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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripping%20Over | Tripping Over is a British/Australian six-part drama series. Its first episode aired on Network Ten in Australia on 25 October 2006, and in the United Kingdom on Five on 30 October 2006. In the UK Tripping Over is repeated on Five Life.
The show is about three friends in London and two friends in Sydney; neither group knows each other but their parents do. They both take flights to each other's countries, and the two groups meet at the stop-over in Bangkok, where a tragic event changes their lives.
The series then follows the two groups of friends as they continue on their trips to each other's countries and back home. The programme focuses on the major life changes that occur during the mid-20s, and how choices made here can affect a person's life for many years to come.
Summary
Five young people converge for a one night stop-over in Bangkok. Whether it was destined or just a stuff up, what happens there binds them together and profoundly alter the direction of their lives. The series follows the group, both together and separately as they travel to each other's countries or return home some to reinvent themselves, others to find themselves. Woven through their stories are the lives of an older, but not necessarily wiser generation—still living the mistakes of their own 20s. Only one thing is certain, whatever your age, everything looks different from 11,000 miles away.
Cast
Alexandra Moen as Tamsin Dalgliesh
Daniel MacPherson as Ned Frost
Abe Forsythe as Nic Kirkh
Leon Ockenden as Callum
Kathryn Drysdale as Lizzie
Oliver Chris as Sam
Rebecca Gibney as Lydia
Lisa McCune as Annabel
Paul McGann as Jeremy Frost
Brooke Satchwell as Felicity
Ramon Tikaram as Jim/Robbie
Nicholas Bell as James Frost
Jacek Koman as Magnus
Bob Franklin
Production
Conceived in 2003 by Andrew Knight and Andrea Denholm, who discussed the idea with Mike Bullen while on a weekend trip. Knight and Denholm wanted to make a series about the difference between backpacking in 1976 and 2006.
Filmed from 8 May to 11 August 2006.
Episodes
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Tripping Over at five.tv
Tripping Over at the National Film and Sound Archive
Channel 5 (British TV channel) original programming
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian television miniseries
2000s British drama television series
2006 British television series debuts
2006 British television series endings
2006 Australian television series debuts
2006 Australian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylalanine%20%28data%20page%29 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XaAES | XaAES is a graphical user interface for the OS kernel MiNT (now known as FreeMiNT), and is aimed at systems that are compatible with 16/32 bit (hence ST) Atari computers such as the ST, TT or Falcon. The combination of MiNT and XaAES is the natural successor to MultiTOS.
History
XaAES - The beginning
XaAES is a free AES (Application Environment Service) written with MiNT in mind, originally developed by Craig Graham (Data Uncertain Software) back in September 1995. Taken from the XaAES beta6, here is a snippet of the readme.txt in which Craig explains his motives for initiating XaAES:
"After using MultiTOS, then AES4.1, I became frustrated at the lack of a decent GUI to use the real power of the MiNT kernel - X Windows is all very well, but I can't run GEM programs on it. MultiTOS (even AES 4.1) is too slow. Geneva didn't run with MiNT (and, having tried the new MiNT compatible version, I can say it wasn't very compatible - at least AES 4.1 is quite stable, if a little slow). MagiC lives in a very fast, very small world all its own, with no networking support , few programs written to exploit it."
NOTE: MagiC later became available on Mac OS (and still later on the x86 PC) with built-in networking, and network drivers also began to appear for the Atari ST. A lot of MagiC software was MiNT compatible, and vice versa, but that came later than the time period of the above quote.
Craig worked actively on XaAES until 1997 when he stopped the development, at that time a plethora of applications were already usable under XaAES.
In 1998 the project was taken up by Swedish programmer Johan Klockars. He had been involved already during Craig's maintainership and at this point he stepped forward after a period of inactivity.
Johan's work resulted in several bugfixes which eventually were released as Beta7+. Shortly after this beta Johan also made the decision to hand over the project to someone else. This time it really seemed like XaAES had hit the end of the road, with no one interested in taking up the project again.
After a period of complete standstill Dutch coder Henk Robbers took over the project in November 1999. During Henk's maintainer-ship loads of progress was made, and XaAES went from interesting to becoming rather usable and showing great potential. The visual appearance was made to look closer to that of N.AES, as this was the obvious reference target - the AES that at the time was the GUI for FreeMiNT. XaAES also become a lot more robust although the response for key and mouse input was still somewhat of a problem.
Odd Skancke (aka Ozk) continued the development of XaAES, and together with Frank Naumann (then FreeMiNT maintainer), XaAES graphical improvements (skinning) were released with FreeMiNT 1.16. Alan Hourihane, as then FreeMiNT maintainer, was left to do bug fixes until round 2009, when after a resurgence of interest in the FreeMiNT OS, XaAES was then maintained and extended considerably by Helmut Karlowski (who maintains |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20Software | Fantasy Software, which started out as Quest Microsoftware, was one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum during the early 1980s. The company was founded in early 1983 by Bob Hamilton and Paul Dyer. It had a number of reasonable successes in the early days of the computer boom but never became one of the major software production houses. Most of its releases were written by Bob Hamilton.
List of games
The Black Hole (1983) (as Quest)
Violent Universe (1983) (as Quest)
Doomsday Castle (1983) — reviewed in Crash issue 2: 87%
The Pyramid (1983) — reviewed in Crash issue 2: 83%
Beaky and the Egg Snatchers (1984) — reviewed in Crash issue 7: 75%
Backpackers Guide to the Universe (1984) — reviewed in Crash issue 12: 83%
The Drive-In (1984) — reviewed in Crash issue 13: 70%
History
In issue 19 of Crash magazine, they stated that a number of companies owed advertising fees including Fantasy Software, with a debt of £4,190.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNOY%20Peacebuilders | The United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY Peacebuilders) is a global network of young people and youth organisations active in the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. UNOY Peacebuilders was founded in 1989 and is working with youth mostly in violent conflict and post war regions. The core activities of UNOY Peacebuilders are capacity building as well as advocacy and campaigning.
The organisation is non-political, non-religious and non-governmental and welcomes youth membership regardless of gender, colour, ethnicity, social class, religion, sexual orientation or any other status.
Activities
Besides the core programs on capacity building and advocacy and campaigning, UNOY Peacebuilders support its members by providing networking possibilities, sharing information, providing a pool of resource persons, carrying out research, fundraising as well as giving administrational support. UNOY Peacebuilders also runs a gender program that aims to mainstream gender within the network.
Since the start, UNOY Peacebuilders has organised a number of international working group meetings, peacebuilding training seminars and global and regional conferences. An important focus of UNOY’s peacebuilding activities has been on Eastern Europe (Russia, Belarus, Caucasus, Ukraine), Africa and Latin America. In 1996, 1997 and 2006, UNOY Peacebuilders organised peacebuilding training seminars in Crimea. Young people who have participated in former UNOY events have created effective local and regional organisations or projects working for peacebuilding in the Balkans, in the Caucasus area, and in Africa with extensive outreach capacity to local youth.
History
In 1993, UNOY convened the International Conference of Young Peacebuilders on Axes of Conflict and the Role of Youth in Non-Violent Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. The aim of this conference was to explore the possibilities in conflict regions for youth to play a more dynamic role in the prevention, transformation and solution of conflicts, as well as in the promotion of mutual understanding and reconciliation between the conflicting sides. The young participants then recognised a unique peacebuilding role for UNOY and suggested that it adopt the following objectives:
- to provide youth NGO leadership training in the field of non-violent conflict resolution and reconciliation;
- to organise conferences and cross-conflict working groups for representatives of youth peace organisations, networks, and initiatives;
- to develop a global peacebuilding, reconciliation and solidarity network focusing on youth
Following these recommendations, UNOY successfully organised three major regional peacebuilding conferences and training seminars for the Caucasus and Crimea, and the UNOY Global Youth Peace Conference (GYPC) which took place in May 1999 in the Netherlands. In addition to this event, UNOY created a global network designed to interconnect a v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20General%20Social%20Survey | The German General Social Survey (ALLBUS/GGSS - Die Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften) is a national data generation program in Germany, which is similar to the American General Social Survey (GSS). Its mission is to collect and disseminate high quality statistical surveys on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany.
Funding and Organizational Background
With the foundation of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (formerly: "German Social Sciences Infrastructure Services" (Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen)) in 1986, ALLBUS/GGSS has been included into the state-federal funding of this grouping. It is institutionalized as a joint-venture of GESIS at Mannheim (formerly: Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA - Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen)) and GESIS at Cologne (formerly: Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (ZA - Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung)).
Since 2010 ALLBUS is an officially accredited Research Data Center of The German Data Forum (RatSWD).
The Surveys
Standardly, the representative cross-sectional studies are conducted biennially since 1980. A large part of the items included consists of replications, while others are specifically varied according to particular topics.
Until 1990, the individual surveys were conducted using a random sample of ca. 3000 German citizens from the old Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin who were residing in private households and were at least 18 years old at the time of the interview. In 1991 the universe sampled was extended to cover the former East Germany, and foreign residents are included in the samples.
Since 1986, the German part of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is regularly conducted as part of the ALLBUS/GGSS survey. As in GSS both national surveys can be analysed in a common data set.
Cumulative Data File
The cumulative ALLBUS/GGSS 1980-2010 comprises opinion poll data from all of the 18 currently available ALLBUS/GGSS surveys, with a total of 54,243 respondents. It comprises all items that have been surveyed at least two times within the regular ALLBUS/GGSS program (replications).
Topical Modules in the ALLBUS/GGSS program
Assessments of economic situations
Political attitudes and political participation
Attitudes relating to the process of German unification
Attitudes towards social inequality and the welfare state
Confidence in public institutions and organizations
Pride in being a German
Attitudes towards migrants and minorities
Attachment to various political regions
Family and child raising
Attitudes towards abortion
Questions on health
Importance of life aspects and job characteristics
Free time activities
Use of media
Religiousness, cosmology and church attachment
Environmental concerns and pollution
Attitudes towards administration
Anomia and fear of crime
Deviant behavior and sanctioning
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Nashelsky | Louis Nashelsky, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Technology at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is also Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Technology.
Engineering and science students around the western world will be familiar with the names Boylestad and Nashelsky. With his colleague Robert Boylestad at Queensborough College, they were the authors of many fundamental publications on electronic devices and circuits.
Their seminal work "Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory" is a university level text that is currently in its 11th edition (April 30, 2012) and which was initially published in 1972. While there are many other texts in the field, this one has remained a staple of scientific educators throughout the modern period of electronics and computer revolution, and during the emergence of ubiquitous Integrated Circuits and Computers.
Nashelsky has a BSEE and an MSEE from City College, CUNY. He received his PhD from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
References
"Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory," Prentice Hall, Boylestad, R and Nashelsky, L. 9th ed. 2005.
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City College of New York alumni
Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Boylestad | Robert L. Boylestad (born 1939) was professor emeritus of electrical and computer technology at Queensborough Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was an assistant dean in the Thayer School of Engineering of Dartmouth College.
His first text, Introductory Circuit Analysis, first published in 1968, over 40 years ago, is now entering its 14th edition making it one of the most successful in the field. Translations include Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Taiwanese and Korean,Bangla.
Their work "Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory" is a university level text that is currently in its 11th edition (April 30, 2012) and which was initially published in 1972. While there are many other texts in the field, this one has remained a staple of scientific educators throughout the modern period of the electronics and computer revolution, and during the emergence of ubiquitous Integrated Circuits and Computers.
Books
"Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory," Pearson, Boylestad, R and Brian A. Olivari 14th ed. 2023;
"Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory," Pearson, Boylestad, R and Nashelsky, L. 11th ed. 2012.
"Introductory Circuit Analysis," Prentice Hall, Boylestad, R and Nashelsky, L. 13th ed. 2016;
"FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS," Prentice Hall, Boylestad, R and Nashelsky, L. 4th ed. 1997
"Essentials of Circuit Analysis,"Prentice Hall, Boylestad 2003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMullan | McMullan is a Gaelic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrew McMullan, Board of Director, H2O.ai, Chief Data & Analytics officer at Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
Bob McMullan, Australian politician
Chelsea McMullan, Canadian documentary filmmaker
David McMullan (b. 1901), Irish footballer (Liverpool FC)
Hayes McMullan (1902–1986), American Delta blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
Jackie McMullan, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
Jim McMullan, actor
Jimmy McMullan, Scottish soccer player
John McMullan (1933–1994), American footballer
John McMullan (cricketer) (1893–1967), New Zealand cricketer
Lyle McMullan, editor and newspaper founder
Kevin McMullan, acoustic guitarist
Patrick McMullan, photographer
Paul McMullan (footballer, born 1984), Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian FC)
Paul McMullan (footballer, born 1996), Scottish footballer (Celtic FC)
Paul McMullan (journalist) (born 1963), British journalist
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McMullan Bros. Limited, Irish oil company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Media | C-Media Electronics, Inc. () is a Taiwan computer hardware company that manufactures processors for PC audio and USB storage, and wireless audio devices. Many of their PCI audio solutions can be found in the Xonar sound cards developed by ASUS.
Products
ISA audio
CMI8328
CMI8330
PCI audio
CMI8338
CMI8738-SX supports 4-channel 16-bit DACs, 2-channel 16-bit ADC
CMI8738-LX supports 6-channel DAC 5.1 surround, 2-channel 16-bit ADC
CMI8738-MX supports 6-channel DAC 5.1 surround, S/PDIF IN/OUT (44.1K and 48KHz), 2-channel 16-bit ADC
CMI8768
CMI8768+ (Dolby Digital Live encoding)
CMI8769
CMI8770 (Dolby Digital Live & DTS Connect encoding)
Oxygen HD CMI8786
Oxygen HD CMI8787
Oxygen HD CMI8788 (Dolby Digital Live & DTS Connect encoding)
AC'97 audio
CMI9738
CMI9739
CMI9761
CMI9780
HD Audio
CMI9880 (some of them have Dolby Digital Live certification)
CM8888 (Oxygen Express-series) APPLICATIONS : PowerColor Devil HDX Sound Card
CMI8828 (Oxygen Express-series) APPLICATIONS : HT OMEGA FENIX Sound Card, SUNWEIT ST15, SUNWEIT ST16
CM8826 (Oxygen Express-series)
USB audio
CM102A+/S+
CM108AH
CM108B
CM118B
CM119B/BN
CM6206
CM6206-LX
CM6300
CM6302
CM6317A
CM6327A
CM6400
CM6400X1
CM6500B
CM6502B
CM6510B
CM6523B
CM6530N
CM6531N
CM6533(N)
CM6533DH
CM6533X1
CM6535
HS-100B
Wi-Sonic network audio
CMWS-01: Uses CMI8769 for audio.
WS-011
WS-012
WS-021
WS-022
WS-101
USB storage
CM120 (Support for this product does not exist in C-Media.tw)
CM220
CM220F
CM220L
CM220S
CM320
CM320L
CM320S
Sensaura licence expiry
C-Media's Sensaura licence expired on 23 September 2008. While there is an article promoting new Xear3D EX with OpenAL support, replacement drivers are not available at the current time.
As of 26 September 2011, drivers are now available for some PCI chipset models.
CMI 8738
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CMI 8770
CMI 8787
CMI 8788
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Attree | Richard Attree is a British TV and film composer. He attended Highgate School, and then studied electronic music at the Royal College of Music following a degree in computer science. Whilst completing these studies he played as a keyboard player with various bands. He also worked as a freelance composer, producing music for dance and theatre productions at the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and Royal National Theatre. In 1987, he became the last composer to be recruited at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where he remained until the department's closure. During his time at the BBC, he received two Sony Awards, in 1986 and 1989, for "the Most Creative Use of Radio".
Following his departure from the BBC, he returned to freelance work.
Attree's credits include music for Horizon, Wildlife on One, Timewatch, Hardware, Watt on Earth, and the first three series of The Demon Headmaster. He has also produced music for various BBC idents and promos.
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Official Site
Some Composition Information
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kune | Kune may refer to:
Kune (software), a distributed social network software
The Kune dialect of the Bininj Kunwok language, an Aboriginal Australian language
The people associated with the dialect, one of the Bininj group
Croatia
Kune, the plural form of the currency Croatian kuna
Tank Battalion "Kune" (Croatia), a Croatian army armoured unit
3rd Guards Brigade "Kune" (Croatia), a disbanded Croatian army armoured unit
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Kuna (disambiguation)
Kunekune, a breed of domestic pig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSHHG | GSHHG (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database; formerly Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database (GSHHS)) is a high-resolution shoreline data set amalgamated from two data bases (the CIA world database WDBII, and the World Vector Shoreline database) in the public domain. The data have undergone extensive processing and are free of internal inconsistencies such as erratic points and crossing segments. The shorelines are constructed entirely from hierarchically arranged closed polygons. The four-level hierarchy is as follows: seashore, lakes, islands within lakes, ponds within islands within lakes.
The data can be used to simplify data searches and data selections, or to study the statistical characteristics of shorelines and land-masses. It comes with access software and routines to facilitate decimation based on a standard line-reduction algorithm.
GSHHS is developed and maintained by Dr. Paul Wessel at the University of Hawaiʻi, and Dr. Walter H. F. Smith at the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry.
See also
Vector Map, a vector based collection of GIS data covering the earth
References
External links
GSHHG - A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (Version 2.3.7 as of June 15, 2017)
Shoreline/Coastline Databases | NCEI
This article contains public domain text created by the U.S. Federal government, taken from the NOAA website at
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel%20%28Supernatural%29 | Azazel is a villain on The CW Television Network's drama and horror television series Supernatural. He serves as the main antagonist during the first two seasons. As a demon Prince of Hell, he feeds his blood to infants so that they will grow up to develop demonic abilities. His goal of using one such child to release Lucifer is not revealed until much later in the series. Azazel is referred to by nicknames such as "The Yellow-Eyed Demon," or "Yellow Eyes" throughout the first two seasons, his true name not being revealed until the third season. Due to the character's demonic nature of taking different hosts, Azazel has been played by numerous actors but Fredric Lehne is the main default portrayer. All the incarnations have maintained his sadistic sense of humor and irony. Azazel's popularity and importance towards the franchise even led him to be the main antagonist and the analogue to Lucifer in the anime adaptation, as the "Yellow-Eyed Demon," in reference to the nickname he had in the original first two seasons.
Plot
The tyrannical leader of an army of demons, Azazel first appears in the pilot episode of the series, but plot devices such as flashbacks and time travel detail his background in later seasons. He is one of the four Princes of Hell, along with Ramiel, Asmodeus and Dagon, and the most devoted to Lucifer. His earliest chronological depiction occurs in the fourth season finale, "Lucifer Rising". Having spent years searching, Azazel (Rob LaBelle) finally located the doorway to Lucifer's prison in 1972. The fallen angel tasked him with freeing the demon Lilith from Hell—she is needed to break the 66 seals holding Lucifer captive—and to find him a "special child".
By the following year, Azazel began making demonic pacts with young individuals; in exchange for a wish, he would be allowed to enter their homes ten years later. Azazel eventually comes across Mary Campbell, the future mother of series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester. After taking possession of her father (Mitch Pileggi), he kills her mother and stabs himself to kill his host. Mary's fiance, John Winchester, is the demon's next victim. Azazel makes his usual offer, giving her the chance to resurrect John, to produce a child he can use; now orphaned and alone, she reluctantly agrees without knowing his true intentions.
In 1983, Mary discovers Azazel standing over baby Sam's crib; he had been feeding his blood to the infant. Upon being interrupted, the demon pins her to the ceiling, slashes her stomach and causes her to burst into flames. Her death inspires John to dedicate his life to hunting down Azazel, at the same time training Sam and Dean to hunt supernatural creatures.
As revealed in the fifth season finale, "Swan Song", Azazel sent demons to possess important people in Sam's life, secretly manipulating him as he grew up. However, Sam eventually leaves the life of hunting to attend college. Azazel orders the assassination of Sam's girlfriend Jessica Moore, who w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Smith%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael D. Smith is the John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. In addition to his academic position, Smith was the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Liquid Machines, Inc., a provider of enterprise rights management software.
Education
Smith completed his secondary education at the Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1983, his MS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1985, and his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1993.
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American computer scientists
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
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Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torn%20%28Battlestar%20Galactica%29 | "Torn" is the sixth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. This episode introduces the concept of the "hybrid", a semi-organic computer which operates the Basestar and is - in a 'very real sense' - to "be" the Basestar. Some Cylon models - the number twos (of which Leoben Conoy is), believe the Hybrid to be speaking for the one true god.
Plot
Galactica
After Starbuck crashes her Viper during a training exercise, Apollo strips her flight status. Colonel Saul Tigh mourns for his wife. He and Starbuck criticize the crew members who spent the occupation of New Caprica with the fleet until a disgusted Admiral William Adama orders them to stop. Starbuck cuts her hair and seeks out Kacey, whom she brushed off earlier. Tigh confines himself to his quarters and drinks heavily.
Lieutenant Felix Gaeta reconstructs Gaius Baltar's work on the location of Earth and determines that the fleet should navigate to a distant nebula shaped like a lion's head – Lion's Head Nebula. The pilots choose "Athena" as the new call sign for Sharon Agathon after she explains that "Boomer" refers to someone else.
The Cylon fleet
Caprica Six and a Number Three copy tell Baltar that the Cylons plan to make Earth their new home. Hoping the Cylons will let him live, Baltar tells them about the Lion's Head Nebula.
In a conversation with Caprica Six, Baltar starts to question whether he himself is a Cylon. Caprica Six has told him in the past that there are only 12 Cylon models of which Baltar has only met 7 and he asks about the 5 models he has never met. Caprica Six declines to offer information and says "we don't talk about the other 5", visibly distraught.
The Cylons send a basestar to scout the nebula but lose contact after a virus infects the ship and its crew. At Head Six's suggestion, Baltar volunteers to board the basestar so the Cylons can avoid exposure to the disease. A dying Six copy identifies an ancient beacon the crew found and brought aboard as the source of the sickness. She accuses Baltar of leading them to the nebula so they would find the infected beacon; Baltar kills her after she threatens to tell the others. Baltar omits mention of the beacon in his final report, but Caprica Six notices it in the photos he brought back.
The Cylons abandon the infected basestar. Later, Athena and Racetrack discover the basestar while scouting the nebula in a Raptor.
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External links
"Torn" at the Battlestar Wiki
"Torn" at Syfy.com
2006 American television episodes
Battlestar Galactica (season 3) episodes
Television episodes directed by Jean de Segonzac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-tape%20data%20storage | Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording.
Tape was an important medium for primary data storage in early computers, typically using large open reels of 7-track, later 9-track tape. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes, such as the widely supported Linear Tape-Open (LTO) and IBM 3592 series. The device that performs the writing or reading of data is called a tape drive. Autoloaders and tape libraries are often used to automate cartridge handling and exchange. Compatibility was important to enable transferring data.
Tape data storage is now used more for system backup, data archive and data exchange. The low cost of tape has kept it viable for long-term storage and archive.
Open reels
Initially, magnetic tape for data storage was wound on reels. This standard for large computer systems persisted through the late 1980s, with steadily increasing capacity due to thinner substrates and changes in encoding. Tape cartridges and cassettes were available starting in the mid-1970s and were frequently used with small computer systems. With the introduction of the IBM 3480 cartridge in 1984, described as "about one-fourth the size ... yet it stored up to 20 percent more data", large computer systems started to move away from open-reel tapes and towards cartridges.
UNIVAC
Magnetic tape was first used to record computer data in 1951 on the UNIVAC I. The UNISERVO drive recording medium was a thin metal strip of wide nickel-plated phosphor bronze. Recording density was 128 characters per inch (198 micrometres per character) on eight tracks at a linear speed of , yielding a data rate of 12,800 characters per second. Of the eight tracks, six were data, one was for parity, and one was a clock, or timing track. Making allowances for the empty space between tape blocks, the actual transfer rate was around 7,200 characters per second. A small reel of mylar tape provided separation between the metal tape and the read/write head.
IBM formats
IBM computers from the 1950s used ferric-oxide-coated tape similar to that used in audio recording. IBM's technology soon became the de facto industry standard. Magnetic tape dimensions were wide and wound on removable reels. Different tape lengths were available with and on mil and one half thickness being somewhat standard. During the 1980s, longer tape lengths such as became available using a much thinner PET film. Most tape drives could support a maximum reel size of . A so-called mini-reel was common for smaller data sets, such as for software distribution. These were reels, often with no fixed length—the tape was sized to fit the amount of data recorded on it as a cost-saving measure.
CDC used IBM-compatible magnetic tapes, but also offered a variant, with 14 tracks (12 data tracks corresponding to the 12-bit word of CDC 6000 series peripheral processors, plus 2 parity bits) in the CDC 626 drive.
Early |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Welcome%20Back%2C%20Kotter%20episodes | Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television comedy sitcom that originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975 to June 8, 1979.
The show stars comedian Gabe Kaplan as the title character Gabe Kotter, a wise-cracking teacher who returns to his high school alma mater—the fictional James Buchanan High in Brooklyn, New York—to teach an often unruly group of remedial wiseguys known as the "Sweathogs" (the nickname reflecting the fact that the remedial classes were held on the very top floor of the high school). The school's principal was perpetually absent, while the uptight vice principal dismissed the Sweathogs as worthless hoodlums and only expected Kotter to attempt to control them until they inevitably dropped out.
Ninety-five episodes were produced during Welcome Back, Kotters four-year run. The show's producers did not know for certain that the show would be cancelled after the 1978–79 season due to declining ratings. Kotter has no official finale with the long-awaited graduation for the Sweathogs. Instead, the last original episode dealt with a feud that ensues when Washington (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) gets an after-school job Epstein (Robert Hegyes) felt was rightly his.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1975–76)
Season 2 (1976–77)
Season 3 (1977–78)
Season 4 (1978–79)
References
External links
Lists of American sitcom episodes
Lists of American teen comedy television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Cultivated%20Potato%20Database | The European Cultivated Potato Database (ECPD) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions. The information that it contains can be searched by variety name, or by selecting one or more required characteristics.
159,848 observations
29 contributors
91 characters
4,119 cultivated varieties
1,354 breeding lines
The data is indexed by variety, character, country of origin, and contributor. There is a facility to select a variety and to find similar varieties based upon botanical characteristics.
ECPD is the result of collaboration between participants in eight European Union countries and five East European countries. It is intended to be a source of information on varieties maintained by them. More than twenty-three scientific organisations are contributing to this information source.
The database is maintained and updated by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency within the framework of the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks (ECP/GR), which is organised by Bioversity International. The European Cultivated Potato Database was created to advance the conservation and use of genetic diversity for the well-being of present and future generations.
External links
The European Cultivated Potato Database
Biodiversity databases
Databases in Scotland
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Online databases
Potatoes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex%20Computer%20Productions | Apex Computer Productions was the brothers John and Steve Rowlands, British based game designers and programmers on the Commodore 64 in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
They programmed in pure assembly language and their earliest commercial release was Cyberdyne Warrior, a platform shooter, for Hewson in 1989. Soon after, they entered a relationship with Thalamus, the game publishing arm of Newsfield, who published their next game, Retrograde.
Thalamus relationship
After Creatures, Apex began work on the sequel Creatures II: Torture Trouble, still developing on the Commodore 64. In a startling coup—since Thalamus were associated with a rival magazine publisher in Newsfield, the home of ZZAP!64 — Commodore Format (Future Publishing) secured the rights to serialise the development of the game, which again proved very popular. Creatures II was received favorably by the critics. Creatures II focused more on the popular torture screens than on the side-scrolling platforming of Creatures.
Thalamus collapsed shortly after the publication of Creatures II, as the Commodore 64 had started to wane in popularity. Apex then decided to publish for themselves.
Solo
Mayhem in Monsterland was their swan song. Platformers had become very popular, with Sonic The Hedgehog and Super Mario Bros. on the consoles. Mayhem was a game fashioned after Sonic, though mostly a direct descendant of Creatures.
Mayhem in Monsterland was given a "perfect" 100% score when reviewed by Commodore Format magazine. This proved controversial both because the game contained bugs (not all stars could be collected on all levels), and because the Rowlands brothers had close ties with the magazine, documenting the development of the game in game diary features.
Games
Cyberdyne Warrior (Hewson, 1989)
Retrograde (Thalamus Ltd, 1989)
Creatures (Thalamus Ltd, 1990)
Creatures II: Torture Trouble (Thalamus Ltd, 1992)
Mayhem in Monsterland (Apex, 1993)
References
Video game development companies
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20reactive%20programming | Functional reactive programming (FRP) is a programming paradigm for reactive programming (asynchronous dataflow programming) using the building blocks of functional programming (e.g., map, reduce, filter). FRP has been used for programming graphical user interfaces (GUIs), robotics, games, and music, aiming to simplify these problems by explicitly modeling time.
Formulations of FRP
The original formulation of functional reactive programming can be found in the ICFP 97 paper Functional Reactive Animation by Conal Elliott and Paul Hudak.
FRP has taken many forms since its introduction in 1997. One axis of diversity is discrete vs. continuous semantics. Another axis is how FRP systems can be changed dynamically.
Continuous
The earliest formulation of FRP used continuous semantics, aiming to abstract over many operational details that are not important to the meaning of a program. The key properties of this formulation are:
Modeling values that vary over continuous time, called "behaviors" and later "signals".
Modeling "events" which have occurrences at discrete points in time.
The system can be changed in response to events, generally termed "switching."
The separation of evaluation details such as sampling rate from the reactive model.
This semantic model of FRP in side-effect free languages is typically in terms of continuous functions, and typically over time. This formulation is also referred to as denotative continuous time programming (DCTP).
Discrete
Formulations such as Event-Driven FRP and versions of Elm prior to 0.17 require that updates are discrete and event-driven. These formulations have pushed for practical FRP, focusing on semantics that have a simple API that can be implemented efficiently in a setting such as robotics or in a web-browser.
In these formulations, it is common that the ideas of behaviors and events are combined into signals that always have a current value, but change discretely.
Interactive FRP
It has been pointed out that the ordinary FRP model, from inputs to outputs, is poorly suited to interactive programs. Lacking the ability to "run" programs within a mapping from inputs to outputs may mean one of the following solutions must be used:
Create a data structure of actions which appear as the outputs. The actions must be run by an external interpreter or environment. This inherits all of the difficulties of the original stream input/output (I/O) system of Haskell.
Use Arrowized FRP and embed arrows which are capable of performing actions. The actions may also have identities, which allows them to maintain separate mutable stores for example. This is the approach taken by the Fudgets library and, more generally, Monadic Stream Functions.
The novel approach is to allow actions to be run now (in the IO monad) but defer the receipt of their results until later. This makes use of an interaction between the Event and IO monads, and is compatible with a more expression-oriented FRP:
Implementation issues
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20Medicus | Index Medicus (IM) is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles. From 1879 to 2004, Index Medicus was a comprehensive bibliographic index of such articles in the form of a print index or (in later years) its onscreen equivalent. Medical history experts have said of Index Medicus that it is “America's greatest contribution to medical knowledge.”
Function
The function of Index Medicus is to give people around the world access to quality medical journal literature. To this end, the publishers of Index Medicus must perform at least two vital activities: determine which literature is good (has quality) and provide access.
Journal selection
Early in the history of Index Medicus, quality was determined by manually sifting through publications and choosing what subjectively seemed good, but later the Editor of Index Medicus convened a committee of world experts to identify the world's best medical journals and then have citations for articles from those journals made accessible. Inclusion into the Index Medicus is not automatic and depends on a journal's scientific policy and scientific quality. The journal selection criteria are evaluated by the "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee" and the final decision is made by the NLM director. The review process may include outside reviewers and journals may be dropped from inclusion.
Access
From 1879 till the computer age, access was provided solely by paper publication of the Index. The challenge was how to structure this index so as to make it most useful. To that end, the publishers of Index Medicus created an indexing language. Later this language became the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). MeSH is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary, and indexers paid by the publisher go through all articles to be included in the Index and identify each article with several, key concepts (each represented by a term) from MeSH. The paper publication of Index Medicus would then show a listing of the MeSH terms with pointers to each citation that was indexed with that term, and users could find relevant literature by going from the term to the citation.
History
Index Medicus was begun by John Shaw Billings, head of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army. This library later evolved into the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). For such a major publication over many years the history naturally involved many changes as people died and sources of funding changed.
Years of paper publication
Index Medicus publication began in 1879 and continued monthly through 1926, with a hiatus between 1899 and 1902. During this hiatus, a similar index, the Bibliographia medica, was published in French by the Institut de Bibliographie in Paris. The edition was edited by Charles Richet, Henri de Rothschild and G.M. Debove, while Marcel Baudoin ruled as edito |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workbench%20%28AmigaOS%29 | Workbench is the desktop environment and graphical file manager of AmigaOS developed by Commodore International for their Amiga line of computers. Workbench provides the user with a graphical interface to work with file systems and launch applications. It uses a workbench metaphor (in place of the more common desktop metaphor) for representing file system organisation.
"Workbench" was also the name originally given to the entire Amiga operating system up until version 3.1. From release 3.5 the operating system was renamed "AmigaOS" and subsequently "Workbench" refers to the native file manager only.
Overview
The Amiga Workbench uses the metaphor of a workbench (i.e. a workbench for manual labor), rather than the now-standard desktop metaphor, for representing file system organization. The desktop itself is called Workbench and uses the following representations: drawers (instead of folders) for directories, tools for executable programs, projects for data files, and a trash can as a folder intended to contain deleted files. These representations may be considered somewhat unusual by a modern user, but at the time there were no commonly accepted metaphors and Commodore chose to use different idioms from their competitors (Apple had already pursued legal action to prevent other software companies from offering graphical user interfaces similar to its own).
Workbench is a spatial file manager in the sense that it uses a spatial metaphor to represent files and folders as if they are real physical objects. Under this concept, each drawer (folder) opens in its own window, rather than within a single browser under the now more common navigational concept.
Workbench utilizes the Amiga's native windowing system called Intuition to provide the graphical user interface. Intuition manages the rendering of screens, windows, and gadgets (graphical elements, equivalent to widgets). Later versions of AmigaOS enhanced the interface with more complex object-oriented widget systems, such as gadtools.library and BOOPSI (AmigaOS 2.0 and later) and ReAction (AmigaOS 3.5 and later). Intuition also handles user input events, such as, input from the keyboard and mouse. Workbench requires a two button mouse, where right click operates pull-down menus and left click is used for all other purposes.
The underlying AmigaOS allows the Workbench to launch multiple applications that can execute concurrently. This is achieved through Exec, the Amiga's multi-tasking kernel, which handles memory management, message passing, and task scheduling. Applications launched from Workbench could report their success back to Workbench, but this was not a requirement and few actually did.
Workbench itself has always been a disk-based component, though much of the underlying functionality is stored in the Amiga's Kickstart firmware, usually stored in ROM. As a consequence, it is necessary to boot from a system disk to launch Workbench. This setup streamlines the process of launching ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20for%20Africa | Computers for Africa may refer to:
Computer technology for developing areas
Computers for African Schools
"Computers 4 Africa" project of Digital Pipeline. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expand%20Networks | Expand Networks, Ltd. was a Tel Aviv, Israel based provider of WAN optimization technology founded in 1998 and liquidated in 2011.
About
Expand Networks was a privately held company, co-founded by Talmon Marco in 1998; initial financing was provided by Discount Investment Corporation Ltd., The Eurocom Group, Ophir Holdings, and a private group of investors, including Memco Software founder Israel Mezin. Additional investors joined in subsequent rounds of funding. The company raised over $95 million.
Expand Networks headquarters was in Tel-Aviv, Israel with sales in the United States and Europe, New Jersey, Australia, China, Singapore, and South Africa.
The company manufactured accelerators in physical, virtual and mobile deployment options.
Liquidation
In mid October 2011, following the requests of Plenus, one of the company's lenders, an Israeli court appointed a liquidator - Paz Rimer. The liquidator gradually terminated the company's employees and eventually, on 11 January 2012 sold most of the assets of the company to Riverbed Technology, which immediately terminated all the company's products and ceased support.
External links
Expand Networks Home Page
Expand Networks reassures partners it's business as usual
References
Software companies established in 1998
Software companies of Israel
WAN optimization
Companies based in Essex County, New Jersey
Networking hardware companies
Israeli companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in New Jersey
2011 disestablishments in Israel
Software companies disestablished in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uberdata | Uberdata (also known as Überdata or Uber data) is a ROM editing software package designed specifically for On Board Diagnostics (OBD) Honda Engine control units. It was created by Blake Warner (also known as Uberteg or Vertigo). In an article Warner states that "Uberdata is, in short, a piece of software that enables you to modify your Honda ECU's code using a Windows-based program".
The current stable release is 1.70 (which was officially released on 24 Oct 04). The future of Uberdata is uncertain because Warner stopped developing the program, but he has released the source code to the open source community.
References
See also
Car tuning
Engine tuning
Foreign branding
Power band
Vehicle modifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURFnet | SURF is an organization that develops, implements and maintains the national research and education network (NREN) of the Netherlands. It operates the national research network formally called SURFnet.
SURF as a network is a backbone computer network reserved for higher education and research in the Netherlands. SURF is a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions in which the members combine their strengths. They work together to acquire or develop digital services and to encourage knowledge sharing through continuous innovation. The members are the owners of SURF.
History
The organization was established in 1986, it started supplying IP connectivity services in 1989, deploying the TCP/IP suite. SURFnet has deployed a series of network generations in an overbuilt manner. The initial SURFnet network was based on 9.6 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s X.25 connections, providing DECNET protocol. SURFnet2 was established in 1989 and delivered TCP/IP over an X.25 network. The SURFnet3 network delivered native TCP/IP via leased lines and became operational in 1991, mainly consisting of 64 kbit/s and 2 Mbit/s lines. In 1994 SURFnet4 was developed based on ATM and, later on SDH, links. SURFnet5 was developed from 1999 onward on a 10 Gbit/s DWDM infrastructure, with access links of 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s.
SURFnet6, the sixth generation of the SURFnet network, was taken into operation at the beginning of 2006. This network provides the 750,000 users in higher education and research with Internet facilities, and also provides them with "lightpaths", which are direct connections between two network nodes without the need for routers. Lightpaths have a capacity of 1 to 10 Gbit/s.
The company SURFnet used to be a subsidiary of the not-for-profit foundation, SURF (Samenwerkende Universitaire Reken Faciliteiten; English: Co-operative University Computing Facilities).
The operating companies SURFnet, SURFmarket, and SURFsara were merged in 2020 into a single organization: SURF - a single operating company as part of the SURF Cooperative in which the members are represented.
Services
Currently SURF is operating SURFnet8.
SURF presently provides services on all network layers, including authentication services, such as eduroam, SURFconext and SURF Research Access Management. SURF also provides services for security (SURFsoc), online collaboration (SURFdrive) and streaming media. The company collaborates with a number of organization, both nationally and internationally, including the pan-European research network GÉANT (formerly DANTE and TERENA), Kennisnet and GLORIAD.
Influence
SURF's executives have been founders of or occupied board positions in organisations including Ebone, CENTR, SIDN, AMS-IX, TERENA, DANTE, RIPE NCC, ISOC, IETF, IESG and IAB.
Surfnet became a driving force behind ICT-based innovation in higher education a research in the Netherlands.
See also
BELNET
Deutsches Forschungsnetz
Internet2
GÉANT
References
External |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamagata%20Television%20System | , also known as YTS, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Yamagata Prefecture.
History
JOYI-TV (also known as YTS) signed on as the primary FNN affiliate for Yamagata Prefecture on 1 April 1970, and remained with that network for its first 23 years in operation. It shared JNN programs with JOEF-TV (YBC) until October 1989, when JOWI-TV (TUY) began broadcasting as the prefecture's JNN affiliate.
In September 1992, YTS announced that it would affiliate with the All-Nippon News Network (ANN) and carry programming from TV Asahi once its affiliation contract with FNN expired on 31 March of the following year. Prior to the affiliation switch (which occurred on 1 April 1993), YBC, YTS, and TUY all carried programs from ANN as secondary affiliations. Conversely, this left Yamagata Prefecture without a full FNN affiliate for four years until JOCY-TV signed on as the new FNN affiliate on 1 April 1997. In the interim, JOOX-TV (from Sendai, which served eastern portions of Yamagata) served as the network's default over-the-air affiliate and that station, JOBI-TV from (Akita), and JOPX-TV (from Fukushima) were carried by regional cable television providers.
YTS began broadcasting in digital on 1 June 2006. The station's broadcasting area was affected by the 11 March 2011 earthquake, but received minimal damage compared to the devastation seen in the eastern areas of Tōhoku. Due to these circumstances, YTS officially terminated its analog television service as originally scheduled on 24 July 2011.
Stations
Analog stations
Yamagata(Main Station) JOYI-TV 38ch
Tsuruoka 39ch
Shinjo 58ch
Yonezawa 58ch
Digital stations(ID:5)
Yamagata(Main Station) JOYI-DTV 18ch
Yonezawa 34ch
Rival stations
Yamagata Broadcasting Company (YBC)
TV-U Yamagata (TUY)
Sakuranbo Television Broadcasting (SAY)
References
External links
Yamagata Television System
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1970
Mass media in Yamagata, Yamagata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20immunology | Systems immunology is a research field under systems biology that uses mathematical approaches and computational methods to examine the interactions within cellular and molecular networks of the immune system. The immune system has been thoroughly analyzed as regards to its components and function by using a "reductionist" approach, but its overall function can't be easily predicted by studying the characteristics of its isolated components because they strongly rely on the interactions among these numerous constituents. It focuses on in silico experiments rather than in vivo.
Recent studies in experimental and clinical immunology have led to development of mathematical models that discuss the dynamics of both the innate and adaptive immune system. Most of the mathematical models were used to examine processes in silico that can't be done in vivo. These processes include: the activation of T cells, cancer-immune interactions, migration and death of various immune cells (e.g. T cells, B cells and neutrophils) and how the immune system will respond to a certain vaccine or drug without carrying out a clinical trial.
Techniques of modelling in Immune cells
The techniques that are used in immunology for modelling have a quantitative and qualitative approach, where both have advantages and disadvantages. Quantitative models predict certain kinetic parameters and the behavior of the system at a certain time point or concentration point. The disadvantage is that it can only be applied to a small number of reactions and prior knowledge about some kinetic parameters is needed. On the other hand, qualitative models can take into account more reactions but in return they provide less details about the kinetics of the system. The only thing in common is that both approaches lose simplicity and become useless when the number of components drastically increase.
Ordinary Differential Equation model
Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to describe the dynamics of biological systems. ODEs are used on a microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic scale to examine continuous variables. The equations represent the time evolution of observed variables such as concentrations of protein, transcription factors or number of cell types. They are usually used for modelling immunological synapses, microbial recognition and cell migration. Over the last 10 years, these models have been used to study the sensitivity of TCR to agonist ligands and the roles of CD4 and CD8 co-receptors.
Kinetic rates of these equations are represented by binding and dissociation rates of the interacting species. These models are able to present the concentration and steady state of each interacting molecule in the network.
ODE models are defined by linear and non-linear equations, where the nonlinear ones are used more often because they are easier to simulate on a computer (in silico) and to analyse. The limitation of this model is that for every network, the kinetics of each molecu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational%20intelligence | Operational intelligence (OI) is a category of real-time dynamic, business analytics that delivers visibility and insight into data, streaming events and business operations. OI solutions run queries against streaming data feeds and event data to deliver analytic results as operational instructions. OI provides organizations the ability to make decisions and immediately act on these analytic insights, through manual or automated actions.
Purpose
The purpose of OI is to monitor business activities and identify and detect situations relating to inefficiencies, opportunities, and threats and provide operational solutions. Some definitions define operational intelligence as an event-centric approach to delivering information that empowers people to make better decisions, based on complete and actual information.
In addition, these metrics act as the starting point for further analysis (drilling down into details, performing root cause analysis — tying anomalies to specific transactions and the business activity).
Sophisticated OI systems also provide the ability to associate metadata with metrics, process steps, channels, etc. With this, it becomes easy to get related information, e.g., "retrieve the contact information of the person that manages the application that executed the step in the business transaction that took 60% more time than the norm," or "view the acceptance/rejection trend for the customer who was denied approval in this transaction," or "Launch the application that this process steps interacted with."
Features
Different operational intelligence solutions may use many different technologies and be implemented in different ways. This section lists the common features of an operational intelligence solution:
Real-time monitoring
Real-time situation detection
Real-time dashboards for different user roles
Correlation of events
Industry-specific dashboards
Multidimensional analysis
Root cause analysis
Time Series and trend analysis
Big data Analytics: Operational Intelligence is well suited to address the inherent challenges of Big Data. Operational Intelligence continuously monitors and analyzes the variety of high velocity, high volume Big Data sources. Often performed in memory, OI platforms and solutions then present the incremental calculations and changes, in real-time, to the end-user.
Technology components
Operational intelligence solutions share many features, and therefore many also share technology components. This is a list of some of the commonly found technology components, and the features they enable:
Business activity monitoring (BAM) – Dashboard customization and personalization
Complex event processing (CEP) – Advanced, continuous analysis of real-time information and historical data
Business process management (BPM) – To perform model-driven execution of policies and processes defined as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models
Metadata framework to model and link events to resources
Mul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20RJTV | This is a list of programs broadcast by RJDigiTV 29, a UHF digital independent TV station owned by Rajah Broadcasting Network. It was known as 2nd Avenue from 2008 to 2018, before it reverted to its own programming.
Current programming
Music
Bravo Executive Lounge
The Drive Time Show with DJ Alekz and DJ Ellie
RJ Sunday Jam
Thank God it's RJ
Let's Groove with Roaring 20's Band
Archival programming
RJ Video Vault
Choice Concerts
Cartoons
Classic Cartoons
Looney Tunes
Merrie Melodies
Popeye: The Sailor Man
Superman
Felix the Cat
Betty Boop
Private Snafu
Little Audrey
Mighty Max
Cartoon Funnies
Crusader Rabbit
Kissyfur Bear Roots
The New 3 Stooges
Movie blocks
Classic Movies
Informercials
TV Shop Philippines
Religious
Power to Unite with Elvira
Upcoming programs
Cartoons
Classic Cartoons
Challenge of the Gobots (2023)
The Flintstones (2023)
The Huckleberry Hound Show (2023)
Jabberjaw (2023)
The Jetsons (2023)
Magilla Gorilla (2023)
The Quick Draw McGraw Show (2023)
Tom and Jerry (2023)
Top Cat (2023)
The Yogi Bear Show (2023)
Previously aired on RJDigiTV
See also
Rajah Broadcasting Network
RJTV, List of programs broadcast by
RJTV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg%20Masters | Meg Masters is a fictional character on The CW Television Network's drama and horror television series Supernatural. Created by the series' writers to develop a story arc for the first season, Meg is an unnamed demon who assumes the name of the host she possesses and begins antagonizing the series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester. Nicki Aycox portrays her in the first season. Meg returns in the second season, possessing Sam and as such, was played by Jared Padalecki. The writers wanted Aycox to reprise the role in later seasons, but ultimately cast Rachel Miner for storyline purposes. Miner's incarnation evolves into an ally of the Winchesters and the angel Castiel over the course of the sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons.
In season 15, the entity known as the Empty assumes Meg's form to communicate with the Winchesters and Castiel.
Plot
Upon possessing a young woman named Meg Masters (Nicki Aycox), the demon assumes her name and tracks down series protagonist Sam Winchester in the first season episode "Scarecrow". The two briefly meet while hitchhiking—Sam left his brother Dean to track down their missing father John—and then again at a bus station. Despite her attempts to convince him otherwise, Sam eventually leaves to help Dean with one of their supernatural investigations. Meg slits a man's throat and uses his blood to communicate with her father Azazel, the demon responsible for the death of Sam and Dean's mother. Sam encounters her again in the episode "Shadow". Finding her reappearance suspicious, Sam spies on her and realizes that she is responsible for recent deaths of natives from his hometown. The brothers confront Meg and learn that the murders were actually a trap set for John, who has been hunting Azazel. After Sam and Dean reunite with John and acquire the demon-killing Colt, Meg begins killing their friends in "Salvation" and threatens to continue doing so unless they surrender the weapon. John delivers a fake gun, but Meg and her demonic brother take him hostage after quickly realizing the deceit. Meg tracks down the brothers in search of the Colt in the season finale "Devil's Trap", but is ultimately captured and exorcised to Hell.
Meg escapes Hell in the second season and takes possession of Sam (Jared Padalecki) in "Born Under a Bad Sign", seeking revenge against the Winchesters. To trick Dean into killing his brother, she uses Sam's body to kill one of the Winchesters' fellow hunters before taking their friend Jo Harvelle hostage, attempting to convince Dean that Sam has succumbed to Azazel's influence and can't control his actions. However, Dean and the Winchesters' ally Bobby Singer realize that Sam is possessed, and despite Meg's attempt to seal herself in Sam using a binding link, she is forced to flee Sam's body once she becomes vulnerable to exorcism after Dean and Bobby burn the mark off.
After the demons' god Lucifer is freed from Hell, Meg (Rachel Miner) resurfaces in the fifth season premiere "Sympathy for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Media%20Network | Catholic Media Network, also known as CMN, is a Catholic radio network in the Philippines. CMN serves as the broadcasting arm of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, the governing body of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.
History
CMN was known as the Philippine Federation of Catholic Broadcasters (PFCB), a radio network founded through the efforts of Fr. James Reuter, SJ and Fr. George Dion, OMI in 1966. The radio network was owned and operated by different Catholic broadcast media corporations.
In 1997, the name was changed to the Catholic Media Network to suit the network's mission and also the new slogan "The Spirit of The Philippines".
In October 2017, the House of Representatives threatened not to renew the 25-year franchise of the CBCP's broadcast radio operations (including some of the CMN member stations), citing criticism on the Duterte administration over war on drugs. However, CMN's de facto flagship station DZRV, was not part of it as it is operated by CBCP's affiliate Global Broadcasting System, which its franchise was already renewed by the Aquino administration a year earlier.
Eventually, in July 2019, CBCP broadcast franchise was renewed for 25 years after its respective bill was lapsed into law as President Rodrigo Duterte did not signed it within the period set by the Constitution.
Content
CMN content varies depending on the station from which it is being broadcast. Stations broadcast news, sports, radio drama, and other programs. As a network, CMN's mission statement is to use community-based broadcasting to promote New Evangelization and human development. Content is anti-abortion, catholic, and community oriented.
Stations
CMN has 54 radio stations across the Philippines and its broadcasts reach 11 regions and 35 provinces. It is the largest broadcaster in the Philippines, in terms of total number of stations and transmitting power per station.
Most of its stations are operated by their respective dioceses either through CBCP or their dioceses' own media arms. These stations, along with its diocesan licensees and affiliates, form the network chain and these individual stations credit their promotions as "members of" and not "owned by" CMN.
AM stations
CMN's AM stations are grouped as Radyo Totoo, with the exception of DWAL in Batangas. Several provincial stations have their own local branding other than Radyo Totoo.
FM stations
CMN's FM stations are grouped as Spirit FM. Prior to 1997, these stations had their unique local branding. Majority of these stations carry a hybrid of masa & religious formats while some carry their own music formats (whether religious, Top 40 or country) and even a few function as an overflow station of their AM sister. Similar to its sister AM network, a few stations still operate under their own local branding other than Spirit FM.
CMN Radio
Notable diocesan/regional licensees and affiliates
Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation (Cotabato/Oblates of Mary Immacu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Warshall | Stephen Warshall (November 15, 1935 – December 11, 2006) was an American computer scientist. During his career, Warshall carried out research and development in operating systems, compiler design, language design, and operations research. Warshall died on December 11, 2006 of cancer at his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Sarah Dunlap, and two children, Andrew D. Warshall and Sophia V. Z. Warshall.
Early life
Warshall was born in New York City and went to public school in Brooklyn. He graduated from A.B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, New York and attended Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1956. He never received an advanced degree since at that time no programs were available in his areas of interest. However, he took graduate courses at several different universities and contributed to the development of computer science and software engineering. In the 1971–1972 academic year, he lectured on software engineering at French universities.
Employment
After graduating from Harvard, Warshall worked at ORO (Operation Research Office), a program set up by Johns Hopkins to do research and development for the United States Army. In 1958, he left ORO to take a position at a company called Technical Operations, where he helped build a research and development laboratory for military software projects. In 1961, he left Technical Operations to found Massachusetts Computer Associates. Later, this company became part of Applied Data Research (ADR). After the merger, Warshall sat on the board of directors of ADR and managed a variety of projects and organizations. He retired from ADR in 1982 and taught a weekly class in Biblical Hebrew at Temple Ahavat Achim in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Warshall's algorithm
There is an interesting anecdote about his proof that the transitive closure algorithm, now known as Warshall's algorithm, is correct. He and a colleague at Technical Operations bet a bottle of rum on who first could determine whether this algorithm always works. Warshall came up with his proof overnight, winning the bet and the rum, which he shared with the loser of the bet. Because Warshall did not like sitting at a desk, he did much of his creative work in unconventional places such as on a sailboat in the Indian Ocean or in a Greek lemon orchard.
References
Journal of the ACM bibliography – Selected citations of Warshall paper
Stephen Warshall, Boston Globe, Obituaries, December 13, 2006
Temple Ahavat Achim Celebrates 100 Years on Cape Ann, Gloucester Jewish Journal, May 7–20, 2004
Further reading
Stephen Warshall. A theorem on Boolean matrices. ''Journal of the ACM'', 9(1):11–12, January 1962.
Thomas E. Cheatham, Jr., Stephen Warshall: Translation of retrieval requests couched in a "semiformal" English-like language. Commun. ACM 5(1): 34–39 (1962)
See also
Warshall's algorithm
1935 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX%20Spectrum%20software | The ZX Spectrum's software library was very diverse. While the majority of the software produced for the system was video games, others included programming language implementations, Sinclair BASIC extensions, databases, word processors, spread sheets, drawing and painting tools, and 3D modelling tools.
Games
Your Sinclair top 10
Between October 1991 and February 1992 Your Sinclair published a list of what they considered to be the top 100 games for the ZX Spectrum. Their top 10 were:
Deathchase
Rebelstar
All or Nothing
Stop the Express
Head Over Heels
R-Type
The Sentinel
Rainbow Islands
Boulder Dash
Tornado Low Level
CRASH top 10
Between August and December 1991 CRASH published their list of the top 100 ZX Spectrum games, including in the top 10:
Rainbow Islands
Chase H.Q.
RoboCop
RoboCop 2
Dizzy
Target: Renegade
Magicland Dizzy
Batman: The Movie
Operation Wolf
Midnight Resistance
Techradar's "Top 30"
Techradar published their list of the best 30 ZX Spectrum games in 2012, underlining which games stood the test of time.
Elite – Firebird Games
R-Type – Electric Dreams Software
Chuckie Egg: A'n'F Software
Manic Miner: Bug-Byte Software Ltd
Knight Lore: Ultimate Play the Game
Back to Skool: Microsphere
Football Manager: Addictive Games Ltd
Lunar Jetman: Ultimate Play the Game
Horace Goes Skiing – Beam Software
Boulder Dash – Front Runner
Sim City: Infogrames
Underwurlde: Ultimate Play the Game
Super Hang-On: Electric Dreams Software
Jet Set Willy: Software Projects Ltd
Rainbow Islands: Ocean Software Ltd
Tornado Low Level: Vortex Software
Ant Attack: Quicksilva Ltd
Chase H.Q.: Ocean Software Ltd
Deus Ex Machina: Automata UK Ltd
Lode Runner: Software Projects Ltd
Gauntlet: US Gold Ltd
Fantasy World Dizzy: Code Masters Ltd
The Hobbit: Melbourne House
Atic Atac: Ultimate Play the Game
Tetris: Mirrorsoft Ltd
Hyper Sports: Imagine Software Ltd
The Way of the Exploding Fist – Melbourne House
Daley Thompson's Decathlon: Ocean
Skool Daze: Microsphere
The Great Escape: Ocean
Notable developers
A number of current leading games developers and development companies began their careers on the ZX Spectrum. David Perry of Shiny Entertainment wrote Three Weeks in Paradise and Dan Dare. Tim and his brother Chris Stamper, along with Tim's girlfriend (later wife) Carole Ward and John Lathbury, published Jetpac, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf and Knightlore: and many others, as Ultimate Play the Game, now known as Rare, maker of many famous titles for Nintendo and Xbox game consoles. Alan Cox wrote Blizzard Pass, and is an ardent supporter of open source software.
Other notable Spectrum game developers include:
Jonathan "Joffa" Smith wrote Cobra, Hysteria, Firefly and a conversion from the Green Beret arcade among other games which prove that smooth scrolling was never a problem on the ZX Spectrum, as long as the developer had the necessary technical knowledge.
Matthew Smith wrote the seminal Spectrum title |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20cone%20programming | A second-order cone program (SOCP) is a convex optimization problem of the form
minimize
subject to
where the problem parameters are , and . is the optimization variable.
is the Euclidean norm and indicates transpose. The "second-order cone" in SOCP arises from the constraints, which are equivalent to requiring the affine function to lie in the second-order cone in .
SOCPs can be solved by interior point methods and in general, can be solved more efficiently than semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. Some engineering applications of SOCP include filter design, antenna array weight design, truss design, and grasping force optimization in robotics. Applications in quantitative finance include portfolio optimization; some market impact constraints, because they are not linear, cannot be solved by quadratic programming but can be formulated as SOCP problems.
Second-order cone
The standard or unit second-order cone of dimension is defined as
.
The second-order cone is also known by quadratic cone, ice-cream cone, or Lorentz cone. The second-order cone in is .
The set of points satisfying a second-order cone constraint is the inverse image of the unit second-order cone under an affine mapping:
and hence is convex.
The second-order cone can be embedded in the cone of the positive semidefinite matrices since
i.e., a second-order cone constraint is equivalent to a linear matrix inequality (Here means is semidefinite matrix). Similarly, we also have,
.
Relation with other optimization problems
When for , the SOCP reduces to a linear program. When for , the SOCP is equivalent to a convex quadratically constrained linear program.
Convex quadratically constrained quadratic programs can also be formulated as SOCPs by reformulating the objective function as a constraint. Semidefinite programming subsumes SOCPs as the SOCP constraints can be written as linear matrix inequalities (LMI) and can be reformulated as an instance of semidefinite program. The converse, however, is not valid: there are positive semidefinite cones that do not admit any second-order cone representation. In fact, while any closed convex semialgebraic set in the plane can be written as a feasible region of a SOCP, it is known that there exist convex semialgebraic sets that are not representable by SDPs, that is, there exist convex semialgebraic sets that can not be written as a feasible region of a SDP.
Examples
Quadratic constraint
Consider a convex quadratic constraint of the form
This is equivalent to the SOCP constraint
Stochastic linear programming
Consider a stochastic linear program in inequality form
minimize
subject to
where the parameters are independent Gaussian random vectors with mean and covariance and . This problem can be expressed as the SOCP
minimize
subject to
where is the inverse normal cumulative distribution function.
Stochastic second-order cone programming
We refer to second-order cone programs
as deterministic seco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Meets%20West%20%28TV%20series%29 | East Meets West is a cooking show on the Food Network hosted by the Chinese American chef Ming Tsai. During each half-hour episode, Tsai cooked Asian-European fusion cuisine. East Meets West aired from 1998 to 2003. In 1999, Tsai won the Daytime Emmy award in the category Outstanding Service Show Host for the show.
Opening sequence
The opening credits for the show consisted of Tsai doing various things, such as doing yoga, playing tennis, cooking, shopping, hopping out of his van, riding a bicycle, and shopping in an Asian market.
References
External links
Food Network original programming
2000s American cooking television series
1998 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20resource%20management | In computing, storage resource management (SRM) involves optimizing the efficiency and speed with which a storage area network (SAN) utilizes available drive space.
History
Data growth averages around 50% to 100% per year and organizations face rising hardware and storage management costs. Storage professionals who face out-of-control data growth are looking at SRM to help them navigate the storage environment. SRM identifies under-utilized capacity, identifies old or non-critical data that could be moved to less expensive storage, and helps predict future capacity requirements.
SRM evolved beyond quota management. it included functions such as storage area network (SAN) management.
References
Storage software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Italy | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Italy, excluding honorary consulates. Italy has a large global network of diplomatic missions. It is the only country in the world to have an embassy on its own territory—the Italian embassy to the Holy See is in Rome.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organisations
Closed missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
See also
Foreign relations of Italy
List of diplomatic missions in Italy
Notes
References
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Italy
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra%20ciphers | In cryptography, Cobra is the general name of a family of data-dependent permutation based block ciphers: Cobra-S128, Cobra-F64a, Cobra-F64b, Cobra-H64, and Cobra-H128. In each of these names, the number indicates the cipher's block size, and the capital letter indicates whether it is optimized for implementation in software, firmware, or hardware.
See also
CIKS-1
Spectr-H64
References
Block ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace%20war%20game | Peace war game is an iterated game originally played in academic groups and by computer simulation for years to study possible strategies of cooperation and aggression. As peace makers became richer over time it became clear that making war had greater costs than initially anticipated. The only strategy that acquired wealth more rapidly was a "Genghis Khan", a constant aggressor making war continually to gain resources. This led to the development of the "provokable nice guy" strategy, a peace-maker until attacked. Multiple players continue to gain wealth cooperating with each other while bleeding the constant aggressor. The Hanseatic League for trade and mutual defense appears to have originated from just such concerns about seaborne raiders.
The peace war game is a variation of the iterated prisoner's dilemma in which the decisions (Cooperate, Defect) are replaced by (Peace, War). Strategies remain the same with reciprocal altruism, "Tit for Tat", or "provokable nice guy" as the best deterministic one. This strategy is simply to make peace on the first iteration of the game; after that, the player does what his opponent did on the previous move. A slightly better strategy is "Tit for Tat with forgiveness". When the opponent makes war, on the next move, the player sometimes makes peace anyway, with a small probability. This allows an escape from wasting cycles of retribution, a motivation similar to the Rule of Ko in the game of Go. "Tit for Tat with forgiveness" is best when miscommunication is introduced, when one's move is incorrectly reported to the opponent. A typical payoff matrix for two players (A, B) of one iteration of this game is:
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"
|-
! A.. B:
! Peace
! War
|-
! Peace
| (2, 2)
| (0, 3)
|-
! War
| (3, 0)
| (1, 1)
|}
Here a player's resources have a value of 2, half of which must be spent to wage war. In this case, there exists a Nash equilibrium, a mutually best response for a single iteration, here (War, War), by definition heedless of consequences in later iterations. "Provokable nice guy's" optimality depends on iterations. How many are necessary is likely tied to the payoff matrix and probabilities of choosing. A subgame perfect version of this strategy is "Contrite Tit-for-Tat" which is to make peace unless one is in "good standing" and one's opponent is not. Good ("standing" assumed) means to make peace with good opponents, make peace when bad, or make war when good and opponent is not.
See also
Iterated prisoner's dilemma
Just war theory
Paradox of tolerance
Tit for Tat
WarGames
Notes
Dilemmas
Moral psychology
Non-cooperative games
Peace and conflict studies
Social psychology
Thought experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Men%20%28TV%20series%29 | Little Men is a Canadian television show that first aired on November 7, 1998 on the PAX TV network and was shown in Canada on CTV beginning January 1, 1999. The show is set as a continuation of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Men (1871), a follow-up to Little Women (1868). Due to low ratings, the show was cancelled after 2 seasons, with the final episode aired on December 17, 1999.
Synopsis
The show opens in Concord, Massachusetts, one month after the death of Jo's husband, Fritz Bhaer. Josephine Bhaer (Michelle Rene Thomas) must take over the Plumfield School, a school in the barn on the Bhaer property, once taught by her husband. As she tries to adjust to the pressures to find a new teacher, a merchant mariner Nick Riley (Spencer Rochfort) enters the scene to act as a caretaker of the school. Franz (Robin Dunne), Jo's nephew, must take over teaching the class of young teens, notably Dan (Corey Sevier), Nat (Trevor Blumas), Emil (Alex Cambell), Nan (Brittney Irvin) and Bess (Rachel Skarsten). The show follows the children's adventures at Plumfield, as well as the blossoming relationship between Jo and Nick. Appearances by the other living March sisters, Meg (Jennifer Wigmore) and Amy (Amy Price-Francis) ground the plot as another chapter in the continuing saga of the March girls of Little Women. Jo's young son, Rob Bhaer, is portrayed by Munro Chambers and his brother Thomas.
Characters
Plumfield residents
Josephine "Jo" Bhaer (Michelle Rene Thomas): One of the eponymous Little Woman, Jo is now a young widow following the death of her husband Fritz. She vows to keep her husband's school open, though many feel that she should close it down. She has one son, Rob. Jo often reminisces about her childhood with her sisters, Meg, Amy, and the late Beth. She remains close to her living relatives who continue to support her.
Nicholas "Nick" Riley (Spencer Rochfort): A merchant marine who comes to work at Plumfield. After he is arrested for assaulting Emil's uncle, Jo arranges for him to serve his sentence at Plumfield. He later decides to stay on permanently as the school's caretaker. Nick had a rough childhood after his parents died in an influenza epidemic when he was twelve. He stayed with his uncle who was abusive towards his wife. At fifteen, he went on his first sea voyage. In "Philanthropy", Nick reveals that he cannot read and Jo begins teaching him.
Dan Maddison (Corey Sevier): A sponsored student who was once homeless living on the streets of Boston. He survived by partnering with Jasper (Jason McSkimming) and later Nat. In "Tough Crimes", Jasper comes to Plumfield to take Dan to California. Dan soon learns that his friend is an irredeemable criminal and remains at school.
Nathaniel "Nat" Blake (Trevor Blumas): Dan's best friend. Like Dan, he is a sponsored student. They were homeless together in Boston. Nat tends to be cautious and nervous, though he is capable of great acts of bravery in times of need.
Anthea "Nan" Harding (Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL%209 | CL 9 was a company that developed a universal TV remote control. It was started by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc. and designer of the Apple I and Apple II personal computers. CL 9 was in business for three years, from 1985 to 1988, launching the 6502-based CL 9 CORE remote control in 1987, which Wozniak calls the first programmable universal remote control.
History
Wozniak was working at Apple Computer as an Apple II engineer. He enjoyed his work, but he believed he wasn't making a valuable contribution because of his role as an Apple spokesperson and because it had become a big company.
At the same time, Wozniak had a state-of-the-art home theater in the Santa Cruz Mountains, made of myriad devices, each from different manufacturers and with a unique remote control. The frustrating complexity inspired him to invent what is now known as a universal remote. He got some friends interested, and started a new company to build the device.
Wozniak decided to leave Apple to pursue his new venture, but stated that he "never felt like I was turning my back on my own company [Apple]." He told his manager's manager, Wayne Rosing, about his decision to leave, but not Apple co-founder and friend, Steve Jobs. Wozniak guessed that Jobs first heard the news from an article in The Wall Street Journal. When Wozniak spoke to the reporter, he was very direct about the fact that he wasn't leaving because he was disgruntled with Apple, but that he was excited to build this remote control. The reporter nevertheless included some of Wozniak's criticisms of Apple, which created discord. Wozniak says "it was an accident, but it's been picked up by every book and every bit of history [since]." Wozniak left Apple but remained a paid employee indefinitely, though he states he is paid as little as a full-time Apple employee can be.
Development
Wozniak lived in the Summit Road area of the Santa Cruz Mountains. At that time, there were two restaurants, the Summit Inn and Cloud 9. He heard Cloud 9 was going out of business, so he suggested that as a site for the new company. Two weeks later, they instead settled into an older area of nearby Los Gatos. The name "Cloud 9", caught the attention of co-founder Joe Ennis and he investigated the availability of the name. It was taken, so the name CL 9 was chosen.
Wozniak mentioned the new company to an early investor in Apple, who asked to be allowed to invest. Wozniak resisted, saying they weren't looking for investors. But the investor pleaded, so Wozniak let him invest. Several of the investor's friends invested also, bringing in two to three million dollars. About this time, Wozniak asked an old friend from Commodore, Sam Bernstein, to be president.
The company went through a great deal of research and engineering to develop the remote. They were frustrated in some of their early efforts by interference from Apple co-founder, Jobs. The enclosure was originally designed by Frog Design, which also worked for Apple and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20CP-40 | CP-40 was a research precursor to CP-67, which in turn was part of IBM's then-revolutionary CP[-67]/CMS – a virtual machine/virtual memory time-sharing operating system for the IBM System/360 Model 67, and the parent of IBM's VM family. CP-40 ran multiple instances of client operating systems – particularly CMS, the Cambridge Monitor System, built as part of the same effort. Like CP-67, CP-40 and the first version of CMS were developed by IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center (CSC) staff, working closely with MIT researchers at Project MAC and Lincoln Laboratory. CP-40/CMS production use began in January 1967. CP-40 ran on a unique, specially modified IBM System/360 Model 40.
Project goals
CP-40 was a one-off research system. Its declared goals were:
Provide research input to the System/360 Model 67 team working in Poughkeepsie, who were breaking new ground with the as-yet-unproven concept of virtual memory.
Support CSC's time-sharing requirements in Cambridge.
However, there was also an important unofficial mission: To demonstrate IBM's commitment to and capability for supporting time-sharing users like MIT. CP-40 (and its successor) achieved its goals from technical and social standpoints – they helped to prove the viability of virtual machines, to establish a culture of time-sharing users, and to launch a remote computer services industry. The project became embroiled in an internal IBM political war over time-sharing versus batch processing; and it failed to win the hearts and minds of the academic computer science community, which ultimately turned away from IBM to systems like Multics, UNIX, TENEX, and various DEC operating systems. Ultimately the virtualization concepts developed in the CP-40 project bore fruit in diverse areas, and remain important today.
Features
CP-40 was the first operating system that implemented complete virtualization, i.e. it provided a virtual machine environment supporting all aspects of its target computer system (a S/360-40), such that other S/360 operating systems could be installed, tested, and used as if on a stand-alone machine. CP-40 supported fourteen simultaneous virtual machines. Each virtual machine ran in "problem state" – privileged instructions such as I/O operations caused exceptions, which were then caught by the control program and simulated. Similarly, references to virtual memory locations not present in main memory cause page faults, which again were handled by control program rather than reflected to the virtual machine. Further details on this implementation are found in CP/CMS (architecture).
The basic architecture and user interface of CP-40 were carried forward into CP-67/CMS, which evolved to become IBM's current VM product line.
Hardware platform
A Model 67 was not available for building CP-40, so a custom virtual memory device based on associative memory (the "CAT box") was designed and built for CSC. It involved both hardware and microcode changes to a specially modified System/360 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caro%20Lucas | Caro Lucas Ghukasian (); (; September 4, 1949 – July 8, 2010) was an Iranian Armenian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific society include biological computing, computational intelligence, uncertain systems, intelligent control, fuzzy systems, neural networks, multiagent systems, swarm intelligence, data mining, business intelligence, financial modeling, knowledge management, systems science, and general design theory.
He was honored as an Eternal Figure (Persian: chehreye mandegar چهره ماندگار) by the Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame, which is a distinguishing honor offered to prominent Iranian chancellor scholars..
Biography
Early life and education
Caro Lucas was born on September 4, 1949, in the historical city of Isfahan, in an Armenian family. Although he was born in Isfahan he grew up in Tehran as he explained in an interview: "As my family used to go to their hometown, Isfahan in summers, and as I was born in one of these summers, I was born in Isfahan. Most of my summers have been spent in Isfahan, and I have been grown in Tehran so I am from both Isfahan and Tehran."
He graduated from Kooshesh High School (the school of Armenian Minority) in Tehran, received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Control Engineering from University of Tehran, in 1973 and the PhD. degree from University of California, Berkeley, in 1976.
Marriage and children
He married Emilia Nercissians (). Arman is their son. His granddaughter is Sarvaia, who is studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Final years and death
Lucas was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. After a year he had overcome his cancer, but he died on July 8, 2010, from intestinal infection resulting from a medical mistreatment which happened during a colonoscopy.
Academic career
He was a professor, and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing (CIPCE), school of electrical and computer engineering, University of Tehran, as well as a researcher at the School of Cognitive Sciences (SCS), Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
He served as the director of school of intelligent systems, IPM (1993–1997) and chairman of the ECE Department at the University of Tehran (1986–1988). Lucas was also a visiting associate professor at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (summer, 1989–1990), University of California, Berkeley (1988–1989), an assistant professor at Garyounis University (1984–1985), University of California, Los Angeles (1975–1976), a senior researcher at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, both in Trieste, Italy, the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin Institute of Electrical Technology, a research associate at the Manufacturing Research Corporation of Ontario, and a research assistant at the Electronic Research Laboratory, Univers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimate%20Portrait | Intimate Portrait is a biographical documentary television series on the Lifetime cable network hosted by Meredith Vieira and focusing on different female celebrities, including stars from the fields of cinema, music, politics, sports and others which includes interviews with each subject and appearance's by numerous stars discussing the subject. 12 seasons were made with a total of 271 episodes, airing from January 3, 1994, and October 3, 2005. The series utilises stock footage, on-camera interviews, and photographs of the celebrities as children.
List of Stars
Season 1
(Notes: The series screened internationally, and dates are typical of original US broadcast sheet)
Season 2
Season 3
References
External links
Lifetime (TV network) original programming
1994 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
American non-fiction television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Ignacio%20Cirac%20Sasturain | Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 11 October 1965), known professionally as Ignacio Cirac, is a Spanish physicist. He is one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He is the recipient of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research.
Career
Cirac graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1988 and moved to the United States in 1991 to work as a postdoctoral scientist with Peter Zoller in the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in University of Colorado at Boulder. Between 1991 and 1996, he was teaching physics in the Ciudad Real Faculty of Chemistry, University of Castilla-La Mancha.
In 1996, Cirac became professor in the Institut für Theoretische Physik in Innsbruck, Austria, and in 2001 he became a director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, where he heads the Theory Division. At the same time, he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. He is a distinguished visiting professor and research advisor at ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona since its foundation in 2002. He has been a member of research teams at the universities of Harvard, Technical University of Munich, Hamburg, UCSB, Hannover, Bristol, Paris, CEA/Saclay, École Normale Supérieure, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research is focused on quantum optics, the quantum theory of information and quantum many-body physics. His joint work with Peter Zoller on ion trap quantum computation opened up the possibility of experimental quantum computation, and his joint work on optical lattices jumpstarted the field of quantum simulation. He has also made seminal contributions in the fields of quantum information theory, degenerated quantum gases, quantum optics, and renormalization group methods. As of 2017 Juan Ignacio Cirac has published more than 440 articles in the most prestigious journals and is one of the most cited authors in his fields of research. He has been named among others as a possible candidate to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Other activities
Corporate boards
Telefónica, member of the board of directors (since 2016)
Non-profit organizations
Fundación La Caixa, member of the advisory council (since 2015)
Annalen der Physik, member of the advisory board (since 2012)
Fundación BBVA, member of the scientific committee (since 2010)
Honors and awards
Ignacio Cirac has been granted multiple awards, notable ones being the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category ex aequo with Peter Zoller, and The Franklin Institute's 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (jointly with David J. Wineland and Peter Zoller). He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics with Peter Zoller in 2013. In 2018 he received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society and the Micius Quantum Prize.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Garrels | Robert Minard Garrels (August 24, 1916 – March 8, 1988) was an American geochemist. Garrels applied experimental physical chemistry data and techniques to geology and geochemistry problems. The book Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria co-authored in 1965 by Garrels and Charles L. Christ revolutionized aqueous geochemistry.
Garrels earned a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Michigan in 1937. He went on to earn an M.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1939, his thesis work was on iron ores of Newfoundland in 1938. His Ph.D. was awarded in 1941 based on lab studies of complex formation between lead and chloride ions in aqueous solution.
Life and career
Garrels worked for the United States Geological Survey during World War II and returned to teach at Northwestern until 1952. Also in 1952 he published a technical paper, "Origin and Classification of Chemical Sediments in Terms of pH and Oxidation-Reduction Potentials." with William C. Krumbein, which was to become a classic study of sedimentary rocks from a physical chemistry viewpoint. This and following works revolutionized sedimentary and aqueous geochemistry.
He joined the United States Geological Survey again for a time, but returned to academia at Harvard University in 1955. He became full professor in 1957 and later department chair. His work and the lab he supervised at Harvard produced many classic works including the Solutions, Minerals, and Equilibria text. Here between 1960 and 1962 he along with his colleagues published the classic studies:
"Oxidation of Pyrite by Iron Sulfate Solutions"
"Stability of Some Carbonates at 25°C and One Atmosphere Total Pressure"
"Control of Carbonate Solubility by Carbonate Complexes"
"A Chemical Model for Sea Water at 25°C and One Atmosphere Total Pressure"
He returned to Northwestern University in 1965 and conducted influential studies on the silicate and carbonate buffering of seawaters, the genesis of groundwaters and the theoretical treatment of irreversible reactions in geochemical processes.
In 1969 he moved to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and later to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. During this time he worked on thermodynamic properties of silicate minerals and also published "Cycling of Carbon, Sulfur, and Oxygen through Geologic Time" with Ed Perry in 1974.
In 1974 he returned to Northwestern University and published important studies on the sulfur and carbon isotopic compositions of Phanerozoic rocks with Abraham Lerman and Frederick T. Mackenzie.
Garrels had broad interests beyond geology. He enjoyed travel and wine. He was athletic, holding the world high jump record for men over 57 years of age. He was a poet-scientist:
Cycle of Pby Robert M. Garrels
I put some P into the seathe biomass did swell
But settling down soon overcameand P went down toward Hell
From Purgatory soon releasedit moved up to the land
To make a perfect rose for theeto carry in thy hand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Connect | Game Connect: Asia Pacific (GCAP) is Australia’s annual game development conference and networking event for the Asia Pacific Games Industry and is administered by the Game Developers’ Association of Australia.
See also
Australian Game Developers Conference
References
External links
Game Developers' Association of Australia website
Video game development
Trade fairs in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamravattam | Chamravattam is a village located in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. This village is on the shores of the Bharathapuzha.
Computer Literacy
With the fulfillment of the Akshaya Project initiated by the Kerala State information technology mission, Chamaravattam is the first 100 per cent computer-literate village in the nation of India. At least one member of each family will be able to use a personal computer for such tasks as editing pictures, composing text, surfing the Internet and sending e-mails.
Chamravattam Regulator-cum-Bridge
This also known as Chamravattam Palam or Chamravattam Bridge or Chamravattam Regulator-cum-Bridge or Chamravattam RcB or just Chamravattam Project.
Chamravattam Regulator-cum-Bridge, is built across Bharathapuzha aka Nila. The bridge has 978 m length and 10.5 m width. It connects Ponnani and Tirur.
References
Villages in Malappuram district
Kuttippuram area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20object | Mobile object may refer to:
Mob (video games), a computer-controlled non-player character (NPC) in a computer game such as an MMORPG or MUD
Mobile agent, a composition of computer software and data that is able to migrate (move) from one computer to another autonomously and continue its execution on the destination computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%20Shandwick | Weber Shandwick is a marketing communications firm formed in 2001 by merging the Weber Group, Shandwick International and BSMG. The company is part of global agency network Interpublic Group (IPG), as part of the parent company's IPG DXTRA operating division.
History
Shandwick International, founded in 1974, was acquired by IPG in 1998. In September 2000, IPG announced it was merging Shandwick with IPG's Weber Group, itself founded in 1974, to form Weber Shandwick. The merger was completed on 1 January 2001, and in October, BSMG (formerly Bozell Sawyer Miller Group), which had been acquired by IPG as part of IPG's March 2001 acquisition of True North, merged with Weber Shandwick. BSMG Chairman Jack Leslie was named Chairman of the new combined group, and CEO Harris Diamond became the group's CEO.
In 2010, Weber Shandwick's internal developers and social media teams created a social media crisis simulator called Firebell.
In January 2012, after a Weber Shandwick executive moved to Hill & Knowlton, Weber Shandwick secured a restraining order after alleging the firm was taking their employees and clients. In May, the agency was appointed global agency of record for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In November, Andy Polansky was named CEO.
In March 2013, Weber Shandwick launched MediaCo, a content marketing unit providing services to clients including native advertising and digital media buying.
In May 2014, the firm acquired a Sweden-based agency, Prime, and its business intelligence division, United Minds.
In October 2018, Weber Shandwick relaunched United Minds as a global management consultancy, combining the agency’s global Employee Engagement & Change Management practice with United Minds Sweden, the management consultancy within Prime Weber Shandwick.
In July 2019, Gail Heimann was named President and CEO of Weber Shandwick, with Andy Polansky became the firm's Executive Chairman.
In December 2020, the agency announced a permanent hybrid model for its workforce.
In May 2021, the United Minds consultancy and fellow IPG company KRC Research launched new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) research. United Minds also started a DE&I initiative called Code+ify, to help business leaders looking to improve their DE&I efforts. In June, Susan Howe was named President. In September, the firm partnered with AI-driven threat intelligence and detection platform Blackbird.AI to launch its Media Security Center, to help clients proactively identify and fight disinformation. In October, the firm announced that Chairman Jack Leslie was stepping down as chairman in March 2022.
In January 2022, it was announced that Andy Polansky, Weber Shandwick executive chairman and Interpublic Group Dxtra CEO, would retire in June 2022.
Operations
Weber Shandwick is based in New York City, and as of January 2022, listed offices in 67 cities worldwide, as well as other affiliate city offices in six continents. As of December 2021, Andy Polansky was Weber Shandwick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Monday%20Night%20Football%20commentators | The following is a list of sportscasters who have served as commentators for Monday Night Football broadcasts on various networks, along with each commentator's period of tenure on the show (beginning years of each season shown, as the NFL season ends in the calendar year after it begins). Game announcers used in #2 games usually come from ESPN and are included for both wild card playoff games (1995–2005 except 2002–2003 season) and secondary regular season games (1987, 1997, 2005–present).
Television
ABC
Play-by-play announcers
Keith Jackson (1970)
Frank Gifford (1971–1985; also when Al Michaels was working postseason baseball 1986–1989)
Al Michaels (1986–2005)
Gary Bender (#2, 1987)
Mike Patrick (#2, 1997 and 2005)
Color commentators
Howard Cosell (1970–1983)
Don Meredith (1970–1973, 1977–1984)
Fred Williamson (1974 preseason only)
Alex Karras (1974–1976)
Fran Tarkenton (1979–1982)
O. J. Simpson (1983–1985)
Joe Namath (1985)
Frank Gifford (1986–1997)
Lynn Swann (#2, 1986-1987)
Dan Dierdorf (1987–1998)
Joe Theismann (#2, 1997 and 2005)
Boomer Esiason (1998–1999)
Dan Fouts (2000–2001)
Dennis Miller (2000–2001)
John Madden (2002–2005)
Paul Maguire (#2, 2005)
Sideline reporters
Lynn Swann (1994–1997, Super Bowls)
Ron Jaworski (#2, 1997)
Lesley Visser (1998–1999 and during Wild Card playoffs and Super Bowl XXXIV)
Eric Dickerson (2000–2001)
Melissa Stark (2000–2002)
Lisa Guerrero (2003)
Michele Tafoya (2004–2005)
Sam Ryan (2005)
Suzy Kolber (2005; Super Bowl XL)
Studio hosts
Jim Lampley (halftime and Super Bowl XIX co-host)
Al Michaels (Super Bowl XIX co-host)
Keith Jackson (Super Bowl XXII host)
Chris Berman (halftime host, 1996–2005 and during Wild Card playoffs and Super Bowls)
Mike Tirico (Super Bowl)
Brent Musburger (studio host, 1990–1995)
Robin Roberts (Hurricane Katrina telethon co-host, 2005)
Studio analysts
Dick Vermeil (playoffs and Super Bowl, 1990–1995)
Boomer Esiason (playoffs and Super Bowl XXIX)
Joe Theismann (Super Bowl XIX)
Peter King (1995)
Frank Gifford (1998)
Steve Young (playoffs and Super Bowl)
Brian Billick (playoffs and Super Bowl XXXVII)
Michael Strahan (playoffs and Super Bowl XXXVII)
Tom Jackson (playoffs and Super Bowl XL)
Michael Irvin (playoffs and Super Bowl XL)
Chris Mortensen (playoffs and Super Bowl XL)
Bill Belichick (Super Bowl XL)
Wild Card Playoffs (No. 2 game)
Play-by-play announcers
Brent Musburger (1990–1995, 2002)
Mike Patrick (1996–2001, 2003–2005)
Color commentators
Dick Vermeil (1990–1995)
Joe Theismann (1996–2001, 2003–2005)
Paul Maguire (1998–2001, 2003–2005)
Gary Danielson (2002)
Sideline reporters
Lesley Visser (1990-1997)
Solomon Wilcots (1998–2000)
Suzy Kolber (2001, 2003–2005)
Jack Arute (2002)
ESPN
Play-by-play announcers
Brent Musburger (2006–2015)
Sean McDonough (2016–2017)
Joe Tessitore (2018–2019)
Steve Levy (2020–2021)
Joe Buck (2022–present)
Color commentators
Tony Kornheiser (2006–2008)
Joe Theismann (2006)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashinippon%20Broadcasting | , also known as KHB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Miyagi Prefecture.
History
October 1, 1975: It was set up as Miyagi Prefecture's fourth broadcasting station.
June 18, 2006: Their Sendai main station started their Digital terrestrial television service.
March 11, 2011: During the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, KHB news personnel reported NHK's unfavorable attitude in news reporting.
March 31, 2012: All-analog TV stations were abolished.
September 20, 2021: KHB moved to its newly built headquarters in Asuto-Nagamachi, Taihaku-ku, Sendai City from its former headquarters in Futabagaoka, Aoba-ku, Sendai City.
September 30, 2021: After moving to its new headquarters 10 days earlier, a new company logo officially replaced the former logo that was in use since it was founded.
Stations
Analog Stations
Sendai(Main Station) JOEM-TV 32ch
Digital Stations(ID:5)
Sendai(Main Station) JOEM-DTV 28ch
Programs
Rival Stations
References
External links
KHB Official Site
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1975
Mass media in Sendai
Companies based in Sendai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime%20Asahi%20Television | , also known as eat, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the ANN. Their headquarters are located in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture.
History
1995 April 1- Station starts operations as the fourth TV station in Ehime Prefecture.
2006 October 1- Digital terrestrial television begins operations at the Matsuyama Main Station.
2011 July 24- Analog television ceases operations in 44 prefectures.
Stations
Analog Stations
Matsuyama (Main Station) JOEY-TV 25ch
Niihama 14ch
Uwajima 16ch
Kikuma 52ch
Ōzu 44ch
Yawatahama 25ch
Minamiuwa 29ch
Kawanoe 38ch
Nakayama 18ch
Digital Stations (ID:5)
Matsuyama (Main Station) JOEY-DTV 17ch
Programs
Rival Stations
Nankai Broadcasting (RNB)
Ehime Broadcasting (EBC)
i-Television (ITV)
External links
eat official site
All-Nippon News Network
Asahi Shimbun Company
Companies based in Ehime Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Mass media in Matsuyama, Ehime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20Mercado | Ma. Sugar Mercado (; born September 13, 1986) is a Filipino dancer and actress. She was originally a member of the Sexbomb Girls and one of the hosts of the popular GMA Network noontime variety show Eat Bulaga!. She was dropped by the show in 2007. She is a former co-host of a defunct variety game program Wowowin.
Biography
Ma. Sugar Mercado is the youngest of four siblings who along with her family lived in Cavite. They lived in a temporary house on top of a hog shed which was built in a tract of land owned by her grandfather. Sugar recounted that during her childhood, her family would sleep on strips of wood and that the roof over their heads would be constantly blown away during a typhoon. But things would eventually look up for her.
During her junior year in high school, she toured with the Gen. Mariano Alvarez Technical High School Band as a majorette. Later, she would join television beauty contests particularly Eat Bulaga!'s "TV Babe" segment in 2001. Sugar lost. Nevertheless, she was signed on to join the SexBomb Girls, an association that lasted less than a year. Sugar decided to finish her studies and three years later, she served a six-month stint with the ABS-CBN noontime variety show MTB: Ang Saya Saya 2002 edition. Six months later, Sugar rejoined the SexBomb Girls and Eat Bulaga!.
It was during the segment Laban o Bawi that she figured in a freak mishap causing her to fall down and accidentally destroy the stage props inside the studio. Mercado's rising popularity reportedly caused a rift between the Eat Bulaga! management and the SexBomb Girls and amid much controversy, the two parted ways. She remained and is now one of the very popular members of the show. After Eat Bulaga was renewed for a new format, she did not come back as host of the show. She has now earned enough money to build a two-story house for her family in Cavite. She left Eat Bulaga! again, though, after some time.
Besides her regular appearances in the GMA Network sitcom Ful Haus, Mercado also performs at the Klownz and Zirkoh bars owned by fellow Eat Bulaga! member Allan K.
Mercado attended Trinity University of Asia School in Quezon City, a middle competency university with fellow actors Ahron Villena, Megan Young, Alfred Navarro, Che Tolentino, Charles Christianson, Kontin Roque, Sophia Montecarlo, Erich Gonzales, Alvin Aragon, Eslove Briones, Shey Bustamante, Joe Vargas and Marco Aytona. She has been formerly seen on her first dramatic performance and also her first GMA Telebabad, Zorro.
On May 29, 2010, Mercado appeared on Eat Bulaga as a celebrity contestant of Pinoy Henyo.
In 2010, Mercado has no contract with GMA, Sugar transferred to TV5 via My Darling Aswang was her first show on TV5, with her former Ful Haus co-star Vic Sotto and Jose Manalo, and her recent show, Midnight DJ.
In 2011, Mercado was part of Willing Willie (now changed to Wil Time Bigtime) with former Wowowee host Willie Revillame.
In 2014, Mercado is in-active in showbiz until n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-dependent%20software | Hardware-dependent software (HDS or HdS), the part of an operating system that varies across microprocessor boards and is comprised notably of device drivers and of boot code which performs hardware initialization. HDS does not comprise code which is only specific to a processor family and can run unchanged on various members of it. The HDS is alternatively called the BSP, for Board Support Package, especially in the world of commercial operating systems where the processor family code is distributed in binary form only.
Often software that runs on operating systems may be hardware dependent at first, but emulators can reduce dependencies for specific hardware.
See also
Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
DeviceKit
Embedded systems
Firmware
HAL (software)
Hardware abstraction layer
Machine-dependent software
Programmable logic
References
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillings | Schillings (originally Schilling & Lom) is an international reputation and privacy consultancy staffed by reputation, privacy and family lawyers, risk consulting, cyber security and intelligence specialists. The company is an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) and is regulated and authorized by the United Kingdom's Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). It employs 33 lawyers, risk managers, and IT security consultants and offers services covering risk consulting, legal services, and IT security.
History
The firm was founded in 1984 by Keith Schilling and Nicholas Lom and focused largely on media law, libel, and privacy protection. It was called by Index on Censorship "the scourge of many a Fleet Street editor" for obtaining anonymized gagging orders to protect celebrity clients' privacy. In the early 2010s, the firm began to move away from pure media and libel work towards reputation protection for a large corporate, non-celebrity clientele.
In 2012 Schillings acquired the information security firm Vigilante Bespoke. In March 2013 the firm was granted two Alternative Business Structure licenses, one for the Schillings partnership and one for Schillings Corporate Limited which owns Vigilante Bespoke.
The company restructured its organization in September 2013 and is now an integrated legal, risk management, IT security, and investigation business.
Notable cases
In 2004, Schillings helped Lance Armstrong when confronted with doping allegations in the book L. A. Confidentiel, by David Walsh and Pierre Ballester. Schillings was told to tell "every UK paper and broadcaster" to not re-state what was in the book. Gideon Benaim and Matthew Himsworth worked for Schillings on Armstrong's libel actions, including a 2004 defamation suit against The Sunday Times for referencing information in the book.
In May 2008, Keith Schilling won a privacy case in the Court of Appeal for the son of Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling. The case "says children of famous parents have the same right to expect privacy as children of parents who aren't well-known" granting them protection from intrusive photography.
In April and May 2011, Schillings acted for Ryan Giggs in CTB v News Group Newspapers and obtained a "super-injunction" aimed at preventing the publication by The Sun of the details of an alleged extra-marital relationship between Giggs and Imogen Thomas. The case gained widespread media coverage and political discussion in the UK.
In October 2012 Schillings' family division acted for the respondent's husband in the reported case BP v KP and NI. The case included not only companies by which one of the spouses was employed but also former colleagues and associates with whom a spouse was professionally acquainted.
In January 2013 Schillings acted for Ned RocknRoll, husband to Kate Winslet. RocknRoll obtained an order preventing the Sun newspaper from publishing private images of RocknRoll taken from a Facebook page.
In May 2013 Schillings Partner Davina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle%20F2F | Turtle was a free anonymous peer-to-peer network project being developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, involving professor Andrew Tanenbaum. It is not developed anymore. Like other anonymous P2P software, it allows users to share files and otherwise communicate without fear of legal sanctions or censorship. Turtle's claims of anonymity are backed by two research papers provided in the "external links" below.
Architecture
Technically, Turtle is a friend-to-friend (F2F) network - a special type of peer-to-peer network in which all your communication goes only to your friends, and then to their friends, and so on, to the ultimate destination.
The basic idea behind Turtle is to build a P2P overlay on top of pre-existing trust relationships among Turtle users. Each user acts as node in the overlay by running a copy of the Turtle client software. Unlike existing P2P networks, Turtle does not allow arbitrary nodes to connect and exchange information. Instead, each user establishes secure and authenticated channels with a limited number of other nodes controlled by trusted people (friends).
In the Turtle overlay, both queries and results move hop by hop; the net result is that information is only exchanged between people that trust each other and is always encrypted. Consequently, a snooper or adversary has no way to determine who is requesting / providing information, and what that information is. Given this design, a Turtle network offers a number of useful security properties, such as confined damage in case of node compromise, and resilience against denial of service attacks.
See also
giFT
Internet privacy
File sharing
F2F
RetroShare (inspired by "Turtle Hopping" feature)
External links
Turtle homepage (student's project, 2004)
Petr Matejka's master thesis on Turtle (2004)
"Safe and Private Data Sharing with Turtle: Friends Team-Up and Beat the System"
"Turtle: Safe and Private Data Sharing" from Usenix 2005 conference
Turtle is also cited by this article from the "Applied Public Key Infrastructure: 4th International Workshop: Iwap 2005" and by this article from the "11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'05) "
Anonymity networks
Internet privacy software
File sharing networks
File sharing software
Free routing software
Free network-related software
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUDRANET | EUDRANET, the European Telecommunication Network in Pharmaceuticals (European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Network), is an IT platform to facilitate the exchange of information between regulatory partners and industry during submission and evaluation of applications. The aim of EUDRANET is to provide appropriate secure services for inter-Administration data interchange and for exchanges between Administrations and industry. EUDRANET is based on the TESTA backbone infrastructure provided by the IDA Programme.
The processes which EUDRANET supports include:
The submission and evaluation of marketing authorisation applications by pharmaceutical companies;
The pharmacovigilance of products on the market to ensure the maintenance of high standards of quality as well as adhering to European national and regional regulations;
The dissemination of relevant information to industry, scientific experts and regulators.
See also
eHealth
EudraCT
EudraGMP
EudraPharm
EudraVigilance
European Medicines Agency
Qualified Person
External links
EUDRANET
Projects of Common Interest for Administrations (European Union)
e-Health (European Union)
European clinical research
Pharmaceuticals policy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAYA-II | MAYA-II (Molecular Array of YES and ANDNOT logic gates) is a DNA computer, based on DNA Stem Loop Controllers, developed by scientists at Columbia University and the University of New Mexico and created in 2006.
Replacing the normally silicon-based circuits, this chip has DNA strands to form the circuit. It is said that the speed of such DNA-circuited computer chips will rival and surpass the silicon-based ones, they will be of use in blood samples and in the body and might partake in single cell signaling.
It is the successor to the MAYA I which was composed of only 23 logic gates and could only complete specific games of tic-tac-toe. MAYA-II has more than 100 DNA circuits and can now thoroughly play a game of tic-tac-toe. It is very slow - one move in a game of tic-tac-toe can take up to 30 minutes making it more of a demonstration than an actual application.
The arrangement of this device looks like that of a tic-tac-toe grid and consists of nine wells coated with culture cells. The logic gates are made of the E6 Deoxyribozymes (or DNAzyme) which react to specific oligonucleotide input. Upon reaction, the DNAzyme cleaves the substrate producing an increase in red or green fluorescence, depending on whether it is the computer's or the human's turn respectively.
This technology was used to deepen the quality of diagnostics given to patients infected with the West Nile virus. Joanne Macdonald, a Columbia University virologist, hopes this device can be implanted in the human body and control the presence of cancer cells or the levels of insulin for diabetic patients.
One of the suggested uses put forward by MAYA's creators is that technology such as this can be used in situations where fluid is involved, such as in a sample of blood or a body, since it does not use traditional silicon components.
References
Natural computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EudraGMP | EudraGMP is the database of the European Community of manufacturing authorisations and of certificates of good manufacturing practice. The EudraGMP system was launched in April 2007, for use by European Medicines Regulators. Access for the general public, via Internet, is available since 2009 using the URL : http://eudragmp.ema.europa.eu.
EudraGMP is part of the EU telematics strategy, which has been conceived in order to meet the strategic objectives of the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency and the Member State competent authorities.
EudraGMP is part of a larger database known as EudraGMDP, which contains information on:
“Manufacturing and import authorisations
Good manufacturing Practice (GMP) certificates
Statements of non-compliance with GMP
GMP inspection planning in third countries”
The public database allows the general public access to information regarding manufacturing inspections completed by regulatory authorities from all European Economic Area (EEA) countries. Prior to the enactment of the EudraGMP database, information only came from a limited number of European countries. The European regulatory authorities update the database continuously and expect it to grow extensively over the next few years as more “GMP certificates are imported each year.”
The database serves as a quick reference for checking the good manufacturing practice (GMP) of a potential contract manufacturer. One can search by the “company name, location, or certificate number and find details on the types of products or activities that the company conducts and the date of the most recent GMP inspection.”
See also
European Medicines Agency
EUDRANET
EudraCT
EudraPharm
EudraVigilance
GxP
References
External links
European Medicines Agency Implementation of the New EU Pharmaceutical Legislation
Projects of Common Interest for Administrations (EU)
European clinical research
Pharmaceuticals policy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EudraPharm | EudraPharm (European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Pharmaceutical Database) was the database of medicinal products authorised in the European Union, and included the information contained in the Summary of Product Characteristics, the patient or user package leaflet and the information shown on the labelling. The EudraPharm database was accessible to the general public and the information thus made available was worded in an appropriate and comprehensible manner. It was decommissioned in 2019.
The EudraPharm database of authorised medicinal products was foreseen in the EU Regulation 726/2004.
EudraPharm contained only details of products that were licensed using the Centralised procedure. Therefore, for human medicines, it was only a new interface for information that was available via the EPARs section at the EMEA.
See also
European Medicines Agency
EUDRANET
EudraCT
EudraGMP
EudraVigilance
External links
EudraPharm
EUDRANET
Projects of Common Interest for Administrations (EU)
European Medicines Agency Implementation of the New EU Pharmaceutical Legislation
EPAR section at European Medicines Agency
Pharmaceuticals policy
Health and the European Union
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20refactoring | A database refactoring is a simple change to a database schema that improves its design while retaining both its behavioral and informational semantics. Database refactoring does not change the way data is interpreted or used and does not fix bugs or add new functionality. Every refactoring to a database leaves the system in a working state, thus not causing maintenance lags, provided the meaningful data exists in the production environment.
A database refactoring is conceptually more difficult than a code refactoring; code refactorings only need to maintain behavioral semantics while database refactorings also must maintain informational semantics.
A database schema is typically refactored for one of several reasons:
To develop the schema in an evolutionary manner in parallel with the evolutionary design of the rest of the system.
To fix design problems with an existing legacy database schema. Database refactorings are often motivated by the desire for database normalization of an existing production database, typically to "clean up" the design of the database.
To implement what would be a large (and potentially risky) change as a series of small, low-risk changes.
Categories of database refactoring
In 2006 Scott Ambler, Pramod Sadalage describe the following categories of database refactoring:
Architecture Refactoring
A change which improves the overall manner in which external programs interact with a database.
Methods of Architecture Refactoring category: Add CRUD Methods; Add Mirror Table; Add Read Method; Encapsulate Table With View; Introduce Calculation Method; Introduce Index; Introduce Read Only Table; Migrate Method From Database; Migrate Method To Database; Replace Method(s) With View; Replace View With Methods(s); Use Official Data Source.
Structural Refactoring
A change to the table structure of your database schema.
Methods of Structural Refactoring category: Drop Column; Drop Table; Drop View; Introduce Calculated Column; Introduce Surrogate Key; Merge Columns; Merge Tables; Move Column; Rename Column; Rename Table; Rename View; Replace LOB With Table; Replace Column; Replace One-To-Many With Associative Tables; Replace Surrogate Key With Natural Key; Split Column; Split Table.
Data Quality Refactoring
A change which improves and/or ensures the consistency and usage of the values stored within the database.
Methods of Data Quality Refactoring category: Add Lookup Table; Apply Standard Codes; Apply Standard Type; Consolidate Key Strategy; Drop Column Constraint; Drop Default Value; Drop Non Nullable; Introduce Column Constraint; Introduce Common Format; Introduce Default Value; Make Column Non Nullable; Move Data; Replace Type Code With Property Flags.
Referential Integrity Refactoring
A change which ensures that a referenced row exists within another table and/or that ensures that a row which is no longer needed is removed appropriately.
Methods of Referential Integrity Refactoring category: Add Foreign Key Constra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype%20protocol | The Skype protocol is a proprietary Internet telephony network used by Skype. The protocol's specifications have not been made publicly available by Skype and official applications using the protocol are closed-source.
The Skype network is not interoperable with most other Voice over IP (VoIP) networks without proper licensing from Skype. Numerous attempts to study or reverse-engineer the protocol have been undertaken to reveal the protocol, investigate security or allow unofficial clients.
On June 20, 2014, Microsoft announced the deprecation of the old Skype protocol. Within several months from this date, in order to continue using Skype services, Skype users had to update to Skype applications released in 2014, and users were not able to log in to older Skype versions (clients). No announcement has been made on whether SmartTV and hardware phones with built-in Skype functionality will continue to work without interruptions. The new Skype protocol—Microsoft Notification Protocol 24—promised better offline messaging and better messages synchronization across Skype devices. The deprecation became effective in the second week of August 2014.
Peer-to-peer architecture
Skype was the first peer-to-peer IP telephony network. The network contains three types of entities: supernodes, ordinary nodes, and the login server. Each client maintains a host cache with the IP address and port numbers of reachable supernodes. The Skype user directory is decentralized and distributed among the supernodes in the network. Supernodes are grouped into slots (9–10 supernodes), and slots are grouped into blocks (8 slots).
Previously any client with good bandwidth, no restrictions due to firewall or network address translation (NAT), and adequate processing power could become a supernode. This placed an extra burden on those who connected to the Internet without NAT, as Skype used their computers and Internet connections as third parties for UDP hole punching (to directly connect two clients both behind NAT) or to completely relay other users' calls. In 2012, Microsoft altered the design of the network, and brought all supernodes under their control as hosted servers in data centres. Microsoft at the time defended the move, saying they "believe this approach has immediate performance, scalability and availability benefits for the hundreds of millions of users that make up the Skype community." At the time there was some concern regarding the privacy implications of the change, which appear to have been proven true with the revelation of the PRISM surveillance program in June 2013.
Skype does not support the use of the IPv6 protocol, which would greatly reduce the complexity associated with the aforementioned IPv4 communication structure.
Supernodes relay communications on behalf of two other clients, both of which are behind firewalls or "one-to-many" network address translation.
Without relaying by the supernodes, two clients with firewall or NAT difficulties w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81d%C3%A1nd | Ádánd is a Hungarian village of 2,416 inhabitants (data from 2001) located in Somogy, Hungary, in the south side of lake Balaton.
Etymology
The name of the village derived from the person name Ádám with the diminutive suffix -d.
Location
Located next to the Kis-Koppány river, the nearest town is Siófok (12 km).
Its railway station is accessible along the Kaposvár-Siófok railway line .
History
Ádánd is a town of Árpád-era . His name was first mentioned in 1265 as Ádámd in the ancient estate document of the family branch of the Szalók. In 1460 Imre Ugron, 1536 Imre Perneszy and Ugron Bernas were the landlords. In 1572, during Turkish times, it belonged to the Endrédi náhijí (district) and at that time there were seven, in 1582 - 1583, 12 taxable houses. In 1665, the grandson of Imre Perneszy, János Perneszy's local landowners, János Salomvári, and in 1669, evangelized them to Gergely Vizalli's Tallián. In 1695 Ferencné Babócsay, Anna Julianna Pernesy, and Zsigmond Perneszi of the Austro-Hungarians, the grandchildren of János Perneszy, mentioned earlier, were the holders. It was completely destroyed during the Turkish occupation. It began to populate in the 17th century, when it returned ad a public village.
In 1715 there were only 11 households in Ádánd. In 1715 the widow of Babócsay Ferencz, 1726-1733 by the Perneszy family , in 1767 by János Tallián, and in 1835 by the Csapody de Zalalövő family, and at Tallián de Vizek, Botka and Szelestey, and Zeke, Terstyánszky, Horváth and the Rosty de Barkócz families were the landlords. 1802. On May 24, Gábor Csapody (1760 - 1825) paid 14,000 forints to his relatives, the heirs of the Farkas de Boldogfa family, and reached a peaceful agreement with Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa (1742-1807), master prebendary of Veszprém, László Tuboly Tubolyszegh ( 1756-1828 ) Erzsébet Farkas' s husband, and other brothers and sisters of the family. In fact, he bought the property from the Pernesky ancestors of Dionysius, then still undivided and possessed by several family members. One landowner was Boldizsár Tallián de Vizek (1781 - 1834) at the beginning of the 19th century, somogyi alispán. From his swinging castle, Csapody's mansion and his ancestor, Count Wickenburg and then the Tallián family, from 1856 to 1857, and later on the family of the Bálványosi Satzger, took over from the young man's father-in-law Csapody Pál (1808-1859).
According to László Szita the settlement was completely Hungarian in the 18th century.
In 1831 cholera destroyed the majority of the population.
At the beginning of March 1910, 32 houses burned down.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Géza Satzger (1917 - 1943), idolater had a larger estate and mansion here, built by Pál Csapody.
Demographics
During the 2011 census, 89.3% of the population were Hungarians, 2.4% Gypsies and 0.9% Germans (9.9% did not declare, because of double identities the total may be larger than 100%) . The religious distribution was the following: Roman Cathol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Center%20Data%20Protection%20Manager | System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a software product from Microsoft that provides near-continuous data protection and data recovery in a Microsoft Windows environment. It is part of the Microsoft System Center family of products and is Microsoft's first entry into the near-continuous backup and data recovery. It uses Shadow Copy technology for continuous backups.
Overview
Data Protection Manager delivers centralized backup of branch offices and within the data center, by near-continuously protecting changed files at the byte-level to a secondary disk, which can then be backed up to tape. This also enables rapid and reliable recovery from an easily accessible disk instead of waiting to locate and mount tapes.
Data Protection Manager 2006 was released on September 27, 2005 at Storage Decisions in New York. The current version, Data Protection Manager 2019, supports protection of Windows file servers, Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Microsoft Virtual Server. It features bare-metal restore.
Supported workloads
DPM offers support for a variety of Microsoft Workloads. Support varies between versions, with old operating systems being removed from new versions.
See also
Microsoft Servers
Microsoft System Center
References
Further reading
External links
Data Protection Manager blog
All Backed Up – DPM product manager's blog
DPM Version and Service Pack Information (only updated to DPM2010)
Data Protect Manager on Microsoft TechNet
Windows Server System
2007 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh%2040 | Fresh 40 was a networked dance and urban music singles chart show broadcast on a number of UK commercial radio stations every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm. The show was produced by Somethin' Else. The radio show was launched on Sunday 22 October 2006, and counts down the top 40 R'n'B and dance songs in the chart. Schedule-wise, the programme competes against BBC Radio 1's official chart show. It is also broadcast at the same time as its sister show, hit40uk (which was rebranded The Big Top 40 Show on 15 June 2009).
The last show is thought to have been Sunday, 1 March 2009 with Justin Wilkes as their website www.fresh40.co.uk now has a holding page for Somethin' Else and Kiss 100 announced a new schedule for Sunday on Wednesday 4 March 2009.
The show, hosted by Dynamite MC, was broadcast on some of commercial radio's dance and urban stations such as the Kiss Network, Galaxy Network, Oxford's FM 107.9, Fire 107.6 and 107.6 Juice FM. Amongst the features in the show is what was branded as The Top 10 Throwdown, consisting of the Top 10 played out 'in-the-mix' and commercial-free. The Top 10 Throwdown was mixed by DJ Fidget Kid. Fresh 40 was sponsored by UK national drugs advice group FRANK.
The Kiss Network now have a show on at this time called "Official Kiss Top 40". This show counts down the 40 most wanted and most played songs on the Kiss Network, hosted by Justin Wilkes.
External links
Fresh 40 website
Talk to FRANK website
Kiss website
Galaxy FM website
Fire 107.6 FM Bournemouth website
Juice FM 107.6 Liverpool website
Oxford's FM107.9 website
Dynamite MC's official myspace page
Somethin' Else Fresh 40 production company.
RadioFeeds contains a list and map of stations airing the Fresh 40 show.
GCap Media
British music radio programmes
British record charts
Music chart shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercycle | Hypercycle may refer to:
Hypercycle (chemistry), a kind of reaction network prominent in a theory of the self-organization of matter
Hypercycle (geometry), a curve in hyperbolic space whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20induction | Rule induction is an area of machine learning in which formal rules are extracted from a set of observations. The rules extracted may represent a full scientific model of the data, or merely represent local patterns in the data.
Data mining in general and rule induction in detail are trying to create algorithms without human programming but with analyzing existing data structures. In the easiest case, a rule is expressed with “if-then statements” and was created with the ID3 algorithm for decision tree learning. Rule learning algorithm are taking training data as input and creating rules by partitioning the table with cluster analysis. A possible alternative over the ID3 algorithm is genetic programming which evolves a program until it fits to the data.
Creating different algorithm and testing them with input data can be realized in the WEKA software. Additional tools are machine learning libraries for Python, like scikit-learn.
Paradigms
Some major rule induction paradigms are:
Association rule learning algorithms (e.g., Agrawal)
Decision rule algorithms (e.g., Quinlan 1987)
Hypothesis testing algorithms (e.g., RULEX)
Horn clause induction
Version spaces
Rough set rules
Inductive Logic Programming
Boolean decomposition (Feldman)
Algorithms
Some rule induction algorithms are:
Charade
Rulex
Progol
CN2
References
Machine learning
Inductive reasoning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Girls%20Club | Bad Girls Club (abbreviated BGC) is a 2006 American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray for the Oxygen network in the United States. The show focused on the altercations and physical confrontations of seven aggressive, quarrelsome, and unruly women. They were featured on the show as "charismatic tough chicks." The cast, deemed "bad girls," would enjoy a luxurious lifestyle in a mansion for three months, during which they obeyed specified rules. Their lives inside and outside of the house were recorded by a production team.
Besides the United States, Bad Girls Club aired by at least seven networks in other countries: Sky Living in the United Kingdom and Ireland, MTV in Australia, New Zealand and Russia, RTL 5 in the Netherlands, TV11 in Sweden, SIC Radical in Portugal, Velvet in the Philippines, and Channel [V] in Southeast Asia. If a cast member violated production rules, she was evicted from the show and often replaced by a new cast member. The fourth season was the series' "breakthrough season" as Oxygen's first series to average over one million viewers per episode.
There were four spin-offs including Bad Girls Road Trip, Tanisha Gets Married, Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too, and Bad Girls All-Star Battle. In late 2016, Bad Girls Club was renewed for a seventeenth season titled Bad Girls Club: East Meets West. In February 2017, the series' future was put in limbo, with the network's announcement that it would convert to a true crime programming format, which was instituted in July 2017. When discussing the series' future, Frances Berwick, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Lifestyle Networks' president, said, "Bad Girls Club, at this stage, I don't see it on Oxygen linear," suggesting that it could air in a non-linear media form. "Beyond that, we haven't figured it out yet."
Format
The format for the first season of Bad Girls Club differs from subsequent seasons, but its rules apply in all subsequent seasons. One feature continued from season one was the way the show opened: viewers were shown the biggest and most intense physical altercation of the season, and the program then went back to a time before it happened. This fight usually gives you an idea of who is going to be the baddest, or one of the baddest, girls in the house. This altercation draws in many viewers and keeps them wondering what will happen next.
In the second season, the format of the show changed drastically. The maximum age dropped from 31 to 28. The cast of season two were given mandatory non-profit jobs to help them build a work ethic and to experience the stabilizing effect of being interdependent with others, for example in teamwork and commitment, to equip them for success in later life. Quitting the job or failure to attend resulted in mandatory removal from the show. The girls were given the jobs of planning, decision making, and building cooperation. Season two was the first and only season of the Bad Girls Club to do this, and was also the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20GamesFever | My GamesFever was a live daytime interactive game show formerly aired on MyNetworkTV stations owned by the Fox Television Stations Group. Featured in the two-hour program were interactive games where the viewers could win cash prizes. The show aired from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m, in two separate feeds (Eastern and Pacific) every Monday through Friday.
Format
On My GamesFever, the contestants were home viewers. American residents 18 or older could enter the contest by text messaging a request or using the network's website. Potential contestants could enter up to twenty-five times per phone number on each show.
After a few moments, a contestant was notified whether or not their entry is chosen (at random) to proceed to another random selection process. If an entry was selected in the second phase, the contestant was called on his or her home or mobile phone, depending on the method of entry. The contestant then came on-air and was given a chance to play.
Contestant selection was based on call volume, as reflected by an on-screen thermometer. When the thermometer reached a certain level, or after a certain amount of time, a caller was selected to play the game. A $.99 fee was charged for each text message entry, in addition to standard text messaging rates charged by the wireless provider. Entries on the website were free. Regardless of the method of entry, each entry had an equal chance of being selected. Residents of certain states were ineligible to play various entry methods.
Programming history
The show premiered online on December 4, 2006 and began its television broadcasting one week later. The program aired without commercials.
The show ended on April 20, 2007 with 105 episodes with the last episode having all on air personalities on the show.
My GamesFever was broadcast from Miami, Florida, under a grant from the Governor's Office of Film and Entertainment. and was produced by Shine Matrix Limited in association with 20th Television.
Games
My GamesFever featured various minigames that were played throughout the program. The rewards for the games were usually cash prizes ranging from $200 – $500 in cash. Most games were word games, featuring variations on anagrams, word searches, crosswords and fill-in-the-blanks.
See also
PlayMania
Quiznation
100 Winners
Midnight Money Madness
Play2Win
ITV Play
References
External links
2000s American game shows
2006 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
Phone-in quiz shows
Television series by Endemol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geumjeong%20station | Geumjeong Station is a ground-level metro station on lines 1 and 4 of the Seoul Subway network in South Korea. The station is in Gunpo, a city approximately south of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, between the cities of Anyang and Suwon. The name means that the land is covered with waves everywhere and that the water wets women's clothes.
Geumjeong is an important transfer point for passengers travelling to and from southern and western Gyeonggi Province to Seoul Grand Park and Seoul Racecourse Park. The tracks are aligned to allow passengers to transfer between lines 1 and 4 on the same platform.
On December 30, 2019, there was an additional stop at Geumjeong Station on Line 1.
Structure
It is a ground station with a platform of four planes and two pass lines (one cervical line). 4 are the Gyeongbu line operated by the metropolitan subway line 1, 2 are the subway lines between the Kangchun line and the Ansan line, which are operated by the metropolitan subway line 4, or the platform. Both screens had screen doors. There are 8 outlets.
The platform is designed to stop only commuter-type electric trains of lines 1 and 4 because it is a solid-shaped groove installed only on the 2-neck section and the Ansan line used by the No. 1 general railroad line. The Yongsan-Cheonan / Seoul - Cheonan express trains and general passenger trains pass irregularly. The trains can be connected to each other because they use the same platform. However, if you want to transit from one side to the other (the Gunpo and Bangi areas, the Sanbon area and the Honam area), you must go through a historical overpass.
In the past, it was the station on the southern end of the platform, which had only one station room and five overpass-type entrances. However, the transit distance between the nearest intersection and the entrance of the Seoul City Bus Terminal There was an inconvenience to station use because it should use. The construction of the northern part of the bridge connected to the Gangjung Station's three-way overpass started in May 2006.
There is evidence that the Gyeongbu Line commuter express trains may stop here in the future since there are 6 platforms and 10 tracks.
Station layout
Gallery
References
Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Railway stations opened in 1988
Metro stations in Gunpo
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFIF | DAFIF () or the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File is a comprehensive database of up-to-date aeronautical data, including information on airports, airways, airspaces, navigation data, and other facts relevant to flying in the entire world, managed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of the United States.
Withdrawal of public access
DAFIF was publicly available until October 2006 through the Internet; however, it was closed to public access because "increased numbers of foreign source providers are claiming intellectual property rights or are forewarning NGA that they intend to copyright their source". Currently, only federal and state government agencies, authorized government contractors, and Department of Defense customers are able to access the DAFIF data.
At the time of the announcement, the NGA did not say who the "foreign source providers" were. It was subsequently revealed that the Australian Government was behind the move. The Australian government-owned corporation Airservices Australia in September 2003 started charging for access to Australian data. Rather than exclude the Australian data, the NGA opted to stop making the data available to the public.
USFIF
A product called USFIF (pronounced as yoos-fəf) or the United States Flight Information File which contains only data related to the United States was available on the NGA website until October 2007. NGA no longer hosts any aeronautical information on the publicly available website.
Replacement for Google Earth data
Since the DAFIF data has ceased to be available to the public, new sources of the data have arrived, though none is (yet) a complete replacement:
In Google Earth format (KML) Google Earth 3D Airspace
Started soon after the withdrawal of the DAFIF data, the OurAirports web site is a community effort to produce an open (public domain) database of airports and navigation aids—nightly CSV data dumps are available from the site. Since OurAirports is open source, there are a lot of duplicate airports in the system and the data is not necessarily accurate as an official source would be.
OpenStreetMap holds information about many aerodromes, and can be downloaded through the Overpass service.
In other open formats, publicly contributed data, the Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange: Airspace
References
Air navigation
Aeronautical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastEcho | FastEcho is a message processing package for FTN (FidoNet Technology Network) mail systems. It was written and released as shareware by Tobias Burchhardt in 1991. The final version was 1.46.1 which was released in 1997. FastEcho was one of the fastest FTN mail processing packages available for FTN style messages. Running on MS-DOS, DPMI and native OS/2 32bit, it offered numerous features that were desirable for leafnode systems as well as highend FTN mail distribution hubs.
System requirements
FastEcho's minimum system requirements were very easy to meet. It ran on IBM PCs, XTs, ATs or compatibles with optimized routines for 386, 486, and Pentium based and compatible machines. DOS v3.xx or IBM's OS/2 v2.x or v3.0 were the minimum required operating system platforms.
An archiver package was also needed to be able to open and seal the mail bundles. The list of supported archiver packages was PKZIP/PKUNZIP 1.10/2.04g, ARJ 2.30/2.41a, LHARC 1.13c/LHa 2.13, PKPAK/PKUNPAK 3.61, ARC 6.02, ZOO 2.10, PAK 2.51, SQZ 1.08, RAR 1.5x, and UC2 2.00. Optionally, an extractor program that automatically coped with the different decompression programs could be used. The two supported ones were General Unpack Shell (GUS) 1.90 or later and PolyXarc 2.1a or later.
Supported software
Numerous FTN mailers like FrontDoor, D'Bridge, and BinkleyTerm were supported. Also supported were various Bulletin Board System packages like RemoteAccess, Maximus, QuickBBS, ProBoard, and T.A.G. Almost any BBS package could be used as long as it supported one of the three supported message base formats. They were the FTN MSG format, the HMB designed by Adam Hudson, and the JAM format. BBS users handling mail offline could also use FastEcho, as QWK and Blue Wave users did. This method was a bit more complicated but allowed the BBS user to operate much like any other FTN mail system and reap its benefits.
Features
FastEcho had numerous features that were desirable on many systems. Mail distribution hubs looked for the ability to handle many downlinks as well as large numbers of message areas. FastEcho could handle up to 1024 downlinks and up to 3072 message areas. Other features:
Support for multitasking environments such as Microsoft Windows, Quarterdeck's DESQview and OS/2
Support for networking environments like Novell and LANtastic.
Updating AREAS.BBS (BBS' message base configuration) with new message areas when they are created automatically.
Transliteration of German non-ASCII characters in incoming messages when the option “Convert Umlauts” for the message area is enabled, using a certain popular character encoding as the source, although that causes messages in other encodings to get corrupted, which is a problem when the option is enabled inadvertently.
The DOS version (including DPMI) has a limit of 64 KiB per message, cutting any larger message down to that size. Worse, the default setting is 32 KiB. In OS/2 version, the maximum size is 512 KiB.
Since the rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTPW | OTPW is a one-time password system developed for authentication in Unix-like operating systems by Markus Kuhn. A user's real password is not directly transmitted across the network. Rather, a series of one-time passwords is created from a short set of characters (constant secret) and a set of one-time tokens. As each single-use password can only be used once, passwords intercepted by a password sniffer or key logger are not useful to an attacker.
OTPW is supported in Unix and Linux (via pluggable authentication modules), OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, and a generic open source implementation can be used to enable its use on other systems.
OTPW, like the other one-time password systems, is sensitive to a man in the middle attack if used by itself. This could for example be solved by putting SSL, SPKM or similar security protocol "under it" which authenticates the server and gives point-to-point security between the client and server.
Design and differences from other implementations
Unlike S/KEY, OTPW is not based on the Lamport's scheme in which every one-time password is the one-way hash value of its successor. Password lists based on the Lamport's scheme have the problem that if the attacker can see one of the last passwords on the list, then all previous passwords can be calculated from it. It also does not store the encrypted passwords as suggested by Aviel D. Rubin in Independent One-Time Passwords, in order to keep the host free of files with secrets.
In OTPW a one-way hash value of every single password is stored in a potentially widely readable file in the user’s home directory. For instance, hash values of 300 passwords (a typical A4 page) require only a four kilobyte long .otpw file, a typically negligible amount of storage space.
The passwords are carefully generated random numbers. The random number generator is based on the RIPEMD-160 secure hash function, and it is seeded by hashing together the output of various shell commands. These provide unpredictability in the form of a system random number seed, access times of important system files, usage history of the host, and more. The random state is the 160-bit output of the hash function. The random state is iterated after each use by concatenating the old state with the current high-resolution timer output and hashing the result again. The first 72 bits of the hash output are encoded with a modified base64 scheme to produce readable passwords, while the remaining 88 bits represent the undisclosed internal state of the random number generator.
In many fonts, the characters 0 and O or 1 and l and I are difficult to distinguish, therefore the modified base64 encoding replaces the three characters 01l by corresponding :, = and %. If for instance a zero is confused with a capital O by the user, the password verification routine will automatically correct for this. S/KEY uses sequences of short English words as passwords. OTPW uses by default a base64 encoding instead, because that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Morgan | Melanie Morgan is an American radio personality, formerly with KSFO (560 kHz AM) in San Francisco, where her husband, Jack Swanson, was VP of News and Programming. She was laid off from KSFO due to budget cutbacks and declining ad revenue, returned to host the morning show, then once more left the station as of July 10, 2013. She has also previously worked as a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco. She is the Chairman of Move America Forward, a non-partisan, non-profit, charitable organization that supports the U.S. armed forces and their missions in the War on Terrorism. She is known for her advocacy on behalf of the American military, defense of the War on Terror and criticism of American liberals.
Personal life
Morgan was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended the Lindenwood University.
Her addiction to gambling was the subject of the TV-movie High Stakes: The Melanie Morgan Story. In 2006, she told the San Francisco Chronicle that she had not placed a bet in 13 years, and has served as president of the California Council on Problem Gambling.
Morgan is married to Jack Swanson, Director of News and Programming at KCBS Newsradio in San Francisco. They live in Novato, California.
Morgan serves on the boards of a number of other nonprofit organizations, including the Bruin Alumni Association.
On February 15, 2010 she revealed she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer but the cancer has not spread.
Professional career
Morgan began her career reporting on the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing, Lebanon, where 241 Marines lost their lives. While she focuses on San Francisco Bay Area regional issues, she has covered events in China, Mexico and Iraq.
In 2006, Morgan's report on U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq: "Voices of Soldiers" earned was recognized by the Associated Press Mark Twain Awards for Best Special Program.
In October 2006, Morgan and reporter Catherine Moy published American Mourning, which reported on two families whose sons, best friends from Army training and who died two weeks apart in Iraq, dealt with their sorrow. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan became angry and hung an American soldier in effigy outside of Sacramento. The book contains allegations from Sheehan's sister-in-law that Sheehan engaged in sexual misbehavior, and contrasts her behavior with the family of Justin Johnson, whose father enlisted as a private in the military at age 46 following his sons death. Both families remain traumatized.
Melanie Morgan co-hosted a highly rated morning show with Lee Rodgers and traffic reporter "Officer Vic" on San Francisco Bay Area radio station KSFO. Her tenure on the KSFO morning show ended in March 2008 when the station "decided not to renew her contract as part of the company’s announced across-the-board financial cost cutting".
Talk Radio Network tapped Morgan to be the host of the network's new morning show, America's Morning News. It debuted June 15, 2009, co-hosted by John McCaslin and managed by the Washington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20%28operating%20system%29 | House (acronym for Haskell User's Operating System and Environment) is an experimental open source operating system written in Haskell. It was written to explore system programming in a functional programming language.
It includes a graphical user interface, several demos, and its network protocol stack provides basic support for Ethernet, IPv4, ARP, DHCP, ICMP (ping), UDP, TFTP, and TCP.
References
External links
A Principled Approach to Operating System Construction in Haskell, technical paper on House details
Free software operating systems
Free software programmed in Haskell
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-6000%20series | The NEC PC-6000 series is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced in November 1981 by NEC Home Electronics. There are several models in this series, such as the PC-6001, the PC-6001 MK2 and the PC-6001 MK2 SR. There is also an American version, called the NEC TREK or NEC PC-6001A.
Several peripherals were available for the system in North America, including an expander with three cartridge jacks (some of the cartridge-based games used two cartridges), a cassette-tape recorder, a 5.25" floppy disk drive, a printer, and a touchpad.
The PC-6000 series was followed by the PC-6600 series.
Development
was a subsidiary of NEC and a manufacturer of consumer electronics. They started manufacturing the PC-8001 and its peripherals which were developed by the Electronic Devices Group of Nippon Electric. It was successful and grew the personal computer market in Japan.
They started developing a low-cost home computer, and it became the PC-6001. At the same time, the Electronic Devices Group developed the PC-8801 for home and business, and the Information Processing Group developed the PC-9801 for business market.
In 1983, New Nippon Electric changed its name to NEC Home Electronics. At that time, NEC group had four personal computer lines come out from different divisions. To avoid conflict, they decided to consolidate personal computer business into two divisions; NEC Home Electronics dealt with the 8-bit home computer line, and the Information Processing Group dealt with the 16-bit personal computer line.
NEC Home Electronics discontinued development of the PC-6000 series, the PC-6600 series, and the PC-8000 series. These lines were merged to the PC-8800 series.
PC-6001
The PC-6001 has the µPD780 processor (NEC clone of Zilog Z80), 16 KB RAM (up to 32 KB), General Instrument AY-3-8910 3-voice sound generator, a ROM Cartridge connector, a cassette tape interface, 2 x joystick port, a parallel printer connector, an RF modulator output and a composite video output. The ROM cartridge allowed the user to easily use software such as video games.
It supports four screen modes; 32x16 characters with 4 colors, 64x48 pixel graphics with 9 colors, 128x192 graphics with 4 colors, and 256x192 graphics with white and green colors.
The Japanese version uses a chiclet keyboard while a North American version (PC-6001A) uses a typewriter keyboard.
PC-6001 MK2
The PC-6001 MK2 has 64 KB memory, 16 KB video RAM, a -inch 2D floppy drive interface, Kanji character generator, RGB monitor out, speech synthesizer unit and a typewriter keyboard.
It supports following screen modes: 40x20 characters, 80x80 pixel graphics with 15 colors, 160x200 graphics with 15 colors, and 320x200 graphics with 4 colors.
References
Pc-6001
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-6600%20series | The NEC PC-6600 Series were a lineup of personal computers produced by the NEC Corporation in 1985. They were essentially a PC-6001 MK2 with a built-in 3.5" floppy disk drive. Two models in this series were produced: the PC-6601 and the PC-6601 SR.
References
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM: The Museum: NEC PC 6601
PC-6601
Computer-related introductions in 1985
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore%20delay | Elmore delay is a simple approximation to the delay through an RC network in an electronic system. It is often used in applications such as logic synthesis, delay calculation, static timing analysis, placement and routing, since it is simple to compute (especially in tree structured networks, which are the vast majority of signal nets within ICs) and is reasonably accurate. Even where it is not accurate, it is usually faithful, in the sense that reducing the Elmore delay will almost always reduce the true delay, so it is still useful in optimization.
Elmore delay can be thought of in several ways, all mathematically identical.
For tree structured networks, find the delay through each segment as the R (electrical resistance) times the downstream C (electrical capacitance). Sum the delays from the root to the sink.
Assume the output is a simple exponential, and find the exponential that has the same integral as the true response. This is also equivalent to moment matching with one moment, since the first moment is a pure exponential.
Find a one pole approximation to the true frequency response. This is a first-order Padé approximation.
There are many extensions to Elmore delay. It can be extended to upper and lower bounds, to include inductance as well as R and C, to be more accurate (higher order approximations) and so on. See delay calculation for more details and references.
See also
Delay calculation
Static timing analysis
William Cronk Elmore
References
Electronic engineering
Electronic design
Electronic design automation
Integrated circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Amiga%20music%20format%20players | This is a list of software for various operating systems for playing Amiga music formats.
Audacious – various third party plug-ins have been written to play Amiga formats
DeliPlayer
Dual Module Player
Flash MOD Player (AS3) – full-featured module player for game developers
FlashMod Player (Alchemy/AS3) – simple cross-platform modplayer using Flash
Foobar2000 – various third party plug-ins have been written to play Amiga formats
InertiaPlayer – one of the earliest PC MOD players released in 1993
HelenOS – includes a module player application named modplay
JavaMod – cross-platform modplayer using java
hxMikMod – Haxe–Flash port of libmikmod
MikMod
ModPlug Player
NostalgicPlayer – Windows player by the same author as APlayer on the Amiga
Chron-O-Loo – Web/WebAudio player based on UADE
OpenCubicPlayer – GPL licensed and one of the earliest PC player
SAM MOD Player – MOD player for Z80 powered SAM Coupé
TiMidity
TRAXMOD – battery-powered portable MOD player for PIC32/ARM microcontrollers.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
VLC Media Player
WebXmp – Web/WebAudio player based on XMP
Winamp – various third party plug-ins have been written to play Amiga formats
XMMS – various third party plug-ins have been written to play Amiga formats
XMP
XMPlay
WebAudio Mod Player – JavaScript based mod player for MOD, XM & S3M; also on Github)
uFMOD – free XM library and player for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and KolibriOS
See also
MOD (file format)
Module file, Tracker file
References
Amiga music formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20River%20Radio | Red River Radio is a regional public radio network for northwest Louisiana, southern Arkansas, eastern Texas, and the southeasternmost corner of Oklahoma, serving communities in the valley of the Red River of the South through five radio stations. The network is headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, on the campus of Louisiana State University Shreveport.
The Red River Radio listening region is one of the largest coverage areas for public radio in the United States.
Stations
Red River Radio consists of five stations and one translator:
Programming
Red River Radio (RRR) is affiliated with National Public Radio and broadcasts many popular NPR programs including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, World Cafe, Car Talk, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, and From the Top. The network also broadcasts many Public Radio Exchange programs including This American Life and To the Point and many programs from American Public Media, including Marketplace Money, Performance Today, A Prairie Home Companion, and The Splendid Table. Red River Radio broadcasts many independently produced programs such as Art of the Song, Beale Street Caravan, Blues Before Sunrise, Bluegrass Breakdown, Classical Guitar Alive, Hearts of Space, intelligence2 Dates, New Orleans All the Way Live, Radiolab, Snap Judgment, With Heart and Voice, and Women in Music.
Red River Radio provides local news weekday mornings during Morning Edition. In 2005, news producer Kate Archer pioneered a community news-gathering effort called the Community Correspondent program in which residents of the community borrow equipment from the network to produce local stories for broadcast during the local newscasts.
Some of the programs aired on RRR are produced locally, at the KDAQ studio. For instance, Wally Derleth hosts Evening Jazz, featuring nights dedicated to big band, contemporary and other subgenres of jazz music. Other locally produced programs include Blues After Hours, hosted by John Ellis and Regional Symphony Broadcasts, hosted by Kermit Poling. A previously-aired local program, Soul Review, dedicated to classic soul and R&B from the 1960s to the 1980s, was hosted by Eric Jenkins from 2008 to 2011.
Numerous local and national contributors provide educational and often compelling commentary at different times during the week. Currently, these short radio segments include A Moment of Science, Get It Growing, Earth and Sky, History Matters, Eco Tech Minute, What Was I Thinking?, Dr. Archie McDonald's Commentary, The Big Picture With Alexandyr Kent, Stardate, and Spotlights.
Station operation and development
Like most public radio stations, RRR is funded primarily by its members. Twice each year, the network conducts a membership campaign pledge drive to pay for programming and ongoing operational costs. For the past several pledge drives, RRR has met or exceeded its membership goals, and at the halfway point through fiscal year 2009 had recorded its best support ever, despite t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima%20City%20Network | The is the common name for the JR West rail lines in the Hiroshima metropolitan area. The network was created on October 5, 2002, and modeled after the Urban Network in the Kyōto-Osaka-Kōbe area of Japan. Unlike the Urban Network, the Hiroshima City Network was not created in order to serve the suburbs and surrounding environs of a large city, but rather to service primarily stations within 30–40 minutes of Hiroshima Station.
Between Hiroshima Station and Kaitaichi Station (which is quadruple-track), the outside two tracks are exclusively for passenger trains, while the inside two tracks are used primarily for freight trains, allowing for expansion of the use by passenger trains according to demand.
Notes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%20Escape | Journey Escape is a video game developed and manufactured by Data Age in San Jose, California for the Atari 2600 console, and released in 1982. It stars the rock band Journey, one of the world's most popular acts at the time, and is based on their album Escape.
Plot
From the game's manual:
You're on the road with Journey, one of the world's hottest rock groups. A spectacular performance has just ended. Now it's up to you to guide each Journey Band Member past hordes of Love-Crazed Groupies, Sneaky Photographers, and Shifty-Eyed Promoters to the safety of the Journey Escape Vehicle in time to make the next concert. Your mighty manager and loyal roadies are there to help, but the escape is up to you!
Gameplay
The player must lead the band members to their "Scarab Escape Vehicle" (as featured on the cover) and protect the concert cash from "love-crazed" groupies, sneaky photographers, stage barriers and "shifty-eyed" promoters. Assisting the player are roadies, which provide short periods of immunity to obstacles, and The Manager, depicted as the Kool-Aid Man, which allows the player to move to the Scarab completely unhindered. The screen scrolls vertically non-stop, although the speed can be controlled; the player moves side to side to dodge the aforementioned obstacles.
Music
The intro tune is an excerpt from "Don't Stop Believin'," which is on the Escape album. The in-game music, however, appears to be an original tune, rather than based on a Journey song.
See also
Journey, 1983 arcade game, also featuring the band
Revolution X, 1994 video game featuring rock band Aerosmith
References
External links
Complete manual transcript, with screenshots
GameFAQs page of Journey Escape
1982 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
Journey (band)
Video games based on musicians
North America-exclusive video games
Band-centric video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme%2048 | Scheme 48 is a programming language, a dialect of the language Scheme, an implementation using an interpreter which emits bytecode. It has a foreign function interface for calling functions from the language C and comes with a library for regular expressions (regex), and an interface for Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX). It is supported by the portable Scheme library SLIB, and is the basis for the Scheme shell Scsh. It has been used in academic research. It is free and open-source software released under a BSD license.
It is called "Scheme 48" because the first version was written in 48 hours in August 1986. The authors now say it is intended to be understood in 48 hours.
Implementation
Scheme 48 uses a virtual machine to interpret the bytecode, which is written in a restricted dialect of Scheme called PreScheme, which can be translated to C and compiled to a native binary. PreScheme, or Pre-Scheme, is a statically-typed dialect of Scheme with the efficiency and low-level machine access of C while retaining many of the desirable features of Scheme.
References
External links
Scheme (programming language) interpreters
Scheme (programming language) implementations
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20Windowing%20Extensions | Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) is a Microsoft Windows application programming interface that allows a 32-bit software application to access more physical memory than it has virtual address space, even in excess of the 4 GB limit. The process of mapping an application's virtual address space to physical memory under AWE is known as "windowing", and is similar to the overlay concept of other environments. AWE is beneficial to certain data-intensive applications, such as database management systems and scientific and engineering software, that need to manipulate very large data sets while minimizing paging.
The application reserves a region, or "window" of virtual address space, and allocates one or more regions of physical memory. Using the AWE API, the application can map the virtual window to any one of the physical regions. The application can reserve more than one virtual address space and map it to any of the allocated regions of physical memory, as long as the number of bytes reserved in the virtual address space matches that of the physical memory region. An application must have the Lock Pages in Memory privilege to use AWE.
On 32-bit systems, AWE depends on Physical Address Extension support when reserving memory above 4 GB. AWE was first introduced in Windows 2000 as a new API superseding the PSE36 method (from the Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition) of accessing more than 4 GB of memory, which was no longer supported in Windows 2000. Among the first applications to make use of AWE were Oracle 8.1.6 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
If the boot flag is used to repartition the 32-bit virtual address space (from the 2 GB kernel and 2 GB userland) to 3 GB userland, then AWE is limited to accessing 16 GB of physical memory. This limitation is because with only one GB reserved for the kernel, there isn't enough memory for the page table entries to map more than 16 GB of memory. Additional restrictions on the maximum amount of memory addressable thorough AWE are imposed by the Windows licensing scheme. For example, Windows 2000 Advanced Server was limited to 8 GB, while Windows 2000 Data Center Server supported 64 GB.
An article published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in 2004 noted that memory allocated using Address Windowing Extensions will not be written to the pagefile, and suggested that AWE regions could therefore be used as a way of protecting sensitive application data such as encryption keys.
See also
Expanded Memory Specification (EMS)
Physical Address Extension (PAE)
References
External links
Address Windowing Extensions on MSDN
Address Windowing Extensions Coding Example
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Windows NT architecture
X86 memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TRS-80%20games | This list contains video games created for the monochrome TRS-80 computers.
Model I and III
References
External links
Big Five Software History
The Tandy Color Computer Game List
TRS-80 games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsNet%20Pittsburgh | SportsNet Pittsburgh is an American regional sports network owned by the Pittsburgh Penguins. It is operated by sister network NESN through common ownership with Fenway Sports Group. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, the channel broadcasts local coverage of sports events throughout Greater Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania. It is the exclusive home of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The channel was first launched by Tele-Communications Inc in April 1986 as the KBL Entertainment Network, which featured a mixture of sports and entertainment programming. After being transferred to TCI subsidiary Liberty Media, KBL was rebranded as part of its Prime Sports chain of regional sports networks in 1994, and subsequently became a charter member of Fox Sports Net upon its establishment in 1996.
After a corporate restructuring that brought Liberty's networks under DirecTV, the channel was rebranded as Root Sports Pittsburgh in 2011, and then AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh after DirecTV was acquired by AT&T. In 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it would sell or shut down its regional sports networks: in August 2023, it was announced that the Penguins would acquire the network and rebrand it as SportsNet Pittsburgh in October 2023, with NESN—a sister via the Penguins' owner Fenway Sports Group—assuming day-to-day operations.
, SportsNet Pittsburgh is available on cable providers throughout nearly all of Pennsylvania (outside the Philadelphia market), almost all of West Virginia, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, southwestern border areas of New York and Ashland, Kentucky, reaching more than 2.4 million homes; it is also available in the Columbus, Ohio, market through DirecTV Stream, though Penguins broadcasts are blacked out due to the presence of the Columbus Blue Jackets. It is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
History
The channel launched on April 13, 1986, as Pirates Cable Network, exclusively serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area; its first sports event telecast on that date was a Major League Baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs from Three Rivers Stadium, announced by Mike Lange, in which the Pirates shut out the Cubs, 8–0.
The network commenced full-time broadcasts on April 24, 1986, as the KBL Entertainment Network, in order to allow other sports besides the Pirates to be included on the network. Its first regular broadcast was a Pirates home game against the New York Mets. The network was initially owned by Tele-Communications Inc. (now part of Comcast), then the largest cable television provider in the Pittsburgh market. KBL quickly expanded its cable coverage. As early as May 9, 1986, its cable footprint roughly approximated its present six-state coverage area.
While it primarily carried sports-related programming, KBL also served as a general entertainment cable channel while under TCI ownership, essentially filling the void left after independent station WPGH-TV (channel 53) became a charter affiliate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20York | Jessica York (born 1976) is an American television personality, and sports anchor. She currently works as a studio host and entertainment reporter for DISH Network. She was one of the three hosts on GSN's PlayMania before it broke off into two separate shows, and was subsequently a host on quiznation. York hosted her first episode of PlayMania on October 19, 2006. She continued to host until February 2007, when the program was split into separate programs, quiznation and 100 Winners. She served as host on both programs until 100 Winners was canceled in June and quiznation was canceled in October.
York is a graduate of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. After she graduated, York hosted a morning show, "Summit Sunrise" for the Resort Sports Network (RSN). She then moved on to host two shows for the RSN, Hot Spots, where she showcased locations around the world and their unique features and Thrill Seekers, a program featuring adventurous and extreme sports. She has been nominated for a regional Emmy Award for her work on Hot Spots, as well.
These experiences qualified her to be the travel tip expert on Rachael Ray's self-titled talk show.
York has also been a weather forecaster for WMTW-TV in Portland, Maine and host of New Spaces on HGTV for two seasons. After moving from Maine to Los Angeles, York was a host on the TVG Network, serving as a studio host, studio analyst and track-side reporter for the horse racing network. York is also a certified personal trainer. She has released one home video, Body to Go.
References
External links
Official Site
Speaker information
American game show hosts
American horse racing announcers
American television sports announcers
American television journalists
Women sports announcers
Mass media people from Denver
People from Colorado
1976 births
Living people
American women television journalists
21st-century American women
Regional Emmy Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20television | Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a low-noise block downconverter.
A satellite receiver then decodes the desired television program for viewing on a television set. Receivers can be external set-top boxes, or a built-in television tuner. Satellite television provides a wide range of channels and services. It is usually the only television available in many remote geographic areas without terrestrial television or cable television service.
Modern systems signals are relayed from a communications satellite on the X band (8–12 GHz) or Ku band (12–18 GHz) frequencies requiring only a small dish less than a meter in diameter. The first satellite TV systems were an obsolete type now known as television receive-only. These systems received weaker analog signals transmitted in the C-band (4–8 GHz) from FSS type satellites, requiring the use of large 2–3-meter dishes. Consequently, these systems were nicknamed "big dish" systems, and were more expensive and less popular.
Early systems used analog signals, but modern ones use digital signals which allow transmission of the modern television standard high-definition television, due to the significantly improved spectral efficiency of digital broadcasting. As of 2022, Star One C2 from Brazil is the only remaining satellite broadcasting in analog signals.
Different receivers are required for the two types. Some transmissions and channels are unencrypted and therefore free-to-air, while many other channels are transmitted with encryption. Free-to-view channels are encrypted but not charged-for, while pay television requires the viewer to subscribe and pay a monthly fee to receive the programming.
Satellite TV has seen a recent decline in consumers due to the cord-cutting trend where people are shifting towards internet-based streaming television and free over-the-air television.
Technology
The satellites used for broadcasting television are usually in a geostationary orbit above the earth's equator. The advantage of this orbit is that the satellite's orbital period equals the rotation rate of the Earth, so the satellite appears at a fixed position in the sky. Thus the satellite dish antenna which receives the signal can be aimed permanently at the location of the satellite and does not have to track a moving satellite. A few systems instead use a highly elliptical orbit with inclination of +/−63.4 degrees and an orbital period of about twelve hours, known as a Molniya orbit.
Satellite television, like other communications relayed by satellite, starts with a transmitting antenna located at an uplink facility. Uplink satellite dishes are very large, as much as 9 to 12 meters (30 to 40 feet) in diameter. The increased diameter results in more accurate aiming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%20European%20Services%20for%20Telematics%20between%20Administrations | The Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) system is the private IP-based network of the European Union. TESTA is a telecommunications interconnection platform for secure information exchange between the European and member states administrations. It is currently handled within the ISA² European programme.
TESTA is not a single network, but a network of networks, composed of the EuroDomain backbone and Local Domain networks. The EuroDomain is a European backbone network for administrative data exchanges acting as a network communication platform between local administrations.
History
The TESTA network has been upgraded several times, with added features through the years:
1st generation (TESTA): 1996–2000
2nd generation (TESTA-II): 2000–2006
3rd generation (sTESTA): 2006–2013
4th generation (TESTA-NG): since 2013
See also
European Network and Information Security Agency
EUDRANET
External links
TESTA official web page
sTESTA overview
References
European Union
Information technology organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan%20Data%20Systems | Callan Data Systems, Inc. was an American computer manufacturer founded by David Callan in Westlake Village, California on January 24, 1980. The company was best known for their Unistar range of Unix workstations, and shut down again in 1985.
Unistar
After initial success building a Multibus chassis with a self-contained VT100-compatible CRT display terminal to OEMs, the company designed and built desktop workstations named Unistar using the Sun-1 board, which was based on the Motorola 68000 CPU, and which ran UNIX licensed from AT&T. The manufacturing consisted of building the chassis, power supplies, motherboard, and a few critical Multibus boards such as the CPU, memory, and floppy and hard drive controllers. Other peripheral boards such as an Ethernet controller were purchased from other OEMs. The software development consisted chiefly of writing device drivers for the integrated system, based on the UNIX kernel, and integrating third-party applications for resale to customers. Investment totaled $10 million, raised from the founders and from venture capital. Employment peaked in 1984 at 80 persons.
Other firms at the time were competing to build the first commercial UNIX workstations based on inexpensive microprocessor-based Multibus-single-board CPUs. Among these competitors were Sun Microsystems (which based their initial enormous success on their original similar SUN-based workstation), HP, Apollo, Ithaca InterSystems and Wicat.
Callan sold about a thousand units in various models, including the Unistar 100, 200, and 300. The 100 and 200 models, first delivered in 1982, used the desktop chassis/CRT combination with Multibus backplane, with a list price of about $12,000. The 300 model of 1985 was a floor-standing chassis using dumb terminals, and sold for about $20,000. CPU speeds were typically 8 MHz, with 256KB to 2MB of main memory, and from 10MB to 43MB of hard disk storage. A 400 model using 360MB Fujitsu hard drives was prototyped. UNIX V7 was originally ported to the Unistars, and later UNIX System V; all the Uniplus ports were provided by UniSoft.
Decline
Although aggressive sales of the Unistar computers won a modest number of industrial and government buyers, with sales peaking at $7 million in 1984, Callan was not selling enough to be profitable. Competitive workstations from Sun and HP running BSD UNIX were gaining market share, and the UNIX System V incompatibilities, though slight, made it even more difficult for Callan to compete. Sales in 1985 shrank to less than half the previous year, and Callan was reorganized in bankruptcy under the control of numerous creditors. After a few futile months of attempting recovery, the committee of creditors voted to liquidate the company assets valued at $1.6 million by public auction in bulk. The Dove family auctioneers, who had famously handled the recent liquidation of the Osborne Computer Corporation, won the company assets for $201 thousand (13 cents per dollar of v |
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