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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Criminal%20Intelligence%20Information%20System | The Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System (ACIIS) is a Canadian on-line computer application established in 1976.
This database is the national intelligence repository for the use of all Criminal Intelligence Service Canada members in Canada. All member agencies cooperate with each other in the collection, collation, evaluation, analysis and dissemination of criminal intelligence by contributing to ACIIS.
See also
Criminal intelligence
External links
Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System website
1976 establishments in Canada
Government databases in Canada
Law enforcement in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20level | High Level may refer to:
Computing
High Level Architecture (simulation), a military computer simulation framework
High-level assembler, a type of assembly language translator
High-level design, an initial stage in software design
High-level document, a standard in software inspection
High-level programming language, a type of computer programming language
Geography
High Level, a town in northern Alberta, Canada
High Level Airport, the airport for High Level, Alberta
Other
Hi-Level, a type of passenger railcar
High- and low-level, classification levels in the description of systems
High-level waste, a type of nuclear waste
High Level, a DC Comics/Vertigo Comics series which debuted in 2019
See also
High Level Bridge (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20MTV | Club MTV is a half hour television show modeled after American Bandstand that aired on MTV from August 31, 1987, to June 26, 1992. Club MTV was part of MTV's second generation of programming, as the channel was phasing out its original 5 VJs and introducing new ones.
Format
Hosted by Downtown Julie Brown (Kevin Seal hosted the pilot) at The Palladium, a large dance club in New York City, the show cut back and forth between teenagers and young adults dancing to a hit music video. Musical guests often introduced their new brand singles.
Club MTV Tour
In July 1989, MTV launched a Club MTV Tour featuring Was (Not Was), Information Society, Paula Abdul, Tone Loc and Milli Vanilli, with Downtown Julie Brown & the Club MTV dancers.
Legacy
On March 20, 2005, VH1 Classic aired a marathon of old Club MTV episodes.
On April 25, 2020, MTV brought Club MTV back for a special, titled Club MTV: Dance Together hosted by D-Nice and Keke Palmer. The one night only event served as a fund raising benefit to help music programs during the coronavirus pandemic.
See also
VH1 Dance Machine
The Grind
Electric Circus
The Party Machine with Nia Peeples
Dance Party USA
Amp
Camille Donatacci (a regular dancer on the show)
Party to Go
References
External links
1980s American music television series
1990s American music television series
1987 American television series debuts
1992 American television series endings
MTV original programming
MTV weekday shows
Dance television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thameside | Thameside could refer to:
Network Rail route name for the London, Tilbury and Southend line
Thameside (bus company)
Thameside (HM Prison)
Thameside Radio
Thameside Series of canoe and kayak races
See also
Tameside, a borough of Greater Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus%20Hoffmann | Hubertus Hoffmann is a German entrepreneur, geostrategist, author, and philanthropist. He is the founder and president of the NGOs The World Security Network Foundation, Mission Future, and The Human Codes of Tolerance.
Activities as university student, and young scientist
Hoffmann was born in Göttingen. He studied Law, History, and Political Science at the University of Bonn and worked as an advisor in the European Parliament (Office of Prof. Hans-Gert Poettering, later President of the European Parliament), the German Bundestag (State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Würzbach, MP) and the U.S. Senate (Sam Nunn, Gary Hart) in defense and foreign affairs.
Hoffmann was Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University. Hoffmann holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with summa cum laude (Prof. Karl Dietrich Bracher, University of Bonn, Germany) and is a lawyer as well. He is a reserve officer in the German Army (Bundeswehr).
Journalist, manager, and investor
In his early years he worked as a journalist in the White House Press Corps, as an editor for ZDF (1988-1990), the largest TV station in Europe.
Since 1995 Hoffmann has worked as an entrepreneur and investor in different funds. His entrepreneurial track record includes New Media Digital GmbH (1996), MBI/MBO, Loewe Opta GmbH (1996) and Internet Media House AG (1998-2001). From 1996 to 2000 he was founder and CEO of InternetMediaHouse AG and a large investor and member of the Executive Board at Loewe TV company.
He then became CEO of the radio business of the Georg von Holtzbrink Publishing Group, and later Managing Director for New Media in the Burda Publishing Group in Munich, building up 15 companies for new media in Europe from 1993 to 1995. In 2005 he became co-founder of German Capital Group (GCG) which invested from 2005 to 2007 Euro 3.3 bn in companies like Volkswagen, BASF, ThyssenKrupp, Lanxess and Siemens. Since 1995 Hoffmann is founder and investor in several internet-companies in Europe, Silicon Valley and China.
Political activities
Aged 25, Hoffmann in 1980 initiated a CDU/CSU resolution and Federal Law of the Bundestag for an Annual Report on Arms Control and Disarmament, which since then has been published by the German Government.
For ten years Hoffmann was Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Committee for Foreign, Defense, European and Inner-German Affairs in his home state of Lower Saxony in Germany. In 1984, he initiated the exchange program for young reserve officers from the US and Germany. He was a German member of the Executive Committee of the NATO Reserve Officers Association CIOR. In 1986 Hoffmann was elected member of the City Council in his home town Goslar (Harz).
He supported the Mujaheddin from 1985 to 1990 against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, visiting them in the mountains in 1985 and writing the Afghanistan Report for the European Parliament.
In 1989, he initiated and helped to financ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%202011%20problem | The year 2011 problem or the Y1C problem () was a potential problem involving computers and computer systems in Taiwan in the night of 31 December 2010 and 1 January 2011.
Similar to the year 2000 problem faced by much of the world in the lead-up to 2000, the year 2011 problem is a side effect of Taiwan's use of the Republic of China calendar for official purposes. This calendar is based on the founding of the Republic of China in 1912 (year 1), so the year 2011 on the Gregorian calendar corresponds to year 100 on Taiwan's official calendar, which posed potential problems for any program that only treats years as two-digit values.
Reported problems
As most Taiwanese had anticipated the problem after the year 2000 problem, the Y1C computer bug impact was minimal. Many computers were already using a three-digit system for dates, with a zero being used as the first digit for years below 100 (Gregorian 2010 or earlier).
Some government documents such as driver's licenses already refer to years over 100; nothing more than minor glitches were reported.
Some iPhone users reported that their alarm tool failed to function on 1 January 2011.
See also
Time formatting and storage bugs
References
External links
Minguo Year 100 Problem Service Web (Traditional Chinese Only)
Calendars
Software bugs
Society of Taiwan
Taiwan under Republic of China rule
2011 in Taiwan
Time formatting and storage bugs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compilers | This page is intended to list all current compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, tool foundations, assemblers, automatable command line interfaces (shells), etc.
Ada compilers
ALGOL 60 compilers
ALGOL 68 compilers
cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline
Assemblers (Intel *86)
Assemblers (Motorola 68*)
Assemblers (Zilog Z80)
Assemblers (other)
BASIC compilers
BASIC interpreters
C compilers
Notes:
C++ compilers
Notes:
C# compilers
COBOL compilers
Common Lisp compilers
D compilers
DIBOL/DBL compilers
ECMAScript interpreters
Eiffel compilers
Forth compilers and interpreters
Fortran compilers
Go compilers
Haskell compilers
ISLISP compilers and interpreters
Java compilers
Lisaac compiler
Pascal compilers
Perl interpreters
PHP compilers
PL/I compilers
Python compilers and interpreters
Ruby compilers and interpreters
Rust compilers
Smalltalk compilers
Tcl interpreters
DCL interpreters
Rexx interpreters
CLI compilers
Source-to-source compilers
This list is incomplete. A more extensive list of source-to-source compilers can be found here.
Open source compilers
Production quality, open source compilers.
Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) [C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC] [Unix-like]
Clang C/C++/Objective-C Compiler
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler
FreeBASIC [Basic] [DOS/Linux/Windows]
Free Pascal [Pascal] [DOS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)]
GCC: C, C++ (G++), Java (GCJ), Ada (GNAT), Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran (GFortran), and Go (GCCGo); also available, but not in standard are: Modula-2, Modula-3, Pascal, PL/I, D, Mercury, VHDL; Linux, the BSDs, macOS, NeXTSTEP, Windows and BeOS, among others
Local C compiler [C] [Linux, SPARC, MIPS]
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure which is also frequently used for research
Portable C Compiler [C] [Unix-like]
Open Watcom [C, C++, and Fortran] [Windows and OS/2, Linux/FreeBSD WIP]
TenDRA [C/C++] [Unix-like]
Tiny C Compiler [C] [Linux, Windows]
Open64, supported by AMD on Linux.
XPL PL/I dialect (several systems)
Swift [Apple OSes, Linux, Windows (as of version 5.3)]
Research compilers
Research compilers are mostly not robust or complete enough to handle real, large applications. They are used mostly for fast prototyping new language features and new optimizations in research areas.
Open64: A popular research compiler. Open64 merges the open source changes from the PathScale compiler mentioned.
ROSE: an open source compiler framework to generate source-to-source analyzers and translators for C/C++ and Fortran, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MILEPOST GCC: interactive plugin-based open-source research compiler that combines the strength of GCC and the flexibility of the common Interactive Compilation Interface that transforms production compilers into interactive research toolsets.
Interactive Compilation Interface – a plugin system with high-level API to transform production-q |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Butler%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael J. Butler is an Irish computer scientist. As of 2022, he is professor of computer science and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, England.
Biography
Butler was born in Ireland. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Trinity College, Dublin in 1988. He then took an MSc (1989) and DPhil (1992) at the Programming Research Group of the University of Oxford, working in the area of communicating sequential processes. He then worked for Broadcom in Dublin and at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland with Ralph-Johan Back on refinement calculus. He joined the University of Southampton in 1995 as a lecturer, rising to reader in 2000 and then professor in the same year. He led the Dependable Systems & Software Engineering group at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton (inactive as of 2022).
His main research is in the area of the B-Method (originated by J.-R. Abrial), especially tool support such as ProB (advanced model checking for B which allows for the simulation of Event-B machines in the Rodin/Eclipse platform), U2B (UML and B), csp2B (CSP and B), and the RODIN toolset for Event-B.
References
External links
Home page
Official university web page
Google Scholar profile
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
Irish computer scientists
Formal methods people
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Academics of the University of Southampton
Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20scheduling | In parallel computing, loop scheduling is the problem of assigning proper iterations of parallelizable loops among n processors to achieve load balancing and maintain data locality with minimum dispatch overhead.
Typical loop scheduling methods are:
static even scheduling: evenly divide loop iteration space into n chunks and assign each chunk to a processor
dynamic scheduling: a chunk of loop iteration is dispatched at runtime by an idle processor. When the chunk size is 1 iteration, it is also called self-scheduling.
guided scheduling: similar to dynamic scheduling, but the chunk sizes per dispatch keep shrinking until reaching a preset value.
References
See also
OpenMP
Automatic parallelization
Loop nest optimization
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Women%20World%20Leaders | The Council of Women World Leaders, created in 1996, is a network of 83 current and former presidents and prime ministers. It is the only organization in the world dedicated to women heads of state and government. The council's Ministerial Initiative also involves current and former cabinet ministers and secretaries in the work of the council.
Leadership
Chair Emeritae
Members
Members currently serving as heads of state or government
Members who previously served as heads of state or government
Deceased members
See also
List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government
United Nations Foundation
Women Political Leaders
References
External links
Official website
Council of Women World Leaders on Facebook
International women's organizations
Organizations established in 1996
Women's occupational organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LatticeMico8 | The LatticeMico8 is an 8-bit microcontroller reduced instruction set computer (RISC) soft processor core optimized for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and crossover programmable logic device architecture from Lattice Semiconductor. Combining a full 18-bit wide instruction set with 32 general purpose registers, the LatticeMico8 is a flexible Verilog reference design suitable for a wide variety of markets, including communications, consumer, computer, medical, industrial, and automotive. The core consumes minimal device resources, less than 200 lookup tables (LUTs) in the smallest configuration, while maintaining a broad feature set.
The LatticeMico8 is licensed under a new free (IP) core license, the first such license offered by any FPGA supplier. The main benefits of using the IP core are greater flexibility, improved portability, and no cost. This new agreement provides some of the benefits of standard open-source licenses and allows users to mix proprietary designs with the core. Further, it allows for distributing designs in bitstream or FPGA format without accompanying it with a copy of the license. Developers are required to keep the core's source code confidential and use "for the sole purposes of design documentation and preparation of Derivative Works ... to develop designs to program Lattice programmable logic devices".
Features
8-bit data path
18-bit wide instructions
32 general purpose registers
32 bytes of internal scratch pad memory
Input/output is performed using "Ports" (up to 256 port numbers)
Optional 256 bytes of external scratch pad RAM
Two cycles per instruction
Lattice UART reference design peripheral
References
Soft microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%2007 | NBA 07 is a basketball video game which was released on September 26, 2006. It is the second installment of the NBA series by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the first one for the PlayStation 3. It was one of three PlayStation 3 titles released at launch (Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Ridge Racer 7) that supported the 1080p high definition video output. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers served as the cover athlete.
Gameplay
On all consoles, the game uses graphics from TNT's NBA coverage.
Reception
NBA 07 received "mixed or average reviews" according to Metacritic. In Japan, where the PlayStation 3 version was ported for release on January 11, 2007, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40.
Awards
AIAS Nominations (10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards): Best Sports Game of 2006
References
External links
2006 video games
National Basketball Association video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Portable games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games developed in the United States
San Diego Studio games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources%2C%20Events%2C%20Agents | Resources, events, agents (REA) is a model of how an accounting system can be re-engineered for the computer age. REA was originally proposed in 1982 by William E. McCarthy as a generalized accounting model, and contained the concepts of resources, events and agents (McCarthy 1982).
REA is a popular model in teaching accounting information systems (AIS), but it is rare in business practice. Most companies cannot easily dismantle their legacy data warehouse systems or are unwilling to do so. IBM Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting, REATechnology, and ISO 15944-4 are exceptions. Fallon and Polovina (2013) have however shown how REA can also add value when modelling current ERP business processes by providing a tool which increases the understanding of the implementation and underlying data model.
Description
The REA model gets rid of many accounting objects that are not necessary in the computer age. Most visible of these are debits and credits—double-entry bookkeeping disappears in an REA system. Many general ledger accounts also disappear, at least as persistent objects; e.g., accounts receivable or accounts payable. The computer can generate these accounts in real time using source document records.
REA treats the accounting system as a virtual representation of the actual business. In other words, it creates computer objects that directly represent real-world-business objects. In computer science terms, REA is an ontology. The real objects included in the REA model are:
goods, services or money, i.e., resources
business transactions or agreements that affect resources, i.e., events
people or other human agencies (other companies, etc.), i.e., agents
These objects contrast with conventional accounting terms such as asset or liability, which are less directly tied to real-world objects. For example, a conventional accounting asset such as goodwill is not an REA resource.
There is a separate REA model for each business process in the company. A business process roughly corresponds to a functional department, or a function in Michael Porter's value chain. Examples of business processes would be sales, purchases, conversion or manufacturing, human resources, and financing.
At the heart of each REA model there is usually a pair of events, linked by an exchange relationship, typically referred to as the "duality" relation. One of these events usually represents a resource being given away or lost, while the other represents a resource being received or gained. For example, in the sales process, one event would be "sales"—where goods are given up—and the other would be "cash receipt", where cash is received. These two events are linked: a cash receipt occurs in exchange for a sale, and vice versa. The duality relationship can be more complex, e.g., in the manufacturing process, it would often involve more than two events (see Dunn et al. [2004] for examples).
REA systems have usually been modeled as relational databases with entit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardized%20coefficient | In statistics, standardized (regression) coefficients, also called beta coefficients or beta weights, are the estimates resulting from a regression analysis where the underlying data have been standardized so that the variances of dependent and independent variables are equal to 1. Therefore, standardized coefficients are unitless and refer to how many standard deviations a dependent variable will change, per standard deviation increase in the predictor variable.
Usage
Standardization of the coefficient is usually done to answer the question of which of the independent variables have a greater effect on the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis where the variables are measured in different units of measurement (for example, income measured in dollars and family size measured in number of individuals).
It may also be considered a general measure of effect size, quantifying the "magnitude" of the effect of one variable on another.
For simple linear regression with orthogonal predictors, the standardized regression coefficient equals the correlation between the independent and dependent variables.
Implementation
A regression carried out on original (unstandardized) variables produces unstandardized coefficients. A regression carried out on standardized variables produces standardized coefficients. Values for standardized and unstandardized coefficients can also be re-scaled to one another subsequent to either type of analysis.
Suppose that is the regression coefficient resulting from a linear regression (predicting by ). The standardized coefficient simply results as , where and are the (estimated) standard deviations of and , respectively.
Sometimes, standardization is done only without respect to the standard deviation of the regressor (the independent variable ).
Advantages and disadvantages
Standardized coefficients' advocates note that the coefficients are independent of the involved variables' units of measurement (i.e., standardized coefficients are unitless), which makes comparisons easy.
Critics voice concerns that such a standardization can be very misleading.
Due to the re-scaling based on sample standard deviations, any effect apparent in the standardized coefficient may be due to confounding with the particularities (especially: variability) of the involved data sample(s).
Also, the interpretation or meaning of a "one standard deviation change" in the regressor may vary markedly between non-normal distributions (e.g., when skewed, asymmetric or multimodal).
Terminology
Some statistical software packages like PSPP, SPSS and SYSTAT label the standardized regression coefficients as "Beta" while the unstandardized coefficients are labeled "B". Others, like DAP/SAS label them "Standardized Coefficient". Sometimes the unstandardized variables are also labeled as "b".
See also
Linear regression
Correlation coefficient
Effect size
Unit-weighted regression
References
Further reading
External links
Which Predictors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%2006 | NBA 06 is a basketball video game which was released on October 4, 2005, for the PSP and November 1, 2005, on PlayStation 2. It is the 1st installment of the NBA series by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Gameplay
In The Life, the players take role of an NBA rookie. First, you must create your player and then go to pre-draft training camp of the team. After that the draft starts, and the character get picked. During the games, the player has to complete goals like scoring a certain number of points or holding their star to no steals. If there is a failure of at least one of the goals, the event will start all over again.
Reception
NBA 06 received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2005 video games
National Basketball Association video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games developed in the United States
San Diego Studio games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermally%20conductive%20pad | In computing and electronics, thermal pads (also called thermally conductive pad or thermal interface pad) are pre-formed rectangles of solid material (often paraffin wax or silicone based) commonly found on the underside of heatsinks to aid the conduction of heat away from the component being cooled (such as a CPU or another chip) and into the heatsink (usually made from aluminium or copper). Thermal pads and thermal compound are used to fill air gaps caused by imperfectly flat or smooth surfaces which should be in thermal contact; they would not be needed between perfectly flat and smooth surfaces. Thermal pads are relatively firm at room temperature, but become soft and are able to fill gaps at higher temperatures.
It is an alternative to thermal paste to be used as thermal interface material. AMD and Intel have included thermal pads on the bottom of heatsinks shipped with some of their processors, as they are cleaner and generally easier to install. However, thermal pads conduct heat less effectively than a minimal amount of thermal paste.
See also
Computer cooling
Hot-melt adhesive
Phase-change material
Thermal adhesive
Thermal paste
List of thermal conductivities
References
Computer hardware cooling
Cooling technology
Heat conduction
Thermally conductive pad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo%20Fierro | Angelo Fierro is an American film and television actor.
Fierro, an Italian-American of Sicilian ancestry, was born in Boston's Little Italy, the North End. He first appeared on network television in an automobile commercial for Toyota. Extolled for his menacing looks, his portrayal of the villain has since been quite frequent. Surprisingly adept at comedy, he also has appeared at Stand Up New York comedy club.
He starred on the TV series Breaking Vegas as the real-life counterfeiter, Louis Colavecchio, and had a recurring role as the Russian mobster, Vladimir, on the TV series Ocean Ave., starring Victoria Jackson and Megan Fox. He also appeared in the movies Señorita Justice as Carlos Rios, with Eva Longoria and Final Engagement as gangster John Knight, with Peter Greene. He has made guest appearances on TV shows such as the Michael Jackson Trial and Untold Stories of the ER, and is well known for his Tony Soprano parody in an Andalusia Olive Oil commercial, with the tag line: "Are you wearing a wire?"
Fierro studied acting at Florida Atlantic University, where he graduated with degrees in marketing and international business, having started theater too late to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He continues to follow an acting career in New York.
References
2. Bobby DiMarzo (May/June 2004) "Boston's Own 'North Star'" Scene Magazine
3. Anne Lundregan (July 1, 2001) "Lights, Camera, Litchfield!" The Sunday Telegraph
4. Joseph Chinzi (Volume 5, Issue 1) "Local Actor, Angelo Fierro, Makes Good" North End Magazine
External links
Official Website
Living people
Male actors from Boston
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEN | AEN is may refer to:
Acute esophageal necrosis, a rare esophageal disorder
A+E Networks, a media organization based in the United States
AEN Ayiou Georgiou Vrysoullon-Acheritou, an association football club in the Agios Georgios refugee settlement in Cyprus
Alliance for Europe of the Nations, a pan-European political party
Alfred E. Neuman, a fictional character in MAD magazine
Armenian Environmental Network
Armenian Sign Language
asynchronous event notification in (for example) the NC-SI electrical interface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Windows%20Vista | Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to issues with new security features, performance, driver support and product activation, Windows Vista has been the subject of a number of negative assessments by various groups.
Security
Driver signing requirement
For security reasons, 64-bit versions of Windows Vista allow only signed drivers to be installed in kernel mode. Because code executing in kernel mode enjoys wide privileges on the system, the signing requirement aims to ensure that only code with a known origin executes at this level. In order for a driver to be signed, a developer/software vendor has to obtain an Authenticode certificate with which to sign the driver. Authenticode certificates can be obtained from certificate authorities trusted by Microsoft. Microsoft trusts the certificate authority to verify the applicant's identity before issuing a certificate. If a driver is not signed using a valid certificate, or if the driver was signed using a certificate which has been revoked by Microsoft or the certificate authority, Windows will refuse to load the driver.
The following criticisms/claims have been made regarding this requirement:
It disallows experimentation from the hobbyist community. The required Authenticode certificates for signing Vista drivers are expensive and out of reach for small developers, usually about $400–$500/year (from Verisign).
Microsoft allows developers to temporarily or locally disable the signing requirement on systems they control (by hitting F8 during boot) or by signing the drivers with self-issued certificates or by running a kernel debugger.
At one time, a third-party tool called Atsiv existed that would allow any driver, unsigned or signed to be loaded. Atsiv worked by installing a signed "surrogate" driver which could be directed to load any other driver, thus circumventing the driver signing requirement. Since this was in violation of the driver signing requirement, Microsoft closed this workaround with hotfix KB932596, by revoking the certificate with which the surrogate driver was signed.
Flaws in memory protection features
Security researchers Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd have developed a technique that bypasses many of the new memory-protection safeguards in Windows Vista, such as address space layout randomization (ASLR). The result of this is that any already existing buffer overflow bugs that, in Vista, were previously not exploitable due to such features, may now be exploitable. This is not in itself a vulnerability: as Sotirov notes, "What we presented is weaknesses in the protection mechanism. It still requires the system under attack to have a vulnerability. Without the presence of a vulnerability these techniques don't really [accomplish] anything." The vulnerability Sotirov and Dowd used in their paper as an example was the 2007 animated cursor bug, .
One security research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVEI%20%28AM%29 | WVEI (1440 kHz) is an AM sports station in Worcester, Massachusetts, operating with 5,000 watts. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. Most programming is provided by Boston sister station WEEI-FM.
History
Origins in Boston
WBET and the second WLEX
The station that now operates as WVEI originated in Boston as WBET, the radio station of the Boston Evening Transcript, which was granted a license on December 18, 1926. The station was originally authorized with 100 watts on 780 kHz; however, when the station signed on February 27, 1927, it was operating with 500 watts on 1130 kHz. The inaugural broadcast was plagued by severe technical problems, leading to a front-page apology on the next day's paper, and the station went off-the-air until April 20, when WBET moved to 760 kHz and began operating from studios originally used by WGI.
After moving to 1240 kHz and then back to 1130 kHz in June 1927, the station moved to 1040 kHz on August 15, sharing time with religious station WSSH; on November 11, 1928, the station moved to 1360 kHz, where it shared time with South Dartmouth station WMAF as well as WSSH. The city of license was changed to Medford in February 1928. However, WBET was plagued by continued technical issues and increasing expenses, leading the Transcript to sell the station; on February 15, 1929, it was purchased by the Lexington Air Stations, owner of Lexington radio station WLEX (now WLLH in Lawrence) and experimental television station W1XAY. The new owners moved the station to Lexington and transferred the WLEX call letters from its new sister station (which became WLEY). On March 20, 1930, the station moved to 1410 kHz and was still time-share.
The Yankee and Colonial Network
WLEX became an affiliate of the Yankee Network on January 20, 1931, and soon thereafter the station moved back to Boston, changing its call letters to WAAB and sharing studios with WNAC (now WBIX) at the Hotel Buckminster at Kenmore Square; by April 20, John Shepard III of Shepard Stores, owner of WNAC and the Yankee Network, had acquired WAAB outright. Shepard had shown interest in the WLEX license as early as the fall of 1929, when he attempted to lease the station and relocate it to Worcester; this plan was rejected by the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) following objections from WTAG. By 1938, WAAB's studios were located at 21 Brookline Avenue.
On January 26, 1937, the ownership of WAAB and WNAC was consolidated under the Yankee Network, Inc. As a result of the NARBA frequency shift, WAAB moved to 1440 kHz on March 29, 1941.
Move to Worcester
In late 1942, Shepard moved WAAB to Worcester to avoid anti-duopoly rules. Though this gave Shepard his long-desired Worcester station, the move was soon followed by the sale of the Yankee Network to General Tire & Rubber. As early as 1948, the station was broadcasting with 5,000 watts.
The Yankee Network leased WAAB, along with WMTW in Portland, Maine, to Radio Enterprises, Inc. in 1949. A year later, Bruff W. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDC-1200 | MDC (Motorola Data Communications), also known as Stat-Alert, MDC-1200 and MDC-600, is a Motorola two-way radio low-speed data system using audio frequency shift keying, (AFSK). MDC-600 uses a 600 baud data rate. MDC-1200 uses a 1,200 baud data rate. Systems employ either one of the two baud rates. Mark and space tones are 1,200 Hz and 1,800 Hz. The data are sent in bursts over the radio system's voice channel.
MDC signaling includes a number of features: unit ID, status buttons, emergency button, selective inhibit, radio check, and selective calling. These features are programmable and could be used in any combination desired by the user. They are typically incorporated in high-end analog FM commercial and public safety radios made by Motorola and other manufacturers. In addition to Motorola, at least two other companies make compatible base station decoders for MDC-1200.
Motorola radios with MDC options have an option allowing the radio to filter out data bursts from the receive audio. Instead of hearing the AFSK data, the user hears a short chirp from the radio speaker each time a data burst occurs. (The user must turn on this feature in the radio's option programming settings).
A general option setting for all MDC systems is to enable or disable an acknowledgement (ack) data packet. For example, following a selective call, the called radio replies with an ack. This data "handshake" confirms the called radio is powered on, has received and decoded the call. The encoder beeps to confirm the call got through to the target. In computer-aided dispatch, the encoder/decoder may pass the ack to the dispatch computer system, flagging the selective call as having been received by the mobile radio or automatically marking the time of call. The disadvantage of using an ack on busy channels is that more air time is used: roughly double the air time used by the selective call data alone. The ack packet takes roughly the same amount of air time as the selective call itself.
Unit ID or push-to-talk ID
Many MDC-1200 systems utilize the unit ID option. With each push-to-talk press, the radio sends a data burst identifying the sending radio. Unit IDs are decoded as unique hexadecimal four-digit numbers. Every radio would have a unique four-digit ID, (for example: 0423 or 5990).
Unit ID can be sent as leading or trailing a voice message. In the leading option, the data burst is sent at the moment a user presses the radio's push-to-talk button. An option can be set to make the radio's speaker emit a tone for the length of the unit ID data, (about 1-1.5 seconds). This reminds a user to wait until the data has been sent before talking. The leading unit ID takes slightly more air time (is longer) than a trailing ID because of a header tone and the need to delay the data burst to allow time for CTCSS decoders and voting comparators to open an audio path to the decoder. A default delay is defined with the unit ID option. To adjust for time delay variations in eac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G95 | G95 is a free, portable, open-source Fortran 95 compiler. It implements the Fortran 95 standard, part of the Fortran 2003 standard, as well as some old and new extensions including features for the Fortran 2008 standard like coarray Fortran. It also supports the F programming language subset.
G95 was primarily developed by Andy Vaught, before he moved to competing compiler vendor PathScale. The last stable version, 0.93, was released in October 2012. Development of G95 stopped in 2013, and the compiler is no longer maintained.
GNU Fortran, a part of GCC also known as gfortran, has now bypassed G95 in terms of its Fortran 2008 implementation and in the speed of the generated code. GNU Fortran was originally forked, in January 2003, from G95.
References
External links
Fortran compilers
Free compilers and interpreters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-3 | CCTV-3 is the art focused channel of the CCTV (China Central Television) Network in the People's Republic of China. This channel is based mainly on dance and music broadcast since November 30, 1995. CCTV-3 is the channel which have a creative boutique programs.
Channel Positioning
CCTV-3 now has a set of entertainment, participation, and appreciation in a "new audio-visual" column to the broad masses of love art audience provides free choice space. To create high-quality column, the purpose of CCTV-3 is to strengthen the program services, entertainment, nationality, participatory, art and the mass, fusion variety, music, information service, literature, dance and other arts programs as a whole.
Prominent hosts
Li Yong
Zhou Yu
Bi Fujian
Dong Qing
Li Sisi
Prominent Performers and Guests
G.E.M
Feixiang
Daniela Anahi Bessia
TFBoys
Shows
Ding Ge Long Dong Qiang
Sing My Song
Dance World
Art Life
Xingguang Dadao
Super 6+1
References
External links
China Central Television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in China
Classic television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20New%20Zealand | The New Zealand telephone numbering plan describes the allocation of telephone numbers in New Zealand and the Pitcairn Islands.
History
By the 1970s, New Zealand's telephone network consisted primarily of step-by-step telephone exchanges or, in the main centres, a mixture of rotary and step-by-step exchanges, with a few rural areas still served by manual exchanges. Local telephone number lengths varied from 3 to 6 digits depending on the size of exchange and population of the local calling area. Numerous complex dialling instructions appeared in the front of telephone books explaining the number sequences needed to reach subscribers in local "free calling" areas, and in a few cases for short-distance toll calls (usually to the local city or town), which were recorded on manually read meters in some step-by-step local exchanges. Local calls were free (and still are for residential customers). Long distance (toll) calls required the manual intervention of an operator, who had access to toll circuits, either via an operator's cord board or a toll exchange (switch). Access to the toll operator was by dialling 0. Local directory service could be accessed via 100, telephone faults via 120, and emergency services by dialling 111.
Crossbar exchanges were installed from the 1970s, and electronic exchanges from 1982.
Subscriber toll dialling (the historical codes)
Subscriber toll dialling (STD) was introduced in the New Zealand telephone network in the mid-to-late 1970s, a result of the introduction of NEC crossbar-based toll exchanges and their ability to perform number translation. Upper Hutt was the first exchange to implement STD, on 9 April 1976. One still needed to dial 0 to make a toll call, but instead of calling the operator, one could then dial the STD number directly. Access to the operator was via 010, while other service numbers remained unchanged.
The original STD codes were numbered roughly south to north, with a few exceptions. A complete list of STD codes from 1987 is below:
STD codes were assigned with larger areas having short STD codes (e.g. Auckland - 09), while smaller areas had longer STD codes and shorter local numbers (e.g. Shannon - 06927). The total number length, that is STD code and local number excluding the first 0, usually totalled seven digits, but could vary up to nine, as exchanges often increased the length of local numbers to accommodate new lines.
Reorganisation
With the introduction of NEC stored program control exchanges in the New Zealand telephone network during the 1980s, and the rapid growth in demand, the breakup of the New Zealand Post Office and the creation of Telecom, local telephone numbers were standardised to seven digits. In many parts of the country, the old area code was incorporated into the new number, however in some areas the numbers changed completely.
At the same time, the opportunity was taken to move directory service from 100 to 018 and charge for directory service calls. The justificat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-7 | CCTV-7 (, China Central Television Defense and Military Channel), is a Chinese free-to-air television channel owned by China Central Television. The channel primarily carries programming devoted to the People's Liberation Army. Prior to 1 August 2019, the channel also carried agriculture-related programmes. On 1 August 2019 (coinciding with the anniversary of the Army's establishment), the channel dropped its agriculture programmes, which moved to the new CCTV-17 channel from 23 September. CCTV-7 also have aired children's television series, both animated and non-animated until it was moved to CCTV-14 in 2003.
Programming
Xinwen Lianbo (simulcast with CCTV-1 and CCTV-13)
Defense News on mornings and middays
Military Report ()
Defense Review ()
Military Technology ()
Military Documentaries ()
()
Former programming
Agriculture (Moved CCTV-17)
Yangguang Dadao (, lit "Sunshine Boulevard")
Meiri Nongjing (, lit "Agriculture Daily")
Jujiao Sannong (, lit "Agricultural Watch")
The Big World of Village ()
Xiang Yue (, lit "Dating in the Countryside")
References
China Central Television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect%20Business%20Information%20Network | Connect Business Information Network, formerly known as MacNET, was a proprietary dial-up online network with a graphic user interface similar to AppleLink.
Launch
Mike Muller, a former VP of Apple Computer, launched MacNET in 1988. The mainframe end was programmed by Robert Lissner, the author of AppleWorks. The terminal software, also called MacNET, was sold through Macintosh software outlets and the network charged an hourly use fee.
Growth and decline
In the early years, customers first had to purchase disk-based software as well as pay hourly online fees. There were two groups of customers: one was members of the general public, while the second was special interest or corporate customers who would see additional dedicated content not available to the general public. The general public could make use of email, a 15-minute delayed stock price server, public message base, and download libraries. During the first year of operation, growth was significant, as MacNET represented the first time that a graphic user interface (GUI) was widely available to customers who had previously been limited to the command line interface of CompuServe and GEnie. At launch, a forum titled Mac Symposium managed by Stuart Gitlow was launched using the freeware and shareware libraries of LaserBoard and BMUG as a starting point. When the PC software became available, T. Bradley Tanner launched a comparable forum, PC Symposium.
Use grew rapidly during the first years, but there was significant competition from America Online when that service launched one year after MacNET had launched on the Macintosh platform. While AOL had comparable hourly rates, they offered their software free off charge, distributing it widely both by direct mail and by user group and magazine distribution. Eventually, the MacNET service name and the company name were changed to CONNECT and the company began to focus on its special interest and corporate customers. Forum management, using Lissner's back end interface, was much simpler on CONNECT than it was using Rainman, the back end interface for AOL's forums, thereby keeping CONNECT viable for longer than it might have been otherwise.
The software remained MacNET on the Mac side and PCNet came out for the PC market. By the early 2000s, Connect became web-based and closed within several years of the widespread adoption of the WWW standard.
References
Bulletin board systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-8 | CCTV-8 is the television drama channel of the CCTV (China Central Television) Network in the People's Republic of China.
External links
tv.cctv.com/cctv8
CCTV-8 Drama Official YouTube Channel
China Central Television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-10 | CCTV-10 is the science and education focused channel of the China Central Television (CCTV) network in the People's Republic of China. Its schedule includes mostly local and imported documentaries, as well as educational studio productions.
Programmes
Lecture Room [百家讲坛]
Great Masters [大家]
Reading [读书, lit. Reading Books]
The Doctor is In [健康之路, lit. The Way to Health]
People [人物]
Yingshi Mingtang [影视名堂]
Just So [原来如此]
Approaching Science [走近科学]
See also
CCTV channels
References
External links
CCTV-10 Science and Education Official YouTube Channel
China Central Television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-11 | CCTV-11 is the Chinese opera channel of the CCTV (China Central Television) Network in the People's Republic of China launched on July 9, 2001.
Programming
Film and Television Theater
Local Opera
Pear Garden Appreciation
Studies with Me
Famous Section Appreciation
Play Park Hundred
Theater in The Air
Beijing Opera
External links
Official Site
China Central Television channels
Chinese opera
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20iteration | In numerical analysis, fixed-point iteration is a method of computing fixed points of a function.
More specifically, given a function defined on the real numbers with real values and given a point in the domain of , the fixed-point iteration is
which gives rise to the sequence of iterated function applications which is hoped to converge to a point . If is continuous, then one can prove that the obtained is a fixed point of , i.e.,
More generally, the function can be defined on any metric space with values in that same space.
Examples
A first simple and useful example is the Babylonian method for computing the square root of , which consists in taking , i.e. the mean value of and , to approach the limit (from whatever starting point ). This is a special case of Newton's method quoted below.
The fixed-point iteration converges to the unique fixed point of the function for any starting point This example does satisfy (at the latest after the first iteration step) the assumptions of the Banach fixed-point theorem. Hence, the error after n steps satisfies (where we can take , if we start from .) When the error is less than a multiple of for some constant , we say that we have linear convergence. The Banach fixed-point theorem allows one to obtain fixed-point iterations with linear convergence.
The requirement that is continuous is important, as the following example shows. The iteration converges to 0 for all values of . However, 0 is not a fixed point of the function as this function is not continuous at , and in fact has no fixed points.
Attracting fixed points
An attracting fixed point of a function is a fixed point of with a neighborhood of "close enough" points around such that for any value of in , the fixed-point iteration sequence
is contained in and converges to . The basin of attraction of is the largest such neighborhood .
The natural cosine function ("natural" means in radians, not degrees or other units) has exactly one fixed point, and that fixed point is attracting. In this case, "close enough" is not a stringent criterion at all—to demonstrate this, start with any real number and repeatedly press the cos key on a calculator (checking first that the calculator is in "radians" mode). It eventually converges to the Dottie number (about 0.739085133), which is a fixed point. That is where the graph of the cosine function intersects the line .
Not all fixed points are attracting. For example, 0 is a fixed point of the function , but iteration of this function for any value other than zero rapidly diverges. We say that the fixed point of is repelling.
An attracting fixed point is said to be a stable fixed point if it is also Lyapunov stable.
A fixed point is said to be a neutrally stable fixed point if it is Lyapunov stable but not attracting. The center of a linear homogeneous differential equation of the second order is an example of a neutrally stable fixed point.
Multiple attracting points can be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-12 | CCTV-12 is the law and society focused channel of the CCTV (China Central Television) Network in the People's Republic of China.
Programmes
Record of Startup (实习志)
Hot Talk [热话]
Lawyer is Coming (律师来了)
Police Training Camp [警察特训营]
Record of Regret (忏悔录)
Ethical Review [道德观察]
Heaven's Web (天网)
The Red of the Setting Sun (夕阳红)
External links
CCTV-12 Society and Law Official YouTube Channel
China Central Television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20deluge%20algorithm | The Great deluge algorithm (GD) is a generic algorithm applied to optimization problems. It is similar in many ways to the hill-climbing and simulated annealing algorithms.
The name comes from the analogy that in a great deluge a person climbing a hill will try to move in any direction that does not get his/her feet wet in the hope of finding a way up as the water level rises.
In a typical implementation of the GD, the algorithm starts with a poor approximation, S, of the optimum solution. A numerical value called the badness is computed based on S and it measures how undesirable the initial approximation is. The higher the value of badness the more undesirable is the approximate solution. Another numerical value called the tolerance is calculated based on a number of factors, often including the initial badness.
A new approximate solution S' , called a neighbour of S, is calculated based on S. The badness of S' , b' , is computed and compared with the tolerance. If b' is better than tolerance, then the algorithm is recursively restarted with S : = S' , and tolerance := decay(tolerance) where decay is a function that lowers the tolerance (representing a rise in water levels). If b' is worse than tolerance, a different neighbour S* of S is chosen and the process repeated. If all the neighbours of S produce approximate solutions beyond tolerance, then the algorithm is terminated and S is put forward as the best approximate solution obtained.
See also
de:Gunter Dueck
References
Gunter Dueck: "New Optimization Heuristics: The Great Deluge Algorithm and the Record-to-Record Travel", Technical report, IBM Germany, Heidelberg Scientific Center, 1990.
Gunter Dueck: "New Optimization Heuristics The Great Deluge Algorithm and the Record-to-Record Travel", Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 104, Issue 1, p. 86-92, 1993
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Iran | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Iran. Iran has a substantial diplomatic network, reflecting its foreign affairs priorities within the Islamic and Non-Aligned world.
In Washington, D.C. the Embassy of Pakistan looks after the interests of Iran in the United States.
Africa
Algiers (Embassy)
Ouagadougou (Embassy)
Kinshasa (Embassy)
Addis Ababa (Embassy)
Accra (Embassy)
Conakry (Embassy)
Abidjan (Embassy)
Nairobi (Embassy)
Tripoli (Embassy)
Antananarivo (Embassy)
Bamako (Embassy)
Nouakchott (Embassy)
Windhoek (Embassy)
Niamey (Embassy)
Abuja (Embassy)
Dakar (Embassy)
Freetown (Embassy)
Pretoria (Embassy)
Dar es Salaam (Embassy)
Tunis (Embassy)
Kampala (Embassy)
Harare (Embassy)
Americas
Buenos Aires (Embassy)
La Paz (Embassy)
Brasilia (Embassy)
Ottawa (Interests Section via the Embassy of Oman)
Santiago de Chile (Embassy)
Bogotá (Embassy)
Havana (Embassy)
Quito (Embassy)
Mexico City (Embassy)
Managua (Embassy)
Washington, D.C. (Interests Section via the Embassy of Pakistan)
Montevideo (Embassy)
Caracas (Embassy)
Asia
Kabul (Embassy)
Herat (Consulate-General)
Jalalabad (Consulate-General)
Kandahar (Consulate-General)
Mazar-i Sharif (Consulate-General)
Yerevan (Embassy)
Kapan (Consulate-General)
Baku (Embassy)
Nakhchivan (Consulate-General)
Dhaka (Embassy)
Bandar Seri Begawan (Embassy)
Beijing (Embassy)
Guangzhou (Consulate-General)
Hong Kong (Consulate-General)
Shanghai (Consulate-General)
Tbilisi (Embassy)
Batumi (Consulate-General)
New Delhi (Embassy)
Hyderabad (Consulate-General)
Mumbai (Consulate-General)
Jakarta (Embassy)
Baghdad (Embassy)
Basra (Consulate-General)
Erbil (Consulate-General)
Karbala (Consulate-General)
Najaf (Consulate-General)
Sulaymaniyah (Consulate-General)
Tokyo (Embassy)
Amman (Embassy)
Astana (Embassy)
Aktau (Consulate-General)
Almaty (Consulate-General)
Kuwait City (Embassy)
Bishkek (Embassy)
Beirut (Embassy)
Kuala Lumpur (Embassy)
Pyongyang (Embassy)
Muscat (Embassy)
Islamabad (Embassy)
Karachi (Consulate-General)
Lahore (Consulate-General)
Peshawar (Consulate-General)
Quetta (Consulate-General)
Manila (Embassy)
Doha (Embassy)
Riyadh (Embassy)
Jeddah (Consulate-General)
Seoul (Embassy)
Colombo (Embassy)
Damascus (Embassy)
Aleppo (Consulate-General)
Dushanbe (Embassy)
Bangkok (Embassy)
Ankara (Embassy)
Erzurum (Consulate-General)
Istanbul (Consulate-General)
Trabzon (Consulate-General)
Ashgabat (Embassy)
Mary (Consulate-General)
Abu Dhabi (Embassy)
Dubai (Consulate-General)
Tashkent (Embassy)
Hanoi (Embassy)
Sanaa (Embassy)
Europe
Vienna (Embassy)
Minsk (Embassy)
Brussels (Embassy)
Sarajevo (Embassy)
Sofia (Embassy)
Zagreb (Embassy)
Nicosia (Embassy)
Prague (Embassy)
Copenhagen (Embassy)
Helsinki (Embassy)
Paris (Embassy)
Berlin (Embassy)
Frankfurt (Consulate-General)
Hamburg (Consulate-General)
Munich (Consulate-General |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Erotic%20Network | The Erotic Network (TEN) is a premium adult pay-per-view service in the United States owned by New Frontier Media. TEN operates six full-time PPV channels that are available via cable or satellite as well as a video on demand channel.
New Frontier Media is also the exclusive distributor of Penthouse TV and Penthouse On Demand in the United States via a multimillion-dollar deal signed in December 2007 with Penthouse Media Group.
Recently, the company started offering adult content for mobile phones.
In 2010, Australia's Network Ten incorrectly advertised their website as ten.com rather than their correct URL, ten.com.au, during a cooking program, accidentally directing viewers to TEN's website instead. Network 10 then switched their main website address to "tenplay.com.au" to both advertise their online video presence and avoid a repeat of that incident.
Notes
External links
TEN profile on the New Frontier Media Corporate site
TEN
American pornographic television channels
Nudity in television
Television pornography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading%20activation | Spreading activation is a method for searching associative networks, biological and artificial neural networks, or semantic networks. The search process is initiated by labeling a set of source nodes (e.g. concepts in a semantic network) with weights or "activation" and then iteratively propagating or "spreading" that activation out to other nodes linked to the source nodes. Most often these "weights" are real values that decay as activation propagates through the network. When the weights are discrete this process is often referred to as marker passing. Activation may originate from alternate paths, identified by distinct markers, and terminate when two alternate paths reach the same node. However brain studies show that several different brain areas play an important role in semantic processing.
Spreading activation in semantic networks as a model were invented in cognitive psychology to model the fan out effect.
Spreading activation can also be applied in information retrieval, by means of a network of nodes representing documents and terms contained in those documents.
Cognitive psychology
As it relates to cognitive psychology, spreading activation is the theory of how the brain iterates through a network of associated ideas to retrieve specific information. The spreading activation theory presents the array of concepts within our memory as cognitive units, each consisting of a node and its associated elements or characteristics, all connected together by edges. A spreading activation network can be represented schematically, in a sort of web diagram with shorter lines between two nodes meaning the ideas are more closely related and will typically be associated more quickly to the original concept. For memory psychology, Spreading activation model means people organize their knowledge of the world based on their personal experience, which is saying those personal experiences form the network of ideas that is the person's knowledge of the world.
When a word (the target) is preceded by an associated word (the prime) in word recognition tasks, participants seem to perform better in the amount of time that it takes them to respond. For instance, subjects respond faster to the word "doctor" when it is preceded by "nurse" than when it is preceded by an unrelated word like "carrot". This semantic priming effect with words that are close in meaning within the cognitive network has been seen in a wide range of tasks given by experimenters, ranging from sentence verification to lexical decision and naming.
As another example, if the original concept is "red" and the concept "vehicles" is primed, they are much more likely to say "fire engine" instead of something unrelated to vehicles, such as "cherries". If instead "fruits" was primed, they would likely name "cherries" and continue on from there. The activation of pathways in the network has everything to do with how closely linked two concepts are by meaning, as well as how a subject is primed. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Information%20Storage | Electronic Information Storage may refer to:
Computer data storage, computer components and recording media that retain digital data
Data storage device, a device for recording (storing) information (data) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa%20TV | Ishikawa TV Co., Ltd.(石川テレビ放送株式会社, Ishikawa Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha), also known as ITC, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System. Their headquarters are located in Ishikawa Prefecture.
History
1969 April: It was set up as Ishikawa Prefecture's second broadcasting station.
2006 July: its Digital terrestrial television broadcasts were started from its Kanazawa main station.
Stations
Analog Stations
Kanazawa(Main Station) JOIH-TV 37ch
Nanao 55ch
Digital Stations(ID:8)
Kanazawa(Main Station) JOIH-DTV 16ch
Programs
Rival Stations
Hokuriku Broadcasting Company(MRO)
TVkanazawa(KTK)
Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting(HAB)
Other Links
Ishikawa TV Co.,ltd
Fuji News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Mass media in Kanazawa, Ishikawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20C%20Sharp | Turbo C# is a discontinued integrated development environment (IDE) from Borland that came in two versions, Explorer and Professional. It uses the C# programming language to develop applications for WinForms and ASP.NET.
The free Explorer edition, which had a fixed IDE targeted towards student, amateur, and hobbyist programmers is no longer available.
The Professional edition had an extensible and customizable IDE.
See also
Turbo C++
Turbo Delphi
Turbo C
References
External links
Borland's official Turbo C# Site
CodeGear software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Campilan | Danifel Manaba Campilan (November 27, 1980 – October 7, 2006), was a radio and TV reporter for GMA Network. As a radio reporter and later as a TV reporter, Campilan was practically in the center of many upheavals and shakeups that the country has gone through, from the impeachment of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada and the swearing in of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the impeachment bid of Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide.
He was a reporter in GMA Network before his death at the age of 25 in a road accident.
Personal life
He was born in Mabolo, Cebu City. Work prompted him to establish residence in Tandang Sora, Quezon City, away from his family members. The eldest of six children, he helped pay for the tuition of his siblings in his native Cebu.
A scholar of the Department of Science and Technology, Campilan was a student of the Cebu Institute of Technology, Florencio Urot National High School, and Mabolo Elementary School. He was also a college activist and a member of the League of Filipino Students.
Before GMA News, Campilan worked with RPN Channel 9 for two years, and with Bombo Radyo Philippines at its Makati office.
Career
He started his career in Bombo Radyo Philippines in September 1999 as a Regional Beat Reporter in Bombo Radyo Cebu and in December 1999 until 2002 he was assigned as Justice and Malacañang Beat Reporter.
Before he joined the GMA Network, he was with RPN from September 2002 as Congress Beat Reporter until in January 2004 as Justice Beat Reporter.
In his first year at GMA Network, 2004, Dan was one of Howie Severino's trainees. But he soon proved to be capable and reliable, and not needing basic training since he had significant reportorial experience at RPN and Bombo Radyo Philippines, covering Makati. His superiors first took notice of Dan as a 19-year-old cub reporter when he spent Christmas Eve and day of 1999 reporting the M/V Asia South Korea tragedy in Daanbantayan, Cebu. His idols were Christiane Amanpour and Larry King of CNN.
As a Bombo Radyo reporter covering the Edsa Tres May 1 riot, he was blinded by the teargas but found an instant, unlikely antidote: "Para mawala ang anghang sa mata, dinakot ko yung ice cream na tinitinda nung mama sa Mendiola at pinanghilamos. Nagsunuran na rin yung iba. Sorry manong, but you saved my life."
At GMA Network, he covered the first outbreak of meningococcemia in Baguio. He was also starting to distinguish himself for the stories he did for the public affairs show, Reporter's Notebook, particularly his pieces on child labor, including a story on kids working on tobacco farms in Ilocos Sur.
He had shown an interest in shooting with a camera and asked about some of the shutter effects that cameraman Egay Navarro uses. Dan liked watching documentaries.
He was a reporter of the early-evening newscast, 24 Oras & late night newscast, Saksi from July 2004 until his death in 2006. His last live appearance was on October 5, Thursday.
Death
Campilan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%20Prize | The Edsger W. Dijkstra Paper Prize in Distributed Computing is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade. The paper prize has been presented annually since 2000.
Originally the paper prize was presented at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), and it was known as the PODC Influential-Paper Award. It was renamed in honor of Edsger W. Dijkstra in 2003, after he received the award for his work in self-stabilization in 2002 and died shortly thereafter.
Since 2007, the paper prize is sponsored jointly by PODC and the EATCS International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), and the presentation takes place alternately at PODC (even years) and DISC (odd years). The paper prize includes an award of $2000.
Winners
Funding
The award is financed by ACM PODC and EATCS DISC, each providing an equal share of $1,000 towards the $2,000 of the award.
The PODC share is financed by an endowment at ACM that is based on gifts from the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT), the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS), the AT&T Corporation, the Hewlett-Packard Company, the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, the Intel Corporation, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The DISC share is financed by an endowment at EATCS that is based on contributions from several years' DISC budgets, and gifts from Microsoft Research, the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
See also
List of computer-related awards
List of computer science awards
References
External links
EATCS web site: Awards: Dijkstra Prize.
PODC web site: Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.
Computer science awards
Distributed computing
Influential paper awards
Edsger W. Dijkstra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I.%20Joe%3A%20Spy%20Troops | G.I. Joe: Spy Troops is a 2003 American computer-animated military science fiction action film produced by Reel FX Creative Studios and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment.
The film was released direct-to-video and premiered on Cartoon Network on September 27, 2003. A sequel, titled G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom, was released on September 14, 2004.
History
When Hasbro launched G.I. Joe vs. Cobra in 2002, an updated revival of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline that was sold between 1982 and 1994, they commissioned Reel FX Creative Studios to produce a series of CGI-animated commercials to promote the new line of figures. They would follow this up with an hour-long direct-to-video movie titled Spy Troops to promote the 2003 series of figures released under the sub-line of the same name. Spy Troops was written by Larry Hama, who wrote the original filecards and the Marvel comic series.
Plot
The plot revolves around G.I. Joe, America's "daring, highly trained special missions force". The Joes have just perfected a new technology: Mind Interface Remote Control (MIRC), which allows soldiers to flawlessly command vehicles from a safe distance. The title refers to the fact that the two opposing forces, the G.I. Joe Team and Cobra, make use of spies to achieve their objectives. Cobra sends Zartan, to infiltrate G.I. Joe headquarters posing as Shipwreck, and steal the MIRC technology. The Joes send Shipwreck and Snake Eyes to the enemy's camp, after learning about what happened. The Joes then organize an assault on Cobra Mountain and successfully regain the technology, destroying Cobra's base and chopper in the process.
Cast
Release
Spy Troops: The Movie was released on DVD in September 2003, with the 12" Ninja Showdown two-pack. It had a suggested retail price of $19.95. Later, it was also available alone, with a suggested retail price of $4.95. Cartoon Network premiered Spy Troops: The Movie on September 27, 2003 at 10:00 p.m.
References
External links
Reel FX Creative Studios home page
2003 direct-to-video films
2003 computer-animated films
G.I. Joe (franchise) animated films
Direct-to-video animated films
Reel FX Creative Studios films
2000s American animated films
Paramount Pictures animated films
Paramount Pictures direct-to-video films
Toonami
2000s English-language films
Animated films based on animated series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster%20%28magazine%29 | GamesMaster was a monthly multi-format computer and video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom. As of 2012, it was the biggest selling multi-format video games magazine in the United Kingdom, outselling its partner publication Edge. Along with partner magazine GamesTM, it ceased print in November 2018. It was originally launched to complement the television show GamesMaster.
History
The magazine was launched in January 1993, to complement the television show of the same name. While the show later ceased broadcasting, the magazine continued, outlasting the show by 20 years.
The magazine published a number of reviews and previews of games; however this covered only half of the magazine as it also included latest gaming news, posters, letters from readers and monthly competitions. The popularity of the magazine grew and game producers sought to achieve the elusive GamesMaster “Gold Award” for a reference on their package. The Gold Award was awarded to games that scored 90% or higher.
GamesMaster Philippines
The Philippine publishing house Summit Media started a local edition of GamesMaster in September 2003. Each issue was initially priced at PhP95.00 (around US$2.06 or £1.27 as of December 2009), but later issues were priced at PhP100 (around US$2.17 or £1.34 as of December 2009). The edition quickly gained popularity with the local community because of its affordable price and extensive coverage of the Filipino gaming scene. GamesMaster Philippines ceased publication in September 2006 due to a corporate restructuring. Games and tech journalist Ed Geronia became the magazine's Editor-in-Chief with Jaykee Evangelista as its art director.
GamesMaster in Arabic
Between 1996 and 1999, a Lebanese publishing house republished the British version after a literal translation to Arabic.
Despite the very low quality in translation, the magazine sold well due to the huge demand from Arab video gamers which wasn't fulfilled with any real publication from the region. Each issue was priced for 25 Riyals/Durhams and it sold out almost the same day it reached bookshops.
References
External links
Golden Joystick Awards
Archived GamesMaster magazines on the Internet Archive
1993 establishments in the United Kingdom
2018 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1993
Magazines disestablished in 2018
Mass media in Bath, Somerset
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybertext | Cybertext as defined by Espen Aarseth in 1997 is a type of ergodic literature where the user traverses the text by doing nontrivial work.
Definition
Cybertexts are pieces of literature where the medium matters. Each user obtains a different outcome based on the choices they make. According to Aarseth, "information is here understood as a string of signs, which may (but does not have to) make sense to a given observer." Cybertexts may be equated to the transition between a linear piece of literature, such as a novel, and a game. In a novel, the reader has no choice, the plot and the characters are all chosen by the author: there is no 'user', just a 'reader'. This is important because it entails that the person working their way through the novel is not an active participant.
Cybertext is based on the idea that getting to the message is just as important as the message itself. In order to obtain the message, work on the part of the user is required. This may also be referred to as nontrivial work on the part of the user. This means that the reader does not merely interpret the text but performs actions such as active choice and decision-making through navigation options. There is also a feedback loop between the reader and the text.
Application
The concept of cybertext offers a way to expand the reach of literary studies to include phenomena that are perceived today as foreign or marginal. In Aarseth's work, cybertext denotes the general set of text machines which, operated by readers, yield different texts for reading. For example, in Raymond Queneau's book Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, each reader will encounter not just poems arranged in a different order, but different poems depending on the precise way in which they turn the sections of page.
Cybertext can also be used as a broader alternative for hypertext, particularly as it critiques the critical responses to the latter. Aarseth, together with literary scholars such as N. Katherine Hayles, maintains that cybertext cannot be applied according to the conventional author-text-message paradigms since it is a computational engine.
Background
The term cybertext is derived from cyber- in the word cybernetics, which was coined by Norbert Wiener in his book Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), which in turn comes from the Greek word kybernetes – helmsman. The prefix is then merged with the word "text", which is identified as a distinctive structure for producing and consuming verbal meaning in post-structuralist literary theory.
Although Aarseth's use of the term has been the most influential, he was not the first to use it. The neologism cybertext appeared several times in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the name of a software company in the mid-1980s, and was used by speculative fiction poetry author Bruce Boston as the title of a book he published in 1992, which contained science-fictional poetry.
Cybertext is part of what scholars c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Howarth | Brian Howarth is a British video game designer and computer programmer. He wrote many interactive fiction computer games in the early 1980s in a series called Mysterious Adventures. He was born in Blackpool in 1953.
After leaving school he worked as a telephone engineer until 1981. Howarth was initially inspired to write computer moderated adventures by the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and the UK television show The Adventure Game. His first adventures were written on the TRS-80, taking his cues from the works of Scott Adams. After becoming frustrated with the BASIC programming language, he learnt machine language to create his first adventure, The Golden Baton, which was published by Molimerx in 1981. Following this success, Molimerx encouraged Howarth to produce two more titles, The Time Machine and Arrow of Death.
In 1982 Howarth finished developing his own interpreter, based on Scott Adams' Adventureland source code published in Byte magazine. This used a database format which would speed up development of new adventures. He ported his games from the original TRS-80 format to the BBC Micro under his own label, Digital Fantasia, as Molimerx were not planning to support other platforms. Digital Fantasia operated a mail order service and software shop, staffed by family and friends.
The Mysterious Adventures titles were later ported to the Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16 and, with added graphics, to the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum and released by Channel 8 Software and later Paxman Promotions.
Howarth also created games based on the film Gremlins and the TV shows Robin of Sherwood and Super Gran in 1985.
After working on the arcade game Theme Park Mystery and SSI's Heroes of the Lance Howarth relocated to the USA in July 1990 after securing a position with the publisher Cinemaware. The company went out of business in 1991 but Howarth continued working on console titles for a company set up by Cinemaware co-founder Bob Jacobs. More recently Howarth has worked on creating applications for tablets and iPhones.
Mysterious Adventures
These are the games in the Mysterious Adventures series.
The Golden Baton, 1981, in machine code
The Time Machine, 1981, in machine code
Arrow of Death part 1, 1981, in machine code
Arrow of Death part 2, 1982, in Scott Adams database
Escape from Pulsar 7, 1982 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
Circus, 1982 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
The Feasibility Experiment, 1983 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
The Wizard of Akyrz, 1983 (with Cliff J. Ogden), in Scott Adams database
Perseus and Andromeda, 1983, in Scott Adams database
Ten Little Indians, 1983, (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
Waxworks, 1983, (with Cliff J. Ogden), in Scott Adams database
The Feasibility Experiment was one of Edge magazine's 20 strangest moments in videogaming, calling it a "glorious stream-of-consciousness ramble".
References
Video game programmers
Interact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes%20Chronicles | Heroes Chronicles is a series of turn-based strategy video games developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing and published by the 3DO Company. The series was intended to introduce a new audience, such as casual gamers, to the Heroes of Might and Magic series. As part of that strategy, each installment of Chronicles was released as a low-cost episode containing a relatively short single-player campaign, and the difficulty level of each game was kept low. All Chronicles games are based on a limited version of the Heroes of Might and Magic III game engine, although the ability to play scenario maps and multiplayer games is not included in any Chronicles title.
The series consists of eight installments released in five retail packages and supplemented by two downloadable packages. The first two titles, Warlords of the Wasteland and Conquest of the Underworld, were released on September 27, 2000. The next two installments, Masters of the Elements and Clash of the Dragons, were released shortly thereafter on November 14, 2000. In the meantime, 3DO offered The World Tree as a free download, which would install on any system with at least two retail episodes. Similarly, Fiery Moon would install on any system with at least three retail episodes. Lastly, The Sword of Frost and Revolt of the Beastmasters were released together under the name The Final Chapters on June 1, 2001. All eight games were released through GOG.com in June 2011.
Gameplay
Gameplay in Heroes Chronicles is similar to the campaigns included in Heroes of Might and Magic III and its expansions. A campaign consists of a series of scenarios linked with a storyline told through narrated CGI cutscenes and in-game text. Each scenario involves a mix of strategic exploration on a world map and tactical turn-based combat as the player fights enemies, conquers towns, collects items, and completes objectives. All of the installments featured eight scenarios except for the two downloadable installments, which only included five scenarios each.
The player controls a number of "heroes" who act as generals who command troops who are various types of creatures inspired by myth and legend. These heroes can also gain experience, learn skills, cast spells, and collect items that benefit their army on the world map or in tactical battles. A hero character integral to the installments' storyline would need to survive each scenario and could sometimes bring experience, spells, or other surviving heroes into subsequent scenarios with them. At the beginning of each scenario, the player could adjust the difficulty level and choose a starting bonus that usually included extra units, resources, skills, or a unique item.
Plot
The storylines of the eight installments follow the rise and fall of the tragic hero Tarnum. His initial rise to power is chronicled in the "Warlords of the Wasteland" installment, set prior to the events of Heroes of Might and Magic III, with all of the other installments occ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontok | Brontok is a computer worm running on Microsoft Windows. It is able to disperse by e-mail. Variants include:
Brontok.A
Brontok.D
Brontok.F
Brontok.G
Brontok.H
Brontok.I
Brontok.K
Brontok.Q
Brontok.U
Brontok.BH
The most affected countried were Russia, Vietnam and Brazil, followed by Spain, Mexico, Iran, Azerbaijan, India and the Philippines.
Other names
Other names for this worm include: W32/Rontokbro.gen@MM, W32.Rontokbro@mm, BackDoor.Generic.1138, W32/Korbo-B, Worm/Brontok.a, Win32.Brontok.A@mm, Worm.Mytob.GH, W32/Brontok.C.worm, Win32/Brontok.E, Win32/Brontok.X@mm, and W32.Rontokbro.D@mm.
Origin
Brontok originated in Indonesia. It was first discovered in 2005. The name refers to elang brontok, a bird species native to South & Southeast Asia. It arrives as an attachment of e-mail named kangen.exe (kangen itself means "to miss someone/thing").
The virus/email itself contains a message in Indonesian (and some English). When translated, this reads:
[By: HVM31 JowoBot #VM Community] -- stop the collapse in this country—1. Try the Hoodlums, the Smugglers, the Bribers, the gamblers, & drugs
Port (Send to "Nusakambangan") --
2.Stop Free Sex, Abortion, & Prostitution (Go To HELL)
3.Stop (sea and river pollution), forest burning, & wild hunting.
4.SAY NO TO DRUGS!!! - THE END IS NEAR -
5. Do you think you're smart?
Inspired by: (Spizaetus Cirrhatus) that is almost extinct [By: HVM31 JowoBot #VM Communityunity --
It also contains a JavaScript pop-up.
The worm also carried out a ping flood attack on two websites: Israel.gov.il and playboy.com, possibly in an act of hacktivism. A number of other websites with .com TLD were also attacked, prompting popular Indonesian forum Kaskus to switch to .us TLD until May 2012. Brontok inspired the creation of a more persistent trojan/worm such as Daprosy Worm which attacked internet cafes in July 2009.
Symptoms
When Brontok is first run, it copies itself to the user's application data directory. It then sets itself to start up with Windows, by creating a registry entry in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key. It disables the Windows Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and modifies Windows Explorer settings. It removes the option of "Folder Options" in the Tools menu so that the hidden files, where it is concealed, are not easily accessible to the user. It also turns off Windows firewall. In some variants, when a window is found containing certain strings (such as "application data") in the window title, the computer reboots. User frustration also occurs when an address typed into Windows Explorer is blanked out before completion. Using its own mailing engine, it sends itself to email addresses it finds on the computer, even faking the own user's email address as the sender.
The computer also restarts when trying to open the Windows Command Prompt and prevents the user from downloading files. It also pop ups the default Web browser and loads a web pag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron%20Reed | Cameron Reed is an American science fiction author whose work, while sparse, has met with considerable acclaim.
Work
Reed's first novel (published under her deadname, Raphael Carter) is the postcyberpunk The Fortunate Fall (1996). Acclaimed as "a superb example of speculative fiction," it appeared on Locus recommended reading list, and in the Locus Award it was 4th among first novels, after two tied winners. It caused Reed to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1997 and 1998.
Reed's short story "'Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation' by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" was shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Award and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1998. This makes Reed the first non-female to be the sole winner of the Tiptree (Elizabeth Hand in 1995 was a co-winner with Theodore Roszak); Reed "does not identify as male or female" and wrote the "Androgyny Rarely Asked Questions" and "The Murk Manual: How to Understand Medical Writing on Intersex".
Between May 1998 and April 2002, Reed maintained the Honeyguide Web Log - an "eclectic weekly list of links emphasizing books, robotics, and the natural sciences." This was the first site to be named a weblog after Jorn Barger's example, and Reed launched the first weblog directory at the Open Directory Project in November 1998.
Personal life
Reed moved from Phoenix, Arizona, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1995.
See also
The Fortunate Fall
Tor Books
References
Further reading
Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "Anatomy of a Sale: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall to Tor Books." In The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook, 2nd ed., ed. David Borcherding. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Press, 1996.
External links
Raphael Carter's Usenet posts at Google Groups: 1993-5, 1996-8 and 1998-9
Judges' comments on the Congenital Agenesis... at Tiptree Award site
Honeyguide Web Log at the Internet Archive
Raphael Carter's photostream at Flickr
Raphael Carter's contributions to the Wikimedia Commons
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American novelists
Cyberpunk writers
American bloggers
American science fiction writers
20th-century American short story writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Kanazawa | , also known as KTK, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS). Their headquarters are located in Ishikawa Prefecture.
History
1990 April It was set up third broadcasting station of Ishikawa Prefecture.
2006 July Digital terrestrial television was started (Kanazawa Main Station).
Stations
Analog Stations
Kanazawa(Main Station) JOWX-TV 33ch 10 kW
Hegura 42ch 10w
Suzu 41ch 200w
Noto 31ch 3w
Machino 45ch 3w
Wajima 19ch 100w
Higashi-Monzen 39ch 10w & 51ch 1w
Togi 36ch 30w
Nanao 57ch 300w
Nanao-Nadaura 41ch 30w
Noto-Kashima 45ch 10w
Hakui 42ch 100w
Tsubata-Takehashi 53ch 0.1w
Tsubata-Minaminakajo 53ch 0.1w
Kanazawa-Kamiyachi 52 ch 0.1 W
Kanazawa-Gosho 39 ch 1 W
Kanazawa-Udatsuyama 57 ch 30 W
Nabetani 62 ch 0.1 W
Tsurugi 31 ch 3 W
Torigoe 57 ch 10 W
Yoshinodani-Senami 35 ch 0.1 W
Hakusanshita 54 ch 0.1 W
Oguchi 48 ch 3 W
Shiramine 60 ch 1 W
Komatsu-Kanahira 53 ch 0.1 W
Awazu 57 ch 1 W
Katayamazu 42 ch 0.1 W
Katayamazu-minami 44 ch 0.1 W
Kaga-Higashitaniguchi 52 ch 0.1 W
Daiseiji 31 ch 10 W
Yamanaka 49 ch 3 W
Shioya 53 ch 3 W
Monzen-Kuresaka 60 ch 1 W
Monzen-Minazuki 42 ch 0.5 W
Komatsu-Ogoya 53 ch 0.1 W
Digital Stations(ID:4)
Kanazawa(Main Station) JOWX-DTV 17ch
Programs
Rival Stations
Hokuriku Broadcasting Company(MRO)
Ishikawa TV(ITC)
Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting(HAB)
Other Links
TVkanazawa
Television stations in Japan
Nippon News Network
Television channels and stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Japan
Mass media in Kanazawa, Ishikawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMA | PDMA may refer to:
Perth Dance Music Awards, a yearly Australian music event.
Polarisation division multiple access, a cellular network component.
Power-division multiple access, a transmission power-sharing scheme
Prescription Drug Marketing Act, an American federal law.
Product Development and Management Association, a professional group for new product development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZGB-TV | DZGB-TV, Channel 5, was a television station in Naga City, Camarines Sur. It is owned and operated by PBN Broadcasting Network, Inc., with studios and transmitter located at the Star C Bldg. Magsaysay Avenue, Naga City, Camarines Sur 4400.
This is the only station that affiliated with TV5/Aksyon TV until it became independent.
In March 2023, PBN TV on analog went off the air due to maintenance and upgrade of the network and cost-cutting measures on Analog TV. Meanwhile, PBN TV will continue on Digital Cable Channel 9 via Converge.
See also
97.5 OK
PBN Bicol
Television stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Television channels and stations established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20News | Sun News may refer to:
The Sun News, a daily newspaper published in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Sun News (Indian TV channel), a 24-hour Tamil news channel
Sun News Network, a defunct Canadian television news channel
Sun Newspapers, a chain of weekly newspapers in Ohio
Sun Media, a defunct Canadian newspaper chain
Sun (newspaper), various newspapers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsnow | Xsnow is a software application that creates the appearance of snow falling on the elements of the graphical user interface of a computer system. Xsnow was originally created as a virtual greeting card for Macintosh systems in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the X Window System as Xsnow, and was included on a number of Linux distributions in the late 1990s.
Licensing
Even though Xsnow was distributed with earlier versions of Linux, its most recent versions are shareware Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X ports with added features. The Unix-based ports for versions <= 1.42 include the source code in order to allow compiling to other platforms, but the software is not considered free software in the strictest sense.
Version 2.0.1 and higher are free software.
License
Xsnow version <= 1.42: Xsnow is available freely and you may give it to other people as is, but I retain all rights. Therefore it does not classify as 'Public Domain' software. It *is* allowed to package Xsnow for Unix/Linux distributions, CD-Roms etc, and to make the necessary changes to makefiles etc. to facilitate this.
Versions 2.0.1 and higher use the GNU General Public Licence version 3.
Variants
At least one free variant with source code has been published for Windows by Revenger, Inc. This version is snow-only and does not use code from the Xsnow codebase.
MacPorts has a source code build for Mac OS X that's not the shareware version.
BSnow, a snow only replicant for BeOS is bundled with Haiku.
Let It Snow! a snow-only variant for Android. This version does not use code from the Xsnow codebase.
See also
Neko (computer program)
XBill
XPenguins
References
External links
Original Xsnow homepage
Snow for Windows
iSnow for macOS / OS X
Snow for Macintosh
wsnow for browsers
jsSnow for webpages
X Window programs
Desktop widgets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20synchronization | Data synchronization is the process of establishing consistency between source and target data stores, and the continuous harmonization of the data over time. It is fundamental to a wide variety of applications, including file synchronization and mobile device synchronization.
Data synchronization can also be useful in encryption for synchronizing public key servers.
Data synchronization is needed to update and keep multiple copies of a set of data coherent with one another or to maintain data integrity, Figure 3. For example, database replication is used to keep multiple copies of data synchronized with database servers that store data in different locations.
Examples
Examples include:
File synchronization, such as syncing a hand-held MP3 player to a desktop computer;
Cluster file systems, which are file systems that maintain data or indexes in a coherent fashion across a whole computing cluster;
Cache coherency, maintaining multiple copies of data in sync across multiple caches;
RAID, where data is written in a redundant fashion across multiple disks, so that the loss of any one disk does not lead to a loss of data;
Database replication, where copies of data on a database are kept in sync, despite possible large geographical separation;
Journaling, a technique used by many modern file systems to make sure that file metadata are updated on a disk in a coherent, consistent manner.
Challenges
Some of the challenges which user may face in data synchronization:
data formats complexity;
real-timeliness;
data security;
data quality;
performance.
Data formats complexity
Data formats tend to grow more complex with time as the organization grows and evolves. This results not only in building simple interfaces between the two applications (source and target), but also in a need to transform the data while passing them to the target application. ETL (extraction transformation loading) tools can be helpful at this stage for managing data format complexities.
Real-timeliness
In real-time systems, customers want to see the current status of their order in e-shop, the current status of a parcel delivery—a real time parcel tracking—, the current balance on their account, etc. This shows the need of a real-time system, which is being updated as well to enable smooth manufacturing process in real-time, e.g., ordering material when enterprise is running out stock, synchronizing customer orders with manufacturing process, etc. From real life, there exist so many examples where real-time processing gives successful and competitive advantage.
Data security
There are no fixed rules and policies to enforce data security. It may vary depending on the system which you are using. Even though the security is maintained correctly in the source system which captures the data, the security and information access privileges must be enforced on the target systems as well to prevent any potential misuse of the information. This is a serious issue and particularl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20Mendelian%20Inheritance%20in%20Animals | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is an online database of genes, inherited disorders and traits in more than 135 animal species. It is modelled on, and is complementary to, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). It aims to provide a publicly accessible catalogue of all animal phenes, excluding those in human and mouse, for which species specific resources are already available (OMIM, MLC). Authored by Professor Frank Nicholas of the University of Sydney, with some contribution from colleagues, the database contains textual information and references as well as links to relevant PubMed and Gene records at the NCBI.
OMIA is hosted by the University of Sydney, with an Entrez mirror located at the NCBI.
Maintenance
Currently the database is curated by its founder Professor Frank Nicholas. Planning is well advanced for enabling international experts to serve as electronic curators within their areas of expertise. Technical maintenance and improvement of OMIA has historically been conducted by a range of individuals.
See also
Medical classification
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
References
OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals): an enhanced platform and integration into the Entrez search interface at NCBI. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D599-601.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA): a comparative knowledgebase of genetic disorders and other familial traits in non-laboratory animals. Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jan 1;31(1):275-7.
External links
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA)
OMIA mirror at NCBI
Biological databases
Genetic animal diseases
Diagnosis codes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24%20Hours%20of%20Love | 24 Hours of Love was a special programming stunt that aired live on MTV2 starting on September 21, 2002. The official premise of the show was that rock star Courtney Love would do a live broadcast for 24 hours in a row, and that she would be in full control of the programming on MTV2 for those hours.
Background
By 2002, longtime viewers of MTV2 were complaining that the channel was no longer airing obscure and lost music videos as it had done when it was still M2, the name given to the channel from 1996 to 1999. Instead, they noticed the channel began airing videos that had current pop success or were well-known retro videos from the 1980s and 1990s.
Around this time, MTV2 had a number of hour-long specials, in which celebrity guests were interviewed by a VJ and were able to pick what was described as their favorite videos. However, many of the videos chosen were all in that month's current video rotation, leading some viewers to suspect that the guests were only given a short list of videos they could choose from as opposed to any video in MTV's library.
The 24 Hours of Love special added to the suspicion among these viewers. This time, it was promoted that a celebrity was to be given full control of the channel for a 24-hour period to air anything she wanted. However, in reality, Love would discover it was difficult to air music videos that were not already in rotation on MTV2. In addition, the show was broadcast live, and Love was an over-the-top personality who was unafraid to speak her mind and complain about the actions of the channel.
Promotion for the event
In the days leading up to the event, MTV2 insisted that Love would have full programming control. The official Viacom press release to the Associated Press read as follows:
During the week before the broadcast, Love heavily promoted the show. While appearing on the Howard Stern radio show, she stated that she would be airing any video she wanted and that she was interested in videos by female rock artists. In an interview for USA Today, she claimed that she would also be airing the movies Performance and Times Square, and she had also mentioned bringing in clips from other movies.
The event itself
On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 8 p.m. ET, 24 Hours of Love went on the air live with Courtney Love and a friend named Ursula. At this time, Love again explained that she would have full control of the programming. However, the movies and movie clips were no longer mentioned. An unconfirmed account claims that Love was not told until immediately before the broadcast that MTV2 did not have the rights to air those movies. Additionally, the film Performance had an X rating, which meant since MTV2 had low power television broadcast affiliates, it would have been unable to air that film without risking punishment with the FCC, and the condemnation of the network's advertisers.
Between the guests during the whole 24 hours, there were Albert Hammond, Jr. and Fabrizio Moretti from Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANGIS | The Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) provided access for biologists to a comprehensive system of bioinformatics software, databases, documentation, training and support, on a subscription basis. While clearly targeted at Australian researchers, the tools ANGIS provided were available online to investigators worldwide. ANGIS was closed at the end of 2009.
Tools
BioManager was the main resource ANGIS provided. Although ANGIS/Biomanager was closed 30 November 2009, Prof Peter Reeves of the University of Sydney continues to host an implementation of BioManager on a voluntary basis. BioManager was developed from the earlier tool BioNavigator which was originally developed by a now defunct Australian bioinformatics company, Entigen(1). BioManager is a bioinformatics workflow management system that allows integration and use of multiple bioinformatic computer packages through a single web user interface. Data from analyses is stored on the system or used as inputs to other packages in BioManager. As provided by ANGIS, BioManager was a subscription-based service, with access made available to the Australian and New Zealand academic communities. Access from outside Australia and NZ was by enquiry. ANGIS also provided a variety of training resources and courses to help make these tools readily usable by the scientific community.
History
ANGIS began as a project at the University of Sydney in 1990, originally the Sydney University Sequence Analysis Interface (SUSAI) as a multi-disciplinary effort spearheaded by Trevor Cole, Alex Reisner and Peter Reeves. One year later in 1991, SUSAI became ANGIS through the formation of the Australian Genomic Information Center (AGIC), a government sanctioned research center. In March 2007, oversight for ANGIS was passed to the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia within the newly formed Sydney Bioinformatics. ANGIS appears to have ended as an entity with the closing of Sydney Bioinformatics on 31 December 2010.
Teaching
ANGIS was deeply involved in post-graduate training courses and workshops. General Bioinformatic application workshops, along with specialist workshops in proteomics, microarray, database searching and phylogenetics were held in Sydney and elsewhere in the country. In-house training courses in these areas ranged in length from 1–4 days.
BioManager has been used as the main Bioinformatics training tools for Australian and other international universities and academic subscriptions to ANGIS/BioManager included teaching logins for student use.
References
Notes
(1) eBioinformatics/Encompass/Entigen closed in 2001
External links
Biomanager service
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Design%20School | Media Design School is a private tertiary institution that provides specialist industry training in 3D animation and visual effects, game art, game programming, graphic and motion design, digital media artificial intelligence, and creative advertising. It is currently the most awarded private tertiary provider in New Zealand for digital and creative technology qualifications. In 2022, the school was also ranked as New Zealand's #1 and world's #10 Animation School by Animation Career Review, and among the top three creative media and entertainment schools in the Southern Hemisphere by The Rookies.
The school is located in central Auckland, New Zealand and was established in 1998. Its qualifications are approved by New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). It offers courses from Level 6 and 7 diplomas through to Level 8 and 9 postgraduate certificates and a Masters programme.
Game development
Media Design School is the only tertiary institute in New Zealand where students can develop for PlayStation platforms with console development kits, due to an exclusive partnership with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Graduates have gone on to work at a variety of game development studios, such as PikPok, Bohemia Interactive, Rainbite, Grinding Gear Games, Gameloft, EA Digital Illusions CE, RocketWerkz and CerebralFix. Ninja Kiwi, who developed the popular Bloons Tower Defense game, was also founded by a graduate of the game development course.
The joint game development department also runs an annual national initiative called Girls in Games, focused on providing experience in programming and game art for high-school aged female students based in the North Island.
In 2015, Media Design School Studios was established as the first games focused accelerator programme in a New Zealand tertiary institution.
This programme has resulted in commercial releases such as Split (Itsfine Games), Dolly (MA Studios) and Tons of Guns (Voidworks) on Valve's Steam platform.
Animation and visual effects
Media Design School was ranked one of the worlds top 10 animation schools by Animation Career Review in 2022.
Student short films and productions have received major international accolades, with titles such as Accidents, Blunders and Calamities being awarded Best Animated Film at San Diego Comic-Con's independent film festival in 2016.
Graduates from the program have been employed by Weta Digital to work on blockbuster projects such as Avatar and The Lord of the Rings, and other animation studios such as Pūkeko Pictures and Oktober.
Notable productions include:
Accidents, Blunders and Calamities (2015) – San Diego Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival Best Animated Film 2016, Show Me Shorts People's Choice & Best Editor 2015
Escargore (2015) – SIGGRAPH Asia Official Selection 2015, Idaho Horror Film Festival Best Animated Film 2015, Columbus International Film & Video Festival Official Selection 2015, Animago Awards Best Character 2015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed2k%20URI%20scheme | In computing, eD2k links (ed2k://) are hyperlinks used to denote files stored on computers connected to the eDonkey filesharing P2P network.
General
Many programs, such as eMule, MLDonkey and the original eDonkey2000 client by MetaMachine, which introduced the link type, as well as others using the eDonkey file sharing protocol, can be used to manage files stored in the filesharing network.
eD2k links allow a file to be identified from a link in a web browser and to be downloaded thereafter by a client like eMule, Shareaza or any other compatible software. This linking feature was one of the first URIs to be introduced in peer-to-peer file sharing, and had a vast effect on the development of the eDonkey network, as it allowed external link sites to provide verified content within the network. Nowadays, so-called Magnet links have replaced eD2k links in practice. They serve a similar role, but are not limited to the eD2k hash and can contain other hashes such as SHA-1 or MD5 for example, which makes it possible to use these links to point to files in several networks (as well as in BitTorrent) at once.
eD2k links include file hashes, as these hashes can be used as a unique identifier for files within the network, so even if the linked-to file has a different name on two computers within the network, the file can be found on both of them, and file chunks can be obtained from both sources. This is done by using a hash function on the file to calculate its checksum, depending only from the file content, not from its name.
Like other URI protocols, web browsers can be configured to automatically handle ed2k URIs. After installing an eD2k client, the eD2k protocol is optionally registered so that clicking on it in the browser automatically starts the download or asks whether the user wants to start downloading.
File link format
File links are preceded with the "file" token, which indicates that this is a file link, as opposed to a server, serverlist, nodelist or friend link. The typical eD2k file link also includes the filename and the file size. An example (a link to the 15 MB Purist Edit trailer) is provided below:
ed2k://|file|The_Two_Towers-The_Purist_Edit-Trailer.avi|14997504|965c013e991ee246d63d45ea71954c4d|/
eD2k links can also include a reference to the IP address and port of specific clients that are known to share the linked-to file. This is done by adding a list of sources after the main part of the link, like shown in the following example:
ed2k://|file|The_Two_Towers-The_Purist_Edit-Trailer.avi|14997504|965c013e991ee246d63d45ea71954c4d|/|sources,202.89.123.6:4662|/
On eMule, the link often contains also an AICH top hash |h=H52BRVWPBBTAED5NXQDH2RJDDAKRUWST| to help recover the file in case of corruption during file transfer.
eD2k hash algorithm
The eD2k hash function is a root hash of a list of MD4 hashes. It gives a different result than a simple usage of the MD4 algorithm.
The file data is divided into full chunks of 95 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing%20Door%20%28train%29 | Swing Door trains, commonly known as "Dogboxes" or "Doggies", were wooden-bodied electric multiple unit (EMU) trains that operated on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Swing Door cars had outward-opening doors. They were reasonably narrow, to ensure that two passing trains would not foul each other if doors were accidentally left open. At certain locations, clearances were tight and there are stories of Swing Door cars losing doors that were not closed. The fleet could be seen running in any arrangement, from one car, using a double-ended M car, to seven cars.
History
The Swing Door carriages were originally steam-hauled bogie passenger cars, long or long, the majority of which were built between 1887 and 1893. When converted to electric traction between 1917 and 1924, the cars were extended by two compartments to a total length of , and the driving (motor) cars were placed on new under-frames and bogies to accommodate the extra weight of the electrical equipment. The conversion process was suddenly halted in 1924, with partially converted cars being patched up and returned to service as steam-hauled carriages, with their original codes and numbers.
Converted Swing Door cars originally entered service with class codes such as 'AT', 'BCM', and 'ABCD', indicating both class and type. In 1921, that was largely simplified to 'M' (Motor car), 'T' (Trailer car) and 'D' (Driving trailer), the trailers being first class and motor cars second class, with some exceptions.
Fleet
The maximum size of the Swing Door train fleet was:
144 'M' motor cars, numbered 1-164M, with gaps but including:
First class motor cars 1, 8, 15, 46, 65, 78AM (re-coded M after 1958)
Double-ended composite motor cars 155-159, 162-164ABM; 157-159, 162-164 were later converted to Parcel Vans 10-15CM
32 'D' driving trailers, numbered 1-32D
112 'T' First class and Second class 'BT' trailers, numbered 1-111, 126T (or BT)
Driving motors - AM, ACM, ABM, ABCM, BM, BCM, CM, M
M
It had been intended to convert 164 locomotive-hauled carriages, including First class and Second class cars - with and without guard's vans, as well as composite cars, to M (Motor) cars. When the conversion program was terminated, only 144 had been completed, leaving 20 gaps [5, 7, 22, 24, 27, 31, 33, 36, 38, 42, 45, 47, 52, 53, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62] in the sequence. Each M car had 7 or 8 compartments, depending on the configuration of the original carriage; usually 3 compartments were allocated for smokers per car. When initially issued to service, most were designated ACM and BCM denoting either First or Second class accommodation respectively. When this system was abandoned, Motor cars all became Second class, except for six which were retained for special duties (AM), and the double-ended single units (ABM). On 10 February 1935, 18M and 44M were damaged in a serious collision at Croydon, and the bodies scrapped; the frames and electrical equipment was retained, and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9%20Liban | Télé Liban (also known as TL, ) is the first Lebanese public television network, owned by the Lebanese government. It was a result of a merger of the privately run Compagnie Libanaise de Télévision (CLT) (channels 7 and 9) and Télé-Orient (channels 5 and 11). TL is the current Lebanese member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
History
Compagnie Libanaise de Télévision
The Lebanese government granted businessmen Wissam Izzeddine and Alex Moufarrej the first local television license in August 1956, and private Compagnie Libanaise de Télévision (CLT) (in Arabic, شركة التلفزيون اللبنانية). CLT aired programs for the first time on 28 May 1959, making it the first TV station not only in Lebanon but also in the region. The station was officially launched by General Sleiman Nawfal with the aid of France.
Télé-Orient
The station remained Lebanon's only television station until Télé-Orient, full name Television of Lebanon and the Orient (in Arabic تلفزيون لبنان والمشرق) obtained its own license in July 1961 and began operating from Hazmieh. The channel had identical programming on its two broadcasting channels 5 and 11.
The Golden Age
Throughout the 1960s and until the 1970s, Télé Liban provided local, original programming as well as imports from France and the United States. What made Télé Liban unique in the region was its creation of innovative content for a pluralistic country like Lebanon.
The station had two channels, the Arabic channel 7 and mainly French-oriented channel 9 with separate local and French television programming.
During the Civil War
During the Lebanese Civil War, the two private television stations had been taken over by militias, CLT-based channels 7 and 9 located in West Beirut had been dominated by the left wing and Muslim militias and Télé-Orient station channels 5 and 11 located in Hazmieh in the Christian suburbs of East Beirut by right wing Christian militias. Both stations fell into presenting biased coverage according to the parties dominating the station.
Two unlicenced pirate stations, the right-wing Christian "Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation" (LBC) and the left-wing Muslim "Television of Arab Lebanon" (تلفزيون لبنان العربي) run by the Mourabitoun Muslim Sunni militia were launched challenging the existing stations.
The newly elected president, Elias Sarkis wanted a unified media outlet to promote his agenda of peace and unity. The two privately owned stations, CLT and Télé Orient, and their subsidiaries agreed to merge in a deal where half the shares were owned by the Lebanese government. The Legislative Decree No. 100 was published in the National Gazette (in Arabic الجريدة الرسمية) on 7 July 1977, making the merger official
The private CLT and Télé-Orient rival stations would later be completely acquired by the Lebanese government and the merged company became a public television station and name changed to Télé Liban.
Post-War Period
When the civil war ended, Télé Liban's monopoly was removed under |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleForm | TeleForm is a form of processing applications originally developed by Cardiff Software and now is owned by OpenText.
Function
TeleForm performs several tasks:
design machine-readable data forms in a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG design environment
scan images using high-volume document scanners
ingest images created by other applications
automatically read data from completed forms
allows users to review and correct data, if needed
export and store the read data in an external database
Forms can be individually designed within the application or templated using existing forms. When completed forms are scanned, any handwritten, machine-printed, barcodes, and bubble responses are read, evaluated, verified, and exported to the end databases.
Dependencies
Functionality of TeleForm, and similar applications, relies heavily on other technologies.
TeleForm uses several sorts of optical technologies to process forms:
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
Bar Code Recognition
History
Originally designed in 1991 to capture data from faxed forms, TeleForm now handles data from fax, paper and electronic forms.
The Cardiff TeleForm product was re-branded Verity TeleForm for a brief period in 2004 and 2005, when Verity Inc acquired Cardiff Software. In 2005, Autonomy acquired Verity, and the Cardiff brand was reintroduced as "Autonomy TeleForm". On August 18, 2011, HP announces its intention to purchase Autonomy. TeleForm was officially re-branded as HP TeleForm in the release notes for version 10.9 TeleForm was purchased by OpenText in 2016 and is sold and supported as OpenText TeleForm.
References
External links
OpenText Acquires TeleForm 2016
Electric Paper Informationssysteme GmbH
ePC, TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists and OpenText OEM partner
Tecnomedia Sistemas SL
SR Capture: Teleform and data capture specialists. Creators of SRCloud.
Formtran, Inc.: TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists
Genoko: TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists
Digiform: TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists
Teleform support: TeleForm and LiquidOffice support
Business software
Optical character recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation%20kit%20upgrade | An Adaptation kit upgrade (AKU or Adaptation kit update) updates Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating systems for devices (excluding Windows 10 Mobile).
It is a collection of updates, fixes and enhancements to the tools delivered to hardware device manufacturers to create or update devices based on a specific platform.
This term is used by Microsoft to designate the current update version for a particular embedded platform such as Windows Mobile which is used for personal digital assistants and smartphone devices. On the Windows Mobile platform the AKU is to Windows Mobile what a service pack is to Microsoft Windows.
Microsoft releases AKUs to allow device manufacturers with updates to create new products or fix issues with older products. These enhancements are usually not available to the consumer or end user unless released as a firmware update from the vendor.
AKU Versions for Windows Mobile 5
AKU 1.0
landscape screen mode support
start devices without a SIM card
checking for incoming mail at defined intervals
full-fledged SIM contacts support
added fixed dialing numbers
added alarm clock indicator to today screen
added ability to send SMS while viewing call history
AKU 1.1
Improves support for many Bluetooth profiles, such as stereo headset (A2DP)
Wi-Fi connectivity now displays more status information. Wi-Fi performance improved.
official hard drive support
increased screen rotation speed
AKU 2.0
Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP), including DirectPush email functionality and GZIP compression
Internet Explorer Mobile adds accelerated scrolling, Fast Back feature, support for compiled WML, WMLScript over HTTP, enhanced DOM standard and frames
added SMIME support for messaging
added wireless manager to turn wireless features on and off
replaced clock with battery status indicator in the upper right corner
AKU 2.1
dynamic switching between screen modes (landscape and portrait).
AKU 2.2
ActiveSync improvements.
boot speed improvements.
allows user to choose clock or battery status indicator in the upper right corner
added support for PPP over USB
AKU 2.3
bug fixes.
AKU 2.5
bug fixes.
SmartDial from the Today screen
added ability to change dialing font color
(up to 2x) for video clips played back in Windows Media Player.
AKU 3.0
language provisioning (enabling local manufacturers to add as many languages to a device as its onboard memory can store)
WiFi connection wizard (new Internet Sharing utility replaces Modem Link).
WPA2 support for WiFi
Quick start wizard
support for 2nd display (for instance on phones with two displays)
better SMS handling
Bluetooth profile "Personal Area Network" (PAN) is added, and "Dial-Up Networking" (DUN) profile is removed.
vCard contacts can be transferred via SMS.
SIM card contacts are sorted by Name in general contacts list.
IE now supports AJAX
added .Net Compact Framework 2.0
added ability to save SMS to SIM card
added support for SMS over GPRS
AKU 3. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip%20%28software%29 | Tulip is an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data. Tulip aims to provide the developer with a complete library, supporting the design of interactive information visualization applications for relational data that can be tailored to the problems being addressed. It is developed at LaBRI, the laboratory for research in computer science of the University of Bordeaux.
Written in C++, the framework enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models, and domain-specific visualizations. Tulip allows the reuse of components; this makes the framework efficient for research prototyping as well as the development of end-user applications. It has a binding for Python.
Tulip is easy to use and offers very appealing visualization.
Initially, Tulip targeted only graph visualization. Since then, it has evolved to be a more general-purpose data visualization software. Tulip can work with very huge data sets, e.g. nodes and edges.
References
External links
Free application software
Graph drawing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindnet | MindNet is the name of several automatically acquired databases of lexico-semantic relations developed by members of the Natural Language Processing Group at Microsoft Research during the 1990s. It is considered one of the world's largest lexicons and databases that could make automatic semantic descriptions along with WordNet, FrameNet, HowNet, and Integrated Linguistic Database. It is particularly distinguished from WordNet by the way it was created automatically from a dictionary.
MindNet was designed to be continuously extended. It was first built out of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and later included American Heritage and the full text of Microsoft Encarta. The system can analyze linguistic representations of arbitrary text. The underlying technology is based on the same parser used in the Microsoft Word grammar checker and was deployed in the natural language query engine in Microsoft's Encarta 99 encyclopedia.
References
Lexical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Donoho | Todd Donoho (born October 25, 1955) is an American radio and television sportscaster, who hosts the post-game show for Missouri Tigers basketball on the statewide Tiger Radio Network. He led sports news reporting in the 1990s for Los Angeles television station KABC-TV after working for stations across the country and later became a sports news anchor for Fox Sports West.
Personal life, community involvement, and family
Donoho was born in Puerto Rico and lived briefly in Africa, before completing most of his childhood in Munster, Indiana. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri, earning a Bachelor of Journalism degree.
While at Missouri, Donoho married his college sweetheart, Paula (née Gerber), in 1979. They have three sons, one of whom, Kevin, was a star wide receiver at Hart High School in Newhall, California.
While working in the Los Angeles area, Donoho was a resident of Valencia, California and an amateur golfer. For a number of years, Donoho served as a host of a charity golf tournament in Valencia Country Club to benefit the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. He also was an honorary booster for Jordan High School in South Los Angeles.
After Todd Donoho's mid-career transition to broadcasting in Missouri, Paula taught English at Jefferson Junior High School, Kevin was sales representative for Nestle in Oklahoma City, son Jeff studied journalism at the University of Missouri and was a law student at its law school, and son Scott studied engineering at the University of Missouri.
Upon moving to Columbia, Missouri, Donoho continued to involve himself in his community, offering his time to West Boulevard Elementary School.
Career
Early career
Prior to joining KABC, Donoho worked for WOTV in Grand Rapids, Michigan; WLWT, NBC's Cincinnati affiliate, alongside anchorman Jerry Springer; and FNN Score, the sports arm of the Financial News Network cable service, for five years as host of "Time Out For Trivia". He also did occasional play-by-play for NBC Sports, in addition to freelance work for ABC Sports, Turner Sports, and Fox Sports Midwest.
KABC stint
During his time at KABC, Donoho was known in the Los Angeles media market for beginning and ending his sports anchor segments with sports trivia questions and for his trademark phrase, "take a hike". During Donoho's time on air, KABC's 11 p.m. newscast's ratings approached those of long-time regional leader KNBC.
Donoho also anchored the station's post-Monday Night Football program, titled "Monday Night Live."
In Los Angeles, the similarity of Todd Donoho's name to that of UCLA football coach Terry Donahue was occasionally the source of humor for critics and viewers.
Critical reception
Prior to joining KABC in July 1989, Donoho received nearly all favorable reviews for his work. Early in his tenure at KABC, Donoho was criticized by local columnists and viewers for being "too cornball." Former LA Times columnist Jim Healy referred to Donoho as "Dorkoho". Early on, Donoho wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score%20%28television%29 | Score was the weekend sports service of the Financial News Network which aired sports-themed programming starting in 1985. It was renamed FNN Sports in 1989 after FNN decided to go with a 24-hour feed on weekdays a year earlier. Score was closed when CNBC bought out FNN in 1991.
Score used a sports ticker or crawl to update scores at the bottom of the screen. As it was partly owned by FNN, a stock ticker was often shown across the bottom of the screen. SCORE provided scores and highlight updates every half-hour.
History
Score launched in April 1985 and was a joint venture of Anheuser-Busch and the Financial News Network. A-B owned the satellite transponder on which FNN broadcast and leased its daytime usage to the network. Prior to the launch of Score, the evening hours were used for a pay service, known as Sports Time, that broadcast primarily in midwestern states and had been established the year before, closing on March 31. A-B contributed to SCORE sets used on Sports Time programming and four on-air personalities that had hosted its studio programming: Bill Brown, Byron Day, John Loesing and Todd Donoho.
Score ceased broadcasting on weekdays in September 1988 to allow FNN to broadcast during prime time; it gained some weekend hours that had been occupied by home shopping service Telshop. The block became known as FNN: Sports in 1989. When CNBC acquired FNN in 1991, FNN: Sports was dropped in favor of the weekend talk programming on CNBC.
Programming
Score had several shows that were televised versions of what sports talk radio is today. Score featured some professional sporting events, live call-in shows, and sports news shows. Live sporting events included professional wrestling, MISL soccer, college basketball, the CFL and boxing. It also broadcast a couple NASCAR races in 1988 that were originally slated for SETN before it folded.
It also showed at least two games of the 1986 National Invitation Tournament.
Call-in shows, including Time Out for Trivia
Its most popular show was Time Out for Trivia, hosted by Todd Donoho and produced by Eric Corwin. Time Out For Trivia was the first national live interactive game show in which viewers phoned in and if they correctly answered a question, they'd win a prize. One of the most popular prizes on the show was the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner which often included a funny sound effect like an "ooooh" or an "oooooh.... aaaaaah." Humor was almost always an ingredient, particularly in the multiple-choice questions, which often included an obvious nonsports figure as one of the possible answers.
Time Out For Trivia became a cult hit on cable TV, receiving many glowing reviews in newspapers and magazines. Gary Nuhn, a columnist for the Dayton Daily News, has called TOFT "cable TV at its best," and Wendell Barnhouse, radio/TV columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, says it is "one of life's joys." Sports Illustrated did a feature about TOFT in its famous swimsuit issue. Donoho and Corwin did ov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Fossil%20Fuel%20Obligation | The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) refers to a collection of orders requiring the electricity distribution network operators in England and Wales to purchase electricity from the nuclear power and renewable energy sectors. Similar mechanisms operated in Scotland (the Scottish Renewable Orders under the Scottish Renewables Obligation) and Northern Ireland (the Northern Ireland Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation).
Five orders were made under the NFFO before the UK government replaced it with the Renewables Obligation. The first order or 'tranche' was on October 1, 1990 with an average price of 7.51 pence per kWh being paid to energy generators, and the fifth and last was in September 1998 at an average of 2.71 pence per kWh.
Background
The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation was put in place under the powers of the Electricity Act 1989, under which electricity generation in the UK was privatised.
The original intention was to provide financial support to the UK nuclear power generators, which continued to be state-owned. The proposals were enlarged in scope before the obligation was brought into operation in 1990 to include the renewable energy sector.
Contracts from the last three rounds remain in place with the generators receiving the agreed amount from the NFPA and the NFPA effectively taking ownership of the Renewables Obligation certificate (ROC) to which the generator is entitled.
Funding
Funding for the NFFO was originally generated by the Fossil Fuel Levy, a levy placed on all electricity consumption in the UK. This was collected by Ofgem, which paid it to the Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency, a body created in 1990 by the public electricity suppliers to purchase on the supplier's behalf. The purchasing agency is based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Since the introduction in 2001 of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements, electricity suppliers bid for the electricity and ROCs in competitive auctions held by the Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency, with any shortfall in price being funded by the Levy. As a result of these arrangements, the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation has been generating a trading surplus, expected to have reached £500m by 2008. The government have been criticised for siphoning off funds from this surplus to contribute to the exchequer, instead of using it to support renewable energy in other ways.
See also
Climate Change Levy
Energy policy of the United Kingdom
Energy use and conservation in the United Kingdom
Renewables Obligation
References
Electric power in the United Kingdom
Renewable energy in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state%20drive | Solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functions as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage. It is also sometimes called a semiconductor storage device, a solid-state device, or a solid-state disk, even though SSDs lack the physical spinning disks and movable read–write heads used in hard disk drives (HDDs) and floppy disks. SSD also has rich internal parallelism for data processing.
In comparison to hard disk drives and similar electromechanical media which use moving parts, SSDs are typically more resistant to physical shock, run silently, and have higher input/output rates and lower latency. SSDs store data in semiconductor cells. cells can contain between 1 and 4 bits of data. SSD storage devices vary in their properties according to the number of bits stored in each cell, with single-bit cells ("Single Level Cells" or "SLC") being generally the most reliable, durable, fast, and expensive type, compared with 2- and 3-bit cells ("Multi-Level Cells/MLC" and "Triple-Level Cells/TLC"), and finally, quad-bit cells ("QLC") being used for consumer devices that do not require such extreme properties and are the cheapest per gigabyte (GB) of the four. In addition, 3D XPoint memory (sold by Intel under the Optane brand) stores data by changing the electrical resistance of cells instead of storing electrical charges in cells, and SSDs made from RAM can be used for high speed, when data persistence after power loss is not required, or may use battery power to retain data when its usual power source is unavailable. Hybrid drives or solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs), such as Intel's Hystor and Apple's Fusion Drive, combine features of SSDs and HDDs in the same unit using both flash memory and spinning magnetic disks in order to improve the performance of frequently-accessed data. Bcache achieves a similar effect purely in software, using combinations of dedicated regular SSDs and HDDs.
SSDs based on NAND flash will slowly leak charge over time if left for long periods without power. This causes worn-out drives (that have exceeded their endurance rating) to start losing data typically after one year (if stored at 30 °C) to two years (at 25 °C) in storage; for new drives it takes longer. Therefore, SSDs are not suitable for archival storage. 3D XPoint is a possible exception to this rule; it is a relatively new technology with unknown long-term data-retention characteristics.
SSDs can use traditional HDD interfaces and form factors, or newer interfaces and form factors that exploit specific advantages of the flash memory in SSDs. Traditional interfaces (e.g. SATA and SAS) and standard HDD form factors allow such SSDs to be used as drop-in replacements for HDDs in computers and other devices. Newer form factors such as mSATA, M.2, U.2, NF1/M.3/NGSFF, XFM Express (Crossover Flash Memory, form factor XT2) and EDSFF (formerly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashCopy | FlashCopy is an IBM feature supported on various IBM storage devices that made it possible to create, nearly instantaneously,
point-in-time snapshot copies of entire logical volumes or data sets. The Hitachi Data Systems implementation providing similar function was branded as ShadowImage. Using either implementation, the copies are immediately available for both read and write access.
Implementations
Version 1
The first implementation of FlashCopy, Version 1 allowed entire volumes to be instantaneously “copied” to another volume by using the facilities of the newer Enterprise Storage Subsystems (ESS).
Version 1 of FlashCopy had limitations however. Although the copy or “flash” of a volume occurred instantaneously, the FlashCopy commands were issued sequentially and the ESS required a brief moment to establish the new pointers. Because of this minute processing delay, the data residing on two volumes that were FlashCopied are not exactly time consistent.
Version 2
FlashCopy Version 2 introduced the ability to flash individual data sets and then added support for “consistency groups”. FlashCopy consistency groups can be used to help create a consistent point-in-time copy across multiple volumes, and even across multiple ESSs, thus managing the consistency of dependent writes.
FlashCopy consistency groups are used in a single-site scenario in order to create a time-consistent copy of data that can then be backed-up and sent off site, or in a multi-site Global Mirror for ESS implementation to force time consistency at the remote site.
The implementation of consistency groups is not limited to FlashCopy. Global Mirror for IBM System z series (formerly known as XRC or eXtended Remote Copy) also creates consistency groups to asynchronously mirror disk data from one site to another over any distance .
References
IBM mainframe technology
Storage software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20GameDay | College GameDay or ESPN College GameDay may refer to one of several shows produced by the sports network, ESPN:
College GameDay (football TV program), television program about college football, 1987–present
College GameDay (basketball TV program), television program about college basketball, 2005–present
ESPN Radio College GameDay, radio program about college football, 2000–present |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland%20Reflex | Borland Reflex is a flat-file database management system for DOS. It was the first commercial PC database to use the mouse and graphics mode, and drag-and-drop capability in the report formatting module. Reflex was originally developed by Analytica Corporation.
The engineering team of Analytica, managed by Brad Silverberg and including Reflex co-founder Adam Bosworth became the core of Borland's engineering team in the U.S. Brad Silverberg was vice-president of engineering until he left in early 1990 to head up the Personal Systems division at Microsoft. Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the Quattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access. Another Reflex developer, Ken Day, later moved to Macromedia where he worked on Shockwave, among other projects.
Reflex still runs on any modern Windows-based PC.
Gordon Bell, a senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group, includes a case study on Analytica in his book High-Tech Ventures: The Guide For Entrepreneurial Success.
Notes
Borland software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-ME%20National%20Breast%20Cancer%20Organization | Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization or Y-ME (previously Breast Cancer Network of Strength), was a Chicago-based national nonprofit organization that provided resources, information, and support to those suffering from breast cancer. Their mission was to "ensure, through information, empowerment and peer support, that no one faces breast cancer alone." Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization did not fund research but did advocate for research. The organization closed in 2012, but until May of 2020, their website continued to publish various articles relating to breast cancer.
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization's headquarters was in Chicago, but it had support groups throughout the United States, which provided peer support, educational programs, and coordinated advocacy efforts.
Y-ME's main program was the Y-ME Hotline, the only multilingual 24-hour breast cancer hotline in the country, staffed entirely by trained peer counselors who are breast cancer survivors.
History
Y-ME was founded in 1978 by breast cancer patients Ann Marcou (1932–2004) and Mimi Kaplan (d. 1983), and began as a hotline operated out of Marcou's Chicago-area home and a support group that met at a local YWCA. The organization was originally named YWCA and Me after its association with the local YWCA and the name was later shortened to Y-ME. Y-ME became a national organization that helped breast cancer patients receive support, access information and make informed decisions about their healthcare. Its hotline was notable for being the only multilingual, round-the-clock support service available in the US and received approximately 40 000 calls per year.
In 1992, Margaret Harte founded Y-ME's annual Mother's Day Race Against Breast Cancer which supported breast cancer survivors and raised money each year to support the organization.
Y-ME changed its name to Breast Cancer Network of Strength in 2008 to "better communicate [their] mission," which was "to ensure through information, empowerment and peer support, that no one faces breast cancer alone." It reverted to its former name in 2011 after CEO Cindy Geoghegan was hired.
Y-ME closed its doors on July 12, 2012, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on July 17, 2012. One former employee said that the organization had mismanaged real estate leases while a former board member said that the organization closed due to the economic downturn, low Mother's Day Race receipts, and other short-term debt. Another former board member said that the organization had shut down because there had been "[a] serious cash flow problem stemming from an unexpected cash flow crisis and low revenues from our major fundraisers put the organization in financial instability."
Until May 10th, 2020, Y-ME.org continued to publish articles relating to breast cancer and other health or lifestyle-related subjects. As of 2022, their website is still accessible despite the organization's inactivity.
Programs
Y-ME offered a number of programs tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Standard%20Industrial%20Classification | The International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) is a United Nations industry classification system. Wide use has been made of ISIC in classifying data according to kind of economic activity in the fields of employment and health data.
It is maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.
ISIC classifies entities by activity. The most detailed categories are defined by combinations of activities described in statistical units, considering the relative importance of the activities included in these classes.
ISIC Rev.4 continues to use criteria such as input, output and use of the products produced, but places additional emphasis on production processes.
Revision history
The United Nations Statistics Division has published the following revisions of the ISIC standard:
Revision 1 - Published in 1958
Revision 2 - Published in 1968
Revision 3 - Published in 1989
Revision 3.1 - Published by the United Nations in 2002
Revision 4 - Published by the United Nations in 2008
ISIC Revision 4 broad structure
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Mining and quarrying
Manufacturing
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
Construction
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Transportation and storage
Accommodation and food service activities
Information and communication
Financial and insurance activities
Real estate activities
Professional, scientific and technical activities
Administrative and support service activities
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Education
Human health and social work activities
Arts, entertainment and recreation
Other service activities
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
See also
Standard Industrial Classification (United States)
Trade Map, HS products by hierarchy (International Trade Centre)
North American Industry Classification System
United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities
Russian Economic Activities Classification System (OKVED)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB)
Global Industry Classification Standard
Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE)
Industry information (industry classifications)
French classification of economic activities, named NAF code or APE code (in French)
References
Sources
United Nations Statistics Division: International Family of Classifications
External links
ISIC Revision 3.0 adaptation in Investment Map statistical tool
ISIC Revision 1
ISIC Revision 2
ISIC Revision 3
ISIC Revision 3.1
ISIC Revision 4
ISIC at ILOSTAT
Industry classifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%20%28European%20TV%20channel%29 | VH1 (referred as VH1 Europe) was a European music television channel owned by ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA. It played a wide variety of music programs on a daily or weekly basis, and various VH1 original series.
The channel focused on current music, as well as music from the 2000s and the 2010s. In the 2000s, the channel used to focus on then current music – with a heavier focus on so-called adult contemporary pop and pop rock than today, – as well as music from the 1980s and the 1990s. From 2020 until the closure, the channel also played some Hip Hop hits, from artists like Roddy Ricch and DaBaby.
On 2 August 2021, the channel was replaced by MTV 00s. On 1 August - the 40th anniversary of MTV - the channel's programming was adapted to MTV 00s, where as the next day the logo and graphics were updated to MTV 00s. On the former programming, the last song broadcast on VH1 Shuffle was the 2014 single "Are You with Me" by the Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies. The last music video shown on VH1 before being replaced by MTV 00s on 2 August 2021 at 05:00 CET, was "Dani California" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
History
VH1 appeared for the first time in the UK and Germany in Spring 1995 and the version airing in the UK was subsequently distributed across the whole of Europe as VH1 Export from June 1999. Current pan-European channel was officially launched in 2001 by merging VH1 Export and VH-1 Germany, and hence becoming a separate channel from the UK-aimed VH1 channel.
VH1 Europe in 2013 was the only major music channel in Western Europe still broadcasting in the 4:3 ratio while others were broadcasting in 16:9. Since 28 May 2014, VH1 Europe was broadcasting in 16:9.
Programming
This European version of VH1 was very different from its American counterpart, since it has never ceased to be a proper music channel, playing a wide variety of music programs on a daily and weekly basis. VH1 Europe was covered many styles of music through a comprehensive selection of music videos ranging from the 1970s to today, using an extensive videoshop of clips MTV Networks Europe London-based music video library.
VH1 Europe's regular programming contained songs from 1980 onwards, with some of the Top 50 segments showing rare songs from 70s and 60s. As of 2021, VH1 Europe stopped adding new songs into the regular programming. Last added videos were was included the British singer Harry Styles' single "Treat People with Kindness", "Higher Power" by Coldplay and "Cover Me in Sunshine" by Pink. In addition, the regular programming in 2021 year was focused on 00s era and videos in programs about this era have been in addition added. Much like other MTV channels, VH1 did not broadcast recently of Michael Jackson's songs.
On Pan-European feed
Since 5 August 2010, most of the European feeds of VH1 are one common music channel which airs commercials. Starting this date, VH1 started to air the first commercial in some regions, thus following the trend of the regional resellers (cable compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O26 | O26 or O-26 may refer to:
O26 (text editor), used on Control Data Corporation (CDC) operator consoles
Curtiss O-26, an observation aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps
, a submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy
Lone Pine Airport, in Inyo County, California, United States
Oxygen-26, an isotope of oxygen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2 | iproute2 is a collection of userspace utilities for controlling and monitoring various aspects of networking in the Linux kernel, including routing, network interfaces, tunnels, traffic control, and network-related device drivers.
iproute2 is an open-source project released under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Its development is closely tied to the development of networking components of the Linux kernel. , iproute2 is maintained by Stephen Hemminger and David Ahern. The original author, Alexey Kuznetsov, was responsible for the quality of service (QoS) implementation in the Linux kernel.
iproute2 collection contains the following command-line utilities:
arpd, bridge, ctstat, dcb, devlink, ip, lnstat, nstat, rdma, routef, routel, rtacct, rtmon, rtstat, ss, tc, tipc and vdpa.
tc is used for traffic control. iproute2 utilities communicate with the Linux kernel using the netlink protocol. Some of the iproute2 utilities are often recommended over now-obsolete net-tools utilities that provide the same functionality. Below is a table of obsolete utilities and their iproute2 replacements.
See also
BusyBox
ethtool
TIPC
References
External links
Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO - A tutorial in exploring and using iproute2.
IPROUTE2 Utility Suite Documentation - Complete official documentation.
iproute2+tc notes - A collection of documents relating to iproute2 configuration and usage.
Linux network-related software
Linux configuration utilities
Linux-only free software
Routing
Internet Protocol based network software
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20entity%20relationship%20model | The SERM (structured entity relationship model) is an amplification of the ERM which is commonly used for data modeling. It was first proposed from Prof. Dr. Elmar J. Sinz in 1988. The SERM is commonly used in the SAP-world for the data modeling.
Aims
structuring of large schemes
visualization of existence dependency
avoidance of inconsistencies
avoidance of unnecessary relationshiptypes
SERM symbols
SERM example
Customer and article are independent entities
Every order is referred to one customer. Orders without customers are illegal (order is an ER type). Customers without any orders are legal because they are independent Entities.
To every order there is belonging at least one order item.
Every order item is related to exactly one order.
Every invoice is referred to one customer, as well. Invoices without customers are illegal. Customers without any invoice are legal.
To every invoice there is belonging at least one invoice line item.
Every invoice line item is related to exactly order item. An order item could be calculated or not.
SERM is already in the third normal form
References
Data modeling
Diagrams
Modeling languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyricWiki | LyricWiki (also known as Lyrically or LyricWikia) was an online wiki-based lyrics database and encyclopedia. In March 2013, it was the seventh largest MediaWiki installation with over 2,000,000 pages including 1.5 million songs. Prior to its shutdown, users on the site could view, edit, and discuss the lyrics of songs, which were also available for purchase from links on the site. Users were told to be mindful of copyright while contributing, and copyright violations were removed upon request. All the lyrics on LyricWiki were licensed through LyricFind.
History
On April 6, 2006, Sean Colombo, then a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, created LyricWiki. Soon after, the site won the DreamHost Site of the Month award for April 2006 which helped jump-start its growth since winners of the contest are announced in DreamHost's monthly newsletter, which claims to have over 50,000 subscribers.
Motive Force LLC, the parent company of LyricWiki, was the target of a lawsuit brought forth against it by the National Music Publishers Association. As a result, the site migrated to Wikia, which had a blanket licensing arrangement with Gracenote to provide lyrics, and blocked access to certain songs' full lyrics via API.
Application programming interface and apps
The site allowed programmatic access to the contents of its database through a web API. Following a 2009 agreement with licensors, queried lyrics may be displayed partially with a link to their respective web page. This API has been leveraged to create plugins for many media players including Winamp, Amarok, Windows Media Player, iTunes, musikCube, foobar2000, ITunes via Mac OS X Dashboard, and more. LyricWiki has also released a Facebook application called "LyricWiki Challenge" which is a social, competitive game based on identifying lyrics from popular songs in several genres. Though, since early 2016, API has been discontinued due to licensing restrictions.
Wikia also developed a mobile app called Lyrically that utilized the lyric database of LyricWiki and displayed lyrics based on the song being played.
Edit lock and closure
On April 2, 2019, LyricWiki was closed to editing by Fandom (formerly Wikia) for repeated violations of the site's terms of service. The reasoning for this was that Fandom did not approve of images and lyrics that are "overly" sexual and/or shock people, aiming to be a "family-friendly site". The site was shut down completely on September 21, 2020. Prior to the shutdown, a notice on the wiki stated that a data dump would not be offered; however, dumps are available on the "Closed Wiki" landing page that now appears on the site.
References
Online music and lyrics databases
Fandom (website) wikis
Internet properties established in 2006
Internet properties disestablished in 2020
Multilingual websites
American music websites
Defunct American websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 | Warwolf is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
The Cybertek version of Warwolf first appeared in Deathlok (vol. 2) #1 and was created by Dwayne McDuffie, Gregory Wright, Denys Cowan, and Mike Manley.
The Vince Marcus version of Warwolf first appeared in Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos #1 and was created by Richard Buckler.
The Martin Reyna version of Warwolf first appeared in S.H.I.E.L.D. (vol. 3) #9 and was created by Al Ewing and Stefano Caselli.
Fictional character biography
Cybertek version
Warwolf was created by Billy Hansen and others at Cybertek Systems Inc. (a cybernetic research division of Roxxon Energy Corporation) as a hunter assassination cyborg which occurred before the creation of Deathlok. Billy Hansen and his colleagues placed a gray wolf brain into the cyborg body. From his imprisonment, Harlan Ryker remotely activated it and sent it to attack all his former superiors who might testify against him for the creation of Deathlok. Billy Hansen was the first person Warwolf attacked and killed him upon shattering his car. Then it broke into the National Security Agency facility where it destroyed all records that were pertaining to Harlan Ryker's investigation. Upon traveling to Cybertek's main facility in Paterson, New Jersey where Deathlok was meeting with Jim Dworman, Deathlok discovered that Warwolf had the brain of a gray wolf and made certain that its systems were on non-lethal mode. After Deathlok was unable to stop Warwolf from destroying the computerized files, Warwolf escaped where it moved faster than Deathlok. When Deathlok infiltrated the Danbury Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary to confront Harlan Ryker, Warwolf also showed up and targeted Cybertek's account manager John Rozum. Deathlok managed to prevent Warwolf from attacking John Rozum. Deathlok used his energy pistol to incapacitate Warwolf. Deathlok rescinded the "no killing" parameter and put Warwolf out of its misery since it was undergoing a system failure and that its organic components would fail in 6 hours. There was enough back-up memory that Dworman was able to call up Harlan Ryker's kill orders.
Vince Marcus
Vince Marcus is a member of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos Monster Force. He is the field commander. It is unknown yet when he joined S.H.I.E.L.D. or why he is nicknamed Warwolf.
He has fought with guns and also used his claws to infiltrate the "Lords of Lightning", a doomsday cult and led the assault on Stonehedge when Merlin and faeries were bringing their world into ours.
Martin Reyna
Martin Reyna is a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent that is in charge of Area 13's S.T.A.K.E. (short for Special Threat Assessment for Known Extranormalities), a division that is in charge of dealing with supernatural events. Martin was also working with Dr. Paul Kraye on secret projects which he feared the returned Life Model Decoy of Dum Dum Dugan would discover sooner or later for w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%20limb%20sounder | The microwave limb sounder (MLS) experiments measure (naturally occurring) microwave thermal emission from the limb (edge) of Earth's upper atmosphere. The data is used to create vertical profiles of atmospheric gases, temperature, pressure, and cloud ice.
History
12 September 1991 – NASA launches Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) STS-48 mission, largely in response to threat of chlorofluorocarbons to ozone layer.
15 July 2004 – NASA launches Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura mission with overall scientific objectives of determining whether global stratospheric ozone is recovering, measuring composition effects on climate variability, and studying pollution in the upper troposphere.
See also
Remote sensing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
High-resolution dynamics limb sounder
References
External links
Jet Propulsion Laboratory MLS web site
Atmospheric sounding satellite sensors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanpool%20%28company%29 | Vanpool, Inc. was an independent Japanese video game, music software, computer software and toy developer. Its employees include Taro Kudou and Kazuyuki Kurashima, both of whom worked for the independent game developer Love-de-Lic. The company shut down on May 31, 2023.
Games
Endonesia (2001 - PlayStation 2)
Coloball 2002 (2002 - PlayStation 2)
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003 - Game Boy Advance) (Mini-Games)
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (2006 - Nintendo DS)
I am a Fish (2007 - mobile phones)
Let's Yoga (2007 - Nintendo DS)
Let's Pilates (2007 - Nintendo DS)
Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times (2008 - Nintendo DS) (Music)
3°C (2009 - Wii (WiiWare)) (Sound Clips)
Dekisugi Tingle Pack (2009 - Nintendo DS (DSiWare))
Irozuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip (2009 - Nintendo DS)
Little King's Story (2009 - Wii) (Sound/Voice Clips)
Wii Play: Motion (2011 - Wii) (Wind Runner Mini-game)
Dillon's Rolling Western (2012 - Nintendo 3DS)
Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger (2013 - Nintendo 3DS)
Paper Mario: Sticker Star (2012 - Nintendo 3DS) (Direction and script)
Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (2015 - Nintendo 3DS) (co-developed with Skip Ltd.)
Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers (2018 - Nintendo 3DS)
Super Kirby Clash (2019 - Nintendo Switch) (co-developed with HAL Laboratory)
Kirby Fighters 2 (2020 - Nintendo Switch) (co-developed with HAL Laboratory)
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (2022 - Nintendo Switch) (co-developed with HAL Laboratory)
Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (2023 - Nintendo Switch) (co-developed with HAL Laboratory)
References
External links
Defunct companies of Japan
Japanese companies established in 1999
Privately held companies of Japan
Software companies based in Tokyo
Defunct video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 1999
Vanpool games
Video game companies disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links%202004 | Links 2004 is a golf simulation computer game by Microsoft for the Xbox. It is the final game in the Links series and follows Links 2003. It was also part of Microsoft's XSN Sports lineup.
Gameplay
The game supports from one to four players, system link of 2-4 players, Dolby 5.1 Surround sound, custom soundtracks, HDTV 480p, and Xbox Live Scoreboard and online play. It also featured simultaneous online play - referred to as Stroke "Fast Play" - where each player could complete the hole at their own pace and not have to wait their turns.
Release
Links 2004 was released in the United States on November 11, 2003. A downloadable course of Hawaii's Kapalua Plantation was made available through Xbox Live in early 2004.
Reception
Links 2004 received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported for release on March 25, 2004, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, one six, and two sevens for a total of 28 out of 40.
References
External links
2003 video games
Golf video games
Sports video games set in the United States
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Xbox games
Xbox-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Access Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Automounter | In computing the Berkeley Automounter (or amd) is a computer automounter daemon which first appeared in 4.4BSD in 1994. The original Berkeley automounter was created by Jan-Simon Pendry in 1989 and was donated to Berkeley. After languishing for a few years, the maintenance was picked up by Erez Zadok, who has maintained it since 1993.
The am-utils package which comprises and is included with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. It is also included with a vast number of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, ASPLinux, Trustix, Mandriva, and others.
The Berkeley automounter has a large number of contributors, including several who worked on the original automounter with Jan-Simon Pendry.
It is one of the oldest and more portable automounters available today, as well as the most flexible and the most widely used.
Caveats
There are a few "side effects" that come with files that are mounted using automounter, these may differ depending on how the service was configured.
Access time of automounted directories is initially set to the time automounter was used to mount them, however after the directories are accessed, this statistic changes.
On some systems, directories are not visible until the first time they are used. This means commands such as ls will fail.
If mounted directories are not used for a period of time, directories are unmounted.
When automounter mounts directories, they are said to be owned by root until someone uses them, at that time the correct owner of the directory shows up.
References
External links
Am-utils Home Page (home of amd)
RPMs from rpmfind.net
Unix network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Carter | Sheila Carter is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, American soap operas on the CBS network. Created by William J. Bell, the role was introduced in 1990 — by Edward J. Scott — under the portrayal of Kimberlin Brown, who originally portrayed the role from 1990 to 1992 on The Young and the Restless, although she continued to make guest appearance until 1995. From 1992 to 1998, Brown played the role on The Bold and the Beautiful, returning for stints in 2002 and 2003, before returning to The Young and the Restless from 2005 to January 2006. That same year, Michelle Stafford took over the role after Sheila had plastic surgery to look like Phyllis Summers. Brown returned to the role of Sheila on The Bold and the Beautiful from June 9, 2017, to March 23, 2018, and then again from August 6, 2021.
Sheila is known as a villain. A significant portion of Sheila's history on both soaps revolves around her long-running conflict with Lauren Fenmore, whom she has attempted to kill on multiple occasions. She has also had conflicts with Stephanie Forrester, Maggie Forrester, Amber Moore, Taylor Hayes, Brooke Logan, Phyllis Summers, Quinn Fuller, Steffy Forrester and Li Finnegan, as well as numerous other characters on both soaps.
Casting
The role was portrayed by Kimberlin Brown for a total of 16 years. Her first run was on The Young and the Restless from May 16, 1990 to May 20, 1992, when the character crossed over to The Bold and the Beautiful from May 21, 1992, to October 2, 1998, again from May 24 to November 5, 2002, and again finally from September 26 to October 10, 2003. Despite being a regular cast member on The Bold and the Beautiful, Brown returned to The Young and the Restless for several guest appearances beginning on October 27, 1992. Brown departed on November 5, 1992, and reappeared for one episode on December 23, 1992. She continued making appearance from January 7 to 14, 1993, February 19, 1993, to March 2, 1993, October 11, 1993, October 19 to 27, 1993, January 12, 1994, and February 28, 1995, until March 2, 1995.
In July 2005, after a 10-year absence from The Young and the Restless, it was announced that Brown was to reprise the role. At the time, Brown had been appearing on ABC's One Life to Live as Paige Miller, and Brown reportedly opted to leave the role when ABC was unable to match the financial terms of a contract offered to her by CBS. She returned on August 5, 2005, and her run ended on January 11, 2006. However, that December, the character returned, though not portrayed by Brown, but by Michelle Stafford, who in addition portrayed Phyllis Summers. For the reason of Brown not returning to the role, the actress said: "I had a bad accident last year, and when they wanted me back in November, I really couldn't go at that time, and that's why I came back looking like somebody else." Stafford only portrayed the role for two months until February 9, 2007, when Sheila was shot by her lon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMT%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | CMT Australia is an Australian cable and satellite music television channel owned and operated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. It is the third and currently only country music video channel in Australia, created after the closure of MusicCountry from the Australian market, followed by its predecessor network.
From 2004 until June 2020, it was known as Country Music Channel and was owned by Foxtel Networks. Foxtel ceased that network's operations (along with sister channels [V], MAX and Foxtel Smooth) at the end of June 2020 as part of a long-term agreement with Paramount Global to program new music networks on its platform. The channel is now a localised version of the US Country Music Television, and airs country music videos around the clock from Australia and globally.
Former CMC-era programming
The CMC Top 30 Countdown - weekly chart based on airplay
Spotlight, one-hour collection of videos from a single artist.
30 Best - themed countdown.
Headline Country
The Wilkinsons (TV series)
Tuckerville
Rollin' With... - an artist profile show host by Steve Forde. artists profiled include Lee Kernaghan, Catherine Britt, Adam Brand, Troy Cassar-Daley, Joe Nichols, Dierks Bentley, Corb Lund Band, Blaine Larsen, Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Colt Ford and The Wilkinsons
Muster Masters - a game show hosted based around the Gympie Muster (2009)
Talent
Steve Forde (Rollin' with...)
The Sunny Cowgirls (Muster Masters, CMC Rocks the Hunter)
Morgan Evans
Live events
CMC co-produced a three-day music festival, with Rob Potts Entertainment Edge and Michael Chugg Entertainment - CMC Rocks.
The first three years the event took place in Thredbo.
In 2008, CMC Rocks the Snowys featured Mia Dyson, Brian Cadd, John Butler Trio, Shea Fisher, The McClymonts, Jim Lauderdale, Catherine Britt, Steve Forde, Adam Harvey, Shannon Noll, Sugarland, Gary Allan, and Patty Griffin.
In 2009, CMC Rocks the Snowys featured Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans, Steve Forde, Captain Flange, Taylor Swift, Joe Nichols, Old Crow Medicine Show, John Williamson, Pete Murray, The Waifs, The Sunny Cowgirls, Ash Grunwald, The Audreys, Jasmine Rae, and Deana Carter.
In 2010, CMC Rocks the Snowys featured Adam Harvey, Nanci Griffith, Tania Kernaghan, Steve Forde, Phil Vassar, Jack Ingram, Lee Kernaghan.
In 2011, the event moved to the Hunter Valley of New South Wales and featured Troy Cassar-Daley, Russell Morris, Alan Jackson, Joe Nichols, Emerson Drive, Dean Brody.
In partnership with parent company Foxtel, CMC hosted its own awards program which it airs live. The CMC Awards took place on the night until CMC Rocks officially starts.
References
External links
2020 establishments in Australia
Australian country music
Music video networks in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Foxtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberth%20method | The Aberth method, or Aberth–Ehrlich method or Ehrlich–Aberth method, named after Oliver Aberth and Louis W. Ehrlich, is a root-finding algorithm developed in 1967 for simultaneous approximation of all the roots of a univariate polynomial.
This method converges cubically, an improvement over the Durand–Kerner method, another algorithm for approximating all roots at once, which converges quadratically. (However, both algorithms converge linearly at multiple zeros.)
This method is used in MPSolve, which is the reference software for approximating all roots of a polynomial to an arbitrary precision.
Description
Let be a univariate polynomial of degree with real or complex coefficients. Then there exist complex numbers , the roots of , that give the factorization:
Although those numbers are unknown, upper and lower bounds for their absolute values are computable from the coefficients of the polynomial. Now one can pick distinct numbers in the complex plane—randomly or evenly distributed—such that their absolute values are within the same bounds. (Also, if the zeros are symmetrical, the starting points must not be exactly symmetrical along the same axis, as this can prevent convergence.) A set of such numbers is called an initial approximation of the set of roots of . This approximation can be iteratively improved using the following procedure.
Let be the current approximations of the zeros of . Then offset numbers are computed as
where is the polynomial derivative of evaluated in the point .
The next set of approximations of roots of is then . One can measure the quality of the current approximation by the values of the polynomial or by the size of the offsets.
Conceptually, this method uses an electrostatic analogy, modeling the approximated zeros as movable negative point charges, which converge toward the true zeros, represented by fixed positive point charges. A direct application of Newton's method to each approximated zero will often cause multiple starting points to incorrectly converge to the same root. The Aberth method avoids this by also modeling the repulsive effect the movable charges have on each other. In this way, when a movable charge has converged on a zero, their charges will cancel out, so that other movable charges are no longer attracted to that location, encouraging them to converge to other "unoccupied" zeros. (Stieltjes also modeled the positions of zeros of polynomials as solutions to electrostatic problems.)
Inside the formula of the Aberth method one can find elements of Newton's method and the Durand–Kerner method. Details for an efficient implementation, esp. on the choice of good initial approximations, can be found in Bini (1996).
The updates of the roots may be executed as a simultaneous Jacobi-like iteration where first all new approximations are computed from the old approximations or as a sequential Gauss–Seidel-like iteration that uses each new approximation from the time it is computed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp%20Pre-metro | The Antwerp Premetro is a network consisting of lines 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 15 of the Antwerp Tram system. It is a metre gauge system which runs underground in the city centre and further out on surface lines, which are mostly separated from motor vehicle traffic. The network is operated by De Lijn.
History
The network was planned at the beginning of the 1970s to become a fully underground network similar to the Brussels Metro or German Stadtbahnen (light railways), with a length of and comprising 22 stations. However, due to financial difficulties, only 19 stations have been built and 7 of those are still unused.
The first section opened on 25 March 1975 between Opera and Groenplaats, including station Meir. This line was extended to reach Diamant and Plantin in 1980 and Van Eeden in 1990. A north-eastern branch was opened in 1996, including the stations Sport, Schijnpoort, Handel, Elisabeth and Astrid, connecting to the existing line between Opera and Diamant.
In the original plan a second axis was proposed from the south-western suburbs via Opera and Astrid to the eastern district Deurne. A metro tunnel was built under the Turnhoutsebaan in Borgerhout, as well as some shorter tunnels, as a part of these plans. However, construction stopped in the 1980s due to lack of funds. Although the tunnel itself was largely completed, the stations still had to be decorated and the track still had to be laid. Under the Pegasus plan (approved in 2004) it was decided to finally open this unused premetro tunnel, although, to reduce the costs of the project, it was decided only to open Zegel station. The stations Carnot, Drink, College and Morckhoven were not opened, but fitted to be used as emergency exits. This axis was opened partially in 2015.
A second entrance from Deurne Turnhoutsebaan towards the "Reuzenpijp"-tunnel under Borgerhout was opened in September 2017. Underground station Foorplein remains unused.
A tunnel linking Schijnpoort on the first axis with Carnot on the second one is still not in use.
Current situation
Stations
The network consists of 19 stations, of which 12 are currently in use. Of the remaining 7, 4 are scheduled to be put in service while 3 remain unused in all plans.
Astrid (partly opened in 1996, fully opened in 2015, connecting with the Central station)
Diamant (opened in 1980, also connecting with the Central station)
Elisabeth (opened in 1996)
Groenplaats (opened in 1975)
Handel (opened in 1996)
Meir (opened in 1975)
Opera (reopened)
Plantin (opened in 1980)
Schijnpoort (opened in 1996)
Sport (opened in 1996)
Van Eeden (the only station on the left bank of the river Scheldt, opened in 1990)
Zegel (opened in 2015)
Carnot (not in use)
Drink (planned open 2026)
Collegelaan (planned open 2026)
Morckhoven (not in use)
Foorplein (not in use)
Sint-Willibrordus (planned open 2027)
Stuivenberg (planned open 2027)
The stations Astrid and Opera were originally only partly opened, both having unused pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Pickering%20%28writer%29 | David Pickering is a reference books compiler. He has contributed to (and often been sole author and editor of) some 150 reference books, mostly in the areas of the arts, language, local history and popular interest. These include a Dictionary of Theatre (1988), an Encyclopedia of Pantomime (1993), Brewer's Twentieth-Century Music (1994; 1997), a Dictionary of Superstitions (1995) and a Dictionary of Witchcraft (1996).
He lives in Buckingham with his wife and two sons. Pickering was a pupil at Dryden House, Oundle School. He graduated in English from St Peter's College, Oxford.
Dictionary of the Theatre (1988)
Dictionary of the Theatre, edited by Pickering and published by Sphere in 1988, is intended to be a comprehensive dictionary of important plays and figures in the history of theatre. Derek Paget, writing in New Theatre Quarterly in 1990, wrote that the Dictionary was "likely to be of great use as reference (and as a first line of inquiry) to a wide range of people".
Bibliography
Review, by Rosenthal, Marilyn, Library Journal. 1/1/2002, Vol. 127 Issue 1, p88-89
Review, by Bibel, Barbara and Quinn, Mary Ellen Booklist. 02/01/98, Vol. 94 Issue 11, p934. 2p.
References
1958 births
Living people
People educated at Oundle School
English non-fiction writers
Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
People from Buckingham
English male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20menu | The Apple menu is a drop-down menu that is on the left side of the menu bar in the classic Mac OS, macOS and A/UX operating systems. The Apple menu's role has changed throughout the history of Apple Inc.'s operating systems, but the menu has always featured a version of the Apple logo.
System 6 and earlier
In System 6.0.8 and earlier, the Apple menu featured a Control Panel, as well as Desk Accessories such as a Calculator, the Scrapbook and Alarm Clock. If MultiFinder (an early implementation of computer multitasking) was active, the Apple menu also allowed the user to switch between multiple running applications.
The Macintosh user could add third-party Desk Accessories via the System Utility "Font/DA Mover". However, there was a limitation on the number of Desk Accessories that could be displayed in the Apple menu. Third-party shareware packages such as OtherMenu added a second customizable menu (without the trademarked Apple logo) that allowed users to install Desk Accessories beyond Apple's limitations.
System 7.0–9.2.2
System 7.0 introduced the Apple Menu Items folder in the System Folder. This allowed users to place alias(es) to their favorite software and documents in the menu. The Menu Manager forced these additions into alphabetical order, which prompted users to rename their aliases with leading spaces, numbers and other characters in order to get them into the order that suited them the best. Several third-party utilities provided a level of customization of the order of the items added to the Apple menu without having to rename each item.
The Apple menu also featured a Shut Down command, implemented by a Desk Accessory. An alias to the Control Panels folder was also present. System 7.0 was also the first version to feature the rainbow striped logo, as opposed to the black logo found in previous versions. In System 7.0, the black logo was retained in grayscale modes, and was used when the Monitors control panel was set to display "Thousands" or "Millions" of grays, though the rest of the display was in color.
System 7.0 featured built-in multitasking, so MultiFinder was removed as an option. The feature allowing users to switch between multiple running applications as in System 6 was given its own menu (appearing as the icon of the active application) on the opposite side of the menubar. Beginning in Mac OS 8.5, this new menu was given a unique "tear-off" capability, which detached the menu from the menu bar to become a free-floating window when the user dragged the cursor downwards off the bottom of the menu. In this case, it ran the application called "Application Switcher".
System 7.5 added an Apple Menu Options control panel, which added submenus to folders and disks in the Apple Menu, showing the contents of the folder or disk. Prior versions of System 7 showed only a standard menu entry that opened the folder in Finder. Apple Menu Options also added Recent Applications, Recent Documents, and Recent Servers to the Appl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uli%20Herzner | Ulrike "Uli" Herzner (born 23 April 1971) is a fashion designer originally from East Germany, currently living in Miami Beach, Florida. She was a contestant on the third season of the Bravo network reality television series Project Runway, where she finished runner-up to Jeffrey Sebelia. She starred in her own show, It's Very Uli on Plum TV, and finished as second runner-up on season 2 of Project Runway All-Stars.
Herzner is a freelance stylist, and sells dresses at boutiques in Palm Beach and on her website.
References
German women fashion designers
German expatriates in the United States
Artists from Miami
1971 births
Living people
Project Runway (American series) participants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Knowledge%20%28international%29 | BBC Knowledge was a television channel available in various countries outside the United Kingdom, showcasing factual and non-fiction entertainment programming from the BBC and independent UK production houses. Wholly owned by BBC Studios, it is not related to the previous channel known as BBC Knowledge, an early digital channel available within the UK, which closed down in 2002 in favour of BBC Four and CBeebies.
At one time, the channel provided five key programming strands enabling simple appointment viewing:
The World delved and explored new cultures around the world
Science & Technology explored new frontiers, from space to motoring
People explored aspects of the human body and mind
The Past brought historical events, places and people back to life
Business offered invaluable advice to help stay on top of today's challenging business world.
On 15 November 2009, BBC Knowledge in Australia changed their channel location from Channel 619 to Channel 612.
In 2014 it was announced that BBC Studios would rollout a new channel, BBC Earth, which would replace BBC Knowledge in most locations, except for where it was successful. Poland was the first location to launch the new brand on 1 February 2015.
Launch and closure dates
BBC Knowledge was first launched in Singapore on mio TV (Now in Singtel TV) in July 2007. It has been available on now TV in Hong Kong since October 2007 and on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform in Poland from December 2007 (Cyfra Plus in Poland plans its launch only on 1 Feb 2011 due to prior exclusive BBC deals with Polsat). BBC Knowledge launched in Indonesia on Indovision in April 2008, and in South Africa on DStv in September 2008. It has since also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008 when it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital and several cable systems. It was launched in Australia on Foxtel and Optus Television on 1 November 2008; in South Korea on CJ HelloVision on 1 December 2008 and on GS Gangnam Broadcasting on 26 May 2009.
In June 2009, citing the lack of viewership, the BBC terminated its carriage deal with SingTel's mio TV to air BBC Knowledge, (along with CBeebies and BBC Lifestyle), and entered into an agreement with StarHub TV to carry the channels from 1 August 2009, and in Romania on 31 December 2010.
BBC Knowledge was launched on Cable TV Hong Kong on 29 October 2009.
The channel was launched in New Zealand in March 2011 replacing the Documentary Channel following that channel's sale to BBC Studios.
From 1 March 2011 the channel is broadcast in Italy too. It's visible, in standard definition until 1 March 2016.
On 13 August 2013 the channel launched on Digiturk in Turkey.
On 1 February 2015, BBC Knowledge launched on Australian IPTV service Fetch TV.
The New Zealand BBC Knowledge channel was replaced by a localized version of BBC Earth on 22 October 2018.
The final BBC Knowledge channel in Australia was relaunched as a localized version of BBC Earth on 10 Oct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20programming%20in%20the%20punched%20card%20era | From the invention of computer programming languages up to the mid-1970s, most computer programmers created, edited and stored their programs line by line on punch cards.
Punched cards
A punched card is a flexible write-once medium that encodes data, most commonly 80 characters. Groups or "decks" of cards form programs and collections of data. The term is often used interchangeably with punch card, the difference being that an unused card is a "punch card," but once information had been encoded by punching holes in the card, it was now a "punched card." For simplicity, this article will use the term punched card to refer to either.
Often programmers first wrote their program out on special forms called coding sheets, taking care to distinguish the digit zero from the letter O, the digit one from the letter I, eight from B, two from Z, and so on using local conventions such as the "slashed zero". These forms were then taken by keypunch operators, who using a keypunch machine such as the IBM 026 (later IBM 029) punched the deck. Often another keypunch operator would then take that deck and re-punch from the coding sheets – but using a "verifier" such as the IBM 059 that checked that the original punching had no errors.
A typing error generally necessitated re-punching an entire card. The editing of programs was facilitated by reorganizing the cards, and removing or replacing the lines that had changed; programs were backed up by duplicating the deck, or writing it to magnetic tape.
In smaller organizations programmers might do their own punching, and in all cases would often have access to a keypunch to make small changes to a deck.
Work environment
The description below describes an all-IBM shop (a "shop" is programmer jargon for a programming site) but shops using other brands of mainframes (or minicomputers) would have similar equipment although because of cost or availability might have different manufacturer's equipment, e.g. an NCR, ICL, Hewlett-Packard (HP) or Control Data shop would have NCR, ICL, HP, or Control Data computers, printers and so forth, but have IBM 029 keypunches. IBM's huge size and industry footprint often caused many of their conventions to be adopted by other vendors, so the example below is fairly similar to most places, even in non-IBM shops.
A typical corporate or university computer installation would have a suite of rooms, with a large, access-restricted, air-conditioned room for the computer (similar to today's server room) and a smaller quieter adjacent room for submitting jobs. Nearby would be a room full of keypunch machines for programmer use. An IBM 407 Accounting Machine might be set up to allow newly created or edited programs to be listed (printed out on fan-fold paper) for proofreading. An IBM 519 might be provided to reproduce program decks for backup or to punch sequential numbers in columns 73-80.
In such mainframe installations, known as "closed shops," programmers submitted the program decks, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20manager | Within cluster and parallel computing, a cluster manager is usually backend graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI) software that runs on a set of cluster nodes that it manages (in some cases it runs on a different server or cluster of management servers). The cluster manager works together with a cluster management agent. These agents run on each node of the cluster to manage and configure services, a set of services, or to manage and configure the complete cluster server itself (see super computing.) In some cases the cluster manager is mostly used to dispatch work for the cluster (or cloud) to perform. In this last case a subset of the cluster manager can be a remote desktop application that is used not for configuration but just to send work and get back work results from a cluster. In other cases the cluster is more related to availability and load balancing than to computational or specific service clusters.
See also
List of cluster management software
Grid network
Further reading
Cluster management
Adaptive Control of Extreme-scale Stream Processing Systems Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
Design, implementation, and evaluation of the linear road benchmark on the stream processing core Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data.
Parallel Job Scheduling A Status Report (2004) 10th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, New-York, NY, June 2004.
Condor-G: A Computation Management Agent for Multi-Institutional Grids Springer Journal Cluster Computing Volume 5, Number 3 / July, 2002
From clusters to the fabric: the job management perspective Cluster Computing, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on
An Overview of the Galaxy Management Framework for Scalable Enterprise Cluster Computing IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'00), 2000.
Performance and Interoperability Issues in Incorporating Cluster Management Systems within a Wide-Area Network-Computing Environment ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2000: High Performance Networking and Computing.
DIRAC: a scalable lightweight architecture for high throughput computing Grid Computing, 2004. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on
AgentTeamwork: Coordinating grid-computing jobs with mobile agents Springer Journal Applied Intelligence Volume 25, Number 2 / October, 2006
Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center UC Berkeley Tech Report, May, 2010
Autonomic computing
The Laundromat Model for Autonomic Cluster Computing Autonomic Computing, 2006. ICAC '06. IEEE International Conference on.
Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing (2005).
Fault tolerance
Fault-tolerance in the Borealis distributed stream processing system Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD internat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20renamed%20cities%20in%20Ukraine | The following is a list of cities in Ukraine that underwent a name change since 1 January 1986, based on the database of the Verkhovna Rada.
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Albat → Kuibysheve (1945) → Albat (2023)
Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta (1784)
Ermeni Bazar → Armianskyi Bazar (1736) → Armiansk (1921)
Komsomolskoye/Komsomolske → Baqaçıq Qıyat/Bakachyk-Kyiat (2023)
Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945) → Büyük Onlar/Biuk-Onlar (2023)
Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
Dolossı → Sovietske → Dolossı/Dolossy (2023)
Canköy → Dzhankoi (1784)
Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosia (1784)
Sarabuz → Hvardiiske (1944)
İçki → Sovietskyi (1944) → İçki/Ichki (2023)
Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman (1991)
İslâm Terek → Kirovske (1944) → İslâm Terek/Isliam Terek (2023)
Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoiakornoie → Bubnovka → Ordzhonikidze (1937) → Kaygador/Kaihador (2023)
Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
Qızıltaş → Krasnokamianka (1945)
Aşağı Otuz → Prymorie (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
Seyitler → Nyzhniohirskyi (1944)
Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
Or Qapı → Perekop (1736)
Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
Bazarçıq → Poshtove (1945)
Hafuz → Yuzhnaia Tochka (1938) → Prymorskyi (1952)
Kurman-Kumelĉi → Krasnohvardiiske (1944) → Qurman/Kurman (2023)
Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
Saq → Saky (1784)
Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym (1783)
Sudaq → Sudak (1784)
Bromzavod → Krasno-Perekopsk (1936) → Krasnoperekopsk (1964) → Yañı Qapı/Yany Kapu (2023)
Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine (1957) → Yedi Quyu/Yedy Kuiu (2023)
Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)
Chernihiv Oblast
Snovsk → Shchors (1935) → Snovsk (2016)
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnipropetrovsk/Dnepropetrovsk (1926) → Dnipro (2016)
Kamianske → Dniprodzerzhynsk (1936) → Kamianske (2016)
Mykytyne → Slovyanske (1775) → Nikopol (1781)
Samara → Novomoskovsk (1782)
Shakhtarske → Pershotravensk (1960)
Ordzhonikidze → Pokrov (2016)
Donetsk Oblast
Donetsko-Amvrosiyevka → Amvrosiivka (1938)
Avdeyevka I & Avdeyevka II → Avdiivka (1956)
Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924) → Bakhmut (2016)
Belozyorka → Bilozerske (1966)
Ostheim → Telmanovo/Telmanove (1935) → Boikivske (2016)
Bunge → Yunykh Komunarov (1924) → Yunokomunarovskoye (1965) → Yunokomunarivsk (1965) → Bunhe (2016)
Alekseyevka → Alekseyevo-Leonovo (1857) → Chystyakove (1932) → Torez (1964) → Chystiakove (2016)
Paraskoviivka & Erastovsky rudnik & Svyatogorovsky (Krasnoarmeysky, 1920) rudnik → Dobropillia (1935)
Yelenovskiye Karyery → Dokuchaievsk (1954)
Yuzovka → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk (1961)
Sotsgorodok → Hirnyk (1958)
Karakybbud → Komsomolske (1949) → Kalmiuske (2016)
Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958) → Khrestivka (2016)
Kramatorskaya → Kramatorsk (1932)
Kurakhovgresstroy → Kurakhovgres (1943) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering%20Committee%20for%20Humanitarian%20Response | The Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) is an alliance made up of chief executive officers representing nine humanitarian networks or agencies (CARE International, Caritas Internationalis, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Save the Children Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, Oxfam, ACT Alliance, and World Vision International).
Background
The SCHR was created in 1972 to improve cooperation among humanitarian agencies involved in disaster assistance. The five founding agencies were Oxfam, the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (later to become the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Lutheran World Federation, and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). In 1983, Caritas Internationalis took over the seat held by CRS, and the International Save the Children Alliance joined in 1992. Care International and Médecins sans frontières (MSF) were added in 1997 and the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1999. In January 2007, MSF decided not to renew its membership, leaving the SCHR. The most recent new member is World Vision International which joined in July 2008. The ACT Alliance now represents the WCC. Andrew Morley, the World Vision International President and Chief Executive Officer is the current Chair of the SCHR.
All of its members are internationally focussed and involved in humanitarian emergency assistance. The SCHR was the founder of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief and its members are all signatories to the code.
Implementing humanitarian assistance
The SCHR agencies implement most of international humanitarian assistance either directly or as operational partners with intergovernmental humanitarian agencies such as the UNHCR or the WFP. An important role of the SCHR is to introduce the field experience of its members into humanitarian decision making process of the United Nations, particularly through the UN's Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC) which is made up of the heads of the principle UN agencies involved in humanitarian assistance.
Standards
In addition to drawing up the Red Cross and NGO Code of Conduct for Disaster Response, the SCHR, together with the US based NGO consortium, InterAction, set up the Sphere Project in 1997 to develop minimum standards for humanitarian assistance in four major sectors, water and sanitation, food, shelter, and health, as well as framing a humanitarian charter for disaster response.
Peer reviews
In 2003, the SCHR embarked on an internal peer review process. In order to improve accountability, the members agreed to process for reviewing each other on important issues related to humanitarian response. The first issue examined was the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse by member agencies in their work.
Issues
Some |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20format | Text format may refer to:
Computing
Formatted text, text containing word processor metadata for control style
Textual file format, a non-binary file format
Graphic design
Typesetting, the style of text on a page
Typography, the style of text characters
Calligraphy, the style of hand-rendered text characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Young%20Lawyers | The Young Lawyers is an American legal drama that was aired on the ABC network for one season from September 21, 1970, until March 24, 1971. Starring Lee J. Cobb, Zalman King, Judy Pace and Phillip Clark, the show was a part of the network's 1970–71 lineup.
Plot
Aaron Silverman is part of a group of young, idealistic students at a top Boston law school who open a legal aid center, the "Neighborhood Law Office," to help the poor. As these young students have not yet been admitted to the bar, they receive guidance from established Boston lawyer David Barrett.
Cast
Lee J. Cobb as David Barrett
Zalman King as Aaron Silverman
Judy Pace as Pat Walters
Phillip Clark as Chris Blake
Episodes
Home media
On December 9, 2016, CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment released the Complete Series on DVD in region 1. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available from online sellers such as Amazon.com and their CreateSpace MOD program.
Award nominations
References
External links
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1970 American television series debuts
1971 American television series endings
ABC Movie of the Week
Television series by CBS Studios
American legal drama television series
Television shows set in Boston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOAR | KOAR (101.5 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Beebe, Arkansas, United States. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.
Programming
KOAR broadcasts a contemporary Christian music format to the Searcy, Arkansas, area as an affiliate of the Air 1 radio network.
History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on April 27, 1990. The new station was assigned the KPIK call sign by the FCC on May 10, 1990. KPIK received its license to cover from the FCC on February 11, 1992.
In February 1993, license holders Judith Ann Davis and Barbara Jo Faith applied to the FCC to transfer the license for this station to a new company called KPIK Communications, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 9, 1993, and the transaction was consummated on April 22, 1993.
In May 2001, KPIK Communications, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Searcy Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 13, 2001, and the transaction was consummated on June 22, 2001. The new owners had the FCC change the call sign to KBGR on July 9, 2001.
In March 2005, Searcy Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to the Educational Media Foundation for a reported sale price of $525,000. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 9, 2005, and the transaction was consummated on July 25, 2005. At the time of the sale, KBGR was broadcasting a country music format.
The EMF flipped the station to a contemporary Christian music format and added the station to their Air 1 network. The station was assigned call sign KOAR on March 25, 2009.
References
External links
Air 1 official website
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
White County, Arkansas
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Arkansas
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
OAR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchat%20%281995%20TV%20series%29 | Backchat was a half-hour television show on FX which ran through the mid-1990s right after the network's inception and was hosted by Jeff Probst.
The show consisted of him and two designated letter-readers reading viewer letters and responding on air. At the time, FX's gimmick was the FX Apartment, which the hosts of various TV shows (such as Breakfast Time and Sound FX) would use as a set. Also part of this gimmick was a very high level of interaction with viewers via their letters and e-mails, hence the TV show.
Probst has commented that later in the show's run, he and the writers simply made up letters due to a drought of letters, and that none of the audience was ever able to tell the difference. Backchat was ultimately cancelled as the FX Apartment gimmick was dropped and the network shifted into a secondary network for Fox.
References
FX Networks original programming
1995 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
Television shows set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTD%20%28mobile%20network%29 | MTD (Swedish abbreviation for Mobiltelefonisystem D, or Mobile telephony system D) was a manual mobile phone system for the 450 MHz frequency band. It was introduced in 1971 in Sweden, and lasted until 1987, when it was made obsolete by the NMT automatic service. The MTD network had 20,000 users at its peak, with 700 people employed as phone operators.
MTD was also implemented in Denmark and in Norway (from 1976), which allowed roaming within the Scandinavian countries.
MTA
In Sweden, the first mobile phone system was MTA (for Mobiltelefonisystem A), which was introduced in 1956, and lasted until 1967. It was a 160 MHz system available in Stockholm and Gothenburg, with 125 total subscribers. The second system, MTB (for Mobiltelefonisystem B), had transistorized mobile sets, was introduced in 1962, and lasted until 1983. It operated in the 76–77.5 and 81–82.5 MHz bands, was also available in Malmö, and had around 600 subscribers.
OLT
In Norway, the first mobile phone system was OLT, introduced in 1966. In 1976, the OLT system was extended to include UHF bands, incorporating MTD, and allowing international roaming within Sweden.
External links
Brief description of MTD as well as MTA and MTB
Some history behind MTA and MTB (latest snapshot at the Internet Archive)
Mobile radio telephone systems |
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