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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamanashi%20Broadcasting%20System | , also known as YBS, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS). Its headquarters is located in Kōfu, Yamanashi.
History
The Yamanashi Sannichi Shimbun News Agency applied for a broadcasting license for commercial radio broadcasting in 1925 and actually launched test radio broadcasts. Following the end of the war, the "Three Radio Laws" were passed in 1950, enabling commercial broadcasters to appear.
In Yamanashi Prefecture, from 1952 to 1953, three factions, centered on local industrialist Tadahiko Natori, the Yamanashi Daily News, and the Yamanashi Jiji News, appeared to apply for commercial broadcasting licenses. After that, the first two factions merged to form Radio Yamanashi, and the Yamanashi Shimbun faction applied to open a commercial broadcast under the name of Yamanashi Broadcasting. Radio Yamanashi was officially registered and established in March 1953, and launched a test radio signal on June 18 of the same year. Under the advice of the Postal Ministry, Radio Yamanashi and Yamanashi Broadcasting jointly applied for a broadcast license on July 26, 1953.
At 11:40 am on July 1, 1954, Radio Yamanashi officially started broadcasting, becoming the first commercial radio station in Yamanashi Prefecture. In May 1956, Yamanashi Radio issued 60,000 new shares and increased its capital to 60 million yen. Also in fiscal year 1956, Yamanashi Radio turned a profit. On December 1, 1956, Radio Yamanashi opened the Fujiyoshida relay station, greatly expanding its coverage. In 1957, Yamanashi Radio realized dividends.
Radio Yamanashi applied to the Ministry of Postal Affairs to establish a television station on July 24, 1956. Similar to the situation when the radio station was launched, the Yamanashi Jiji News Agency also applied for a separate television broadcast license under the name of "Yamanashi Television Broadcasting" (Yamanashi Telecasting). On October 22, 1957, Radio Yamanashi obtained a preliminary television license, with the frequency being channel 5. In May 1959, just before the launch of television, Yamanashi Radio increased its capital again to 120 million yen. On the eve of the broadcast, taking into account the superior advertising business conditions proposed by Nippon Television, RYC decided to join the Nippon Television network. On November 13, 1959, Radio Yamanashi launched a TV test signal and began trial broadcasting on December 13. On December 20, RYC Television officially launched. In the early days of broadcasting, Radio Yamanashi broadcast for 5 hours from Monday to Saturday and 11 hours on Sunday.
As the television division surpassed the radio division as Radio Yamanashi's main source of income, Radio Yamanashi changed its company name to Yamanashi Broadcasting in 1961. In 1962, Yamanashi Broadcasting started broadcasting in the mornings, and in that year it was broadcast at Mount Fuji Television Station. Yamanashi Broadcasting began broadcasti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20test | Theory test may refer to:
The two-part theory section of the United Kingdom driving test
The computerised test required to obtain a Driving licence in the Republic of Ireland
Any of the similar tests required in many other countries, see driving test and driver's license. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Terminator%20video%20games | This list of Terminator video games includes video games based on the Terminator film series. The films generally focus on humans attempting to prevent the rise of Skynet, an artificial intelligence. In the future, Skynet will wipe out most of humanity with help from its army of Terminator machines.
The first Terminator game was released for DOS in July 1991, and is based on the original film, The Terminator (1984). Other games based on the first film and its sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), were released over the next two years. Subsequent films also received game adaptations, and several non-film based games have also been released.
The Terminator (1984 film) games
Several video games titled The Terminator were released, each of them based on the 1984 film of the same name. By 1988, Danish company Robtek had acquired the license to create games based on the film, but it subsequently went into receivership before any game could be released.
By mid-1989, development was underway by Sunsoft on a Terminator game, which would be released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). However, Sunsoft lost the license and eventually published the game as Journey to Silius in 1990. Sunsoft reportedly lost the Terminator license because the game did not follow the plot of the film, instead focusing solely on Kyle Reese as he battles Skynet's machines in the future. Gameplay footage had been shown at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in 1989, and the footage would resurface 30 years later.
DOS version
The Terminator is a DOS action-adventure game based on the first movie. In mid-1990, Bethesda Softworks announced a deal with the Hemdale Film Corporation to create computer video games based on The Terminator. Bethesda Softworks developed and published the game in July 1991. It was the first game based on the Terminator film series.
Sega versions
A shoot 'em up game, titled The Terminator, was developed by Probe Software and published by Virgin Games. It was released in 1992, for several Sega consoles: the Mega Drive/Genesis, the Master System, and the Game Gear.
Another shoot 'em up game, also titled The Terminator, was released for the Sega CD. It was developed and published by Virgin Games in 1993. The graphics and music took advantage of the Sega CD's capabilities, and the game includes the use of full motion video from the film.
Nintendo versions
A side-scrolling action game titled The Terminator was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in December 1992. Gameplay consists of platforming and driving stages, with Kyle Reese as the player character. It was sublicensed by Bethesda Softworks, developed by Radical Entertainment, and published by Mindscape. Gary Whitta of Computer and Video Games (CVG) was critical of the graphics, and considered the gameplay outdated with no originality. He rated it 61 out of 100, while MegaFun rated it 55 out of 100.
Another side-scrolling action game, also titled The Terminator, was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%20Bride | December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959. It was adapted from the original CBS radio network series of the same name that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
Overview
December Bride centered on the adventures of Lily Ruskin, a spry widow played by Spring Byington. Ruskin was not, in fact, a "December" bride (married late in life) but she very much desired to become one, if the right man were to come along. Aiding Lily in her search for this prospective suitor were her daughter, Ruth Henshaw (Frances Rafferty), her son-in-law, Matt Henshaw (Dean Miller), and her close friend Hilda Crocker (character actress Verna Felton). A next-door neighbor, insurance agent Pete Porter (Harry Morgan), frequently appeared. Married miserably, according to his constant complaints about his unseen wife, Gladys, Pete despised his own mother-in-law and envied Matt's happy relationship with Lily. The pilot episode premiered on October 4, 1954, and involved Lily moving in with her daughter and son-in-law. Most of the series was set in the Henshaws' living room.
First-run episodes of December Bride aired on television for 5 seasons (1954–1959), sponsored by General Foods' Instant Maxwell House Coffee. During the first four seasons, the program was supplanted in the summer months by "summer replacement" series (such as Ethel and Albert), but in its final year, reruns were shown in the same time slot during the summer hiatus.
Thanks in part to following I Love Lucy, December Bride had high ratings its first four seasons – #10 in 1954–1955, #6 in 1955–1956, #5 in 1956–1957 and #9 in 1957–1958. When CBS moved it to Thursdays in the fall of 1958, ratings fell dramatically, and the series was cancelled in 1959.
In 1960, a new series titled Pete and Gladys debuted, set around many of the same characters. This spinoff series focuses on Pete Porter and his wife, now visible and played by comedian Cara Williams. The December Bride character Hilda Crocker, played by Verna Felton, appears in 23 episodes of Pete and Gladys, which aired until 1962.
After production had ceased, CBS used repeat episodes of December Bride to fill slots in its prime-time programming. In July 1960, December Bride repeats filled the second half of the Friday 9 pm Eastern time slot vacated by Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, running until the beginning of the fall schedule in 1960. The program served as a temporary replacement on Thursday nights in April 1961. December Bride repeats were shown on CBS as a daytime program from October 1959 until March 1961. The daytime reruns and an attempt to syndicate the show were ratings failures. His experience with December Bride encouraged CBS executive Michael Dann's use of "hammocking", framing a weak or new series between two established shows to improve its viewership.
Cast
Spring Byington as Lily Ruskin
Frances Rafferty as Ruth Henshaw
Dean Miller as Matt Henshaw
Verna Felton as Hilda Crocker
Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky%20Reduction | Honky Reduction is the first studio album by grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
Track listing
Personnel
Scott Hull – guitar, programming
Jay Randall – vocals, noise
References
1998 debut albums
Agoraphobic Nosebleed albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen%20Corpse%20Stuffed%20with%20Dope | Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope is the second full-length album released by grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
Track listing
Personnel
Scott Hull – guitar, programming, backing vocals
Richard Johnson – bass guitar, backing vocals
Carl Schultz – vocals
J. Randall – vocals, samples
Killjoy – vocals ("Machine Gun")
Pete Benümb – vocals ("Repercussions in the Life of an Opportunistic, Pseudo-Intellectual Jackass")
Lenzig Carnage – vocals ("Razorblades Under the Dashboard")
Dan Lilker – vocals, bass ("Hang the Pope")
J. R. Hayes – vocals ("Hungry Homeless Handjob", "Ceramic God Product", "Organ Donor")
Aaron Turner – album artwork
References
2002 albums
Agoraphobic Nosebleed albums
Albums with cover art by Aaron Turner
Relapse Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20databases%20for%20pure%20substances | Thermodynamic databases contain information about thermodynamic properties for substances, the most important being enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy. Numerical values of these thermodynamic properties are collected as tables or are calculated from thermodynamic datafiles. Data is expressed as temperature-dependent values for one mole of substance at the standard pressure of 101.325 kPa (1 atm), or 100 kPa (1 bar). Both of these definitions for the standard condition for pressure are in use.
Thermodynamic data
Thermodynamic data is usually presented as a table or chart of function values for one mole of a substance (or in the case of the steam tables, one kg). A thermodynamic datafile is a set of equation parameters from which the numerical data values can be calculated. Tables and datafiles are usually presented at a standard pressure of 1 bar or 1 atm, but in the case of steam and other industrially important gases, pressure may be included as a variable. Function values depend on the state of aggregation of the substance, which must be defined for the value to have any meaning. The state of aggregation for thermodynamic purposes is the standard state, sometimes called the reference state, and defined by specifying certain conditions. The normal standard state is commonly defined as the most stable physical form of the substance at the specified temperature and a pressure of 1 bar or 1 atm. However, since any non-normal condition could be chosen as a standard state, it must be defined in the context of use. A physical standard state is one that exists for a time sufficient to allow measurements of its properties. The most common physical standard state is one that is stable thermodynamically (i.e., the normal one). It has no tendency to transform into any other physical state. If a substance can exist but is not thermodynamically stable (for example, a supercooled liquid), it is called a metastable state. A non-physical standard state is one whose properties are obtained by extrapolation from a physical state (for example, a solid superheated above the normal melting point, or an ideal gas at a condition where the real gas is non-ideal). Metastable liquids and solids are important because some substances can persist and be used in that state indefinitely. Thermodynamic functions that refer to conditions in the normal standard state are designated with a small superscript °. The relationship between certain physical and thermodynamic properties may be described by an equation of state.
Enthalpy, heat content and heat capacity
It is very difficult to measure the absolute amount of any thermodynamic quantity involving the internal energy (e.g. enthalpy), since the internal energy of a substance can take many forms, each of which has its own typical temperature at which it begins to become important in thermodynamic reactions. It is therefore the change in these functions that is of most interest. The isobaric change in enthalpy H ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20the%20Kingdom%20of%20Hungary%20by%20county | The following table shows the linguistic composition of each Hungarian county according to the Hungarian Census of 1910
This article is a list of census data of counties in the Kingdom of Hungary during the time period between 1715 and 1910.
The list contains only 39 counties of the total 72 counties of pre Trianon Hungary.
Census data of Hungary (proper)
(The data doesn't include the population of the counties of present-day Hungary)
Abaúj-Torna
1910 census (population by language)
Alsó-Fehér
1910 census (population by language)
Arad
1910 census (population by language)
Árva
1910 census (population by language)
Bács-Bodrog
1715 census
1720 census
1820 census
1910 census (population by language)
Baranya
1910 census (population by language)
Bars
1910 census (population by language)
Beszterce-Naszód
1910 census (population by language)
Fogaras
1910 census (population by language)
Hunyad
1910 census (population by language)
Kis-Küküllő
1910 census (population by language)
Kolozs
1910 census (population by language)
Krassó-Szörény
1910 census (population by language)
Liptó
1910 census (population by language)
Máramaros
1910 census (population by language)
Moson
1910 census (population by language)
Nagy-Küküllő
1910 census (population by language)
Nyitra
1910 census (population by language)
Pozsony
1910 census (population by language)
Sáros
1910 census (population by language)
Szeben
1910 census (population by language)
Szepes
1869 census
1900 census
1910 census
Szilágy
1910 census (population by language)
Szolnok-Doboka
1910 census (population by language)
Temes
1910 census (population by language)
Torda-Aranyos
1910 census (population by language)
Torontál
1910 census (population by language)
Trencsén
1910 census (population by language)
Turóc
1910 census (population by language)
Ung
1910 census (population by language)
Zólyom
1910 census (population by language)
Croatia-Slavonia
Bjelovar-Križevci
1910 census (population by language)
Lika-Krbava
1910 census (population by language)
Modruš-Rijeka
1910 census (population by language)
Požega
1910 census (population by language)
Syrmia
1910 census (population by language)
Varaždin
1910 census (population by language)
Virovitica
1910 census (population by language)
Zagreb
1910 census (population by language)
See also
Demographics of Hungary
Demographic history of Syrmia
References
Sources
Révai Nagy Lexikona Encyclopedia of Révai (1911)
External links
1910 Maps of the counties
1910 Maps of Counties of the Hungarian Kingdom (1913) from Talmamedia.com
Geography of the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Ray%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sun Ray is a thin-client workstation computer.
Sun Ray or Sunray may also refer to:
Natural world
A ray of sunlight
Crepuscular rays, rays of sunlight radiating through gaps in clouds
A plant of genus Enceliopsis
The common name of the Western Australian daisy Rhodanthe manglesii
Music
The Sunrays, a pop music band managed by Murry Wilson
"Sunray", a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain from their 1989 album Automatic
"Sunray", a song by Riley Armstrong from his 2000 album Riley Armstrong
"Sunray", a song by Hawkwind from their 2005 album Take Me to Your Leader
"Sun Ray", a song by Mutemath from their 2011 album Odd Soul
Places
Sunray, Oklahoma
Sunray, Texas
Other
Sun Ray Photo Company, a manufacturer of photo equipment
Sunray, a term used in radio voice procedure
Sunrays (yacht), a super-yacht built by Oceanco in 2010
Operation Riviresa, also known as Operation Sunrays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%E2%80%9349%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1948–49 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1948 through March 1949. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1947–48 season. This was the first season in which all four networks then in operation in the United States offered nightly prime time schedules Monday through Friday.
The schedule below reflects the fall lineup as it all settled into place throughout October 1948, before any subsequent time changes were made and additional new series appeared in November.
New fall series are highlighted in bold. A number of ABC's new fall shows began as early as mid-August when the network first began broadcasting a seven-night schedule. CBS and DuMont also had some new shows begin in the latter half of August. These shows are noted as such by (Aug.). NBC began airing Saturday Night Jamboree in December.
Several notable programs debuted during the season and within the preceding summer. The preservation of these telecasts on kinescope film vary. The Texaco Star Theater proved to be one of the most notable hits of the year with its host, Milton Berle, credited with encouraging consumers to purchase their first television set. The 1948 episodes of the Berle show are missing, but many of the 1949 episodes still exist. A short-lived series, The Laytons, was the first network television sitcom to feature an African-American in a regular supporting role, albeit a stereotypical one. No episodes have survived. The Morey Amsterdam Show, which debuted on CBS in December, introduced television audiences to Art Carney as a lead cast member. In the David Weinstein book, The Forgotten Network, similarities between Carney's role as "Charlie the Doorman" and his later Ed Norton from Cavalcade of Stars and The Honeymooners are noted. The Morey Amsterdam Show was not a ratings success. Four episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Toast of the Town, debuting in June 1948 and re-titled The Ed Sullivan Show in 1955 and a mainstay of Sunday night viewing, became one of the most successful and long-running programs in American television history. It would remain on the air until 1971. The premiere episode with composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are among the few missing telecasts.
Legend
Sunday
Notes: Toast of the Town, later known as The Ed Sullivan Show, premiered June 20, 1948, at 9:00 p.m. on CBS.
On DuMont, King Cole's Birthday Party, also known as simply Birthday Party, aired from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time from March to May 1949.
Monday
Note: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Tuesday
Note: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ox is an object-oriented matrix programming language with a mathematical and statistical function library, developed by Jurgen Doornik. It has been designed for econometric programming. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.
The downloadable console version of Ox is free for academic use. A commercial version is available for non-academic use. According to its documentation, it should be cited whenever results are published.
The programming environment for econometric modelling OxMetrics is based on Ox.
See also
R (programming language)
References
External links
Official site
Documentation
Numerical programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stdarg.h | stdarg.h is a header in the C standard library of the C programming language that allows functions to accept an indefinite number of arguments. It provides facilities for stepping through a list of function arguments of unknown number and type. C++ provides this functionality in the header cstdarg.
The contents of stdarg.h are typically used in variadic functions, though they may be used in other functions (for example, vprintf) called by variadic functions.
Declaring variadic functions
Variadic functions are functions which may take a variable number of arguments and are declared with an ellipsis in place of the last parameter. An example of such a function is printf. A typical declaration is
int check(int a, double b, ...);
Variadic functions must have at least one named parameter, so, for instance,
char *wrong(...);
is not allowed in C. (In C++ and C23, such a declaration is permitted.) In C, a comma must precede the ellipsis if a named parameter is specified; in C++, it is optional.
Defining variadic functions
The same syntax is used in a definition:
long func(char, double, int, ...);
long func(char a, double b, int c, ...)
{
/* ... */
}
An ellipsis may not appear in old-style function definitions.
stdarg.h types
stdarg.h macros
Accessing the arguments
To access the unnamed arguments, one must declare a variable of type va_list in the variadic function. The macro va_start is then called with two arguments: the first is the variable declared of the type va_list, the second is the name of the last named parameter of the function. In C23 the second argument will be optional and will not be evaluated. After this, each invocation of the va_arg macro yields the next argument. The first argument to va_arg is the va_list and the second is the type of the next argument passed to the function. Finally, the va_end macro must be called on the va_list before the function returns. (It is not required to read in all the arguments.)
C99 provides an additional macro, va_copy, which can duplicate the state of a va_list. The macro invocation va_copy(va2, va1) copies va1 into va2.
There is no defined method for counting or classifying the unnamed arguments passed to the function. The function is simply required to know or determine this somehow, the means of which vary. Common conventions include:
Use of a printf or scanf-like format string with embedded specifiers that indicate argument types.
A sentinel value at the end of the variadic arguments.
A count argument indicating the number of variadic arguments.
Passing unnamed arguments to other calls
Because the size of the unnamed argument list is generally unknown (the calling conventions employed by most compilers do not permit determining the size of the unnamed argument block pointed at by va_list inside the receiving function), there is also no reliable, generic way to forward the unnamed arguments into another variadic function. Even where determining the size of the argument lis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidens%20and%20Dunure%20Light%20Railway | The Maidens and Dunure Light Railway was a railway in Ayrshire, Scotland built to open up coastal communities by connecting them to the main line railway network.
It opened in 1906 and closed to local passenger traffic in 1942, but a section serving a holiday camp at Heads of Ayr remained open for the purpose until 1968.
History
Conception
In 1896 a branch line had been proposed by the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) to Alloway, a village of huge historic significance as the birthplace of Robert Burns, and the destination of increasing volumes of tourists. However the Ayrshire Post opposed the idea in surprisingly strong terms on the basis that it would "shut out" competing railway construction from the Ayr district; a Parliamentary Bill was nonetheless prepared for the 1897 session, but it failed, chiefly because of the opposition of influential local residents, and the reverence held for Burns' memory.
Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa, owned extensive properties on the Ayrshire coast, and desired to develop them: the farming communities had fertile soil, but they had difficulty because of their remoteness from transport to market. He built a harbour at Maidens to improve the fishing industry, and sensing the interest in leisure activities in Scotland, he planned a railway connection to the area. He was a director of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR), which had a main line between Ayr and Girvan, part of the Glasgow to Stranraer route, but it took an inland course through Maybole and was remote from the area of interest.
Kennedy intended a private station for Culzean Castle, his residence, with a siding. He became interested in golf, and he conceived the idea of developing a golf course and luxury hotel associated with it: the idea became the Turnberry Hotel, and a railway line following the coast was proposed and serving it. Kennedy was a director of the G&SWR and generated support for the line among the other board members.
A Light Railway
On 14 August 1896 the Light Railways Act 1896 had been passed "to facilitate the construction of light railways in Great Britain". The intention was to encourage low-cost promotion of local railways by waiving some of the strict requirements for main line railways. As well as lower technical standards, it was possible to apply for a Light Railway Order without the expense of an Act of Parliament if affected landowners acquiesced.
Kennedy's scheme was re-presented as a Light Railway, and the necessary Light Railway Order (LRO) was applied for by the G&SWR in May 1898. Some board members stated that they did not know how a "light railway" differed from a conventional one. The hostility towards the Alloway branch returned in the LRO hearing, articulated in particular against "cheap trippers", but assurances over visibility of the line from Burns' cottage eventually resulted in withdrawal of the objections. The Glasgow and South Western Railway (Maidens and Dunure Light Railw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org | Suprnova.org was a Slovenia-based website that distributed BitTorrent trackers for various music and video files, computer programs and games. Started in late 2002 by Andrej Preston (known as Slonček, Slovenian for "little elephant") and for a while considered the most popular BitTorrent search engine, Suprnova.org closed in late 2004 after legal threats. The site operators supported the development of the eXeem BitTorrent client software, deeming a fixed website too difficult to operate in the present legal climate. On 2 August 2007, the domain name was donated to The Pirate Bay, which relaunched the site on 21 August 2007.
History 2002–2004
The site first ran from Slonček's (site founder) home. As it grew fast it moved to professional servers. Suprnova did not host any of the shared files, nor did it operate any BitTorrent trackers for long. It offered the ".torrent" meta files which would tell a BitTorrent client where it could find the BitTorrent tracker. As well as the torrent files themselves, there was a set of Internet forums for visitors, where people talked about various subjects, and requested different files that they'd like to see people upload.
Suprnova's popularity inspired copycat sites at Suprnova.com and Suprnova.net. These had the same layout as Suprnova.org but requested a usage fee while Suprnova.org did not.
For a brief time in 2004, and again in 2007 Suprnova partnered with an amateur internet-base radio station, Suprnova Radio.
On 19 December 2004, a message was displayed on Suprnova's front page stating it had officially closed down. Some speculated it was due to its poor server and constant downtime, but others noted that Suprnova had been receiving legal warnings. Later, Slonček revealed on Suprnova's IRC channel that he and the other administrators were not willing to continue fighting the legal warnings which they had received. The Suprnova page reappeared encouraging visitors to visit the eXeem project webpage. Other reasons for closure were posted by LivingWithTrolls at slyck.com:
The host of the servers advised Slonček that he should close nova and live to fight another day with Exeem, either that or face the servers being withdrawn by said host and it closing anyway. The host was not going to allow any linking to his other affairs (several other P2P associations) which would cause more casualties. Slonček decided to close nova (he didn't have much choice) and focus on Exeem.
eXeem spinoff
The admin and founder of Suprnova.org, "Slonček" along with Supermedo (Andrej's brother Marko, who took the name of the cartoon hero "Superted" in Slovenian), founded "Swarm Systems Inc" in order to avoid legal repercussions. The program was developed by Arvid Norberg the writer of libtorrent with help from libtorrent contributor Daniel Wallin on Slonček's request and hosted at exeem.com.
This was initially the subject of much debate and excitement on the internet as the eXeem beta testing forums were hosted at the Suprno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Dooley | Scott "Dools" Dooley (born 29 March 1980) is an Australian comedian and radio announcer best known for his tenure with state-owned national youth network, Triple J and Nova 96.9.
Career
Dooley began his career at Triple J as a work experience kid. Following an on-air revelation that he had a third nipple he then went on to be a guest on the Breakfast show with Adam and Wil where he starred in the Friday segment, "Are You Smarter Than Dools?". He has hosted the mid-dawn program - a common shift for new announcers - and the "Summer Nights" weeknight program which airs during the summer non-ratings period. On 7 January 2008, he joined Linda Marigliano to present the afternoon drive program from 3-5:30pm weekdays. Linda left the station on 5 December 2008 leaving Dooley as the sole presenter for the drive program, until his eventual departure on 4 December 2009.
In mid-2009, Dooley introduced a segment on his show, Annoying Dom Alessio, which consisted predictably of instances devoted to annoying fellow Triple J presenter Dom Alessio. A number of methods were used, including a Rubik's cube, a word puzzle, and hiding Alessio's car keys. Alessio exacted a degree of revenge on Dooley on 3 July 2009 when he posted Scott Dooley's personal mobile phone number on the internet as well as announcing it over the radio.
Dooley has also hosted jtv and appeared in JTV segments. He regularly appeared in the segment, "Throwing Stuff at Robbie Buck", which involved him and segment co-host Linda Marigliano ambushing fellow Triple J host Robbie Buck, throwing various items at him including a giant plush rabbit, and slapping Robbie across the face with a fish. The items used were usually suggested by a listener or viewer. The segment was later banned by ABC management.
In January 2010, Dooley joined Nova 96.9 where we co-hosted breakfast alongside Merrick Watts and Ricki-Lee Coulter (replaced by Monty from 2011), and finished in August 2011 due to disappointing ratings.
Dooley has hosted a range of different comedy gigs from Sydney's own Mic in Hand, to Australia's Raw Comedy, and has DJed at Sydney-based club "Purple Sneakers". He has also appeared on the DVD, Sydney Underground Comedy. He has also contributed to several Chaser Annuals, including the most recent, The Other Secret.
Dooley played for the Eastside Kings in the Robert Hunter Cup Australian rules match in October 2012, commemorating the anniversary of the death of Perth hip-hop MC Hunter. Scott was named man of the match for kicking 16 goals.
Dooley is also the voluntary chairperson of the Australian Goodfellas Appreciation Society, formed in 1998. The group investigates legitimate methods of bringing 'Wiseguy' language into mainstream media.
In 2017 Dooley began making cartoons with Jason Chatfield for the New Yorker.
References
External links
Scott's MySpace page
Dools on Triple J
Triple J announcers
Australian male comedians
Living people
1980 births
Comedians from Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20state | A secure state is an information systems security term to describe where entities in a computer system are divided into subjects and objects, and it can be formally proven that each state transition preserves security by moving from one secure state to another secure state. Thereby it can be inductively proven that the system is secure. As defined in the Bell–LaPadula model, the secure state is built on the concept of a state machine with a set of allowable states in a system. The transition from one state to another state is defined by transition functions.
A system state is defined to be "secure" if the only permitted access modes of subjects to objects are in accordance with a security policy.
See also
Bell–LaPadula model
TCSEC - The Orange Book
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick%20and%20Lybster%20Light%20Railway | The Wick and Lybster Light Railway was a light railway opened in 1903, with the intention of opening up the fishing port of Lybster, in Caithness, Scotland, to the railway network at Wick. Its construction was heavily supported financially by local government and the Treasury. It was worked by the Highland Railway.
The line was never heavily used and the anticipated expansion of the fishing trade did not take place. When a modern road to the south was built in the 1930s, transits from Lybster were considerably shorter and quicker by that means, and the railway closed completely in 1944.
History
The fishing village of Lybster lies to the south of Wick, and up to the end of the nineteenth century was relatively inaccessible on land. As early as 1864 a railway from Wick through Lybster to Dunbeath had been proposed, but nothing came of the idea at that time.
The government passed the Light Railways Act 1896 with the intention of encouraging the construction of low-cost railways to serve such localities.
When a new light railway was proposed connecting Lybster to the main line railway network at Wick, considerable support was expressed locally. Wick was one of the northern termini of the Far North Line from Inverness, owned and operated at the time by the Highland Railway. An application was made for a Light Railway Order, Caithness County Council taking the lead in submitting it on 5 March 1896.
The order was granted on 27 November 1899. The capital of the railway company was £30,000, but the anticipated construction cost was considerably more; grants were anticipated from the County Council and the Treasury.
In the event the Duke of Portland, a substantial landowner in the district, subscribed £15,000, and the Highland Railway £1,000. Caithness County Council "advanced" £15,000, the Corporation of Wick £15,000 and the Corporation of Pultenytown (later absorbed into Wick) £1,000. The Treasury made a grant of £25,000. In fact £8,000 of shares remained unsubscribed at 28 March 1900.
The fees of the Board of Trade in granting the Order were £1,311. A contract was let to William Kennedy of Partick, Glasgow, for the actual construction.
The Highland Railway agreed to take charge of the construction, but they were clearly unwilling to let any shortfall in funding fall to them. William Whitelaw, the vice chairman of the Highland Railway visited Wick and stated that he required personal guarantees from the local directors; those directors were reluctant to accept the commitment, but after reflection they gave the required undertakings. However negotiation was successful in persuading the Treasury to increase its loan by £5,000 in 1900. A working agreement with the Highland Railway was finalised on 27 February 1901. The wrangle had cost a year in the construction timescale.
Construction started on 1 April 1901 to the plans by William Roberts, engineer-in-chief to the Highland Railway. The line was subject to an interim inspection by Major Druitt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJTW-FM | CJTW-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 93.7 FM in Kitchener, Ontario. The station, owned by Sound of Faith Broadcasting Inc., airs a Christian music and talk programming format branded as Faith FM 93.7. Various Christian artists are played, game shows, programs by various speakers/pastors. CJTW is "safe for the whole family" or "a safe spot on the dial".
The station was granted a broadcasting license by the CRTC in 2003, and began broadcasting on February 28, 2004.
On April 20, 2005, the CRTC denied Sound of Faith Broadcasting's application to change CJTW-FM's frequency from 94.3 MHz to 106.7 MHz. The licensee also proposed to change the authorized contours by increasing the effective radiated power from 50 watts to 1,585 watts, and the antenna height from 55 to 58 meters.
On April 10, 2006, Sound of Faith was denied to increase CJTW's power from 50 watts to 141 watts (average) / 250 watts (maximum) and increase in antenna height (at the same location) from 54 to 58 metres.
On February 27, 2015, Sound of Faith submitted an application for a new Christian music radio station in Kitchener that would replace CJTW-FM 94.3, which would operate at 93.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 420 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 58 metres). Sound of Faith expressed that a new license and frequency is necessary, as they wanted to increase its power and coverage area, but are unable to do so at 94.3, due to a similar low-powered FM station in Woodstock also broadcasting at 94.3, CJFH-FM, as well as potential first-adjacent interference issues with Toronto's CBC Radio 2 outlet, CBL-FM 94.1. In addition, the Rogers Cable system had since included CJTW-FM on its audio line-up in Kitchener, but as they have picked the station up directly from the airwaves from its master antenna between Kitchener and Woodstock, it often received interference between CJTW-FM and CJFH-FM. The CRTC approved Sound of Faith's application to operate a new FM station at 93.7 MHz, to replace CJTW-FM 94.3 MHz on September 17, 2015.
In February 2016 the station moved to a new broadcast studio located at 604 Belmont Avenue West. In late 2020 they moved to new studios and offices at 24 McIntyre Place.
On November 16, 2016 CJTW commenced broadcasting on the new frequency of 93.7 MHz in simulcast mode with 94.3. The 94.3 MHz transmitter was shut down on February 15, 2017.
Former logos
References
External links
Faith 93.7 – Your Friendly Voice of Hope
Jtw
Jtw
Radio stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN-International | The Postsecondary Education Network International, known as PEN-International, is an international partnership of colleges and universities serving the higher education of students with hearing impairment.
PEN-International was founded by Dr. James J. DeCaro of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), with support from the Nippon Foundation in 2001, by two schools which have since been joined by three additional schools.
Lead schools
United States: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), in Rochester, New York.
Japan: Tsukuba University of Technology (TUT), formerly Tsukuba College of Technology (TCT), Division for the Hearing Impaired, in Tsukuba.
Partner schools
China: Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf, in Tianjin.
Russia: Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Center on Deafness, in Moscow.
Philippines: De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, in Malate, Manila.
References
A history of PEN-International by the Nippon Foundation.
The founding of PEN-International, RIT University News Services, February 22, 2001.
History of the Tsukuba University of Technology Division for the Hearing Impaired from 1976.
February 2004 Artist in residence Taiko Drumming program at NTID in Rochester, sponsored by PEN-International with support from the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and Project Insight.
External links
PEN-International Home Page
Deafness organizations
Organizations established in 2001
Deaf culture
Special education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarray%20analysis%20techniques | Microarray analysis techniques are used in interpreting the data generated from experiments on DNA (Gene chip analysis), RNA, and protein microarrays, which allow researchers to investigate the expression state of a large number of genes - in many cases, an organism's entire genome - in a single experiment. Such experiments can generate very large amounts of data, allowing researchers to assess the overall state of a cell or organism. Data in such large quantities is difficult - if not impossible - to analyze without the help of computer programs.
Introduction
Microarray data analysis is the final step in reading and processing data produced by a microarray chip. Samples undergo various processes including purification and scanning using the microchip, which then produces a large amount of data that requires processing via computer software. It involves several distinct steps, as outlined in the image below. Changing any one of the steps will change the outcome of the analysis, so the MAQC Project was created to identify a set of standard strategies. Companies exist that use the MAQC protocols to perform a complete analysis.
Techniques
Most microarray manufacturers, such as Affymetrix and Agilent, provide commercial data analysis software alongside their microarray products. There are also open source options that utilize a variety of methods for analyzing microarray data.
Aggregation and normalization
Comparing two different arrays or two different samples hybridized to the same array generally involves making adjustments for systematic errors introduced by differences in procedures and dye intensity effects. Dye normalization for two color arrays is often achieved by local regression. LIMMA provides a set of tools for background correction and scaling, as well as an option to average on-slide duplicate spots. A common method for evaluating how well normalized an array is, is to plot an MA plot of the data. MA plots can be produced using programs and languages such as R, MATLAB, and Excel.
Raw Affy data contains about twenty probes for the same RNA target. Half of these are "mismatch spots", which do not precisely match the target sequence. These can theoretically measure the amount of nonspecific binding for a given target. Robust Multi-array Average (RMA) is a normalization approach that does not take advantage of these mismatch spots, but still must summarize the perfect matches through median polish. The median polish algorithm, although robust, behaves differently depending on the number of samples analyzed. Quantile normalization, also part of RMA, is one sensible approach to normalize a batch of arrays in order to make further comparisons meaningful.
The current Affymetrix MAS5 algorithm, which uses both perfect match and mismatch probes, continues to enjoy popularity and do well in head to head tests.
Factor analysis for Robust Microarray Summarization (FARMS) is a model-based technique for summarizing array data at perfect m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphism | In computer programming, an anamorphism is a function that generates a sequence by repeated application of the function to its previous result. You begin with some value A and apply a function f to it to get B. Then you apply f to B to get C, and so on until some terminating condition is reached. The anamorphism is the function that generates the list of A, B, C, etc. You can think of the anamorphism as unfolding the initial value into a sequence.
The above layman's description can be stated more formally in category theory: the anamorphism of a coinductive type denotes the assignment of a coalgebra to its unique morphism to the final coalgebra of an endofunctor. These objects are used in functional programming as unfolds.
The categorical dual (aka opposite) of the anamorphism is the catamorphism.
Anamorphisms in functional programming
In functional programming, an anamorphism is a generalization of the concept of unfolds on coinductive lists. Formally, anamorphisms are generic functions that can corecursively construct a result of a certain type and which is parameterized by functions that determine the next single step of the construction.
The data type in question is defined as the greatest fixed point ν X . F X of a functor F. By the universal property of final coalgebras, there is a unique coalgebra morphism A → ν X . F X for any other F-coalgebra a : A → F A. Thus, one can define functions from a type A _into_ a coinductive datatype by specifying a coalgebra structure a on A.
Example: Potentially infinite lists
As an example, the type of potentially infinite lists (with elements of a fixed type value) is given as the fixed point [value] = ν X . value × X + 1, i.e. a list consists either of a value and a further list, or it is empty. A (pseudo-)Haskell-Definition might look like this:
data [value] = (value:[value]) | []
It is the fixed point of the functor F value, where:
data Maybe a = Just a | Nothing
data F value x = Maybe (value, x)
One can easily check that indeed the type [value] is isomorphic to F value [value], and thus [value] is the fixed point.
(Also note that in Haskell, least and greatest fixed points of functors coincide, therefore inductive lists are the same as coinductive, potentially infinite lists.)
The anamorphism for lists (then usually known as unfold) would build a (potentially infinite) list from a state value. Typically, the unfold takes a state value x and a function f that yields either a pair of a value and a new state, or a singleton to mark the end of the list. The anamorphism would then begin with a first seed, compute whether the list continues or ends, and in case of a nonempty list, prepend the computed value to the recursive call to the anamorphism.
A Haskell definition of an unfold, or anamorphism for lists, called ana, is as follows:
ana :: (state -> Maybe (value, state)) -> state -> [value]
ana f stateOld = case f stateOld of
Nothing -> []
Just (val |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-server%20problem | The -server problem is a problem of theoretical computer science in the category of online algorithms, one of two abstract problems on metric spaces that are central to the theory of competitive analysis (the other being metrical task systems). In this problem, an online algorithm must control the movement of a set of k servers, represented as points in a metric space, and handle requests that are also in the form of points in the space. As each request arrives, the algorithm must determine which server to move to the requested point. The goal of the algorithm is to keep the total distance all servers move small, relative to the total distance the servers could have moved by an optimal adversary who knows in advance the entire sequence of requests.
The problem was first posed by Mark Manasse, Lyle A. McGeoch and Daniel Sleator (1988). The most prominent open question concerning the k-server problem is the so-called k-server conjecture, also posed by Manasse et al. This conjecture states that there is an algorithm for solving the k-server problem in an arbitrary metric space and for any number k of servers that has competitive ratio exactly k. Manasse et al. were able to prove their conjecture when k = 2, and for more general values of k for some metric spaces restricted to have exactly k+1 points. Chrobak and Larmore (1991) proved the conjecture for tree metrics. The special case of metrics in which all distances are equal is called the paging problem because it models the problem of page replacement algorithms in memory caches, and was also already known to have a -competitive algorithm (Sleator and Tarjan 1985). Fiat et al. (1990) first proved that there exists an algorithm with finite competitive ratio for any constant k and any metric space, and finally Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou (1995) proved that Work Function Algorithm (WFA) has competitive ratio 2k - 1. However, despite the efforts of many other researchers, reducing the competitive ratio to or providing an improved lower bound remains open . The most common believed scenario is that the Work Function Algorithm is k-competitive. To this direction, in 2000 Bartal and Koutsoupias showed that this is true for some special cases (if the metric space is a line, a weighted star or any metric of k+2 points).
In 2011, a randomized algorithm with competitive bound Õ(log2k log3n) was found. In 2017, a randomized algorithm with competitive bound O(log6 k) was announced, but was later retracted.
In 2022 it was shown that the conjecture is false, in general.
Example
To make the problem more concrete, imagine sending customer support technicians to customers when they have trouble with their equipment. In our example problem there are two technicians, Mary and Noah, serving three customers, in San Francisco, California; Washington, DC; and Baltimore, Maryland. As a k-server problem, the servers are the technicians, so k = 2 and this is a 2-server problem. Washington and Baltimore are apart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture%20in%20Uzbekistan | Agriculture in Uzbekistan employs 28% of the country's labor force and contributes 24% of its GDP (2006 data). Crop agriculture requires irrigation and occurs mainly in river valleys and oases. Cultivable land is 4.5 million hectares, or about 10% of Uzbekistan's total area, and it has to be shared between crops and cattle. Desert pastures cover fully 50% of the country, but they support only sheep.
Agricultural production
Uzbekistan produced in 2018:
5.4 million tons of wheat;
2.9 million tons of potato;
2.2 million tons of cotton (8th largest producer in the world);
2.2 million tons of tomato (14th largest producer in the world);
2.1 million tonnes of carrot (2nd largest producer in the world, behind China);
1.8 million tons of watermelon (8th largest producer in the world);
1.5 million tons of grape (15th largest producer in the world);
1.4 million tons of onion (15th largest producer in the world);
1.1 million tons of apple (14th largest producer in the world);
857 thousand tons of cucumber (7th largest producer in the world);
743 thousand tons of cabbage;
493 thousand tons of apricot (2nd largest producer in the world, just behind Turkey);
413 thousand tons of maize;
254 thousand tons of garlic;
221 thousand tons of rice;
172 thousand tons of cherry;
161 thousand tons of peach;
134 thousand tons of plum (17th largest producer in the world);
In addition to smaller productions of other agricultural products.
Cotton is Uzbekistan's main cash crop, accounting for 17% of its exports in 2006. With annual cotton production of about 1 million ton of fiber (4%-5% of world production) and exports of 700,000-800,000 tons (10% of world exports), Uzbekistan is the 6th largest producer and the 2nd largest exporter of cotton in the world. However, because of the risks associated with a one-crop economy as well as from considerations of food security for the population, Uzbekistan has been moving to diversify its production into cereals, while reducing cotton production. Thus, the area sown to cotton was reduced from 1.9 million hectares in 1990 to 1.4 million hectares in 2006, while the area under cereals increased from 1.0 million to 1.6 million hectares (in part at the expense of areas allocated to feed crops). Another cause behind moves to diversify may be environmental, because the large quantities of irrigation and fertilization needed to produce cotton have contributed to the drying up of the Aral Sea and to the severe pollution of the soil in the surrounding areas.
The main cereals are wheat, barley, corn, and also rice, which is grown in intensively irrigated oases. Minor crops include sesame, onions, flax, and tobacco. Fresh fruits are mainly consumed domestically, while dried fruits are also exported. Uzbek melons, known for their long life and unique taste, are widely sought after in the large cities of the CIS.
Pelts of the karakul sheep bred in Bukhara and its environs are a traditional export commodity, but their contr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONN | The Ohio News Network (ONN) – also referred to off-air as ONN Radio – is a radio news service in the U.S. state of Ohio. Based at Columbus, Ohio radio station WBNS-FM and owned by Dispatch Broadcast Group (which was purchased by Tegna Inc. in 2019), It provides statewide newscasts and sportscasts for more than 90 affiliate stations throughout the day, in addition to some seasonal long-form programming.
ONN had its origins as a cable news channel of the same name, which operated from 1996 to 2012 in more than 1.8 million households statewide. Its studios and offices were co-located with sister station WBNS-TV, the CBS television affiliate for Columbus and central Ohio. On July 25, 2012, ONN television announced it would be ceasing operations due to changing consumer habits, effective August 31, while ONN Radio would remain in service. ONN closed at 12:00 with the last programming being a farewell looking at the history of ONN.
Awards
ONN is regularly awarded for its outstanding news and programs regionally and nationally. In 2009, ONN received nine awards in the Ohio Associated Press contest including: Outstanding Sports Operation; Best Regularly Scheduled Sports; and Best Anchor Mike Kallmeyer. ONN was the runner-up for Outstanding News Operation in Ohio.
In 2008, ONN was presented the Emmy Award for Station Excellence in local programming to station managers Tom Griesdorn and Jason Pheister.
Former Television Channel Programming
News programming
With the slogan "Ohio's Channel", ONN features news relevant to the state. Daily newscasts include: Ohio This Morning, Ohio Today, Ohio Tonight, Ohio's 9 O'clock News, and Primetime Ohio. Regular segments include sports, weather, business, environmental, political, and health. A special in-depth report on a topic of statewide interest is featured each Thursday night during Ohio's 9 o'clock news. ONN's "Weather on the 10's" is a statewide weather update every 10 minutes.
Capital Square is the longest running political television program in Ohio. The show offers discussion of government in Ohio and Washington, D.C. Capitol Square regularly features the top newsmakers, who are questioned by moderator Jim Heath. Capital Square was once a Sunday fixture for WBNS-TV in the 1990s until it moved to ONN.
ONN also includes election updates throughout the state on major election days or for emergency voting that affects a large portion of the state.
Non-news programming
ONN and Ohio State University co-sponsor Ohio Means Business, a thirty-minute program showcasing companies and individuals in Ohio's business world. The program is hosted by ONN anchor Mike Kallmeyer. A new episode airs every other week.
ONN aired weekly Discover Ohio shows that profile great getaways and destinations across Ohio. The show is hosted by Mykkia Cameron, a former news reporter. The show was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008.
To target younger viewers, the network airs The Brain Game each Thursday evening which feat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949%E2%80%9350%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1949–50 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1949 through March 1950. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1948–49 season. This was the first season in which all four networks offered at least some prime time programming all seven nights of the week.
The schedule below reflects the fall lineup as it all settled into place throughout October 1949, before any subsequent time changes were made and additional new series appeared in November.
New series are highlighted in bold.
Notable debuts during the season included The Plainclothesman with its unusual camera work, the popular The Lone Ranger (which is one of the few 1940s television series to be given a DVD release), The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived series featuring popular performers as guests and the first variety show from the West Coast), and the unsuccessful series The Life of Riley, one of the first sitcoms to be produced on film as opposed to live transmission.
Continuing from the prior season were the highly popular variety series Toast of the Town, the critically well-received and popular anthology series Studio One, the critically panned but popular Captain Video and His Video Rangers which was one of the earliest sci-fi TV series, the well received by critics and viewers anthology series Kraft Television Theater, the popular Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and the popular in some regions drama/comedy The Goldbergs (which is also one of the few 1940s television series to be given a DVD release).
Legend
Sunday
Monday
Notes: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
On NBC, The Black Robe aired at various times on Mondays from August through October 1949.
Tuesday
Notes: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Wednesday
Manhattan Spotlight was replaced by Easy Aces from December 1949 to June 1950.
Notes: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Thursday
Notes: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
On NBC, The Black Robe aired from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time from January to March 1950. The Wayne King Show was seen only on NBC's Midwest Network.
Friday
Notes: Beginning July 18, 1949, The Magic Cottage aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Saturday
Notes: In the half-hour preceding prime time, ABC aired one of the first television westerns, The Marshal of Gunsight Pass, with 22 live episodes between March 12 and September 30, 1950.
From January 28 to July 29, 1950, Dinner Date With Vincent Lopez aired Saturdays from 8 to 8:30pm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efax%20%28software%29 | efax is an integrated fax program for Unix-like computer systems, produced by Casas Communications Engineering since 1993.
The software allows users to send and receive faxes using a computer, fax modem, and telephone line. It is command-line based, but there are several graphical user interfaces available.
efax is open-source and free software, licensed under the GPL. It is included in several major Linux distributions, including Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, and others. There is also a BSD version, and it forms part of the Apple Mac OS X Darwin system.
References
External links
efax website
efax setup tutorial
efax Linux manpage
FSF directory page
efax enhancement patches
Efax-gtk The leading graphical front-end for efax
Fax software
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20Free%20%28TV%20series%29 | Born Free is an American adventure/drama series based on the 1966 movie of the same name. It aired on the NBC television network from September 9 to December 30, 1974, produced by Columbia Pictures Television and starring and narrated by Diana Muldaur.
Synopsis
Gary Collins stars as George Adamson and Diana Muldaur portrays Joy Adamson. The couple live in Kenya with their adopted lioness Elsa, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
An unrelated television movie called Born Free: A New Adventure was broadcast by ABC in 1996, starring Linda Purl and Chris Noth. Joy and George Adamson do not appear as the main characters in the story.
Cast
Main
Gary Collins as George Adamson
Diana Muldaur as Joy Adamson
Hal Frederick as Makedde
Dawn Lyn as Reagan
Peter Lukoye as Nuru
Guest stars
Guest stars included Peter Lawford, Barbara Parkins, Alex Cord, Susan Dey. Juliet Mills had a recurring role as Dr. Claire Hanley.
Production
The series was set in Kenya and filmed in East Africa.
Reception and cancellation
Born Free was scheduled opposite ABC's Top 20 hit The Rookies and CBS's Top 30 hit Gunsmoke. Rating for the series were low and it was canceled in the middle of the 1974–75 television season after thirteen episodes.
Episodes
DVD release
The complete series Born Free was released in DVD format on August 7, 2012, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment via its "manufacture on demand" program. It was later re-released by Mill Creek on September 25, 2018.
References
External links
See Also That Series At rapidTV
George Adamson information website with photos, letters and much information and featuring Elsa the Lioness.
1974 American television series debuts
1974 American television series endings
1970s American drama television series
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Live action television shows based on films
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television shows set in Kenya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAXT-CD | KAXT-CD (channel 1) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to both San Francisco and San Jose, California, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network Catchy Comedy to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting alongside Palo Alto–licensed Heroes & Icons outlet KTLN-TV (channel 68). Both stations share studios on Pelican Way in San Rafael, and transmitter facilities on Mount Allison.
Due to its low-power status, KAXT-CD's broadcasting radius does not reach all of the San Francisco Bay Area. Because of that, its market affiliation is shared with KICU-TV (channel 36) which broadcasts Catchy Comedy on its fourth digital subchannel.
History
Early years
Founded May 31, 1989, the station previously broadcast in analog on UHF channel 22 as KAXT-CA, an affiliate of Spanish-language religious network Tiempos Finales TV, formerly being an affiliate of TBN from 1990 to 2003, and of Almavision from 2003 to 2006.
Changes
On July 31, 2009, KAXT began ATSC digital TV transmissions on UHF channel 42, which had been vacated by KTNC-TV. (The previous month, former owner of KTVU/KICU-TV,
Cox Media Group unsuccessfully applied for a license to use the same frequency for a KTVU digital translator.) KAXT's digital transmissions used the call sign KAXT-LD, later KAXT-CD. The station was the first digital television station to broadcast 12 video streams on a standard 6 MHz 19.39 Mbit/s ATSC stream. Using statistical multiplexing technology in the encoders and multiplexer, the system provides variable bit rate compression needed to provide full quality standard definition video across all of the channels with enough bandwidth for radio (audio only) services.
Broadcast Engineering nominated KAXT as Station of the Year for 2009, the first low power television station to receive such a distinction.
Since 2017
The DTV virtual channels between KAXT-LD's channel 22 (RF 42, formerly 22) and KRCB's channel 22 (RF 23) in Cotati had significant overlap that caused a PSIP conflict, allowing KAXT-CD to move to a new virtual channel, Channel 1. KAXT had been operating with a PSIP of Channel 1, at one point with 12 different video program streams and one audio-only channel for a total of 13 virtual channels for a few years until the late 2010s.
Weigel Broadcasting agreed to acquire KAXT-CD and KTLN-TV, along with KVOS-TV and KFFV in Seattle, from OTA Broadcasting in a $23.2 million deal on October 18, 2017. The sale was completed on April 15, 2019. By 2018, most of KAXT's Vietnamese-language subchannels had moved to KSCZ-LD.
Programming
Until 2019, KAXT broadcast an electronic program guide, shopping channels, and several channels of ethnic news, entertainment, and religious programming. Several subchannels were produced locally, while the remainder were simulcasts. KAXT is the only television station in the United States that broadcasts on virtual channel 1.
Former affiliations
Since its transition to digital broa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vektor%20Grafix | Vektor Grafix was a British computer game development company led by John Lewis and Andy Craven. Vektor Grafix was founded by Craven and Danny Gallagher in 1986. Their first releases were home ports of the Star Wars arcade games. The Leeds-based company then went on to become a developer of mostly 3D simulation games and was eventually bought by MicroProse in July 1992, becoming their development studio.
Games
Star Wars (ports, 1987)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (ports, 1988)
Ring Wars (1988)
Fighter Bomber / Strike Aces (1988)
Killing Cloud (1991)
Shuttle: the Space Flight Simulator (1992)
B-17 Flying Fortress (1992)
Dogfight (1993)
References
External links
Interview with Andy Craven from Crash Magazine
MicroProse
Video game companies established in 1986
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Farrel | Adrian Farrel is a British engineer and author, specialising in developing computer network protocols for the Internet. He is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force.
He was a founder of Aria Networks Ltd, who manufacture sophisticated, next-generation network modelling, path computation, and optimisation tools for MPLS, GMPLS, and IP networks, and served as their Chief Technology Officer for two years. He also runs a consulting company specialising in MPLS and GMPLS. Previously he was an MPLS architect and development manager at software house Data Connection Ltd., and director of protocol development for Movaz Networks Inc. He also co-authored a research paper.
Biography
Adrian Farrel is the co-chair of the IETF's: L2VPN Service Model (L2SM) working group. He was previously a Routing Area Director in the IETF, and was sponsored for this activity by Juniper Networks. Formerly he was co-chair of five IETF working groups, namely the L3VPN Service Model (L3SM) working group, the Interface to Network Service Functions (I2NSF) working group, CCAMP, PCE, and L1VPN, which are responsible for developing GMPLS and MPLS related standards. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 Request for Comments (RFCs) the IETF's standards documents making him equal 10th most prolific author in the IETF with an h-index of 12. On 18 October 2017 he was appointed Independent Submission Editor (ISE) for the RFC Editor to serve for two years beginning on 15 February 2018.
He co-edited a special edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine on GMPLS and is the author of a number of books.
From 2008 to 2011 Adrian served as a Trustee and member of the Standing Board of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod
Farrel was on the Technical Program Committee for the 15th Annual Conference MPLS in 2012 and again in 2014 as one of two Routing Area Directors in the Internet Engineering Task Force.
Other activities
Adrian Farrel is a member of the Pirate Party UK, and since 4 July 2015 has been an elected Governor of the party. On 14 December 2016 he was appointed Chair of the Board of Governors, a position he held until the party was disbanded at the end of 2020.
Adrian has also authored four volumes of fairy tales. He blogs about fairy tales and fairy stories.
Books
Tales from the Castle (FeedARead, 2019),
Tales from Beyond the Wood (FeedARead, 2017),
More Tales from the Wood (FeedARead, 2016),
Tales from the Wood (FeedARead, 2015),
Wireless Networking Complete (with multiple authors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2009),
Network Management: Know It All (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2008),
Network Quality of Service: Know It All (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2008),
MPLS: Next Steps (with Bruce S. Davie, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2008),
GMPLS: Architecture and Applications (with Igor Bryskin, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Burlington: 2005),
The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (Morgan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Terminator%3A%20Rampage | The Terminator: Rampage is a first-person shooter video game released for personal computers with the operating system DOS by Bethesda Softworks in 1993. It is the third game based on the Terminator film series that was made by Bethesda, following The Terminator and The Terminator 2029.
Gameplay
The game's levels are grid-based 3D mazes, similar in design to Wolfenstein 3D. Players explore each level searching for the stairs leading down to the next level, with the Skynet computer core located underground. The game contains dungeon crawl elements, as the nature of the game's mazelike levels sometimes requires players to backtrack between levels in order to access previously inaccessible areas of a level. Exploration of the game's levels is required to finish the game, as the player must collect and assemble various scattered pieces of a plasma gun, which is the only weapon capable of harming the game's final boss.
Plot
Skynet has sent a computer core containing its core programming back to 1984, shortly before its ultimate defeat at the hands of John Connor's human resistance in 2024. The computer core (known as the Meta-Node) arrives at Cyberdyne Systems' headquarters at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and proceeds to take over the building and begin manufacturing an army of Terminators. A lone commando is sent into the past by John Connor, arriving there in 1988. His mission is to destroy the Skynet computer core and eliminate the threat of Skynet once and for all. To do so, players must explore the 32 floors of the Cyberdyne building, fighting off various Skynet robots and cyborgs while assembling the pieces of a prototype plasma weapon called the V-TEC PPC (Phased Plasma Cannon), the only means of destroying the Meta-Node.
Development
The Terminator: Rampage used the same engine as The Elder Scrolls: Arena. According to Bethesda, the game was influential in the development of Doom. Id Software showed a lot of interest in the production of this particular game at Bethesda's stands at various trade shows.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in February 1994 said that the game resembled Doom "though the gameplay doesn't compare. Action, regardless of difficulty, is intense". The magazine said in March 1994 that the game was "a decent attempt for an imitative product, but you might say that the effort to catch-up and cash-in on id Software's success was doomed from the beginning".
Roy Bassave of Odessa American said in May 1994 "No special glasses needed to enjoy this very real Virtual Reality experience. The closest thing is Capstone's "Corridor 7" game with Wolfenstein 3D programming.
The game sold 30,000 units in its first week.
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Bethesda Softworks games
DOS games
DOS-only games
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Terminator (franchise) video games
U.S. Gold games
Video games about time travel
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 1988
Video games set in Colorado
Video games set in the Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamer%20%28video%20game%29 | Screamer is an racing video game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems. The game uses texture mapped polygon-modelled tracks and cars and shares some elements with Namco's 1993 Ridge Racer. A sequel, Screamer 2, was released in 1996.
GOG.com released an emulated version for Windows in 2009 and Mac OS X in 2012.
Gameplay
Development
Software rendering is used in the game, unlike Screamers three sequels Screamer 2, Screamer Rally and Screamer 4x4, that all utilized 3D hardware (in the case of Screamer 2, after a patch was released.) As a result, Screamer was one of the early games to really require a Pentium processor to run at full speed, particularly in SVGA mode. A special 3D accelerated version was available with the Number Nine Reality 332FX graphics card, that utilized the S3 ViRGE chipset.
The game's music was composed by Allister Brimble.
Reception
A reviewer for Maximum commended the game for its high speed, replay sequences, smoothly scrolling graphics, selection of vehicles, numerous modes and options, overall high longevity, and low price point. He noted that the computer-controlled opponents follow a fixed course, and would even crash full speed into the player car rather than deviate from that course, but did not feel this was a bad thing. He gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. A reviewer for Next Generation was also pleased with the graphics, selection of vehicles, and numerous modes. He praised the game for being more accessible than most racers, allowing players to begin racing without having to figure out the car's technical aspects, though he also criticized it as being "simplistic". He scored it 4 out of 5 stars, concluding that "there may not be a lot to it, but the graphics, playability, and selection of cars with their different qualities make it a title worthy of a look".
The editors of Computer Games Magazine nominated Screamer as the best racing game of 2001, but ultimately gave the award to NASCAR Racing 4.
An advertisement for the game, showing a burnt-out car wreckage with the slogan "Every Christmas the roads are full of mad men. Join them", aroused public outcry.
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1995 video games
DOS games
Games commercially released with DOSBox
MacOS games
Racing video games
Video games developed in Italy
Video games scored by Allister Brimble
Virgin Interactive games
Windows games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampiniform%20plexus | The pampiniform plexus (from Latin pampinus, a tendril, + forma, form) is a venous plexus – a network of many small veins found in the human male spermatic cord, and the suspensory ligament of the ovary. In the male, it is formed by the union of multiple testicular veins from the back of the testis and tributaries from the epididymis.
In the male
The veins of the plexus ascend along the spermatic cord in front of the vas deferens. Below the superficial inguinal ring they unite to form three or four veins, which pass along the inguinal canal, and, entering the abdomen through the deep inguinal ring, coalesce to form two veins. These again unite to form a single vein, the testicular vein, which opens on the right side into the inferior vena cava, at an acute angle, and on the left side into the left renal vein, at a right angle. The pampiniform plexus forms the chief mass of the cord.
In addition to its function in venous return from the testes, the pampiniform plexus also plays a role in the temperature regulation of the testes. It acts as a countercurrent heat exchanger, cooling blood in adjacent arteries. An abnormal enlargement of the pampiniform plexus is a medical condition called varicocele.
In the female
In females, the pampiniform plexus drains the ovaries. The right ovary drains to the pampiniform plexus to the ovarian vein to the inferior vena cava. The left ovary drains to the pampiniform plexus, left ovarian vein, then the left renal vein, to the inferior vena cava.
While varicocele is the diagnostic term for swelling in the valveless venous distribution of the male pampiniform plexus, this embryological structure, common to males and females, is often incidentally noted to be swollen during laproscopic examinations in both symptomatic and asymptomatic females. Diagnosis of female varicocele, properly called pelvic compression syndrome, should be expected to be as frequent as male varicocele (15% of healthy asymptomatic men which are thought to develop primarily during puberty and prevalence increases approximately 10% per decade of life).
While one may expect that the female to have equal prevalence of pelvic compression syndrome due to the identical embryological origin of the valveless pampiniform plexus, this condition is thought to be underdiagnosed due to the broad differential of the pain pattern: unilateral or bilateral pain, dull to sharp, constant to intermittent pain worsening with any increase in abdominal pressure.
Physical exam has specificity of 77% and sensitivity of nearly 94% when the patient is noted to be tender over adnexa during physical examination with a history of postcoital pain for differentiating pelvic congestion syndrome from other pathologies of pelvic origin. Confirmatory imaging requires ultrasound while performing Val Salva, while the gold standard remains ovarian and iliac catheter venography showing veins 5-10mm in diameter during Val Salva.
See also
Rete mirabile, vascular countercurren |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365gay%20News | 365gay News (formerly CBS News on Logo) is the umbrella title of gay-themed news programming airing on the Logo television network. The programming was produced in partnership with CBS as a result of the former ownership of both networks by Viacom. It debuted in June 2005, when the channel began broadcasting and was shut down on September 30, 2011.
Initially, news items were presented as short segments between scheduled programs. Occasionally the channel would air full half-hour specials on stories of interest to the LGBT community, such as the Gay Games, yearly gay pride events, the October 2006 ruling in the same-sex marriage case in New Jersey, Lewis v. Harris, and the issues facing gay voters in the 2006 mid-term elections.
History
In late 2007 CBS News on Logo went from broadcasting segments between scheduled programming to a weekly half-hour format. New programs were broadcast each Monday and repeated through the week.
Jason Bellini was the lead anchor for CBS News on Logo until 2008. Other correspondents included Itay Hod and Chagmion Antoine. The Executive Producer until 2008 was Court Passant. The CBS News Up to the Minute set was utilized for the broadcast of the program.
Beginning in January 2007, a news update podcast became available for download through the iTunes Store.
In 2008, both Jason Bellini and Court Passant left the program. Logo changed the name to 365gay News and CBS News brought in correspondent Ross Palombo to anchor and revamp the show.
On August 13, 2009, Logo announced that its partnership with CBS News had ended. 365gay News became solely an online web site. Correspondent Hod, expressing his strong disagreement with the move, speculated that economic conditions in 2009 led to the decision.
Closure
In September 2011, 365gay.com announced that it would cease operations as of September 30.
References
Logo TV original programming
2000s American television news shows
2005 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
CBS News
Television series by CBS Studios
2000s American LGBT-related television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Island%20%281984%20video%20game%29 | Treasure Island is a 1984 computer game based on the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the game, the player takes on the role of the book's protagonist Jim Hawkins and has to battle through hordes of pirates before a final showdown with Long John Silver. The game uses a flip-screen style.
The programming was done by Greg Duddle, and the music was rendered by David Whittaker. The version for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum was released in 1984, and the Commodore Plus/4 version was from 1985. The latter version is bug free and has minor differences. On the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum it is impossible to get the maximum score because of bugs. The Commodore Plus/4 version was also converted for the Corvette in 1989.
Gameplay and premise
Players control Treasure Island protagonist Jim Hawkins, using various tools to get through the levels with a limited number of supplies. Enemy pirates act as obstacles for progress and throw cutlasses when Jim is in range, which can be taken and used by players to defeat enemies. On the Plus/4 or Corvette it is possible to get 101% final score.
Legacy
Having changed the theme from pirates to Asia, the similar game was released as The Willow Pattern Adventure for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
See also
Another adventure game named Treasure Island was published by Windham Classics in the year 1985.
References
1984 video games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Commodore 64 games
MSX games
Video games based on works by Robert Louis Stevenson
ZX Spectrum games
Video games based on Treasure Island
Video games about pirates
Video games set in the Caribbean
Video games set on islands
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnhope%20Reservoir%20railway | The Burnhope Reservoir railway was an industrial narrow gauge railway built to serve the construction of Burnhope Reservoir near Weardale. An extensive network of narrow gauge lines connected the North Eastern Railway branch terminus at Weardale with the dam construction site.
Locomotives
References
See also
British industrial narrow gauge railways
2 ft gauge railways in England
Reservoir construction railways
Railway lines opened in 1930
Railway lines closed in 1937
Rail transport in County Durham
Stanhope, County Durham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Network%20Control%20Program | The IBM Network Control Program, or NCP, was software that ran on a 37xx communications controller and managed communication with remote devices. NCP provided services comparable to the data link layer and Network Layer functions in the OSI model of a Wide area network.
Overview
The original IBM Network Control Program ran on the 3705-I and supported access to older devices by application programs using Telecommunications Access Method (TCAM). With the advent of Systems Network Architecture (SNA), NCP was enhanced to connect cluster controllers (such as the IBM 3270) to application programs using TCAM and later to application programs using Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM). Subsequent versions of NCP were released to run on the IBM 3704, IBM 3705-II, IBM 3725. IBM 3720, or IBM 3745 Communications Controllers, all of which SNA defined as a SNA Physical Unit Type 4 (PU4). A PU4 usually had SDLC links to remote cluster controllers (PU1/PU2) or to other PU4s. Polling and addressing of the cluster controllers was performed by the NCP without mainframe intervention.
In 2005 IBM introduced Communications Controller for Linux (CCL), a software product that allows an unmodified NCP to run on the mainframe, eliminating the need for a separate communications controller in some cases.
A local NCP connected to a System/370 channel via single address.
A remote NCP had no direct connection to a mainframe but was connected to a local NCP via one or more high-speed SDLC links.
Notes
References
Further reading
Network Control Program
Network protocols
Network Control Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27sNet | Women'sNet is a networking support programme designed to enable South African women to use the internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.
Issues
Some of the issues it has focused on include HIV/AIDS, Beijing+5 in Africa, Women and Human Rights, violence against women, Gender in Parliament, Health, Women and Information and communication technologies (ICTs), Women and Enterprise, and Women and Elections.
Resources
The Women'sNet site offers links to useful websites, a newsletter (launched in April 2006), links to relevant issues, and a directory of organisations.
History
In 1998, Women'sNet was established as a project of the Commission of Gender Equality and SANGONeT. In the following year, the first Women'sNet webpages went live, focusing on women and human rights issues in South Africa.
It also created the first online space for South African women to reflect on, and strategise, in the lead up to the 1999 national elections. In 1999 too, the African Sisters online workshop was held. Women'sNet collaborated with FEMNET to create an online platform for joining regional processes in the lead-up to the Beijing+5 conference.
2001 saw the creation of the first women-run internet cafe for civil society organisations at the [World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and related Intolerances], among other activities.
In 2000, Women'sNet launched a project to combine radio and audio production with women's NGOs efforts, to promote a women's empowerment agenda. It also won the Highway Africa ward for "Innovative Use of the New Media".
Other landmarks include SANGONeT Board's confirming Women'sNet's independent status (April 2002), its joining of the international ICT4D network the Association for Progressive Communications, being officially registered as a non-governmental organisation (January 2003), being a core partner in the first Africa-wide Women and Electronic Networking Training (WENT) in Cape Town (2003), launching an on-line up-datable database of South African organisations providing services targeted at girls (March 2003).
In 2004, it convened a stake-holders meet to consult South African women's NGOs on their information and technology needs; launched the GenderStats website, launching Girls'Net, hosting the first African workshop on free software (or FLOSS) and implementing the Recording Women's Voices project.
Training, technology planning
Over the past two years (2005 and 2006), Women'sNet has also co-trained South African women to participate in the global cyber-dialogues on the [Beijing+10] review process, and women's NGOs on technology planning and FLOSS. Girl'sNet runs a visual literacy training project with young girls in the Eastern Cape, and has held a photo exhibition in August 2005. Women'sNet also launched the (s)hebytes project and website as a space "where women and men talk about gender and women's empowerment". It launched digital story telling workshops "to tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap%20Years | Leap Years is an America drama television series that aired on the Showtime cable network from July 29, 2001 until January 31, 2002. The show was created by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who had created the American version of the series Queer as Folk. It followed a group of friends in New York City. Set in the main in 2001, the show was uniquely structured as a series of flashbacks to 1993 and flashforwards to the then-near future 2008.
Cast
Bruno Campos as Joe Rivera
Nina Garbiras as Beth Greenway
Garret Dillahunt as Gregory Paget
Michelle Hurd as Athena Barnes
David Julian Hirsh as Josh Adler
Episodes
References
External links
2001 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2000s American LGBT-related drama television series
Showtime (TV network) original programming
Television series by CBS Studios
Television series by MGM Television
Television series by Temple Street Productions
English-language television shows
Television series set in 1993
Television series set in 2001
Television series set in 2008
Television shows set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk%20synchronous%20parallel | The bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) abstract computer is a bridging model for designing parallel algorithms. It is similar to the parallel random access machine (PRAM) model, but unlike PRAM, BSP does not take communication and synchronization for granted. In fact, quantifying the requisite synchronization and communication is an important part of analyzing a BSP algorithm.
History
The BSP model was developed by Leslie Valiant of Harvard University during the 1980s. The definitive article was published in 1990.
Between 1990 and 1992, Leslie Valiant and Bill McColl of Oxford University worked on ideas for a distributed memory BSP programming model, in Princeton and at Harvard. Between 1992 and 1997, McColl led a large research team at Oxford that developed various BSP programming libraries, languages and tools, and also numerous massively parallel BSP algorithms, including many early examples of high-performance communication-avoiding parallel algorithms
and recursive "immortal" parallel algorithms that achieve the best possible performance and optimal parametric tradeoffs.
With interest and momentum growing, McColl then led a group from Oxford, Harvard, Florida, Princeton, Bell Labs, Columbia and Utrecht that developed and published the BSPlib Standard for BSP programming in 1996.
Valiant developed an extension to the BSP model in the 2000s, leading to the publication of the Multi-BSP model in 2011.
In 2017, McColl developed a major new extension of the BSP model that provides fault tolerance and tail tolerance for large-scale parallel computations in AI, Analytics and high-performance computing (HPC). See also
The BSP model
Overview
A BSP computer consists of the following:
Components capable of processing and/or local memory transactions (i.e., processors),
A network that routes messages between pairs of such components, and
A hardware facility that allows for the synchronization of all or a subset of components.
This is commonly interpreted as a set of processors that may follow different threads of computation, with each processor equipped with fast local memory and interconnected by a communication network.
BSP algorithms rely heavily on the third feature; a computation proceeds in a series of global supersteps, which consists of three components:
Concurrent computation: every participating processor may perform local computations, i.e., each process can only make use of values stored in the local fast memory of the processor. The computations occur asynchronously of all the others but may overlap with communication.
Communication: The processes exchange data to facilitate remote data storage.
Barrier synchronization: When a process reaches this point (the barrier), it waits until all other processes have reached the same barrier.
The computation and communication actions do not have to be ordered in time. Communication typically takes the form of the one-sided PUT and GET remote direct memory access (RDMA) calls rather |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SriLankan%20Airlines%20destinations | SriLankan Airlines is the flag carrier of Sri Lanka. Launched in 1979, the airline's hub is located at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, providing connections to its global route network of 96 destinations in 46 countries (including codeshare operations along with its partner OneWorld airlines). The following is a list of destinations served by SriLankan Airlines, as of July 2023. The list includes the city and country name, the airport codes of the International Air Transport Association (IATA airport code) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO airport code), and the airport name.
In the past, SriLankan Airlines used to fly from Colombo to London Gatwick, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich.
List
See also
SriLankan AirTaxi
Cinnamon Air
References
External links
SriLankan Airlines
Lists of airline destinations
Oneworld destinations
Sri Lanka transport-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Networks | Web Networks is a non-profit organisation based in Toronto, Canada that provides website services to socially committed organizations. It was conceived at a 1986 "Friends of the Earth" conference in Ottawa, Ontario and founded by Mike Jensen and Kirk Roberts and others in 1987 as a project of NIRV Centre and called "The Web".
Web Networks was a founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications.
Among its "full range of internet tools and services" are website hosting, and Drupal website development services.
In 2005 it began development of a web-based literacy application called "Yodigo"
In September 2006, Web Networks released its Drupal usability report.
It worked with the Piruvik Centre of Iqaluit to provide Inuit with Inuktitut-friendly website content management services called "Attavik".
External links
Web Networks website
Drupal Usability Study
Non-profit organizations based in Toronto
Information technology organizations based in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrawberryNet | StrawberryNet is a Romanian NGO network aimed at promoting "the protection of the environment, sustainable development, democracy and human rights" in Romania, using electronic telecommunication and ICT (information and communication technologies).
It is organized as a self-coordination body of NGOs providing or using information and communication services. It is, in legal terms, a foundation.
In the recent past (2003–04), StrawberryNet has been involved in supporting a website that gave a voice to mining-affected residents in a historic and picturesque Romanian village, some 400 km north of Bucharest.
Canada-headquartered Roșia Montană Gold Corporation was then planning to take to court the Alburnus Maior non-profit organisation, to prevent it from publishing its rosiamontana.org website.
Roșia Montană Gold Corporation had anticipated carrying out Europe's largest open-cast mining development in the area, even though it would mean the involuntary resettlement of over 2,000 persons, and the potential destruction of a unique archaeological and natural site.
For the villagers, the website gave a voice to tell the world about their opposition to mining. StrawberryNet took cover of an internet rights charter, to establish that the Canadian-Romanian mining corporation was violating the right to communicate and the freedom of expression and information exchange, by their act of suing the promoter of the site rosiamontana.org. Roșia Montană Gold Corporation is a joint-venture between Minvest, a Romanian, state-owned company and Gabriel Resources, a company registered in Toronto and, offshore, in Barbados and Jersey (the latter company was founded by serial entrepreneur and convicted heroin dealer Frank Timiş.)
References
External links
StrawberryNet, Romania
StrawberryNet, English site
NGO.RO information community developed by StrawberryNet — Environmental Electronic Network
Roşia Montană — no improvement in sight for tarnished gold project
Environmental organizations based in Romania
Information technology organizations based in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Guide | The Seven Guide was a datacast channel provided by the Seven Network to digital television viewers in Australia. It began broadcasting on 6 September 2002. The channel was broadcast 24 hours a day. The channel was available to viewers on channel 77 in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The guide was also modified for state-based news and program promotions. The guide initially launched in Sydney and Melbourne, with Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth launching the guide later in 2003. The channel ceased broadcasting on 4 July 2008.
Features
The Seven Guide featured a twenty-four-hour television guide for the programming of Channel Seven. The channel also provided realtime news twenty-four hours a day, which included breaking news reports and local news reports from state-based news rooms. Also, realtime weather reports for Australia, occasionally localised for state-based markets including wild weather alerts and traffic reports.
Live Preview
A live video preview of Seven was available on the Seven Guide. The live video preview was also accompanied by a Now On and Coming Up television guide.
Advertising
The Seven Guide advertised new and high rating television programs from Seven via a small billboard loop. The advertising contained program information and broadcast times, that were modified for different time zones and state-based programming. Following the introduction of Seven HD, the small billboard loop contained what's on during the week.
Identity
The Seven Guides' onair look changed several times since September 2002 when the channel launched. The channel initially had a Red and White theme, with a modern design. The channel featured a smaller 4:3 ratio preview of Seven, and a Seven news ticker at the bottom.
In January 2005, the Seven Guide had a revamp of its on-air presentation. The design became simpler, and allowed for a higher concentration of text. The channel featured a larger 4:3 ratio preview of Seven, and a Seven News and weather ticker at the bottom.
The new onair identity of the Seven Guide launched on 12 June 2008. However this identity was dropped for the previous identity on the right on 15 June 2008 for the closure of Seven Guide on 4 July.
See also
Nine Guide
Ten Guide
References
Seven Network
Television channels and stations established in 2002
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2008
English-language television stations in Australia
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
Defunct television channels in Australia
2002 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol%20Gelenbe | Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, Istanbul), a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician, pioneered the field of Computer System and Network Performance in Europe. Active in European Union research projects, he is Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2017-), Associate Researcher in the I3S Laboratory (CNRS, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice) and Abraham de Moivre Laboratory (CNRS, Imperial College). Previous Chaired professorships include the University of Liège (1974-1979), University Paris-Saclay (1979-1986), University Paris Descartes (1986-2005), ECE Chair at Duke University (1993-1998), University Chair Professor and Director of EECS, University of Central Florida (1998-2003), and Dennis Gabor Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks, Imperial College (2003-2019).
Biography
Gelenbe of and Maria Sacchet Gelenbe and of Yusuf Âli Gelenbe, a descendant of the 18th-century Ottoman mathematician Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi and nephew of the Ottoman Sheyhulislam Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi, Erol graduated from Ankara Koleji and the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where he won the K.K. Clarke Research Award for his undergraduate thesis on "partial flux switching magnetic memory systems". Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, he completed a master's degree and PhD thesis degree at the Polytechnic University on "Stochastic automata with structural restrictions" under Prof. Edward J. Smith.
Career
He then joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor, and on leave from Michigan, he founded the Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems research group at INRIA (France), and was a visiting associate professor at the university of Paris 13 University. In 1971 he was elected to a chair in Computer Science at the University of Liège in Belgium, but was appointed in 1974, joining Professor Danny Ribbens while remaining a research director at INRIA. He was awarded a Doctorat d'État ès Sciences Mathématiques (1973) from Sorbonne University, with a thesis on "Modèlisation des systèmes informatiques", under Jacques-Louis Lions. He remained a close friend of Professor Ribbens and of the University of Liège, but moved to the Paris-Sud 11 University in 1979, where he co-founded the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique and its PhD Program, before joining Paris Descartes University in 1986 as founding director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique.
Gelenbe was appointed New Jersey State Endowed Chair Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1991-1993), and joined Duke University as the Nello L. Teer Chair Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department until 1998 when he moved to the University of Central Florida, and founded the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and created the Harris Corporation Engineering Centre He was offered the Dennis Gabor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNSi%20Telecom | Managed Network Systems Inc. (doing business as MNSi Telecom) is a Canadian Internet service provider (ISP) and phone provider located in Windsor, Ontario. Opened in 1995, it is the oldest ISP in the Windsor-London area, having started in September of that year as a provider of Dial-up Internet access.
The company serves customers in the city, providing home and business phone, long distance, DSL Internet and fibre. MNSi also serves nearby areas of Southern Ontario, including Chatham, Leamington, LaSalle, Tecumseh, and Sarnia.
Acquisitions
In 2017, MNSi became a sister company with Central Ontario communications company Nexicom. In November, 2016, Nexicom received The Outstanding Business Achievement Award by The Kawartha Chamber of Commerce and Tourism.
Introduction to fibre
In 2012 the company started planning and digging for fibre delivery to Windsor with a gradual roll-out of upgrades through to 2020. It will be an expected investment of more than $35 million. The service is available in Walkerville, Oldcastle and East Windsor.
The company is using its own fibre lines and the bandwidth is not purchased from a larger company. MNSi uses a local call centre.
References
External links
MNSi Website
Nexicom Website
Internet service providers of Canada
Internet technology companies of Canada
Companies based in Windsor, Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1995
Telecommunications companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in Ontario
Telecommunications companies of Canada
Privately held companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Forty%20Four | Digital Forty Four was a Sydney-only trial datacasting service that was licensed by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (now the Australian Communications and Media Authority) beginning on 17 March 2004 for an initial two-year run until 31 December 2006. The license was extended on several occasions past 2006, however on 29 January 2010 it was announced that Broadcast Australia's datacasting licence for Digital Forty Four would not be extended past 30 April 2010. At midnight on 30 April 2010, all services from Digital Forty Four ceased broadcasting.
The services provided at various times during its six years of operation have included a television guide for free-to-air television, a community service channel providing information on road, weather and surf conditions, with live broadcasts every fifteen minutes, the Australian Christian Channel, Expo shopping channel, NITV, Teachers TV information channel and live broadcasts of the meetings of the Australian Parliament, with audio-video coverage of the House of Representatives and Senate.
Channels
Under conditions associated with the datacasting licence, channels on the Digital Forty Four service had to be either text based or narrowcast services. Entertainment programming was not allowed on the service, however some programming on the Australian Christian Channel was shown in a reduced screen format with text content around it, as that satisfied the datacast requirement.
Former Channels
As it was a long term trial, many channels that started on the service did not continue until the cessation of broadcasts.
Legacy
The ACMA decided in closing the service that it was unlikely that datacast services would come to auction in the near future, and decided continuing the trial was unnecessary for that reason. NITV, which gained coverage on the service, considered the closure of the service a blow to its chances of gaining permanent spectrum for the service, and put the long term viability of the service into question.
Most of the other channels on Digital Forty Four are available unencrypted on satellite or via online streaming.
See also
Datacasting
Television broadcasting in Australia
References
Television stations in Sydney
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
Defunct television channels in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2010
2004 establishments in Australia
2010 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NAS%20manufacturers | The following notable companies manufacture Network-attached Storage devices.
See also
File area network
Disk enclosure
Network architecture
Global Namespace
Server (computing)
References
Computer storage companies
Network-attached storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZJB | LZJB is a lossless data compression algorithm invented by Jeff Bonwick to compress crash dumps and data in ZFS. The software is CDDL license licensed. It includes a number of improvements to the LZRW1 algorithm, a member of the Lempel–Ziv family of compression algorithms. The name LZJB is derived from its parent algorithm and its creator—Lempel Ziv Jeff Bonwick. Bonwick is also one of two architects of ZFS, and the creator of the Slab Allocator.
References
External links
LZJB python binding
Javascript port of the LZJB algorithm
Lossless compression algorithms
Sun Microsystems software
Free software
Software using the CDDL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glay%20Global%20Communication | GLAY Global Communication was an 11-episode, thirty-minute, television series aired on the Fuji Television Networks hosted by the Japanese rock band, GLAY. The show ran from April 18, 2001 to June 27, 2001, every Wednesday at 1:55am.
The series was focused on the production of the One Love album, the promotion of the Global Communication Asia special, the free street live in Sapporo, and the creation of the promotional videos for the singles from the One Love album. At the end of each episode each band member would give something away as a present for the fans.
Episode Titles
Episode 1: Good Morning, NYC - Members Create the PV -
Episode 2: Good Morning, NYC - Members Create the PV -
Episode 3: GLAY Press Conference
In this episode, the show's female street reporter takes us in the behind the scenes of the press conference announcing GLAY's tour as well as interviews them on their way to another press meet
Episode 4: GLAY Special Live in Sapporo
In this episode, we are taken behind the scenes of the special street live. We also view some of the performances from the concert.
Episode 5: GLAY World Reports: Canada PV Making and Recording in New York
In this episode, we look behind the scenes of the filming of the GLOBAL COMMUNICATION PV and the recording of the album in New York City
Episode 6: GLAY Expo 2001: Hisashi and Jiro GLOBAL COLLABORATION
In this episode the band is split, with Takuro and Teru in Asia and Hisashi and Jiro in Japan. Jiro meets with Gen to design a new bass and Hisashi visits a robot convention.
Episode 7: Takuro and Teru in Asia vol. 1
In this episode we follow Kikuyano, our street reporter, with GLAY in Asia. Hisashi and Jiro look at the footage with Akira from Japan and make comments at some of the weird things that happen their bandmates
Episode 8: Takuro and Teru in Asia vol. 2
More stores Takuro and Teru in Asia in this episode with more commentary from Hisashi, Jiro, and Akira.
Episode 9: GLAY Expo 2001: Takuro and Teru GLOBAL COLLABORATION
In this episode, Takuro meets up with a team to create a commercial for the expo and Teru meets up with CANDY STRIPPER to design the tour shirts.
Episode 10: Asian Musician Talk Session vol. 1
In this episode GLAY interviews the various big acts from the various Asian countries who will participate in their special Expo
Episode 11: Asian Musician Talk Session vol. 2
In this episode we conclude the television series a final interview with the remaining special guests for their Kyushu Expo.
Member Gifts
At the end of each episode, a present was given out by a band member to the fans.
Episode 1 - Jiro's bass pick from the set
Episode 2 - Takuro's Glasses from the Good Morning, NYC set
Episode 3 - Teru's postcards and tape
Episode 4 - Hisashi's weightless headphones
Episode 5 - Jiro's picture of the New York City skyline signed by him.
Episode 6 - Takuro's umbrella signed by him.
Episode 7 - Teru's staff passes for the events he went to in Asia signed by him.
Episode 8 - Hisashi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWNB-TV | DWNB-TV (channel 41) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the One Sports network. It is owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation; TV5 Network, Inc., which owns TV5 flagship DWET-TV (channel 5), operates the station under an airtime lease agreement. Both stations share studios at the TV5 Media Center, Reliance cor. Sheridan Sts., Mandaluyong, while DWNB-TV's alternate studio and digital transmitter is located at TV5 Complex, 762 Quirino Highway, Brgy. San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City, and its analog and digital transmitter is located on Block 3, Emerald Hills, Sumulong Highway, Antipolo, province of Rizal.
History
As MTV Philippines
Previously, DZRU UHF channel 41 was being planned for use by NBC for its own acquired programming under the multimedia convergence program of the station's current owners. But sometime in 2000, MTV Asia wanted to go 24 hours on terrestrial television which it didn't get when they were still buying airtime through Studio 23 (now known as S+A).
NBC broadcast executives, led by the radio station manager Francis Lumen, signed an joint venture agreement with MTV Networks Asia Pacific (now Paramount Networks EMEAA) for the right to use NBC's UHF Channel 41 for the latter's new extension, to be christened MTV Philippines. The move was in line with NBC's trends toward converging traditional broadcasts with the giant telecommunications backbone of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), which had acquired NBC from the Yabuts in 1998 to achieve that purpose.
UHF Channel 41 has its own studio complex at The Fort (now Bonifacio Global City) where its shows were broadcast to Metro Manila and nearby areas.
After six years of partnership in the Philippines, MTV Philippines was placed off-the-air after a multi-year deal with All Youth Channels, Inc. following the dissolution of partnership with NBC.
MTV Philippines was relaunched on March 1, 2007, as a cable and satellite TV channel while UHF channel 41 was inactive for three years (even MTV Philippines was ceased to exist in February 2010).
As AksyonTV Channel 41
In October 2010, UHF Channel 41 went back on-air and began its test broadcast as ABC Development Corporation (now TV5 Network, Inc.) took over the blocktime that will alternate TV5's programming and will feature news & public service information programs when mentioned new blocktimers took over the management of NBC stations; the call letters were also changed to DWNB-TV. By that day, UHF Channel 41 broadcast the feed of sister station 92.3 News FM (after the U92.3 FM (previously managed by All Youth Channels, Inc., which currently owns its cable channel, Nickelodeon Philippines (under MTV Networks Asia Pacific) signed off on the 30th day of the previous month) from 12nn to 8 pm daily, but this was temporarily ended by the first quarter of December. The next few months, UHF Channel 41 prepared for the first non-cable news, current affairs and information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARSHINE%20%28satellite%29 | The STARSHINE (Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite Heuristic International Networking Experiment) series of three (later, a fourth one was also launched) artificial satellites were student participatory missions sponsored by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (the fourth STARSHINE was a NASA mission).
Satellite description
STARSHINE-1 was a spherical satellite that was fitted with almost nine hundred small mirrors polished by students from around the world. Once launched, a network of over 20,000 students from eighteen countries tracked the satellite by observing sunlight glinting off the mirrors and networked their observations via the Internet. The students used these observations to calculate air drag, solar activity, and other orbit related properties of the satellite.
STARSHINE 2 and 3 had systems added to impart spin to these satellites in an effort to improve the solar-reflected flash rate, as well as a number of laser retroreflectors to introduce the students to satellite laser ranging.
The satellites were constructed largely from spare flight hardware.
In November 2001, the amateur radio payload on Starshine 3 was designated STARSHINE-OSCAR-43, or SO-43.
A further fourth satellite, STARSHINE-4, was launched aboard the maiden flight of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket on 25 May 2020. The flight was a failure and the satellite did not reach orbit.
Launches
The STARSHINE launches were considered launches of opportunity; STARSHINE-1 was launched June 5, 1999 from the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-96, Starshine 3 launched on September 29, 2001 as part of the Kodiak Star Athena I mission, and STARSHINE-2 launched December 5, 2001 from the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-108.
STARSHINE-4 launched onboard LauncherOne rocket on 25 May 2020. The launch vehicle failed five seconds after deployment from the carrier aircraft.
Reentry
Starshine 3 re-entered and burned up in the Earth's upper atmosphere on January 21, 2003. It had made 7434 revolutions around the Earth since its launch.
See also
LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellites)—a series of scientific research satellites designed to provide an orbiting laser ranging benchmark for geodynamical studies of the Earth
Satellite laser ranging
References
External sources
Starshine project website
Space Sciences: The Navy & Satellites - Starshine 2
Space Sciences: The Navy & Satellites - Starshine 3
Satellites orbiting Earth
Educational projects
Laser ranging satellites
Amateur radio satellites
Satellite series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Morey%20Amsterdam%20Show | The Morey Amsterdam Show is an American sitcom which ran from 1948 to 1949 on CBS Television (13 episodes) and 1949–50 on the DuMont Television Network (58 episodes), for a total of 71 episodes.
Synopsis
The show began on CBS Radio with Morey Amsterdam playing himself as the emcee at a fictional New York City nightclub, the "Golden Goose Cafe". He introduced musical and comedy acts, and performed songs and monologues himself. Art Carney played Charlie the Doorman and Jacqueline Susann was Lola the Cigarette Girl.
After six months on the radio, the show moved to CBS Television with the same characters, actors, and plot. The CBS version premiered December 17, 1948, and ended March 7, 1949, after 13 episodes.
The show was picked up by the DuMont Television Network and began broadcasting on April 21, 1949, with a few minor changes. The name of the nightclub was changed to the "Silver Swan Cafe". Art Carney's character changed to Newton the Waiter, Susann continued as Lola, and Vic Damone joined the cast as a nightclub singer. The DuMont series ran for 58 episodes on Thursday evenings at 9:00 pm Eastern, until October 12, 1950, when it was replaced by The Adventures of Ellery Queen.
The DuMont version was sponsored by DuMont Laboratories, founded by Allen B. DuMont to produce television sets.
Notable guest stars
The show's extensive roster of guest stars included Dottie Dean, Nancy Donovan, Mel Tormé, Rosemary Clooney, Charles "Honi" Coles, The Three Stooges, Cholly Atkins, Doraine and Ellis, Eileen O’Dare, Vic Damone, and Leo Guarniari. The announcers for the series were Don Russell, who was also the host for Guide Right, and musician Bobby Sherwood.
Episode status
Several CBS Television episodes, and most of the DuMont episodes, exist at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress has two episodes, though whether CBS or DuMont is not known. Selected DuMont episodes with lapsed or nonexistent copyright have been released on DVD by small DVD companies.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1948 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1940s American sitcoms
1950s American sitcoms
Black-and-white American television shows
CBS original programming
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Jewish comedy and humor
Television series about Jews and Judaism
American television series revived after canc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20linear%20array%20model | In statistics, the generalized linear array model (GLAM) is used for analyzing data sets with array structures. It based on the generalized linear model with the design matrix written as a Kronecker product.
Overview
The generalized linear array model or GLAM was introduced in 2006. Such models provide a structure and a computational procedure for fitting generalized linear models or GLMs whose model matrix can be written as a Kronecker product and whose data can be written as an array. In a large GLM, the GLAM approach gives very substantial savings in both storage and computational time over the usual GLM algorithm.
Suppose that the data is arranged in a -dimensional array with size ; thus, the corresponding data vector has size . Suppose also that the design matrix is of the form
The standard analysis of a GLM with data vector and design matrix proceeds by repeated evaluation of the scoring algorithm
where represents the approximate solution of , and is the improved value of it; is the diagonal weight matrix with elements
and
is the working variable.
Computationally, GLAM provides array algorithms to calculate the linear predictor,
and the weighted inner product
without evaluation of the model matrix
Example
In 2 dimensions, let , then the linear predictor is written where is the matrix of coefficients; the weighted inner product is obtained from and is the matrix of weights; here is the row tensor function of the matrix given by
where means element by element multiplication and is a vector of 1's of length .
On the other hand, the row tensor function of the matrix is the example of Face-splitting product of matrices, which was proposed by Vadym Slyusar in 1996:
where means Face-splitting product.
These low storage high speed formulae extend to -dimensions.
Applications
GLAM is designed to be used in -dimensional smoothing problems where the data are arranged in an array and the smoothing matrix is constructed as a Kronecker product of one-dimensional smoothing matrices.
References
Regression models
Array model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uiju%20County | Ŭiju County is a kun, or county, in North Pyongan Province, North Korea. The county has an area of 420 km², and a population of 110,018 (2008 data).
Name
Ŭiju appears as Uiju in South Korea's Revised Romanization and as Yizhou in Chinese sources, as during its occupation by Mao Wenlong's forces during the Transition from Ming to Qing.
Geography
Sakchu county and Kusŏng lie to the east; Sŏnch'ŏn and Ch'ŏlsan counties to the south; and Ryongch'ŏn county and Sinŭiju to the west. To the north, Ŭiju shares a border with China.
Administrative divisions
Ŭiju county is divided into 1 ŭp (town), 2 rodongjagu (workers' districts) and 17 ri (villages):
Transportation
Ŭiju county is served by the Tŏkhyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway. There is also an airport, Uiju Airfield (ICAO airport code: ZKUJ).
1980 earthquake
Ŭiju earthquake was a 5.3 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Ŭiju County in 1980. It is among the largest earthquakes by magnitude recorded in the Korean Peninsula since South Korea began official earthquake observation in 1978.
See also
Geography of North Korea
Ojok-tong
References
External links
Counties of North Pyongan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPPE | MPPE may refer to:
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption, a data encryption protocol
Modified polyphenyl ether, a type of phenyl ether polymer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2moro%20Radio | 2MORO is one of two full-time Arabic language radio stations in Sydney, Australia. It is broadcast locally on 1620 AM and has a national coverage through MySat Pay TV network.
The radio station is also identified as "Sawt El-Ghad" (Arabic: صوت الغد). In February 2006, Tony Ishak, represented the station at the Australian Lebanese Foundation scholarship presentation.
References
Radio stations in Sydney
Arabic-language radio stations
Arab-Australian culture
Ethnic radio stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVR%20%28disambiguation%29 | TVR is a British sports car company.
TVR may also refer to:
TvR, , Romansh television production unit in Switzerland
TVR (TV network) (), the public television network of Romania
Taff Vale Railway, a South Wales railway company that operated 1840–1922
Television Rating Point, in audience measurement
Televisión Registrada, an Argentine TV program
Televisión Rioja, a regional TV channel in La Rioja, Spain
Terminal verification results, for smart payment cards
Treasure Valley Rollergirls, a roller derby league in Boise, Idaho
(Bombardier Guided Light Transit), a public transport system
Top-view ranchu, a type of Japanese Ranchu goldfish
T. V. Ramasubbaiyer, Indian businessman
Trevor van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Makepeace%20Bennett | John Makepeace Bennett (31 July 1921 – 9 December 2010) was an early Australian computer scientist. He was Australia's first professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society. His pioneering career included work on early computers such as EDSAC, Ferranti Mark 1* and SILLIAC, and spreading the word about the use of computers through computing courses and computing associations.
Personal life
John Bennett was born in 1921 at Warwick, Queensland, the son of Albert John Bennett and Elsie Winifred née Bourne.
In 1952 he married Rosalind Mary Elkington (who was also working at Ferranti). They had four children: Christopher John, Ann Margaret, Susan Elizabeth and Jane Mary.
In 1986 Bennett, aged 65, retired with his wife to Sydney's Northern Beaches.
Bennett died at home on 9 December 2010 and was survived by his wife, four children and six grandchildren.
Education and War Service
John Bennett was educated at The Southport School. After which, he went to the University of Queensland to study civil engineering.
From 1942 until 1946 (during WWII), he served in the RAAF. He worked on a radar unit on the Wessel Islands and later worked in airfield construction. He then returned to the University of Queensland to study electrical and mechanical engineering and mathematics.
Professional life
In 1947 he went to Cambridge University to become Maurice Vincent Wilkes' first research assistant as part of the team working to build EDSAC. This was the world's first practical stored program electronic computer, and the world's first computer in regular operation from 1949. He used EDSAC to carry out the first ever structural engineering calculations on a computer as part of his PhD.
He worked for Ferranti in Manchester and London as a computer specialist. Here he designed the instruction set for Ferranti Mark 1*, which was the main improvement of that machine over Ferranti Mark 1.
In 1956, Bennett returned to Australia to become Numerical Analyst (and later Senior Numerical Analyst) to the Adolph Basser Laboratory at the University of Sydney. His main work was the development of software for SILLIAC.
Until 1958 he taught associated courses in the use of computers. In 1958 he established a Postgraduate Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Computing which was later changed to the Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science.
In 1961, the Basser Laboratory became the Basser Computing Department and John Bennet became Professor of Physics (Electronic Computing). In 1972 the Basser Computing Department was split into the Basser Department of Computer Science (for teaching and research) and the University Computer Centre. John Bennett was appointed head of the new Basser Department of Computer Science, but it was not until 1982 that John Bennett's title was changed to be Professor of Computer Science - a title which he held until his retirement in 1987.
He was also the Foundation Chairman of the Australian Committee on Comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Mus%C3%A8s | Charles Arthur Muses (; 28 April 1919 – 26 August 2000), was a mathematician, cyberneticist and an esoteric philosopher who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms (including Musès, Musaios, Kyril Demys, Arthur Fontaine, Kenneth Demarest and Carl von Balmadis). He founded the Lion Path, a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics, physics, philosophy, and many other fields.
Biography
Muses was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and grew up in Long Island, New York. His father abandoned the family when Muses was a young boy forcing his mother to support Muses and a large, extended family on a school teacher's salary. Years later he would remark in lectures that if his mother had not had an overarching faith in "young Charlie" he might never have been able to escape the confines of his impoverished youth.
By 1946, Muses was working on his Master's Degree from Columbia University, New York. In 1949, Muses submitted for approval his Columbia University Ph.D work in philosophy (see preface to the dissertation). The doctoral thesis led with the name of a little-known German-English exegete in idealism, Dionysius Andreas Freher (d. 1728), who through years of study had become learned on the far-famed German idealist Jacob Böhme (d. 1624), the latter being the actual subject of Muses's pre-doctoral studies at Columbia. This was suggested by and confirmed in the subtitle of the thesis, 'An Inquiry in the Work of A Fundamental Contributor to the Philosophic Tradition of Jacob Boehme.' With some modifications (seen by comparing the thesis to the subsequent book), the entirety was published in 1951 under the title 'Illumination on Jacob Boehme: The Work of Dionysius Andreas Freher' by King’s Crown Press (which at the time was a subsidized front for doctoral students of Columbia University). On pp. 151-2 Muses states, “Both Boehme’s and Freher’s outstanding message philosophically is that philosophy is not a dodge, game, or only some kind of artistic exercise, but a solid enterprise of most productive value – able to yield concrete results of a most extended nature in terms of deep changes in attitude and understanding, leading to actions toward and realization of the intrinsic nobility possible to and desired by mankind.” The two-year delay between finishing the thesis work (1949) and its recognition in the grant of the Ph.D. (1951) is not explained.
In 1991 the book In All Her Names: Explorations of the Feminine in Divinity was published by Harper San Francisco. It was edited by Joseph Campbell and Charles Muses. Each contributed a chapter to the book along with Riane Eisler and Marija Gimbutas. The title of Muses chapter is "The Ageless Way of Goddess: Divine Pregnancy and Higher Birth in Ancient Egypt and China". On pages 136–137, he states, “Similarly, the ancient theurgic doctrine taught that in the dim and mysterious recesses of each human brain are lodged the control centers for transducing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efax | efax may refer to:
Internet fax, the transferral of fax information using the Internet
efax (software), a computer based fax program for Unix-like computer systems
Everett Efax file format, a file format |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonelli | Tonelli is a surname, and may refer to:
Tonelli (surname)
Arts
Tonelli (film), a 1943 German film
Science
Tonelli's theorem (functional analysis)
Tonelli's theorem
Tonelli–Shanks algorithm
Tonelli–Hobson test
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%20Up | "Springfield Up" is the thirteenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 18, 2007. In the episode, filmmaker Declan Desmond (Eric Idle) returns to Springfield to film the continuation of his documentary series Growing Up Springfield, which chronicles the lives of several Springfield residents. He visits the town with a film crew every eight years to see how the lives of these people have changed, a plot which parodies the Up documentary series.
"Springfield Up" has received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Eccentric documentary filmmaker Declan Desmond offers an inside look at his documentary, Growing Up Springfield. His film follows the lives of several Springfield residents, returning to them after eight-year intervals to examine how their lives have changed.
Particularly featured is Homer, who had wanted to be rich as a child, started a family as an adult, and now lives in an enormous mansion. He explains that he became a success after creating a pen that dispenses condiments. As Desmond is interviewing Marge, Mr. Burns arrives; the mansion is his summer home, and he did not give them permission to use it. He has Smithers, who was tied up by Homer inside a grandfather clock for three days, release attack dogs on the family to chase them away, although he has to go back to Mr. Burns' other home to collect them first and then release them. Desmond follows Homer to try and humiliate him after pretending to be rich, despite Homer admitting to the camera that he had wanted to be the cool person in Declan's documentary. He'd realized that he was only in the documentary to make everyone else look good (before walking away), Desmond tries to end the scene with the words "Strong words from a dumpy man" and that he was indeed only in the program to make everyone else look good before trying to cut the camera. Marge then angrily makes sure that the camera is still filming and speaks to Desmond, telling him that Homer went through a lot of trouble to impress him and that Homer truly is a successful person, she also said that it was a mistake to let him intrude on their lives before slamming the door on him.
Feeling sorry for Homer, while drinking in Moe's Desmond speaks to Moe telling him that had he been wrong to judge Homer. Moe tells him that he was wrong to judge Homer as he was married to Marge, had three children, a job and his own home. Desmond produces a compilation of people saying good things about him. When Homer watches it, he realizes that spending time with his family and friends has made him truly happy. Nevertheless, Homer pledges that, by the next Growing Up Springfield film in eight years, he will be a world-famous rock star, and then he and Desmond sing a duet of a song Homer wrote called “Satan You're My Lady” as an exasperated Marge looks on.
Production
The episode was written by Matt Warburton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homerazzi | "Homerazzi" is the sixteenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 25, 2007. It was written by J. Stewart Burns, directed by Matthew Nastuk, and guest starred J.K. Simmons as the tabloid editor, Betty White as herself, and Jon Lovitz as Enrico Irritazio.
The full-length opening sequence and couch gag ran for over 2 minutes and 20 seconds, making it one of the longest in the history of the show.
Plot
After failing to blow out all the candles on his birthday cake, an exhausted Homer falls asleep, igniting his party hat on the flames. The burning house is saved by the Springfield fire department, and Marge purchases a fire-proof safe to protect the family's valuables (including the family photo album) as a precaution. Each family member places one item in the safe, but after it is closed, the items combine to start a fire that destroys both them and the safe. Refusing to accept the loss of all their memories, Marge decides to restage all of the family photos. One shot captures a celebrity sex scandal (Duffman dating Boobarella, despite Duffman being in a committed relationship with a homosexual man) and allows the Simpsons to strike tabloid gold. Tasting success and seeing money to be made, Homer takes to the streets as one of the paparazzi.
Overnight, Homer becomes Springfield's most valued tabloid photographer, provoking several local celebrities to commit embarrassing or criminal acts and then snapping pictures of them. After he gate-crashes Rainier Wolfcastle and Maria Shriver Kennedy Quimby's wedding, the celebrities turn the tables on him by hiring top paparazzo Enrico Irritazio to get photos of Homer on his worst behavior (showering at a fire hydrant, letting Maggie drive while trying to beat up Enrico, and burning a jury duty card). Seeing these photos in the tabloids prompts Homer to give up the paparazzi business temporarily, but Lenny and Carl persuade him to resume his work, using a camera that Moe had hidden in the ladies' room of his tavern. Immediately after Moe gives Homer the camera, two women enter the bar and ask to use the restroom so they can trade bras and panties, infuriating Moe since he's no longer have the camera to spy on them.
Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub during a party celebrating Homer's assumed abandonment of his paparazzi career and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying). Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures. Homer says that he will not make them public, as long as the celebrities start treating their fans with more respect and stop taking them for granted. W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome-Old%20and%20Juli-Eh | "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" is the fifteenth episode of the eighteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 11, 2007. It was written by Daniel Chun, and directed by Nancy Kruse. Jane Kaczmarek guest starred as her recurring character, Judge Constance Harm.
Plot
Homer surprises the family with a newly decorated basement, now a recreation room with a pinball machine, a ping-pong table and other luxury items, prompting Marge to ask how Homer could afford all this. He says he has a plan and in the next scene files for bankruptcy before Constance Harm, believing that this will save him from paying his debts. Unfortunately, Harm tells him that the bankruptcy laws have changed and, under the new laws, he has to pay everything back. When looking through the family's expenses, Homer decides to save a lot of money by moving his father out of the retirement home and having him live with the family. The recreation room now doubles as Grampa's bedroom.
Homer and Marge go out one night and ask Grampa to babysit Bart and Lisa. Not entirely trusting Grampa's competence as a babysitter, Marge also asks her sister Selma Bouvier to come over and watch Grampa watch the kids. During the evening, Grampa and Selma end up kissing and eventually fall in love with each other, and are unaware that they are caught by Homer, much to his dismay, as he wants his dad to end up old and lonely. However, just as she was when Abe previously dated Selma's mother Jacqueline in "Lady Bouvier's Lover", Marge is happy with the arrangement, noting that Selma and Abe are like a yummy hot dog made from the parts of a pig no one wants. Patty is no happier than Homer and she enlists his help to break them up. Patty impersonates Selma and Homer dresses up as "Esteban de la Sexface", a Spanish lover-type, and the two arrange for Grampa to catch them kissing. Their plan is foiled though, when the actual Selma comes by and catches them. Angry at being manipulated, Grampa proposes to Selma and she accepts. They get married and move in together.
With Abe unable to find work, Selma is the sole breadwinner in the family, working hard in her new, more stressful job as department manager at the DMV. Abe, meanwhile, destroys their kitchen with his ignorance of how things work by misusing the appliances, causing a kitchen fire. This makes Selma realise that maybe love is not everything you need after all, and she dances with him one last time. They presumably divorce, with Grampa moving back to the retirement home and Selma moving back to her and Patty's room at Spinster Arms Apartments. Homer and Marge try roleplaying, with Homer as "Esteban de la Sexface" and the two pretending to be having an affair; when Marge says that her husband would be back soon, Homer plays along by jumping out of the window as "Esteban", then bursting into the bedroom as himself, trying to uncover the "adultery", much to Marge's anno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%2023%20%28company%29 | Network 23 was a British video game developer founded by teenagers Chris Lloyd and Russell Hughes in 1990. Located on the Isle of Wight, they produced games exclusively for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers from 1990 to 1996.
The studio's name was derived from the dominant mega-corporation Network 23, featured in Channel 4's 1985 short film ’20 Minutes into the Future’ (aka Max Headroom).
History
Network 23 were well known within the Archimedes demoscene from 1987 to 1990. Their best known releases from this time included ‘Wibble’, ‘Granny Chow’ and ‘Graffiti Street’.
The company changed its name to R.A.G.E. Software Developments with the launch of its first commercial game ‘Provocator’ in 1991, but reverted to its demoscene name in 1992 to avoid being confused with newly formed Amiga games developer, Rage Software Limited.
Network 23's graphic style was influenced by the Amiga games of the day, especially those of the Bitmap Brothers and Team17. The graphics were designed using Deluxe Paint on an Amiga 500 and ported to the Acorn using custom hardware, which gave their games a unique look. The Archimedes games market slowly dried up as the 90's progressed, and the company closed its doors in November 1996.
Chris Lloyd went into business software and is now an independent I.T. consultant. He wrote the popular Archimedes emulator ‘Archie’ in his spare time, but was forced to shelve the project in 2001 due to time constraints.
Russell Hughes stayed within the video game industry, working on titles including Carmageddon and State of Emergency. He subsequently worked in Melbourne, Australia as an artist for Blue Tongue Entertainment and THQ Asia Pacific. He died at the age of 37 on 22 September 2010.
Games
Provocator
Network 23's first published game ‘Provocator’ was released in September 1991 and published by Isle of Wight developer Computer Tutorial Services (C.T.S). Provocator was a fast space based shoot-em-up, reminiscent of the Battlestar Galactica TV show from the late 70's. It required the player to protect a huge convoy of ships from alien attack as they passed through hostile territory, and dock with a mother ship after each wave of attacks.
Warlocks
Released in late October 1993, Warlocks became Network 23's biggest hit. A platform shoot-em-up featuring a reincarnated knight who was tasked with freeing the world of Lylvania from the tyranny of 3 demented Warlocks. Warlocks' advertising boasted that was the only Acorn game to ever feature 8 directional, 256 colour, parallax scrolling whilst running at a consistent 50 frames per second. Deadline'''
Network 23's last game was Deadline, published in August 1995, a top down shoot-em-up that set the player the mission of rescuing hostages from 8 war torn battlegrounds.
References
External links
Network 23's old website (mirrored)
Russell Hughes' Rap Sheet on Mobygames
RISC OS
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment%20operator%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | In the C++ programming language, the assignment operator, =, is the operator used for assignment. Like most other operators in C++, it can be overloaded.
The copy assignment operator, often just called the "assignment operator", is a special case of assignment operator where the source (right-hand side) and destination (left-hand side) are of the same class type. It is one of the special member functions, which means that a default version of it is generated automatically by the compiler if the programmer does not declare one. The default version performs a memberwise copy, where each member is copied by its own copy assignment operator (which may also be programmer-declared or compiler-generated).
The copy assignment operator differs from the copy constructor in that it must clean up the data members of the assignment's target (and correctly handle self-assignment) whereas the copy constructor assigns values to uninitialized data members. For example:
My_Array first; // initialization by default constructor
My_Array second(first); // initialization by copy constructor
My_Array third = first; // Also initialization by copy constructor
second = third; // assignment by copy assignment operator
Return value of overloaded assignment operator
The language permits an overloaded assignment operator to have an arbitrary return type (including void). However, the operator is usually defined to return a reference to the assignee. This is consistent with the behavior of assignment operator for built-in types (returning the assigned value) and allows for using the operator invocation as an expression, for instance in control statements or in chained assignment. Also, the C++ Standard Library requires this behavior for some user-supplied types.
Overloading copy assignment operator
When deep copies of objects have to be made, exception safety should be taken into consideration. One way to achieve this when resource deallocation never fails is:
Acquire new resources
Release old resources
Assign the new resources' handles to the object
class My_Array{
int* array;
int count;
public:
My_Array& operator=(const My_Array& other)
{
if (this != &other) { // protect against invalid self-assignment
// 1: allocate new memory and copy the elements
int* new_array = new int[other.count];
std::copy(other.array, other.array + other.count, new_array);
// 2: deallocate old memory
delete[] array;
// 3: assign the new memory to the object
array = new_array;
count = other.count;
}
// by convention, always return *this
return *this;
}
// ...
};
However, if a no-fail (no-throw) swap function is available for all the member subobjects and the class provides a copy constructor and destructor (which it should do according to the rule of three), the most straightforward way to implement copy assignm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuji%20Yoshimura | is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Director of the Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, Tokyo.
He is the first president of an online college Cyber University.
Publications
Non-destructive pyramid investigation, 1987
References
1943 births
Living people
Japanese Egyptologists
Waseda University alumni
Academic staff of Waseda University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeir%20Anpin | Ze`ir Anpin (Aramaic: זְעֵיר אַנפִּין meaning "Lesser Countenance/Small Face", called Microprosopus in the Kabbala Denudata) is a revealed aspect of God in Kabbalah, comprising the emotional sephirot attributes: Chesed, Gevurah, Tiphereth, Netzach, Hod and Yesod.
The Zohar's imagery expounds its role in Creation, where it is the microscopic equivalent of Arich Anpin (Macroprosopus) in the Sephirotic tree of life. The Siphra Dtzenioutha portrays it as the revealed face of God, and the Idra Rabba elaborates on the Kabbalistic significance of its several attributes. Its Tetragrammaton is YHVH (יהוה), the name of God in Judaism. In 16th century Lurianic doctrine it becomes systemised as one of the 6 Primary Partzufim Divine Personae, as part of the cosmic process of Tikkun Rectification.
Uniting Zeir Anpin-Short Face with Nukvah-Female
Zeir Anpin, the emotional sephirot centered on Tiferet (Beauty), is the transcendent revelation of God to Creation ("The Holy One Blessed Be He"), a perceptible manifestation of the essential Divine infinity (the Tetragrammaton name of God). Nukvah ("Female" of Zeir Anpin) is the indwelling immanent Shekhinah (Feminine Divine Presence) within Creation, the concealed Divine finitude (the name Elokim). In Medieval Kabbalah, the sin of Adam, as well as later sin, introduces apparent separation (perceived from Creation) between the two, bringing exile and constriction on High. The task of man is restoring union (Yichud) to the Male and Female Divine manifestations. This is the origin of the Kabbalistic prayer formula recited before performing a Jewish observance. Within the tetragrammaton, the first two letters signify the Concealed World/Upper Unity with God, and the latter two signify the Created World/Lower Unity:
"For the sake of the union of the Holy One Blessed be He, and His Shekhinah, to unite the name Y-H with V-H in a perfect union, in the name of all Israel"
In Lurianic Kabbalah, the origin of disharmony in the Sephirot is located earlier, in the primordial Realm of Tohu before the creation of Man, though later sin brings further exile. The task of man, while also affecting Male-Female union on High, involves Messianic redemption of the exiled "Sparks of Holiness" (Birur) from Tohu that are scattered within Physical existence. Birur becomes the inner dimension of Yichud. Each indwelling spark is relatively female in relation to the person who redeems it from captivity. The collectivity of all sparks, similar to the collective People of Israel, also comprises the exiled Shekhinah, awaiting raising up to God.
See also
Yetzirah
Partzufim
Arich Anpin
Nukvah
References
Mystical Concepts in Chassidism, Jacob Immanuel Schochet, Kehot pub. Also printed as Appendix of Likutei Amarim-Tanya, Kehot. Chapter 8 etc.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled, George Redway, London, 1887
External links
The Kabbalah Unveiled by S. L. Macgregor Mathers
Related articles on Zeir Anpin by Zion Nefesh
Kabbalah
Aramaic wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawad%20Salehi | Jawad A. Salehi, IEEE Fellow, () born in Kazemain (Kadhimiya), Iraq, on December 22, 1956, is an Iranian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access (CDMA) and a highly cited researcher. He is also a board member of Academy of Sciences of Iran and a fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He was also elected as a member of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (چهرههای ماندگار) in Electrical Engineering, October 2010.
Education
Dr. Salehi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1979, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1980 and 1984, respectively.
Affiliations
From 1981 to 1984, he was a full-time Research Assistant at Communication Science Institute at USC, where he was engaged in research in the area of spread spectrum systems. On 1984 he joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Morristown, New Jersey as a Member of Technical Staff of the Applied Research Area. Meanwhile, from February to May 1990, he was with the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, as a visiting research scientist conducting research on optical multiple-access networks. He left Bellcore (Now Telcordia) on 1993.
Later on 1997, Salehi joined Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, as a faculty member and was an associate professor and since 2003 he has become a full professor with the department of electrical engineering (EE), Sharif University of Technology (SUT).
From 1999 to 2001, he was the Head of Mobile Communications Systems Group and co-director of Advanced and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Laboratory at Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, conducting research in the area of advance CDMA techniques for optical and radio communications systems.
In 2003, he founded and directed the Optical Networks Research Laboratory (ONRL), Electrical Engineering Department, SUT, for advanced theoretical and experimental research in futuristic fiber-optic communication and all-[optical networking]. He is also a Cofounder of Advanced Communications Research Institute (ACRI) at SUT for advancing the graduate school research program in communications science.
Research
Professor Salehi's current research interests include quantum Internet, quantum communication signals and systems, and quantum multiple access systems and networks. He is also interested in fiber-optic communications and optical multiaccess networks, in particular, optical orthogonal codes (OOC); fiber-optic CDMA; femtosecond or ultra-short light pulse CDMA; spread time CDMA; holographic CDMA; wireless indoor optical CDMA; all-optical synchronization; and applications of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) in optical systems. He is father of OOC code generation and he is also given OCDMA concept.
Recognitions, honors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20reset | A factory reset, also known as hard reset or master reset, is a software restore of an electronic device to its original system state by erasing all of the data, settings, and applications that were previously stored on the device. This is often done to fix an issue with a device, but it could also be done to restore the device to its original settings.
Since a factory reset entails deleting all information stored in the device, it is essentially the same concept as reformatting a hard drive. Pre-installed applications and data on the card's storage card (such as a microSD card) will not be erased.
Factory resets can fix many chronic performance issues (i.e. freezing), but it does not remove the device's operating system. Factory resets may also be used to prepare a device for sale, refurbishing, destruction, donation or other transfers of ownership by removing personal data and configurations associated with the previous owner.
Examples
Factory resets can be achieved in a variety of ways depending on the electronic device. For some devices, this could be done by going into the device's Service Menu. Other devices may require a complete re-installation of the software. The following section lists a few common electronic devices and how they can be reset to factory settings.
Computer factory resets will restore the computer to the computer's original operating system and delete all of the user data stored on the computer. Microsoft's Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11, and Apple's macOS have options for this.
On Android devices, there is a factory data reset option in Settings that will appear to erase all of the device's data and reset all of its settings. This method is typically used when the device has a technical problem that cannot be fixed using other methods, or when the owner wants to remove all their personal data before selling, giving away, returning or disposing of the device. Factory Reset Protection (FRP) is a security feature implemented in Android devices starting from Android 5.1 Lollipop, Android 6, Android 7, Android 8, Android 9, Android 10, Android 11, Android 12, Android 13. Its purpose is to prevent unauthorized access to a device that has been lost, stolen, or reset to factory settings. If the user does not recall the Google account information, alternative methods such as FRP bypass are utilized to unlock the Android device. After performing a study, Avast! reported that the data is recoverable using forensics software that is fairly generic and publicly available. On Samsung smartphones, a factory reset operation does not affect the Knox Flag. As such, it does not reset the device to its original factory settings and is not a way to return the device to a state compatible with the manufacturer's warranty. Data on the SIM card and the microSD card is not erased.
Many other devices can be restored to factory settings, like televisions, GPS units or tablet computers.
Many electronic devices have a menu with too |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwoman | "Cyberwoman" is the fourth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television series Torchwood. Written by Chris Chibnall and directed by James Strong, the episode was first broadcast on the digital channel BBC Three on 5 November 2006, and later repeated on terrestrial channel BBC Two on 8 November.
In the episode, Lisa Hallett (Caroline Chikezie), a half-converted Cyberman, attacks the base of the alien hunters Torchwood after secretly being housed there by her boyfriend Ianto Jones to make her fully human again.
The episode was among the first pitched for the series, as creator Russell T Davies saw a potential to continue the story from the Doctor Who episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday". Chibnall originally intended the episode to appear sometime midway through the series, but was ultimately brought forward to the fourth slot. It was filmed in the third production block. Because of the limited number of filming locations and cast members, it was among the cheapest episodes in the first series. It was seen by almost 1.4 million viewers after its original broadcast and received generally mixed reactions from critics, though the producers regard the episode as one of their favourites in the series.
Plot
Ianto and his girlfriend Lisa both worked for Torchwood in London when Cybermen partially converted Lisa during their battle at Canary Wharf. Ianto has since cared for Lisa by placing her in the basement of the Torchwood Hub in Cardiff with a conversion unit to keep her alive. Secretly inviting cybernetics expert Dr Tanizaki to the basement, Ianto wants Tanizaki to reverse the process. Tanizaki is able to make Lisa breathe on her own again, but by that time, Torchwood is called back to deal with a rogue UFO. When Tanizaki brings Lisa back down to the basement, her Cyberman influence takes over and she kills him by attempting to upgrade him, causing the power to flicker.
Ianto discovers Tanizaki's body and attempts to hide it. Meanwhile, Lisa drains even more power by re-entering the conversion unit. Believing the Hub is under attack, Jack sends Gwen and Owen to the basement where they find the abandoned conversion unit. Jack runs down to find Owen is lying unconscious and Gwen is about to be converted. He stops the process and attempts to shoot Lisa, but Ianto stops him, allowing Lisa to escape. Jack tells Ianto that there is no cure.
Ianto approaches Lisa to reason with her, only to end up being knocked unconscious. Jack buys Toshiko time to go to the surface to recharge the emergency power cells by allowing himself to be electrocuted twice by Lisa, though he survives due to his immortality. To allow the rest of the team to escape, Jack sprays Lisa with a special "barbecue sauce" that summons the pet pterodactyl; as it attacks her, the team escape by the invisible lift. Ianto punches Jack for his actions, uttering he is "the biggest monster of them all." Meanwhile, a pizza delivery girl unwittingly enters the Hub and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20broadcasting%20licences%20held%20by%20Asian%20Television%20Network%20International%20Limited | The following is a list of television broadcasting licences held by Asian Television Network:
Launched (On the air)
ATN Aastha TV (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN ARY Digital (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN B4U Movies (ATN Hindi Movie Channel 3)
ATN B4U Music (ATN- Music Network One (Hindi Music) - AMN1)
ATN Bangla (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Brit Asia TV (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Channel (SATV)
ATN Colors Bangla (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Colors Marathi (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Colors Rishtey (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Cricket Plus (ATN - Asian Sports Network)
ATN DD Bharati (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN DD India (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN DD News (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN DD Sports (ATN - Cricket Channel I)
ATN DD Urdu (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Food Food (ATN South Asian Cooking Channel 1)
ATN Gujarati (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN IBC Tamil (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Jaya TV (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Life (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Max 2 (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Movies (ATN Hindi Movie Channel 4)
ATN MTV India (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN News (ATN South Asian English News Channel 2)
ATN News18 India (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN PM One (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Punjabi (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Punjabi 5 (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Punjabi Plus (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN SAB TV (ATN Comedy Channel One)
ATN Sikh Channel (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Sony Aath (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Sony Mix (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Sony TV (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN SVBC (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Tamil Plus (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Times Now (ATN – South Asian News – English)
ATN Urdu (Operates as exempt Cat. 2 Ethnic service)
ATN Zoom (ATN – Music Network Two (Hindi Music))
CBN (ATN Cricket Channel One)
Yet to launch
ATN Caribbean Channel Two
ATN Hindi Movie Channel 5
ATN Urdu News Channel 1
Did not launch (License has expired)
ATN- Arabic News Channel
ATN- Bangla Channel Two
ATN- Cricket Channel I
ATN- Cricket Channel II
ATN Cricket Channel Two
ATN – Hindi Movie Channel Two
ATN- Malayalam Channel One
ATN- Malayalam Channel Two
ATN- Music Network Three (Tamil Music) - AMN3
ATN- Music Network Two (Hindi Music) - AMN2
ATN- South Asian News- Hindi (Pay service)
ATN- South Asian News- Hindi/English (Pay service)
ATN – South Asian News – Hindi
ATN – South Asian News – Hindi/English
ATN- South Asian News - Tamil
ATN- Urdu Channel Two
ATN- Urdu Channel T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logtalk | Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that extends and leverages the Prolog language with a feature set suitable for programming in the large. It provides support for encapsulation and data hiding, separation of concerns and enhanced code reuse. Logtalk uses standard Prolog syntax with the addition of a few operators and directives.
The Logtalk language implementation is distributed under an open source license and can run using a Prolog implementation (compliant with official and de facto standards) as the back-end compiler.
Features
Logtalk aims to bring together the advantages of object-oriented programming and logic programming. Object-orientation emphasizes developing discrete, reusable units of software, while logic programming emphasizes representing the knowledge of each object in a declarative way.
As an object-oriented programming language, Logtalk's major features include support for both classes (with optional metaclasses) and prototypes, parametric objects, protocols (interfaces), categories (components, aspects, hot patching), multiple inheritance, public/protected/private inheritance, event-driven programming, high-level multi-threading programming, reflection, and automatic generation of documentation.
For Prolog programmers, Logtalk provides wide portability, featuring predicate namespaces (supporting both static and dynamic objects), public/protected/private object predicates, coinductive predicates, separation between interface and implementation, simple and intuitive meta-predicate semantics, lambda expressions, definite clause grammars, term-expansion mechanism, and conditional compilation. It also provides a module system based on de facto standard core module functionality (internally, modules are compiled as prototypes).
Examples
Logtalk's syntax is based on Prolog:
?- write('Hello world'), nl.
Hello world
true.
Defining an object:
:- object(my_first_object).
:- initialization((write('Hello world'), nl)).
:- public(p1/0).
p1 :- write('This is a public predicate'), nl.
:- private(p2/0).
p2 :- write('This is a private predicate'), nl.
:- end_object.
Using the object, assuming is saved in a my_first_object.lgt file:
?- logtalk_load(my_first_object).
Hello world
true.
?- my_first_object::p1.
This is a public predicate
true.
Trying to access the private predicate gives an error:
?- my_first_object::p2.
ERROR: error(permission_error(access, private_predicate, p2), my_first_object::p2, user)
Anonymous functions
Prolog back-end compatibility
Supported back-end Prolog compilers include B-Prolog, Ciao Prolog, CxProlog, ECLiPSe, GNU Prolog, JIProlog, Quintus Prolog, Scryer Prolog, SICStus Prolog, SWI-Prolog, Tau Prolog, Trealla Prolog, XSB, and YAP. Logtalk allows use of back-end Prolog compiler libraries from within object and categories.
Developer tools
Logtalk features on-line help, a documenting tool (that can generate PDF and HTML files), an entity diagram generator tool, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Sommerville%20%28software%20engineer%29 | Ian F. Sommerville (born 23 February 1951), is a British academic. He is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as a number of other books and papers. He worked as a professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2014 and is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability.
Education and personal life
Ian Sommerville was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1951.
He studied Physics at Strathclyde University and Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He is married and has two daughters. As an amateur gourmet, he has written a number of restaurant reviews.
Academic career
Ian Sommerville was a lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1975 to 1978 and at Strathclyde University, Glasgow from 1978 to 1986.
From 1986 to 2006, he was Professor of Software Engineering in the Computing Department at the University of Lancaster, and in April 2006 he joined the School of Computer Science at St Andrews University, where he taught courses in advanced software engineering and critical systems engineering. He retired in January 2014 and since continues to do software-related things that he finds interesting.
Ian Sommerville's research work, partly funded by the EPSRC has included systems requirements engineering and system evolution. He defined the process of Construction by configuration (CbC). A major focus has been system dependability, including the use of social analysis techniques such as ethnography to better understand how people and computers deliver dependability. He was a partner in the DIRC (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability) consortium, which focused on dependable systems design and is now (2006) working on the related INDEED (Interdisciplinary Design and Evaluation of Dependability) project. He has also been a member of the board of advisors to the IEEE SWEBOK project. He has worked on a number of European projects involving collaboration between academia and commercial enterprises, such as the ESPRIT project REAIMS (Requirements Engineering adaptation and improvement for safety and dependability).
Public activities
In 2006, Ian Sommerville was one of 23 academics in the computer field who wrote open letters calling for an independent audit of the British National Health Service's proposed Programme for IT (NPfIT) and expressing concern about the £12.4 billion programme.
Publications
Most widely read of Sommerville's publications is probably his student text book Software Engineering, currently in its 10th edition along with other textbooks Sommerville has also authored or co-authored numerous peer reviewed articles, papers.
References
1951 births
Academics of Heriot-Watt University
Academics of Lancaster University
Academics of the University of St Andrews
Academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Building%20XML | The Green Building XML schema (gbXML) is an open schema developed to facilitate transfer of building data stored in Building Information Models (BIMs) to engineering analysis tools. It enables interoperability between BIM and building performance simulation, which is relevant to sustainable building design and operation. gbXML is being integrated into a range of Computer-aided design (CAD) software and engineering tools, supported by leading 3D BIM vendors. The streamlined workflow can transfer building properties to and from engineering analysis tools, which eliminates the duplicate model generation and allows a bidirectional information update.
gbXML is the underlying architecture of Autodesk's Green Building Studio commercial on-line energy analysis product, and is the main export option for energy analysis from their modeling products. It is often used for geometry data transformation, but the quality of exported models is not good. Lighting systems, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems and internal loads are often manually created by engineers in engineering analysis tools.
Architecture
gbXML is a hierarchy architecture made up of elements and attributes. Elements can have sub-elements, and attributes can help define the features of elements. Some attributes are necessary for building an element. For example, the gbXML tag, locating at the highest-level in the schema, must contain a campus element. Attributes of temperature unit and area unit are required to define the gbXML tag.
Elements
Elements are components of a system. For example, Variable Air Volume (VAV) boxes are common components of a typical HVAC system. Defining a VAV box needs both the "HydronicLoop" tag and the "AirLoop" tag under the gbXML tag.
Attributes
Attributes can help define the specialty of an element.
See also
Building information modeling (BIM)
Building performance simulation
Green building
XML schema
References
External links
Green Building XML (gbXML)
Industry-specific XML-based standards
Building engineering
Building information modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93detail%20interface | In computer user interface design, a master–detail interface displays a master list and the details for the currently selected item. The original motivation for master detail was that such a view table on old 1980s 80-character-wide displays could only comfortably show about four columns on the screen at once, while a typical data entity will have some twenty fields. The solution is that the detail shows all twenty fields and the master shows only the commonly recognised three to five that will fit on the screen in one row without scrolling.
A master area can be a form, list or tree of items, and a detail area can be a form, list or tree of items typically placed either below or next to the master area. Selecting an item from the master list causes the details of that item to be populated in the detail area.
Data model
A master–detail relationship is a one-to-many type relationship. Examples of a master-detail relationship are: a set of purchase orders and a set of line items belonging to each purchase order, an expense report with a set of expense line items or a department with a list of employees belonging to it. An application can use this master-detail relationship to enable users to navigate through the purchase order data and see the detail data for line items only related to the master purchase order selected.
See also
Form (programming)
Notes
Graphical user interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20management%20system | An order management system, or OMS, is a computer software system used in a number of industries for order entry and processing.
Electronic commerce and catalogers
Orders can be received from businesses, consumers, or a mix of both, depending on the products. Offers and pricing may be done via catalogs, websites, or [broadcast network] advertisements.
An integrated order management system may encompass these modules:
Product information (descriptions, attributes, locations, quantities)
Inventory available to promise (ATP) and sourcing
Vendors, purchasing, and receiving
Marketing (catalogs, promotions, pricing)
Customers and prospects
Order entry and customer service (including returns and refunds)
Financial processing (credit cards, billing, payment on account)
Order processing (selection, printing, picking, packing, shipping)
There are several business domains which use OMS for different purposes but the core reasons remain the same:
Telecom – To keep track of customers, accounts, credit verification, product delivery, billing, etc.
Retail – Large retail companies use OMS to keep track of orders from customers, stock level maintenance, packaging and shipping and to synchronize orders across various channels. For example, if a customer orders online and picks up in store.
Pharmaceuticals and healthcare
Automotive – to keep track of parts sourced through OEMs
Financial services
Order management requires multiple steps in a sequential process like capture, validation, fraud check, payment authorization, sourcing, backorder management, pick, pack, ship and associated customer communications. Order management systems usually have workflow capabilities to manage this process.
Financial securities
Another use for Order Management Systems is as a software-based platform that facilitates and manages the order execution of securities, typically through the FIX protocol. Order Management Systems, sometimes known in the financial markets as Trade Order Management Systems, are used on both the buy-side and the sell-side, although the functionality provided by buy-side and sell-side OMS differs slightly. Typically only exchange members can connect directly to an exchange, which means that a sell-side OMS usually has exchange connectivity, whereas buy-side an OMS is concerned with connecting to sell-side firms.
Buy-side vs sell-side
An OMS allows firms to input orders to the system for routing to the pre-established destinations. They also allow firms to change, cancel and update orders. When an order is executed on the sell-side, the sell-side OMS must then update its state and send an execution report to the order's originating firm. An OMS should also allow firms to access information on orders entered into the system, including detail on all open orders and on previously completed orders. The development of multi-asset functionality is a pressing concern for firms developing OMS software.
The Order Management System supports Portfoli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsort | Spreadsort is a sorting algorithm invented by Steven J. Ross in 2002. It combines concepts from distribution-based sorts, such as radix sort and bucket sort, with partitioning concepts from comparison sorts such as quicksort and mergesort. In experimental results it was shown to be highly efficient, often outperforming traditional algorithms such as quicksort, particularly on distributions exhibiting structure and string sorting. There is an open-source implementation with performance analysis and benchmarks, and HTML documentation
.
Quicksort identifies a pivot element in the list and then partitions the list into two sublists, those elements less than the pivot and those greater than the pivot. Spreadsort generalizes this idea by partitioning the list into n/c partitions at each step, where n is the total number of elements in the list and c is a small constant (in practice usually between 4 and 8 when comparisons are slow, or much larger in situations where they are fast). It uses distribution-based techniques to accomplish this, first locating the minimum and maximum value in the list, and then dividing the region between them into n/c equal-sized bins.
Where caching is an issue, it can help to have a maximum number of bins in each recursive division step, causing this division process to take multiple steps. Though this causes more iterations, it reduces cache misses and can make the algorithm run faster overall.
In the case where the number of bins is at least the number of elements, spreadsort degenerates to bucket sort and the sort completes. Otherwise, each bin is sorted recursively. The algorithm uses heuristic tests to determine whether each bin would be more efficiently sorted by spreadsort or some other classical sort algorithm, then recursively sorts the bin.
Like other distribution-based sorts, spreadsort has the weakness that the programmer is required to provide a means of converting each element into a numeric key, for the purpose of identifying which bin it falls in. Although it is possible to do this for arbitrary-length elements such as strings by considering each element to be followed by an infinite number of minimum values, and indeed for any datatype possessing a total order, this can be more difficult to implement correctly than a simple comparison function, especially on complex structures. Poor implementation of this value function can result in clustering that harms the algorithm's relative performance.
Performance
The worst-case performance of spreadsort is O(n log n) for small data sets, as it uses introsort as a fallback. In the case of distributions where the size of the key in bits k times 2 is roughly the square of the log of the list size n or smaller (2k < (log n)2), it does better in the worst case, achieving O(n ) worst-case time for the originally published version, and O(n·((k/s) + s)) for the cache aware version. For many real sorting problems with over 1000 items, including string sorting, this as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20simplification | Text simplification is an operation used in natural language processing to change, enhance, classify, or otherwise process an existing body of human-readable text so its grammar and structure is greatly simplified while the underlying meaning and information remain the same. Text simplification is an important area of research because of communication needs in an increasingly complex and interconnected world more dominated by science, technology, and new media. But natural human languages pose huge problems because they ordinarily contain large vocabularies and complex constructions that machines, no matter how fast and well-programmed, cannot easily process. However, researchers have discovered that, to reduce linguistic diversity, they can use methods of semantic compression to limit and simplify a set of words used in given texts.
Example
Text simplification is illustrated with an example used by Siddharthan (2006). The first sentence contains two relative clauses and one conjoined verb phrase. A text simplification system aims to change the first sentence into a group of simpler sentences, as seen just below the first sentence.
Also contributing to the firmness in copper, the analyst noted, was a report by Chicago purchasing agents, which precedes the full purchasing agents report that is due out today and gives an indication of what the full report might hold.
Also contributing to the firmness in copper, the analyst noted, was a report by Chicago purchasing agents. The Chicago report precedes the full purchasing agents report. The Chicago report gives an indication of what the full report might hold. The full report is due out today.
One approach to text simplification is lexical simplification via lexical substitution, a two-step process of first identifying complex words and then replacing them with simpler synonyms. A key challenge here is identifying complex words, which is performed by a machine learning classifier trained on labeled data. Researchers, frustrated by the problems with using the classical method of asking research subjects to describe words as either simple or complex, have discovered that they can get a higher consistency in more levels of complexity if they ask labelers to sort words presented to them in order of complexity.
See also
Automated paraphrasing
Controlled natural language
Language reform
Lexical simplification
Lexical substitution
Semantic compression
Text normalization
Simplified English
Basic English
References
Wei Xu, Chris Callison-Burch and Courtney Napoles. "Problems in Current Text Simplification Research". In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), Volume 3, 2015, Pages 283–297.
Advaith Siddharthan. "Syntactic Simplification and Text Cohesion". In Research on Language and Computation, Volume 4, Issue 1, Jun 2006, Pages 77–109, Springer Science, the Netherlands.
Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Luis Tari, Joerg Hakenberg, Chitta Baral and Graciela Gonzalez. Towards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet%20%28video%20game%29 | Skynet (known in Europe as The Terminator: Skynet − stylized as SkyNET) is a computer game based on the Terminator media franchise. It was intended as an expansion pack for the predecessor The Terminator: Future Shock, but was adapted into a standalone product.
It received mostly positive reviews, praising its advanced high-resolution graphics for the time, as well as the fact that Bethesda included a multiplayer mode in contrast of its predecessor.
Gameplay
Skynet is played in the first-person perspective. Each of the eight levels in the game require the player to solve a number of objectives before continuing to the next level, while fighting enemy terminators with a wide variety of guns and grenades. Another obstacle in each level is the harsh terrain, as many areas contain too much radiation for the player character to remain alive. The terrain is navigated in three ways, 'on foot', in a jeep with a mounted cannon, or in an HK fighter (a modified terminator robot that flies). Before each mission, the player is briefed via a full-motion video cutscene.
Skynet features a deathmatch mode, which allows players to fight in a number of maps as either a human or a Terminator. Human players move quickly and silently, but are relatively fragile and can only carry lightweight weapons. Terminators, on the other hand, move slowly and make loud hydraulic noises when they walk, but are very resilient to damage and can carry heavy weapons. Players are able to change various options including time limits and the time of day.
Development
Skynet was developed by Bethesda Softworks and MediaTech West and used Bethesda's XnGine. While the majority of the game uses textured polygons to display structures and enemies, many of the items, weapons, and level decorations are still shown using older sprite technology. The game went gold on November 11, 1996.
Reception
A reviewer for Next Generation said the game fixed the problems with the "revolutionary" The Terminator: Future Shock by enabling "high resolution SVGA graphics", adding a multiplayer mode with maps designed specifically for deathmatch, and including an involved storyline. He concluded, "The sheer beauty of the game, combined with the incredible amount of flexibility of the engine, means Terminator: SkyNET could be the best first-person shooter of the new year." Scary Larry of GamePro found that the high resolution mode runs choppy even on high-end PCs, and had a more measured reaction to the game in general, concluding, "Although not as intense as Final Doom or as attitude-filled as Duke Nukem [3D], SkyNET will keep you blasting into the wee hours of the next apocalypse." He was most pleased with the mission objectives which involve riding vehicles and the intuitive, easy-to-remember controls.
References
External links
Skynet at IMDb
1996 video games
Bethesda Softworks games
Cyberpunk video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
First-person shooters
Terminator (franchise) video games
Video games devel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Choice%20Action%20Network | The Pro-Choice Action Network (Pro-CAN) is a Canadian abortion rights advocacy group based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 1987 as the BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics, the group changed to its current name in 1998. It began publishing a quarterly newsletter, The Pro-Choice Press, in 1995. Pro-CAN is the largest and longest-established abortion rights organization in British Columbia. In November 1988, it successfully opened Everywoman's Health Centre. Groups including women's health groups, the labour movement, the United Church, student groups, and health care professionals supported Pro-CAN's initiative to open Everywoman's Health Centre. This opening is of notable importance because at that time, it was illegal for free-standing clinics to offer abortion services. The group stopped its activities in 2009, except for its website, and now refers to the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada.
Lobbying and advocating
Pro-CAN lobbies and advocates for:
the availability of safe, affordable, and effective contraception, and comprehensive sex education in schools;
the government fully funding all health services relating to reproductive health in community-based clinics and hospitals, inclusive of surgical and medical abortion services;
the defeat of any law that criminalizes abortion or impedes what they say is a woman's individual right to choice and access to abortion services;
protection and enforcement of the Access to Abortion Services Act and women's safe access to abortion services in an atmosphere of dignity and respect;
the principles of the Canada Health Act of May 1998, and
provision for universal access to abortion in all regions of Canada and federal guarantee of their access.
History of abortion in Canada
1869 – abortion is made illegal in Canada. Dissemination about birth control is also made illegal.
1892 – Parliament enacts the first criminal code, which prohibits abortion and the sale, distribution and advertisement of birth contraception
1926 to 1947 – 4,000 to 6,000 Canadian women die as a result of bungled illegal abortions
1969-Parliament passes amendments to section 251 of the Criminal Code allowing some abortions under very restricted conditions and decriminalizing abortion. Some Canadian provinces refuse to provide abortion services and these services were generally unavailable to women living outside of major cities.
1970- The Vancouver Women's Caucus chain themselves to the Parliament Gallery in the House of Commons, closing Canadian Parliament for the first time in Canada's history.
1974-The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League is founded and becomes the first national group to promote abortion rights in Canada.
1987- The BC Coalition for Abortion clinics is founded
1990-The House of Commons passes bill C-43, which prohibits abortion unless the physician views the pregnancy as a threat to the woman's physical, mental, or psychological health; It is defeated in a vote by the Senate and abortion is now v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20bin%20Hasan%20al-Baghdadi | Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baghdadi, usually called al-Baghdadi (d. 1239 AD), was the compiler of an early Arab cookbook of the Abbasid period, كتاب الطبيخ Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (The Book of Dishes), written in 1226. The original book contained 160 recipes, and 260 recipes were later added.
Manuscripts and Turkish translations
The only original manuscript of Al-Baghdadi's book survives at Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey, and according to Charles Perry, "for centuries, it had been the favorite cook-book of the Turks". Further recipes had been added to the original by Turkish compilers at an unknown date and retitled as Kitâbü’l-Vasfi’l-Et‘ime el-Mu‘tâde, with two of its known three copies found at the Topkapı Palace Library. Eventually, Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shirwani, the physician of Murad II, prepared a Turkish translation of the book adding around 70 contemporary recipes. This translation was published in modern Turkish in 2005, whereas a modern Turkish translation of the original book (co-edited by Charles Perry) was published in 2009.
See also
Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, author of a 10th-century Arabic cookbook by the same name
References
Bibliography
A.J. Arberry, "A Baghdad cookery-book", Islamic Culture 13 (1939), pp. 21–47 and 189–214. A translation of al-Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ.
Charles Perry, A Baghdad Cookery Book (Petits Propos Culinaires), Prospect Books, 2006. . A new translation.
Iraqi male writers
1239 deaths
Arab cuisine
13th-century Arabic-language writers
13th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Writers from Baghdad
Year of birth unknown
Cookbook writers of the medieval Islamic world
Culture of the Abbasid Caliphate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20K.%20Standish | Russell K. Standish is a computational scientist based in Sydney, Australia. He was the founding director of UNSW's High Performance Computing Support Unit from 1997-2005. In 2005 he established a computational science consultancy called High Performance Coders. Since 2002, he has held an adjunct associate professorship with UNSW's School of Mathematics and Statistics. He grew up in Western Australia with 2 younger brothers, Mark (middle child) and Tony (youngest). He is married to Kim Crichton with 1 child, named Hal.
Contributions
Ensemble theories of everything
In 2006, Standish published a book Theory of Nothing that takes a look at ensemble theories of everything, a subject reinvigorated by Max Tegmark in 1997. He has also been an extensive contributor to the Everything List, an informal discussion group on these ideas, and has published several papers in the area.
Complex systems, evolutionary systems, artificial life
Standish has been a longtime contributor to the study of evolutionary systems, an important subcategory of Complex Systems research. He often uses Artificial Life models to explore evolutionary behaviour.
In 1998, he chaired Complex Systems '98, one of a series of conferences now known as the Asia Pacific Complex Systems conference.
In 2002, he chaired ALife VIII, The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.
He is the lead developer of EcoLab, an open source C++ based agent based modelling framework, as well as the Minsky visual simulation system.
Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems
Standish's PhD involved research into nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.
External links
Home page
EcoLab
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scientists from Western Australia
Researchers of artificial life |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle%20routing%20problem | The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a combinatorial optimization and integer programming problem which asks "What is the optimal set of routes for a fleet of vehicles to traverse in order to deliver to a given set of customers?" It generalises the travelling salesman problem (TSP). It first appeared in a paper by George Dantzig and John Ramser in 1959, in which the first algorithmic approach was written and was applied to petrol deliveries. Often, the context is that of delivering goods located at a central depot to customers who have placed orders for such goods. The objective of the VRP is to minimize the total route cost. In 1964, Clarke and Wright improved on Dantzig and Ramser's approach using an effective greedy algorithm called the savings algorithm.
Determining the optimal solution to VRP is NP-hard, so the size of problems that can be optimally solved using mathematical programming or combinatorial optimization may be limited. Therefore, commercial solvers tend to use heuristics due to the size and frequency of real world VRPs they need to solve.
VRP has many direct applications in industry. Vendors of VRP routing tools often claim that they can offer cost savings of 5%–30%.
Setting up the problem
The VRP concerns the service of a delivery company. How things are delivered from one or more depots which has a given set of home vehicles and operated by a set of drivers who can move on a given road network to a set of customers. It asks for a determination of a set of routes, S, (one route for each vehicle that must start and finish at its own depot) such that all customers' requirements and operational constraints are satisfied and the global transportation cost is minimized. This cost may be monetary, distance or otherwise.
The road network can be described using a graph where the arcs are roads and vertices are junctions between them. The arcs may be directed or undirected due to the possible presence of one way streets or different costs in each direction. Each arc has an associated cost which is generally its length or travel time which may be dependent on vehicle type.
To know the global cost of each route, the travel cost and the travel time between each customer and the depot must be known. To do this our original graph is transformed into one where the vertices are the customers and depot, and the arcs are the roads between them. The cost on each arc is the lowest cost between the two points on the original road network. This is easy to do as shortest path problems are relatively easy to solve. This transforms the sparse original graph into a complete graph. For each pair of vertices i and j, there exists an arc (i,j) of the complete graph whose cost is written as and is defined to be the cost of shortest path from i to j. The travel time is the sum of the travel times of the arcs on the shortest path from i to j on the original road graph.
Sometimes it is impossible to satisfy all of a customer's demands and in such case |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaban | () is a Philippine television public affairs show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Solita Monsod, Miriam Quiambao and Malou Mangahas, it premiered on November 8, 2006 replacing Debate with Mare at Pare. The show concluded on November 14, 2007. It was replaced by Born to Be Wild in its timeslot.
Accolades
References
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20database | A parallel database system seeks to improve performance through parallelization of various operations, such as loading data, building indexes and evaluating queries. Although data may be stored in a distributed fashion, the distribution is governed solely by performance considerations. Parallel databases improve processing and input/output speeds by using multiple CPUs and disks in parallel. Centralized and client–server database systems are not powerful enough to handle such applications. In parallel processing, many operations are performed simultaneously, as opposed to serial processing, in which the computational steps are performed sequentially. Parallel databases can be roughly divided into two groups, the first group of architecture is the multiprocessor architecture, the alternatives of which are the following:
Shared-memory architecture Where multiple processors share the main memory (RAM) space but each processor has its own disk (HDD). If many processes run simultaneously, the speed is reduced, the same as a computer when many parallel tasks run and the computer slows down.
Shared-disk architecture Where each node has its own main memory, but all nodes share mass storage, usually a storage area network. In practice, each node usually also has multiple processors.
Shared-nothing architecture Where each node has its own mass storage as well as main memory.
The other architecture group is called hybrid architecture, which includes:
Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA), which involves the non-uniform memory access.
Cluster (shared nothing + shared disk: SAN/NAS), which is formed by a group of connected computers.
in this switches or hubs are used to connect different computers its most cheapest way and simplest way only simple topologies are used to connect different computers . much smarter if switches are implemented.
Types of parallelism
Intraquery parallelismA single query that is executed in parallel using multiple processors or disks.
Independent parallelism Execution of each operation individually in different processors only if they can be executed independent of each other. For example, if we need to join four tables, then two can be joined at one processor and the other two can be joined at another processor. Final join can be done later.
Pipe-lined parallelism Execution of different operations in pipe-lined fashion. For example, if we need to join three tables, one processor may join two tables and send the result set records as and when they are produced to the other processor. In the other processor the third table can be joined with the incoming records and the final result can be produced.
Intraoperation parallelism Execution of single complex or large operations in parallel in multiple processors. For example, ORDER BY clause of a query that tries to execute on millions of records can be parallelized on multiple processors.
References
Types of databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCRP-CD | KCRP-CD (channel 41) is a low-power, Class A television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Univision affiliate KORO (channel 28). Both stations share studios on North Mesquite Street in Downtown Corpus Christi, while KCRP-CD's transmitter is located on Navigation Boulevard in western Corpus Christi.
History
The station was founded on July 31, 1986 under call sign K22BH and began broadcasting on January 2, 1991, showing music videos. On January 11, 1995, the station joined The WB upon the network's launch; on September 21, 1998, the station dropped WB programming (when cable-only "KWDB" launched) and became an independent station. On May 8, 2000, it changed the call sign to K41FO. On June 14, 2001, it became KCRP-LP and then became KCRP-CA on November 13 that year. In 2002, the station joined TeleFutura; after TeleFutura became UniMás in 2013, the station became an affiliate of the new network. On June 3, 2015, the station was licensed for digital operation and changed the call sign to the current KCRP-CD.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
UniMás network affiliates
LATV affiliates
CRP-CD
CRP-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1991
CRP
Entravision Communications stations
1991 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankai%20Broadcasting | , also known as RNB, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with Nippon News Network (NNN). Their headquarters are located in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture.
The initials come from the former name, Radio Nankai Broadcasting. The company name Nankai is related to the broadcasting area, and has no relation with the Nankai Electric Railway.
Network
TV: Nippon News Network (NNN)
RADIO: Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN)
History
In February 1953, Kochi Broadcasting planned setting up a relay station in Matsuyama. The Ehime Shimbun, the local newspaper, opposed the decision and began preparations to open the station.
August 1, 1953: Nankai Broadcasting's radio license is applied.
September 28, 1953: Nankai Broadcasting is established.
October 1, 1953: Nankai Broadcasting commences broadcasting.
October 1, 1956: Two new relay stations open, one in Niihama (JOAL, 800kc) and one in Uwajima (JOAM, 1560kc).
December 1, 1958: Television broadcasts commence (JOAF-TV, channel 10, output 5KW).
June 1, 1960: The Niihama TV relay station commences (JOAL-TV, channel 6, video output 250W, audio 63W).
December 1, 1961: A relay station in Yawatahama opens (channel 4). On the 20th, the Uwajima station opened (channel 10, video 75W, audio 18.8W).
February 1964: Relocation to the new building. RNB Radio moves on February 26, RNB TV on February 29.
October 1, 1964: Color broadcasts commence (networked programming). On the same day, a relay station in Ozu opens (channel 11).
June 1, 1965: RNB opens its first UHF relay station in Kawanoe (channel 61).
April 1, 1966: Joins the Nippon News Network, consolidating its relations with Nippon Television.
October 1, 1968: RNB broadcasts its first local color production, a documentary about people from Ehime prefecture living in other parts of Asia.
November 1, 1968: RNB started regular broadcasting of in-house local programming in color, the videotape facilities were also converted.
June 30, 1969: RNB TV stops interrupting its schedule from 4:50pm to 5:20pm.
August 10, 1969: Local news converted to color.
December 10, 1969: EBC launches as the FNN affiliate. Most of its primary programming was removed in October as part of a reoganization in anticipation for its launch.
May 12, 1970: Nankai Broadcasting exchanges footage of the Setouchi Sea Jack incident with NNN affiliate Hiroshima Telecasting.
November 23, 1978: Following the change in the AM frequency plan for stations to broadcast in fractions of 9KHz, the frequencies of the RNB stations were changed thusly: Matsuyama, Imabari and Yawatahama moved to 1116KHz, Niihama to 1557KHz.
March 15, 1980: AM stereo broadcasts are conducted.
February 21, 1988: RNB transmits the Ehime Marathon for the first time.
July 19, 1990: RNB starts dual audio broadcasting for certain shows.
October 1, 1992: With the start of ITV, the JNN affiliate, 10 TBS programs are moved to the new station.
April 1995: With the opening of Ehime Asahi Television, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling | Marshalling may refer to:
Activity
Marshalling (computer science)
Marshalling (heraldry)
Marshalling, the activity conducted in a railway marshalling yard
Marshalling area, a location in the vicinity of a reception terminal or pre-positioned equipment storage site where arriving unitpersonnel, equipment, materiel, and accompanying supplies are reassembled, returned to the control of the unit commander, and prepared for onward movement.
Aircraft marshalling
Motorsport marshaling
Marshalling, the switchgear in which the signals from the field instrumentation are collected before the connection to the DCS (grouping of I/O).
Law
Doctrine of Marshalling - an equitable concept in the law
See also
Marshal (disambiguation)
Marshall (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Alexandria | The Alexandria tramway network serves the city of Alexandria, Egypt. It began operating in 1863 and consists of 20 lines operating on of the track, serving 140 stops. It is one of only a few tram systems in the world that uses double-deck cars; other examples are Blackpool in the UK and Hong Kong. The system is a .
History
The license to build a tramway system was issued on 16 August 1860, and the first line of the network began operating in on 8 January 1863. The system was electrified in 1902. In addition to the Al Raml line, there is an extensive network of tram lines running in the streets of central and western Alexandria.
A small museum about the trams was opened at Raml station in 2017.
Fare
, the price of a single tram ride depends on the standard of the tramcar. If the tram does not have curtains (usually the last carriage), the price is £E1. For a carriage with curtains, the price is £E2. A special "Tram Café" was inaugurated in 2015, on which a fare of £E5 is charged.
Fleet
Current cars in use:
Japan Kinki Sharyo/Fuji Heavy Industries 1982 (28 cars from 2 orders)
Japan Kinki Sharyo 1975-1995 (25 cars with 6 double-decker cars)
Hungary Ganz-Mavag EMU 1985-86 (29 cars)
Egypt SEMAF (ARE) 2009 (3 cars - designed by Kinki Sharyo)
Ukraine K-1E6 (15 cars from 15 orders)
Works cars
Austria Plasser & Theurer 1990s (1 work car - track tamper)
Poland NEWAG Oberhausen 2005 (1 work car) and 1997 (1 work car)
Retired or in storage
Switzerland - Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon 1925 (1 work car and now museum piece)
Germany - Duewag GT-6 1960-66 (97 cars- second hand from Copenhagen Tramways and mostly retired)
Former Czechoslovakia - ČKD Several second-hand KT4D from Potsdam and Berlin Tramways, built by the former Czechoslovak manufacturer Tatra and acquired in 2015. These vehicles are not yet in use by 2017.
Canada/United States - Canadian Car and Foundry/St. Louis Car Company PCC - Alexandria acquired 140 used Toronto PCC streetcars in 1968, but all retired in 1984.
Source: Cairo and Alexandria Tram fleet
Tram lines
The tram transportation system in Alexandria consists of two systems:
Tram Al Ramlh
Al Ramlh trams cars are characterized by their blue and cream livery.
Route 1 serves the following stations:
Al Nasr (Victoria)
Al Seyouf
Sidi Beshr
Al Saraya
Laurent Louran
Tharwat
San Stefano
Gianaclis
Schutz (Shods)
Safar
Abou Shabana aka Baccos
Al Karnak
Al Wezara (The Ministry)
Isis Bolkly (Bulkeley)
Roushdy
Mohammed Mahfouz
Mustafa Kamil
Sidi Gaber Al Sheikh (Bus & Railway Station)
Cleopatra Hammamat (Cleopatra Baths)
Cleopatra Al Soghra
Al Reyada Al Kobra (Sporting Al Kobra)
Al Reyada Al Soghra (Sporting Al Soghra)
Al Ibrahimiyya
Al Moaskar (Camp Caesar)
Al Gamaa (The University)
Al Shatby
Al Shobban Al Moslemin
Al Shahid Moustafa Ziean
Hassan Rasim (Azarita)
Gamea' Ibrahim (Mosque of Ibrahim)
Mahattet Al Ramleh (Ramlh Station)
Route 2 serves the following stations:
Al Nasr (Victoria)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-knot | In loop quantum gravity, an s-knot is an equivalence class of spin networks under diffeomorphisms. In this formalism, s-knots represent the quantum states of the gravitational field.
External links
Living Reviews in Relativity: Loop Quantum Gravity: Diffeomorphism invariance
Loop quantum gravity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiled%20Wireless%20Markup%20Language | In networking for mobile devices, WMLC is a format for the efficient transmission of WML web pages over Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Its primary purpose is to compress (or rather tokenise) a WML page for transport over low-bandwidth internet connections such as GPRS/2G.
WMLC is apparently synonymous with Wireless Application Protocol Binary XML (WBXML).
Description
WMLC is most efficient for pages that contain frequently repeated strings of characters. Commonly used phrases such as "www." and "http://www." are tokenised and replaced with a single byte just before transmission and then re-inserted at the destination.
WMLC has an added advantage that the data can be progressively decoded unlike some compression algorithms that require all of the data to be available before decompression begins. As soon as the first few bytes of WMLC data are available, the WAP browser can start creating the page, this means the user can see the page being constructed as it is downloaded.
Content type is application/vnd.wap.wmlc.
References
Internet protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20McCallum | Nick McCallum is an Australian television and radio journalist.
As a broadcast journalist, McCallum works as a senior reporter with the Seven Network and as a part-time presenter for Melbourne radio station 3AW. He has also produced documentaries for Fox Footy.
Early days
McCallum was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and from an early age wanted to become a journalist. He is quoted as saying "News was so much more interesting than maths". During his time at Scotch he was involved in the schools sporting program and edited the school newspaper.
Television
McCallum spent part of his early career at Network Ten, reporting as part of their news bulletin.
At the Nine Network, McCallum was a senior presenter for National Nine News and Melbourne reporter for Today. He spent seven years as the United States Correspondent for National Nine News, covering five Academy Awards, the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Pat Rafter's two US Open victories and the election of George W Bush.
On his return to Australia he worked for Today, covering the Iraq war from the US Central Command in Qatar, the two Bali bombings and the London underground bombings.
In 2007, McCallum moved from the Nine Network to join the Seven News team as a reporter.
He also presents in-depth reports on the Seven Network's breakfast television program, Sunrise and opinion pieces on the Seven News website.
McCallum has also been a fill-in presenter on Seven News Melbourne.
3AW
McCallum is a contributor to 3AW's Sunday Morning presenting alongside Heidi Murphy and Darren James. He had been a fill-in presenter for 3AW morning host Neil Mitchell when he was absent. and now is a fill-in presenter on the Drive program.
He began contributing to 3AW's Afternoon program from Los Angeles in 1994.
Controversy
In December 2007, McCallum apologised to 3AW listeners, admitting that he had been hoaxed in an interview with a man who claimed to be Peter John Walker, who, in 1965, escaped from Pentridge Prison with Ronald Ryan. Ryan was the last man executed in Australia when he was hanged in 1967 for the murder of prison guard George Hodson. In the interview the man denied he or Ryan killed Hodson. The real Peter John Walker, who was released from jail in 1983, came forward after hearing the interview. McCallum, who was standing in for regular morning show presenter Neil Mitchell, apologised to listeners. The revelation brought about a torrent of talkback callers, some saying McCallum was naive and others saying he had courage to publicly admit he had made a mistake.
Personal life
McCallum is married with children and lives in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, he is a keen supporter of the Melbourne Football Club. His wife is of Greek heritage.
References
3AW presenters
Australian television journalists
Living people
Journalists from Melbourne
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayScale | Payscale is an American compensation software and data company which helps employers manage employee compensation and employees understand their worth in the job market.
History
The website was launched on January 1, 2002. It was founded by Joe Giordano and John Gaffney. Mike Metzger served as CEO from 2004 to 2019. Scott Torrey, a 20-year veteran of SAP Concur, started as CEO on August 26, 2019 and stepped down on November 16, 2021. The current CEO of PayScale is Alex Hart.
On April 24, 2014, Warburg Pincus acquired Payscale in a deal worth up to $100 million.
On April 25, 2019, Francisco Partners announced a majority investment in Payscale at an enterprise value of $325 million.
Overview
Payscale was developed to help people and businesses obtain accurate, real-time information on job market compensation. While Payscale started by crowdsourcing compensation data from employees to power its products for employers, its Software as a Service offerings have evolved to allow businesses to utilize multiple compensation data sources, including Payscale's Crowdsourced and Company Sourced offerings as well as data from other providers. Customers can also manage their employee compensation strategy and structure within the platform and perform robust compensation analytics. For employees, the service works via the Internet by enabling individuals to submit their job profile and salary data, which is then compared to others like them. They receive a free report on their market worth.
The company generates revenue by selling SaaS subscriptions, compensation data and services to employers, to aid in determining correct market rates for hiring, benchmarking and budgeting, and by targeted advertising to employees that visit its website.
Payscale surveys its users' income and background, and since 2007, it has published an annual ranking of American colleges and universities by their estimated return on investment. The rankings have been popular with the public but controversial among scholars of higher education.
Payscale puts on an annual compensation industry event called Compference and publishes original research on compensation-related topics such as the gender pay gap, college return on investment and salary history.
In 2021, Payscale merged with Payfactors, a leading competitor. The new company operates under the Payscale brand. Later that year, Payscale acquired pay equity and compensation management company CURO. In 2022, Payscale acquired Agora, a software development company focused on pay transparency and employee experience.
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External links
Online databases
Companies based in Seattle
2002 establishments in Washington (state)
Privately held companies based in Washington (state)
American companies established in 2002
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2014 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSTC | DSTC may refer to:
Dartford Science & Technology College
Distributed Systems Technology Centre, an Australian research organization
Diplomatic Security Training Center, a training center for the U.S. Mobile Security Deployment
Duluth State Teachers College, previous name of University of Minnesota Duluth
Dynamic Stability and Traction Control, an electronic stability control and traction control system from Volvo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20loop%20join | A nested loop join is a naive algorithm that joins two relations by using two nested loops. Join operations are important for database management.
Algorithm
Two relations and are joined as follows:
algorithm nested_loop_join is
for each tuple r in R do
for each tuple s in S do
if r and s satisfy the join condition then
yield tuple <r,s>
This algorithm will involve nr*bs+ br block transfers and nr+br seeks, where br and bs are number of blocks in relations R and S respectively, and nr is the number of tuples in relation R.
The algorithm runs in I/Os, where and is the number of tuples contained in and respectively and can easily be generalized to join any number of relations ...
The block nested loop join algorithm is a generalization of the simple nested loops algorithm that takes advantage of additional memory to reduce the number of times that the relation is scanned. It loads large chunks of relation R into main memory. For each chunk, it scans S and evaluates the join condition on all tuple pairs, currently in memory. This reduces the number of times S is scanned to once per chunk.
Index join variation
If the inner relation has an index on the attributes used in the join, then the naive nest loop join can be replaced with an index join.
algorithm index_join is
for each tuple r in R do
for each tuple s in S in the index lookup do
yield tuple <r,s>
The time complexity for this variation improves from
See also
Hash join
Sort-merge join
References
Join algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor%20Sandarti | Héctor Sandarti is a Guatemalan television host and actor who was the host of the Spanish-language version of Deal or No Deal (called Vas o No Vas) on the Telemundo Network in the United States. He held similar duties in 2004–2006 for a Mexican version which aired on Televisa. He also worked in Hospital el paisa with Galilea Montijo. He has also hosted "Vida TV" for the TV network as well as a Mexican version of Big Brother. Plus, he has also worked in "Fantástico Amor" with Galilea Montijo. announcing duties included Atinale al Precio (Mexico's version of The Price Is Right) in 2000 and the comedy show Objetos Perdidos.
References
External links
1968 births
Guatemalan game show hosts
Guatemalan emigrants to Mexico
People from Sacatepéquez Department
Living people
Mexican game show hosts
Guatemalan male stage actors
Guatemalan male telenovela actors
Guatemalan male television actors
21st-century Guatemalan male actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20nested%20loop | A block-nested loop (BNL) is an algorithm used to join two relations in a relational database.
This algorithm is a variation of the simple nested loop join and joins two relations and (the "outer" and "inner" join operands, respectively). Suppose . In a traditional nested loop join, will be scanned once for every tuple of . If there are many qualifying tuples, and particularly if there is no applicable index for the join key on , this operation will be very expensive.
The block nested loop join algorithm improves on the simple nested loop join by only scanning once for every group of tuples. Here groups are disjoint sets of tuples in and the union of all groups has the same tuples as . For example, one variant of the block nested loop join reads an entire page of tuples into memory and loads them into a hash table. It then scans , and probes the hash table to find tuples that match any of the tuples in the current page of . This reduces the number of scans of that are necessary.
algorithm block_nested_loop_join is
for each page pr in R do
for each page ps in S do
for each tuple r in pr do
for each tuple s in ps do
if r and s satisfy the join condition then
yield tuple <r,s>
A more aggressive variant of this algorithm loads as many pages of as can be fit in the available memory, loading all such tuples into a hash table, and then repeatedly scans . This further reduces the number of scans of that are necessary. In fact, this algorithm is essentially a special-case of the classic hash join algorithm.
The block nested loop runs in I/Os where is the number of available pages of internal memory and and is size of and respectively in pages. Note
that block nested loop runs in I/Os if fits in the available internal memory.
References
Join algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocall | A robocall is a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot. Robocalls are often associated with political and telemarketing phone campaigns, but can also be used for public service or emergency announcements. Multiple businesses and telemarketing companies use auto-dialing software to deliver prerecorded messages (appointment reminders, booking details, etc.) to millions of users. Some robocalls use personalized audio messages to simulate an actual personal phone call. The service is also viewed as prone to association with scams.
phone companies may, by default, block incoming robocalls.
History
First description
Automated phone solicitation, i.e. robocalling, was one of the earliest applications proposed for the first microcomputers. The first documented mention of it was in the "Memo from the Publisher" by David Bunnell in Personal Computing magazine, May/June 1977. Under the heading "Personal Computing Abused", Bunnell described a presentation at the World Altair Computer Convention in March 1976 of "an intriguing business application for personal computing". The computer would sequentially dial phone numbers, play a taped voice message, and then use speech recognition to respond with additional messages as appropriate. In his "Memo from the Publisher", David Bunnell reported that "the proposal was not very well received" at the conference. It was criticized as "insensitive to the rights of personal privacy" and "could cause a public uproar".
North America
Canada
Robocalls can be and are legitimately used by mainstream political parties in Canada to reach voters. Controversy surrounded the use of robocalls during the 2011 Canadian federal election, leading Elections Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate claims that robocalls were used in an attempt to dissuade voters from casting their ballot by falsely telling them their poll stations had changed locations. Elections Canada traced the origin of the automated calls to a disposable cellphone registered to a fictional name "Pierre Poutine" at a phony address from 450 area code of Joliette, Quebec, and issued a subpoena to the cellphone provider that produced a list of outgoing calls from the same number. One of the calls was to the toll-free number used by customers of 2call.ca, a subsidiary of Edmonton-based Internet Service Provider RackNine, to phone in and record their outgoing messages. The burner cell phone belonging to "Pierre Poutine" was used to contact the owner of Racknine at his personal unlisted number and gave the name "Pierre Jones". This burner phone initiated a series of automated robocalls mostly in Guelph but with a few dozen in other ridings, that targeted mostly non-Conservative voters with false voting location changes. Some voters attended what they had been led to believe were their voting locations, and sometimes destroyed their voter registration cards in anger.
In November 2011, th |
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