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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtremeTech | ExtremeTech is a technology weblog, launched in June 2001, which focuses on hardware, computer software, science and other technologies. Between 2003 and 2005, ExtremeTech was also a print magazine and the publisher of a popular series of how-to and do-it-yourself books.
Background
ExtremeTech was launched as a website in June 2001, with co-founder Bill Machrone as Editor-in-Chief, and fellow co-founder Nick Stam as Senior Technical Director. Loyd Case, Dave Salvator, Mark Hachman, and Jim Lynch were other original core ET staff. In 2002 Jim Louderback became the Editor-in-Chief. When initially launched, ExtremeTech covered a broad range of technical topics with very indepth technical stories. Topic areas included core PC techniques (CPUs/GPUs), networking, operating systems, software development, display technology, printers, scanners etc.
By 2003, Ziff Davis management wanted to reduce expenses and cut back content to core PC tech areas, focusing on how to build and optimize your PC. Loyd Case took over as Editor-in-Chief, and Jason Cross joined as a technology analyst. In mid-2009, due to sinking corporate-level finances, Ziff Davis laid off most of the core team and Jeremy Kaplan (Executive Editor of PC Magazine and EIC of ExtremeTech Magazine) tried to keep the online site going, but it was quite challenging without much dedicated staff. Similarly Matthew Murray (currently Editor of PC Magazine's Digital Edition) tried to keep things alive. As described below in the Shutdown and Relaunch section in April 2011, the Ziff Davis management re-invested in ExtremeTech, and the site relaunched under Managing Editor Sal Cangeloso and Senior Editor Sebastian Anthony.
ExtremeTech Magazine
The magazine was first published in fall 2004 (Volume 1, Issue 1). The first issue noted different staff members for the website and magazine. Staff included Editor-in-Chief Michael J. Miller, Editor Jeremy Kaplan, Technical Director Loyd Case, Senior Technical Analyst Dave Salvator, and others. Subsequent issues were published in winter 2004 (Volume 1, Issue 2), spring 2005 (Volume 1, Issue 3), summer 2005 (Volume 1, Issue 4), with the magazine ending its run in fall 2005 (Volume 1, Issue 5).
Shutdown and relaunch
The site ceased updating daily on June 26, 2009 due to most of its core staff members being laid off. On April 26, 2011 it was announced that a relaunch was slated for late spring. The announcement noted that along with a complete visual redesign, ExtremeTech would be "widening its scope" to cover new topics that didn't exist when the site was first conceived in 2001. Sebastian Anthony, previously an editor at AOL's Download Squad software weblog, led the editorial side of the relaunch.
Writers
ExtremeTech is currently managed by Joel Hruska, who also served as the site's lead writer from 2015 - 2021. Previously, it was managed by Jamie Lendino, who came from PCMag.com and had written for ExtremeTech from 2005-2010. He was formerly the editor-in-chief |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKOB-LD | WKOB-LD, virtual channel 42 (VHF digital channel 13), is an affiliate of the Vision Latina (Spanish-language) television network licensed to New York, New York, United States (alongside W16CC-D in the Miami market). The station is owned and operated by HC2 Holdings.
History
as W53AA (1973-1996)
This station was signed on over UHF channel 53 in the 1970s by its original owner CBS Inc. as W53AA. It was one of multiple Television Broadcast Translators in New York City which operated at the upper end of the UHF band in order to provide reliable coverage to certain New York boroughs whose reception was ultimately compromised by construction of the World Trade Center. This translator station relayed the signal of WCBS-TV, which for decades prior and at that time operated over VHF channel 2.
Originally, most of the New York City television stations operated their main transmitters from the Empire State Building. However, reliable reception was ultimately compromised for some viewers once the majority of the World Trade Center was constructed, thus necessitating the use of the UHF translators. In response, nearly all of the TV stations, including WCBS-TV, relocated to the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1975. CBS, however, maintained an auxiliary transmitter back at Empire.
CBS eventually sold the station on July 15, 1987, to Accord Communications, Inc. Accord, who purchased W53AA as an investment and intended to sell it for a profit, improved the station by relocating its transmitter to the Empire State Building and increasing its transmitting power to 7.2 kW.
Accord sold W53AA on October 6, 1989, to Pan-Asian Communications, Inc. whose president was Andrew H. Ohm, a major figure in Korean media in the United States. Ohm established the Korea Broadcasting Corp. (KBC) over W53AA, the first Korean-owned television station in the United States. The station's emphasis was on Asian language programming and broadcast throughout the New York metropolitan area.
As WKOB-LP/LD (1996-present)
On February 19, 1996, the call-sign was changed to WKOB-LP.
On June 1, 1998, WKOB filed a displacement application to move to channel 48 due to the impending WFUT operation on Channel 53.
In the late 1990s, programming was leased and consisted of religious programs and infomercials.
According to WKOB, in a filing to the FCC, the station had broadcast programming 24 hours a day under a time brokerage agreement with Paxson Communications LPTV, Inc. until August 31, 1999. The station then went silent because its time brokerage programming agreement expired. WKOB notified the FCC on September 17, 1999, that the station was back on the air with a "limited" amount of programming. WKOB-LP also stated that it had obtained locally-produced programming targeted to the needs of the Korean residents of New York City, and asserted that this specialized programming service supported an award of Class A status, which it was ultimately denied.
WRNN-TV strongly objected |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20single-frequency%20networks | Dynamic Single Frequency Networks (DSFN) is a transmitter macrodiversity technique for OFDM based cellular networks.
DSFN is based on the idea of single frequency networks (SFN), which is a group of radio transmitters that send the same signal simultaneously over the same frequency. The term originates from the broadcasting world, where a broadcast network is a group of transmitters that send the same TV or radio program. Digital wireless communication systems based on the OFDM modulation scheme are well-suited to SFN operation, since OFDM in combination with some forward error correction scheme can eliminate intersymbol interference and fading caused by multipath propagation without the use of complex equalization.
The concept of DSFN implies the SFN grouping is changed dynamically over time, from timeslot to timeslot. The aim is to achieve efficient spectrum utilization for downlink unicast or multicast communication services in centrally controlled cellular systems based on for example the OFDM modulation scheme. A centralized scheduling algorithm assigns each data packet to a certain timeslot, frequency channel and group of base station transmitters. DSFN can be considered as a combination of packet scheduling, macro-diversity and dynamic channel allocation (DCA). The scheduling algorithm can be further extended to dynamically assign other radio resource management parameters to each timeslot and transmitter, such as modulation scheme and error correction scheme, in view to optimize the efficiency.
DSFN makes it possible to increase the received signal strength to a mobile terminal in between several base station transmitters in comparison to non-macrodiversity communication schemes. Thus, DSFN can improve the coverage area and lessen the outage probability. Alternatively, DSFN may allow the same outage probability with a less robust but more efficient modulation and error coding scheme, and thus improve the spectral efficiency in bit/s/Hz/base station transmitter in comparison to a non-macrodiversity communication scheme.
DSFN resembles the CDMA downlink soft handover. A difference is that in the CDMA case, co-channel interference from transmissions to other users are more efficiently avoided by giving the other users other spreading codes.
A special form of DSFN is Continuous Transmission DSFN, where all base station transmitters always transmit at full power, without blocking of non-utilized transmitters, and without power control. This concept is very similar to so called Virtual cellular networks (VCNs), where a virtual cell is a group of base stations sending using the same spreading code, or a group of OFDM transmitters form a Single Frequency Network.
DSFN schemes can be described as a form of "virtual" power control.
See also
Antenna diversity
Cooperative diversity
Telecommunications techniques
Wireless networking
Radio resource management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney.com | disney.com is a website operated by Disney Digital Network, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that promotes various Disney properties such as films, television shows, and theme park resorts, and offers entertainment content intended for children and families.
For years, disney.com has been a very popular website: a survey back in April 1998 revealed that Disney.com had over 10% more unique visitors than ABCNews.com, and the combined Disney/Infoseek websites were second in web traffic to leader Yahoo! that month.
The current portal is Disney's second effort at a web portal, the first being ended with the loss of go.com.
On September 21, 2011, the content from disney.com was launched as a free channel available through the Roku streaming player. It is the first player so far to allow viewing through a television.
History
disney.com was first registered on March 21, 1990. On February 12, 1996, a ten-day preview of disney.com is launched through America Online and Netscape.
In January 2007, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced a major overhaul of Disney.com at the Consumer Electronics Show. The announced changes put a heavy emphasis on an integrated video player. Further changes were also announced to sort content based on visitor demographics and the addition of social networking features that would be monitored for appropriate content.
The newly redesigned website was unveiled in February 2007. It included a new service called Disney Xtreme Digital (Disney XD for short, not to be confused with the channel of the same name), which allowed members to communicate and interact with each other in chat rooms. Users were limited to select phrases and the ability to create their own Disney XD page, which were called channels. Disney XD allowed users to watch full-length episodes from Disney Channel and other videos, play online quizzes and games, stream Radio Disney and preview new movies and music albums. It included a further feature called Shop DXD. Shop DXD used an internal currency called D-Points that users could earn from playing games and activities on the website. D-Points could be used to purchase items such as backgrounds and phrases for a user's channel or chat rooms. The service was only available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Disney XD initiative was later de-emphasized and split into My Pages for pages and Homeroom for TV episodes. The Disney XD name was later recycled by the Disney-ABC Television Group, another division of The Walt Disney Company to launch Disney XD, an unrelated television network launched on February 13, 2009, as the successor to Toon Disney. They later added Disney Create to the website, an art gallery where users can draw and publish their art. Disney Create closed on May 1, 2014.
References
Sources
External links
Disney Interactive
Browser-based game websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20algorithm%20for%20Egyptian%20fractions | In mathematics, the greedy algorithm for Egyptian fractions is a greedy algorithm, first described by Fibonacci, for transforming rational numbers into Egyptian fractions. An Egyptian fraction is a representation of an irreducible fraction as a sum of distinct unit fractions, such as . As the name indicates, these representations have been used as long ago as ancient Egypt, but the first published systematic method for constructing such expansions was described in 1202 in the Liber Abaci of Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci). It is called a greedy algorithm because at each step the algorithm chooses greedily the largest possible unit fraction that can be used in any representation of the remaining fraction.
Fibonacci actually lists several different methods for constructing Egyptian fraction representations. He includes the greedy method as a last resort for situations when several simpler methods fail; see Egyptian fraction for a more detailed listing of these methods. As Salzer (1948) details, the greedy method, and extensions of it for the approximation of irrational numbers, have been rediscovered several times by modern mathematicians, earliest and most notably by A closely related expansion method that produces closer approximations at each step by allowing some unit fractions in the sum to be negative dates back to .
The expansion produced by this method for a number is called the greedy Egyptian expansion, Sylvester expansion, or Fibonacci–Sylvester expansion of . However, the term Fibonacci expansion usually refers, not to this method, but to representation of integers as sums of Fibonacci numbers.
Algorithm and examples
Fibonacci's algorithm expands the fraction to be represented, by repeatedly performing the replacement
(simplifying the second term in this replacement as necessary). For instance:
in this expansion, the denominator 3 of the first unit fraction is the result of rounding up to the next larger integer, and the remaining fraction is the result of simplifying = . The denominator of the second unit fraction, 8, is the result of rounding up to the next larger integer, and the remaining fraction is what is left from after subtracting both and .
As each expansion step reduces the numerator of the remaining fraction to be expanded, this method always terminates with a finite expansion; however, compared to ancient Egyptian expansions or to more modern methods, this method may produce expansions that are quite long, with large denominators. For instance, this method expands
while other methods lead to the much better expansion
suggests an even more badly-behaved example, . The greedy method leads to an expansion with ten terms, the last of which has over 500 digits in its denominator; however, has a much shorter non-greedy representation, .
Sylvester's sequence and closest approximation
Sylvester's sequence 2, 3, 7, 43, 1807, ... () can be viewed as generated by an infinite greedy expansion of this type for the n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Boneh | Dan Boneh (; ) is an Israeli–American professor in applied cryptography and computer security at Stanford University.
In 2016, Boneh was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography and computer security.
Biography
Born in Israel in 1969, Boneh obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1996 under the supervision of Richard J. Lipton.
Boneh is one of the principal contributors to the development of pairing-based cryptography, along with Matt Franklin of the University of California, Davis. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1997, and became professor of computer science and electrical engineering. He teaches massive open online courses on the online learning platform Coursera. In 1999, he was awarded a fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 2002, he co-founded a company called Voltage Security with three of his students. The company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2015.
In 2018, Boneh became co-director (with David Mazières) of the newly founded Center for Blockchain Research at Stanford, predicting at the time that "Blockchains will become increasingly critical to doing business globally." Dr. Boneh is also known for putting his entire introductory cryptography course online for free. The course is also available via Coursera.
Awards
2021 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2020 Selfridge Prize with Jonathan Love
2016 Elected to the US National Academy of Engineering
2016 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
2014 ACM Prize in Computing (formerly called the ACM-Infosys Foundation award)
2013 Gödel Prize, with Matthew K. Franklin and Antoine Joux, for his work on the Boneh–Franklin scheme
2005 RSA Award
1999 Sloan Research Fellowship
1999 Packard Award
Publications
Some of Boneh's results in cryptography include:
2018: Verifiable Delay Functions
2015: Privacy-preserving proofs of solvency for Bitcoin exchanges
2010: Efficient Identity-Based Encryption from Learning with Errors Assumption (with Shweta Agrawal and Xavier Boyen)
2010: He was involved in designing tcpcrypt, TCP extensions for transport-level security
2005: A partially homomorphic cryptosystem (with Eu-Jin Goh and Kobbi Nissim)
2005: The first broadcast encryption system with full collision resistance (with Craig Gentry and Brent Waters)
2003: A timing attack on OpenSSL (with David Brumley)
2001: An efficient identity-based encryption system (with Matt Franklin) based on the Weil pairing.
1999: Cryptanalysis of RSA when the private key is less than N0.292 (with Glenn Durfee)
1997: Fault-based cryptanalysis of public-key systems (with Richard J. Lipton and Richard DeMillo)
1995: Collision resistant fingerprinting codes for digital data (with James Shaw)
1995: Cryptanalysis using a DNA computer (with Christopher Dunworth and Richard J. Lipton)
Some of his contributions in computer security include:
2007: " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20for%20Carrying%20Authentication%20for%20Network%20Access | PANA (Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access) is an IP-based protocol that allows a device to authenticate itself with a network to be granted access. PANA will not define any new authentication protocol, key distribution, key agreement or key derivation protocols. For these purposes, the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) will be used, and PANA will carry the EAP payload. PANA allows dynamic service provider selection, supports various authentication methods, is suitable for roaming users, and is independent from the link layer mechanisms.
PANA is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) protocol and described in RFC 5191.
Architecture's elements
PaC (PANA Client)
The PaC is the client part of the protocol. This element is located in the node that wants to reach the access network.
PAA (PANA Authentication Agent)
This entity represents the server part of the PANA protocol. Its main task is the message exchange with the PaC for authenticating and authorizing it for network access. In addition, in some scenarios, the PAA entity has to do other message exchange with the AAA server in order to offer the PaC credentials to it. In this case, EAP is configured as pass-through and the AAA server is placed physically in a different place than the PAA.
AS (Authentication Server)
This element contains the information needed to check the PaC's credentials. To this end this node receives the PaC's credentials from the PAA, performs a credential check, and sends a packet with the result of the credential check. If the credential check was successful, that packet contains access parameters, such as allowed bandwidth or IP configuration. At this point, a session between PAA and PaC has been established. This session has a session lifetime. When the session expires, a re-authentication process is required for the PaC to regain network access.
EP (Enforcement Point) It works as a filter of the packets which source is an authenticated PaC. Basically, an EP is a network node which drops packets according to some parameters provided as results of the authentication processes. Typically, this function is applied by a communication device as an access point or a router. When an authentication process is done successfully, a key is installed in EP and PaC, establishing a session between EP and PaC. While this session is active (hasn't expired), the PaC can access network services for which it has been authorised. When the session expires, the PaC will have to indicate this situation to the PAA in order to perform re-authentication.
See also
EAP
AAA
External links
- Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA)
OpenPANA .
CPANA
Cryptographic protocols
Authentication methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length%20code | In coding theory, a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. The equivalent concept in computer science is bit string.
Variable-length codes can allow sources to be compressed and decompressed with zero error (lossless data compression) and still be read back symbol by symbol. With the right coding strategy an independent and identically-distributed source may be compressed almost arbitrarily close to its entropy. This is in contrast to fixed-length coding methods, for which data compression is only possible for large blocks of data, and any compression beyond the logarithm of the total number of possibilities comes with a finite (though perhaps arbitrarily small) probability of failure.
Some examples of well-known variable-length coding strategies are Huffman coding, Lempel–Ziv coding, arithmetic coding, and context-adaptive variable-length coding.
Codes and their extensions
The extension of a code is the mapping of finite length source sequences to finite length bit strings, that is obtained by concatenating for each symbol of the source sequence the corresponding codeword produced by the original code.
Using terms from formal language theory, the precise mathematical definition is as follows: Let and be two finite sets, called the source and target alphabets, respectively. A code is a total function mapping each symbol from to a sequence of symbols over , and the extension of to a homomorphism of into , which naturally maps each sequence of source symbols to a sequence of target symbols, is referred to as its extension.
Classes of variable-length codes
Variable-length codes can be strictly nested in order of decreasing generality as non-singular codes, uniquely decodable codes and prefix codes. Prefix codes are always uniquely decodable, and these in turn are always non-singular:
Non-singular codes
A code is non-singular if each source symbol is mapped to a different non-empty bit string, i.e. the mapping from source symbols to bit strings is injective.
For example, the mapping is not non-singular because both "a" and "b" map to the same bit string "0" ; any extension of this mapping will generate a lossy (non-lossless) coding. Such singular coding may still be useful when some loss of information is acceptable (for example when such code is used in audio or video compression, where a lossy coding becomes equivalent to source quantization).
However, the mapping is non-singular ; its extension will generate a lossless coding, which will be useful for general data transmission (but this feature is not always required). Note that it is not necessary for the non-singular code to be more compact than the source (and in many applications, a larger code is useful, for example as a way to detect and/or recover from encoding or transmission errors, or in security applications to protect a source from undetectable tampering).
Uniquely decodable codes
A code is uniquely decodable if its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces%20Genome%20Database | The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) is a scientific database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly known as baker's or budding yeast. Further information is located at the Yeastract curated repository.
Saccharomyces Genome Database
The SGD provides Internet access to the complete Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic DNA sequence, its genes and their products, the phenotypes of its mutants, and the literature supporting these data. In the peer-reviewed literature report, experiment result on function and interaction of yeast genes are extracted by high-quality manual curation and integrated within a well-developed database. The data are combined with quality high-throughput results and post on Locus Summary pages which is a powerful query engine and rich genome browser. Based on the complexity of information collection, multiple bioinformatic tools are used to integrate information and allow productive discovery of new biological details. The gold standard for functional description of budding yeast is provided by SGD resource. The SGD resource also provide a platform from which to investigate related genes and pathways in higher organisms. The amount of information and the number of features provided by SGD have increased greatly following the release of the S. cerevisiae genomic sequence. SGD aids researchers by providing not only basic information, but also tools such as sequence similarity searching that lead to detailed information about features of the genome and relationships between genes. SGD presents information using a variety of user-friendly, dynamically created graphical displays illustrating physical, genetic and sequence feature maps. All of the data in SGD are freely accessible to researchers and educators worldwide via web pages designed for optimal ease of use.
Information collection
Biocurator includes review of the published literature or sets of data, leading to the identification and abstraction of key results. The result then incorporated into database and use controlled vocabularies to associated with appropriate genes or chromosomal regions. As more data being recorded, biocuration is becoming more important for biomedical research.
SGD keep reference genome sequence for the budding yeast S.cerevisiae. SGD are the source of the genome sequence for S. cerevisiae S288C strain background, includes catalog of genes and chromosomal feature of genome.
One of important function of SGD is biocuration of the yeast literature. SGD biocurators search all the scientific literature that relevant to S. cerevisiae, read the papers and capture their major finding in various defined fields of the database.
The biocurators at SGD aim to annotate each gene by identifying function(s) from primary literature and linking to terms using the structured knowledge representation in the gene ontology. Additionally, functions identified from high throughput experiments as well as comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20nitrate%20%28data%20page%29 | Potassium nitrate is an oxidizer so storing it near fire hazards or reducing agents should be avoided to minimise risk in case of a fire.
Product Identification
Synonyms: Saltpetre; Niter/Nitre; Nitric acid potassium salt; Salt Peter
CAS No.: 7757-79-1
Molecular Weight: 101.1
Chemical Formula: KNO3
Hazards Identification
Emergency Overview
Danger - oxidizer. Contact with some materials may cause fire. Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Causes irritation to skin, eyes and respiratory tract.
SAF-T-DATA Ratings
Health Rating: 1 - Minimal
Flammability Rating: 0 - None
Reactivity Rating: 2 - Moderate (Oxidizer)
Contact Rating: 1 - Minimal (Life)
Lab Protective Equip: Safety goggles and surgical face mask (If you are planning to encounter this material close up for a period of time). Gloves optional.
Storage Color Code: Yellow (Reactive)
Potential Health Effects
Inhalation: Causes irritation to the respiratory tract. Symptoms may include coughing, shortness of breath.
Ingestion: Causes irritation to the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms may include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. May cause gastroenteritis and abdominal pains. Purging and diuresis can be expected. Rare cases of nitrates being converted to the more toxic nitrites have been reported, mostly with infants.
Skin Contact: Causes irritation to skin. Symptoms include redness, itching, and pain.
Eye Contact: Causes irritation, redness, and pain.
Chronic Exposure: Under some circumstances methemoglobinemia occurs in individuals when the nitrate is converted by bacteria in the stomach to nitrite. Nausea, vomiting, dizziness, rapid heart beat, irregular breathing, convulsions, coma, and death can occur should this conversion take place. Chronic exposure to nitrites may cause anemia and adverse effects to kidney.
First Aid Measures
Inhalation:none
Skin Contact: none
Eye Contact: Flush eyes with water, lifting lower and upper eyelids occasionally.
Fire Fighting Measures
Fire: Not combustible itself but substance is a strong oxidizer and its heat of reaction with reducing agents or combustibles may accelerate burning.
Explosion: No danger of explosion. KNO3 is an oxidising agent, so will accelerate combustion of combustibles.
Fire Extinguishing Media: Dry chemical, carbon dioxide, Halon, water spray, or fog. If water is used, apply from as far a distance as possible. Water spray may be used to keep fire exposed containers cool. Do not allow water runoff to enter sewers or waterways.
Special Information: Wear full protective clothing and breathing equipment for high-intensity fire or potential explosion conditions. This oxidizing material can increase the flammability of adjacent combustible materials.
Accidental Release Measures
Remove all sources of ignition. Ventilate area of leak or spill. Wear appropriate personal protective equipment as specified in Section 8. Spills: Clean up spills in a manner that does not disperse dust into the air. Use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maak | In computing, Maak is a utility similar to make, designed to build complex software systems while avoiding the need to recompile the entire system every time a change is made. "Maak" is Dutch for "make".
See also
Nix package manager
References
External links
Subversion repository
Build automation
Compiling tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDDB | NDDB is an initialism that may stand for:
National Dairy Development Board
Niger Delta Development Board, now the Niger Delta Development Commission
National Doctor Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20IBM | International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting. Headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, the company traces its roots to the amalgamation of various enterprises dedicated to automating routine business transactions, notably pioneering punched card-based data tabulating machines and time clocks. In 1911, these entities were unified under the umbrella of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR).
Thomas J. Watson (1874–1956) assumed the role of General Manager within the company in 1914 and ascended to the position of President in 1915. By 1924, the company rebranded as "International Business Machines." IBM diversified its offerings to include electric typewriters and other office equipment. Watson, a proficient salesman, aimed to cultivate a highly motivated, well-compensated sales force capable of devising solutions for clients unacquainted with the latest technological advancements.
In the 1940s and 1950s, IBM initiated its initial forays into computing, which constituted incremental improvements to the prevailing card-based system. A pivotal moment arrived in the 1960s with the introduction of the System/360 family of mainframe computers. IBM provided a comprehensive spectrum of hardware, software, and service agreements, fostering client loyalty and solidifying its moniker "Big Blue." The customized nature of end-user software, tailored by in-house programmers for a specific brand of computers, deterred brand switching due to its associated costs. Despite challenges posed by clone makers like Amdahl and legal confrontations, IBM leveraged its esteemed reputation, assuring clients with both hardware and system software solutions, earning acclaim as one of the esteemed American corporations during the 1970s and 1980s.
However, IBM encountered difficulties in the late 1980s and 1990s, marked by substantial losses surpassing $8 billion in 1993. The mainframe-centric corporation grappled with adapting swiftly to the burgeoning Unix open systems and personal computer revolutions. Desktop machines and Unix midrange computers emerged as cost-effective and easily manageable alternatives, overshadowing multi-million-dollar mainframes. IBM responded by introducing a Unix line and a range of personal computers. The competitive edge was gradually lost to clone manufacturers who offered cost-effective alternatives, while chip manufacturers like Intel and software corporations like Microsoft reaped significant profits.
Through a series of strategic reorganizations, IBM managed to sustain its status as one of the world's largest computer companies and systems integrators. As of 2014, the company boasted a workforce exceeding 400,000 employees globally and held the distinction of possessing the highest number of patents among U.S.-based technology firms. IBM maintained a robust presence with research laboratories dispersed across twelve location |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Abramson | Norman Manuel Abramson (April 1, 1932 – December 1, 2020) was an American engineer and computer scientist, most known for developing the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication.
Early life
Abramson was born on April 1, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, to immigrant Jewish parents Edward and Esther. His father was born in Lithuania, and worked in commercial photography. His mother was born in Ukraine, and managed the house.
He was schooled in the Boston public schools and attended Boston Latin School and the English High School of Boston. He showed good aptitude in math and science, and he received an Bachelor of Arts in physics from Harvard College (1953), an Master of Arts in Physics from UCLA (1955), and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (1958). His thesis at Stanford focused on the area of communication theory.
Career
Abramson was a research engineer at the Hughes Aircraft Company until 1955, when he joined the faculty at Stanford University (1955–65), was visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley (1966), before moving to University of Hawaiʻi (1968–94), serving as professor of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Some of his early research concerned radar signal characteristics and sampling theory, as well as frequency modulation and digital communication channels, error correcting codes, pattern recognition and machine learning and computing for seismic analysis.
One of Abramson's first projects at the University of Hawaiʻi was to develop radio technology to help the school send and receive data from its remote geographic location to the continental United States, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency. A key innovation in the technology was to divide the data in packets which could be resent if the data was lost during transmission, allowing for random access rather than sequential access, based on the same principles being developed for ARPAnet, the precursor of the modern Internet. The resulting radio network technology his team developed was deployed as ALOHAnet in 1971, based on the dual-meaning of the Hawaiian word "aloha". ALOHAnet became the foundation of modern wireless communication as well as influencing the development of Ethernet-based communications.
Abramson continued to serve as a professor at Hawaii until 1994 when he retired. Abramson went on to co-found Aloha Networks in San Francisco, where he served as a CTO.
Personal life and death
Abramson had two children with his wife, Joan: a son, Mark, and a daughter, Carin; she predeceased him by six years.
Abramson died on December 1, 2020, in his San Francisco home due to complications from skin cancer that had metastasized to his lungs.
Awards
1972: IEEE Sixth Region Achievement Award for contributions to Information Theory and Coding.
1980: IEEE Fellow Award for development of the ALOHA-System.
1992: Pacific Telecommunications Council 20th Anniversary Award for leadership in the PTC.
1995: IEEE K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga%20Khan%20Planning%20and%20Building%20Services | The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service (AKPBS) was established in 1980 as an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The agency works to improve the built of environment, particularly housing design and construction, village planning, natural hazard mitigation, environmental sanitation, water supplies, and other living conditions. It does this by providing material, technical assistance and applied research, as well as planning and building management services for communities in both rural and urban areas.
Organization and governance
AKPBS acts through a series of national service companies that plan, organize, finance activities, operate facilities and program in close collaboration with other AKDN institutions, government, and select partner agencies. The national service companies are officially registered as not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations in each country. Their international sponsor is the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services S.A., a not-for-profit company based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Chairman and some or all of the directors of the AKPBS boards in India and Pakistan are appointed by the sponsoring company. All directors serve as volunteers on an unremunerated basis.
Improving safety standards
Community-based technical review services are provided by AKPBS to low-income families to help plan and construct multi-hazard resistant and affordable houses using appropriate technology, and alternative energy. Special attention is given to the preservation of traditional building technology which is re-engineered to improve safety standards and implemented through the capacity building of local skilled artisans.
Under disaster resilience programs, communities living in hazard-prone areas are being offered awareness programs, training, capacity building, and demonstrations of safe construction technologies.
National service companies
The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan (AKPBS,P)
Was established in 1980 with a mandate to plan and implement infrastructure and technology-related development initiatives to improve living conditions within various provinces and regions, such as the Northern Areas of Pakistan, the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh in development program areas such as habitat risk reduction, energy efficient building and construction improvement, water supply and sanitation, and natural resource conservation.
AKPBS,P's main programs are the Water and Sanitation Extension Program (WASEP), the Building and Construction Improvement Program (BACIP) and the Habitat Risk Management Program (HRMP). These programs have been internationally recognized for their multi-beneficial impact, local community acceptance, and role in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, India (AKPBS,I)
Active since 1970, a major focus of their programs has been the installation of sanitation units in the villages of Gujarat state. AKPBS,I also assists communitie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLG-43%20Radar | The JLG-43 radar is a nodding height finding radar, a two-dimensional (2D) radar which only provides azimuth and height data and is normally paired with other air search radars which provides the range to complete the picture. It is very similar to the well-known Russian PRV-9 "Thin Skin" and PRV-11 "Side Net" series heightfinding radars. It is a fully mobile system which can be towed and is air transportable.
The radar have been in production by the Chengdu Jin Jiang Electronic System Engineering Company/成都锦江电子系统工程有限公司 for a number of years and the latest version is the JLG-43C.
Specifications
S band
Pulsewidth: 3 µs
Peak Power: 2 MW
Range: 200 km
Height: 25,000 metres
Elevation coverage: 0–30°
Accuracy: 300 metres, 2° (azimuth)
External links
Jin Jiang Electronic System Engineering Company
Ground radars
Military radars of the People's Republic of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands%20on%20Network | The HandsOn Network was a non-profit organization focusing on community service based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. It sought to bring people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action, and mobilized some half million volunteers in communities inside and outside the United States. HandsOn Network created and managed nearly 50,000 projects a year, from building wheelchair ramps in San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in Gulf Coast communities following Hurricane Katrina. Originally an independent organization, it became part of the nonprofit organization. The nonprofit was disbanded sometime in 2019.
History
The organization was founded 1992 under the name City Cares. They sought an alternate way of doing volunteering, in contrast to established organizations such as the Points of Light Foundation and its associated Voluntary Action Centers. In particular, they sought to focus on attracting younger, more business-focused volunteers by offering a single day of service on a per-month basis. The national entity would then be an umbrella organization and which would provide shared resources to local entities.
Example local affiliates included New York Cares, which in point of fact was launched in 1987 and provided the basis for the later national model.
In 2004, City Cares renamed itself to the HandsOn Network.
Over time, HandsOn Network became made up of 58 national and international volunteer organizations that act as entrepreneurial civic action centers.
HandsOn Network worked in partnership with local organizations and schools to create HandsOn service projects that produce tangible benefits in communities. The Network enlisted a corps of hundreds of thousands of volunteers who join forces to address community needs worldwide.
HandsOn Network collaborated with hundreds of major companies and organizations to promote volunteerism across the United States. They include the CMT television station and SAP investments, as well as several with nonprofit organizations and volunteer groups. Additional corporate sponsors of HandsOn Network included
Home Depot, Outback Steakhouse, Cisco Systems, Ameriquest, The Coca-Cola Company, Corporation for National and Community Service, W.K. Kellog Foundation, UnitedHealth Group, Case Foundation, Singing for Change, and others.
In August 2007, HandsOn Network merged with the Points of Light Foundation to form the Points of Light Institute, the nation's largest network of organizations skilled at mobilizing volunteers to meet important needs in local communities. and its website redirected to www.pointsoflight.org/handsonnetwork during much of 2019. Its original website, handsonnetwork.org, no longer works and the Points of Light Foundation page about the network was taken down by the Fall of 2019.
The individual volunteer centers under the HandsOn Network, such as HandsOn Atlanta, HandsOn Suburban Chicago, HandsOn Twin Cities (Minnesota) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasoferae | Pegasoferae ("winged beast") is a proposed clade of mammals based on genomic research in molecular systematics by Nishihara, Hasegawa and Okada (2006).
To the surprise of the authors, their data led them to propose a clade that includes bats (order Chiroptera), carnivores such as cats and dogs (order Carnivora), horses and other odd-toed ungulates (order Perissodactyla) and pangolins (order Pholidota) as springing from a single evolutionary origin within the mammals.
The name Pegasoferae was coined from the name of the mythological flying horse Pegasus to refer to bats and horses, and the term Ferae, encompassing carnivorans and pangolins. According to this, the odd-toed ungulates' closest living relatives are the carnivorans. Earlier theories of mammalian evolution would, for example, have aligned bats with the insectivores (order Eulipotyphla) and horses with the even-toed ungulates (order Artiodactyla).
Some subsequent molecular studies published shortly afterwards have failed to support it. In particular, two recent studies, each combining genome-wide analyses of multiple taxa with testing of competing alternative phylogenetic hypotheses, concluded that Pegasoferae is not a natural grouping.
Phylogeny
The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic relationships of laurasiatherian mammals following Nishihara et al. (2006).
References
Obsolete mammal taxa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Security%20Institute | The Computer Security Institute (CSI) was a professional membership organization serving practitioners of information, network, and computer-enabled physical security, from the level of system administrator to the chief information security officer. It was founded in 1974.
CSI used to conduct two conferences per year — the Annual Computer Security Conference and Exhibition and CSI SX. Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales was a keynote speaker at CSI’s Annual Conference, held November 6–8, 2006, in Orlando, Florida.
CSI is perhaps best known for the annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey that it began to conduct in 1996 in collaboration with the San Francisco Federal Bureau of Investigation's Computer Intrusion Squad and researchers from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. The FBI disappeared from the title of the study between the 2006 and 2007 reports. The 15th annual survey, which turned out to be the last, was released in 2011, and is available to the general public at Information Week.
CSI staff, including Richard Power, testified as expert witnesses before United States Senate committee hearings.
In 2011, CSI was absorbed by UBM, although no mention of this appears on the UBM Wikipedia page yet. As of September 2014, the original CSI website returns a 404 File Not Found error. However, snapshots of the website can be found on the WayBack Time Machine.
Notes
External links
Official Website of the FBI Computer Intrusion Squad
Annual Conference Jimmy Wales, CSI Keynote Speaker, November 6–8, 2006, Orlando, Florida
Computer security organizations
Computer science-related professional associations
Computer security conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20Intelligence%20%28compilation%20album%29 | Artificial Intelligence is a compilation album released via Warp on 6 July 1992. It is the first release in Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. The album helped birth the genre that would later become known as intelligent dance music (IDM).
Background
According to Warp co-founder Steve Beckett, the album was primarily intended for sedentary listening rather than dancing, and this was reflected in the album art, which depicts an android asleep in an armchair with Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd albums Autobahn (1974) and The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), respectively, at its side:
The third album on the floor is Pioneers of the Hypnotic Groove Collection (WARP,1991).
Critical reception
Critic Simon Reynolds cited Artificial Intelligence as a key ambient techno release in a 1994 write-up for The New York Times.
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic John Bush praised Artificial Intelligence as "a superb collection of electronic listening music." In 2014, Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy of Vice described it as "an exercise in re-training the ear." The following year, Tegan O'Neil of The A.V. Club wrote: "Although every producer on it would go on to have a long and storied career, the album's music is satisfying enough on its own terms."
In 2014, Rolling Stone included Artificial Intelligence on its list of "The 40 Most Groundbreaking Albums of All Time", citing its formative role in the development of intelligent dance music (IDM). According to The Guardians Ben Cardew, the album "birthed" the IDM genre and "changed the idea of electronic music as merely a tool for dancing". In 2017, Pitchfork placed it at number ten on its list of "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time". In 2023, British GQ placed it at number three on its list of the ten best electronic albums of all time.
Track listing
References
External links
Artificial Intelligence at Warp
1992 compilation albums
Warp (record label) compilation albums
Record label compilation albums
Electronic compilation albums
Intelligent dance music compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry%20Shortcake%3A%20The%20Sweet%20Dreams%20Movie | Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie is a 2006 American computer-animated family fantasy adventure musical film produced by DIC Entertainment Corporation and released theatrically in select cities on October 7, 2006, by Kidtoon Films. It was the first feature-length film to feature the eponymous American Greetings property, and stars the voices of Sarah Heinke, Rachel Ware, Nils Haaland, and Bridget Robbins. The film also includes the first appearance of the villain, the Peculiar Pie Man, since Nelvana's Strawberry Shortcake specials from more than twenty years earlier.
Plot
While having a sleepover together, Strawberry and her friends travel to the Land of Dreams on a sea-plane like boat built by Ginger Snap, where they must help stop the Pieman, Sour Grapes and their army of nightmares from ruling the earth.
Cast
Sarah Heinke – Strawberry Shortcake
Rachel Ware – Angel Cake
Samantha Triba – Ginger Snap
DeJare Barfield – Orange Blossom
Greer McKain – Raspberry Torte
Mary Waltman – Lemon Meringue
Anna Jordan – Custard the Cat
Nils Haaland – Pupcake the Dog / Sleepbug
Cork Ramer – Purple Pieman
Bridget Robbins – Sour Grapes
Kim Carlson – P.J.
John Lee – Sandman
Production
DiC Entertainment announced the first news of The Sweet Dreams Movie in June 2005, as the Strawberry Shortcake franchise was celebrating its 25th anniversary. The script was written by Carter Crocker, whose previous credits included the Disney sequels Return to Never Land and The Jungle Book 2.
During the film's production, storyboards were drawn by DiC crew members in Los Angeles and shipped to Omaha, Nebraska's Ware House Productions. A line-up of young actors, mostly from Omaha, recorded their lines in four days. Another two were spent on the score, composed by Los Angeles musician Andy Street.
Release
On September 30, 2006, The Sweet Dreams Movie received its world premiere at Omaha's Rose Theater for the Performing Arts. American Greetings, DiC, the local Children’s Hospital (where it was also screened) and Radio Disney sponsored the event. Special showings of the film took place at Cleveland's Toonaloo event on October 1, at the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival on October 8, and at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 2007.
Sweet Dreams was released as part of Kidtoon Films' monthly program on October 6, 2006, during weekend matinees in select venues. The film was only shown digitally, and not printed on traditional 35mm stock; had no major press reviews during its stay in theaters; and was designated as a direct-to-DVD feature in the first place. Hence, as with all of Kidtoon's past movies, it is not considered a legitimate theatrical release, according to animation expert Jerry Beck on his Cartoon Research site.
In a January 2007 interview with Animation Magazine, Leslie Nelson, a member of DiC's European unit, said that Sweet Dreams was the biggest success for the Kidtoon program, beating the sales for an undi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b%20encoding | In data networking and transmission, 64b/66b is a line code that transforms 64-bit data to 66-bit line code to provide enough state changes to allow reasonable clock recovery and alignment of the data stream at the receiver. It was defined by the IEEE 802.3 working group as part of the IEEE 802.3ae-2002 amendment which introduced 10 Gbit/s Ethernet. At the time 64b/66b was deployed, it allowed 10 Gb Ethernet to be transmitted with the same lasers used by SONET OC-192, rather than requiring the 12.5 Gbit/s lasers that were not expected to be available for several years.
The protocol overhead of a coding scheme is the ratio of the number of raw payload bits to the number of raw payload bits plus the number of added coding bits. The overhead of 64b/66b encoding is 2 coding bits for every 64 payload bits or 3.125%. This is a considerable improvement on the 25% overhead of the previously-used 8b/10b encoding scheme, which added 2 coding bits to every 8 payload bits.
The overhead can be reduced further by doubling the payload size to produce the 128b/130b encoding used by PCIe 3.0.
Function
As its scheme name suggests, 64 payload bits are encoded as a 66-bit entity. The 66-bit entity is made by prefixing one of two possible 2-bit preambles to the 64 payload bits.
If the preamble is 01, the 64 payload bits are data.
If the preamble is 10, the 64 payload bits hold an 8-bit Type field and 56 bits of control information and/or data.
The preambles 00 and 11 are not used and indicate an error if seen.
The use of the 01 and 10 preambles guarantees a bit transition every 66 bits, which means that a continuous stream of 0s or 1s cannot be valid data. It also allows easier clock/timer synchronization, as a transition must be seen every 66 bits.
The 64-bit payload is then scrambled using a self-synchronous scrambler function. Scrambling is not intended to encrypt the data but to ensure that a relatively even distribution of 1s and 0s are found in the transmitted data. The scrambler cannot guarantee that output data will never have a long run-length of 0s or all 1s, or other undesirable properties in communications, but does allow strong statistical bounds to be put on the probability of such events. Practical designs will choose system parameters such that a bit-error due to long run-lengths is vanishingly unlikely. This method is different from the code-book based approach of 8b/10b encoding.
The encoding and scrambling are normally implemented entirely in hardware, with the scrambler using a linear-feedback shift register. Upper layers of the software stack need not be aware that the link layer is using these methods.
Properties and application
64b/66b's design goals are clock recovery, stream alignment, DC balance, transition density and run length. 8b/10b encoding guarantees strict bounds on DC balance, transition density and run length, whereas 64b/66b provides statistical bounds on these properties.
Run length
Most clock recovery circuits design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerJam | RollerJam is an American television series featuring roller derby that aired on The Nashville Network (TNN, now Paramount Network) from 1999 to 2001. It was the first attempt to bring roller derby to TV since RollerGames.
RollerJam was derived from the original roller derby, but newer skaters used inline skates to modernize the sport (several skaters, mostly older ones, used the traditional quad skates). The program was taped at Universal Studios Stage 21 in Orlando, Florida, known as RollerJam Arena and now the Impact Wrestling Zone, for the first and second seasons (1999 and 2000) and the former American Gladiators arena in the show's final season. The first few weeks of the show's second season, which ran from August to October 1999, were taped at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.
Creation
RollerJam was the brainchild of Knoxville, Tennessee-based television writers Ross K. Bagwell Sr. and Stephen Land. Land, a boyhood fan of roller derby, was inspired to bring the sport back to television by an obituary for roller derby legend Joan Weston that he had read in The New York Times in May 1997, and shared his idea with Bagwell, his mentor, who gave him a positive response. Between January 1999 and January 2001, Bagwell and Land, under the name Pageboy Entertainment, collaborated with CBS to stage this new televised revival of roller derby.
In May 1998, Bagwell and Land pitched their idea to The Nashville Network (TNN). The network agreed to air the show but wanted it ready by the new year, forcing Bagwell and Land to create a league, recruit skaters, build a track, design logos and uniforms, hire a television crew, and record the program all in a span of about seven months. In an attempt to build continuity between RollerJam and previous roller derby incarnations, Bagwell and Land hired Jerry Seltzer, the son of roller derby creator Leo Seltzer, to be commissioner of their new league. The first episode of the show was taped in November 1998, a week after Thanksgiving.
Overview
RollerJam featured several teams of skaters competing in the fictional World Skating League (WSL). Jerry Seltzer served as on-screen WSL commissioner, although he only made a few appearances. The initial teams, each consisting of seven men and seven women, were the New York Enforcers, California Quakes, Florida Sundogs, Nevada Hot Dice, Texas Rustlers, and Illinois Riot (the original names of the latter three teams were the Las Vegas High Rollers, Texas Twisters, and Illinois Inferno; their names were changed prior to the start of the first season). Two notable veterans from Roller Games, "Rockin'" Ray Robles and "Latin Spitfire" Patsy Delgato, were featured in the second season of RollerJam. Despite strong funding and four seasons of broadcasts on TNN, the venture never became a "live" attraction. Fabricated storylines and characters in the mode of professional wrestling were being featured more than actual competitive skating around season 3 and 4, raising the ire of many skat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenless%20video | Screenless video is any system for transmitting visual information from a video source without the use of a screen. Screenless computing systems can be divided into three groups: Visual Image, Retinal Direct, and Synaptic Interface.
Visual image
Visual Image screenless display includes any image that the eye can perceive. The most common example of Visual Image screenless display is a hologram. In these cases, light is reflected off some intermediate object (hologram, LCD panel, or cockpit window) before it reaches the retina. In the case of LCD panels the light is refracted from the back of the panel, but is nonetheless a reflected source. Google has proposed a similar system to replace the screens of tablet computers and smartphones.
Retinal display
Virtual retinal display systems are a class of screenless displays in which images are projected directly onto the retina. They are distinguished from visual image systems because light is not reflected from some intermediate object onto the retina, it is instead projected directly onto the retina. Retinal Direct systems, once marketed, hold out the promise of extreme privacy when computing work is done in public places because most snooping relies on viewing the same light as the person who is legitimately viewing the screen, and retinal direct systems send light only into the pupils of their intended viewer.
Synaptic interface
Synaptic Interface screenless video does not use light at all. Visual information completely bypasses the eye and is transmitted directly to the brain. While such systems have only been implemented in humans in rudimentary form - for example, displaying single Braille characters to blind people – success has been achieved in sampling usable video signals from the biological eyes of a living horseshoe crab through their optic nerves, and in sending video signals from electronic cameras into the creatures' brains using the same method.
See also
Volumetric display
Fog display
Augmented reality
References
Display technology
Virtual reality
User interfaces
Computer graphics
Computing output devices
Emerging technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy%20%28Leah%20Andreone%20album%29 | Alchemy is Leah Andreone's second full-length album. It contains the song "Lamentation", which was used on the FOX network television show So You Think You Can Dance.
Track listing
All songs by Leah Andreone
"Sunny Day"
"Swallow Me"
"Bow Down"
"Starstruck Bastard"
"Porn"
"Tighten It Up"
"You Don't Exist"
"Dive In"
"Inconceivable"
"Try To Take Your Time"
"Pretty Freak"
"Fake"
"A Private Affair"
"Lamentation"
References
1998 albums
Leah Andreone albums
Albums produced by Bob Marlette
RCA Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSSD | BSSD may refer to:
Bally Sports San Diego, American regional sports network owned and operated by Bally Sports
Bangalore School of Speech and Drama, a drama school in India
Bering Strait School District, in northwestern Alaska, United States
Birmingham School of Acting, a drama school in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Blairsville-Saltsburg School District, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States
Blue Springs R-IV School District, in Blue Springs, Missouri, United States
Board solid-state drive, a cost-optimized implementation of an SSD in a different form factor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Opera | My Opera was the virtual community for Opera web browser users. It belonged to Opera Software ASA. In addition to being a support site for the Opera browser, My Opera worked like a social networking site. It offered services such as blogs, photo albums, the free email service My Opera Mail and more. My Opera was closed down on March 3, 2014.
History
The My Opera Community was launched in August 2001 as a simple support site for the browser, and the website had its first upgrade a month later on September 11. On December 15, 2003, the website underwent an upgrade that allowed users to access more features.
In September 2005, the My Opera Community added major improvements. During this upgrade, users were given access to photo albums, improved blogs (formerly journals), the ability to create custom groups, and 300MB of free storage space. Improvements to blogging included the introduction of "mobile blogging" or blogging from a mobile phone through MMS.
On March 8, 2007, Opera released a new version of the site.
The new hardware for the 2006 upgrade was put to use for a beta test website on October 26, 2006. This website was intended to remain up even after the final install of the new hardware on the regular website. There are extensive plans for various subdomains on the My Opera site.
On April 7, 2011, Opera released a free email service for all existing and new-joining My Opera users called My Opera Mail and powered by Opera's FastMail.FM email platform.
On October 31, 2013, the administrators of My Opera announced that the site would be closed down in March 2014. The reasons given included the increased labor required to maintain the My Opera site and the growing popularity of alternative social media sites that provide a better service than the Opera team was able or willing to provide.
Services
A My Opera account was required to use the services. Every My Opera user got 2 GB of space for file storage.
Blogs: in September 2005, personal "Journal" service was changed to a blog service. Blogs were customised according to user's individual requirements. Blogs could also be updated with a mobile phone. A list of new blog posts, new comments and popular blogs was available.
Feature groups: it was a way for meeting and socializing with people who shared similar interests. Each group had its own forum, blog and photo section where members could post.
Members: it was a section where users of My Opera could see logged in members, as well as, a list of members by country.
My Opera Mail: a free email account, similar to Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or Outlook.com. Accounts included 1 GB of storage, but this was separate from the My Opera 2 GB storage. It was compatible with POP and IMAP email retrieval protocols as well as XMPP instant messaging.
News Portal: a site with customizable news feeds. It included the Google search engine.
Photos: a section where users could publish and share their photos with other members.
Current Opera services avai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSConfig | MSConfig (officially called System Configuration in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows 11 and Microsoft System Configuration Utility in previous operating systems) is a system utility to troubleshoot the Microsoft Windows startup process. It can disable or re-enable software, device drivers and Windows services that run at startup, or change boot parameters.
It is bundled with all versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows 98 except Windows 2000. Windows 95 and Windows 2000 users can download the utility as well, although it was not designed for them.
Uses
MSConfig is often used for speeding up the Microsoft Windows startup process of the machine. According to Microsoft, MSConfig was not meant to be used as a startup management program.
Features
MSConfig is a troubleshooting tool which is used to temporarily disable or re-enable software, device drivers or Windows services that run during startup process to help the user determine the cause of a problem with Windows.
Some of its functionality varies by Windows versions:
In Windows 98 and Windows Me, it can configure advanced troubleshooting settings pertaining to these operating systems. It can also launch common system tools.
In Windows 98, it can back up and restore startup files.
In Windows Me, it has also been updated with three new tabs called "Static VxDs", "Environment" and "International". The Static VxDs tab allows users to enable or disable static virtual device drivers to be loaded at startup, the Environment tab allows users to enable or disable environment variables, and the International tab allows users to set international language keyboard layout settings that were formerly set via the real-mode MS-DOS configuration files. A "Cleanup" button on the "Startup" tab allows cleaning up invalid or deleted startup entries.
In Windows Me and Windows XP versions, it can restore an individual file from the original Windows installation set.
On Windows NT-based operating systems prior to Windows Vista, it can set various BOOT.INI switches.
In Windows XP and Windows Vista, it can hide all operating system services for troubleshooting.
In Windows Vista and later, the tool allows configuring various switches for Windows Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data. It also gained additional support for launching a variety of tools, such as system information, other configuration areas, such as Internet options, and the ability to enable/disable UAC. An update is available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that adds the Tools tab.
References
Further reading
Windows components
Windows administration
Configuration management
Windows 98 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tailed%20birch%20mouse | The long-tailed birch mouse (Sicista caudata) is a species of birch mouse found in Northeast Asia. It has been reported from the Ussuri region of Manchuria, Sakhalin Island and Primorsky Krai in Russia, and northern North Korea. It is listed as data deficient by the IUCN.
Description
The long-tailed birch mouse grows to a length of about with a tail of up to twice its body length. The dorsal fur is pale greyish-brown tinged with yellow and along the spine are longer hairs tipped with black forming a vertebral stripe. The flanks are paler yellowish-brown and the underparts greyish creamy-white. The tail is a uniform light yellowish-grey. The zygomatic arch is widest in the middle, the premolars are large and the back of the skull is rounded.
Distribution and habitat
The long-tailed birch mouse is native to northeastern China and the Ussuri region of Russia as well as being found on Sakhalin Island. It is found in mountain taiga, in coniferous forest, in mixed forests and on steppe grassland.
Behaviour
The ecology of the long-tailed birch mouse is little known. It hibernates for at least six months during the winter. It builds its nest, made of a woven ball of grass, in crevices or in bushes. Litters usually consist of four to six young. This birch mouse eats green plants, berries but mostly feeds on seeds, being chiefly active at night and spending the daytime in a shallow burrow.
Status
The long-tailed birch mouse has a wide range, at least some of which is in protected areas. It is a poorly known species and in general appears to be uncommon, but it may be more plentiful than is currently realised. The population trend is unknown, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as "data deficient".
References
External links
Smithsonian profile
Sicista
Mammals of Korea
Mammals of Pakistan
Mammals described in 1907
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOLS | WOLS is a Spanish-language FM radio station broadcasting at a frequency of 106.1 MHz serving the Charlotte, North Carolina market. Its programming consists of music and other material distributed by "La Raza," the Regional Mexican radio network.
While WOLS is licensed to (and identifies its location as) the Union County town of Waxhaw, North Carolina, its studios are actually located in Charlotte. The transmitter site is in Catawba, South Carolina.
History
In 1994, 1480 AM, a frequency that had been silent for several years, was reactivated with the call letters WIST. GHB Broadcasting operated WIST through a Limited Marketing Agreement (LMA) with Christ Covenant Church, the licensee for 1480 AM. Most of the adult standards music came from the Satellite Music Network format Stardust. A year later, the FM station signed on, initially using the call letters WLWW but eventually changed to WIST-FM.
The name WNMX "Mix 106" was chosen in 1996. The station's sales manager had previously worked for WMXC (104.7) when it was called "The Mix". He hoped to resurrect that format on 106.1. The AM station became WNMX-AM.. By this time the AM aired some separate programs, including a talk show from John Sullivan. The AM became WTLT in Summer 1997 with a separate news/talk format. As of May 1997, when GHB planned a medical office building on Randolph Road where the company was considering moving its operations, WNMX had "nearly doubled its morning audience share" in a year.
For one month WNMX tried a more contemporary sound with local DJs during the day. However, many listeners protested so the station returned to the Stardust format.
Over the years the definition of adult standards has evolved, and the Stardust satellite format evolved with the times as well. Fewer songs from the big band era were played, though new performances of the old songs have become available. When oldies station WWMG changed its format to "rhythmic Top 40" music in 2004, WNMX added more rock and roll songs to its local morning show.
In Summer 2006 ABC merged Stardust with its Memories format. The merger caused Stardust to leave its standards heritage behind, playing most of the same "timeless favorites" but moving more in an oldies direction, with most of the big-band standards being recent recordings. WNMX still played many of the older records on the local morning show. Ironically, the Timeless Favorites format had evolved into the format that listeners rejected in 1997.
On February 12, 2008 WNMX changed their format to 60s-70s oldies, branded as "Oldies 106.1", with the "Goodtime Oldies" format from the Jones Radio Network. "Goodtime Oldies" features a playlist of 60's and 70's oldies. The station also changed its call sign to WOLS, which was moved from an AM station in Florence, South Carolina. That station took on the call sign "WOLH".
On January 1, 2009, Norsan Media took over WOLS, picking up "La Raza," the Regional Mexican format of WGSP-FM.
Sports broadcasts
At one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGSP%20%28AM%29 | WGSP (1310 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina, known as Latina 102.3 y 107.5. It is owned by Norsan Media and broadcasts a Spanish tropical radio format. Programming is trimulcast on WGSP-FM 102.3 MHz and FM translator W298CF at 107.5 MHz.
By day, WGSP is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. But to protect other stations on 1310 AM, it greatly reduces power at night to 240 watts and switches to a directional antenna. The radio studios are on East Independence Boulevard in Charlotte. The transmitter is off Bellaire Drive, near West Brookshire Freeway (North Carolina Highway 16) in Charlotte.
FM Translator
In addition to the main station on 1310 kHz, WGSP programming is relayed to an FM translator.
History
On August 23, 1958, the station signed on as WKTC as a country music station. It was a daytimer station, required to go off the air at night. WKTC disc jockey Johnny Jacobs demonstrated that a person could live in a fallout shelter for a long period of time (which people during the Cold War feared they would have to do), spending a week there and contacting the station by phone.
1310 AM became Charlotte's first full-time Christian radio station, WHVN, in August 1971 around the time George H. Buck Jr. bought the station. As of 1980, about 65 percent of programming was "spoken word". When the 1240 frequency became available early in the 80s, allowing 24-hour broadcasts, WHVN moved from 1310, which only allowed a daytime signal.
WGSP ("Great Sounds of the Past") returned to the air as one of Charlotte's first oldies stations, playing a wide variety of standard pop hits and "beach music." In 1985, with no other area stations playing classic rock this small AM station became one of the first in the country to shape a format around vintage rock and roll from the 1960s and 1970s. WGSP became the second most listened to AM station in the market. At its peak, the WGSP air staff included Program Director Paul Ingles, Rick Ballew, Fielding Spicer, David Appleford, Phil England and Darby James. After a couple of years of growth by WGSP, other FM stations in the region adopted the "Classic Rock" format and, with their better signals, WGSP lost audience and was sold to religious broadcasters.
WGSP became a gospel station and this format continued until 2004, when the switch was made to the current format. During 2006 and 2007, WGSP's programming aired on WGSP-FM, at 102.3 FM. Programs included "La Voz del Immigrante" ("The Voice of the Immigrant"). WGSP has simulcast the La Tremenda Network with WXNC.
References
External links
Listen To The Story Of WGSP as a Classic Rock Station
website
GSP (AM)
Tropical music radio stations
GSP (AM)
Radio stations established in 1965 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCGC | WCGC (1270 AM) is a radio station licensed to Belmont, North Carolina, and serving the Charlotte/Gastonia area. The station is owned by Carolina Catholic Radio Network and broadcasts a Catholic radio format.
By day, WCGC is powered at 10,000 watts non-directional. But at night, to protect other stations on 1270 AM, it greatly reduces power to 500 watts and uses a directional antenna.
History
WCGC was started by Robert Richard Hilker, signing on the air on December 11, 1954. The 5,000-watt radio station was put on the air with a transmitter Hilker built from a Heathkit model. He applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a radio station construction permit. Hilker owned WCGC and with that built Suburban Radio Group which owned and operated 11 AM and FM radio stations and also put on two television stations; WJZY in Charlotte and another in Morehead City. At the time of Hilker's death, the radio station was still using the transmitter he built as a backup for the now computerized WCGC. Born in Winston-Salem, he served in the U.S. Navy and established Cablevision Companies in Gaston County and the Lake Norman area as well at Charlotte television station WJZY-TV. He was past Chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Board, served on the boards of numerous national broadcasting associations and civic organizations and was inducted into the N.C. Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Ebb Gantt had played football for Belmont High School and Belmont Abbey College. He later became the radio voice for both teams as well as Davidson College. (The high school later consolidated with Cramerton High to form South Point High School.) Gantt served as a WCGC sportscaster, beginning in the late 1950s. Gantt later became the station's general manager and retired in 1980.
Screenwriter and filmmaker Richard O'Sullivan worked as an on-air personality at WCGC in the late eighties.
Jack LaFaivre, who went on to jobs at WXII and WSJS in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, worked at WCGC after graduating from Belmont Abbey.
Many other local broadcasters spent time at WCGC including Joe McLaney, who went on to WBT as Production Director, and Bob Brandon, formerly of WSOC-FM and Clear Channel Charlotte.
In 1986, with the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball, having been dropped by WSOC 930 AM, WCGC picked up the Baltimore Orioles. WJZY, a TV station which shared a building with WCGC in its early days, also aired the Orioles.
Rev. Charles Beasley had a Sunday morning show on WCGC until general manager Jim Mintzer found out he was grand dragon of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Protestors from four states showed up at city hall and the radio station, without incident, though law enforcement officers stood by just in case anything happened.
WCGC had been on the air 35 years in June 1989 when Suburban Radio Group, owner of 11 radio stations, sold its flagship station in Belmont to Mintzer. The radio group remained in the building with WCGC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAVO | WAVO (1150 AM) is a non-profit radio station licensed to Rock Hill, South Carolina and serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. Programming is simulcast from 106.9 WMIT Black Mountain, North Carolina, a listener-supported ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. WAVO and WMIT air a mix of Contemporary Christian music with some Christian talk and teaching programs, including national religious leaders Jim Daly, John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll and Charles Stanley. WMIT's radio studios and offices are on Porters Cove Road in Asheville.
By day, WAVO is powered at 5,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But to avoid interfering with other stations on 1150 AM, it greatly reduces power at night to 59 watts. WAVO is also heard on FM translator 101.5 W268DM.
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History
On May 2, 1948, the station first signed on as WTYC. It broadcast on 1150 kilocycles with 1,000 watts as a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The station's owners were O. Frank Thornton, W.G. Reid and W.E. Williams. Thornton sold his interest in the station after his election as South Carolina Secretary of State in January 1950. Reid sold the station to T. Lamar Simmons in 1953.
Jonas Bridges, owner of WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, was part of a group that purchased the station in 1958. He owned WTYC when it was a country music station. In April 1989, Bridges bought out his partners and formed a new ownership group which included his son Rob. The station changed its call sign to WXLF and adopted a Contemporary Christian format. Ken Mayfield, a Charlotte-area general manager known for his success with the start up of WNOW (later, he managed WRCM), was brought in. The station went by name "Life 1150." Bridges sold the station to Parkway Communications in 1990, and the call letters were changed to WYRS.
WYRS went dark in early 1992. George H. Buck Jr, the owner of Christian WHVN, bought it from Parkway Communications effective April 6, 1992. The plan was for WYRS to simulcast WHVN. The call letters were changed to WAVO in June 1992. WAVO began airing the same programming as WHVN.
For a brief time in 1997, WAVO aired the same programming as talk station WTLT.
On July 10, 2008 at 11:50 A.M., WAVO ended its simulcast of WHVN to begin playing music by adult standards artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond which had once been heard on WNMX, also operated by the same company as WAVO. The specialty show Big Band Jump aired each week. Until the format was cancelled in September 2008, WAVO featured programming from Jones Radio Networks.
Starting in December 2008, WAVO's music was also heard on WEGO, allowing expansion of the station's daytime coverage area.
Morning host Ken Conrad moved from WOLS when it switched to Spanish, and he added an afternoon show. Several months later he was dropped after more than ten years at WNMX, WOLS and W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty%20%28Unix%29 | getty, short for "get tty", is a Unix program running on a host computer that manages physical or virtual terminals (TTYs). When it detects a connection, it prompts for a username and runs the 'login' program to authenticate the user.
Originally, on traditional Unix systems, getty handled connections to serial terminals (often Teletype machines) connected to a host computer. The tty part of the name stands for Teletype, but has come to mean any type of text terminal. One getty process serves one terminal. In some systems, for example, Solaris, getty was replaced by ttymon.
Personal computers running Unix-like operating systems, even if they do not provide any remote login services, may still use getty as a means of logging in on a local virtual console.
Instead of the login program, getty may also be set up by the system administrator to run any other program, for example pppd (point-to-point protocol daemon) to provide a dial-up Internet connection.
See also
List of Unix commands
BusyBox, that provides a getty
GNU Core Utilities (implements stty)
util-linux, that provides a getty
References
External links
Text Terminal HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project.
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W30BX | W30BX was a television station licensed to Mobile, Alabama. It offered programming from the Home Shopping Network.
The station was previously W52BF and its license transferred to UHF Channel 30 on October 28, 2005. According to the station's coverage map, W30BX served the immediate Mobile area as its primary coverage area, barely reaching beyond the city limits.
The station's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on November 16, 2012.
External links
30BX
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012
Television channels and stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Alabama
2012 disestablishments in Alabama
30BX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMX | WFMX (107.9 FM, "107-9 the Mix") is an adult contemporary-formatted radio station licensed to Skowhegan, Maine.
Programming
The station brands itself as having The Big Mix Weekend featuring music from the 1980s & 1990s, reairs of American Top 40 from the 1980s with Casey Kasem.
History
WFMX went on the air March 17, 1990, as a satellite fed oldies format under the call letters WHQO (Standing for "Headquarters for Oldies") changing a few years later to a community-based AC format as "The Light at the end of the dial". In the late 1990s, as ownership of the station changed frequently the station changed formats several times. Including simulcasting the sports of WSKW (1996–1999), top 40 as "The Party 108" (1999–2000), talk both simulcasting WVOM-FM from Bangor and solo before flipping to the current "Mix 107.9" in February 2005. In 1999 an effort was made to donate the station to Maine Public Radio; the donation was never completed, as it was contingent on a never-completed sale of Mountain Wireless' stations to Cumulus Media.
In February 2007, the call letters were changed to WFMX, to more closely resemble the "Mix" name. Those calls were previously used by what is now WVBZ when it was licensed to Statesville, North Carolina. A power increase was granted as well, improving the signal to the south. WFMX had been working with the developers of the Hathaway Creative Center in Waterville with intentions anchor the refurbished mill in late 2008. Agreeable terms could not be met, so WFMX and its cluster-mates took occupancy of new space on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville.
On April 23, 2013, WFMX was granted for a construction permit to increase its ERP up to 32,000 watts and to raise their HAAT up to 129 meters (423 feet). The station was licensed with the new facilities on April 18, 2016. For part of WFMX's Adult contemporary format, they aired Delilah's love songs. Then in 2017, WFMX became a classic hits / hot AC format. With the repositioning of today's music and classic hits, the station shelved Delilah's program for local talent and more music nights.
WFMX main studios are located at The Lee Farm Mall on Western Avenue in Augusta, with additional facilities at Penny Hill Park in Waterville.
References
External links
WFMX "Big Mix Weekend"
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1990
FMX
Skowhegan, Maine
Somerset County, Maine
1990 establishments in Maine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20potential | In protein structure prediction, statistical potentials or knowledge-based potentials are scoring functions derived from an analysis of known protein structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).
The original method to obtain such potentials is the quasi-chemical approximation, due to Miyazawa and Jernigan. It was later followed by the potential of mean force (statistical PMF ), developed by Sippl. Although the obtained scores are often considered as approximations of the free energy—thus referred to as pseudo-energies—this physical interpretation is incorrect. Nonetheless, they are applied with success in many cases, because they frequently correlate with actual Gibbs free energy differences.
Overview
Possible features to which a pseudo-energy can be assigned include:
interatomic distances,
torsion angles,
solvent exposure,
or hydrogen bond geometry.
The classic application is, however, based on pairwise amino acid contacts or distances, thus producing statistical interatomic potentials. For pairwise amino acid contacts, a statistical potential is formulated as an interaction matrix that assigns a weight or energy value to each possible pair of standard amino acids. The energy of a particular structural model is then the combined energy of all pairwise contacts (defined as two amino acids within a certain distance of each other) in the structure. The energies are determined using statistics on amino acid contacts in a database of known protein structures (obtained from the PDB).
History
Initial development
Many textbooks present the statistical PMFs as proposed by Sippl as a simple consequence of the Boltzmann distribution, as applied to pairwise distances between amino acids. This is incorrect, but a useful start to introduce the construction of the potential in practice.
The Boltzmann distribution applied to a specific pair of amino acids,
is given by:
where is the distance, is the Boltzmann constant, is
the temperature and is the partition function, with
The quantity is the free energy assigned to the pairwise system.
Simple rearrangement results in the inverse Boltzmann formula,
which expresses the free energy as a function of :
To construct a PMF, one then introduces a so-called reference
state with a corresponding distribution and partition function
, and calculates the following free energy difference:
The reference state typically results from a hypothetical
system in which the specific interactions between the amino acids
are absent. The second term involving and
can be ignored, as it is a constant.
In practice, is estimated from the database of known protein
structures, while typically results from calculations
or simulations. For example, could be the conditional probability
of finding the atoms of a valine and a serine at a given
distance from each other, giving rise to the free energy difference
. The total free energy difference of a protein,
, is then claimed to be the sum
of all the pairwise free energies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elly%20%26%20Jools | Elly & Jools is an Australian children's television series that originally aired on the Nine Network in 1990. It starred Rebecca Smart as Elinor 'Elly' Lockett and Clayton Williamson as Julian 'Jools' Trevaller. It also featured Abigail, Anne Tenney, Peter Fisher, Dennis Miller, Damon Herriman and Vanessa Collier. It was filmed at Peninsula House in Windsor, New South Wales and at the Australiana Pioneer Village in Wilberforce.
The dog which appeared in the series also played the dingo in the Meryl Streep and Sam Neill film, A Cry in the Dark.
Plot synopsis
The Trevaller family move from the city to a new house in a small country town called Waterloo Creek – a town full of weird and wonderful characters. The house they move into is haunted by the ghost of Elly, a young girl. Elly befriends the Trevaller's son Jools, who tries to help solve the mystery of her murder. In the final episode it is revealed that Elly was never murdered but had died in a tragic accident and stayed in the world of the living in order to clear the name of the man suspected of her murder. Finally having achieved her peace she passes to the afterlife and is reunited with her loving family whilst Jools meets Eloise, a living girl identical to Elly who is perceived either as her reincarnation or as a sign to him that the world is full of human girls just like her.
See also
List of ghost films
References
External links
Elly and Jools at the Australian Television Information Archive.
Australian children's television series
1990 Australian television series debuts
1990 Australian television series endings
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television series about ghosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDMA%20%28computer%29 | The Word DMA (WDMA) interface was the fastest method used to transfer data between the computer (through the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) controller) and an ATA device until Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) was implemented. Single/Multiword DMA took over from Programmed input/output (PIO) as the choice of interface between ATA devices and the computer.
The WDMA interface is grouped into different modes.
In single transfer mode, only one word (16-bit) will be transferred between the device and the computer before returning control to the CPU, and later it will repeat this cycle, allowing the CPU to process data while data is transferred. In multiword transfer mode (block mode), once a transfer has begun it will continue until all words are transferred.
Two additional Advanced Timing modes have been defined in the CompactFlash specification 2.1. Those are Multiword DMA mode 3 and Multiword DMA mode 4. They are specific to CompactFlash. Multiword DMA is only permitted for CompactFlash devices configured in True IDE mode.
AT Attachment the category |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiBase | WikiBase or Wikibase may refer to:
WikiBase, the software that runs the WikiWikiWeb, the first ever wiki
Wikibase, a MediaWiki extension that runs Wikidata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden%20S-Bahn | The Dresden S-Bahn is a network of S-Bahn-type commuter train services in Dresden and the surrounding area. It is commissioned by Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) from DB Regio Verkehrsbetrieb Südostsachsen and currently consists of three services operating over a network.
The S-Bahn fare structure was introduced on a series of suburban railway lines on 29 September 1974. The term "S-Bahn" has only officially been used for the system since 31 May 1992. Since 24 May 1998, VVO fares have been valid for the S-Bahn Dresden. Outside of Dresden, it runs to the centres of Freital, Meissen, Pirna, Radebeul and since 9 December 2007 also to Freiberg. All lines stop at Dresden Hauptbahnhof.
According to data from the Deutsche Bahn, the Dresden S-Bahn is the S-Bahn with the highest customer satisfaction in Germany.
Rolling stock
Services are operated by double-deck-push–pull trains. All trains have 1st and 2nd. class. As with other S-Bahn services operated by Deutsche Bahn, trains are marked " Bahn Dresden ."
From 16 July 2007, 53 new double-deck cars (13 control and 40 middle cars) were gradually delivered by Waggonbau Görlitz for lines S 1 and S 3 until the timetable change on 9. December 2007, replacing the old double-deck cars. The cost of acquiring the 53 cars that are capable of operating at up to was €72 million. On the same day, a new rollingstock depot was opened in the old town of Dresden. The new vehicles were delivered in full by the timetable change in December 2007.
Trains were hauled by locomotives of class 143 and Bombardier Traxx (class 146.0). Siemens ES64U2 (class 182) locomotives were due to take over operations from the timetable change in December 2015.
Stations
S-Bahn stations in the Dresden inner city
Dresden Hauptbahnhof (access to the city center; transfer to long-distance and regional services and to trams and buses)
Dresden Freiberger Straße (access to the city centre and to the World Trade Center Dresden)
Dresden Mitte (access to Messe Dresden–Dresden exhibition ground–and to the International Congress Center Dresden; transfer to trams and buses)
Dresden-Neustadt (transfer to long-distance and regional services and to trams and buses)
Lines
The trains of the S-Bahn Dresden run annually. It consists of the following lines:
Line S 1
Line S 1 is the oldest and most important S-Bahn line in and around Dresden. It connects all important places in the upper Elbe region with the state capital of Dresden. Commuter traffic and travel for recreation and tourism are still significant. A few isolated places and hiking areas in Saxon Switzerland can be reached better by the S-Bahn than by bus or car.
From Schöna, it runs along the Elbe on the Elbe Valley Railway through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, through Bad Schandau and past Königstein Fortress to Pirna. There it leaves the immediate bank of the Elbe and runs through Heidenau and southeastern Dresden almost straight to Dresden Hauptbahnhof. It follows a curve through |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokuriku%20Asahi%20Broadcasting | , also known as HAB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with ANN. Their headquarters are located in Ishikawa Prefecture.
History
HAB launched on October 1, 1991, as Ishikawa Prefecture's fourth broadcasting station. On its fifteenth anniversary, October 1, 2006, the station began Digital terrestrial television broadcasts from its primary transmitter at Kanazawa and its Nanao relay.
Transmitters
Local programs
HAB Super J Channel - from 16:50 until 19:00 on Weekdays
Doki Doki TV
Kenkō no Yakata
MID TV - from 25:45 until 26:15 on Thursdays
External links
Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Ishikawa Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Mass media in Kanazawa, Ishikawa
1991 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETWORK%20Lobby | NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice is a national Catholic social justice lobby founded in 1971 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The organization focuses its lobbying efforts in the areas of economic justice, immigration reform, healthcare, peace making and ecology.
Sr Simone Campbell, SSS was executive director of NETWORK from November 2004 to March 2021. She was succeeded by Mary Novak.
History
Network was founded in December 1971 when 47 Catholic sisters involved in education, healthcare, and other direct service activities gathered from across the U.S. at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., with the intent to form a new type of justice ministry. The Catholic Church was undergoing dramatic changes in response to Vatican II reforms and calls from the Vatican and U.S. Bishops to seek "Justice in the World". Individual women religious orders had already become involved in the Civil Rights Movement, and anti-war activism.
In April 1972, the group opened an office in Washington, D.C. They sponsored legislative seminars that attracted many notable participants and presenters including prominent Members of Congress (e.g., Senators Ted Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Barbara Mikulski, Walter Mondale and Joseph Biden) and Catholic notables such as Fr. Bryan Hehir.
In January 2001, President Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Citizens Medal, the US's second highest civilian honor, to a Network founder and first executive director, Sister Carol Coston. She was the first Catholic nun ever to receive this award.
Obamacare
In 2010, during the 2010 healthcare reform debate, lawyer and the executive director of Network, Simone Campbell a member of the Sisters of Social Service, wrote the "nuns' letter" supporting the bill. The letter had 55 signatories, including the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and several leadership teams of women's orders. On March 18, 2010, Sr. Simone Campbell was interviewed by NPR about Network's support of the then pending US national health care bill, when she, along with "heads of dozens of religious orders" signed a letter to congress urging passage. Network circulated the letter to the various heads of the orders and asked them to sign.
Ann Carey, author of Sister in Crisis, takes issue with the claim that those signing the letter represented over 50,000 religious sisters. Said Carey, "I have heard from many women religious who asked me to make it clear in my writing that such sisters do not represent them, and those prominent sisters have no right to speak for all sisters." President Barack Obama invited Campbell to the ceremony celebrating the bill being signed into law. The Network group was credited with being a significant force in the passage of the bill into law.
Pope Benedict XVI
On April 18, 2012, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Benedict XVI issued a report criticizing the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a group that represents |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeewolf | Zeewolf is a single-player 3D shoot 'em up computer game released for the Amiga platform in November 1994 by Binary Asylum. A Sega Mega Drive version was planned but never released. The player is tasked with flying a helicopter gunship over 32 combat missions. The game has a similar design and appearance to the earlier (but unrelated) Zarch created by David Braben.
A sequel, Zeewolf 2: Wild Justice followed in 1995.
Gameplay
The player flies an attack helicopter (and occasionally other aircraft) over 32 missions. Objectives include locating targets, destroying enemy units and buildings, transporting friendly vehicles and rescuing hostages. Some objectives are time limited. The player is given a finite number of lives. The player's craft can be destroyed by accumulated damage from enemy fire or from colliding with structures or terrain. The helicopter is equipped with cannon, rockets and guided air-to-air missiles. Fuel and ammunition are finite and the player has limited funds and locations in which to refuel or buy ammunition.
The game allows control by joystick or mouse. Under joystick control pressing in a direction causes the aircraft to orient and travel in that direction and the craft automatically maintains altitude. Under mouse control the mouse's motion tilts the aircraft around the axis of the rotors. The aircraft can only pitch and yaw; it cannot roll. The mouse buttons control weaponry and throttle. The game enforces a flight ceiling at which the throttle will not increase altitude.
Zeewolf uses a wraparound map in which the landscape endlessly repeats. An in-game map shows the location of the player within the landscape.
Development
The concept was developed by Andy Wilton with additional programming by Jim Gardner. The levels were designed by Andy Smith and Bob Wade. Allister Brimble composed the title music and sound effects.
The terrain is constructed from an undulating landscape of fixed size tiles. The 3D engine renders vehicles, ships, buildings, trees, hostages and projectiles as solid polygons with shadow effects. The game uses a horizontal camera angle where only a boxed section of the terrain centred on the player's position is visible. This limitation in depth is necessary to achieve an acceptable frame rate with the stock Amiga hardware.
Reception
References
1994 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Cancelled Sega Genesis games
Helicopter video games
Multidirectional shooters
Video games scored by Allister Brimble
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaskJuggler | TaskJuggler is GPL-licensed (free software) project management software that runs under the Linux and Unix operating systems and is programmed in C++ using the Qt toolkit and KDE libraries. The TaskJuggler Project was started in 2001 by Chris Schläger. Early releases provided a command line tool that generated HTML reports. From August 2005 to July 2010, the package also provided a graphical user interface based on the KDE libraries.
TaskJuggler III was released on 5 July 2010. It is a completely re-implemented version of the TaskJuggler 2.x series and written in Ruby.
The graphical user interface from the 2.x version has not yet been ported to TaskJuggler III; TaskJuggler III documents, which are plain text files, are edited with a text editor and processed on the command line.
Approach
A TaskJuggler project consists of one or more plain text documents written in a domain-specific declarative programming language. The documents consist of a root project file and optional sub-files incorporated into the root by means of the include keyword (property in TaskJuggler lingo), to one or more levels. The TaskJuggler language reference refers to the project definition source document somewhat loosely as The TJP File. This discussion refers to the project definition source document simply as the TJP.
The TJP is a declarative document. The focal objects are tasks, resources, reports, scenarios, and scheduling constraints applied to tasks and resources. There is also a rudimentary facility to describe accounts and accrue costs and expenses. Project progress can be tracked by declaring task completeness properties (as a percentage) or resource booking properties which associate resources to tasks for specific durations, which can be used to generate schedule projections.
TaskJuggler functions as a report compilation tool. After TJP program is written, reports on the state of the project are generated by running the TaskJuggler compiler on the program. The TJP compiler includes a scheduling component based on a heuristic algorithm. TaskJuggler is able to generate a wide variety of reports including Gantt based on report declarations within the TJP. The TaskJuggler compiler is able to handle large projects with over 10,000 tasks, 1000 resources, and complex constraints.
Non-incremental projection
A common feature of compilation tools shared by TaskJuggler is that future compilations (reports) do not necessarily reflect past outputs, even where the inputs are extremely similar. Any change to the project state as declared in the TJP can potentially result in a completely new schedule assignment being generated.
TaskJuggler presently contains (as of version 2.3.0) no provision for generating a minimal schedule change from an existing schedule projection based on a hypothetical input, such as "what if I assign Bob for four hours to the documentation task?". One can, however, feed desired elements from one projection output back into the TJP as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepandar%20Kamvar | Sepandar David Kamvar, also known as Sep Kamvar, is a computer scientist, artist, author and entrepreneur. He is a cofounder of Mosaic, an AI-powered construction company, Celo, a cryptocurrency protocol, and Wildflower Schools, a decentralized network of Montessori microschools. He was previously a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and LG Career Development Chair at MIT, and director of the Social Computing group at the MIT Media Lab. He left MIT in 2016.
Computer science
Kamvar's main contributions to computer science have been at the intersection of computer science and mathematics, particularly in the fields of personalized search, peer-to-peer networks, social search and data mining.
Personalized search
As a graduate student at Stanford University, Kamvar developed tools that made it possible to compute personalized PageRank. He also developed the first efficient algorithm for adding personal context to the internet search process.
In 2003, Kamvar co-founded Kaltix, a personalized search engine company. He was the CEO of Kaltix until Google acquired the company in September 2003. After the acquisition of Kaltix, Kamvar joined Google, where he led the personalization efforts between 2003 and 2007.
Peer-to-peer networks
Kamvar's research and work in peer-to-peer networks focused on the social mechanisms that reward cooperation and punish adversarial behavior. His 2003 paper, EigenTrust, is one of the most highly cited papers in the field.
Dog programming language
Dog is a high-level programming language created by Kamvar and Salman Ahmad at MIT Media Lab.
It was announced in spring 2012, and stems from the frustration faced by Kamvar with existing languages, and felt they made it needlessly difficult to write code that handled social interactions. It is designed to facilitate easier creation of social computing applications, and is designed to facilitate programming in a natural language and allow newcomers the chance to learn programming more easily.
Art
Kamvar is an advocate for using the web as a medium for artistic expression. He believes the ability to constantly change and be viewed by millions of people simultaneously makes the web an opportune medium for art.
We Feel Fine
Kamvar created We Feel Fine with Jonathan Harris in 2005. Debuting in 2006, it is an interactive experience using more than 12 million human feelings collected over three years by scouring blog posts every 10 minutes for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". Since its debut, We Feel Fine has been exhibited all over the world, with Fast Company naming the project one of the "Decade's 14 Biggest Design Moments."
In 2009, Kamvar and Harris took the findings from the four years since We Feel Fine was launched in 2006 and turned them into a book called "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion".
I Want You To Want Me
Kamvar created "I Want You To Want Me" with Jonathan Harris in 2007. It is an interactive installation that searches online da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC%20708 | ARINC 708 is a specification for airborne pulse Doppler weather radar systems primarily found on commercial aircraft.
Technical description
ARINC 708 uses a data transfer method using transformer-coupled Manchester encoded signal, like the MIL-STD-1553 protocol. Termination of the bus is essential for good signal quality. Furthermore, the bitstream is continuous, requiring good re-synchronization to the bit stream. Data frames are 1600 bits long with the header portion of the frame consisting of parameters such as range, tilt, gain, status, etc. The data portion is organized into 512 range bins per scan angle value. Each (three-bit) range bin contains a color value to indicate the intensity at that position. Settings for the ARINC 708 system is typically controlled using an ARINC 429 interface. Details available from ARINC: www.aviation-ia.com/aeec
Avionics weather radar systems
Commercial Weather Radar Systems consist of the following items:
Antenna
T-R Unit (Transmit-Receive Unit)
CDU (Control-Display Unit)
Display
Variations
Variations from the standard specification include variable word length and non-standard amplitude values. Some implementations also require non-standard re-synchronization.
See also
ARINC 429 protocol used to control radar.
MIL-STD-1553 protocol is electrically similar to ARINC 708.
External links
Website
ARINC standards
Telecommunications standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20Rule%20Language | Kinetic Rule Language (KRL) is a rule-based programming language for creating applications on the Live Web. KRL programs, or rulesets, comprise a number of rules that respond to particular events. KRL has been promoted as language for building personal clouds.
KRL is part of an open-source project called KRE, for Kinetic Rules Engine, developed by Kynetx, Inc.
History
KRL was designed by Phil Windley at Kynetx, beginning in 2007. Development of the language has since expanded to include libraries and modules for a variety of web services, including Twitter, Facebook, and Twilio.
Philosophy and design
KRL is event-based with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. In event-driven programming, events, a notification that something happened, control the flow of execution. KRL supports a programming model based on three key ideas:
Entity orientation – The programming model of KRL has identity as a core feature. KRL programs execute on behalf of a particular entity. The idea of entity is built into the underlying semantics of the language. The entity orientation of KRL is supported by the underlying KRE (Kynetx Rules Engine) and so is usable by any program running in the engine—even one not written in KRL. The next two features illustrate why identity is crucial to the programming model.
Entity orientation requires that KRL execution environments support the notion of entity. Rulesets are installed for each entity.
Event binding – rules in KRL bind event patterns to actions. Event patterns are specified using event expressions. Events and actions are both extensible so that programmers are free to define events and actions that are relevant to their problem space.
Events are rarely addressed to a specific ruleset. Rather events are raised on behalf of a particular entity and thus any rule selected from the entity's installed rulesets runs on behalf of that same entity. This concept is called “salience.” An event is salient for a given entity if that entity has installed a rule that listens for that event.
A single event can fire rules from multiple rulesets within the entity's execution environment. Which rules are selected and run depends on the rulesets installed.
Persistent data values – KRL has a class of variables called “persistent variables” or just “persistents”. There are two kinds of persistents: application variables and entity variables. Both are closed over the ruleset they are in, meaning that they are only visible to code executing within the ruleset. Application variables are stored for the ruleset and are available to any entity executing the ruleset. Entity variable values are only visible to the entity for whom they were stored. Application variables are roughly analogous to class variables. Entity variables are like instance variables.
Entity variables, in particular, are a very powerful concept since they provide KRL programmers with the ability to store persistent values without the headache of confi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrekStor | TrekStor GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of portable storage products, audio devices and tablet computers incorporated in 2001 and located in Bensheim, Germany.
The company is primarily known for its MP3 players, hard disk drives, tablet computers and USB flash drives. TrekStor is a well-known brand of digital media players in Germany.
Major sub-brands are DataStation, MovieStation, and .
In August 2007 they were the subject of a brief controversy due to the name of the latest of their mp3 player series, the , which is pronounced as "I beat blacks." After this was pointed out, they soon renamed the player the TrekStor Blaxx.
In July 2009 the company announced its insolvency. However, an investor (TrekStor GmbH now part of Hong-Kong based Telefield International Holdings Limited) was found and the company could continue its business. In 2010 an eBook reader was released. TrekStor also develops its own series of tablet computers.
References
External links
Official site
Companies based in Hesse
Audio equipment manufacturers of Germany
German brands
Portable audio player manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20ABC%20television%20affiliates | The following are lists of affiliates of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network:
List of ABC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of ABC television affiliates (table)
List of former ABC television affiliates
See also
Lists of CBS television affiliates
Lists of Fox television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allaire%20Corporation | Allaire Corporation was a computer software company founded by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in Minnesota, later headquartered in Cambridge, then Newton, Massachusetts. It commenced operations in May 1995, had its initial public offering on NASDAQ (trading ticker ALLR) in January 1999, and was acquired by rival Macromedia in early 2001.
History
Allaire released the first version of the ColdFusion server in 1995, the first database-driven web-content server. In its early history, the name of the language for ColdFusion, then known as Database Markup Language (DBML), was changed to ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). The company also produced two web design IDEs: HomeSite, purchased from Bradbury Software, and ColdFusion Studio, based on HomeSite with enhancements tailored to development of ColdFusion applications.
In 2000, Allaire acquired Live Software, a company founded by Paul Colton in 1997 and best known for the creation of the first commercial Java Servlet and JSP server, JRun. Later in 2000, Allaire also acquired the Kawa IDE (Java IDE) from Tek-Tools Software and much of the Kawa development team relocated from Dallas to Boston.
Allaire also produced an early web Content Management System (CMS) called Spectra.
JRun was purchased by Macromedia, which in 2001 also purchased Allaire. In 2005, Macromedia was purchased by Adobe Systems.
References
External links
Companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Software companies disestablished in 2001
Software companies established in 1995
American companies disestablished in 2001
American companies established in 1995
Defunct computer companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX | AVX may refer to:
Computing
Advanced Vector Extensions, an instruction set extension in the x86 microprocessor architecture
AVX2, an expansion of the AVX instruction set
AVX-512, 512-bit extensions to the 256-bit AVX
Softwin AVX (AntiVirus eXpert), former name of Bitdefender
Transportation
Aviapaslauga (ICAO airline code AVX); see List of defunct airlines of Lithuania
Aeroclub de Vitoria (ICAO airline code AVX); see List of airline codes (A)
Catalina Airport (IATA airport code AVX), Avalon, Catalina Island, California, US
Other uses
AVX Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic parts and a division of Kyocera
Avengers vs. X-Men, a comic book event
See also
UltraAVX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larnaca%20Salt%20Lake | Larnaca Salt Lake (, ) is a complex network of four salt lakes (3 of them interconnected) of different sizes to the west of the city of Larnaca. The largest is lake Aliki, followed by lake Orphani, lake Soros and lake Spiro. They form the second largest salt lake in Cyprus after the Limassol Salt Lake. The total surface area of the lakes adds up to 2.2 km2 and being just off the road leading to Larnaca International Airport, the lake is one of the most distinctive landmarks of the area. It is considered one of the most important wetlands of Cyprus and it has been declared a Ramsar site, Natura 2000 site, Special Protected Area under the Barcelona Convention and an Important Bird Area (IBA). It is surrounded by halophytic scrubland and on its bank lies the Hala Sultan Tekke, one of the holiest of shrines within Ottoman Islam. It houses the tomb of Umm Haram, Muhammad's 'wet-nurse'.
Besides its picturesque beauty, the lake is the haunt of 85 species of water-birds with estimated populations between 20,000 and 38,000. It is one of the important migratory passages through Cyprus. Among the species are 2,000–12,000 flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus) which spend the winter months there feeding off populations of the brine shrimp Artemia salina. Other important bird species are Grus grus, Charadrius alexandrines, Larus ridibundus, Himantopus himantopus, Burhinus oedicnemus, Hoplopterus spinosus, Oenanthe cypriaca and Sylvia melanothorax. Flocks of birdwatchers gather to observe the blaze of pink from flamingoes as they gather in the centre of the lake but also the other important migrants. The Larnaca Salt Lake complex was declared as a protected area by a decision of the Council of Ministers in 1997.
Recent evidence suggests that contrary to previous belief the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) not only stops over but also breeds on this wetland.
During the winter months the lake fills with water while in the summer the water evaporates, leaving a crust of salt and a haze of grey dust. According to legend, the lake's saltiness stems from St Lazarus' request to an old woman for food and drink. She refused, claiming her vines had dried up, to which Lazarus replied: "may your vines be dry and be a salt lake forever more." A more scientific explanation is that the salt water penetrates the porous rock between the lake and the sea, making the water very salty.
Salt harvested from this lake used to be one of the island's major exports, being collected with donkeys, carried to the edge of the lake, and piled up into huge pyramidal heaps. With rising labour costs harvesting dwindled to a negligible amount and stopped altogether in 1986 as the island now imports most of this commodity.
Gallery
References
External links
Lakes of Cyprus
Ramsar sites in Cyprus
Nature reserves
Endorheic lakes of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20radio%20network | There are currently 31 state radio networks in the National Association of State Radio Networks. Each network operates on a similar premise but ownership of each network varies. In principle, each individual network provides live satellite fed radio programs to radio stations in their respective state. The networks rarely charge each individual radio station for these programs, but rather barters with each affiliate for commercial radio time. The network subsequently sells this bartered commercial time to local, regional and national advertisers.
Programming on each network tends to focus on news, weather and sports that concern residents of each respective state. For example, The Louisiana Network will distribute news cast and sportscasts that pertain to the state of Louisiana. Programs tend to be between three and five minutes long. Radio stations are allowed to air all or parts of any broadcast but are contractually obligated to carry all commercial inventory. The vast majority of radio stations will air each fed program in its entirety.
The sale of commercial radio time is administered by each individual network on a local (in state) level. National and regional sales are conducted by StateNets Sales located in Crete, Illinois.
The Texas State Network (TSN) was the first interconnected network and began broadcasting over 60 years ago. TSN is the oldest and largest state radio network in America, incorporated by Elliott Roosevelt (Eleanor's son) and others on August 2, 1938. Five weeks later, TSN's debut broadcast originated from the old Casa Manana in Fort Worth, and featured personalities like Bob Hope and Texas Governor James V. Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.
Original programming included soap operas such as Uncle Jeremiah and The Adventures of Gary and Jill. Most of TSN's early programming, like today's, was devoted to news and sports. Nearly 30 network announcers, production personnel. and control room operators produced Grand Prize Beer's Highlights in the World News each day.
Today, TSN provides news, sports, business, weather, agriculture and talk programming to about 130 radio stations, including seven of the affiliates that carried TSN's premier broadcast.
All 31 networks in the National Association of State Radio Networks are interconnected via satellite and distribute programming via downlinks. Most networks have recently begun delivering their programming via the internet. The average network has 55 affiliates.
Many networks are also affiliated with professional and college sports teams. By providing efficient audio delivery, the networks are a major delivery service for dozens of college and university sports programs. They also make this inventory available for sale.
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint%20Records%20Presents%20the%20CBC%20Radio%203%20Sessions | Mint Records Presents the CBC Radio 3 Sessions is a compilation album featuring live sessions from Canada's CBC Radio 3 network, as well as some from the 1990s CBC Radio 2 programs Night Lines and RadioSonic (programs which evolved into the current Radio 3).
The album, released in October 2006 on Mint Records, is the second compilation of live sessions from the network, following 2004's CBC Radio 3 Sessions, Vol. 1. The music magazine Exclaim! is also a sponsor of the album.
Track listing
Neko Case, "Favorite" (3:31)
Pluto, "Failure" (3:10)
Immaculate Machine, "Dear Confessor" (2:59)
cub, "Your Bed" (1:31)
The New Pornographers, "The Body Says No" (3:50)
Huevos Rancheros, "Crowchild Trail" (2:34)
Novillero, "Habit Over Heart" (3:29)
The Smugglers, "B.A.B.E." (1:52)
The Organ, "Can You Tell Me" (2:38)
The Gay, "Lonely" (3:30)
P:ano, "Ghost Pirates" (2:30)
Young and Sexy, "Satellite" (3:56)
Carolyn Mark, "Chumpville" (3:08)
Duotang, "The Hedonists Collide" (2:55)
New Town Animals, "Three Steps Backward" (2:35)
References
02
2006 compilation albums
Mint Records compilation albums
Indie rock compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOUGNET | Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) also known as Women of Uganda Network Development Limited is Ugandan non-governmental organization that aids women and women's organisations in the use and access of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to share information and address issues their concerns such as gender norms, advocating for their rights and building communities and businesses through education.
History
WOUGNET was founded in May 2000 by women's organisations from Uganda. Its mailing lists are hosted by Kabissa.
Mission: To promote the use of information and communication technologies by women and girls for gender equality and sustainable development.
Aim: To improve the conditions of life for Ugandan women, by enhancing their capacities and opportunities for exchange, collaboration and information sharing.
Vision: An inclusive and just society where women and girls are enabled to use ICTs for sustainable development.
Programs: Information Sharing and Networking, Technical Support, and Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy.
WOUGNET does research and analysis on internet and ICT policies, promotes equal access to information, intersection of gender and technology, capacity building on online safety and emerging technology trends among other activities to ensure that women are catered for in them. It also implements other programs in agriculture, digital inclusion, entrepreneurship, governance and accountability among other programs.
Executive directors
Dorothy Okello (Founder)
Peace Oliver Amuge (May 2020 to February 2023).
Sandra Aceng from March 2023 to date.
Memberships
WOUGNET is a member of;
ICT4Democracy (ICT4D) network
Women's Rights Online (WRO) network spearheaded by World Wide Web Foundation.
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) since January 2005.
Girls Not Brides since 25 March 2012.
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) since 2019.
Digital Human Rights Lab since 2019.
Uganda Women's Network.
Tools
WOUGNET uses email, social media, the web, SMS (short messaging service) and "traditional means" such as radio, television and print media such as newspapers to communicate and share information about online gender based violence (OGBV), online safety among other issues.
Members
WOUGNET has no membership fees for its three types of memberships and these are individual, organisation (Women organisations based in Uganda) and affiliate (organisations that are not women organisations based in Uganda). To become a member you have to are required to subscribe to the WOUGNET mailing list.
WOUGNET members include:
Reach out Wives of Soldiers’ Association (ROWOSA)
Slum Aid Project (SAP)
Ibanda Women's Guild (IWOGU)
Gabula Atudde Women Group (GABULA ATUDDE)
Tusubira Women's Group (TUWOGRO)
Warm Hearts Foundation (WHF)
Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT)
Ntulume Village Women Development Association (NVIWODA)
Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association (UWEAL)
Comfort Community Empowerment Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20New%20York%20%28state%29 | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of New York, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
W8XH
WAIH
WBVG
WCBA
WCEB
WDCD
WDT
WETD
WGYN
WIRD
WJY
WMGM-FM
WNYK
WOSS
WQKE
WSPQ
WVBN
WXKW
WYBG
WYOS
References
Bibliography
External links
www.radiomap.us – List of radio stations in New York City
www.radiomap.us – List of radio stations in Riverhead, New York (Long Island)
www.radiomap.us – List of radio stations in Albany, New York
www.radiomap.us – List of radio stations in Buffalo, New York
Radiostations
New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Okello | Dorothy Okello is a Ugandan electrical engineer, and professor known for founding the Women of Uganda Network or WOUGNET. In 2016, she became the first female president of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers
Education
She has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University, Uganda, obtained in 1992, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1999) from the University of Kansas where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (where she received a Commonwealth Scholarship). She has worked to get more women and rural communities engaged in the information society.
Career
She is currently the Dean School of Engineering at Makerere University. She is Africa's first-ever Digital Woman of the Year, an honour bestowed upon her at an Africa ICT Days gala ceremony for the Digital Woman Award finalists that took place on 16 November in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
In October 2012, Okello was awarded the Women Achievers Award for her service in empowering women and girls through Science and Technology.
Okello was elected as the first female president of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers at the institution AGM on 29 April 2016. On 2 June 2016 a congratulatory letter from the Irish President Michael D. Higgins was presented to her by the Irish Ambassador to Uganda Dónal Cronin on becoming the first female president of the institution.
Academic authorship
She is highly respected researcher and has carried out most of her work with netLabs!UG, a research centre within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the university. Her work has been published in reputable journals and some of it includes (1) Coverage and rate of low density ABS assisted vertical heterogeneous network which was published in the 2022 IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (2) Unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities for developing countries and challenges which was published in the 2020 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) (3) A deep reinforcement learning-based algorithm for reliability-aware multi-domain service deployment in smart ecosystems. (4) Effect of different organic substrates on reproductive biology, growth rate and offtake of the African night crawler earthworm (Eudrilus eugeniae). (5) Resource-aware workload orchestration for edge computing published in 2020 28th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR). (6) Leveraging the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles for developing countries published in SAIEE Africa Research Journal. (7) Rebuilding the internet exchange point in Uganda published by the 2017 28th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC). (8) Regulatory and broadband industry responses to COVID-19: cases of Uganda, Peru, and the Caribbean. (9) Enabling models of Internet eXchange Points for developing contexts. (10) Co-designing with engineers for community engagement in rural Uganda published by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20R.%20Harker | George R. Harker (September 26, 1943 - March 4, 2020), (A.K.A. Dr. Leisure) was an author and self-styled "cyberspace philosopher". He held bachelor's and master's degrees in Philosophy from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, and had taught for 21 years at Western Illinois University before being terminated. He had written many articles concerning the naturist movement, and contributed to the book Recreational Nudity and the Law by Gordon Gill. He was founder of the Church and School of International Détente, a lecturer and a book publisher. He died in 2020 in Hawaii.
Works
1990 - Creation and Management Guide to Clothing Optional Beaches and Parks (American Sunbathing Association)
1995 - Recreational Nudity and the Law by Gordon Gill (Contributor)
1998 - The Mostly True Life Adventures of Dr. Leisure: (On Second Thought, I'll Drink the Hemlock: The Decline of Western Illinois University) ,
1998 - The Intelligent Decision: How We Think!
2001 - The Mostly True Life Adventures of Dr. Leisure Vol. II (1st edition)
2002 - He Wouldn't Drink the Hemlock: The Firing of Dr. Leisure (2nd Special Hawaii edition)
References
External links
Social nudity advocates
Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Texas A&M University alumni
American naturists
Educators from Texas
1943 births
2020 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesel%20Sieve | Riesel Sieve was a volunteer computing project, running in part on the BOINC platform. Its aim was to prove that 509,203 is the smallest Riesel number, by finding a prime of the form for all odd smaller than 509,203.
Progress
At the start of the project in August 2003, there were less than 509,203 for which no prime was known. , 52 of these had been eliminated by Riesel Sieve or outside persons; the largest prime found by this project is 502,573 × 27,181,987 − 1 of 2,162,000 digits, and it is known that for none of the remaining there is a prime with n <= 10,000,000 (As of February 2020).
The project proceeds in the same way as other prime-hunting projects like GIMPS or Seventeen or Bust: sieving eliminates pairs (k, n) with small factors, and then a deterministic test, in this case the Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test based on the Lucas–Lehmer test, is used to check primality of numbers without small factors. Users can choose whether to sieve or to run LLR tests on candidates sieved by other users; heavily-optimised sieving software is available.
Riesel Sieve maintains lists of the primes that have been found and the k whose status is still unknown.
From 2010, the investigation has been merged with another BOINC project, PrimeGrid as a sub-project.
References
External links
The official Riesel Sieve home page (Riesel Sieve is now part of PrimeGrid)
PrimeGrid: About the Riesel Problem (introductory forum post), The Riesel Problem statistics (status page), Primes, TRP (search result)
Definition and status of the problem
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
Experimental mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/443%20%28disambiguation%29 | The number 443 may refer to:
443 AD
443 BC
Area code 443, in the state of Maryland
MP-443 Grach, a Russian pistol
TCP port 443, the default port for HTTPS network traffic
See also
List of highways numbered 443 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian%20Mazur | Marian Mazur (Radom, December 7, 1909 – Warsaw, January 21, 1983) was a Polish scientist who specialized in electrothermics and cybernetics, and the founding father of the Polish school of cybernetics.
Scientific work
In 1937 Mazur pioneered work on automatic telephone switchboards, and developed a working prototype just before World War II. After the war he established a thermoelectrical laboratory and researched infrared heating. Mazur attained professorship in 1954 and later worked on standardizing terminology related to electrical engineering and wrote numerous of articles and a book on the subject. Mazur was a member of numerous Polish and international scientific organizations, including the 27th Studies Committee of Thermoelectrics of the International Electrotechnical Commission of which he was president. In 1977 Mazur acted as a consultant in the field of artificial intelligence at Rice University in Houston, USA.
Mazur's main contributions to the field of cybernetics were the theory of autonomous systems and the qualitative theory of information.
Mazur became interested in subjects related to control theory and what would later be called cybernetics during World War II. He started developing the theory of autonomous systems in 1942, but the destruction of the original manuscript in which he described his theory in the Warsaw Uprising and postwar events delayed the publication of his Cybernetyczna teoria systemów autonomicznych (A Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems) until 1966. Mazur defined an autonomous system as a system capable of controlling its own actions and of acting to prevent the loss of this capability, such as a living organism. He also introduced a terminology sufficiently general to describe all such systems and their interactions with their environment.
In order to describe the flow of information in a general situation Mazur developed a new theory of information. Mazur's qualitative theory of information improved upon previously existing theories by distinguishing between information as such, the amount of information contained in a message, and the information required to identify a message. This theory is described in Jakościowa teoria informacji (A Qualitative Theory of Information).
Adaptations of Mazur's concepts
Mazur's theory of autonomous systems included a formula that described the reactivity of a culture as a ratio of internal reaction to external stimulus where "the value of reactivity is a function of the system's power to transform stimuli into reactions".
In his book Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies literary theorist Piotr Sadowski adapted Mazur's concept of dynamism of character to Shakespeare's characters. In Mazur's theory he defined "character" (being the properties of a system independent of the environment) as "a set of rigid controlling properties of the system".
Publications
Cybernetyczna teoria układów samodzielnych [A Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems], |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian%20Combatant%20Group | The Tunisian Combatant Group (, Jama’a Combattante Tunisienne; ) or TCG was a loose network of terrorists with connections to Al-Qaeda that was founded in 2000 and aspired to install an Islamist government in Tunisia. According to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), TCG is believed to have had terrorist cells in France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. By the 2010s, after its founders had been arrested and a long period of silence, it was not clear whether the group still existed.
History
The TCG was founded in 2000 by Tarek Ben Habib Maaroufi and Seifallah Ben Hassine, in close cooperation with al-Qaeda. The group aimed to establish an Islamic state in Tunisia that would be ruled according to Sharia. The strategy of the TCG was determined during a meeting in Khost, Afghanistan, where it declared its support for Osama bin Laden. Most of its members were trained in al-Qaeda-linked camps in Afghanistan, and it later organised training for new recruits in the camps. It has been described as an offshoot of the formerly banned Ennahda Movement.
A number of the detainees held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba remain in detention, in part, because American intelligence analysts allege that they were members of TCG.
Maaroufi was arrested by Belgian authorities in December 2001, and in 2004 was sentenced to five years imprisonment. Since 2004 the TCG did not have capabilities to operate in Tunisia, and consequently moved their base to the Tunisian diaspora in Western Europe.
Hassine was arrested by Turkish authorities in 2003, after which he was extradited to Tunisia, where he was sentenced to 43 years imprisonment. Following the Arab Spring and the Tunisian Revolution in 2011, Hassine was released from prison as part of a general amnesty and went on to found the militant Ansar al-Sharia group.
The TCG is considered inactive due to the arrest of its founders, Maaroufi and Hassine. There are no figures for the number of members that were in the TCG, but the Ansar al-Sharia is thought to have up to 40,000 members.
European branches
The TCG had branches in several European countries. The Italian branch of the organisation was led by Sami ben Khemais Essid, and was dismantled by law enforcement in April 2001. Essid's group was connected to the "Frankfurt group," which was responsible for the Strasbourg Cathedral bombing plot in December 2000. Also in December of 2000, the Tunisian Combatant Group was suspected of plotting to attack the United States, Algerian, and Tunisian embassies in Rome. Several members of the TCG in Italy were convicted for terror-related activities in 2003.
The Belgian branch of the TCG was led by Maaroufi, and was responsible for organizing the travel to Afghanistan of the two terrorists who assassinated the anti-Taliban Afghan political leader Ahmad Shah Massoud on 9 September 2001. The perpetrators were two suicide bombers who w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSDY-LD | KSDY-LD (channel 50) is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Nuestra Visión network. It is owned and operated by International Communications Network Inc.
KSDY-LD broadcasts four digital streams: Nuestra Visión, Bounce TV, Canal de la Fe, and TV.
Subchannels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
References
External links
SDY-LD
Low-power television stations in California
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannen%20Rossmiller | Shannen Rossmiller (May 31, 1970 - November 9, 2020) was an American lecturer and instructor in cyber counter-intelligence forensics and a former Montana municipal court judge who has had a controversial role as a vigilante online terrorist-hunter, and who was once part of the 7Seas group.
A former high school cheerleader, paralegal, and a mother of three, Rossmiller posed online as militant anti-American Muslim radicals to attract the eye of those with similar mindsets. While still a member of 7-Seas group, she provided evidence that led to the arrest and conviction of Ryan G. Anderson, a National Guardsman who was about to deploy from the U.S. to Iraq. Ryan is now serving a life sentence for seeking to aid the enemy during a time of war and attempted espionage.
In 2005, while posing online as an Al Qaeda financier, Rossmiller offered the transient Michael Reynolds $40,000 to purchase fuel trucks to attack American pipelines. Reynolds was arrested when he attempted to pick up the money. In 2007, he was convicted by a jury of attempting to provide material support to Al Qaeda and related charges, and sentenced to 30 years in jail.
Rossmiller appeared in the 2005 BBC documentary entitled The New al-Qaeda. She, along with other internet cyber sleuths, has been criticized for her work.
As of July 2007, a publicist was seeking a book or movie deal based on Rossmiller's story, and in 2011 she published a book entitled The Unexpected Patriot.
In November 2020, Shannen died from complications related to Graves' disease.
See also
List of first women lawyers and judges in Montana
References
External links
War on terror
Internet vigilantism
1970 births
2020 deaths
American women judges
Place of birth missing
People from Pondera County, Montana
People associated with computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEUS-LD | KEUS-LD (channel 41) is a low-power television station in San Angelo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KANG-LD (channel 31). Through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using KEUS-LD's spectrum from an antenna on North Bryant Boulevard in San Angelo.
History
The station signed on the air in 1999 as K41DO.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Univision network affiliates
UniMás network affiliates
EUS-LD
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
EUS
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Entravision Communications stations
1999 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Kauffman | Louis Hirsch Kauffman (born February 3, 1945) is an American mathematician, mathematical physicist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He does research in topology, knot theory, topological quantum field theory, quantum information theory, and diagrammatic and categorical mathematics. He is best known for the introduction and development of the bracket polynomial and the Kauffman polynomial.
Biography
Kauffman was valedictorian of his graduating class at Norwood Norfolk Central High School in 1962. He received his B.S. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1972 (with William Browder as thesis advisor).
Kauffman has worked at many places as a visiting professor and researcher, including the University of Zaragoza in Spain, the University of Iowa in Iowa City, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures Sur Yevette, France, the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, France, the University of Bologna, Italy, the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, and the Newton Institute in Cambridge England.
He is the founding editor and one of the managing editors of the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, and editor of the World Scientific Book Series On Knots and Everything. He writes a column entitled Virtual Logic for the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing
From 2005 to 2008 he was president of the American Society for Cybernetics. He plays
clarinet in the ChickenFat Klezmer Orchestra in Chicago.
Work
Kauffman's research interests are in the fields of cybernetics, topology, and mathematical physics. His work is primarily in the topics of knot theory and its connections with statistical mechanics, quantum theory, algebra, combinatorics, and foundations. In topology, he introduced and developed the bracket polynomial and Kauffman polynomial.
Bracket polynomial
In the mathematical field of knot theory, the bracket polynomial, also known as the Kauffman bracket, is a polynomial invariant of framed links. Although it is not an invariant of knots or links (as it is not invariant under type I Reidemeister moves), a suitably "normalized" version yields the famous knot invariant called the Jones polynomial. The bracket polynomial plays an important role in unifying the Jones polynomial with other quantum invariants. In particular, Kauffman's interpretation of the Jones polynomial allows generalization to state sum invariants of 3-manifolds. Recently, the bracket polynomial formed the basis for Mikhail Khovanov's construction of a homology for knots and links, creating
a stronger invariant than the Jones polynomial and such that the graded Euler characteristic of the Khovanov homology is equal to the original
Jones polynomial. The generators for the chain complex of the Khovanov homology are states of the bracket polynomial decorated with elements
of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20River%20Valley%20Hospital | Upper River Valley Hospital () is a Canadian hospital located in Waterville, New Brunswick.
Operated by Horizon Health Network, the Upper River Valley Hospital opened November 18, 2007, replacing the Carleton Memorial Hospital in Woodstock, NB and the Northern Carleton Hospital in Bath, NB.
The hospital's location was influenced by the nearby construction of a new 4-lane expressway alignment for Route 2. Many residents of Carleton County were upset with the closing of their old hospitals and the relocation of health care services to Waterville.
Services
Addictions and Mental Health
Clinical Services
Day Surgery
Dialysis (Nephrology)
Emergency Department
Family Medicine
Gastroenterology
General Surgery
Geriatrics / Restorative Care
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Internal Medicine
Minor Surgery
Pediatrics
Palliative Care
Obstetrics
Oncology
Ophthalmology (Eye) Surgery
Rehabilitation
Urology Surgery
Support and Therapy
Diagnostics and Testing
Clinics
Extra Mural Programs
Public Health Programs
Other Services
References
External links
River Valley Health - Upper River Valley Hospital
Hospital buildings completed in 2007
Hospitals in New Brunswick
Buildings and structures in Carleton County, New Brunswick
Hospitals established in 2007
2007 establishments in New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXL | CXL may refer to:
Science and technology
Compute Express Link, a computer processor interface
Corneal cross-linking, an eye surgery treatment
CXL 1020, an experimental heart drug
Other uses
140 (number), in Roman numerals
Calexico International Airport (IATA and FAA LID codes), California, US |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph%20Glanville | Ranulph Glanville (13 June 1946 – 20 December 2014) was an Anglo-Irish cybernetician and design theorist. He was a founding vice-president of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (2006–2009) and president of the American Society for Cybernetics (2009–2014).
Education
Glanville studied architecture at the Architectural Association School in London, 1964–67 and 1969–71. He then went on to study for a doctorate in cybernetics with Gordon Pask at Brunel University (1975). He took another PhD, also at Brunel, in relationships between architecture and language, in the Centre for the Study of Human Learning (1988). Brunel awarded him a higher doctorate (DSc) in cybernetics and design in 2006.
Work
Glanville was a lecturer at the School of Architecture, Portsmouth University from 1978 to 1996. He then became an itinerant academic with several temporary, adjunct or honorary appointments, including a professor of research design in the Faculty of Architecture, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, adjunct professor of design research at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and professor of research in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art, London (2008–14).
Cybernetics
Glanville’s main area of interest was second-order cybernetics (‘the cybernetics of cybernetics’), which developed from his work with Pask on a theory of objects for his PhD Thesis.
In his time as president of the American Society for Cybernetics, Glanville addressed the challenge Margaret Mead set the Society at its inaugural conference in 1967, that of applying cybernetic ideas to the formation of the society itself. While the main legacy of Mead's remarks has been the development of the epistemological concerns of second-order cybernetics by von Foerster and others, Glanville addressed them more directly in the innovative conversational (cybernetic) formats of the society's conferences, interpreting second order cybernetics in terms of how cybernetics may be practised cybernetically.
Design
In parallel with his work in cybernetics, Glanville developed a variety of views of design in relationship to cybernetics, and to science more generally. He suggested a close analogy existing between cybernetics and design, seeing them both as constructivist activities, and akin to two sides of the same coin, with “cybernetics as the theory of design and design as the action of cybernetics”. Similarly, he suggested scientific research to be a form of design, and therefore design research to be construed as an act of design rather than science.
Selected publications
Glanville R. (ed.) (2007) Cybernetics and design. Special double issue of Kybernetes 36(9/10) https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0368-492X/vol/36/iss/9/10
Glanville R. (2007) Try again. Fail again. Fail better: The cybernetics in design and the design in cybernetics. Kybernetes 36(9/10): 1173–1206
Glanville, R. (2004) The purpose of second-order cyberne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor%20Trail%3A%20Hyper%20Offence%20Formation | Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang.
Plot
In 1999, a terrorist organization known only as DAGGER (Ragnarok in the Japanese release) has occupied the city of New York where they have hacked into military defenses world-wide, established their own military command and gained access to nuclear missile silos. They hold the world hostage in this position and promise to cancel their threats of destroying the Earth only until the world's governments relinquish their power to DAGGER.
A Special Forces Air Unit is called in to attack DAGGER and cripple their strongest defenses and headquarters in New York. Until then, the city remains silent.
Gameplay
The game features 2 players controlling the jet fighters simultaneously for battle across numerous levels. There are 3 types of jets varying from different classes of speeds and firepower. The Silph is the midrange plane with the most balance. While the Valkyrie (modelled after A-10 Thunderbolt II) carries the most firepower, and the Seylen jet is capable of flying as the most agile fighter that its vulcans upgrade can shoot backward. Weapon upgrades are available throughout the game, ranging from homing missiles, ring guns, flame throwers and many more. Each jet may also activate the shield manually in times of trouble.
Weapons
Players have a choice between four different standard pick-up weapons:
Vulcan – the player's default weapon which fires straight forward, but can flare out to destroy larger groups of enemies depending on the jet selected.
Bombs – a straight firing, explosive weapon that retains the same firing pattern for all jets, but increases in launch count (number of times it can be fired at once) when upgraded.
Defender – an explosive cluster-shot weapon that encircles the player's jet and remains the same when upgraded, but increases in count much like the Bombs.
Missiles – homing missiles that fire from multiple directions of the jet. Similar to the Vulcan, the Missiles fire in different directions depending on the jet that is used.
Every jet is equipped with a roll device that allows them to dodge projectiles and hostiles. The roll must be re-charged after every use. Players also have the choice to pick up the S-Unit, a weapon attachment that empowers the jet's firing no matter what weapon is picked up previously and every jet's S-Unit attack differs from the others. Once the S-Unit is equipped, the player cannot use their previous weapons unless the S-Unit is detonated. Detonating the S-Unit does not harm the player, but it does harm the enemy as the unit will detonate in a large and powerful explosion.
Mega Drive/Genesis release
Vapor Trail was ported in-house by Data East to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1991. This version was supposed to be published by Data East, but for vario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarStruck%20%282000%20TV%20series%29 | StarStruck was an Australian talent show that was broadcast on the Nine Network between the years 2000 and 2002. The show was originally hosted by Jo Beth Taylor, who was replaced by Jay Laga'aia after the first series.
The show resembled other talent shows such as New Faces in that it featured a number of musical acts who were rated by a panel of judges.
External links
2000s Australian reality television series
Nine Network original programming
2000 Australian television series debuts
2002 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXGM-AM | DXGM (1125 AM) Super Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network. The stations studio is located at GMA Network Complex, Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City, while its transmitter is located in Ma-a, Davao City.
References
Super Radyo stations
Radio stations in Davao City
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra%20Semiconductor | Tundra Semiconductor Corporation is a company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by Integrated Device Technology.
Tundra supplies communications, computing and storage companies with System Interconnect products, intellectual property (IP) and design services backed by customer service and technical support. Tundra's track record includes bridges and switches enabling industry standards: RapidIO, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express, Power ISA, VME, HyperTransport, Interlaken, and SPI4.2. Tundra's products enable board design and layout, with specific focus on system level signal integrity. Tundra's design services division, Silicon Logic Engineering, Inc., offers ASIC and FPGA design services, semiconductor intellectual property and product development consulting.
Tundra has design centers in North America: Ottawa, Eau Claire, Wisconsin and in Hyderabad, India. Its sales offices are located in Europe, and throughout North America, and Asia Pacific.
In 2004, Tundra joined with IBM and others to form Power.org, an organization devoted to drive development and adaptation of Power ISA computers.
History
Although Tundra was incorporated as an entity in 1995, its history goes back to 1983 as Calmos Semiconductor, which was subsequently acquired in 1989 by Newbridge Networks Corporation, where it became known as Newbridge Microsystems and in 1995 was spun out as Tundra Semiconductor. In June 2009 Tundra was acquired by IDT.
Calmos
Former MicroSystems International and Mosaid employee John Roberts founded Calmos Microsystems in April 1983. The company was initially run out of his home in Kanata and moved to a facility on Edgewater Road in Kanata once the company had raised $800,000 in funds.
The company originally planned to design and produce gate array integrated circuits, or chips, for Canadian and U.S. customers. During the design phase, the market dried up and forced the company to focus on developing application-specific circuits. These application-specific circuits would later be incorporated into a larger circuits for other applications. It ended up being a profitable niche that saw the company through the early 1980s memory market slump.
By October 1985, Calmos had raised additional funds, bringing the total to $1.4 million, had grown to 15 employees and had yearly revenue of $1.5 Million. In order to increase sales and grow the business, John Roberts looked for a CEO with experience in the U.S. semiconductor market. Adam Chowaniec, who had left Commodore International's Semiconductor division was brought on board as President, while John Roberts became the Executive VP of R&D.
Newbridge Microsystems
Newbridge Networks primarily acquired Calmos Microsystems for its single chip high-speed public key data encryption system, which became a selling point for Newbridge Networks systems to the U.S. federal government. The rest of the original Calmos Product line though revenue generating and profitable was not a major reason for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Barry%20Mason | Don Barry Mason (1950–2006) was the founder of the Psychedelic Shamanistic Institute (PSI), a networking organisation that encouraged ethnobotany and scientific research into cannabis and other psychoactive plants while contributing substantially to the public debate about drug policy reform. Associates of PSI include: Mathew Atha, Colin Angus, Brian Barritt, Michael Carmichael, Fraser Clark, Paul Devereux, the late John Entwistle, Paul Flynn MP, Ben Ganly, Lee Harris, Mike Jay, Howard Marks, Dr John Marks, Jonathan Ott, Dr Russell Newcombe, Richard Rudgley and Youth.
Drug reform campaigner
As the head of PSI, Mason carried the torch for drug policy reform through a series of public appearances and televised debates and documentaries on drugs and their impact on society. Mason was a steadfast defender of the principle of cognitive liberty, and he made public statements in defence of the freedom of speech. When his friend, Michael Marlow, was charged with incitement for publishing a cannabis manual, Mason defended him by stating, “Here we are at the end of the millennium, and we are burning books. I said to the police, "What are you trying to do - force us to go into organised crime?"
Early life
Mason was born into a prominent theatrical family in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. His father was Frank Mason, a cousin of the actor, James Mason. Mason's grandfather was the understudy and stand-in for the actor and comedian, George Formby, and his cousin, Barry Mason, is the popular songwriter who wrote the massive hit, “Delilah,” for Tom Jones.
Although he was tempted to follow the family tradition, Mason accepted paternal advice and was swiftly appointed as a trainee stockbroker in the Manchester Stock Exchange where he worked as a financial researcher into securities and investments. However, after demonstrating considerable promise for the profession, Mason tired of the pretensions of the financial marketplace with its tedious culture of profits and its boring spread-sheet analysis of the world, and he yearned for a return to his cultural roots in the arts and letters.
Antiquarian bookselling
After his marriage to Virginia Lee, Mason worked to support his young family in a variety of capacities in the Manchester area before finding his profession as an antiquarian bookseller. With the uncanny knack of the bookselling professional to assess the importance of a book or a private library at a single glance, Mason became a recognised specialist in the esoteric scientific texts published during the psychedelic era.
Research and publishing
In the 1990s, Mason met and studied with the author and scholar, Terence McKenna. Mason intensively studied the work of Jonathan Ott, the ethnobotanist, whom he knew personally.
Mason knew and frequently met with many experts and academics in the fields of ethnobotany, archaeology and psychopharmacology. In Oxford, Mason met the Professor of Archaeology Andrew Sherratt and the anth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envirolink | Envirolink may refer to:
EnviroLink Network, a clearinghouse for environmental information on the Internet
Envirolink Northwest, an organisation which exists to support the environmental technologies and services sector in England's Northwest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Productions | CBS Productions was a production arm of the CBS television network (an initialism of Columbia Broadcasting System, along with its parent company CBS Television Studios; the radio network was founded in 1927), now a part of Paramount Global, formed in 1952 to produce shows in-house, instead of relying solely on outside productions. One of its first productions was Studio One, a drama anthology series.
Later productions of note included the original Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, Rescue 911, Touched by an Angel, Walker, Texas Ranger and 1998–2006 episodes of The King of Queens, the CSI franchise and season 1 of 90210.
History
Prior to 1984, CBS Productions was credited in its entertainment programs in the ending scroll merely as CBS Television Network. In 1979, CBS struck a deal with Trident Television Associates to bring the telemovies for off-net syndication.
Distribution rights to most CBS-produced entertainment programming, especially those that debuted prior to 1971, was acquired that year by Viacom Enterprises, the syndication unit of Viacom, which was created to corporate spin-off CBS's domestic syndication and cable television operations due to Financial Interest and Syndication Rules being upheld in 1971 (later repealed in 1993). CBS retained ownership of these programs (including the rights to release them for other media forms, such as VHS videotapes and later in DVD discs) with at least one exception—the Terrytoons library, which was acquired by Viacom with the split, as CBS saw no value in the cartoons.
On December 17, 1984, CBS re-launched the production arm as CBS Entertainment Productions, to produce shows, for several projects, including networks, syndication, theatrical feature and global film distribution, while continuing CBS Productions's production slate, which was producing television movies into the studio. In 1986, Ridley Scott, who was a successful feature film director, inked a deal with CBS Entertainment to deliver a made-for-TV movie that did not make it to air. In 1988, Maddy Horne, who was senior director was promoted to vice president of current programs at the CBS Entertainment studio.
In 1987, CBS announced that they would produce 22 in-house productions by November 15, 1990, although the production factory is unlikely and the time is when the curtain comes down on the consent decree that the Big Three networks through the Justice Department, an agreement that limits the number of television productions in-house.
From 1991 though 1996, Andy Hill was the president of CBS Productions, leading the development and production of programming owned by the network. He oversaw some of the most successful prime time shows of the decade, including Touched by an Angel; Caroline in the City; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; Walker, Texas Ranger; Dave's World; and Rescue 911. With other romantic comedy options in the works, CBS' programming department passed on Caroline in the City. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation%202 | The SPARCstation 2, or SS2 (code named Calvin, Sun 4/75) is a SPARC workstation computer sold by Sun Microsystems. It is based on the sun4c architecture, and is implemented in a pizza box form factor.
Specifications
CPU
40 MHz Cypress CY7C601 CPU (28.5 MIPS), TI TMS390C601A FPU (4.2 MFLOPS). The only CPU upgrade option was the Weitek 80 MHz SPARC POWER μP ("Power up").
Memory
The SPARCstation 2 can be configured with up to 128 MB of memory in total: 64 MB on the motherboard, and an additional 64 MB using a special 32 MB SBus memory card with another 32 MB piggy-backed daughterboard.
The 16 RAM slots on the motherboard can be populated with either 1 MB SIMMs for a total of 16 MB, or with 4 MB SIMMs for a total of 64 MB. Standard 30-pin SIMMs can be used as long as they use parity error detection and are rated 80 ns or faster.
Dimensions
Its dimensions are x x (W x D x H). The weight is .
Disk drives
The SPARCstation 2 uses a standard 50-pin SCSI interface and can house two 3 1/2" full-height disk drives. The SS2 also comes with a special auto-ejecting 1.44 MB floppy disk drive.
Modern 80-pin Single Connector Attachment (SCA) SCSI drives can be used internally with an adapter, but the plastic drive sled used with 50-pin drives must be cut to allow clearance for the adapter board. SCA drives may run hotter than original SCSI drives and cause heating issues, especially if two drives are installed.
Network
There is an Ethernet AUI port on board, which can be supplemented by add-on SBus cards. Onboard Ethernet is provided by an AMD Lance Am7990 Ethernet controller. External AUI transceivers are required for connection to 10BASE5, 10BASE2, 10BASE-T, or other Ethernet physical layer media. The OpenBoot ROM is able to boot from network, using RARP and TFTP.
NVRAM
The SPARCstation 2 uses an M48T02 battery-backed RTC with RAM chip which handles the real time clock and boot parameter storage. The only problem with this chip is that the battery is internal, which means the entire chip must be replaced when its battery runs out. As all sun4c machines are now older than the battery life of this chip, a substantial number of these systems now refuse to boot. Additionally, the sun4c design used the reserved bits in the M48T02's NVRAM in a non-standard way; since later revisions of the M48T02 chip exert stricter control over these bits, a current M48T02 will store the NVRAM data, but the RTC will not function correctly and the system may fail to auto-boot.
Due to incompatibilities with modern M48T02s, it is common to modify failed NVRAMs by cutting into the encapsulation and patching in a new battery. It is also possible to replace the entire encapsulation, which also contains a 32.768 kHz clock crystal.
Operating systems
The following operating systems will run on a SPARCstation 2:
SunOS 4.1.1 onwards
Solaris 2.0 to Solaris 7 (sun4c dropped in Solaris 8)
Linux - Some, but not all, distributions supported this sparc32 sub-architecture; it had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Schools%20of%20Public%20Policy%2C%20Affairs%2C%20and%20Administration | The Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization. It is an international association and accreditation body of public affairs schools also known as schools of public policy and administration at universities in the United States and abroad. NASPAA is also the sole body in the United States recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as the accreditor of master's degree programs in public policy (MPP), public affairs (MPAff), and public administration (MPA). Its stated mission is to "ensure excellence in education and training for public service and to promote the ideal of public service." It administers the honor society Pi Alpha Alpha.
History and mission
Founded in 1970, NASPAA serves as a national and international resource for the promotion of excellence in education for the public service. Its institutional membership includes more than 280 university programs in the United States in public administration, policy, and management. NASPAA is also the accreditator of its member schools, seeking to promote the quality of education. It accomplishes its purposes through direct services to its member institutions and by:
Developing and administering appropriate standards for educational programs in public affairs through its Executive Council and its Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation;
Representing to governments and other institutions the objectives and needs of education for public affairs and administration;
Encouraging curriculum development and innovation and providing a forum for publication and discussion of education scholarship, practices, and issues;
Undertaking surveys that provide members and the public with information on key educational issues;
Meeting with employers to promote internship and employment for students and graduates;
Undertaking joint educational projects with practitioner professional organizations; and
Collaborating with institutes and schools of public administration in other countries through conferences, consortia, and joint projects.
NASPAA provides opportunities for international engagement for NASPAA members, placing a global emphasis on educational quality and quality assurance through a series of networked international initiatives, in particular the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee), the Inter-American Network of Public Administration Education (INPAE), and the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). It is also involved locally, directing the Small Communities Outreach Project for Environmental Issues, which networks public affairs schools and local governments around environmental regulation policy issues, with support from the Environmental Protection Agency.
In 2013, NASPAA changed its name from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration to the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Children%27s%20Book%20Writers%20and%20Illustrators | The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge between writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers and others involved with literature for young people.
The SCBWI has more than 22,000 members worldwide, in over 80 regional chapters, making it the largest children's writing organization in the world.
History
In 1971, the organization was founded as the Society of Children's Book Writers by a group of Los Angeles-based writers, including the group's President Stephen Mooser and Executive Director Lin Oliver. Authors Judy Blume and Jane Yolen sat on the original board and continue to be involved today.
In October 1973, details were announced for the Golden Kite Award, the only children's literary award judged by a jury of peers. Today, the awards are given annually to recognize excellence in children's literature in four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Book Text, and Picture Book Illustration.
In March 1978, SCBWI announced it would offer work-in-progress grants in memory of illustrator and board member Don Freeman. Today, nearly $25,000 in Work-in-Progress grants are given annually to SCBWI members.
In 1991, illustrator and board member Tomie dePaola lobbied to officially include illustrators in organization. and the name was changed to the current: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
In 1993, Sue Alexander opened the first office in West Hills, California.
In 1996, SCBWI launched its first website with the help of Bruce Balan.
In 1999, in Paris, France, SCBWI held its first conference outside the United States.
Also in 1999, in New York City, SCBWI added an annual Winter International Conference.
In 2010, SCBWI established the Crystal Kite Member's Choice Awards to recognize great children's literature in 15 regional divisions around the world.
Publications
The Bulletin:
The SCBWI Bulletin is a bi-monthly publication containing information about the field of children's literature. Features include marketing reports; articles on writing, illustrating, and publishing; contests and awards announcements; SCBWI member news; and ongoing SCBWI activities throughout the world.
The Book:
SCBWI also publishes The Book, which provides information and references to both published and unpublished writers and illustrators. Publications include specific information on publishers, agents, markets, educational programs, contracts, critique groups, and editorial services.
Awards and grants
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators presents several awards and grants to its members each year including:
Amber Brown Grant: Named in honor of the late author and SCBWI supporter, Paula Danzinger, the Amber Brown Grants are given to underserved schools with the desire and commitment to enrich their curriculum with a visit from an author or illustrator. SCBWI provides an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWRR | WWRR is a classic hits radio station in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, known as The River, 105 and 103-5.
WWRR programming is simulcast on co-owned WYCK (1340 AM), licensed to nearby Plains, as well as WYCK’s translators W264CG (100.7 FM) Wilkes-Barre and W285FT (104.9 FM) Hazleton.
The station's logo was featured in a fourth season episode of the NBC sitcom The Office, along with sister station WICK.
On April 1, 2018, WWRR began simulcasting on WMMZ 103.5 FM Berwick.
References
External links
WRR
Radio stations established in 1975
Classic hits radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICK | WICK (1400 AM) is an oldies radio station in Scranton, Pennsylvania branded as "The Mothership" and is owned by Bold Gold Media, through licensee Bold Gold Media Group, LP. Programming is simulcast on co-owned WCDL/1440AM & W294BJ/106.7FM, licensed to nearby Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and translator W228CN at 93.5FM in Clarks Summit.
The station is owned by Bold Gold Media. In 2006, the station owners dropped the previous oldies format in favor of a sports radio format branded as "THE GAME" with programming coming from Fox Sports Radio and CBS Sports Network's Jim Rome. WICK simulcasted "THE GAME" radio format on its sister station WCDL located in Carbondale, Pennsylvania . The simulcast network is also the flagship network for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders AAA Minor League Baseball radio play-by-play coverage.
WICK broadcast local play-by-play for high school and college football and basketball for over four decades. In the past, the station has also broadcast locally-based sports talk shows. Starting in 2009, "The District 2 Review & More" aired Thursdays from 5 to 6pm during the high school football and basketball seasons. The show was hosted by Paul Grippi and Jim Riley.
In 2013, "The Friday Night Sportsline with Chris Kucharski" was added to the lineup, airing 5 to 7pm on Fridays.
In 2014, a daily weekday drive time show was launched called "The CK Sports Blitz". The show aired Monday through Thursday from 4pm to 6pm and 4pm to 5pm on Fridays. The show was hosted by local sports personality Chris Kucharski. Upon the launch of the daily show, Kucharski left as host of "The Friday Night Sportsline" and was replaced by Eddie Walker.
On March 8, 2020, WICK changed format from sports to oldies, branded as "The Mothership".
Previous logo
References
External links
WICK official website
WICK Signal Coverage Map According to Radio-Locator.com
ICK
Oldies radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%20Laybourne | Kit Laybourne is a TV producer and educator. Laybourne was an executive producer of animation, documentary and interactive shows at Oxygen Network a company co-founded by his wife Geraldine and Oprah Winfrey. His major production credits include Braingames for HBO, Eureeka's Castle and Gullah Gullah Island for Nickelodeon, Liquid Television for MTV, and Media Probes for PBS. In 2021, he became chief creative officer for The Whistle, a media company focusing on sports for kids.
For a dozen years, Laybourne and partner Eli Noyes ran Noyes & Laybourne, an independent animation & branding studio in TriBeCa. Most of its major works included ID's for MTV and Nickelodeon, shorts for the Children's Television Workshop, and shows for Scholastic and Nick Jr.
Writings
The Animation Book : A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons. New York: Three Rivers Press. The book was originally published in 1979, but upon further research into digital animation techniques, a new edition was released in 1998.
"Mediapedia", published in 2009 by Globe Pequot Press.
References
External links
Living people
American television producers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDCB | WDCB (90.9 MHz is a non-commercial public FM radio station licensed to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It largely airs jazz programming and is owned by the College of DuPage. Most shows are locally-hosted but some select programs come from National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). WDCB is listener-supported and seeks donations on the air and on its website. Funding also comes from grants and corporate sponsorships. The studios are on Fawell Boulevard on the DuPage campus.
WDCB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 5,000 watts. The transmitter is off Fawell Boulevard at Briarcliff Boulevard in Wheaton. Programming can be heard on CAN TV channel 42 in Chicago. It is also simulcast on WRTE 90.7 FM on Chicago's west side.
History
Early years
The station signed on the air on . It was originally a part-time station, sharing time on the frequency with WEPS. The station's call sign stood for "DuPage Community Broadcasting".
In its early years, the station aired classical music, jazz and folk music, College of DuPage educational courses, community affairs, and entertainment programming. The station began full-time operations in October 1987, after an agreement was reached for WEPS to move to a new frequency. Throughout the 1980s, WDCB was also used on the Cablevision of Downers Grove's Local/Public Access Channel.
Jazz music
By the late 1980s, jazz had become the station's primary format. While jazz remains its focus, WDCB plays a diverse variety of musical genres, including blues, roots rock, bluegrass, Celtic, folk, big band, Afro-Cuban jazz, and world music, along with old-time radio shows.
Educational courses continued to air on the station until 2001. Classical Confab aired Sundays until late 2005. WDCB is also the home of Those Were The Days, the long-running old-time radio program that had originally been hosted by Chuck Schaden. In 2009, Steve Darnall took over as the second host of the show. The show was announced for years by Ken Alexander, who died November 5, 2022.
As the result of a 2016 agreement with Chicago Public Media, WDCB's programming is now also heard on WRTE 90.7 FM, from a low power 6-watt signal located on Chicago's near-west side. While WDCB's primary 90.9 FM signal does reach all of Chicago, the 90.7 FM signal offers better reception for many WDCB listeners on the west side of Chicago, as well as Chicago's near-north and near-south side neighborhoods.
Programming
WDCB broadcasts more than 130 hours of jazz every week. Since 2000, John Russell Ghrist has hosted the Saturday afternoon big band program Midwest Ballroom. Steve Darnall hosts the long running old-time radio program Those Were The Days, which airs Saturday afternoons. WDCB's extensive blues lineup includes a 10-hour block of blues every Saturday night, led off by popular Chicago blues radio veteran Tom Marker ( who began hosting on WDCB in 2015), and ending with Steve Cushing's historical, e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniGLX | MiniGLX is a specification for an application programming interface which facilitates OpenGL rendering on systems without windowing systems, e.g. Linux without an X Window System or embedded systems without a windowing system. The interface is a subset of the GLX interface, plus a minimal set of Xlib-like functions.
Programs written for Mini GLX can run unchanged on systems with the X Window System and the GLX extension. The intention is to allow flexibility for prototyping and testing.
MiniGLX is currently implemented within the Mesa 3D project that provides a means to use the Direct Rendering Infrastructure when the X Window System is not used. In essence it provides functions that mimic those of X, so that programs written using MiniGLX should be compilable as X Window programs. MiniGLX renders directly to the framebuffer device or through accelerated DRI drivers. MiniGLX allows only one window (which fills the whole framebuffer) to exist.
If the existing source code were extended, MiniGLX could be used by GPGPU applications, using the power of graphics card processors for general, non-graphical tasks, as long as no other driver uses the graphics card. Nvidia has already integrated support for using the graphics processing unit on Nvidia cards for application programming into its proprietary 3D graphic driver.
See also
Graphics hardware and FOSS
MiniGL
External links
Application programming interfaces
Graphics libraries
OpenGL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Gas%20Interconnector | The Baltic Gas Interconnector was a 2001 project of a natural gas submarine pipeline in the Baltic Sea between Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The pipeline would connect the existing pipeline networks of southern Scandinavian and Continental European countries in order to secure uninterrupted supply of natural gas.
Route
In Germany, landfall of the pipeline was to be in Rostock area in the north-eastern part of Germany. The German onshore section was to include a compressor station and a connection to the existing gas network. The length of planned offshore section was around . The Danish landing point was to be in Avedøre in the eastern part of Denmark, and the pipeline was planned to connect with the Avedøre power plant. In Sweden, the landing point was to be in Trelleborg on the southern tip of Sweden, and the Swedish onshore section was to continue approximately to the existing gas grid.
Technical features
The pipeline was designed for a pressure of with a diameter of . The planned annual capacity was with option for later increase up to .
The consortium to build the Baltic Gas Interconnector consisted of DONG Energy (originally Energi E2), Hovedstadsregionens Naturgas (HNG), VNG - Verbundnetz Gas AG, E.ON Sverige AB, Göteborgs Energi, Lunds Energi and Öresundskraft.
Feasibility study
The feasibility study which was completed in 2001 included market assessment, seabed survey, offshore and onshore installations estimated total cost to be €225 million ($202.3 million). The pipeline was scheduled to become operational circa 2004–2005. Environmental impact assessment started in 2002. Authorization from Swedish government was given in 2004, by Denmark – in 2005. The last phase of authorization was to come from Germany, in 2006. The project was not implemented.
During the initial stages of the project, gas was planned to be transported from the North Sea which is now in depletion. Consequently, Russian gas was considered as an alternative source for the pipeline, and implementation of BGI was revisited in 2007 and the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was considered to be connected to the Swedish pipeline network.
References
External links
Baltic Gas Interconnector (archive page)
Pipelines under the Baltic Sea
Natural gas pipelines in Denmark
Natural gas pipelines in Sweden
Natural gas pipelines in Germany
Cancelled energy infrastructure
Denmark–Germany relations
Denmark–Sweden relations
Germany–Sweden relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirMagnet | AirMagnet was a Wi-Fi wireless network assurance company based in Sunnyvale, California. The firm was founded in 2001 by Dean T. Au, Chia-Chee Kuan and Miles Wu and shipped its first WLAN analyzer product in 2002. In August 2006, the company shipped the Vo-Fi Analyzer, the first voice-over-Wi-Fi analyzer that could be used on encrypted VoWLAN networks. It was backed by venture capital firms such as Intel Capital, Acer Technology Ventures and VenGlobal.
The company manufactured and sold a suite of wireless site survey tools, laptop analyzers, spectrum analyzers, handheld analyzers, network management and troubleshooting solutions (including wireless access point management via LWAPP), as well as wireless intrusion detection systems (WIDS) and wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) products and VoWLAN instruments.
In August 2009, Fluke Networks acquired AirMagnet. which later became part of NetScout.
On September 14, 2018 NetScout divests Handheld network testing (HNT) tools business to a private equity firm StoneCalibre. This transaction includes AirMagnet Mobile solutions. AirMagnet Enterprise product line of WIPS monitoring solutions was retained NetScout.
August 14, 2019 StoneCalibre launched acquired HNT products as a new company NetAlly.
References
External links
Fluke Networks Completes Acquisition of AirMagnet
Fluke Networks wireless products
"AirMagnet Rolls Out Voice-Over-Wi-Fi Analysis Tool" May 2006 article in Information Week Magazine
"Airmagnet Boosts WLAN Security, Monitoring Features" February 2006 article in ComputerWorld Magazine
"Wireless Propagator: Seeing the Unseen" March 2006 article in Network Computing Magazine
Electronics companies of the United States
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20R.%20Heim | Michael R. Heim is an American author and educator. Known as "the philosopher of cyberspace", Heim's three scholarly books - Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale University Press, 1986), The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press, 1993), and Virtual Realism (Oxford University Press, 1998) - have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He taught at Missouri Western University in the 1980s, was an online lecturer for Connected Education in the mid-1980s, and taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, 1995–2002. Heim is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine.
External links
References
1944 births
American male non-fiction writers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Missouri Western State University faculty
University of California, Irvine faculty
Heidegger scholars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Scott%20Zicree | Marc Scott Zicree (born 1955) is an American science fiction author, television writer and screenwriter. Zicree has written for major studios and networks including Paramount, Universal, Disney, Sony/Columbia Tri-Star, MGM, New Line, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, WB, UPN, Showtime, PBS, Turner, USA Networks, Syfy, Discovery, Nickelodeon, the BBC, Marvel and NPR. His credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, The Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, Beauty and the Beast, Forever Knight, Sliders, Friday the 13th: The Series, Liberty's Kids, Super Friends, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs and many others, as well as pilots for CBS, NBC, ABC and Showtime.
Career
He is the author of The Twilight Zone Companion, a detailed history of Rod Serling's TV series The Twilight Zone. Several of his interviews with The Twilight Zone actors, directors and producers are available as special features on the Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection DVD box set, and are accessible as alternative audio tracks for the associated episodes. He has also contributed to the Magic Time novel trilogy, a collaborative effort between Zicree and three other science fiction writers.
Space Command
With writer Michael Reaves and director Neil Johnson, and using crowd funding for financing, Zicree is working on a series of films under the umbrella title Space Command. A Kickstarter project page, launched by Zicree in May 2012, raised funds of $75,000 (its initial goal) in three days, and went on to raise over $220,000 during the Kickstarter campaign, making it one of the most successful crowd funding campaign as of that date.
The Space Command series has gone on to feature some of science fiction's most famous stars alongside many fresh new faces, including Doug Jones, Robert Picardo, Bill Mumy, Mira Furlan, Bruce Boxleitner, Nichelle Nichols, Barbara Bain, Christina Moses, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Ethan McDowell, Bryan McClure, and with Neil deGrasse Tyson even appearing as himself.
Works
Non-fiction books
The Twilight Zone Companion (1982)
Greenlighting Yourself Living the Hollywood Dream (2022)
Novels
Magic Time series
Magic Time (with Barbara Hambly, 2002)
Magic Time: Angelfire (written by Maya Bohnhoff, based on Zicree's concept, 2003)
Magic Time: Ghostlands (with Robert Charles Wilson, 2005)
Television credits
Space Stars (1981)
Blackstar (1981)
The Incredible Hulk (1983)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
The Biskitts (1983)
The Smurfs (1983)
Super Friends (1984)
Mighty Orbots (1984)
The Get Along Gang (1984)
Pole Position (1984)
The Littles (1984)
The Centurions (1986)
Galaxy High (1986)
Bionic Six (1987)
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987)
The Real Ghostbusters (1987)
Friday the 13th: The Series (1987)
Swamp Thing (1990)
James Bond Jr. (1991)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)
Beyond Reality (1991)
ABC Weekend Specials (1992)
Babylon 5 (1992)
M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994)
Phantom 2040 (1994-1995)
For |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20United%20Network%20to%20Combat%20Hunger | Local United Network to Combat Hunger (LUNCH) is an artist-powered hunger relief organization with national reach, based in Connecticut.
It was founded in 1989 by Connecticut State Troubadour Bill Pere. One of the organization's primary programs is the LUNCH Ensemble, using the power of popular music to produce positive social action. The Ensemble is a music and drama troupe composed of several professional artists from the Connecticut Songwriters Association, along with approximately 30 students in grades four and up. LUNCH follows the example set by singer-songwriter-humanitarian Harry Chapin in the 1970s, showing how one person, through music, can make a difference in the lives of others. In December 2005, the organization received a recognition award from World Hunger Year (WHY) as "an effective grassroots solution to fighting hunger and poverty"
References
External links
Local United Network to Combat Hunger
Official Harry Chapin Site
Music organizations based in the United States
Charities based in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Network%20News%20%28news%20agency%29 | Independent Network News (INN) was the agency that supplied national and international news to 30 independent local radio stations in Ireland.
INN supplied copy and audio service from its central Dublin studios via satellite, in addition to hourly news and sport bulletins that were broadcast weeknights and weekends.
History
The organisation was set up in July 1997 to replace two rival networks, FM104's Network Radio News, and Ireland Radio News (IRN), which was operated by 98FM.
IRN came into being in November 1991 when the previous national news service - operated by Ireland's first national commercial radio station, Century Radio - was discontinued following Century's collapse. The principal promoter behind INN was Andrew Hanlon, formerly of 98fm, who went on to become a founding director of TV3 one year after the launch of INN. Hanlon was INN's Managing Director and Editor In Chief. A key funding mechanism of the agency was the sale of advertising airtime during prime time news bulletins and the operation of Adsat, which provided a satellite distribution system for radio advertising copy. Adsat provided a turning point for ad agencies, which had previously relied on the railway system to courier tapes to radio stations. Adsat allowed agencies to send copy and pre-recorded adverts to radio stations via satellite within minutes, allowing late delivery of copy. INN/Adsat was principally funded by the sale and distribution of advertising copy and was of its time, as it preceded the boom of the internet and the ability to send data (including sound and video) through the web.
Broadcasters
The following were the first on-air talent on INN from 1997.
Jonathon Clinch
Jerry O'Connor
Chris Finnegan
Ken Murray
Noel Fogarty
Anne Cadwallader
John Cooney
Kerry Gray
Iarla Mongey
Deirdre Grant
Alan Cantwell
Andrew Hanlon
Closure
On October 1, 2009, it was announced that INN would close down on October 30. Management cited a collapse in advertising in the first quarter of the year, with 16 journalists losing their jobs.
Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists Séamus Dooley said the closure was announced rather poorly, as it was being reported by other media before any of the staff was notified. Dooley said, "Fifteen journalists learned that they would lose their jobs through media outlets, that is simply unacceptable... INN staff have made huge sacrifices over the years and are paid well below the market rate for national journalists. They have tolerated a pay freeze and the non-replacement of staff and their efforts are rewarded by this cavalier treatment."
References
News agencies based in Ireland
Mass media companies established in 1997
Mass media companies disestablished in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDEL%20%28AM%29 | WDEL (1150 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Wilmington, Delaware, airing a news/talk radio format. Its programming is simulcast on co-owned station 101.7 WDEL-FM. WDEL broadcasts at 5,000 watts using a directional antenna, with its transmitter, studios and offices located on Shipley Road in Wilmington.
As of May 20, 2019, WDEL is owned by Forever Media. Previously, it had been owned for more than 80 years by Delmarva Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Steinman Enterprises, a family-owned newspaper, broadcasting and mining company, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Programming and Sports
On weekdays, WDEL-AM-FM airs local talk and information shows from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. After 7 o'clock, it carries nationally syndicated talk shows, including Dave Ramsey, Jim Bohannon, Red Eye Radio and America in the Morning. On weekends, WDEL-AM-FM airs shows devoted to money, sports, real estate, home repair, gardening and religion, including some paid brokered programming. Syndicated programming on weekends includes Clark Howard, Ric Edelman and Motley Fool. World and national news is supplied by CBS News Radio.
WDEL-AM-FM carries Philadelphia Phillies baseball, Philadelphia Eagles football, plus other local and national sports. WDEL-AM-FM airs Wesley College football and numerous New Castle County high school football and basketball games. On weekends, WDEL-AM-FM also carries some sports programming from the SportsMap Radio Network.
History
WDEL was first licensed in July 1922 to the Wilmington Electrical Specialty Company, and was initially issued the sequentially assigned call letters WHAV. It made its debut broadcast on July 22 as one of the earliest broadcasting stations licensed in the United States, and the first in the state of Delaware. In 1926 the call letters were changed to WDEL. Founded by Willard S. Wilson, the station was originally only powered at 250 watts, but by the late 1940s, it had been granted an increase to its current power of 5,000 watts.
During the Golden Age of Radio, WDEL was an NBC Red Network affiliate, carrying its dramas, comedies, sports, news, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts. For a time in the 1940s, WDEL was co-owned with another early AM station licensed to Wilmington, WILM. While WDEL carried NBC Red Network programs, WILM aired shows from the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
In 1949, WDEL signed on a TV station, Channel 7 WDEL-TV. Because WDEL had been a long-time NBC radio affiliate, WDEL-TV became an NBC-TV network affiliate. It also carried programming from the DuMont Television Network. But it was limited in power due to its proximity to two other Channel 7 stations in New York City and Washington, DC. It later moved to Channel 12. The Steinman Family sold Channel 12 in 1955 and it eventually became WHYY-TV, the PBS station for Philadelphia, but still licensed to Wilmington.
In 1950, WDEL added an FM station, 93.7 WDEL-FM. At first it simulcast the pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20analysis | Path Analysis may refer to:
Path analysis (statistics), a statistical method of testing cause/effect relationships
Path analysis (computing), a method for finding the trail that leads users to websites
Critical path method, an operations research technique
Main path analysis, a method for tracing the most significant citation chains in a citation network. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20analysis%20%28computing%29 | Path analysis, is the analysis of a path, which is a portrayal of a chain of consecutive events that a given user or cohort performs during a set period of time while using a website, online game, or eCommerce platform. As a subset of behavioral analytics, path analysis is a way to understand user behavior in order to gain actionable insights into the data. Path analysis provides a visual portrayal of every event a user or cohort performs as part of a path during a set period of time.
While it is possible to track a user's path through the site, and even show that path as a visual representation, the real question is how to gain these actionable insights. If path analysis simply outputs a "pretty" graph, while it may look nice, it does not provide anything concrete to act upon.
Examples
In order to get the most out of path analysis the first step would be to determine what needs to be analyzed and what are the goals of the analysis. A company might be trying to figure out why their site is running slow, are certain types of users interested in certain pages or products, or if their user interface is set up in a logical way.
Now that the goal has been set there are a few ways of performing the analysis. If a large percentage of a certain cohort, people between the ages of 18 and 25, logs into an online game, creates a profile and then spends the next 10 minutes wandering around the menu page, then it may be that the user interface is not logical. By seeing this group of users following the path that they did a developer will be able to analyze the data and realize that after creating a profile, the “play game” button does not appear. Thus, path analysis was able to provide actionable data for the company to act on and fix an error.
In eCommerce, path analysis can help customize a shopping experience to each user. By looking at what products other customers in a certain cohort looked at before buying one, a company can suggest “items you may also like” to the next customer and increase the chances of them making a purchase. Also, path analysis can help solve performance issues on a platform. For example, a company looks at a path and realizes that their site freezes up after a certain combinations of events. By analyzing the path and the progression of events that led to the error, the company can pinpoint the error and fix it.
Evolution
Historically path analysis fell under the broad category of website analytics, and related only to the analysis of paths through websites. Path analysis in website analytics is a process of determining a sequence of pages visited in a visitor session prior to some desired event, such as the visitor purchasing an item or requesting a newsletter. The precise order of pages visited may or may not be important and may or may not be specified. In practice, this analysis is done in aggregate, ranking the paths (sequences of pages) visited prior to the desired event, by descending frequency of use. The idea is t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%27s%20Party | Paula's Party is a show on the Food Network hosted by Paula Deen. Unlike her other show on the Food Network, Paula's Home Cooking, Paula's Party was originally taped in front of a small audience at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House in Savannah, Georgia, and Deen herself frequently interacts with audience members. In 2008, taping of the show moved from Savannah to Food Network studios in New York City.
In the program, Deen offers help to audience members who have culinary problems. This new format allows her to be friendly with her guests; frequently she sits on the laps of various male audience members and feeds them sensuously, often making food-related double entendres.
Almost all of Paula's family have appeared on the show: sons Jamie Deen and Bobby Deen, husband Michael Groover, daughter-in-law Brooke Deen, grandson Jack Deen, brother Bubba Hiers (owner of Uncle Bubba's Oyster House), and ex-husband Jimmy Deen.
Paula's Party was first broadcast on September 29, 2006, and is currently broadcast on Saturdays at 7:00 PM Eastern Time on the Food Network.
On June 21, 2013, the Food Network announced that they would not renew Deen's contract due to controversy surrounding Deen's use of a racial slur and racist jokes in her restaurant, effectively cancelling the series. In 2014, Deen's company Paula Deen Ventures bought distribution rights to the episodes from the Food Network.
References
External links
2006 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
Food Network original programming
Television shows set in New York (state)
Television shows set in Georgia (U.S. state)
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%27s%20Acres | Ellen's Acres is a short-lived American animated television series for preschool-age children, which exclusively premiered weekly on Cartoon Network and in the United Kingdom, the show airs on Cartoonito. Animation Collective produced the series. It originally premiered on January 1, 2007 on Cartoon Network, but was later cancelled on February 5, 2007. The series features a very imaginative five-year-old girl named Ellen who has adventures in a hotel her parents own approximately from Tonopah, Nevada named the Emerald Acres.
Format
Each episode begins with Ellen narrating the adventure she had in her imagination, but she says, "Actually...", and the scene changes to a desert area, and Ellen says, "I had just gotten off the bus from school and was saying goodbye to Mateo, my bus driver." She then says goodbye to the unseen driver who closes the bus doors, honks the horn twice, and drives off.
Ellen then says hello to her friend, a tire, and carries a feather duster, two useful props in her adventures, then takes them to the hotel offices, where her parents ask how school was and Ellen explains the first adventure. Ellen then sees what her parents are up to (finding a fossil, fixing a fan because the air conditioning broke, etc.) which leads into further imaginary adventures based on chores she's been asked to do.
Characters
Ellen – The protagonist of the series, a five-year-old girl who moved to Nevada with her parents and has a very vivid imagination. She has orange hair, a gap in her tooth, carries a backpack, wears a light green T-shirt with a daisy, a denim skirt, a pair of mismatched socks (one with two green stripes on her left leg and one with a red and blue stripe on the right leg) and black mary jane shoes. Born in Los Angeles, California, Ellen plays with a Hercules 17 steel-reinforced all-season tire she befriended in nursery school and a mauve-colored hypoallergenic feather duster as her playthings, theatrical company and posse. Emily Corrao is the voice of Ellen.
Ellen's parents – Mom, a sports lawyer and former agent, and Dad, an ex-professional skateboarder and amateur geologist, moved to this bucolic desert location near mines forty miles from Tonopah, Nevada after he completed his career in athletics when they decided to settle down. Together, they run the Emerald Acres Hotel. Evelyn Lanto is the voice of Mom, while Marc Thompson is the voice of Dad.
Cooter and Connie – The heart and soul of Emerald Acres, Cooter is the resident handyman and Connie is the maid in charge of the place. Vibe Jones voices Connie while Michael Alston Bailey is the voice of Cooter.
Mateo – Ellen's unseen bus driver, who drops her off at the hotel at the beginning of every episode.
Episodes
Season 1
Unaired
Reception
The series was noted for its educational content. A review describes its style as follows: "The series offers a style influenced by amine, retro graphics and illustrated children's books."
References
External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20search%20engine | A database search engine is a search engine that operates on material stored in a digital database.
Search engines
Categories of search engine software include:
Web search or full-text search (e.g. Lucene).
Database or structured data search (e.g. Dieselpoint).
Mixed or enterprise search (e.g. Google Search Appliance).
The largest online directories, such as Google and Yahoo, utilize thousands of computers to process billions of website documents using web crawlers or spiders (software), returning results for thousands of searches per second. Processing high query volumes requires software to run in a distributed environment with redundancy.
Components
Searching for textual content in databases or structured data formats (such as XML and CSV) presents special challenges and opportunities which specialized search engines resolve. Databases allow logical queries such as the use of multi-field Boolean logic, while full-text searches do not. "Crawling" (a human by-eye search) is not necessary to find information stored in a database because the data is already structured. Indexing the data allows for faster searches.
Database search engines are usually included with major database software products.
Applications
Database search technology is used by large public and private entities including government database services, e-commerce companies, online advertising platforms, telecommunications service providers and other consumers with a need to access information in large repositories.
See also
Outline of search engines
List of search engines
External links
Searching for Text Information in Databases
Information retrieval systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20database | An online database is a database accessible from a local network or the Internet, as opposed to one that is stored locally on an individual computer or its attached storage (such as a CD). Online databases are hosted on websites, made available as software as a service products accessible via a web browser. They may be free or require payment, such as by a monthly subscription. Some have enhanced features such as collaborative editing and email notification.
Cloud database
A cloud database is a database that is run on and accessed via the Internet, rather than locally. So, rather than keep a customer information database at one location, a business may choose to have it hosted on the Internet so that all its departments or divisions can access and update it. Most database services offer web-based consoles, which the end user can use to provision and configure database instances.
See also
List of online databases
Bibliographic databases
Customer relationship management
List of search engines
List of academic databases and search engines
References
David Haynes (ed). "Online databases". Information Sources in Information Technology. Bowker-Saur. London, Melbourne, Munich, New York. 1990. Pages 151 to 158.
Richard Veit, Christopher Gould and Kathleen Gould. Writing, Reading, and Research. Cengage Learning. 2014. Page 311.
Robert J Muller. Productive Objects: An Applied Software Project Management Framework. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. San Francisco. 1998. Page 672.
Frey, Botan, Friedman and Kreps. "Online Databases". Investigating Communication: An Introduction to Research Methods. Prentice Hall. 1991. Page 74 and 75. "Online Database" at page 347. See also page 348. Google
Arlene Rodda Quaratiello. "What is an Online Database?". The College Student's Research Companion. Neal-Schuman Publishers. 1997. Pages 79 and 80. See also pages 77, 78, 81 and 82. Google
Zane L Berge and Mauri P Collins (eds). "Online Databases and Online Journals". Computer Mediated Communication and the Online Classroom. Hampton Press. 1995. Volume 3 (Distance Learning). Page 33.
Database Journal, vols 11 to 13, p 23
Blodwen Tartar, "The Future of Online Full-Text Databases". Reviewed at "Free info threat?" (1986) 111 Library Journal 23
Rodes Trautman and Sara von Flittner. "An Expert System for Microcomputers to Aid Selection of Online Databases". Christine Roysdon and Howard D White (eds). Expert Systems in Reference Services. The Hawworth Press. New York and London. 1989. Page 207 et seq.
J Andrew Large. "Evaluation of Electronic Media as Reference Sources". Allen Kent (ed). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Marcel Dekker. 1991. Volume 48. Supplement 11. Pages 116 to 129.
(1987) 7 Small Computers in Libraries
Types of databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20linear%20algebra | Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematics. It is a subfield of numerical analysis, and a type of linear algebra. Computers use floating-point arithmetic and cannot exactly represent irrational data, so when a computer algorithm is applied to a matrix of data, it can sometimes increase the difference between a number stored in the computer and the true number that it is an approximation of. Numerical linear algebra uses properties of vectors and matrices to develop computer algorithms that minimize the error introduced by the computer, and is also concerned with ensuring that the algorithm is as efficient as possible.
Numerical linear algebra aims to solve problems of continuous mathematics using finite precision computers, so its applications to the natural and social sciences are as vast as the applications of continuous mathematics. It is often a fundamental part of engineering and computational science problems, such as image and signal processing, telecommunication, computational finance, materials science simulations, structural biology, data mining, bioinformatics, and fluid dynamics. Matrix methods are particularly used in finite difference methods, finite element methods, and the modeling of differential equations. Noting the broad applications of numerical linear algebra, Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, III argue that it is "as fundamental to the mathematical sciences as calculus and differential equations", even though it is a comparatively small field. Because many properties of matrices and vectors also apply to functions and operators, numerical linear algebra can also be viewed as a type of functional analysis which has a particular emphasis on practical algorithms.
Common problems in numerical linear algebra include obtaining matrix decompositions like the singular value decomposition, the QR factorization, the LU factorization, or the eigendecomposition, which can then be used to answer common linear algebraic problems like solving linear systems of equations, locating eigenvalues, or least squares optimisation. Numerical linear algebra's central concern with developing algorithms that do not introduce errors when applied to real data on a finite precision computer is often achieved by iterative methods rather than direct ones.
History
Numerical linear algebra was developed by computer pioneers like John von Neumann, Alan Turing, James H. Wilkinson, Alston Scott Householder, George Forsythe, and Heinz Rutishauser, in order to apply the earliest computers to problems in continuous mathematics, such as ballistics problems and the solutions to systems of partial differential equations. The first serious attempt to minimize computer error in the application of algorithms to real data is John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine's wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX%20Networks | FX Networks, LLC, is a company consisting of a network of cable channels plus a production company and a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business division of The Walt Disney Company. Originally a part of 21st Century Fox, the company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019. Consequently, FX Networks was integrated into the newly renamed Walt Disney Television unit.
History
Fox Broadcasting started up its fX unit by November 1993 under president Anne Sweeney Chuck Saftler was hired in November 1993. Coming from KTLA TV station, Mark Sonnenberg was recruited as first head of programming. On June 1, 1994, the fX cable channel premiered. Early the next month, Fox Broadcasting chair Lucie Salhany and fX was then transferred in a reorganization soon thereafter under Fox Television chair and CEO Chase Carey.
In mid-July 1994, a movie sister channel was announced under the working name of The Fox Movie Studio, also under Sweeney under the title of president of fX and Fox Movie Studio, to start airing in the fall. FX Networks launched the Fox Movie Studio on October 31, 1994, as fXM: Movies from Fox. fXM: Movies from Fox on March 1, 2000, was renamed Fox Movie Channel. Sweeney left for Disney in February 1996. She was replaced by Sonnenberg, who remained until 1998. Peter Liguori was appointed to replace him.
The FX289 channel for UK and Ireland launched in January 2004 then rebranded as FX as it moved in the Sky EPG in April 2005. The channel was rebranded as Fox on 11 January 2013.
John Landgraf joined as president of entertainment in 2004 then promoted in 2005 to president and general manager of FX Networks. In that span, FX's original series increased to two to 11, which was a factor in starting an in-house production company.
In August 2007, FX Productions was formed to take stakes in FX programming. FX acquired a number of non-Fox films for the channels. Landgraf was elevated to CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions in June 2013 while taking charge of FXNow digital video-on-demand platform. On March 28, 2013, FX president John Landgraf announced their upcoming launch of a new channel, FXX. Landgraf described the channel as "slightly more comedy focused" and aimed at younger audiences 18-34 compared with FX's programming and viewers aged 25–54, respectively. The channel was launched alongside the new tagline, "Fearless", that was implemented during 2013 across the channels of FX Networks. These announcements were part of FX Networks' plans to further distinguish itself from the "sameness" of free-to-air television and its "endless imitators" on subscription TV. Also that month, Fox Movie Channel changed its name back to FXM.
In June 2017, the 101-year-old actress Olivia de Havilland filed a lawsuit against FX Networks and producer Ryan Murphy for inaccurately portraying her and using her likeness without permission. On March 26, 2018, a California appeals court threw out the lawsuit on First Amendment grounds.
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