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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPC%20Unified%20Architecture | OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a cross-platform, open-source, IEC62541 standard for data exchange from sensors to cloud applications developed by the OPC Foundation. Distinguishing characteristics are:
Standardized data models freely available for over 60 types of industrial equipment, published by the OPC Foundation via Companion Specifications
Extensible security profiles, including authentication, authorization, encryption and checksums
Extensible security key management, including X.509, token and password
Support for both client-server and publish-subscribe communication patterns
Communication protocol independent. Mappings to several communication protocols like TCP/IP, UDP/IP, WebSockets, AMQP and MQTT are specified
Initially successful in standardized data exchange with industrial equipment (discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, energy) and systems for data collection and control, but now also leveraged in building automation, weighing and kitchen equipment and cloud applications
Open – open-source reference implementations freely available to OPC Foundation members, non members under GPL 2.0 license
Cross-platform – not tied to one operating system or programming language
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
The specification is freely available on the OPC Foundation website and is split into several parts to ease implementation, but only OPC UA stack vendors need to read them, end users simply leverage existing commercial and/or open-source stacks available in all popular programming languages
History
Although developed by the same organization, OPC UA differs significantly from its predecessor, Open Platform Communications (OPC). The Foundation's goal for OPC UA was to provide a path forward from the original OPC communications model (namely the Microsoft Windows-only process exchange COM/DCOM) that would better meet the emerging needs of industrial automation.
After more than three years of specification work and another year for a prototype implementation, the first version of the Unified Architecture was released in 2006.
The current version of the specification is on 1.04 (22 November 2017). The new version of OPC UA now has added publish/subscribe in addition to the client/server communications infrastructure.
Although the original binding to COM/DCOM helped OPC to distribute well, it had several drawbacks:
Frequent configuration issues with DCOM;
No configurable time-outs;
Microsoft Windows only;
Lower security;
No control over DCOM (COM/DCOM is kind of a black box, developers have no access to sources and therefore have to deal with bugs or insufficient implementations).
These drawbacks along with a number of other considerations pushed the decision to develop a new and independent stack for OPC UA, which replaces COM/DCOM. The main characteristics of this communication stack were:
Multi-platform implementation, including portable ANSI C, Java and .NET implementations;
Scalability: from smar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIT | OIT may refer to:
Science and technology
Computing
Operator Interface Terminal, in industrial design (see user interface)
Order-independent transparency, in computer graphics
Medicine
Oral immunotherapy, oral feeding of allergen to raise allergic threshold
Other uses in science and technology
Out of India Theory, the idea that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent
Oxidative-induction time, a standardized test which measures the level of thermal stabilization
Places
Oita Airport, Kunisaki, Oita Prefecture, Japan (by IATA airport code)
Education
Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan
Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon, United States
Oriental Institute of Technology, a university in New Taipei, Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20nationale%20sup%C3%A9rieure%20de%20m%C3%A9canique%20et%20des%20microtechniques | The École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM) is a French school of engineering. It is part of Polyméca, a network of schools focusing on mechanical engineering.
History
The school was founded in 1902 by the Université de Franche-Comté as Laboratoire de Chronométrie. In 1961, it turned to École nationale supérieure de chronométrie et micromécanique (ENSCM). Since the school is established in an area with a strong legacy on horology, ENSMM is deeply dedicated to the design and manufacturing of micro-mechanical devices and robotics.
Location
It is located in the city of Besançon, France eastern area (by car, 4 hours from Paris, 2 hours and a half from Strasbourg and 2 hours and a half from Lyon).
Curriculum
Study in France
The school educates 250 engineers every year on 6 fields:
Materials science
Mechatronics
Mechanical engineering
Micromechanics
Optoelectronics and Microelectromechanical systems
Industrial engineering
Students can choose to spend their last year within ENSMM or in one of the schools of the Polyméca network.
Study abroad
The ENSMM has concluded a partnership with several universities worldwide:
Technische Universität, Vienne, Austria
Institut National d’Informatique, Alger, Algeria
Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Universidade Polytechnique, São Paulo, Brazil
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Canada
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany
Université des Sciences et Techniques de Bucarest, Hungaria
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Rabat Morocco
Université Technique, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Université Valahia, Targoviste, Romania
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscou, Russia
Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia
Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Escola Tecnica Superior d’Enginyeria Barcelona, Spain
University of Oviedo, Spain
University of Vigo, Spain
University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom
Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
It also belongs to the N+i international network.
External links
Official Website of the ENSMM
Université de Franche-Comté
N+i network website
Engineering universities and colleges in France
Universities and colleges in Besançon
Besançon
Educational institutions established in 1902
1902 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polym%C3%A9ca | Polyméca is a French network of engineering schools composed of seven grandes écoles teaching engineering and mechanics.
Members
The Supméca
The SeaTech
The École d'ingénieurs ENSIL-ENSCI
The École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées de Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)
The École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique (ISAE-ENSMA)
The École nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques (ENSMM)
The École nationale supérieure d’électronique, informatique, télécommunications, mathématique et mécanique de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB-MATMECA)
References
External links
Official site
Polyméca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Broadcasting%20System | The Progressive Broadcasting System (PBS) was a short-lived radio network of the early 1950s. "[C]atering to smaller radio stations," the company had hoped to affiliate with around 1,000 radio stations in the United States which did not already have affiliation agreements with the "Big Four" national radio networks of those days: NBC, CBS, ABC, and Mutual, as well as LBS, second in size to Mutual.
Time announced the company's formation on September 4, 1950. Broadcasts began November 26, 1950.
Operation
Progressive planned to offer programming for 10 hours of the day on as many as 350 radio stations. At a press conference August 10, 1950, Progressive President Larry Finley told reporters, "Advertising will be local, except for the night programs, and there will be no network option time." The network's flagship station was KGFJ in Hollywood.
Two hundred stations were needed for the network to break even. However, only "about 100 stations" joined, and the network folded at the end of its schedule on January 31, 1951.
Organization
After "nearly two years of planning and organization," PBS had capitalization of $1,500,000 and was incorporated in California.
Executives of the network included Miller McClintock, chairman and chief executive; Larry Finley, president; Donald Withycomb, executive vice president; Edgar H. Twalmley, vice president in charge of the eastern division; Robert B. White, vice president in charge of the central division; B.B. Robinson, vice president in charge of finance; Kolin Hagar, eastern district manager; and Nat Linden, chief of production.
Programming
Billing its offerings as "The world's greatest daytime network radio programming," PBS made programming ("aimed primarily at the housewife") available to affiliates from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Programs offered were much like those of other networks, "including an array of soap operas, quiz shows, children's features, variety shows and audience participation programs."
Public service
On December 15, 1950, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed "the existence of a state of national emergency." Afterward, PBS officials sent a letter to approximately 60 agencies and departments of the federal government saying that "its program lines [would be] kept open until 11 p.m. and offering those evening hours to the government for any messages or programs which PBS can take to its member stations in support of defense and emergency activities."
Initial program lineup
The following is the lineup of programs with which PBS launched its operation.
References
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Radio stations established in 1950
Radio stations disestablished in 1951
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Norfolk%20Southern%20Railway%20lines | The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western, and the Southern Railway, it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999.
List of current lines (both owned and not owned)
Not owned- Only well known secondary lines, delivery trackage and connecting trackage that are not owned by Norfolk Southern are included in division tables; non-well known secondary lines, delivery trackage and connecting trackage not owned by Norfolk Southern are not included in division tables.
List of defunct lines
Defunct Norfolk Southern lines or lines that don't have their own employee timetablehttp://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/NS/NS%20ETTs/NS%20Dearborn%20Div%20ETT%20%231%206-1-1999.pdf Norfolk Southern Dearborn Division Employee Timetable 1999http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/NS/NS%20Train%20Orders/NS%20TO%204-11-2001x.pdf Norfolk Southern Train Orders Mansfield Station 2001
Bath Secondary- was part of NS Harrisburg Division
Bethlehem Secondary- was part of NS Harrisburg Division
Farmer's Valley Secondary- was part of NS Harrisburg Division
Linden North Wye- was part of NS Harrisburg Division
Streator Secondary- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Sterling Secondary- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Nipsco Secondary- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Junction Yard Secondary- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Bo Secondary- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Harvard Connecting Track- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Amtrak Connecting Track- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Buckeye Line- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Indianapolis District
Bradford Secondary
North Yard Branch- was part of NS Dearborn Division
Cleveland Belt Line (later known as Cleveland Belt - Line Branch)- was part of NS Lake Division
Cleveland Belt Line Bridge track- was part of NS Lake Division
Manhattan Branch- was part of NS Lake Division
Maumee Branch- was part of NS Lake Division
Toledo Maumee Connection- was part of NS Lake Division
South Bend Branch- was part of NS Lake Division, former PRR.
Fort Wayne District- was part of NS Lake Division
Federal District (or Alton Branch)- became the Alton District rail corridor.
Franklin Secondary (formerly known as Franklin Secondary Track)- was part of NS Pittsburgh Division
Harbor Connecting Track- was part of NS Pittsburgh Division
Harding Connecting Track- was part of NS Pittsburgh Division
New Castle Connecting Track- was part of NS Pittsburgh Division
Alliance—Crest District
Pitt—Wood District
Alliance Running Track
South Massillon Branch
Captina Running Track
Yellow Creek Runner
Hugo Industrial Track
Roanoke Belt Line
UM Line- portion from Mansfield, IL to Bloomington, IL (Dean) formally abandoned in 2017, was part of NS Illinois Division
Defunct Norfolk and Western lines (later Norfolk Southern)
Farmville Belt Line (sometimes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAB%20HD | LAB HD is a three-year experiment by Voom HD Networks. It is the only channel in history devoted to video art and experimental film as a continuous flow of ambient television. While it is no longer broadcasting, the channel persists as Voom HD Lab, an outreach effort on the part of its parent company, and it continues to commission pieces from artists and filmmakers.
Voom launched as a DBS (direct broadcast satellite) service in the United States in October 2003. The service offered 21 channels of high-definition video focused on niche audiences. Most of the channels were conventional offerings, but one slot was reserved for an experimental channel called MOOV HD. The channel was produced by Concrete Pictures, a design and production house in Philadelphia founded by Jeff Boortz. The intent was to produce video art for public consumption. The branding of the channel was elegant, but the content was of uneven quality, and it was derided as "the screensaver channel."
Voom assigned Ali Hossaini to serve as executive producer of the channel. He began revamping the programming with high-profile productions, notably a series of "video portraits" directed by Robert Wilson and produced by Noah Khoshbin. New strands of programming were introduced, such as Tank TV and Micro TV. The former featured public aquariums and the latter photomicroscopy in high-definition. Concrete Pictures produced a program called Space, which stitched together footage from NASA into ambient video.
Efforts to transform the channel culminated on January 1, 2004, when it was relaunched as LAB HD, with the tagline, Experiments in High Definition. Hossaini hired filmmaker Lili Chin to manage a new Outreach Program that would put high-definition gear, including cameras and a post-production facility, into the hands of selected artists. Chin succeeded in attracted a range of talent from the orbit of Anthology Film Archives. LAB HD has deep connections to Anthology Film Archives, where Lili Chin curates film programs and Ali Hossaini serves on the board of advisors.
During 2005 LAB HD productions thrived. Director Robert Wilson produced avant-garde video pieces with Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder, Jeanne Moreau, among others. Hossaini also collaborated with Sandra Antelo-Suarez of Trans Gallery on her project, Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30, a rock and roll puppet show conceived by Dan Graham. Originally staged with live puppets at Miamia Basel, a video version of the show was directed by Tony Oursler for the 2006 Whitney Biennial. The Museum of the Moving Image put LAB HD on permanent exhibit as well.
Unfortunately, LAB HD did not meet the criteria to survive as a commercial channel. It had been conceived as an ambient channel, and, in his notes, Hossaini refers to Jerry Mander's book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television as a model for the channel. The channel was a continuous flow of non-narrative images and sounds, mostly music. It was meant to provoke reflection not distracti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARC | DARC or Darc may refer to:
Acronym
DARC (gene)
Data Radio Channel
Dayton Area Rugby Club
Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club
Duke Annual Robo-Climb Competition
Durham Amateur Rowing Club
People
Daniel Darc (1959–2013), French singer
Mireille Darc (1938–2017), French model and actress
See also
Darc (film), a 2018 American thriller filme
Darcs, a distributed version control system
Dark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erpr%20l%C3%BAtandi | Erpr lútandi was according to Skáldatal the court skald of the Swedish kings Eysteinn Beli and Björn at Haugi. There are no extant poems by Erpr.
Skáldatal tells that Erpr committed the crime of killing in a sanctuary. He avoided the death penalty by composing a drápa about Saurr konungshundr.
The Landnámabók adds that he had a daughter named Lopthœna who was the wife of Bragi Boddason, another skald of king Eysteinn Beli. Lopthœna and Bragi were ancestors of Gunnlaugr ormstunga.
References
Viking Age poets
Swedish poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST%20protocol | The FAST protocol (FIX Adapted for STreaming) is a technology standard developed by FIX Protocol Ltd., specifically aimed at optimizing data representation on the network. It is used to support high-throughput, low latency data communications between financial institutions.
In particular, it is a technology standard that offers significant compression capabilities for the transport of high-volume market data feeds and ultra low latency applications.
History
Timeline
2004 Market Data optimization Working Group (“mdowg”) was formed
2005 Proof of Concept (“POC”) project
2006 FAST 1.0 released
2007 FAST 1.1 released
2009 FAST 1.2 proposed
In November 2004, Mike Cormack (then CEO Archipelago Holding) spoke at the FPL (FIX Protocol Ltd) conference in New York regarding a call for action to meet the challenges of the increased market data volumes. The increasing volumes of market data were causing delays, preventing market data from reaching traders in a timely fashion, thus disrupting their ability to trade. The classic FIX tag value format was considered to be too verbose and had a high processing overhead. A working group was formed within FPL shortly after the conference.
Current version of FAST
The approved standard is currently at version 5.0, and is used in commercially available products. There are Open Source implementations of the Protocol available.
Exchanges that have adopted FAST
NYSE Archipelago
CME Group (CME)
International Securities Exchange (ISE)
NasdaqOMX
Eurex
Xetra
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE Ltd, India)
BATS
ICAP
OPRA
B3
Nordic Growth Market (NGM)
Moscow Exchange (MOEX)
Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE, China)
Open source implementations
Source code for implementations of the FAST Specification are available from the following sources:
See also
Simple Binary Encoding is considered to be the successor to the FAST protocol
List of electronic trading protocols
References
External links
FAST protocol's official homepage and list of proof of concept sponsors.
Internet Protocol based network software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing%20data | In statistics, missing data, or missing values, occur when no data value is stored for the variable in an observation. Missing data are a common occurrence and can have a significant effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from the data.
Missing data can occur because of nonresponse: no information is provided for one or more items or for a whole unit ("subject"). Some items are more likely to generate a nonresponse than others: for example items about private subjects such as income. Attrition is a type of missingness that can occur in longitudinal studies—for instance studying development where a measurement is repeated after a certain period of time. Missingness occurs when participants drop out before the test ends and one or more measurements are missing.
Data often are missing in research in economics, sociology, and political science because governments or private entities choose not to, or fail to, report critical statistics, or because the information is not available. Sometimes missing values are caused by the researcher—for example, when data collection is done improperly or mistakes are made in data entry.
These forms of missingness take different types, with different impacts on the validity of conclusions from research: Missing completely at random, missing at random, and missing not at random. Missing data can be handled similarly as censored data.
Types
Understanding the reasons why data are missing is important for handling the remaining data correctly. If values are missing completely at random, the data sample is likely still representative of the population. But if the values are missing systematically, analysis may be biased. For example, in a study of the relation between IQ and income, if participants with an above-average IQ tend to skip the question ‘What is your salary?’, analyses that do not take into account this missing at random (MAR pattern (see below)) may falsely fail to find a positive association between IQ and salary. Because of these problems, methodologists routinely advise researchers to design studies to minimize the occurrence of missing values. Graphical models can be used to describe the missing data mechanism in detail.
Missing completely at random
Values in a data set are missing completely at random (MCAR) if the events that lead to any particular data-item being missing are independent both of observable variables and of unobservable parameters of interest, and occur entirely at random. When data are MCAR, the analysis performed on the data is unbiased; however, data are rarely MCAR.
In the case of MCAR, the missingness of data is unrelated to any study variable: thus, the participants with completely observed data are in effect a random sample of all the participants assigned a particular intervention. With MCAR, the random assignment of treatments is assumed to be preserved, but that is usually an unrealistically strong assumption in practice.
Missing at random
Missing at random (MA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATV%20Offroad%20Fury%20Pro | ATV Offroad Fury Pro is a racing video game for the PlayStation Portable, a loose port of ATV Offroad Fury 4, developed by Climax Racing and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor of ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails. The game was released on October 26, 2006 in North America (five days before ATV Offroad Fury 4 on the PlayStation 2), in Europe on June 20, 2008, and in Australia six days later.
Gameplay
ATV Offroad Fury Pro offers the same physics and vehicles as ATV Offroad Fury 4, but contains different race tracks, vehicles, and mini-games. It features both ad hoc (local area network) or Infrastructure (web) multiplayer modes. It offers tutorials in order to master the Trophy Trucks and Dune Buggies. A tutorial mode exists to help players master tricks. The MX Motocross has the same tricks as the ATVs, minus the "bicycle" trick. The championship modes offer stunt challenges, sponsor events, and races. This game also includes new vehicle classes known as snowmobiles and rally cars, which are exclusive to this game.
Eight "Classic" tracks can be unlocked for ATV Offroad Fury 4 by synchronizing both games' Save Files via USB Link. These tracks appear in previous games in the series, and must be unlocked through Pro before unlocking them in 4.
Reception
The game was met with slightly positive reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 76.86%, while Metacritic gave it 76 out of 100.
References
External links
2006 video games
MX vs. ATV
ATV Offroad Fury
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Racing video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate%20mode%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | Immediate mode is an API design pattern in computer graphics libraries, in which
the client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display, or in which
the data to describe rendering primitives is inserted frame by frame directly from the client into a command list (in the case of immediate mode primitive rendering),
without the use of extensive indirection – thus immediate – to retained resources. It does not preclude the use of double-buffering.
Retained mode is an alternative approach. Historically, retained mode has been the dominant style in GUI libraries; however, both can coexist in the same library and are not necessarily exclusive in practice.
Overview
In immediate mode, the scene (complete object model of the rendering primitives) is retained in the memory space of the client, instead of the graphics library. This implies that in an immediate mode application the lists of graphical objects to be rendered are kept by the client and are not saved by the graphics library API. The application must re-issue all drawing commands required to describe the entire scene each time a new frame is required, regardless of actual changes. This method provides on the one hand a maximum of control and flexibility to the application program, but on the other hand it also generates continuous work load on the CPU.
Examples of immediate mode rendering systems include Direct2D, OpenGL
and Quartz. There are some immediate mode GUIs that are particularly suitable when used in conjunction with immediate mode rendering systems.
Immediate mode primitive rendering
Primitive vertex attribute data may be inserted frame by frame into a command buffer by a rendering API. This involves significant bandwidth and processor time (especially if the graphics processing unit is on a separate bus), but may be advantageous for data generated dynamically by the CPU. It is less common since the advent of increasingly versatile shaders, with which a graphics processing unit may generate increasingly complex effects without the need for CPU intervention.
Immediate mode rendering with vertex buffers
Although drawing commands have to be re-issued for each new frame, modern systems using this method are generally able to avoid the unnecessary duplication of more memory-intensive display data by referring to that unchanging data (via indirection) (e.g. textures and vertex buffers) in the drawing commands.
See also
Immediate mode GUI
Display list
Retained mode, usually contrasted with immediate mode
Scene graph
References
Computer graphics
OpenGL
DirectX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET%20Nightly%20News | BET Nightly News is the main newscast of the Black Entertainment Television network. The newscast covered national and international news stories from a black perspective.
The program ran for four years, ending in July 2005. The nightly newscast was replaced by a new format, which included hourly updates and on-line supplements.
Past anchors of the newscast included Michelle Miller and Jacque Reid. The executive producer of the program was Will J. Wright.
References
External links
BET Nightly News Names New Executive Producer
BET's Nightly News Makes Way for New Format
BET original programming
2001 American television series debuts
2000s American television news shows
2005 American television series endings
African-American news and public affairs television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Bet%20Your%20Ass | You Bet Your Ass is a Canadian game show that aired on The Comedy Network. It followed a blackjack and casino motif, with contestants answering questions on popular culture to earn points. The contestant with the most points at the end of the show was the winner.
Hosted by Canadian comedian Stewart Francis and his co-host, Sitara Hewitt, the show premiered in 2005. As of June 25, 2007, the Comedy Network dropped You Bet Your Ass from its weekday lineup, replacing it with reruns of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Reruns of You Bet Your Ass began airing in the weekday morning block on April 28, 2008 (replacing History Bites).
The series was created by Michael Geddes and Christopher Geddes of Lone Eagle Entertainment in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who are the producers of two other game shows, Game On and Inside the Box.
The show was taped at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto.
Rounds
The game was played in four rounds.
Piece of Ass
In the first round, "Piece of Ass", the three contestants are shown a category. Francis says the show's "Hit me" to reveal a category and the contestant must answer a question for 100 points. The contestant in the left podium begins the round. After seeing the category, a contestant has the option of "doubling down", to receive two questions in the category, for 200 points. However, if the contestant gets a question wrong, not only does he lose points corresponding to how much it was worth (100 normally, 200 for a double-down), but the other players have a chance to steal the question. Players are given 1000 points to begin the game. Also, one player may get a wild card instead of a category, and he must choose an opponent from whom to take 500 points if he can answer a single question.
Dirty Dozen
Round two was the "Dirty Dozen", much like the typical "lightning round" on many game shows. 12 questions were asked (4 per contestant), with a spotlight randomly falling on a contestant who must then answer directly. The correct answer to each question serves to segue to the next question. Questions are worth 500 points apiece (100 in season 1), and no points are lost on incorrect responses. In season 1, the contestant who answers was determined before Stewart read the question; however, in season 2, Stewart would read the question and then the contestant would be chosen.
Up Your Ass
Round three was "Up Your Ass". It takes the same form as round one, only with 200 or 400 points at stake, and 1000 points are again given to all players.
Ass on the Line
The final round, "Ass On The Line", presented the players with four categories. The player with the lowest score got first choice and could wager any amount up to their total on each of three successive questions in the chosen category, with a minimum bet of 500 points (100 in season 1). The round is over for players who fall below the minimum. The player who began the round in second place chose from the three remaining categories and the same structure applied, f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Daytime | CBS Daytime is a division within CBS that is responsible for the daytime television block programming on the CBS' late morning and early afternoon schedule. The block has historically encompassed soap operas and game shows.
Schedule
NOTE: All times listed are in Eastern Time Zone.
Most CBS affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones, and in Alaska and Hawaii air this schedule one hour earlier (starting at 9:00 am); local schedules may differ over all time zones.
CBS provides two separate feeds of Let's Make a Deal, at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm Eastern time (9:00 am and 2:00 pm Central time); affiliates who follow the network's master schedule have the option to air the program in either timeslot.
CBS provides an alternate feed of The Young and the Restless at 11:00 am Central time (12:00 pm Eastern); this feed is used by some stations outside of the Eastern Time Zone to accommodate their Noon hour local newscasts. CBS stations who utilize this option include network-owned WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, and affiliates KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, KMOV in St. Louis, and KIRO-TV in Seattle.
Some CBS affiliates air The Bold and the Beautiful at different times other than 1:30/12:30 PM, (e.g. KIRO-TV in Seattle, which airs the show at 2:00 PM).
Current programs
Game shows
Let's Make a Deal
Debut: October 5, 2009
Replaced program: Guiding Light
Taping location: Haven Studios, Glendale, California
Host: Wayne Brady
Announcer: Jonathan Mangum
Production Company: Marcus/Glass Entertainment in association with Fremantle/RTL Group
Producing Team: John Quinn (executive producer)
Directing/Writing Team: Lenn Goodside (director)
The Price Is Right
Debut: September 4, 1972
Replaced program: The Beverly Hillbillies
Taping location: Haven Studios, Glendale, California
Host: Drew Carey
Announcer: George Gray
Production Company: Fremantle/RTL Group
Producing Team: Evelyn Warfel (executive producer), Adam Sandler (co-executive producer), Adam Sandler (producer), Stan Blits, Sue MacIntyre (co-producers), Vanessa Voss (prize producer), Gina Edwards Nyman (associate producer)
Directing/Writing Team: Adam Sandler (director)
Soap operas
The Young and the Restless
Debut: March 26, 1973
Replaced program: Where the Heart Is
Taping location: Television City, Los Angeles, California (Stage 41 and 43)
Creators: William J. Bell, Lee Phillip Bell
Production company: Bell Dramatic Serial Company and Corday Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television
Producing team: Anthony Morina (Executive Producer), Matthew J. Olsen (Producer), Jonathan Fishman (Producer), Lisa de Cazotte (Supervising Producer), John Fisher (Supervising Producer)
Directing team: Sally McDonald, Owen Renfroe, Michael Eilbaum, Dean LaMont
Head writer: Josh Griffith
Script Editor: Matt Clifford
Associate head/breakdown/script writers: Sara A. Bibel, Beth Milstein, Natalie Minardi Slater, Jeff Beldner, Amanda L. Beall, Janice Ferri Esser, Susan Dansby, Michael Conforti, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Press | Open Source Press was a computer book publisher based in Munich, Germany. The company specialized in high-quality publications on topics related to open-source software and philosophy. It was founded in 2003 and ceased publishing activities at the end of 2015.
The manager, Markus Wirtz formerly worked as editor in chief for SUSE Press.
External links
Publisher's homepage (German)
Book publishing companies of Germany
Mass media in Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StudiVZ | StudiVZ, SchülerVZ and MeinVZ was a social networking platform for students (in particular for college and university students in Europe) and based in Berlin, Germany. The name is an abbreviation of the German expression Studentenverzeichnis, which means students' directory.
The service was largely comparable to other social networking sites. StudiVZ claimed to be one of the biggest social networks in Europe, with (reportedly) over 15 million members as of September 2009 across Europe, mostly in the German-speaking countries of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. However, traffic to the site entered a state of steady decline in late 2009. After being sold to a new Investor beginning of 2017 for around 10 Mio. the new owner Momentous Entertainment declared StudiVZ insolvent in September 2017 due to a lack of cash flow for planned products. With a second new investor, the Gerbig Ventures GmbH, VZ networks launched a new group centered platform in May 2020. In the following years the website had shifted its business model towards social gaming, but was permanently shut down in March 2022 after losing its major gaming partner in China and Russia.
History
The network was launched in November 2005, inside a flat in Berlin by two students named Ehssan Dariani (CEO) and Dennis Bemmann and was financed by founding investor Lukasz Gadowski. Since then, they have also collected an undisclosed sum of investments by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, the Samwer brothers (founders of the ringtone vendor Jamba!), and other sources. In fall 2006, similar services were launched in France (StudiQG), Italy (StudiLN), Spain (EstudiLN) and Poland (StudentIX). In February 2007, another version called SchülerVZ was launched, this time focused on secondary school students, with a reported membership around three million users. , VZ Networks claim a total userbase of over 16 million users. In February 2008, another version for non-students called meinVZ was launched.
In January 2007, StudiVZ was sold to one of its investors, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, for 85 million euros. After a massive decline in usage since late 2009, Holtzbrinck attempted to sell StudiVZ, but was not able to find any potential buyer.
In February 2012, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the VZ networks have experienced a decline in total page views by 80%. Hence, only 5.9 million of the 16 million members were active in October 2011.
From January 2011 to February 2012 the average monthly visit time has fallen steadily within the VZ networks. In the same period the main competitor Facebook benefited from constantly rising numbers.
In August 2012, Comscore counted only 591,000 unique page visitors resulting in a decrease of 76.8% as compared to the previous year.
Features
StudiVZ provided several features for its members. Students were able to keep and maintain a personal page containing information about their name, age, study subjects, interests, courses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroWorlds%20JR | MicroWorlds JR is a computer program using a simplified version of the Logo programming language to teach non-readers or early readers to program in Logo. It was first launched in 2004 by Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI), and as in their original line of MicroWorlds programs, the object on the screen begins as a turtle and can be controlled with basic commands to make it move. Differing from the Logo syntax developed by Seymour Papert and teams at MIT, MicroWorlds JR uses images to replace the command names, which are selected by the child to create turtle graphics. The turtle object can be given a variety of shapes that act as a costume for the turtle, and therefore lends itself to a variety of animations and creative stories and projects for younger students.
Constructivist Learning Theory
MicroWorlds JR supports constructivism by putting control in the hands of the student. The program allows the child to interact actively with the computer, applying logic and problem solving skills to create their own 'microworld', often through project-based learning.
Constructivists believe that:
children are innate, natural learners
all people have the desire and ability to learn
learning is a social activity
development results from interaction between students and a stimulating intellectual environment
when cognitive conflicts arise, effective learning may follow
teachers can promote development of knowledge through apprenticeship and dialogue
Constructionism and the Spirit of Logo
Seymour Papert and Idit Harel have developed Constructionist learning theory, based upon the premise that children learn best by making things, not just by doing. Being involved in the creation of that which is new enables the teacher to join students as an authentic co-learner, thereby modelling the strategies of expert learners. Working through problems enhances a child's ability to see transfer in the knowledge they have acquired, and when creating with Logo much of the learning has to do with 'debugging' the programs to see intended results, as well as the understanding of what is relevant and efficient in deciphering and creating the code (Skillen, 2003).
MicroWorlds JR involves the principles of constructionism that engage young learners:
the creation of that which is new ensures that the teacher is an authentic co-learner along with students
the role of the teacher changes from the traditional role of transmitting information to one of facilitator or guide
the construction of a concrete product not only ensures that the child will strive for something that works effectively, but it will also be available for public scrutiny, sharing, discussion and reflection
while working through authentic projects students are involved in building personally meaningful artifacts that demonstrate their knowledge
learners are diverse; they make connections with knowledge in many different ways and therefore are given a variety of choices in how to demonstrate their learning (K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20bin%20Ateyatalla%20Al%20Khalifa | Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa
() has a bachelor’s degree in Maths and Computer Science from University of Salford in Manchester, United Kingdom. Following completion of his education, he worked in the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), Bahrain, for more than 20 years. During his time at the CIO he managed a number of national projects including Government Data Network project, National Y2K project, National Smartcard project, National GIS Project and National Census project. In addition to him being the executive director for the Bahrain national charter, Census 2001 project, municipal council elections and parliament elections projects. He was made president of CIO in 2004.
Al Khalifa was assigned the seat as Minister of Cabinet Affairs in September 2005. His portfolio included the Civil Service Bureau (CSB), Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), the e-Government Authority (EGA), Telecommunications including Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Bahrain Internet Exchange (BIX) and the Bahrain Institute of Public administration (BIPA). He was heavily involved in the National Economic Strategy (NES) 2030 and was the leader for the Portfolio Office covering all programs and projects in his domain.
In 2006, he was responsible for the nationwide scandal revealed in Al Bandar report.
In 2011 Al Khalifa was appointed minister for Follow Up in the Royal Court.
References
Cisco Networkers Bahrain 2010 Keynote Session (6/6)
Cisco Networkers Bahrain 2010 Keynote Session (5/6)
External links
NEW-LOOK CABINET
Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al-Khalifa Appointed Royal Court Minister for Follow-up
Cisco Networkers Bahrain 2010
H.E. Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa Officially Opens TRA New Offices
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa
Government ministers of Bahrain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWYR%20%28AM%29 | KWYR (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Winner, South Dakota, United States. The station is currently owned by Midwest Radio Corp. and features programming from ABC Radio.
The KWYR station operates with a staff of seven full-time employees. The general manager and owner is Scott Schramm. Marsha Ray is the host of Focus 1260, a program run three times a week.
References
External links
WYR (AM) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20City%20Circle | The City Circle is a network body of mainly young Muslim professionals located in England and is a registered charity (Reg. No.1088931). On 7 November 2006, The City Circle announced that it had appointed Yahya Birt as its first director with effect from December 2006. On 3 January 2008, it announced the appointment of Usama Hasan, whose father is Suhaib Hasan, as its new director.
Projects
Current projects include a Saturday school, careers and mentoring and helping London's homeless.
British Muslim Identity
The City Circle contributes to British Muslim Identity through its weekly discussion groups. It has also attracted controversy through policy of not aligning itself to any particular group or ideology. , where the MCB and its critics debated.
Following the veil controversy the City Circle organised a public meeting with Jack Straw, where Jack Straw defended his comments.
References
"Paying it forward", Guardian, September 7, 2007. Accessed September 26, 2007.
External links
Website of The City Circle
City Circle Saturday School website
Islamic organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover%20Angels | Undercover Angels was a 2002 Australian reality show television series produced by the Seven Network which imitated the American Charlie's Angels series. It featured champion swimmer Ian Thorpe, who acted as the mentor to three women (Jackie O, Katie Underwood and Simone Kessell) who performed good deeds for people in need. The show premiered on 12 May 2002, and it was the fifth most watched television show in that week in Australia. Overall, it averaged 1.3 million viewers in its run of eleven episodes.
The three "angels" travelled in Alfa Romeos and performed deeds such as decorating a nursery for a young couple with newborn children, and finding a replacement puppy for children whose dog had been stolen.
The series was widely panned by media critics, with The Sydney Morning Herald television critic Ruth Ritchie declaring it "the worst show in the history of the world". Thorpe, however, did not mind the criticism, remarking that he was satisfied that the show was in the minority of reality shows in which good behaviour was rewarded.
References
External links
2000s Australian reality television series
2002 Australian television series debuts
2002 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapopolis | Mapopolis has been the creator of PDA/smartphone GPS navigation software Mapopolis Navigator. Mapopolis used data from Navteq. Starting in 1999, Mapopolis first released software for the Palm OS and later added software for Pocket PC handhelds and Windows smartphones. Mapopolis created the first real-time traffic service (Mapopolis ClearRoute), which provided real-time route updates based on traffic conditions.
As of April 1, 2007, Mapopolis has discontinued sales of its consumer software. Map downloads remained available for at least one year past that date for registered users who purchased the product and still did not use up their full 1-year allowance.
Mapopolis Navigator files use a proprietary format and make it impossible for users to export their custom POIs.
Sources
Satellite navigation software
Personal digital assistant software
Navigation system companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20Prevention%20Action%20Network%20USA | The Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA) was a 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 1996 by Gerald and Elsie Weyrauch, whose 34-year-old daughter, Terri, died by suicide. SPAN USA was "dedicated to preventing suicide through public education and awareness, community action and federal, state and local grassroots advocacy."
SPAN's theme was "Opening Minds. Changing Policy. Saving Lives."
SPAN USA was the nation's only suicide prevention organization dedicated to leveraging grassroots support among suicide survivors (those who have lost a loved one to suicide) and others to advance public policies that help prevent suicide. The organization was created to raise awareness, build political will, and call for action concerning creating, advancing, implementing and evaluating a national strategy to address suicide in the United States. Since the organization was founded, grassroots volunteers and staff have worked in communities, state capitols and in Washington, DC to advance its public policy response to the problem of suicide in America.
In 2009, SPAN merged with American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to create a public policy program.
2009 SPAN USA Public Policy Priorities
SPAN USA's 2009 Federal Public Policy Priorities:
Funding for the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act programs
Reauthorization of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Veterans and Military Suicide Prevention
Additional funding for the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
Support Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Research Projects at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
2009 State Public Policy Priorities:
Establish and authorize funding for a statewide office of suicide prevention that includes at least one full-time position and directs its efforts across the life span.
Adoption by state mental health licensing boards of suicide prevention continuing education requirements.
Adoption of state laws that require educational personnel to receive suicide prevention training.
External links
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Website
Mental health support groups
Mental health organizations in Washington, D.C.
Suicide prevention
Organizations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Aggregation%20Protocol | Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) is a Cisco Systems proprietary networking protocol, which is used for the automated, link aggregation of Ethernet switch ports, known as an EtherChannel. PAgP is proprietary to Cisco Systems. A similar protocol known as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) — released by the IEEE — is an industry standard and is not tied to a specific vendor.
PAgP messages are always sent to the well-known Cisco multicast address 01-00-0C-CC-CC-CC with protocol type code 0x0104. PAgP uses the same multicast group MAC address of CDP.
Cisco implementation
PAgP can be configured on a Cisco switch to operate in three different modes:
auto - passive negotiation of the channel
desirable - active negotiation of the channel
on - no protocols are used: it assumes the other side has enabled link aggregation.
On Cisco network devices running CatOS, a single switch module may only be configured to run in either LACP or PAgP modes. Cisco devices that run IOS (native and/or non-hybrid mode boxes) support individual port configuration for LACP and are not restricted to per-module settings as with CatOS.
Limitations
A limitation of Port Aggregation Protocol is that all the physical ports in the aggregation group must reside on the same switch. Cisco's 6500 and the 4500E platforms, remove this limitation using Virtual Switching System (VSS), which allows port channels to be split between two chassis.
PAgP is not supported in Cisco Nexus Switches.
Advantages
With Port Aggregation Protocol "the line speed of an agport is the total of the line speeds of each of its physical ports." This does not automatically mean that a single transfer will use all of the aggregated interfaces bandwidth; rather, this depend on the distribution method of choice. Most Cisco switches use src/dst MAC address hash as distribution method, meaning that a single session will use the bandwidth of a single interface. Other Cisco switches uses a proprietary distribution method which enable true frame round-robin, enabling maximum link speed to be the same as the sum of the interfaces composing the aggregation group. This mean packet order can be altered, however.
Plain EtherChannel load-balancing works by having the switch assign a hash result from 0-7 based on the configured hash method (load-balancing algorithm) for the type of traffic. This hash result is commonly called a Result Bundle Hash (RBH). They are then divided out over the available links. Therefore, no single flow can exceed the speed of a physical port. However, some PagP-enabled switches can negotiate between a "maximize load balancing" and "preserve ordering" link: the former give maximum aggregated bandwidth at the expense of packet ordering, while the latter assures no packet reordering to occur but limit a single transfer to the bandwidth of a single interface.
References
External links
Cisco Systems documentation
Ethernet
Link protocols
Cisco protocols
Bonding protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Christmas%20Carol%20%282006%20film%29 | A Christmas Carol (a.k.a. A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale) is a 2006 British-German computer-animated Christmas film. It is an adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella of the same name, and was produced by BKN International and BKN New Media, and was the first release in BKN's "BKN Classic Series" anthology of computer-animated direct-to-video films.
The film was first released in the United States theatrically in select cities by Kidtoon Films on November 6, 2006. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2006 by BKN Home Entertainment, and a day later in the United States on November 21, 2006, by Genius Products.
This version casts the famous Dickens characters as anthropomorphic animals; Ebenezer Scrooge and his relatives are skunks, Bob Cratchit and his family are rabbits, the ghost of Jacob Marley is a cricket, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future are a stork, kangaroo, and walrus. This version differs from the original novella in many ways; for example, the Ghost of Christmas Future actually speaks, while in most versions he remains silent. Tiny Tim does not die in the possible future revealed to Scrooge, but instead becomes as miserly as he is.Jacob Marley is said to have been dead for two years, unlike the original in which he was dead for seven years, Scrooge's death is also different, as he drowned due to his own greed by stacking his gold until it fell on him rather than dying of natural causes and joins Marley in the afterlife. Scrooge's childhood home is also shown.
Cast
Timothy Bentinck as Narrator and Ebenezer Scrooge
Jo Wyatt as Mrs. Cratchit
Brian Bowles as Bob Cratchit
Keith Wickham as Collector for the Orphanage #1, Scrooge's Father, The Ghosts of Christmas Present and Future and Jacob Marley
Teresa Gallagher as Ghost of Christmas Past, Tiny Tim and Fan
Adam Rhys Dee as Fred
Alan Marriott as Collector for the Orphanage #2 (uncredited)
See also
List of Christmas films
List of ghost films
List of American films of 2006
Adaptations of A Christmas Carol
List of animated feature-length films
References
External links
A Christmas Carol at Big Cartoon Database
2006 films
2006 computer-animated films
Animated films based on A Christmas Carol
British Christmas films
British children's films
British computer-animated films
2000s American animated films
2000s Christmas films
2000s children's animated films
2006 direct-to-video films
Films produced by Rick Ungar
2000s English-language films
2000s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontline%20%28season%202%29 | This is a list of the 13 episodes of series two of Frontline, which first aired in 1995. In series 2, Frontline (the fictional show-within-the-show) struggles with ratings, and the network's varying attempts to heighten the ratings. The series is shot in mockumentary style. All of the show's episodes were written and directed by Rob Sitch (Mike Moore), Jane Kennedy (Brooke Vandenberg), Santo Cilauro (Geoffrey Salter) – who also did most of the camera work – and Tom Gleisner.
Cast
Main
Rob Sitch as Mike Moore, Frontline'''s anchor
Kevin J. Wilson as Sam Murphy, executive producer of Frontline Tiriel Mora as Martin di Stasio, reporter
Alison Whyte as Emma Ward, the show's producer
Jane Kennedy as Brooke Vandenberg, reporter
Anita Cerdic as Domenica Baroni, receptionist
Santo Cilauro as Geoffrey Salter, weatherman
Trudy Hellier as Kate Preston, segment producer
Pip Mushin as Stu O'Halloran, cameraman
Torquil Neilson as Jason Cotter, sound recorder
Linda Ross as Shelley Cohen, executive assistant to Sam
Recurring
Genevieve Mooy as Jan Whelan, network Head of Publicity (9 episodes)
Marcus Eyre as Hugh Tabbagh, editor (8 episodes)
Boris Conley as Elliot Rhodes, Frontline'''s "Friday Night Funnyman" (6 episodes)
Peter Stratford as Bob Cavell, Managing Director of the network (4 episodes)
Eung Aun Khor as Khor, cleaner (3 episodes)
Episodes
References
External links
Frontline website (Extremely out of date circa 1997)
Interview with Rob Sitch on the tenth anniversary of Frontline
Frontline DVDs at the ABC shop online
1995 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Park%20railway%20station | Sylvia Park railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand. Eastern Line services of the Auckland passenger network are the only regular services that stop at the station. It serves Sylvia Park mall and the surrounding suburb of Mount Wellington and has an island platform layout.
History
The original Sylvia Park station was constructed, along with five others, in 1929 on the route of the Westfield Deviation, which was being built to divert the Auckland–Westfield section of the North Island Main Trunk line (NIMT) via a flatter, faster eastern route to link up with the original NIMT tracks at Westfield Junction. The station opened to goods traffic in September of that year, and opened to all traffic in November the following year.
This station was closed during the World War II period (1940–1945), due to the American government buying the land next to the railway and using it for army sheds. The old station closed entirely in March 1983, except for a private siding.
The new Sylvia Park station was funded by the builders of the Sylvia Park Shopping Centre, located next to the station, and built by ARTNL/ARTA. It opened to the public on Monday 2 July 2007. The station cost NZ$5 million to build.
The station has a fairly high patronage, with many people travelling to shop at the Sylvia Park Shopping Centre.
The station closed in March 2023 for Stage 2 of the Rail Network Rebuild, with an expected reopening in January 2024. The Eastern Line closed between Ōtāhuhu and Britomart for major track renewal work and to prepare the Eastern Line for the opening of the City Rail Link.
Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Britomart and Manukau via Sylvia Park. The basic weekday off-peak timetable is:
3 tph to Britomart
3 tph to Manukau
Bus routes 32, 66, 74, 298 and 782 serve Sylvia Park.
See also
List of Auckland railway stations
References
External links
Auckland Transport
Rail transport in Auckland
Railway stations in New Zealand
Railway stations opened in 1930
Railway stations closed in 1986
Railway stations opened in 2007
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1930s
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 2000s
Railway stations in New Zealand closed in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Schildt | Herbert Schildt is an American computing author, programmer and musician. He has written books about various programming languages. He was also a founding member of the progressive rock band Starcastle.
Life
Schildt holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He claims he was a member of the original ANSI committee that standardized the C language in 1989, and the ANSI/ISO committees that updated that standard in 1999, and standardized C++ in 1998.
Other members of the ANSI C committee have drawn his presence in the committee and the quality of his committee efforts into question.
Schildt has written books about DOS, C, C++, C# and other computer languages. His earliest books were published around 1985 and 1986. (The book Advanced Modula-2 from 1987 says on the cover that it is his sixth book.) His books were initially published by Osborne, an early computer book publisher which concentrated on titles for the personal computer. After the acquisition of Osborne by McGraw-Hill, the imprint continued publishing Schildt's work until the imprint was subsumed completely into the larger company.
Little C
One of Schildt's most enduring projects is the Little C interpreter, which is a lengthy example of a hand-written recursive-descent parser which interprets a subset of the C language. The program was originally published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in August, 1989 entitled "Building your own C interpreter". This example was included in the books Born to Code In C (Osborne, 1989), The Craft of C (Osborne, 1992), and in a later edition of C: The Complete Reference.
Schildt's book The Art of C++ similarly features an interpreter for a language called Mini-C++. (Mini-C++ does not support the "class" keyword, although minimal and artificial support for cin and cout has been added.) There is also a BASIC interpreter called Small BASIC in Turbo C: The Complete Reference, first edition, written in C, and another in The Art of Java (2003) written in Java.
Code for all these is available for download from the McGraw Hill technical books website, under each book.
Starcastle
In addition to his work as a computer scientist, Schildt is the original multi-keyboardist for the progressive rock band Starcastle, appearing on all of the group's albums, most of which were produced from 1976-1978. His style is distinguished by extensive use of Oberheim analog sequencers to create ethereal washes of sound colors, a pioneering technique which was quite cutting-edge for the pre-digital synthesizer period. He is also featured on the band's 2007 album Song of Times.
Reception
Schildt is called "one of the world's foremost authors of books about programming" by International Developer magazine. He is featured as one of the rock star programmers in Ed Burns' book Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers. His books have sold in the millions, worldwide.
Schildt's books have a reputation for being riddled with errors. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper%20%28data%20structure%29 | A zipper is a technique of representing an aggregate data structure so that it is convenient for writing programs that traverse the structure arbitrarily and update its contents, especially in purely functional programming languages. The zipper was described by Gérard Huet in 1997. It includes and generalizes the gap buffer technique sometimes used with arrays.
The zipper technique is general in the sense that it can be adapted to lists, trees, and other recursively defined data structures.
Such modified data structures are usually referred to as "a tree with zipper" or "a list with zipper" to emphasize that the structure is conceptually a tree or list, while the zipper is a detail of the implementation.
A layperson's explanation for a tree with zipper would be an ordinary computer filesystem with operations to go to parent (often cd ..), and the possibility to go downwards (cd subdirectory). The zipper is the pointer to the current path. Behind the scenes the zippers are efficient when making (functional) changes to a data structure, where a new, slightly changed, data structure is returned from an edit operation (instead of making a change in the current data structure).
Example: Bidirectional list traversal
Many common data structures in computer science can be expressed as the structure generated by a few primitive constructor operations or observer operations. These include the structure of finite lists, which can be generated by two operations:
Empty constructs an empty list,
Cons(x, L) constructs a list by prepending or concatenating value x in front of list L.
A list such as [1, 2, 3] is therefore the declaration Cons(1, Cons(2, Cons(3, Empty))). It is possible to describe the location in such a list as the number of steps from the front of the list to the target location. More formally, a location in the list is the number of Cons operations required to reconstruct the whole list from that particular location. For example, in Cons(1, Cons(2, Cons( X, Cons(4, Empty)))) a Cons(2, L) and a Cons(1, L) operation would be required to reconstruct the list relative to position X otherwise known as Cons( X, Cons(4, Empty)). This recording together with the location is called a zipped representation of the list or a list-zipper.
To be clear, a location in the list is not just the number of Cons operations, but also all of the other information about those Cons; in this case, the values that must be reconnected. Here, these values may be conveniently represented in a separate list in the order of application from the target location. Specifically, from the context of "3" in the list [1, 2, 3, 4], a recording (commonly referred to as a 'path') could be represented as [2, 1] where Cons(2, L) is applied followed by (Cons 1, L) to reconstitute the original list starting from [3, 4].
A list-zipper always represents the entire data structure. However, this information is from the perspective of a specific location within that data structure. Con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20systems%20integration | The core idea of artificial intelligence systems integration is making individual software components, such as speech synthesizers, interoperable with other components, such as common sense knowledgebases, in order to create larger, broader and more capable A.I. systems. The main methods that have been proposed for integration are message routing, or communication protocols that the software components use to communicate with each other, often through a middleware blackboard system.
Most artificial intelligence systems involve some sort of integrated technologies, for example, the integration of speech synthesis technologies with that of speech recognition. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing discussion on the importance of systems integration as a field in its own right. Proponents of this approach are researchers such as Marvin Minsky, Aaron Sloman, Deb Roy, Kristinn R. Thórisson and Michael A. Arbib. A reason for the recent attention A.I. integration is attracting is that there have already been created a number of (relatively) simple A.I. systems for specific problem domains (such as computer vision, speech synthesis, etc.), and that integrating what's already available is a more logical approach to broader A.I. than building monolithic systems from scratch.
Integration Focus
The focus on systems' integration, especially with regard to modular approaches, derive from the fact that most intelligences of significant scales are composed of a multitude of processes and/or utilize multi-modal input and output. For example, a humanoid-type of intelligence would preferably have to be able to talk using speech synthesis, hear using speech recognition, understand using a logical (or some other undefined) mechanism, and so forth. In order to produce artificially intelligent software of broader intelligence, integration of these modalities is necessary.
Challenges & solutions
Collaboration is an integral part of software development as evidenced by the size of software companies and the size of their software departments. Among the tools to ease software collaboration are various procedures and standards that developers can follow to ensure quality, reliability and that their software is compatible with software created by others (such as W3C standards for webpage development). However, collaboration in fields of A.I. has been lacking, for the most part not seen outside the respected schools, departments or research institutes (and sometimes not within them either). This presents practitioners of A.I. systems integration with a substantial problem and often causes A.I. researchers to have to 're-invent the wheel' each time they want a specific functionality to work with their software. Even more damaging is the "not invented here" syndrome, which manifests itself in a strong reluctance of A.I. researchers to build on the work of others.
The outcome of this in A.I. is a large set of "solution islands": A.I. research has produced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICRO%20Relational%20Database%20Management%20System | The MICRO Relational Database Management System was the first large-scale set-theoretic database management system to be used in production. Though MICRO was initially considered to be an "Information Management System", it was eventually recognized to provide all the capabilities of an RDBMS. MICRO's major underpinnings and algorithms were based on the Set-Theoretic Data Structure (STDS) model developed by D. L. Childs of the University of Michigan's CONCOMP (Conversational Use of Computers) Project. MICRO featured a natural language interface which allowed non-programmers to use the system.
Implementation of MICRO began in 1970 as part of the Labor Market Information System (LMIS) project at the University of Michigan's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR). Dr. Malcolm S. Cohen was Director of the LMIS Project and was the principal innovator and designer of the original MICRO Retrieval System. Carol Easthope and Jack Guskin were the principal programmers. D.L. Childs, Vice President of Set Theoretic Information Systems (STIS) Corporation, provided continuing guidance in the use of Set-Theoretic Data Structure (STDS) data access software for MICRO. Funding came from the Office of Manpower Administration within the U.S. Department of Labor. MICRO was first used for the study of large social science data bases referred to as micro data; hence the name. Organizations such as the US Department of Labor, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and researchers from the University of Alberta, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Durham University used MICRO to manage very large scale databases until 1998.
MICRO runs under the Michigan Terminal System (MTS), the interactive time-sharing system developed at the University of Michigan that runs on IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370, and compatible mainframe computers. MICRO provides a query language, a database directory, and a data dictionary to create an interface between the user and the very efficient proprietary Set-Theoretic Data Structure (STDS) software developed by the Set-Theoretic Information Systems Corporation (STIS) of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The lower level routines from STIS treat the data bases as sets and perform set operations on them, e.g., union, intersection, restrictions, etc. Although the underlying STDS model is based on set theory, the MICRO user interface is similar to those subsequently used in relational database management systems. MICRO's data representation can be thought of as a matrix or table in which the rows represent different records or "cases", and the columns contain individual data items for each record; however, the actual data representation is in set-theoretic form. In labor market applications the rows typically represent job applicants or employees and columns represent fields such as age, sex, and income or type of industry, number of employees, and payroll.
MICRO permits users with li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Earth%2C%20White%20Earth | Red Earth, White Earth is a novel by Will Weaver, about conflicts between white farmers and native Ojibwes in northern Minnesota. The story follows Guy Pehrsson, a California computer entrepreneur who returns to Minnesota twelve years after he ran away at age eighteen. His childhood blood brother, Tom Little Wolf, is now a tribal lawyer intent on reclaiming farmlands mishandled in past treaties, lands which include the Pehrsson's homestead. The novel explores the friendship between the two throughout their boyhood and into adulthood, and finally, to their reunion.
The novel was published in 1986 by Simon & Schuster, and was produced as a CBS television movie in 1989, directed by David Greene and starring Timothy Daly, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Merasty and Alberta Watson.
1986 American novels
American novels adapted into films
American young adult novels
Novels set on farms
Novels about race and ethnicity
Novels set in Minnesota
Simon & Schuster books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra%20Rosaldo | Alessandra Rosaldo (born Alejandra Sánchez Barrero; September 11, 1971) is a Mexican actress, singer and dancer. In 2006, she was the winner of the first prize in Televisa Network's, later broadcast in Univision Bailando por un Sueño.
As an actress, she has played main and supporting roles in Mexican TV’s soap operas. She has sold over 4 million records in the Spanish-speaking world as the lead singer of her own pop music band Sentidos Opuestos as well in her solo singer career, for which she received the Lo Nuestro Award for Rock New Artist of the Year at the 16th Lo Nuestro Awards.
Biography
Born Alejandra Sánchez Barrero to Gabriela Barrero and Jaime Sánchez Rosado, she was the first of three sisters, the others being Valeria and Mariana. She studied at the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, where she learned fluent German and English, and later went on to finish her high school studies at the American School Foundation, also in Mexico City. Being the daughter of a successful pop music producer she came in contact with Studio musicians and singers since her childhood and at age 12 she began to work with her father as a studio backup Singer. In 2008, she became host of a game show on the Telefutura television network called Dame la Pista. She is married to actor and comedian Eugenio Derbez. She has one daughter with Eugenio Derbez, called Aitana Derbez, who was born in August 2014.
Career
Telenovelas
1999-2000 - Actress in a leading role as Brenda Sakal in the TV production of DKDA, a soap opera produced by Luis de Llano for Televisa, Mexico.
2001 - Guest appearance as La Flower in the TV production of Aventuras en el Tiempo (Adventures through Time), a soap opera produced by Rosi Ocampo for Televisa.
2002 - Actress in a supporting role as Karla Cancino in the TV production of Salomé, a soap opera produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa.
2003-2004 - Actress in a leading role as Paulina Almazan in the TV production Amarte es mi Pecado
2011 - Actress in a supporting role as Julia Mistral in the soap opera Ni Contigo Ni Sin Ti
References
External links
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0740946
Living people
Actresses from Mexico City
Singers from Mexico City
Mexican telenovela actresses
1971 births
21st-century Mexican singers
21st-century Mexican women singers
Women in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20Practice%20Research%20Datalink | The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is an observational and interventional research service that operates as part of the UK Department of Health. It is jointly funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research(NIHR) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). CPRD is working closely with the extensive primary care, topic specific and comprehensive NIHR research networks and with NHS Digital.
History
Value Added Information Medical Products
The programme that would develop into the current organisation was initially developed by an Essex general practitioner, Dr Alan Dean, to facilitate day-to-day management of his own general practice, in collaboration with IT staff at the BATA shoe factory in East Tilbury near to his practice. Early programmers included a Czech programmer Jan Boda. In 1987 a venture capital company was set up, named Value Added Information Medical Products Ltd (VAMP) to recruit other practices and form an information base. The early development team of three, Marcella Devenish (formerly a midwife), Philip Lee-Warren (formerly a Senior Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer), under the leadership of Kieran O'Mally, developed further the computerised system using the BOS Microcobol development environment. During this period the number of UK practices using the software product IGP (Integrated General Practice) expanded from a few hundred to over two and a half thousand. In return for anonymous Healthcare data, VAMP Ltd offered GPs the cash equivalent of GBP 500 a month in order to build the VAMP research databank for research purposes. As of 1988, the VAMP research databank comprised 57 practices and 543,100 patients. This figure was doubled to 1.2 million in 1990. One year later, 970 practices allowed VAMP to access their data, while about 1000 practices had a straightforward maintenance agreement with VAMP.
General Practice Research Database
In November 1993, its parent company was acquired by Reuters Health Information, which donated the database to the Department of Health in 1994, at which time it became General Practice Research Database (GPRD) and contained data from 650 practices (4.4 million active patients). At this time, there were two licensees of the data: Dr Alan Dean, and Professor Hershel Jick. Then the database was operated by the Office for National Statistics until 1999, at which point the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) took over. This agency became the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on 1 April 2003 following a merger with the Medical Devices Agency (MDA). Since then, use of the database has expanded within the UK and overseas. The GPRD was run as a sub-division of the MHRA.
Following initiatives by the Director, Dr John Parkinson, the utility of GPRD was dramatically enhanced by linkage to other datasets on an individual patient level. External datasets included the Hospital Episode Statistics, death certificates, the national ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedFan | SpeedFan is a system monitor for Microsoft Windows that can read temperatures, voltages and fan speeds of computer components. It can change computer fan speeds depending on the temperature of various components. The program can display system variables as charts and as an indicator in the system tray.
Fully configurable user events can be defined to execute specific actions based on system status
Hard disk support
SpeedFan also monitors S.M.A.R.T. readings for EIDE, SATA and SCSI hard disks. Starting with version 4.35, SpeedFan fully supports Areca RAID controllers. Version 4.38 added full support for AMCC/3ware SATA and RAID controllers.
Hard disk in-depth online analysis
SpeedFan offers a feature named "in-depth online analysis" that compares the hard disk's S.M.A.R.T. data to a database with statistical models of hard disks allowing early detection of potentially degraded hard disks. Messages inform the user of specific situations and problems, which Almico says is “as if a human expert had looked at the data”.
Reception
An extended review of version 4.46 in 2012 on the Silent PC Review website summarized, "The biggest drawback [to Speedfan] is it often takes a lot of work to properly configure", but continued, "Its highly customizable and incredibly powerful nature is unmatched by the competition and as a bonus, it's also free, lightweight and regularly updated with more features and better motherboard support."
The Softonic review of version 4.49 graded SpeedFan 8/10, listing it as useful, with "helpful charts to monitor performance and health", but noting that it requests administrator rights at launch, and "Can be intimidating for less tech savvy".
See also
Argus Monitor
Motherboard Monitor
System monitor
Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools
lm_sensors
hw.sensors
References
External links
Computer hardware tuning
Windows-only freeware
Hard disk software
Pascal (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20Cyber%20Command%20%28Provisional%29 | Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional) (AFCYBER (P)) was a proposed United States Air Force Major Command that existed only in provisional status. On 6 October 2008, the Air Force announced that the command would not be brought into permanent activation, and that the cyber mission would be transferred, with the standup of the Twenty-Fourth Air Force, to Air Force Space Command.
Overview
The development of AFCYBER was announced by the Secretary of the Air Force on 2 November 2006. Originally designated to stand up around Summer 2007, but pushed back to late 2008, AFCYBER was planned to draw upon the personnel resources of the 67th Network Warfare Wing as well as other resources of the Eighth Air Force. It was planned to be placed under the command of Major General William T. Lord. Former Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne summarized the mission of AFCYBER:
The aim was to develop a major command that stands alongside Air Force Space Command and Air Combat Command as the provider of forces that the President, combatant commanders and the American people can rely on for preserving the freedom of access and commerce, in air, space and now cyberspace.
On 14 August 2008, the Air Force made a statement about a pause in standing up the AFCYBER command, which was set for 1 October 2008.
The Air Force remains committed to providing full-spectrum cyber capabilities to include global command and control, electronic warfare and network defense. The Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force have considered delaying currently planned actions on Air Force Cyber Command to allow ample time for a comprehensive assessment of all AFCYBER requirements and to synchronize the AFCYBER mission with other key Air Force initiatives. The new Air Force leaders continue to make a fresh assessment of all our efforts to provide our Nation and the joint force the full spectrum of air, space, and cyberspace capabilities.
On 8 October 2008, the Air Force followed up on its previous findings and decided to place AFCYBER as a Numbered Air Force within Air Force Space Command. On Wednesday, 19 August 2009, the 24th Air Force was stood up, following an environmental impact analysis as required by law.
Bases in contention for AFCYBER Headquarters
This is the final list of Air Force bases that were in competition to host the Cyber Command headquarters, listed alphabetically by state:
Peterson AFB, Colorado
Scott AFB, Illinois
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
Offutt AFB, Nebraska
Lackland AFB, Texas
Langley AFB, Virginia
On 14 May 2009, the Air Force announced that Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, "has been selected as headquarters of the 24th Air Force, the Air Force's downgraded version of its provisional Cyber Command." However, it was also reported that "continued separate armed services cyber operations exist under a cloud of uncertainty...in light of recent reports that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is considering creation of a multi-service Cyber Command to be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio | Vizio Inc. (stylized VIZIO) is an American publicly traded company that designs and sells televisions, sound bars, viewer data, and advertising. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Irvine, California.
History
The company was founded in 2002 as V Inc. by entrepreneur William Wang and two founding employees. By 2004, Wang changed the company name to Vizio.
In 2006, the company's revenue was estimated at $700 million, and in 2007 it was estimated to have exceeded $2 billion. Vizio is known for selling its HDTVs at lower prices than its competitors.
On October 19, 2010, Vizio signed a 4-year contract to sponsor U.S. college football's annual Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California, beginning with the 2011 Rose Bowl and ending with the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game. When the Rose Bowl contract ended, Vizio signed a contract to sponsor the Fiesta Bowl making the official name the Vizio Fiesta Bowl.
In late 2014, Vizio acquired Advanced Media Research Group, Inc., the parent of entertainment website BuddyTV.
On July 24, 2015, Vizio filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $172.5 million in an initial public offering of Class A common stock; however, the IPO was never completed.
In August 2015, Vizio acquired Cognitive Media Networks, Inc, a provider of automatic content recognition (ACR). Cognitive Media Networks was subsequently renamed Inscape Data. Inscape functioned as an independent entity until the end of 2020, when it was combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast; the three divisions combining to operate as a single unit.
In November 2015, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Office of the New Jersey Attorney General brought charges against Vizio, alleging it collected non-personal information on its customers and sold it to advertisers. In February 2017, Vizio agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle the charges. Additionally, the settlement required Vizio to delete the data it had captured and update its data collection practices. After the settlement, the company only collected data from TV units that opted in through disclosures.
On July 26, 2016, Chinese electronics company LeEco announced that it would acquire Vizio for US$2 billion; however, the acquisition was canceled in April 2017.
From the year 2016 onwards, Vizio launched its SmartCast across all television sets including apps such as Netflix, YouTube and Disney+.
In 2018, Vizio launched a free streaming service called WatchFree, powered by Pluto TV, on its SmartCast platform.
As of 2021, Vizio had 527 employees across the U.S. in states including California, South Dakota, Washington, Arkansas, Minnesota, Texas, and New York. The company reported total revenue of $2.04 billion and net income of $102.5 million by the end of 2020.
Vizio was the second largest seller of flat-panel televisions in the US. the company has sold over 11 million sound bars and 80 million TVs, and has more than 12 million active SmartCast accounts.
In March 2021, Vizio file |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamartino%20method | The Yamartino method is an algorithm for calculating an approximation of the circular variance of wind direction during a single pass through the incoming data.
Background
The simple method for calculating circular variance requires two passes through the list of values. The first pass determines the circular mean of those values, while the second pass determines the variance. This double-pass method requires access to all values.
There is also a single-pass method for calculating the standard deviation, but this method is unsuitable for angular data such as wind direction. Trying to calculate angular moments by naively applying the standard formulas to angular expressions yields absurd results. For example, a dataset that measures wind speeds of 1° and 359° would average to 180°, but expressing the same data as 1° and -1° (equal to 359°) would give an average of 0°. Thus, we define circular moments by placing all measured angles on a unit circle, then calculating the moments of these points.
The Yamartino method, introduced by Robert J. Yamartino in 1984, solves both problems
A further discussion of the Yamartino method, along with other methods of estimating the standard deviation of wind direction can be found in Farrugia & Micallef.
It is possible to calculate the exact standard deviation in one pass. However, that method needs slightly more calculation effort.
Algorithm
Over the time interval to be averaged across, n measurements of wind direction (θ) will be made and two totals are accumulated without storage of the n individual values. At the end of the interval the calculations are as follows: with the average values of sin θ and cos θ defined as
Then the average wind direction is given via the four-quadrant arctan(x,y) function as
From twenty different functions for σθ using variables obtained in a single-pass of the wind direction data, Yamartino found the best function to be
where
The key here is to remember that sin2θ + cos2θ = 1 so that for example, with a constant wind direction at any value of θ, the value of will be zero, leading to a zero value for the standard deviation.
The use of alone produces a result close to that produced with a double-pass when the dispersion of angles is small (not crossing the discontinuity), but by construction it is always between 0 and 1. Taking the arcsine then produces the double-pass answer when there are just two equally common angles: in the extreme case of an oscillating wind blowing backwards and forwards, it produces a result of radians, i.e. a right angle. The final factor adjusts this figure upwards so that it produces the double-pass result of radians for an almost uniform distribution of angles across all directions, while making minimal change to results for small dispersions.
The theoretical maximum error against the correct double-pass σθ is therefore about 15% with an oscillating wind. Comparisons against Monte Carlo generated cases indicate that Yamartino's algo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Bill%20Lance | The Adventures of Bill Lance is a 30-minute radio crime drama, created by J. Donald Wilson, which aired on two networks in two runs between 1944 and 1948.
Initially heard on CBS West Coast Sundays at 9 p.m., the series began April 23, 1944, with John McIntire as Bill Lance, a detective who traveled to exotic locales. Pat McGeehan took over the role the following March until the series ended September 9, 1945. Howard McNear played Lance's pal, Ulysses Higgins. Others in the cast included Mercedes McCambridge, Cathy Lewis, Joseph Kearns and Frank Graham. The announcers were Dick Joy and Owen James. Milton Charles supplied the music. The program was sponsored by Planters peanuts.
With Gerald Mohr in the title role, the series returned on ABC June 14, 1947 (the first time it was broadcast nationwide), airing Saturdays at 9pm until August, then Mondays at 9 p.m. until September, then Sundays at 5 p.m. Produced by Dwight Hauser, with music by organist Rex Koury, this series ran until January 4, 1948.
References
External links
Thrilling Detective: Bill Lance
Network radio schedule for April 13, 1946
1940s American radio programs
American radio dramas
1944 radio programme debuts
1948 radio programme endings
CBS Radio programs
ABC radio programs
Detective radio shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer | A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. A computer system is a nominally complete computer that includes the hardware, operating system (main software), and peripheral equipment needed and used for full operation. This term may also refer to a group of computers that are linked and function together, such as a computer network or computer cluster.
A broad range of industrial and consumer products use computers as control systems. Simple special-purpose devices like microwave ovens and remote controls are included, as are factory devices like industrial robots and computer-aided design, as well as general-purpose devices like personal computers and mobile devices like smartphones. Computers power the Internet, which links billions of other computers and users.
Early computers were meant to be used only for calculations. Simple manual instruments like the abacus have aided people in doing calculations since ancient times. Early in the Industrial Revolution, some mechanical devices were built to automate long, tedious tasks, such as guiding patterns for looms. More sophisticated electrical machines did specialized analog calculations in the early 20th century. The first digital electronic calculating machines were developed during World War II. The first semiconductor transistors in the late 1940s were followed by the silicon-based MOSFET (MOS transistor) and monolithic integrated circuit chip technologies in the late 1950s, leading to the microprocessor and the microcomputer revolution in the 1970s. The speed, power and versatility of computers have been increasing dramatically ever since then, with transistor counts increasing at a rapid pace (as predicted by Moore's law), leading to the Digital Revolution during the late 20th to early 21st centuries.
Conventionally, a modern computer consists of at least one processing element, typically a central processing unit (CPU) in the form of a microprocessor, along with some type of computer memory, typically semiconductor memory chips. The processing element carries out arithmetic and logical operations, and a sequencing and control unit can change the order of operations in response to stored information. Peripheral devices include input devices (keyboards, mice, joystick, etc.), output devices (monitor screens, printers, etc.), and input/output devices that perform both functions (e.g., the 2000s-era touchscreen). Peripheral devices allow information to be retrieved from an external source and they enable the result of operations to be saved and retrieved.
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of computer was in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue read |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Wasow | Omar Tomas Wasow (born December 22, 1970) is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science. He is co-founder of the social networking website BlackPlanet.
Life
Wasow grew up in a multi-ethnic family. His father, Bernard, is of German Jewish heritage, and his mother, Eileen, is African-American. Bernard was a civil rights activist who participated in the Freedom Summer Project, which entailed registering Black voters in Mississippi. Wasow's paternal grandfather was the mathematician Wolfgang R. Wasow. Both Wolfgang Wasow and Omar Wasow's paternal grandmother are of German Jewish heritage.
Education
Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was president of the student union. He then graduated from Stanford University in California with a BA degree in race and ethnic relations.
Wasow earned a PhD in African-American studies, an MA in government and an MA in statistics, all from Harvard University.
Tech career
In 1995, Wasow was proclaimed by Newsweek as one of the "fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace."
In 1999 he created BlackPlanet, one of the first major social networking sites. In 2008, the company was sold for $38 million.
Academic career
Wasow became an assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University in 2013.
Wasow’s work centers on race and ethnic politics and social movements and protests. Published four days before the murder of George Floyd, his American Political Science Review paper on violent and nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s was widely discussed in media coverage of the George Floyd protests. Altmetric ranked the paper in the top 1% (1,000 of 18 million papers). Controversy erupted after David Shor was fired from his job at Civis Analytics, a progressive data analytics company, for tweeting a summary of Wasow’s paper.
Wasow has written commentary on the George Floyd protests and the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
In Summer 2021, Wasow became an assistant professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. In 2022, he left Pomona College to become an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science.
Personal life
In 2012, Wasow married Jennifer Brea, a documentary filmmaker he met while they were both Ph.D. students at Harvard. He appears in her documentary film Unrest about her experience living with myalgic encephalomyelitis which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Wasow's sister is the filmmaker Althea Wasow, married to the writer Paul Beatty.
Further reading
References
External links
Omarwasow.com - official website
C-SPAN Q&A interview with Wasow, December 27, 2009
1970 births
Living people
Kenyan emigrants to the United States
American financial analysts
American people of German-Jewish descent
African-American people
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Henry Crown Fellows
Stanford University alumni
Princeton University faculty
Pomona College faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%27s%20Boys | Miracle's Boys is an American drama television series produced for Noggin's teen programming block, The N. The show began production in June 2004 and first previewed on December 17, 2004, with a behind-the-scenes special called "The Making of a Mini-Series." The show made its official debut on February 18, 2005.
It is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Jacqueline Woodson. The series was directed by Spike Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Neema Barnette, Bill Duke, and LeVar Burton. It was filmed on-site in Harlem, New York, and includes a theme song by rapper Nas.
Miracle's Boys was nominated for five different categories at the 2006 Black Reel Awards, and it was the recipient of a Writers' Guild of America Award for Best Children's Script. The entire series was released to DVD in the United States on November 8, 2005. TeenNick, a channel that combined Noggin's The N with Nickelodeon's TEENick, aired reruns of Miracle's Boys throughout 2012.
Synopsis
The series follows the lives of two teenage boys and their older brother, who has to take responsibility for the boys after their parents die. The eldest Bailey brother, twenty-one-year-old Ty'ree (Pooch Hall), is a mail room manager at a publishing company. He was accepted into MIT prior to the events of the show, but declined the acceptance to raise his younger brothers. Charlie (Sean Nelson), the middle boy, has just gotten out of a juvenile detention facility and is mad at the universe. Once an avid pet lover and baseball fanatic, life behind bars has changed him. Lafayette (Julito McCullum), the youngest Bailey brother at age fourteen, loves and breathes baseball. However, his game has been out-of-sync since his mother's death. He goes on to play in a championship game, in which he faces an all-star team from Greenwich Village. The series follows the boys through the hardships of growing up on their own.
Cast
Main cast
Pooch Hall as Ty'ree
Sean Nelson as Charlie
Julito McCullum as Lafayette
Supporting cast
Jorge Posada and Tiki Barber as Baseball Coaches
Jordan Puryear as Angelina
Sasha Toro as Tamara
Nancy Ticotin as Miracle
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2000s American teen drama television series
2005 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
2000s American television miniseries
English-language television shows
The N original programming
Television shows based on American novels
Television series about brothers
Television series about orphans
Television series about teenagers
Television shows set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCHU-LD | WCHU-LD (channel 3) is a low-power television station licensed to Oakwood Hills, Illinois, United States, serving the Chicago area and primarily airing paid programming from Corner Store TV. It is owned by Venture Technologies Group alongside WRME-LD (channel 6) and WTVK (channel 59). WCHU-LD's transmitter is located atop the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Wabash Avenue north of the Chicago Loop.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
CHU-LD
Television stations in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMFS%20%28AM%29 | WMFS (680 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station located in Memphis, Tennessee. WMFS airs sports radio programming branded as "ESPN 680AM Sports Radio Memphis". The station simulcasts with WMFS-FM 92.9. WMFS is home to the Geoff Calkins Show, the Jason and John Show, the Eric Hasseltine Show, and the Gary Parrish Show. As of the 2007 baseball season, WMFS has become the home of St. Louis Cardinals broadcasts in the Memphis area. It also broadcasts Tennessee Volunteers football and basketball games.
The station's license is held by Audacy, Inc. It is one of five radio properties in the Memphis market held by Audacy; the others are WLFP, WRVR-FM, WMC, and WMFS-FM. WMFS maintains studios in the Audacy complex in Southeast Memphis, and has a transmitter tower in North Memphis.
History
WGBC signed on in 1924. At that time it belonged to First Baptist Church of Memphis. The Memphis Press-Scimitar bought the station in 1937 and changed the letters to WMPS, moving it to Columbia Mutual Tower on Court Square. WMC, owned by rival paper Commercial Appeal, carried the Red Network. In the 1930s, WMPS aired broadcasts of the NBC Radio Blue Network, including Bob Hope, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, and Amos and Andy. Local programming on WMPS included country and western music (often called "Hillbilly" music). Kay Starr and Eddy Arnold gave some of their earliest performances on WMPS, which also aired The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill and Charlie Monroe, and Bob Wills. "Smiling" Eddie Hill of The Grand Ole Opry went to work at WMPS in 1947, leading the house band that included Ira and Charlie Louvin, who wrote songs for Bill Monroe, Emmylou Harris, James Taylor, Mark Knopfler, Alison Krauss and Ray Charles. Johnny Cash later recalled hearing the Eddie Hill band featuring the Louvin Brothers on the radio, and program director Bob Neal played his "Hey Porter" and "Cry! Cry! Cry!" in 1955. Sonny James later led another band which performed on WMPS.
Plough, Incorporated bought WMPS in 1948, and Radio Center was finished in 1949 and later used for WDIA. WMPS also switched to ABC Radio.
Eddie Hill returned to WSM in 1951 and Charlie Louvin served in The Korean War, but Ira Louvin stayed at WMPS as a DJ. The Blackwood Brothers performed on WMPS until the station switched to Top 40 in 1954. By that time, Elvis Presley had already heard the Blackwood Brothers on the radio and had become a fan. Neal continued a country and western show. When Neal left, WMPS and competing Top 40 WHBQ were the no. 1 and no. 2 stations in Memphis for the next 15 years, but radio had changed. Top 40 DJs were different, and they could not play just any song. They had to go by what was actually selling.
Later, though, WMPS began to emphasize personalities once again. WMPS soon played the "Memphis Sound" of blues, soul and funk Roy Mack worked with the Devilles and changed their names to The Box Tops. Another WMPS DJ who became well known was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QIK | QIK (Qantas Intelligent Keypad) is an intelligent airline agent application first developed in the late 1980s as a front end to mainframe computer reservations systems.
QIK was designed & developed by a startup within Qantas Airways called Qadrant, as a productivity tool for use in the airline's reservation call centres. The Q.I.K. acronym was derived from its use of a separate keypad attached to the keyboard. The keys on the keypad acted as function keys. In later versions the physical keyboard was disposed of and replaced with a logical keypad represented as a quadrant on the user's screen mapped to standard QWERTY keyboard (F1-F12) function keys.
Marketed under the brands QIK, QIK-RES & QIK-CHEK these applications encapsulate airline business rules in a PC-based smart application and send the required transactions to the airline mainframe or host for processing. In doing the training time for an airline agent could be reduced from six weeks to two weeks. In addition the automation of host transactions eliminated format entry errors. This reduced the need to resend transactions and led to a reduction in mainframe usage costs for airlines.
In the early 1990s Qantas formed a joint venture operation with DMR Consulting to market QIK and other transportation IT solutions under the name of Qadrant International. In 1997 DMR Consulting purchased the remaining 49% stock of Qadrant from Qantas Airways to become the sole owner of the company. Qadrant went on to develop later versions of QIK in conjunction with Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT), at the time an AMR/American Airlines subsidiary. This joint development exercise expanded QIK from the DOS platform to the OS/2 & Windows platforms and was brought to market as QIK-II. This collaboration continued and QIK-II was migrated to the SITA's Common Use Airport platform CUTE/OS. Now the majority of QANTAS workstations use Novell's Application delivery system to deliver them an emulated version through infoconnect.
QIK-CHEK & QIK-RES are also sold as part of the TurboSabre suite by Sabre Systems. QIK applications are used by more than 70 airlines worldwide.
Airlines known to use QIK
Air Canada (transitioned to Amadeus CRS)
Air New Zealand
American Airlines
Bangkok Airways
British Airways
Caribbean Star Airlines
Caribbean Sun Airlines
Cathay Pacific Airways
Continental Airlines (transitioned to in-house developed [[EZR]])
Copa Airlines
Dragonair
EVA Airways
Finnair
Lufthansa
Qantas
Scandinavian Airlines
South African Airways
Southwest Airlines
Sun Country Airlines
Thai Airways
US Airways
References
Qantas
Travel technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld%20%28season%203%29 | Season three of Seinfeld, an American television series created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, began airing on September 18, 1991 on NBC, a U.S. broadcast television network. It comprises 23 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 6, 1992. "The Tape", "The Pen", and "The Letter" are some of the season's episodes that were inspired by the writers' own experiences. Co-creator Larry David admits that season three was a big turning point for the series in terms of how the show was made; it's where the writers started doing non linear storylines with episodes containing multiple stories. George was becoming a bigger liar, Elaine was becoming more quirky, and Kramer was becoming surer of himself throughout his crazy antics. This season received eight Emmy nominations and one Directors Guild of America Award.
The DVD boxset for season three was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in Region 1 on November 23, 2004, twelve years after it had completed broadcast on television. It was also released in Region 2 on November 1, 2004 and on October 18, 2004 in Region 4. As well as every episode from the season (minus "The Stranded" which was produced for the second season), the DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes, exclusive stand-up material, and commentaries.
Production
Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and distributed by Columbia Pictures Television and Columbia TriStar Television and was aired on NBC in the United States. The executive producers were Larry David, George Shapiro, and Howard West with Tom Gammill and Max Pross as supervising producers. Bruce Kirschbaum was the executive consultant. Tom Cherones was the main director for this season; however, some of the episodes were directed by David Steinberg, Joshua White, and Jason Alexander. This season was written by Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry Charles, Peter Mehlman, Elaine Pope, Tom Leopold, Bob Shaw, Don McEnery, Bill Masters, and Greg Daniels.
The series was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side; however, the third season was shot and mostly in filmed CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California. The show features Jerry Seinfeld as himself, Jason Alexander as George Costanza, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes, and Michael Richards as Kramer. Due to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's off-screen pregnancy, her character had to spend the latter half of this season hiding her belly behind furniture and laundry baskets. Siobhan Fallon Hogan was originally asked to reprise her role as Tina later in this season, but was performing as a cast member on season 17 of Saturday Night Live and had to refuse. Harris Shore played the role of Mr. Lippman in "The Library"; however, Richard Fancy took over the role for the remainder of the series. The Babu Bhatt character was originally scripted under the name of Vong Sim, but was later changed.
Storyline inspirations
A number of the season's episodes were inspired by th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakanoichi | is a suburb of the city of Ōita in Oita-ken, Japan, located to the southeast of the city.
Population
According to 2017 data, Sakanoichi has a population of 19,119 in 6,053 households. Although Sakanoichi is a bedroom community for jobs in populous cities like Saiki, Saganoseki, Usuki, and Oita, 28.9% of its population is 60 years old or above. Some of the elderly residents of Sakanoichi farm rice and vegetables in the area; the community is particularly well known throughout the prefecture for its garlic chives and perilla.
References
Populated places in Ōita Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealThings | IBM RealThings is a software interface design methodology proposed by IBM in 1998. Instead of using traditional computer-based elements, RealThings proposes that images of physical real-life objects are used instead. This was aimed to be more "natural and intuitive, allowing users to focus more on their tasks and less on computer artefacts".
As a demonstration IBM created RealPhone, RealCD and RealBook.
There were some indications that the examples chosen did not faithfully represent things in real life.
See also
Microsoft Bob
Skeuomorph
References
IBM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Television | , also known as itv, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the JNN. Their headquarters are located in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture.
History
26 April 1991: License awarded
1 October 1992: It was set up as the third broadcasting station of Ehime Prefecture.
1 April 1993: Sunday Morning moves to i-TV from RNB.
1 October 2002: Upon celebrating its tenth anniversary, the legal name changes from Iyo TV Corporation to i-TV Corporation.
1 October 2006: Digital terrestrial television broadcasts commenced (Matsuyama Main Station).
Stations
Analog Stations
Matsuyama (Main Station) JOEH-TV 29ch 10 kW
Niihama 27ch 1 kW, 16ch 200w
Uwajima 25ch 500w
Kikuma 50ch 100w
Ōzu 42ch 100w
Yawatahama 23ch 100w
Minamiuwa 26ch 100w
Kawanoe 26ch 30w
Nakayama 22ch 30w
Iwaki 31ch 10w
Yura 46ch 10w
Johoku 32ch 10w
Hojo 61ch 10w
Uwajima-Takamitsu 60ch 0.1w
Uwa-Masanobu 59ch 0.1w
Kawauchi 51ch 10w
Yoshida-Nakanoura 58ch 0.1w
Honai-Kiki 39ch 0.1w
Hiyoshi 54ch 10w
Uwa 38ch 10w
Matsuyama-Iwaidani 48ch 0.1w
Kuma 57ch 30w
Kuma-Sugo 50ch 0.1w
Ōzu-Yasarai 53ch 0.1w
Tsushima-Enjo 44ch 0.1w
Yoshida-Tachime 50ch 0.1w
Uwajima-Hote 49ch 0.1w
Tsushima-Arashi 38ch 0.1w
Tsushima-Yokoura 38ch 0.1w
Shirokawa 39ch 10w
Uwajima-Shimotakagushi 41ch 0.1w
Iwaki-Okogi 45ch 0.1w
Uwajima-Hota 41ch 0.1w
Mikawa 37ch 30w
Tsushima 39ch 10w
Uchiko 60ch 30w
Karakodai 62ch 1w
Asakura 19ch 0.1w
Digital Stations(ID:6)
Matsuyama(Main Station) JOEH-DTV 21ch
Programs
Catch-i - from 18:16 until 18:55 on Weekdays
Rival Stations
Nankai Broadcasting(RNB)
Ehime Broadcasting(EBC)
Ehime Asahi Television(eat)
External links
i-Television Homepage
Companies based in Ehime Prefecture
Japan News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Mass media in Matsuyama, Ehime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20M.%20Campbell | William (Billy) M. Campbell III was the president of Discovery Networks U.S. from May 2002 to 2007, in this role he was responsible for all aspects of the domestic television division, including programming, production, affiliate sales and marketing, advertising sales, consumer marketing, research, business development and communications.
Biography
A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Campbell is a 1982 graduate of Harvard and a 1987 graduate of the Harvard Business School (M.B.A.). He was a Rotary International Scholar.
Among his most recent achievements, Campbell led efforts to recruit Ted Koppel to the Discovery Channel for a pioneering multiyear deal in which Koppel, a 42-year veteran of network broadcasting serves as managing editor for the network and will host and produce long-form programming exclusively for the Discovery Channel.
In 2005, Campbell oversaw the Discovery Channel team on the debut of its highest-rated program since 2000, “The Flight That Fought Back.” The special told the compelling story of the 33 passengers and seven crew members on United Airlines Flight 93. Campbell has overseen the debut of several other Discovery Channel signature hit series. The channel has also recently launched a host of programming that is breaking ground in new genres and formats, such as Deadliest Catch and Dirty Jobs. Campbell is currently guiding the TLC team in the development of more than 100 programs. Campbell helped launch FitTV (formerly The Health Network) in 2004, as well as the relaunch of Discovery Home Channel (formerly Discovery Home & Leisure Channel) and the transition of Discovery Wings Channel to Military Channel in January 2005, which has resulted in significant ratings increases for the network.
Prior to joining Discovery Networks, Campbell served from 1998 as president of Miramax Television, where he was responsible for all aspects of television, including development, marketing, legal affairs and production. Previously, Campbell was executive vice president, CBS Entertainment. Before joining CBS, Campbell served as senior vice president, drama development at Warner Bros. Television. Prior to joining ABC he worked as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions department of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. in New York.
During a management overhaul in February 2007, Discovery announced Campbell was leaving the company.
On January 15, 2009, Billy Campbell was seated in the second-to-last row of US Airways Flight 1549, which was ditched in New York's Hudson River with no casualties.
References
Living people
Harvard Business School alumni
People from Greenville, South Carolina
CBS executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATPCO | The Airline Tariff Publishing Company (commonly known as ATPCO) is a privately held corporation that engages in the collection and distribution of fare and fare-related data for the airline and travel industry. ATPCO currently works with more than 400 airlines worldwide, and it supplies more than 99% of the industry’s intermediated fare data to all the major airfare pricing engines, storing over 308 million active fares in its database and managing an average of 14 million fare changes each day.
The users of ATPCO’s data are Global Distribution Systems (GDS), such as Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport, and their associated travel agents; the Central Reservation Systems (CRS) of airlines; online travel agencies (OTA) such as Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity; and other service providers in the travel industry.
In January 2020, Alex Zoghlin took over as the new President and CEO.
Locations
Based at Washington Dulles International Airport, ATPCO also has offices in New York, London, Bulgaria, Vancouver, and Singapore.
Owners
The following airlines are owners of ATPCO:
Air Canada
Air France
All Nippon Airways
American Airlines
British Airways
Delta Air Lines
Hawaiian Airlines
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
LATAM Airlines
Lufthansa German Airlines
United Airlines
History
The Air Traffic Conference of America, a body within the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), was founded in 1945 to publish passenger tariffs (fares). In 1958 it assumed publication of freight tariffs, formerly produced by Air Cargo, Inc., and in 1965 the group divested from ATA as an independent company, Airline Tariff Publishers, Inc. It was reorganized and took its current name in 1975.
In the 1980s and 1990s, ATPCO digitized the information filed on paper tariffs, automating manual processes and enabling electronic connectivity for airfares in the industry. In later decades, ATPCO has continued to automate more types of pricing and related data, such as baggage allowance and charges.
In February 2018, ATPCO acquired Routehappy. The acquisition increases ATPCO’s merchandising capabilities combining its flagship pricing data with Routehappy rich content.
A few months later, ATPCO was awarded a patent for its cacheless airline ticket pricing technology, which allows the calculation of all possible airline ticket prices, regardless of availability.
In 2022, ATPCO donated its collection of historical fares, rules, and routes to the Library of Congress, where they are now accessible to the public.
References
Companies based in Dulles, Virginia
Business services companies established in 1965
1965 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLOQ | WLOQ (96.3 FM) is a radio station that is located in Oil City, Pennsylvania, United States. It broadcasts the K-Love network and is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.
From 1993 to 2022, the station was locally owned by WKQW (1120 AM), most recently broadcasting an adult contemporary format.
History
In 1993, WKQW founder Stephen Olszowka successfully applied for an FM license, giving birth to WKQW-FM. The new station broadcast at 96.3 FM with an effective radiated power of 6,000 watts and went on the air with an oldies format, separate from WKQW's adult contemporary format (which would later become talk).
Stephen Olszowka died suddenly on February 14, 2004, at the age of fifty-four. Roughly a year after his death, his family made arrangements to sell WKQW-AM-FM to another owner, Clarion County Broadcasting. Following the takeover by William Hearst in 2005, WKQW-FM changed its format from oldies to 1980s-based adult contemporary.
In November 2018, the WKQW stations were purchased by Robert Lowe of Twilight Broadcasting, Inc; the purchase, at a price of $265,000, was consummated on February 12, 2019. The station was Twilight's first acquisition, and the company, owned by Bob Lowe, would later begin buying distressed stations in other areas of Pennsylvania, including WEEU in Reading and WXMT in Smethport, Pennsylvania. WKQW-FM maintained its programming under Lowe ownership, including a local morning show and local high school sports. Lowe acquired the logos and branding of WMSX in Buffalo, New York after that station rebranded as The Breeze at the same time.
In 2021, the Educational Media Foundation purchased WKQW-FM from Lowe for $192,000; the purchase was consummated on March 29, 2022. The call sign was changed to WLOQ on April 20, 2022, and the station was integrated into the K-Love network.
Ashley Midder, who earlier acquired WXMT, purchased the Mix 96 Web site and continues to maintain an Internet feed.
References
External links
LOQ
Radio stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Pennsylvania
K-Love radio stations
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning%20off | In American broadcast programming, "burning off" is the custom of quickly airing the remaining episodes of a television program, usually one that has already been or is planned to be cancelled, without the intent to attract a large number of viewers. In addition to airing episodes two at a time, this process may also include rescheduling the show to a lower-rated time slot, or transferring the show to a less visible sister network. A low-rated show that premiered in the early portion of the regular television season may return during the summer, only to have the final episodes "burned off."
Abandoned programs may be burned off for a number of reasons:
The program must air to meet contractual or legal requirements.
The production company needs enough first-run episodes to meet minimum requirements for broadcast syndication (though with the rise of streaming video platforms, this has become less of a concern).
Their use as "filler" is perceived as slightly more profitable than reruns or other fillers.
Burn-off definition
Up through the 1990s, contractual obligations often meant the airing of pilots for shows that were not going to be picked up, such as The Art of Being Nick, Poochinski, Heart and Soul, and Barney Miller, usually during the summer months to provide some form of 'new' programming in the technical sense of the word. In a few cases, the pilot may prove popular enough that a series is eventually commissioned; such was the case with Barney Miller and The Seinfeld Chronicles, the latter of which led to the long-running sitcom Seinfeld. Anthology series such as Love, American Style were devoted to many such failed pilots, most famously Garry Marshall's failed pilot, "New Family in Town", which was rebranded "Love and the Television Set" when aired as an episode of Love American Style; ABC ultimately changed its mind after all and picked up the series as Happy Days, itself leading to a number of pilots and spin-offs which had varying levels of success, including Laverne & Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi.
The term can also apply to programming agreements or network affiliations where the ratings strength and programming quality of a network or syndicated program declines to a point where its existence can harm a station or cable channel's further existence. For instance, MyNetworkTV, which launched in 2006 with the intention of being a broadcast network with the same programming strength of its most direct competitor The CW, has declined to a programming service merely carrying syndicated crime dramas which themselves are already widely aired otherwise on other cable networks and streaming services. Because of this, many stations have pushed its programming to the graveyard slot due to its lack of viability or even another digital subchannel. Thus, the service is being 'burned off' in a timeslot where it cannot cause further harm to the station's schedule, with the network's affiliates merely using the "My" branding to provide overall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Kleeb | Scott Michael Kleeb ( ; born August 23, 1975) is an American businessman and politician. He is the former CEO and President of Energy Pioneer Solutions, a company that created and then sold a new data-driven model for energy efficiency issues that focused on utilities and homeowners.
In 2006, he was defeated in a close race to represent Nebraska's 3rd congressional district. In 2008, he was the Democratic nominee in an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska. His wife, Jane Fleming Kleeb, is the founder of Bold Nebraska and chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party.
Early life and education
Kleeb was born in Turkey at a military hospital to parents who taught in military schools abroad. He was raised in Italy and speaks Italian fluently. He attended college at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he graduated summa cum laude; he then earned a Master's degree in international relations and a Ph.D in history from Yale University. He was also a Yale World Fellow.
Career
Kleeb has been an adjunct professor of history at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska. He is now the Chief Executive Officer of Energy Pioneer Solutions, a residential energy efficiency business located in Hastings.
Congressional campaigns
3rd Congressional District
In 2006, Kleeb, then a ranch-hand at the McGinn Ranch in Custer County, was the Democratic candidate for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district seat. The 3rd is extremely difficult to campaign in and has few unifying influences. It covers nearly , two time zones, and 68.5 of Nebraska’s 93 counties (one of which, Cherry County, is larger than the entire state of Connecticut). However, Kleeb raised more money than any other Democrat had raised in the district in decades. Overall, the race was the most expensive in the district since it assumed its current configuration in 1963.
Just before the election, polls showed Kleeb even with or ahead of his Republican opponent, state senator Adrian Smith, in a congressional district the GOP had held for 46 years. In 2004, the district gave Bush 75 percent of its votes.
As the race become more competitive than expected, it received late national attention from the House campaign committees. President George W. Bush also made an appearance in the district two days before the election to campaign for Smith — a sign that the national party was very concerned about its chances in what had long been presumed to be a very safe Republican seat.
Smith won by 10 percentage points, taking 55 percent of the vote to Kleeb's 45 percent. This was the closest a Democrat had come to winning the district in 16 years, and only the third time a Democrat had come reasonably close to winning this district in its current configuration. Besides Bush's 11th-hour visit, Smith likely rode the coattails of Governor Dave Heineman, who won many of the counties in this district by 80 percent or more in his bid for a full term.
In April 2007, state investigators were still working to d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerian | is a 1987 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom as the fifth installment in the Dragon Slayer line of games. Originally released for the PC-8801 Personal Computer, it has since been released on a wide variety of platforms.
Gameplay
Sorcerian is a side-scrolling action-RPG. The player can create up to ten characters, from whom up to four members can be present in a party at the same time. Each character is highly customizable, with four different classes/races (fighter, wizard, elf, and dwarf) and over 60 possible jobs/occupations (ranging from clown to exorcist) available for them to perform; each has its own strengths and weaknesses, affecting the seven primary attributes (strength, intelligence, protection, magic resistance, vitality, dexterity, and karma) in different ways, as well as different equipment limitations.
The player can choose from fifteen different scenarios, or quests, to play through in the order of their choice. The party must battle enemies and perform tasks within the given levels to clear each scenario, before moving onto another scenario of their choice. The player controls the entire party at the same time, with all four members running in a line, jumping in sequence, and attacking in unison. The party members follow behind in a manner similar to the Options in the arcade shooter Gradius (1985). Sorcerian also employs class-based puzzles, such as using a high-strength character to force open doors.
All the characters have a default starting age of 16. Each time a player begins a new scenario, a year passes by, while additional time passes by in towns as a character goes through training or enchants items. The characters age at different rates depending on their race, with humans reaching old age at 60, dwarves at 100, and elves at 200. Upon reaching old age, for every year that passes, a character can die permanently at a random time. There is also an "Advance Time" to speed up the flow of time. Another new feature of Sorcerian was its episodic format that extended across various expansion packs. Besides the default fifteen scenarios that come with the game, there were a number of additional scenario packs released. The aging system was created with the additional scenario packs in mind.
Release
It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801 in 1987, and was later ported to other personal computer platforms such as the NEC PC-9801, the NEC PC-88VA, the Sharp X1 Turbo, and the MSX2, for which it was released under the title Dragon Slayer V: Sorcerian. An English version for MS-DOS was published by Sierra Entertainment in 1990, ports for the Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS and Macintosh platforms were announced, but not released.
In 1997, Falcom released Sorcerian Forever for Microsoft Windows-based PCs. In 2000, Falcom released Sorcerian Original, a remake of Sorcerian for Microsoft Windows-based PCs. In addition, console versions of Sorcerian with somewhat differing content from their PC counterparts were de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segura%20de%20la%20Sierra | Segura de la Sierra is a small village in the province of Jaén, (Spain), that belongs to the region of Sierra de Segura in eastern Andalusia.
According to data provided by Spain's national statistics agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España (INE), in 2005 there were 1,771 people living in the town, all them located in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park that includes the following villages:
Cortijos Nuevos
El Ojuelo
Carrasco
La Alberquilla
El Robledo
Rihornos
Trujala
Arroyo frío
Río Madera and Arroyo Canales
Catena
El Tobazo
El Puerto
History
The most important period for Segura de la Sierra was during the Arab occupation, when the town was called Saqura (). The village was conquered in 781 AD by Abul-Asvar who was responsible for building the several walls that surround the town. People were under the rule of the walíes serving the Córdoba kings.
After fighting between the Almohads, the Christians took the control and the king Alfonso VIII donated the village to the military Order of Santiago, many nobles and personalities were born or lived there in those days, including the poet Jorge Manrique.
After it was taken by the Castilian troops, part of its inhabitants resettled in the city of Safi, where they are known to this day by last name Shequri.
With the invasion of Napoleon's troops, the town was set on fire and most of its Archive was destroyed, losing a great part of the history of the village that will never be recovered.
Monuments
Segura de la Sierra was designated in 1972 Conjunto Histórico-Artístico.
The village offers, in essence, the same physiognomy it had in the past, reflected in its silent and beautiful streets.
The most important monument is the Mudéjar Castle, placed on top of the town and surrounded by the ancient walls.
The Fountain of Carlos V decorated with its shield is close to the Church of Nuestra Señora del Collado that has a nice painting of the Descendimiento by Gregorio Hernández and a Romanic sculpture of the Virgen de la Peña.
The old School of the Jesuitas with its plateresca façade was restored and now holds the town Council.
Finally the Arabian baths from the 11th century have also been restored and can now be visited.
Local festivities
The major local celebration is the festivity of the Virgen del Rosario between the 4 and 8 October that mixes religion and culture, those days the town had many people coming from other close villages.
During the day people enjoy the bull fightings in the Arabian square placed down the Castle and the competition of Bolos serranos. The party filled the night with much music and dancings that was typical pasodobles.
References
External links
Portal de la Sierra de Segura
Web site of Segura de la Sierra's Council
Municipalities in the Province of Jaén (Spain) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Fuse | This is a list of programs that are currently airing, or have aired in the past, on Fuse.
Current programming
These programs are seen regularly, or infrequently, as of February 2023.
Current original series
Made From Scratch (2018)
Sex Sells (2019)
Upcycle Nation
We Need to Talk About America (2019)
Reruns of ended series
Curvy Girls
Hip-Hop Houdini
Hype Up
Kickasso
Like, Share, Dimelo
Model Latina
Shine True (2021)
Struggle Gourmet
Sugar and Toys
That White People Shit
T-Pain's School of Business
True Dating Stories (2021)
Unbreakable
Acquired
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Malcolm in the Middle
My Wife and Kids
TallBoyz
Former programming
These programs are no longer airing on the channel.
Original/first-run series
Big Boy’s Neighborhood
Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce
Billy on the Street
Complex X Fuse
Crusty's Dirt Demons (2004–07)
Daily Download (2004–06)
The Daily Noise
Ex-Wives of Rock (2012-14)
Hoppus on Music
The Hustle
The Hustle After Party
IMX (Interactive Music Exchange) (2003–04)
Insane Clown Posse Theater
Kung Faux (2003–05)
Ming’s Dynasty
Metal Asylum (2005–06)
Munchies (2005–06)
No. 1 Countdown
NOFX: Backstage Passport (2008)
Pants Off Dance Off (2005–07)
Pitbull: Beyond Worldwide
Rad Girls (2007–08)
The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle West
Rock and Roll Acid Test (2008–09)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Sauce (2007–08)
Sessions@AOL (2003–04)
SKEE TV
Slave to the Metal (2005–07)
Steven's Untitled Rock Show (2004–09)
Talking Metal On Fuse (2007–09)
Transcendent
Uranium (2003–05)
Victory TV
Video on Trial
Warped Roadies
White Guy Talk Show
The Whitest Kids U' Know (2008; moved to IFC)
Acquired/syndicated programming
Beef
Cock'd Gunns
Electric Circus (2003–04)
Empire Square (2005–06)
Ergo Proxy (2006–07)
Everybody Hates Chris
The L.A. Complex
LFL Football Night
Malcolm & Eddie
Miami Ink
Ming's Dynasty (2021)
The Mindy Project
Moesha
The Parkers
The PJs
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Scrubs
Sister, Sister
Tenjho Tenge (2007–08)
V.I.P.
WTF Baron Davis
Xbox E3 Briefing (2017-2019)
Notes
References
Fuse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20of%20death | In computing, a screen of death, colloquially referred to as a blue screen of death (named after the infamous screen of death in Microsoft Windows), is an informal term for a type of a computer operating system error message displayed onscreen when the system has experienced a fatal system error. The fatal error typically results in unsaved work being lost and often indicates serious problems with the system's hardware or software. These error screens are usually the result of a kernel panic, although the terms are frequently used interchangeably. Most screens of death are displayed on an even background color with a message advising the user to restart the computer.
Notable screens of death
The Blue Screen of Death (also called BSoD, or stop error) is a common name for a screen displayed by the Microsoft Windows operating system when a critical system error occurs. By far, this is the most famous screen of death.
Black Screens of Death are used by several systems: One is a failure mode of Windows 3.x. One appears when the bootloader for Windows Vista and later fails. Also in Windows 11 previews the Blue Screen of Death was changed to black.
A Green Screen of Death is a green screen that appears on a TiVo with a message that includes the words "the DVR has detected a serious problem and is now attempting to fix it" or "A severe error has occurred". Its appearance often means that the hard drive is corrupted and it will attempt to clean up, check, and/or repair the TiVo Media File System. A Blue Screen of Death on a Windows Insider build appears as green instead of blue, starting with build 14997. A Green Screen of Death also appears on the Xbox One and PlayStation 5.
The Purple Screen of Death is used by VMware ESXi, a server virtualization product by VMware It is displayed in the event of a fatal kernel error. The screen provides error codes that can be used for debugging purposes.
The Red Screen of Death is used primarily by four different systems: One appears in early beta versions of Windows Vista, but it later became a black screen. Another was in Windows 98 beta builds and was caused by an error with the ACPI. It also appears on the Atari Jaguar if there is a loading cartridge error or a pirated cartridge is detected, marked by the roar of a jaguar and a red Atari Jaguar logo on a screen that changes color from black to red. A similar thing happens on the Sega Genesis (also known as Sega Mega Drive) if an incorrect checksum is detected. Lastly, it's shown on a PlayStation 2; and is known simply as the Red Screen of Death. It bears similarilities to the regular PlayStation 2 startup; such as the pitched-down menu screen audio and its subsequent ambient noises, alongside a faint whistle. After startup, a red screen will appear with a message saying "Please insert a PlayStation or PlayStation 2 format disc". This error can be obtained by inserting a non-compatible disk, e.g. a PC game disc or later Xbox 360 discs.
A White Screen of D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Stark | Mike Stark is an American reporter, blogger, political activist, computer programmer/developer, and graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. His work often appears at StarkReports.com, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and several other group-blogs. He was a panelist at the 2006 and 2007 Yearly Kos conventions.
Activities as a computer programmer
Mike Stark briefly worked for Matrix Intermedia Corporation (circa 2002) as a back-end developer for a proprietary content management system under the guidance of Alan Evans, Brenda Meltz-Helm, and Jeremy Bailey. Mr. Stark left the company later that same year to pursue his goal of obtaining a Juris Doctor degree.
Activities related to Calling All Wingnuts blog
Using his former blog, CallingAllWingnuts.com, as an organizing tool, Stark recruited a team of individuals willing to volunteer time calling into various conservative radio shows. The first call-in campaign was directed at Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor. It was a response to O'Reilly's creation of a petition on his website that called for the replacement of Keith Olbermann and cancellation of his show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Stark encouraged callers to tell O'Reilly how much they enjoyed Olbermann's television show. Over the course of the week, approximately 15 callers that Stark recruited were put on the air with O'Reilly. As they mentioned Olbermann's name, they were disconnected by the host, with O'Reilly threatening to send the number to "Fox security" to contact "local authorities" if they say anything "obscene or untoward."
Reporting on Senator Allen's reelection bid
In August 2006, in the immediate aftermath of George Allen's macaca incident, Stark attended a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Senator Allen was the featured speaker. At the conclusion of the Senator's speech, Stark approached the Senator and asked, "Senator Allen, given what's been in the news, some of the law students are wondering... have you ever used the word 'nigger'?"
Allen responded, "What? No..."
Stark pressed, "Never in your life?"
Allen replied, "No... No."
Stark continued, "Well, can you explain the confederate flag and the noose you kept in your office?"
Eventually Allen's staff had Stark ejected from the hotel premises and the rest of the Senator's campaign events scheduled for that day were canceled.
Stark posted the audio of the exchange at his blog.
Two months later, on October 31, 2006, Stark attended another campaign rally and asked Allen about the senator's arrest record and prevailing rumors of prior spousal abuse. A widely seen video that aired on national news programs showed Allen's campaign staffers wrestling Stark to the ground after Stark asked the Senator, "Senator Allen: did you spit on your first wife?" Later that day Stark filed a complaint with the local police department, which served search warrants to local TV stations who had recorded the incident. After review, the commonwealth' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Time%20for%20Nuts | No Time for Nuts is a 2006 American computer-animated short film from Blue Sky Studios, starring Scrat from Ice Age. Directed by Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier, it was debuted on November 21, 2006, on the DVD and Blu-ray release of Ice Age: The Meltdown. It follows Scrat on a pursuit after his acorn, which accidentally sends forward in time by a frozen time machine. No Time for Nuts was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and also won an Annie Award.
Plot
After the events of the second film and before the events of the third film, Scrat is trying to find a place to hide his acorn after he got it back, but ends up digging up a buried time machine over an ice-encased skeletal body of a human time traveler. The machine activates, stating the date that Scrat is in May 26, 20,000 B.C. While sniffing around the machine, he accidentally presses a button on it, and the machine powers up and then zaps the acorn. Scrat snarls and tries to beat up the time machine, but it zaps him too, sending him to the Middle Ages, where he finds the acorn wedged under a large rock. Scrat sees Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and decides to use it to move the rock and get back his acorn. He pulls out the sword but then finds himself under attack by a group of off-screen archers, and uses the sword to block the arrows fired by the archers. He accidentally frees the acorn in the process and takes it and the time machine and races off to find cover, only to hide in the barrel of a lit cannon. The cannon fires him into the path of hundreds of incoming arrows. The time machine zaps the acorn mid-flight and Scrat narrowly manages to activate the machine again for himself.
He materializes in the Coliseum during Ancient Rome. Scrat reaches for his acorn, but is dragged off when his tail is caught by a passing horse-drawn chariot. Scrat tries to pull his tail off, and begins to enjoy the ride just as his crotch bashes against a rock. He then finds his acorn just as a fanfare sounds. He thinks it is victory music and introduces himself to the crowd like a triumphant gladiator, proudly holding up his acorn. Then he hears the growl of a big cat coming from the large tunnel behind him. He fires the time machine again before the big cat attacks him, and lands on an ice field. He is overjoyed, thinking he is back home, but he soon sees the RMS Titanic appear out of nowhere, heading straight towards him; he is actually in April 14, 1912 A.D. and on the frozen North Atlantic, the time and location of the ship's sinking. Scrat gets pressed into the iceberg that sank the Titanic by the ship's bow, and the time machine zaps Scrat and the acorn as they fall from the iceberg, taking Scrat to the time of the first Ice Age movie, where he encounters his past self, and the two Scrats fight each other for the acorn (Manny, Sid, Diego and Roshan appear in the background watching the two fighting). The time machine is caught in the fight, and it zaps the acorn out |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronicam | Electronicam was a television recording system that shot an image on film and television at the same time through a common lens. It was developed by James L. Caddigan for the DuMont Television Network in the 1950s, before electronic recording on videotape was available. Since the film directly captured the live scene, its quality was much higher than the commonly used kinescope films, which were shot from a TV screen.
How it worked
The image passes through a lens into a beam splitter that sends half the light to a 35 mm or 16 mm camera mounted on the right side of the television camera. The other half of the light passes to the other side, through a 45-degree angle mirror and into a video camera tube. Because the camera dollies had to support two cameras—one conventional electronic "image orthicon" TV camera tube, and one 35mm motion picture camera—the system was bulky and heavy, and somewhat clumsy in operation. This made complex productions problematic. Single-stage shows, such as The Honeymooners, were relatively easy since they had few sets and generally small casts.
In the studio, when two or three Electronicam cameras were used, a kinescope system recorded the live feed (as broadcast), so the Electronicam films could later be edited to match. The audio was recorded separately, onto either a magnetic fullcoat (1952, and all later) or as an optical soundtrack negative (pre-1952).
Usage
The DuMont Television Network used Electronicams in 1955 to produce most of its studio-based programming since it had (except for occasional sports events) discontinued use of coaxial cable and microwave links to connect stations. Stations were sent films of shows for broadcast.
The "Classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners aired during the 1955–56 television season on CBS were shot with Electronicams, which meant they could be rerun on broadcast TV and eventually transferred to home video. Without Electronicams, the half-hour The Honeymooners episodes in the 1955-56 season may have been broadcast live and only exist as poor-quality kinescopes.
Also, around 1956 British producer J. Arthur Rank brought three Electronicams to the United Kingdom to experiment but eventually was disappointed with the picture quality.
The introduction of Ampex's videotape recorder in mid-1956 began to eliminate the need for Electronicam and similar systems, allowing electronic recording from live video cameras.
See also
Electronovision
External links
Chuck Pharis Electronicam web page, with many photos and diagrams.
Cinematography quotes, A Whale of a Camera!, with Jackie Gleason, by Ryan Patrick O'Hara, June 3, 2012
1955: The DuMont Electronicam (via Eyes of a Generation). May 1 2016
DuMont Television Network
Cameras by type
Television technology
The Honeymooners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Backyardigans%20episodes | The Backyardigans is a CGI-animated musical TV series created by Janice Burgess. It was written and recorded at Nickelodeon Animation Studio. The series first previewed on the Canadian network Treehouse TV with the episode "Pirate Treasure" on September 11, 2004. Its official debut on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block followed on October 11, 2004. The fourth season wrapped production in 2010 and finished airing on Nick Jr. on July 12, 2013.
The series was based upon a live-action pilot called Me and My Friends, which was filmed in 1998 at Nickelodeon Studios Florida. The episodes are listed below as ordered in the complete series collection on iTunes, DVD releases, and other digital services.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilots (1998–2001)
Season 1 (2004–2006)
Season 2 (2006–2008)
Season 3 (2008–2009)
Season 4 (2009–2013)
References
External links
Official website
The Backyardigans episode guide at About.com
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Canadian children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Nickelodeon television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Muggleton | Stephen H. Muggleton FBCS, FIET, FAAAI, FECCAI, FSB, FREng (born 6 December 1959, son of Louis Muggleton) is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London.
Education
Muggleton received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science (1982) and Doctor of Philosophy in artificial intelligence (1986) supervised by Donald Michie at the University of Edinburgh.
Career
Following his PhD, Muggleton went on to work as a postdoctoral research associate at the Turing Institute in Glasgow (1987–1991) and later an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL) (1992–1997) where he founded the Machine Learning Group. In 1997 he moved to the University of York and in 2001 to Imperial College London.
Research
Muggleton's research interests are primarily in Artificial intelligence. From 1997 to 2001 he held the Chair of Machine Learning at the University of York and from 2001 to 2006 the EPSRC Chair of Computational Bioinformatics at Imperial College in London. Since 2013 he holds the Syngenta/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair as well as the post of Director of Modelling for the Imperial College Centre for Integrated Systems Biology. He is known for founding the field of Inductive logic programming. In this field he has made contributions to theory introducing predicate invention, inverse entailment and stochastic logic programs. He has also played a role in systems development where he was instrumental in the systems Duce, Cigol, Golem, Progol and Metagol and applications – especially biological prediction tasks.
He worked on a Robot Scientist together with Ross D. King that is capable of combining Inductive Logic Programming with active learning. His present work concentrates on the development of Meta-Interpretive Learning, a new form of Inductive Logic Programming which supports predicate invention and learning of recursive programs.
References
Living people
British bioinformaticians
1959 births
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning researchers
Artificial intelligence researchers
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of York
Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERAM | The En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system architecture replaces the En Route Host computer system and its backup. ERAM provides all of today's functionality and:
Adds new capabilities needed to support the evolution of US National Airspace System
Improves information security and streamlines traffic flow at US international borders
Processes flight radar data
Provides communications support
Generates display data to air traffic controllers
The display system provides real-time electronic aeronautical information and efficient data management.
Provides a fully functional backup system, precluding the need to restrict operations in the event of a primary failure
The backup system provides the National Transportation Safety Board-recommended safety alerts, altitude warnings and conflict alerts.
Improves surveillance by using a greater number and variety of surveillance sources
Detects and alerts air traffic controllers when aircraft are flying too close together for both safety and long term planning.
ERAM simultaneously supports many operating modes and complex airspace configurations, driven by thousands of users who want to use the airspace differently.
Allows more radars and flights than the old Host Computer System which ERAM replaces
The open system architecture enables the use of future capabilities to efficiently handle traffic growth and ensure a more stable and supportable system.
Implementation
The FAA is deploying ERAM at 20 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs), the Williams J. Hughes Technical Center, and the FAA Academy.
Step 1, 2006 Replace the current En Route computer backup system with Enhanced Backup Surveillance.
Step 2, 2007 Provide controllers real-time electronic access to weather data, aeronautical data, air traffic control procedures documents, Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs), Pilot Reports (PIREPs) and other information with the En Route Information Display System (ERIDS).
Step 3, 2009 Replace the current En Route Host computer air traffic control with a fully redundant, state of the art system that enables new capabilities and requires no stand-alone backup system.
Nationwide adoption
By the end of September 2011, ERAM was in continuous use at two relatively low-traffic centers, the Salt Lake City (ZLC) and Seattle (ZSE) ARTCCs. The project was over budget and behind schedule, and the original deployment dates were pushed back several times. While the system was deemed suitable for operational use, many workarounds were in place while awaiting software updates. Testing and dry runs continued while software bugs and requirements changes were worked out.
As of March 2015, the Operational Readiness Decision (ORD) for ERAM has been declared at the Salt Lake City, Seattle, Denver (ZDV), Minneapolis (ZMP), Albuquerque (ZAB), Chicago (ZAU), Los Angeles (ZLA), Kansas City (ZKC), Houston (ZHU), Indianapolis (ZID), Oakland (ZOA), Boston (ZBW), Miami (ZMA), Cleveland (ZOB), Fort Worth (ZFW), Memphis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNL | UNL may refer to:
Union Nationale Lycéenne, a French secondary student union
Universal Networking Language, a knowledge representation language used in natural language processing
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, a university in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
University of North London, a former university in the United Kingdom
UEFA Nations League, an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of UEFA's member associations
Universidad Nacional del Litoral, a university in Santa Fe, Argentina
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA University of Lisbon), a university in Lisbon, Portugal
Touhou Hisōtensoku, a Touhou Project video game better known as Unthinkable Natural Law in the English localizations
Usher's New Look, a youth leadership development organization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot%20data%20link%20communications | Controller–pilot data link communications (CPDLC), also referred to as controller pilot data link (CPDL), is a method by which air traffic controllers can communicate with pilots over a datalink system.
Necessity
The standard method of communication between an air traffic controller and a pilot is voice radio, using either VHF bands for line-of-sight communication or HF bands for long-distance communication (such as that provided by Shanwick Oceanic Control).
One of the major problems with voice radio communications used in this manner is that all pilots being handled by a particular controller are tuned to the same frequency. As the number of flights air traffic controllers must handle is steadily increasing (for instance, Shanwick handled 414,570 flights in 2007, an increase of 5% - or 22,000 flights - from 2006), the number of pilots tuned to a particular station also increases. This increases the chances that one pilot will accidentally override another, thus requiring the transmission to be repeated. In addition, each exchange between a controller and pilot requires a certain amount of time to complete; eventually, as the number of flights being controlled reaches a saturation point, the controller will not be able to handle any further aircraft.
Traditionally, this problem has been countered by dividing a saturated air traffic control sector into two smaller sectors, each with its own controller and each using a different voice communications channel. However, this strategy suffers from two problems:
Each sector division increases the amount of "handover traffic". That is the overhead involved in transferring a flight between sectors, which requires a voice exchange between the pilot and both controllers, plus co-ordination between the controllers.
The number of available voice channels is finite, and, in high density airspace, such as central Europe or the Eastern US Seaboard, there may not be a new channel available.
In some cases it may not be possible or feasible to further divide down a section.
A new strategy is needed to cope with increased demands on air traffic control, and data link based communications offers a possible strategy by increasing the effective capacity of the communications channel.
Use of CPDLC
Controller–pilot data link communication (CPDLC) is a means of communication between controller and pilot, using data link for ATC communication. At the highest level, the concept is simple, with the emphasis on the continued involvement of the human at either end and the flexibility of use.
The CPDLC application provides air-ground data communication for the ATC service. This includes a set of clearance/information/request message elements which correspond to voice phraseology employed by air traffic control procedures. The controller is provided with the capability to issue level assignments, crossing constraints, lateral deviations, route changes and clearances, speed assignments, radio frequency assignments, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Movie%20Database | The Hong Kong Movie Database (HKMDB) is a bilingual (English and Chinese) website started in 1995 by Hong Kong resident Ryan Law to provide a repository for information about movies originating from Hong Kong and the people who created them.
The database was initially populated with data on over 6000 films, and reviews from the defunct database hosted at egret0.stanford.edu. In subsequent years it has expanded to contain information on more than 20,000 films and nearly 100,000 people, and includes films from Taiwan and China.
The Database
HKMDB contains information about films, people, and companies associated with Hong Kong cinema. This includes detailed film credits for cast and crew members as well as image and portrait galleries. The site also includes user-submitted film reviews.
The database is bi-lingual, so movies, people and companies are required to have both Chinese and English information. Additional information about individual films such as production companies, release dates, and languages spoken is included where known. Information about cast and crew members may include gender, birth dates and brief biographies. In all cases, names of people, films and companies are in Chinese, Romanized Chinese, and English.
There are more than 340,000 images in the database. Images can be associated with movies, companies, or people. The images serve primarily as an aid in identification.
Database information can only be modified by an HKMDB editor.
The core of the HKMDB editorial team consists primarily of the "Eight Immortals of HKMDB" - content editors, all of whom have been working on updating and maintaining the site's information for nearly 20 years. The HKMDB editorial team has also included many others and the site encourages interested persons to join the editorial team.
Starting in 2014, the HKMDB became a completely non-remunerative site. It is open and free from ads.
References
External links
Hong Kong Movie DataBase
Chinese film websites
Online film databases
Internet properties established in 1995
Hong Kong websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal%20Rayyan | Jamal Rayyan (; born 23 August 1953 in Tulkarm) is a Palestinian news television anchorman with Al Jazeera Television Network.
Professional experience
Jordan Radio and Television News
From 1974 to 1989 Jammal Rayan worked as news reporter and presenter for Jordan Radio and Television Corporation, Amman (Jordan).
Korean Broadcasting System
From 1974 to 1979 then 1979–1985 he worked as news reporter and Middle Eastern political analyst for Korean Broadcasting System, Seoul (South Korea). He also worked as a news reporter for the Arabic radio station that belongs to KBS Network.
BBC News
From 1994 to 1996 he worked as anchor for the BBC Arabic World Service, London (England).
Abu Dhabi
From 1989 to 1994 then 1997–1999 he worked as news anchor and political program moderator for Abu Dhabi Al Oula Television Network, Abu Dhabi (UAE). He is noted for the programs "The World of News Tonight" and "The Fourth Dimension".
Al Jazeera
From 1996 to 1997 he worked as a program moderator and anchorman with the newly-established Al Jazeera network in Doha, Qatar. He assisted in the channel's creation and in training and mentoring news presenters.
Rayyan participated in news coverage of Iraq, the War on terrorism, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He conducted interviews with presidents, prime ministers, and political key players.
Since 1999, he has returned to working at Al Jazeera.
See also
List of news presenters
References
Living people
Al Jazeera people
1953 births
Palestinian journalists
Palestinian broadcasters
People from Tulkarm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20%28disambiguation%29 | A child is a young person who is not yet an adult.
Child may also refer to:
In computer science
The child node of a tree
The child process created by another process
In medicine and healthcare
CHILD syndrome (congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects), a genetic syndrome
Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty (CHILD), an American lobby group that opposes religious exemption laws
Music
Child (band), a popular British pop act of the late 1970s
Lupe Fiasco, "The Child" of the hip hop supergroup Child Rebel Soldier
"Child" (Mark Owen song)
"Child" (Mark song)
"Child", by Arca from Arca
"Child", by Freddie Aguilar, an English version of "Anak"
"Child", by Nidji from Breakthru'
Other uses
Child (surname)
Child archetype, a Jungian psychology archetype
Child baronets, four titles, two in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Child (magazine), an American parenting magazine published from 1986 to 2007
Child & Co., a formerly independent private bank now owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland
Child (hieroglyph), an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
Childs Hill, Greater London, named after Richard le Child
See also
Chiiild, Canadian band
The Child (disambiguation)
Child Ballads, a collection of traditional folk tunes
Children (disambiguation)
Childs (disambiguation)
Kids (disambiguation)
Childe, a nobleman's son who had not yet attained knighthood
L'Enfant (disambiguation) (French for "the child") |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Actors%20of%20West%20Africa | Green Actors of West Africa (GAWA) is a network of environmental organizations from West Africa created in 2005. The goal of GAWA Network is to develop ways of enhancing cooperation and coordination between and among the various donors and environmental (nature conservation) actors in this sub-African region.
The geographic coverage of GAWA network members includes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and Togo.
History
The initial concept of Green Actors in West Africa was first discussed in September 2004 during a meeting of NC-IUCN’s West African partners in Aburi, Ghana. In a later meeting in April 2005 in Cotonou, Benin, the decision was reached to formalize the network.
GAWA is thus a network of environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in environmental protection, rehabilitation, awareness raising, biodiversity conservation and natural resource management.
Main priorities for the network
During 2005-2006, members of the network decided to focus their efforts on:
Advocacy, lobbying and strategic information gathering in local, national and regional contexts;
Enhancing the technical and financial capacities of environmental NGOs to meet the challenges and threats to the natural environment, resulting from livelihood activities;
Involvement of the local populations in biodiversity conservation and forest restoration;
Inventories of endangered and flagship species as well as direct efforts to promote protection of protected areas;
Environmental awareness and education at local, national and regional levels;
Improved availability of current information on threatened species and habitats;
Conflict management in biodiversity conservation initiatives
Funding
The Netherlands Committee of IUCN (NC-IUCN) through the Tropical Rainforest Programme (TRP) and Dry Areas Support funds has been very instrumental in initiating the regional network. Through direct budget support to its regional focal point, the Environmental Foundation for Africa, NC-IUCN have enabled all country assessments, holding of regional network meetings and capacity building training programmes for their partners in the sub-region.
External links
Official website
The Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA)
International environmental organizations
Environmental organisations based in Sierra Leone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl%20Championship%20Series%20on%20television%20and%20radio | When the Bowl Championship Series was formed in 1998, television coverage was consolidated on the ABC Television Network. Beginning with the 2006 season, the Fox Broadcasting Company took over television coverage of the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl games. ABC retained the Rose Bowl game under a separate contract. Radio broadcast coverage has been on ESPN Radio.
Television
From 1999 to 2006 (1998–2005 seasons), all games of the BCS were televised by ABC Sports. Generally, coverage consisted of two games on New Year's Day, one on January 2, and one on either January 3 or 4. ABC paid nearly $25 million per year for the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls during that time. Overall, the contract was worth $550 million over the eight years for all the bowl games.
Starting with the 2006 season, coverage would be split between ABC and Fox. Fox paid for each bowl game US$20 million. Four of the BCS bowl games were on FOX: the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and a new fifth game, the BCS National Championship Game. ABC will continue to broadcast the Rose Bowl Game. ABC had a $300 million eight-year contract that extends to 2014 for the broadcast rights for the Rose Bowl.
In 2007, ABC and Fox showed one game each on January 1, Fox then showed one game each on January 2 and 3 and came back with the championship game on January 8. A similar schedule is planned for future years.
Fox showed all BCS championship games the first three years of the contract, while in 2010 the Rose Bowl stadium was the location of the BCS Championship game, and ABC televised it.
In 2011, ESPN will televise all BCS championship games from January 2011 through January 2014. This is the most prominent sports championship not shown on broadcast television. The 2011 BCS championship was the most watched program in the history of cable television, with 27.3 million viewers in 17.7 million households.
2013–14 announcers
2012–13 announcers
2011–12 announcers
2010–11 announcers
2009–10 announcers
2008–09 announcers
2007–08 announcers
From Fox Sports, December 4, 2007.
2006–07 announcers
Previous seasons
In 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2006, Keith Jackson was the play-by-play announcer for the national championship, with Bob Griese in 1999, Dan Fouts in 2003 and 2006, and Tim Brant in 2002. Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson were the announcers for the 2000 and 2004 title games, while Brad Nessler and Griese called the 2001 and 2005 title games.
Other ESPN/ABC announcers who called the various BCS games during its eight-year run were Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Ed Cunningham, Kirk Herbstreit, Bob Davie, David Norrie, Terry Bowden, and Dean Blevins. Sideline reporters primarily included Lynn Swann, Todd Harris, and Jack Arute.
Radio
ESPN Radio provides coverage of all five games. Usually, the announcers called games on television throughout the regular season. For example, Ron Franklin and Davie called the 2006 Rose Bowl for the network, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946%E2%80%9347%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1946–47 United States network television schedule was nominally from September 1946 to March 1947, but scheduling ideas were still being worked out and did not follow modern standards.
This was the first "network television season" in the United States, and only NBC and DuMont operated networks. CBS only operated one television station, WCBS, and had yet to send out its programs to areas other than New York City. Additionally, several other companies—including Mutual, Paramount, and ABC—had plans to enter the medium over the next few years. Although experimental broadcasting had begun in the 1930s and television stations had been commercially licensed beginning in 1941, it was not until 1946 that coaxial cable connections allowed stations to share the same program schedules. Even then, only a few cities on the East Coast were connected.
Notable series on the schedule included the first network TV soap opera, Faraway Hill; the poorly-received but ambitious variety series, Hour Glass; the first network-televised game show, Cash and Carry (prior game shows had been single-station only); and the anthology series Kraft Television Theatre, which ran until 1958.
Few broadcasts made during this season exist in any archive, but segments of Campus Hoopla dating from 1947 exist in the Hubert Chain Collection of the earliest kinescopes still in existence, as preserved in the Library of Congress (Moving Image Collection). Audio recordings of live TV broadcasts of this show are also on file at the Library of Congress from the 1946–47 period, as recorded from WNBT-TV in New York (NBC's original flagship station in New York City, today's WNBC-TV).
New series and those that made their network debuts during the season are highlighted in bold. Series ending are highlighted in italics.
Legend
Sunday
* Beginning in December 1946 on WNBT-TV, and then on January 5, 1947, on the NBC Network, Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties, hosted by Jinx Falkenburg and Tex McCrary, aired Sundays from 8:15 to 8:30pm ET.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Note: On DuMont, King Cole's Birthday Party was also known simply as Birthday Party. It debuted on Dumont's New York City station, WABD on May 15, 1947. By early 1948 it was carried on the entire network, but the date it switched from a New York-only to a complete network broadcast is unclear.
Friday
By network
Some of the series below are not shown on the schedule as the day and time these aired are not currently known.
Du Mont
Returning series
Boxing from Jamaica Arena
Cash and Carry
Magic Carpet
Melody Bar Ranch
Vera Massey Show
Western movie
New series/network debuts
Doorway to Fame *
Faraway Hill
King Cole's Birthday Party *
Movies for Small Fry *
Play the Game
Serving Through Science
NBC
Returning Series
Duffy's Tavern
The Esso Newsreel
Face to Face
Hour Glass
I Love to Eat
In Town Today
NFL Football Magazine
Television Quarterback
Voice of Firestone Televues
The World in Your Home
New series/Network debut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%9348%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule | The 1947–48 United States network television schedule was nominally from September 1947 to March 1948, but scheduling ideas were still being worked out and did not follow modern standards. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1946–47 season.
Only NBC and DuMont had networks until CBS joined in May 1948, and coaxial cable connections were only available for a few cities on the East Coast. Most other parts of the United States created local shows or broadcast film programs.
Although fewer than twenty television stations were in operation at the end of 1947, more than 30 began broadcasting in 1948.
New series and those making their network debuts are highlighted in bold, while series that ended during the season are highlighted in italics. However, as network programming was still in its infancy and in a state of flux, all the new fall series below for this season began in November and December. A midseason replacement, DuMont's The Original Amateur Hour, first aired Sunday, January 18, 1948, was the most popular series of the 1947–48 television season.
Although television was still in its infancy, several notable series debuted during this season, particularly Mary Kay and Johnny (first sitcom to be broadcast on network television in the US, and likely the world's second television sitcom after British series Pinwright's Progress), Texaco Star Theatre (the variety show that made Milton Berle TV's first star) and The Ed Sullivan Show (which would run until 1971, with performances by Elvis Presley and The Beatles being among the highest-viewed moments in American television history).
Few recordings of live television from this season were preserved. Among the surviving kinescopes are six episodes of Kraft Television Theatre from 1948 (March 3, March 17, March 24, March 31, April 21, and May 5) held by the Library of Congress, an episode of Eye Witness from February 26, 1948, two episodes of The Swift Show from 1948 (May 13 and May 27) held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and an episode of NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini from March 20, 1948, held by the Paley Center for Media.
One series that debuted during this season, Meet the Press, continues to air on NBC celebrating its seventy years as of 2017.
Legend
Schedule
Sunday
Notes: The Original Amateur Hour ran Sundays on DuMont beginning on January 18, 1948.
CBS began broadcasting as a network in May 1948 and premiered Toast of the Town, better known as The Ed Sullivan Show, on June 20, 1948.
Monday
* The Walter Compton News aired on DuMont Monday through Friday from 6:45 to 7pm ET beginning on June 16 on WTTG and on August 25 on the DuMont network. In January 1948, Camera Headlines replaced The Walter Compton News and Look Upon a Star, airing Monday through Friday at 7:30pm ET, with I.N.S. Telenews following at 7:45pm ET on Tuesdays only.
** During the winter of 1948, The Esso Newsreel was re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN%20%28disambiguation%29 | A VPN is a virtual private network, which are commonly marketed as a VPN service.
VPN may also refer to:
Public Against Violence (Slovak: Verejnosť proti násiliu), a former political movement in Slovakia
Ventral posterior nucleus, part of the brain
Vickers Pyramid Number, a rating of the Vickers hardness test better known by the ISO acronym HV
Vietnam People's Navy, part of the Vietnam People's Army
Virtual page number, stored in a page table
Vopnafjörður Airport, Iceland (IATA code VPN) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Livingston | Paul James Livingston (born March 1956), popularly known as his alter ego Flacco, is an Australian comedian who has regularly appeared on many television shows, predominantly on ABC TV and Network Ten, including Good News Week, The Sandman and Flacco Special, The Big Gig, DAAS Kapital, The Money or the Gun, The Fat and The Sideshow. He also was on Triple J Breakfast from 1994 to 1997, Doom Runners (1997), and is on ABC Radio National. He has also acted on stage and in film. He was joint winner of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award in 1996 for outstanding achievement in the performing arts in Australia. Livingston also wrote the play Emma's Nose about the relationship of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess and their patient Emma Eckstein. Livingston also starred in The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey by Vincent Ward.
Livingston has toured Australia and internationally and appeared at festivals in Edinburgh and Montreal. In 2014, he replaced Richard Fidler as the guitarist in the reformed Doug Anthony All Stars, and toured with Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott.
Flacco
Flacco is a fictional character played by Paul Livingston. Livingston created the character in 1985, when he got up on stage as part of a bet, and the audience mistook his nervousness for a comedic character. Flacco's trademark curl of hair on a pale bald head was originally Livingston's actual hair, until actual baldness forced him to use hairpieces.
In 2009, a portrait by Paul Jackson of Livingston in character as Flacco won the Packing Room Prize as part of the Archibald Prize.
Flacco was an outsider whose observations of people took on an almost alien quality. He had a completely bald head with a single stylised (thick) strand of hair in a coil, and was frequently seen in a suit. He made quick observations often interspersed with incorrect movie, theatre or cultural quotes.
Television appearances
Flacco first appeared on television in 1988 on Andrew Denton's Blah Blah Blah and came to prominence the following year on The Big Gig, as an alien who engaged in observational humour. He reprised the role, also as an alien in DAAS Kapital, a sitcom featuring fellow Big Gig alumni the Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS).
His appearances on Good News Week paired him with the Sandman (played by Steve Abbott), and the two characters appeared together frequently live and on television.
In 2007, Flacco made regular appearances on the ABC1 show The Sideshow alongside Abbott and Paul McDermott, with Gordon Farrer of The Sydney Morning Herald calling the show a "living link to an earlier era of Australian culture", due to the presence of Flacco, the Sandman and former DAAS member McDermott as comedians of the 1990s.
A holographic video display featuring Flacco sat at the Black Mountain Tower in Canberra during the 1990s in their now-removed "Making Connections" exhibition.
Publications
Flacco's Burnt Offerings (1995) Penguin
The Dirt Bath (1998), Penguin,
The Flacco Files (1999), Allen and Unw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundell%20Settlement | The Lundell Settlement was the result of a class action taken against Dell Computers regarding design flaws on the company's Inspiron 5150 notebook computer. It was filed in September 2005, and was officially settled in December 2006. There were a number of design flaws in this model, ranging from flaws in the cooling system of the notebook to a tab on the "C" panel pressing on the motherboard. In all, the design flaws caused the notebook to shut down suddenly or not to boot at all.
References
External links
Forum regarding tab on C panel problem with quick fixes
Computing-related controversies and disputes
Class action lawsuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonterraqueous | Nonterraqueous is a computer game for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64, released by Mastertronic in 1985.
Gameplay
The player controls a robot (which resembles an eyeball) whose mission is to destroy the central computer currently in control of the planet Nonterraqueous. The robot has a "psyche" value which is reduced every time contact is made with a surface, requiring fine control over the robot's movements. Barring the way are enemies which can be shot with the robots lasers, "photon thrusters" (white barriers that pulsate and kill the robot instantly if they contact), and other obstacles, some of which can only be destroyed by finding a bomb and dropping it in the room.
Along the way, there are stations at which the robot can "recharge" its psyche, although some are deadly to use, and knowing which ones can only come from experience. There are also "SWAP" stations that allow the robot to transform into a form which doesn't allow shooting lasers but is invulnerable to some otherwise deadly obstacles. Also along the way is a long vertical corridor which is seemingly impassable until a rocket at the bottom of the vertical shaft is activated, catapulting the player up several dozens levels and through the barrier.
The overall size of the game was considered daunting for the time, consisting of 1004 separate locations.
Sequel
A sequel to the game exists and is called Soul of a Robot; the gameplay is quite different.
References
External links
Nonterraqueous at CPC WIKI
1985 video games
ZX Spectrum games
Mastertronic games
Commodore 64 games
Amstrad CPC games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set on fictional planets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab%20Colleges | The Punjab Colleges (also known as Punjab group or PGC ) is a group of colleges active in Punjab, Pakistan.
It has its roots in commerce set up by Mian Amer Mahmood the chairman of PGC network. The Network laid its foundation in Lahore in 1983. Over a period of last 38 years, PGC has become the largest Educational Network in Pakistan. PGC has head office in 123-C, Block E1, Hali Road, Gulberg III, Lahore, Pakistan.
PGC Family consists of Educational Institutions Limited, National Communications Services (SMC-Pvt.) Limited and. Tower Technologies (Pvt.) Limited. National Educational Network (Pvt.) Limited, takes care of, Secondary and Higher Secondary Education across the country in the form of Schools and Colleges. Muhammad Amer also launched a new television network Dunya News.
PGC as a progressive enterprise, includes 3 chartered universities, Capital University of Science & Technology – CUST in Islamabad, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University in Karachi, and University of Central Punjab in Lahore. 330 college campuses, 15 Resource Academia Schools, 700 plus Allied Schools and nearly 300 EFA Schools. PGC's National Communications Services (SMC-Pvt.) Limited owns and operates one of the Television Networks in Pakistan known as Dawn TV Network and Roznama Dunya a daily newspaper in the print media side. In 2020, Punjab Group of Colleges took another initiative by launching a 'complaint viable website' for students, their parents, teachers and all its staff members that promises to maintain the plaintiff.
Campus network
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bahawalnagar
Punjab Group of Colleges, Dina
Punjab Group of Colleges, Pirmahal
Punjab Group of Colleges, Pakpattan
Punjab Group of Colleges, Pattoki
Punjab Group of Colleges, Lahore
Punjab Group of Colleges Gujranwala
Punjab Group of Colleges, Islamabad
Punjab Group of Colleges, Gujrat
Punjab Group of Colleges, Faisalabad
Punjab Group of Colleges, Rawalpindi
Punjab Group of Colleges, Burewala
Punjab Group of Colleges, Rahim Yar Khan
Punjab Group of Colleges, Sialkot
Punjab Group of Colleges, Shorkot
Punjab Group of Colleges, Gujranwala
Punjab Group of Colleges, Sargodha
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bhakkar
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bahawalpur
Punjab Group of Colleges, Multan
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bilal Town Jhelum
Punjab Group of Colleges, Gujar Khan
Punjab Group of Colleges, Wah Cantt
Punjab Group of Colleges, Kharian
Punjab Group of Colleges, Abbottabad
Punjab Group of Colleges, Attock
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bahawalpur
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bhalwal
Punjab Group of Colleges, Bhimber
Punjab Group of Colleges, Chakwal
Punjab Group of Colleges, Chichawatni
Punjab Group of Colleges, Chiniot
Punjab Group of Colleges, Chishtian
Punjab Group of Colleges, Daska
Punjab Group of Colleges, Dera Ghazi Khan
Punjab Group of Colleges, Gojra
Punjab Group of Colleges, Haroonabad
Punjab Group of Colleges, Hafizabad
Punjab Group of Colleges, Hasilpur
Punjab Group of College |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Diamond | Rebecca Diamond (born January 30, 1967) is a former contributor on the Fox Business Network and the Fox News Channel.
Biography
Born Rebecca Lee Gomez, the daughter of Nadine Ramirez and Leandro Olmos Gomez, Diamond graduated in 1991 from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she majored in Broadcast Journalism. She worked as an anchor/reporter for Lifetime Television and as a business writer for The Associated Press. She also worked as a reporter/anchor for local affiliate television stations in McAllen, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Diego, California. She joined Fox News as a news update anchor when the network was launched in 1996.
She hosted the Fox Business Network TV show Happy Hour which was broadcast live from the Bull & Bear bar in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Happy Hour aired at 5pm Eastern on the Fox Business Network; the final episode was aired on June 4, 2010. Diamond now appears as a contributor on other Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. Diamond has a fan following on Facebook.
In 2008, she married Brett Edward Diamond in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan presided over by Fox news contributor Father Jonathan Morris. She was born in San Jose, California and currently lives in New Jersey.
In 2011, Diamond sued Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment after her contract with Fox Business was not renewed. They settled, and O'Reilly personally paid the amount.
References
External links
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-fox-oreilly-settlements-20170401-story.html
FoxBusiness.com bio
Rebecca Gomez's New York Times wedding announcement
Fox Business people
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Associated Press reporters
Living people
Hispanic and Latino American journalists
Fox News people
American business and financial journalists
American Roman Catholics
Hispanic and Latino American women journalists
1967 births
Women business and financial journalists
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20current%20limiter | A fault current limiter (FCL), also known as fault current controller (FCC), is a device which limits the prospective fault current when a fault occurs (e.g. in a power transmission network) without complete disconnection. The term includes superconducting, solid-state and inductive devices.
Applications
Electric power distribution systems include circuit breakers to disconnect power in case of a fault, but to maximize reliability, they wish to disconnect the smallest possible portion of the network. This means that even the smallest circuit breakers, as well as all wiring to them, must be able to disconnect large fault currents.
A problem arises if the electricity supply is upgraded, by adding new generation capacity or by adding cross-connections. Because these increase the amount of power that can be supplied, all of the branch circuits must have their bus bars and circuit breakers upgraded to handle the new higher fault current limit.
This poses a particular problem when distributed generation, such as wind farms and rooftop solar power, is added to an existing electric grid. It is desirable to be able to add additional power sources without large system-wide upgrades.
A simple solution is to add electrical impedance to the circuit. This limits the rate at which current can increase, which limits the level the fault current can rise to before the breaker is opened. However, this also limits the ability of the circuit to satisfy rapidly changing demand, so the addition or removal of large loads causes unstable power.
A fault current limiter is a nonlinear element which has a low impedance at normal current levels, but presents a higher impedance at fault current levels. Further, this change is extremely rapid, before a circuit breaker can trip a few milliseconds later. (High-power circuit breakers are synchronized to the alternating current zero crossing to minimize arcing.)
While the power is unstable during the fault, it is not completely disconnected. After the faulting branch is disconnected, the fault current limiter automatically returns to normal operation.
Superconducting fault current limiter
Superconducting fault current limiters exploit the extremely rapid loss of superconductivity (called "quenching) above a critical combination of temperature, current density, and magnetic field. In normal operation, current flows through the superconductor without resistance and negligible impedance.
If a fault develops, the superconductor quenches, its resistance rises sharply, and current is diverted to a parallel circuit with the desired higher impedance.
(The structure is not usable as a circuit breaker, because the normally-conducting superconductive material does not have a high enough resistance. It is only high enough to cause sufficient heating to melt the material.)
Superconducting fault current limiters are described as being in one of two major categories: resistive or inductive.
In a resistive FCL, the current p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20concurrency | The Java programming language and the Java virtual machine (JVM) is designed to support concurrent programming. All execution takes place in the context of threads. Objects and resources can be accessed by many separate threads. Each thread has its own path of execution, but can potentially access any object in the program. The programmer must ensure read and write access to objects is properly coordinated (or "synchronized") between threads. Thread synchronization ensures that objects are modified by only one thread at a time and prevents threads from accessing partially updated objects during modification by another thread. The Java language has built-in constructs to support this coordination.
Processes and threads
Most implementations of the Java virtual machine run as a single process. In the Java programming language, concurrent programming is primarily concerned with threads (also called lightweight processes). Multiple processes can only be realized with multiple JVMs.
Thread objects
Threads share the process' resources, including memory and open files. This makes for efficient, but potentially problematic, communication. Every application has at least one thread called the main thread. The main thread has the ability to create additional threads as or objects. The Callable interface is similar to Runnable in that both are designed for classes whose instances are potentially executed by another thread. A Runnable, however, does not return a result and cannot throw a checked exception.
Each thread can be scheduled on a different CPU core or use time-slicing on a single hardware processor, or time-slicing on many hardware processors. There is no general solution to how Java threads are mapped to native OS threads. Every JVM implementation can so this differently.
Each thread is associated with an instance of the class Thread. Threads can be managed either by directly using the Thread objects, or indirectly by using abstract mechanisms such as Executors or Tasks.
Starting a Thread
Two ways to start a Thread:
Provide a runnable object
public class HelloRunnable implements Runnable {
@Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("Hello from thread!");
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
(new Thread(new HelloRunnable())).start();
}
}
Subclass thread
public class HelloThread extends Thread {
@Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("Hello from thread!");
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
(new HelloThread()).start();
}
}
Interrupts
An interrupt tells a thread that it should stop what it is doing and do something else. A thread sends an interrupt by invoking on the Thread object for the thread to be interrupted. The interrupt mechanism is implemented using an internal boolean flag known as the "interrupted status". Invoking interrupt() sets this flag. By convention, any method that exits by throwing an InterruptedException clears the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20%26%20Family | Home & Family (formerly The Home and Family Show) is an American daytime talk show. The series originally premiered on April 1, 1996, on The Family Channel, and was dropped by the network immediately prior to its 1998 relaunch as the Fox Family Channel. In 2012, Hallmark Channel picked up a revival of the series, airing as a two-hour program on weekday mornings.
The show premiered on April 1, 1996, on The Family Channel and ran until August 14, 1998. It was hosted by Cristina Ferrare, Michael Burger, and Chuck Woolery, and featured numerous recurring and regular personalities known as "the family" who share tips on beauty, crafts, cooking, and the like. Originally among the family were Jamie Gwen (chef), Candace Garvey (lifestyles), Mayita Dinos (gardening), Bob Golic, and The Carey Brothers (carpentry and home repairs).
Home & Family was revived in 2012 on the Hallmark Channel, unique with the daily guest star being asked to remain for the entire episode, providing a broader view of the star's personality and interests. Crew members are often seen, as well.
The revived show's ninth season became its last, following cancellation by Hallmark Channel in March 2021. The final episode aired on August 4, 2021, with hosts Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison.
History
Home & Family is a two-hour daily Hallmark series that was recorded before a studio audience on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in Los Angeles, California. Steines said that the decision for that was made to encourage actors to be on the show, without having to wake at 4:00 a.m. The focus of the show is simply entertainment and tips within a "wholesome image". Discussions on current events or politics are avoided and speech is censored; as an example, the word "breast" was forbidden.
The series originally aired on The Family Channel but ended on August 14, 1998, just one day before the channel became Fox Family Channel, which included a major restructuring of the network's programing. Its revival began on October 1, 2012, and moved to its current home, the Hallmark Channel. Mark Steines and Paige Davis co-hosted the show but Davis left after six weeks on November 16, 2012, with her final episode being taped the day before she was replaced by Cristina Ferrare, who in turn was replaced by Debbie Matenopoulos.
The show continued on to season two where it premiered on September 30, 2013. Then on April 30, 2014, Home & Family was renewed for a third season, which premiered on September 15 of that same year. It was announced on April 14, 2015, that season four was approved and along with that notice they announced that the show would air new episodes weekly throughout the entire year.
Ferrare's departure was abrupt and the audience was not given any explanation nor any notice prior to her departure. On June 21, 2016, Hallmark Channel confirmed that Ferrare would no longer co-host the show with Steines; former co-host of The View Debbie Matenopoulos was named as her replacement. In a statemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Oky%20Doky | The Adventures of Oky Doky is an American children's television program that aired on the DuMont Television Network on Thursdays at 7pm ET from November 4, 1948, through May 26, 1949. Sometime in early 1949, the time slot for the show went from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. In March, the show was cut back to Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:45pm ET.
The show had many similarities with Howdy Doody, including a frontier/western theme and a cowboy puppet as the title character.
Background
The puppet Oky Doky (created by puppeteer Raye Copeland) was first seen on New York City television station WABD in a children's fashion show program called Tots, Tweens and Teens.
Although there are conflicting stories of when Oky Doky first appeared on local television, it seems likely that his move to network prime time was inspired by the success of the Howdy Doody show.
Plot and cast
Oky Doky ran a dude ranch where children came to play games, perform skits and watch Oky's latest adventures. In each show, Oky would get into trouble, but his magic milk pills gave him the strength to defeat the bad guys.
The cast included Wendy Barrie, Rex Trailer, Burt Hilber and Pat Barnard, with Dayton Allen as puppeteer and the voice of Oky Doky. Frank Bunetta was the producer and director; Ben Zavin was the writer.
Broadcast changes
Early in 1949, the show's name was changed to Oky Doky Ranch and became a twice a week show, shortened from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. Oky Doky gained a new costar, a cowboy played by Rex Trailer. This did not prevent the show from being cancelled at the end of the season.
See also
The Wendy Barrie Show
Picture This
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1948-49 United States network television schedule
References
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)
External links
DuMont historical website
1940s American children's television series
1940s American comedy television series
American children's comedy television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
American television shows featuring puppetry
1948 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Simpson | Sir Gilbert Simpson (born 5 April 1948) is a New Zealand businessman and computer programmer.
Early life
Simpson was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 5 April 1948, and raised in the Waikato. He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, and in 1967 began his career as a computer programmer, at age 18.
Career
In 1969 he wrote the initial direct debit and direct credit applications which are in common use throughout the New Zealand banking industry today. By age 22 he was Head of Computer Programming at the Comalco aluminium smelter in Bluff, which at that time was the largest industrial project ever undertaken in New Zealand.
He returned to Christchurch around 1972, making it his home permanently. He lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, working as a programmer for Caterpillar Inc. between 1976 and 1978, after which he returned to New Zealand to develop a new concept in computer programming through his creation of the fourth generation language LINC, New Zealand's most successful software export to date. He has resided in Christchurch ever since, where there is now a street named after him Sir Gil Simpson Drive.
Simpson is the founder of the Aoraki Corporation (later known as Jade Software Corporation), developers of the LINC 4GL and Jade programming language, who are also well known for their past sponsorship of Christchurch's Jade Stadium. More recently he founded Jolly Good Software Pty Ltd in 2006.
Simpson is recognised around the world as an advisor and speaker on Information Technology, particularly in the area of e-commerce.
Honours and awards
In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Simpson was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for public services. In the 2000 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to information technology, commerce and the community. Later in 2000 Simpson received The New Zealand Computer Society's Supreme Award for the most outstanding contribution to computing in New Zealand in the 20th century. In 2005, he was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame, an honour reserved for business leaders responsible for outstanding contributions to the nation. In 2008 Simpson received an NZX Flying Kiwi Award and joined the PricewaterhouseCoopers NZ Hi-Tech Hall of Fame. Simpson has also been a director on the board of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
His honours and awards include:
An honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury, D.Sc. (h.c.)
Past presidency of the Royal Society of New Zealand, of which he is now an honorary member
Chairman of the New Zealand government's E-Commerce Action Team
Chair of the New Zealand E-Commerce Summit, 2000
Chairman of the Christchurch City Mission
Associate membership of the New Zealand Business Roundtable
Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management, and past membership on the NZIM advisory board
Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of IT Profe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream%20Home%20%28talk%20show%29 | Dream Home, formerly Power House is a Philippine television talk show broadcast on GMA News TV and GMA Network. Originally hosted by Mel Tiangco, it premiered on February 28, 2011. The show concluded on April 29, 2016. Kara David served as the final host from 2013 to 2016.
Hosts
Mel Tiangco
Kara David
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
English-language television shows
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
GMA News TV original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Leyton | Elliott Leyton (August 21, 1939 – February 14, 2022) was a Canadian social-anthropologist, educator and author who, according to the CTV television news network, was amongst the most widely consulted experts on serial homicide worldwide.
Biography
Leyton was born in Leader, Saskatchewan, on August 21, 1939. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of British Columbia then went on to obtain his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 1972. During his ensuing career, he dedicated himself to the analysis and research of social ills such as juvenile delinquency and the psychology behind perpetrators of serial killings. Leyton's achieved level of expertise has led to his giving lectures at the College of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Ottawa. He was also a consultant on serial murder investigations for the RCMP, the FBI and Scotland Yard as well as for television shows and movies.
He held faculty positions at Queen's University of Belfast in Ireland (where he was a research Fellow), and at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel; and at Memorial University of Newfoundland where he was latterly Professor Emeritus of anthropology.
Leyton served as president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association.
The author and editor of eleven books and numerous scholarly essays for academic journals, Leyton's 1986 landmark study Hunting Humans is an international bestseller in multiple languages that was reprinted in 1995 and again in 2005. It won the 1987 Arthur Ellis Award for best new crime book. Professor Leyton traveled to Rwanda in the fall of 1996 where he studied the Rwandan genocide that spawned his 1998 book, Touched By Fire: Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis.
In 2004, a National Film Board of Canada film about Professor Leyton's life's work titled The Man Who Studies Murder, was premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival and aired on CBC Television’s The Nature of Things. Frequently consulted by the media, Professor Leyton was interviewed by CBC Newsworld on September 14, 2006 about the Dawson College shooting in Montreal. He stated that because all three such murderous rampages in Quebec involved a killer who was either an immigrant or a child of immigrants, it warranted an examination of government and societal attitudes that can profoundly impact immigrant perceptions and hence their conduct. The following day, Professor Leyton was the guest expert on CBC Radio One's program The Current that analyzed the Dawson College shooting.
Leyton wrote the foreword for Dance With the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss, a book telling the story of the murder of Zachary Turner.
He died in St. John's, Newfoundland on February 14, 2022, at the age of 82.
Books (partial list)
Dying Hard (1975)
The Myth of Delinquency (1979)
Hunting Humans (1986, reprint: 1995) first US edition titled "Compulsive Killers"
Sol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20longest-running%20American%20cable%20television%20series | This is a list of the longest running United States cable television series, ordered by number of broadcast seasons.
To qualify for this list, the programming must originate in North America and shown nationally in the United States and be first-run (as opposed to a repackaging of previously aired material or material released in other media). For the purposes of this list, series that were available only on a local or regional basis will be excluded, along with hybrid broadcast/cable networks such as The WB 100+/The CW Plus. For series that originated on U.S. broadcast networks (or broadcast syndication) and then was picked up by a national cable network, only the amount aired nationally on cable as original programming is represented here. A season for the purpose of this article is defined as a given year, not a production cycle (as in America's Next Top Model) which is defined as a season by the network or the program's distributor.
List
25 or more seasons
20–24 seasons
15–19 seasons
12–14 seasons
10–11 seasons
See also
Lists of longest running U.S. shows by broadcast type:
List of longest-running United States television series
List of longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series
List of longest-running U.S. primetime television series
List of longest-running U.S. first-run syndicated television series
Lists of longest running shows internationally:
List of longest-running television shows by category- international list
List of longest-running UK television series
List of longest-running Australian television series
List of shortest running shows:
List of television series canceled after one episode
List of television series canceled before airing an episode
References
Longest running cable
Cable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle%20on%20the%20Tum | Tickle on the Tum is a series of ten-minute programmes for young children produced by Granada Television and aired on the ITV network from 1984 until 1988. The series was set in the General Store and Post Office in the fictional village of Tickle-on-the-Tum (the humorous double-meaning of the title was explained obliquely in the theme song). The original presenters were folk-singer Ralph McTell, fresh from his stint on Granada's other children's series Alphabet Zoo, and Danusia Harwood.
From about the middle of the second series, Harwood was replaced by Jacqueline Reddin. In the final series, the setting changed to the newly opened Tickle Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) studios. Reddin became the show's lead presenter and sang the theme song, after McTell returned to his recording career. She was joined by a puppet cat named Dexter, performed by John Eccleston. In this series, Jacqueline occasionally appeared as another character, movie star 'Gloria Glamorous'.
Format
Ralph and Danny (or Jacqui depending which series you were in) would be working in the shop when a local resident would come in and recount at length an incident in their week, accompanied with illustrations by Valerie Pye. A song, written and sung with guitar (and occasionally, piano) by McTell, would follow based around either the week's story or simply the visiting character. The three of them would also read aloud jokes from the 'Tickle Post', which were usually credited to have been submitted by children from various schools.
Pet-shop proprietor Bunny was played by Nerys Hughes, McTell's co-presenter on Alphabet Zoo and several songs from the earlier series were reused in Tickle on the Tum, including "Kenny the Kangaroo" and "Ollie the Otter". Favourite characters amongst children were bumbling odd-job man Barney Bodger, Mike the Milkman and G.P. Dr Dimple, played by Bill Oddie.
When Danny was working at the shop, it was implied that she was just an assistant and Ralph was the proprietor. But during the Christmas Special from series 3, Ralph is shown returning from a music tour and mentions that the shop belongs to Jacqui now. Despite being twice as long as a regular episode, the Christmas special didn't feature any guests stars at all, but did feature an uncredited cameo by Jacqueline Reddin's baby daughter Jenna (as Farmer Field's youngest).
The original opening credit sequence, illustrated by Valerie Pye, featured several town inhabitants standing in front of the General Store. They were, from left to right: Farmer Field, Roland Crust, Lilly Lolly, Bobby Bins and Barney Bodger. When Billy Connolly (who played Bobby Bins) left after just two episodes, his character was replaced by the similar Tommy Tidy, played by Willie Rushton. Tommy's outfit was almost identical to that of Bobby, making it seem that the drawn figure in the opening credits represented Tommy Tidy instead of Bobby Bins.
Cast and characters"Tickle on the Tum – The Complete Series One" DVD inlay, Revelat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGA-TV | WAGA-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Briarcliff Road Northeast in the Druid Hills area of unincorporated DeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city limits (but with an Atlanta mailing address).
History
As a CBS affiliate
WAGA-TV first began operations on March 8, 1949. The station was originally owned by Toledo, Ohio-based Fort Industry Company, which also operated WAGA radio (AM 590, now WDWD; and WAGA-FM 103.3, now WVEE), all colloquially called "Wagga". Fort Industry would later be renamed Storer Broadcasting after the company's founder, George B. Storer. Channel 5 is Atlanta's second-oldest television station, signing on seven months after WSB-TV (then on channel 8). Originally a CBS affiliate, owing to its radio sister's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network, channel 5 also carried a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1956. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. Storer sold the WAGA radio stations in 1959; however, channel 5 has, except from 1998 to 2009, retained the "-TV" suffix.
WAGA-TV was the only VHF commercial station in Atlanta that was on the same channel from its launch. Though both WSB-TV and WLTV—predecessor of WXIA-TV (channel 11)—initially broadcast over channel 8, the Federal Communications Commission's 1952 Sixth Report and Order reallocated the frequency to Athens and reserved the channel for non-commercial educational use. The University of Georgia returned channel 8 to the air as WGTV, now the television flagship of Georgia Public Broadcasting, in May 1960.
WAGA-TV originally broadcast from studios and transmission facilities located at 1018 West Peachtree Street Northwest. This building would later become home to pioneering superstation and leading Atlanta independent station WTBS (channel 17, now WPCH-TV). On June 21, 1966, channel 5 opened its current facilities in Druid Hills. The studio resembles an antebellum Southern mansion, a type of Colonial Revival architecture that was typical for Storer's broadcasting facilities. While this design was somewhat out of place in most of Storer's other markets (which also included Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee), it was a perfect fit for Atlanta. (The studio facility was used for an on-location shoot for a Matlock episode called "The Reporter".)
WAGA's original transmitter tower was later the site of a different tower for WPCH-TV's analog channel 17 signal, and a backup for WWWQ (99.7 FM). Because Storer Cable became part of Comcast, the tower (owned by competing cable television provider Time Warner, along with WPCH) was to be removed by October 2009, ending the land lease.
In 1985, WAGA-TV and the other Storer stations were sold into a group deal to Ko |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates%21%20Gold | Pirates! Gold is a 1993 computer game, a remake to Sid Meier's 1987 release, Sid Meier's Pirates!.
Development
MicroProse developed this 256-color version for MS-DOS, Macintosh, Sega Genesis, Amiga CD32 and Windows 3.x featuring a MIDI score and mouse support (in MS-DOS and Windows versions).
Gameplay
Pirates! Gold features Super VGA graphics including hand-painted screens, and a more-detailed playing environment than the original. The update also includes 3-D modeled ship and flag animations, and graphic depictions of items that were menu choices in the original game.
The player can play as a pirate, privateer, or a pirate hunter. It features sword fighting, ocean-faring battles, and land battles as its three main arenas of action, connected by role-playing which allows the player to court the favor of local politicos, romance women, and recruit pirates in the local pub. Players have the opportunity to go on quests, but must also strategically plan raiding excursions and trading routes.
The PC versions contain a copy protection scheme requiring the player to identify the flag of a pirate ship sighted on the horizon (similar to the 1987 Atari port). Sea and sea-to-land combat are played in real-time while land battles are done in turn-based strategy. Sun sighting is not present in this version, and there are no special items. The game does, however, include several new features.
Reception
Paul C. Schuytema for Compute! was positive to the game and called it "addicting".
In 1993, Computer Gaming World described Pirates! Gold as adding "three disks of graphical gold" to "a great game engine". The magazine stated that the game "has much to offer a new player and comes with the highest of recommendations", but warned those familiar with the original that it was "not a significantly revised game with fresh game play".
In 1994, PC Gamer US named Pirates! Gold the 39th best computer game ever. The editors wrote: "We're recommending the new version of this old classic, because it looks so darn good and it'll be easier for most of you to get your hands on. But the award really goes out to the gameplay that made the original Pirates! great". In 2018, Complex ranked Pirates! Gold 26th among "The 100 Best Sega Genesis Games".
According to Microprose, Pirates! Gold sold in excess of 450,000 copies by September 1997.
Reviews
Mega #15 (December 1993)
The One #65
Amiga Computing #71 (Mar 1994)
PC Joker (German)
Power Play (German)
Micro Mania (Spanish)
Tilt (French)
Gambler (Polish)
PC Games (German)
Megazin (Slovenian)
Pelit (Finnish)
PC Player (German)
Amiga Joker (German)
See also
Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987)
Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004)
References
External links
The Lost Tavern, Pirates! Gold fan site
1993 video games
Amiga CD32 games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
MicroProse games
Naval video games
Sega Genesis games
Strategy video games
Trade simulation games
Video game remakes
Video games developed in the United States
Video |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVB%20Anniversary%20Awards | The TVB Anniversary Awards (), officially known as the TVB Awards Presentation, is an annual awards ceremony honoring TVB's programming achievements in Hong Kong television; despite claims that it is the region's equivalent to the American Emmy and the Australian Logie, no other networks are allowed to enter their programmes into TVB competition, and it is awarded solely to TVB programming. Winners are awarded a copy of the golden TVB anniversary statuette, which depicts a man and a woman holding up TVB's square logo. The TVB Anniversary Awards are only one of three (four, including Asian Television Awards) TVB awards given out. The other two types of TVB awards that are given out before the anniversary awards are: TVB Star Awards Malaysia and StarHub TVB Awards (Singapore). A list of all TVB awards winners is compiled here in the TVB Awards Winners Lists.
The awards for Best Drama, Best Actor, and Best Actress in a TVB drama series were first presented in 1997 as the final act for the TVB Anniversary Gala, a star-studded event held every year on 19 November, TVB's anniversary day. Several more award categories were introduced in the following years. In 2006, the event became a separate awards ceremony, and is usually given in November or December of that year, until 2019 when it is held in January of the following year. Carol Cheng has been hosting the awards ceremony since 2006.
Categories
Nominating and voting procedures have varied over the years. Winners are determined by a combination of results coming from a professional voting committee and the public.
Current categories
Discontinued categories
TV ratings
All results are derived from live viewership in Hong Kong, based on Nielsen ratings. Before 2013, audience membership was determined by CSM Media Research.
Award milestones
Carol Cheng is the first to have won a Golden Horse Award (Best Actress, 1988), a Hong Kong Film Award (Best Actress, 1991), and a TVB Anniversary Award (Best Actress, 2000). She has been the master of ceremonies for the TVB Anniversary Awards since 2006. In 2015, Anthony Wong became the second actor to achieve this milestone with his Best Actor win for Kiu Ngo-tin in Lord of Shanghai.
Charmaine Sheh has garnered 5 awards at TVB Anniversary Awards, more than any other individual (two wins for Best Actress and three wins for Most Popular Female Character). Sheh is tied with Liza Wang, Sheren Tang and Nancy Wu for most Best Actress wins. Sheh is also known for being:
The first individual to be touted as the "Double TV Queen", a recognition in which an actress wins Best Actress and Most Popular Female Character in the same year. Sheh is the only actress to receive this title two times.
The first actress to receive two nominations in the top 5 for Most Popular Female Character in the same year (2009). In 2012, Tavia Yeung became the second actress to achieve this milestone.
Gallen Lo is the first individual to win the same award for two consecutive years (Best Actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order%20reduction | In computer science, a first-order reduction is a very strong type of reduction between two computational problems in computational complexity theory. A first-order reduction is a reduction where each component is restricted to be in the class FO of problems calculable in first-order logic.
Since we have , the first-order reductions are stronger reductions than the logspace reductions.
Many important complexity classes are closed under first-order reductions, and many of the traditional complete problems are first-order complete as well (Immerman 1999 p. 49-50). For example, ST-connectivity is FO-complete for NL, and NL is closed under FO reductions (Immerman 1999, p. 51) (as are P, NP, and most other "well-behaved" classes).
References
Descriptive complexity
Reduction (complexity) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20backup | A fuzzy backup is a secondary (or backup) copy of data file(s) or directories that were in one state when the backup started, but in a different state by the time the backup completed. This may result in the backup copy being unusable because of the data inconsistencies. Although the backup process might have seemed successful, the resultant copies of the files or directories could be useless because a restore would yield inconsistent and unusable data.
References
"Fuzzy Backups"
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and Open Files Backup
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hager | Robert Hager is an analyst and a former correspondent for the US television network NBC News. Hager started his journalism career in radio before moving to network news. He began his work at NBC in June 1969, covering the Vietnam War. He worked as a regular correspondent for NBC Nightly News for 35 years, before retiring from daily reporting in November 2004.
Biography
Early life
Hager was raised in Woodstock, Vermont, United States. He was first drawn to journalism after being bedridden due to an ear infection during the summer after fifth grade. With nothing to do, he listened "all day long" to the radio, and "developed a love for news and sports."
Career
After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1960, Hager began his career by reporting for radio stations in Lexington, NC and Raleigh, NC. He moved on to local television soon after, reporting for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina and NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, DC, before landing a job at NBC News.
Hager started out his career as a foreign correspondent in June 1969, reporting on the Vietnam war. He was soon assigned to NBC's Berlin bureau, where he continued to cover other foreign trouble spots, including the overthrow of the Iranian Shah in 1979 and the 1989 invasion of Panama by U.S. troops. Hager also covered four Olympic games for NBC, reporting from Germany during the Black September terrorist attacks of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. In 1984, he was arrested while reporting from the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
During the latter part of his career, Hager's focus shifted from foreign affairs to a wide range of domestic issues. Hager persuaded NBC to relocate him to the Washington DC bureau, but because all of the traditional political beats had already been filled, he decided to mold himself as a "consumer reporter." Hager had a unique sense of urgency in his reporting style which helped him carve out a niche in the areas of weather and transportation, aviation in particular. He reported on many major airline accidents, including TWA Flight 800 and Pan Am Flight 103. He also covered many of the major hurricanes that hit the United States during his 35-year tenure. During his years at the DC bureau, Hager became one of the most visible reporters on television.
Although he retired from daily reporting on November 5, 2004, Hager continued to file occasional reports for NBC News. He returned to the air to help cover the 2006 coal mine disaster in West Virginia. Because of his expertise in aviation accidents, Hager came back again to NBC Nightly News to report on the August 27, 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191 and the October 12, 2006 plane crash that killed Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle. In March 2014 he again returned to NBC to report on the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Hager returned to the air again in July 2014 (on MSNBC) to provide his expertise and commentary on the shoot down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in which 298 people died.
On Octo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi%20Galil | Zvi Galil (; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician. Galil served as the president of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. His research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity and cryptography. He has been credited with coining the terms stringology and sparsification. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
Early life and education
Zvi Galil was born in Tel Aviv in Mandatory Palestine in 1947. He completed both his B.Sc. (1970) and his M.Sc. (1971) in applied mathematics, both summa cum laude, at Tel Aviv University before earning his Ph.D. in computer science at Cornell University in 1975 under the supervision of John Hopcroft. He then spent a year working as a post-doctorate researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Career
From 1976 until 1995 he worked in the computer science department of Tel Aviv University, serving as its chair from 1979 to 1982. In 1982 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, serving as the chair of the computer science department from 1989-1994. From 1995-2007, he served as the dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science. In this position, he oversaw the naming of the school in honor of Chinese businessman Z. Y. Fu after a large donation was given in his name. At Columbia, he was appointed the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science in 1987, and the Morris and Alma A. Schapiro Dean of Engineering in 1995.
Galil served as the president of Tel Aviv University starting in 2007 (following Itamar Rabinovich), but resigned and returned to the faculty in 2009, and was succeeded by Joseph Klafter. He was named as the dean of Georgia Tech's college of computing on April 9, 2010. At Georgia Tech, together with Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun, Galil conceived of the college of computing's online Master of Science in computer science (OMSCS) program, and he led the faculty creation of the program. OMSCS went on to become the largest online master’s program in computer science in the United States. OMSCS has been featured in hundreds of articles, including a 2013 front-page article in The New York Times and 2021 interviews in The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Inside Higher Education noted that OMSCS "suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale". The Chronicle of Higher Education noted that OMSCS "may have the best chance of changing how much students pay for a traditional degree". Galil stepped down as dean and returned to a regular faculty position in June 2019. He now serves as the Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing and Executive Advisor to Online Programs at Georgia Tech.
Professional service
In 1982, Galil founded the Col |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu%20Spencer | Lulu Spencer is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, portrayed by Emme Rylan. Previously, Lulu was portrayed by child actress, Tessa Allen from 2004 to 2005. The role was most notably portrayed by Julie Marie Berman from 2005 to 2013. Rylan stepped into the role in 2013 and exited in 2020.
Originally introduced in 1994, under executive producer, Wendy Riche, and created by head writer Claire Labine, Lulu is the only daughter of Supercouple, Luke and Laura Spencer. Sent away for her own protection as a child, the character is rapidly aged into a teenager in 2005 with Julie Marie Berman in the role. Lulu, much like her mother garners the attention of every young man in town from her stepbrother, Dillon Quartermaine, to the nerdy Damian Spinelli. From 2006 to 2009, Lulu is embroiled in a love triangle with Logan Hayes, the son of her father's nemesis Scott Baldwin, and mob prince, Johnny Zacchara. Much of Lulu's life mirrors that of her mother's, as she also faces mental instability resulting from the accidental murder of a loved one, in Lulu's case, her ex-boyfriend, Logan.
In addition to her early romances, Lulu is also known for the show's first onscreen abortion as well her supercouple pairing with Dante Falconeri, and her rivalry turned friendship with Maxie Jones. Berman earned two Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series category for her portrayal of Lulu in 2009 and 2010, and a third for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2013.
Casting
Since her on-screen birth, Lulu was portrayed by several child actors; first by Amanda and Kerrianne Harrington from 1994 to 1995, then Clare and Maribel Moses, from March 1995 to September 1995, next by Alysin and Kelli Griffith from 1995 to 2001, followed by Stephanie Allen from September 11, 2001 to December 23, 2003. Child actress, Tessa Allen stepped into the role on April 19, 2004, and last appeared on June 17, 2005.
Julie Marie Berman joined the cast of General Hospital in the fall of 2005 as a SORASed Lulu, making her first appearance on October 28, 2005. The casting immediately garnered much attention due to Berman's strong resemblance to Genie Francis who played Laura; Lulu and Laura's strong resemblance was often mentioned within the series. In July 2012, Berman informed producers that she had no plans of renewing her contract when it expired in November. Despite no official word from ABC or Berman, rumors began to circulate that Berman was about to vacate the role. After months of speculation, on February 26, 2013, an issue of Soaps In Depth confirmed that Berman was indeed leaving the series and had just filmed her final scenes.
On March 6, 2013, TV Guide's Michael Logan hinted that an actor from General Hospital would be joining the cast of The Young and the Restless while a Y&R alum would be coming to GH on Twitter. Meanwhile, Jamey Giddens of Daytime Confidential reported that several sourc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%20Shikano | is a Japanese voice actress. She was born in Osaka, Japan, and enjoys cooking, piano, singing, and using the computer. She was married to fellow voice actor Tsuyoshi Takishita, with whom she worked together in the Warriors Orochi series, from 2009 until his death by motorcycle accident in 2013.
Notable Voice Acting Roles
Eiken - Miharu Shinonome (CD Drama only); Kika
Da Capo - Student (ep 10), Udon House Salesperson
Deception IV: Another Princess - Ephemera
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi - Attendant A (ep 9)
Rune Factory Frontier (Leona/Ganesha)
Ryū ga Gotoku 5: Yume Kanaeshi Mono (Honoka)
Summon Night: Craft Sword Monogatari 2 (video game) - Dina
Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi video games series - Gracia Hosokawa.
References
External links
Aoni Productions profile
Shikano Jun
Kobe University alumni
Living people
Voice actors from Osaka Prefecture
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Log%20Format | For computer log management, the Common Log Format, also known as the NCSA Common log format, (after NCSA HTTPd) is a standardized text file format used by web servers when generating server log files. Because the format is standardized, the files can be readily analyzed by a variety of web analysis programs, for example Webalizer and Analog.
Each line in a file stored in the Common Log Format has the following syntax:
host ident authuser date request status bytes
The format is extended by the Combined Log Format with referer and user-agent fields.
Example
127.0.0.1 user-identifier frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326
A dash () in a field indicates missing data.
is the IP address of the client (remote host) which made the request to the server.
is the RFC 1413 identity of the client. Usually "-".
is the userid of the person requesting the document. Usually "-" unless .htaccess has requested authentication.
is the date, time, and time zone that the request was received, by default in strftime format .
is the request line from the client. The method , the resource requested, and the HTTP protocol.
is the HTTP status code returned to the client. 2xx is a successful response, 3xx a redirection, 4xx a client error, and 5xx a server error.
is the size of the object returned to the client, measured in bytes.
Usage
Log files are a standard tool for computer systems developers and administrators. They record the "what happened, when, by whom" of the system. This information can record faults and help their diagnosis. It can identify security breaches and other computer misuse. It can be used for auditing. It can be used for accounting purposes.
The information stored is only available for later analysis if it is stored in a form that can be analysed. This data can be structured in many ways for analysis. For example, storing it in a relational database would force the data into a query-able format. However, it would also make it more difficult to retrieve if the computer crashed, and logging would not be available unless the database was available. A plain text format minimises dependencies on other system processes, and assists logging at all phases of computer operation, including start-up and shut-down, where such processes might be unavailable.
See also
Extended Log Format
Log management and intelligence
Web log analysis software
Web counter
Data logging
Syslog
References
External links
Log file formats |
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