the name of Shinshu TV Broadcasting, which was the first application for the third private broadcaster in Nagano Prefecture.
Stations
Analog stations
Utsukushigahara (Main Station) JONI-TV 30ch 10 kW
Yamanouchi 6ch 3w
Iiyama 43ch 50w
Zenkoji-daira 40ch 200w
Matsumoto 48ch 100w
Sanada 42ch 100w
Saku 34ch 30w
Karuizawa 53ch 10w
Okaya-Suwa 59ch 200w
Ina 59ch 100w
Iida 42ch 1 kW
Digital stations(ID:4)
Utsukushigahara (Main Station) JONI-DTV 14ch 1 kW
Zenkoji-daira 22ch 20w
Matsumoto 22ch 10w
Okaya-Suwa 53ch 20w
Ina 22ch 10w
Iida 35ch 100w
Rival stations
Shin-etsu Broadcasting (SBC)
Nagano Broadcasting Systems (NBS)
Asahi Broadcasting Nagano (abn)
External links
TV. Shinshu
References
Television stations in Japan
Companies based in Nagano Prefecture
Nippon News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oita%20Asahi%20Broadcasting | , also known as OAB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Oita Prefecture.
The Headquarters
12 Shinkawa-nishi Oita-city, OITA 870-8524 JAPAN
History
1993 October 1: It was set up as Oita Prefecture's third broadcasting station.
1 December 2006: the network's Oita Main Station commenced their Digital terrestrial television broadcasting service.
Stations
Analog
Oita (Main Station) JOBX-TV 24ch 10 kW
Saiki 31ch 100w
Hita 49ch 20w
Tsukumi 28ch 10w
Taketa 31ch 30w
Kusu 27ch 100w
Mie 21ch 100w
Kunisaki 62ch 100w
Nakatsu 17ch 100w
Notsubaru 18ch 30w
Yufuin 37ch 3w
Usuki 33ch 3w
Oita-East 62ch 10w
Ajimu 40ch
Shonai 39ch
Ogata 27ch
Higashi-Wasada 31ch
Naoiri 54ch
Oita-South 38ch
Beppu-Kamegawa 60ch
Notsuichi 41ch
Usuki-Kaizoe 59ch
Yamaga-Wakamiya 40ch
Oita-Takasaki 51ch
Digital(ID:5)
Oita(Main Station) JOBX-DTV 32ch
Programs
Rejaguru TV - from 12:00 until 13:00 on Saturdays
Super J Channel Oita - from 18:30 until 18:54 on Weekdays
Oita Jōhō Daijiten - from 07:30 until 07:45 on Saturdays
Trinita EXPRESS - from 24:40 until 24:45 on Sundays
SOLD OUT - from 23:54 until 24:00 on Saturdays, from 25:30 until 25:45 on Sundays
TOWN SPACE - from 15:55 until 16:00 on Weekdays
Eki no aru fukei - from 17:25 until 17:30 on Saturdays
Rival Stations
Oita Broadcasting System(OBS)
Television Oita System(TOS)
Other links
OAB Oita Asahi Broadcasting
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Television stations in Japan
Ōita Prefecture
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Mass media in Ōita (city)
Companies based in Ōita Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNER | WNER (1410 AM) is a sports radio station in Watertown, New York, United States. The station is owned by Stephens Media Group. It broadcasts the national programming of Fox Sports Radio.
History
WOTT
On June 11, 1958, Thousand Islands Broadcasting Company applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new radio station in Watertown which would broadcast during the daytime only with 5,000 watts. The application was approved on June 3, 1959, and the station began broadcasting on November 2 as WOTT from studios on State Street. Majority control was originally held by Frances M. Johnston, who gifted it to her son, James M. Johnston, in 1961. That year, Johnston purchased control of WRVM in Rochester; in order to pay down debt on that station, he sold WOTT in 1963 to CRS Enterprises, which in turn sold the business to RBG Productions in 1967 as its executive vice president moved to Pennsylvania. RBG then built WOTT-FM (97.5) in 1968; the station changed its call sign to WNCQ in 1970. The station was a Top 40 outlet until May 1977, when it switched to country music.
While RBG Productions filed for a construction permit to build a second television station in the Watertown area in 1978, WOTT–WNCQ's financial condition was deteriorating. RBG Productions owed the Internal Revenue Service more than $44,000 in back taxes, and its property was seized by the agency. The 1977 death of Daniel Bernheim had led to the appointment of his two children—L. Andrew Bernheim and Adelyn Firtel—as co-executors. In New Jersey courts, Firtel obtained orders giving her sole custody of the firm's voting stock; L. Andrew Bernheim had been jailed four times between June and November 1982 for contempt of court in New Jersey over a running dispute involving the management of various estate assets. Firtel was denied access to WOTT–WNCQ records by the station manager and his attorney, whom she then sued. By 1982, the station was in arrears to Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, the local electric utility; United Press International; and on its music licensing fees. The Bernheim estate dispute continued to play out for years. In 1983, the parent company, Reach, McClinton and Co, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of the family dispute, and it was not until 1987 that bankruptcy court approved a sale of the stations to William D. Goddard and Jeffrey Shapiro, who owned station WHDQ in Claremont, New Hampshire. L. Andrew Bernheim attempted to block the transaction without success.
WNCQ, WCIZ, WUZZ
On August 1, 1988, WOTT switched from an easy listening format to WNCQ with a country format, as the former WNCQ on FM flipped to rock under new WCIZ call letters. Rumblings of format changes had been swirling for months as the new owners sought to compete against the leading station in the area, contemporary hit outlet WTNY-FM (93.3).
In 1996, WNCQ and WCIZ were sold to Forever Broadcasting, by which time the AM station was airing an oldies format. The deal com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association | International Association may refer to:
International Association for Cereal Science and Technology
International Association for Computing and Philosophy
International Association for Cryptologic Research
International Association for Cultural Freedom
International Association for Energy Economics
International Association for Food Protection
International Association for Identification
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
International Association for Professional Base Ball Players
International Association for Promotion of Christian Higher Education
International Association for Technology Trade
International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property
International Association for the Study of Pain
International Association of Academies
International Association of Administrative Professionals
International Association of Amateur Heralds
International Association of Analytical Psychologists
International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators
International Association of Arson Investigators
International Association of Art Critics
International Association of Astronomical Artists
International Association of Athletics Federations
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
International Association of Chiefs of Police
International Association of Classification Societies
International Association of Consulting Actuaries
International Association of Crime Analysts
International Association of Dental Students
International Association of Educators
International Association of Emergency Managers
International Association of Exorcists
International Association of Financial Engineers
International Association of Fire Fighters
International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs
International Association of Genocide Scholars
International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts
International Association of Lighthouse Authorities
International Association of Lions Clubs
International Association of Machinists
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
International Association of Privacy Professionals
International Association of Professional Numismatists
International Association of Prosecutors
International Association of Scientologists
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
International Association of Travel Agents Network
International Association of Ultrarunners
International Association of Universities
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads | Mads may refer to:
Mads (given name)
MADS Theatre, in England
MADS-box, a family of genes and proteins
Metadata Authority Description Schema, a schema used in the library community |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20Gateley | Liz Gateley is an American television producer. She currently serves as head of programming at Lifetime Television. She is also a founding partner and co-owner, along with Tony DiSanto, of DiGa, a studio and production company hybrid. In what Gateley describes as her "dream job", she is responsible for leading the development of new weekly and daily series for the channel including both scripted and reality projects.
Gateley is known for creating the hit reality series Laguna Beach, inspired by her childhood growing up in Palos Verdes, California. It was the first thing she pitched at MTV back in 2003, the summer in which she started, and she went on to serve as executive producer of that series. Her next creation was 8th & Ocean, which also went on to become a hit series for MTV. Since then, she has developed a diverse slate of hits series for the network, which most recently included Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant, on which she also served as executive producer. Gateley has successfully expanded MTV programming to include hit shows such as The Hills, Randy Jackson Presents America's Next Best Dance Crew, The Buried Life, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, Nitro Circus, The City, Human Giant and Run's House as well as the 2009 documentary, Britney: For the Record. She is also an executive producer for the former MTV and now, VH1 series Scream. In 2019, Gateley was appointed as Spotify's head of creative development in podcasts.
Projects in development under Gateley's guidance include the series Teen Wolf, a thriller reinvention of the 1985 blockbuster film, and the critically acclaimed British hit series, Skins. Recent projects include two scripted comedy series, The Hard Times of RJ Berger and Warren the Ape, which aired in June 2010.
Prior to MTV and her current position at Lifetime, Gateley worked at Lifetime Television where she was responsible for the development of primetime and daytime scripted and reality original series and specials, including Strong Medicine, The Division, Intimate Portrait, and Weddings of a Lifetime. She now works as head of all programming. Before Lifetime, Gateley got her first shot in the entertainment industry while working at William Morris Agency in their agent trainee program. She is also an attorney who practiced corporate law.
Gateley graduated from Loyola Law School with a J.D. degree after earning a B. A. in Economics/Business from University of California, Los Angeles.
Other works
Scream (2015–2019) – executive producer
Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life (2013) – executive producer
The Hard Times of RJ Berger (2010) – executive producer
Warren the Ape (2010) – executive producer
Teen Mom (2009–2010) – executive producer
The City (2008–2010) – executive producer
Taking the Stage (2009–2010) – executive producer
The Hills (2006–2010) – executive producer
Paris Hilton's My New BFF (2008–2009) – executive producer
Scarred (2007) – executive producer
Maui Fever (2007) – executive producer
Newport Harbor: The Real Or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Brisbane | The Brisbane tramway network served the city of Brisbane, Australia, between 1885 and 1969. It ran on standard gauge track. The electric system was originally energised to 500 volts, and subsequently increased to 600 volts. All tramcars built in Brisbane up to 1938 had an open design. This proved so popular, especially on hot summer nights, that the trams were used as fundraisers and often chartered right up until the last service by social groups.
Most trams operated with a two-person crew – a driver (or motorman) and a conductor, who moved about the tram collecting fares and issuing tickets. The exceptions to this arrangement were on the Gardens line (Lower Edward Street) where the short duration of the trip meant it was more effective for passengers to simply drop their fare into a fare box as they entered the tram; and the "one man cars" which operated in the early 1930s (see below).
The peak year for patronage was in 1944–45 when almost 160 million passengers were carried. The system route length reached its maximum extent of in 1952. The total track length was , owing to many routes ending in single, rather than double, track. Single track segments of the track were protected by signalling which operated off the trolley wire. By 1959 more than of track were laid in concrete, a method of track construction pioneered in Brisbane.
The last track opened was in O'Keefe Street Woolloongabba, in May 1961. However, this track was not used in normal passenger service and was merely used to reduce dead running from Logan Road back to Ipswich Road Depot.
Of the Australian capital cities which closed their networks between the 1950s and 1970s (only Melbourne and Adelaide retained trams, although Adelaide only had one line in operation), Brisbane was the last capital city to close its tram network. Despite the decision to shut down the network, Brisbane's trams were held with great affection by locals, and one commentator described their removal "one of the most appalling urban planning mistakes in the city’s history". There have been ongoing proposals since the early 1990s to reinstate a functional tram network.
History
Brisbane expanded to become one of the most dispersed cities in the world by the 1870s. In the early years of Brisbane's settlement walking was the most convenient way to get around as most people choose to live close to their workplace. In 1875, the railway line to Ipswich opened up some areas in western and southern districts, however fares were expensive, as was owning a horse.
By 1885 an omnibus service reached almost every part of Brisbane. Omnibuses consisted of a strongly constructed wooden wagon with seating for males on the roof and a back-door entrance to the interior.
Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company (1885–1896)
On 10 August 1885 the Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company began official horse-drawn tramway services for the public. The 18 tramcars were built from highly polished cedar and mahogany in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping%20%28computer%20systems%29 | Pumping, when referring to computer systems, is an informal term for transmitting a data signal more than one time per clock signal.
Overview
Early types of system memory (RAM), such as SDRAM, transmitted data on only the rising edge of the clock signal. With the advent of double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM or DDR SDRAM, the data was transmitted on both rising and falling edges. However, quad-pumping has been used for a while for the front-side bus (FSB) of a computer system. This works by transmitting data at the rising edge, peak, falling edge, and trough of each clock cycle. Intel computer systems (and others) use this technology to reach effective FSB speeds of 1600 MT/s (million transfers per second), even though the FSB clock speed is only 400 MHz (cycles per second). A phase-locked loop in the CPU then multiplies the FSB clock by a factor in order to get the CPU speed.
Example: A Core 2 Duo E6600 processor is listed as 2.4 GHz with a 1066 MHz FSB. The FSB is known to be quad-pumped, so its clock frequency is 1066/4 = 266 MHz. Therefore, the CPU multiplier is 2400/266, or 9×. The DDR2 RAM that it is compatible with is known to be double-pumped and to have an Input/Output Bus twice that of the true FSB frequency (effectively transferring data 4 times a clock cycle), so to run the system synchronously (see front-side bus) the type of RAM that is appropriate is quadruple 266 MHz, or DDR2-1066 (PC2-8400 or PC2-8500, depending on the manufacturer's labeling.).
References
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20Cheerleader%20Playoffs | NFL Cheerleader Playoffs is a television show that debuted in 2006 on the NFL Network. The official channel of the National Football League premiered each episode on Saturdays at 3 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).
The competition was produced by IMG's television production division. Matt Gallant was the host, and Ian Eagle, Chad Johnson, and Carrie Milbank are reporters.
The playoffs were taped between July 17 and July 21, 2006 at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts. Two-person teams of cheerleaders from 25 of the NFL's 32 teams participated in a four-event series of competitions.
The first two events test the cheerleaders' athletic abilities in events like the 100-yard dash, kayaking, tandem cycling, and the obstacle course. The third event is a trivia challenge called "Know Your NFL". The final competition is a one-minute dance routine, similar to what they normally perform on NFL sidelines.
There were six first-round episodes, five with four teams and one with five. The top two teams from each show (based on the point system below) advanced to the second round. Three winners moved to the third round, with the top two teams going head-to-head in the final. Each member of the winning team of cheerleaders received $5,000 cash and a Nautilus exercise machine, made by Bowflex.
Point system
The total combined points will determine the standings.
* Episode 6 was the only show to have five competing teams.
Episodes
The following are the final standings for each episode.
First round
In this round, the top two teams (both in bold) advanced to the second round.
Episode 1 (aired September 14, 2006)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, Dallas Cowboys
Episode 2 (aired September 21, 2006)
Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks
Episode 3 (aired September 28, 2006)
St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans, San Francisco 49ers, Miami Dolphins
Episode 4 (aired October 5, 2006)
Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Houston Texans
NOTES: The Bills won all four individual competitions with a perfect score of 300 points. The Vikings and the Eagles tied for second; the Vikings advanced based on a higher individual judges' score in the dance competition.
Episode 5 (aired October 12, 2006)
Washington Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers
NOTE: A Panthers cheerleader, identified only as Shannon, suffered a leg injury during the obstacle course and had to withdraw from competition, along with her teammate, Misty.
Episode 6 (aired October 21, 2006)
New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens
Second round
In this round, the top team (in bold) advanced to the semi-finals.
Episode 7 (aired October 28, 2006)
St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs
Episode 8 (aired November 4, 2006)
San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints
Episode 9 (aired November |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered%20computing%20%28disambiguation%29 | Human-centered computing may refer to:
Human-centered computing, an academic discipline
Human-centered computing (NASA), a subproject of NASA's intelligent systems project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care%20Bears%3A%20Oopsy%20Does%20It%21 | Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! is a 2007 American computer-animated fantasy film released on August 4, 2007 by Kidtoon Films. It was developed by American Greetings as part of the Care Bears' 25th anniversary, and produced by SD Entertainment and Shari Lewis Enterprises. Oopsy is the first Care Bears film made by Polygon Pictures than Nelvana, the Canadian company responsible for the previous feature-length installments and most of the television episodes. The movie was released on DVD on October 23, 2007. This film serves as a pilot episode of Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot.
Plot
Oopsy, Cheer, Funshine, Share, and Grumpy are building WooHoo World, Care-a-lot's amusement park. Everyone has a job on the building of the park and Oopsy's job is painting the tracks of the Funderbolt ride. He had completed one part of the tracks but realized that he was stuck. Suddenly, he slips into the paint and rides down the whole ride by himself. Cheer, Share, Funshine and Oopsy decided to try the Funderbolt ride. After the ride, Oopsy stumbles and makes a chain reaction with plenty of disaster on the way that leaves Grumpy and the others wondering if they can fix Oopsy's disaster in time for the grand opening. Oopsy feels guilty for his actions and he wants to help his friends. Funshine recommends that Oopsy place the placing signs all around Care-a-Lot, this keeps Oopsy from causing any more trouble. Cheer gives Oopsy a special whistle in case he needs her help.
Meanwhile, a mean bear called Grizzle, who doesn't understand the Care Bears and their "caring stuff", has a new plan to conquer Care-a-Lot. He creates a "ride" called the "CareTaker" that steals the Care Bears' belly badges. But he needs three ingredients to make the CareTaker work: a smiling sun (Funshine's symbol), a crying stormcloud (Grumpy's symbol) and a rainbow (Cheer's symbol). He sends out Wingnut on a mission to Care-a-Lot to get the three ingredients. When Wingnut meets Oopsy, they became friends. Wingnut takes Oopsy to Grizzle's lair. Grizzle tells Oopsy that he created a new ride but in order to make it work, Oopsy must gather the sunshine, the stormcloud and the rainbow.
Oopsy and Wingnut return to Care-a-Lot and later come back to Grizzle's lair with the sunshine and the stormcloud but Grizzle isn't happy with the rainbow that's painted on Oopsy's backside and says that they need a "real" rainbow. Oopsy uses the whistle to call Cheer. Grizzle then colors the CareTaker with Cheer's rainbow. Then, he told Cheer to try the CareTaker. Cheer rides the CareTaker and her rainbow symbol disappears. Grizzle falls out of his metallic suit, then he gets angry and gets back in his suit. Then, he locks Oopsy and Cheer into a slammer and he tells them about his plans to take all the belly badges off all the Care Bears and
conquer Care-a-Lot, and then leaves.
Oopsy feels bad about the situation, but Cheer cheers him and helps him figure out a solution to save the day. Suddenly, Oopsy sees one o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnulib | Gnulib, also called the GNU portability library, is a collection of software subroutines which are designed to be usable on many operating systems. The goal of the project is to make it easy for free software authors to make their software run on many operating systems. Since source is designed to be copied from gnulib, it is not a library per-se, as much as a collection of portable idioms to be used in other projects.
Making a software package work on a system other than the original system it worked on is usually called "porting" the software to the new system, and a library is a collection of subroutines which can be added to new programs. Thus, Gnulib is the GNU project's portability library.
It is primarily written for use by the GNU Project, but can be used by any free software project.
See also
GLib
libiberty
References
External links
The official Gnulib homepage
Free computer libraries
GNU Project software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20cryptanalysis | In cryptography, integral cryptanalysis is a cryptanalytic attack that is particularly applicable to block ciphers based on substitution–permutation networks. It was originally designed by Lars Knudsen as a dedicated attack against Square, so it is commonly known as the Square attack. It was also extended to a few other ciphers related to Square: CRYPTON, Rijndael, and SHARK. Stefan Lucks generalized the attack to what he called a saturation attack and used it to attack Twofish, which is not at all similar to Square, having a radically different Feistel network structure. Forms of integral cryptanalysis have since been applied to a variety of ciphers, including Hierocrypt, IDEA, Camellia, Skipjack, MISTY1, MISTY2, SAFER++, KHAZAD, and FOX (now called IDEA NXT).
Unlike differential cryptanalysis, which uses pairs of chosen plaintexts with a fixed XOR difference, integral cryptanalysis uses sets or even multisets of chosen plaintexts of which part is held constant, and another part varies through all possibilities. For example, an attack might use 256 chosen plaintexts that have all but 8 of their bits the same, but all differ in those 8 bits. Such a set necessarily has an XOR sum of 0, and the XOR sums of the corresponding sets of ciphertexts provide information about the cipher's operation. This contrast between the differences of pairs of texts and the sums of larger sets of texts inspired the name "integral cryptanalysis", borrowing the terminology of calculus.
References
Cryptographic attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Matloff | Norman Saul Matloff (born December 16, 1948) is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.
Early life
Norman Saul Matloff was born on December 16, 1948. Matloff received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Thomas M. Liggett. His dissertation was titled Equilibrium Behavior in an Infinite Voting Model.
Career
Matloff is the author of several books on computer science, statistics and programming, including
The Art of R Programming
The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD and Eclipse
Parallel Computing for Data Science: With Examples in R, C++ and Cuda
Fast Lane to Python: A Quick, Sensible Route to the Joys of Python Coding
Probability and Statistics for Data Science: Math + R + Data
Statistical Regression and Classification: From Linear Models to Machine Learning
Regression and Classification in R: A Careful, Thus Practical View
Matloff is also the author of many articles concerning machine learning, parallel computing and recommender systems. His just under 2000 citations amount to an h-index of 22.
Matloff also writes a blog. He views the increased use of H-1B visas in the high technology field as an unnecessary practice that harms the prospects of Americans in the field, and was featured in local American media on this topic. Gawker published an article on him "UC professor injects racism into H-1B debate"
Matloff previously served as the Editor in Chief of the R Journal. He is the author of several software packages for the programming language R and holds a conservative view of R's development, discouraging premature exposure of students to the newer Tidyverse dialect of R. His views are supported by other academic teachers of the R language including Holger K. von Juanne-Diedrich, Jasper McChesney and a few others. However, academic debate contains many arguments for the use of Tidyverse and the dialect has won over most certifications in R.
Awards
In 2002, together with two colleagues, he was awarded the annual Distinguished Public Service Awards at UC Davis."Matloff has testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on immigration issues and has served as an expert witness in age-discrimination lawsuits. He has advised federal and state agencies, including the U.S. departments of Commerce and State and the White House, on employment issues. He has served on a number of panels and committees on computer-industry hiring practices sponsored by industry, academia, government and public interest groups."
Bibliography
1988: Probability Modeling and Computer Simulation: An Integrated Introduction With Applications to Engineering and Computer Science (Duxbury Series) (Wadsworth)
1992: IBM Microcomputer Architecture and Assembly Language: A Look Under The Hood (Prentice Hall)
2007: The Art of Debugging With Gdb/Ddd: For Professionals and Students (No Starch Press)
2011: The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20City%20Telephone%20Network | The Moscow City Telephone Network (MCTN; ) is a publicly held utility providing local telephone service to over 4,000,000 subscribers in the city of Moscow, Russia. Its Latin acronym is MGTS.
History
Founded in 1882, the Bell Telephone Company built a manually operated exchange with a capacity of 800 numbers and 26 households signed up. In two years the roll had increased to 3,000. In 1891, the Swedish-Danish-Russian Joint Stock Company signed a contract to provide service to Moscow for 18 years. In 1994 the Moscow City Telephone Network was structured into a joint stock company. A majority stake is held by Mobile TeleSystems.
In November 2013 it was reported that the company chose four suppliers of main and distribution of fiber optic cables for the development of optical fiber cables network until 2016 volume of purchases made more than 1 billion rubles. Earlier that month the company announced rebranding and new positioning of the company as a multi-service operator, to create a single digital platform of Moscow. In 2014, the operator will complete the construction of a dagital technology platform based on fiber networks to buildings (FTTx) and will provide all users access to a package of services, including broadband Internet access (broadband), digital TV, and telephony. By late 2013 The company has built about 25 thousand kilometers connecting 650,000 households in Moscow.
In January 2014 it was reported that the Moscow Government plans to revoke MGTS monopoly on public telephones, which the company had since 1994, and to select a new operator that will add completely new device features, such as parking fees payment option.
In May 2021 MTS President Vyacheslav Nikolaev announced MGTS slit-off, as well as other telecom, IT, and cloud-focused companies to MTS Web Services legal entity by the end of the year 2021.
In August 2021 Albert Gilmanov, MGTS ex-COO and member of the board of directors, was appointed MGTS CEO with a three-year contract in place of Vladislav Medvedev, who previously headed MGTS from November 2019 and will continue his MGTS challenge as CTO.
References
External links
mgts.ruthe official site
Financial information
Telecommunications companies of Russia
Companies of the Soviet Union
Companies based in Moscow
Companies listed on the Moscow Exchange
Sistema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Winer | Matt Winer is an American television personality who is currently working for Turner Sports.
Career
Turner Sports signed Winer in 2010 to contribute to coverage of sports across its networks. He became the primary studio host for Major League Baseball on TBS, replacing Ernie Johnson Jr., who moved into a play-by-play role. He is also a studio host on NBA TV, and contributes to TNT's coverage of NASCAR, NBA, and the PGA Tour. He is one of the studio hosts for College Basketball on CBS.
Winer worked for ESPN from 2001 through 2009 He was often seen as an anchor on ESPNEWS and the 6:00 pm ET edition of SportsCenter, or as a host of NBA Fastbreak and College Football Scoreboard. He also hosted the SportsCenter 30 at 30 Update during Saturday Night Football and game updates during ABC's coverage of college football.
Prior to ESPN, Winer worked at four different television stations: KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Missouri, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, WJTV-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, and KTVQ-TV in Billings, Montana.
Education
Winer is a graduate of the University of Missouri and was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He has been nominated for four regional sports Emmys.
References
External links
Turner Sports bio'
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
College basketball announcers in the United States
Living people
American television sports announcers
American sports journalists
Missouri School of Journalism alumni
People from Billings, Montana
College football announcers
American broadcasters
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Supercomputer%20Center | The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a supercomputer facility located on the western end of the Ohio State University campus, just north of Columbus. Established in 1987, the OSC partners with Ohio universities, labs and industries, providing students and researchers with high performance computing, advanced cyberinfrastructure, research and computational science education services.
OSC is member-organization of the Ohio Technology Consortium, the technology and information division of the Ohio Department of Higher Education. OSC works with an array of statewide/regional/national communities, including education, academic research, industry, and state government. The Center's research programs are primarily aligned with three of several key areas of research identified by the state to be well positioned for growth and success, such as the biosciences, advanced materials and energy/environment.
OSC is funded through the Ohio Department of Higher Education by the state operating and capital budgets of the Ohio General Assembly.
History
OSC was established by the Ohio Board of Regents (now the Ohio Department of Higher Education) in 1987 as a statewide resource designated to place Ohio's research universities and private industry in the forefront of computational research. Also in 1987, the OSC networking initiative — known today as OARnet — provided the first network access to the Center’s first Cray supercomputer.
In 1988, OSC launched the Center’s Industrial Interface Program to serve businesses interested in accessing the supercomputer. Battelle Memorial Institute, located just south of Ohio State, became OSC’s first industrial user. Today, the Center continues to offer HPC services to researcher in industry, primarily through its AweSim industrial engagement program.
In the summer of 1989, 20 talented high school students attended the first Governor’s Summer Institute. Today, OSC offers summer STEM education programs through Summer Institute and Young Women's summer Institute, which began in 2000.
Later in the fall of 1989, OSC engineers installed a $22 million Cray Y-MP8/864 system, which was deemed the largest and fastest supercomputer in the world for a short time. The seven-ton system was able to calculate 200 times faster than many mainframes at that time.
Directors of the Center:
William McCurdy, Ph.D., OSC Acting Director, 1986–87
Charles Bender, Ph.D., OSC Executive Director, 1987-2002
Al Stutz, OSC Acting Director, 2001
Russell Pitzer, Ph.D., OSC Interim Director, 2001-2003
Stanley Ahalt, Ph.D., OSC Executive Director, 2003-2009
Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., OSC Interim Co-executive Director, 2009-2012
Steven Gordon, Ph.D., OSC Interim Co-executive Director, 2009-2012
Pankaj Shah, OSC Executive Director, 2012-2015
David Hudak, Ph.D., OSC Interim Executive Director, 2015-2018, Executive Director 2018-
Systems
Production systems (Mar. 2022) include:
Pitzer Cluster (installed 2019): A 10,240-core Dell Intel Gold 6148 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brotherhood%20episodes | Brotherhood, an American television drama series created by Blake Masters, premiered on July 9, 2006 on the cable network Showtime in the United States. It ended its first season on September 24, 2006. The show's second season debuted on September 30, 2007 and ended on December 2, 2007.
The show's third and final season premiered on November 2, 2008 and concluded on December 21, 2008. There are eleven episodes in the first season, ten in the second, and eight in the third twenty-nine episodes aired, in total. The episodes are approximately 50 minutes long each.
Brotherhood is set in Providence, Rhode Island and centers on the Irish-American Caffee brothers, who hail from a fictional working-class neighborhood known as "The Hill". Tommy Caffee (Jason Clarke) is a respected local politician; he is a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Michael Caffee (Jason Isaacs) is a professional criminal who is involved with the Irish Mob of New England.
Throughout the series, the brothers' professional and private lives are intertwined.
The first and second seasons have been released on DVD in Region 1 by CBS Home Entertainment (distributed by Paramount).
The episode titles are references to religious texts for the first season and Bob Dylan lyrics for the second season. The referenced text is written in italics below the title (for the Bible references, the King James Version is used). The episode titles for the third season are paraphrased quotes from Shakespeare plays.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2006)
Season 2 (2007)
Season 3 (2008)
References
General
Specific
External links
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20J.%20Popek | Gerald John "Jerry" Popek (September 22, 1946 – July 20, 2008) was an American computer scientist, known for his research on operating systems and virtualization.
With Robert P. Goldberg he proposed the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements, a set of conditions necessary for a computer architecture to support system virtualization.
Academia
Born in Passaic, New Jersey Popek graduated from Rutherford High School in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1964, where he was the class valedictorian. He graduated from New York University in 1968 with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering.
In 1970 he completed an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. In 1973 he completed a Ph.D, also in Applied Mathematics, at Harvard and moved to UCLA. At UCLA he worked on virtualisation, network security, reliable operating systems and Databases. He became Director of the Center for Experimental Computer Science.
Around 1980 he worked on the LOCUS distributed operating system, an early implementation of the single-system image idea.
Between April 1981 and June 1983 Popek served on the DARPA "steering committee" for BSD UNIX formed by Duane Adams of DARPA to guide the design work leading to 4.2BSD. Other members of the committee were Bob Fabry, Bill Joy and Sam Leffler from UCB, Alan Nemeth and Rob Gurwitz from BBN, Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs, Keith Lantz from Stanford, Rick Rashid from Carnegie-Mellon, Bert Halstead from MIT and Dan Lynch from ISI.
Commercial
In order to pursue the commercial opportunities of LOCUS he formed the Locus Computing Corporation in 1982, taking on the roles
of Chief technical officer and Chairman.
In 1995 Locus was acquired by Platinum Technology Inc. in a share swap. Dr Popek took on the role of CTO of Platinum.
In 1999 he left Platinum to become CTO of CarsDirect.com, "the first Internet car company"
In 2000 he left CarsDirect.com to join NetZero also as CTO
In 2001 NetZero merged with its competitor Juno to form United Online Inc. and Dr Popek became Executive Vice President and CTO of the new company.
Awards
In June 2009 he was posthumously awarded the 2009 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.
References
External links
In Memoriam: Gerald J. Popek
American computer businesspeople
American computer scientists
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
1947 births
2008 deaths
American chief technology officers
People from Passaic, New Jersey
People from Rutherford, New Jersey
Rutherford High School (New Jersey) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yujiul%C3%BC%20Datan | Yujiulü Datan (; pinyin: Yùjiǔlǘ Dàtán) (?–429 AD) was the ruler of the Rouran from 414 to July, 429 with the title of Mouhanheshenggai Khagan (牟汗紇升蓋可汗).
Life
He was a son of Yujiulü Puhun (郁久閭僕浑), thus a cousin of Yujiulü Hulü who in 414 was overthrown by his nephew Yujiulü Buluzhen. Later Buluzhen became involved in a love affair with a younger wife of Gaoche leader Chiluohou (叱洛侯). Chiluohou was an early supporter of Shelun who entrusted him with his son Sheba (社拔). The younger wife revealed to Buluzhen that Chiluohou would support Datan against Buluzhen, as a sign of fidelity, sent him a golden rein. As a response, Buluzhen sent 8,000 cavalry against Chiluohou and burned all his properties while Chiluohou committed suicide. After this, Buluzhen attacked Datan hastily, however Datan came out victorious and strangled both Sheba and Buluzhen, eliminating both rivals and then declared himself khagan.
Reign
He immediately allied himself to Feng Ba upon gaining throne and warred against Northern Wei. Datan led the troops to raid the border in winter of 415, but Emperor Mingyuan met him with the army. The Datan began to retreat but Wei general Daxi Jin (達奚斤) rushed after him. His forces ran into severe weather and suffered many casualties based on frostbite. This would start a theme that would last for centuries—often, Rouran would attack, and Northern Wei would counter-attack successfully, but then become unable to have decisive victories over Rouran. Meanwhile Datan reinforced relations with Northern Yan, sent a tribute of 3,000 horses and 10,000 sheep in 417.
In 423, almost immediately after Emperor Taiwu took the throne, Datan attacked Northern Wei with about 60000 soldiers. Emperor Taiwu engaged Rouran troops, and on the very first engagement became surrounded by Rouran troops, but he fought his way out of danger, and subsequently, he made nearly yearly attacks against Rouran, and each year, Rouran forces would elude him by retreating north, only to return south after he withdrew.
He was planning another invasion of Wei in 427, but destruction of Xia and capture of Helian Chang, forced him to reconsider and back down. Yet another raid was made by Rouran in 428 with 10.000 cavalry.
In 429, at the advice of Cui Hao, and against the advice of all other officials and his wet nurse Nurse Empress Dowager Dou, Emperor Taiwu attacked Rouran. Cui believed that further major conflicts with Liu Song were inevitable, and that Northern Wei must first deal Rouran a major defeat to avoid being attacked on both sides. However, Cui did not accompany Emperor Taiwu on this campaign, although he did inform Kou Qianzhi, another Wei official, who was, that the main Rouran force must be found and destroyed. When Emperor Taiwu engaged Rouran and dealt it a major loss, but was unable to find its Datan, he did not want to advance any further in fear of a trap, and even when Kou informed him what Cui had said, he stopped the pursuit. Only later did he find out th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yujiul%C3%BC%20Wuti | Yujiulü Wuti (; pinyin: Yùjiǔlǘ Wútí) was a ruler of the Rouran (July, 429 – September, 444) with the title of Qilian or Chilian Khagan (敕連可汗). He was the son of Yujiulü Datan.
Reign
In 432, Northern Wei captured 20 Rouran warriors at the border, but Emperor Taiwu pardoned them. Impressed Wuti sent him tributes for this. Later in 435, Wuti was married to Princess Xihai (西海公主) a cousin or sister of Emperor Taiwu and gave his sister as a concubine of Taiwu. She was accompanied by brother Wuti's brother Yujiulü Tulugui (郁久閭秃鹿傀) who presented the emperor 2,000 horses. In 436–437, Wuti unexpectedly violated the peace and attacked the border. Taiwu responded by declaring war on the Rouran. But the campaign ended soon since Wei had no more provisions, and they did not seize the Rouran cattles.
He was involved in Wei war against Northern Liang in 439. Situation was a result of the Northern Wei messengers to the Xiyu kingdoms, who were going through Northern Liang frequently, were alleging that Juqu Mujian had informed Xiyu kingdoms that they should not submit to Northern Wei and should submit to Rouran instead. At the encouragement of the prime minister Cui Hao, Emperor Taiwu again prepared military action. With Yuan He, the son of Southern Liang's last prince Tufa Rutan, as guide, he launched a speedy attack and arrived at Guzang quickly. Juqu Mujian, in shock, refused to surrender, defending the city against a siege, while seeking immediate military assistance from Wuti. Yujiulü Wuti did launch a surprise attack on Pingcheng to try to force Emperor Taiwu to give up the campaign, but after initial successes, he failed to capture Pingcheng, and his brother Yujiulü Qiliegui (郁久閭乞列歸) was captured by Northern Wei forces. About 10000 Rouran soldiers were slaughtered.
In fall 443, while attacking Rouran, Emperor Taiwu suddenly encountered Wuti, and Crown Prince Huang, who was with him, advised an immediate attack, but Emperor Taiwu hesitated, allowing Wuti to escape.
In 444, Taiwu began a new attack to Rouran. Wuti was defeated and fled. He later died and was succeeded by Yujiulü Tuhezhen.
Family
He was married to Princess Xihai (西海公主) a cousin or sister of Emperor Taiwu in 434. His sister was also married to Taiwu, becoming mother of Tuoba Yu.
In popular media
He was portrayed by He Jianze (何建澤) in Chinese TV Series "The Story of Mulan" (花木兰传奇)
References
History of the Northern Dynasties, vol. 86.
Book of Wei, vol. 103
5th-century monarchs in Asia
Khagans of the Rouran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20South%20Korea | Rail transport in South Korea is a part of the transport network in South Korea and an important mode of the conveyance of people and goods, though railways play a secondary role compared to the road network. The network consists of of standard-gauge lines connecting all major cities with the exception of Jeju City on Jeju Island, which does not have railways; of the network, are double-tracked and are electrified. In 2018, rails carried 11.5 percent of all traffic in South Korea134.8million passengers and 30.9milliontonnes of freightwith roads carrying 88.3 percent.
Passenger and freight services are primarily provided by the Korea Railroad Corporation, branded as Korail, a state-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, although some rail lines and services, including high-speed intercity rails and metropolitan rapid transit, are operated by private companies. The Korea National Railway (formerly the Korea Rail Network Authority), another state company under the Transport Ministry, is responsible for constructing and maintaining the railway infrastructure, with Korail and other rail operators paying track access charges to Korea National Railway. Both Korail and Korea National Railway were created in 2004–2005 after the government decided to split the state-owned Korean National Railroad.
History
Korean Empire and Partition
Rail transport in Korea began in the late 19th century. On March 19, 1896, the late Joseon Dynasty that ruled Korea awarded American engineer James R. Morse a concession to build a railway between Seoul and Chemulpo (today Incheon), while on July 4, the French company Compagnie de Fives - Lille represented by Antoine Grille received another concession to connect Seoul and Wonsan by rail, later modified to run from Seoul to Uiju as the Gyeongui Line instead. Construction on the Chemulpo line begun on March 22, 1897, under the management of American businessmen Henry Collbran and Harry Bostwick on behalf of James Morse, but after Morse was unable to secure the necessary funding, he sold the concession to a Japanese company headed by Shibusawa Eiichi; the sale went into effect on December 31, 1898. The line was inaugurated on September 18, 1899, between Chemulpo and Yeongdeungpo on the south bank of the Han River, with the section to Seoul opening on July 9, 1900, after the construction of a bridge across the river. Additionally, on February 1, 1898, the Seoul Electric Company (today Korea Electric Power Corporation) was founded to manage electricity generation in Seoul, as well as to build tram lines in the city. The first tram line was opened on May 20, 1899 between Seodaemun and Dongdaemun (today two districts of Seoul), before the Seoul-Chemulpo railway, becoming the first railroad on the Korean Peninsula. The French surrendered their concession in 1899 for the Gyeongui Line having been unable to raise the capital necessary to fund construction, with the Korean government in turn fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional%20network | A unidirectional network (also referred to as a unidirectional gateway or data diode) is a network appliance or device that allows data to travel in only one direction. Data diodes can be found most commonly in high security environments, such as defense, where they serve as connections between two or more networks of differing security classifications. Given the rise of industrial IoT and digitization, this technology can now be found at the industrial control level for such facilities as nuclear power plants, power generation and safety critical systems like railway networks.
After years of development, data diodes have evolved from being only a network appliance or device allowing raw data to travel only in one direction, used in guaranteeing information security or protection of critical digital systems, such as industrial control systems, from inbound cyber attacks, to combinations of hardware and software running in proxy computers in the source and destination networks. The hardware enforces physical unidirectionality, and the software replicates databases and emulates protocol servers to handle bi-directional communication. Data Diodes are now capable of transferring multiple protocols and data types simultaneously. It contains a broader range of cybersecurity features like secure boot, certificate management, data integrity, forward error correction (FEC), secure communication via TLS, among others. A unique characteristic is that data is transferred deterministically (to predetermined locations) with a protocol "break" that allows the data to be transferred through the data diode.
Data diodes are commonly found in high security military and government environments, and are now becoming widely spread in sectors like oil & gas, water/wastewater, airplanes (between flight control units and in-flight entertainment systems), manufacturing and cloud connectivity for industrial IoT. New regulations have increased demand and with increased capacity, major technology vendors have lowered the cost of the core technology.
History
The first data diodes were developed by governmental organizations in the eighties and nineties. Because these organizations work with confidential information, making sure their network is secure is of the highest priority. Primary solutions used by these organizations were air gaps. But, as the amount of transferable data increased, and a continuous and real-time data stream became more important, these organizations had to look for an automated solution.
In the search for more standardization, an increasing number of organizations started to look for a solution that was a better fit for their activities. Commercial solutions created by stable organizations succeeded given the level of security and long-term support.
In the United States, utilities and oil and gas companies have used data diodes for several years, and regulators have encouraged their use to protect equipment and processes in safety instrumented s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Ribbon%20Project | The Yellow Ribbon Project (; ) started on 2 October 2004, is a community initiative organised by the Community Action for Rehabilitation of Ex-offenders (CARE) Network in Singapore. The Yellow Ribbon Project advocates a second chance for ex-offenders and their families through concerted efforts and for ex-offenders to reintegrate into society.
It also engage the community to accept and engage in community action to accept and support ex-offenders and their families.
Description
Every year, more than 9,000 ex-offenders in Singapore complete their sentences and are released from the various prisons and drug rehabilitation centres (DRCs). The Yellow Ribbon Project's objective is to raise awareness of the need to give second chances to ex-offenders and their families and inspire community action to support rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders back into society.
The Yellow Ribbon Project is managed by the CARE Network. Members of the CARE Network include Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), Singapore Prison Service (SPS), Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE), National Council of Social Service (NCSS), Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd (ISCOS), Singapore After-Care Association (SACA) and Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association (SANA).
The inspiration behind the Yellow Ribbon Project was taken from the 70s song, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", sung by Tony Orlando and Dawn, which is in turn based on the true story published in a 1971 article in The New York Post.
Almost nine in 10 Singaporeans are able to identify the aims of the initiative according to a survey conducted by the Yellow Ribbon Project organisers. Beyond awareness, the Yellow Ribbon Project also actively encourages employers and volunteers to offer second chances to offenders who are willing to change for the better.
YRP Themes
Since its inception, YRP has set a different theme each year.
History
2004–2008
The Yellow Ribbon Project was established in 2004 by the various CARE Network's member agencies. Former President of Singapore, Mr S.R. Nathan officially launched the community engagement campaign at the Yellow Ribbon Project Charity Concert. A special album featuring songs performed by inmates was produced in commemoration of the inaugural Yellow Ribbon Project in 2004.
In 2005, the campaign introduced the Tie-A Yellow-Ribbon Walk which encouraged more Singaporeans to learn about the offenders' journey of reintegration.
The Yellow Ribbon Concert, "New Hope, New Dreams", was held in 2006 to launch the third edition of the community campaign. The concert featured celebrities performing alongside inmates and was broadcast on local television.
A series of events was held in 2007 to raise funds for the Yellow Ribbon Fund. The events included the Yellow Ribbon Culinary Competition, Yellow Ribbon Charity Gala Dinner, and the Yellow Ribbon Appreciation Dinner.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grim%20Adventures%20of%20Billy%20%26%20Mandy | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. It follows Billy, an extremely dimwitted, happy-go-lucky boy, and Mandy, a cynical, remorseless girl, who, after winning a limbo game to save Billy's pet hamster, gains Grim, the mighty Grim Reaper, as their "best friend forever". Grim, who is reluctant to serve the two children, has access to supernatural items, spells, and other abilities that often lead Billy and Mandy to interact with otherworldly environments, characters, or situations.
Billy & Mandy began as a segment on Grim & Evil, from which it was a spin-off, along with sister series Evil Con Carne, on August 24, 2001. Although the 2003-2004 episodes were produced for Grim & Evil, the show ran as a separate series from June 13, 2003, to November 9, 2007, on Cartoon Network. Two made-for-TV movies were also produced, Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, which aired on March 30, 2007, and Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen, which aired on July 6, 2007. A crossover special with fellow Cartoon Network series, Codename: Kids Next Door, entitled "The Grim Adventures of the KND", aired on November 11, 2007. One more made-for-TV movie, Underfist: Halloween Bash, intended to serve as a pilot for a new spin-off series, aired on October 12, 2008.
During its run, the series won two Emmy Awards and one Annie Award, with nominations for one Daytime Emmy Award, three Golden Reel Awards, and two other Annie Awards. Billy & Mandy has also been made into a video game as well as various licensed merchandise.
Premise
The series is centered around the exploits of Billy (Richard Steven Horvitz), an idiotic and happy-go-lucky boy; Mandy (Grey DeLisle), a cynical and cold-hearted girl; and Grim (Greg Eagles), a Jamaican-accented Reaper. After Billy and Mandy cheated at a limbo match against Grim (in retaliation for putting the limbo rod too low for them to go under), he is enslaved in a permanently unwanted friendship with the children. Grim is miserable in the first days of his servitude, and even fantasizes about killing them multiple times. However, as the time passes, he gradually adapts to the new life, and even grows to care for Billy and Mandy, if only somewhat. Despite this, he retains a love–hate relationship with the two and desires to eventually break free from his servitude.
Billy and Mandy use Grim's supernatural abilities and powers to venture into supernatural locations or environments, such as the Underworld, or the Netherworld, inhabited by an assortment of grotesque monstrous beasts. The pair also use Grim's enormously strong supernatural abilities or ties with a number of beastly characters to achieve goals or desires for themselves, often with twisted results. Famed fictional monsters including Dracula, the Wolfman, and the bogeyman are also comically depicted in the series.
Supporting characters include Irwin (Vanessa Marshall), Billy's nerdy best frien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagano%20Broadcasting%20Systems | , also known as NBS, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System. Their headquarters are located in Nagano Prefecture.
Headquarters
131-7 Okada-machi Nagano-city, NAGANO 380-8633 JAPAN
Telephone Number:+81-26-227-3000
History
1 April 1969: it was set up second broadcasting station of Nagano Prefecture.
1 October 2006 digital terrestrial television was started (Utsukushigahara Main Station, Zenkoji-daira Station, Matsumoto Station, Okaya-Suwa Station, Ina Station and Iida Station).
Programs
NBS Super News
NBS News
Analog stations
Utsukushigahara (main station) JOLH-TV 38ch
Iida 40ch
Zenkoji-daira 42ch
Okaya-Suwa 47ch
Matsumoto 42ch
Ina 57ch
Digital stations(ID:8)
Utsukushigahara (main station) JOLH-DTV 15ch
Iida 49ch
Zenkoji-daira 34ch
Okaya-Suwa 49ch
Matsumoto 26ch
Ina 26ch
Rival stations
Shin-etsu Broadcasting (SBC)
TV. Shinshu (TSB)
Asahi Broadcasting Nagano (abn)
Other links
Nagano Broadcasting Systems
Fuji News Network
Television stations in Japan
Companies based in Nagano Prefecture
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Mass media in Nagano (city) |
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