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In computer science, an access control matrix or access matrix is an abstract, formal security model of protection state in computer systems, that characterizes the rights of each subject with respect to every object in the system. It was first introduced by Butler W. Lampson in 1971.
An access matrix can be envisioned as a rectangular array of cells, with one row per subject and one column per object. The entry in a cell – that is, the entry for a particular subject-object pair – indicates the access mode that the subject is permitted to exercise on the object. Each column is equivalent to an access control list for the object; and each row is equivalent to an access profile for the subject.
Definition
According to the model, the protection state of a computer system can be abstracted as a set of objects , that is the set of entities that needs to be protected (e.g. processes, files, memory pages) and a set of subjects , that consists of all active entities (e.g. users, processes). Further there exists a set of rights of the form , where , and . A right thereby specifies the kind of access a subject is allowed to process object.
Example
In this matrix example there exist two processes, two assets, a file, and a device. The first process is the owner of asset 1, has the ability to execute asset 2, read the file, and write some information to the device, while the second process is the owner of asset 2 and can read asset 1.
Utility
Because it does not define the granularity of protection mechanisms, the Access Control Matrix can be used as a model of the static access permissions in any type of access control system. It does not model the rules by which permissions can change in any particular system, and therefore only gives an incomplete description of the system's access control security policy.
An Access Control Matrix should be thought of only as an abstract model of permissions at a given point in time; a literal implementation of it as a two-dimensional array would have excessive memory requirements. Capability-based security and access control lists are categories of concrete access control mechanisms whose static permissions can be modeled using Access Control Matrices. Although these two mechanisms have sometimes been presented (for example in Butler Lampson's Protection paper) as simply row-based and column-based implementations of the Access Control Matrix, this view has been criticized as drawing a misleading equivalence between systems that does not take into account dynamic behaviour.
See also
Access control list (ACL)
Capability-based security
Computer security model
Computer security policy
References
Computer security models
Computer access control
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebML
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WebML (Web Modeling Language) is a visual notation and a methodology for designing complex data-intensive Web applications. It provides graphical, yet formal, specifications, embodied in a complete design process, which can be assisted by visual design tools.
In 2013 WebML has been extended to cover a wider spectrum of front-end interfaces, thus resulting in the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML), adopted as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG).
This method has five models: structure, derivation, composition, navigation, and presentation. These models are developed in an iterative process.
Concepts
WebML enables designers to express the core features of a site at a high level without committing to detailed architectural details. WebML concepts are associated with an intuitive graphic representation, which can be easily supported by CASE tools and effectively communicated to the non-technical members of the site development team (e.g., with the graphic designers and the content producers). WebML also supports an XML syntax, which instead can be fed to software generators for automatically producing the implementation of a Web site. The specification of a site in WebML consists of four orthogonal perspectives:
Structural Model: it expresses the data content of the site, in terms of the relevant entities and relationships. WebML does not propose yet another language for data modeling, but is compatible with classical notations like the E/R model, the ODMG object-oriented model, and UML class diagrams.
Hypertext Model: it describes one or more hypertexts that can be published in the site. Each different hypertext defines a so-called site view. Site view descriptions in turn consist of two sub-models.
Composition Model: it specifies which pages compose the hypertext, and which content units make up a page.
Navigation Model: it expresses how pages and content units are linked to form the hypertext. Links are either non-contextual, when they connect semantically independent pages (e.g., the page of an artist to the home page of the site), or contextual, when the content of the destination unit of the link depends on the content of the source unit.
Presentation Model: it expresses the layout and graphic appearance of pages, independently of the output device and of the rendition language, by means of an abstract XML syntax. Presentation specifications are either page-specific or generic.
Personalization Model: users and user groups are explicitly modeled in the structure schema in the form of predefined entities called User and Group. The features of these entities can be used for storing group-specific or individual content, like shopping suggestions, list of favorites, and resources for graphic customization.
Design Process
A typical design process using WebML proceeds by iterating the following steps for each design cycle:
Requirements Collection. Application requirements are gathered, which include the main objectives of the s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Network%20for%20Organ%20Sharing
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The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established () by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing. Located in Richmond, Virginia, the organization's headquarters are situated near the intersection of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64 in the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park.
Activities
United Network for Organ Sharing is involved in many aspects of the organ transplant and donation process:
Managing the national transplant waiting list, matching donors to recipients.
Maintaining the database that contains all organ transplant data for every transplant event that occurs in the U.S.
Bringing together members to develop policies that make the best use of the limited supply of organs and give all patients a fair chance at receiving the organ they need, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, religion, lifestyle, or financial/social status.
Monitoring every organ match to ensure organ allocation policies are followed.
Providing assistance to patients, family members and friends.
Educating transplant professionals about their important role in the donation and transplant processes.
Educating the public about the importance of organ donation.
History
United Network for Organ Sharing was awarded the initial Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network contract on September 30, 1986, and it is the only organization to ever manage the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
United Network for Organ Sharing provides the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network with a functional, effective management system incorporating the Board of Directors, committees and regional membership to operate OPTN elements and activities.
In late December 2013, it was announced that United Network for Organ Sharing had developed new policies and regulations governing the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ transplants, giving more Americans who are disfigured by injury or illness a chance at reconstruction. In July 2014, government regulations go into effect making hand and face transplants subject to the same oversight by United Network for Organ Sharing as heart or kidney transplants. The rules mean potential transplant recipients will be added to the United Network for Organ Sharing network, for matching of donated hands and face tissue to ensure correct tissue type and compatibility for skin color, size, gender and age. Transplants and their outcomes will be tracked.
In 2020, the Senate Finance Committee launched a bipartisan investigation into UNOS, seeking information into various abuses and patient harms. In 2022, the committee published a bipartisan report concluding that "From the top down, the U.S. transplant network is not working, putting Americans’ lives at risk.". UNOS has also come under intense scru
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm%20VII
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The Palm VII was a personal digital assistant made by the Palm Computing division of 3Com. The device featured an antenna used for wireless data communication, a first for a Palm device. Connectivity was provided through the Mobitex network, under the now defunct Palm.net service. Web Clipping applications, also known as Palm Query Applications (PQAs) made use of the network to request and post web data. The devices also provided PQA developers with the user's position, in the form of a zipcode, making the Palm VII the first web-enabled Location-Based Services mobile platform. The cost of service was $14.95 per month, and allowed a limited number of web pages to be viewed.
The Palm VII was the most expensive Palm sold to date, with unit pricing starting at US$599. Despite the high price tag, the Palm VII proved popular as one of the first truly wireless data-capable information devices.
References
Computer-related introductions in 1999
Palm OS devices
68k-based mobile devices
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20National%20Hockey%20Night%20%28video%20game%29
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ESPN National Hockey Night is a multiplatform traditional ice hockey simulation video game for the Super NES, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and personal computers with MS-DOS capabilities.
Gameplay
Like most ESPN games, there is an exhibition mode, a season mode, and a playoff mode. Most of the notable NHL players from the 1990s are included; though their real names are not used, the players' jersey numbers are matched up with the '93-'94 stats of the real world players who wore those numbers.
Reception
GamePro gave the Genesis version a mixed review. They highly praised the ability to switch between vertical and side views, the season mode options, and the adjustable difficulty settings, but criticized the music and "soupy" controls. They concluded that the game is good overall, but overshadowed by NHL 95, which came out at the same time.
Next Generation reviewed the Sega CD version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "ESPN NHL is good, very good, but it is not going to give EA's series anything to worry about, at least not for the moment."
See also
NHL FaceOff, Sony's successor for the PlayStation
References
1994 video games
DOS games
ESPN National Hockey League video games
North America-exclusive video games
Sega CD games
Sega Genesis games
Stormfront Studios games
Epic/Sony Records games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimose%20inscriptions
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Finds from Vimose (), on the island of Funen, Denmark, include some of the oldest datable Elder Futhark runic inscriptions in early Proto-Norse or late Proto-Germanic from the 2nd to 3rd century in the Scandinavian Iron Age and were written in the time of the Roman Empire.
Vimose Comb (, considered the oldest known datable runic inscription altogether): harja (ᚺᚨᚱᛃᚨ)
Vimose Buckle () aadagasu =? ansuz-a(n)dag-a(n)su / laasauwija =? la-a[n]sau-wija;
Vimose Chape (): mariha || [.]ala / makija; possibly "Mari (the famous one) is the sword of Alla"
Vimose Woodplane () talijo gisai oj: wiliz [..]la o[...] / tkbis: hleuno: an[.]: regu
Vimose Sheathplate (): ; possibly "son/descendant of Awa"
Vimose Spearhead: [w]agni[ŋ]o
See also
Illerup, a site of wetland depositions
Meldorf fibula, an item bearing an early runic inscription
Thorsberg moor, a site of wetland depositions
Wetlands and islands in Germanic paganism, religious importance of wetlands and depositions
References
External links
Runic inscriptions from the first period
Elder Futhark inscriptions
Proto-Norse language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTV
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ANTV (abbreviation from Andalas Televisi, stylised antv, formerly spelled ANteve before 2003) is an Indonesian free-to-air television network based in South Jakarta. It is owned by Visi Media Asia, a unit of Bakrie Group.
History
PT Cakrawala Andalas Televisi, operating as ANTV was launched on 1 January 1993 as a local television station in Lampung province. In the same month it was awarded a government license for nationwide broadcasting, and moved its studio to Jakarta.
The first programming it produced itself was live coverage of the general session of the People's Consultative Assembly on 1 March 1993.
On 29 September 2005, STAR TV (then-owned by Rupert Murdoch's first incarnation of News Corporation) bought a 20% stake in ANTV.
ANTV has 37 relay stations covering 155 cities across Indonesia and reaches 130 million people.
After the 77th Indonesian Independence Ceremony, ANTV switched from 4:3 into 16:9, beginning with the ANTV HD on 18 August 2022 during midnight programming. IndiHome TV and First Media carried the ANTV HD version a few days later in 2022.
All ANTV programming is produced in HD resolution after ANTV switched to HDTV.
There was the same with RCTI, MNCTV, GTV and iNews, when on November 3, 2022 analogue switch off was started in Jakarta. ANTV Jakarta transmitter still aired over PAL service while ANTV already turned to DVB-T2 services and later it shut down on November 4, 2022 after ASO ran a text on ANTV Jakarta analogue feed.
Sports programming
ANTV has shown 2014 FIFA World Cup, Indonesian Super League and Liga Indonesia Premier Division, as well as Formula One in and Grand Prix motorcycle racing until the 2001 season.
Between 2015 and 2022, ANTV did not air any sports programming, but retained an archive of classic sports events (primarily top-flight Indonesian soccer) it formerly aired live on their Lensa Olahraga YouTube channel, named after their former sports news program.
On July 16–17, 2022, ANTV aired a friendly match between Persija Jakarta vs RANS Nusantara F.C., marking a return of sports programming to the channel. and Persebaya vs PSIM. From September 2022, the network started airing One Pride MMA series, a local, network-owned mixed martial arts promotion, moving from tvOne.
ANTV also has shown 2022-23 Bundesliga from Saturday, February 4, 2023 with a match between Borussia Mönchengladbach against Schalke 04.
Slogans
Saat Paling Meng-asyik-kan (The Most Exciting Moment) (1993–1994)
Makin Asyik Acaranya! (The More Fun It Is!) (1994–1996)
Wow Keren! (Wow, It's Cool!) (1996–2003, 2011–2015)
Makin Keren (More Cooler) (2003–2005)
Makin Dinamis (More Dynamic) (2005–2006)
TV Ramah Buat Keluarga (Friendly TV for the family) (2006–2010)
Berkilau Bersama ANTV (Shining With ANTV) (2010–2011)
ANTV Keren (ANTV It's Cool) (2015–2021)
ANTV Lebih Berwarna (ANTV More Colorful) (2021–2022)
ANTV Rame (ANTV It's Crowded) (2022–present)
Anniversary slogans
12 Tahun Makin Dekat Makin Memikat (More Closer,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon%20Fighter%20Online
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Dungeon Fighter Online, known in South Korea as Dungeon & Fighter, is a multiplayer beat 'em up action role-playing game, developed and published for personal computers by Neople, a South Korean subsidiary of Nexon, and originally published by Hangame in 2005. The game was originally released in South Korea as Dungeon & Fighter, then in Japan as and then published in China by Tencent. In 2014, Neople began an alpha test of a global version of Dungeon Fighter Online using the last English version hosted by Nexon, which has since ended.
Dungeon Fighter Online is one of the most-played and highest-grossing video games of all time, with over players worldwide and over in lifetime revenue . This also makes it one of the highest-grossing entertainment media products of all time.
Gameplay
Dungeon Fighter Online is similar to 2D side-scrolling arcade hack and slash/beat 'em up games, such as Golden Axe or Double Dragon. Players traverse 2D screens while fighting hordes of monsters. There are a number of social aspects to Dungeon Fighter Online, including Guilds, PvP Arenas, Party Play.
Skills can be designated upon an upper row of hotkeys, that can be further expanded by the decision of the player. However, a player can choose to manually input the command to perform a certain skill; for example, a Blade Master can choose to press the assigned hotkey for the skill Draw Sword, but can also choose to perform its direct input. Directly inputting the skill (done by pressing the arrow keys in a certain sequence and then pressing the basic skill key) makes the skill cost less MP and lowers the cooldown of the skill (the time needed to wait to use the skill again) by a small amount. Skills are usually performed separately from normal combos; however, some skills are "cancellable," meaning that those skills can be used in the middle of normal attacks.
Development
Dungeon Fighter Online was developed by a South Korean company called Neople who previously only published a number of casual online games through their own game portal site. It was originally planned as a small game as the entire game was developed in five months based on the forecasted life expectancy. However, the response was better than they expected so the budget was increased and the game was expanded.
Extensive testing took place before the premiere launch in Korea. Three closed beta periods were held between December 17–31, 2004, February 1–13, 2005, and June 28 – July 11, 2005. Neople accepted only 999 players per test and allowed only one hundred minutes of gameplay per day. Content was fine-tuned and updated daily throughout the test period based on testers feedback. After a short hiatus, open beta commenced on August 10, 2005 at 3 pm. By 11 pm, there were over 15,000 concurrent users.
Even though many games being released at the time were 3D, Neople decided to create Dungeon Fighter Online in 2D because they did not believe it affected gameplay, they did not feel a 3D game could ca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20telnet
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Reverse telnet is a specialized application of telnet, where the server side of the connection reads and writes data to a computer terminal line (RS-232 serial port), rather than providing a command shell to the host device. Typically, reverse telnet is implemented on an embedded device (e.g. terminal/console server), which has an Ethernet network interface and serial port(s). Through the use of reverse telnet on such a device, IP-networked users can use telnet to access serially-connected devices.
In the past, reverse telnet was typically used to connect to modems or other external asynchronous devices. Today, reverse telnet is used mostly for connecting to the console port of a router, a switch or other device.
Example
On the client, the command line for initiating a "reverse telnet" connection might look like this:
telnet 172.16.1.254 2002
(The syntax in the above example would be valid for the command-line telnet client packaged with many operating systems, including most Unix operating systems, or available as an option or add-on.)
In this example, 172.16.1.254 is the IP address of the console device, and 2002 is the TCP port associated with a terminal line on the server.
See also
Terminal server
Console server
Internet protocols
Internet Protocol based network software
Telnet
Unix network-related software
Out-of-band management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQPX-TV
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WQPX-TV (channel 64) is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to Northeastern Pennsylvania. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton, and its transmitter is located on Bald Mountain, northwest of Scranton and I-476.
WQPX-TV operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 49 that is licensed to Waymart with a transmitter in Forest City. It exists because wind turbines run by NextEra Energy Resources at the Waymart Wind Farm interfere with the transmission of full-power television signals.
History
WQPX began broadcasting May 18, 1998, with test broadcasts; the official sign on took place June 1. Before WQPX signed on, the station's call sign was WSWB-TV, first used on channel 38 in the early 1980s (before its own sign-on) and currently used on that same station today. WSWB initially planned to sign on in July 1997, but delayed its launch so that it could construct a 5,000,000-watt signal to increase its must carry reach. Initially, WQPX aired Paxson's InfoMall format of infomercials and religious programming; on August 31, 1998, the station became one of the launch stations for Pax TV (the forerunner to Ion).
On October 5, 1998, WQPX added a secondary affiliation with UPN as part of a group deal between Paxson Communications and UPN; the network's programming aired in late night, following Pax's prime time lineup. UPN programming had previously aired in weekend late night timeslots on CBS affiliate WYOU (channel 22). WQPX dropped UPN in 1999.
The New York Times Company, then-owner of ABC affiliate WNEP-TV, announced plans to take over WQPX's advertising sales through a joint sales agreement in October 2000; the agreement came after negotiations with NBC affiliate WBRE-TV (channel 28) fell through. The arrangement with WNEP ended on June 30, 2005, after Paxson Communications terminated all joint sales agreements involving its stations.
Newscasts
From 2001 to 2005, WQPX aired rebroadcasts of newscasts from ABC affiliate WNEP-TV (channel 16) instead of airing newscasts from NBC affiliate WBRE-TV (channel 28).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WQPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 64, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 64, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
References
External links
Ion Television affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Court TV affiliates
Grit (TV
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Bowden%20%28baseball%29
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James Goodwin Bowden IV (born May 18, 1961) is an American baseball analyst. He is a co-host of SiriusXM's "Inside Pitch" on MLB Network Radio and a columnist for The Athletic. He previously worked for ESPN, writing a blog for ESPN.com titled "The GM's Office". He used to be a host and co-host on Fox Sports Radio, a baseball analyst for FoxSports.com and a Baseball Insider for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels for Fox Sports West. He has held positions of senior vice president and general manager for both the Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals. On October 16, 1992 he became the youngest general manager in baseball history. He was named MLB Executive of the Year by Baseball America in 1999. Bowden's teams finished in first place in 1994 and 1995. Bowden has also worked in television for ESPN and Fox Sports West as well as local television and radio stations in both Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.
Early life and career
Bowden was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Weston, Massachusetts and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He graduated from Rollins College in 1983 with a B.A. degree in communications and business administration. He was the sports director at the college radio station as well doing the play by play for both the baseball and soccer teams. His broadcast partners included Chris "Mad Dog" Russo (Class of 1982). His entry to professional baseball came as an assistant in the Pittsburgh Pirates media relations department in 1985. He was a former college roommate of Squire Galbreath, whose father Dan and grandfather John were the principal owners of the Pirates. General manager Syd Thrift was impressed with Bowden and asked him to join the Pirates' baseball operations department as an administrator. Bowden computerized the Pirates' scouting files, and became a protégé to Thrift. He followed Thrift to the New York Yankees, and eventually moved to the Cincinnati Reds where he was later promoted by the Reds Owner, Marge Schott, to general manager. He also served as team president during her suspension in 1993.
General manager
His first role as a general manager was with the Cincinnati Reds at age 31 in 1992. When he took this position, he was the youngest general manager in the history of Major League Baseball. Bowden was named Major League Executive of the Year in 1999 by The Sporting News after leading one of the lowest payroll teams in baseball to 96 wins. In 1993 Bowden fired rookie manager Tony Pérez after only 44 games. Perez was a star player in Cincinnati and immensely popular with Reds fans. At the time, it was the earliest firing of a first-year manager in 65 years. The firing drew significant criticism from Cincinnati fans. However, he replaced Perez with Davey Johnson, who went on to lead the Reds to a division title in 1995. In 1998 Bowden traded Jeff Shaw to the Los Angeles Dodgers for infielder Paul Konerko and left-hander Dennys Reyes. This move was met with shock in the Cincinnati area as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridiano%20Televisi%C3%B3n
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Meridiano Televisión is a 24-hour sports network in Venezuela.
History
Meridiano Televisión was created in 1996 as a privately owned television network in Venezuela, exclusively dedicated to national and international sports. Its owned by Bloque De Armas, a company that is also the owner the newspaper, Diario Meridiano, which also specializes in sports.
With many similarities to the sport network ESPN, Meridiano Televisión transmits almost all sporting events, mainly baseball (the Major League of Baseball and the Venezuelan League of Professional Baseball) because it is considered to be the Venezuelan national sport. Also, sporting events that are popular in Venezuela and that are widely seen on Meridiano Televisión are Venezuela First Division games, the Spanish La Liga, the AFF Cup, the AFC Cup and the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Euro 2012 among others.
Programming
The most watched programs on Meridiano Televisión are:
Noticiero Meridiano (3 broadcasts a day)
Solo Basket
External links
Official website
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television networks in Venezuela
Television stations in Venezuela
Spanish-language television stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViVe
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ViVe (Visión Venezuela) is a cultural television network funded by the Venezuelan national government that was inaugurated on November 11, 2003 and whose objective consists of spreading information related to achievements made by Hugo Chávez’s political process and the encouragement of Venezuela's culture. Recently, the Venezuelan government has been working towards making ViVe’s signal be seen in all of the country, by acquiring new equipment, antennas, and adequate installations.
ViVe maintains its goal of showing the work of independent producers, and keeps self-financed productions aimed at showing the realities of Venezuelan people "From the inside", in form of short documentaries with a bare-bones approach, therefore needing little production skills to show un-edited versions of the facts, showed off by their own characters.
ViVe TV started by the guiding hand of Blanca Eekhout, formerly of Catia TVe (A local community channel in the neighborhood of Catia in Caracas) and due to her work at ViVe, Mrs. Eekhout earned some time as the president of the bigger state-owned Venezolana de Television. Her staying there, though, was controversial, starting with the implementation of a newer graphical image which most people disliked, and the mellowing of the once combative line of work. Mrs. Eekhout was retired from charge in early 2006, and ViVe TV remains in the hands of her former helping team.
ViVe's address is: Av. Panteón, Foro Libertador, Edf. Biblioteca Nacional, AP-4, Altagracia, Caracas.
Television networks in Venezuela
Bolivarian Communication and Information System
Television stations in Venezuela
Publicly funded broadcasters
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJMR
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CJMR is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multicultural programming at AM 1320. Although officially licensed to Mississauga, Ontario, it currently broadcasts from studios in Oakville. CJMR's studios are located on Church Street in downtown Oakville, while its transmitters are located along Dundas Street West near Third Line Road on the northwest side of Oakville.
Originally a daytimer on AM 1190, CJMR was launched in 1974 by the owners of CHWO. In 1990, the station moved to its current frequency and began a 24-hour broadcast schedule. Formerly a mixture of multilingual and Christian programming, CJMR moved to exclusively multilingual programming in 2001 when the religious programming moved to the new CJYE.
In 1986, the station was denied a licence to move to the FM dial. CJMR and CHMB are the only stations in Canada which broadcast on 1320 AM.
CJMR's programming is mainly South Asian (Hindi and Punjabi) with some Croatian, Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Urdu programming in the evenings and on weekends.
References
External links
CJMR 1320
Mass media in Mississauga
JMR
JMR
Radio stations established in 1974
1974 establishments in Ontario
Indo-Canadian culture
Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario
Indian diaspora mass media
Hindi-language radio stations
Urdu-language radio stations
Punjabi-language radio stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow
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Glow or GLOW may refer to:
In science and technology
In computing and telecommunications
Glow (JavaScript library), an open-source JavaScript library created by the BBC
Glow (Scottish Schools National Intranet), a telecommunications project in Scotland
In physics
Incandescence, the emission of electromagnetic radiation from a hot object
Luminescence, any form of light emission not resulting from heat
List of light sources
Other uses in science and technology
Glow or Bloom (shader effect), computer graphics effect
GLOW (gross lift-off weight), see maximum takeoff weight
In arts and entertainment
In film and television
The Glow (film), a 2002 TV film starring Portia de Rossi
Glow (2000 film), a film starring Frankie Ingrassia
Glow (2011 film), a film starring Tony Lo Bianco
The Glow (TV series), a 2000s television series starring Dean Cain
GLOW TV, a syndicated televised version of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling events from 1986 to 1990 with 104 episodes
GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a 2012 documentary about the 1980s TV show
GLOW (TV series), a 2017 comedy-drama series based on the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
In music
Albums
Glow (Al Jarreau album), 1976
Glow (Brett Eldredge album), 2016
Glow (Andy Hunter album), 2012
Glow (Donavon Frankenreiter album), 2010
Glow (The Innocence Mission album), 1995
Glow (Jackson and His Computerband album), 2013
Glow (Joey Yung album), or the title song, 2007
Glow (Kaki King album), 2012
Glow (Raven album), 1994
Glow (Reef album), 1997
Glow (Rick James album), 1985
Glow (Tensnake album), 2014
The Glow (Bonnie Raitt album), 1979
The Glow (DMA's album), 2020
The Glow Pt. 2, by The Microphones, 2001
Songs
"Glow" (Drake song), 2017
"Glow" (Ella Henderson song), 2014
"Glow" (Jessica Mauboy song), 2021
"Glow" (Kelly Clarkson and Chris Stapleton song), 2021
"Glow" (Madcon song), 2010
"Glow" (Rick James song), 1985
"Glow" (Spandau Ballet song), 1981
"G.L.O.W." (song), by Smashing Pumpkins, 2008
"Glow", by Alien Ant Farm from Truant, 2003
"Glow", by Donna De Lory from In the Glow, 2003
"Glow", by Gavin James, 2018
"Glow", by Kelis from Tasty, 2003
"Glow", by Kylie and Garibay from Sleepwalker, 2014
"Glow", by Kym Marsh from Standing Tall, 2003
"Glow", by Nelly Furtado from Loose, 2006
"Glow", by Retro Stefson, 2012
"Glow", by Salvador Sobral from Excuse Me, 2016
"Glow", by Stray Kids from Mixtape, 2018
"The Glow", by the Microphones from It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water, 2000
"The Glow Pt. 2", by the Microphones from The Glow Pt. 2, 2001
Other uses in arts and entertainment
Glow, a 2014 book by Ned Beauman
glow (magazine), a Canadian beauty and health magazine
GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling), wrestling promotion
GLOW (Greenville Light Opera Works), operetta company
Glow (video game), a game developed by Empty Clip Studios for the iPhone
GLOW Festival Eindhoven
Other uses
GLOW (linguistics society), a linguistics society i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAR
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SCAR may refer to:
FN SCAR (Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle)
SCAR, ICAO airport code for Chacalluta International Airport in Arica, Chile
SCAR, used by some athletic sports networks to refer to the South Carolina Gamecocks
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, part of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, generated around 80,000 pension applications from soldiers who participated
Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo, European name of the video game Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano
Sub-Caliber Aircraft Rocket, a U.S. Navy training rocket
Supercheap Auto Racing, sponsor for several Australian-based racing teams
See also
Scar (disambiguation)
Scarred (disambiguation)
SCARS (disambiguation)
fr:Scar
it:Scar (disambigua)
pl:Blizna (ujednoznacznienie)
pt:Scar
tr:Scar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXmate
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VAXmate was an IBM PC/AT compatible personal computer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in September, 1986. The replacement to the Rainbow 100, in its standard form it was the first commercial diskless personal computer.
OS and files
The operating system and files could be served from a VAX/VMS server running the company's VAX/VMS Services for MS-DOS software, which went through several name changes, finally becoming Pathworks. Alternatively an optional expansion box containing either 20 MB or 40 MB hard disk could be purchased which allowed it to operate as a more conventional stand-alone PC.
Original specifications
The basic system contained an 8 MHz Intel 80286 CPU with 1 Mbyte of RAM, a 1.2 MB RX33 5¼-inch floppy disk drive, a 14-inch (diagonal) amber or green monochrome CRT and a thinwire Ethernet interface all contained in the system unit. It was also provided with a parallel printer port and a serial communications port. A separate mouse and LK250 keyboard was used with the device.
As well as the expansion box, an 80287 numeric coprocessor could be ordered as an option, and the memory could be expanded by 2 MB with another option to 3 MB. In North America, an internal modem was also available.
DECstation
It was superseded by the DECstation 200 and 300 in January 1989.
References
Notes
External links
VAXmate at research.microsoft.com
IBM PC compatibles
DEC computers
Computer-related introductions in 1986
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20processor
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Content processors are sometimes confused with network processors that inspect the packet payload of an IP packet travelling through a computer network. These components allow for the design and deployment of next-generation networking systems that can make packet or message processing decisions based on an awareness of the packet or message content. The work of Content Processors is often termed Content Processing or Deep Packet Inspection, DPI, though some people feel that the expression DPI is too limiting as many Content Processors can modify and re-write content on the fly - therefore they can do much more than just inspect which implies a sort of monitoring only function.
Unlike knowledge based processors or Ternary Content-addressable memory (TCAMS), which mainly target the packet header (twenty percent of the packet currently comprises the header), content processors go much further into the packet or message thereby determining the nature of the content in the packet itself (80% of the packet currently is data).
Applications of content processors include: layer 7 application, application-oriented networks switches, routers, unified threat management (UTM) computer appliances, Intrusion Detection, prevention systems (IDS/IPS), anti-virus, compliance, [VOIP] and XML gateways. The various layers of the OSI model are given in the link that follows with a description of layer 7 where content processing is and will become and integral part of the intelligent network as the next generation networks mature.
Advanced Content Processors can both examine and transform content. For example: Microsoft's new Office 2007 product has the ability to save documents in an open XML format, instead of .ppt, .xls and .doc applications will save to an encapsulated (actually ZIP) file type named .pptx, .xlsx and .docx. So a content processor could be used to examine all of a corporations documents and replace one company name with another, or change an included corporate logo - all because the structured data represented in XML can be manipulated much more easily than a proprietary and undocumented format. XML is often described as a self-describing language.
Some Content Processors support the ability to handle both message-based or packet-by-packet analysis and some can keep track of content across multiple packets so that the signatures they may be searching for can cross packet boundaries and they will still be found.
See also
Network processor
Multi core Processor
Knowledge based processor
External links
Tarari Content Processors
Networking hardware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JXplorer
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JXplorer is a free, open-source client for browsing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers and LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files. It is released under an Apache-equivalent license. JXplorer is written in Java and is platform independent, configurable, and has been translated into a number of languages. In total, as of 2018, JXplorer has been downloaded over 2 million times from SourceForge and is bundled with several Linux distributions.
Several common Linux distributions include JXplorer Software for LDAP server administration. The software also runs on BSD-variants, AIX, HP-UX, OS X, Solaris, Windows (2000, XP) and z/OS.
Key features are:
SSL, SASL and GSSAPI
DSML
LDIF
Localisation (currently available in German, French, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian);
Optional LDAP filter constructor GUI; extensible architecture
The primary authors and maintainers are Chris Betts and Trudi Ersvaer, originally both working in the CA (then Computer Associates) Directory (now CA Directory) software lab in Melbourne, Australia. Version 3.3, the '10th Anniversary Edition' was released in July 2012.
See also
List of LDAP software
References
External links
Directory services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Device%20Control%20Protocol
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Network Device Control Protocol (NDCP) was designed by Laurent Grumbach who at the time was an engineer with Harris Broadcast. Previous to that he had worked for Louth Automation which was acquired by Harris. NDCP was designed to be a network based protocol instead of the traditional serial connection protocols to Broadcast devices. NDCP was an XML compliant protocol and loosely based on the concepts of SOAP. The intent was that vendors would standardize their Broadcast devices on a single protocol instead of each vendor offering proprietary protocols for their devices. The use of a network based protocol would also allow the devices to be remote from the controlling application and not limited by the connection length of an RS422 serial line.
External links
Harris Corporation Launches New, Network-Based Automation Protocol for Controlling Broadcast Audio and Video Devices
RDD 38:2016 - SMPTE Registered Disclosure Docs - Networked Device Control Protocol — Message Data Structure and Method of Communication
Network protocols
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICPC-2%20PLUS
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ICPC-2 PLUS is an extended terminology classified to ICPC-2 International Classification of Primary Care, which aids data entry, retrieval and analysis. ICPC-2 PLUS takes into account the frequency distribution of problems seen in primary health care. It allows for the classification of the patient's reason for encounter (RFE), the problems/diagnosis managed, primary care interventions, and the ordering of the data of the primary care session in an episode of care structure.
ICPC-2 PLUS provides a list of possible terms matching a keyword (or start of a keyword) entered by the user. The user then selects the most appropriate term. Each term is already classified to ICPC-2 rubrics and a system of additional groupers that may include terms from multiple ICPC-2 rubrics.
Each term has one or more keywords linked to it which may include abbreviations, synonyms, generics or specifics. The keyword searching is thus much broader, faster and better controlled than text mining of free text and labels. Instead of guessing what the physician meant by a term (in free text) prior to classification, the physician is actually prompted with a small list of terms to select from which are already classified.
The product also includes a "natural language" label for each term which can be used for reports and letters.
Note: The PLUS extension mentioned here is not part of the ICPC-2 standard. The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and the WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC) have no control over it although they do have control over the ICPC classification which the PLUS extension makes use of. It is similar to the difference between a car and fuel.
History
ICPC-2 PLUS was the successor to 'ICPC PLUS' and were both designed by the Family Medicine Research Centre(FMRC) for use in Australia. ICPC 2 PLUS responsibility was transferred to the NCCH () in July 2016 which continues to update and support ICPC-2 PLUS.
ICPC is being developed by the WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC), and the first version was published as ICPC-1 in 1987 by Oxford University Press (OUP), and a revision and inclusion of criteria and definitions, was published in 1998 as ICPC-2.
See also
Classification of Pharmaco-Therapeutic Referrals
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)
International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2)
Medical classification
Medical record
Electronic medical record
WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC)
References
External links
ICPC-2 PLUS Introduction (NCCH)
ICPC story (WICC)
ICPC-2 Introduction (ULB) (out-of-date, please use other links)
Medical manuals
Diagnosis codes
Clinical procedure classification
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20operator
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A computer operator is a role in IT which oversees the running of computer systems, ensuring that the machines, and computers are running properly. The job of a computer operator as defined by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics is to "monitor and control ... and respond to ... enter commands ... set controls on computer and peripheral devices. This Excludes Data Entry."
Overview
The position has evolved from its beginnings in the punched card era. A Bureau of Labor Statistics report published in 2018 showed that, in the public sector, a major employer of those categorized as Computer Operator was United States Postal Service. In the private sector, companies involved in data processing, hosting, or related services employed computer operators at an even higher rate. The states with the highest employment for computer operators, as of 2018, are: New York, Texas, California, New Jersey, and Florida.
Job role description
The former role of a computer operator was to work with mainframe computers which required a great deal of management day-to-day including manually running batch jobs; however, now they often work with a variety of different systems and applications. The computer operator normally works in a server room or a data center, but can also work remotely so that they can operate systems across multiple sites. Most of their duties are taught on the job, as their job description will vary according to the systems they help to manage.
Responsibilities of a computer operator may include:
Monitor and control electronic computer and peripheral electronic data processing equipment to process business, scientific, engineering, and other data according to operating instructions.
Monitor and respond to operating and error messages.
May enter commands at a computer terminal and set controls on computer and peripheral devices.
Excludes "Computer Occupations" (15-1100) and "Data Entry Keyers" (43-9021).
The role also includes maintaining records and logging events, listing each backup that is run, each machine malfunction and program abnormal termination. Operators assist system administrators and programmers in testing and debugging of new systems and programs prior to their becoming production environments.
Modern-day computing has led to a greater proliferation of personal computers, with a rapid change from older mainframe systems to newer self-managing systems. This is reflected in the operator's role. Tasks may include managing the backup systems, cycling tapes or other media, filling and maintaining printers. Overall the operator fills in as a lower level system administrator or operations analyst. Most operations departments work 24x7.
A computer operator also has knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity procedures. Formerly, this would have meant sending physical data tapes offsite, but now the data is more than likely transmitted over computer networks.
Specializations
Console operator
A console operator in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Eckersley%20%28designer%29
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Richard Hilton Eckersley (20 February 1941 – 16 April 2006) was a graphic designer best known for experimental computerized typography designed to complement deconstructionist academic works.
Born in Lancashire, England, his father Tom Eckersley was a noted poster designer during and after the Second World War, later to become head of the School of Art and Design at the London College of Printing in the 1960s. After attending Trinity College in Dublin, Eckersley began his design career at Lund Humphries, the publisher of Typographica and The Penrose Annual, where E. McKnight Kauffer had once been art director.
He later joined the state-sponsored Kilkenny Design Workshops in Ireland. After six years there, Eckersley took a teaching position in the United States, and in 1981 he got a job at the University of Nebraska Press, where he shook up the field with computer-designed typography for Avital Ronell's Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. The unorthodox design had the intended effect of breaking up the text's readability.
References
Heller, Steven (April 19, 2006). "Richard Eckersley, 65, Graphic Designer, Dies". The New York Times.
External links
Richard Eckersley Website
Essay by Roy R Behrens
In Remembrance of Richard Eckersley by Bill Regier
Richard Eckersley, 65, Graphic Designer, Dies by Steven Heller
Obituary in the Guardian
1941 births
2006 deaths
British graphic designers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phophonyane%20Falls%20Nature%20Reserve
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The Phophonyane Falls Nature Reserve is a scenic, 600 ha large nature reserve and tourist destination near Piggs Peak, Eswatini.
A network of footpaths through the Gobolondlo forest reaches meandering watercourses which lead to the main attraction of the reserve - the 80 m high Phophonyane Falls. This waterfall has formed on a steep section of exposed gneiss. The Phophonyane River in this area falls per some 240 m over the distance of 2 km.
Some of the oldest rocks in the world, dated at 3.55 billion years, are exposed at the waterfall.
References
External links
Phophonyane Falls Ecolodge and Nature Reserve
Geography of Eswatini
Geology of Eswatini
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Felony%20Squad
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The Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966, to January 31, 1969.
Overview
Sergeant Sam Stone and Detective Jim Briggs are investigators in a major crimes unit in an unidentified West Coast city. (L.A. City Hall is shown at dusk in the final scene of the opening credits). Duff's character was the veteran who was teaching his younger partner the nuances of life in this new facet of police work. Another main character was desk sergeant Dan Briggs, the father of Cole's character.
Originally titled Men Against Evil, the show was set to be a soap opera-type program that would have been broadcast two nights per week. By March 1966 Stone's alcoholic wife and other "main female characters" were removed, with the focus of the program changed from personal lives of policemen to the work of the police. In addition, following primary sponsor Liggett & Myers' objection about being associated with the word "evil," the show's title was changed.
Regular Cast
Howard Duff as Detective Sgt. Sam Stone
Dennis Cole as Detective Jim Briggs
Ben Alexander as Desk Sgt. Dan Briggs
Frank Maxwell as Captain Frank Nye (1966–1967)
Barney Phillips as Captain Ed Franks (1967–1969)
Robert DoQui as Detective Cliff Sims (1968–1969)
Len Wayland as District Attorney Adam Fisher (recurring)
Guest Stars
Joe Don Baker as Shep in "My Mommy Got Lost" (1967)
Francis De Sales as Harmon in "The Broken Badge" (1966)
Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., as Pepe Enciras in "Epitaph for a Cop" (1968)
Don Keefer as Harry Jocelyn in "A Most Proper Killing" (1967)
Ricky Kelman as Donny Clement in "The Fatal Hours" (1968)
John M. Pickard as Cahill in "A Blueprint for Dying" (1968)
Eric Shea as Mike Bradley in "A Date with Terror" (1966)
Brooke Bundy as Betty Joyce in "The Deadly Innocents" (1968)
Lana Wood as Sherry Martin in "The Last Man in the World" (1967)
Episodes
Season 1: 1966–67
Season 2: 1967–68
Season 3: 1968–69
Production
The show was filmed in Los Angeles locations.
From the show's debut until September 1968, it was broadcast on Monday nights from 9 to 9:30 Eastern Time. In the Fall of 1968 it was switched to Fridays from 8:30 to 9 E.T. The program was cancelled at midseason after just thirteen aired episodes. The final episode of the series was part of a crossover with the ABC legal drama Judd, for the Defense, starring Carl Betz, which was cancelled at the end of its season after a two-year run.
Alexander's role in the series was not only onscreen but also offscreen as a technical adviser. His earlier work with Jack Webb in Dragnet was the basis for this added position, but resulted in his inability to reprise his role of Officer Frank Smith when Webb revived Dragnet in late 1966. He died of a heart attack less than six months after The Felony Squad left the air.
The Felony Squad was sponsored by L&M cigarettes, as seen on the 1967 episode "The Day of the Shark Part 1".
20th-C
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundTracker%20%28Unix%29
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SoundTracker is a free tracker for Unix-like operating systems running X Window System for composing music to be saved in module files.
Description
Its name is a tribute to the 1987 Amiga program Ultimate Soundtracker which is regarded as the first program of this type, while its user interface mostly resembles and indeed functionally mimics Fast Tracker, one of many popular MS-DOS-based audio trackers, supporting saving in its file formats. It generally renders playback using the OpenCP (à la Cubic Player) engine. Initially SoundTracker had used GTK+ (version 1) as its widget toolkit, modern versions (since 1.0.0) use GTK+ 2. For many years, SoundTracker was one of the very few mature audio trackers available for Unix-like operating systems.
References
Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Andrew J.D. Bowman, (August 9, 2002) Building Sounds for your Applications with SoundTracker, LinuxPlanet
David Phillips, (January 1, 2001) A Profile of SoundTracker, Linux Journal
External links
Audio trackers
Free audio software
Audio editing software that uses GTK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDOS
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IMDOS was a modified version of the CP/M operating system for Intel 8080 processors, used by IMS Associates, Inc. (IMS) for their IMSAI 8080 personal computer. Since MITS would not license their operating system to other manufacturers, IMS approached Gary Kildall and paid a fixed fee of $25,000 for a non-exclusive CP/M license.
IMDOS introduced interrupt-driven devices, tree-structured directories, and other advances to CP/M.
References
CP/M variants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald%20summation
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Ewald summation, named after Paul Peter Ewald, is a method for computing long-range interactions (e.g. electrostatic interactions) in periodic systems. It was first developed as the method for calculating the electrostatic energies of ionic crystals, and is now commonly used for calculating long-range interactions in computational chemistry. Ewald summation is a special case of the Poisson summation formula, replacing the summation of interaction energies in real space with an equivalent summation in Fourier space. In this method, the long-range interaction is divided into two parts: a short-range contribution, and a long-range contribution which does not have a singularity. The short-range contribution is calculated in real space, whereas the long-range contribution is calculated using a Fourier transform. The advantage of this method is the rapid convergence of the energy compared with that of a direct summation. This means that the method has high accuracy and reasonable speed when computing long-range interactions, and it is thus the de facto standard method for calculating long-range interactions in periodic systems. The method requires charge neutrality of the molecular system to accurately calculate the total Coulombic interaction. A study of the truncation errors introduced in the energy and force calculations of disordered point-charge systems is provided by Kolafa and Perram.
Derivation
Ewald summation rewrites the interaction potential as the sum of two terms,
where represents the short-range term whose sum quickly converges in real space and represents the long-range term whose sum quickly converges in Fourier (reciprocal) space. The long-ranged part should be finite for all arguments (most notably r = 0) but may have any convenient mathematical form, most typically a Gaussian distribution. The method assumes that the short-range part can be summed easily; hence, the problem becomes the summation of the long-range term. Due to the use of the Fourier sum, the method implicitly assumes that the system under study is infinitely periodic (a sensible assumption for the interiors of crystals). One repeating unit of this hypothetical periodic system is called a unit cell. One such cell is chosen as the "central cell" for reference and the remaining cells are called images.
The long-range interaction energy is the sum of interaction energies between the charges of a central unit cell and all the charges of the lattice. Hence, it can be represented as a double integral over two charge density fields representing the fields of the unit cell and the crystal lattice
where the unit-cell charge density field is a sum over the positions of the charges in the central unit cell
and the total charge density field is the same sum over the unit-cell charges and their periodic images
Here, is the Dirac delta function, , and are the lattice vectors and , and range over all integers. The total field can be represented as a convolutio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnov%27s%20Revenge
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Karnov's Revenge is a 1994 fighting game developed by Data East, released for the Neo Geo. It is the second game in the Fighter's History series. The game was later ported to the Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD and Sega Saturn home consoles.
Gameplay
While the previous game was similar to Street Fighter'''s 6-button setup, the gameplay system of Karnov's Revenge is akin to SNK's fighting games such as Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury. Due to change of hardware to SNK's MVS platform, the control configuration was reduced from six attack buttons to just four (only light and heavy attacks are available this time).
A new gameplay feature is introduced in the form of "one-two attacks". When the player presses a heavy attack button while performing a light attack or blocking, the interval between light attacks is reduced, making combos easier to perform. While this feature is not mentioned on the instruction card, the final page of the home Neo Geo version's manual mentions it, describing as the "one-two attack" system.
All eleven fighters from the previous game return (including the bosses Clown and Karnov, who are now playable) and are joined by two new characters: Yungmie, a female taekwondo exponent from Korea, and Zazie, a karate practitioner from Kenya, for a total of 13 characters. Karnov is the only returning character who was given entirely new sprites. Most of the returning characters were given new special techniques (with a few exceptions), including hidden techniques which are not listed on the instruction card (the manual for the home version hints at their inclusion). The Ox that appeared in the bonus rounds in Karate Champ appears in this game as a secret boss if the player completes the game on the Normal setting or above without losing a round. The Ox is an unplayable character.
Release
The game was originally released in Japanese arcades on March 7, 1994, while Neo Geo home console version arrived on April 28. In addition to the ports for the Neo Geo home consoles, Karnov's Revenge was released for the Sega Saturn exclusively in Japan on July 4, 1997. The Saturn version allows players to assign all four basic attacks into a single button (C and Z by default), which is required for certain characters in order to perform certain special moves. A Virtual Console reissue of the Neo Geo version was released for the Wii in Japan on June 8, 2010 and in North America on December 27. It was also added to Zeebo on April 23, 2010. In 2017, Hamster Corporation released the game on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One under its Arcade Archives series.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Karnov's Revenge on their April 15, 1994 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month. In North America, RePlay reported Karnov's Revenge to be the ninth most-popular arcade game at the time.
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the Neo Geo version of the game a 25 out of 40. GamePro rated it as a modest improvement over t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand%20index
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The Rand index or Rand measure (named after William M. Rand) in statistics, and in particular in data clustering, is a measure of the similarity between two data clusterings. A form of the Rand index may be defined that is adjusted for the chance grouping of elements, this is the adjusted Rand index. The Rand index is the accuracy of determining if a link belongs within a cluster or not.
Rand index
Definition
Given a set of elements and two partitions of to compare, , a partition of S into r subsets, and , a partition of S into s subsets, define the following:
, the number of pairs of elements in that are in the same subset in and in the same subset in
, the number of pairs of elements in that are in different subsets in and in different subsets in
, the number of pairs of elements in that are in the same subset in and in different subsets in
, the number of pairs of elements in that are in different subsets in and in the same subset in
The Rand index, , is:
Intuitively, can be considered as the number of agreements between and and as the number of disagreements between and .
Since the denominator is the total number of pairs, the Rand index represents the frequency of occurrence
of agreements over the total pairs, or the probability that and
will agree on a randomly chosen pair.
is calculated as .
Similarly, one can also view the Rand index as a measure of the percentage of correct decisions made by the algorithm. It can be computed using the following formula:
where is the number of true positives, is the number of true negatives, is the number of false positives, and is the number of false negatives.
Properties
The Rand index has a value between 0 and 1, with 0 indicating that the two data clusterings do not agree on any pair of points and 1 indicating that the data clusterings are exactly the same.
In mathematical terms, a, b, c, d are defined as follows:
, where
, where
, where
, where
for some
Relationship with classification accuracy
The Rand index can also be viewed through the prism of binary classification accuracy over the pairs of elements in . The two class labels are " and are in the same subset in and " and " and are in different subsets in and ".
In that setting, is the number of pairs correctly labeled as belonging to the same subset (true positives), and is the number of pairs correctly labeled as belonging to different subsets (true negatives).
Adjusted Rand index
The adjusted Rand index is the corrected-for-chance version of the Rand index. Such a correction for chance establishes a baseline by using the expected similarity of all pair-wise comparisons between clusterings specified by a random model. Traditionally, the Rand Index was corrected using the Permutation Model for clusterings (the number and size of clusters within a clustering are fixed, and all random clusterings are generated by shuffling the elements between the fixed clusters). However, the premises
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUCN
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CUCN or China-US Cable Network was a submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It was retired from service in December 2016.
It has landing points in:
Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Fangshan, Pingtung County, Taiwan
Chongming, Shanghai, China
Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Pusan, South Korea
Chikura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Tanguisson Point, Tamuning Village, Guam (unincorporated territory of the United States)
Bandon, Coos County, Oregon, United States
San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
External links
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
1999 establishments in Asia
1999 establishments in Guam
1999 establishments in California
1999 establishments in Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carquest
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Carquest Corporation is an American automotive parts distribution network that is currently owned and operated by Advance Auto Parts via independent retailers associated with the network. As of October 4, 2014 Advance operated 5,305 stores, 109 Worldpac branches. Advance Auto Parts and Carquest Auto Parts employs approximately 75,000 employees.
History
The Carquest marketing alliance and distribution network was formed in 1974 by O. Temple Sloan of General Parts, Dan Bock of Bobro Products, and Joe Hughes of Indiana Parts Warehouse. In response to competition from high-volume retail stores, Sloan believed "that programmed distribution through a cooperative alliance would be the most effective means to remain competitive." According to a 1994 Bangor Daily News article, the company was "made up of 14 distributing companies operating 64 Carquest Auto Parts Stores throughout the United States" at that time.
General Parts was the largest member with General Parts owning 1,400 out of Carquest’s 3,400 auto parts stores across North America by 2011. O. Temple Sloan Jr. started General Parts in 1961.
Founding member Bobro was later sold to White Plains Automotive in 1984 and renamed B.W.P. Distributors. BWP was later acquired by Advance Auto in 2012. Dan Bock later served as president of Carquest.
Founding member Indiana Parts Warehouse was acquired by the third founder General Parts in 1991. Indiana Parts had served 90 locations.
Carquest acquired Worldpac in 2004, but kept its operations separate.
General Parts received $258 million in 2011 for selling 33 of the company’s distribution centers and office buildings in a long-term sale-leaseback deal.
In June 2012, Carquest Auto Parts relaunched its Carquest.com website, offering buy online, pick up in store commerce.
In December 2012, Advance Auto Parts acquired warehouse distributor B.W.P. Distributors, which supplied the Northeastern United States. On October 16, 2013 it was announced that Carquest would be acquired by Advance Auto Parts, Inc in an all-cash transaction estimated at approximately $2 billion dollars. The deal was finalized on January 3, 2014. Carquest members now include Advance Auto Parts, Automotive Warehouse of Hawaii, CAP Warehouse of Nevada, and Muffler Warehouse of Idaho.
In 2021, Advance Auto Parts announced plans to open retail stores under the Carquest name.
WorldPac
WorldPac was formed in 1995 by the merger of WorldWide Trading Corp. (WWTC) and Imported Parts and Accessories (IMPAC). WORLDPAC, which specializes in providing hard to find aftermarket parts for imported vehicles, was acquired by Carquest in 2004 and by Advance Auto Parts on January 2, 2014 when General Parts International was merged into Advance.
Sponsorships
Carquest was the title right sponsor of the Carquest Auto Parts National Hot Rod Association Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Maricopa County, Arizona until 2016.. The event took place annually in February and aired on Fox Sports
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20Word
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Signal word may refer to:
A type of warning label in a Toxicity Class regulatory system
Word (computer architecture), a fixed-sized group of bits handled as a unit by a computer processor
A fixed-sized group of bits handled as a unit by asynchronous serial communication hardware
Something in a complete sentence referring to an emotion to give info and explain sentences.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI%3A%203%20Dimensions%20of%20Murder
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CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder is a computer game based on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. Unlike the previous CSI games, this game was developed by Telltale Games, rather than 369 Interactive. It was published by Ubisoft, and was released for Microsoft Windows in March 2006.
The game uses a new 3D engine, which changes the gameplay and graphical look of the game, in comparison to 369 Interactive's CSI games.
This game, like the previous CSI games CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, follows a distinct pattern of five cases, with the fifth case tying together the previous four.
A PlayStation 2 version of this game was released on the September 25, 2007 in the United States. This version was made by Ubisoft's studio in Sofia, Bulgaria. The PlayStation 2 version is not the same as the Microsoft Windows version. The player has free movement and control of the view, which was required by Sony America. This change created extraordinary difficulties for the developer.
The Cases
Case 1: Pictures at an Execution
Rich out-of-towner Rachel Maddox is bludgeoned to death in a posh art gallery the day before her wedding to Mark Stock. The suspected murder weapon? An expensive hawk statue that's flown the coop. You work with Warrick Brown on this case. The evidence points to her hot-tempered fiancé Mark, Nathan Ackerman, the owner of the art gallery, and Patrick Milton, a reclusive artist commissioned to paint a portrait of the victim. It is discovered that Patrick killed Rachel after her constant criticism and nit-picking of his portrait pushed him over the edge.
Cast
Nathan Ackerman: James Monroe
Mark Stock: David Collins
Patrick Milton: Bob Sarlotte
Case 2: First Person Shooter
The CEO of a video game company on the verge of a high-profile release is shot dead at the biggest gaming trade show of the year. Life imitating art, or something more sinister? The only suspects are Maya Ngyuen, a marketing woman who was trained with guns as a child, Andy Penmore, another co-worker, also the victim's roommate, and Craig Landers, an ex-employee who might've given the guy a good swing. The player works with Nick Stokes on this case. Eventually, the investigation reveals Andy murdered the victim because he wanted to sell out.
This case is a dramaticized, humorous send-up of the cancellation and subsequent fan reaction surrounding Sam & Max: Freelance Police, a game many Telltale employees had worked on pre-cancellation.
The 3 Dimensions of Murder demo features a portion of this case.
Cast
Maya Nguyen: Sumalee Montano
Craig Landers: David Collins
Andy Penmore: Andrew Chaikin
Gun Shop Clerk: Sydney Ramin
Case 3: Daddy's Girl
Casino heiress Carrie Canelli has been victimized in her apartment. The crime scene is crawling with blood spatters, fibers, and fingerprints — all that's missing is the body. The only suspects are the victim's twin sister Lucy, her abusive fiancé Michael, and Alex, a mysterious male nurse. In this case
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"The Bizarro Jerry" is the 137th episode of the American television sitcom Seinfeld. This was the third episode of the eighth season, originally airing on the NBC network on October 3, 1996. The title and plot extensively reference Bizarro Superman originally published by DC Comics. This episode introduced the phrase "man-hands.”
Plot
Elaine breaks up with her boyfriend Kevin, but they decide to remain friends. Kevin proves to be a much more reliable friend than Jerry. Jerry suggests to Elaine that Kevin is "Bizarro Jerry", and explains how the Superman character Bizarro does everything in an opposite manner.
While using the restrooms at a company called Brandt-Leland, Kramer aids an employee with a printer and is mistaken for a co-worker by the staff. He begins showing up at regular work hours with no contract and no pay, simply appreciating the structure that a steady job adds to his life.
Jerry starts dating Gillian, an attractive woman whose only flaw is that she has "man-hands,” meaning her hands are large and strong like a man's. George gets into a club of attractive female models by saying that a photo of Gillian is his late fiancee Susan. He accidentally burns the picture with a hair dryer. Jerry breaks up with Gillian due to her hands. While Jerry tries to get another picture of her from her purse for George, she grabs Jerry's hand, crushing it. Jerry feels neglected at home, now that Kramer is working, Elaine is hanging out with Kevin and his friends Gene and Feldman (Bizarro versions of George and Kramer, respectively), and George refuses to bring him along to the club.
George tries to use a picture of a model from a magazine to get back into the club, but he accidentally approaches the same model from the magazine picture and is kicked out. Jerry, George and Kramer head to the coffee shop and bump into Elaine as she is meeting up with Kevin, Gene and Feldman. Kevin and his friends are kind, considerate and very polite, as opposed to the selfish and obnoxious attitudes of Jerry, George and Kramer, prompting Elaine to stay with her "Bizarro friends." He invites her over where she meets Vargas, the Bizarro Newman, with whom Kevin is friendly. However, they reject her when they do not take to her disruptive behavior which Jerry tolerates. A saddened Elaine takes her leave.
Kramer is terminated by Leland because of his incomprehensible reports, only for Kramer to respond that he doesn't actually work there. Leland acknowledges the difficulty of the situation.
George takes Jerry to the location of the club, but all they find is a meat packing plant, with the photo George took from a magazine lying unnoticed on the floor.
In a mid-credits scene, Kevin’s friends console him over the loss of Elaine. The three gather into a group hug, and Kevin declares, “Me so happy, me want to cry,” imitating Bizarro Superman's distinctive speech pattern.
Production
David Mandel wrote the episode after his then girlfriend Rebecca ended their long-dis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20load%20balancing
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Network load balancing is the ability to balance traffic across two or more WAN links without using complex routing protocols like BGP.
This capability balances network sessions like Web, email, etc. over multiple connections in order to spread out the amount of bandwidth used by each LAN user, thus increasing the total amount of bandwidth available. For example, a user has a single WAN connection to the Internet operating at 1.5 Mbit/s. They wish to add a second broadband (cable, DSL, wireless, etc.) connection operating at 2.5 Mbit/s. This would provide them with a total of 4 Mbit/s of bandwidth when balancing sessions.
Session balancing does just that, it balances sessions across each WAN link. When Web browsers connect to the Internet, they commonly open multiple sessions, one for the text, another for an image, another for some other image, etc. These sessions can be balanced across the available connections. An FTP application only uses a single session so it is not balanced; however if a secondary FTP connection is made, then it may be balanced so that the traffic is distributed across two of the various connections and thus provides an overall increase in throughput.
Additionally, network load balancing is commonly used to provide network redundancy so that in the event of a WAN link outage, access to network resources is still available via the secondary link(s). Redundancy is a key requirement for business continuity plans and generally used in conjunction with critical applications like VPNs and VoIP.
Finally, most network load balancing systems also incorporate the ability to balance both outbound and inbound traffic. Inbound load balancing is generally performed via dynamic DNS which can either be built into the system, or provided by an external service or system. Having the dynamic DNS service within the system is generally thought to be better from a cost savings and overall control point of view.
Microsoft NLB
Microsoft has also purchased a technology that it renamed Network Load Balancing (NLB) that allows for efficient utilization of multiple network cards.
MS NLB can be configured in unicast or in multicast mode where in multicast mode you can enable IGMP snooping.
MS NLB was introduced for the first time in Windows NT server to spread traffic over multiple hosts without the need for a hardware based load balancer, e.g. when you host a busy web-server application where a single host wouldn't be able to manage all the traffic. And in more recent applications it would be used in Windows clusters for Hyper-V or Microsoft SQL Server
Unicast mode
In unicast mode MS NLB reassigns the stations MAC address (which applies to the clusters IP address) to a virtual MAC address and all NIC's in the NLB cluster use this same MAC address. This setup will cause all incoming traffic for the cluster to be flooded to all ports of the switch as unknown unicast frames: even to hosts that are not joining in the cluster. To keep fl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEBA
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FEBA may refer to:
Forward Edge of Battle Area, i.e. front line
Feba Radio, a broadcasting network.
FEBA Fingerprinting, a LiveScan fingerprint and passport photo provider.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Weber%20%28astronomer%29
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Robert Weber (1926–2008) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets who ran the precursor to the LINEAR project shortly before his retirement in 1996. Data were collected by manually entering telescope pointing positions and requesting an image save. Searching twenty fields was a taxing experience. They did have automatic object detection working, but no starfield matching at that time.
The inner main-belt asteroid 6181 Bobweber, discovered by Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory in 1986, was named in his honour on 21 March 2008. ().
Career
Weber graduated from the MIT Department of Physics in 1959, and was with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington for 34 years (1962–1996). He also worked on sounding rockets, and interplanetary particles and fields with the Helios, Voyager, and IMP programmes.
He led the team that developed the prototype for the Air Force GEODSS deep space satellite tracking network (the two LINEAR telescopes are GEODSS assets that were originally destined for Portugal). He is also responsible for the project that led to the development of the CCID16 CCD chip used in the LINEAR cameras, a natural consequence of earlier work in solid state physics.
Discovered minor planets
8409 Valentaugustus – Discovered 1995 November 28 by R. Weber's Team at MIT's ETS in Socorro. Valentin Augustus Weber (1867–1940) was the grandfather of the team leader. Born in Germany, he moved to the U.S.\ in 1889, where he designed and constructed stained-glass windows for cathedrals and mahogany furniture for his friends and neighbors in Brooklyn, New York.
11602 Miryang – Discovered 1995 September 28 by R. Weber's Team at MIT's ETS, Socorro. A small town in South Korea, just north of Daegu, Miryang was the birthplace of the team leader's wife, Chung-hi Koh (Helen) Weber.
12005 Delgiudice – Discovered 1996 May 19 by R. Weber's Team at MIT's ETS, Socorro. Maria del Giudice (b. 1964) is the wife of one of the team's observers and measurers, Frank Shelly.
23612 Ramzel – Discovered 1996 January 22 by R. Weber's Team at MIT's ETS, Socorro. Allen Lee Ramzel (b. 1960) was an observer and systems engineer for the team that discovered this object. This minor planet also honors his family.
26906 Rubidia – Discovered 1996 January 22 by R. Weber at the MIT's ETS in Socorro. Rubidia (Ruby) Mendez-Harris (b. 1945) is the wife of David L. Harris, a member of the team that discovered this object. Born in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, she was educated as a psychologist and still practices therapy and counseling in Socorro. This name was suggested by D. L. Harris in 1998.
37687 Chunghikoh – Named after R. Weber's wife. Chung-hi (Helen) Koh was the mother of seven children, a registered pharmacist, a volunteer nurse's aid and a kind hearted soul. More information coming.
39645 Davelharris – Named after a good friend and member of R. Weber's team. David Lowell Harris was the beloved husband of Ruby Mendez Harris and an enthusiastic member of R. W
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Database%20and%20Registration%20Authority
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The National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) () is an independent and autonomous agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan that regulates Government Databases and statistically manages the sensitive registration database of all the National Citizens of Pakistan. Currently, Lieutenant General Muhammad Munir Afsar is serving as Chairman of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Pakistan.
NADRA is also responsible to issuing the Computerized National Identity Cards to the citizens of Pakistan, maintaining their sensitive informational upgraded in the government databases, and securing national identities of the citizens of Pakistan from being stolen and theft. It is one of the largest government database institution, employing more than 11,000 people in more than 800 domestic offices and five international offices.
Codified by the Second Amendment, §30 of the Constitution of Pakistan in 2000, the Constitution grants powers to NADRA to enact civil registration and sensitive databases of Pakistan's citizens; all databases are kept to ensure the safety of citizens' databases. The organization is currently headed by Asad Rehman Gilani who is the current Chairman.
History
After the independence of Pakistan, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan launched the Personal Identity System (PIS) program to register, manage and issue national identification cards to all the citizens of Pakistan and Muslim refugees settling in Pakistan. Changes were carried out by Election Commission of Pakistan in 1965 for the process of the voter's registration to hold the nationwide 1965 presidential election. In 1969–70, the amendments in the PIS program continued by the Election Commission until the election commission supervised the 1970 general elections.
After the 1971 war resulted in East Pakistan gaining independence as Bangladesh, a new statistical database system was needed to ensure the safety of Pakistan's citizens as well as the national security of the country as questions were being raised over who was a Pakistani and who was not. So the Bhutto regime introduced a national registration act in the Parliament of Pakistan to establish an authority to issue photo IDs to all registered Pakistani citizens. In 1973, a new database system was codified under the Second Amendment, §30, of the Constitution of Pakistan to perform and contain the statistical database of the citizens of Pakistan. Registration of Pakistan's citizens and statistic database in government's computer accounts was started in 1973, with the promulgation of the Constitution of the country. This new program was visioned and started by then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
In 1973, in a parliamentary session, Bhutto stated in parliament to the people of Pakistan, "due to the absence of full statistical database of the people of this country, this country is operating in utter darkness". The government started issuing the National Identity Card (NIC) numbers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstone%20%28cryptography%29
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Capstone is a United States government long-term project to develop cryptography standards for public and government use. Capstone was authorized by the Computer Security Act of 1987, driven by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA); the project began in 1993.
Project
The initiative involved four standard algorithms: a data encryption algorithm called Skipjack, along with the Clipper chip that included the Skipjack algorithm, a digital signature algorithm, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), a hash function, SHA-1, and a key exchange protocol. Capstone's first implementation was in the Fortezza PCMCIA card. All Capstone components were designed to provide 80-bit security.
The initiative encountered massive resistance from the cryptographic community, and eventually the US government abandoned the effort. The main reasons for this resistance were concerns about Skipjack's design, which was classified, and the use of key escrow in the Clipper chip.
References
External links
EFF archives on Capstone
National Security Agency encryption devices
History of cryptography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma%20TV
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Puma TV (originally known as Bravo TV) was a privately owned over-the-air television network based in Caracas, Venezuela that featured music videos by artists from all over the world and entertainment related news. On October 5, 2007, Puma TV was taken off the air and replaced by Canal i, a 24-hour news channel.
History
Puma TV was founded as Bravo TV by singer and actor José Luis Rodríguez González (also known as "El Puma") in 1995. Shortly after it went on the air, Bravo TV's name was changed to Puma TV because the name already belonged to a Canadian cable television network.
In 1998, the network raised the amount of original productions from 16 to 20 and expanded their over-the-air coverage to all of Venezuela. Due to economic problem, towards the end of its existence, Puma TV was only seen over-the-air in the cities of Caracas and Maracaibo.
After the 2002-2003 Venezuelan general strike, Puma TV suffered a severe economic crisis that resulted in a 60-day shut down in mid-2003. This measure obligated Puma TV's investors to put the network up for sale, which resulted in its purchase by the Unión Radio Group (a corporation which also controlled the radio stations Éxitos, Onda La Mega Estación, Unión Radio Noticias, and Unión Radio Deportes). The following year, Puma TV was purchased by a group of businessmen with the goal of using the transmitters for a 24-hour news channel in order to compete with Globovisión. After much delay, Canal i (the proposed 24-hour news channel) went on the air on October 5, 2007, thus ending Puma TV's history.
Programming
The following is a list of the final shows that were produced and aired by and on Puma TV:
El Estirón en Pijamas
Cine Tips
Sicilia Desechable 2.0
Acceso Total
Mega VJ
1/2 Hora Nacional
El Estirón
Fashion Nights TV
EPK
Equilibrio
La Removida
Kronos
Rapzona
El Mal Hermano
Top Videos
Infrarojo
Evolution of Bravo TV (George Maisto)/Puma TV's logo (Gonzalo Jaén)
See also
Canal i
List of Venezuelan television channels
Defunct television channels and networks in Venezuela
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
Mass media in Caracas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20repair%20technician
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A computer repair technician is a person who repairs and maintains computers and servers. The technician's responsibilities may extend to include building or configuring new hardware, installing and updating software packages, and creating and maintaining computer networks.
Overview
Computer technicians work in a variety of settings, encompassing both the public and private sectors. Because of the relatively brief existence of the profession, institutions offer certificate and degree programs designed to prepare new technicians, but computer repairs are frequently performed by experienced and certified technicians who have little formal training in the field.
Private sector computer repair technicians can work in corporate information technology departments, central service centers or in retail computer sales environments. Public sector computer repair technicians might work in the military, national security or law enforcement communities, health or public safety field, or an educational institution. Despite the vast variety of work environments, all computer repair technicians perform similar physical and investigative processes, including technical support and often customer service. Experienced computer repair technicians might specialize in fields such as data recovery, system administration, networking or information systems. Some computer repair technicians are self-employed or own a firm that provides services in a regional area. Some are subcontracted as freelancers or consultants. This type of computer repair technician ranges from hobbyists and enthusiasts to those who work professionally in the field.
Computer malfunctions can range from a minor setting that is incorrect, to spyware, viruses, and as far as replacing hardware and an entire operating system. Some technicians provide on-site services, usually at an hourly rate. Others can provide services off-site, where the client can drop their computers and other devices off at the repair shop. Some have pickup and drop off services for convenience. Some technicians may also take back old equipment for recycling. This is required in the EU, under WEEE rules.
Hardware repair
While computer hardware configurations vary widely, a computer repair technician that works on OEM equipment will work with five general categories of hardware; desktop computers, laptops, servers, computer clusters and smartphones / mobile computing devices. Technicians also work with and occasionally repair a range of peripherals, including input devices (like keyboards, mice, webcams and scanners), output devices (like displays, printers, and speakers), and data storage devices such as internal and external hard drives and disk arrays. Technicians involved in system administration might also work with networking hardware, including routers, switches, cabling, fiber optics, and wireless networks.
Software repair
When possible, computer repair technicians protect the computer user's data and settings. Foll
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet%20%26%20Clank%3A%20Size%20Matters
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Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is a 2007 platform game developed by High Impact Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. A spin-off of the Ratchet & Clank series, it is its first title on the PlayStation Portable. Development company High Impact Games was spawned from the original Ratchet & Clank developer, Insomniac Games. The story follows Ratchet and Clank as they are interrupted from their vacation to search for a kidnapped girl and encounter a forgotten race known as the Technomites.
Gameplay
As with Going Commando and the first game, space combat is present. However, this time, the player controls Giant Clank, rather than a ship. Also, there are arena battles, but this time, the player plays as Clank in a variety of vehicles. Clank returns as a playable character and is again able to control a set of Gadgebots, smaller robots which can perform certain tasks for him, although this only occurs in one section of the game. But the player may still play with Gadgebots in Clank Challenges. There are also various skyboard racing challenges that can be participated in to win bolts, gadgets, and new armor pieces.
Similar to previous games in the series, this game contains a variety of weapons which can be upgraded. For example, the Lacerator is upgraded to the Dual Lacerators. Mods can be purchased for most weapons from Slim Cognito vendors. Some weapons and gadgets from previous games appear, such as the Hypershot, Bolt Grabber and R.Y.N.O. Nanotech (health) can also be upgraded. The main way to beat enemies is with firepower, so bolts (which are used as currency) are an important criteria of the game. Although there is no way to access weapons, etc. from previous games, additional skins can be unlocked on Secret Agent Clank if the player has a Size Matters save.
There is also a new system for acquiring armor. Instead of buying armor from special vendors, as with games such as Going Commando, parts of armor are found in levels and can be combined to make different suits, each with their own unique advantage, as well as additional protection.
When the player completes the game, they can choose to enter "Challenge Mode". Challenge mode is a harder version of the game, with tougher enemies. To counter this, all weapons, armor, and bolts acquired so far are carried through. New sets of armor are available in Challenge Mode, and there is a bolt multiplier feature included. Weapons can also be upgraded further by purchasing "Titan" versions.
There are a total of 25 Skill Points in the game, which are gained by performing certain tasks, the only clue to which is the name of the particular Skill Point. These will unlock cheats in the game. There are 20 Titanium Bolts to be found which can be used to buy skins for Ratchet.
Plot
While on a vacation on Pokitaru, Ratchet and Clank meet a little girl named Luna who is writing a school report on heroes. Shortly after they meet her, Luna is kidnap
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCOM%20U.S.%20Navy%20SEALs%3A%20Fireteam%20Bravo%202
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SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2 is a tactical shooter video game developed by Zipper Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation Portable. It is the sequel to SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo. This game is able to sync with the PlayStation 2 game SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault in order to unlock bonus features.
Fireteam Bravo 2 features a new campaign, multiplayer maps, and new features such as Command Equity (CE) and Local Influence (LI). Fireteam Bravo 2s campaign mode offers 14 story missions, a variety of partners including the sniper LONESTAR, and two partners codenamed BRONCO and WRAITH, a support gunner and stealth/CQC specialist, from SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs: Mobile Reco which was available for cell phones, and dynamically generated instant action missions.
The game takes place solely in the fictional country of Adjikistan. The country is supposedly situated somewhere in Central Asia near Afghanistan/Pakistan and features a number of environment and climate zones, allowing for the game to feature a wide variety of landscapes and settings while working within one large, connected story. The main adversaries throughout the game are mercenaries, often abbreviated as "mercs."
The online servers for this game, along with other PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable SOCOM titles, were shut down on August 31, 2012.
Features
Command Equity system (often referenced to as "CE") provides rewards for how well core aspects of a mission are completed, while Local Influence (LI) rewards those who help local causes and limit civilian casualties. Use them to gain access to new weapons, equipment, intel, air-strikes and local support. It is also earned in online games, and as well used for items that one could use in online mode, especially clothing for either character on the SEALs or Mercenaries' side.
Battle through eight new multiplayer maps, as well as four of the original Fireteam Bravo maps, and three new game types (Tug of War, Capture the Flag, Target) playable in Infrastructure Mode and Ad Hoc modes.
Enhanced Crosstalk with SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Combined Assault for the PS2, including a single story arc, and all new action events and unlockables.
Association with Naval Special Forces ensures realistic SEAL team tactics, missions, and character movements.
Asymmetrical mission structure allows players to play missions in any order they want. Completed mission areas can open new missions and objectives for the player to complete.
Plot
The story is set in Adjikistan, a fictional country that is experiencing civil unrest. At first, it appears that the Adjikistani rebel factions are simply terrorists, but as the story progresses it is revealed that the president of Adjikistan, Ismail Karim, is in fact corrupt and using his influence and hired European mercenaries to crush all who oppose him.
Reception
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2 received "generally positive" reviews, according
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk8%20%28TV%20series%29
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Sk8 (also known as Skate) is a half-hour teen drama that aired on NBC's TNBC Saturday morning programming block from October 6, 2001 to January 5, 2002 with 13 episodes produced. The show continued in reruns until TNBC's dissolution and replacement by programming leased from Discovery Kids by NBC starting in September 2002.
The series was co-created by Thomas W. Lynch, who also co-created Just Deal, TNBC's first single-camera format series, with Sk8 becoming the second and final series on the lineup to be shot in the same format.
Premise
The show featured storylines concerning the life of an aspiring pro skater and his relationships with a motley crew of friends. The show featured guest appearances by professional skateboarders and guerrilla film and video shooting styles.
Cast
Christopher Jorgens as Josh Raden
Jorgito Vargas, Jr. as Dim
Adrienne Carter as Michelle
Claudette Mink as Whitney Lass
Blair Wingo as Vanessa
Noel Fisher as Alex
Darcy Laurie as Gideon
Pua Kekaula as Dom
Bryce Hodgson Les
Anthony Harrison as Peter Raden
Episodes
References
External links
2000s American teen drama television series
2000s Canadian teen drama television series
2001 American television series debuts
2001 Canadian television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2002 Canadian television series endings
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Skateboarding mass media
TNBC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWKT-TV
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KWKT-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Central Texas. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Bryan-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KYLE-TV (channel 28). Both stations share studios on Woodway Drive in Woodway, Texas (using a Waco address), while KWKT-TV's transmitter is located near Moody, Texas.
History
The station first signed on the air on March 13, 1988, and has been affiliated with Fox since the station's launch. Beginning with the launch of the block in 1990, KWKT aired Fox Kids programming one hour earlier than many affiliates on weekday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. until the weekday block was discontinued by the network in December 2001, in addition to carrying its successor Saturday morning children's blocks known as Fox Box and later 4KidsTV until the latter block ended nationally in December 2008, when 4Kids Entertainment and Fox parted ways due to a contract dispute.
The station was purchased by Lafayette, Louisiana-based Communications Corporation of America in 1990. KWKT-TV's signal was unable to reach across central Texas because of interference issues experienced by UHF stations operating in rugged terrain; as a result, Comcorp purchased KYLE-TV (channel 28) in Bryan, at that time a WB affiliate, in 1996 and, after it was granted a satellite waiver by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), converted it to a satellite station in order to provide Fox programming to the entire market.
In July 2002, KWKT became a secondary affiliate of The WB; with this, that network's primetime schedule aired on KWKT/KYLE on a six-hour delay from 1:00 to 3:00 a.m., with Fox network programming running in pattern from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. At this time, the station also added The WB's children's program block Kids' WB in the time slot formerly occupied by Fox Kids—which KWKT/KYLE replaced with syndicated programs following the discontinuance of the Fox Kids weekday block, lasting until Kids' WB's weekday block was replaced in January 2006 by the Daytime WB rerun block; the station also carried the block's Saturday morning lineup airing a day behind on Sunday mornings.
On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a new programming service called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by the Fox network's sister companies Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to compete against another upstart network that would launch at the same time that September, The CW (an amalgamated network that originally consisted primarily of The WB and UPN's higher-rated programs) as well as to give UPN and WB stations that were not named as CW charter affiliates another option besides converting to independent stations. When MyNetworkTV launched on September 5, 2006, the station carried the programming service as a secondary affiliation from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. each weeknight. As the block became part of The CW's programming schedule
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJTV-TV
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KJTV-TV (channel 34) is a television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting alongside Wolfforth-licensed low-power, Class A news-formatted independent station KJTV-CD (channel 32). SagamoreHill maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Television, owner of NBC affiliate KCBD (channel 11) and Wolfforth-licensed CW+ affiliate KLCW-TV (channel 22), for the provision of certain services. KJTV-TV is also sister to four other low-power stations owned by Gray—MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYL-LD (channel 14), Snyder-licensed Heroes & Icons affiliate KABI-LD (channel 42), Class A Telemundo affiliate KXTQ-CD (channel 46), and MeTV affiliate KLBB-LD (channel 48). The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock, where KJTV-TV's transmitter is also located.
KJTV-TV was a charter Fox affiliate, having broadcast the network since its launch on October 9, 1986. It was also the flagship television property of locally owned Ramar Communications until late 2020 (see below).
History
Channel 34 first appeared in 1967 as KKBC-TV, owned by the KB Company (Chester and Clarance Kissell), operating from a control room and transmitter at the tallest downtown building. It had approximately 25 kilowatts of visual power from an antenna about above average terrain. The station signed on with a few films, some NBC and CBS programs declined by KCBD and KLBK-TV, and The Mike Douglas Show. Local engineer Alvie Ivey built the facility from used equipment gathered from stations in the region.
Soon after channel 34 signed on, a station on channel 28 signed on with much better facilities. KSEL-TV (now ABC affiliate KAMC) had 2 megawatts of power, an tower located in south Lubbock near other station's towers, and had support from sister stations KSEL-AM 950 (now KJTV-AM) and KSEL-FM 93.7 (now KLBB-FM) (both of which, ironically, are today sister stations to KJTV-TV). This provided the impetus to move KKBC to a taller location with greater power.
New owners took over channel 34 and a taller tower was built at 98th and University Avenue. Local station KWGO-FM (now KQBR) rented a spot on the tower as it was going up. The improved KKBC-TV developed power of more than 4 megawatts. However, KSEL still had the lead, as it obtained a full-time ABC affiliation, while channel 34 affiliated with the Spanish International Network (by bicycled tapes) and changed calls to KMXN-TV. The station continued until sometime in 1973. Legend has it that the board of directors met at the station, assessed their shaky financial footing, and ordered the station shut down on the way out. The film on the air was interrupted, and the station signed off. The license was then returned to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The tower and land were later acquired by Ramar for use by a radio station the company was starting, KTEZ (now KONE). After a few years' operations, Ramar decided to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Service%20Access%20Point%20Identifier
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A Network (Layer) Service Access Point Identifier (NSAPI), is an identifier used in GPRS (cellular data) networks.
It is used to identify a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context (a unique data session) in the Mobile Station (MS) and in the Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN). It is dynamically selected by the MS (however, the MS should ensure that the selected NSAPI is not currently being used by another session management entity in the MS). When the MS requests a PDP context, it selects an NSAPI that it sends to the SGSN with the request.
NSAPI is also used as part of the Tunnel Identifier between GPRS Support Nodes (GSNs). The user identity (International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI)) and the application identifier (NSAPI) are integrated into the Tunnel Identifier (GTPv0) (TID) or Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (GTPv1) (TEID) that uniquely identifies the subscriber's sublink between the GSNs (SGSN and GGSN). The SGSN inserts the NSAPI along with the SGSN address in the “Create PDP Context Request.” One PDP context may have several (secondary) PDP contexts and NSAPI. The NSAPI is an integer value within the PDP context header.
In the UMTS system the data connection between a GPRS Core Network and a mobile station is identified using an NSAPI, that identifies as well a radio access bearer. In the previous releases of GPRS (pre-Release’00), a connection is identified by NSAPI and a Logical Link Control (LLC) protocol SAPI. However, in UMTS, and thus in GPRS Release’00, the LLC protocol is no longer used.
3GPP standards
Telecommunications infrastructure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Valhalla
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Project Valhalla may refer to:
Project Valhalla (Java language), a project to develop new features for the Java programming language
Project Valhalla, a fictional project in Max Payne (video game)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decus
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Decus is a Latin word meaning "ornament". It may refer to
Decus et tutamen, "an ornament and a safeguard", motto on the one-pound sterling coin
DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society
See also
Decussation
Decs (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20tracking
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Motion tracking may refer to:
Motion capture, the process of recording the movement of objects or people
Match moving, a cinematic technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to the objects in the shot
Video tracking, the process of locating a moving object over time using a camera
Positional tracking, technology for tracking motion and position of virtual reality and augmented reality devices.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke
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Keystroke may refer to:
the action of typing on a computer or typewriter
a switching for computer hardware engineers
an event for software engineers and programmers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20One%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29
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TV One is an American basic cable television channel owned by Urban One, having acquired Comcast's stake in the TV channel in 2015. Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, TV One's programming targets African American adults with a broad mixture of original lifestyle and entertainment-oriented series, documentaries, films, music performances and reruns of sitcoms from the 1970s through the 2000s.
As of February 2015, TV One is available to approximately 57 million pay television households (48.9% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.
History
TV One launched on January 19, 2004, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a competitor to the longer-established BET. At the time of its launch, the channel was in approximately 2.2 million homes in 16 markets. On July 7, 2008, the channel's president and CEO Johnathan Rodgers announced that TV One would provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention that August. In 2011, TV One's original co-owner Comcast acquired NBCUniversal, effectively integrating TV One and the other Comcast Entertainment Group channels into NBCUniversal's portfolio.
In August 2012, TV One updated its on-air look and logo, as part of a plan to "tell stories about how African-American life unfolds and to distinguish it from a growing number of competitors." On July 9, 2013, TV One announced that it would debut its first live one-hour, weekday morning news program that would be hosted by commentator Roland S. Martin. The program, News One Now, premiered on November 4, 2013.
In December 2014, Brad Siegel was hired as president of TV One. Siegel was formerly president of Turner Entertainment Networks, and vice chairman of Up TV, which he co-founded in 2004.
In March 2015, Radio One announced a deal to buy out Comcast's 47.9% share of TV One for $550 million.
In February 2016, TV One updated their logo again, along with a new slogan: "Represent."
Membership and affiliations
Associate member of the Caribbean Cable & Telecommunications Association, Inc. - CCTA
Programming
See also
Aspire – an American digital cable and satellite channel owned by businessman and former basketball player Magic Johnson
BET – The flagship American basic cable and satellite channel of the BET Networks, currently owned by Paramount Global, which launched in 1980 as the first television channel devoted to programming targeting African-Americans
BET Her - A spinoff channel targeting African-American women
Bounce TV – an American digital multicast channel owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Cleo TV - a sister channel to TV One targeting African-American women
References
External links
Urban One
Former Comcast subsidiaries
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004
African-American television
African-American television networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Pokhilko
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Vladimir Ivanovich Pokhilko (Russian: Владимир Иванович Похилько) (7 April 1954 – 21 September 1998) was a Soviet-Russian entrepreneur. He was an academic who specialized in human–computer interaction.
Early life
Born in Moscow on April 7, 1954, he graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University in 1982. He was a junior researcher at the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
Psychological experiments using Tetris
A friend of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, he was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using the game. He played an important role in the subsequent development and marketing of the game, and a 1999 article in the Forbes magazine credited him for "co-inventing the seminal videogame Tetris".
Technology company AnimaTek
In 1989, he and Pajitnov founded the 3D software technology company AnimaTek in Moscow. While attempting to create software for INTEC (a company that they started) that would be made for "people's souls", they developed the idea for El-Fish.
Murder-suicide
After suffering financial difficulties at his software company, AnimaTek, Pokhilko allegedly murdered his wife Elena Fedotova (38) and their son Peter (12), by bludgeoning and stabbing them both to death. He then committed suicide by slitting his own throat. Shortly before his death, Pokhilko penned a note. The police initially did not release the content of the note, saying that it was not a suicide note, and they didn't know who authored it. They later determined it was a purported suicide note and published the content of the note in 1999; it read:
"I've been eaten alive. Vladimir. Just remember that I am exist. The davil. [sic]"
References
External links
Vladimir Pokhilko seminar abstract and bio on the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction website.
The Tetris Murders documentary suggesting Vladimir Pokhilko did not commit the murder-suicide.
1954 births
1998 suicides
1998 deaths
Russian video game designers
Murder–suicides in California
Soviet computer scientists
Familicides
Suicides by sharp instrument in the United States
Soviet murderers of children
Russian murderers of children
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Macintosh%207200
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The Power Macintosh 7200 (and Power Macintosh 8200 tower based variant which was available alongside the 7200 in Europe) is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from August 1995 to February 1997. The 90 MHz model was sold in Japan as the Power Macintosh 7215, and the 120 MHz model with bundled server software as the Apple Workgroup Server 7250. When sold as the 8200, it used the Quadra 800/Power Mac 8100's mini-tower form factor.
The 7200 was introduced alongside the Power Macintosh 7500 and 8500 at the 1995 MacWorld Expo in Boston. Apple referred to these machines collectively as the "Power Surge" line, communicating that this second generation of PowerPC machines offered a significant speed improvement over their predecessors. Introduced as a successor to the Power Macintosh 7100, the 7200 represents the low end of this generation of Power Macintosh, which replaced NuBus with PCI. It shares the 7500's "Outrigger" case. At launch, the 7200 was available with processor speeds of 75 and 90 MHz, with the slower model being replaced by a 120 MHz CPU in February 1996. The 120 MHz model was also available in a "PC compatible" variant, which came with a PCI card that allowed the computer to run Microsoft Windows and other PC operating systems. The card featured a 100 MHz Pentium processor.
The Power Macintosh 7300 replaced the 7200 in February 1997.
Upgrades
Unlike other Power Macintosh machines of the time, the CPU is soldered to the motherboard instead of on a daughterboard. This presented a challenge for users who wanted to upgrade to a faster processor. At the time of its introduction, Apple promised an inexpensive logic board upgrade to the 7500, but due to high demand for the 7500, this never materialized. When the upgrade was finally made available, it was to the follow-on model, the Power Macintosh 7600, and came in the form of a complete logic board replacement. The base price was $1,300 and upgraded the system to a CPU, but did not include L2 cache.
The 7200's CPU was considered otherwise impossible to upgrade until, over three years after the 7200 was discontinued, Sonnet eventually produced an G3 upgrade card for the PCI slots.
Models
Introduced August 8, 1995:
Power Macintosh 7200/75
Power Macintosh 7200/90
Introduced January 11, 1996:
Power Macintosh 7215/90
Introduced February 26, 1996:
Workgroup Server 7250/120
Introduced April 22, 1996:
Power Macintosh 7200/120
Power Macintosh 7200/120 PC Compatible
Power Macintosh 8200/100
Power Macintosh 8200/120
References
External links
Official Power Macintosh 7200/120 page (1996) 7200/120
Official Power Macintosh 7200/120 (PC Compatible) page (1996) 7200/120 PC
7200
7200
Macintosh desktops
Computer-related introductions in 1995
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid%20Man%20%28video%20game%29
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Kool-Aid Man is a video game for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Both were published by Mattel in 1983 (under the M Network label for the Atari version), but each game is of unique design. They are centered on the Kool-Aid Man, the television mascot of the beverage Kool-Aid.
Initially available exclusively through mail-order, it was later released through traditional retail outlets.
References
External links
Kool-Aid Man at Atari Mania
1983 video games
Advergames
Atari 2600 games
Intellivision games
North America-exclusive video games
Mattel video games
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in the United States
Works based on advertisements
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MTV
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MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel dedicated to music, music industry and history in the United States upon its founding in 1981. MTV Networks has since produced various original television shows, many of which concern genres unrelated to music. This is an incomplete list of MTV shows that have aired.
Current programming
Music shows
MTV Unplugged (since 1989)
Fresh Out Playlist (since 2020)
News and documentary shows
Fresh Out Live (since 2020)
The Challenge: Untold History (since 2022)
Reality shows
Catfish: The TV Show (since 2012)
Siesta Key (since 2017)
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (since 2018)
Ex on the Beach (since 2018)
Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D and Vinny (since 2019)
Teen Mom: Family Reunion (since 2022)
Teen Mom: Girls' Night In (since 2022)
Help! I'm in a Secret Relationship! (since 2022)
Buckhead Shore (since 2022)
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter (since 2022)
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (since 2023, moved from VH1)
The Real Friends of WeHo (since 2023)
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta Run it Back (since 2023)
MTV Couples Retreat (since 2023, moved from VH1)
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (since 2023, moved from VH1)
Caught in the Act: Unfaithful (since 2023, moved from VH1)
Celebrity shows
MTV Cribs (since 2021; previously aired 2000–2013)
Competitive shows
The Challenge (since 1998)
Becoming A Popstar (since 2022)
Love at First Lie (since 2022)
The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist (since 2023)
RuPaul's Drag Race (since 2023, moved from VH1)
The Love Experiment (since 2023)
All Star Shore (since 2023, moved from Paramount+)
Variety shows
Ridiculousness (since 2011)
Deliciousness (since 2020)
Messyness (since 2021)
Programming from other Paramount Media Networks
Paramount+
Behind the Music (since 2023)
Hip Hop My House (since 2023)
Sampled (since 2023)
Yo! MTV Raps (since 2023)
Showtime
The Chi (since 2023)
Upcoming programming
Dating at Sea
The Hills: Next Gen
Jersey Shore 2.0
Power Game
The Surreal Life (moving from VH1)
Former programming
Music shows
MTV Saturday Night Concert (1981–1987)
Friday Night Video Fights (1982–1986)
I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge (1983–1987)
MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1984–1998)
Heavy Metal Mania (1985–1987)
120 Minutes (1986–2000, moved to MTV2)
Dial MTV (1986–1991)
Friday Night Party Zone (1986–1987)
International Hour (1986–1987)
Closet Classics Capsule (1987–1988)
Headbangers Ball (1987–1995)
Club MTV (1987–1992)
Friday Night Rock Blocks (1987–1990)
Yo! MTV Raps (1988–1995)
Post-Modern MTV (1988–1992)
Deja Video (1989)
Classic MTV (1989, 1992–93)
Yo! MTV Raps Today (1989–1992)
Hard 30: MTV's Headbangers Half Hour (1989)
Just Say Julie (1989–1992)
Awake on the Wild Side (1990–1992)
Martha's Greatest Hits (1990)
MTV Prime (1990–91)
Master Mix (1990)
Street Party (1990–1992)
Earth to MTV (1990–1992)
MTV's All Request (1990–91)
Beach MTV (1990–97)
The Hot Seat (1990–91
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-log%20plot
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In science and engineering, a semi-log plot/graph or semi-logarithmic plot/graph has one axis on a logarithmic scale, the other on a linear scale. It is useful for data with exponential relationships, where one variable covers a large range of values, or to zoom in and visualize that - what seems to be a straight line in the beginning - is in fact the slow start of a logarithmic curve that is about to spike and changes are much bigger than thought initially.
All equations of the form form straight lines when plotted semi-logarithmically, since taking logs of both sides gives
This is a line with slope and vertical intercept. The logarithmic scale is usually labeled in base 10; occasionally in base 2:
A log–linear (sometimes log–lin) plot has the logarithmic scale on the y-axis, and a linear scale on the x-axis; a linear–log (sometimes lin–log) is the opposite. The naming is output–input (y–x), the opposite order from (x, y).
On a semi-log plot the spacing of the scale on the y-axis (or x-axis) is proportional to the logarithm of the number, not the number itself. It is equivalent to converting the y values (or x values) to their log, and plotting the data on linear scales. A log–log plot uses the logarithmic scale for both axes, and hence is not a semi-log plot.
Equations
The equation of a line on a linear–log plot, where the abscissa axis is scaled logarithmically (with a logarithmic base of n), would be
The equation for a line on a log–linear plot, with an ordinate axis logarithmically scaled (with a logarithmic base of n), would be:
Finding the function from the semi–log plot
Linear–log plot
On a linear–log plot, pick some fixed point (x0, F0), where F0 is shorthand for F(x0), somewhere on the straight line in the above graph, and further some other arbitrary point (x1, F1) on the same graph. The slope formula of the plot is:
which leads to
or
which means that
In other words, F is proportional to the logarithm of x times the slope of the straight line of its lin–log graph, plus a constant. Specifically, a straight line on a lin–log plot containing points (F0, x0) and (F1, x1) will have the function:
log–linear plot
On a log–linear plot (logarithmic scale on the y-axis), pick some fixed point (x0, F0), where F0 is shorthand for F(x0), somewhere on the straight line in the above graph, and further some other arbitrary point (x1, F1) on the same graph. The slope formula of the plot is:
which leads to
Notice that nlogn(F1) = F1. Therefore, the logs can be inverted to find:
or
This can be generalized for any point, instead of just F1:
Real-world examples
Phase diagram of water
In physics and chemistry, a plot of logarithm of pressure against temperature can be used to illustrate the various phases of a substance, as in the following for water:
2009 "swine flu" progression
While ten is the most common base, there are times when other bases are more appropriate, as in this example:
Notice that while the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cooks
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The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters. The directors were Tony Tilse, Ian Gilmour, Brendan Maher and Ian Watson.
The Cooks was about the love and war involving the staff of two restaurants on the same street. R&R's Restaurant was run by chefs Rita and Ruth, with waitress Argentine Carmelita. Across the road at Snatch and Grab, its chefs are Gabe and Sachin, who's of Indian descent, with Dishpig at the sink.
The Cooks was a spin-off of a telemovie called Temptation, which screened in 2003, starring Colin Friels as Roberto Francobelli.
Locations
Most of the exterior scenes were filmed around the inner west areas of Sydney. On the show, the setting of the restaurants was in the suburb of Summer Hill.
Cast
Toby Schmitz as Gabe Francobelli
Kate Atkinson as Ruth O'Neill
Nicholas Brown as Sachin
Rhondda Findleton as Rita Molloy
Leon Ford as Dishpig
Emma Lung as Carmelita
Bojana Novakovic as Raffa
Sophia Irvine as Rosie Francobelli
Matt Passmore as Jake
Robert Mammone as Michael
Jeanie Drynan as Leanne Smith
Gyton Grantley as Danny
Episode list
Episode 1: "Nights of Living Dangerously": Air Date: 18 October 2004
Episode 2: "Desiree": Air Date: 28 October 2004
Episode 3: "The Olive Garden": Air Date: 4 November 2004
Episode 4: "Swimming Upstream": Air Date: 11 November 2004
Episode 5: "Waltzing Sakamoto": Air Date: 18 November 2004
Episode 6: "The Gingerbread Man": Air Date: 25 November 2004
Episode 7: "Beef with You": Air Date: 2 December 2004
Episode 8: "Beer and Skittles": Air Date: 9 December 2004
Episode 9: "Blood and Chocolate": Air Date: 16 December 2004
Episode 10: "Hole Lotta Love": Air Date: 23 December 2004
Episode 11: "Heart of Marshmallow": Air Date: 30 December 2004
Episode 12: "Honey and Wounds": Air Date: 6 January 2005
Episode 13: "Sticky": Air Date: 13 January 2005
Episode 13: "Sticky Part 2": Air Date: 14 January 2005
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Australian Television Information Archive
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian drama television series
2004 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%20Prize
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The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after the American computer scientist Donald E. Knuth.
History
The Knuth Prize has been awarded since 1996 and includes an award of US$5,000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Prizes are awarded in alternating years at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing and at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, which are among the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. The recipient of the Knuth Prize delivers a lecture at the conference.
For instance, David S. Johnson "used his Knuth Prize lecture to push for practical applications for algorithms."
In contrast with the Gödel Prize, which recognizes outstanding papers, the Knuth Prize is awarded to individuals for their overall impact in the field.
Winners
Since the prize was instituted in 1996, it has been awarded to the following individuals, with the citation for each award quoted (not always in full):
Selection Committees
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
Knuth Prize website
Awards established in 1996
Theoretical computer science
Computer science awards
Donald Knuth
IEEE society and council awards
Awards of the Association for Computing Machinery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judd%2C%20for%20the%20Defense
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Judd, for the Defense is an American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967, to March 21, 1969. Judd was a shortened surname from Juddinski.
Synopsis
The show stars Carl Betz, who had previously spent eight years in the role of Dr. Alex Stone, husband of Donna Reed in ABC's The Donna Reed Show. In his new role, reportedly based on high-profile lawyers such as F. Lee Bailey and Percy Foreman, Betz played Clinton Judd, a flamboyant attorney based in Houston, who often took on controversial cases across the country. Playing his top assistant, Ben Caldwell, was Stephen Young.
Even before the show premiered, Foreman threatened a lawsuit by saying that the program was "appropriating for commercial purposes my career as a lawyer." Throughout the course of the two-year run of the show, there were never enough viewers to establish Foreman's claim, although critics gave it positive reviews. Undoubtedly, the skittishness of viewers was a result of the program's dealing with then-taboo (though contemporary) subjects such as homosexuality, blacklisting, and draft evasion, with open-ended conclusions in many episodes.
The show's producer, Harold Gast, sought to break new ground with the program, using a number of new writers for scripts that veered away from previous television conventions. In addition, one personal experience involving credit card problems caused by computers became the basis for an episode titled "Epitaph on a Computer Card". In 1968, Gast and writer Leon Tokatyan won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the episode "Tempest in a Texas Town".
In an attempt to boost the low ratings of the hour-long program, the episode which aired on January 31, 1969, combined the Judd cast with that of another ABC series, Felony Squad, starring Dennis Cole. The idea did not salvage either program, as both were soon cancelled.
Betz's portrayal of a lawyer was enough to provide him paid opportunities to speak before groups of attorneys, and also helped him win both Golden Globe and Emmy Awards after the show's final season. Additionally, screenwriter Robert Lewin won a Writer's Guild award for the episode "To Kill a Madman".
Other actors appearing on episodes of the show included Ed Asner, Karen Black, Scott Brady, Len Birman, Russ Conway, Tyne Daly, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Lee Grant, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., Ron Howard, Vivi Janiss, Wright King, Ida Lupino, Barry Morse, Jessica Tandy, Lurene Tuttle, and William Windom.
Episode guide
Season 1 (1967–68)
Season 2 (1968–69)
Notes
External links
1967 American television series debuts
1969 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
American legal drama television series
Edgar Award-winning works
English-language television shows
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows set in Houston
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUICE%20%28software%29
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JUICE is a widely used non-commercial software package for editing and analysing phytosociological data.
It was developed at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic in 1998, and is fully described in English manual. It makes use of the previously-developed TURBOVEG software for entering and storing such data) and it offers a quite powerful tool for vegetation data analysis, including:
creation of synoptic tables
determination of diagnostic species according to their fidelity
calculation of Ellenberg indicator values for relevés, various indices of alpha and beta diversity
classification of relevés using TWINSPAN or cluster analysis
expert system for vegetation classification based on COCKTAIL method etc.
See also
Phytosociology
Phytogeography
Biogeography
External links
Tichy, L. 2002. JUICE, software for vegetation classification. J. Veg. Sci. 13: 451-453. (Basic scientific article on the program).
Uses in scientific journals
Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Chytrý M., Kropáč Z., Tichý L. & Wild J. 2005. Alien plants in temperate weed communities: prehistoric and recent invaders occupy different habitats. Ecology 86: 772–785.
Ewald, J A critique for phytosociology Journal of Vegetation Science (April 2003) 14(2)291-296
Science software
Botany
Biogeography
Ecological data
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Webplayer
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The Virgin Webplayer is a discontinued Internet appliance from Virgin Group. The device was intended as a standalone Internet access device, running a specialized operating system which limited it to the Virgin Connect ISP. It was discontinued on November 15, 2000. The remaining Webplayer hardware was liquidated and embraced by the hardware hacker community.
The Virgin Connect service was innovative — for $50, a user would get the Webplayer and unlimited dial-up Internet access (provided through Prodigy) for three years. However, the Webplayer displayed advertisements while the user was online.
Hardware
The Webplayer is essentially a compact x86 PC and was manufactured by Acer under contract by Boundless Technologies and is also known as the Boundless iBrow. Input came through an infrared keyboard with an integrated trackball, and the webplayer came with a modem for connecting to the Internet.
The Webplayer is powered by a 200 MHz Cyrix MediaGX CPU, 64 MB of SO-DIMM RAM, and a 48 MB M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 2000 for storage. It included two USB ports and contained a Mini PCI Type IIIB slot and 44-pin IDE header inside. CompactFlash, VGA, and PS/2 keyboard and mouse headers are present on the motherboard, but the physical connector is not included.
Hacking
After the demise of official support, the Webplayer drew the attention of computer enthusiasts. A grassroots Co-Op effort was created to purchase a lot of Webplayers from a liquidator, with over 50 members signing up. Eventually, the units were shipped out at $100 each and the hacking began.
The Virgin operating system was locked to dial into Virgin Online, but a password-protected setup screen was available. A user discovered the scheme and created a utility to guess the rotating password frequently enough to allow an owner to reprogram the device to call into any ISP. However, the experience of using the Virgin OS was not what users wanted, so more serious hacking attempts quickly began.
Since the Webplayer is architecturally similar to a typical x86 PC and included an IDE header, initial attention was focused on accessing the password-protected system BIOS. An insider leaked the password ("schwasck") and the device was quickly converted into a full-fledged PC. Users could simply purchase a 44-pin IDE cable and hard disk drive and run any PC-compatible operating system.
The next efforts included creating a version of Microsoft Windows that would fit in the 48 MB Disk-On-Chip device. This was quickly accomplished, with a version of 98lite widely distributed. Attempts to create a specialized Linux distribution were less successful, since the Webplayer included specialized graphics hardware which was not well-supported at the time.
Users eventually turned to the Mini-PCI slot, adding Ethernet and 802.11 adapters designed for notebooks. These proved far more reliable than the originally-used USB Ethernet adapters, as the Webplayer's USB hardware was not entirely stable.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra%20Density%20Optical
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Ultra Density Optical (UDO) is an optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data. The format was introduced by Sony to replace the Magneto-optical disc format.
Overview
An Ultra Density Optical disc, or UDO, is a 133.35 mm (5.25") ISO cartridge optical disc which can store up to 30 GB of data. The second generation UDO2 media format was introduced in April 2007 and has a capacity of up to 80 GB. It utilises a design based on the Magneto-optical disc, but uses Phase Change technology combined with a blue violet laser, a UDO/UDO2 disc that can store substantially more data than a magneto-optical (MO) disc. This is due to the shorter wavelength (405 nm) of the blue-violet laser employed. MOs use a 650 nm-wavelength red laser. Because its beam width is shorter when burning to a disc than a red-laser for MO, a blue-violet laser allows more information to be stored digitally in the same amount of space.
Current generations of UDO2 media store up to 60 GB. According to Plasmon, desktop UDO2 drives are priced at around US $5400.
A 30 GB UDO2 Write Once is US $75.
History
UDO optical disc storage media was developed as a replacement for the 9.1 GB Magneto-optical digital storage medium. The Ultra Density Optical was first announced by Sony on November 1, 2000. It was later adopted with heavy investment by Plasmon, a UK technology company with extensive experience with computer archival backup systems and solutions.
Currently, UDO/UDO2 is being championed by its development partners Plasmon, Asahi Pentax (responsible for the opto-mechanical assembly design), Mitsubishi Chemical, parent company of the Verbatim media storage brand, and various computer and IT solutions companies. Mitsubishi Chemical is the second major development partner of UDO media and the sole manufacturer of UDO media as of the 4th quarter of 2008.
On November 10, 2008, Plasmon creditors (led by Silicon Valley Bank) closed down Plasmon LMS (company) as CEO Stephen "FX" Murphy was not able to secure funding to keep the money-losing company afloat. The UDO media factory in the UK was shut down and dismantled.
On January 13, 2009, Alliance Storage Technologies, a Colorado Springs Manufacturer of optical technology and Service Provider, acquired the assets of Plasmon (including UDO and UDO2 technology) in a liquidation sale. ASTI currently sells and supports UDO technologies sold under the Plasmon brand.
Specifications
ECMA-380: Data Interchange on 130 mm Rewritable and Write Once Read Many Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Disk Cartridges –Capacity: 60 Gigabytes per Cartridge – Second Generation
Writing technology
UDO uses a Phase Change recording process that permanently alters the molecular structure of the disc surface.
Disc format
There are three versions of UDO/UDO media: a True WORM (Write Once Read Many), an R/W (Rewritable), and Compliant WORM (shreddable WORM).
Rewritable
The UDO Rewritable format uses a specially formulated P
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20color%20palettes
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This article is a list of the color palettes for notable computer graphics, terminals and video game console hardware.
Only a sample and the palette's name are given here. More specific articles are linked from the name of each palette, for the test charts, samples, simulated images, and further technical details (including references).
In the past, manufacturers have developed many different display systems in a competitive, non-collaborative basis (with a few exceptions, as the VESA consortium), creating many proprietary, non-standard different instances of display hardware. Often, as with early personal and home computers, a given machine employed its unique display subsystem, with its also unique color palette. Also, software developers had made use of the color abilities of distinct display systems in many different ways. The result is that there is no single common standard nomenclature or classification taxonomy which can encompass every computer color palette.
In order to organize the material, color palettes have been grouped following arbitrary but rational criteria. First, generic monochrome and full RGB repertories common to various computer display systems. Second, usual color repertories used for display systems that employ indexed color techniques. And finally, specific manufacturers' color palettes implemented in many representative early personal computers and videogame consoles of various brands.
The list for personal computer palettes is split into two categories: 8-bit and 16-bit machines. This is not intended as a true strict categorization of such machines, because mixed architectures also exist (16-bit processors with an 8-bit data bus or 32-bit processors with a 16-bit data bus, among others). The distinction is based more on broad 8-bit and 16-bit computer ages or generations (around 1975–1985 and 1985–1995, respectively) and their associated state of the art in color display capabilities.
Here is the common color test chart and sample image used to render every palette in this series of articles:
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See further details in the summary paragraph of the corresponding article.
List of monochrome and RGB palettes
For the purpose of this article, the term monochrome palette means a set of intensities for a monochrome display, and the term RGB palette is defined as the complete set of combinations a given RGB display can offer by mixing all the possible intensities of the red, green, and blue primaries available in its hardware.
These are generic complete repertories of colors to produce black and white and RGB color pictures by the display hardware, not necessarily the total number of such colors that can be simultaneously displayed in a given text or graphic mode of any machine. RGB is the most common method to produce colors for displays; so these complete RGB color repertories have every possible combination of R-G-B triplets within any given maximum number of le
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20Mummy
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Oh Mummy is a video game for the Amstrad CPC models of home computer. It was developed by Gem Software and published by Amsoft in 1984. It was often included in the free bundles of software that came with the computer. The gameplay is similar to that of the 1981 arcade game Amidar.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to unveil all of the treasure within each level (or pyramid) of the game whilst avoiding the mummies. Each level consists of a two-dimensional board. In contrast with Pac-Man, when the player's character walks around, footprints are left behind. By surrounding an area of the maze with footprints, its content is revealed, which is either a scroll, a mummy, a key, a tomb or nothing at all. In order to complete a level, it is necessary to unveil the key and a tombstone. The scroll enables the player to kill/eat one mummy on the level. If a mummy is unveiled, it follows the player to the next level. The difficulty and speed of the game increases as the player progresses through the levels.
The game is primarily for one player but has a limited multiplayer mode in which players can alternate taking a turn to play each level. Whilst, even at the time, it was considered simple in terms of gameplay, graphics and sound, it was for many people one of the better and more addictive early offerings for the Amstrad.
The music played during gameplay is based on the children's song "The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid".
Ports
The game was also released for the MSX, ZX Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC 464, Tatung Einstein and Camputers Lynx. The ZX Spectrum version was given away in one of several introductory software packs for the computer, this particular pack also including Crazy Golf, Alien Destroyer, Punchy, Treasure Island and Disco Dan. The game was also unofficially ported to the Sega Genesis and Mattel Intelevision.
References
External links
Oh Mummy for Camputers Lynx at Universal Videogame List
Oh Mummy for Amstrad CPC at Time Extension
Oh Mummy at tatungeinstein.co.uk
1984 video games
Amsoft games
Amstrad CPC games
IOS games
Maze games
MSX games
Single-player video games
Tatung Einstein games
Video game clones
Video games based on Egyptian mythology
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in Egypt
ZX Spectrum games
Gem Software games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gamekillers
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The Gamekillers is a one-hour television special that aired on MTV in the United States on February 6, 2006, and re-aired on The Comedy Network in Canada. It was a cross-promotional event with Axe Dry, who had previously used the "Gamekiller" premise in an ad campaign. Therefore, the television series is known as "branded content".
The "Gamekillers" are a collection of stereotyped characters who represent certain personalities who, according to Axe and the show's producers, teens and 20-somethings often encounter throughout the course of their social life. In particular, each Gamekiller is said to be particularly skilled at inadvertently—or sometimes purposely—ruining a date and breaking up a couple.
Characters
In the show, each Gamekiller was profiled, and actors playing certain ones were introduced to unsuspecting real-life couples to ruin their dates.
TV series
MTV ordered five half-hour episodes of The Gamekillers, evolving the original 2006 special into a full television series. The first episode premiered on September 21, 2007. In each episode, a male contestant who thinks he is on a simple reality dating show goes on a series of dates with an actress who he believes to be a fellow contestant. Every situation he finds himself in is completely staged, and in every date the contestant is confronted with a Gamekiller, whose purpose is to throw the date off course and ruin the contestant's chances of success. If the contestant overcomes the challenges, his name is etched onto the "ancient Axe Gamekillers Chalice", alongside other such historical ladies' men as Hugh Hefner, Casanova, John Hancock and Sasquatch.
This series reprises some of the Gamekiller roles featured in the original special and introduces several new characters:
References
External links
Official site
Official Canadian site
The GameKillers Game
2000s American television specials
2006 television specials
2006 in American television
MTV original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisora%20Regional%20del%20T%C3%A1chira
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The Televisora Regional del Táchira (TRT) is a privately owned Venezuelan regional television network based in the city of San Cristóbal in Táchira. Including Táchira, TRT can be seen in the southern part of the Zulia, northeastern Barinas, and northern Apure in Venezuela. Its signal can also be seen in Colombia in the Norte de Santander Department and northern Arauca Department. It broadcasts on channel six.
History
In early 1983, a group of businessmen from Táchira came up with the idea to establish a television network in Táchira with the purpose of promoting the region’s culture. Later, other businessmen from other areas in Venezuela became involved.
The company Televisora Regional del Táchira, S.A., was established in March 1984 and on February 17, 1988, the company received a broadcast license from the Venezuelan Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Ministerio de Transporte y Comunicaciones). In early 1989, the construction of the transmitting station located on a hill named "Gallinero" in Palmira, Guásimos municipality, was completed. This transmitting station enabled TRT to finally go on the air. TRT's signal reaches most of Táchira, parts of Apure, parts of Zulia, the northern part of the Arauca Department in Colombia, and some parts of the Norte de Santander Department in Colombia.
On July 24, 1989, TRT began testing their signal on channel six. Its test signal consisted of a color test pattern and the network's music. On October 15, 1989, at 8pm, a soccer (football) game was broadcast from the Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo stadium in the city of San Cristóbal. It was on Friday, November 24, 1989, that the inaugural ball was celebrated in San Cristóbal’s opera house (important Venezuelan personalities came to this ball, including president Carlos Andrés Pérez). This was when TRT began its regular programming.
With the need to improve their coverage, another transmitting station (called "El Rayo", located in the municipality of Pedro María Ureña in Táchira), was constructed, and finally became functional on March 25, 1994. This new transmitting station completely covered the Norte de Santander Department in Colombia, the southern part of Zulia, the Zamora municipality in Barinas, the Páez Municipality in Apure, and improved its signal in Táchira.
Programming
You can see TRT's programming chart for this week at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090751/http://www.televisoradeltachira.com/contenido/programacion/adjuntar/programacion.jpg. For those who can't read in the Spanish language, "Lunes" is "Monday", "Martes" is "Tuesday", "Miercoles" is "Wednesday", "Jueves" is "Thursday", "Viernes" is "Friday", "Sabado" is "Saturday", and "Domingo" is "Sunday". When a show is labeled with the letters PN, it means that the show is made in Venezuela.
Controversies
The host of the program "Café con Azócar", Gustavo Azócar, was arrested on March 6, 2006 by the metropolitan police of Táchira after a complaint filed by
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOP-TV
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KCOP-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KTTV (channel 11). Both stations share studios at the Fox Television Center located in West Los Angeles, while KCOP-TV's transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
History
Early history
Channel 13 first signed on the air on September 17, 1948, as KLAC-TV (standing for Los Angeles, California), and adopted the moniker "Lucky 13". It was originally co-owned with local radio station KLAC (570 AM). Operating as an independent station early on, it began running some programming from the DuMont Television Network in 1949 after KTLA (channel 5) ended its affiliation with the network after a one-year tenure. One of KLAC-TV's earlier stars was veteran actress Betty White, who starred in Al Jarvis's Make-Believe Ballroom (later Hollywood on Television) from 1949 to 1952, and then her own sitcom, Life with Elizabeth from 1952 to 1956. Television personality Regis Philbin and actor/director Leonard Nimoy once worked behind the scenes at channel 13, and Oscar Levant had his own show on the station from 1958 to 1960.
On December 23, 1953, the now-defunct Copley Press (publishers of the San Diego Union-Tribune) purchased KLAC-TV and changed its call letters to the current KCOP, which reflected their ownership. A Bing Crosby-led group purchased the station in June 1957. In 1959, the NAFI Corporation, which would later merge with Chris-Craft Boats to become Chris-Craft Industries, bought channel 13. NAFI/Chris-Craft would be channel 13's longest-tenured owner, running it for over 40 years.
For most of its first 46 years on the air, channel 13 was a typical general entertainment independent station. It was usually the third or fourth highest-rated independent in Southern California, trading the #3 spot with KHJ-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV). The station carried Operation Prime Time programming at least in 1978.
In the early 1980s, KCOP became one of the many stations in the U.S. to broadcast Star Fleet (aka X-Bomber), a science-fiction marionette series which originally debuted in Japan in 1980.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the Los Angeles home of Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as the Original Series before it, as early as 1970), The Arsenio Hall Show and Baywatch. KCOP was the original Los Angeles home of the syndicated version of Wheel of Fortune (its longtime announcer until his death in 2010, Charlie O'Donnell, was a former staff announcer and news anchor at KCOP). The station had also picked up Jeopardy! from KCBS-TV (channel 2) in 1985. Both game shows moved to KCBS-TV in 1989, and later to current home KABC-TV (channel 7) in 1992. Channel 13 aired select episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours from early June to late August 1991. The station tried airing movies six nights a week in 1992; however, they fared poorly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pattern%20on%20the%20Stone
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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and analogy.
The book moves from Boolean algebra through topics such as information theory, parallel computing, cryptography, algorithms, heuristics, universal computing, Turing machines, and promising technologies such as quantum computing and emergent systems.
External links
Reviews: The Pattern on the Stone from Goodreads
Computer science books
1998 non-fiction books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWTL
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KWTL (1370 AM) is a radio station licensed to Grand Forks, North Dakota which airs Catholic talk radio programming. It is the flagship station for Real Presence Radio, and also airs Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) National radio programming and features local shows like "Real Presence Live" plus interviews and guests from across the Red River Valley and the Area Dioceses. KWTL also broadcasts on translator K223DF (92.5 FM) in Grand Forks.
KWTL's signal covers parts of three states and two Canadian provinces. It is the second oldest radio station in North Dakota, after WDAY in Fargo.
History
KWTL's first license, with the sequentially assigned call letters KFJM, was granted on August 13, 1923 to the University of North Dakota, making it one of the first college radio stations. Its initial assignment was to 1310 kHz, however its frequency was changed multiple times throughout the years, including 900, 550, 1370, 1410, and 1440 kHz. It changed back to 1370 kHz in 1957.
In 1930, a station filing stated that KFJM had been established "to provide laboratory facilities for the students studying radio engineering and to further the educational programs of the university". At this time it was broadcasting about eight hours per day.
In 1976 the University of North Dakota established an FM station, KFJM-FM. In 1995, KFJY signed on as the university's second FM station, simulcasting KFJM (AM) with an AAA format and jazz overnight. During April 1997, both stations went off the air as the floodwaters went through the transmitter site.
On August 15, 1997 all three University of North Dakota stations changed call signs. KFJM became KUND and KFJM-FM on 89.3 MHz became KUND-FM, while KFJY on 90.7 MHz inherited the historic KFJM call letters. KUND later became known as Northern Lights Public Radio, as some of its funding came from the listening audience.
On July 31, 2002, KUND (AM) and KFJM (FM) went off the air due to shortages from public funding, although KUND-FM (89.3) continued to be operated by Prairie Public Radio. The stations signed back on in August 2002 with an adult album alternative format along with programming from North Dakota Public Radio and National Public Radio.
In 2004 KUND (AM) was sold to Real Presence Radio, a Roman Catholic organization. The call sign changed to KWTL on November 4, and it began airing programming from EWTN's radio service. On December 25, 2007, KWTL began operating with 12,000 watts during daylight hours.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KWTL (covering 1927-1980 as KFJM)
EWTN
KWTL
KFJM Records, 1923-2002 Collection Overview
WTL
Radio stations established in 1923
WTL
Catholic radio stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm%20%28disambiguation%29
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The olm (Proteus anguinus) is a species of amphibian.
Olm may also refer to:
Ocular larva migrans, an eye disease
Oil life monitor
Olm (and Megolm) is a cryptographic algorithm used by Matrix (protocol)
Olm, Luxembourg
OLM, Inc., formerly Oriental Light and Magic, a Japanese animation studio
Hans Werner Olm, German comedy artist
The Olms, a musical group made up of Pete Yorn and J.D. King
Olympia Regional Airport (IATA code)
Ordre Libanais Maronite, the Lebanese Maronite Order, religious order
Ordo Lectionum Missae, a Roman Catholic liturgical lectionary
Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mosaic%20Company
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The Mosaic Company is a Fortune 500 company based in Tampa, Florida which mines phosphate, potash, and collects urea for fertilizer, through various international distribution networks, and Mosaic Fertilizantes. It is the largest U.S. producer of potash and phosphate fertilizer.
Overview
The Mosaic Company was formed in October 2004 by a merger between IMC Global, a fertilizer company formed in 1909, and Cargill's crop nutrition division.
It is a combined producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash with a customer base which includes wholesalers, retail dealers and individual growers worldwide. Its headquarters are in Tampa, Florida and it employs approximately 13,000 people in eight countries.
Products
Potash
Mosaic has approximately 10.4 million tonnes of operational potash capacity. Mosaic currently owns potash mines or surface mills at; Belle Plaine, Colonsay, Esterhazy K1, Esterhazy K2, Esterhazy K3 and Carlsbad, with another potash mine recently purchased in Brazil during the Vale Fertilizantes acquisition. Colonsay mine and mill has been indefinitely idled and is currently in care and maintenance mode. Esterhazy K3, currently in development, consists of an underground mine and service/production shafts separate from the K1 and K2 underground mine that is beginning to supply the K1 and K2 surface facilities with ore. Esterhazy K3 does not have surface milling and storage facilities, instead it is intended to replace the ore currently mined from the K1 and K2 mine. This shift in production will decrease brine management costs of the K1 and K2 mine, which stood at $108.0 million for 2020.
Mosaic is a member of Canpotex, an export association of Canadian potash producers through which they sell their Canadian potash outside the U.S. and Canada.
Potash mines are located in:
Carlsbad, New Mexico ()
Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan ()
Colonsay, Saskatchewan ()
Esterhazy, Saskatchewan K1 ()
Esterhazy, Saskatchewan K2 ()
Esterhazy, Saskatchewan K3 ()
Phosphate
Mosaic has approximately 16.8 million tonnes of operational capacity for finished concentrated phosphates. Mosaic is the largest producer of finished phosphate products with an annual capacity greater than the next two largest producers combined. It has a global distribution network made up of plants, port facilities, warehouses and sales offices. In 2013 Mosaic produced 7.6 million tons of concentrated phosphate crop nutrients and over 15 million tons of phosphate rock production. In October, 2013, Mosaic reached an agreement to purchase the phosphate operations of CF Industries for 1.4 billion dollars, which eliminates the need for Mosaic to spend an additional billion dollars to build a new processing facility in Hardee County, Florida to process the rock from their mines in that area.
Phosphate mines are located in the Bone Valley Formation of the Peace River watershed in Central Florida:
Fort Meade ()
South Pasture ()
Four Corners ()
Wingate Creek ()
Fort Lon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik
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In political science, Noopolitik, formed by a combination of the Greek words νόος nóos ("knowledge") and πολιτικός politikós (πολίτης polítēs "citizen", from πόλις pólis "city"), is the network-based geopolitics of knowledge. The term was invented by defense experts John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt in a 1999 RAND Corporation study and often appears in connection with that of smart power.
Difference with Realpolitik
Noopolitics is an informational strategy of manipulating international processes through the forming in the general public, by means of mass media, of positive or negative attitudes to the external or internal policies of a state or block of states, to create a positive or negative image of ideas and promulgated moral values.
Versus Foucault's Biopolitics
Tiziana Terranova (2007) describes the use of the term 'noopolitics' by Maurizio Lazzarato (2004). "'Noopolitics' supplements the biopolitics of the species described by Foucault" (Terranova 2007, 139). "Against the militarization of communication accomplished by new techniques of power, it is possible to think about the constitution of such publics as counter-weapons, which work by expressing, inventing and creating possible worlds where the moment of resistance (the 'no' by which one refuses to watch, listen or believe) is the starting point for an affirmative activity" (Terranova 2007, 140). Noyer & Juanals (2008) have also discussed Noopolitik as a means of social control. especially in connection with RAND's Byting back program which was published as research into counterinsurgency.
In the knowledge economy and the BRICS
While the term initially appeared in association with the concept of the US Revolution in Military Affairs, Noopolitik has also come to describe an interest in the knowledge economy and in particular innovation and R&D to leverage growth and political reach in international relations. Thus Noopolitik may be defined as the use of innovation and knowledge to leverage political intercourses by other means at the international level. Such "knowledge race" may be either a means of asserting political independence or of generating a sudden gap in the geopolitical balance of power. The attitude of the People's Republic of China and the ANZUS in the Pacific Ocean has been described as such by (2011).
For the People's Republic of China
Professor Li Xiguang of Tsinghua University described the stakes of Smart power for the People's Republic of China in a 2010 article on Noopolitik in the Global Times:
analyzes Noopolitik as a defining stance of the People's Republic of China's economic policy in which he concludes "Maintaining 'Leap and Bound' creativity could be an efficient way for China to neutralize popular frustration. What must be acknowledged is that the PRC has moved from a 'growth panacea' policy, to a policy of 'knowledge panacea.' This best sums up its Noopolitik."
See also
Holism
Netpolitik
Noogenesis
Noosphere
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sources
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Western%20video%20games
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This is a list of computer and video games that are set in the Old West or that are defined by a Western style, including those that blend Western elements with other genres, such as Space Westerns.
Traditional Westerns
Non-traditional Westerns
This section is for Western games that have non-traditional themes or hybrid genres such as Space Western, Sci-fi West, Fantasy Western, Hybrid Western (e.g. Horror Western, Film noir, Martial arts (genre), anthropomorphic animal characters), neo-Western (Contemporary settings/times), Post-apocalyptic West, Weird West (Also can have supernatural, steampunk, superhero themes), among many others. It is probably okay to leave 'spaghetti westerns' and some other mixed genres in the traditional section.
See this List of Western subgenres for a comprehensive rundown on numerous types of alternate Westerns.
Cancelled games
References
External links
Setting: Western / Old West at MobyGames
Non-traditional Westerns at MobyGames
Western
List of Western computer and video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic%20Software
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Antic Software was a software company associated with Antic, a magazine for the Atari 8-bit family of computers. Bound into issues of the magazine, the Antic Software catalog initially sold Atari 8-bit games, applications, and utilities from the recently defunct Atari Program Exchange. Original submissions were later added, as well as public domain collections, with all software provided on self-documented disk. When the Atari ST was released, it became a mixture of Atari 8-bit and Atari ST software and sold some major Atari ST titles such as CAD-3D. The magazine insert changed names several times, eventually being branded as The Catalog.
Antic assistant editor Gigi Bisson wrote in the May 1986 issue that, "[Antic Software] kept the magazine afloat during the lean year," referring to the period following Atari, Inc.'s financial collapse.
History
When the Atari Program Exchange (APX) was shut down by Atari CEO James J. Morgan in 1984, Gary Yost convinced Antic magazine's publisher, James Capparell, to create Antic Software. Yost contacted many of the programmers from APX to re-publish their works with Antic. The APX software was rebranded in mid-1984 as APX Classics from Antic. In 1985 the magazine insert was called Antic Arcade (despite including more than games). By 1986 it was branded The Catalog with the emphasis on Atari ST applications.
Software
Atari 8-bit family
Chop Suey (1985), fighting game
Colourspace, light synthesizer from Jeff Minter.
Dandy Dungeon, renamed version of Atari Program Exchange game Dandy.
HomeCard, filing system written by Preppie! programmer Russ Wetmore and Sparky Starks.
Mars Mission II, sequel to Caverns of Mars. Another sequel, Phobos, was previously sold through the Atari Program Exchange, then later by Antic Software.
RAMbrandt, image editor.
Atari ST
CAD-3D, 3D modeling system and related add-ons. CAD-3D is a precursor to 3D Studio MAX.
Spectrum 512, Atari ST paint program allowing 512 colors per image instead of the standard 16.
Legacy
Gary Yost went on to form The Yost Group which created and licensed products to Autodesk: Autodesk Animator, Autodesk Animator Pro, Autodesk 3D Studio, and Autodesk 3DS MAX. 3D Studio is a direct successor of CAD-3D.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Atari 8-bit family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.O.R.E.
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C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio based in Toronto, and founded at the end of March 1994. Its productions included fully animated television series and feature films.
C.O.R.E. signed a production partnership deal with Radar Pictures.
History
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was started in 1994 by John Mariella, Kyle Menzies, Bob Munroe and William Shatner.
Its first and only animated feature film, The Wild, was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It met with unfavorable critical and commercial reaction.
As with most Canadian F/X firms, a rising exchange rate, coupled with a decline in employment due to the economic downturn, would take a negative toll on C.O.R.E. After failing to secure a loan guarantee from the provincial government of Ontario, C.O.R.E. ceased operations on March 15, 2010.
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
Killshot (Weinstein Co./Film Colony/A Band Apart/Lawrence Bender Prods.)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Walt Disney Pictures)
Firehouse Dog (New Regency Prods/Twentieth Century Fox)
Silent Hill (Davis Films / Wander Star / TriStar Pictures / Columbia)
Lucky Number Slevin (Ascendant Pictures / Weinstein Co.)
Saw 2 (Evolution Entertainment / Twisted Pictures)
Hotel for Dogs (DreamWorks Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Screen Gems/Davis Films/Impact)
Siblings (Canadian Film Centre)
Duma (Warner Bros.)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Senator Films/New Line Cinema)
New York Minute (Warner Bros.)
My Baby's Daddy (Miramax Films)
Malibu's Most Wanted (Warner Bros.)
Nothing (49th Parallel)
Against the Ropes (Cort-Madden Productions/Paramount Pictures)
They (Radar Pictures)
Cypher (Pandora/Miramax Films)
Blade II (New Line Cinema)
The Time Machine (DreamWorks Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures)
S1M0NE (New Line Cinema)
Who Is Cletis Tout? (Fireworks / Paramount Classics)
Glitter (Columbia Pictures)
Caveman's Velentine (Franchise Pictures / Jersey Films / Universal Studios)
Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (Universal Pictures)
X-Men (Marvel Entertainment Group/Twentieth Century Fox)
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Gullane Pictures / Destination Films)
Knockaround Guys (New Line Cinema)
Snow Day (Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies)
A Walk on the Moon (Punch Productions / Miramax Films)
Dr. Dolittle (Twentieth Century Fox)
The Big Hit (Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures)
The Mighty (Alliance/Miramax)
Flubber (Disney)
Mimic (Dimension Films/Miramax)
Spawn (New Line Cinema)
Cube (Canadian Film Centre)
Fly Away Home (Columbia Pictures)
Johnny Mnemonic (Tristar Pictures)
The Spine (National Film Board of Canada)
Television
Series, unless mentioned otherwise.
The Tudors
National Aboriginal Achievement Awards National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
Code Breakers - MOW Orly Adelson Productions/ESPN Original Entertainment
Kevin Hill Kevin Hill Prods. Inc./ABC, Inc.
Anonymous Rex - Pilot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CREDO%20Mobile
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CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets Wireless) is an American mobile virtual network operator headquartered in San Francisco, California. CREDO Mobile's mobile network operator is Verizon Wireless.
History
Working Assets was founded by Peter Barnes, Michael Kieschnick and Laura Scher in 1985 in San Francisco, as a business that would use its revenues to fund progressive social change work. Each time their customers use its services—mobile, long distance or credit card—WA would automatically send a donation to progressive nonprofit groups. To date it has raised more than $87 million for groups like Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network and Oxfam America.
Credit cards
Working Assets's initial product was a credit card that generated donations to progressive nonprofit groups every time the card was used. Soon, the company introduced a ballot process for its customers to vote on how to distribute the money raised among nonprofit groups. The ballot is still used today.
Long-distance phone service
In 1991, the company launched long-distance phone service, promoting the fact that it would donate 1% of its customer charges to nonprofit groups. It also featured political actions in the customers' monthly bills, urging them to make free calls to elected officials. And it let customers pay for "CitizenLetters" to be sent in their name to the officials. By 1993, these actions included calling for a single-payer healthcare system and for allowing gays in the military.
Mobile phone service
The company started its mobile phone service as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) using the Sprint Nextel network in 2000. It also launched an activist website called Act for Change (now CREDO Action) in that same year. In 2016, the mobile phone service became a MVNO using the Verizon Wireless network, switching from the Sprint Nextel network.
Name change
In November 2007, Working Assets Wireless announced that it was changing its name to CREDO Mobile to better reflect the company's values: A belief that people, through donations to nonprofits and political activism, can effect progressive change. The names of its phone services were changed to CREDO mobile and CREDO Long Distance. However, its credit card is still called the Working Assets Credit Card.
Environmental policy
In keeping with its commitment to protect the environment, the company offers free phone recycling, prints its bills on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, and offsets its electricity and shipping costs through Carbonfund.org's "carbon-free" program. CREDO plants 100 trees for every ton of paper it uses (enough to generate another ton) and it has donated more than $15 million to environmental groups in the US and abroad.
In 2009, CREDO Mobile was recognized by the nonprofit Planning and Conservation League as the Environmental Business of the Year.
Political activism
CREDO Mobile's mission of social change takes the form of two primary activities: its donations to progressive non
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Macintosh%209600
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The Power Macintosh 9600 (also sold with additional server software as the Apple Workgroup Server 9650) is a personal computer that is a part of Apple Computer's Power Macintosh series of Macintosh computers. It was introduced in February 1997 alongside the Power Macintosh 7300 and 8600, and replaced the Power Macintosh 9500 as Apple's flagship desktop computer.
The 9600 was replaced by the Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower in Apple's product lineup in November 1997, with sales of the 9600 continuing until March 1998.
Models
When introduced, the Power Macintosh 9600 was available with three processor configurations: single-processor 200 MHz, dual-processor 200 MHz, and single-processor 233 MHz. The line was updated in August 1997 with a single-processor 300 MHz or 350 MHz "Mach 5" 604ev with a larger L2 cache, priced at $4,500 and $5,300, respectively. An updated Workgroup Server 9650 was introduced at the same time with a 350 MHz CPU, and could be ordered pre-configured as an application server, AppleShare server or Internet server, with prices ranging from $6,800 to $7,500 USD depending on the software package chosen.
The 350 MHz model was initially discontinued in October due to CPU supply problems, but reintroduced on February 17, 1998 when the 300 MHz model was discontinued in favor of the new Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower. While the G3 was faster, its expandability was only on par with the 8600, so the 9600 was kept available until March for users that required it.
Hardware
The 9600 came in the same new case as the 8600, but was internally very similar to the 9500 that preceded it, with 12 memory slots and 6 PCI expansion card slots instead of the 8 memory and 3 PCI slots on the 8600. The 9600 used the new PowerPC 604e CPU, an enhanced version of the 9500 604.
Like its predecessor, the Power Macintosh 9600 has no built-in video; instead, it shipped with an 8 MB IXMICRO TwinTurbo 128-bit PCI video card installed.
The Power Macintosh 9600/350 was the most powerful Mac ever in Apple's four-digit model numbering system, the last multiprocessor Mac for three years, and the last model with six or more expansion slots until the 2019 Mac Pro. No version of OS X was officially supported by Apple on the 9600; its installation and use required the use of the third-party software solution XPostFacto. Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 was only possible with a G3 processor upgrade installed, and OS X 10.5 was possible with a G4 upgrade. The 9600 was part of the final generation of Macs to ship with a SCSI hard drive as a standard feature; subsequent Macs adopted IDE for the internal hard drive bus.
Technical specifications
Timeline
Notes
References
External links
Power Macintosh 9600 at Low End Mac
EveryMac.com:
Power Macintosh:
9600/200
9600/200MP
9600/233
9600/300
9600/350
9600
9600
Macintosh towers
Computer-related introductions in 1997
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timet
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Timet or variation, may refer to:
timidity, fear
time-t, a common name for a value or variable representing time
time_t, a C computer language datatype for storing time values
Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET)
Timet (song) 1970 tune by Dizzy Gillespie off the album Portrait of Jenny
See also
Quia timet
Time (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s%20principle
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In computational complexity theory, Yao's principle (also called Yao's minimax principle or Yao's lemma) is a way to prove lower bounds on the worst-case performance of randomized algorithms, by comparing them to deterministic (non-random) algorithms. It states that, for any randomized algorithm, there exists a probability distribution on inputs to the algorithm, so that the expected cost of the randomized algorithm on its worst-case input is at least as large as the cost of the best deterministic algorithm on a random input from this distribution. Thus, to establish a lower bound on the performance of randomized algorithms, it suffices to find an appropriate distribution of difficult inputs, and to prove that no deterministic algorithm can perform well against that distribution. This principle is named after Andrew Yao, who first proposed it.
Yao's principle may be interpreted in game theoretic terms, via a two-player zero-sum game in which one player, Alice, selects a deterministic algorithm, the other player, Bob, selects an input, and the payoff is the cost of the selected algorithm on the selected input. Any randomized algorithm R may be interpreted as a randomized choice among deterministic algorithms, and thus as a mixed strategy for Alice. Similarly, a non-random algorithm may be thought of as a pure strategy for Alice. By von Neumann's minimax theorem, Bob has a randomized strategy that performs at least as well against R as it does against the best pure strategy Alice might have chosen. The worst-case input against Alice's strategy has cost at least as large as Bob's randomly chosen input paired against Alice's strategy, which in turn has cost at least as large as Bob's randomly chosen input paired against any pure strategy.
Statement
The formulation below states the principle for Las Vegas randomized algorithms, i.e., distributions over deterministic algorithms that are correct on every input but have varying costs. It is straightforward to adapt the principle to Monte Carlo algorithms, i.e., distributions over deterministic algorithms that have bounded costs but can be incorrect on some inputs.
Consider a problem over the inputs , and let be the set of all possible deterministic algorithms that correctly solve the problem.
For any algorithm and input , let be the cost of algorithm run on input .
Let be a probability distribution over the algorithms , and let denote a random algorithm chosen according to . Let be a probability distribution over the inputs , and let denote a random input chosen according to . Then,
That is, the worst-case expected cost of the randomized algorithm is at least the expected cost of the best deterministic algorithm against input distribution .
Proof
Let and . We have
As mentioned above, this theorem can also be seen as a very special case of the Minimax theorem.
See also
Randomized algorithms as zero-sum games
References
External links
Computational complexity theory
Random
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20N.%20Stevens
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Kenneth Noble Stevens (March 24, 1924 – August 19, 2013) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of health sciences and technology at the research laboratory of electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the speech communication group in MIT's research laboratory of electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics.
He was awarded the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1999, and the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2004.
He died in 2013 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Education
Early education
Ken Stevens was born in Toronto on March 23, 1924. His older brother, Pete, was born in England; Ken was born four years later, shortly after the family emigrated to Canada. His childhood ambition was to become a doctor, because he admired an uncle who was a doctor. He attended high school at a school attached to the department of education at the University of Toronto.
Stevens attended college in the school of engineering at the University of Toronto on a full scholarship. He lived at home throughout his undergraduate years. Though Stevens himself could not fight in World War II because of his visual impairment, his brother was away for the entire war; his parents tuned in nightly to the BBC for updates. Stevens majored in engineering physics at the university, covering topics from the design of motorized machines through to basic physics, which was taught by the physics department. During summers he worked in the defense industry, including one summer at a company that was developing radar. He received both his S.B. and S.M. degrees in 1945.
Stevens had been a teacher since his undergraduate years, when he lectured sections of home economics that involved some aspect of physics. After receiving his master's degree, he stayed at the University of Toronto as an instructor, teaching courses to young men returning from the war, including his own older brother. He was a fellow of the Ontario Foundation from 1945 to 1946, then worked as an instructor at the University of Toronto until 1948.
During his master's research Stevens became interested in control theory, and took courses from the applied mathematics department, where one of his professors recommended that he should apply to MIT for doctoral studies.
Doctoral studies
Shortly after Stevens was admitted to MIT, a new professor named Leo Beranek noticed that Stevens had taken acoustics. Beranek contacted Stevens in Toronto, to ask if he would be a teaching assistant for Beranek's new acoustics course, and Stevens agreed. Shortly after that, Beranek contacted Stevens again to offer him a research position on a new speech project, which Stevens also accepted. The Radiation Laboratory at MIT (building 20) was converted, after the war, into the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE); among other labs, RLE hosted Beranek's new Acoustics Lab.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture%20splatting
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In computer graphics, texture splatting is a method for combining different textures. It works by applying an alphamap (also called a "weightmap" or a "splat map") to the higher levels, thereby revealing the layers underneath where the alphamap is partially or completely transparent. The term was coined by Crawfis et al.
Optimizations
Since texture splatting is commonly used for terrain rendering in computer games, various optimizations are required. Because the underlying principle is for each texture to have its own alpha channel, large amounts of memory can easily be consumed. As a solution to this problem, multiple alpha maps can be combined into one texture using the red channel for one map, the blue for another, and so on. This effectively uses a single texture to supply alpha maps for four real-color textures. The alpha textures can also use a lower resolution than the color textures, and often the color textures can be tiled.
Terrains can also be split into chunks where each chunk can have its own textures. Say there is a certain texture on one part of the terrain that doesn’t appear anywhere else on it: it would be a waste of memory and processing time if the alpha map extended over the whole terrain if only 10% of it was actually required. If the terrain is split into chunks then the alpha map can also be split up according to the chunks and so now instead of 90% of that specific map being wasted only 20% may be.
Related techniques
Alpha-based texture splatting, though simple, gives rather unnatural transitions. Height-based texture blending attempts to improve on quality by blending based on a heightmap of each texture.
See also
Alpha compositing
Blend modes
Splatting – a volume rendering technique
Texture mapping
References
External links
Charles Bloom on Texture Splatting
Texture Splatting in Direct3D
Crawfis, Roger and Nelson Max, Texture Splats for 3D Vector and Scalar Field Visualization, Proceedings Visualization '93 (October 1993), IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, pp. 261–266.
Computer graphics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caverphone
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The Caverphone within linguistics and computing, is a phonetic matching algorithm invented to identify English names with their sounds, originally built to process a custom dataset compound between 1893 and 1938 in southern Dunedin, New Zealand. Started from a similar concept as metaphone, it has been developed to accommodate and process general English since then.
Etymology
The Caverphone was created by David Hood in the Caversham Project at the University of Otago in New Zealand in 2002, revised in 2004. It was created to assist in data matching between late 19th century and early 20th century electoral rolls, where the name only needed to be in a "commonly recognisable form". The algorithm was intended to apply to those names that could not easily be matched between electoral rolls, after the exact matches were removed from the pool of potential matches. The algorithm is optimised for accents present in the study area (southern part of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand).
Procedure
Caverphone 1.0
The rules of the algorithm are applied consecutively to any particular name, as a series of replacements.
The algorithm is as follows:
Convert to lowercase
Remove anything not A-Z
If the name starts with...
cough, replace it by cou2f
rough, replace it by rou2f
tough, replace it by tou2f
enough, replace it by enou2f
gn, replace it by 2n
If the name ends with
mb, replace it by m2
Replace
cq with 2q
ci with si
ce with se
cy with sy
tch with 2ch
c with k
q with k
x with k
v with f
dg with 2g
tio with sio
tia with sia
d with t
ph with fh
b with p
sh with s2
z with s
any initial vowel with an A
all other vowels with a 3
3gh3 with 3kh3
gh with 22
g with k
groups of the letter s with a S
groups of the letter t with a T
groups of the letter p with a P
groups of the letter k with a K
groups of the letter f with a F
groups of the letter m with a M
groups of the letter n with a N
w3 with W3
wy with Wy
wh3 with Wh3
why with Why
w with 2
any initial h with an A
all other occurrences of h with a 2
r3 with R3
ry with Ry
r with 2
l3 with L3
ly with Ly
l with 2
j with y
y3 with Y3
y with 2
remove all
2
3
put six 1 on the end
take the first six characters as the code
Caverphone 2.0
Start with a word
Convert to lowercase
Remove anything not in the standard alphabet (typically a-z)
Remove final e
If the name starts with
cough make it cou2f
rough make it rou2f
tough make it tou2f
enough make it enou2f
trough make it trou2f
gn make it 2n
If the name ends with
mb make it m2
Replace
cq with 2q
ci with si
ce with se
cy with sy
tch with 2ch
c with k
q with k
x with k
v with f
dg with 2g
tio with sio
tia with sia
d with t
ph with fh
b with p
sh with s2
z with s
an initial vowel with an A
all other vowels with a 3
j with y
an initial y3 with Y3
an initial y with A
y with 3
3gh3 with 3kh3
gh with 22
g with k
groups of the letter s with a S
groups of the letter t with a T
grou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20Mind
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Diamond Mind Baseball is a computer baseball simulation game, created by Canadian baseball expert Tom Tippett, who released the first commercial version of the game in 1987.
The game can be considered a descendant of dice-and-charts baseball simulations such as Strat-o-Matic baseball and Pursue the Pennant. In fact, in the beginning, the game was called "Pursue The Pennant" because Tippett had a marketing relationship with the company of the same name. This relationship ended in 1995, when the game and company were officially given its current name. Pursue The Pennant itself had been revived in 1993 as a board version, windows version and new online version game called Dynasty League Baseball.
Diamond Mind differs from Strat-o-Matic and other games of the genre in that it is not derived from a board game; it is strictly a computer game. Tippett claims that the fact that the game is designed "from the ground up" to take advantage of the versatility and speed of the PC make it a more accurate and flexible game than its competitors, such as Strat-o-Matic. Strat-o-Matic supporters, including Strat-o-Matic founder Hal Richman, have responded to this by stating that since Diamond Mind does not reveal its source code or algorithms, there is no way to independently verify or refute its claims of superior statistical accuracy.
Diamond Mind was named PC Magazine Editor's Choice for PC-based baseball games in its June 28, 2005 issue. It is also often used by sporting publications to predict the outcome of upcoming seasons.
Diamond Mind relocated from Boston to Beaverton, Oregon in 2005. On August 14, 2006, Diamond Mind became a wholly owned subsidiary of Simnasium (now Imagine Sports), a company which has its headquarters in Silicon Valley. Tippett stepped down from his position as head of the company to take a position with the Boston Red Sox, ceding control to Simnasium CEO Dayne Myers. Tippett remains with the company as a consultant.
Over the next two years, Simnasium/Imagine Sports shifted the development of Diamond Mind away from the PC and into the online world. On May 24, 2008, Imagine Sports announced to their customers that there will be no new versions of the PC version of Diamond Mind for the foreseeable future so that the company might focus on the online version of the game. However, later in 2008, this policy changed as Diamond Mind announced a tenth version of their standalone PC game would be released in February 2009. After numerous production delays, the tenth edition of the game was finally released in June 2010.
Simnasium/Imagine has continued to provide nominal patches, and also launched Version 11 in 2015, which added player photos and expanded play by play, amongst other features.
References
External links
Diamond Mind Home Page
Imagine Sports Home Page
Baseball video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaMF
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MaMF, or Mammalian Motif Finder, is an algorithm for identifying motifs to which transcription factors bind.
The algorithm takes as input a set of promoter sequences, and a motif width(w), and as output, produces a ranked list of 30 predicted motifs(each motif is defined by a set of N sequences, where N is a parameter).
The algorithm firstly indexes each sub-sequence of length n, where n is a parameter around 4-6 base pairs, in each promoter, so they can be looked up efficiently. This index is then used to build a list of all pairs of sequences of length w, such that each sequence shares an n-mer, and each sequence forms an ungapped alignment with a substring of length w from the string of length 2w around the match, with a score exceeding a cut-off.
The pairs of sequences are then scored. The scoring function favours pairs which are very similar, but disfavours sequences which are very common in the target genome. The 1000 highest scoring pairs are kept, and the others are discarded. Each of these 1000 'seed' motifs are then used to search iteratively search for further sequences of length which maximise the score(a greedy algorithm), until N sequences for that motif are reached.
Very similar motifs are discarded, and the 30 highest scoring motifs are returned as output.
References
Search algorithms
Bioinformatics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gilligan%27s%20Island%20episodes
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Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The series aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (1992)
Season 1 (1964–65)
The first season aired Saturdays at 8:30-9:00 p.m. (EST). This is the only season to be filmed in black and white.
Season 2 (1965–66)
The second season aired Thursdays at 8:00-8:30 p.m. (EST).
Season 3 (1966–67)
The third season aired Mondays at 7:30-8:00 p.m. (EST).
Television films (1978–2001)
There were three sequel films. The first (1978) had them rescued and proved so successful that it spawned a second (1979) and third (1981). By the third film, ratings were down, and no more were made.
In 2001, Dawn Wells co-produced a television film bio-pic, where she, Bob Denver, and Russell Johnson appear as themselves as hosts and remember what life was like during the series. In the memory scenes, they and the rest of the cast are played by different actors, while Wells narrates.
Home media
This series has been released on DVD by Warner Home Video, in three season box sets (the first of which includes the pilot episode) and in a complete series set. There has also been a single-disc release containing only the first two episodes.
References
Further reading
External links
Fan site episode list
Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Quadra%20840AV
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The Macintosh Quadra 840AV is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from July 1993 to July 1994. It was introduced alongside the Centris 660AV, where "AV" signifies audiovisual capabilities, such as video input and output, telecommunications, speech recognition, and enhanced audio. The 840AV has the same mini-tower form factor as the Quadra 800, with a faster Motorola 68040 processor.
The Quadra 840AV was discontinued shortly after the introduction of the PowerPC-based Power Macintosh. The Power Macintosh 8100/80AV provides the same functionality in the same form factor, and had a significantly higher price point. The 7100/66AV was priced comparably to the 840AV but in a IIvx-style desktop case.
Hardware
At launch, Quadra 840AV's 40 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU and interleaved RAM made it the fastest Macintosh available, topping both the nominally higher-end Quadra 950 and the Quadra 800 by 7 MHz. It remains both the fastest Quadra and the fastest 68k Macintosh of all time, because all later high-end Macintoshes are PowerPC-based Power Macintoshes. The 840AV is the only Mac to use the 40 MHz-clocked 68040. It sports a faster 66.7 MHz AT&T DSP 3210 Digital Signal Processor chip, compared with the 55 MHz variant in the 660AV. The on-board DSP was primarily intended to speed up audio/video processing, although few Mac programs make use of this due to the complexity of programming it.
The 840AV and its relative, the Centris/Quadra 660AV, marked a number of firsts for the Macintosh family. They are the first Macintoshes to include on-board 16-bit 48 kHz stereo audio playback and recording capability, and S-Video and composite video input and output. To improve video playback, two separate frame buffers are used: one for standard graphics, and one specifically for video. This enables the live video input to be displayed as a scalable "window" within the Macintosh user interface. They are also the first personal computers that supported speech recognition (PlainTalk) out-of-the-box. The Apple GeoPort Telecom Adapter Kit introduced with the AV Macs add many DSP-based telecommunication functions, such as modem, fax, and telephony.
The Quadra 840AV has a similar case to the earlier Macintosh Quadra 800; the housing, chassis, power supply, and internal storage assemblies are the same, but the front and rear panels changed, with the power button being moved to the front.
Internally, the 840AV is significantly different. Apart from the faster processor, the logic board lacks the 800's Processor Direct Slot and second ADB port, but has a DAV slot (in line with NuBus slot A) and the new GeoPort. Also, unlike the 800's 8 MB of fixed RAM, all of the 840AV's memory is in SIMMs (this is the reason why the maximum amount of memory is lower).
The way in which the 840AV deals with its memory (DRAM) differs from the other machines of its generation (Quadra 700, 800, 950) in that 4, 8, 16, or 32 MB 72-pin 60ns SIMMs may be installed up
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval
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Retrieval could refer to:
Computer science
RETRIEVE, Tymshare database that inspired dBASE and others
Data retrieval
Document retrieval
Image retrieval
Information retrieval
Knowledge retrieval
Medical retrieval
Music information retrieval
Text retrieval
Psychology
The process of recalling information that is stored in memory ("memory retrieval")
Film
Retrieval (film), a 2006 Polish film
The Retrieval, a 2013 American drama film by Chris Eska
ja:検索
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase%20search
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In computer science, phrase searching allows users to retrieve content from information systems (such as documents from file storage systems, records from databases, and web pages on the internet) that contains a specific order and combination of words defined by the user.
Phrase search is one of many search operators that are standard in search engine technology, along with Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT), truncation and wildcard operators (commonly represented by the asterisk symbol), field code operators (which look for specific words in defined fields, such as the Author field in a periodical database), and proximity operators (which look for defined words that appear close to one another, if not directly next to each other as in a phrase search). Search operators are used to refine a search when a simple keyword search provides too many unwanted results.
Although the exact functionality of each search engine is determined by its developers, phrase searching is normally accomplished by wrapping the desired phrase in quotation marks. For example, a search for red apple may return records that contain the word "apple," ones that contain "red," and ones that contain both words no matter where in the record they appear (that is, assuming the search engine applies Boolean OR logic to its keyword search function), whereas a search for "red apple" will only return records that contain the phrase "red apple."
Phrase search is one of the more important techniques associated with optimizing the textual content of web pages in such a way that it is likely to be found by someone searching for a certain string of text.
References
Search algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Sports%20Bureau
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The Elias Sports Bureau is an American privately-held sports data company providing historical and current statistical information for the major professional sports leagues operating in the U.S. and Canada.
Founded in 1913, Elias is considered a pioneering firm in the field of sports recordkeeping and has served as the longtime official statistician for Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Football League (NFL).
Other notable clients include Major League Soccer (MLS), the WNBA, the NBA G League, and the PGA, and the company also serves as the official statistician for the WBC. In addition to its league clients, Elias also maintains relationships with major media clients including MLB Network, ESPN, The Sports Network, and CBSSports.com among others.
History
Early Years, 1913–1952
In 1913 Al Munro Elias and his brother Walter founded the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau, Inc. in New York City. The Bureau's methods of collection and presentation of statistics set the form and precedent for recording baseball information, and has influenced the universal collection and presentation of other sports’ leagues information ever since.
At first, the Munro brothers sold printed scorecards with baseball data directly to fans. The Bureau's popularity surged in 1916, when The New York Telegram daily newspaper began publishing the Bureau's weekly compilation of batting and pitching averages and league leaders. In 1916, Elias was named the official statistician of the National League and International League (the minor league baseball circuit), with the American League and other minor leagues following shortly thereafter.
In 1937, the Bureau took over the publication of Charley White's Record Book, also known as the “Little Red Book”, shortly after White’s passing. The Little Red Book was an official source for major league records and statistics used by sportswriters, club and league officials, players, and sports fans.
Upon Al’s passing in 1938, Walter Elias became President of the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau and began publishing The Pocket Cyclopedia of Major League Baseball, the successor to the Little Red Book. Lester Goodman assumed control of the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau after the death of Walter Elias in 1949. Goodman managed the business on behalf of the Elias brothers’ widows until his passing in 1952.
Ownership of Seymour Siwoff (1952-2019)
That same year, Seymour Siwoff, who had joined the company in 1937 as an intern while studying at St. John's University, purchased the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau from the Elias's widows. Siwoff renamed the company the Elias Sports Bureau to better fulfill his vision of incorporating all professional sports, and served as company president for 67 years. Under Siwoff, the company grew into the world’s most trusted source for sports data.
Elias became the official statisticians of the NFL in 1961 and the NBA in 1970. Elias was later named
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20major%20roads%20in%20Perth%2C%20Western%20Australia
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Freeways, highways, and arterial roads in Perth, Western Australia form the basis of the road network inside the Perth Metropolitan Region. Main Roads Western Australia controls and maintains all freeways and highways, as well as some arterial roads, collectively known as state roads. The remaining roads are the responsibility of local governments; major roads provide links to various destinations within Perth Metropolitan Region.
Some of these roads, or portions of them, are designated and signposted as part of a road route. National Highways and National Routes are road routes of national significance, whilst State Routes in Perth are allocated to the main routes connecting its urban centres. Additionally, roads through areas of scenic or historic significance are designated as part of a Tourist Drive. Each route has a unique marker: National Highways have gold numbers on a green shield, National Routes have black numbers on a white shield, State Routes have white numbers on a blue shield, Tourist Drives have white numbers on a brown shield.
See also
List of major roads in rural Western Australia
List of highways in Western Australia
List of road routes in Western Australia
References
Major roads
Perth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphile
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Cataphiles are urban explorers who illegally tour the Mines of Paris, a term popularly used to describe a series of tunnels that were built as a network of stone mines, which are no longer used. The Catacombs of Paris comprise a subset of this network.
Unauthorized visits
Entrance to the mines is restricted. The portion open to the public (the catacombs) is only a small part of an extensive network of tunnels, which spans around in length and criss-cross large sections of the city. The tunnel system is complex, and though some tunnels have plaques indicating the name of the street above, it is easy to get lost. Some passages are low or narrow, and others are partially flooded. There are aging telephone wires, pipes, and other impediments that can hinder progress, and cave-ins, although rare, do occasionally occur. A good guide is indispensable, and many guides occasionally refer to a map. Because of these dangers, accessing the catacombs without official escort has been illegal since 2 November 1955. There is a €60 fine for people caught by the E.R.I.C - the special police who patrol the mines (colloquially known as "cataflics").
Secret entrances exist throughout Paris, and it is sometimes possible to enter the mines via the sewers, metro, and certain manholes.
Some unofficial visitors hold keys to certain official entrances. On rare occasions people use these access points and illegally enter the mines — for example, to meet clandestinely, to search for valuables, to hold unusual parties, or simply as urban explorers.
In September 2004, the French police discovered an underground movie theater run by les UX — a French artistic movement that seeks to convey their ideas using underground places.
Cataphiles often descend for a day, a night, or perhaps a week to explore, photograph, paint murals, create maps, clean up rooms, and dig chatières (very narrow tunnels, that one can only crawl through).
References
External links
Underground Virtual Visit
Culture of Paris
Subterranea (geography)
Urban exploration
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Perry%20%28computer%20specialist%29
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David Perry is the Global Director of Education for the Comodo Group, a computer security software company. He represents Comodo at industry, government, customer and reseller events worldwide. Long considered a leading authority on computer virus prevention with more than 25 years in the technical support and education field. Perry has appeared at industry trade shows, television and radio broadcasts, and in print media interviews. He is one of the most quoted experts in the field of computer viruses, malware and security education. Prior to working for Comodo, David worked for Trend Micro, Cybermedia, McAfee Associates and Symantec.
Perry has worked in the field since 1991, and in the computer industry since 1979. Perry has been interviewed by Time magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ZDNet and other publications. He has appeared on TV and radio all over the world, including Good Morning America, BBC News, Fox News and ABC News. He is a co-host of The Personal Computer Radio Show on WBAI.
He lives in Huntington Beach, California with his wife, Margaret. Perry practices close-up stage magic in his spare time. Recently, he became a member of the Magic Circle of London.
References
External links
Businesspeople in software
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ON%20TV%20%28TV%20network%29
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ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated in eight markets between 1977 and 1985. Originally established by National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications, ON TV was part of a new breed of STV operations that broadcast premium programming—including movies, sporting events, and concerts—over an encrypted signal on a UHF television station and leased decoders to subscribing customers. At its peak in 1982, ON TV boasted more than 700,000 customers—more than half of them in Los Angeles, its most successful market. However, the rapidly expanding availability of cable television, coupled with a recession, caused the business to quickly lose subscribers at the same time that Oak Industries was experiencing severe financial difficulties. Between March 1983 and June 1985, all eight operations closed.
History
Los Angeles launch
In 1973, Oak Industries, a maker of cable television equipment and other electronic components, and Chartwell Communications, a company majority-owned by Jerry Perenchio and Norman Lear, founded a joint venture initially known as World Pay Television, Inc. to create and operate a subscription television system in the Los Angeles market. The connection was made when Everitt A. Carter, an executive at Oak Industries, attended a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in Houston, organized by Perenchio; Perenchio approached Carter and asked if the company could build a system to scramble over-the-air signals for pay distribution. While Oak was initially resistant to the idea, it ultimately agreed to develop the equipment if Perenchio fronted $200,000 for research and development, which he did. In 1976, Oak president Frank A. Astrologes was named chairman of the new venture, with Carter succeeding him at Oak. The company intended to open franchises in 14 different states, per Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filings at the time.
The system, which would use scrambling of a standard UHF television station, required a carrier. That was secured by the venture in 1976 when, under the name of Oak Broadcasting Systems, Oak and Perenchio purchased Los Angeles television station KBSC-TV (channel 52) for $1.2 million as part of the liquidation of its parent company, Kaiser Industries. After changing its name to National Subscription Television (NST), the service launched under the brand name ON TV on April 1, 1977, offering unedited, uninterrupted motion pictures, as well as limited slates of Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings games, during evening hours. The first 500 subscribers lived in the San Fernando Valley, as part of a soft launch of the new system. It was the second subscription television system in operation, with Wometco Home Theater having launched in New York City the previous month.
Ambitions to expand ON TV beyond Los Angeles were immediate. When the first system went live, Carter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Johnson%20%28psychiatrist%29
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Bob Johnson MRCPsych, MRCGP, PhD (Med Computing), MBCS, DPM, MRCS, is a British psychiatrist and an outspoken opponent of electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery in general.
He set up the James Nayler Foundation, a charity named after the Quaker James Naylor and set up to further research, education, training and treatment for all types of personality disorders, especially those involving violence to others or to self. The charity closed in December 2011.
Career
Johnson trained at the University of Cambridge, the London Hospital, and at Claybury Hospital, Essex, where he obtained a grounding in group work and therapeutic community techniques. In 1964 he was appointed as a Senior Psychiatrist in Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, New York, working in the Drug Addiction Unit and the acute wards.
He was the consultant psychiatrist in the Special Unit in HMP Parkhurst for dangerous prisoners. While there he devised his talking cure techniques around which the James Nayler Foundation and his personal crusade against psychosurgery and psychiatric medication are centred. His work formed the basis of a documentary investigation by the BBC's flagship programme Panorama.
The James Naylor foundation is named after the Quaker James Naylor who despite being convicted of blasphemy had inspiring words to say on his deathbed. These words inspired Johnson to create the foundation.
In 1997, Johnson was consultant psychiatrist to The Retreat, and in 1998 he was invited to become Head of Therapy at Ashworth Special Hospital. He has since set up an Emotional Support Centre on the Isle of Wight to assist and cure those with personality disorders, though this had to close after a few years because of funding problems.
He holds the view that mental ill-health is a software, not a hardware problem. Despite this he "divide electrons into two groups – ‘wild’ and ‘tamed’, random or organised, as in lightning or wheat" and speaks of changing quantum physics. He redefines “Personality Disorders” as “Perception Disorders”, and proposes that “the Healing Hand of Kindness detoxifies trauma”.
In 2002 Johnson was involved in the psychiatric assessment of Charles Bronson at HM Prison Durham.
Further reading
Emotional Health: What Emotions Are and How They Cause Social and Mental Diseases, Bob Johnson, Trust Consent Publishing, 2nd Rev Ed edition (2003),
Unsafe At Any Dose, Bob Johnson, Trust Consent Publishing, 2006,
See also
Peter Breggin
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British psychiatrists
Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroparks%20Toledo
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Metroparks Toledo, officially the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, is a public park district consisting of parks, nature preserves, a botanical garden, trail network and historic battlefield in Lucas County, Ohio.
Founded during the Great Depression and initially built using labor from federal New Deal programs, the present park district includes across 19 metroparks and nearly of trails throughout the Toledo area.
The largest park, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark, is a centerpiece of the Oak Openings Region and features ecologically significant oak savanna landscapes and globally rare plant communities. Pearson Metropark contains one of the last remaining stands of the Great Black Swamp.
The district includes historically and culturally significant sites, including the Fallen Timbers Battlefield, surviving Miami and Erie Canal infrastructure at Side Cut and Providence Metroparks, and a variety of shelters and buildings built by the federal Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps. Wildwood Preserve Metropark features one of the last remaining public, free-admission gardens designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman at the former manor house estate of Champion spark plug magnate Robert Stranahan.
Governance
Metroparks Toledo is governed by a five-member volunteer board of commissioners appointed by the Lucas County probate court judge. The park district administrative offices are located at Wildwood Preserve Metropark.
The system is funded by three tax levies, the state local government fund, grants and donations. In 2022, the district employed 164 full-time and part-time employees.
Metroparks
The district comprises 19 metroparks. Two additional properties, Fort Miamis in Maumee and the Brookwood Area in Toledo, are part of the district, but are not defined as metroparks.
Land holdings
Metroparks Toledo owns of farmland in Toledo near Inverness Club for future development as a metropark. Metroparks officials said the future park will be the "typical Metroparks experience" with meadows and a sledding hill.
The district additionally owns approximately , called the Oak Openings Corridor, in western Lucas County and Swan Creek Township, Fulton County.
Four Maumee River islands (Marengo, Audubon, Blue Grass and Granger) totaling are owned by Metroparks Toledo. Granger Island features a private cabin available for rent.
Regional trails
Metroparks Toledo manages all or portions of several paved, regional rail trails.
References
External links
Metroparks Toledo
Protected areas of Lucas County, Ohio
Park districts in Ohio
Parks in Toledo, Ohio
Metroparks Toledo
New Deal in Ohio
Works Progress Administration in Toledo, Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge%20Racer%207
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is a racing video game developed by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation 3. It was released in Japan and North America by Namco Bandai Games in 2006 and PAL territories by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2007. The seventh mainline installment in the Ridge Racer series, it was developed as a launch title for the console. The game has around 40 cars, many of which return from Ridge Racer 6 and the PSP incarnations of the game. There are also 22 courses, available in forward, reverse and mirror mode. The game runs at 1080p native resolution and 60 frames per second. It also features Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and free online gameplay via the PlayStation Network.
The game was first unveiled at the 2006 E3 event in a teaser trailer, and the first trailer of game footage was shown at the 2006 Tokyo Game Show. Like many other games in the series, it features a full motion video opening that stars Reiko Nagase.
The game received positive reviews from critics, and has since been re-issued under Sony's "Platinum" and "The Best" budget lines. A patch was made available in October 2010 titled "Ridge Racer 7 3D License Version" that enables Ridge Racer 7 to be played in 3D.
Gameplay
As in previous games within the Ridge Racer series, the gameplay centers on high speed circuit racing featuring "drift" handling, where the player slides the car around turns without great loss of speed. New features in this iteration include car body and engine customization which can affect the performance, handling and nitrous boost system of the car. Ridge Racer 7 also actively encourages players to slipstream other cars, whereas previous iterations did not mention that this technique increases speed.
This game sees the "unlimited restarts" return for the first time since Ridge Racer Revolution in 1996, which means the player can restart during the race (including the regular races and the duel races) at any time. The player can re-play the same race series for more points and money. A global ranking system is used to rank players. It uses a combination of FP (Fame points), CR (Credits, the game's currency) and OBP (Online Battle Points, gained in the online races) to work out an overall number of RP (Ridge Points), which are displayed on the player's Ridge State ID Card.
Game modes
Single player
Ridge State Grand Prix - the main game mode consisting of a series of races.
Manufacturer's Trials - special races where the player can earn new cars or parts to customize their car; if the players get 100 Manufacturer points, they will become a member of one manufacturer.
UFRA Single Event - special races with restrictions.
Extreme Battle - boss battles with a much higher difficulty where it is possible to win normal or special cars.
Arcade - a single player game mode where the player can choose among the unlocked tracks or cars.
Multiplayer
Global Time Attack - a time trial mode where players race their cars around the circuits as fast as possible and post their
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Kronrod
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Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod (; October 22, 1921 – October 6, 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964. Earlier, he worked on computational solutions of problems emerging in theoretical physics. He is also known for his contributions to economics, specifically for proposing corrections and calculating price formation for the USSR. Later, Kronrod gave his fortune and life to medicine to care for terminal cancer patients. Kronrod is remembered for his captivating personality and was admired as a student, teacher and leader.
He is the author of several well known books, including "Nodes and weights of quadrature formulas. Sixteen-place tables" and "Conversations on Programming". A biographer wrote Kronrod gave ideas "away left and right, quite honestly being convinced that the authorship belongs to the one who implements them."
Education
Kronrod was born in Moscow. Growing up, he studied math with D. O. Shklyarsky in school and in 1938 entered the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. He did his first independent mathematical work as a freshman with Professor Alexander Gelfond. Kronrod was honored as a student with the first prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society and was the only person to win the prize twice.
During World War II he was rejected for military service because at the time graduate level students were exempt. They did help to build trenches around Moscow, and when he returned, Kronrod reapplied and was accepted. He served twice, and was injured twice. He was awarded several medals, including Order of the Red Star. The second injury in 1943 hospitalised him for a year and he was discharged from the army in 1944. This injury made him an invalid of sorts for life.
Kronrod was married and about this time his son was born. During next four years he continued his studies at the University, simultaneously working at the Atomic Energy Kurchatov Institute. There he chose to leave pure mathematics and pursue computational mathematics.
In his last undergraduate year, Kronrod studied with Nikolai Luzin the teacher of many of the Soviet Union's finest scientists. Kronrod and Georgy Adelson-Velsky were colleagues and Luzin's last students. Like his teacher, Kronrod led a series of supplementary seminars for younger mathematics students. Unusually for the time, instead of students merely reporting on the content of courses, Kronrod made his students undertake training exercises, even proving basic theorems themselves. The preparation required for this reduced the numbers of participants, but those who remained, including Robert Minlos and Anatoli Vitushkin, derived great benefit. Vitushkin described him as "witty and friendly". At his own request, Kronrod was called simply "Sasha" by his students. He was considered to be a prophet in his field. The Kronod circle met between 1946 and 1953. Kronrod's position was formally
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Professional%20Association
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Established in 1991, the non-profit Network Professional Association (NPA) is a professional association for computer network professionals.
The NPA offers a Certified Network Professional CNP credential and provides advocacy for workers in the field. Members receive a certificate of membership, quarterly journal publications, chapters and programs, and opportunities to volunteer and publish.
Description
The NPA sponsors local chapters, a certification designation, an opportunity to publish, promotion of industry events and conferences and affinity programs to provide personal goods, opportunities and discounts to NPA professionals.
Each NPA chapter draws its members from a defined geographic area.
Certified Network Professional Program
The Network Professional Association introduced the Certified Network Professional (CNP) designation in 1994. Previously, IT networking practitioners had no professional designation. The NPA, through the volunteer efforts of its members, is involved in initiatives related to setting standards within the IT networking profession: the professional credentialing/certification of individual IT practitioners (the CNP) and maintaining the code of ethics and accountability for the profession. The CNP was updated and re-released to the community in October 2005.
Awards
The Network Professional Association announced Awards for Professionalism in 2002. The Distinguished Fellows membership class recognizes sustained lifelong excellence in the field. The NPA received support for the awards from many partners, Network Computing magazine, Network World Magazine, Interop, National Seminars, Pearson Technology Group, Microsoft, and Novell. Award recipients are recognized for valuable contributions, their continued focus on computer networking and professionalism, and the respect of their peers. An international industry pane of judges reviews submissions and make recommendations for recognition. The awards are presented at the Interop Las Vegas trade show each year.
Other programs
The Network Professional Journal (NPJ) is a publishing service to and for network professionals. NPA members author articles relevant to the industry. Accepted technical content deals with the advancement of professionalism for the CNP, philosophical or standards based technical discussion, or technical reference guides.
The NPA provides event promotion for network computing professionals. NPA members enjoy discounts on access, exhibition space and sponsorship packages, and conference passes. Conferences and events include: 1992 Hands on Technology Labs staged at NetWorld; NPA’s Integrate Conferences 1996–98;--and since 2002: IT Roadmap; Virtualization Executive Forum; e-Financial WorldExpo; Government & Health Technologies Forums; NetWorld+Interop; LinuxWorld Canada; Desktop Summit; Business Information Security; IT Program Management Office Best Practices; Networking Decisions Conference; National Cyber Security Awareness Month; INBOX; Enter
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