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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20dipole%20approximation | Discrete dipole approximation (DDA), also known as coupled dipole approximation, is a method for computing scattering of radiation by particles of arbitrary shape and by periodic structures. Given a target of arbitrary geometry, one seeks to calculate its scattering and absorption properties by an approximation of the continuum target by a finite array of small polarizable dipoles. This technique is used in a variety of applications including nanophotonics, radar scattering, aerosol physics and astrophysics.
Basic concepts
The basic idea of the DDA was introduced in 1964 by DeVoe who applied it to study the optical properties of molecular aggregates; retardation effects were not included, so DeVoe's treatment was limited to aggregates that were small compared with the wavelength. The DDA, including retardation effects, was proposed in 1973 by Purcell and Pennypacker
who used it to study interstellar dust grains. Simply stated, the DDA is an approximation of the continuum target by a finite array of polarizable points. The points acquire dipole moments in response to the local electric field. The dipoles interact with one another via their electric fields, so the DDA is also sometimes referred to as the coupled dipole approximation.
Nature provides the physical inspiration for the DDA - in 1909 Lorentz
showed that the dielectric properties of a substance could be directly related to the polarizabilities of the individual atoms of which it was composed, with a particularly simple and exact relationship, the Clausius-Mossotti relation (or Lorentz-Lorenz), when the atoms are located on a cubical lattice. We may expect that, just as a continuum representation of a solid is appropriate on length scales that are large compared with the interatomic spacing, an array of polarizable points can accurately approximate the response of a continuum target on length scales that are large compared with the interdipole separation.
For a finite array of point dipoles the scattering problem may be solved exactly, so the only approximation that is present in the DDA is the replacement of the continuum target by an array of N-point dipoles. The replacement requires specification of both the geometry (location of the dipoles) and the dipole polarizabilities. For monochromatic incident waves the self-consistent solution for the oscillating dipole moments may be found; from these the absorption and scattering cross sections are computed. If DDA solutions are obtained for two independent polarizations of the incident wave, then the complete amplitude scattering matrix can be determined.
Alternatively, the DDA can be derived from volume integral equation for the electric field. This highlights that the approximation of point dipoles is equivalent to that of discretizing the integral equation, and thus decreases with decreasing dipole size.
With the recognition that the polarizabilities may be tensors, the DDA can readily be applied to anisotropic materials. The extens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAAM | KAAM, known as "K-Double-A-M", is an AM radio station broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" with a format of Christian Talk and Brokered programming. This station is licensed in Garland, Texas, United States, and is owned and operated by DJRD Broadcasting, LLC. KAAM is a Class B station operating on the clear-channel frequency of 770 AM.
History
The KAAM format began when the city of Dallas sold WRR, its AM station on 1310 kHz, to Bonneville Broadcasting in January 1978. In 1921, WRR (now known as KTCK) had been the first licensed radio station west of the Mississippi River, and only the second in the U.S. Because the city was going to retain the WRR call letters for its classical music FM station, Bonneville changed the 1310 call letters of the AM station to KAAM and added an FM station on 92.5 with the callsign KAFM. KAAM lasted on 1310 for many years, finally selling the station to Susquehanna Radio Corporation on February 8, 1994, which changed the call letters to KTCK (The "Ticket") and the format to all-sports.
Meanwhile, KPBC (the call letters stood for Percy B. Crawford, founder of Crawford Broadcasting) originally broadcast on 1040 kHz as a daytime-only station and changed frequencies to 770 kHz when Crawford completed the construction to create KPBC 770 in 1990 as a 24/7 station. The call letters were changed to KAAM on October 19, 1999.
In 1999, KAAM (formerly on AM 620 kHz) and its Nostalgic/Oldies format were once again revived on 770 kHz in Garland, Texas, by another owner/enthusiast. This time, the station is branded as Legends 77. Since launch, it competed with 1190 KLUV and 98.7 KLUV-FM (now KSPF) during their times as Oldies stations. The FM however, transitioned to classic hits in 2005. This station was since then divested by Crawford in mid-2007 and sold to his son, Don Crawford, Jr.
On March 1, 2010, KAAM added a talk block to its weekday lineup. From 1pm to 4pm daily, a rotation of medical and financial programs dubbed "Ask the Pros" takes the place of regular music programming.
KAAM formerly broadcast using HD Radio, however discontinued in 2010. Because the license to broadcast digital "HD Radio" is perpetual, the station could resume digital broadcasts at any time.
According to an editorial message broadcast by Don Crawford, Jr., current owner, the 2013 rating statistics indicate that KAAM was the most listened to AM radio station airing the Nostalgic format in the United States online via the internet. KAAM is streamed online via the popular TuneIn app
Hermann Bockelmann's weekly program "Europe Today" was being re-aired weekly as "The Best of Bockelmann"
On Friday, May 19, 2017, owner Don Crawford, Jr. posted an announcement on the station's Facebook page that KAAM would drop the nostalgia music in favor of Christian Talk on June 5, 2017. The Legends music format continued to stream online for several years, apparently with many of the same hosts and with the support of the same advertisers. Ho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%E2%80%9353%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1952–53 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1952 through March 1953. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1951–52 season.
According to television historians Castleman and Podrazik (1982), the fall of 1953 marked a change in television when the networks began filling their schedules with "grade B" material. The networks' "need to fill so many hours of broadcasting each day put the networks and local programmers into the same position that Hollywood had been in years before with its theatrical features." In between big-budget productions, the networks had to keep the public occupied. As the number of hours that the four TV networks offered programs continued to expand, "the appearance of TV equivalents to grade-B films was almost inevitable."
Castleman and Podrazik also point out that another change was taking place around this time. Filmed television series had been seen since the late 1940s, but were "not considered very important to the networks' schedules" because many were of poor quality; live productions from New York were the norm at this time. CBS's success with filmed program I Love Lucy in fall 1951, however, had convinced NBC to add a few filmed series to its fall 1952 schedule. Among NBC's new filmed TV series were My Hero, I Married Joan, and Doc Corkle. The Red Skelton Show, previously airing live, also made the move to film. NBC also moved Skelton's program from its previous late-evening time to 7 p.m. on Sundays, hoping the program would be a "strong lead-in for the entire evening."
NBC's Sunday night strategy failed, however, because Red Skelton's program suffered from excessive use of rerun episodes when Skelton unfortunately fell ill. Of the network's other filmed series, My Hero was "a weak slapstick vehicle" while Doc Corkle was "generally regarded as the worst sitcom of the new season". It lasted only three weeks before cancellation (replaced by the return of the live Mister Peepers). With the exceptions of I Married Joan and the revival of The Life of Riley starring William Bendix in January, NBC would have little luck with filmed programs during the 1952–53 season.
ABC had more luck with its new filmed series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, while CBS aired the filmed Our Miss Brooks. Another successful CBS filmed show was anthology series Four Star Playhouse, which although not a top-rated show, did prove popular enough to run to 1956.
Fall 1952 was a major blow for DuMont, when the network's biggest star, Jackie Gleason, moved from DuMont to CBS. Gleason's new CBS series, The Jackie Gleason Show replaced DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars, airing Saturday nights at 8 p.m. Ted Bergmann, DuMont's general director, stated in 2002 that Gleason's much-heralded move to CBS made DuMont look bad. DuMont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermeta | Kermeta is a modeling and programming language for metamodel engineering.
History
The Kermeta language was initiated by Franck Fleurey in 2005 within the Triskell team of IRISA (gathering researchers of the INRIA, CNRS, INSA and the University of Rennes 1).
The Kermeta language borrows concepts from languages such as MOF, OCL and QVT, but also from BasicMTL, a model transformation language implemented in 2004 in the Triskell team by D. Vojtisek and F. Fondement. It is also inspired by the previous experience on MTL, the first transformation language created by Triskell, and by the Xion action language for UML.
The name Kermeta is an abbreviation for "Kernel Metamodeling" and reflects the fact that the language is conceived as a core for (meta-)modeling. The Breton language consonance of this name is an intentional reflection of the Triskell team's location in Brittany.
Kermeta, and its execution platform under Eclipse is currently available under its version 2.0.4 released in 2012. It is open-source, under the Eclipse Public License.
Philosophy
Kermeta is a modeling and aspect oriented programming language. Its underlying metamodel conforms to the EMOF standard. It is designed to write programs which are also models, to write transformations of models (programs that transform a model into another), to write constraints on these models, and to execute them. The goal of this model approach is to bring an additional level of abstraction on top of the "object" level and thus to see a given system like a set of concepts (and instances of concepts) that form an explicitly coherent whole, which one will call a model.
Kermeta thus brings:
all the concepts of EMOF used for the specifications of a model.
a real concept of model, more precisely of model type (Jim Steel).
a concrete syntax that fits well to model and metamodel writing.
two paradigms: the object, and the model.
a bridge towards the Eclipse ECore formalism
Characteristics
The main characteristics of the Kermeta language are :
imperative: traditional structures of control
object-oriented: multiple inheritance, late binding
model-oriented: first-class concepts of associations and composition
aspect-oriented: integrate a simple but powerful weaver for simple meta-modeling tasks. Arbitrary complex weaving is achieved using a dedicated composer written in Kermeta. This allows programmers to extend existing metamodels. Especially in order to add behavior to them by weaving behavioral semantics (operational or translational).
design by contract: operations support pre and post conditions, classes use invariants.
functional: functions and first class lambda-expressions
statically typed: genericity for the classes and the operations, function types...
complete introspection: the complete model of the program is available during execution.
Syntax
The curious reader will find further information on the Kermeta website.
Example (Kermeta 1.4)
package fsm;
require kermeta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Newman | Noah Newman is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. He is the only son of Nicholas Newman and Sharon Collins. Introduced in 1997, the character was first portrayed by several child actors before being rapidly aged. Kevin Schmidt was the first actor to play Noah after being aged, appearing from 2008 to September 2010, when the role was recast with Luke Kleintank before being let go in April 2011 with Schmidt being rehired. Schmidt was again let go in 2012 and replaced by Robert Adamson, who held the role until his departure in 2018; he reprised the role twice in 2020. Rory Gibson debuted in the role in 2021.
Casting
The role was first played as an infant by twins Samantha and Zachary Elkins in March 1997 before being replaced with Lauren Summer Harvey that same year. The character was then portrayed by Hunter Preisendorfer from the fall of 1997 to 1998 and again from 1999 to November 22, 2000. Other actors who've played the role include C.J. Hunter from 1998 to 1999, Nicholas Graziano in 1999, and Blake Michael Bryan from December 20, 2000, to June 6, 2001. McKay Giller took over the role on July 4, 2001, portraying Noah through December 7, 2004. Blake Woodruff played the role briefly from December 24, 2004, to April 27, 2005, followed by Chase Ellison from May 11 to September 20, 2005, when the role was recast with final child actor Hunter Allan from September 28, 2005, to June 9, 2008.
The character of Noah was then rapidly aged, and Kevin Schmidt was cast in the role as a teenager, making his debut on August 13, 2008. Just months later, Schmidt acquired other roles and speculation arose that the role would be recast, however, Schmidt ended up staying with the soap. In 2010, Schmidt took a leave of absence to appear on the Cartoon Network series Unnatural History. Schmidt was expected to return to the role later that summer. In July 2010, Schmidt revealed that he had not been asked to return to the soap and plans for an older recast were announced. In August 2010 Soap Opera Digest confirmed on their website that Luke Kleintank had been cast in the role of Noah. Kleintank first appeared on September 21, 2010. However, the recast was very brief and Kleintank only appeared in seven episodes; his last air date was April 8, 2011. Schmidt had previously alluded to a possible return on Facebook and returned to the role on April 14, on a recurring status. Kleintank later revealed that he chose to vacate the role to focus on other projects. In August 2012, Schmidt informed his followers on Twitter that he had been let go and revealed that the role would be recast.
Several days after Schmidt's announcement, it was announced that Robert Adamson had been placed on contract and would join the cast as Noah. He made his debut on October 1, 2012. In March 2016, it was revealed that Adamson was placed off contract and put on recurring status. In early 2018, Soap Central announced Adamson's exit from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%E2%80%9354%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 1953–54 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1953 through March 1954. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1952–53 season.
Despite hit filmed programs such as I Love Lucy, both William S. Paley of CBS and David Sarnoff of NBC were said to be determined to keep most programming on their networks live. Filmed programs were said to be inferior to the spontaneous nature of live television. Thus, NBC and CBS continued to schedule many live programs, including two new 1953 fall NBC series The Dave Garroway Show and Bonino. According to Brooks and Marsh (2007), Garroway's show "was faced with overwhelming competition from Mama and Ozzie & Harriet, which were running opposite on CBS and ABC, and it only lasted a single season". Bonino did not even last the full season. CBS had more luck with new live programs Person to Person and My Favorite Husband (which would later make the switch to film).
ABC, perennially in third or fourth place among the four U.S. television networks, had been on the verge of bankruptcy, but the February 1953 merger of United Paramount Theaters with ABC had given ABC a $30 million cash infusion. ABC revamped its schedule for Fall 1953 with big-budget programs. New ABC programs included Make Room for Daddy, and an ABC version of NBC's popular Kraft Television Theatre; the strategy was designed to "take on CBS and NBC with a strong schedule".
In contrast to ABC's revamped schedule, DuMont's Fall 1953 prime time schedule looked weak, with programs that were "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production." The 1953–54 season would be the last year DuMont was able to schedule nearly 20 hours of programming in prime time. By the 1954–55 season, DuMont would be forced to cut back its schedule, while the other three networks continued to expand.
During the 1953 season, both DuMont and ABC "made sporadic efforts to compete for the daytime audience, but faced so many problems just filling prime time that they found it much more efficient to focus primarily on weekend sports". DuMont paid $1.3 million in 1953 for the rights to broadcast National Football League games in prime time; starting December 12, DuMont also broadcast a series of NBA basketball games, the first time pro basketball was seen regularly on network TV. Both DuMont and ABC "were especially aggressive in pursuit of sports broadcasts because they were desperately in need of special attractions to bring in viewers".
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.
Sunday
On CBS, The Jack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamtel | Zamtel, whose official name is Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited, is a government-owned telecommunication service provider in Zambia. Zamtel is one of three mobile phone networks in the country; the others are Airtel and MTN.
Company overview
Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited is a Company incorporated in Zambia under the Companies Act Chapter 388 of the Laws of Zambia. The sole shareholder of the Company is the Government of the Republic of Zambia. The Company falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications pursuant to Gazette Notice No. 183 of 2012 and the Statutory Functions Act Chapter 4 of the Laws of Zambia.
History
The first telephone exchange was installed in Livingstone, as part of the General Post Office (GPO). In 1975, the GPO transformed into the Zambian Post and Telecommunication Corporation (PTC).
In July 1994 the government of Zambia passed a Telecommunications Act that led to the splitting up of the Post and Telecommunications Corporation into two separate companies: the Zambia Postal Services Corporation (Zampost), and the Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel). The Company falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications of Zambia.
In 2010, the Zambian government, under the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) President, Rupiah Banda, sold 75% of the Zamtel to the Libyan company LAP Green Networks. The government claimed it had done so in order to keep Zamtel from shutting down after plans to recapitalize it had failed. This was a contentious move however, as some critics claimed the company was still economically viable. The 2011 Zambian national election saw the incumbent MMD party replaced by the opposition Patriotic Front (PF). The newly elected government, under President Michael Sata, set out an inquiry into the sale of Zamtel because they believed it was sold fraudulently by the previous government. The inquiry produced a report that showed irregularities in the manner in which Zamtel was sold, alleging that LAP Green and RP Capitals, which was appointed as financial advisor, bribed senior Zambian government officials; an allegation that both LAP Green and RP Capitals denied. As a result of the findings, President Michael Sata ordered a reversal of the $257 million deal and the government of Zambia seized control of Zamtel.
In 2013, LAP Green sued the government of Zambia in a British court in order to reclaim ownership of Zamtel. The Zambian government agreed that it would compensate LAP Green for its investments, but it would not let ownership of the company be transferred back to the Libyan operator.
Location
The head office of the company is located in Zamtel House, at the corner of Chilubi Road and Church Road, in the Zambian capital city of Lusaka. The coordinates of Zamtel House are .
Services
Services offered by the company include the following:
Zamtel Land-line Services: Zamtel is the sole fixe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20Southeast | Bally Sports Southeast (BSSE) (originally named SportSouth from its inception until October 4, 2015, and Fox Sports Southeast (FSSE) until March 31, 2021) is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the southeastern United States, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Atlanta, Tennessee, and Charlotte.
Bally Sports Southeast is available on cable providers throughout Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and parts of North Carolina (roughly from Asheville to Charlotte); it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV. The channel's programming reaches an estimated 8.9 million cable and satellite subscribers.
History
The channel traces its history to Turner South, a cable and satellite television channel that was launched on October 1, 1999, by the Turner Broadcasting System. It was the first regional entertainment network developed especially for viewers in the southern U.S., featuring a mix of movies, comedy and drama series, regional news updates, and unique original programming. The channel also carried coverage of professional sports events from the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks, and the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers, all of which were owned by Turner at the network's launch and the former two of which also aired in the Atlanta market and nationwide on Turner-owned TBS.
Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner restricted Turner South's distribution to its designated broadcast territory in the southeastern United States, with satellite providers that carried the channel being required to black out the channel in areas not covered by the ZIP codes in Turner South's coverage area.
News Corporation filed a lawsuit against Turner Broadcasting and its corporate parent Time Warner in a Georgia Superior Court on June 15, 1999, citing that the plans Turner had unveiled to carry sports events on Turner South violated a non-compete agreement that the two companies signed as part of News Corporation's $65 million purchase of the original SportSouth in 1996, which prohibited Turner from launching a regional sports network in the southeastern United States until 2008.
Sale to Fox Sports Networks
On February 23, 2006, Fox Sports Net's then-parent company News Corporation, looking to further expand its roster of sports teams and events, purchased Turner South for $375 million. The deal included all existing sports contracts, involving teams that sister network-to-be FSN South (now Bally Sports South) also held the regional cable television rights to broadcast.
After the deal was completed, FSN sought a new name for the channel, with network officials eventually chose to rebrand it as SportSouth, aft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame%20Dragon%20Plus%3A%20Marks%20of%20Wind | Flame Dragon Plus: Marks of Wind (炎龍騎士團 外傳: 風之紋章) is a tactical role-playing computer game published by Dynasty International Information, a Taiwanese company. It was released in 1998 and is the third game in the series. It is available only in Chinese.
While the second installment, Flame Dragon 2: Legend of Golden Castle (炎龍騎士團2: 黃金城之謎), gained some popularity in the English-speaking world, this title never gained the same interest due to less attractive graphics and less smooth interface. The mechanics of the game are almost identical to Flame Dragon 2.
1998 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Tactical role-playing video games
Fantasy video games
Video games developed in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20for%20Social%20Network%20Analysis | The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a professional academic association of researchers and practitioners of social network analysis. Members have interests in social networks as a new theoretical paradigm, in methodological developments, and in a variety of applications of different types of social networks approaches, social network software, and social networking.
History
INSNA was founded in 1977 by Barry Wellman, a sociologist. A key function of the organization was to provide a sense of identity for a set of researchers who were widely dispersed geographically and across scientific disciplines. Wellman served as "coordinator" of INSNA until 1988, when he passed the baton to Al Wolfe, an anthropologist at the University of South Florida. Wolfe in turn passed the leadership to Steve Borgatti, who served from 1993 to 1999. Borgatti incorporated INSNA as a legal entity, creating bylaws and establishing the positions of President, Vice-President and Treasurer. A full chronology of INSNA leadership is as follows:
Shortly after INSNA was founded, Linton C. Freeman founded the association's flagship journal, Social Networks, in 1978. In 1981, the annual Sunbelt Conference was founded by Al Wolfe and H. Russel Bernard. Initially, the conference was independent of the association, but was brought under INSNA's auspices by Steve Borgatti in the 1990s.
As of 2018, INSNA has approximately 1,000 active members, while the SOCNET listserv has about 3700 subscribers.
As well as publishing a triannual journal Connections on the subject, INSNA also:
Runs SOCNET, a listserv mailing-list for the subject.
Hosts the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference annually. See list below.
Facilitates regional and specialized conferences.
Publishes a quarterly journal, Social Networks.
Publishes the online Journal of Social Structure, irregular periodicity.
Provides links to researchers around the world.
Provides raw data.
Sunbelt Conference
The official conference of the association is the Sunbelt Conference, held annually in a wide variety of international locations. The first Sunbelt conference was organised by Alvin Wolfe and H. Russell Bernard in Tampa, FL. Initially, it was decreed to alternate US coasts, in order to spread travel costs on the part of participants from different regions. However, in 1994, it was decided to incorporate the European network conference, which had been held in parallel with Sunbelt. Starting 1995, Sunbelt observed a 3-year rotation of Europe, west coast, and east coast. Starting with the 2nd Sunbelt, Sunbelt featured a Keynote address by a prominent member of the community. In the 1990s, the keynote speakers were also recognized with the Georg Simmel Distinguished Career Award.
See also
Social network
Social network analysis software
Dynamic Network Analysis
References
Print
Freeman, Linton C. (2004) The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science. Vancouver: E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20vs.%20100%20%28American%20game%20show%29 | 1 vs. 100 is an American game show that was broadcast by NBC from 2006 to 2008 and revived on Game Show Network (GSN) with a new series, which ran from 2010 to 2011. Based on the Dutch game show Eén tegen 100, the game features a single player (the "1") competing against 100 other contestants (known as "the Mob") in a trivia match. The 1 earns prize money depending on how many Mob members he or she has eliminated from the game, but loses all winnings with an incorrect answer at any point. The host of the original NBC version was Bob Saget, while Carrie Ann Inaba hosted the GSN revival.
Gameplay
The game is played with the main contestant acting as "the One" answering questions against 100 other contestants known collectively known as "the Mob". The Mob is generally made up of a mix of individual players and groups of players with a common background ("15 cheerleaders"; "10 banjo players"; etc.). The objective of the One is to be the last player standing, having eliminated all 100 members of the Mob from the game by correctly answering a series of general-knowledge questions.
To begin the game, a multiple-choice question is revealed with three choices, one of which is correct. Once all Mob contestants still in the game have locked in their answers, the One then answers the question. After the One picks an answer, the correct answer is revealed, after which all Mob members who answered incorrectly are eliminated from the game. The amount of money in the One's bank also increases by an amount based on the number of Mob members who answered incorrectly. The game continues as long as the One contestant answers every question correctly. If all 100 Mob members are out of the game, the One wins the game and the prize money is augmented to $1,000,000. However, if the One answers incorrectly on any question, the game ends and the One forfeits all accumulated winnings up to that point. All Mob members who answered the last question correctly split those winnings equally. If the One and all Mob members answer the same question incorrectly, the game ends and nothing is awarded. Mob members may stay on the show (even across multiple games) as long as they keep answering questions correctly.
After every correct answer, the One is given the choice to either walk away with his or her winnings or continue playing. In conjunction with the various changes made in the sixth episode, the One could now only walk away after correctly answering the third question, the fifth question, and every question thereafter.
Helps
To assist the One, assistance from the Mob is offered in the form of "helps". Originally there were two helps, which could only be used in order. Starting with the sixth episode, a third option was added, the three helps were given names, and the One could choose any of the three at any point in the game. The helps were, in order:
"Poll The Mob": Originally known as the first help, the One selects one of the three answers to get more information abo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDXX | KDXX (107.9 FM) is a Uforia Audio Network Spanish-language contemporary hit radio formatted commercial radio station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas. The station is licensed to Lewisville, Texas, and is simulcast with 107.1 KESS-FM Benbrook. The studios are located in the Univision 23 Studios in the Arts District in Downtown Dallas.
KDXX has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non-grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is on County Route 2153 in Denton. While KDXX's signal covers Dallas, Fort Worth and their northern suburbs, into Oklahoma, simulcast partner 107.1 KESS has its transmitter just southwest of Fort Worth, covering that area of the metroplex.
History
Early years
The current version of 107.9 was made possible when Marcos A. Rodriguez successfully obtained a new class C2 licensed to Gainesville, Texas, and purchased 107.9, a Class C licensed to Corsicana, Texas. After Rodriguez sold to Heftel Broadcasting and Mac Tichenor gained control of HBC, Tichenor moved the Corsicana signal south to the Waco market (as the new class A6 in Robinson, Texas, called KHCK-FM) and allowed the Gainesville signal to upgrade and move into Dallas as a class C1 in Lewisville, Texas.
The upgrade project had been started under the Cecil Heftel version of HBC, and completed by the engineers at Tichenor Media/HBC working under David Stewart (now owner of an upgrade consultancy, Moving Target Consulting Works). The call letters changed a few times through KDXX and KESS-FM.
107.9 La Kalle
On February 19, 2009, the regional Mexican station branded as "La Que Buena" was moved from KESS-FM to 107.1 FM (KDXX) and 99.1 FM (KFZO). The reggaeton-formatted station and the "La Kalle" (Spanish for "The Street") branding were then moved to KESS-FM and shortly after, the format was retooled to Latin pop.
The KESS call letters were first used in D/FW in the spring of 1976 when Marcos Rodriguez Sr. father of Marcos A. Rodriguez gained control of a country station, KBUY-FM, on 93.9 FM. That station changed to 94.1 when it moved its transmitter to Cedar Hill, Texas, in order to avoid a spacing problem with another Dallas station.
In late 2011, the "La Kalle" format has been dissolved and replaced with a simulcast of its sister station KDXX, reducing the number of formats by one in DFW's market. It was in competition with CBS Radio's Spanish rhythmic AC station KMVK Mega 107.5 prior to the recent format change.
Top 40/rhythmic era
On June 28, 2012, KESS flipped to bilingual Top 40/CHR, billed as "Radio H2O" (H2O: Hispanic 2.0) with a mostly English-language presentation with some Spanish pop hits, targeting bilingual and younger Hispanics. The last song of the Recuerdo format was "El Sol No Regresa" by La 5ª Estación with the first song of the H2O station being "Hotel Room Service" by Pitbull. The station initially ran jockless. However, new DJ Stephanie Marie handled the midday drive from 10 am to 3 pm. Texas-base |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Brisbane%20International%20College | The Royal Brisbane Institute of Technology (or RBIT) has taught over 7,500 international students from 42 different countries and has a global network and several articulation partnerships. RBIT recently moved to a new campus located within Brisbane's CBD on Level 1, 99 Creek St, 4000. RBIT has also expanded to a new Hong Kong campus and has several study tours a year with sister schools in Taiwan & Korea. It is accredited with National Recognised Training and NEAS Australia.
RBIT offers courses ranging from Certificate II to Advanced Diploma's and VGC/VGD's in the following subjects:
Business Administration
Transport & Logistics
Hospitality
Tourism
Aged Care/Community Services
References
Education in Queensland
Education in Brisbane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative%20capacitor%20memory | Regenerative capacitor memory is a type of computer memory that uses the electrical property of capacitance to store the bits of data. Because the stored charge slowly leaks away, these memories must be periodically regenerated (i.e. read and rewritten, also called refreshed) to prevent data loss.
Other types of computer memory exist that use the electrical property of capacitance to store the data, but do not require regeneration. Traditionally these have either been somewhat impractical (e.g., the Selectron tube) or are considered to be suitable only as read-only memory (e.g., EPROM, EEPROM/Flash memory) since writing data takes significantly longer than reading.
History
The first regenerative capacitor memory built was the rotating capacitor drum memory of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (1942). Each of its two drums stored thirty 50-bit binary numbers (1500 bits each), rotated at 60 rpm and was regenerated every rotation (1 Hz refresh rate).
The first random access regenerative capacitor memory was the Williams tube (1947). As fitted to the first practical programmable digital computer, a single Williams tube held a total of 2560 bits, arranged in two 'pages'. One page was an array of thirty two 40-bit binary numbers, the capacity of a basic Williams-Kilburn Tube. The refresh rate required varied depending on the type of CRT used.
The modern DRAM (1966) is a regenerative capacitor memory.
Notes
References
Further reading
Computer memory
Capacitance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The following is the 2001–02 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 2001 through June 2002. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2000–01 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
New fall series are highlighted in bold.
From February 8 to 24, 2002, all of NBC's primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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 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.
Impact of the September 11 attacks
During the week of September 11, 2001, the major television networks aired continuous news coverage of the September 11 attacks. The news coverage preempted the networks' primetime schedules between September 11 and September 15, with regular programming resuming on September 16. As a result of the preemptions, the programs that were set to begin airing new seasons in mid-September had their premieres delayed until late September and early October. The Amazing Race was the first program to premiere in the 2001–02 season; the show's first season premiered on September 5, but had its second episode postponed from September 12 to September 19 due to the aforementioned news coverage. As a result of the scheduling oddities that were necessitated by the news coverage, the 2001–02 season was the second of four instances where the start of the season was delayed due to issues outside of the control of the major television networks; the other instances were the 1988–89 season (due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike) and the 2020–21 season (due to a suspension of television productions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic). The next major disruption to the primetime television schedules of the major television networks would not occur until the 2007–08 season, which was affected by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, The fourth major disruption to the primetime television schedules of the major television networks is the ongoing 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike
The 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards, which were planned for September 16, were initially |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary%20at%20the%201956%20Winter%20Olympics | Hungary competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Medalists
Figure skating
Pairs
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Olympic Winter Games 1956, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1956 Winter Olympics
1956
1956 in Hungarian sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary%20at%20the%201972%20Winter%20Olympics | Hungary competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
Figure skating
Women
External links
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1972 Winter Olympics
1972
1972 in Hungarian sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary%20at%20the%201976%20Winter%20Olympics | Hungary competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Figure skating
Men
Ice Dancing
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1976 Winter Olympics
1976
Olympics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary%20at%20the%201980%20Winter%20Olympics | Hungary competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.
Medalists
Figure skating
Ice Dancing
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1980 Winter Olympics
1980
1980 in Hungarian sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Flashback | In Oracle databases, Flashback tools allow administrators and users to view and manipulate past states of an instance's data without (destructively) recovering to a fixed point in time.
Compare the functionality of Oracle LogMiner, which identifies how and when data changed rather than its state at a given time.
Flash Recovery Area
Flashback requires the Flash Recovery Area (FRA),
a storage area that allows Flash Backup and Recovery operations on Oracle databases. DBAs may configure the FRA on an ASM diskgroup or on local disk. It is a specific area of disk storage that is set aside exclusively for retention of backup components such as datafile image copies, archived redo logs, and control-file autobackup copies.
The FRA feature is available from release Oracle 10g onwards.
Availability
Oracle Corporation advertises Flashback Query as available in Oracle Express Edition, Standard One Edition, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. On the other hand, only users of Oracle Enterprise Edition have access to Flashback Features (Flashback Table, Flashback Database, Flashback Transaction Query).
External links
http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/FRA
References
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EudraVigilance | EudraVigilance (European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Pharmacovigilance) is the European data processing network and management system for reporting and evaluation of suspected adverse reactions to medicines which have been authorised or being studied in clinical trials in the European Economic Area (EEA). The European Medicines Agency (EMA) operates the system on behalf of the European Union (EU) medicines regulatory network.
The European EudraVigilance system deals with the:
Electronic exchange of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSR, based on the ICH E2B specifications):
EudraVigilance Clinical Trial Module (EVCTM) for reporting Suspected Unexpected Serious Adverse Reactions (SUSARs).
EudraVigilance Post-Authorisation Module (EVPM) for post-authorisation ICSRs.
Early detection of possible safety signals from marketed drugs for human use.
Continuous monitoring and evaluation of potential safety issues in relation to reported adverse reactions.
Decision-making process, based on a broader knowledge of the adverse reaction profile of drugs.
EMA publishes data from EudraVigilance in the European database for suspected adverse drug reaction reports.
The EudraVigilance access policy governs the level of access different stakeholder groups have to adverse drug reactions reports.
See also
Clinical trial
Drug development
EudraCT
EudraGMP
EudraLex
EUDRANET
EudraPharm
European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network
European Medicines Agency
International Society of Pharmacovigilance
Medication
Pharmacovigilance
Serious adverse event
Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Yellow Card Scheme
References
External links
EudraVigilance
European clinical research
Pharmaceuticals policy
Pharmacovigilance databases
Health and the European Union
Drug safety
National agencies for drug regulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20activation%20and%20competition%20networks | Interactive activation and competition (IAC) networks are artificial neural networks used to model memory and intuitive generalizations. They are made up of nodes or artificial neurons which are arrayed and activated in ways that emulate the behaviors of human memory.
The IAC model is used by the parallel distributed processing (PDP) Group and is associated with James L. McClelland and David E. Rumelhart; it is described in detail in their book Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing: A Handbook of Models, Programs, and Exercises. This model does not contradict any currently known biological data or theories, and its performance is close enough to human performance as to warrant further investigation.
References
External links
A tribute to interactive activation
Video overview of IAC networks and a description of how to build them using free software.
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSQ | WSQ can refer to:
Wavelet Scalar Quantization, a fingerprint image compression algorithm
Workforce Skills Qualifications, Singapore national continuing education and training system
World Saxophone Quartet
WSQ (journal): Women's Studies Quarterly, an academic journal
W.S.Q. (album) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon%20%28computing%29 | In computer interface design, a ribbon is a graphical control element in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs. The typical structure of a ribbon includes large, tabbed toolbars, filled with graphical buttons and other graphical control elements, grouped by functionality. Such ribbons use tabs to expose different sets of controls, eliminating the need for numerous parallel toolbars. Contextual tabs are tabs that appear only when the user needs them. For instance, in a word processor, an image-related tab may appear when the user selects an image in a document, allowing the user to interact with that image.
The usage of the term "ribbon" dates back to the 1980s and was originally used as a synonym for plain toolbar. However, in 2007, Microsoft used the term to refer to its own implementation of tabbed toolbars encompassing a conglomerate of controls for Microsoft Office 2007, which Microsoft calls "The Fluent UI". Although Microsoft popularized the term with a new meaning, similar tabbed layouts of controls had existed in previous software from other vendors, including 3D Studio Max R3 and later, Adobe Dreamweaver, Borland Delphi, HotDog and Macromedia HomeSite.
Early use
Use of a ribbon interface dates from the early 1990s in productivity software such as Microsoft Word and WordStar as an alternative term for toolbar: It was defined as a portion of a graphical user interface consisting of a horizontal row of graphical control elements (e.g., including buttons of various sizes and drop-down lists containing icons), typically user-configurable.
A toolbar interface, called the "ribbon", has been a feature of Microsoft Word from the early DOS-based Word 5.5 (ca. 1990) and the first Windows-based versions (activated by the "View | Ribbon" menu option), for which early advertising referred to the use of "the Ribbon to replace an endless string of commands to let you format characters by eye instead of memory".
Microsoft software
With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 came the "Fluent User Interface" or "Fluent UI", which replaced menus and customizable toolbars with a single "Office menu", a miniature toolbar known as "quick-access toolbar" and what came to be known as the ribbon: multiple tabs, each holding a toolbar bearing buttons and occasionally other controls. Toolbar controls have assorted sizes and are classified in visually distinguishable groups. The new design was intended to alleviate the problem of users not finding or knowing of the existence of available features in the Office suite. The name "ribbon" was later purported to have originated from an early design idea by which commands were placed on a long pane that could be rolled like a medieval scroll; the name was retained after the scrolling mechanism was replaced by tabs.
Microsoft applications implementing ribbons each have a different set of tabs which house user controls for that application. Within each tab, various related controls may be grouped toget |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28French%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV France is a French pay-television channel operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA. It was launched as MTV Networks Europe began to further localise its brand throughout Europe. MTV France (previously MTVF) was launched on 20 June 2000. It is also distributed in Switzerland (Romandie), Monaco and Francophone Africa.
Its headquarters are at Viacom International Media Networks Europe in London with a local office at MTV Networks France in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
History
Upon launch MTV Europe was available in France. In June 2000 MTV Networks Europe replaced MTV Europe with MTVF in France and other French-speaking territories.
In 2005, MTV Networks Europe further expanded the MTV brand within France with the launch of MTV Pulse and MTV Idol. Other MTV channels are also available including the pan-European versions of MTV Rocks, MTV Hits, VH1 Europe, MTV Base.
In December 2007 MTV Networks France a subsidiary of MTV Networks Europe launched a French-speaking version of MTV Base.
In November 2008, MTVNHD launched in France.
In January 2011, MTV Networks France launched services related to MTV, MTV Base, Nickelodeon and Game One for use on Philips connected TV sets. Each channel offers access to free video contents, news and trailers from brands MTV, MTV Base, MTV Pulse, MTV Idol, Game One, Game One Music HD, Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon junior.
In March 2016, MTV +1 was replaced by Nickelodeon +1.
VJs
Frédérique Bedos (French Link; 2000-2003)
Daniela (MTV Total Request, MTV Select; 2003-2006)
Guillaume Stanczyk (MTV Buzz, MTV Select; 2003-2006)
Mouloud(MTV Select; 2004)
China(MTV Select, MTV News; 2004)
Ariel Wizman (MTV Select; 2004)
Former Shows
French Link
Hitlist France
Hitlist Base
Hitlist US
Hitlist Yo!
MTV Select France
Total Request France
MTV Reaction
MTV 8
MTV News France
Love Link
Hot Link
Euro 20
Hitlist Rock
La French Night
See also
MTV Base
MTV Idol
MTV Pulse
Viacom International Media Networks Europe
External links
MTV France - presentation, screenshots
References
MTV channels
Television stations in France
Television channels and stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in France
Music organizations based in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCOS | DCOS may refer to:
List of Disney Channel series#Disney Channel original series.
Datacenter Operating System, an open source operating system and distributed system. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UOS | UoS or UOS may refer to:
Union of students, also known as students' union, a student organisation present at many universities
Union of Salvation
Unity Operating System or Unified Operating System, Chinese Linux Distribution
Franklin County Airport (Tennessee)
Universities
Asia
University of Sahiwal, a public university in Pakistan
University of Sargodha, a public university in Pakistan
University of Seoul, a public university in South Korea
University of Sharjah, a university in United Arab Emirates
University of Sindh, a public university in Pakistan
Europe
University of Salford, a university in Northern England
University of Sheffield, a university in Northern England
University of Southampton, a university in Southern England
University of Suffolk, a university in Eastern England
University of Surrey, a university in Southeastern England
University of Sussex, a university in Southern England
University of Stuttgart, a university in Southern Germany
North America
University of Saskatchewan, a Canadian coeducational public research university, founded in 1907 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFLR-FM | CFLR-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 90.1 MHz (FM) in La Romaine, Quebec. The station broadcasts a community radio format with programming in both French and Innu. The station received CRTC approval in 1992.
CFLR was also the informal call sign of CKLU in Sudbury, Ontario when it broadcast only on cable FM. When that station became officially licensed as an FM radio station in 1996, it adopted its current call sign since the CFLR call sign was already in use in La Romaine.
References
External links
CFLR-FM history - Canadian Communications Foundation
Flr
Flr
Radio stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Quebec
Innu culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Calvignac | Jean Calvignac is an IBM Fellow and was responsible for the architecture of PowerNP, an IBM network processor. He holds more than 220 patents.
Career
In 1998, at the IBM Laboratory in the Research Triangle Park, Calvignac and his team initiated the IBM network processor activities. He had previously been responsible for system design of the ATM switching products, which he initiated with his team in 1992 at the IBM Laboratory in La Gaude, France. Before that, he had held different management and technical leader positions for architecture and development of communication controller products at the La Gaude Laboratory. Calvignac joined IBM in 1971 as a development engineer in telephone switching products. He received an engineering degree in 1969 from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France.
Calvignac has been awarded more than 220 patents, mostly in the field of communication and networking. He has contributed to standards and a few scientific papers.
He was named an IBM Fellow in 1997, IBM's highest technical honor. Calvignac is a Fellow of the IET (in Europe) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
References
External links
French computer scientists
French electrical engineers
20th-century French inventors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
IBM Fellows
IBM people
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Senior Members of the IEEE
Grenoble Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century French engineers
21st-century French engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camtel | Camtel is a national telecommunications and Internet service provider in Cameroon. The company is busy building its network, including: Access to a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network; digitization of the country's telephone exchanges; and optical fiber along the highway between Douala and Yaoundé, and between Kribi and Lolodorf.
There are 47 telephone exchanges in the company's system. There are about 150,000 telephone lines in its cable network and its switching network. Camtel operates three satellite-to-earth stations: Bepanda, Zamengoe and Garoua.
External links
CAMTEL - English language
Telecommunications companies of Cameroon
Internet service providers of Cameroon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20League%20for%20Nursing | The National League for Nursing (NLN) is a national organization for faculty nurses and leaders in nurse education. It offers faculty development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to more than 40,000 individual and 1,200 education and associate members.
Mission
The National League for Nursing promotes excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of our nation and the global community.
History
The NLN was founded in 1893 as the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses and was the first organization for nursing in the U.S. I
In 1912, it was renamed the National League for Nursing Education (NLNE) and released the first Standard Curriculum for Schools of Nursing in 1917.
In 1942, the NLNE created individual membership, enabling African-American nurses to participate in the organization. In 1952, the NLNE combined with the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Association for Collegiate Schools of Nursing as the National League for Nursing, and the United States Department of Education (USDE) recognized the NLN, including it on the initial list of recognized accrediting agencies. This allowed the NLN to assume responsibility for the accreditation of nursing schools in the U.S.
At this time, the NLN included African-American nurses in positions, including the board of directors. Willie Mae Jackson Jones, of the Community Nursing Services of Montclair, New Jersey, served as the first African-American in the organization, as a member of the first NLN board of directors. Additionally, Dr. Lillian Holland Harvey, the Dean of the Tuskegee Institute School of Nursing, was also on the board of directors.
Awards
NLN presents a number of awards every year. Among the major awards given are the Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Outstanding Teaching or Leadership in Nursing Education, the Isabel Hampton Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Practice, and the Lillian Wald Humanitarian Award.
Accrediting Commission
In 1996, the NLN Board of Governors approved establishment of an independent entity within the organization to be known as the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). In 1997, the NLNAC began operations with sole authority and accountability for carrying out the responsibilities inherent to the accreditation processes. Fifteen Commissioners were appointed: nine nurse educators, three nursing service representatives, and three public members. The Commissioners assumed responsibilities for the management, financial decisions, policy-making, and general administration of the NLNAC.
The NLNAC was incorporated as a subsidiary of the NLN in 2001, and twelve years later, the name of the NLNAC was changed to the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the name under which the subsidiary continues to operate. On December 1, 2014, Marsal P. S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20Manager | Disk Manager is a discontinued software (that was a popular 1980s and 1990s) and documentation package for MS-DOS and PC DOS computers, useful for self-installing personal computer hard disks. It was written by Ontrack, a company that is now part of KLDiscovery.
Installation covered different aspects:
explaining personal computer hardware concepts
documenting switches of many of the existing disks
putting into place custom device drivers which circumvented BIOS limitations, notably those related to maximum disk or partition size and logical block addressing
providing testing and informational utilities
Drivers could be either DOS-type, or replacement master boot record code.
Diskettes with Disk Manager were provided by some disk manufacturers (e.g. IBM), in custom OEM versions, supporting all of their models.
Not long after launching in 1985, Ontrack also started providing computer disk data recovery services as Ontrack Data Recovery.
Version history
Version 5.0 for Windows was released on 2004-06-23. It includes DOS versions of Ontrack Disk Manager and Ontrack Data Recovery.
Competing products
Other products that, like Disk Manager from OnTrack Computer Systems, perform hard drive geometry translation to circumvent BIOS limitations:
SpeedStor from Storage Dimensions
EZ-Drive from Micro House (also distributed by Western Digital)
References
External links
Ontrack Data Recovery
Utilities for Windows
Utility software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%20Sports | Cox Sports was a regional sports network that served the United States New England region until 2012. Cox Sports New England served as the local programming outlet for Cox Communications, the cable service provider in Rhode Island and parts of Connecticut.
Cox Sports New England focused primarily on local high school and college sports, including Providence College Friars and UConn Huskies of the Big East Conference and University of Rhode Island Rams of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Other college teams covered included: Central Connecticut State University, Rhode Island College, Bryant University and more.
Professional teams included: Pawtucket Red Sox, New England Revolution and Boston Cannons.
Cox Sports provided an extensive look at high school sports, broadcasting over 40 high school games annually. In addition, Cox Sports featured Varsity Life, a show co-produced with WJAR focusing on highlights and issues of relevance to high school student athletes. Cox Sports also hosted the RI Sports Awards every June in Providence.
Cox Sports had also teamed up with Eric Scott Latek of Phantazma Pictures to produce two original documentary series. In 2007, they began producing an original documentary series, 3 degrees, which garnered two Telly Awards for Best Series and Best Cinematography. The show focuses on the struggle of 4 different local martial artists as they balance life inside and outside the ring. It returned for a second season of six episodes in 2009. The 2009 winter season also premiered Xposé, an eight show series featuring the people on the frontlines, goal lines and side lines in local traditional and adventure sports throughout Rhode Island. Featured episodes include Darren Rizzi's (now an assistant coach for the Miami Dolphins) first and only season as head coach of the University of Rhode Island Football Team, The Women of Providence Roller Derby, the New England Collegiate Baseball League's Newport Gulls, the Rhode Island National Guard and "Driven," which highlights the attempt of two local businessmen to create a custom car business in Rhode Island that focuses on fundraising for charity and community involvement.
Also broadcast on Cox Sports were ESPN Plus college football and basketball games, CFL football, coaches' shows for the many teams, outdoors programming, ESPNEWS, and other select events and shows.
Cox Sports also simulcasted the 10 p.m. newscast from Boston CW affiliate WLVI, which is produced by WHDH. This was the only access via cable to a Boston newscast available in Rhode Island; its addition to the network in January 2001 (when the network was programmed as a general cable access channel branded simply as Cox 3) came after Cox dropped WBZ-TV from its systems. Even though the network relaunched as a regional sports network on September 30, 2004 and the production of the newscast shifted from WLVI itself to WHDH in December 2006, the arrangement had continued.
NESN+ was shown on Cox Sports when the Boston Red |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20and%20Maintenance | Security and Maintenance (formerly known as Action Center, and Security Center in earlier versions) is a component of the Windows NT family of operating systems that monitors the security and maintenance status of the computer. Its monitoring criteria includes optimal operation of antivirus software, personal firewall, as well as the working status of Backup and Restore, Network Access Protection (NAP), User Account Control (UAC), Windows Error Reporting (WER), and Windows Update. It notifies the user of any problem with the monitored criteria, such as when an antivirus program is not up-to-date or is offline.
Operation
Security and Maintenance consists of three major components: A control panel applet, a Windows service and an application programming interface (API) provided by Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
The control panel applet divides the monitored criteria into categories and color-codes them. Yellow indicates a non-critical warning, e.g. some settings are not being monitored or are not optimal. Red indicates a critical message, e.g. anti-virus program is offline.
A service, named "Security Center", determines the current state of the settings. The service, by default, starts when the computer starts; it continually monitors the system for changes, and notifies the user if it detects a problem. In versions of Windows prior to Windows 10, it adds a notification icon into the Windows Taskbar.
A WMI provider makes the settings available to the system. Third-party anti-virus, anti-spyware and personal firewall software vendors primarily register with Security and Maintenance through the WMI provider. Windows Vista added a new set of APIs that let programs retrieve the aggregate health status within Security and Maintenance, and to receive notifications when the health status changes. These APIs allow programs to confirm that the system is in a healthy state before engaging in certain actions. For example, a computer game can ensure that a firewall is running before connecting to an online game.
Security and Maintenance is in charge of the following:
Querying the status of the personal firewall and turning it on
Querying the status of the anti-malware program, turning it on and instructing it to update itself
Querying the status of the Internet security settings and asking the user to change them if they are not optimal
Querying the status of the User Account Control settings and asking the user to change it if it is not optimal
Scheduling and executing automatic maintenance tasks, which includes a quick scan for malware, disk defragmentation, power efficiency diagnostics
Querying the status of Backup and Restore and prompting the user to schedule a backup if one is not in place (Windows 7 only)
Querying the status of File History; however, the user is not alerted about it (Windows 8 and later only)
Querying the status of HomeGroup; no alerts are issued about it
Managing problems logged by Windows Error Reporting: The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedergren | Cedergren was a Swedish telecommunications company running the telephone network in Warsaw between 1900 and the interbellum. Named after its founder, Henrik Tore Cedergren, it was notable as the first official phone operator in that city and the company to finance the Cedergren building, the first skyscraper in the then Imperial Russia. Its assets in Poland were taken by its successor, the PAST company, when the license expired in 1922. The Swedish branch of the firm was bought by Allmänna Telefon AB LM Ericsson, the predecessor of modern Ericsson company.
References
Telecommunications companies established in 1900
Telecommunications companies of Sweden
Telecommunications companies of Poland
1900 establishments in Poland
Companies related to the Engwall family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFLC | KFLC (1270 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Benbrook, Texas and broadcasting to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned and operated by Latino Media Network, with studios located in the Univision 23 studios in the Arts District in Downtown Dallas. KFLC airs a Spanish language sports radio format, primarily airing programming from Univision's TUDN Radio Network, and also carries Spanish language play by play featuring Texas Rangers, Dallas Mavericks, and FC Dallas.
KFLC is a Class B regional station, that uses a directional antenna at all times from its transmitter site off East Lancaster Avenue (Route e xdzf e5fr180) in Fort Worth. During the day it operates with 50,000 watts, the maximum power permitted for U.S. AM radio stations. At night, when AM band signals travel much greater distances, it reduces power to 5,000 watts to limit interference to other stations broadcasting on 1270 AM. KFLC is licensed by iBiquity to broadcast a digital signal using the HD system. KFLC is also rebroadcasting on KDXX's HD Radio subchannel 107.9 HD3.
History
KFLC's first license, with the sequentially issued call letters KFQB, was granted on May 12, 1924 to the Searchlight Publishing Company in Fort Worth, operating on 1180 kHz with 100 watts. (Some station accounts trace its history to an earlier station, WPA, operated by the Fort Worth Record, which was first licensed on March 16, 1922 and deleted on May 24, 1923.) During the 1920s, the station's frequency assignment was changed multiple times, including, in 1927 alone, 590, 1150, 920, and 900 kHz. On November 11, 1928, as part of the implementation of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, KFQB was assigned to 1240 kHz.
KFQB was initially under the oversight of Reverend J. Frank Norris of the First Baptist Church. In early 1927, ownership was transferred to the Lone Star Broadcast Company, however, as part of this sale, which carried over to future owners, Norris retained the right to broadcast over the station on Sundays without charge.
In late 1928, A. P. Barrett purchased the station after forming the Texas Air Transport Broadcast Company, and the call sign was changed to KTAT. A year later, the call sign was changed to KSAT, although a few months after that it was changed back to KTAT. In 1935, the station was briefly shifted to 570 kHz, before returning to 1240 kHz.
KFJZ
The original KFJZ was first licensed in September 1923 to the 112th Cavalry of the Texas National Guard. By 1939, it was operating on 1370 kHz as the key outlet of the Texas State Network. At this point, the network's General Manager, Elliott Roosevelt, arranged to purchase KTAT, which was operating with higher power than KFJZ. As part of the sales agreement, the license for the original KFJZ was surrendered and that station deleted. The staff from the original KFJZ was then transferred to the KTAT studios in the Hotel Texas, and on August 17, KTAT's call sign was changed to KFJZ.
On March 29, 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Shalom%20Dijon | Radio Shalom Dijon is a local associative radio station of Jewish sensitivity based in Dijon, France. As of 2006, its president is Denis Tenenbaum. Its programming includes Judaic heritage, culture, history, music, current events and activities etc.
It started its programming in 1992 and got the go ahead from CSA in August 2007. It broadcast on 97.1 FM in Dijon and 99.5 FM in Besançon.
External links
Official website
Radio stations in France
Mass media in Dijon
Jews and Judaism in France
Jewish radio
Radio stations established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Am%20Sports%20System | The Pro-Am Sports System (better known as PASS Sports or simply PASS) was an American regional sports network that operated from 1984 to 1997. It also served as an affiliate of the Prime Network from 1988 to 1996. Based in Detroit, the channel broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout Michigan, mainly covering professional, collegiate and high school sports in the Metro Detroit area and throughout Michigan. After it lost coverage rights to all major Detroit teams to the new Fox Sports Detroit, it was permanently shut down in 1997.
History
The network launched on April 17, 1984, as one of the first regional sports networks in the United States. PASS was owned by John Fetzer, the Principal owner of the Fetzer broadcast station group. Fetzer was also the previous owner of the Detroit Tigers, having just sold the team months earlier to Domino's Pizza owner Tom Monaghan. For its inaugural year, PASS carried 80 Tigers games (64 home and 16 away) as part of a seven year contract. At its launch it also had an agreement with the Detroit Pistons and to carry a series of local boxing matches. PASS contracted to use WDIV-TV's studios to produce its programming. PASS was offered for $10 per month and marketed using the slogan "Your Season Pass".
In 1986, Detroit Red Wings games were added to the network's sports programming slate, with the remainder of the team's games being shown on independent station WKBD-TV (channel 50). The Red Wings did not join PASS at launch, apparently after Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch—owner of Little Caesars Pizza—was frustrated that he had been bypassed as a buyer for the Tigers in favor of competitor Monaghan. In 1987, Fetzer sold PASS to Tigers owner Tom Monaghan, and in 1988, PASS became an early charter affiliate of the Prime Network group of regional sports networks.
In 1992, Monaghan sold the Tigers to Mike Ilitch and sold PASS to Post-Newsweek Stations. PASS merged its operations with NBC affiliate WDIV-TV (channel 4) and moved its studios and offices from Ann Arbor to WDIV-TV's studios in Detroit. Post-Newsweek also changed it from an evening-only premium cable channel to a basic cable channel and expanded it to 24 hours a day.
In the fall of 1995, PASS expanded its coverage area, adding providers such as C-TEC and Cable Plus. By April 1996, the network had reached 25% (or 22,700) of all cable television households in Metro Detroit and 80% (or 174,000 households) in other parts of its primary coverage area through expanded basic tiers.
Decline and shutdown
On October 31, 1995, Liberty Media, owner of the Prime Network and most of its affiliates, sold a 50% ownership interest in the group to News Corporation. That company would immediately assume operational control of Prime following the purchase's closure, with plans to launch its own slate of regional sports networks as an outgrowth of its fledgling Fox Sports division later announcing on July 3, 1996, that the Prime networks would be rebranded as Fox S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQVE-LD | KQVE-LD is a low-powered television station (LPTV) owned by the Daystar television network. It broadcasts on virtual channel 46 and licensed to San Antonio, Texas by Word Of God Fellowship. It is not yet available on Time Warner Cable.
References
External links
Television stations in Texas
Daystar Television Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Low-power television stations in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American | Inter-American can refer to:
Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network
Inter-American Conference
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Copyright Union
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Inter-American Defense Board
Inter-American Defense Board Medal
Inter-American Defense College
Inter-American Democratic Charter
Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Inter-American Economic Council
Inter-American Foundation
Inter-American Highway
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
Inter-American Magnet School
Inter-American League
Inter American Press Association
Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers, now Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
Inter-American Telecommunication Commission
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
Inter-American University of Puerto Rico
Inter-American (train)
Inter-American Conventions:
Inter-American Convention Against Corruption
Inter-American Convention Against Racism and All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance
Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials
Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons
Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors
Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory
Inter-American Convention on Proof of and Information on Foreign Law
Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad
Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities
Inter-American Convention on the International Amateur Radio Permit
Inter-American Convention on the International Return of Children
Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women
Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisition
Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
The Inter-American Convention on Human Rights is correctly titled the American Convention on Human Rights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20Euclid | Concurrent Euclid (ConEuc) is a concurrent descendant of the Euclid programming language designed by James Cordy and Ric Holt, then at the University of Toronto, in 1980. ConEuc was designed for concurrent, high performance, highly reliable system software, such as operating systems, compilers and embedded microprocessor systems. The TUNIS operating system, a Unix variant, was implemented entirely in Concurrent Euclid. ConEuc extends a core subset of Euclid with processes and monitors (as specified by C.A.R. Hoare) as well as language constructs needed for systems programming including separate compilation, variables at absolute addresses, type converters, long integers and other features.
ConEuc was implemented by a small (50k bytes), fast, portable compiler that was self-compiling and had replaceable code generators. High quality code generators for several computers, including the PDP-11, VAX-11, Motorola 68000 and Motorola 6809 were developed that produced code comparable to the best C compilers. Concurrent Euclid programs that used concurrency could be run on a bare machine (supported by a small assembly language kernel), or in simulated mode as an ordinary process running under an operating system.
The Turing programming language is a direct descendant of Concurrent Euclid and its Turing Plus variant eventually replaced ConEuc in most applications.
References
J.R. Cordy and R.C. Holt 1980. Specification of Concurrent Euclid. Technical reports CSRI-115 (July 1980) and CSRI-133 (August 1981), Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto. 54 pages.
R.C. Holt 1982. Concurrent Euclid, the Unix System and Tunis. Addison-Wesley 1982. 323 pages.
R.C. Holt 1982. A short introduction to Concurrent Euclid. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17, 5 (May. 1982), 60-79.
R.C. Holt 1982. Tunis: a Unix look-alike written in Concurrent Euclid. SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 16, 1 (January 1982), 4-5.
Concurrent programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek%20M.%20Zurada | Jacek M. Zurada (born 31 July 1944 in Sosnowiec) is a Polish engineer who serves as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Politechnika Gdaṅska (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) ranked as #1 among Polish universities of technology. He has held visiting appointments at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Princeton, Northeastern, Auburn, and at overseas universities in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, and South Africa. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of International Neural Networks Society and Doctor Honoris Causa of Czestochowa Institute of Technology, Poland.
Research achievements
Dr. Zurada research contributions cover neural networks, deep learning, data mining with emphasis on data and feature understanding, rule extraction from semantic and visual information, machine learning, decomposition methods for salient feature extraction, and lambda learning rule for neural networks. His work has advanced fundamental understanding and integration of several relevant threads in neural networks and has introduced their modern taxonomy. It has formatted training algorithms in neural networks as learning in feedback systems. His more recent work has successfully addressed the lack of transparency and explanation capability due to the inherent black-box nature of neural networks.
He developed a novel approach of statistical tests and network sensitivity evaluations by using the perturbation method to delete redundant inputs of perceptron networks and prune their weights. This work has led to rule extraction methods from pruned networks that produce if-then rules. His other achievements were in transparency of such deep learning architectures as auto-encoders and multilayer perceptrons with soft-max outputs and non-negative weights that can produce critical explanations.
He has published 450 journal and conference papers, authored or co-authored three books, including the pioneering neural networks text "Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems" (1992), and co-edited a number of volumes in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. His books and articles were cited over 17,000 times (Google Scholar, 2022).
Professional and editorial service
Dr. Zurada has served the engineering profession as a long-time volunteer of IEEE: as 2014 IEEE Vice-President-Technical Activities (TAB Chair), as President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004–05 and the ADCOM member in 2009–14, 2016–21 and earlier years. He chaired the IEEE TAB Strategic Planning Committee in 2015, IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee in 2012–13, and the IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee in 2010–11. In 2011 he was Vice-Chair of PSP Board and a member of PSP Board Strategic Planning Committee in 2010–11. He was a candidate for 2019 and 2020 IEEE President.
He was the Editor-in-Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K15MB-D | K15MB-D is an affiliate of Home Shopping Network serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is located in Kansas City, Missouri.
It was founded in 1988, as K26CR on channel 26, as an affiliate of America's Store. It moved to channel 45 on March 24, 2006, changing its callsign to K45IO. The station was licensed for digital operation on January 10, 2011 as K45IO-D, and moved to channel 15 effective March 21, 2022 as K15MB-D.
K15MB-D is currently an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network and is owned by Ventana Television.
External links
Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Low-power television stations in Missouri
1991 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20protected%20area | The host protected area (HPA) is an area of a hard drive or solid-state drive that is not normally visible to an operating system. It was first introduced in the ATA-4 standard CXV (T13) in 2001.
How it works
The IDE controller has registers that contain data that can be queried using ATA commands. The data returned gives information about the drive attached to the controller. There are three ATA commands involved in creating and using a host protected area. The commands are:
IDENTIFY DEVICE
SET MAX ADDRESS
READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS
Operating systems use the IDENTIFY DEVICE command to find out the addressable space of a hard drive. The IDENTIFY DEVICE command queries a particular register on the IDE controller to establish the size of a drive.
This register however can be changed using the SET MAX ADDRESS ATA command. If the value in the register is set to less than the actual hard drive size then effectively a host protected area is created. It is protected because the OS will work with only the value in the register that is returned by the IDENTIFY DEVICE command and thus will normally be unable to address the parts of the drive that lie within the HPA.
The HPA is useful only if other software or firmware (e.g. BIOS or UEFI) is able to use it. Software and firmware that are able to use the HPA are referred to as 'HPA aware'. The ATA command that these entities use is called READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS. This command accesses a register that contains the true size of the hard drive. To use the area, the controlling HPA-aware program changes the value of the register read by IDENTIFY DEVICE to that found in the register read by READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS. When its operations are complete, the register read by IDENTIFY DEVICE is returned to its original fake value.
Use
At the time HPA was first implemented on hard-disk firmware, some BIOS had difficulty booting with large hard disks. An initial HPA could then be set (by some jumpers on the hard disk) to limit the number of cylinders to 4095 or 4096 so that the older BIOS would start. It was then the job of the bootloader to reset the HPA so that the operating system would see the full hard-disk storage space.
HPA can be used by various booting and diagnostic utilities, normally in conjunction with the BIOS. An example of this implementation is the Phoenix FirstBIOS, which uses Boot Engineering Extension Record (BEER) and Protected Area Run Time Interface Extension Services (PARTIES). Another example is the Gujin installer which can install the bootloader in BEER, naming that pseudo-partition /dev/hda0 or /dev/sdb0; then only cold boots (from power-down) will succeed because warm boots (from Control-Alt-Delete) will not be able to read the HPA.
Computer manufacturers may use the area to contain a preloaded OS for install and recovery purposes (instead of providing DVD or CD media).
Dell notebooks hide Dell MediaDirect utility in HPA. IBM ThinkPad and LG notebooks hide system restore software i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Pentland | Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
Education
Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and obtained his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.
Career
Pentland started as lecturer at Stanford University in both computer science and psychology, and joined the MIT faculty in 1986, where he became Academic Head of the Media Laboratory and received the Toshiba Chair in Media Arts and Sciences, and later joined the faculty of the MIT School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School. He serves on the Board of the UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, advisory boards of Consumers Union, OECD and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Lab, and formerly of the American Bar Association, AT&T, and several of the startup companies he has co-founded. He previously co-founded and co-directed the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology and Strong Hospital's Center for Future Health.
Pentland is one of the most cited authors in computer science with an h-index of 147, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was one of the UN Secretary General's "Data Revolutionaries" that helped forge the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Pentland founded and currently directs MIT Connection Science an MIT-wide program which pioneered computational social science, using big data and AI to better understand human society, and the Trust::Data Alliance which is an alliance of companies and nations building open-source software that makes AI and data safe, trusted and secure. He also founded the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program which creates ventures to take cutting-edge technologies into the real world, co-led the IEEE Council and Extended Intelligence, was Academic Director of the Data-Pop Alliance, and co-founder of Imagination In Action which brings world-changing inventors together with leaders of governments and companies.
In 2011 Tim O’Reilly named him one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists along with Larry Page, then CEO of Google and the CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services. Recent invited keynotes include annual meetings of OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan.
Pentland's research focuses on Web 3.0, AI, Computational Social Science, and Privacy. His research helps people better understand the "physics" of their social environment, and helps individuals, companies and communities to reinvent themselves to be safer, more productive, and more creative. He has previously been a pioneer in wearable computing, ventures technology for developing nations, and image understanding. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, and Harvard Business Review, as well as being the focus of TV features on BBC World, Discov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20network%20analysis | In fluid dynamics, pipe network analysis is the analysis of the fluid flow through a hydraulics network, containing several or many interconnected branches. The aim is to determine the flow rates and pressure drops in the individual sections of the network. This is a common problem in hydraulic design.
Description
To direct water to many users, municipal water supplies often route it through a water supply network. A major part of this network will consist of interconnected pipes. This network creates a special class of problems in hydraulic design, with solution methods typically referred to as pipe network analysis. Water utilities generally make use of specialized software to automatically solve these problems. However, many such problems can also be addressed with simpler methods, like a spreadsheet equipped with a solver, or a modern graphing calculator.
Deterministic network analysis
Once the friction factors of the pipes are obtained (or calculated from pipe friction laws such as the Darcy-Weisbach equation), we can consider how to calculate the flow rates and head losses on the network. Generally the head losses (potential differences) at each node are neglected, and a solution is sought for the steady-state flows on the network, taking into account the pipe specifications (lengths and diameters), pipe friction properties and known flow rates or head losses.
The steady-state flows on the network must satisfy two conditions:
At any junction, the total flow into a junction equals the total flow out of that junction (law of conservation of mass, or continuity law, or Kirchhoff's first law)
Between any two junctions, the head loss is independent of the path taken (law of conservation of energy, or Kirchhoff's second law). This is equivalent mathematically to the statement that on any closed loop in the network, the head loss around the loop must vanish.
If there are sufficient known flow rates, so that the system of equations given by (1) and (2) above is closed (number of unknowns = number of equations), then a deterministic solution can be obtained.
The classical approach for solving these networks is to use the Hardy Cross method. In this formulation, first you go through and create guess values for the flows in the network. The flows are expressed via the volumetric flow rates Q. The initial guesses for the Q values must satisfy the Kirchhoff laws (1). That is, if Q7 enters a junction and Q6 and Q4 leave the same junction, then the initial guess must satisfy Q7 = Q6 + Q4. After the initial guess is made, then, a loop is considered so that we can evaluate our second condition. Given a starting node, we work our way around the loop in a clockwise fashion, as illustrated by Loop 1. We add up the head losses according to the Darcy–Weisbach equation for each pipe if Q is in the same direction as our loop like Q1, and subtract the head loss if the flow is in the reverse direction, like Q4. In other words, we add the head losses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK%20Avalon | Laboratorium Komputerowe Avalon (lit. "Computer Laboratory Avalon"), abbreviated LK Avalon, was a Polish software developer and distributor, with product range encompassing video games, educational software and other applications.
History
The company was founded in mid-1989 by 19 years old schoolmates Tomasz Pazdan and Janusz Pelc, fresh after passing their matura exams, in order to publish Pelc's Atari XL/XE game Robbo. In 1990 Mirosław Liminowicz joined the company, and replaced Pelc as partner in the company when the latter left Avalon the same year.
LK Avalon followed the success of Robbo with other games and applications for the Atari XL/XE. Initially publishing software developed in-house, such as Pelc's Misja and Liminowicz's Fred and Lasermania, later the company also published games created by other developers.
In late 1991, Avalon made a deal with Zeppelin Games, who would license the company's games Misja and Fred for release in Western Europe. In exchange, Avalon licensed several Atari 8-bit games by Zeppelin for publication in Poland, starting around October 1992. Avalon's software was also distributed in Germany by KE-Soft and in the Netherlands by ANG Software.
Besides software, Avalon was also responsible for publishing Tajemnice Atari, a magazine for Atari computer enthusiasts. It contained type-in listings of Atari programs, solutions and maps for Polish video games, and promotion of software published by LK Avalon. Launched in May 1991, Tajemnice Atari lasted until October 1993.
In the mid-1990s LK Avalon branched out to other computer platforms, publishing games first for the Commodore 64, then the Amiga and PC, with the Microsoft Windows market being the company's focus since the 2000s.
Selected games and programs
1989 Robbo
1990 Misja - arcade
1990 Fred - arcade
1990 Lasermania
1991 A.D. 2044 (Atari 8-bit)
1991 Chaos Music Composer
1992 Hans Kloss
1993 Smuś
1994 CyberKick
1994 Vicky
1995 Mega Blast
1995 Sołtys
1995 Skaut Kwatermaster
1996 A.D. 2044 (Windows)
1997 Sfinx
1997 Wacuś the Detective
2000 Tridonis
2001 Schizm (developed by Detalion)
Garden Composer 3D - design software
References
External links
Jarosław Syrylak, Interview with game developers Roland Pantoła, Dariusz Żołna and Mirosław Liminowicz, Tajemnice Atari 5/1993
Video game companies established in 1989
Defunct video game companies of Poland
Video game development companies
Video game publishers
Polish companies established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullpitt%21 | Bullpitt! was a short-lived Australian television comedy series which screened in 1997 to 1998 on the Seven Network, reprising the main character in the 1980s sitcom Kingswood Country. It was written by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler.
Bullpitt! saw the return of the character Ted Bullpitt, portrayed by (Ross Higgins) who is now single and retired, living in a retirement home. He is still complaining and repeating many of his catchphrases from Kingswood Country such as "Pickle me grandmother!". Also in the cast Elaine Lee, Peter Whitford, Bruce Spence, Vanessa Downing, Jacqueline Brennan and Kirstie Hutton. The series, like its predecessor, featured many well-known Australian actors in guest cameo roles. It was produced by RS Productions.
In 1998, the show was nominated at the Logies for Most Popular Comedy program. However it lost to sketch comedy Full Frontal.
13 of the 26 episodes of the show have been released on DVD under the title The Best of Bullpitt! Volume 1.
In 2023 Via Vision Entertainment released the entire series on DVD.
Cast
Main/regular
Ross Higgins as Ted Bullpitt
Elaine Lee as Joan Collins
Peter Whitford as Johnno Johnston
Jacquie Brennan as Samantha MacDonald
Vanessa Downing as Muriel Johnston
Bruce Spence as Darcy Kelso
Kristie Hutton as Terry
Guests
Ernie Dingo as Self
Danny Adcock as Supervisor
Stuart Wagstaff as Tyrone Wilde
Elaine Smith as Journalist
Max Phipps as Archbishop
Genevieve Mooy
Robina Beard as Gwen the Ranger
Kate Fitzpatrick as Helga
References
External links
Australian television sitcoms
Seven Network original programming
1997 Australian television series debuts
1998 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E310 | E310 may refer to:
Toshiba e310
Propyl gallate E number E310
a Dell Dimension E series computer model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Television | ABC Television most commonly refers to:
ABC Television Network of the American Broadcasting Company, United States, or
ABC Television (Australian TV network), a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
ABC Television or ABC television may also refer to:
Australian TV stations
ABC TV (Australian TV channel), the flagship TV station of the ABC television network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABC (TV station), Canberra, and other ABC TV local stations in state capitals
ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel), an international pay TV channel
Other countries
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Japan
ABC Weekend TV (1956–1968), United Kingdom
ABC Television (Nepal), a 2008 Nepali television channel
ABC Development Corporation, former name of the TV5 Network, Philippines
Associated Broadcasting Company, the original name of Associated Television (ATV), United Kingdom
ABC Television-Africa, a former TV station in Sierra Leone
ABC-TV (Paraguayan TV channel), since 2017
See also
ABC News (disambiguation)
ABC1 (disambiguation)
ABC-TV (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gates%20Building | William Gates Building might refer to several structures named after Bill Gates, other members of the Gates family, or his former wife, Melinda French Gates:
Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford, California, U.S.
William Gates Building, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, England
Gates Center for Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, U.S.
William H. Gates Building, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, at University of Texas at Austin, U.S.
William H. Gates Hall (Seattle), at University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Bill and Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, at University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
See also
Gates Computer Science Building (disambiguation)
Gates Hall (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC%20profile | In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of a particular device or viewing requirement by defining a mapping between the device source or target color space and a profile connection space (PCS). This PCS is either CIELAB (L*a*b*) or CIEXYZ. Mappings may be specified using tables, to which interpolation is applied, or through a series of parameters for transformations.
Every device that captures or displays color can be profiled. Some manufacturers provide profiles for their products, and there are several products that allow an end-user to generate their own color profiles, typically through the use of a tristimulus colorimeter or a spectrophotometer (sometimes called a spectrocolorimeter).
The ICC defines the format precisely but does not define algorithms or processing details. This means there is room for variation between different applications and systems that work with ICC profiles. Two main generations are used: the legacy ICCv2 and the December 2001 ICCv4. The current version of the format specification (ICC.1) is 4.4.
ICC has also published a preliminary specification for iccMAX (ICC.2) or ICCv5, a next-generation color management architecture with significantly expanded functionality and a choice of colorimetric, spectral or material connection space.
Details
To see how this works in practice, suppose we have a particular RGB and CMYK color space, and want to convert from this RGB to that CMYK. The first step is to obtain the two ICC profiles concerned. To perform the conversion, each RGB triplet is first converted to the Profile connection space (PCS) using the RGB profile. If necessary the PCS is converted between CIELAB and CIEXYZ, a well defined transformation. Then the PCS is converted to the four values of C,M,Y,K required using the second profile.
So a profile is essentially a mapping from a color space to the PCS, and from the PCS to the color space. The profile might do this using tables of color values to be interpolated (separate tables will be needed for the conversion in each direction), or using a series of mathematical formulae.
A profile might define several mappings, according to rendering intent. These mappings allow a choice between closest possible color matching, and remapping the entire color range to allow for different gamuts.
The reference illuminant of the Profile connection space (PCS) is a 16-bit fractional approximation of D50; its white point is XYZ=(0.9642, 1.000, 0.8249). Different source/destination white points are adapted using the Bradford transformation.
Another kind of profile is the device link profile. Instead of mapping between a device color space and a PCS, it maps between two specific device spaces. While this is less flexible, it allows for a more accurate or purposeful conversion of c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2D | C2D may refer to:
Intel Core 2 Duo, a microprocessor line by Intel
Crash to desktop, in computing, an event where a program exits abnormally |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDDS | OpenDDS may refer to:
ICL VME
OpenDDS, an open-source implementation of Data Distribution Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjax | Flapjax is a programming language built on JavaScript. It provides a spreadsheet-like reactive programming, dataflow computing style, termed functional reactive programming, making it easy to create reactive web pages without the burden of callbacks and potentially inconsistent mutation. Flapjax can be viewed in two ways: either as a library, for use in regular JavaScript programs, or as a new language that the compiler converts into generic JavaScript. In either case, the resulting programs can be run in a regular web browser. Flapjax comes with persistent storage and a simple application programming interface (API) that masks the complexity of using Ajax, and sharing and access control (AC) for server data.
It is free and open-source software released under a 3-clause BSD license.
The Flapjax compiler is written in the language Haskell.
References
Further reading
Leo Meyerovich, Arjun Guha, Jacob Baskin, Greg Cooper, Michael Greenberg, Aleks Bromfield, Shriram Krishnamurthi".Flapjax: A Programming Language for Ajax Applications". OOPSLA 2009.
Leo Meyerovich, Arjun Guha, Jacob Baskin, Greg Cooper, Michael Greenberg, Aleks Bromfield, Shriram Krishnamurthi. "Flapjax: A Programming Language for Ajax Applications". Brown University Tech Report CS-09-04.
Arjun Guha, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Trevor Jim".Using Static Analysis for Ajax intrusion Detection". WWW 2009.
Arjun Guha, Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, Shriram Krishnamurthi".Relationally-Parametric Polymorphic Contracts". DLS 2007.
External links
Scripting languages
Reactive programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green.tv | Green.TV is a multi-channel video publishing network for clean tech, conservation and sustainability stories. It launched in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme.
All content on Green.TV is available on multiple platforms including connected TVs and handheld devices. Films are typically 2 – 6 minutes long and further information and links to relevant sources are provided for each.
Green.TV has published videos in editorial channels on Apple iTunes, Aol, Huffington Post, Vewd App Store, Sony TV, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire for Android, TiVo and Samsung Blu-ray.
It produces and/or distributes content for organisations in the clean tech, conservation and sustainability space. It works with organisations such as Nissan, Siemens Energy, Vestas, the RSPB, the National Trust, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, DNV GL, the Sierra Club, Ramsar, Cisco, World Wide Fund for Nature and Greenpeace .
History
March 2006 - Green.TV Launches in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme
September 2006 - Green.TV establishes formal partnership with Greenpeace International, establishing a relationship to show all Greenpeace International films on green.tv.
November 2006 - Green.TV establishes new 'Partner channel' functionality giving organisations the ability to have their own channel within green.tv. Partner channels include UNEP, Greenpeace International, Free Range Studios, Toyota and New Consumer magazine
January 2007 - Green.TV's podcast becomes the number one video podcast in its category on iTunes.
April 2007 - Friends Provident sponsor Green.tv's 'People' channel. Ecover sponsor Green. TV's 'Water' channel.
September 2007 - Green.TV nominated for two prestigious awards: Best Website at the BEMAs (British Environment and Media Awards) and Best New Media at the Green Awards
November 2007 - Green.TV launches its user generated channel, YourGreen.TV, with funding from the Esmee Fairburn Foundation.
February 2011 - Green.TV becomes an official 'Featured Provider' for iTunes with a permanent link on the Podcast homepage.
September 2011 - Green.TV launches a series of apps for Nokia phones receiving worldwide promotion on the Nokia store
December 2011 - Green.TV becomes an official partner with Dailymotion making all videos available to users of this platform.
April 2012 - Green.TV becomes an official partner with Aol and launches the Green.tv branded channel on the Aol On curated video platform.
April 2012 - Green.TV becomes an official partner with TES (Times Educational Supplement) providing videos to teachers and pupils around the world.
May 2012 - Green.TV launches on connected TVs and set top boxes across Europe including Hitachi, Sharp and JVC (via the Netrange portal)
October 2012 - Green.TV launches on Sony connected TVs and Blu-rays as a flagship channel alongside BBC, YouTube and LoveFilm across UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Latin America and CIS states.
November 2012 - Green.TV l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%20Lisp | S-1 Lisp was a Lisp implementation written in Lisp for the 36-bit pipelined S-1 Mark IIA supercomputer computer architecture, which has 32 megawords of RAM.
References
Lisp (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20Lisp | Spice Lisp (Scientific Personal Integrated Computing Environment) is a programming language, a dialect of Lisp. Its implementation, originally written by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Spice Lisp Group, targeted the microcode of the 16-bit workstation PERQ, and its operating system Accent. It used that workstation's microcode abilities (and provided microcodes for the languages Pascal, C, and Ada) to implement a stack machine architecture to store its data structures as 32-bit objects and to enable run time type-checking. It would later be popular on other workstations.
Spice Lisp evolved into an implementation of Common Lisp, and was renamed CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL).
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Lisp programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20fair%20queueing | Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) is a network scheduling algorithm. WFQ is both a packet-based implementation of the generalized processor sharing (GPS) policy, and a natural extension of fair queuing (FQ). Whereas FQ shares the link's capacity in equal subparts, WFQ allows schedulers to specify, for each flow, which fraction of the capacity will be given.
Weighted fair queuing is also known as packet-by-packet GPS (PGPS or P-GPS) since it approximates generalized processor sharing "to within one packet transmission time, regardless of the arrival patterns."
Parametrization and fairness
Like other GPS-like scheduling algorithms, the choice of the weights is left to the network administrator. There is no unique definition of what is "fair" (see for further discussion).
By regulating the WFQ weights dynamically, WFQ can be utilized for controlling the quality of service, for example, to achieve guaranteed data rate.
Proportionally fair behavior can be achieved by setting the weights to , where is the cost per data bit of data flow . For example, in CDMA spread spectrum cellular networks, the cost may be the required energy (the interference level), and in dynamic channel allocation systems, the cost may be the number of nearby base station sites that can not use the same frequency channel, in view to avoid co-channel interference.
Algorithm
In WFQ, a scheduler handling flows is configured with one weight for each flow. Then, the flow of number will achieve an average data rate of , where is the link rate. A WFQ scheduler where all weights are equal is a FQ scheduler.
Like all fair-queuing schedulers, each flow is protected from the others, and it can be proved that if a data flow is leaky bucket constrained, an end-to-end delay bound can be guaranteed.
The algorithm of WFQ is very similar to the one of FQ. For each packet, a virtual theoretical departure date will be computed, defined as the departure date if the scheduler was a perfect GPS scheduler. Then, each time the output link is idle, the packet with the smallest date is selected for emission.
The pseudo code can be obtained simply from the one of FQ by replacing the computation of the virtual departure time by
packet.virFinish = virStart + packet.size / Ri
with .
WFQ as a GPS approximation
WFQ, under the name PGPS, has been designed as "an excellent approximation to GPS", and it has been proved that it approximates GPS "to within one packet transmission time, regardless of the arrival patterns."
Since WFQ implementation is similar to fair queuing, it has the same O(log(n)) complexity, where n is the number of flows. This complexity comes from the need to select the queue with the smallest virtual finish time each time a packet is sent.
After WFQ, several other implementations of GPS have been defined.
Even if WFQ is at most "one packet" late w.r.t. the ideal GPS policy, it can be arbitrarily ahead. The Worst-case Fair Weighted Fair Queueing (WF2Q) fixes it by adding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuzzy | Skuzzy may refer to:
Skuzzy (sternwheeler)
SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface), pronounced Skuzzy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEHM | WEHM (92.9 FM) is an adult album alternative formatted radio station licensed to Manorville, New York and serving Suffolk County, New York. WEHM's programming is simulcast on WEHN (96.9 FM) East Hampton, New York, the station which originally had been home to WEHM when it was located on 96.7 FM. WEHN's signal covers the eastern Long Island and southeastern Connecticut areas.
The stations were purchased in 2013 for $3.2 million and licensed to LRS Radio, LLC, which is owned by WEHM on-air talent Lauren Stone (68.8%) and her father Roger W. Stone (31.2%), the Chairman/CEO of Kapstone Paper & Packaging Company in Northbrook, Illinois,. Both stations broadcast from studios in Water Mill, New York alongside sister stations WBAZ and WBEA.
History
WEHM signed on in 1993 at 96.7 MHz licensed in East Hampton to East Hampton Broadcasting. Its ownership was made up of majority owners Leonard Ackerman, a local attorney, and Mickey Shulhof, then Sony America Chairman, with minority interest held by such notables as Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley and others. The station would sign on with an Adult Contemporary format, later changing to a AAA format which proved very successful.
In 2000, then-owner AAA Entertainment obtained a construction permit for a new FM station at 92.9 MHz licensed to Southampton, New York. After several years of planning and development, the 92.9 frequency would sign on in June 2003 and would become WEHM's permanent home that July. At that time, the 96.7 frequency took the WHBE calls and took on a Bloomberg Radio format (a move reportedly done by the influence of Michael Bloomberg).
The two WEHMs would be united in April 2006 when WHBE quietly moved up the dial from 96.7 to 96.9 MHz and began to simulcast WEHM's programming. WHBE changed their call letters to WEHN.
On June 24, 2008, the FCC approved a change in WEHM's community of license from Southampton to Manorville.
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Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1993
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Brookhaven, New York
Southampton (town), New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC%20applications | Microprocessors belonging to the PowerPC/Power ISA architecture family have been used in numerous applications.
Personal Computers
Apple Computer was the dominant player in the market of personal computers based on PowerPC processors until 2006 when it switched to Intel-based processors. Apple used PowerPC processors in the Power Mac, iMac, eMac, PowerBook, iBook, Mac mini, and Xserve. Classic Macintosh accelerator boards using PowerPCs were made by DayStar Digital, Newer Technology, Sonnet Technologies, and TotalImpact.
There have been several attempts to create PowerPC reference platforms for computers by IBM and others: The IBM PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) is a system standard intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies; IBM POP (PowerPC Open Platform) is an open and free standard and design of PowerPC motherboards. Pegasos Open Desktop Workstation (ODW) is an open and free standard and design of PowerPC motherboards based on Marvell Discovery II (MV64361) chipset; PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel, and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run OS/2, AIX, Solaris, Taligent, and Windows NT; and the CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) is an open platform agreed on by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. All CHRP systems will be able to run Mac OS, OS/2-PPC, Windows NT, AIX, Solaris, Novell Netware. CHRP is a superset of PReP and the PowerMac platforms.
Power.org has defined the Power Architecture Platform Reference (PAPR) that provides the foundation for development of computers based on the Linux operating system.
List of computers based on PowerPC:
Amiga accelerator boards:
Phase5 Blizzard PPC.
Phase5 CyberStorm PPC.
Apple
iMac
PowerMac
Xserve
Mac mini
iBook
PowerBook
Eyetech
AmigaOne
Genesi
Pegasos Open Desktop Workstation (ODW).
EFIKA
IBM
RS/6000 AIX workstations
ACube Systems Srl
Sam440 (Samantha)
Sam460ex (Samantha)
Servers
Apple
Xserve Rack server.
Genesi
Open Server Workstation (OSW) with dual IBM PowerPC 970MP CPU.
High density blade server (rack server).
IBM
Rack server.
Supercomputers
IBM
Blue Gene/L and Blue Gene/P Supercomputer, keeping the top spots of supercomputers since 2004, also being the first systems to performa faster than one Petaflops.
System p with POWER5 processors are used as the base for many supercomputers as they are made to scale well and have powerful CPUs.
All supercomputers of Spanish Supercomputing Network, built using PowerPC 970 based blade servers. Magerit and Marenostrum are the most powerful supercomputers of the network.
Roadrunner is a new Cell/Opteron based supercomputer that will be operational in 2008, pushing the 1 PetaFLOPS mark.
Summit and Sierra, currently the world's first and second fastest supercomputers, respectively.
Apple
System X of Virginia Tech is a supercomputer based on 1100 Xserves (PowerPC 970) running Mac OS X. First built using stock PowerMac G5s making |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PowerPC%20processors | The following is a list of PowerPC processors.
General-purpose PowerPC processors
IBM/Motorola
PowerPC 600 family
601 50 and 66 MHz
602 consumer products (multiplexed data/address bus)
603/603e/603ev notebooks, embedded devices
604/604e/604ev workstations and low end servers
620 the first 64-bit implementation
PowerPC 7xx family
740/750 (1997) 233–366 MHz
Motorola/Freescale
PowerPC 7xx family
PowerPC 740 and 750, 233–366 MHz
745/755, 300–466 MHz
PowerPC 74xx family
7400/7410 350–550 MHz, uses AltiVec, a SIMD extension of the original PPC specs
7440/7450 micro-architecture family up to 1.5 GHz and 256 kB on-chip L2 cache and improved Altivec
7447/7457 micro-architecture family up to 1.83 GHz with 512 kB on-chip L2 cache
7448 micro-architecture family (2.0 GHz) in 90 nm with 1MB L2 cache and slightly improved AltiVec (out of order instructions).
8640/8641/8640D/8641D with one or two e600 cores, 1MB L2 cache
IBM
IBM Power microprocessors
POWER3, 64-bit, 200–450 MHz (as POWER3-II), originally the PowerPC 630. Introduced in 1998.
POWER4, 64-bit, dual core, 1.0–1.9 GHz (as POWER4+), follows the PowerPC 2.00 ISA. Introduced in 2001.
POWER5, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 1.6–2.0 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.01 ISA. Introduced in 2004.
POWER5+, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 1.9–2.2 GHz, follows the PowerPC 2.02 ISA. Introduced in 2005.
POWER6, 64-bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 3.6–4.7 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.03. Introduced in 2007.
POWER6+, 64 bit, dual core, 2 way SMT/core, 5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.05. Introduced in 2009.
POWER7, 64-bit octo core, 4 way SMT/core, 2.4–4.25 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.06. Introduced in 2010.
POWER7+, 64-bit octo core, 4 way SMT/core, 3.0–5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.06. Introduced in 2012.
POWER8, 64-bit, hex or twelve core, 8 way SMT/core, 5.0 GHz, follows the Power ISA 2.07. Introduced in 2014.
POWER9, 64-bit, PowerNV 24 cores of 4 way SMT/core, PowerVM 12 cores of 8 way SMT/core, follows the Power ISA 3.0. Introduced in 2016.
Power10, 64-bit, 15 SMT8 or 30 SMT4 cores, will follow the Power ISA 3.1. Introduced in 2021.
RS64
A10 (Cobra), 50–77 MHz, 1995, single chip processor for Series i
A25/30 (Muskie), 125–154 MHz, 1996, multi chip, 4 way SMP for Series i
RS64 (Apache), 64-bit, 125 MHz, 1997 for large scale SMP systems Series i and Series p
RS64-II (Northstar), 262 MHz, 1998
RS64-III (Pulsar, Istar), 450 MHz in 1999, 600 in 2000
RS64-IV (Sstar), 750 MHz, multithreading, 2000
PowerPC 7xx family
750CL with 256 kB on die L2 cache at 400–900 MHz introduced in 2006
750CX/CXe with 256 kB on die L2 cache at 350–600 MHz
750FX with 512 kB L2 cache announced by IBM in 2001 and available early 2002 at 1 GHz
750GX with 1 MB L2 cache introduced by IBM in 2003
PowerPC 970 family (known in Apple products as PowerPC G5)
970 (2003), 64-bit, derived from POWER4, enhanced with VMX, 512 kB L2 cache, 1.4–2 GHz
970FX (2004), manufactured at 90 nm, 1.8–2.7 GH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amateur%20radio%20modes | The following is a list of the modes of radio communication used in the amateur radio hobby.
Modes of communication
Amateurs use a variety of voice, text, image, and data communications modes over radio. Generally new modes can be tested in the amateur radio service, although national regulations may require disclosure of a new mode to permit radio licensing authorities to monitor the transmissions. Encryption, for example, is not generally permitted in the Amateur Radio service except for the special purpose of satellite vehicle control uplinks. The following is a partial list of the modes of communication used, where the mode includes both modulation types and operating protocols.
Morse code
Morse code is called the original digital mode. Radio telegraphy, designed for machine-to-machine communication is the direct on / off keying of a continuous wave carrier by Morse code symbols, often called amplitude-shift keying or ASK, may be considered to be an amplitude modulated mode of communications, and is rightfully considered the first digital data mode. Although more than 140 years old, bandwidth-efficient Morse code, originally developed by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in the 1840s, uses techniques that were not more fully understood until much later under the modern terms of source coding or data compression.
Alfred Vail intuitively understood efficient code design: The bandwidth-efficiency of Morse code arises because its encodings are variable length, and Vail assigned the shortest encodings to the most-used symbols, and the longest encodings to the least-used symbols. It was not until one hundred years later that Shannon's modern information theory (1948) described Vail's coding technique for Morse code, giving it a firm footing in a mathematically based theory. Shannon's information theory resulted in similarly efficient data encoding technologies which use bandwidth like Morse code, such as the modern Huffman, Arithmetic, and Lempel-Ziv codes.
Although commercial telegraphy ended in the late 20th century, Morse code remains in use by amateur radio operators. Operators may either key the code manually using a telegraph key and decode by ear, or they may use computers to send and receive the code.
Continuous wave (CW)
Modulated continuous wave (MCW) is most often used by repeaters for identification.
Frequency-shift keying (FSK) dots and dashes are transmitted as different frequency continuous waves, for easier reception in noisy conditions.
Analog voice
Decades after the advent of digital amplitude-shift keying (ASK) of radio carriers by Morse symbols, radio technology evolved several methods of analog modulating radio carriers such as: amplitude, frequency and phase modulation by analog waveforms. The first such analog modulating waveforms applied to radio carriers were human voice signals picked up by microphone sensors and applied to the carrier waveforms. The resulting analog voice modes are known today as:
Amplitude modulat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%27s%20Ultimate%20Challenge | Mickey's Ultimate Challenge is a puzzle video game developed by WayForward Technologies (at the time known as Designer Software) and co-published by Walt Disney Computer Software and Hi Tech Expressions for the Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, and Game Gear. The Master System version, released in Brazil by Tectoy in 1998, was the last game released for that console in the country. All other versions were released in 1994. Players move Mickey through the game by making him walk, jump, and go through doors. There are five major challenges, a segue, and a final challenge. It was met with mixed reviews from gaming magazines.
Plot
Mickey is lying in bed reading a book of fairy tales. He thinks to himself how wonderful it would be to live on a far-away land in a magical castle. Mickey falls asleep and dreams that he learns of trouble in Beanswick. There is a strange rumbling over the castle and no one can explain it. Mickey (or Minnie) volunteers to investigate. He must go through a series of challenges in various rooms of the castle in order to collect magic beans and items.
Gameplay
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge is a puzzle game where players must complete challenges to beat the game. Players must go through a series of challenges in various rooms of the castle in order to collect magic beans and items.
In Sorting Books, Books are floating up and down in the library of the Beanswick castle and Mickey must sort them in alphabetical order by jumping on them. Depending on the difficulty, there are various numbers of books to be sorted and different patterns for the books to float in. Only a portion of the alphabet must be sorted. Once the books have been sorted, players receive an item from Horace Horsecollar.
In Moving Potions, Mickey is shrunk to a tiny size and placed on a chess-like game board. Potion bottles are on this board, as well as block obstacles that must be maneuvered around. The potion bottles are to be pushed into a magic mirror on the board. In more difficult games, there are more boards to play in increasing difficulty. Once all potions have been collected, the player returns to normal size and receives their item from Donald Duck (dressed as a wizard).
Picture Matching is a timed, memory challenge. Mickey must dust off portraits hanging on the castle walls in matching pairs. Basically, it's the matching card game. He must complete this task before the lights in the castle dim to darkness. Depending on the difficulty, there are more or fewer pictures. For challenges with more pictures, more time is given. He is armed with a feather duster and a sliding ladder. Players must match up all the pictures before time and light runs out to receive an item from Daisy Duck as a princess.
Playing the Pipes is another memory game. Several pipes light up and make different noises in a pattern that builds every turn. Mickey must listen, remember, and repeat what he heard. He can do this by jumping on the top of the pipes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUO | SUO or Suo may refer to:
Suō Province of Japan
Suo (journal), a soil science journal
Senior Under Officer, a military cadet rank in Commonwealth countries
Standard upper ontology, in computing
Sunriver Airport (IATA identifier: SUO), Sunriver, Oregon, United States
Bouni language (ISO 639: suo), a language of Papua New Guinea
SUO, National Rail code for Sutton railway station (London)
People with the surname
Suo Chen (died 316), Jin Dynasty military general
Yoshikazu Suo (born 1953), Japanese musician
Masayuki Suo (born 1959), Japanese film director
Zhigang Suo (born 1963), Harvard School of Engineering professor
Suo Ma (born 1979), Chinese volleyball player
Suo Di (born 1993), Chinese badminton player
Suo Ran (born 1994), Chinese swimmer
Suo Chao, fictional character in the Chinese classical novel Water Margin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-label%20classification | In machine learning, multi-label classification or multi-output classification is a variant of the classification problem where multiple nonexclusive labels may be assigned to each instance. Multi-label classification is a generalization of multiclass classification, which is the single-label problem of categorizing instances into precisely one of several (greater than or equal to two) classes. In the multi-label problem the labels are nonexclusive and there is no constraint on how many of the classes the instance can be assigned to.
Formally, multi-label classification is the problem of finding a model that maps inputs x to binary vectors y; that is, it assigns a value of 0 or 1 for each element (label) in y.
Problem transformation methods
Several problem transformation methods exist for multi-label classification, and can be roughly broken down into:
Transformation into binary classification problems
The baseline approach, called the binary relevance method, amounts to independently training one binary classifier for each label. Given an unseen sample, the combined model then predicts all labels for this sample for which the respective classifiers predict a positive result. Although this method of dividing the task into multiple binary tasks may resemble superficially the one-vs.-all (OvA) and one-vs.-rest (OvR) methods for multiclass classification, it is essentially different from both, because a single classifier under binary relevance deals with a single label, without any regard to other labels whatsoever. A classifier chain is an alternative method for transforming a multi-label classification problem into several binary classification problems. It differs from binary relevance in that labels are predicted sequentially, and the output of all previous classifiers (i.e. positive or negative for a particular label) are input as features to subsequent classifiers. Classifier chains have been applied, for instance, in HIV drug resistance prediction. Bayesian network has also been applied to optimally order classifiers in Classifier chains.
In case of transforming the problem to multiple binary classifications, the likelihood function reads
where index runs over the samples, index runs over the labels, indicates the binary outcomes 0 or 1, indicates the Kronecker delta, indicates the multiple hot encoded labels of sample .
Transformation into multi-class classification problem
The label powerset (LP) transformation creates one binary classifier for every label combination present in the training set. For example, if possible labels for an example were A, B, and C, the label powerset representation of this problem is a multi-class classification problem with the classes [0 0 0], [1 0 0], [0 1 0], [0 0 1], [1 1 0], [1 0 1], [0 1 1], and [1 1 1] where for example [1 0 1] denotes an example where labels A and C are present and label B is absent.
Ensemble methods
A set of multi-class classifiers can be used to create a multi-label ensembl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EudraCT | EudraCT (European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Clinical Trials) is the European Clinical Trials Database of all clinical trials of investigational medicinal products with at least one site in the European Union commencing 1 May 2004 or later. The EudraCT database has been established in accordance with Directive 2001/20/EC. The EudraCT Number is unique and is needed on other documents relating to the trials (e.g. SUSAR reports).
Public Side
The public side of EudraCT is for organisations to register any of their clinical trials as defined by Directive 2001/20/EC. The process of applying and registering a clinical trial should be completed before submitting an application to any of the Member State/s in which they anticipate running the trial. The public side of EudraCT does not save any of the trial detail entered by the user, and instead provides a saved data file in the form of an XML which the user must store on their own local hard drive.
Applying for an EudraCT Number
Application for a EudraCT number is made via the EudraCT website. To generate the EudraCT number some basic information about the requestor's organisation and the trial is required:
Requestor's organisation name, town/city and country.
Sponsor's protocol number.
Requestor name.
E-mail to which the EudraCT number will be sent.
Security code.
Whether the clinical trial is contained in a Paediatric Investigation Plan (PIP).
Whether the clinical trial will be conducted in a third country (outside of the EU/EEA).
The Member States where it is anticipated that the trial will be run.
Once the requestor submits the form, the EudraCT Number will be assigned and an e-mail called "EudraCT Receipt" sent. The EudraCT number has the format YYYY-NNNNNN-CC, where:
YYYY is the year in which the number is issued.
NNNNNN is a six digit sequential number.
CC is a check digit.
The Clinical Trial Application (CTA) form is also created via the EudraCT system.
Version details
The EudraCT database is currently on Version 9.
Current Versions
Version 9 of EudraCT was released in November 2013.
New features for Version 9 include:
Protocol-related information
Sponsors can:
Create, save XML/PDF files of clinical trial applications locally.
Load locally saved clinical trial applications to complete, validate, compare, or to prepare a package for submission to a National Competent Authority.
PIP addressees can:
Create, save XML/PDF files of third country files locally.
Create and post third country files to the EudraCT database.
Load locally saved third country files to complete, validate or post to the EudraCT database. To post third country files you will need to be registered as a PIP addressee.
Result-related information
To use result related functionality you will need to be registered as a results user, and log in.
Results users can:
Create, update, validate and post result data sets, and load summary attachments to the EudraCT database.
Save locally XML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Artemis | HTC Artemis or P3300 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition based pocket pc/phone manufactured by High Tech Computer. The device supports GPS, GPRS EDGE, Bluetooth, WiFi and quad-band GSM connectivity. The device is also sold by mobile phone operators Orange, O2 and T-Mobile, and is then branded Orange SPV M650, O2 Xda Orbit and T-Mobile MDA Compact III, respectively. The latter version lacks WiFi in most countries (including Germany).
Specifications
External links
Official homepage
Artemis
Windows Mobile Professional devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adani%20Ports%20%26%20SEZ | Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited is an Indian multinational port operator and logistics company, based in Ahmedabad, India. APSEZ is India's largest private port operator with a network of 12 ports and terminals, including India's first deep water Transshipment Port Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum Seaport) and India's first port-based SEZ at Mundra.
Operations
, APSEZ operated 3 inland container depots (ICD) through its subsidiary Adani Logistics Ltd. In August 2022, they acquired an additional ICD from Navkar Corporation in Tumb, Gujarat.
It holds Category 1 License for the Indian Railways that helps in pan-India cargo movement. The trains owned by Adani Logistics were used to dispatch 30,000 tonnes of food grains to feed over 60 lakh citizens across the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal, and Maharashtra, during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.
APSEZ provides dredging and reclamation solutions, primarily for port and harbor construction. The Adani Group started investing in developing a dredging fleet in 2005. , APSEZ operated a fleet of 19 dredgers, the largest capital dredging fleet in India.
APSEZ has undertaken mangrove afforestation activities totalling 2885 Ha () with a survival rate of over 85%. In 2016, the company announced that all ports and townships were being prepared to run on 100% renewable energy by 2018 using a mix of solar and wind energy.
In August 2017, a Morgan Stanley analysis described APSEZ as "stacking up well compared to its global peers: On operating metrics such as revenue growth, margins, EBIDTA growth, net income growth and return ratios (RoCE/ RoE), and based on bottom-up estimates by Morgan Stanley analysts covering global ports, APSEZ is expected to be in the top quartile across various operating metrics despite the tax holiday for Mundra port coming to an end".
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus acquired a 0.49% stake in Adani Ports for on 7 March 2021.
In April 2022, it was announced that APSEZ (through its subsidiary, The Adani Harbour Services Ltd.) had acquired the third-party marine services provider, Ocean Sparkle Ltd.
In July 2022, APSEZ alongside the Gadot Group won the privatisation bid for Israel's Port of Haifa for billion. Where Adani Ports and Gadot Group respectively hold 70%:30% of the shares.
In September 2022, Adani Ports secured a billion deep-sea port construction project with the West Bengal government.
Ports and terminals
The company commenced operations at Mundra Port and currently operates 15 ports across all Indian states. Its ports have 45 berths and 14 terminals.
Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum Seaport)
APSEZ won a bid with the Kerala government to construct the Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram in 2015. While the initial completion date was projected for 2020 the construction has experienced multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and cyclones. Adani sought an extensi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1%20Telekom%20Austria%20Group | A1 Telekom Austria Group is a provider of a range of fixed-line, broadband Internet, multimedia services, data, and IT systems, wholesale as well as mobile payment services. It is a subsidiary of Mexican telecommunications conglomerate América Móvil since 2014, and its headquarters are in Vienna. The company operates subsidiaries in seven European countries: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Its largest subsidiary is the Austrian telecommunications provider A1 Telekom Austria.
History
Telekom Austria's earliest predecessor, the state-owned PTT agency k.k , was formed in 1887 when all telephone and mail services in Austria-Hungary were taken over by the state. After World War I, the Austrian portion of the company became simply Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung (PTV, ÖPT).
In 1996, with the passage of the Post Restructuring Act, PTV was restructured as a public corporation, Post-und Telekom Austria AG (PTA AG). Only two years later, the telecommunications sector was fully deregulated and PTA was split, with the telecom side becoming Telekom Austria. The company was fully privatised in 2000 and was listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (it delisted from the latter in 2007).
In June 2000, the company invested about 15 million euros to rebrand itself as Jet2Web. However, Jet2Web failed to succeed in the market, because it was perceived as unreliable. The use of the name was discontinued in 2002, and the company name Telekom Austria was revived as the brand name with a new logo.
In June 2006, the company was split into the holding company Telekom Austria Group, with the public switched telephone network becoming Telekom Austria FixNet AG, which was later renamed Telekom Austria TA AG. In doing so, Telekom Austria FixNet AG became a sister company of affiliate Mobilkom Austria AG.
Both merged in 2010 to form A1 Telekom Austria. Foreign subsidiaries of Mobilkom Austria were transferred to the holding company, so that A1 Telekom Austria would only deal with the Austrian market.
In 2011, misdemeanours by company directors between 2004 and 2006 became public, erupting into a scandal known as the Telekom Austria Affair.
As of the end of 2016, Telekom Austria Group had 18,203 employees and generated about €4.2 billion in revenues.
On 14 November 2017, Telekom Austria Group was rebranded to A1 Telekom Austria Group as part of adopting their one brand strategy. The legal entity Telekom Austria AG still remains.
In 2020, all shares of Telecom Liechtenstein (FL1) were sold to the Principality.
Stakeholders
On 23 April 2014 Carlos Slim, owner of America Movil, took control of Telekom Austria by forming a syndicate agreement between ÖIAG and America Movil, spending as much as $2 billion to buy out minority shareholders and investing up to 1 billion euros ($1.38 billion) into the company. America Movil sees Telekom Austria as a "platform for expansion into Central and Eastern Europe". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty%20method | Penalty methods are a certain class of algorithms for solving constrained optimization problems.
A penalty method replaces a constrained optimization problem by a series of unconstrained problems whose solutions ideally converge to the solution of the original constrained problem. The unconstrained problems are formed by adding a term, called a penalty function, to the objective function that consists of a penalty parameter multiplied by a measure of violation of the constraints. The measure of violation is nonzero when the constraints are violated and is zero in the region where constraints are not violated.
Example
Let us say we are solving the following constrained problem:
subject to
This problem can be solved as a series of unconstrained minimization problems
where
In the above equations, is the exterior penalty function while are the penalty coefficients. In each iteration k of the method, we increase the penalty coefficient (e.g. by a factor of 10), solve the unconstrained problem and use the solution as the initial guess for the next iteration. Solutions of the successive unconstrained problems will asymptotically converge to the solution of the original constrained problem.
Practical application
Image compression optimization algorithms can make use of penalty functions for selecting how best to compress zones of colour to single representative values.
Barrier methods
Barrier methods constitute an alternative class of algorithms for constrained optimization. These methods also add a penalty-like term to the objective function, but in this case the iterates are forced to remain interior to the feasible domain and the barrier is in place to bias the iterates to remain away from the boundary of the feasible region.
See also
Other nonlinear programming algorithms:
Sequential quadratic programming
Successive linear programming
Sequential linear-quadratic programming
Interior point method
Augmented Lagrangian method
Other links:
Barrier function
References
Smith, Alice E.; Coit David W. Penalty functions Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, Section C 5.2. Oxford University Press and Institute of Physics Publishing, 1996.
Coello, A.C.: Theoretical and Numerical Constraint-Handling Techniques Used with Evolutionary Algorithms: A Survey of the State of the Art. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 191(11-12), 1245-1287
Courant, R. Variational methods for the solution of problems of equilibrium and vibrations. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 49, 1–23, 1943.
Wotao, Y. Optimization Algorithms for constrained optimization. Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 2015.
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotix%20%28competition%29 | Robotix is an annual robotics and programming event that is organised by the Technology Robotix Society at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur). It is held during Kshitij, the institute's annual techno-management festival. Participation is open to college students. The event gives contestants an opportunity to showcase their talents in the fields of mechanical robotics, autonomous robotics and programming.
History
Robotix started in 2001 as an in-house event for the students of IIT Kharagpur. Kunal Sinha, Saurabh Prasad and Varun Rai created the event for IDEON, the school's techno-management festival. The inaugural event hosted eight teams. In 2003, the IDEON festival was reorganized and renamed to Kshitij. Robotix is now organized under Kshitij.
Event participation has increased over the years: Robotix 2006 had 220 teams, Robotix 2007 had 546 teams, and Robotix 2008 had over 1000 teams.
Robotix celebrated its tenth edition in 2010 with an array of challenging problem statements. Robotix 2011 conducted a water surface event, R.A.F.T., in which over 250 teams participated.
Events
Events during Robotix are conducted under three categories: manual, autonomous and programming/online. In the manual events, the participant handles the robot by using a remote control. The remote system may be wired or unwired. The robot then has to perform the specified task, which is usually something mechanical. In the autonomous events, the robots act independently; participants are not allowed to control them during their run. These robots typically use programmed micro-controllers to make decisions. Some events involve more than one robot, and can be a mix of autonomous and manually controlled robots. In the programming events, the participants are given a problem statement and submit code to solve the problem; the competitors are also allowed to submit their solutions online.
The manual and autonomous events are further classified by competition type. In the solo runs, the robot team performs the tasks without other competitors in the field; they are evaluated on marking criteria such as time elapsed, goal completion, and efficiency. In the tournaments, two or more teams participate at a time, and only one team advances to the next round.
Past events
Robotix 2018
Robotix 2018 will be held from 19–21 January 2018. The events of 2018 edition are:
Poles Apart: Build a manually controlled robot, which is capable of picking and placing blocks with accuracy and changing its interaxial distance to make its way through a series of hurdles.
STAX: Build a robot which can rearrange blocks of different colors from a stack in a pattern by identifying the colors simultaneously moving across the stacks using line following.
Fortress: Build an image processing robot that can recognize useful patterns by pattern recognition while avoiding other obstacles.
Robotix 2017
Robotix 2017 was held from 27–29 January 2017. The events of 2017 edition are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordon%20Light%20Railway | The Bordon Light Railway was a short-lived light railway line in Hampshire that connected the Army Camp at Bordon, as well as the villages of Bordon and Kingsley, with the national rail network at Bentley on the main Farnham-Alton line, a distance of 4.5 miles (7.2 km).
History
Following the end of the Boer War, a number of military camps were established to accommodate the returning soldiers. Amongst these featured "Bordon Camp" which was built on agricultural land near the village of Bordon 4½ miles to the south of Bentley station, and "Longmoor Camp" 4½ miles further south near the village of Whitehill. Two battalions were assigned to Longmoor where they were housed in corrugated huts constructed on soft ground. This led to complaints from the soldiers and in 1903 it was decided to move them and the huts to Bordon Camp. To save costs, a temporary primitive railway line with a gauge was laid to Bordon to facilitate the move.
The increased military presence at Bordon coupled with its proximity to the national rail network at Bentley led to an application being made on 6 October 1902 for a light railway order under the Light Railways Act 1896 authorising a standard gauge connection from Bentley to a point just west of Bordon village. The application received the backing of the War Department which saw the railway as a means of easing troop movements and bringing supplies to both camps. It was also hoped that the local communities along the line would also be able to make use of the new connection. An agreement for the line's operation was reached with the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR), the operator of the Alton line, with whom the War Department had already collaborated in the construction of the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway in 1901. Under the terms of the agreement, the LSWR would manage, work and maintain the railway, providing the engines, rolling stock and plant.
The necessary land was acquired by the LSWR with the War Department's assistance, and construction was completed within 18 months at a cost of £30,000. The work was overseen by Alfred W. Szlumper of the L&SWR. In total, 155 men using three locomotives, four tip wagons and three horses were involved. The line was officially opened on 11 December 1905 from a bay platform at Bentley station. Eight trains were run from Bentley to Bordon on weekdays, with seven return services (except for Saturday when there were eight). Two trains ran each way on Sundays.
Kingsley Halt
The LSWR managed to acquire sufficient land near the village of Kingsley (3 miles to the south of Bentley) where it decided to site a station in the hope that the area would attract residential development. With fairly basic facilities, the station was only a halt and opened after the rest of the line on 7 March 1906.
In 1905 the War Department began the construction of the Longmoor Military Railway, a standard gauge line which would connect Longmoor Military Camp with the LSWR's terminus at Bor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber%27s%20Lover | is cult filmmaker Shozin Fukui's 1996 follow-up to 964 Pinocchio. Like its predecessor, it is an underground Japanese cyberpunk-horror film, shot in black and white.
Premise
Often interpreted as a prequel to 964 Pinocchio, Rubber's Lover details a clandestine group of scientists who conduct psychic experiments on human guinea-pigs that they take from the streets. Using brain-altering drugs, sensory deprivation and computer interfaces, they subject their patients to gruesome scientific tortures that often end in brutal death. After continued failure and pressure from the company to cancel the project, they pursue one last experiment using one of their own as a test subject – yielding dangerous results.
Similar works
Like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, it is filmed in stark black and white and set in a decayed postindustrial city. Like that film, it utilizes horror imagery.
References
External links
Rubber's Lover at rottentomatoes
Rubber's Lover Rubber’s Lover at horrordrome.com
1996 films
1990s Japanese films
1990s science fiction films
Cyberpunk films
Films directed by Shozin Fukui
Japanese black-and-white films
Japanese science fiction horror films
Japanese splatter films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20filtering | In the context of network routing, route filtering is the process by which certain routes are not considered for inclusion in the local route database, or not advertised to one's neighbours. Route filtering is particularly important for the Border Gateway Protocol on the global Internet, where it is used for a variety of reasons. One way of doing route filtering with external-resources in practice is using Routing Policy Specification Language in combination with Internet Routing Registry databases.
Types of filtering
There are two times when a filter can be naturally applied: when learning routes from a neighbour, and when announcing routes to a neighbour.
Input filtering
In input filtering, a filter is applied to routes as they are learned from a neighbour. A route that has been filtered out is discarded straight away, and hence not considered for inclusion into the local routing database.
Output filtering
In output filtering, a filter is applied to routes before they are announced to a neighbour. A route that has been filtered out is never learned by a neighbour, and hence not considered for inclusion in the remote route database.
Reasons to filter
Economic reasons
When a site is multihomed, announcing non-local routes to a neighbour different from the one it was learned from amounts to advertising the willingness to serve for transit, which is undesirable unless suitable agreements are in place. Applying output filtering on these routes avoids this issue.
Security reasons
An ISP will typically perform input filtering on routes learned from a customer to restrict them to the addresses actually assigned to that customer. Doing so makes address hijacking more difficult.
Similarly, an ISP will perform input filtering on routes learned from other ISPs to protect its customers from address hijacking.
Technical reasons
In some cases, routers have insufficient amounts of main memory to hold the full global BGP table. A simple work-around is to perform input filtering, thus limiting the local route database to a subset of the global table. This can be done by filtering on prefix length (eliminating all routes for prefixes longer than a given value), on AS count, or on some combination of the two; security is the most important point for this.
However, this practice is not recommended, as it can cause suboptimal routing or even , and frustrate the traffic-engineering efforts of one's peers.
See also
Default-free zone
Internet Routing Registry
Routing Assets Database
Teletraffic engineering
References
Routing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search-oriented%20architecture | The use of search engine technology is the main integration component in an information system. In a traditional business environment the architectural layer usually occupied by a relational database management system (RDBMS) is supplemented or replaced with a search engine or the indexing technology used to build search engines. Queries for information which would usually be performed using Structured Query Language (SQL) are replaced by keyword or fielded (or field-enabled) searches for structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data.
In a typical multi-tier or N tier architecture information is maintained in a data tier where it can be stored and retrieved from a database or file system. The data tier is queried by the logic or business tier when information is needed using a data retrieval language like SQL.
In a search-oriented architecture the data tier may be replaced or placed behind another tier which contains a search engine and search engine index which is queried instead of the database management system. Queries from the business tier are made in the search engine query language instead of SQL. The search engine itself crawls the relational database management system in addition to other traditional data sources such as web pages or traditional file systems and consolidates the results when queried.
The benefit of adding a search layer to the architecture stack is rapid response time large dynamic datasets made possible by search indexing technology such as an inverted index.
Contrast with
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Service-Oriented Modeling
See also
Hibernate search
Software architecture
Information retrieval techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcha%20Pretto | Satcha Pretto (born April 5, 1980) is a Honduran journalist and news co-anchor of the Univision Network's popular morning show Despierta America.
Early life
Pretto was born in La Paz, Honduras, the daughter of Honduran Liz Padilla and Panamanian Rolando Pretto. She lived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras from the age of three until she was 18 years old. Her father died from a heart attack in 1996.
Pretto studied in bilingual schools in Honduras: Mayan Elementary School and Macris High School in Tegucigalpa. Her excellent academic record earned her a scholarship in 1998 to attend Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. In 2001, she graduated with a B.A. in Communications.
She speaks English and Spanish fluently.
Career
While still in high school in Honduras, at the age of 17, Satcha had the opportunity via the National Broadcasters Association of Honduras to get a job at a radio station. She was hired by Radio Suprema Stereo 99.5 in Tegucigalpa where, prior to hitting the airwaves, she received intense training during three months. Her radio debut as the host of a three-hour-long live show came in August 1997. Pretto broadcast the show (in her school uniform) for one year.
She started her professional career as a television journalist in Midland-Odessa, Texas, as a reporter and anchor of the late night newscast of KTLE-Telemundo. She was also able to work as a reporter for KWES-TV channel 9, an NBC affiliate and Telemundo KTLE's sister station. Pretto worked in West Texas from January 2002 to September 2003.
In October 2003, Pretto moved to Dallas, Texas, where she was hired to co-anchor KUVN channel 23's (an Univision affiliate) 5:00 p.m. newscast, Cinco en Punto (Five o'Clock) and report for the late night newscast, Edición Nocturna (Nightly Edition). While at KUVN, Pretto worked with the CNN Cable Network as a reporter for Anderson Cooper 360 and the now-defunct Paula Zahn Now. Pretto's most memorable interview in Dallas was with famous Chilean writer Isabel Allende on March, 2006.
On July 13, 2006, Univision Communications Inc. announced the naming of Satcha Pretto as the new co-host of the highly rated daily newsmagazine Primer Impacto - Fin de Semana (First Impact - Weekend Edition), on Saturday and Sunday, 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET/PT (4:00-5:00 p.m. CT). Just six months after joining the Univision Network, Pretto hosted the network's broadcast of the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade, and did so again in January 2008. In May 2007, Pretto covered a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Brazil and was subsequently chosen to be part of a select group of 70 journalists who traveled with the pope during his visit to the United States in 2008. In doing so, Pretto made history by becoming the first female journalist from a Spanish-language media outlet in the U.S. to travel on board the Pope's plane.
On July 18, 2011, Pretto joined Univision's ¡Despierta América!
Recognitions
Between April 19–21, 2001 Pretto, as a senior majoring in communications at Angelo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PECOTA | PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical PECOTA entry. PECOTA was developed by Nate Silver in 2002–2003 and introduced to the public in the book Baseball Prospectus 2003. Baseball Prospectus (BP) has owned PECOTA since 2003; Silver managed PECOTA from 2003 to 2009. Beginning in Spring 2009, BP assumed responsibility for producing the annual forecasts, making 2010 the first baseball season for which Silver played no role in producing PECOTA projections.
One of several widely publicized statistical systems of forecasts of player performance, PECOTA player forecasts are marketed by BP as a fantasy baseball product. Since 2003, annual PECOTA forecasts have been published both in the Baseball Prospectus annual books and, in more detailed form, on the BaseballProspectus.com subscription-based website. PECOTA also inspired some analogous projection systems for other professional sports: KUBIAK for the National Football League, SCHOENE and CARMELO for the National Basketball Association, and VUKOTA for the National Hockey League.
PECOTA forecasts a player's performance in all of the major categories used in typical fantasy baseball games; it also forecasts production in advanced sabermetric categories developed by Baseball Prospectus (e.g., VORP and EqA). In addition, PECOTA forecasts several summary diagnostics such as breakout rates, improve rates, and attrition rates, as well as the market values of the players. The logic and methodology underlying PECOTA have been described in several publications, but the detailed formulas are proprietary and have not been shared with the baseball research community.
Methodology
Silver described the inspiration for his approach as follows:
The basic idea behind PECOTA is really a fusion of two different things – [Bill] James's work on similarity scores and Gary Huckabay's work on Vlad, [Baseball Prospectus's] previous projection system, which tried to assign players to a number of different career paths. I think Gary used something like thirteen or fifteen separate career paths, and all that PECOTA is really doing is carrying that to the logical extreme, where there is essentially a separate career path for every player in major league history. The comparability scores are the mechanism by which it picks and chooses from among those career paths.
Comparable players
PECOTA relies on fitting a given player's past performance statistics to the performance of "comparable" Major League ballplayers by means of similarity scores. As is described in the Baseball Prospectus website's glossary:
PECOTA compares each player against a database of roughly 20,000 major league batter seasons since World War II. In addition, it als |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%20Storytellers | Storytellers is a television music series produced by the VH1 network.
In each episode, artists perform in front of a (mostly small and intimate) live audience, and tell stories about their music, writing experiences and memories, somewhat similar to MTV Unplugged. The show started in 1996 with a broadcast of Ray Davies, during his "Storyteller" tour, and took its name from this first show.
As of February 2016, 98 episodes have aired, and many of the performances have subsequently been released on CD or DVD. "Best of" collections have also been released.
Performers
VH1 Storytellers
Meat Loaf enjoyed the show so much that he bought the stage decorations from VH-1 and went on to do a "Storytellers" tour in 1998/1999.
MTV Japan Storytellers
References
External links
VH1 Storytellers -- dead link
1990s American music television series
2000s American music television series
2010s American music television series
1996 American television series debuts
Rock music television series
VH1 music shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DELTREE | In computing, DELTREE (short for delete tree) is a command line command in some Microsoft operating systems, SpartaDOS X and FreeDOS that recursively deletes an entire subdirectory of files.
Overview
When IBM and Microsoft introduced PC DOS 1.0 and MS-DOS 1.0, subdirectories were not yet supported. This state of affairs was remedied with the release of DOS 2.0, which introduced support for subdirectories and directory nesting; however, it had no built-in facility for deleting entire subdirectory trees. Through the release of MS-DOS 5.0, removing nested subdirectories required removing all of the files in the lowest subdirectories, then removing the subdirectory itself, then repeating the process up the directory tree. By 1991 at least one competing product, DR-DOS, had introduced a well-received utility that enabled recursive file deletion. With the introduction of MS-DOS 6.0, Microsoft regained parity by adding the DELTREE command.
DELTREE was retained in Windows 9x but was not shipped in Windows NT family of operating systems. Instead, the rmdir (alias rd) command removes a subdirectory along with all its files if the /S command-line switch is given.
Implementations
In MS-DOS, PC DOS and Windows 9x, DELTREE was implemented as an external command, with its functionality kept in a separate file outside of COMMAND.COM. Normal operation prompted the user for verification that the specified directories were indeed intended to be removed, but this safeguard could be suppressed with a command-line option. Unlike most other commands that operated on the file system, multiple directories could be passed to the command at one time. An undocumented feature allowed the user to append a trailing "/" character to a directory name in order to preserve the directory but remove everything underneath it. In theory, deleted material could be recovered.
Datalight ROM-DOS also includes an implementation of the command.
The FreeDOS version was developed by Charles Dye and is licensed under the GPL v2.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
DELTREE[/Y][DRIVE:][PATH]
Use in malware and sabotage
DELTREE was designed to ignore all file and directory attributes, such as hidden, read-only and system. The command was described as "potentially dangerous" and "capable of wiping out hundreds of files at a time". Combined with the PURGE command (which prevented data recovery), it became an example of a worst-case payload for malware as well as figuring in one of the early computer sabotage trials.
Contributing to the problem is the fact that MS-DOS and Windows 9x do not support discretionary access control to mitigate this issue. The Windows NT family does. Furthermore, starting with Windows Vista, mandatory access control and User Account Control further mitigate the issue.
See also
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External links
MS-DOS and Windows command line deltree command
DELTREE - Delete all subfolders and files
External DOS commands
Wind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate%20frame%20rendering | Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) is a technique of graphics rendering in personal computers which combines the work output of two or more graphics processing units (GPU) for a single monitor, in order to improve image quality, or to accelerate the rendering performance. The technique is that one graphics processing unit computes all the odd video frames, the other renders the even frames. This technique is useful for generating 3D video sequences in real time, improving or filtering textured polygons and performing other computationally intensive tasks, typically associated with computer gaming, CAD and 3D modeling.
One disadvantage of AFR is a defect known as micro stuttering.
Parallel rendering methods
AFR belongs to a class of parallel rendering methods, which subdivide a four-dimensional image frame sequence (x,y,z and time) into smaller regions, each of which is then assigned to a different physical processor within a multi-processor array. Note that the regional boundaries may be defined in space or in time. Also, the multiple processors can be implemented within a single video card or separate video graphics cards can be combined, subject to the motherboard and I/O slot limitations. When separate video cards are used, they must be specifically designed to allow a "cross-link" between them.
If a computer has two video cards that combine their outputs into a single video monitor, then one of four methods could be used to create the images.
Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR): One graphics processing unit (GPU) computes all the odd video frames, the other renders the even frames. (i.e. time division)
Split Frame Rendering (SFR): One GPU renders the top half of each video frame, the other does the bottom. (i.e. plane division)
Checkerboard rendering: As the name implies, the image is split into smaller squares, which are assigned to different cards
Scan-Line Interleave: The origin of the SLI trademark, as employed by the 3dfx Voodoo2, which renders a frame's even scan-lines on the first GPU and its odd scan-lines on the second. The SLI trademark passed to Nvidia upon its acquisition of 3dfx in 2000 and now stands for Scalable Link Interface.
See also
AMD CrossFireX
NVIDIA SLI
References
3D rendering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Utah | The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Utah, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
List of radio stations
Defunct
KCVD-LP
KEMR
KEPH
KGVU
KHUN
KLGU-LP
KLLB
KNFL
KOBY
KSOS
KTKK
KWDZ
KXOL
References
Radio stations
Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand | The DataHand is an unconventional computer keyboard introduced by 1990, by DataHand Systems, Inc, designed to be operated without any wrist motion or finger extension.
History
Datahand Systems, Inc. was founded in 1985. It was invented by Dale J. Retter and produced as early as 1990.
After the initial prototype was released in 1995, DataHand released the Professional and Professional II models with new bodies. The Professional II also has extended programming capabilities over the Professional, being able to record macros of keystrokes for convenient use.
DataHand Systems, Inc. announced in early 2008 that it was ceasing to sell its keyboards. The company web site states that due to supplier issues, the company will not sell the DataHand keyboard "until a new manufacturer can be identified". In January 2009, the company's website started taking orders for a "limited number of new DataHand Pro II units". Circa 19 April 2010, DataHand were out of stock.
In 2019, a longtime Datahand user going by the pseudonym JesusFreke released an open source Datahand-style device called the lalboard, with plastic parts manufacturable on a home 3D printer, hand-solderable circuit boards, and off-the-shelf magnets. The mechanism is essentially the same as the Datahand, using magnets for key return and optointerrupters to sense the movements of the keys.
In 2023, another longtime Datahand user released a small-run production device called Svalboard, evolving the lalboard design into a manufacturable product.
Layout
It consists of two separate "keyboards", one for the left hand and one for the right. Each finger activates five buttons: the four compass directions as well as down. The thumbs also have five buttons: one inside, two outside, up and down.
The layout is initially similar to a QWERTY keyboard, but the middle two columns of keys (i.e. H,Y,G...) have been delegated to sideways finger movements, and all of the keys outside of the main three rows are accessed through two additional modes, including a mode for mousing. There are three primary modes all together: letters, number and symbols, and function / mouse mode. Some practice is required. However, eventual typing speedups are possible.
Rather than being spring-loaded, the buttons are held in place with magnets and are activated using optical sensors. This was done in order to reduce the finger workload while still giving tactile feedback. The button modules in which the fingers rest are adjustable—each side can be independently moved vertically or forward and back.".
In popular culture
The keyboard was seen in the 1997 sci-fi movie Contact as the controls for a spaceship.
It appears in the 2006 spy movie Stormbreaker.
The Industrial Innovations version was featured on the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
A black model is used by Agent Grasso while searching for Amanda Givens' Jeep in Shadow Conspiracy (1997).
Several boxes of the keyboard are seen in Teddy KGB's office nea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Marrow%20Donor%20Association | World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) is an organization based in Leiden, Netherlands, that coordinates the collection of the HLA phenotypes and other relevant data of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors (used to perform what used to be called bone marrow transplants, but now referred to as hematopoietic cell transplants) and cord blood units across the globe.
The global database with volunteer donors was founded in the Netherlands in 1988. Today, the Search & Match Service of WMDA is the world's largest hematopoietic cell database, listing more than 38 million stem cell donors and over 800,000 cord blood units. WMDA participants consist of 75 hematopoietic cell donor registries from 53 countries, and 53 cord blood banks from 36 countries.
These global hematopoietic cells from donors or cord blood units are used to transplant patients around the world with a variety of life-threatening blood disorders such as leukemia, lymphoma, aplastic anemia, as well as certain immune system and metabolic disorders.
Transplant organizations
International medical associations
International medical and health organizations
International organisations based in the Netherlands
Medical and health organisations based in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%20FMS | Pandora FMS (for Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software for monitoring computer networks. Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual way the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.
Pandora FMS can be deployed in almost any operating system. It features remote monitoring (WMI, SNMP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP...) and it can also use agents. An agent is available for each platform. It can also monitor hardware systems with a TCP/IP stack, such as load balancers, routers, network switches, printers or firewalls.
Pandora FMS has several servers that process and get information from different sources, using WMI for gathering remote Windows information, a predictive server, a plug-in server which makes complex user-defined network tests, an advanced export server to replicate data between different sites of Pandora FMS, a network discovery server, and an SNMP Trap console.
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Pandora FMS is free software. At first the project was hosted on SourceForge.net, from where it has been downloaded over one million times, and selected the “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, June 2016, and elected “Community Choice” Project of the Month, November 2017.
Components
Pandora Server
In Pandora FMS architecture, servers are the core of the system because they are the recipients of bundles of information. They also generate monitoring alerts. It is possible to have different modular configurations for the servers: several servers for very big systems, or just a single server. Servers are also responsible for inserting the gathered data into Pandora's database. It is possible to have several Pandora Servers connected to a single Database. Different servers are used for different kind of monitoring: remote monitoring, WMI monitoring, SNMP and other network monitoring, inventory recollection, etc. Highly scalable (up to 2000 nodes with one single server), completely web-driven and a multitenant interface. It has a very flexible ACL system and a lot of graphical reports and user-defined control screens.
Servers are developed in Perl and work on any platform that has the required modules. Pandora was originally developed for Linux.
Web console
Pandora's user interface allows people to operate and manage the monitoring system. It is developed in PHP and depends on a database and a web server. It can work in a wide range of platforms: Linux, Solaris, Windows, AIX and others. Several web consoles can be deployed in the same system if required. Web Console has multiples choices, in example SNMP monitoring.
Agents
Agents are daemons or services that can monitor any numeric parameter, Boolean status, string or numerical incremental data and/or condition. They can be developed in any language (as Shellscript, WSH, Perl or C). They run on any type of platform (Microso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojoPac | MojoPac was an application virtualization product from RingCube Technologies. MojoPac turns any USB 2.0 storage device into a portable computing environment. The term "MojoPac" is used by the company to refer to the software application, the virtualized environment running inside this software, and the USB storage device that contains the software and relevant applications. MojoPac supports popular applications such as Firefox and Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft, Minecraft and Half-Life 2.
The RingCube website is currently forwarded to Citrix, which has apparently purchased the company and discontinued MojoPac.
Usage
To initially set up the MojoPac device, the user runs the installer and selects a USB device attached to the system. Once MojoPac is installed, it creates an executable in the root of that device along with an autorun file that gives the user the option of starting the MojoPac environment automatically when the device is plugged in (subject to how the host PC is configured). Once this application is started, a new Windows Desktop (with its own wallpaper, icons, shell, etc.) is started up in the virtualized MojoPac environment. Any application that runs inside this environment runs off the USB device without affecting the filesystem of the host. A user installs most applications (including Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Firefox) on the portable storage device by simply running the installer inside this environment. The user can switch between the host environment and the MojoPac environment by using the MojoBar at the top of the screen. Once the user is done with the applications, they exit MojoPac and eject the USB device.
To run the applications on a different computer, the user does not need to reinstall the application. The user can plug the portable storage device into any Windows XP computer. All the user's settings, applications, and documents function the same irrespective of which computer the portable storage device is connected to. The computer does not need any special applications or drivers installed to use MojoPac, although administrator rights are required if "MojoPac Usher" has not been installed on the host PC.
When the portable storage device is disconnected from the computer, there is no personal information left behind on the computer.
Requirements
Requires Windows XP Home or Pro; Windows 2000 is not supported, though Vista was planned to be supported in the near future (it never was).
Requires Administrator access. A special version, MojoPac Usher, can be run in Universities or other locked down environments if the administrator is present to log in once. A Limited User version was under development.
Security
MojoPac does not include features to encrypt the data on the USB drive, but does have a password protection system that prevents a person from starting up the MojoPac environment. All the files on the USB drive do not have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGLR-LP | KGLR-LP channel 30 was a Cornerstone affiliate in Lubbock, Texas. The station broadcast FamilyNet programming.
The station's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on August 7, 2014 for failure to file a renewal application.
External links
KGLR-TV official web site
Television stations in Lubbock, Texas
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2014
2014 disestablishments in Texas
GLR-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonobtuse%20mesh | In computer graphics, a nonobtuse triangle mesh is a polygon mesh composed of a set of triangles in which no angle is obtuse, i.e. greater than 90°. If each (triangle) face angle is strictly less than 90°, then the triangle mesh is said to be acute. Every polygon with sides has a nonobtuse triangulation with triangles (expressed in big O notation), allowing some triangle vertices to be added to the sides and interior of the polygon. These nonobtuse triangulations can be further refined to produce acute triangulations with triangles.
Nonobtuse meshes avoid certain problems of nonconvergence or of convergence to the wrong numerical solution as demonstrated by the Schwarz lantern. The immediate benefits of a nonobtuse or acute mesh include more efficient and more accurate geodesic computation using fast marching, and guaranteed validity for planar mesh embeddings via discrete harmonic maps.
References
See also
Triangle mesh
Computer graphics data structures
3D computer graphics
Triangulation (geometry) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji%20Asano | Koji Asano (born 26 April 1974 in Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese musician and composer. He works primarily in the field of electro-acoustic music, with his principal instrument being computer software. Although he is essentially a solo performer, he has also appeared in numerous ensembles, such as Ensemble Die Reihe, Paragon Ensemble, Smith Quartet, Barcelona Winds Orchestra, and the Koji Asano Ensemble. Besides a prolific string of albums and limited-edition CD-Rs, he has also composed music for video art, films, and theatrical performances.
External links
Interview at Disquiet website
1974 births
Electroacoustic music composers
Japanese composers
Japanese male composers
Japanese male musicians
Living people
Musicians from Saitama Prefecture
People from Saitama (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20and%20Joshua%3A%20Nemesis%20Rising | Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising is a reality television program originating on the LGBT network Logo. It follows identical twin brothers Jacob and Joshua Miller, who together comprise the pop duo Nemesis, as they seek success in the music business as openly gay artists. The series premiered on October 16, 2006.
The series is available for download at the iTunes Store, along with a clip show retrospective entitled The Music of Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising. It is currently airing in Canada on OUTtv.
Episode summaries
Episode 1: Meet the Twins
In the debut episode, Jacob and Joshua Nemesis, are introduced. Jacob is the blond and Joshua is the brunette. They have been under contract to Curb Records for several years but have not progressed beyond the point of recording demo tracks. The boys live together in Los Angeles along with Jacob's boyfriend Nick. Joshua is single, and while Jacob and Nick are fairly domestic, Joshua actively tries to meet men on the internet and at West Hollywood gay clubs The Abbey and (itself the subject of an earlier Logo reality series, Open Bar).
Nemesis has a meeting the next morning with their manager, Garry Kief. Garry tells the boys that Curb is conditionally ready to commit to producing a single, album and appearances for them. Curb plans to mention in any marketing material that Jacob and Joshua are gay. Jacob is ready to come out to anyone and everyone, including his Jehovah's Witness parents. They were Jehovah's Witnesses but got disfellowshiped for some circumstances. Joshua is much more reluctant. The boys argue about how being known as gay could negatively affect them both professionally and personally. Ultimately they decide to go home to Montana although Joshua says he may still not be able to tell them he's gay.
Episode 2: Coming Out in Montana
Joshua continues to stress over coming out to his parents, while Jacob invites Nick to go to Montana with them. They plan to have Nick come up toward the end of the visit. Joshua thinks bringing Nick is a bad idea.
The twins fly to Montana and their mother Sherry picks them up at the airport. Back at the house they meet up with brother Jordan and sister Sarah calls home. Dad Rex gets home as well.
As Jacob and Joshua get acquainted with the family's new horses and socialize with the family, Sherry, Rex and the twins interview about being Jehovah's Witnesses. The twins, who've left the religion, note that homosexuality is considered a sin and Joshua especially stresses over the secret he's carrying.
Over a family dinner on the porch, Jacob comes out to their parents on behalf of the two of them. Jordan and Sarah already knew. Sherry and Rex are hard-hit by the news. Sherry and Rex talk about their reactions interspersed with scenes of them telling the boys that they still love them. Sherry interviews that she believes the Bible tells her the God hates homosexuality and that homosexuals won't "inherit the kingdom." Rex interviews that his sons' homosexuali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced%20labour%20camps%20in%20Communist%20Bulgaria | As in other Eastern Bloc states, Communist Bulgaria operated a network of forced labour camps between 1944 and 1989, with particular intensity until 1962. Tens of thousands of prisoners were sent to these institutions, often without trial.
Background
The Red Army entered Bulgaria in September 1944 and immediately, partisans exacted reprisals. Tens of thousands were executed, including active fascists and members of the political police, but also people who were simply of the non-Communist intelligentsia, members of the professional and bourgeois classes. Merely displeasing a Communist cadre could lead to execution. These massacres were actively encouraged by Georgi Dimitrov, who sent a telegram from Moscow a week after the Soviets' arrival in Sofia calling for the "torching of all signs of Bulgarian jingoism, nationalism, or anti-Communism". On 20 September, the Central Committee called for "anti-Communist resistance" and "counterrevolutionaries" to be exterminated.
A People's Tribunal was created in October 1944. This special court pronounced 12,000 death sentences, with over 2,700 eventually being executed. (In contrast, in 1941–1944, the years of active Communist resistance, 357 people were executed for all crimes.) In early 1945, a government decree allowed for the creation of Work Education Centers (TVO in Bulgarian). These were in fact concentration camps. The decision was approved by all parties in the Fatherland Front, including those whose members soon found themselves in the centers. One category of inmates included pimps, blackmailers, beggars and idlers, while the other comprised all those judged as political threats to the state's stability and security. The power to execute this decree fell to the Office of State Security within the Ministry of the Interior. Over the next decade, a series of laws and decrees strengthened the state police's powers.
Not all people the regime found undesirable were put in forced labour camps. Deportation – forced resettlement in distant provincial areas – was another method employed. Between 1948 and 1953 some 25,000 were deported.
Development
1945–1949
Forced labour camps operated at numerous sites across Bulgaria. The camps were set up near dams under construction, coal mines, and in certain agricultural areas. Some of the most infamous were Bobov Dol, Bogdanov Dol, Rositsa, Kutsian, Bosna, Nozharevo and Chernevo.
1949–1953
Political prisoners from other camps were gathered and regrouped in the Belene labour camp, located on Persin (Belene), an island in the Danube near Romania.
1954–1956
Deportations to the camps fell dramatically, perhaps ceasing altogether. However, Belene remained in operation.
1956–1959
A number of new inmates arrived at Belene after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and a crime wave in Sofia early in 1958. Among the figures held at Belene during this period included Konstantin Muraviev, the last Prime Minister of Bulgaria to hold office before the Fatherland Front coup o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecoatl | A tecoatl (plural tecoatles) is a stone canal making up part of an extensive ancient aqueduct network in the Tehuacán Valley in the state of Puebla in Mexico. The word tecoatl translates to "stone snake" in the Aztec language Nahuatl, but the canal system is far older than the Aztecs. The first segments of the system were laid down approximately 2500 years ago.
Archaeological investigation of the tecoatl system began in the late 1960s, and further studies revealed that the tecoatles make up the longest prehistoric irrigation system in the New World. At one point 1200 kilometers of stone canals provided water to 330 km² of cultivated land in the Tehuacán Valley.
Development
The tecoatles started out as simple channels dug in the earth and banked with small levees. They were carefully planned, sloping from high ground to low on a tortuous course that sloped less than two degrees at all times. The canal meandered amongst the fields, providing water from uphill mineral springs to crop fields during Southern Mexico's long dry season, which can last longer than six months. Without irrigation, agriculture is not possible even in the fertile hills and plains of the region.
The Tehuacán Valley is rich with mineral springs, and these water sources were eagerly tapped for farming by early residents of the area. The water in these springs is high in dissolved calcium carbonate in the form of calcite. As the water ran through the canals, calcite was slowly but steadily deposited on their walls, forming a hard, stony layer. Through concentration and evaporation calcite crystallized on the earthen surface of the canals, forming a leakproof shell of travertine. The travertine coating grew in thickness at a rate of about one centimeter per year.
At this rate, the canals began to grow in height. As each canal became shallower due to the travertine accumulation in its bed, water overflowing its levees deposited more travertine along the sides, building up the walls and effectively containing itself. When water did overflow and wash down the sides of the canal, it evaporated and deposited minerals along the base. Eventually, what was once a ditch in the soil became a tall stone aqueduct with a very wide base. The largest were five meters high and 30 meters wide, with water still flowing efficiently through the channel along the top. The farmers probably helped shape the canal, removing travertine buildup as needed, but for the most part each canal became a large winding calcareous aqueduct on its own, and earning it the appellation "stone snake".
Use
Nearby aqueducts were built to channel river water as well, but these did not become tecoatles, because the water they bore was much lower in dissolved minerals than the water from the springs. The tecoatles are essentially fossilized structures. As the travertine crystallized on the walls of the tecoatles, it trapped biological material, such as small plants and algaes, as well as pollen from the crop plants grow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livewire%20Segmentation%20Technique | Livewire, is a segmentation technique which allows a user to select regions of interest to be extracted quickly and accurately, using simple mouse clicks. It is based on the lowest cost path algorithm, by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Firstly convolve the image with a Sobel filter to extract edges. Each pixel of the resulting image is a vertex of the graph and has edges going to the 4 pixels around it, as up, down, left, right. The edge costs are defined based on a cost function. In 1995, Eric N. Mortensen and William A. Barrett made some extension work on livewire segmentation tool, which is known as Intelligent Scissors.
Livewire segmentation
The user sets the starting point clicking on an image's pixel, known as an anchor. Then, as he starts to move the mouse over other points, the smallest cost path is drawn from the anchor to the pixel where the mouse is over, changing itself if the user moves the mouse. If he wants to choose the path that is being displayed, he simply clicks the image again.
One can easily see in the right image, that the places where the user clicked to outline the desired region of interest are marked with a small square. It is also easy to see that the livewire has snapped on the image's borders.
Livewire algorithm
Convolve the image with a Sobel filter to extract edges. Using this filtered image create a graph using pixels as nodes with edges in four directions (up, down, left right). Edges are weighted with features gathered from the Sobel filter making it less costly to stay on an edge. Several different cost methods are possible but the most important is the gradient magnitude
Live-Wire 2-D DP graph search algorithm in pseudocode
algorithm Livewire is
input:
s {Start (or seed) pixel.}
l(q, r) {Local cost function for link between pixels q and r.}
data structures:
L {List of active pixels sorted by total cost (initially empty).}
N(q) {Neighborhood set of q (contains 8 neighbors of pixel).}
e(q) {Boolean function indicating if q has been expanded/processed.}
g(q) {Total cost function from seed point to q.}
output:
p {Pointers from each pixel indicating the minimum cost path.}
g(s) ← 0; L ← s; {Initialize active list with zero cost seed pixel.}
while L≠∅ do begin {While still points to expand.}
q ← min(L); {Remove minimum cost pixel q from active list.}
e(q) ← TRUE; {Mark q as expanded (i.e., processed).}
for each r∈N(q) such that not e(r) do begin
gtmp ←g(q) + l(q, r); {Compute total cost to neighbor.}
if r∈L and gtmp < g(r) then {Remove higher cost neighbor's from list.}
r ← L;
if r∉L then begin {If neighbor not on list, }
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20card | A datacard is an electronic card for data operations (storage, transfer, transformation, input, output).
Datacard types
Datacards can be sorted by their purposes:
Expansion card – printed-circuit board: inserted in a special slot in the device and used to add functions to this device;
Memory card or flash card: a card which is inserted into the corresponding device socket and used for data storage and transmission;
Identification card: a card that works by a contact/contactless interface and contains the data used for performance of various functions, for example access control in subway or offices. It is also used for prepaid services like banking and telecom;
Datacard or "electronic card": a card dealing with e.g. geographical, climatic, road or topographical data to be displayed on the video screen of some device (computer or GPS navigator), or represented otherwise to be more convenient to use in a certain situation (for example, navigator's vocal instructions).
Expansion cards
The expansion card in the computer is equipped with contacts on one of its edges, and it can be inserted into the motherboard slot socket.
There are various types of expansion cards:
A videocard transforms data from the computer memory into the video signal for the monitor. The videocard has its own processor, relieving the CPU of the computer;
A sound card enables the computer to work with sound;
A network card enables the computer to interact on a local network.
Memory cards
Many modern devices demand non-volatile memory requiring low power. Flash memory is used for these purposes. It is widespread in digital portable devices such as photo and video cameras, dictaphones, MP3 players, handheld computers, mobile phones, and also in smart phones and communicators. It is used for storage of the built-in software in various devices (like routers, mini-phonestations, printers, scanners, modems and controllers).
In recent years USB flash-drives have become more popular and have almost replaced diskettes and CDs. Flash memory is well known from its use in USB flash-drives.
Flash cards also are based on flash memory, such as Secure Digital (SD), Compact Flash and Memory Stick. These are much used in portable devices (cameras, mobile phones). Flash memory constitutes the biggest part of the portable data device market.
Identification cards
Contact cards with ISO/IEC 7816 interface
Contact smart cards (with chip) have a contact zone consisting of a few small contact petals. When the card is inserted into the reader, the chip connects with the card reader which can then read and write information. The standard ISO/IEC 7816 also regulates data exchange protocols and some aspects of work with other smart card data.
Such cards are used for holder authorization for reception of certain services, such as bank account access for payments realization, use of prepaid mobile services, etc.
The most widespread contact smart cards are SIM cards, payphone cards and some b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone%20Mobile%20Connect%20USB%20Modem | Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Modem branded as Vodem is a product of Vodafone that connects to the broadband internet. It is connected to the computer via USB which makes the product usable to virtually any computer, desktop or laptop.
Huawei E220, K3806 and K3772H Vodem sticks are manufactured by Huawei for Vodafone.
The K3772Z Vodem stick (note the 'Z' suffix) is manufactured by ZTE for Vodafone.
Drivers and installation
Using this USB modem, customers are able to access 3G broadband services, from many types of computer. The software self installs from the modem, reducing the need for technical expertise from users. Vodafone's Mobile Connect Lite software self-installs through a Windows's auto-start feature.
It uses the executable : VodafoneUSBPP.exe
This device is also supported in Linux, using Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux, which can be downloaded from the Vodafone Global website
If this modem is to be used on Windows Vista, it must first be updated to the latest firmware on a Windows XP system, as the modem does not function on Windows Vista with the default firmware.
Speed
Using HSDPA technology, it offers download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbit/s and upload speeds of up to 384 kbit/s, which depends on Vodafone's network on each of the countries offering 3G services. Unfortunately, speed degrades rapidly when getting to the fringe of coverage or inside buildings where signal strengths fades. This commonly results in almost unusable speeds of 6.6Kbs for receiving and 68.8 Kbs for sending, which is a symptom even in Central London locations. There are however commercial solutions available to increase signal strength by attaching external antennas to the Huawei E220.
When outside of 3G broadband coverage, customers will automatically be able to access the web using Vodafone's existing GPRS services.
Most Vodems and Vodem sticks are of reaching 7.2 Mbit/s.
The original Huawei E220 supports up to 3.6 Mbit/s, and can connect up to 7.2 Mbit/s with a firmware upgrade.
The Vodafone K5150 Vodem is a CAT4 4G device, capable of download speeds of up to 150 Mbit/s on a 4G LTE network and 42.2 Mbit/s with a dual-carrier network.
The Vodafone Pocket WiFi is capable of download speeds of up to 150 Mbit/s on a 4G LTE network and 50 Mbit/s with a dual-carrier network.
See also
WiMAX
Wireless modem
References
External links
https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/
https://loja.vodafone.pt/InternetMovel/VICB.htm
http://www.infoferenda.eu
Vodafone
Modems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20Neighborhood%20Network | Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) is an American non-profit organization that broadcasts programming on five public-access television cable TV stations in Manhattan, New York City. The country's largest community media centre, MNN operates two community media centres – in midtown Manhattan and East Harlem – and provides education, equipment, facilities, and programs to community producers and organizations who want to create programming to air on one of MNN's five channels. In 2016, MNN will post more than 5,000 enrollments in their media classes, making one of the largest media education institutions in New York City.
In 2012, MNN opened the MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center in East Harlem. The El Barrio Firehouse (the former quarters of Engine Company 53) is an intergenerational community media center offering educational programs, community activities, and television production trainings in both English and Spanish. The Firehouse is also home to MNN's Youth Media Center, founded in 2000, which offers education, internships and other opportunities to low-income youth age 15-25 and curates a five-hour block of programming each week.
History
MNN has operated since 1992, and is currently funded as part of a community benefit agreement with Time Warner Cable, Verizon and RCN Corporation, which is tied to their franchise agreements with New York City. Its studios were initially in a rented facility on 23rd Street above ETC/Metro-Access Inc. Studios. It currently operates out of a studio it owns at 537 West 59th Street. In 2002 MNN had two satellite facilities: one on the Lower East Side, a partnership with the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the city's oldest community media centers; and another in East Harlem, a partnership with PRdream.com, also known as MediaNoche, the city's oldest new media gallery based in a community. The relationship with PRdream/MediaNoche ended in 2006. MNN reopened a smaller, temporary operation in an East Harlem, basement storefront on Lexington Avenue.
MNN instituted one of the first community media grant programs in the country, providing video equipment, staff and training for community groups in New York City. This program helped groups to document some of the most historically significant issues of the 1990s and 2000s, including AIDS activism, labor organizing, police brutality, community gardens, immigrants' rights and LGBT rights. MNN ended the grants program in 2008, which triggered a series of events that resulted in the 2019 US Supreme Court case Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck
From MNN's inception in 1996, it has aimed to serve as a public access station, as well an organizational hub for community media. In addition, MNN producers, staff and community groups led opposition to telecommunications corporations, who the group alleged to be circumventing mandated public obligations to give back to local communities where they run their cable and wires on public streets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWARP | iWARP is a computer networking protocol that implements remote direct memory access (RDMA) for efficient data transfer over Internet Protocol networks. Contrary to some accounts, iWARP is not an acronym.
Because iWARP is layered on Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)-standard congestion-aware protocols such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), it makes few requirements on the network, and can be successfully deployed in a broad range of environments.
History
In 2007, the IETF published five Request for Comments (RFCs) that define iWARP:
RFC 5040 A Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol Specification is layered over Direct Data Placement Protocol (DDP). It defines how RDMA Send, Read, and Write operations are encoded using DDP into headers on the network.
RFC 5041 Direct Data Placement over Reliable Transports is layered over MPA/TCP or SCTP. It defines how received data can be directly placed into an upper layer protocols receive buffer without intermediate buffers.
RFC 5042 Direct Data Placement Protocol (DDP) / Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol (RDMAP) Security analyzes security issues related to iWARP DDP and RDMAP protocol layers.
RFC 5043 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Direct Data Placement (DDP) Adaptation defines an adaptation layer that enables DDP over SCTP.
RFC 5044 Marker PDU Aligned Framing for TCP Specification defines an adaptation layer that enables preservation of DDP-level protocol record boundaries layered over the TCP reliable connected byte stream.
These RFCs are based on the RDMA Consortium's specifications for RDMA over TCP. The RDMA Consortium's specifications are influenced by earlier RDMA standards, including Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) and InfiniBand (IB).
Since 2007, the IETF has published three additional RFCs that maintain and extend iWARP:
RFC 6580 IANA Registries for the Remote Direct Data Placement (RDDP) Protocols published in 2012 defines IANA registries for Remote Direct Data Placement (RDDP) error codes, operation codes, and function codes.
RFC 6581 Enhanced Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Connection Establishment published in 2011 fixes shortcomings with iWARP connection setup.
RFC 7306 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Protocol Extensions published in 2014 extends RFC 5040 with atomic operations and RDMA Write with Immediate Data.
Protocol
The main component in the iWARP protocol is the Direct Data Placement Protocol (DDP), which permits the actual zero-copy transmission. DDP itself does not perform the transmission; the underlying protocol (TCP or SCTP) does.
However, TCP does not respect message boundaries; it sends data as a sequence of bytes without regard to protocol data units (PDU). In this regard, DDP itself may be better suited for SCTP, and indeed the IETF proposed a standard RDMA over SCTP. To run DDP over TCP requires a tweak known as marker PDU aligned (MPA) framing to guarantee boundaries of messages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4%20file%20format | MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. The only filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files as defined by the specification is .mp4. MPEG-4 Part 14 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a standard specified as a part of MPEG-4.
Portable media players are sometimes advertised as "MP4 players", although some are simply MP3 players that also play AMV video or some other video format, and do not necessarily play the MPEG-4 Part 14 format.
History
MPEG-4 Part 14 is an instance of the more general ISO/IEC 14496-12:2004 (MPEG-4 Part 12: ISO base media file format) which is directly based upon the QuickTime File Format which was published in 2001. MPEG-4 Part 14 is essentially identical to the QuickTime File Format, but formally specifies support for Initial Object Descriptors (IOD) and other MPEG features. MPEG-4 Part 14 revises and completely replaces Clause 13 of ISO/IEC 14496-1 (MPEG-4 Part 1: Systems), in which the file format for MPEG-4 content was previously specified.
The MPEG-4 file format, version 1 was published in 2001 as ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001, which is a revision of the MPEG-4 Part 1: Systems specification published in 1999 (ISO/IEC 14496-1:1999). In 2003, the first version of the MP4 file format was revised and replaced by MPEG-4 Part 14: MP4 file format (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003), commonly named as MPEG-4 file format version 2. The MP4 file format was generalized into the ISO Base Media File format ISO/IEC 14496-12:2004, which defines a general structure for time-based media files. It in turn is used as the basis for other file formats in the family (for example MP4, 3GP, Motion JPEG 2000).
The MP4 file format defined some extensions over the ISO Base Media File Format to support MPEG-4 visual/audio codecs and various MPEG-4 Systems features such as object descriptors and scene descriptions. Some of these extensions are also used by other formats based on ISO base media file format (e.g. 3GP). A list of all registered extensions for ISO Base Media File Format is published on the official registration authority website. The registration authority for code-points (identifier values) in "MP4 Family" files is Apple Inc. and it is named in Annex D (informative) in MPEG-4 Part 12. Codec designers should register the codes they invent, but the registration is not mandatory and some invented and used code-points are not registered. When someone is creating a new specification derived from the ISO Base Media File Format, all the existing specifications should be used both as examples and a source of definitions and technology. If an existing specification already covers how a particular media type is stored in the file format (e.g. MPEG-4 audio or video in MP4), that definition should be used and a new one should not be invented.
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References
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