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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20Consumers%20Association | Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) is a United States-based non-partisan, non-government, non-profit organization dedicated to the interests of individuals who play computer and video games in the United States and Canada.
History
Hal Halpin, a game industry veteran and former president of the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA) – now called the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) – founded ECA in July 2006. The concept of the ECA was born following an IEMA board of directors meeting, in which Halpin recognized a need for consumer representation. The association was launched as a means for consumer rights advocacy following a string of anti-games legislation aimed at criminalizing the sale of certain video games. Although publishers were effectively represented by Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and retailers by Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA), consumers of video games were virtually unrepresented until the launch of ECA. Halpin was still president of the association as of April 2021.
Activities
ECA is an ardent supporter of consumer rights and advocacy, specifically in defending and advancing the interests of gamers. The organization does this through a variety of initiatives including netroots and lobbying efforts at the state and national governmental level, an activity permitted by its 501(c)(4) status. ECA also coalition builds with like-minded organizations including First Amendment advocacy groups and parallel trade associations. The ECA is non-partisan and does not support, oppose or give money to any candidates or political parties.
The ECA Member division negotiates and offers reduced rates for members with various companies that sell game-related merchandise and services including; magazine and premium website subscriptions, discounts on game rentals and purchases and free or discounted admission to trade shows, conferences and concerts, etc. They provide programs for reduced-cost medical and life insurance, financial aid, tuition assistance and scholarship opportunities for members as well as career advice, job boards, resume writing aid and discussion forums and boards.
The association distinguished itself early by weighing in publicly on issues that the parallel trade associations did not, including standing in defense of the game Mass Effect and its developer, BioWare, during the related controversy surrounding supposed sexualization of the product. ECA issued a press statement calling on FOX News to retract the misleading story. ECA also was a founding member of the Gamers for Net Neutrality initiative, which sought to educate and empower gamer consumers about the issues surrounding network neutrality as it relates to online gaming. Partnering with MoveOn.org, SaveTheInternet.com, and Games for Change, the coalition provides an educational area on ECA's website as well as digital advocacy tools for gamers. The association also established several other digital advocacy sub-gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20erasure | In programming languages, type erasure is the load-time process by which explicit type annotations are removed from a program, before it is executed at run-time. Operational semantics not requiring programs to be accompanied by types are named type-erasure semantics, in contrast with type-passing semantics. Type-erasure semantics is an abstraction principle, ensuring that the run-time execution of a program doesn't depend on type information. In the context of generic programming, the opposite of type erasure is named reification.
Type inference
The reverse operation is named type inference. Though type erasure can be an easy way to define typing over implicitly typed languages (an implicitly typed term is well-typed if and only if it is the erasure of a well-typed explicitly typed lambda term), it doesn't require an algorithm to check implicitly typed terms.
See also
Template (C++)
Problems with type erasure (in Generics in Java)
Type polymorphism
References
Type theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20chain | A hash chain is the successive application of a cryptographic hash function to a piece of data. In computer security, a hash chain is a method used to produce many one-time keys from a single key or password. For non-repudiation, a hash function can be applied successively to additional pieces of data in order to record the chronology of data's existence.
Definition
A hash chain is a successive application of a cryptographic hash function to a string .
For example,
gives a hash chain of length 4, often denoted
Applications
Leslie Lamport suggested the use of hash chains as a password protection scheme in an insecure environment. A server which needs to provide authentication may store a hash chain rather than a plain text password and prevent theft of the password in transmission or theft from the server. For example, a server begins by storing which is provided by the user. When the user wishes to authenticate, they supply to the server. The server computes and verifies this matches the hash chain it has stored. It then stores for the next time the user wishes to authenticate.
An eavesdropper seeing communicated to the server will be unable to re-transmit the same hash chain to the server for authentication since the server now expects . Due to the one-way property of cryptographically secure hash functions, it is infeasible for the eavesdropper to reverse the hash function and obtain an earlier piece of the hash chain. In this example, the user could authenticate 1000 times before the hash chain were exhausted. Each time the hash value is different, and thus cannot be duplicated by an attacker.
Binary hash chains
Binary hash chains are commonly used in association with a hash tree. A binary hash chain takes two hash values as inputs, concatenates them and applies a hash function to the result, thereby producing a third hash value.
The above diagram shows a hash tree consisting of eight leaf nodes and the hash chain for the third leaf node. In addition to the hash values themselves the order of concatenation (right or left 1,0) or "order bits" are necessary to complete the hash chain.
Winternitz chains
(also known as function chains) are used in hash-based cryptography. The chain is parameterized by the w (number of bits in a "digit" d) and security parameter n (number of bits in the hash value, typically double the security strength, 256 or 512). The chain consists of values that are results of repeated application of a one-way "chain" function F to a secret key sk: . The chain function is typically based on a standard cryptographic hash, but needs to be parameterized ("randomized"), so it involves few invocations of the underlying hash. In the Winternitz signature scheme a chain is used to encode one digit of the m-bit message, so the Winternitz signature uses approximately bits, its calculation takes about applications of the function F. Note that some signature standards (like Extended Merkle signature scheme, XMSS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscrea%20railway%20station | Roscrea railway station serves the town of Roscrea, County Tipperary, in Ireland.
Roscrea station is on the Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line of the Irish railway network connecting to the main Cork-Dublin line at Ballybrophy. It is listed as a protected structure by Tipperary County Council (RPS Ref RC093). The station is staffed and has a car park. The station is 0.5 miles from Roscrea town centre.
Bus Connection
Local Link
TFI Local Link bus stops at Roscrea Railway Station.
Timetable is 854 – (T45) Roscrea to Nenagh via Shinrone, Cloughjordan, Moneygall & Toomevara Timetable
History
The station opened on 19 October 1857 from Ballybrophy. On 8 March 1858 the line was extended to Birr and became a junction when the line to Nenagh was opened on 5 October 1863 eventually forming a new through route to Limerick via Nenagh. The branch from Roscrea to Birr in County Offaly was closed by Coras Iompair Eireann on 1 January 1963.
Closure proposed
A January 2012 national newspaper article suggested that Irish Rail was expected to seek permission from the National Transport Authority to close the line. On a trial basis an enhanced timetable was in force during 2012 however the service was again reduced from February 2013. In November 2016 it was announced the line was very likely to close in 2018 as demand for the service was very low and CIE/IE wished to close it to save money.
References
External links
Irish Rail Roscrea station website
Roscrea Station on Eire Trains
Ballybrophy-Roscrea-Nenagh-Limerick line
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1857
Iarnród Éireann stations in County Tipperary
Roscrea
1857 establishments in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Case | Jean Case (previously Villanueva and Wackes, born 1959) is an American businesswoman, author, and philanthropist who is chair of the board of National Geographic, CEO of Case Impact Network, and CEO of the Case Foundation. She is married to AOL co-founder Steve Case.
Early life
Case was born in Bloomington, Illinois and raised in Normal, Illinois before moving to Florida. She attended high school at the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, graduating in 1978.
Career
Early career
Case began her career as the marketing manager with online information services Source Telecomputing Corporation (The Source) and joining a General Electric “team trying to drive disruptive innovation within a big company” at General Electric Information Services (GEnie). Case then joined America Online (AOL) when it was a small startup and was at the table as it grew into the company that provided Internet services to about half of all U.S. homes with Internet access, worked as director of marketing, vice president for marketing, and vice president for corporate communications. She left AOL in 1996.
She and her husband created the Case Foundation in 1997 and they joined the Giving Pledge in 2011, committing to give away a majority of their wealth.
In June 2006, Case was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
In 2007, Case was asked by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as a co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership to promote economic opportunities for the Palestinian people, prepare Palestinian youth for the responsibilities of citizenship and good governance, and marshal new private investment in the West Bank.
In 2016, Case gave a TedxMidAtlantic talk, where she highlighted the importance innovators have played in the history of the United States and examined modern entrepreneurship.
In 2018, in reference to the under-representation of woman-founded and African-American-founded companies as recipients of venture capital, Case stated, "One thing we know for sure is talent is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not."
In 2021, she advocated for making it easier for inexperienced investors to make stock market bets.
Board membership
In February 2016, Case was elected chair of the National Geographic Society's board of trustees, the first woman to hold the position, and also serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, the White House Historical Association, and BrainScope Company, Inc., as well as the advisory councils of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and the Civil Society, Georgetown University's Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, and the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund. Past board and advisory council leadership includes the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and Malaria No More.
Investments
Case has long been a "leader in impact investing" and was a cofounder of The ImPa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei%20Guangbo%20Wang | Hubei Guangbo Wang (), which translates as the Hubei Broadcasting Network, consists of a group of radio stations serving the greater Hubei Province area.
List of Hubei Guangbo Wang Radio Stations
External links
()
Chinese-language radio stations
Mandarin-language radio stations
Radio stations in China
Mass media in Hubei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang%20Television%20Station | Heilongjiang Television (HLJTV, ), is a television network in the Heilongjiang province of China. The Heilongjiang Television and Radio Broadcast Center is located in the Long Ta (Dragon Tower). It is associated with Long Guang through the Heilongjiang Radio and TV Group. Its logo is both the English letter "H" and the Chinese character "龙", depending on how one looks at it.
List of Heilongjiang Television channels
References
External links
Television networks in China
Television stations in China
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Mass media in Harbin
1958 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20Application%20Programming%20Interface | In computer science, Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) is a portable interface (in the form of a library) to hardware performance counters on modern microprocessors. It is being widely used to collect low level performance metrics (e.g. instruction counts, clock cycles, cache misses) of computer systems running UNIX/Linux operating systems.
PAPI provides predefined high level hardware events summarized from popular processors and direct access to low level native events of one particular processor. Counter multiplexing and overflow handling are also supported.
Operating system support for accessing hardware counters is needed to use PAPI.
For example, prior to 2010, a Linux/x86 kernel had to be patched with a performance monitoring counters driver (perfctr link) to support PAPI.
Since Linux version 2.6.32, and PAPI 2010 releases, PAPI can leverage the existing perf subsystem in Linux, and thus does not need any out of tree driver to be functional anymore.
Supported Operating Systems and requirements are listed in the official repository's documentation INSTALL.txt.
See also
Performance analysis
Further reading
A Portable Programming Interface for Performance Evaluation on Modern Processors / International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications archive Volume 14 Issue 3, August 2000, Pages 189-204 doi:10.1177/109434200001400303
Dongarra, Jack, et al. "Using PAPI for hardware performance monitoring on Linux systems" // Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution. Vol. 5. Linux Clusters Institute, 2001.
External links
Official site
Philip Mucci, Performance Monitoring with PAPI / Dr.Dobbs, June 01, 2005
Development of a PAPI Backend for the Sun Niagara 2 Processor, 2009
Profilers
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Rosenthal | Ken Rosenthal (born September 19, 1962) is an American sportswriter and reporter. He serves as a field reporter for Fox Major League Baseball since 2005, and was an in-studio reporter for MLB Network from 2009 to 2022. Since August 2017, he is a senior baseball writer for The Athletic.
Career
Beginnings
Rosenthal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. After serving as an intern covering sports for Newsday on Long Island, he began his career at the York Daily Record in 1984. He moved on to the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, New Jersey for two years before landing a full-time job with The Baltimore Sun, where he was named Maryland Sportswriter of the Year five times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association during his tenure from 1987 to 2000. Rosenthal simultaneously contributed to Sports Illustrated from 1990 to 2000, providing weekly notes during baseball season. He then spent five years at The Sporting News until 2005.
Fox Sports
Rosenthal joined Fox Sports in 2005. He regularly wears a bow tie when appearing on Fox Sports telecasts in support of various charitable organizations. In 2015 and 2016, Rosenthal won the Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Reporter for his work with Fox Sports and MLB Network.
In June 2017, FoxSports.com eliminated its writing staff to focus only on video, leaving Rosenthal without an editorial home. He began posting stories on his Facebook page. He, however, continues to contribute to Fox Sports as a field reporter for their baseball coverage.
The Athletic
Rosenthal joined The Athletic in August 2017 as a senior baseball writer.
MLB Network
Rosenthal joined MLB Network in 2009 as a "baseball insider."
With MLB Network, Rosenthal contributed to Trade Deadline and National Baseball Hall of Fame coverage, as well as the offseason weekday morning show Hot Stove.
Rosenthal's contract was not renewed by MLB Network in January 2022, reportedly for his criticisms of Rob Manfred.
References
External links
Rosenthal's stories on The Athletic
Rosenthal's stories on FoxSports.com
1962 births
Living people
American sportswriters
American reporters and correspondents
Major League Baseball broadcasters
MLB Network personalities
Jewish American writers
People from Oyster Bay (town), New York
University of Pennsylvania alumni
21st-century American Jews |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20of%20Marine%20Life | The Census of Marine Life was a 10-year, US $650 million scientific initiative, involving a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations, engaged to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans. The world's first comprehensive Census of Marine Life — past, present, and future — was released in 2010 in London. Initially supported by funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project was successful in generating many times that initial investment in additional support and substantially increased the baselines of knowledge in often underexplored ocean realms, as well as engaging over 2,700 different researchers for the first time in a global collaborative community united in a common goal, and has been described as "one of the largest scientific collaborations ever conducted".
Project history
According to Jesse Ausubel, Senior Research Associate of the Program for the Human Environment of Rockefeller University and science advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the idea for a "Census of Marine Life" originated in conversations between himself and Dr. J. Frederick Grassle, an oceanographer and benthic ecology professor at Rutgers University, in 1996. Grassle had been urged to talk with Ausubel by former colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was at that time unaware that Ausubel was also a program manager at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, funders of a number of other large scale "public good" science-based projects such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Ausubel was instrumental in persuading the Foundation to fund a series of "feasibility workshops" over the period 1997-1998 into how the project might be conducted, one result of these workshops being the broadening of the initial concept from a "Census of the Fishes" into a comprehensive "Census of Marine Life". Results from these workshops, plus associated invited contributions, formed the basis of a special issue of Oceanography magazine in 1999; later that year, a workshop in Washington, D.C. addressed the formation of an Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) which would serve to collate existing knowledge about the distribution of organisms in the ocean and form the information management component of the Census.
The Census began in a formal sense with the announcement in May 2000 of eight grants totaling about 4 million US$ to create OBIS, as reported in Science magazine, 2 June. Meanwhile, an International Scientific Steering Committee was formed in 1999, which by 2001 envisaged "about half a dozen pilot [field] programs" for the period 2002-2004 which, along with OBIS and another project called "History of Marine Animal Populations" (HMAP), would provide the initial activities of the Census, to be followed by an additional series of field programs in 2005-2007, culminating in an analysis and integration phase in 2008-2010. During the operation of the Census, an additional non-field project was added, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia%20Minei%20Behr | Felicia Minei Behr is an American television producer and network executive who has worked on three daytime serials. She helped launch All My Children and won 2 Emmys for Best Drama Series as Executive Producer of the show, in 1992 and 1994.
Career
Minei Behr is one of the pioneers of Daytime television, helping to launch All My Children. As the first female Daytime television producer, she joined the show as an associate producer in 1970.
Her career spanned 3 decades, spending a majority of it as Executive Producer of All My Children, winning the show its first Daytime Emmy Award for "Best Drama Series" in 1992 and a second in 1994, with 9 nominations over her tenure.
Minei Behr's tenure as Executive Producer on All My Children lasted 7 years. During her tenure as EP, the show drew critical acclaim and was a consistent #2 in the ratings in the first half of the 1990s.
Minei Behr grew up on Long Island in a modest Italian family. She attended Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City. Her first job in television was at CBS as a secretary in 1960.
At a time when women were not allowed to hold high-ranking positions in television, from there, she worked her way up to various positions on several shows including The Jackie Gleason Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Garry Moore Show, before helping to launch All My Children. She also served as Executive Producer on Ryan’s Hope and As the World Turns.
From 2000 to 2004, she served as Senior Vice President of ABC Daytime, overseeing production of all of the ABC soaps and The View.
Positions held
All My Children
Executive Producer (February 1989 - April 1996)
Associate Producer (1970–1975)
Ryan's Hope
Executive Producer (1988–1989)
Producer (1982–1988)
As the World Turns
Executive Producer (December 1996 - July 1999)
ABC Daytime
Senior Vice President (May 2000 - May 2004)
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Awards
NOMINATIONS: 9 Noms -(1990–1997; Best Drama Series; All My Children)
WINS: 2 WINS -(1992 & 1994; Best Drama Series; All My Children)
People's Choice Award - win (1995)
External links
ABC Daytime
Soap opera producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20spectrum%20management | Dynamic spectrum management (DSM), also referred to as dynamic spectrum access (DSA), is a set of techniques based on theoretical concepts in network information theory and game theory that is being researched and developed to improve the performance of a communication network as a whole. The concept of DSM also draws principles from the fields of cross-layer optimization, artificial intelligence, machine learning etc. It has been recently made possible by the availability of software radio due to development of fast enough processors both at servers and at terminals. These are techniques for cooperative optimization. This can also be compared or related to optimization of one link in the network on the account of losing performance on many links negatively affected by this single optimization.
It is most commonly applied to optimize digital subscriber line (DSL) performance of a network. Another potential application of DSM is for cognitive radio.
Important and common principles of DSM include:
Link adaptation
Bandwidth management
Multi-user MIMO
Pre-cancellation of estimated interference
Combining unused channels (not pre-allocated) for a single user or bonding
DSM in Digital Subscribers Loop
DSM can be achieved over ordinary copper phone lines' network by reducing or eliminating crosstalk, interference and near–far problem within a DSL network especially affecting the DSL phone lines that are close together in a binder.
The technique involves multiple methods:
Continuously monitoring the status of interfering signal levels using current bit-loading compared to maximum achievable bit rate, number of errored seconds, number of severely errored seconds, number of forward error corrections (FEC) and making decisions about the underperforming scenario's cause and forcing the link to train in a specific way.
Identifying the neighborhood cables in the binders that may be causing unwanted cross-talk and lowering their upstream transmission power until bit-rates are optimized for the network.
Increasing or decreasing the amount of forward error correction overhead applied to the signal propagating on the cable in response to the severity of the correlated interferers or jammers.
Modifying the limits on the power levels allowed on cable, the masks of the tones on which bits can be loaded or the masks for power spectral density to allow for minimization of the interference caused due to excess signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) causing degradation of SNR on other lines.
Modem hardware (consumer premises equipment) adjusting transmission settings in order to achieve the optimized discrete multitone modulation (DMT) signal (this is not exactly DSM and can be achieved even without DSM). This hardware adjustment being forced from a central monitoring location and applied to a network of consumer premises equipment, on the whole, to optimize the network performance as a whole.
See also
Interruptible spectrum
References
External links
Boost for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLT%20%28mobile%20network%29 | OLT (Norwegian for Offentlig Landmobil Telefoni, Public Land Mobile Telephony), was the first land mobile telephone network in Norway. It was established December 1, 1966, and continued until it was obsoleted by NMT in 1990. In 1981, there were 30,000 mobile subscribers, which at the time made this network the largest in the world.
The network operated in the 160 MHz VHF band, using frequency modulation (FM) on 160-162 MHz for the mobile unit, and 168-170 MHz for the base station. Most mobile sets were semi-duplex, but some of the more expensive units were full duplex. Each subscriber was assigned a five digit phone number.
In 1976, the OLT system was extended to include UHF bands, incorporating MTD, and allowing international roaming within Scandinavian countries.
External links
Norwegian mobile phone history from Norsk Telemuseum (Norwegian)
Mobile radio telephone systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20RM%20class | The RM class was the classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) and its successors gave to most railcars and railbuses that have operated on New Zealand's national rail network. "RM" stands for Rail Motor which was the common name at the turn of the 20th century for what became known in New Zealand as railcars. As many types of railcars are operated, class names have been given to each railcar type to differentiate them from others.
Experimental and early railcars
In the early 20th century, NZR began investigating railcar technology to provide profitable and efficient passenger services on regional routes and rural branch lines where carriage trains were not economic and "mixed" trains (passenger carriage(s) attached to freight trains) were undesirably slow.
A number of experimental railcars and railbuses were developed:
1912: RM1 MacEwan-Pratt petrol railcar - the first railcar to operate in New Zealand
1914: RM1 (number re-used) Westinghouse petrol-electric railcar
1916: RM2 Thomas Transmission petrol-electric railcar
1924: A88 Buckhurst petrol carriage railcar (not officially a member of the RM class)
1925: Leyland petrol railcar
1925: RM4 and RM5 Model T Ford railbus
1925: Sentinel-Cammell steam railcar
1926: Clayton steam railcar
1926: RM6 Edison battery-electric railcar
1934: RM1 (number re-used) Red Terror railcar
The most successful of the experimental and early railcars was the Edison battery-electric railcar, which provided a popular twice-daily service on the Little River Branch line in Canterbury. It may have been expanded into a full fleet of railcars had the economic difficulties of the Great Depression not intervened, and it was destroyed by a depot fire in 1934 and not replaced.
Railcar classes
The first truly successful railcar classes to enter revenue service in New Zealand were the Midland and Wairarapa classes that began operating in 1936, following the building of the Red Terror (an 8-seat inspection railcar) for the General Manager, Garnet Mackley, in 1934. More classes followed over the years, primarily to operate regional services. The various classes were:
1936: RM20 and RM21 Midland railcar (or small railbus)
1936: RM4–RM10 Wairarapa railcar (or large railbus) – specially designed to operate over the Rimutaka Incline
1938: RM30–RM35 Standard railcar – North Island only
1940: RM50–RM59 Vulcan railcar – South Island only
1955: RM100–RM134 88 seater railcar – also known as Articulateds, Drewrys, Fiats, or twinsets, New Zealand's most numerous railcar class
1972: RM1, RM2, RM3 (later redesignated RM18, RM24, RM30 after introduction of TMS) Silver Fern railcar
The Silver Ferns were the only railcars to survive into the privatisation era of Tranz Rail and Toll Rail, and later re-nationalisation as KiwiRail. They were introduced to provide a premier service on the North Island Main Trunk between Wellington and Auckland, and after they were replaced by the Overlander locomotive-hauled |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-etsu%20Broadcasting | , also known as SBC, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the Japan News Network (JNN) for TV and JRN/NRN for radio. Their headquarters are located in Nagano Prefecture.
The broadcaster was the first radio station outside Japan's five metropolitan prefectures.
Network
TV: Japan News Network (JNN)
RADIO: Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN)
History
After the establishment of the "Three Radio Laws" (Radio Law, Broadcasting Law, and Radio Supervisory Committee Establishment Law) in 1950, the Shinano Mainichi Shimbun attempted to establish a private broadcasting service.At its first meeting in March 1951, several companies, politicians, and financial institutions elected Shuntaro Katsuta (the then vice president of Shinano Mainichi Shimbun) as the president of Shinano Broadcasting.On October 18 of the same year, they obtained a preparatory broadcast license.
On March 25, 1952 at 5pm, Shinano Broadcasting started to be on air as the first commercial radio broadcaster in the prefecture. Upon its launch, the coverage area was limited to Nagano City, which led to it expanding its coverage area to other cities in the prefecture between 1953 and 1957. A week later, the company name was changed to Shin-etsu Broadcasting after it received funding from the local government of Jōetsu City in Niigata Prefecture.
In June 1953, Shin-etsu Broadcasting received an application for a TV license. Due to the mountainous terrain of Nagano Prefecture, the broadcaster started to build a main transmitter on Mount Utsukushigahara, the first in Japan to have a broadcast transmitter on a mountaintop. On March 14, 1958, it received a broadcast license. And on October 25, 1958 11:30am, SBC started broadcasting on TV. At that time, it aired programs from TBS and Nippon TV. On March 1, 1959, it also aired programs from Fuji TV and NET (currently known as TV Asahi), the same day the networks started to go on air (Nippon TV, TV Asahi, and Fuji TV programming gradually moved to TV Shinshu, Nagano Broadcasting, and Nagano Asahi Broadcasting when they opened). In August 1959, SBC joined the Japan News Network.
On October 1, 1964, SBC started broadcasting in color on the eve of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. As part of the 15th anniversary of the broadcaster, they participated in the establishment of Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum on October 1, 1966. In 1979, SBC alongside Minaminihon Broadcasting, Aomori Broadcasting, and Shikoku Broadcasting won the Broadcast Cultural Fund Award.
1 October 2006 Digital terrestrial television was started (Utsukushigahara Main Station, Zenkoji-daira Station, Matsumoto Station, Okaya-Suwa Station, Ina Station and Iida Station).
Stations
Analog TV
Until July 24, 2011, when the broadcasts finished.
Utsukushigahara (Main Station) JOSR-TV 11ch 1 kW
Sakae-Mura 37ch 10w
Iiyama-Kuwanagawa 56ch 3w
Iiyama 6ch 3w
Iiyama-Narasawa 44ch 0.1w
Iiyama-Atago 56ch 0.1w
Okaya-Kawagishi 50ch 3w
Shirakabako 58ch 1w
Kurumayama 44ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%20processor | A template processor (also known as a template engine or template parser) is software designed to combine templates with a data model to produce result documents. The language that the templates are written in is known as a template language or templating language. For purposes of this article, a result document is any kind of formatted output, including documents, web pages, or source code (in source code generation), either in whole or in fragments. A template engine is ordinarily included as a part of a web template system or application framework, and may be used also as a preprocessor or filter.
Typical features
Template engines typically include features common to most high-level programming languages, with an emphasis on features for processing plain text.
Such features include:
variables and functions
text replacement
file inclusion (or transclusion)
conditional evaluation and loops
Embedded template engines
While template processors are typically a separate piece of software, used as part of a system or framework, simple templating languages are commonly included in the string processing features of general-purpose programming languages, and in text processing programs, notably text editors or word processors. The templating languages are generally simple substitution-only languages, in contrast to the more sophisticated facilities in full-blown template processors, but may contain some logic.
Simple examples include ‘printf’ print format strings, found in many programming languages, and snippets, found in a number of text editors and source code editors. In word processors, templates are a common feature, while automatic filling in of the templates is often referred to as mail merge.
An illustrative example of the complementary nature of parsing and templating is the s (substitute) command in the sed text processor, originating from search-and-replace in the ed text editor. Substitution commands are of the form s/regexp/replacement/, where regexp is a regular expression, for parsing input, and replacement is a simple template for output, either literal text, or a format string containing the characters & for "entire match" or the special escape sequences \1 through \9 for the nth sub-expression. For example, s/(cat|dog)s?/\1s/g replaces all occurrences of "cat" or "dog" with "cats" or "dogs", without duplicating an existing "s": (cat|dog) is the 1st (and only) sub-expression in the regexp, and \1 in the format string substitutes this into the output.
System elements
All template processing systems consist of at least these primary elements:
an associated data model;
one or more source templates;
a processor or template engine;
generated output in the form of result documents.
Data model
This may be a relational database, a source file such as XML, an alternate format of flat file database, a spreadsheet or any of other various sources of preformatted data. Some template processing systems are limited in the types of data t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan%20Star%20Telecom | Taiwan Star Telecom Corporation Limited (), doing business as T Star for short, formerly Vibo Telecom Inc. (), is a 3G mobile network operator in Taiwan.
Its major operations are based in all city of Taiwan.
Services
Vibo was founded in 2000. It was awarded a licence in February 2002, and went live on 1 October 2005. Vibo's offers a common pricing plan for broadband and mobile that was introduced under the slogan On-Net/Off-net one price.
T-Star's network is UMTS (W-CDMA) based in the 2.1 GHz band. Vibo offers it subscribers international roaming.
T-star also uses band 7 (2600MHZ) and Band 8 (900 MHz) for its LTE network.
Mobile Network Information
History
July 1999, the Preparatory Office of the Federal Telecommunications Co., Ltd. was established.
In April 2000, the Federal Telecommunications establishment is complete, the entire capital of NT 300 million yuan. May 2000, the Securities and Futures Commission approved the federal telecommunications public offering of stock. May 30, 2000, the federal telecommunications stocks listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 3157.
February 2002, the Federal Telecommunications third generation mobile communications service bidding bid. In October, the federal telecommunications board election, election hsiung Hsu Ren Jinbao Electronics representative as chairman. September 2003, the Federal Telecommunications was renamed by "Vibo Telecom Co., Ltd.."
September 2005, Vibo Telecom handle syndicated loan of NT $9.06 billion yuan, International Commercial Bank of China, Chinatrust Commercial Bank, JihSun International Commercial Bank, Ta Chong Commercial Bank, China Development Industrial Bank, Taiwan Cooperative Bank, jointly organized 23 bank syndicated loan. In December, the formal launch of the third generation mobile communications business services.
April 2006, over 10 million subscribers. Strategic alliance with Aurora Telecom operates a virtual mobile phone services (Mobile Virtual Network Operator, MVNO) business. December, Vibo "Granville Card" listed.
February 2007, the exclusive launch of Taiwan's first mobile phone money card "Granville travel card." March, launched the "VIBO cards." May, a joint venture with Tecom VMAX. In June, Taiwan's first 3G prepaid "VIBO one card" () listed. September, "Wei Wei Bao Tong Card" to new applications, launched the "Gateway Card Antenna Group and its subsidiaries," the world's most important industry-leading dual-card combination, non-contact inductive (NFC) technology, in cooperation with Union Bank with commercially available 3G handsets. December, and more than 4,000 completed WCDMA base station optimization.
July 2008, invested "" pathway responsible for operating the phone. April 2009, breaking the one million subscribers. September, launched an exclusive "MyCard video card." November, completed Taiwan's first test network integration WCDMA / TD-SCDMA system resources. December, breaking the 1.5 million subscribers.
March 2010, Verbatim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Soil%20Database | The European Soil Database is the only harmonized soil database in Europe from which many other data information and services are derived. For instance, the European Soil Database v2 Raster Library contains raster (grid) data files with cell sizes of 1km x 1km for a large number of soil related parameters. Each grid is aligned with the INSPIRE reference grid . These rasters are in the public domain and allow expert users to use the data for instance to run soil-, water- and air related models. . The European Soil Database may be downloaded from the European Soil Data Center (ESDAC).
The soil raster data files are accompanied by as many static soil maps (PDF Format, A3), which allow the user to have a quick overview of the distribution of soil characteristics in a spatial way. The many rasters include parameters such as soil texture (clay, silt and sand), parent material, WRB soil type, Obstacle to roots, soil depth, Impermeability , Soil Water Regime, Water Management System, mineralogy, cation exchange capacity, packing density, available water capacity.
The European Soil Database is based on experts knowledge. In addition to the European Soil Database,
In an attempt to expand soil data at European scale, the European Commission Joint Research Centre runs the LUCAS topsoil survey collecting soil samples across the soils of European Union. Based on LUCAS topsoil database, scientists have modelled the spatial distribution of soil physical properties (sand, silt, clay, coarse fragments, etc).
Additionally, in ESDAC, a number of mapping services has been developed in order to allow the public to navigate and query soil data. The ESDAC Map Viewer is a web-based application for the navigation of ESDB related data through a map interface. This map service allows interaction through soil parameter selection and map operations such as zooming and panning. The data can be queried and identified. According to INSPIRE principles, this application has been created and extended using international standards (OGC - WMS) so that it is possible to combine layers of maps located in different map servers all around the World.
Download Sources:
Vector Data
Raster Library 1km x 1km
See also
European Soil Data Centre
References
External links
Official site
European Soil Data Centre: response to European policy support and public data requirements Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338.
European Soil Bureau Network
LUCAS topsoil database:
The European soil database Geo: International, July/Aug 2006 Volume 5 · Issue 7: 32-33. Pan-European in scope, this database provides a consistent view and understanding of the soil we depend upon for living.
Geography of Europe
Government databases of the European Union
Pedology
Soil
Geographical databases
Databases in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20data%20management%20system | A clinical data management system or CDMS is a tool used in clinical research to manage the data of a clinical trial. The clinical trial data gathered at the investigator site in the case report form are stored in the CDMS. To reduce the possibility of errors due to human entry, the systems employ various means to verify the data. Systems for clinical data management can be self-contained or part of the functionality of a CTMS. A CTMS with clinical data management functionality can help with the validation of clinical data as well as helps the site employ for other important activities like building patient registries and assist in patient recruitment efforts.
Classification
The CDMS can be broadly divided into paper-based and electronic data capturing systems.
Paper-based systems
Case report forms are manually filled at site and mailed to the company for which trial is being performed. The data on forms is transferred to the CDMS tool through data entry. The most popular method being double data entry where two different data entry operators enter the data in the system independently and both the entries are compared by the system. In case the entry of a value conflicts, system alerts and a verification can be done manually. Another method is Single Data Entry.
The data in CDMS are then transferred for the data validation. Also, in these systems during validation the data clarification from sites are done through paper forms, which are printed with the problem description and sent to the investigator site and the site responds by answering on forms and mailing them back.
Electronic data capturing systems
In such CDMSs, the investigators directly upload the data on CDMS, and the data can then be viewed by the data validation staff. Once the data are uploaded by site, the data validation team can send the electronic alerts to sites if there are any problems. Such systems eliminate paper usage in clinical trial validation of data.
Clinical data management
Once data have been screened for typographical errors, the data can be validated to check for logical errors. An example is a check of the subject's date of birth to ensure that they are within the inclusion criteria for the study. These errors are raised for review to determine if there are errors in the data or if clarifications from the investigator are required.
Another function that the CDMS can perform is the coding of data. Currently, the coding is generally centered around two areas — adverse event terms and medication names. With the variance on the number of references that can be made for adverse event terms or medication names, standard dictionaries of these terms can be loaded into the CDMS. The data items containing the adverse event terms or medication names can be linked to one of these dictionaries. The system can check the data in the CDMS and compare them to the dictionaries. Items that do not match can be flagged for further checking. Some systems allow for the stora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJAN | CJAN is an acronym standing for Comprehensive Java Archive Network. CJAN as a concept is an extension of CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. In 2004 the CJAN project has ceased development.
Apache CJAN
Apache CJAN was an attempt at a simple web service for serving Java Jar files. It was started some time prior to May 2001. It was abandoned in favour of the more promising Apache JJAR project.
Apache JJAR
Apache JJAR is an experimental distributed repository and toolset to navigate and fetch from the repository. While it met its initial goals and found a couple of niche uses, it never went mainstream due to lack of interest from fellow developers. Although the project is no longer featured on Apache.org's main pages and is essentially abandoned, this experimental project is still hosted on their servers.
CJAN.org
Started in November 2001 by Brian Tol, CJAN.org set out to become for the Java community what CPAN represented to the Perl community – a comprehensive archive of reusable components for their respective programming languages.
Two key differences between CPAN and CJAN were that Java uses modules known as Jar files and that CJAN was to use a distributed network topology (the later would ensure that CJAN would scale well with increased numbers of users and keep server hosting costs to an absolute minimum). The decision was taken to code CJAN from scratch in Java.
At the beginning of 2002, Michael Davey started working with Brian on the specifications and a prototype. CJAN.org was managed as an Open Source project, a hobby they worked on in their spare time.
Progress was slow, in part because some of the basic building blocks needed to implement CJAN simply didn't exist in open-source form in Java at that time so the developers were spending time creating the components and then trying to persuade the appropriate developer community to adopt the component and take over its management. The distributed architecture was a problem, too. CJAN was attempting to use the JXTA framework when it was in its infancy and only offered very fine-grained, low-level control of the framework.
Sun Microsystems became interested in CJAN at the beginning of 2003. After some initial discussions with Brian and Michael and then the Apache community they sought the opinion of the wider Java community and teamed up with Collab.Net and O'Reilly publishing. On 11 June 2003 the Java.net community and website was launched.
Ostensibly, CJAN.org failed because it was too ambitious – trying to build an open-source project on leading-edge technology. The final straw for the open-source project was the launch of the high-profile Java.Net website. Although to this day Java.Net does not offer a catalogue of reusable components, it has a huge community and the website features are good enough for most Java developers most of the time that developers rarely cite the need for such.
See also
Apache Maven
CPAN
CRAN
CTAN
JSAN
JXTA
Java.Net
References
Externa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOR%20Radio%20Network | The WOR Radio Network was a slate of nationally syndicated radio programming produced and distributed by flagship radio station WOR in New York City. The programming was primarily general interest commercial talk; only one non-talk program had ever been carried on the network, WAER's "Big Bands, Ballads and Blues".
Following the sale of WOR to Clear Channel Communications in 2012, most of the remaining programming on the WOR Radio Network migrated to Radio America.
Schedule
The WOR Radio Network operated two separate feeds, WOR-1 and WOR-2. WOR-2 ceased in the late 2000s due to a lack of overlapping programming. The schedule of live feeds, as of September 2012:
Weekdays
Noon–3pm ET: Dr. Joy Browne
Saturdays
Noon–2pm ET: Dr. Ronald Hoffman
2–4pm ET: The Car Doctor with Ron Ananian
4–6pm ET: The Pet Show with Warren Eckstein
Sundays
8–10am ET: Easy Gardening with Mark Viette
10am – noon ET: Food Talk with Michael Colameco
Noon–2pm ET: The Travel Show with Arthur Frommer
The remainder of the network feed consisted of rebroadcasts and "best of" shows.
Former hosts
The Dolans
Bob Grant
Joan Hamburg
Lionel
Steve Malzberg
Joey Reynolds
Dave Graveline
References
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%20data%20computer | The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U.S. Army for coastal artillery, field artillery and anti-aircraft artillery applications. For antiaircraft applications they were used in conjunction with a director computer.
Variations
M1: This was used by seacoast artillery for major-caliber seacoast guns. It computed continuous firing data for a battery of two guns that were separated by not more than . It utilised the same type of input data furnished by a range section with the then-current (1940) types of position-finding and fire-control equipment.
M3: This was used in conjunction with the M9 and M10 directors to compute all required firing data, i.e. azimuth, elevation and fuze time. The computations were made continuously, so that the gun was at all times correctly pointed and the fuze correctly timed for firing at any instant. The computer was mounted in the M13 or M14 director trailer.
M4: This was identical to the M3 except for some mechanisms and parts which were altered to allow for different ammunition being used.
M8: This was an electronic computer (using vacuum tube technology) built by Bell Labs and used by coast artillery with medium-caliber guns (up to ). It made the following corrections: wind, drift, earth's rotation, muzzle velocity, air density, height of site and spot corrections.
M9: This was identical to the M8 except for some mechanisms and parts which were altered to accommodate anti-aircraft ammunition and guns.
M10: A ballistics computer, part of the M38 fire control system, for Skysweeper anti-aircraft guns.
M13: A ballistics computer for M48 tanks.
M14: A ballistics computer for M103 heavy tanks.
M15: A part of the M35 field artillery fire-control system, which included the M1 gunnery officer console and M27 power supply.
M16: A ballistics computer for M60A1 tanks.
M18: FADAC (Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer), an all-transistorized general-purpose digital computer manufactured by Amelco (Teledyne Systems, Inc.,) and North American—Autonetics. FADAC was first fielded during 1960, and was the first semiconductor-based digital electronics field-artillery computer.
M19: A ballistics computer for M60A2 tanks.
M21: A ballistics computer for M60A3 tanks.
M23: A mortar ballistics computer.
M26: A fire-control computer for AH-1 Cobra helicopters, (AH-1F).
M31: A mortar ballistics computer.
M32: A mortar ballistics computer, (handheld).
M1: A ballistics computer for M1 Abrams main battle tanks.
Systems
The Battery Computer System (BCS) AN/GYK-29 was a computer used by the United States Army for computing artillery fire mission data. It replaced the Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer (FADAC) and was small enough to fit into the HMMWV combat vehicle.
The AN/GSG-10 TACFIRE system automated Field Artillery command and control functions. It was composed of computers and remote devices such as the Variable Format Message Entry Device (VFMED), the Digital Message Devi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2000–01 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 2000 through August 2001. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1999–2000 season.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
From September 15 to October 1, 2000, all of NBC's primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating in parentheses (#rank / rating), as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Legend
Sunday
Note: UPN had acquired the Sunday evening XFL games from February 11 to April 15 (to compete with Fox's Sunday night lineup), while NBC broadcast Saturdays games till the end of the XFL season.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Note: On Fox, Schimmel supposed to air 8-8:30, but it was cancelled due to production problems.
Thursday
Note: On Fox, an untitled Michael Crichton project was supposed to air at midseason at 9–10, along with The Lone Gunmen at 8-9 but that Crichton project for Fox was scrapped.
Friday
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! colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|8:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|8:30 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|9:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|9:30 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|10:00 p.m.
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"|10:30 p.m.
|-
! rowspan="8"|ABC
! Fall
| rowspan="2"|Two Guys and a Girl
| The Trouble with Normal
| rowspan="2"|Norm
| rowspan="2"|Madigan Men
| style="background:#6699CC;" colspan="2" rowspan="8"|20/20
|-
! December
| Dot Comedy
|-
! Follow-up
| style="background:#00FFFF;" colspan="2"|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
| Two Guys and a Girl
| Norm
|-
! February
| Two Guys and a Girl
| Norm
| style="background:#00FFFF;" rowspan="5" colspan="2"|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
|-
! April
| colspan="2"|Making the Band
|-
! May
| Whose Line Is It Anyway?
| style="background:#C0C0C0;"|Whose Line Is It Anyway?
|-
! Summer
| colspan="2"|Making the Band
|-
! Mid-summer
| colspan="2"|America's Funniest Home Videos
|-
! rowspan="4"|CBS
! Fall
| colspan="2"|The Fugitive
| style="background:#00FFFF;" colspan="2"|CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
| colspan="2" rowspan="3"|Nash Bridges
|-
! Winter
| rowspan="3" colspan="2"|Diagnosis: Murder
| colspan="2"|The Fugitive
|-
! Summer
| colspan="2"|Diagnosis: Murd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiscale%20European%20Soil%20Information%20System | Multiscale European Soil Information System (MEUSIS) is based on local, regional, national and European Soil Data sets. On the one hand, the high geographical variability of soil and the close interface between the soil status and the local conditions require the soil information and assessment criteria to have a strong built-in local element. On the other hand, soil issues have also a broader and wider dimension with global consequences.
The major bottleneck of the assessment of the soil condition in Europe, based on already existing data, is the lack of comparable methodologies for soil survey, digital soil mapping, monitoring and data transfer. There is a high variability of soil information in Europe, which also varies from country to country. Local, Regional and National Authorities are derailing with soil data; soil data sets from different countries are often implemented using different methodologies and measuring techniques.
External links
MEUSIS description
MEUSIS in Italy, SIAS Project
Pedology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Learning%20Centre | A City Learning Centre is a facility in the United Kingdom which provides ICT-based learning opportunities for the pupils at the host school, for pupils at a network of surrounding schools and for the wider community. The centre aims to enhance learning across the whole curriculum by providing courses and opportunities for individual pupils from schools around the area. The multimedia establishments cater to any age and level of ICT understanding, and some offer conferencing facilities which are pre-bookable by local businesses.
Growth
The number of established City Learning Centres in England exceeded 100, and steadily grew since their introduction in 2001. Many City Learning Centres are established on the same ground as an existing school (for example, South Sefton City Learning Centre was established on the grounds of Savio High School).
Funding
City Learning Centres were heavily funded by the British Government through the Excellence in Cities programme to ensure they were able to cater for the requirements of local schools and businesses within the area, with an emphasis on enhancing opportunities in disadvantaged areas. Up to £1.2 million of Revenue Funding per CLC was available for capital and initial start-up costs plus recurring funding of £220,000 per annum.
After their first year of operation, an additional £150,000 was available for Capital Redevelopment Funding to ensure their technology remains at the forefront. However, unlike revenue funding, it was only released from the first full financial year that a CLC was fully operational, requiring that a Centre must be open before 31 March in order to trigger funding in the following financial year. This however was limited to building and structure work, computer hardware and software, but not the funding required for subscriptions for such software. It should not be used to pay for consumables, staffing costs or other non-CLC purposes. In addition, this money must be spent on the Centre and not simply shared out amongst its partner schools, unless it is to improve connectivity between a Centre and partner schools.
Funding for CLCs was completely abolished when the coalition government came into power in May 2010. The majority of CLCs have closed leaving some still operating. City Learning Centre's now generate income directly from schools, local authorities, others work with businesses or a combination of all of these.
Usage
The Centres are there for schools to use and to come up with interesting, innovative and replicable lesson plans, extra curricular activities and to discover new ways of using technology in the classroom. An important reason for using the Centres, as well as spreading technology more widely, is that it encourages schools to work more co-operatively with each other, sharing ideas as they share resources. It means the Centres are able to be equipped with more specialist technology that would otherwise be cost-effective for individual schools, and will be a 'dra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run%20of%20network | Run of Network advertising is a form of internet marketing where an online advertising campaign is applied to a wide collection of websites without the ability to choose specific sites.
An advertising network sells space for online ads to appear on a number of different websites, blogs and similar channels. A network may focus on a particular type of website such as games or entertainment, or represent several different categories. A run of network campaign is one in which the advertiser cannot choose to target specific parts of the network. Having a Run of Network option should result in lower prices than choosing sites specifically as the network can run on more sites and take advantage of extra inventory that might not be in as high demand.
Effectiveness
The run of network campaign is a high-reach, low cost strategy but studies have shown it to be less effective than more targeted campaigns. A good network should optimize Run of Network traffic so they are not showing ads to the wrong people.
References
Online advertising |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enscribe | Enscribe is the native hierarchical database in the commercial HP NonStop (Tandem) servers. It is designed for fault tolerance and scalability and is currently offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The product was originally developed by Tandem Computers. Tandem was acquired by Compaq in 1997. Compaq was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002. When Hewlett-Packard split in 2015 into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Enscribe and the rest of the NonStop product line went to Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The product primarily is used for online transaction processing and is tailored for organizations that need high availability and scalability for their database system. Typical users of the product are stock exchanges, telecommunications, POS, and bank ATM networks.
Somewhat similar to Record Management Services on OpenVMS platforms, some Enscribe features are:
Five disk file structures: unstructured, key-sequenced, queue, entry-sequenced, and relative
Partitioned (multiple-volume) files
Multiple-key access to records
Relational access among files (where a field value from one file is used as a key to access a data record in another file)
Optional automatic maintenance of all keys
Optional key compression in key-sequenced data or index blocks
Support of transaction auditing through the Transaction Management Facility (TMF/MP). TMF is the main functional component of the NonStop Transaction Manager/MP product.
Optional compression of audit-checkpoint records
Record level locking and file level locking
Cache buffering
Optional sequential block buffering
Waited and Nowaited I/Os (multi-threading of I/O calls by the programmer)
The NonStop OS Guardian APIs or the utility FUP (File Utility Program) can be used to work with Enscribe files.
A "convert" utility was provided by Tandem to aid in converting Enscribe files to NonStop SQL files, when desired.
Many of the applications developed in HP NonStop servers (often critical ones) run on Enscribe databases.
History[edit]
Enscribe is designed to run effectively on parallel computers, adding functionality for distributed data, distributed execution, and distributed transactions.
First released in the early 1980s, and initially carrying an added charge until it was included with the operating system, the product became one of the few hierarchical data base systems that scales almost linearly with the number of processors in the machine: adding a second CPU to an existing server almost exactly doubled its performance.
See also
NonStop SQL
NonStop (server computers)
TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language)
Tandem Computers
Transaction Application Language (TAL)
References
HP software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Charniak | Eugene Charniak (1946 – June 13, 2023) was a professor of computer Science and cognitive Science at Brown University. He held an A.B. in Physics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research was in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. Since the early 1990s he was interested in statistical techniques for language understanding. His research in this area included work in the subareas of part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, and, more recently, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.
He was a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and was previously a Councilor of the organization. He was also honored with the 2011 Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award and awarded the 2011 Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Prize. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. In 2015, he won the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Classic Paper Award for a paper (“Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics”) that he presented at the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1997.
Books
He published five books:
Computational Semantics, (with Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)
Artificial Intelligence Programming (now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (with Drew McDermott), Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1985)
Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (1993)
Introduction to Deep Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (2019)
References
External links
Eugene Charniak's homepage at Brown University
"The Nature Of Life, The Nature Of Thinking: Looking Back On Eugene Charniak’s Work And Life"
American computer scientists
Brown University faculty
Living people
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
University of Chicago alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Natural language processing researchers
Machine learning researchers
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Natural%20Resources%20Information%20System | The Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) is the principal state archive in Texas for natural resources data. TNRIS provides a central access point for Texas Natural Resources data, census data, digital and paper maps, and information about datasets collected by state agencies and other organizations. TNRIS is a division of the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB).
About TNRIS
TNRIS was established by the Legislature in 1968 as the Texas Water-Oriented Data Bank. In 1972, after four years of growth and diversification, it was renamed the Texas Natural Resources Information System. The mission of TNRIS is to provide a "centralized information system incorporating all Texas natural resource data, socioeconomic data related to natural resources, and indexes related to that data that are collected by state agencies or other entities." (Texas Water Code, 16.021).
The TNRIS offices are located in the Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 North Congress Avenue, in Austin, Texas.
External links
tnris.org Official Agency Site
Texas Water Development Board Parent Agency
Government of Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-MAC | In television electronics, A-MAC carries digital information: sound, and data-teletext on an FM subcarrier at 7 MHz. Since the vision bandwidth of a standard MAC signal is 8.4 MHz, the horizontal resolution on A-MAC has to be reduced to make room for the 7 MHz carrier. A-MAC has not been used in service.
Technical details
MAC transmits luminance and chrominance data separately in time rather than separately in frequency (as other analog television formats do, such as composite video).
Audio and Scrambling (selective access)
Audio, in a format similar to NICAM was transmitted digitally rather than as an FM subcarrier.
The MAC standard included a standard scrambling system, EuroCrypt, a precursor to the standard DVB-CSA encryption system.
TV transmission systems
Analog high-definition television systems
PAL, what MAC technology tried to replace
SECAM, what MAC technology tried to replace
A-MAC
B-MAC
C-MAC
D-MAC
E-MAC
S-MAC
D2-MAC
HD-MAC, an early high-definition television standard allowing for 2048x1152 resolution.
DVB-S, MAC technology was replaced by this standard
DVB-T, MAC technology was replaced by this standard
External links
Multiplexed Analogue Components in "Analog TV Broadcast Systems" by Paul Schlyter
Video formats
Television technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-MAC | Among the family of MAC or Multiplexed Analogue Components systems for television broadcasting, D-MAC is a reduced bandwidth variant designed for transmission down cable.
The data is duobinary coded with a data burst rate of 20.25Mbit/s so that 0° as well as ±90° phasors are used.
D-MAC has a bandwidth of 8.4 MHz versus 27 MHz for C-MAC.
Most cable systems work on EBU 7 MHz channel spacing, so this approach did not work universally.
D-MAC's bandwidth problems were later fixed by D2-MAC.
D2-MAC: A fix for D-MAC
D-MAC consumed too much bandwidth for many applications, so D2-MAC was designed for European cable TV systems.
Luminance and chrominance
MAC transmits luminance and chrominance data separately in time rather than separately in frequency (as other analog television formats do, such as composite video).
Audio and scrambling (selective access)
Audio, in a format similar to NICAM was transmitted digitally rather than as an FM subcarrier.
The MAC standard included a standard scrambling system, EuroCrypt, a precursor to the standard DVB-CSA encryption system.
History and politics
MAC was developed by the UK's Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) and in 1982 was adopted as the transmission format for the UK's forthcoming direct broadcast satellite (DBS) television services (eventually provided by British Satellite Broadcasting). The following year MAC was adopted by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) as the standard for all DBS.
By 1986, despite there being two standards, D-MAC and D2-MAC, favoured by different countries in Europe, an EU Directive imposed MAC on the national DBS broadcasters, to provide a stepping stone from analogue PAL and Secam formats to the eventual high definition and digital television of the future, with European TV manufacturers in a privileged position to provide the equipment required.
However, the Astra satellite system was also starting up at this time (the first satellite, Astra 1A was launched in 1989) and that operated outside of the EU's MAC requirements, due to being a non-DBS satellite. Despite further pressure from the EU (including a further Directive originally intended to make MAC provision compulsory in TV sets, and a subsidy to broadcasters to use the MAC format), most broadcasters outside Scandinavia preferred the lower cost of PAL transmission and receiving equipment.
In the 2000s, the use of D-MAC and D2-MAC ceased when the satellite broadcasts of the channels concern changed to DVB-S format.
See also
Analog high-definition television systems
PAL and SECAM, analogous technologies that MAC was designed to replace
A-MAC
B-MAC
C-MAC
D-MAC
E-MAC
S-MAC
D2-MAC
HD-MAC, an early high-definition television standard allowing for 2048x1152 resolution.
DVB-S, MAC technology was replaced by this standard
DVB-T, MAC technology was replaced by this standard
References
External links
Multiplexed Analogue Components in "Analog TV Broadcast Systems" by Paul Schlyter
Television t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20LogMiner | Oracle LogMiner, a utility provided by Oracle Corporation to purchasers of its Oracle database, provides methods of querying logged changes made to an Oracle database, principally through SQL commands referencing data in Oracle redo logs. A GUI interface for the functionality comes with the Oracle Enterprise Manager product.
LogMiner turns the concept and practices of data mining on the internal processes of the database itself.
Database administrators can use LogMiner to:
identify the time of a database-event
isolate transactions carried out in error by users
determine steps needed for the recovery of inadvertent changes to data
assemble data on actual usage for use in performance-tuning and capacity-planning
audit the operation of any commands run against the database
Note that LogMiner uses Oracle logs to reconstruct exactly how data changed, whereas the complementary utility Oracle Flashback addresses, reconstructs and presents the finished results of such changes, giving a view of the database at some point in time.
See also
:Category:Oracle software
External links
Supporting Oracle (German) Documents on how to use LogMiner, Auditing and more
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability | Variability is how spread out or closely clustered a set of data is.
Variability may refer to:
Biology
Genetic variability, a measure of the tendency of individual genotypes in a population to vary from one another
Heart rate variability, a physiological phenomenon where the time interval between heart beats varies
Human variability, the range of possible values for any measurable characteristic, physical or mental, of human beings
Other sciences
Climate variability, changes in the components of Earth's climate system and their interactions
Spatial variability, when a quantity that is measured at different spatial locations exhibits values that differ across the locations
Statistical variability, a measure of dispersion in statistics
See also
Variability hypothesis, nineteenth century hypothesis that males have a greater range of ability than females
Variable (disambiguation)
Variable renewable energy, a renewable energy source of a fluctuating nature
Variance, a specific measure of statistical dispersion
Variation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1999–2000 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from July 1999 through June 2000. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1998–99 season.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Pax TV; although Pax carried a limited schedule of first-run programs, its schedule otherwise was composed mainly of syndicated reruns.
New series highlighted in bold.
All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract for one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Legend
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Note: On Fox, Ally aired as re-edited half-hour repeats of the original hour-long Ally McBeal series. On CBS, Falcone premieres at 9:00 p.m. on April 4, 2000. On UPN, Secret Agent Man was supposed to premiere at 9:00pm, but however due to the show not getting the "buzz" before the fall premiere, The Strip was premiered instead, and the show aired later on in a different night.
Wednesday
Note: On ABC, Clerks premiered at 9:30 p.m. on May 31, 2000.
Thursday
Note: On NBC, the sitcom Daddio premiered on March 23, 2000, at 8:30. On Fox, Family Guy only had two airings and one special Sunday airing, and then on March 7, 2000, the show was moved to Tuesdays. On The WB, Popular premiered Wednesday, September 29, 1999, at 9:00 pm. On Fox, Manchester Prep was supposed to air at 8–9, but it was cancelled at the last minute. On ABC, Then Came You was scheduled to air at 8:30 PM EST, but due to the show not getting the "buzz" before the fall premiere, Whose Line Is It Anyway? was aired at the last minute, and the show aired later on in a different night.
Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
20/20
America's Funniest Home Videos
Boy Meets World
Dharma & Greg
The Drew Carey Show
The Hughleys
It's Like, You Know...
Monday Night Football
Norm (formerly known as The Norm Show)
NYPD Blue
The Practice
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Spin City
Sports Night
Two Guys and a Girl (formerly known as Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
The Wonderful World of Disney
New series
Clerks: The Animated Series *
Making the Band *
Odd Man Out
Oh, Grow Up
Once and Again
Snoops
Talk to Me *
Then Came You *
Wasteland
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Wonderland *
Not returning from 1998–99:
The Big Moment
Brother's Keeper
Cupid
Fantasy Island
Home Improvement
The Secret Lives of Men
Strange World
Two of a Kind
Vengeance Unlimited
CBS
Returning series
48 Hours
60 Minutes
60 Minutes II
Becker
Candid Camera
CBS Sunday Movie
Chicago Hope
Cosby
Diagnosis: Murder
Early Edition
Eve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1998–99 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1998 through August 1999. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1997–98 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
New series highlighted in bold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.
Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.
Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.
Other Legend
Light blue indicates local programming.
Gray indicates encore programming.
Blue-gray indicates news programming.
Light green indicates sporting events.
Light Purple indicates movies.
Red indicates series being burned off and other regularly scheduled programs, including specials.
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included is Pax TV (now Ion), a venture of Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) that debuted on August 31, 1998; although Pax carried a limited schedule of first-run programs in its early years, its schedule otherwise was composed mainly of syndicated reruns.
Sunday
Monday
Note: UPN only broadcast the first two episodes of Power Play. On August 16, 1999, ABC aired the series episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at 8:30pm EST. It was the only 30 minute episode to air on a Monday night.
Tuesday
NOTE: On Fox, Brimstone was supposed to premiere 9-10, but it was moved up to Friday.
Wednesday
Thursday
Note: On Fox, Hollyweird was supposed to premiere 9:00-10:00 but it was canceled due to a conflict with Shaun Cassidy.
Friday
Note: On Fox, the one-hour drama Brimstone premiered at 8:00 on October 23, 1998.
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
20/20
America's Funniest Home Videos
Boy Meets World
Dharma & Greg
The Drew Carey Show
Home Improvement
Monday Night Football
NYPD Blue
The Practice
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Spin City
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
The Wonderful World of Disney
New series
The Big Moment *
Brother's Keeper
Cupid
Fantasy Island
The Hughleys
It's Like, You Know... *
The Norm Show *
The Secret Lives of Men
Sports Night
Strange World *
Two of a Kind
Vengeance Unlimited
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Not returning from 1997–98:
ABC News Saturday Night
The ABC Sunday Night Movie
C-16: FBI
Cracker
Ellen
Grace Under Fire
Hiller and Diller
Maximum Bob
Nothing Sacred
Over the Top
Prey
Primetime Live
Push
Soul Man
Something So Right
Teen Angel
That's Life
Timecop
Total Security
You Wish
CBS
Returning series
48 Hours
60 Minutes
Candid Camera
CBS Sunday Movie
Chicago Hope
Cosby
Diagnosis: Mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%2830%20Rock%29 | The pilot episode of the American television sitcom 30 Rock premiered on October 10, 2006, on the CTV Television Network in Canada, and October 11, 2006, on NBC in the United States. The episode was directed by Adam Bernstein and written by Tina Fey, the series' creator, executive producer, and lead actress.
In 2002, Tina Fey, then head writer of Saturday Night Live (SNL), pitched the idea for a series about a cable news network to NBC, which rejected it. Two years later, Fey approached NBC with a similar idea: a behind-the-scenes look at The Girlie Show, a television show similar to SNL. NBC approved the series in May 2006 and production began shortly after. The episode received generally positive reviews, and it finished third in its timeslot among all viewers and among adults aged 18 to 49. Critics praised the performances of Jack McBrayer and Jane Krakowski, who played Kenneth Parcell and Jenna Maroney, respectively.
Several characters are introduced in the pilot: Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), the head writer of a sketch comedy series called The Girlie Show; Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), the network executive; Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer), the NBC page; and the writing staff and cast of Lemon's show. This episode focuses on Jack's attempt to convince Liz to hire film star Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) as part of the cast of The Girlie Show and the crew's reactions to Tracy's addition.
Plot
The pilot begins with Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), the head writer of the television series The Girlie Show, attempting to buy a hot dog before work. After a fellow commuter tries to jump the queue, Liz buys $150 worth of hot dogs and distributes them to random passersby and colleagues. When she arrives at work, she is embarrassed when she is forced by Kenneth (Jack McBrayer), the naïve NBC page who conducts tours around 30 Rock, to introduce herself to a group of The Girlie Show fans.
Liz and her producer Pete Hornberger (Scott Adsit) meet with The Girlie Show's new network executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). Jack tells Liz and Pete that he has been sent to 30 Rock to retool The Girlie Show. After he inadvertently insults her, Liz takes an initial dislike to Jack. Jack asks Liz to hire Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), star of the film Honky Grandma Be Trippin', as part of the cast – in order to bring male viewers between 18-49 to the show. Liz is skeptical, as Tracy has a history of problematic behavior. In comparison to Liz, Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), the narcissistic star of The Girlie Show, takes to Jack upon their first meeting. She begins to worry when she hears that Tracy may become the new star of the show.
Against her own judgment, Liz meets Tracy at a restaurant, but when Tracy discovers that he does not like the food, they go to another restaurant. While Liz tries to convince Tracy not to join The Girlie Show, he discusses conspiracy theories. After the meeting, Tracy offers to take Liz back to the studio, but he makes a detour to a strip club in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1997–98 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1997 through August 1998. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1996–97 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
New series highlighted in bold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research. and
Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.
Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.
Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.
Other Legend
Light blue indicates local programming.
Gray indicates encore programming.
Blue-gray indicates news programming.
Light green indicates sporting events.
Light Purple indicates movies.
Red indicates series being burned off and other regularly scheduled programs, including specials.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.
From February 7 to 22, 1998, all of CBS' primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
For new series debuting during the season, it would ultimately prove to be one of the weakest seasons in American television history, as only ten shows would be picked up for a second season. Of those ten shows, only five (Dharma & Greg, Two Guys and a Girl, Ally McBeal, For Your Love and Dawson's Creek) would last beyond three seasons, and would all end their runs within six seasons.
For its tenth and final season, onetime CBS powerhouse Murphy Brown was moved from its lifelong home of Monday nights to Wednesday, where it lost a significant number of viewers. For its last block of episodes in the spring, the show was put back into the familiar timeslot that it had once used to anchor the CBS Monday night lineup.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
NOTE: On Fox, Rewind was supposed to air 8-8:30, but it was cancelled due to production troubles.
Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
20/20
The ABC Sunday Night Movie
America's Funniest Home Videos
Boy Meets World
The Drew Carey Show
Ellen
Grace Under Fire
Home Improvement
Monday Night Football
NYPD Blue
The Practice
Primetime Live
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Something So Right (moved from NBC)
Soul Man
Spin City
New series
ABC News Saturday Night
C-16: FBI
Cracker
Dharma & Greg
Hiller and Diller
Maximum Bob *
Nothing Sacred
Over the Top
Prey *
Push *
Teen Angel
That's Life *
Timecop
Total Security
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place *
The Wonderful World of Disney
You Wish
Not returning from 1996–97:
Arsenio
Clueless (moved to UPN)
Coach
Common Law
Dangerous Minds
Family Matters (moved to CBS)
Gun
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
High Incident
Leaving L.A.
L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa%20Fam%C3%ADlia | Bolsa Família (, Family Allowance) is the current social welfare program of the Government of Brazil, part of the Fome Zero network of federal assistance programs. Bolsa Família provided financial aid to poor Brazilian families. In order to be eligible, families had to ensure that children attend school and get vaccinated. If they exceeded the total of permitted school absences, they were dropped from the program and their funds were suspended. The program attempted to both reduce short-term poverty by direct cash transfers and fight long-term poverty by increasing human capital among the poor through conditional cash transfers. It also worked to give free education to children who couldn't afford to go to school, to show the importance of education.
In 2008, The Economist described Bolsa Família as an "anti-poverty scheme invented in Latin America [which] is winning converts worldwide." The program was a centerpiece of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's social policy and is reputed to have played a role in his victory in the general election of 2006. Bolsa Família was the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world, though the Mexican Oportunidades was the first nationwide program of this kind.
Bolsa Família has been mentioned as one factor contributing to the reduction of poverty in Brazil, which fell 27.7% during the first term in the administration of Lula. In 2006, the Center for Political Studies of the Getulio Vargas Foundation published a study showing that there was a sharp reduction in the number of people in poverty in Brazil between 2003 and 2005. Other factors included an improvement in the job market and real gains in the minimum wage. About twelve million Brazilian families received funds from Bolsa Família. The government cash transfer program in South Africa, for comparison, had 17.5 million individual beneficiaries in 2018 (over 75% of its labour force of 23 million) receiving a total of over US$20 billion per annum in state aid.
In 2011, 26% of the Brazilian population were covered by the program. As of 2020, the program covered 13.8 million families and paid an average of $34 per month, in a country where the minimum wage is $190 per month.
On 30 December 2021, Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a new cash transfer program, called Auxílio Brasil, formally ending Bolsa Família. However, after Lula's reelection as president of Brazil in 2022, he declared that he would rename the program back to Bolsa Família, putting an end to Auxílio Brasil. In 2023, the second version of the program is launched with the promise of financial transfers of at least 600 reals.
History
Bolsa Escola, a predecessor which was conditional only on school attendance, was pioneered in Brasilia by then-governor Cristovam Buarque. Not long after, other municipalities and states adopted similar programs. In 2001 the President Fernando Henrique Cardoso federalized the program, increasing to attend approximately 8 million people. In 2003, Lu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshilidzi%20Marwala | Tshilidzi Marwala (born 28 July 1971) is a South African artificial intelligence engineer, a computer scientist, a mechanical engineer and a university administrator. He is currently Rector of the United Nations University and UN Under-Secretary-General. In August 2023 Marwala was appointed to the United Nations scientific advisory council.
Early life and education
Marwala was born at Duthuni Village in the Limpopo Province. He obtained a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, graduating with a Magna Cum Laude. He attended school at Mbilwi Secondary School and St. John's College in Johannesburg.
Career
Marwala has been Rector of the United Nations University and UN Under-Secretary-General since 1 March 2023. Marwala was previously a vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Johannesburg. He was previously the deputy vice chancellor for research and internationalization as well as the dean of engineering at the University of Johannesburg and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He served as a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and on a board of Nedbank.
One of the books he co-authored on modelling interstate conflict has been translated into Chinese by the National Defense Industry Press. His work and opinion have appeared in media such as New Scientist, Time, The Economist, CNN, and BBC. He has also given talks at Rhodes House, Royal Society, Cambridge Union, Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Oxford Union. In 2016 Tshilidzi Marwala delivered the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa. With Stephen Hawking and Guy Laliberté he was a judge of the YouTube Space Lab competition.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg
Fourth Industrial Revolution
As Vice-Chancellor, Marwala developed and implemented the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) strategy. To move the fourth industrial revolution, Marwala introduced a compulsory artificial intelligence course and an Africa Insights course for all students, irrespective of their majors. Furthermore, he introduced Africa by Bus Project, where thousands of students travel by bus to various African countries to understand the African continent.
Rankings
Under his leadership, the University of Johannesburg was ranked first in Africa in the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and first globally for Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8). In the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Ranking, it was ranked first in Africa and globally for SDG 1 (no poverty). From 2018 to 2022, the University of Johannesburg increased research output from sixth position to position first in South Africa. Furthermore, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroWarehouse | Micro Warehouse Inc, stylised as MicroWarehouse and MicroWAREHOUSE, was a mail order seller of computer hardware.
By 2000, Micro Warehouse was the leading direct marketer and catalogue retailer of personal computer products, with worldwide sales of $2.6 billion. At the height of their industry dominance, Micro Warehouse had 3,500 employees in thirteen different countries.
MicroWarehouse owned and operated the domain names Inmac.co.uk, MacWarehouse.co.uk and MicroWarehouse.co.uk. All three were online, web based, computer hardware and software retailers.
History
The company was originally co founded by Peter Godfrey, Felix Dennis and Bob Bartner in 1987, and was based in South Norwalk, Connecticut. After an initial public offering on December 10, 1992, the company paved the way for a variety of competitors. In the 1990s, Micro Warehouse acquired a large number of similar companies in Europe.
Companies were acquired in the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Sweden and Finland. Inmac was also purchased, raising European sales to over $700 million. After growing to become the fifth largest catalogue company in the world and a dominant re seller for Apple, Microsoft, and many other hardware manufacturers and software publishers, a class action lawsuit distracted senior management for several years.
Jerry York, CFO who led turnarounds at IBM and Chrysler, was the chairman, president, and CEO. The Los Angeles buyout firm Freeman, Spogli, York, and a group of private investors including Michael Ovitz and Gary L. Wilson, spent $725 million to take Micro Warehouse private in February 2000. The leveraged buyout left the company burdened with $200 million in debt.
The company sold its North American operations to CDW Corporation just two and a half years later, on September 8, 2003, for $22 million. Micro Warehouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and York announced his resignation. The bankrupt company owed millions to its unsecured creditors. $17.9 million to Ingram Micro, $8.6 million to Hewlett-Packard, $3.1 million to Toshiba, and $2 million to IBM.
MicroWarehouse, along with Equanet and MacWarehouse are the three brands owned by Dixons Retail plc. WHSU Inc. and WHSU International Inc. (together known as MicroWarehouse) was acquired by the DSGi on 4 June 2004. On 9 October 2003, MicroWarehouse filed bankruptcy, which ultimately led to purchase of the MicroWarehouse by the group. When MicroWarehouse was acquired by the group, it became a division of PC World Business.
MacWarehouse closure
In June 2012, the MacWarehouse website was replaced by a simple banner that redirected you to the website for PC World Business.
References
External links
Company website
Consumer electronics retailers of the United Kingdom
Currys plc
Retail companies established in 1987
Retail companies disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanger%20%28compiler%29 | Phalanger is a compiler front end for compiling PHP source code into CIL byte-code, which can be further processed by the .NET Framework's just-in-time compiler. The project was started at Charles University and is supported by Microsoft. Phalanger was discontinued in favor of the more modern PeachPie compiler, which utilizes the Roslyn API.
Compatibility
Phalanger can run real-world PHP applications, many with minor to no modifications. Examples include WordPress, phpMyAdmin and phpBB.
Performance
One of the main goals of the project is to improve performance of PHP applications. The project web page claims considerable performance benefits over a 32-bit Windows version of PHP.
There was a project at Charles University to re-implement the Phalanger core using the Microsoft Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), and to develop a Visual Studio integration tool to provide IntelliSense for the PHP language.
Though some features from DLR would slow down the performance of Phalanger, they do claim performance gains by a factor of 6. These features are being integrated into current Phalanger core.
Google Summer of Code
A project involving Phalanger was mentored by the Mono team during the Google Summer of Code program in 2008. During this period Phalanger was ported to the Silverlight 2.0 framework with the goal of making it work on Moonlight as well.
Jadu sponsorship
Early in 2008, UK Content Management vendor Jadu partnered with the Prague-based team to improve communication between .NET and the Phalanger compiler. It is based on duck typing and provides a way for accessing objects from the dynamic PHP world that lack compile-time type information from a statically typed language in a .NET environment in a type-safe way.
In December 2008, Jadu announced that it has made the compiler available to the developer community and in interviews with ITPRO and VNUnet said that the development would help close the skills gap between PHP and .NET.
Devsense support & development
Since 2009, DEVSENSE company leads the development of the project and offers commercial support. DEVSENSE consists of core Phalanger developers and keeps this open-source project alive.
In addition to maintenance and growth of the project, Devsense is providing Visual Studio integration of Phalanger for the community.
Since 2012, DEVSENSE provides support forum for Phalanger (compiler) and related projects for the community.
Legacy
The last PHP version supported by Phalanger is 5.4. The GitHub project is marked "Deprecated" and (as of 2019) it hasn't been updated for years. The GitHub page also announces a new project, PeachPie compiler as its successor for PHP 7.1. PeachPie can compile code using PHP 5.4 syntax or newer, and is officially supported by .NET Foundation.
See also
PeachPie
HHVM
References
External links
Phalanger PHP compiler blog
Phalanger discussion forum
Phalanger commercial support
Phalanger source control and issue tracker
Official Web Page for previous versi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee%20Card%20%28game%20cartridge%29 | A is a ROM cartridge developed by Hudson Soft as a software distribution medium for MSX computers. Bee Cards are approximately the size of a credit card, but thicker. Compared to most game cartridges, the Bee Card is small and compact. Bee Cards were released in Japan and in Europe, but not in North America because the MSX was unsuccessful in North America. However, Atari Corporation adopted the Bee Card for the Atari Portfolio, a handheld PC released in 1989 in North America. Bee Cards were also used by some Korg Synthesizers and workstations as external storage of user content like sound programs or song data. Even though these systems all use Bee Cards, they are incompatible with each other.
Only a small number of MSX software titles were published on Bee Card: six in Japan, and only two in Europe and Italy. In order to accept a Bee Card, the cartridge slot of the MSX had to be fitted with a removable adapter: the Hudson Soft BeePack. The first mass-produced Bee Cards, however, were EEPROM telephone cards manufactured by Mitsubishi Plastics; these were first sold in Japan in 1985. The trade names Bee Card and Bee Pack derive from Hudson Soft's corporate logo, which features a cartoon bee.
MSX software published on Bee Card
Hudson Soft and other software publishers distributed at least eleven MSX software titles on Bee Card:
HuCard
Hudson Soft later collaborated with NEC to develop the PC Engine video game console. The companies elected to use Hudson Soft's slim ROM cartridge technology to distribute PC Engine software. Hudson Soft adapted the design for their needs, and produced the HuCard. HuCards are slightly thicker than Bee Cards; also, whereas a Bee Card has 32 pins, a HuCard has 38.
References
Computer-related introductions in 1985
Solid-state computer storage media
Konami
MSX hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Klang%20Line | {
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Port Klang Line () is one of the three KTM Komuter Central Sector lines provided by Keretapi Tanah Melayu. The electric trains run between and . Prior to 15 December 2015, the northern terminus of this line was .
KTM Komuter is an electrified commuter train service first introduced in 1995, catering especially to commuters in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding suburban areas. It is a popular mode of transportation for commuters working in Kuala Lumpur, as they can travel to the city without the hassle of traffic congestion. Coaches are modern and air-conditioned. For those who drive to the stations/halts, 'Park & Ride' facility is provided at a nominal charge.
The line is one of the components of the Klang Valley Integrated Transit System. The line is numbered 2 and coloured red on official transit maps. It is named after its terminus, Port Klang station.
Line information
History
The line began as the Selangor Government Railway which connected Bukit Kuda just outside Klang to Kuala Lumpur, opened in September 1886. In 1890 a bridge across the Klang River was constructed, allowing the railway to be re-routed to Bukit Badak and henceforth towards downtown Klang. The line was extended towards Segambut and Rawang in 1892, as a branch line from the Resident station. The railway reached Kuala Kubu Bharu in 1894 and finally Port Klang in 1899.
In 1989 railbus services were offered on the Sentul-Port Klang stretch. The same stretch, along with the Rawang-Seremban stretch, were electrified in the 1990s. Electrification was later extended to Batu Caves in 2009.
During colonial rule, there used to be a branch line from Padang Jawa to Kuala Selangor; the branch line was dismantled between 1931 and 1934.
At present, the Port Klang Line is the oldest existing (and still operational) railway line in the country, taking the title after the Taiping-Port Weld line was dismantled in 1987.
Stations
KTM Komuter Trial Route
A new route for KTM Komuter services was introduced in preparation of the infrastructure upgrading works in the Klang Valley Double Tracking project in April 2016. It aimed to increase the frequency and the smooth running of the KTM ETS, KTM Komuter, KTM Intercity & Freight at the Central Sector.
The original Port Klang Line from Batu Caves-Port Klang was changed to Rawang-Port Klang effective 15 December 2015.
Former Rawang—Tanjung Malim shuttle service
The KTM Komuter service was expanded to include three new stations beyond Rawang on April 21, 2007, under what was then known as the Rawang-Rasa shuttle service. The stations were Serendah, Batang Kali, and Rasa.
This 22 km stretch was the first portion of the Rawang-Ipoh double tracking and electrification project to become operational. The service was extended to Kuala Kubu Bharu on January 5, 2008. It was further extended to Tanjung Malim o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye%20Again%20%28TV%20series%29 | Goodbye Again (1968) is a series of four hour-long television programmes made by ATV for the British TV network ITV to re-unite Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and recreate their very successful BBC comedy series Not Only... But Also.
The head of ATV, Lew Grade, offered Cook and Moore a lucrative contract and the opportunity for network exposure in the USA. Whilst earlier attempts by the BBC to make another show with the duo had been turned down, they accepted Grade's offer with its promise of a larger production budget. Four shows were recorded, three in April/May 1968 and the fourth a year later. They were aired in the USA under the Kraft Music Hall Presents banner in 1969, in colour, as two episodes with different linking material.
An LP was produced of selections from the series.
A two-hour compilation of material from the four shows was released on DVD in 2005 under the title The Very Best of Goodbye Again. Except sketches recorded outside on film, all other original material is presented in black and white. The show was originally produced in colour and a colour clip was used as late as 1981 in an ITV Central documentary called Closed circuit (The Elstree Story).
Episodes
(All four extant, though not in their original colour - with the exception of filmed inserts)
Show 1, TX 18 August 1968
Music: Ike & Tina Turner, Donovan
Show 2, TX 24 August 1968
Music: Traffic, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger and the Trinity
Show 3, TX 14 September 1968
Music: Georgie Fame, Selena Jones
Show 4, TX 3 August 1969
Music: Mel Torme
References
ITV sketch shows
1968 British television series debuts
1968 British television series endings
1960s British satirical television series
1960s British television sketch shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant | Assistant may refer to:
Assistant (by Speaktoit), a virtual assistant app for smartphones
Assistant (software), a software tool to assist in computer configuration
Google Assistant, a virtual assistant by Google
The Assistant (TV series), an MTV reality show
ST Assistant, a British tugboat
HMS Assistant, a Royal Navy vessel
See also
Apprenticeship
Assistant coach
Assistant district attorney
Assistant professor
Certified nursing assistant
Court of assistants
Graduate assistant
Office Assistant
Personal assistant
Personal digital assistant
Production assistant
Research assistant
Teaching assistant
Assistance (disambiguation)
Assist (disambiguation)
Aides (disambiguation)
Assistance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimized%20Systems%20and%20Solutions | Optimized Systems and Solutions LLC (formerly known as Data Systems & Solutions) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc, with offices in the US, UK, France and the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Rolls-Royce plc and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). In early 2006, SAIC exited the joint venture agreement, making Rolls-Royce plc the sole owner.
As of June 30, 2014 OSyS has merged with Aero Engine Controls (AEC), another subsidiary of Rolls-Royce, and changed its name to Rolls-Royce Controls and Data Services.
Optimized Systems and Solutions specializes in the delivery of decision-support systems to monitor and optimize high-value assets in the following markets:
oil and gas,
civil and defence aerospace,
power generation,
marine,
nuclear,
transport (road and rail).
Markets, products and services
OSyS provides commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and associated support services which are intended to enable businesses in these markets to:
increase availability and reliability of key assets,
reduce in-service cost,
reduce risk through enhanced compliance and protection.
Such assets include gas turbines, diesel engines, pumps, compressors and rail transport systems.
Integrated solutions provided by OSyS include:
data acquisition and management,
electronic flight bag EFB,
enterprise asset management,
compliance,
equipment health monitoring (EHM),
fuel optimization,
fleet planning and forecasting,
decision support,
systems integration and high-integrity software.
OSyS also provides consultancy services in regulatory compliance and environmental health and safety.
OSyS solutions and services are claimed to translate data directly into actionable information surrounding a customer's high-value assets.
Accreditation
The Quality Management System (QMS) of Optimized Systems and Solutions LLC, has been approved by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance to ISO 9001:2000.
References
External links
Companies based in Reston, Virginia
Software companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tro%20L%C3%A9ger%20de%20Charleroi | The Métro Léger de Charleroi (abbreviated as MLC, also locally referred to as the Métro Carolo or simply Le Métro in French) is a light rail network in Belgium. The system consists of a loop line around central Charleroi and three branches towards the suburbs of Gilly, Anderlues and Gosselies. Another branch to Châtelet (historically, the third one) was partially built, never entered service, but will finally do so in 2026.
The current system was opened in seven phases ranging from 1976 to 2012, which included 28 stations, of which 24 were in service along with 6 regular tram stops in Anderlues. On 22 June 2013, 18 more stations were added to the metro system when line M3 to Gosselies went into service.
The original plans for the network were much more extensive with 8 branches radiating from the central loop, but had to be abandoned due to high costs and low prospective ridership rates.
Operations
, the network consists in a central loop running around the centre of Charleroi and comprising 8 stations, from which three branches radiate towards suburban areas:
A branch with 10 stations and 6 tram stops runs west to Anderlues. This branch runs on the street as a normal tram after Pétria station, following a line of the old Vicinal network.
A branch with 6 stations runs northeast to Gilly.
A branch with 18 tram stops runs north to Gosselies.
In addition, another branch is currently inactive:
A branch running east towards Châtelet was built during the 1980s. A first section comprising 4 stations was completed but never entered service, while further sections are in various stages of completion.
The network allows transfers to the national railway network at the main Charleroi-Sud railway station as well as at the secondary Charleroi-Ouest station.
Lines
The completion and opening of the central loop in 2012 led to a significant reorganization of the metro/tram lines previously operating on the system. The five former metro lines – 54, 55, 84, 88, and 89 – that operated on the network were replaced on 27 February 2012 by three new lines (M1, M2 and M4); a fourth line (M3) went into service on 22 June 2013.
The system is run by TEC Charleroi, a subsidiary of the Walloon public transport operator (Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport). Intervals between trains depend on the period (weekdays/weekends, holidays, etc.). The standard interval is 30 minutes for lines M1 and M2, ensuring a 15 minutes interval on the Charleroi – Anderlues section. This interval becomes 60 minutes (30 minutes on the common section) on weekends and holidays, and during the July–August period. On line M4, the standard interval is 10 minutes (15 minutes on Sundays and public holidays); similarly, line M3 also runs with 10-minute intervals.
From 2012 on, all trams have been equipped with orange colored LED destination indicators, displaying the line number and final station. Prior to that, mechanical destination indicators were used, using various layouts. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20game%20playing | General game playing (GGP) is the design of artificial intelligence programs to be able to play more than one game successfully. For many games like chess, computers are programmed to play these games using a specially designed algorithm, which cannot be transferred to another context. For instance, a chess-playing computer program cannot play checkers. General game playing is considered as a necessary milestone on the way to artificial general intelligence.
General video game playing (GVGP) is the concept of GGP adjusted to the purpose of playing video games. For video games, game rules have to be either learnt over multiple iterations by artificial players like TD-Gammon, or are predefined manually in a domain-specific language and sent in advance to artificial players like in traditional GGP. Starting in 2013, significant progress was made following the deep reinforcement learning approach, including the development of programs that can learn to play Atari 2600 games as well as a program that can learn to play Nintendo Entertainment System games.
The first commercial usage of general game playing technology was Zillions of Games in 1998. General game playing was also proposed for trading agents in supply chain management thereunder price negotiation in online auctions from 2003 on.
History
In 1992, Barney Pell defined the concept of Meta-Game Playing, and developed the "MetaGame" system. This was the first program to automatically generate game rules of chess-like games, and one of the earliest programs to use automated game generation. Pell then developed the system Metagamer. This system was able to play a number of chess-like games, given game rules definition in a special language called Game Description Language (GDL), without any human interaction once the games were generated.
In 1998, the commercial system Zillions of Games was developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler. The system used a LISP-like language to define the game rules. Zillions of Games derived the evaluation function automatically from the game rules based on piece mobility, board structure and game goals. It also employed usual algorithms as found in computer chess systems: alpha–beta pruning with move ordering, transposition tables, etc. The package was extended in 2007 by the addition of the Axiom plug-in, an alternate metagame engine that incorporates a complete Forth-based programming language.
In 1998, z-Tree was developed by Urs Fischbacher. z-Tree is the first and the most cited software tool for experimental economics. z-Tree allows the definition of game rules in z-Tree-language for game-theoretic experiments with human subjects. It also allows definition of computer players, which participate in a play with human subjects.
In 2005, the Stanford Project General Game Playing was established.
In 2012, the development of PyVGDL started.
GGP implementations
Stanford project
General Game Playing is a project of the Stanford Logic Group of Stanford Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObjectVision | ObjectVision was a forms-based programming language and environment for Windows 3.x developed by Borland. The latest version, 2.1, was released in 1992.
An ObjectVision application is composed by forms designed in a graphic way that contains objects and events to provide interactivity. Forms are connected together with logic in the form of decision trees. ObjectVision applications also can interact with databases using multiple engines, like Paradox and dBase. A finished project is saved as an OVD file, that is executed by an interpreted runtime that can be freely distributed.
ObjectVision was not used broadly except in some niche segments, but the visual programming ideas were the basis for Borland Delphi.
References
Programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Net%2025 | The following is a list of programs broadcast on EBC-Net 25, a terrestrial/cable satellite Internet television network owned by Eagle Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines.
Net 25 currently airs all of its station-produced programs and news broadcasts. It is also the home of the TeleRadyo programs produced by Radyo Agila.
Current original programming
News
Mata ng Agila
Mata ng Agila International
Mata ng Agila Primetime
Mata ng Agila sa Tanghali
Mata ng Agila Weekend
Net 25 News Update
Siyento por Siyento
Current affairs
(A.S.P.N.) Ano sa Palagay N'yo?
Counterpoint with Atty. Salvador Panelo
Reality Check with Tito Sotto
Responde: Mata ng Mamamayan
Sa Ganang Mamamayan
Variety
Letters & Music
Comedy
Anong Meron Kay Abok?
GoodWill
Love, Bosleng and Tali
Oh No! It's B.O. (Biro Only)
Quizon CT (Comedy Theater)
Game
Tara Game, Agad Agad! Level Up
Talk
Korina Interviews
Infotainment
Art Academy
Ito ang Tahanan
Kada Umaga
Landmarks
Lingap Stories
Love, Tonipet and Everythaaang!
Lutong Daza
Magandang ARAw
Open for Business
Unlad: Kaagapay sa Hanapbuhay
Religious (Iglesia ni Cristo)
All Iglesia ni Cristo programs are aired under the unofficial CEBSI/INCTV on Net 25 block.
Ang Iglesia ni Cristo
Ang Pagbubunyag
Artime
Biblia Ang Sasagot
Blueprint
Christian Society for the Deaf
Chronicles
Daan ng Buhay
Don't Give Up
Executive News
Gabay sa Mabuting Asal
Gourmade at Home
#Hashtag
Iglesia ni Cristo and the Bible
INCinema
INC International Edition
INC Kids Adventure
Landas ng Buhay
Lingap sa Mamamayan
Little Juan's Playlist
Musiko
New Normal
Negosyuniversity
Paninindigan
Pasugo
Pundasyon
Reconnect
Resonate
Time to Draw Live
Trabaho Ko To
Turning Point
Your Light Forever
Current acquired programming
Foreign drama
Daydreamer
Two Sisters
Mysterious Personal Shopper
Kızım
Unwanted Family
Children's
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small
Transformers: Rescue Bots
Sunny Girl No.23
Movie block
Sine Throwback
Future programming
3 in 1
May Forever
Rapstar Pilipinas
Previously aired
See also
Net 25- a terrestrial/cable television network owned by Eagle Broadcasting Corporation
References
Net 25 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR%20Fernsehen | WDR Fernsehen is a German free-to-air television network owned and operated by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and serving North Rhine-Westphalia. It is one of the seven regional "third programmes" television stations that are offered within the federal ARD network.
History
The station began broadcasting on 17 December 1965, as Westdeutsches Fernsehen (WDF), changing its name to West 3 in 1988, before settling for WDR Fernsehen in 1994.
Originally airing only in North Rhine-Westphalia, the channel has become available across Germany with the advent of Cable TV and satellite television. The station is also available free-to-air across Europe via Astra 19.2°E.
In November 2013, the channel faced a graphical rebrand.
News sub-regions
WDR Fernsehen operates eleven sub-regional opt-out services, each broadcasting a 30-minute local news programme entitled Lokalzeit at 19.30 each Monday to Saturday evening together with a shorter, 5-minute bulletin at 18.00 on Mondays to Fridays:
Aachen: Lokalzeit aus Aachen
Wuppertal: Lokalzeit Bergisches Land
Bonn: Lokalzeit aus Bonn
Dortmund: Lokalzeit aus Dortmund
Duisburg: Lokalzeit aus Duisburg
Düsseldorf: Lokalzeit aus Düsseldorf
Cologne: Lokalzeit aus Köln
Münster: Lokalzeit Münsterland
Bielefeld: Lokalzeit OWL aktuell
Essen: Lokalzeit Ruhr
Siegen: Lokalzeit Südwestfalen
Programmes
Children
Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten (2007–present)
Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971–present)
Entertainment
Die Wiwaldi-Show (2012–2016)
Zimmer frei (1996–2016)
Information
Aktuelle Stunde (1983–present)
(1997–present)
Lokalzeit (1996–present)
Westpol (1992–present)
Series
Eyewitness (Øyevitne) (2017)
In aller Freundschaft (2003–present)
Lindenstraße (1997–present)
Phoenixsee (2016–present)
Prey (Prey - Die Beute) (2015–2016)
Rote Rosen (2007–2009)
Sturm der Liebe (2005–2009)
Schimanski (1998–2016)
Tatort (2006–present)
The Game (2015)
Sport
Sport Inside (2007–present)
Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Fußballs, hosted by Arnd Zeigler (2007–present)
Talk
B. trifft..., hosted by Bettina Böttinger (1993–2004)
Domian, hosted by Jürgen Domian (1995–2016)
Domian live, hosted by Jürgen Domian (2019–present)Kölner Treff'', hosted by Bettina Böttinger (2006–present)
Logos
References
External links
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Television stations in Germany
Television channels and stations established in 1965
German-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Tsubasa%203%3A%20Koutei%20no%20Chousen | was released in 1992 by Tecmo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console. A graphical update of the previous Family Computer video games, it also includes new features like a map of the pitch at the bottom of the screen. The video game was never released outside Japan so there is no official English version.
References
1992 video games
Koutei no Chousen
Japan-exclusive video games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Tecmo games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Museum | The Computer Museum may refer to:
The Computer Museum, Boston
The Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California
See also
List of computer museums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20allocation%20schemes | In radio resource management for wireless and cellular networks, channel allocation schemes allocate bandwidth and communication channels to base stations, access points and terminal equipment. The objective is to achieve maximum system spectral efficiency in bit/s/Hz/site by means of frequency reuse, but still assure a certain grade of service by avoiding co-channel interference and adjacent channel interference among nearby cells or networks that share the bandwidth.
Channel-allocation schemes follow one of two types of strategy:
Fixed: FCA, fixed channel allocation: manually assigned by the network operator
Dynamic:
DCA, dynamic channel allocation
DFS, dynamic frequency selection
Spread spectrum
Static Channel Allocation
In Fixed Channel Allocation or Fixed Channel Assignment (FCA) each cell is given a predetermined set of frequency channels. FCA requires manual frequency planning, which is an arduous task in time-division multiple access (TDMA) and frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) based systems since such systems are highly sensitive to co-channel interference from nearby cells that are reusing the same channel. Another drawback with TDMA and FDMA systems with FCA is that the number of channels in the cell remains constant irrespective of the number of customers in that cell. This results in traffic congestion and some calls being lost when traffic gets heavy in some cells, and idle capacity in other cells.
If FCA is combined with conventional FDMA and perhaps or TDMA, a fixed number of voice channels can be transferred over the cell. A new call can only be connected by an unused channel. If all the channel are occupied than the new call is blocked in this system. There are however several dynamic radio-resource management schemes that can be combined with FCA. A simple form is traffic-adaptive handover threshold, implying that calls from cell phones situated in the overlap between two adjacent cells can be forced to make the handover to the cell with the lowest load for the moment. If FCA is combined with spread spectrum, the maximum number of channels is not fixed in theory, but in practice a maximum limit is applied, since too many calls would cause too high co-channel interference level, causing the quality to be problematic. Spread spectrum allows cell breathing to be applied, by allowing an overloaded cell to borrow capacity (maximum number of simultaneous calls in the cell) from a nearby cell that is sharing the same frequency.
FCA can be extended into a DCA system by using a borrowing strategy in which a cell can borrow channels from the neighboring cell which is supervised by Mobile Switching Center (MSC).
Dynamic Frequency Selection
Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) is a mechanism specified for wireless networks with non-centrally controlled access points, such as wireless LAN (commonly Wi-Fi). It is designed to prevent interference with other usages of the frequency band, such as military radar, satellite com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaSara%20FireFox | LaSara FireFox (now LaSara Firefox Allen) is an American writer, game designer, sex educator, and a neuro-linguistic programming master practitioner and trainer. She is a family-traditions witch and a second-generation ordained priestess. She is the founder and CEO of the Ecstatic Presence Project and Global Family Awakening: an educational, peace and humanitarian family adventure club.
Greenfield Ranch
Firefox was raised at Greenfield Ranch in Ukiah, California, a property that was sub-divided into several parcels, some with intentional communities such as Coeden Brith, where Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart founded the Holy Order of Mother Earth (a precursor to the Church of All Worlds), adjacent to Anwan (run by Gwydion Pendderwen). She is a former president of the Greenfield Ranch Association.
Written works
Firefox has written and taught in the fields of spirituality, human sexuality, parenting and bipolar disorder. In addition to Sexy Witch, her writing has been published in numerous anthologies, textbooks, magazines, an encyclopedia, and extensively in online journals. She was also included in the Hot Mommas project on women in leadership. Her essay on bipolar disorder and the entrepreneurial life was second runner up in their national case study competition and was included in the entrepreneurship textbook Essentials of Small Business Management (6th Edition). She published The Pussy Poems in response to the censure of Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown for saying the word vagina in a debate on the legislation of abortion rights.
Lasara's ideas about female empowerment are evident in her book Sexy Witch. Sexy Witch is in its third printing in the US, and second printing in both Mexico and the Czech Republic. It has been published in four languages.
Neuro-linguistic programming
Firefox is a certified master practitioner and trainer of neuro-linguistic programming. She received her master practitioner and NLP trainers' certification from Richard Bandler's Pure NLP/Society of NLP and trained with the California Institute of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, The Hawkridge Institute, and the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Spirituality
FireFox is a second-generation witch, and an ordained priestess. She was a clergy member and former president of the board of the Church of All Worlds (1999 and 2000). She has presented workshops for several spiritual events and organizations including the Church of All Worlds, the Tree of Life, PanTheaCon, and both the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium. She was interviewed in the book Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Ritual by John Sulak and V. Vale, and contributed to Taylor Ellwood's anthology Magick on the Edge: Adventures in Experimental Magick. Bewitching Names references Lasara in a discussion on the names of Neo-Pagan witches and their children.
Sex educator
FireFox is a graduate of the San Francisco Sex Information human sexuality intensive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IVAO | IVAO may refer to:
Ivao Group
International Virtual Aviation Organisation, an online flight-simulation network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail%20Concerto | is an action-adventure platformer developed by CyberConnect and published by Bandai for the PlayStation. It is the first installment in the Little Tail Bronx series, which takes place in a steampunk fantasy world of floating islands populated by anthropomorphic dogs and cats. The game revolves around a canine police officer named Waffle Ryebread and his encounters with the Black Cats Gang, a group of sky pirates who aim to steal magic crystals. Though it received a generally positive response from critics, the title was met with low sales in Japan, falling short of the publisher's expectations.
Tail Concerto was first released in Japan in April 1998 and the following December in France, with an English version released in North America in November 1999 by publisher Atlus USA. The game features character designs and artwork by manga artist Nobuteru Yūki, and the Japanese version included the opening theme song "For Little Tail" performed by Kokia before her debut in the music business.
Gameplay
Tail Concerto is an action-adventure platforming game featuring three-dimensional characters and environments. Players control the character Waffle, who pilots a semi-humanoid mecha called the "Police Robo" with the ability to run, jump, climb on ledges, and hover in mid-air for brief periods. In addition, the mecha is equipped with a pair of mechanized arms that can pick up and throw objects such as crates and bombs, as well as a long-range "bubble blaster" used to damage or immobilize enemies. The game features support for the PlayStation's DualShock controller's analog sticks, which can be used for movement instead of the directional pad, as well as its built-in vibration feedback function.
The game features a variety of levels, each with their own objectives that usually involve capturing enemy kittens by grabbing them with the Police Robo's limbs, as well as boss battles that take place at the end of certain stages. Some areas require the use of different means of travel, such as mine carts and a jet pack, or attacking enemies using heat-seeking missiles. While the game's camera remains static most of the time, the player is given the ability to rotate the view angle during certain action scenes.
The game also contains role-playing game features such as the ability to explore towns and interact with non-player characters. Also hidden in each area are whistles that grant extra lives, and boxes containing pieces of photographs featuring artwork that may be viewed in a gallery once all the sections are found. Players may choose between one of three difficulty settings from the main options screen which directly affect the level of challenge, and progress can be saved to a PlayStation memory card.
Plot and setting
Tail Concerto is set in the Kingdom of Prairie, a floating archipelago populated by anthropomorphic dogs and cats. Animosity between the two species has led to a history of conflict, with dogs now representing the majority population. Due t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sims%20Bainbridge | William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Bainbridge is most well known for his work on the sociology of religion. Recently he has published work studying the sociology of video gaming.
Career
Bainbridge began his academic career at the Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school in his birthstate of Connecticut. He matriculated at Yale University and Oberlin College before settling on Boston University, where he received his B.A. in sociology in 1971. Initially, he studied music and became a skilled piano-tuner. In his free time, he constructed harpsichords and clavichords with the "Bainbridge" name, which still exist in a few households.
Bainbridge received his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in 1975 and went on to study the sociology of religious cults. In 1976, he published his first book, The Spaceflight Revolution, which examined the push for space exploration in the 1960s. In 1978, he published his second and most popular book, entitled Satan's Power, which described several years in which Bainbridge infiltrated and observed the Process Church, a religious cult whose founders had been members of Scientology. The study was one of the last of this type of academic studies done before new rules were introduced restricting unregulated participatory observation and study.
After completing his doctorate, Bainbridge served as an assistant (1975-1980) and associate professor (1980-1982) of sociology at the University of Washington. During this period, he worked with departmental colleague Rodney Stark on the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion. Upon returning to Harvard as a visiting associate professor of sociology (1982-1987), he co-wrote the books The Future of Religion (1985) and A Theory of Religion (1987) with Stark. As of 2013, their theory, which aims to explain religious involvement in terms of rewards and compensators, is seen as a precursor of the more explicit recourse to economic principles in the study of religion later developed by Laurence Iannaccone and others.
From this period until the 2000s Bainbridge published more books dealing with space, religion, and psychology. These included a text entitled Experiments in Psychology (1986), which included psychology experimentation software coded by Bainbridge. He also studied the religious cult the Children of God, also known as the Family International, in his 2002 book The Endtime Family: Children of God.
Bainbridge has also taught at Illinois State University (professor of sociology and anthropology; 1987-1990) and Towson University (professor of sociology and anthropology & department chair; 1990-1992). He then joined the National Science Foundation as the director of its sociology program (1992-1999) before holding a serie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL%20%28programming%20language%29 | New Implementation of LISP (NIL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 1970s, and intended to be the successor to the language Maclisp. It is a 32-bit implementation, and was in part a response to Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) VAX computer. The project was headed by Jon L White, with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems.
History
The Lisp language was invented in 1958 by John McCarthy while he was at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From its inception, Lisp was closely connected with the artificial intelligence (AI) research community, especially on PDP-10 systems. The 36-bit word size of the PDP-6 and PDP-10 was influenced by the usefulness of having two Lisp 18-bit pointers in one word: "The PDP-6 project started in early 1963, as a 24-bit machine. It grew to 36 bits for LISP, a design goal." Lisp was used as the implementation of the programming language Micro Planner that was the foundation for the famous AI system SHRDLU. Lisp, in particular Maclisp (so named because it originated at MIT's project MAC) was also used to implement the Macsyma computer algebra system. In the 1970s, as AI research spawned commercial offshoots, the performance of extant Lisp systems became a growing problem.
Partly because of garbage collection (Lisp would use stop-and-copy garbage collection of its single heap for memory allocation) and partly because of its representation of internal structures, Lisp became difficult to run on the memory-limited stock computer hardware of the day. This led to creating Lisp machines: dedicated hardware for running Lisp environments and programs. An alternative was to use the more powerful commodity hardware which was becoming available, especially the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX.
NIL was an implementation of Lisp developed at MIT in the mid to late 1970s, and intended to be a modern successor to Maclisp that was able to run on stock hardware, in contrast to Lisp Machine Lisp for the Lisp machines. "Originally designed as the first modern Lisp dialect on stock hardware after the development of Lisp machine Lisp at MIT, it went on to become one of the main influences on the design of Common Lisp." (pg 63/294 of ) Since the users of the Macsyma program represented a large potential user base for NIL, it was necessary that NIL would be a large, complex system, and that speed would be imperative. For example, high-speed bignums was a requirement to support Macsyma, since NIL would be a failure with slow bignums. Consequently, NIL ended up with a large base of VAX assembly language. These requirements led to a very aggressive and complex optimization strategy which was applied prematurely, with negative results on the final system.
Concurrent with the effort to write NIL, a research group at Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSDA%20Northern%20Ireland | LSDA Northern Ireland (LSDA NI) was part of the Learning and Skills Network (LSN), with a role to support all forms of post-16 education and training in Northern Ireland.
LSDA Northern Ireland operated from an office in Alfred House, Alfred Street, Belfast. It supported Further Education Colleges, Training providers and Community Providers who offered government funded training and vocational education courses in Northern Ireland.
History
Established in 2003 as part of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA), LSDA Northern Ireland's core funding came from the Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland (DEL). When LSDA was split into the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and Learning and Skills Network (LSN) in 2006, LSDA Northern Ireland retained its title and function, as part of LSN.
Periodical publications
LSDA NI published and distributed two quarterly periodicals in paper and electronic format, with an average paper circulation of 1000 copies:
LSDA NI Briefing - a quarterly, glossy, full-colour with features relating to the whole spectrum of LSDA NI's work
Essential - a quarterly, glossy, full-colour with features relating to Essential Skills. The final issue, the twenty third, was published in June 2010.
LSDA NI also published an occasional publication: ESOLutions - a glossy, full-colour with features relating to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
Cross-border collaboration
In September 2008, LSDA NI signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with NALA, Ireland's National Adult Literacy Agency. The objective was to enhance opportunities for people with literacy needs across the island of Ireland. The memorandum outlined an agreement between the two agencies to cooperate, share experience and organise joint conferences.
This collaboration culminated in a cross-border Essential Skills Conference, held at Ballymascanlon House, Dundalk on Wednesday 26 November 2008. The Stormont Minister for Employment and Learning, Reg Empey attended with his Republic of Ireland counterpart, Minister for Lifelong Learning, Seán Haughey. One hundred delegates heard from literacy champions such as Dr Rosie Wickert of Southern Cross University, Australia and Dr Ursula Howard of the University of London, previously director of the National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy. An example of best practice for integrating literacy into the workplace was given by Patrick McCartan, CBE, Chairman of Belfast Health and Social Services Board. Kathleen Cramer, Manager of the Youth Training and Development Centre in Newbridge, gave an account of how her centre applied the integrated approach. Blathnaid Ni Chinneide from the National Adult Literacy Agency described NALA’s experience in this area and outlined guidelines for integrating literacy into training and further education.
Rapid decline and collapse
In March 2010, Learning and Skills Network, LSDA NI's parent organisation, reported reserv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1956–57 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1956 through March 1957. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1955–56 season.
The 1956–57 network television schedule continued the trend of the previous season, with two of the three major U.S. television networks (ABC and CBS) scheduling more and more westerns and adventure series during prime time. In addition to its current stable of Westerns, which included Cheyenne, The Lone Ranger, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, ABC scheduled two new Western TV series: Broken Arrow and The Adventures of Jim Bowie, while CBS added Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre to its line-up, which already included Gunsmoke and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Castleman and Podrazik (1984) called the rush to schedule Western series on network television during this era "a virtual stampede".
CBS "inherited Sunday afternoon NFL contests from the defunct DuMont network in the fall of 1956". Accordingly, "the expansion into Sunday sports by CBS (and NBC) meant that the traditional afternoon 'egghead' slots for highbrow programming had to be broken up, pushing those shows into the few odd spots still open in the day, or eliminating them completely. This reflected the networks' shift in emphasis during the mid-1950s, slanting television much more toward broad-based popular entertainment. Increasingly, this meant television programming produced in Hollywood [...] In 1957, the amount of prime time programming originating on the West Coast jumped from 40% to 71%."
NBC, behind CBS in the network Nielsen ratings, hired Robert Kintner to revamp NBC's schedule. According to Castleman and Podrazik (1982), NBC's plan was to launch a program which would compete directly with CBS's second most popular series, The Ed Sullivan Show, on Sunday, the most heavily viewed TV night: "Sullivan's show was popular enough to boost the ratings of the programs on both before and after his; as a result, CBS had a chain of hits to begin the evening." NBC's strategy was designed to weaken CBS's Sunday night line-up. NBC's new program, The Steve Allen Show, debuted in the summer to get a head start on the competition. Although the two programs enjoyed a fierce rivalry, Sullivan's program would remain wildly popular, finishing second among all TV programs in the ratings that year, while Allen's show missed the top 30. Beginning this season, NBC had at least one show in color for every day of the week.
New fall series are highlighted in bold, while shows ending their runs are highlighted in italics.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.
Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20capita%20personal%20income%20in%20the%20United%20States | As per US Census 2021 data US mean per capita income is $37,683 while median household income is around $69,021.US Census Gov 2017-2021
One of the most commonly used metrics for gauging the economic performance and shifting fortunes of local economies is per capita income (PCI). It is measured as the amount of wage and compensation disbursements, other labor income, proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments, persons' rental income with capital consumption adjustments, personal dividend income, personal interest income, and transfer payments to persons, less personal social insurance contributions. The Per Capita Personal Income of the United States defines the personal income of a specific area, earned by or on behalf of all of the persons who live in the area. As a result, personal income figures are presented by the income recipients' place of residence. This measure of income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) uses the United States Census Bureau's annual midyear population projections to calculate per capita personal income for states and counties. Except for college students and other seasonal populations, which are counted on April 1, the population for all other groups is counted on July 1.
On average, the United States' real per capita personal income grew at an annual rate of 2.27% over 1959–2020. The United States posted its highest growth in 1984 (5.53%) and posted its lowest growth in 2009 (−3.87%).
In all states and the District of Columbia, an improvement in transfer receipts was the leading contributor to personal income growth in 2020. The percentage change in personal income in each state ranged from 8.4 percent in Arizona and Montana to 2.4 percent in Wyoming states. All of which increased the per capita personal income in 2020 by 6.1 percent, following a previous increase of 3.9 percent in 2019. The combined increase in personal income throughout the United States totaled $1.1 trillion dollars. Over the period 1959–2020, the United States' per capita personal income increased at an average annual rate of 2.27 percent.
See also
Household income in the United States
Social class in the United States
Poverty in the United States
Affluence in the United States
Personal income in the United States
List of U.S. cities by adjusted per capita personal income
List of U.S. states by adjusted per capita personal income
References
Income in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Spider%27s%20Sunny%20Patch%20Kids | Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids is a 2003 Canadian computer-animated television special produced by Nelvana. It serves as the pilot for the show Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends. It aired on Treehouse TV in Canada on March 31, 2003. The special was based on David Kirk's book series of the same name, as well as the Sunny Patch brand of toys that Kirk designed. The special features well-known celebrity voices including US actress Brooke Shields as the voice of Miss Spider, Rick Moranis as the voice of Holley, and Tony Jay as the voice of Spiderus Reeves.
The characters were "CGI animated insects and arachnids in a relatively natural setting which has a similar plot with anthropomorphic qualities appropriate for a children's story", as described by the Nelvana executives.
Plot
Miss Flora Spider has been living happily with her new husband Holley, but becomes nervous when she hatches five eggs on the same day. She worries about becoming a mother, since her own mother abandoned her before she hatched. But her adoptive mother, Betty Beetle, tells her that she has nothing to worry about. When the eggs hatch out five new spiders, the family becomes overjoyed.
Years pass and as the spider kids grow up, the family finds an egg and decorate it. Thinking its mother is looking for it, Squirt, one of the spiderlings, decides to return it. While going through the forest, he comes upon three kid orphans: Dragon the Dragonfly, Shimmer the Jewel Beetle, and Bounce the Bedbug who are bandits living in the forest. When the young spider explains that he is looking for the egg’s mother, Bounce reveals that they do not have parents either, although Dragon says that they are still looking for them. Shimmer decides that they should tag along and help Squirt.
Suddenly, Spiderus, a grumpy and vicious giant white spider who was jealous after Miss Spider chose Holley over him, arrives and tries to take the egg. The kids manage to scare him away. Meanwhile, Miss Spider has discovered that Squirt is missing and fears for the worst. She and Holley decide to search for him. With the help of Spiderus, who now agrees to help in the rescue mission, Miss Spider and Holley now know where Squirt is.
Snow starts to fall, and kids find Stinky, a stink bug, in his home. They take shelter there until morning. By the time the kids leave, the three adult spiders arrive. Spiderus meets and falls in love with a female spider named Spindella. The kids arrive at a barn, where a hen, revealed to be the mother of the egg, attacks. Just as Squirt is about to be eaten, Miss Spider and Holley arrive and save him.
The egg hatches and is reunited with its mother. Squirt introduces his new friends to his parents. Miss Spider decides to adopt them, since she herself understands how it feels to be orphaned, along with eight being a perfect number to her. They are all overjoyed and return home. As all the kids sleep, Miss Spider understands that it does not matter what other bugs are, all that matt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20analysis | Motion analysis is used in computer vision, image processing, high-speed photography and machine vision that studies methods and applications in which two or more consecutive images from an image sequences, e.g., produced by a video camera or high-speed camera, are processed to produce information based on the apparent motion in the images. In some applications, the camera is fixed relative to the scene and objects are moving around in the scene, in some applications the scene is more or less fixed and the camera is moving, and in some cases both the camera and the scene are moving.
The motion analysis processing can in the simplest case be to detect motion, i.e., find the points in the image where something is moving. More complex types of processing can be to track a specific object in the image over time, to group points that belong to the same rigid object that is moving in the scene, or to determine the magnitude and direction of the motion of every point in the image. The information that is produced is often related to a specific image in the sequence, corresponding to a specific time-point, but then depends also on the neighboring images. This means that motion analysis can produce time-dependent information about motion.
Applications of motion analysis can be found in rather diverse areas, such as surveillance, medicine, film industry, automotive crash safety, ballistic firearm studies, biological science, flame propagation, and navigation of autonomous vehicles to name a few examples.
Background
A video camera can be seen as an approximation of a pinhole camera, which means that each point in the image is illuminated by some (normally one) point in the scene in front of the camera, usually by means of light that the scene point reflects from a light source. Each visible point in the scene is projected along a straight line that passes through the camera aperture and intersects the image plane. This means that at a specific point in time, each point in the image refers to a specific point in the scene. This scene point has a position relative to the camera, and if this relative position changes, it corresponds to a relative motion in 3D. It is a relative motion since it does not matter if it is the scene point, or the camera, or both, that are moving. It is only when there is a change in the relative position that the camera is able to detect that some motion has happened. By projecting the relative 3D motion of all visible points back into the image, the result is the motion field, describing the apparent motion of each image point in terms of a magnitude and direction of velocity of that point in the image plane. A consequence of this observation is that if the relative 3D motion of some scene points are along their projection lines, the corresponding apparent motion is zero.
The camera measures the intensity of light at each image point, a light field. In practice, a digital camera measures this light field at discr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20quadratic%20programming | Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) is an iterative method for constrained nonlinear optimization which may be considered a quasi-Newton method. SQP methods are used on mathematical problems for which the objective function and the constraints are twice continuously differentiable.
SQP methods solve a sequence of optimization subproblems, each of which optimizes a quadratic model of the objective subject to a linearization of the constraints. If the problem is unconstrained, then the method reduces to Newton's method for finding a point where the gradient of the objective vanishes. If the problem has only equality constraints, then the method is equivalent to applying Newton's method to the first-order optimality conditions, or Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, of the problem.
Algorithm basics
Consider a nonlinear programming problem of the form:
The Lagrangian for this problem is
where and are Lagrange multipliers.
The standard Newton's Method searches for the solution by iterating the following equation, where denotes the Hessian matrix:
.
However, because the matrix is generally singular (and therefore non-invertible), the Newton step cannot be calculated directly. Instead the basic sequential quadratic programming algorithm defines an appropriate search direction at an iterate , as a solution to the quadratic programming subproblem
Note that the term in the expression above may be left out for the minimization problem, since it is constant under the operator.
Together, the SQP algorithm starts by first choosing the initial iterate , then calculating and . Then the QP subproblem is built and solved to find the Newton step direction which is used to update the parent problem iterate using . This process is repeated for until the parent problem satisfies a convergence test.
Alternative approaches
Sequential linear programming
Sequential linear-quadratic programming
Augmented Lagrangian method
Implementations
SQP methods have been implemented in well known numerical environments such as MATLAB and GNU Octave. There also exist numerous software libraries, including open source:
SciPy (de facto standard for scientific Python) has scipy.optimize.minimize(method='SLSQP') solver.
NLopt (C/C++ implementation, with numerous interfaces including Julia, Python, R, MATLAB/Octave), implemented by Dieter Kraft as part of a package for optimal control, and modified by S. G. Johnson.
ALGLIB SQP solver (C++, C#, Java, Python API)
and commercial
LabVIEW
KNITRO (C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Julia, Fortran)
NPSOL (Fortran)
SNOPT (Fortran)
NLPQL (Fortran)
MATLAB
SuanShu (Java)
See also
Newton's method
Secant method
Model Predictive Control
Notes
References
External links
Sequential Quadratic Programming at NEOS guide
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoho%20Office%20Suite | Zoho Office Suite is an Indian web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM), project management, invoicing and other applications. It is developed by Zoho Corporation.
History
Zoho Office Suite was launched in 2005 with a web-based word processor. Additional products such as spreadsheets and presentations, were incorporated later into Zoho. Zoho applications are distributed as software as a service (SaaS).
Zoho uses an open application programming interface for its Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, Meeting, and Planner products. It also has plugins into Microsoft Word and Excel, an OpenOffice.org plugin, and a plugin for Firefox.
Zoho Sites is an online, drag and drop website builder. It provides web hosting, unlimited storage, bandwidth and web pages. Features also include an array of website templates and mobile websites.
Zoho CRM is a customer relationship management application with features like procurement, inventory, and some accounting functions from the realm of ERP. The free version is limited to 10 users.
In October 2009, Zoho integrated some of their applications with the Google Apps online suite. This enabled users to sign into both suites under one login. Zoho and Google still remain separate, competing companies.
In 2020, Zoho Workplace won Rank 1 in the Indian government's 'Atmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation challenge' in Office category while Zoho Invoice, Books & Expense won Rank 1 in business category.
See also
Comparison of office suites
List of office suites
References
Remote desktop
Project management software
Web applications
Online office suites
Zoho
Web hosting
Web development software
Human resource management software
Customer relationship management software
Accounting software
Collaborative software
Bug and issue tracking software
Help desk software
Business intelligence software
Reporting software
Business intelligence companies
Data analysis software
Web conferencing
Communication software
Remote desktop software for Linux
Remote control
Productivity software
Remote administration software
Windows remote administration software
Linux remote administration software
MacOS remote administration software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q2%20%28Star%20Trek%3A%20Voyager%29 | "Q2" is the 19th episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. It initially aired on the UPN network as the 165th episode of the series, and was directed by Star Trek: The Next Generation castmember LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge).
The series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away. In this episode, Q (John de Lancie) stops by to leave his undisciplined son (Keegan de Lancie) (conceived at the end of "The Q and the Grey") in the care of his "godmother", Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).
This episode marks the last on-screen live action appearance of "Q" until his 2022 return in season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, and features "Q" actor John de Lancie's real-life son Keegan as the young "Q".
This episode aired on the United Paramount Network (UPN) on April 11, 2001.
Plot
Q (John de Lancie) shows up on USS Voyager to introduce Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) to her godson, Q Junior (Keegan de Lancie), who now has the appearance of a human teenager. Q Junior is rambunctious and troublesome, causing various incidents across the ship. Q explains to Janeway that the Continuum hoped his son would help stabilize the Continuum but instead started the same type of problems on a much larger scale such as tearing holes in the fabric of space-time. The Continuum blamed Q and plans to turn Q Junior into an amoeba. Q brought him to Voyager to hopefully have Q Junior learn something. Janeway suggests some "father-son" time, but after ten minutes, Q admits that does not help as Q Junior had just rearranged the tectonic plates on a nearby planet. Janeway asserts that Q Junior needs to learn there are consequences for his actions.
By order of the Continuum, Q strips Q Junior of his powers and departs. Q Junior still manages to cause trouble, but after a stern talking-to by Janeway, he improves his ways, even becoming friends with Icheb (Manu Intiraymi). When Q returns, he appears to have little interest in Q Junior's progress before departing. Q Junior becomes depressed, and decides to take Icheb on a tour of the galaxy after stealing the Delta Flyer. They encounter a Chokuzan vessel that fires on them with a neural weapon that knocks Icheb unconscious. Q Junior races the Flyer back to Voyager, and pleads with the Doctor (Robert Picardo) to help find a cure for his friend. The Doctor is unable to identify how to cure Icheb, and Q refuses to save the life of someone his son put in danger, hoping that would teach him a lesson. When Janeway hears of this, she takes Q Junior along to locate the Chokuzan ship, hoping to learn how to heal Icheb. When they reach the ship, the Chokuzans demand someone bear punishment for the responsibility of the previous encounter. Janeway attempts to take responsibility as the captain of the ship, but Q Junior asserts it was his fault. Suddenly, it is revealed that this was all a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EusLisp%20Robot%20Programming%20Language | EusLisp is a Lisp-based programming system. Built on the basis of object orientation, it is designed specifically for developing robotics software. The first version of it ran in 1986 on Unix-System5/Ustation-E20.
References
External links
Object-Oriented Concurrent Lisp with Solid Modeling Facilities: EusLisp
Object-oriented programming languages
Robot programming languages
Programming languages created in 1986
1986 in robotics
Lisp (programming language)
Lisp programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conio.h | {{DISPLAYTITLE:conio.h}}
conio.h is a C header file used mostly by MS-DOS compilers to provide console input/output. It is not part of the C standard library or ISO C, nor is it defined by POSIX.
This header declares several useful library functions for performing "istream input and output" from a program. Most C compilers that target DOS, Windows 3.x, Phar Lap, DOSX, OS/2, or Win32 have this header and supply the associated library functions in the default C library. Most C compilers that target UNIX and Linux do not have this header and do not supply the library functions. Some embedded systems or cc65 use a conio-compatible library.
The library functions declared by vary somewhat from compiler to compiler. As originally implemented in Lattice C, the various functions mapped directly to the first few DOS INT 21H functions. The library supplied with Borland's Turbo C did not use the DOS API but instead accessed video RAM directly for output and used BIOS interrupt calls. This library also has additional functions inspired from the successful Turbo Pascal one.
Compilers that target non-DOS operating systems, such as Linux or OS/2, provide similar solutions; the unix-related curses library is very common here. Another example is SyncTERM's ciolib. The version of done by DJ Delorie for the GO32 extender is particularly extensive.
Member functions
References
External links
Microsoft's documentation
Digital Mars's documentation
IO FAQ - explanation and suggestions for non-standard console IO
Borland-style CONIO implementation for MinGW/Dev-C++
List of ways to get raw keyboard input
C (programming language) headers
Conio
Text mode
Text user interface
Text user interface libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Public%20Radio%20Network | The Classical Public Radio Network was a national, 24-hour classical music service in the United States. Its mission was to preserve, enhance and expand experience of classical music for radio listeners. With this vision, CPRN was established in 1998 as a limited-liability non-profit company – a joint venture of KUSC (Los Angeles) and Colorado Public Radio – with startup funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2003, CPRN and National Public Radio (NPR) joined in a collaborative marketing arrangement to further expand the network, but ceased national broadcast operations on June 30, 2008.
CPRN offered listeners the full spectrum of the classical repertoire from medieval times to the present – complete symphonies and orchestral pieces, chamber works, opera selections, art songs, and choral works. The announcers and music staff programmed the music with a focus on core repertoire and superior recordings. Each announcer brought personal expertise to selecting featured music, alternate performances, artist tributes and unique recordings, as well as seasonal and date-specific programming.
Enhancing the 24-hour program stream were several weekly and daily shows and features. Weekdays, Kimberlea Daggy hosted The Daily Special at noon, and Charles Andrews unearthed Buried Treasures at 8:00pm. On Sunday mornings, Stephanie Wendt presented Sacred Classics, featuring three hours of meditative music for the heart and mind. Contemporary classical music was explored every Saturday evening by Alan Chapman on Modern Masterpieces. The programming was regularly enhanced with holiday programming, new releases, composer profiles, and frequent appearances by artists in the classical music world.
CPRN programming was carried across the country on the following public radio stations: KUSC, Los Angeles; KVOD, Denver; WBHM, Birmingham, Alabama; KBSU-FM, Boise, Idaho; South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Vermillion, South Dakota; High Plains Public Radio, Garden City, Kansas (KANZ) and Amarillo, Texas (KJJP); KBYI, Rexburg, Idaho; KWTU, Tulsa, Oklahoma; WTEB, New Bern, North Carolina; WFCR, Amherst, Massachusetts; WOSU-FM, Columbus, Ohio; and on digital radio, WHYY-FM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WJCT-FM, Jacksonville, Florida; and KDFC-FM, San Francisco.
Former client stations operated a total of 53 signals and reached more than one million listeners weekly. Programming was distributed to stations via the Public Radio Satellite System.
References
External links
CPRN website
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Public radio in the United States
Radio stations of the University of Southern California
Classical music radio stations in the United States
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gregory%20Hines%20Show | The Gregory Hines Show is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS. The series premiered on Monday, September 15, 1997, before airing on September 19, 1997, as a part of the network's Block Party Friday night lineup. It ended its run on February 27, 1998, with 15 episodes aired out of the 22 that were produced.
Background
The Gregory Hines Show was the only show on the Block Party lineup that was not produced by Warner Bros. Television or Miller-Boyett Productions. Compared to the Miller-Boyett series, The Gregory Hines Show was markedly more mature in its themes; Leslie Moonves, incoming head of CBS at the time, described the inclusion of the show in the block as an effort to target the whole family, and executives at Miller-Boyett were fully pleased to have the show in the block, as TGIF, the block for which they had previously produced shows for the ABC-TV network, was quickly shifting into a teen-oriented block that did not fit their style.
Premise
The series starred Gregory Hines as Ben Stevenson, a publishing agent and widower raising 12-year-old son Matty (Brandon Hammond). A year and a half after his wife's death, Ben decides to resume his social life and begin dating again. He soon realizes that he has a lot to re-learn about women, just as his son is learning about them for the first time. Ben and Matty had previously had no trouble talking about anything, but now even the simplest conversation has become complicated, especially when the topic is the women in their lives. Now and then Ben receives advice from his brother Carl (Wendell Pierce), his father James (Bill Cobbs), as well as his co-worker Alex (Mark Tymchyshyn), Alex's ex-wife, Nicole (Robin Riker) and his assistant Angela (Judith Shelton).
Cast
Gregory Hines as Ben Stevenson
Brandon Hammond as Matthew "Matty" Stevenson
Wendell Pierce as Carl Stevenson
Mark Tymchyshyn as Alex Butler
Robin Riker as Nicole Moran
Bill Cobbs as James Stevenson
Judith Shelton as Angela Rice
Episodes
References
External links
1990s American black sitcoms
1990s American sitcoms
1997 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
CBS original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Chicago
Television series by CBS Studios
Television series by Sony Pictures Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadsoft | Cadsoft may refer to:
CadSoft Computer GmbH, a German software house and developer of the PCB design tool EAGLE, meanwhile a subsidiary of Autodesk
CadSoft Computer Inc., a US-based subsidiary of CadSoft Computer GmbH, meanwhile a division of Newark Corporation
CADsoft Consulting, a US-based consulting company offering support, software and training to AEC professionals
Cadsoft Corporation, a Canada-based developer of 3D Building Information Modeling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxPro | FoxPro was a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it was also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6. Development continued under the Visual FoxPro label, which in turn was discontinued in 2007.
FoxPro was derived from FoxBase (Fox Software, Perrysburg, Ohio), which was in turn derived from dBase III (Ashton-Tate) and dBase II. dBase II was the first commercial version of a database program written by Wayne Ratliff, called Vulcan, running on CP/M, as does dBase II.
FoxPro was both a DBMS and a relational database management system (RDBMS), since it extensively supported multiple relationships between multiple DBF files (tables). However, it lacked transactional processing.
FoxPro was sold and supported by Microsoft after they acquired Fox Software in its entirety in 1992. At that time there was an active worldwide community of FoxPro users and programmers. FoxPro 2.6 for UNIX (FPU26) has even been successfully installed on Linux and FreeBSD using the Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (ibcs2) support library.
Version information
Operating system compatibility
Technical aspects
FoxPro 2 included the "Rushmore" optimizing engine, which used indices to accelerate data retrieval and updating. Rushmore technology examined every data-related statement and looked for filter expressions. If one was used, it looked for an index matching the same expression.
FoxPro 2 was originally built on Watcom C/C++, which used the DOS/4GW memory extender to access expanded and extended memory. It could also use almost all available RAM even if no HIMEM.SYS was loaded.
Version timeline
References
External links
History of FoxPro - Timeline
A site devoted to the history of FoxPro
Fourth-generation programming languages
1984 software
Data-centric programming languages
XBase programming language family
Procedural programming languages
Proprietary database management systems
Microsoft development tools
Microsoft database software
fr:Visual FoxPro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial%20metadata | Geospatial metadata (also geographic metadata) is a type of metadata applicable to geographic data and information. Such objects may be stored in a geographic information system (GIS) or may simply be documents, data-sets, images or other objects, services, or related items that exist in some other native environment but whose features may be appropriate to describe in a (geographic) metadata catalog (may also be known as a data directory or data inventory).
Definition
ISO 19115:2013 "Geographic Information – Metadata" from ISO/TC 211, the industry standard for geospatial metadata, describes its scope as follows:
ISO 19115:2013 also provides for non-digital mediums:
The U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) describes geospatial metadata as follows:
History
The growing appreciation of the value of geospatial metadata through the 1980s and 1990s led to the development of a number of initiatives to collect metadata according to a variety of formats either within agencies, communities of practice, or countries/groups of countries. For example, NASA's "DIF" metadata format was developed during an Earth Science and Applications Data Systems Workshop in 1987, and formally approved for adoption in 1988. Similarly, the U.S. FGDC developed its geospatial metadata standard over the period 1992–1994. The Spatial Information Council of Australia and New Zealand (ANZLIC), a combined body representing spatial data interests in Australia and New Zealand, released version 1 of its "metadata guidelines" in 1996. ISO/TC 211 undertook the task of harmonizing the range of formal and de facto standards over the approximate period 1999–2002, resulting in the release of ISO 19115 "Geographic Information – Metadata" in 2003 and a subsequent revision in 2013. individual countries, communities of practice, agencies, etc. have started re-casting their previously used metadata standards as "profiles" or recommended subsets of ISO 19115, occasionally with the inclusion of additional metadata elements as formal extensions to the ISO standard. The growth in popularity of Internet technologies and data formats, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) during the 1990s led to the development of mechanisms for exchanging geographic metadata on the web. In 2004, the Open Geospatial Consortium released the current version (3.1) of Geography Markup Language (GML), an XML grammar for expressing geospatial features and corresponding metadata. With the growth of the Semantic Web in the 2000s, the geospatial community has begun to develop ontologies for representing semantic geospatial metadata. Some examples include the Hydrology and Administrative ontologies developed by the Ordnance Survey in the United Kingdom.
ISO 19115: Geographic information – Metadata
ISO 19115 is a standard of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The standard is part of the ISO geographic information suite of standards (19100 series). ISO 19115 and its parts define how to descr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950%E2%80%9351%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1950–51 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1950 through March 1951. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1949–50 season. This season became the first in which primetime was entirely covered by the networks. It was also the inaugural season of the Nielsen rating system. Late in the season, the coast-to-coast link was in service.
In September 1950 NBC added two live variety series, Four Star Revue and The Colgate Comedy Hour, to its fall schedule. These programs were a network effort to bring NBC's most popular radio stars to television; talent included Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Ed Wynn, Bob Hope and Fred Allen. The two new star-studded series were scheduled directly against two of CBS's most popular programs: Four Star Revue went up against Arthur Godfrey and Friends on Wednesday nights, while The Colgate Comedy Hour was slated against Toast of the Town. NBC was confident that its strategy would pay off.
CBS answered NBC's schedule with big radio stars and variety programs of its own, bringing in Frank Sinatra and (in occasional specials) Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, and Edgar Bergen. "Despite the big budget variety shows in its schedule, though, CBS felt that situation comedy was actually a more stable television form that would be easier to exploit in the long run."
In many time slots, the underfunded DuMont Network did not bother to compete against NBC's or CBS's hit series, instead airing what some TV historians have called "time-filler". For example: "During its long run [The Johns Hopkins Science Review] was scheduled against such hit shows as Break the Bank [and] Dragnet, programs from which its network had little chance of luring away viewers." During fall 1950, The Court of Current Issues and The Johns Hopkins Science Review' aired at the same time as the most heavily viewed program on television, NBC's Texaco Star Theater. Given the competition, DuMont's Tuesday night public-affairs programming attracted virtually no audience. The network had some success with a crime drama that had debuted in January the previous season titled Inside Detective (later retitled Rocky King Detective), which became one of the longest-running series on the network. Another DuMont series to debut during the season, Star Time, while short-lived, is remembered for including a television version of the popular radio sketches The Bickersons, and for being an early example of a sponsored network series to feature an African-American as a regular (jazz pianist Teddy Wilson, a familiar member of the Benny Goodman Sextet).
New fall series are highlighted in bold.
Legend
Sunday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umesh%20Vazirani | Umesh Virkumar Vazirani is an Indian–American academic who is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also a co-author of a textbook on algorithms.
Biography
Vazirani received a BS from MIT in 1981 and received his Ph.D. in 1986 from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Manuel Blum.
He is the brother of University of California, Irvine professor Vijay Vazirani.
Research
Vazirani is one of the founders of the field of quantum computing. His 1993 paper with his student Ethan Bernstein on quantum complexity theory defined a model of quantum Turing machines which was amenable to complexity based analysis. This paper also gave an algorithm for the quantum Fourier transform, which was then used by Peter Shor within a year in his celebrated quantum algorithm for factoring integers.
With Charles Bennett, Ethan Bernstein, and Gilles Brassard, he showed that quantum computers cannot solve black-box search problems faster than in the number of elements to be searched. This result shows that the Grover search algorithm is optimal. It also shows that quantum computers cannot solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time using only the certifier.
Awards and honors
In 2005, both Vazirani and his brother Vijay Vazirani were inducted as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, Umesh for "contributions to theoretical computer science and quantum computation" and his brother Vijay for his work on approximation algorithms. Vazirani was awarded the Fulkerson Prize for 2012 for his work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems (jointly with Satish Rao and Sanjeev Arora). In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Web page at UC Berkeley
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Theoretical computer scientists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
21st-century Indian mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of California, Berkeley alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
American people of Sindhi descent
Sindhi people
American academics of Indian descent
Quantum information scientists
American textbook writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWeb | SmartWeb may refer to:
Artificial intelligence software developed by the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
SmartWeb mobile, content-control software for Apple iPhone/iPod Touch.
An online grading system for United States schools. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Soil%20Bureau%20Network | The European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN), located at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra(I), was created in 1996 as a network of national soil science institutions. The ESBN at the JRC is operated by staff members of the Land Management Unit (LMU). Its main tasks are to collect, harmonise, organise and distribute soil information for Europe.
This section describes the history, background and current work programme of the network.
The European Soil Bureau is a Network of "Centres of Excellence". In general terms, therefore, the role the ESBN Project at the JRC is twofold - to perform a co-ordination activity by hosting the Secretariat of the ESBN and to provide a central source for information relevant to the work of the European Commission.
The ESBN is experiencing a surge in the demand for soil information in Europe, for addressing a number of environmental problems and questions. These include: leaching of agrochemicals, deposition of heavy metals, disposal of waste (agricultural, domestic and industrial), degradation of soil structure (through loss of soil organic matter, salinisation and subsoil compaction), risk of erosion (by water and wind), immobilisation of radionuclides, supply of water at catchment level, assessing the suitability (and sustainability) for traditional and alternative crops, and estimation of soil stability.
Publications
External links
European Soil Bureau network Official Site
Soil and crop science organizations
International scientific organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%20Board%2012%20FireWire | The Helix Board 12 FireWire is a mixer developed by Phonic Corporation that features a FireWire Interface, able to connect the mixer to Windows and Mac computers. The product was released in 2005 and has since become a signature product for the company
Outputs
The Helix Board 12 FireWire has a stereo main output, control room output, auxiliary send, headphones outputs, RCA record outputs and alternate 3-4 outputs.
Digital Effects
A built-in 16 program, 32-bit effect processor is included with the Helix Board 12 FireWire. Effects include Hall, Room, Plate, Cathedral, and more.
FireWire Interface
The FireWire interface allows all 8 inputs (counting stereo channels as 2) of the Helix Board 12 FireWire to be sent to a computer for recording, through its ASIO drivers (no drivers are required for the Mac). The main stereo output of your computer can also be sent through the FireWire interface, back to the Helix Board. The returned signal can be routed by the touch of one of the buttons on the face of the mixer.
The Helix Board 12 FireWire is bundled with Steinberg Cubase LE software for recording purposes, though it's suggested that users upgrade to SX or use other digital audio workstation software.
System requirements
Windows
Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or SP2
Available FireWire port
Intel Pentium 4 processor or equivalent AMD processor
Motherboard with Intel or VIA chipset
5400RPM or faster hard disc drive (7200 RPM or faster with 8MB cache recommended)
256MB or more of RAM (512MB recommended)
Macintosh
Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later with native FireWire support
G4 or newer processor
256MB or more of RAM
MKII
2006 saw the release of the Helix Board 12 FireWire MKII, which included additional features. Among these was a new DFX processor, pre/post switch on each input channel and a channel 9/10 assign switch.
References
Sound on Sound - Phonic Helix Board 12 MkII
Audio mixing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20%28video%20game%29 | is a 1988 adventure video game by TOSE for the Family Computer console exclusively in Japan. It is based on Akira, the 1988 animated film version of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga of the same name.
Plot
The player takes the role of Kaneda, who begins the game when his motorcycle gang is taken into police custody after the abduction of their friend Tetsuo by the military.
Gameplay
Progress in the game is made by selecting actions from a list. The current location is depicted in a static image, often redrawn from the film. Progress can be recorded with the help of passwords.
Development
The game was developed by TOSE and published by Taito.
Release
The game was released in Japan on December 24, 1988. It was released only 5 months after the film. The release coincided with the height of the popularity of the Akira series.
Reception
Akira was given a poor total score of 17 out of 40 from the panel of four reviewers of Famicom Tsūshin magazine.
See also
List of Family Computer games
References
External links
Official Taito website
Akira (franchise)
1988 video games
Amiga CD32 games
Cyberpunk video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Post-apocalyptic video games
Single-player video games
Video games about psychic powers
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in 2019
Visual novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Melbourne | Triple M Melbourne is a radio station broadcasting in Melbourne, Victoria. Its target demographic is the 18-54 age group. Triple M Melbourne is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M Network and broadcasts on the 105.1 MHz frequency.
The station was Australia's first commercial FM station, originally known as Eon FM, broadcasting on 92.3 MHz.
Station history
Eon FM: The Birth of Commercial FM Radio
In late 1979, a consortium, members of which included recording entrepreneur Bill Armstrong, band manager Glenn Wheatley and stockbroker Bill Conn, successfully bid on one of two Melbourne FM licenses and set about creating a commercial FM radio station. Armstrong headed the consortium, having seen the commercial opportunities of FM radio in the US and the UK.
Despite what their license application read, they had no blueprint at all with regard to marketing, programming, administration or promotion. The next six months was then spent building a radio station from scratch. A makeshift studio was set up in Bank Street, South Melbourne, draped with hessian to deaden the noise. Late-night dummy runs were performed a week before the on-air date to test the equipment.
On 11 July 1980, Australia's first commercial FM radio station, Eon FM, began broadcasting on 92.3 MHz, beating Fox FM to the title by two weeks. Peter Grace, formerly a DJ for 3XY (now Magic 1278) was the first voice heard on the station; he later said he was given that late night spot by default. "It's one past midnight and this is 92.3, E-O-N FM, I'm Peter Grace and this is the beginning of a long, long time..." The first song was "New Kid in Town" by The Eagles.
Armstrong was the first managing director; Clyde Simpson, the first general manager; Lee Simon, also ex-3XY, the first program director; Billy Pinnell, first music programmer – all names to circulate the Australian music industry for years. Other announcers included Mike Nicholls, Karl Van Est, Joe Miller, John Peters, Andy McLean, Jan Cannon, Paul Cashmere, Kenny The Paper-Boy, Kent Forbes, John Hood, Gavin Wood, Trish Mulholand, Craig Huggins and Mark Irvine. Newsreader Jennifer Keyte also began her career as a cadet at Eon FM.
At first, Eon FM played songs that "would not be played elsewhere", having no playlist and avoiding Top 40 songs. Said Armstrong, "we thought we were going to be the beginning of a new era. It took us a while to realise we were wrong."
Eon FM performed better than the other non-commercial FM stations, but was easily beaten by the AM stations. Management was worried, and shareholders were asked to invest another $1 million between them only a year after the station was launched.
Programme Director Lee Simon then went against the flow of the album rock formats favoured by Australia's FM stations and radically changed Eon's format by playing Top 40 hits and staging outdoor concerts. Molly Meldrum, host of Countdown, was even invited to do a regular breakfast spot with Gavin Wood, the voice-over ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guryong%20station | Guryong station is a station on the Suin–Bundang Line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway network in South Korea. It is in the Gaepo-dong area of the Gangnam district of Seoul. The station opened on October 24, 2004.
References
Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Metro stations in Gangnam District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Taber | Jane Taber (born 1957) is a Canadian public servant, former political journalist and television host of public affairs programming. Taber was appointed Director of Communications under former Premier of Nova Scotia, Iain Rankin of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in February 2021.
Career
Political journalism
Taber reported on Parliament Hill news beginning 1986, working as a parliamentary reporter and columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, the National Post, and The Globe and Mail. For three seasons, from 1995 to 1997, she was the host of a 30-minute-long political affairs show on WTN called Jane Taber's Ottawa. She also co-produced an hour-long documentary on the struggles of women in politics broadcast during the 1997 Canadian federal election.
Working under Bell Media's umbrella of companies, Taber was co-host of CTV Television Network's Question Period with Craig Oliver from 2005 to 2011, while also a senior parliamentary writer at The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau from 2003 to 2012. She relocated to the newspaper's Halifax office in 2012, becoming the Atlantic Bureau Chief.
On June 26, 2011, Taber relinquished her role as co-host of Question Period to Kevin Newman. However, she continued to take part in the program as a regular guest journalist, and acted as a stand-in host for Don Martin on CTV News Channel's Power Play.
Public relations
Leaving journalism in 2016, Taber entered the public relations field as vice president of public affairs at National Public Relations (Res Publica Consulting Group) in Halifax.
Following the resignation of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Taber moderated the Nova Scotia Liberal Party's candidate forum for its 2021 Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election on December 10, 2020. While still Vice President at National Public Relations at that time, Taber was later appointed Director of Communications for the winner of the leadership race, Premier of Nova Scotia Iain Rankin, in February 2021. After Rankin's dramatic loss for the Liberals in the 2021 Nova Scotia general election on August 17, 2021, Taber rejoined National Public Relations as Vice President, Public Affairs.
Personal life
Educated at Carleton University, Taber was elected to its board of directors for a term of three years on July 1, 2019.
Taber is married to editor David F. Guy of allNovaScotia, a subscription-based online newspaper. They have two children.
References
1957 births
Living people
Canadian television journalists
Canadian newspaper journalists
Writers from Ottawa
Canadian women television journalists
Canadian political journalists
CTV Television Network people
Carleton University alumni
Canadian political writers
The Globe and Mail columnists
National Post people
Ottawa Citizen people
Women political writers
Canadian public relations people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20broker | A message broker (also known as an integration broker or interface engine) is an intermediary computer program module that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver. Message brokers are elements in telecommunication or computer networks where software applications communicate by exchanging formally-defined messages. Message brokers are a building block of message-oriented middleware (MOM) but are typically not a replacement for traditional middleware like MOM and remote procedure call (RPC).
Overview
A message broker is an architectural pattern for message validation, transformation, and routing. It mediates communication among applications, minimizing the mutual awareness that applications should have of each other in order to be able to exchange messages, effectively implementing decoupling.
Purpose
The primary purpose of a broker is to take incoming messages from applications and perform some action on them. Message brokers can decouple end-points, meet specific non-functional requirements, and facilitate reuse of intermediary functions. For example, a message broker may be used to manage a workload queue or message queue for multiple receivers, providing reliable storage, guaranteed message delivery and perhaps transaction management.
Life cycle
The following represent other examples of actions that might be handled by the broker:
Route messages to one or more destinations
Transform messages to an alternative representation
Perform message aggregation, decomposing messages into multiple messages and sending them to their destination, then recomposing the responses into one message to return to the user
Interact with an external repository to augment a message or store it
Invoke web services to retrieve data
Respond to events or errors
Provide content and topic-based message routing using the publish–subscribe pattern
Message brokers are generally based on one of two fundamental architectures: hub-and-spoke and message bus. In the first, a central server acts as the mechanism that provides integration services, whereas with the latter, the message broker is a communication backbone or distributed service that acts on the bus. Additionally, a more scalable multi-hub approach can be used to integrate multiple brokers.
List of message broker software
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon MQ
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kinesis
Apache
Apache ActiveMQ
Apache Artemis
Apache Camel
Apache Kafka
Apache Qpid
Apache Thrift
Apache Pulsar
Cloverleaf (Enovation Lifeline - NL)
Comverse Message Broker (Comverse Technology)
Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT Broker (Eclipse Foundation)
EMQX EMQX MQTT Broker
Enduro/X Transactional Message Queue (TMQ)
Financial Fusion Message Broker (Sybase)
Fuse Message Broker (enterprise ActiveMQ)
Gearman
Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Google)
HiveMQ HiveMQ MQTT Broker
HornetQ (Red Hat) (Now part of Apache Artemis)
IBM App Connect
IBM MQ
JBoss Messaging (JBoss)
JORAM
Micr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Welch | Terry Archer Welch was an American computer scientist. Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression algorithm, which was published in 1984.
Education
Welch received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree at MIT in electrical engineering. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin and worked in computer design at Honeywell in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Career
He taught at the University of Texas in Austin until joining the Sperry Research Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1976 where the paper about the LZW algorithm was published. In 1983 he joined DEC where he worked as DEC liaison to MCC's advanced computer architecture program.
He died of a brain tumor in 1988.
References
American information theorists
Modern cryptographers
1939 births
1988 deaths
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Development%20Network | The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide new perspectives to the development challenges of our time. A spin-off of the World Bank, GDN works to make policy-relevant research accelerate the pace of global development. The Government of India has granted it the status of international organization. GDN is engaged in research issues related to social and economic development, and encourages researchers by providing financial resources, mentoring support and a platform to share their research.
Every year GDN invites researchers, policy-makers and policy analysts to its annual conference. For instance, its 2012 annual conference was held in Budapest, Hungary (co-organised by Central European University) and the 2013 conference was held in Manila, Philippines in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the East Asian Development Network (EADN) and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). The 2018 conference was held in New Delhi on the topic of Science, Technology and Innovation for Development.
History
The idea of a Global Development Network was conceived at a meeting organized by The World Bank in Washington in May 1997 after British journalist Shiv Satchit had founded and registered Global Development Network Ltd (GDN became its working name) with the Companies House and the Charity Commissioners as a non-profit organisation in 1995. The social science research organization was dedicated to the promotion of policy-oriented research in developing and transition countries. He was supported by his co-directors Raymond Knight, a British financial consultant and psychologist Dr Diwakar Sukul. Please refer to http://opencharities.org/charities/1049342 for evidence. The present participants include the heads of GDN's regional network partners and representatives of various bilateral and multilateral organizations and academic associations including United Nations Development Programme, the International Economics Association and The World Bank. It was not until December 1999, that GDN was launched as a response to the perceived paucity of support for research emanating from the developing and transitional world.
GDN moved out of the World Bank offices in Washington DC and started operating as an independent network of research and policy institutes with the goal of generating and sharing knowledge, building research capacity and bridging the gap between ideas and policies for development. It is currently headquartered in New Delhi, India and works in over 60 countries worldwide.
GDNet
GDNet was GDN's electronic voice. The GDNet was located in Cairo. It is now closed. GDN supported studies may now be found on www.gdn.int/research
See also
Researchers Alliance for Development
Development studies
References
Diane Stone, ed. Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network. London: Routledge, 2000.
Diane Stone. "The ‘Knowledge Bank’ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%3A%20The%20Secret%20of%20Blue%20Water%20%28video%20game%29 | is a Japan-exclusive multiplatform video game released from 1991 to 1993. It is based on the anime series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
Versions
Family Computer
Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (translated: Nadia of the Mysterious Seas) was released in 1991 by Toho for the Famicom console, based on the characters from the NHK animated TV series of the same name.
The player controls a cast of characters in a simple-looking battle strategy game. Battles are carried out through an RPG-style turn-based system.
This version of the game was poorly received due to its lack of originality and flawed gameplay.
Sega Mega Drive
This version was developed and published by Namco. While it is viewed from a top-down perspective, it is similar to a point-and-click adventure game. The player must talk to people and collect items to solve puzzles and advance through the game, but there are no combat elements to the game. There is a password feature that allows the player to resume from the beginning of each chapter.
This version was released on March 19, 1991.
The plot of the game mostly follows the plotline of the original, but it diverges from the storyline in many ways. The introductions of Marie, Gargoyle, Emperor Neo, and the climactic moments, for instance, are drastically different from the show.
Sharp X68000
Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (Sharp X68000, October 23, 1992, developed and published by Gainax)
NEC PC-9801
This version is an adventure game that begins inside the universal submarine known as Nautilus. Many still images are used, and it is notable for its high quality writing due to the frequent use of kanji.
FM Towns
Similar to the NEC 9801 version, this is an adventure game that begins inside the Universal submarine known as the Nautilus. This version features full voice acting.
PC Engine CD
This version was published and developed by Hudson Soft and was released in 1993.
This version is set on a deserted island with the theme of the battle between Captain Nemo and Gargoyles. Utilizing the performance of the PC Engine CD, and much like the NEC PC-9801 version, it has full voice acting and it also boasts anime-style visuals.
References
External links
Fushigi no Umi Nadia licensees at MobyGames
Reviews of Nadia The Secret of Blue Water and its sequels
1991 video games
1992 video games
1993 video games
Atlantis in fiction
FM Towns games
Gainax
Hudson Soft games
Japan-exclusive video games
Namco games
NEC PC-9801 games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Sega Genesis games
X68000 games
Submarines in fiction
TurboGrafx-CD games
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games based on works by Jules Verne
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Works based on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayNET | PlayNet (or PlayNET) was an American online service for Commodore 64 personal computers that operated from 1984 to 1987. It was operated by the PlayNet, Inc of Troy, New York.
History
PlayNet was founded in 1983 by two former GE Global Research employees, Dave Panzl and Howard Goldberg, as the first person-to-person, online communication and game network to feature home computer based graphics.
The founders launched the business initially with their own money. They then raised over $2.5 million from a variety of investors, including the venture capital funds of the Town of North Greenbush NY, Key Bank, Alan Patricof & Associates, and the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, and a group of individual investors through a limited R&D partnership led by McGinn Smith.
In 1985, PlayNet licensed their system to Control Video Corporation (CVC, later renamed Quantum Computer Services), which in October 1991 changed its name to America Online. The modified version of the PlayNet software (Quantum Link or Q-Link) was ported by Quantum to the PC to create the first version of the AOL software. As recently as 2005, some aspects of the original PlayNet communication protocols still appeared to be used by AOL.
The PlayNet offices were initially located in the J Building on Peoples Avenue in Troy, NY part of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute incubator program. It subsequently moved to RPI's Technology Park in North Greenbush NY.
PlayNet declared bankruptcy in March, 1986 and ceased operations in 1988 after Quantum stopped paying royalties.
The service had two membership options: an $8/month service charge plus $2.75/hour connect time charge, or no service charge and $3.75 per hour connection charge. File downloads were charged a flat rate of $0.50 each
The second season of Halt and Catch Fire (TV series) is believed to be based on PlayNet.
Software details
PlayNet was originally designed around online interactive games which allowed chatting while playing. PlayNet also featured electronic mail, online chat, bulletin boards, file sharing libraries, online shopping, and instant messaging (using On Line Messages, or OLMs). Games were mostly 'traditional' games and some well-known boardgames. Games were programmed in a mixture of BASIC and assembly language.
Unlike other online systems of the era, PlayNet was highly graphical and required client software, and included error correction in the communication protocols. The server software for PlayNet ran on Stratus fault-tolerant computers and was written in PL/1. AOL continued to use Stratus computers and parts of the PlayNet server software until the late 1990s or later.
The client software on the Commodore 64 ran a multitasking pseudo-operating system based on a Finite State Machine language.
Game list
Checkers
Chess
Backgammon
Hangman
Bridge
Stratego
Connect 4
Chinese Chess
Go
Several others
Games/features never finished/released:
Multiplayer Dungeons & Dragons
Poker
Various othe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen | Listen may refer to:
The action of listening
Central auditory system listening is how the brain processes what you hear
Listening behaviour types in human communication
Computing
LISTEN, a TCP connection state on the server side indicating a port waiting for new client connections
Listen server, a type of game server
listen(), a function provided by the Berkeley sockets API
Project LISTEN, developing reading-tutorial software using speech recognition
Music
Albums
Listen (C21 album), 2004
Listen (Christy Moore album), 2009
Listen (Cindy Morgan album), 1996
Listen (David Guetta album), 2014
Listen (Doug Raney album), 1981
Listen (Emanuel and the Fear album), 2010
Listen (A Flock of Seagulls album), 1983
Listen (Jordan Rudess album), 1993
Listen (The Kooks album), 2014
Listen (Paul Rogers album), 2002
Listen (Tim Bowman Jr. album), 2016
Listen (TQ album), 2004
Listen (EP), by Stonefree, 2004
Listen: The Very Best Of, by Herbs, 2002
Listen: The Very Best of Jenny Morris, 2004
Listennn... the Album, by DJ Khaled, 2006
Listen, by Bondy Chiu
Listen, by The Chordettes
Listen, by Michelle Tumes
Listen!, by Barbee Boys
Songs
"Listen" (Beyoncé song), 2007
"Listen" (Collective Soul song), 1997
"Listen" (David Guetta song), 2014
"Listen!!!", by Talib Kweli
"Listen", by Bic Runga from Birds
"Listen", by Chad Brownlee from Love Me or Leave Me
"Listen", by Chicago from The Chicago Transit Authority
"Listen", by The Clash from Capital Radio One
"Listen", by Haley Reinhart from Better
"Listen", by Julian Lennon from Help Yourself
"Listen", by Tears For Fears from Songs from the Big Chair
"Listen", by Toad The Wet Sprocket from Dulcinea
Other uses
Listen (2013 film), a 2013 film
Listen (2020 film), a 2020 film
Listen, a 2015 film featuring Micah Hauptman
"Listen" (Doctor Who), a 2014 episode of Doctor Who
Listen, a brand name of estradiol enanthate/algestone acetophenide, a form of birth control
Listen (horse) (foaled 2005), Irish racehorse
See also
Listener (disambiguation)
Listening (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushio%20to%20Tora%3A%20Shin%27en%20no%20Daiy%C5%8D | is an RPG (Role-playing game) based on the manga series of the same name about a boy and his uneasy friendship with a demon. Released on the Family Computer in 1993 by Yutaka the game has the player in the main role of Ushio in a standard RPG adventure.
This video game is not to be confused with the Super Famicom action game titled Ushio to Tora.
Gameplay
Players unleash their traditional Japanese magic spells in addition to their ally's demonic skills in a game that resembles a Japanese role-playing game. They get to explore Tokyo by moving the character around using a top-down perspective. Houses and dungeons are viewed using a perspective used in traditional interactive fiction stories. The character gets his own statistics screen; which summarizes his offensive skills as well as his defensive skills.
Players can talk to characters and must solve certain quests and/or puzzles before being admitted into certain buildings, houses, or dungeons.
References
External links
Ushio to Tora: Shin'en no Daiyō at MobyGames
Ushio to Tora: Shin'en no Daiyō at GameFAQs
1993 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Role-playing video games
Top-down video games
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Masaharu Iwata
Video games set in Tokyo
Yutaka games
Tom Create games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20Data%20System | The Planetary Data System (PDS) is a distributed data system that NASA uses to archive data collected by Solar System missions.
The PDS is an active archive that makes available well documented, peer reviewed planetary data to the research community. The data comes from orbital, landed and robotic missions and ground-based support data associated with those missions. It is managed by NASA Headquarters' Planetary Sciences Division.
PDS archiving philosophy
The main objective of the PDS is to maintain a planetary data archive that will withstand the test of time such that future generations of scientists can access, understand and use preexisting planetary data. The PDS tries to ensure compatibility of the archive by adhering to strict standards of storage media, archiving formats, and required documentation.
Storage media
One critical component of the PDS archive is the storage media. The data must be stored effectively and efficiently with no degradation of the data over the archive's lifespan. Therefore, the physical media must have large capacity and must remain readable over many years. PDS is migrating toward electronic storage as its "standard" media.
Archiving formats
The format of the data is also important. In general, transparent, non-proprietary formats are best. When a proprietary format is submitted to the archive (such as a Microsoft Word document) an accompanying plain text file is also required. It is assumed that the scientists of the future will at least be able to make sense of regular ASCII bytes even if the proprietary software and support ceases to exist. PDS allows figures and illustrations to be included in the archive as individual images. PDS adheres to many other standards including, but not limited to, special directory and file naming conventions and label requirements. Each file in the PDS archive is accompanied by a searchable label (attached or detached) that describes the file content.
Archiving documents
The archive must be complete and be able to stand alone. There is no guarantee that the people who originally worked with and submitted the data to the archive will be available in the future to field questions regarding the data, its calibration or the mission. Therefore, the archive must include good descriptive documentation of how the spacecraft and its instruments worked, how the data were collected and calibrated, and what the data mean. The quality of the documentation is examined during a mission independent PDS peer review.
Nodes
The PDS is composed of 8 nodes, 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes. In addition, there are several subnodes and data nodes whose exact status tends to change over time.
Science discipline nodes
Atmospheres Node – handles non-imaging atmospheric data (New Mexico State University)
Geosciences Node – handles data of the surfaces and interiors of terrestrial planetary bodies (Washington University in St. Louis)
Cartography and Imaging Science No |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahoy%21 | Ahoy! was a computer magazine published between January 1984 and January 1989 in the US, covering on all Commodore color computers, primarily Commodore 64 and Amiga.
History
The first issue of Ahoy! was published in January 1984. The magazine was published monthly by Ion International and was headquartered in New York City. It published many games in BASIC and machine language, occasionally also printing assembly language source code. Ahoy! published a checksum program called Flankspeed for entering machine language listings.
Ahoy!'s AmigaUser was a related but separate publication dedicated to the Amiga. It was spun off from a series of columns in Ahoy! with the same title, and the first two issues were published instead of the parent magazine in May and August 1988.
References
External links
Gallery of covers and downloadable archive of disks
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Commodore 8-bit computer magazines
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1984
Magazines disestablished in 1989
Magazines published in New York City
1984 establishments in New York City
1989 disestablishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Estonian%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Eesti was a twenty-four-hour music and entertainment channel operated by MTV Networks Europe. The channel began on 4 September 2006 at 22:00 EEST. The channel was available in Estonia.
History
In 2006, MTV Networks Europe established MTV Networks Baltic, a new broadcasting service which provided localized channels for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. MTV Networks Baltic launched three separate channels within the region in September 2006.
In 2008, MTV Networks International signed a new licensing agreement with Israeli Communications company Ananey Communications to operate and manage the MTV brand within the Baltic Region.
The channel ceased broadcasting on 18 November 2009.
As of 19 November 2009 MTV Europe has replaced MTV Baltic channels.
VJs
Piret Järvis (2007–2008)
Channel content
Similar to other MTV channels in Europe. MTV Estonia featured both local and international entertainments shows.
Superock
Party Zone
Chill Out Zone
Alternative Nation
Nu Rave
MTV Amour
Baltic Top 20
Dancefloor Chart
Euro Top 20
UK Top 10
Hitlist Base Chart
Rock Chart
Top 10 @ 10
World Chart Express
Fist of Zen
Pimp My Ride
Futurama
My Super Sweet 16
The City
Parental Control
Exposed
Busted
A Double Shot at Love
Happy Tree Friends
MTV Cribs
References
MTV channels
Defunct television channels in Estonia
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
2006 establishments in Estonia
2009 disestablishments in Estonia
Mass media in Tallinn
Music organizations based in Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual%20Audio%20Coder | Perceptual Audio Coder (PAC) is a lossy audio compression algorithm. It is used by Sirius Satellite Radio for their digital audio radio service.
Development
The original version of PAC developed by James Johnston and Anibal Ferreira at AT&T's Bell Labs has a flexible format and bitrate. It provides efficient compression of high-quality audio over a variety of formats from 16 kbit/s for a monophonic channel to 1024 kbit/s for a 5.1 format with four or six auxiliary audio channels, and provisions for an ancillary (fixed rate) and auxiliary (variable rate) side data channel. For stereo audio signals, it is claimed that it provides near-CD quality at about 56-64 kbit/s, with transparent coding at bit rates approaching 128 kbit/s.
Over the years PAC has evolved considerably. A known software implementation of this codec is CelestialTech's AudioLib. Later, it was considerably improved and renamed to ePAC (enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder) by Lucent, available in the AudioVeda music library manager.
iBiquity initially tested PAC for the HD-Radio IBOC digital radio upgrade for FM and AM, but chose an MPEG4-derived codec, HE-AAC, instead. MPEG-2 AAC is substantially similar to the original AT&T PAC algorithm written by Johnston and Ferreira, including the specifics of stereo pair coding, bitstream sectioning, handling of 1 or 2 channels at a time, multiple codebooks responding to the same largest absolute value, and block switching triggers. The version of PAC tested for the MPEG-NBC (later to become AAC) trials used 1024/128 sample block lengths, rather than 512/128 sample block lengths.
See also
MP3
References
Audio codecs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema%20Nacional%20de%20Televisi%C3%B3n%20%28Nicaragua%29 | The National Television System (Sistema Nacional de Televisión - SNTV) was a television network in Nicaragua, owned and operated by the government from 1990 to 1997.
With Violeta Chamorro's triumph in the 1990 elections, Canal 6 (then part of the Sandinista Television System) became the new National Television System. In 1997 it was legally declared in bankruptcy under Arnoldo Alemán's government.
Channel 6 continued operations until 2002 and resumed its formal operations in 2011, this time under a private company run by members of the Ortega family, NEPISA.
References
Defunct television networks
Television stations in Nicaragua
1990 establishments in Nicaragua
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2002
Defunct mass media in Nicaragua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20format | A content format is an encoded format for converting a specific type of data to displayable information. Content formats are used in recording and transmission to prepare data for observation or interpretation. This includes both analog and digitized content. Content formats may be recorded and read by either natural or manufactured tools and mechanisms.
In addition to converting data to information, a content format may include the encryption and/or scrambling of that information. Multiple content formats may be contained within a single section of a storage medium (e.g. track, disk sector, computer file, document, page, column) or transmitted via a single channel (e.g. wire, carrier wave) of a transmission medium. With multimedia, multiple tracks containing multiple content formats are presented simultaneously. Content formats may either be recorded in secondary signal processing methods such as a software container format (e.g. digital audio, digital video) or recorded in the primary format (e.g. spectrogram, pictogram).
Observable data is often known as raw data, or raw content. A primary raw content format may be directly observable (e.g. image, sound, motion, smell, sensation) or physical data which only requires hardware to display it, such as a phonographic needle and diaphragm or a projector lamp and magnifying glass.
There has been a countless number of content formats throughout history. The following are examples of some common content formats and content format categories (covering: sensory experience, model, and language used for encoding information):
See also
Communication
Representation (arts)
Content carrier signals
Content multiplexing format
Signal transmission
Wireless content transmission
Data storage device
Recording format
Data compression
Analog television: NTSC, PAL and SECAM
References
Computer-mediated communication
Mass media technology
Data management
Recording
Film and video technology
Sound production technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%E2%80%9352%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1951–52 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1951 through March 1952. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1950–51 season. This was the first television season of national network interconnection by coaxial cable and microwave, meaning programming could be transmitted live coast-to-coast (or in the case of filmed programs, distributed simultaneously across the country) if needed.
On Sunday nights, NBC experimented with airing its new comedy-variety program Chesterfield Sound-off Time (featuring Bob Hope, Fred Allen and Jerry Lester as rotating hosts) in an early evening timeslot, 7:00–7:30. Previously, network TV variety programs had only been aired during late evening hours; NBC had experimented with a late-night show, Broadway Open House, with Lester as host the previous season, but that show was not considered a success (it was replaced by the more generic Mary Kay's Nightcap this season). According to television historians Castleman and Podrazik (1982), the experiment was designed to "duplicate the early-evening radio success of Jack Benny". (Benny himself would appear on rival network CBS's The Jack Benny Program immediately following Chesterfield Sound-off Time). Red Skelton also made his network television debut on NBC's Sunday night schedule this season, but long-term success eluded him until after he moved to CBS in the fall of 1953.
Although most TV programming was live, both CBS and NBC also experimented in filmed series; Castleman and Podrazik highlight early filmed hits I Love Lucy on CBS and Dragnet on NBC. Dragnet was "one of NBC's first major experiments in filmed TV series"; the series was added to NBC's regular network schedule in January 1952, after a "preview" on Chesterfield Sound-off Time in December 1951. I Love Lucy was given what historians have called a "choice time slot": Monday night immediately following the number one program on television: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. The series "proved the strength and acceptability of TV sitcoms, giving [CBS] a strong weapon against NBC's flashy comedy-variety hours".
DuMont, too, avoided flashy comedy series when in February 1952, in desperation the network added Bishop Fulton Sheen's program, Life Is Worth Living, to its Tuesday night schedule. The religious series was pitted against NBC's hit program Texaco Star Theater, and became the surprise hit of the year, holding its own against Texaco host "Uncle Miltie", and attracting a sponsor, an Emmy, and 10 million viewers. The ABC and CBS programs which aired in the same time slot, Charlie Wild, Private Detective, and The Frank Sinatra Show (respectively), attracted relatively few viewers.
New fall series are highlighted in bold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental%20Exchange | Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) is an American company formed in 2000 that operates global financial exchanges and clearing houses and provides mortgage technology, data and listing services. Listed on the Fortune 500, S&P 500, and Russell 1000, the company owns exchanges for financial and commodity markets, and operates 12 regulated exchanges and marketplaces. This includes ICE futures exchanges in the United States, Canada and Europe, the Liffe futures exchanges in Europe, the New York Stock Exchange, equity options exchanges and OTC energy, credit and equity markets.
ICE also owns and operates six central clearing houses: ICE Clear U.S., ICE Clear Europe, ICE Clear Singapore, ICE Clear Credit, ICE Clear Netherlands and ICE NGX. ICE has offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Chicago, Bedford, Houston, Winnipeg, Amsterdam, Calgary, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Rome, Hyderabad, Singapore and Melbourne.
History
Jeffrey Sprecher was a power plant developer who spotted a need for a seamless market in natural gas used to fuel power stations. In the late 1990s, Sprecher acquired Continental Power Exchange, Inc. with the objective of developing an Internet-based platform to provide a more transparent and efficient market structure for over-the-counter energy commodity trading.
In May 2000, ICE was founded by Sprecher and backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BP, Total, Shell, Deutsche Bank and Société Générale.
The new exchange increased price transparency, efficiency, liquidity, and had lower costs than manual trading. While the company's original focus was energy products (crude and refined oil, natural gas, power, and emissions), acquisitions subsequently expanded its activity into soft commodities (sugar, cotton and coffee), foreign exchange and equity index futures.
In a response to US financial crisis in 2008, Sprecher formed ICE US Trust, based in New York and now called ICE Clear Credit LLC, to serve as a limited-purpose bank, a clearing house for credit default swaps. Sprecher worked closely with the Federal Reserve to serve as its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives clearing house. "US regulators were keen on the kind of clearing house for opaque over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives as a risk management device. In the absence of a central counterparty – which would guarantee pay-outs should a trading party be unable to do so – there was a high risk of massive market disruption."
The principal backers for ICE US Trust were the same financial institutions most affected by the crisis, the top nine of the world's largest banks (Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS). Sprecher's clearing house cleared their global credit default swaps (CDS) in exchange for sharing profits with these banks. By September 30, 2008, the Financial Post warned that the "$54000bn credit derivatives market faced its biggest test in October 2008 as billions of dollars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Wyoming | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Wyoming, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
KATI
KBTG-LP
KING-LP
KNIE
KTYN
KUDA
References
Radio stations
Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container%20format%20%28disambiguation%29 | A container format is a class of computer file formats that allow embedding multiple distinguishable data streams within a single file. Container format may also refer to:
Recording format, for holding analog or digitally recorded data on a recording medium
Carrier signal format, for holding data during active wireless transmission
Multiplexing format, for combining data for active transmission
See also
Intermodal container |
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