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The comp.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "comp.", organized hierarchically.
comp.* groups discuss various computer, technology, and programming issues. Some groups can even offer peer-to-peer technical support.
Partial list of comp.* groups
Historical groups
See also
List of newsgroups
External links
Google Groups contains a complete browsable list of groups
Directory of the comp.* hierarchy at Giganews
Computer-related introductions in 1987
Big 8 (Usenet)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Cavadini
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Catherine Janet Cavadini is an American voice actress. She is most well known as the original voice of Blossom on Cartoon Network's animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, and as Tanya Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
Awards
In 1998, she was nominated for an Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production" for performing the voice and singing for the role of Mary in the animated movie Babes in Toyland. She also sang Dreams to Dream as the character Tanya Mousekewitz in the animated movie An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, which was nominated for Best Song at the 49th Golden Globe Awards. In addition, she has received 2 Emmy Award Certificates for contributing to Outstanding Sound on the TV series, The X-Files.
In 2003, Cavadini was honored with a White House Project Epic Award (which gives recognition to projects that promote women leadership) for her work in The Powerpuff Girls Movie as Blossom.
Partial filmography
Anime
Japan Sinks: 2020 – Kanae Murota (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
Film
All-Star Superman – Cat Grant and Floral
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West – Tanya Mousekewitz
Babes in Toyland – Mary, Nominated-Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 – Bruce's Pit Crew, Joannie, and Woman with Hot Dog
Cars 3 – Additional voices
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – Christmas Lady
Chernichaw's Go! Chase - Alice Chernichaw
Dinosaur – Various Lemurs
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within – Various Phantoms
Finding Dory – Debbie
Ford v Ferrari - Additional voices
Garfield Gets Real – Daisy Girl
Garfield's Pet Force – Additional voices
The Grinch – Additional voices
Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two – Additional voices
Incredibles 2 – Welch, TV Anchor #1
It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown – Mimi (singing voice)
Jaws: The Revenge - Additional voices
Klaus - Additional voices: Adults (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
Lilo & Stitch – Fainting Girl (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
Love and Monsters - Additional Voices/Loop Group (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
The Lion King – Lions
Minions: The Rise of Gru - Additional Voices
My Little Pony: The Movie – North Star
The Other End of the Line – Jennifer David, Priya Sethi's English-speaking voice (credited as "Special Voice Artist")
The Powerpuff Girls Movie – Blossom
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw – Charlamange, Collette
Puss in Boots – ADR Looper (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
Ready Player One – IOI P.A.
Rise of the Guardians - ADR Looper (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur – Faith
Sing – Bunnies (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
Soul - Dreamerwind
Spy - Additional voices
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin – Additional voices
The LEGO Batman Movie - ADR Looper (credited as "Catherine Cavadini")
The Simpsons Movie - ADR Loo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Heeger
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David J. Heeger (born 1961) is an American neuroscientist, psychologist, computer scientist, data scientist, and entrepreneur. He is a professor at New York University, Chief Scientific Officer of Statespace Labs, and Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Epistemic AI.
Research
Heeger's academic research spans a cross-section of engineering, psychology, and neuroscience. In the fields of perceptual psychology, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and computational neuroscience, Heeger has developed computational theories of neuronal processing in the visual system, and he has performed psychophysics (perceptual psychology) and neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI) experiments on human vision. His primary contribution to computational neuroscience is a theory of neural processing called the normalization model. His experimental research has contributed to our understanding of the topographic organization of visual cortex (retinotopy), visual awareness, visual pattern detection/discrimination, visual motion perception, stereopsis (depth perception), attention, working memory, the control of eye and hand movements, neural processing of complex audio-visual and emotional experiences (movies, music, narrative), abnormal visual processing in dyslexia, and neurophysiological characteristics of autism.
In the fields of image processing, computer vision, and computer graphics, Heeger has worked on motion estimation and image registration, wavelet image representations, anisotropic diffusion (edge-preserving noise reduction), image fidelity metrics (for evaluating image data compression algorithms), and texture analysis/synthesis.
Heeger's current research focuses on developing and testing a unified theory of cortical circuit function. The field of neuroscience needs a general theory of brain function, like Maxwell's Equations for the brain. There is considerable evidence that the brain relies on a set of canonical neural circuits that perform a set of canonical neural computations, repeating them across brain regions and modalities to apply operations of the same form. But we lack a theoretical framework for how such canonical computations can support a wide variety of cognitive processes and brain functions. Heeger developed a class of circuit models, called Oscillatory Recurrent Gated Neural Integrator Circuits (ORGaNICs), that recapitulate many key neurophysiological and cognitive/perceptual phenomena including sensory processing and attention in visual cortex, working memory in prefrontal and parietal cortex, and premotor activity and motor control in motor cortex. The theory offers a unified framework for the dynamics of neural activity, and it recapitulates many key neurophysiological and cognitive/perceptual phenomena (including normalization, oscillatory activity, sustained delay-period activity, sequential activity and traveling waves of activity), measured with a wide range of methodologies (including intr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airgo%20Networks
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Airgo Networks (formerly Woodside Networks), is a Palo Alto, California-based company specializing in the development of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless technology. Airgo Networks was founded in 2001 by Gregory Raleigh, V.K. Jones, David Johnson, Geert Awater, Rolf de Vegt and Richard van Nee.
Airgo was a lead proponent of the 802.11n standard. The company began shipping the world’s first MIMO-OFDM chipsets in 2003.
In September 2005, Airgo Networks launched its third generation True MIMO chip set with support for data rates up to 240 Mbit/s.
On December 3, 2006, Qualcomm announced that it would acquire Airgo Networks for an undisclosed amount. Airgo is now owned by Qualcomm, although still located in Palo Alto, while Qualcomm's headquarters is in San Diego.
References
External links
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Technology companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in California
American companies established in 2001
Qualcomm
2006 mergers and acquisitions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim%20%26%20Evil
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Grim & Evil is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. It consists of two segments which were eventually spun off into their own series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy deals with the adventures of two young children respectively named Billy and Mandy who, after celebrating the birthday of Billy's pet hamster, bet that the Grim Reaper would lose to them in Limbo at his own game of limbo in an effort to save the hamster. Billy and Mandy win the bet, and Grim becomes their "best friend forever" as part of their deal.
Evil Con Carne follows the adventures of Hector Con Carne, a wealthy playboy whose body is destroyed in a tremendous explosion. His only surviving organs are his brain and stomach, which have been placed in jars and attached to a circus bear named Boskov.
The show premiered its run on August 24, 2001, on Cartoon Network, and ended its first 13-episode run on October 18, 2002. However, there was also another batch of 14 episodes made for the show, but were aired on Cartoon Network when the show was split into both shows in 2003. The second (and final) season of this era was aired in the UK on October 20, 2003.
History
The series' existence is largely the result of a viewer poll. An Internet and call-in event called the Big Pick was held from June 16, to August 25, 2000. The three final choices were The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, Longhair and Doubledome. Out of the three, Grim & Evil won the poll with 57% of the vote and became its own series. The first season appeared on Cartoon Network to kick off the "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Big Pick Weekend" on August 24, 2001. Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? would later be made into a full (though short-lived) series despite losing; Longhair and Doubledome would reappear with another pilot episode in another Big Pick-style show in 2002, only to fall short once again. Along with Billy & Mandy, Atoms produced another short, Evil Con Carne, that would later be combined with the former as one show, under the title Grim & Evil. The decision came as Cartoon Network wanted the show to have a "middle cartoon" to air in-between the Billy & Mandy segments (similar to the Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends shorts in Dexter's Laboratory, and the I Am Weasel segments on Cow and Chicken). Sometimes the format was reversed, with a single Grim segment in between two Evil shorts. Both sides of the show were influenced by cartoons Atoms watched in the 1980s; Grim took inspiration from classic comedies from Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros., while Evil was a spoof of the era's action cartoons such as G.I. Joe and Transformers.
In 2003, before the series aired in reruns for the final time on June 8, the network separated it into The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne, effectively giving both a full-length series, despite the 2003 episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Purple%20%28song%29
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"Deep Purple" was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast, 1923 to 1939, with May Singhi as "The Sweethearts of the Air" on the NBC radio network. "Deep Purple" was published in 1933 as a piano composition. The following year, Paul Whiteman had it scored for his suave "big band" orchestra that was "making a lady out of jazz" in Whiteman's phrase. "Deep Purple" became so popular in sheet music sales that Mitchell Parish added lyrics in 1938.
Larry Clinton and His Orchestra recorded one of the most popular versions of the song on 23 December 1938. Featuring vocalist Bea Wain, the Clinton version was a huge hit. Released in January 1939 on Victor Records, the Clinton recording was number one on the U.S. popular music charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1939. The next most popular version was made by Jimmy Dorsey which reached the No. 2 spot in the charts and other versions by Guy Lombardo (No. 9), Bing Crosby (recorded March 22, 1939 with Matty Malneck and His Orchestra) (No. 14) and Artie Shaw (No. 17) (with vocalist Helen Forrest) also charted in 1939. The song is a sentimental ballad. The tune was a favorite of Babe Ruth, and Peter DeRose performed the song at Ruth's birthday parties for about a decade.
Adelaide Hall introduced the song to Britain and recorded it for Decca. Her version was released on 15 May 1939. The song remained a traditional pop favourite, recast in 1957 as a doo wop classic by The Dominoes with vocals by Eugene Mumford. Screamin' Jay Hawkins (best remembered for his song "I Put A Spell On You") also released his version of "Deep Purple" on his 1958 album, At Home with Screamin' Jay.
Harry James recorded a version in 1951 on the album Your Dance Date With Harry James And His Orchestra (Columbia CL 6138). The saxophone player Earl Bostic had an instrumental hit with "Deep Purple" 1953, along with his biggest hit "Flamingo" (both on his 1963 LP The Best Of Earl Bostic). Joe Loss and His Orchestra recorded it on October 15, 1956. It was released on the 78 rpm record HMV POP 107. Pop and jazz recording artist Joni James also covered "Deep Purple" for her 1956 album In the Still of the Night. The song was released in 1959 by Ralph Marterie on the Wing album Marvelous Marterie. Avant-garde jazz keyboardist Sun Ra recorded the song in 1953 with Swing violinist Stuff Smith for their Deep Purple album. Ray Conniff recorded the song in 1959 on the album Say It With Music (A Touch Of Latin).
An instrumental version of "Deep Purple" was recorded by The Shadows for their 1965 album The Sound of The Shadows.
Nino Tempo & April Stevens and other 1960s versions
The second-most popular version, which hit number one on the U.S. pop charts (the 100th song to do so) in November 1963 and also won that year's Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Record, was recorded by brother-sister act Nino Tempo & April Stevens. It remained in the Top 40 for twelve weeks and was number one on the Hot 100 the week before John F. Kenne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hob
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Hob, HOB or Hobs may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Heart of Brooklyn, a tourism-related non-profit organization in New York City
HOB GmbH & Co KG, an international computer company
Hobs Reprographics, a British printer
Hemne Orkladal Billag, a defunct Norwegian transport company
House of Blues, a chain of music halls and restaurants
People
Hob Broun (1950–1987), American author
Hob Bryan (born 1952), American politician
Hob Hiller (1893–1956), American Major League Baseball player
Fictional characters
Hob Gadling, in The Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman
Hob, a robot-like creature in the webcomic Dresden Codak
Hob, in RoboCop 2
Codes
hob, ISO 639-3 code for the Mari language (Madang Province) of Papua New Guinea
HOB, station code for Hoboken Terminal, New Jersey, United States
HOB, IATA code for Lea County Regional Airport, New Mexico, United States
HOB, UK code for HM Prison High Down, Surrey
Other uses
Gear hob, a tool used in gear-making
A male ferret
A stake used as a target in the game of quoits
Hob (folklore), a household spirit in Northern England, see also Hobgoblin
Hob or Old Hob, a nickname for the Devil
Hob (hearth), a projection, shelf, grate or bench for holding food or utensils
Cooktop, the top cooking surface on a kitchen stove
Hob (unit), a Korean unit of volume equal to about 180 ml
Hob (video game), an action-adventure game
Hoboken-Verzeichnis, abbreviated "Hob.", the catalogue of the compositions of Joseph Haydn
Hob, 2004 debut album of Egyptian singer Tamer Hosny
House Office Building, where members of the United States House of Representatives work
A nail on the sole of a hobnailed boot
House of Balloons, the first mixtape of the Trilogy by The Weeknd
See also
Hobb (disambiguation)
Hobbe (disambiguation)
Hobbes (disambiguation)
Hobbs (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20environment
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Smart environments link computers and other smart devices to everyday settings and tasks. Smart environments include smart homes, smart cities and smart manufacturing.
Introduction
Smart environments are an extension of pervasive computing. According to Mark Weiser, pervasive computing promotes the idea of a world that is connected to sensors and computers. These sensors and computers are integrated with everyday objects in peoples' lives and are connected through networks.
Definition
Cook and Das define smart environment as "a small world where different kinds of smart device are continuously working to make inhabitants' lives more comfortable." Smart environments aim to satisfy the experience of individuals from every environment, by replacing the hazardous work, physical labor, and repetitive tasks with automated agents.
Poslad
differentiates three different kinds of smart environments for systems, services and devices: virtual (or distributed) computing environments, physical environments and human environments, or a hybrid combination of these:
Virtual computing environments enable smart devices to access pertinent services anywhere and anytime.
Physical environments may be embedded with a variety of smart devices of different types including tags, sensors and controllers and have different form factors ranging from nano- to micro- to macro-sized.
Human environments: humans, either individually or collectively, inherently form a smart environment for devices. However, humans may themselves be accompanied by smart devices such as mobile phones, use surface-mounted devices (wearable computing) and contain embedded devices (e.g., pacemakers to maintain a healthy heart operation or AR contact lenses).
Features
Smart environments are broadly classified to have the following features
Remote control of devices, like power line communication systems to control devices.
Device Communication, using middleware, and Wireless communication to form a picture of connected environments.
Information Acquisition/Dissemination from sensor networks
Enhanced Services by Intelligent Devices
Predictive and Decision-Making capabilities
Technologies
To build a smart environment, involves technologies of
Wireless communication
Algorithm design, signal prediction & classification, information theory
Multilayered software architecture, Corba, middleware
Speech recognition
Image processing, image recognition
Sensors design, calibration, motion detection, temperature, pressure sensors, accelerometers
Semantic Web and knowledge graphs
Adaptive control, Kalman filters
Computer networking
Parallel processing
Operating systems
Existing projects
The Aware Home Research Initiative at Georgia Tech "is devoted to the multidisciplinary exploration of emerging technologies and services based in the home" and was launched in 1998 as one of the first "living laboratories."
The MavHome (Managing an Adaptive Versatile Home) project, at UT Arlington, is a smar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike%20Video%20Game%20Awards
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The Spike Video Game Awards (in short VGAs, known as the VGX for the final show) was an annual award show hosted by American television network Spike from 2003 to 2013 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year. Produced by GameTrailers TV's Geoff Keighley, the show featured preview trailers for upcoming games, live music performances and appearances by popular performers in music, movies, and television.
The VGAs was held at various locations in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California as well as Las Vegas, Nevada. Spike's only Video Game Hall of Fame award, given to The Legend of Zelda, was awarded at the 2011 awards show.
On November 15, 2013, Spike announced a new format under the name VGX, calling it "The next generation of the VGAs". The last award show, carrying this name, aired on December 7. Changes from the previous format included "in-depth extended demos of the next generation of games and interactive one-on-one interviews and panels in an intimate studio setting."
On November 10, 2014, it was announced that Spike would drop their award show, ending their decade-long run. Geoff Keighley went on to create his own video game award show in the form of The Game Awards starting in that year, dropping the support from Spike.
VGX
2013 awards
The 2013 awards, the final awards show, was rebranded as VGX and held on December 7, 2013, and was hosted by Joel McHale. The show featured a different format from previous years. It featured extended demos of next-generation games, one-on-one interviews, and "a more intimate studio setting." Rather than airing live on Spike TV, the show was livestreamed online on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Twitch, Steam, iOS, and Android devices, as well as on GameTrailers.com and the websites of Spike, Comedy Central, MTV, MTV2, and BET. As with previous years, the show featured exclusive world premieres of game demos and trailers. The 2013 VGX premieres included Telltale Games' and Gearbox Software's collaboration Tales from the Borderlands, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (an Xbox One and PlayStation 4 port with graphical updates and all DLC included), Remedy Entertainment's Agents of Storm for iOS, Telltale Games' Game of Thrones, and independent developer Hello Games' No Man's Sky. The 2013 show also featured reveals of Titanfall, Thief, Quantum Break, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Broken Age, Dying Light, Tom Clancy's The Division, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé demoed an upcoming Wii U game, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and Rockstar Games worked with the production team to produce a musical performance of the music of Grand Theft Auto V.
Spike Video Game awards
2012 awards
The 2012 VGAs (promoted as VGA 10 for the tenth anniversary) was held on December 7, 2012, at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Samuel L. Jackson returned to host for a fourth time. This was the last year under the name "Spike Video Game A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%20Berry
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Gérard Philippe Berry (born 25 December 1948) is a French computer scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences), French Academy of Technologies (Académie des technologies), and Academia Europaea. He was the Chief Scientist Officer of Esterel Technologies from 2000 to 2009. He held the 2007-2008 yearly Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France. He was Director of Research at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and held the 2009-2010 yearly Informatics and Digital Sciences chair at the Collège de France. Berry's work, which spans over more than 30 years, brought important contributions to three main fields:
lambda calculus and functional programming
parallel and real-time programming languages
design automation for synchronous digital circuits
Berry is known for the Esterel programming language.
References
External links
Personal home page at INRIA —
Courses at Collège de France
Short presentation — French Academy of Sciences web site:
Biography — Annales des Mines
Decree JORF #176, 08/01/2007, p12944, text #54: Pr. Berry appointed Associate Professor at Collège de France
Bibliography
Gérard Berry, L'Hyperpuissance de l'informatique : algorithmes, données, machines, réseaux, Odile Jacob, 2017
Gérard Berry, L'Informatique du temps et des événements, Fayard, Paris, 2013.
Gérard Berry, Penser, modéliser et maîtriser le calcul informatique, Fayard, Paris, 2008
Gérard Berry, Pourquoi et comment le monde devient numérique ?, Fayard, Paris, 2008.
1948 births
Academic staff of the Collège de France
Living people
French computer scientists
Members of Academia Europaea
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
École Polytechnique alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleHit
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TeleHit is a Mexican cable/satellite television network. Its main programming is music and music videos. It is a part of Televisa Networks, an affiliate of TelevisaUnivision, and is also available in various countries in Latin America and the United States.
Broadcasting since 1993, Telehit became the second Spanish language music video network under MTV. What began as a Spanish music network, now is universal fusion of different musical rhythms, like pop, rock, electronic, hip-hop and reggaeton.
Besides music videos, the channel also broadcasts concerts, TV specials and general-interest content for youth. Telehit has also been a platform for hosts and actors to being into Mexican show business.
Telehit Awards
The Telehit Awards were first presented on November 5, 2008. They emerged in commemoration of its 15 years on Mexican television. These awards recognize the most outstanding artists in music.
Hosts
Current
Adina Burak
Ceci Flores
Barbara Islas
Raul Gemeneses
Gwendolyne García Leets
Angie Tadei
Claudio Rodríguez Medellín
Karla Gómez
Mery Roo
Román
Amanda Rosa
Alex Kaffie
Alejandra Bogue
Sergi Mass
Uriel del Toro
Melissa López
Odalys Ramírez
Silvia Olmedo
Karla Luna
Karla Panini
Juan Carlos Nava "El Borrego"
Juan Carlos Casasola
Leia Freitas
Platanito
Kalimba Marichal
Mario Cuevas "La Garra"
Beto y Lalo
Natalia Tellez
Previous
Jorge Van Rankin
Facundo
Diego
Omar Chaparro
Esteban Arce
Sabrina Sabrok
Mónica Noguera
Yolanda Andrade
Montserrat Olivier
Kalinda Cano
Angie Fajardo
Horacio Villalobos
Lino Nava
Alfredo Fernández
Camila Sodi
Poncho Vera
Eduardo España (Margara Francisca)
Paola Rojas
Paula Sánchez
Eduardo Videgaray
Adriana Sodi
José Ramón San Cristóbal
Jonathan Molina
Federico Padilla "Perico"
Rafael Valderrama
Luz Blanchet
Martha Carrillo
Andrea Legarreta
Kristoff
Featured shows
Current
Qué News Telehit
Teleheat
Jellyfish
Top Topos
Tu Talento Mis Contactos
Retro Vibes
Playhit
Hot Songs
Ok Pop
Érase una vez
D - Generaciones
Tinderella
Top 10 K-Pop
Las Lavanderas
La Escuelita Telehit
Guerra de Chistes
La isla del costeño
Colección de oro
Dementes Brillantes
Adictos al Humor
Past
+Mas Nescafé
Calibre 45
El Calabozo
Telehit Live
Depásonico
Guaguarones S.A.
No Manches
Hi!
Válvula de Escape
Sabrina
Desde Gayola
Fresas con Chile
Toma Libre
Incógnito
Las hijas de la madre Tierra
Black & White
El Planeta de Cabeza
El Pulso
Encuentros Cercanos
El Show del Polaco
Kristoff Presenta
Logos
References
External links
Official site
Televisa Networks
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television networks in Mexico
Music television channels
Spanish-language television stations
Televisa pay television networks
Music organizations based in Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20Teeth%20%28Star%20Trek%3A%20Voyager%29
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"Dragon's Teeth" is the 127th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager airing on the UPN network. It is the seventh episode of the sixth season.
The episode name refers to the Greek legend of dragon's teeth, where the teeth of a slain dragon were sown into the battlefield. The teeth sprouted up into an army of warriors, who continued to fight.
Plot
In a city under attack, Gedrin convinces his nervous wife, Jisa, to enter a stasis chamber and then enters one himself.
Voyager is caught in a so called underspace corridor. A vessel of the Turei species helps Voyager re-enter normal space. When Captain Kathryn Janeway discovers they have traveled more than 200 light years in a few minutes, she requests that the Turei aid them further, but the Turei insist on wiping Voyagers computers of any information regarding the corridor. When Janeway refuses, the Turei ship attacks and summons reinforcements. Janeway has Voyager land on a nearby planet, shrouded in radiation that prevents the Turei from following them. The crew begins repairs while the Turei remain in orbit.
The planet contains the remains of a civilization that was destroyed nearly 900 years earlier. Detecting lifesigns, Janeway, Lt. Tuvok, and Seven of Nine discover stasis chambers, containing several hundred alien bodies. Seven, without waiting for Janeway's orders, wakes Gedrin. Jisa's body has decomposed and Gedrin mourns the loss of his wife. Recovering aboard Voyager, Gedrin explains that his race, the Vaadwaur, discovered the subspace corridors and were attacked by other races who wished to seize them. He and hundreds of other Vaadwaur, along with their weapons and ships, entered stasis in caverns below the planet's surface, anticipating being revived five years later, but their control equipment was apparently damaged. Gedrin struggles with how much time has passed. The Vaadwaur were familiar with Neelix's species, the Talaxians; Neelix recognizes the term "Vaadwaur" as an old Talaxian word meaning "foolish."
Janeway and Gedrin plan to fight off the Turei and return to the subspace tunnels, and proceed to waken the other Vaadwaur; Commander Chakotay is reminded of a Greek myth whereby warriors would rise after the teeth of a defeated dragon were buried in the ground. Neelix and Seven research the Vaadwaur in Talaxian folklore and a Borg database, discovering that the Vaadwaur were the aggressors, using their subspace corridors to invade planets; Neelix informs Janeway. Meanwhile, Voyagers crew are unaware that the Vaadwaur plan to hijack Voyager in order to conquer a new colony for themselves. Gedrin warns Janeway, siding with Voyager'''s crew against his own people.
After the Vaadwaur turn openly hostile, Janeway allies with the Turei. Tuvok and Gedrin return to the planet to jam a satellite, allowing the Turei to use it to target the Vaadwaur ships. After Tuvok returns to the ship, Gedrin stays behind to maintain the signal; he is killed whe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoland
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Videoland may refer to:
Videoland (Netherlands), a Dutch video on demand service owned by RTL Nederland
Movie Gallery, a game and rental company based in Dothan, Alabama
Videoland Television Network, a media company based in Taiwan
Alice in Videoland, a Swedish pop group
Videoland, the world where the Captain N: The Game Master series takes place
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20Orel
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Moral Orel is an American adult stop-motion animated black comedy-drama series created by Dino Stamatopoulos which originally aired on Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008. The series follows the titular Orel Puppington, a young happy-go-lucky and naïve Protestant who showcases his commitment to God, while dealing with the cynicism of his abusive and alcoholic father, his lethargic mother, and the devoutly Protestant town of Moralton in which he resides.
The show, predominantly in the first season and second seasons (excluding the “Nature” two-parter), is a straightforward satirization of the archetypes of Middle American suburban life, modern-day White Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture, and religious fundamentalism. The "Nature" two-parter and the final season is featured in a non-linear but episode-to-episode continuity, in which it showcased the show's shift from a satirical black comedy to a nihilistic and bleak psychological comedy-drama, depicting the convictions and mentalities of other characters (meant as an expansion on subplots from the first two seasons), exploring topics such as child sexual abuse, rape, abortion, latent homosexuality, and the Oedipus complex.
The series has been described as "Davey and Goliath meets South Park". However, Stamatopoulos denies the comparison with Davey and Goliath, telling The New York Times that Moral Orel grew out of a concept for a send-up of a Leave It to Beaver-style 1950s sitcom that would star Iggy Pop. The series received acclaim from critics and audiences alike for the performances, characterization, emotional weight, and the frank depiction of its subject matter.
At the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, Stamatopoulos announced that the show would not be renewed for a fourth season. The final season was aired interspersed with repeats from the first two seasons, as many of the episodes took place in parallel with events of past episodes. The event, which was called "44 Nights of Orel", was hosted by Stamatopoulos and others and started on October 6, 2008, running through December 18, when the series finale premiered. A prequel special entitled "Beforel Orel: Trust", meant as an exploration of the origin of Orel's Christianity, later aired on November 19, 2012.
Synopsis
Moral Orel takes place in the fictional capital city of Moralton in the fictional Bible Belt state of Statesota. According to the globe shown in the opening credits, Moralton is in the exact center of the United States, with a church at the town's exact center. The protagonist is 12-year-old Orel Puppington, a student at Alfred G. Diorama Elementary School, who tries to live by the fundamentalist Protestant Christian moral code as articulated in church or by his abusive father, Clay Puppington. Orel naïvely follows this code to disastrous extremes.
Initially starting off as a satirical black comedy, criticizing religious fundamentalism, the show begins to break down on t
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Saul of the Mole Men is an American live-action/puppet/animated hybrid comedy television series created by Craig Lewis, former writer on Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The series first aired on the channel's late night Adult Swim programming block on February 11, 2007. Described as "an ultra-patriotic Land of the Lost set in the center of the Earth", the series was directed by Tom Stern and stars Josh Gardner, who previously collaborated with Stern on the television series Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust. Its theme song is performed by South Park co-creator Trey Parker.
Lewis' primary inspirations behind this homage to 1970s-era Saturday morning live-action television were Sid and Marty Krofft (Land of the Lost), Doctor Who (Tom Baker-era), and the Planet of the Apes franchise. On October 31, 2008, Adult Swim ran a special Halloween marathon consisting only of cancelled shows, featuring Saul of the Mole Men, thus confirming its cancellation.
Plot
A series promo featured brief introductions for the crew on the use of a subterranean drill module. The team, known as STRATA, included Captain Jim J. James, Lieutenant Jen E. James, Robot, Kiko the Mute Wildboy, and the "rest" of the STRATA action team, which included Saul Malone (Gardner) – and Don Rogers. The main character, Saul, is seen in the background or blocked off by objects like a shovel or a flag during the promo.
Following the promo, the crew is shown aboard STRATA's huge ship, which is burrowing deep under Earth's surface. Saul becomes the sole survivor of the main team when rocks begin pummeling the rest of the STRATA team, and crippling their ship; the only other survivors are a Robot controlled by a human brain, and the vapid pop musician Johnny Tambourine, who is conscious but trapped in a hibernation capsule. Saul soon finds himself in an underground world populated by "Mole Men" and "Bird Bats" as well as unexplained characters like "The Floating Pancake" and "Chinacula", a cape-wearing Chinese vampire. Though cut off from the surface world, Saul is elated, believing he will find evidence beneath the surface for his theory that there are sentient rocks descended from a huge "mother rock". Terrified by the Mole Men, Saul impulsively impales their king using the STRATA transmitter. The king eventually dies, touching off a power struggle between his two sons – the older (but corpulent and corrupt) Bertrum Burrows, and the noble Clancy Burrows. Saul fails to get a proper signal to STRATA before the transmitter is destroyed. However, he does meet a talking rock, one he believes to be the Mother Rock. The intelligent stone inspires Saul to lead the Mole Men, who themselves are turning to a popular vote in search of a new king. Saul is easily defeated by both of the Burrows brothers, who themselves lose to a clueless Johnny Tambourine.
As the series progresses, Saul is alternately challenged and befriended by Mole Men. Saul m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha%20%28decompiler%29
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Mocha is a Java decompiler, which allows programmers to translate a program's bytecode into source code.
A beta version of Mocha was released in 1996, by Dutch developer Hanpeter van Vliet, alongside an obfuscator named Crema. A controversy erupted and he temporarily withdrew Mocha from public distribution. As of 2009 the program is still available for distribution, and may be used freely as long as it is not modified. Borland's JBuilder includes a decompiler based on Mocha. Van Vliet's websites went offline as he died of cancer on December 31, 1996 at the age of 34.
See also
JAD (JAva Decompiler)
JD
References
External links
Java decompilers
Software obfuscation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%C3%ADa%20Maciel
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Lucía Maciel (; born c. 1970) is an Argentine actress and television reporter. She works for what is arguably Argentina's largest television network, Telefé.
Biography
As an actress, Maciel debuted with an extra role as a servant in 2003's Resistiré, which was renamed in English to Forever Julia.
It wasn't long before she was able to find a job as a recurrent character. During 2004, she was hired to play Pepa Kathy in her second telenovela, named El Deseo (The Desire). Although El Deseo was not as large a hit as Resistiré, it helped Maciel's career by making her a familiar figure among Argentine television viewers.
Maciel then debuted as a television reporter in a show named Camara en Mano (Handheld Camera) during 2005. In Camara en Mano, she and a number of other reporters visit celebrities, both national and international, often by surprise, and with a handheld camera, as the show's title suggests. More often than not, Maciel's (as well as the other reporters') interviews to celebrities are mixed with both serious and funny questions.
As reporter for Camara en Mano, Maciel has covered many different topics, such as karate, women's boxing, and Argentina's version of the Oscar awards, the Ace awards. She managed to spot and interview the international singer, Sandro, as he was about to get into his private swimming pool, and she has also interviewed Marcela Acuna and Facundo Arana, among many others.
Maciel also voices Laura in the film Underdogs.
See also
List of Argentines
External links
1970 births
Living people
Argentine actresses
Argentine voice actresses
Argentine television personalities
Women television personalities
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20oil%20pipeline%20network
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The United Kingdom petroleum pipeline network is principally made up of three pipelines systems: the former Government Pipeline and Storage System (GPSS) now the Exolum Pipeline System; the Esso pipelines (principally the mainline and midlines), and the United Kingdom Oil Pipelines (UKOP) and associated pipelines. There are also several other lines including the Fina line built around 1990 that runs from North Lincolnshire to the Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead.
GPSS
The GPSS was originally constructed between 1941 and 1944 and then extended after the war, most notably during the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s. The first commercial pipeline to be constructed in the United Kingdom was built in 1959 by Shell-Mex and BP from the GPSS depot at Walton on Thames to Heathrow Airport. This pipeline now forms part of UKOP (West London). In 1963 Esso built their own pipeline from their Fawley refinery to London Heathrow. The Esso Main and Midlines constructed in the 1970s and 1980s respectively. The Esso pipeline from Fawley to London is due to be replaced, with the preferred routes G and J – North and South of Alton Pumping station being announced in June 2018. For a further description see Exolum Pipeline System.
UKOP
The United Kingdom Oil Pipeline (UKOP) is an oil products pipeline opened in 1969 and connecting the two (then) Shell refineries of Stanlow (Cheshire) and Shell Haven (Thames Estuary). UKOP is owned by a consortium of five shareholders Essar Midlands Ltd, BP, Shell, Valero and Total. UKOP is administered and operated by the British Pipeline Agency (BPA), which is jointly owned by Shell and BP. As part of the UKOP network, in 1982 BPA began work a pipeline from Walton to Gatwick and this was substantively complete by the end of the year. However, in 1983 the pipeline had to be shut down and was not brought back into operation until 1984. In 1985 the UKOP pipeline from Kingsbury to Buncefield was commissioned.
UKOP transports 7.5 million tonnes of mixed products each year distributed to major oil terminals at Buncefield and Kingsbury with spurs to Northampton and Nottingham.
UKOP now draws its products from Essar Stanlow in the north, with smaller volumes from tankage at Shell Haven. UKOP carries two grades of petrol, two grades of kerosene (including Jet A-1) and two grades of gas oil-diesel.
To ensure safety and integrity, the pipeline is patrolled by helicopter every two weeks.
Petroleum product pipelines
A list of UK petroleum pipelines. Pipelines are multi-product lines with batches of product separated by pigs, except for single product lines where shown, for example aviation kerosene.
Crude oil pipelines
In addition to the petroleum products pipelines there are a number of crude oil pipelines transporting crude oil from offshore installations to coastal terminals and from terminals to refineries. The sources give various and conflicting lengths and capacities.
See also
For details of UK gas pipelines see National
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20places%20in%20Florida%3A%20A
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See also
Florida
List of municipalities in Florida
List of former municipalities in Florida
List of counties in Florida
List of census-designated places in Florida
References
USGS Fips55 database
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20places%20in%20Florida%3A%20I-K
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See also
Florida
List of municipalities in Florida
List of former municipalities in Florida
List of counties in Florida
List of census-designated places in Florida
References
USGS Fips55 database
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20places%20in%20Florida%3A%20W-Z
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See also
Florida
List of municipalities in Florida
List of former municipalities in Florida
List of counties in Florida
List of census-designated places in Florida
References
USGS Fips55 database
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHRA
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AHRA may refer to:
AHRA (robot), a network-based humanoid developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Assisted Human Reproduction Act
Audio Home Recording Act, a 1993 amendment to United States copyright law
See also
Ahras, Syria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWGK
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WWGK was a commercial daytime-only radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, that broadcast on from 1947 until 2022. Last owned by Good Karma Brands, it featured ESPN Radio programming at the time of closure, co-owned with ESPN affiliate WKNR. The transmitter tower for WWGK was located on Euclid Avenue at East 81st Street in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood.
History
WJMO (1947–1959)
The station's roots trace back to WJMO, which went on the air on June 1, 1947, licensed to Cleveland as a daytime-only broadcaster at 1540 kHz with studios at 2157 Euclid Avenue and a power of 1,000 watts. The owner was Wentworth J. Marshall, formerly head of the Marshall Drug Co. chain, and the general manager was David M. Baylor. When it debuted, WJMO was the only Cleveland radio station without a network affiliation. As a result, the station specialized in recorded music. Early staff included Gene Carroll (mornings), Howie Lund (afternoons), and Billy Evans on sports.
In 1948, WJMO carried the football games of Western Reserve College Red Cats, both at home from League Park and on the road. In the first broadcast on September 25, Gil Gibbons called the action as Western Reserve met Western Michigan in Kalamazoo.
On June 5, 1952, in an attempt to emphasize music rather than DJs, Baylor issued an orders to play four songs every 15 minutes. As a result, a number of DJs chose to leave the station. Later than year, Wentworth sold the station on August 20 for $100,000 to Maryland-based United Broadcasting, headed by Richard Eaton. Ownership was later put in the name of Eaton's affiliated company Friendly Broadcasting of Ohio. An FM license was granted for the 106.5 MHz facility that was to take the WJMO-FM call sign, but it was slated to sign on by 1959.
WABQ (1959–2006)
Meanwhile, WSRS, which was founded by S.R. Sague on December 12, 1947, broadcast 24-hours a day on 1490 kHz licensed to suburban Cleveland Heights, and had an FM complement at 95.3 MHz. On January 14, 1959, WJMO bought WSRS (at 1490 AM and 95.3 FM) and exchanged respective call signs, studios/facilities, and staffs. Both 1540 AM and 106.5 FM were sold off to Tuschman Broadcasting Company with the switch; the 1540 facility immediately became WABQ and the 106.5 facility instead signed on as WABQ-FM before switching to WXEN that next year, carrying an ethnic format.
Detroit-based Booth Broadcasting took ownership of WABQ and WXEN in the mid-1960s. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, both WABQ and WJMO focused on programming aimed at Cleveland's African American community, featuring mostly black on-air talent.
It was best known for a Top 40/R&B format as "Tiger Radio" in the late 1960s (Booth's WJLB in Detroit used the same "Tiger Radio" slogan at the time), featuring personalities like Lynn Tolliver and Ken Hawkins, Michael "The Lover" Payne and King Curtis Shaw, Jimmy O'jay, Jimmy Stephens, Jim Raggs and Eddie Edwards. Mike Dix, Rich Ford, Chuck Denson, Otis Rush and Duane Jones were just a f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem%20%28computer%20virus%29
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Jerusalem is a logic bomb DOS virus first detected at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in October 1987. On infection, the Jerusalem virus becomes memory resident (using 2kb of memory), and then infects every executable file run, except for COMMAND.COM. COM files grow by 1,813 bytes when infected by Jerusalem and are not re-infected. Executable files grow by 1,808 to 1,823 bytes each time they are infected, and are then re-infected each time the files are loaded until they are too large to load into memory. Some .EXE files are infected but do not grow because several overlays follow the genuine .EXE file in the same file. Sometimes .EXE files are incorrectly infected, causing the program to fail to run as soon as it is executed.
The virus code itself hooks into interrupt processing and other low level DOS services. For example, code in the virus suppresses the printing of console messages if, for example, the virus is not able to infect a file on a read-only device such as a floppy disk. One of the clues that a computer is infected is the mis-capitalization of the well-known message "Bad command or file name" as "Bad Command or file name".
The Jerusalem virus is unique among other viruses of the time, as it is a logic bomb, set to go off on Friday the 13th on all years but 1987 (making its first activation date 13 May 1988). Once triggered, the virus not only deletes any program run that day, but also infects .EXE files repeatedly until they grow too large for the computer. This particular feature, which was not included in all of Jerusalem's variants, is triggered 30 minutes after the system is infected, significantly slows down the infected computer, thus allowing for easier detection. Jerusalem is also known as "BlackBox" because of a black box it displays during the payload sequence. If the system is in text mode, Jerusalem creates a small black rectangle from row 5, column 5 to row 16, column 16. Thirty minutes after the virus is activated, this rectangle scrolls up two lines.
As a result of the virus hooking into the low-level timer interrupt, PC-XT systems slow down to one fifth of their normal speeds 30 minutes after the virus has installed itself, though the slowdown is less noticeable on faster machines. The virus contains code that enters a processing loop each time the processor's timer tick is activated.
Symptoms also include spontaneous disconnection of workstations from networks and creation of large printer spooling files. Disconnections occur since Jerusalem uses the 'interrupt 21h' low-level DOS functions that Novell NetWare and other networking implementations required to hook into the file system.
Jerusalem was initially very common (for a virus of the day) and spawned a large number of variants. However, since the advent of Windows, these DOS interrupts are no longer used, so Jerusalem and its variants have become obsolete.
Aliases
1808(EXE), due to the virus's length of 1808 bytes.
1813(COM), due to the virus's l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Network%20of%20People%20living%20with%20HIV/AIDS
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The Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) is an international network representing all people living with HIV and AIDS. Their main agenda covers sexual and reproductive health/rights, human rights and the empowerment of people living with HIV and is named by GNP+ as the "Global Advocacy Agenda". This agenda was agreed upon at the 1999 International Conference of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Warsaw, Poland.
GNP+ is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Purpose
GNP+ advocates to improve the quality of life of all HIV positive people.
Funding
Funding for the "Global Advocacy Agenda" is currently from the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).
See also
ICW
References
DFID Press release
External links
Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS organizations
International medical and health organizations
International organisations based in the Netherlands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Julie%20Andrews%20Hour
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The Julie Andrews Hour was a television variety series starring Julie Andrews that was produced by ATV and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It aired on the ABC network in the United States. Known as the Julie Andrews Show in the UK and aired on the ITV network.
In order to secure Andrews, Sir Lew Grade and ABC offered her a generous five-year contract which included not only Andrews starring in a weekly television variety show, but also allowing her to do films. In 1963, when another major star, Judy Garland, was signed to a weekly television variety series, it failed to catch on with the public. One of the main reasons for its demise was its constant change of format and the fact that critics and audiences felt that Garland was not shown off to her best advantage. In order to avoid that error, Andrews asked producer Nick Vanoff what the premise of the show would be about. Vanoff immediately answered her by saying "Julie Andrews ... without Julie Andrews there is no Julie Andrews Hour."
The premiere installment of the show was presented on Wednesday, 13 September 1972 at 10:00 P.M. ET. As a way of introducing Julie Andrews to the vast television audience, the entire hour of the first episode showcased the singer performing in musical numbers ranging from her years on Broadway (The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady, and Camelot) to her motion picture career (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Star!). Appearing with Andrews on this episode were impressionist Rich Little and comedienne Alice Ghostley (who had appeared with Andrews in the 1957 CBS live television version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella). Both Little and Ghostley would become semi-regulars.
The series received unanimously rave reviews, unfortunately, its time slot proved to be daunting because it was up against the popular CBS detective series, Cannon. Another reason for the low ratings was that the lateness of the hour was not conducive to family viewing since children were in bed by that time. On Thanksgiving Eve, 22 November 1972, The Julie Andrews Hour devoted an entire episode saluting Walt Disney. To make it more of a "family special", ABC switched the time slot of The Julie Andrews Hour that night to 8:30 P.M. and The ABC Wednesday Movie Of The Week to 9:30 P.M. The ratings improved a little, so ABC then made a decision to alternate Andrews' time period each week. (One week it would be 10:00 P.M., and the next week it would be 8:30 P.M.) This continued until January 1973, when the series was moved to Saturday nights at 9:00 P.M. The ratings went from bad to worse, as Andrews' chief competition was The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show (both highly rated series) on CBS. (Ironically, Moore had been Andrews' co-star in the 1967 hit film, Thoroughly Modern Millie.)
Andrews was nominated for a Golden Globe Award (for Best Actress In A Leading Role — Musical Or Comedy Series for the show); she lost out to Jean Stapleton in All in the Family. When the 1972-1973 Emmy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20Point
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Address Point is a mapping/GIS data product supplied by Great Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey. It is based on the UK’s postal mail organisation, the Royal Mail, list of postal addresses, Postcode Address File (PAF). The most significant difference between Royal Mail list and Address Point is that Address Point includes the geographic coordinates of each postal address. This enables users to map the individual addresses.
The Ordnance Survey website describes Address Point as:
"a dataset that uniquely defines and locates residential, business and public postal addresses in Great Britain. It is created by matching information from Ordnance Survey digital map databases with more than 26 million addresses recorded in the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF).
Each address has a unique Ordnance Survey Address Point reference (OSAPR). In addition, Address Point carries a status flag to define the quality and accuracy of each address as well as indicators for change and source currency."
OSAPRs are always 18 characters long and must start with the letters AP.
The history of Ordnance Survey's spatial address information goes back to the 1840s when the first large-scale maps were published with names identifying prominent properties such as large landmark houses in a locality.
In 1945, when Ordnance Survey had moved to the National Grid system, maps at 1:1250 and 1:2500 scales showed sufficient information to infer other individual addresses. The recording of address information in large-scale data has been ongoing ever since. Address Point, which was launched in the early 1990s, was the first address-specific product in digital form. The latest evolution of Ordnance Survey's spatial address data is OS MasterMap Address Layer 2.
OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 offers significant enhancements such as classifications, building name aliases, geographical addresses, objects without a postal address, such as churches, and multiple occupancy information for flats and halls of residence where individual properties within do not have mail delivered to a letter box of their own. A free cross-reference table allows Ordnance Survey’s data to be linked with other key datasets, including the Valuation Office Agency’s Non Domestic Rates and Council Tax data.
Accuracy of AddressPoint co-ordinates
Each address is coordinated on the National Grid, with eastings and northings normally quoted to a resolution of 0.1 metres. The accuracy of each georeference is classified within the status flag, in which is indicated whether the coordinates are due to be improved (PQ1) or as good as they can be (PQ3). Resources are directed towards continually improving the proportion of records with the PQ3 classification.
External links
Ordnance Survey's Address Point
Ordnance Survey's Address point FAQ's
Geographical databases in the United Kingdom
GIS software
Ordnance Survey
Maps of the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping%20Services%20Agreement
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The Mapping Services Agreement (MSA) is a licensing contract between local authorities in the United Kingdom and suppliers of geographic data. Most of its contents are covered by commercial in confidence requirements. The general outcome of the MSA, however, is the supply of geographic data to local authorities and the defining of licensing issues regarding address data.
The MSA replaced an existing agreement for the supply of geographic data between local authorities, police, fire and other emergency services, and the national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey (OS). It also complied with European Union rules on procurement. As a result, suppliers of geographic information had to go through a process of open procurement managed on behalf of local authorities by the IDeA, an umbrella government organisation coordinating and promoting local authority good practice.
The result was that three suppliers were selected: Ordnance Survey, Intermap and Intelligent Addressing. For local authorities this meant little change in the supply of mapping data which continued to be supplied by OS. Intermap, however, supplied height data not previously covered by other arrangements.
Perhaps the most significant outcome of the MSA is the resolution of ownership, licensing and royalty issues that had existed between local authorities and OS. In the agreement the address databases (called Local Land and Property Gazetteers – LLPG) maintained by local authorities acknowledged the partial input of OS's address product, Address Point to these databases. In effect local authorities became "value added resellers" of ADDRESS-POINT and are required to pay OS royalties for the proportion of their use of the OS product.
The agreement also puts into place funding for the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), the UK's national address infrastructure, which is made up of the LLPGs compiled by local authorities. It also enables the NLPG to compel local authorities to maintain their LLPGs and thus ensure the nationwide coverage and compliance by local authorities.
The Mapping Services Agreement contract expired on 31 March 2012 and was replaced by the Data Co-operation Agreement.
External links
MSA page on the IDeA website
AGI (Association of Geographic Information) MSA page
Law of the United Kingdom
Geography of the United Kingdom
Geographic information systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCkhbaataryn%20S%C3%BCrenjav
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Sükhbaataryn Sürenjav (; born May 20, 1951) is a retired Mongolian wrestler.
The IOC database incorrectly lists Sürenjav as bronze medalist in the Freestyle wrestling Flyweight category at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. In reality, that medal was taken home by fellow Mongolian wrestler Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav.
References
(English translation)
Mongolian male sport wrestlers
1951 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Feed%20the%20Gondolas
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Don't Feed the Gondolas is an Irish comedy panel show, that ran for four series on Network 2 between 1997 and 2001. The show was hosted by Seán Moncrieff and the longest-serving panellists were Brendan O'Connor and Dara Ó Briain.
The name of the show is attributed to a remark made by a Wicklow County Councillor, Jimmy Miley, during a meeting regarding Blessington Lake. When the meeting proposed putting a gondola on the lake, he remarked: "That's all very well, but who's going to feed it?"
A running gag of the show, whereby the host Seán Moncrieff would make prank calls under the alias 'Monica Loolly' and claim to be from a small town in Galway named Ahascragh.
References
External links
Information on Don't Feed the Gondolas
1997 Irish television series debuts
2001 Irish television series endings
Irish panel shows
RTÉ original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Thylacine%20Specimen%20Database
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The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger) held within museum, university, and private collections.
The ITSD was first published as an electronic resource on a series of three CD-ROMs in April 2005. It was updated in July 2006 and completely revised in May 2009 and released on a single DVD totalling some 3.68 GB of data and images.
The ITSD has been designed as a free access academic tool to promote and facilitate undergraduate and postgraduate research into the species. It can be accessed through the offices of the curators and heads of department of the universities and museums that hold thylacine material or alternatively through the libraries of several of the major zoological societies.
The ITSD lists all available catalogue data for each individual specimen e.g. holding institution, catalogue identification number, sex, date of acquisition, specimen type, source, locality, collector, field number, old or additional catalogue numbers, purchase or exchange information and finally any additional remarks pertaining to the specimen.
To support the data component and to significantly enhance its educational worth, high-resolution digital images of the specimens are included. The ITSD specimen image bank forms the largest single photographic resource of its kind anywhere in the world. The primary justification for including digital images was to:
Give researchers remote visual access to thylacine specimen material and to the accompanying data thus encouraging and promoting continued research into the species.
Conserve source specimen material from excessive handling hence directly contributing to its long-term conservation.
Assist with the security of source material in that a photographic record exists for all specimens within the database.
Preserve digital images of the specimens in their current state of preservation.
Specimen material within the ITSD comprises skins, skeletons, skulls, taxidermy mounts and wet specimens. Wet specimens are whole animals, organs or body parts that have been preserved in either alcohol or formalin. Specimens of the thylacine are spread extensively around the globe so the search to locate these specimens was from the outset an international search involving a total of 106 museum, university and private collections in 23 countries.
The master copy of the ITSD is held at the Zoological Society in London with mirror copies held within the university of Tasmania in Hobart, the Australian National Wildlife Collection in Canberra and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. The master and mirror copies are kept constantly revised and updated as new information comes to light. The Zoological Society was chosen to hold the master copy of the ITSD because of its historic association with the thylacine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20Office%20Mojo
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Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon.
History
Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts going back to 1982, grosses for older films, an international section expanded to cover the weekly box office of 50 countries, international release schedules, as well as box office results from up to 107 countries.
In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury, and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In 2003, a subscription model was introduced (Premier Pass) to limit certain data and features to subscribers. From 2002 to 2011, Box Office Mojo had forums, which had more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2, 2011, the forums were officially closed along with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDb's message boards. The IMDb forums were closed on February 20, 2017.
Acquisition by IMDb
In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon.com through its subsidiary, IMDb and the Premier Pass features and content later became free. On October 10, 2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDb's box office page, before returning the following day.
On October 23, 2019, Box Office Mojo unveiled a dramatic redesign resembling IMDb, and was rebranded as "Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro". The redesign was heavily criticized for being difficult to navigate and moving much of its content behind a paywall. Several features previously provided for free, such as box-office data for franchises, genres, actors, filmmakers, distributors, budgets, and inflation-adjusted figures, were moved to IMDbPro, the subscription service of IMDb. On March 31, 2020, though, certain features that were locked behind the paywall were freed. These include the brand, franchise, and genre lists, which were put under an "Indices" section.
See also
Lumiere
The Numbers
References
Further reading
External links
Amazon (company) acquisitions
2008 mergers and acquisitions
Film box office
American film websites
Internet properties established in 1998
Online film databases
1998 establishments in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Freire
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Manuel Freire (Manuel Augusto Coentro de Pinho Freire) is a Portuguese influential left-wing singer and composer, although he also works as a computer technician. Freire was born in Vagos, Aveiro District on 25 April 1942.
Freire's first work was an EP, released in 1968, with the title "Livre" ("Free"), that included 4 songs. "Livre", "Dedicatória", "Pedro Soldado" and "Eles". The best-known song was "Livre", a hymn to the free will and thought as the album was released during the Fascist regime of Oliveira Salazar, against the official censorship. After that, Freire became a close friend of some of the most influential left-wing musicians like Zeca Afonso, Padre Fanhais or Adriano Correia de Oliveira.
Some years later, still during the dictatorial regime, Freire participated in a TV show, in the only Portuguese station operating at the time, RTP, the "Zip-Zip", singing a poem by António Gedeão called "Pedra Filosofal" ("Philosopher's Stone") that became his most well-known song.
Later, he released an album composed by 11 songs, which had lyrics written by Portuguese poets, like António Gedeão, José Gomes Ferreira, Fernando Assis Pacheco, Eduardo Olímpio, Sidónio Muralha and José Saramago. For this album, Freire received the Portuguese Press Award, the most prestigious prize awarded to a musician in Portugal, at the time.
After the Carnation Revolution, in 1974, Freire continued his political action through the music, acting for the working class in several places around the country. In 1978, he returned with another album, "Devolta", once more, singing poems of great Portuguese poets.
He then continued his work as a computer technician, but returned in 1993 with a re-edition of his work "Pedra Filosofal". In 1995, he performed in the opening of the Festa do Avante!, a cultural event, carried out by the Portuguese Communist Party. His show, along with the Portuguese folk band Brigada Victor Jara, was an homage to Adriano Correia de Oliveira.
Nowadays, he continues his career, often playing in trade union or Communist rallies.
In 2003, Freire was elected president of the Portuguese Society of Authors. As of July 2010, he still holds that position.
References
1942 births
Living people
People from Vagos
Portuguese anti-fascists
Portuguese songwriters
Male songwriters
20th-century Portuguese male singers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Sex%20Information
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San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) is an organization that provides free sex information via the World Wide Web, e-mail, telephone, and online social networking. SFSI also offers a bi-annual sex educator training program and various continuing education lectures, all located in San Francisco, California.
Overview
Founded in 1973 by Maggi Rubenstein, Margo Rila, and Tony Ayers as a telephone service, SFSI describes its mission as providing "free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex and reproductive health." Graduates of its training program include Isadora Alman, Joani Blank, Dossie Easton, Susie Bright, Patrick Califia, Sybil Holiday, Andrea Nemerson, Carol Queen, David Lourea, Veronica Monet, Midori and Violet Blue.
The organization answers about 3,000 phone calls and about twice as many emails every year. Since its inception, SFSI's Basic Sex Educator training program has graduated over 1,900 trainees.
References
External links
Male Masturbators
Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
Sex education in the United States
501(c)(3) organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMagic
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TeleMagic is the name of the first #CRM Customer Relationship Management software product for personal computers designed for salespeople and entrepreneurs for the purpose of keeping track of customers and prospects. Originally, the software was sold into the telemarketing marketplace and quickly evolved into mainstream sales applications. Subsequently there were many competitive products that came to market to perform these functions and this category eventually became known as Contact Management Software, then Sales Force Automation software, and ultimately Customer Relationship Management software.
History
TeleMagic was invented by Michael McCafferty in 1985 and marketed by his company Remote Control International. On October 2, 1992, the company was sold to The Sage Group. As of 2023, TeleMagic continues to be sold and supported by a network of Value Added Resellers (VARs) and consultants.
Features
TeleMagic is unique in several ways:
From the earliest versions of the software, TeleMagic was designed to be interfaced with other manufacturer's software, such as Word Processors (for letter writing), and accounting for Order Entry, enabling users to fully record sales without exiting the program.
A Developer's Kit allowed the product to be tailored to the specific needs of various vertical markets.
Add-on products became available using the built-in customizing features, the Developer's Kit, and completely standalone products.
TeleMagic is sold through a network of VARs Value Added Resellers who provide on-site support, integration services, training, etc.
Market reception
The product received praise around its release as well as beyond its lifespan. In 1995, "PC Magazine" applauded its customization stating "TeleMagic is hard to beat". The Baltimore Suns Patrick Rossello called TeleMagic the "hot software for this effort and is reasonably priced at many software stores." including from a writer for Forbes.com who stated that TeleMagic felt that "had seen more robust solutions 20 years ago in TeleMagic, than were readily available on the Salesforce.com platform." Other websites such as CMO.com.au gave TeleMagic credit for "marketers to consolidate, manage and track customer information." Not all reception was positive however; according to The Guardians Guy Clapperton, Jane Harrad-Roberts, the consultant director of the company Marketing Projects, chose to drop TeleMagic after The Sage Group purchased it, feeling that they had made it a worse product.
Timeline
1985, January – DOS version created for first customer Coffee Ambassador, San Diego, CA
1987 – Apple Macintosh version created
1987 – Unix version created
1988 – expansion into Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden and Russia
1991 – Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company (#79)
1992 – Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company (#348)
1992, October 2 – TeleMagic company sold to The Sage Group
1993 – Microsoft Windows version
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator
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A validator is a computer program used to check the validity or syntactical correctness of a fragment of code or document. The term is commonly used in the context of validating HTML, CSS, and XML documents like RSS feeds, though it can be used for any defined format or language.
Accessibility validators are automated tools that are designed to verify compliance of a web page or a web site with respect to one or more accessibility guidelines (such as WCAG, Section 508 or those associated with national laws such as the Stanca Act).
See also
CSS HTML Validator for Windows
HTML Tidy
W3C Markup Validation Service
Well-formed element
XML validation
References
External links
W3C's HTML Validator
W3C's CSS Validator
Mauve, an accessibility validator developed by HIIS Lab – ISTI of CNR of Pisa (Italy).
WAVE – Online accessibility validator
Debugging
HTML
XML software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Ferriz%20de%20Con
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Pedro Ferriz de Con (born December 12, 1950) is a Mexican radio and TV news anchor. During the 1990s, he worked for the Multivision Network. In January 2000, he left MVS and went to Grupo Imagen, where he hosted the morning newscast on XEDA-FM until August 25, 2014. He also hosted the evening newscast of Cadenatres from 2007 to 2012.
He currently hosts a morning radio newscast named "Central FM".
On January 15, 2016, he announced his independent bid to run for president in 2018 in Mexico via his Facebook Page.
Ferríz de Con is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City and has a Master's Degree in applied mathematics from Fleming College at Lugano, Switzerland. His father, was Pedro Ferríz Santacruz (1921-2013), who also was a radio announcer and politician.
References
External links
Central FM site
Mexican journalists
Mexican male journalists
Living people
1950 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20message
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An error message is the information displayed when an unforeseen problem occurs, usually on a computer or other device. Modern operating systems with graphical user interfaces, often display error messages using dialog boxes. Error messages are used when user intervention is required, to indicate that a desired operation has failed, or to relay important warnings (such as warning a computer user that they are almost out of hard disk space). Error messages are seen widely throughout computing, and are part of every operating system or computer hardware device. The proper design of error messages is an important topic in usability and other fields of human–computer interaction.
Common error messages
The following error messages are commonly seen by modern computer users:
Access denied
This error occurs if the user doesn't have privileges to a file, or if it has been locked by some program or user.
Device not ready
This error most often occurs when there is no floppy disk (or a bad disk) in the disk drive and the system tries to perform tasks involving this disk.
Disk Boot Failure
This error message is commonly seen when your hard drive is having problems.
File not found
The file concerned may have been damaged, moved, deleted, or a bug may have caused the error. Alternatively, the file simply might not exist, or the user has mistyped its name. This is most commonly seen on the internet with outdated links to web pages that no longer exist. On a local computer, this is more frequent on command line interfaces than on graphical user interfaces where files are presented iconically and users do not type file names.
Low Disk Space
This error occurs when the hard drive is (nearly) full. To fix this, the user should close some programs (to free swap file usage) and delete some files (normally temporary files, or other files after they have been backed up), or get a bigger hard drive.
Out of memory
This error occurs when the system has run out of memory or tries to load a file too large to store in RAM. The fix is to close some programs or install more memory.
[program name] has stopped working.
This message and similar ones are displayed by several operating systems when program causes a general protection fault or invalid page fault.
Notable error messages
? - the ed text editor will infamously reply with a single question mark for nearly all error conditions.
Abort, Retry, Fail? - A notoriously confusing error message seen in MS-DOS
Bad command or file name - Another notoriously common and confusing error message seen in MS-DOS
The Blue Screen of Death - On Microsoft Windows and ReactOS operating systems, this screen appears when Windows or ReactOS can no longer run because of a severe error. It is roughly analogous to a kernel panic on Linux, Unix, or macOS.
Can't extend - an error message from Acorn DFS. DFS stores files in non-fragmented contiguous disk space, this error is caused when trying to extend an open random-access file into sp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFTU-DT
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KFTU-DT (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Douglas, Arizona, United States, serving as the Tucson market's outlet for the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Green Valley–licensed Univision outlet KUVE-DT (channel 46). Both stations share studios on Forbes Boulevard in Tucson, while KFTU's transmitter is located on Juniper Flats Road northwest of Bisbee.
KFTU-CD (channel 34) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Tucson that rebroadcasts KFTU-DT's signal to the city, as KFTU's coverage area falls well short of Tucson proper. KFTU-DT is also rebroadcast on KUVE-DT's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market; this signal can be seen on channel 46.2 from a transmitter atop Mount Bigelow. Likewise, KUVE is rebroadcast on KFTU's second digital subchannel. Master control and most internal operations for KFTU-DT and KUVE are based at the facilities of sister station KTVW-DT on 30th Street in southern Phoenix.
Like its sister station KFPH-DT (channel 13) in Flagstaff, KFTU brands itself as UniMás Arizona.
History
KFTU-DT
The station was granted its original construction permit on April 8, 1998, and took the call letters KBGF in June 1998. Initially owned by Winstar Broadcasting Corp. of New York City, it was sold in December 1999 to Douglas Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Equity Broadcasting of Little Rock, Arkansas. Douglas Broadcasting completed building the station and filed for a license to cover the construction permit in April 2001. At the same time, they took KBGF on the air under Program Test Authority as an independent station. In October 2001, Douglas Broadcasting sold the station to Univision, who changed its call letters to KFTU in January 2002 to coincide with the launch of its new network, Telefutura (now UniMás), and added the "-TV" suffix two years later (after the end of analog broadcasting in June 2009, KFTU and all other Univision-owned stations switched to the "-DT" suffix). The station obtained its license to cover construction on February 4, 2004, after nearly three years operating under Program Test Authority.
KFTU-CD
KFTU-CD began with an original construction permit granted on August 26, 1991 to Ponyland Broadcasting (later Venture Technologies Group) for a low-power television station to serve Tucson on UHF channel 25 with the callsign K25EA. Delays building the station caused the permit to lapse and the FCC to delete the callsign in 1993, but the station was restored and came on the air in August 1994, with the initial license granted August 29, 1994. The station changed its callsign to KTAZ-LP (for Tucson, Arizona) on December 18, 1996. In April 2001, Venture Technologies sold the station to Douglas Broadcasting, who, in turn, sold the station to Univision in September 2001. After the Telefutura network launched in January 2002, Univision dropped the station's Home Shopping Network affiliation in favor of its new network.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaBIG
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The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) was a US government program to develop an open-source, open access information network called caGrid for secure data exchange on cancer research. The initiative was developed by the National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) and was maintained by the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) and program managed by Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2011 a report on caBIG raised significant questions about effectiveness and oversight, and its budget and scope were significantly trimmed. In May 2012, the National Cancer Informatics Program (NCIP) was created as caBIG's successor program.
History
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the United States funded the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) initiative in spring 2004, headed by Kenneth Buetow.
Its goal was to connect US biomedical cancer researchers using technology known as grid computing. The program, led by the Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), began with a 3-year pilot phase. The pilot phase concluded in March 2007, and a trial was announced.
Buetow promoted the program in 2008.
In addition to caGrid, the underlying infrastructure for data sharing among organizations, caBIG developed software tools, data sharing policies, and common standards and vocabularies to facilitate data sharing.
Software tools targeted:
Collection, analysis, and management of basic research data
Clinical trials management, from patient enrollment to adverse event reporting and analysis
Collection, annotation, sharing, and storage of medical imaging data
Biospecimen management
caBIG sought to provide foundational technology for an approach to biomedicine it called a “learning healthcare system.” This relies on the rapid exchange of information among all sectors of research and care, so that researchers and clinicians are able to collaboratively review and accurately incorporate the latest findings into their work. The ultimate goal was to speed the biomedical research process. It was also promoted for what is often called Personalized Medicine.
caBIG technology was used in adaptive clinical trials such as the Investigation of Serial studies to Predict Your Therapeutic Response with Imaging and molecular AnaLysis 2 (I-SPY2), which was designed to use biomarkers to determine the appropriate therapy for women with advanced breast cancer.
Health information technology
Health information technology (HIT) was promoted for management and secure exchange of medical information among researchers, health care providers, and consumers. HIT initiatives mentioning caBIG were:
NCI and the American Society of Clinical Oncology initiated a collaboration to create an oncology-specific electronic health record system using caBIG standards for interoperability and that will enable oncologists to manage patient information in an electronic format that accurately captures the specific interventional issues
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20polymorphism
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In programming languages and type theory, parametric polymorphism allows a single piece of code to be given a "generic" type, using variables in place of actual types, and then instantiated with particular types as needed. Parametrically polymorphic functions and data types are sometimes called generic functions and generic datatypes, respectively, and they form the basis of generic programming.
Parametric polymorphism may be contrasted with ad hoc polymorphism. Parametrically polymorphic definitions are uniform: they behave identically regardless of the type they are instantiated at. In contrast, ad hoc polymorphic definitions are given a distinct definition for each type. Thus, ad hoc polymorphism can generally only support a limited number of such distinct types, since a separate implementation has to be provided for each type.
Basic definition
It is possible to write functions that do not depend on the types of their arguments. For example, the identity function simply returns its argument unmodified. This naturally gives rise to a family of potential types, such as , , , and so on. Parametric polymorphism allows to be given a single, most general type by introducing a universally quantified type variable:
The polymorphic definition can then be instantiated by substituting any concrete type for , yielding the full family of potential types.
The identity function is a particularly extreme example, but many other functions also benefit from parametric polymorphism. For example, an function that appends two lists does not inspect the elements of the list, only the list structure itself. Therefore, can be given a similar family of types, such as , , and so on, where denotes a list of elements of type . The most general type is therefore
which can be instantiated to any type in the family.
Parametrically polymorphic functions like and are said to be parameterized over an arbitrary type . Both and are parameterized over a single type, but functions may be parameterized over arbitrarily many types. For example, the and functions that return the first and second elements of a pair, respectively, can be given the following types:
In the expression , is instantiated to and is instantiated to in the call to , so the type of the overall expression is .
The syntax used to introduce parametric polymorphism varies significantly between programming languages. For example, in some programming languages, such as Haskell, the quantifier is implicit and may be omitted. Other languages require types to be instantiated explicitly at some or all of a parametrically polymorphic function's call sites.
History
Parametric polymorphism was first introduced to programming languages in ML in 1975. Today it exists in Standard ML, OCaml, F#, Ada, Haskell, Mercury, Visual Prolog, Scala, Julia, Python, TypeScript, C++ and others. Java, C#, Visual Basic .NET and Delphi have each introduced "generics" for parametric polymorphism. Some implementations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackPlanet
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BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service for matchmaking and job postings; it also has forums for discussion on political and social issues.
BlackPlanet was launched on September 1, 2001 by Omar Wasow, an Internet analyst, who in 2001 was running "New York Online", a pre-web community he started in 1993. It was the brainchild of Wasow and Community Connect's CEO Benjamin Sun. Launched in 1999, it was a relative latecomer to social media sites, with three already in existence targeting people of color.
Company
The website is run by Community Connect of New York City. Community Connect has also run AsianAvenue.com and MiGente.com In April 2008, Community Connect was purchased for $38 million by Radio One, a Lanham, MD-based media begun by Cathy Hughes. Along with BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com and AsianAvenue.com were also purchased. This move was taken by Radio One to diversify beyond radio to reach black audiences.
BlackPlanet's broader mission is to strengthen the Black community.
Website
The most popular forums were Current Events, Heritage & Identity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, and Women. Wasow says BlackPlanet's home-grown software allows users to move between personal pages, to dating, chat, and message boards, focusing on connecting people, rather than feeding them content.
Statistics
In January 2007, the membership log on BlackPlanet's home-page boasted 15.8 million registered users since its inception in 1999.
At time of purchase the site had around 20 million members and was the fourth most-visited U.S. social networking site.
Target Audience
Male 34.4%
Female 65.6%
Median Age: 32
Attended/Grad College: 64.5%
Composition Black: 88%
"BlackPlanet creates branded profile pages to integrate advertisers into the social community, enabling members to engage as friends"; as well as personal profiles BlackPlanet also allows pages for brands, personalities, and products.
In 2009, BlackPlanet introduced new features to the website, including a Facebook-style status update, and a news bar that keeps users up-to-date with information shared on Interactive One and BlackPlanet. The chat function was also updated in 2009; the current chat is powered by a company called Chat Blazer and is Flash based.
In early 2010, BlackPlanet launched a new homepage that included an Activity Feed, allowing users to see updates from everyone on BlackPlanet, either friends or by location.
Other features
BlackPlanet has recently introduced two interactive games for users, Farmandia and Fishdom.
BlackPlanet describes Farmandia as follows: "Farmandia puts you in the farmer's seat. Grow your produce, care for your animals and build your barns. The more you play, the more points you're rewarded so you can keep your farm in business. Need a little help? Invite other BlackPlanet members to lend a hand."
BlackPlanet describes Fishdom thusly; "When you're done spending time on the farm, grab your virtual fishing rod and head to Fishd
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20News
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Electronic News was a publication that covered the electronics industry, from semiconductor equipment and materials to military/aerospace electronics to supercomputers. It was originally a weekly trade newspaper, which covered all aspects of the electronics industry, including semiconductors, computers, software, communications, space and television electronics.
Fairchild Publications started the newspaper in 1957, as a complement to its other trade newspapers, including Women's Wear Daily, Home Furnishing Daily, Supermarket News, among others. At its peak in 1984, Electronic News took in $25 million in revenue with margins above 50%. The following year, the newspaper began losing advertising and influence to rival Electronic Engineering Times, beginning a decline that eventually led to the newspaper's demise.
In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler published a series of articles entitled "Silicon Valley, USA" in Electronic News. This is thought to be the first published use of the phrase Silicon Valley to describe the area of the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California, United States, an area known for its concentration of companies making semiconductors, among them Intel, LSI Logic, and National Semiconductor.
Also in 1971, Electronic News was where Intel first advertised the Intel 4004 microprocessor, considered to be the first single-chip microprocessor.
A decade later, in 1981, when IBM's top-secret Project Acorn emerged as the IBM Personal Computer - the PC - the first reports were published in Electronic News in the weeks before the introduction, much to IBM's consternation. Also in 1982, Electronic News communications industry reporter Frank Barbetta broke the story on the Bell System Divestiture which resulted in the break-up of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, and published the first interview with Judge Harold H. Greene.
The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full-time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full-time journalists in New York City and bureaus in Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo. In addition, stringers reported in from more than 100 locations around the world.
In 1987, the paper's corporate parent, Fairchild Publications was acquired by Capital Cities Broadcasting, which went on to acquire the American Broadcasting Company, now a unit of The Walt Disney Company. The publication was transferred from Fairchild to Chilton, then a division of Capital Cities/ABC, as the result of a reorganization. After barely a year as part of Chilton, the paper was sold in 1991 to the publishing house International Data Group. After a year of losses, IDG sold the paper in 1993 to an independent investor group put together by one-time publisher Zachary Dicker. In 1996 the paper was sold to Reed Business Information. Reed Business Information sold the magazine to Canon Communications in February 201
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Bar%20Association
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The National Bar Association (NBA) was founded in 1925 and is the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 67,000 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students.
The NBA is organized around 25 substantive law sections, 10 divisions, 12 regions, and numerous affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world. The current and 80th president is Lonita Baker. She will be followed by president-elect Dominique D. Calhoun.
Structure and activities
The National Bar Association (NBA) is governed by a Board of Governors, mostly elected from the membership but also including NBA's officers and representatives of groups such as the NBA's Divisions.
The National Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, chaired by Ashley Lee, represents the new members of the legal profession, and membership is open to NBA members who have been admitted to practice for less than 10 years or are under 40 years old. The association has several affiliate chapters located throughout the United States, including The Cook County Bar Association, The Barristers' Association of Philadelphia, the California Association of Black Lawyers, the Washington Bar Association, the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association, the Garden State Bar Association and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.
The National Bar Institute (NBI) is the philanthropic arm of the NBA, founded in 1982. The association has established an annual award in honor of the late Louisiana State Representative Pinkie C. Wilkerson of Grambling—the "Pinkie C. Wilkerson Outstanding State Legislator of the Year Award". The NBA offers a job listing service as well as advertising in its magazine to assist employers seeking to conduct affirmative action outreach toward minority job applicants.
History
The National Bar Association was established in 1925 as the "Negro Bar Association" after Gertrude Rush, George H. Woodson, S. Joe Brown, James B. Morris, and Charles P. Howard, Sr., were denied membership in the American Bar Association. The young Charles Hamilton Houston, future dean of Howard University Law School, also helped with the founding.
Its first president was George H. Woodson of Des Moines, Iowa. Arnette Hubbard became the NBA's first female president in 1981.
In 1940, the NBA attempted to establish "free legal clinics in all cities with a colored population of 5,000 or more." Its members supported litigation that achieved a US Supreme Court ruling that defendants had to be provided with legal counsel.
In 2010, the NBA partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to work toward a complete and accurate count of the nation's population through various outreach activities.
Affiliates
Alabama
Birmingham: Brazil Bar Association
Montgomery: Alabama Lawyers Association
Arkansas
Little Rock: W. Harold Flowers Society
California
Los Angeles: Black Women Lawyers Association of L
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBVE-FM
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CBVE-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network at 104.7 FM in Quebec City, Quebec. The station's main transmitter is located at Mount Bélair. Its studios are co-located with its francophone sister stations on Rue St-Jean in Downtown Quebec City.
CBVE is the originating station for all CBC Radio One transmitters in Quebec outside Montreal and the Outaouais. Together, they are known as the Quebec Community Network, with a special mandate to provide service to the province's anglophone minority.
Although it is a semi-satellite of CBME-FM in Montreal, most of the station's operations are in Quebec City except for master control, which is based at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto.
History
The station was launched in 1976. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming was aired on private affiliate CFOM. Following CFOM's shutdown as a commercial station in late 1975, the CBC directly acquired the station and kept it in operation until the FM signal was launched.
The station was originally a rebroadcaster of CBM in Montreal (now CBME-FM). In 1994, however, it was granted a separate license. At the same time, all but one of CBM's rebroadcasters were transferred to CBVE.
The call sign CBME was formerly used for a low-power AM repeater in La Tuque which changed to CBVE-1.
Local programming
CBVE-FM's local programs are Quebec AM, hosted by Susan Campbell, in the mornings and Breakaway, hosted by Jacquie Czernin, in the afternoons. The rest of the station's schedule is a simulcast of CBME-FM.
An hour of Quebec AM is also heard on CBC North radio stations in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec.
Transmitters
On February 18, 1998, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to change the frequency for CBJE-FM Chicoutimi/Saguenay's frequency from 107.9 MHz to 102.7 MHz by decreasing the effective radiated power from 50,000 watts to 30,000 watts.
On September 11, 2008, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a temporary low-power FM mono transmitter at Lac-Mégantic. It would broadcast on 104.1 MHz with an effective radiated power of 50 watts for a period of three months. The CBC indicated the transmitter would rebroadcast CBVE and ensure the continuity of the national Radio One service to Lac-Megantic while the municipality conducts renovations on the site of the low-power AM transmitter CBMO, which was currently unserviceable. It is unknown if the transmitter(s) is currently operating as CBMO and CBMO-FM is not listed in the Industry Canada database.
On January 4, 2013, the CBC filed and application to the CRTC to convert CBMJ 750 to 99.5 FM. The application was approved on May 8, 2013.
On October 25, 2013, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to decrease the power of CBVG from 2,160 to 1,730 watts (decreasing the maximum ERP from 4,250 to 2,610 watts and its EHAAT from 409.5 to 384.5 metres).
On March 19, 2015, the CBC submitted an application to add an FM transmitter in Malar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyholder
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A copyholder is a device that holds the hand written or printed material being typed by a copy typist. They were used in the past with typewriters and are now used with computers and word processors like Writer or Word.
Some copyholders stand independently whilst others are attached to CRT based computer monitors. They can support entire booklets or a single page. Elaborate varieties can even be adjusted by height or angle and some come with rulers and guides that appear over the front of the page.
Office equipment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighting%20control%20system
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A lighting control system incorporates communication between various system inputs and outputs related to lighting control with the use of one or more central computing devices. Lighting control systems are widely used on both indoor and outdoor lighting of commercial, industrial, and residential spaces. Lighting control systems are sometimes referred to under the term smart lighting. Lighting control systems serve to provide the right amount of light where and when it is needed.
Lighting control systems are employed to maximize the energy savings from the lighting system, satisfy building codes, or comply with green building and energy conservation programs. Lighting control systems may include a lighting technology designed for energy efficiency, convenience and security. This may include high efficiency fixtures and automated controls that make adjustments based on conditions such as occupancy or daylight availability. Lighting is the deliberate application of light to achieve some aesthetic or practical effect (e.g. illumination of a security breach). It includes task lighting, accent lighting, and general lighting.
Lighting controls
The term lighting controls is typically used to indicate stand-alone control of the lighting within a space. This may include occupancy sensors, timeclocks, and photocells that are hard-wired to control fixed groups of lights independently. Adjustment occurs manually at each devices location. The efficiency of and market for residential lighting controls has been characterized by the Consortium for Energy Efficiency.
The term lighting control system refers to an intelligent networked system of devices related to lighting control. These devices may include relays, occupancy sensors, photocells, light control switches or touchscreens, and signals from other building systems (such as fire alarm or HVAC). Adjustment of the system occurs both at device locations and at central computer locations via software programs or other interface devices.
Advantages
The major advantage of a lighting control system over stand-alone lighting controls or conventional manual switching is the ability to control individual lights or groups of lights from a single user interface device. This ability to control multiple light sources from a user device allows complex lighting scenes to be created. A room may have multiple scenes pre-set, each one created for different activities in the room. A major benefit of lighting control systems is reduced energy consumption. Longer lamp life is also gained when dimming and switching off lights when not in use. Wireless lighting control systems provide additional benefits including reduced installation costs and increased flexibility over where switches and sensors may be placed.
Minimizing energy usage
Lighting applications represents 19% of the world's energy use and 6% of all greenhouse emissions. In the United States, 65 percent of energy consumption is used by commercial and industria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20Overhaul
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Celebrity Overhaul was a reality television and infotainment show on Australia's Nine Network in which celebrities undergo a rigorous exercise and diet regime aimed at improving their fitness, health and general lifestyle, with the particular goal of Weight Loss. These are coordinated by two personal trainers and a medical doctor. Hosted by Deborah Hutton, there have been two seasons, (5 episodes x 1 hour) each respectively in 2004 and 2005.
Featured Celebrities
Merv Hughes – cricketer (Seasons 1 and 2)
Paulini Curuenavuli – singer and Australian Idol contestant.
Rowena Wallace – actress (Season 1)
Kate Fischer – model/former actress (Season 2)
Ita Buttrose – journalist/businesswoman (Season 2)
Phil Burton – singer (Human Nature) (Season 2)
Fabio Lanzoni – model and actor
Trevor Butler – Big Brother reality show contestant
Melissa Bell – actress and singer
Nova Peris – athlete and politician
Peter Phelps – actor
Dr John Tickell – media personality, television presenter/doctor
Spin-off
Channel Nine spun another show from Celebrity Overhaul, known simply as "Overhaul" which followed a similar format, except but did not feature celebrities.
External links
Celebrity Overhaul at the National Film and Sound Archive
2000s Australian reality television series
Nine Network original programming
2004 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg
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is a mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service in Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru and the Philippines. Service began experimentally during 2005 and commercially on April 1, 2006. It is designed as a component of ISDB-T, the terrestrial digital broadcast system used in those countries, as each channel is divided into 13 segments, with a further segment separating it from the next channel; an HDTV broadcast signal occupies 12 segments, leaving the remaining (13th) segment for mobile receivers, hence the name, "1seg" or "One Seg".
Its use in Brazil was established in late 2007 (starting in just a few cities), with a slight difference from the Japanese counterpart: it is broadcast under a 30 frame/s transmission setting (Japanese broadcasts are under the 15 frame/s transmission setting).
Technical information
The ISDB-T system uses the UHF band at frequencies between 470 and 770 MHz (806 MHz in Brazil), giving a total bandwidth 300 MHz. The bandwidth is divided into fifty name channels 13 through 62. Each channel is 6 MHz wide consisting of a 5.57 MHz wide signalling band and a 430 kHz guard band to limit cross channel interference. Each of these channels is further divided into 13 segments, each with 428 kHz of bandwidth. 1 seg uses a single of these segments to carry the 1seg transport stream.
1seg, like ISDB-T uses QPSK for modulation, with 2/3 forward error correction and 1/4 guard ratio. The total datarate is 416 kbit/s.
The television system uses an H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video stream and an HE-AAC audio stream multiplexed into an MPEG transport stream. The maximum video resolution is 320x240 pixels, with a video bitrate of between 220 and 320 kbit/s. Audio conforms to HE-AAC profile, with a bitrate of 48 to 64 kbit/s. Additional data (EPG, interactive services, etc.) is transmitted using BML and occupies the remaining 10 to 100 kbit/s of bandwidth.
Conditional access and copy control are implemented in 1seg broadcasting by the use of Broadcast Flag-like structure contained in the "Copy Control Descriptor" within the broadcast. The broadcast contents themselves are not encrypted, but the Copy Control information forces the device to encrypt stored recordings and disallows making a copy of the recording.
Broadcast Markup Language
Broadcast Markup Language (BML), is a data-transmission service allowing text to be displayed on a 1seg TV screen.
The text contains news, sports, weather forecasts, emergency warnings such as Earthquake Early Warning, etc. free of charge. Further information can be found through links to content on websites, frequently those belonging to the television station itself.
EPG (program guides) is not included, but transmitted in separate stream (EIT).
Multiple-program arrangement
On June 23, 2008, broadcaster Tokyo MX officially began using technology to simultaneously broadcast two programs on a single divided segment. Most 1seg receivers manufactured after Septembe
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Information security standards or cyber security standards are techniques generally outlined in published materials that attempt to protect the cyber environment of a user or organization. This environment includes users themselves, networks, devices, all software, processes, information in storage or transit, applications, services, and systems that can be connected directly or indirectly to networks.
The principal objective is to reduce the risks, including preventing or mitigating cyber-attacks. These published materials consist of tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices, assurance and technologies.
History
Cybersecurity standards have existed over several decades as users and providers have collaborated in many domestic and international forums to effect the necessary capabilities, policies, and practices – generally emerging from work at the Stanford Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy in the 1990s.
A 2016 US security framework adoption study reported that 70% of the surveyed organizations the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as the most popular best practice for Information Technology (IT) computer security, but many note that it requires significant investment. Cross-border, cyber-exfiltration operations by law enforcement agencies to counter international criminal activities on the dark web raise complex jurisdictional questions that remain, to some extent, unanswered. Tensions between domestic law enforcement efforts to conduct cross-border cyber-exfiltration operations and international jurisdiction are likely to continue to provide improved cybersecurity norms.
International Standards
The subsections below detail international standards related to cybersecurity.
ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002
ISO/IEC 27001, part of the growing ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, is an information security management system (ISMS) standard, of which the last revision was published in October 2022 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its full name is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 – Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection - Information security management systems - Requirements.
ISO/IEC 27001 formally specifies a management system intended to bring information security under explicit management control.
ISO/IEC 27002 incorporates part 1 of the BS 7799 good security management practice standard. The latest version of BS 7799 is BS 7799-3. Sometimes ISO/IEC 27002 is therefore referred to as ISO 17799 or BS 7799 part 1 and, sometimes it refers to part 1 and part 7. BS 7799 part 1 provides an outline or good practice guide for cybersecurity management; whereas BS 7799 part 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 are normative and therefore provide a framework for certification. ISO/IEC 27002 is a high-level guide to cybersecurity. It is most beneficial as explanatory guidance for
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQCA
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KQCA (channel 58) is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, serving the Sacramento area as a dual affiliate of The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside NBC affiliate KCRA-TV (channel 3). Both stations share studios on Television Circle off D Street in downtown Sacramento, while KQCA's transmitter is located in Walnut Grove, California.
History
The station first signed on the air on April 13, 1986, as KSCH. The first program to air on the station was a "preview" show hosted by Jim Finnerty and Lori Sequest. It was 51 percent owned by Schuyler Communications, Inc., and 49 percent by the SFN Companies. It originally operated as an independent station and aired classic television series from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, as well as some daytime programs that were preempted by KCRA-TV and KXTV (channel 10). The station originally operated from studios located on West Weber Avenue in Stockton. KSCH was also the first station in the Sacramento market to provide stereo sound from its sign-on.
On August 9 of that year, SFN sold the station to Pegasus Broadcasting, which consisted of SFN management and outside investors; channel 58 along with three other television stations and three radio stations sold for $154 million. In 1988, the station moved its studios to a new building located on Gold Canal Drive in Rancho Cordova. In 1990, GE Capital, which had been one of the investors that formed Pegasus, purchased the company outright.
In 1993, GE Capital began shopping KSCH-TV for sale; in one potential proposal, both KSCH and Koplar Communications-owned KRBK (channel 31, now KMAX-TV) would have been sold to one buyer, who would have been able to sell off one of the stations to a noncompetitive entity. In 1994, Sacramento restaurant owner Wing Fat and Barbara Scurfield purchased KSCH-TV from GE Capital for $8 million. The new owners entered into a local marketing agreement with Kelly Broadcasting, then-owner of KCRA. KCRA had launched a 10 p.m. local newscast for the station the year before, and KCRA wanted to operate the station (but could not own it outright under FCC rules of the time).
Once the sale was approved, Kelly immediately made a series of changes. Channel 58 affiliated with the new UPN, and its call letters were changed to KQCA on February 1, branding as "Q58" (as opposed to a "UPN" and channel number/city branding with many other affiliates at the time). On January 5, 1998, it swapped affiliations with KMAX-TV and became an affiliate of The WB upon the acquisition of channel 31 by UPN. When Hearst-Argyle Television (which became Hearst Television in 2009) bought KCRA and its LMA with KQCA in 1999, the station dropped its "Q58" branding in favor of using its call letters and channel number. Hearst-Argyle bought KQCA outright in 2000 after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began allowing duopolies, creating the first duopoly in the market in the process; the station adopted the "
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KUVS-DT (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Modesto, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Sacramento area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Stockton-licensed UniMás outlet KTFK-DT (channel 64). Both stations share studios on Arden Way near Cal Expo in Sacramento, while KUVS-DT's transmitter is located near Valley Springs, California.
Channel 19 in Modesto was founded by country and western performer Chester Smith and began broadcasting as KLOC-TV on August 26, 1966. It was an English-language independent station but struggled to obtain programming once distributors raised their rate. As a result, the station simulcast co-owned KLOC radio during the day and began airing Spanish-language shows at night. By the 1970s, it was specializing in daytime Christian programming and evening Spanish-language programming. Its coverage area expanded to include Sacramento in 1975; the call sign changed to KCSO-TV in 1981 when Smith sold KLOC radio. Over the course of the 1980s, Smith built several additional television stations in central California and Nevada broadcasting Spanish-language programming.
Chester Smith sold KCSO to Univision in 1997; Smith retained the call sign, so the station was renamed KUVS-TV. The station moved most of its operations from Modesto to Sacramento after the sale. It produces local Spanish-language newscasts for the market as well as a weekly public affairs program seen on other Univision stations in California.
All of KUVS-DT's subchannels are rebroadcast in the immediate Sacramento area on KEZT-CD (channel 23), and KTFK-DT also rebroadcasts the Univision subchannel of KUVS-DT to provide improved coverage.
History
Chester Smith ownership
On March 3, 1964, Corbett Pierce and country and western performer Chester Smith, owner of KLOC (920 AM) in Ceres, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to build a new television station on channel 17 in Modesto, one of two channels allocated to the city. The FCC approved the application on November 12, 1964; after a national overhaul of ultra high frequency (UHF) channel allocations finalized in early 1966 shifted Modesto's channel allocation to channel 19, the station began broadcasting as independent station KLOC-TV on August 26, 1966.
Initially, KLOC maintained a general-entertainment format and was one of the stations that carried programming from the United Network during its one month of operation in May 1967. About a year after its sign-on, the syndicators providing KLOC's programming raised their prices to the levels closer to a Sacramento-licensed station (the station's owners had been acquired programming at lower rates closer to that of an unrated television market); KLOC-TV alleged that Stockton's KOVR had pressured syndicators not to do business with the Modesto station. Smith resorted to simulcasting KLOC radio's programming during the daytime hours, including a
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Kary Antholis (born 1962) is an American publisher and editor of CrimeStory.com, former executive at the television network HBO and documentary filmmaker best known for the Oscar-winning short One Survivor Remembers, which was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2012. Antholis serves on the Board of Visitors of the Georgetown University Law Center and formerly served as co-chair of board of directors for Young Storytellers.
Biography
Antholis grew up in Florham Park, New Jersey and attended the Delbarton School in Morris Township, New Jersey. He is a 1984 graduate of Bowdoin College, earned a master's degree in History at Stanford University with a focus on the historical role European nations in Africa and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1989. He has one brother, William J. Antholis, CEO of the Miller Center.
Career
Kary Antholis founded Crime Story Media, LLC in July 2019, after retiring as President of Miniseries and Cinemax Programming at HBO.
In over 25 years as a creative executive at HBO, Kary oversaw Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning projects, including Chernobyl, Angels in America, Olive Kitteridge, John Adams, The Pacific, The Night Of, Generation Kill, The Corner, Elizabeth I, The Gathering Storm, Wit, Show Me a Hero, Mildred Pierce, Elvis Presley: The Searcher and Educating Peter. As head of Cinemax Programming since 2011, Kary led the channel’s branding strategy, commissioning breakthrough series including Strike Back, Banshee, The Knick, Warrior, Jett and Tales from the Tour Bus.
Kary began his film career as a documentarian, winning the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and the Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special for his film One Survivor Remembers, about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein. One Survivor Remembers was the first HBO program added by the Librarian of Congress to the National Film Registry, an honor given to “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant American films.
Kary serves on the Board of Visitors at Georgetown Law and as an adjunct professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He holds a JD from Georgetown Law, an MA in History from Stanford University, and a BA from Bowdoin College.
One Survivor Remembers
As a filmmaker he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject (1995) and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special (1994–95) for his film One Survivor Remembers about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein. Exploring Gerda's story offered him an extraordinarily vivid connection to his own mother's experiences during the war. Antholis' mother Evanthia grew up in Nazi-occupied Greece during World War II. Weissmann's story helped Antholis understand what his mother went through when her father, Vassilios, was killed by Nazi collaborators.
In 2005, the film was offered by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of a Teaching Tolerance curriculum for high school teachers to teach their students about the realities
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF%20Imagination%20Machine
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The APF Imagination Machine is a combination home video game console and home computer system released by APF Electronics Inc. in late 1979. It has two separate components, the APF-M1000 game system, and an add-on docking bay with full sized typewriter keyboard and tape drive. The APF-M1000 was built specifically to compete with the Atari 2600. The full APF Imagination Machine, including the APF-M1000 console and the IM-1 computer component, originally sold for around ().
Specifications
CPU: 8-bit 0.89 MHz Motorola 6800 (3.579 MHz Oscillator divided by 4)
ROM: 14 KB
RAM: 9 KB expandable to 17 KB (8 KB / 16 KB + 1 KB)
Video Display Controller: MC6847
Resolutions: 256×192×4 / 128×192×8
Colors: 8
One sound channel in 5 octaves
Two controllers:
13 buttons
0-9 numeric keypad
Clear and End key
Trigger
4-way joystick
Overview
APF Basic
The bundled APF BASIC interpreter allows any users to develop their own programs. Most retailers of the system offered a full and hefty instruction manual to explain how the specialized code works, and a tech sheet that specifies every function of every chip on the console, so as to allow the users to make the most efficient code possible. To encourage more home users to create their own games and trade them, a monthly mailing list lasted well through the video game crash of 1983 and into the next generation of consoles.
Special cassette
One of the most marketed features of the console is the dual-sided cassette drive that allows the user to write or use a stored program, and also to record or play audio. The feature is generally used for programmers to leave notes about their work, or for instructions to be read aloud before a game is played.
Peripherals
The console has a number of aftermarket add-ons:
RS-232 Storage Cartridge
Floppy Disk Storage
8K RAM Cartridge
Mini Floppy Disk Storage
Telephone Modem
It has a hub of sorts, generally called the "building block", which allows for the connection of some standard computer accessories.
Games
In addition to the one BASIC interpreter cartridge bundled with the system, only 15 official game cartridges were ever released by APF Electronics Inc, although several cartridges contain multiple games. Many games were created by an active programming community of owners and distributed through the monthly newsletter, released on cassette tape or printout.
The official game list is as follows:
Artist and Easel
Backgammon
Baseball
Blackjack
Bowling / Micro Match
Boxing
Brickdown / Shooting Gallery
Budget Manager
Casino
Catena
Hangman / Tic-Tac-Toe / Doodle
Pinball / Dungeon Hunt / Blockout
Rocket Patrol
Space Destroyers
UFO / Sea Monster / Break it down / Rebuild / Shoot
APF IM-2 console
APF had planned on releasing a follow-up to the original M1000 Imagination Machine game console, but went out of business just before the console could go to market. No official specs have ever been released, although some former employees have mentioned that it was essentially the same M1000
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20profiler
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A system profiler is a program that can provide detailed information about the software installed and hardware attached to a computer. Typically workstations and personal computers have had system profilers as a common feature since the mid-1990s.
However, system profilers exist on most computing architectures in some form or other. System Monitor programs in mainframes essentially provide the same function as system profiler programs on personal computers.
Modern system profilers typically provide real time information on not only the CPU state (such as clock speed), GPU state, and attached hardware state (such as USB or FireWire devices).
Historical origins
System profilers came into use after punch cards were no longer needed to run programs. Mainframe computers had evolved into have modular architectures at the same time punch cards were being abandoned as input devices. Punch card based mainframe computer systems typically had very rigidly fixed architectures with little variation in input or output devices.
Since the 1990s hardware independent system profilers have emerged in some computing architectures, like Linux. Most Unix-like (aka POSIX compliant) operating systems have system hardware independent profilers.
Usage origin
In Apple Computer's classic Mac OS, this was done by an application called Apple System Profiler.
macOS' profiler is simply called System Information, and can be accessed via two methods. A GUI application, System Information.app, provides system information in simplified tables and trees, whereas detailed, highly-verbose information can be viewed upon executing the /usr/sbin/system_profiler binary in a terminal emulator.
In Microsoft Windows, similar information can be found by viewing the properties of "My Computer" or "This PC," pressing the Windows key and Pause/Break key simultaneously, or by executing the msinfo32.exe binary.
List of system profiler software
Microsoft Windows
System Information – built-in component
CPU-Z – useful when overclocking processors
System Information for Windows (SIW) – portable freeware with software, hardware, and network information as well as miscellaneous tools
Belarc – freeware for personal use PC Auditing Software lists hardware, as well as software installed on the local machine and displays as a local webpage. Belarc also makes a security assessment for checking how secure a system is, and links missing updates directly to a Microsoft website for download.
systeminfo – native windows command line, returns OS version, uptime, CPU, physical memory, network cards, etc.
SekChek Local – an automated security audit tool which scans multiple Windows workstations and servers, from the network. It creates a security assessment report file which is presented as a Microsoft Access dataset.
Speccy – detailed specifications of various PC subsystems
Linux (and some other Unix-like systems)
uname -a – prints basic information about the current machine and its OS
lshw – prints a lis
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The Federal Network Agency ( or ) is the German regulatory office for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railway markets. It is a federal agency of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and headquartered in Bonn, Germany.
Responsibilities
Telecommunications
In telecommunications, the agency has the authority over the German telephone numbering plan and other technical number assignments. It also regulates the telecommunication market, including termination fees and open access to subscriber lines and licenses telephone companies.
In radio communications, the Agency manages the radio frequency spectrum, licenses broadcasting transmitters and detects radio interferences. Licensing radio and TV stations (that is, content providers), however, is the task of State authorities.
It is also a root certificate authority for qualified signatures according to the German Signature Act.
Postal services
The Agency's responsibility in the post market include the licensing of companies for postal services and the observation of the market. It also regulates the market, assuring non-discriminatory access to some service facilities, such as PO boxes.
Electricity and gas
In the electricity and gas market, the Agency is responsible for ensuring non-discriminatory third-party access to networks and regulating the fees. The Agency is not responsible for licensing energy companies. These tasks remain with authorities determined by State law.
The Bundesnetzagentur has the following roles under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG):
determining the level of financial payment for installations for the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources
monitoring the nationwide EEG equalisation scheme process between the distribution network operators, the transmission system operators and the electricity suppliers
publishing the capacity of the newly installed renewable energy installations (monthly)
conducting the auction process for renewable energy installations.
Railway
In the area of railway traffic, the Federal Network Agency is responsible for ensuring non-discriminatory access to railway infrastructure. This includes monitoring and regulating the train schedules, allocation of railway track slots, access to service facilities, etc.
The agency is not responsible for technical supervision and licensing of railway companies. These tasks remain with the Federal Railway Office (, EBA).
History
In the 1990s, the telecommunications and postal services in Germany were privatized. In 1994, the Deutsche Bundespost, was privatised and split into Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom, which remained under the supervision of the Federal Office for Post and Telecommunications (, BAPT). When the market was finally opened to competitors on 1 January 1998, the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (, ) was established, superseding the Federal Office as the supervisor for posts and telecommunications.
When
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Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage medium is a sector-addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem. For an overview, see disk encryption. For discussion of different software packages and hardware devices devoted to this problem, see disk encryption software and disk encryption hardware.
Problem definition
Disk encryption methods aim to provide three distinct properties:
The data on the disk should remain confidential.
Data retrieval and storage should both be fast operations, no matter where on the disk the data is stored.
The encryption method should not waste disk space (i.e., the amount of storage used for encrypted data should not be significantly larger than the size of plaintext).
The first property requires defining an adversary from whom the data is being kept confidential. The strongest adversaries studied in the field of disk encryption have these abilities:
they can read the raw contents of the disk at any time;
they can request the disk to encrypt and store arbitrary files of their choosing;
and they can modify unused sectors on the disk and then request their decryption.
A method provides good confidentiality if the only information such an adversary can determine over time is whether the data in a sector has or has not changed since the last time they looked.
The second property requires dividing the disk into several sectors, usually 512 bytes ( bits) long, which are encrypted and decrypted independently of each other. In turn, if the data is to stay confidential, the encryption method must be tweakable; no two sectors should be processed in exactly the same way. Otherwise, the adversary could decrypt any sector of the disk by copying it to an unused sector of the disk and requesting its decryption.
The third property is generally non-controversial. However, it indirectly prohibits the use of stream ciphers, since stream ciphers require, for their security, that the same initial state not be used twice (which would be the case if a sector is updated with different data); thus this would require an encryption method to store separate initial states for every sector on disk—seemingly a waste of space. The alternative, a block cipher, is limited to a certain block size (usually 128 or 256 bits). Because of this, disk encryption chiefly studies chaining modes, which expand the encryption block length to cover a whole disk sector. The considerations already listed make several well-known chaining modes unsuitable: ECB mode, which cannot be tweaked, and modes that turn block ciphers into stream ciphers, such as the CTR mode.
These three properties do not provide any assurance of disk integrity; that is, they don't tell you whether an adversary has been modifying your ciphertext. In part, this is because an absolute assurance of disk integrity is impossible: no matter what, an adversary could always revert the entire disk to a prio
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Jim Keogh is the author of more than 84 books including five ...For Dummies books. Keogh introduced PC programming across the US in his Popular Electronics magazine column in 1982, four years after Apple Computer started in a garage. He developed the Electronic Commerce Track at Columbia University and was a team member who built one of the first Windows applications by a Wall Street firm that was featured by Bill Gates in 1986 on Windows on Wall Street. Keogh wrote one of the first books that showed how to solve the Year 2000 problem. He is the former educational columnist for The Record, New Jersey's second-largest daily newspaper. He has appeared on CNN, FOX, GoodDay New York, NBC Weekend Today in New York, and ABC World Wide Business Report. Keogh is on the faculty of New York University.
A resident of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, he served as a trustee on the board of education of the Ridgefield Park Public Schools.
Computer Books:
XML Demystified,
XML: Your Visual Blueprint For Writing Dynamic Applications,
Data Structures Demystified,
OOP Demystified,
SAP R/3 Handbook 3/E,
Palm OS Cobalt Programming From The Ground Up,
Unofficial Guide To Microsoft Office Access 2007,
Visual Basic, 2005: Your Visual Blueprint For Writing Dynamic Applications,
ASP.Net 2.0 Demystified,
Windows Programming Programmer's Notebook,
COBOL Programmer's Notebook,
Webmaster's Guide To VB Script,
Java Demystified,
Java 2 Database Programming For Dummies,
J2ME, The Complete Reference,
J2EE, The Complete Reference,
JavaScript Demystified,
C, An Introduction To Programming,
C++, An Introduction To Programming,
C++ Programmer's Notebook : An Illustrated Quick Reference,
The C/C++ Programmer's Notebook,
UNIX Programming For Dummies,
Linux Programming For Dummies,
Essential Guide To Computer Hardware,
Essential Guide To Networking,
MCSE Networking Essentials Interactive Training Course,
The Complete MCSE Networking Essentials Training Course,
Core MCSE Networking Essentials
Nursing Books:
Nursing Informatics Demystified,
Psychiatric And Mental Health Nursing Demystified,
Schaum's Outline Of Critical Care Nursing,
Schaum's Outline Of Emergency Nursing,
Schaum's Outline Of Medical Charting,
Schaum's Outline Of ECG Interpretations,
Schaum's Outline Of Medical Surgical Nursing,
Schaum's Outline Of Medical Terminology,
Schaum's Outline Of Nursing Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests,
Schaum's Outlines Pharmacology,
Pediatric Nursing Demystified,
Nursing Laboratory And Diagnostic Tests Demystified,
Dosage Calculations Demystified,
Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified,
Medical Charting Demystified,
Medical Billing And Coding Demystified,
Pharmacology Demystified,
Nurse Management Demystified,
Microbiology Demystified
Education Books:
Secrets To Good Grades,
Getting The Best Education For Your Child A Parent's Checklist
Business Books:
E-Mergers: Merging, Acquiring, And Partnering E-Commerce Businesses,
Project Planning And Implementa
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Stevens & Grdnic (Ron Stevens and Joy Grdnic, the latter's surname pronounced "GRID-nick") are American comedians having worked as market radio morning hosts, and written for network TV comedies.
Overview
They released two Grammy-nominated comedy albums, Somewhere over the Radio and Retail Comedy at Wholesale Prices, the latter featuring the sketches "Fast Food" and "Mr Wizard & Timmy", a parody of Watch Mr. Wizard.
Stevens & Grdnic's work is syndicated on more than 450 radio stations by All Star Radio Networks, and some of their recordings have been featured on Dr. Demento's radio show.
Their recording "Commercials on 45", inspired by Stars on 45 medleys, consisted of parodies of commercials set to music.
Fast Food
Fast Food is a two-and-a-half minute audio comedy skit about a frustrating encounter at a fast-food drive-thru where a customer tries to order "a double cheeseburger, onion rings and a large orange drink." The skit was first broadcast on radio on 4 July 1982, but written and performed earlier.
References
External links
Joy Grdnic web site, Joy Grdnic's website
American radio personalities
American comedy duos
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Weighted random early detection (WRED) is a queueing discipline for a network scheduler suited for congestion avoidance. It is an extension to random early detection (RED) where a single queue may have several different sets of queue thresholds. Each threshold set is associated to a particular traffic class.
For example, a queue may have lower thresholds for lower priority packet. A queue buildup will cause the lower priority packets to be dropped, hence protecting the higher priority packets in the same queue. In this way quality of service prioritization is made possible for important packets from a pool of packets using the same buffer.
It is more likely that standard traffic will be dropped instead of higher prioritized traffic.
Restrictions
On Cisco switches WRED is restricted to
TCP/IP traffic. Only this kind of traffic indicates congestion to the sender to enable a reduction of the transmission rate.
Non-IP traffic will be dropped more often than TCP/IP traffic because it is treated with the lowest possible precedence.
Functional Description
WRED proceeds in this order when a packet arrives:
Calculation of the average queue size.
The arriving packet is queued immediately if the average queue size is below the minimum queue threshold.
Depending on the packet drop probability the packet is either dropped or queued if the average queue size is between the minimum and maximum queue threshold.
The packet is automatically dropped if the average queue size is greater than the maximum threshold.
Calculation of average queue size
The average queue size depends on the previous average as well as the current size of the queue. The calculation formula is given below:
where is the user-configurable exponential weight factor, is the old average and is the current queue size. The previous average is more important for high values of . Peaks and lows in queue size are smoothed by a high value. For low values of , the average queue size is close to the current queue size.
References
Network performance
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRED
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WRED may refer to:
Weighted random early detection, a queue management algorithm used in computer networking
WRED (AM), a radio station (1440 AM) licensed to Westbrook, Maine, United States
WPEI, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Saco, Maine, United States, which used the call signs WRED from July 1995 to September 2008 and WRED-FM during September 2008
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satinder%20Bindra
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Satinder Bindra is a Canadian television news reporter, most recently working as a Senior International Correspondent with CNN based in New Delhi. He left the network in May 2007. He is a Canadian citizen of Indian origin. Bindra joined CNN from CTV, where he was a senior reporter with Vancouver Television (VTV).
Satinder Bindra joined the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya as Director of the Division of Communications and Public Information in May 2008. He joined the Asian Development Bank as Principal Director of the Department of External Relations in December 2013.
Bindra now works in the Asian Development Bank alongside personalities such as Jason Rush.
References
Delhi University alumni
Living people
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
CNN people
Canadian officials of the United Nations
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rail%20Network
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The Rail Network (TRN) is the first television and radio network broadcasting digital video with multiple channels of some audio to passengers on mass transit subway and rail systems. TRN launched its network in 2005 on Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail cars which enables the delivery of digital video and audio content including news, sports, weather, music and entertainment programs – broadcast in multiple languages and updated regularly throughout the day.
Overview
TRN furnishes each rail car with multiple flat screen televisions displaying a digital picture with closed captioning. The news programming is provided by a local network affiliate in each market. The television broadcast follows the same format as any half-hour of network television: 20.5 minutes of content and 9.5 minutes of advertising dispersed throughout the half-hour.
Audio is accessible wirelessly through any FM radio receiver tuned to TRN's on-board FM network. Passengers can choose to listen to the news in English or Spanish, music channels playing different genres, or a dedicated station that the local transit authority uses to provide updated travel, operations, and emergency information. TRN will provide free FM radios to passengers throughout the launch period in each market.
TRN has a ten-year exclusive agreement with MARTA to install, maintain, and operate TRN's network on MARTA trains while providing this service at no cost to the passengers or MARTA. TRN is also in discussions with several other transit authorities regarding the implementation of the network on their systems.
Acquisition by CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation acquired The Rail Network, Inc. in July 2007, renaming it CBS Outdoor Rail Network.
References
External links
CBS Outdoor, operator of CBS Outdoor Rail Network (formerly The Rail Network)
CBS Corporation Investor Newsletter Q3 2007
Advertising on MARTA
Rail Network, The
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Cove%21
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Treasure Cove! is an educational computer game published by The Learning Company in 1992 for MS-DOS, Windows and Macintosh PCs. It is aimed at children ages 5 to 9 and is intended to teach children reading, math, and oceanography. Treasure Cove! is the 9th installment of The Learning Company's Super Seekers games.
Treasure Cove! is a side-scrolling educational adventure game whose objective is to restore the destroyed rainbow bridge by collecting gems throughout the cove. To find the gems, the player must correctly answer simple math and reading questions asked by starfish to get clues about where they are hidden. It earned generally positive reviews as well as an award at the 1993 Summer Consumer Electronics Show.
Gameplay
Treasure Cove! is a side-scrolling educational adventure game. The player's objective is to plug pipes that are leaking oil into the ocean. The game takes place in the fictional Treasure Cove, which is being polluted with byproducts from experiments done by the Master of Mischief, a common antagonist in The Learning Company's Super Seekers games. The player takes on the role of the Super Seeker, whose job is to plug the pipes leaking oil and rebuild the destroyed bridge to the island by finding gems in the cove in order to stop the pollution at its source.
The cove has three separate areas that the player must visit and collect gems to plug the pipes that leak "goobies" by finding the puffer fish and dropping it on the opening. If a player hits a goobie, one light unit is taken from them. To find the puffer fish, the player must gather clues by catching orange starfish and answering their riddles. There are three clues per stage, each a single descriptive term such as "three", "swimming", or "eels". The player must then shine their flashlight on the group of animals that are described by clues to obtain the puffer fish. Shining light on a group of animals that matches two of the three clues will reveal a gem, adding points towards restoring the Rainbow Bridge. After finding gems and plugging leaks in each of the three areas, the player will surface and add the gems collected during the most recent game to the total gem count. When the player has collected a certain number of gems, the player goes up in star rank and the Rainbow Bridge is extended farther. Higher star ranks means that there are more gems to find, the riddles are more difficult, and the fish that steal light move faster and are harder to avoid.
Development
Treasure Cove! is one of the four games of The Learning Company's "Treasure" series along with Treasure Mountain!, Treasure Mathstorm!, and Treasure Galaxy!. The "Treasure series" is a subgroup of the company's Super Solvers series. All the games in this series are math and reading comprehension oriented educational adventure games aimed at younger children. Games in the "Treasure" series all have the same three stage gameplay format where a special object, whose location can be deduced by answering questi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure%20Galaxy%21
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Treasure Galaxy! is an educational computer game published by The Learning Company in 1994 for both Windows and Macintosh. It is aimed at children ages 5 to 9 and is intended to teach children reading, basic mathematics and logic skills. Treasure Galaxy is part of the Super Seekers games.
Background
After being removed from Treasure Cove, the Master of Mischief goes to Crystal City in deep space. After turning the harmless asteroids into menacing Disasteroids, the Master of Mischief attacks Crystal City and shatters its crystals. The Super Seekers are summoned to recover the crystal shards and save Crystal City from the Master of Mischief.
Gameplay
The goal of Treasure Galaxy! is to recover all of the crystals and return them to the Queen in her palace. To gather crystals, the player must first capture animated fireballs called "sunbeams" and answer their riddles. If answered correctly, a sunbeam will help the player decode a cipher that must be cracked in order to access the crystals hidden in the satellites. Each stage has different cipher that applies to all the satellites in that particular stage.
There are three separate stages, or orbits, of play, and the player may not move on to the next stage until he has learned the 4-digit passcode. The passcode can be obtained by completing various challenges posed by aliens that can be found in each stage. The challenges pertain to real-world scenarios such as using a calendar to find a certain date, tangrams, measuring with a ruler and measuring with a scale.
The difficulty of each separate category of puzzle changes according to how well the player does with that type of puzzle. At higher ranks, the game becomes more difficult, as there will be more crystals to find and disasteroids that steal star bucks.
The computer game starts with a story.
Development
Educational focus
Treasure Galaxy! is specifically designed to develop a broad range of mathematics and critical-thinking skills within an environment of interactive and engaging game play. The program helps five-to nine-year-old children build real-world mathematics skills, including identifying basic fractions, measuring length and weight, and locating calendar dates. Automatic educational leveling allows players to learn at appropriate and challenging rates for each individual activity. The program adjusts the level of difficulty, depending on the player's success.
Treasure series
Treasure Galaxy! is one of four games in The Learning Company's "Treasure" series along with Treasure Cove!, Treasure Mathstorm! and Treasure Mountain!. The series is a subgroup of the company's Super Seekers games. All the games in this series are mathematics and reading comprehension oriented educational adventure games aimed at younger children. Games in the treasure series all have the same three stage gameplay format where a special object, whose location can be deduced by answering questions, is needed to reach the next stage.
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External links
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radware
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Radware Inc. is an American provider of cybersecurity and application delivery products for physical, cloud and software-defined data centers. Radware's corporate headquarters are located in Mahwah, New Jersey. The company also has offices in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. The company's global headquarters is in Israel. Radware is a member of the Rad Group of companies and its shares are traded on NASDAQ.
History
Radware co-founder Roy Zisapel has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since the company's inception in April 1997. In 1999, the company had an initial public offering and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Zisapel holds a 3.4 percent stake in the company. His father, Yehuda Zisapel, is the largest shareholder, with a 15 percent stake.
Acquisitions
In January 2019, Radware expanded its cloud security portfolio with the acquisition of ShieldSquare, a market-leading bot management solutions provider. In January 2017, Radware acquired Seculert, a SaaS cloud-based provider of protection against enterprise network breach and data exfiltration. In February 2013, Radware acquired Strangeloop Networks, a leader in web performance optimization (WPO) solutions for e-commerce and enterprise applications. In April 2007, Radware acquired Covelight Systems, a provider of web application auditing and monitoring tools. In February 2009, Radware acquired Nortel's application delivery business. In November 2005, Radware acquired V-Secure Technologies, a leading provider of behavioral-based network intrusion prevention products.
Products
Radware's products and services include cloud services (Cloud WAF, Cloud DDoS Protection, Cloud Workload Protection, Cloud Web Acceleration, Cloud Malware Protection, and Bot Manager), application and network security (DefensePro, AppWall, DefenseFlow), application delivery and load balancing (Alteon, AppWall, FastView, AppXML, LinkProof NG), and management and monitoring (APSolute Vision, MSSP Portal, Application Performance Monitoring, vDirect).
Sales markets
The company sells its products worldwide through distributors and resellers located in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Its customers include financial services, insurance, e-Commerce, manufacturing, retail, government, healthcare, education, and transportation services and carriers. Radware's more than 12,500 customers include Switch, Hexatom, QuadraNet, ProtonMail, Convergys, SingleHop, OnlineTech, Limelight Networks, BlackMesh and Brinkster.
Industry Recognition
Most recently, Radware was awarded WAF and Anti DDoS Vendor of the Year at Frost & Sullivan's 2019 India ICT Awards and was positioned as a leader in IDC MarketScape for Global DDoS Prevention. In 2018, Radware received several awards, including WAF Vendor of the Year Award (Frost & Sullivan), Cloud Computing Product of the Year (TMC and Cloud Computing Magazine), and the Fortress Cyber Security Award (Business Intelligence Gr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing%20heap
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A pairing heap is a type of heap data structure with relatively simple implementation and excellent practical amortized performance, introduced by Michael Fredman, Robert Sedgewick, Daniel Sleator, and Robert Tarjan in 1986.
Pairing heaps are heap-ordered multiway tree structures, and can be considered simplified Fibonacci heaps. They are considered a "robust choice" for implementing such algorithms as Prim's MST algorithm, and support the following operations (assuming a min-heap):
find-min: simply return the top element of the heap.
meld: compare the two root elements, the smaller remains the root of the result, the larger element and its subtree is appended as a child of this root.
insert: create a new heap for the inserted element and meld into the original heap.
decrease-key (optional): remove the subtree rooted at the key to be decreased, replace the key with a smaller key, then meld the result back into the heap.
delete-min: remove the root and do repeated melds of its subtrees until one tree remains. Various merging strategies are employed.
The analysis of pairing heaps' time complexity was initially inspired by that of splay trees.
The amortized time per delete-min is , and the operations find-min, meld, and insert run in time.
When a decrease-key operation is added as well, determining the precise asymptotic running time of pairing heaps has turned out to be difficult. Initially, the time complexity of this operation was conjectured on empirical grounds to be , but Fredman proved that the amortized time per decrease-key is at least for some sequences of operations.
Using a different amortization argument, Pettie then proved that insert, meld, and decrease-key all run in amortized time, which is .
Elmasry later introduced elaborations of pairing heaps (lazy, consolidate) for which decrease-key runs in amortized time and other operations have optimal amortized bounds, but no tight bound is known for the original data structure.
Although the asymptotic performance of pairing heaps is worse than other priority queue algorithms such as Fibonacci heaps, which perform decrease-key in amortized time, the performance in practice is excellent. Jones
and Larkin, Sen, and Tarjan
conducted experiments on pairing heaps and other heap data structures. They concluded that d-ary heaps such as binary heaps are faster than all other heap implementations when the decrease-key operation is not needed (and hence there is no need to externally track the location of nodes in the heap), but that when decrease-key is needed pairing heaps are often faster than d-ary heaps and almost always faster than other pointer-based heaps, including data structures like Fibonacci heaps that are theoretically more efficient. Chen et al. examined priority queues specifically for use with Dijkstra's algorithm and concluded that in normal cases using a d-ary heap without decrease-key (instead duplicating nodes on the heap and ignoring redundant instances) result
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20appliance
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A software appliance is a software application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) to run optimally on industry-standard hardware (typically a server) or in a virtual machine. It is a software distribution or firmware that implements a computer appliance.
Virtual appliances are a subset of software appliances. The main distinction is the packaging format and the specificity of the target platform. A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a specific virtualization platform, while a software appliance is often packaged in more generally applicable image format (e.g., Live CD) that supports installations to physical machines and multiple types of virtual machines.
Installing a software appliance to a virtual machine and packaging that into an image, creates a virtual appliance.
Benefits
Software appliances have several benefits over traditional software applications that are installed on top of an operating system:
Simplified deployment: A software appliance encapsulates an application's dependencies in a pre-integrated, self-contained unit. This can dramatically simplify software deployment by freeing users from having to worry about resolving potentially complex OS compatibility issues, library dependencies or undesirable interactions with other applications. This is known as a "toaster."
Improved isolation: software appliances are typically used to run applications in isolation from one another. If the security of an appliance is compromised, or if the appliance crashes, other isolated appliances will not be affected.
Improved performance: A software appliance does not embed any unused operating system services, applications or any form of bloatware hence it does not have to share the hardware resources (CPU, memory, storage space, ...) usually consumed by these on a generic OS setup. This naturally leads to faster boot time and application execution speed. In the case where multiple software appliances share and run simultaneously on the same hardware (on a virtualization platform for example) this will not hold true as running n instances of a software appliance (OS + software application) will consume more hardware resources than running n instances of a software application on 1 instance of an operating system due to the overhead of running n - 1 more instances of operating system.
Types of software appliances
Virtual appliance
A software appliance can be packaged in a virtual machine format as a virtual appliance, allowing it to be run within a virtual machine container.
A virtual appliance could be built using either a standard virtual machine format such as Open Virtualization Format (OVF), or a format specific to a particular virtual machine container (for example, VMware, VirtualBox, or Amazon EC2).
Containers
Containers and their images (such as those provided by Docker and Docker Hub) can be seen as an implementation of software appliances.
Live CD appliance
A sof
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Rehabilitation%20Institute
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Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI or commonly Toronto Rehab) is the largest rehabilitation hospital in Canada. Owned and operated by the University Health Network (UHN), Toronto Rehab provides patients with rehabilitation care, helping people rebuild their lives and achieve individualized goals following injury and disability. It is composed of five sites across Toronto, which are: Bickle Centre (130 Dunn Avenue), Lakeside Centre (150 Dunn Avenue), Lyndhurst Centre (520 Sutherland Drive), Rumsey Centre (345 and 347 Rumsey Road), and University Centre (550 University Avenue).
History
Predecessor institutions
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI or Toronto Rehab) was formed through a series of rehabilitation hospital mergers, with a direct lineage of care dating to the 19th century.
The Toronto Home for Incurables opened in 1874 at Bathurst and King Streets, to receive long-term care patients from Toronto General Hospital, primarily those with untreatable forms of tuberculosis, heart disease and paralysis. In 1899, the home was moved into larger premises on Dunn Avenue in suburban Parkdale and was expanded several times in the following years. In the mid-century, the home was renamed the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for the Incurables then the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. In 1975, it became the first chronic care teaching hospital in Canada, affiliated with the University of Toronto. The hospital then expanded, constructing an additional facility at Dunn Ave. and purchasing a former building of Mount Sinai Hospital on University Ave.
The Hillcrest Convalescent Home was erected on an acre of land along Davenport Road (in what is now the Casa Loma neighbourhood) and opened to patients in 1886. Additions and alterations were made to accommodate more patients and the home incorporated in 1892. Hillcrest initially provided long-term care and later expanded to offer occupational therapy services as the Hillcrest Hospital.
The Toronto Rehabilitation Centre was formed in 1922 to provide services for World War I veterans. It was the first independent rehabilitation facility in North America and later specialized in outpatient cardiac care.
Lyndhurst Lodge was a mansion in the Casa Loma neighbourhood, purchased by the Department of Veterans Affairs and used from 1945 as a rehabilitation centre for veterans with spinal cord injuries. Under neurosurgeon Harry Botterell, pioneering work was done in this field which became known as the Canadian approach to spinal cord injury. The Lodge was opened to civilian patients in 1946. In 1950, the Lodge was acquired by the Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA), and through the 1950s it was the only independent rehab facility for spinal cord injury in the world. To meet the demand for higher patient capacity, in 1974 work began on Lyndhurst Hospital in Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood. The Ontario government purchased the hospital in 1994.
In 1997, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Hillcrest Hospital were merged as the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20for%20a%20United%20Nations%20Second%20Assembly
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The International Network for a United Nations Second Assembly (INFUSA) is a largely defunct organization devoted to the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. According to Citizens for a United Nations People's Assembly, "in 1982, during the second UN Special Session on Disarmament, Jeffrey Segall presented a proposal for a study on 'a UN Second or Peoples Assembly' which became the basis for an International Network for a UN Second Assembly (INFUSA). From 1988 to 1995 INFUSA and the Association of World Citizens collaborated on a series of annual conferences in New York, San Francisco, Vienna and back in New York". INFUSA once included more than 100 organizations.
CAMDUN
The Campaign for a Democratic United Nations, or CAMDUN, was established in 1989 as a project of INFUSA. It is also largely defunct as of 2012.
References
Appeal to the United Nations General Assembly to Consider the Proposal for a UN Second Assembly, INFUSA @ earthrights.net.
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20analysis
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Semantic analysis may refer to:
Language
Semantic analysis (linguistics)
Semantic analysis (computational)
Semantic analysis (machine learning)
Semantic Analysis (book), 1960, by Paul Ziff, on aesthetics/philosophy of language
Other ontologies
Semantic analytics of organisations
Semantic analysis (knowledge representation) of Web content
Other uses
Semantic analysis of audio
Semantic analysis (computer science)
Semantic analysis (compilers)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Master%20Open
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The Knowledge Master Open (commonly known as Knowledge Masters or KMO) was a computer-based semiannual worldwide academic competition produced by Academic Hallmarks. During KMO competitions, teams of students from many schools earned points by answering multiple-choice questions quickly and accurately. The questions included fifteen subject areas: American history, world history, government, recent events, economics & law, geography, literature, English, math, physical science, biology, earth science, health & psychology, fine arts, and useless trivia.
The competition started in 1983 with 74 schools. In 2009, there were about 45,000 participants from over 3,000 high schools and middle schools in the U.S. and other countries. The last contest occurred in April 2013. Over the 30 years of KMO competition, more than 2.4 million students participated.
There were five levels of competition. Fifth and sixth grade contests were held in January and March and consisted of 100 questions. Middle school (up to grade 8), junior high (up to grade 9), and high school (up to grade 12) contests were held in December and April and consisted of 200 questions.
The Academic Hallmarks and Knowledge Masters mascot is a great auk with an affinity for puns.
Rules and scoring
Each participating school received a password-protected disk (originally a floppy disk, later a CD-ROM) containing the contest questions. Only the first use of the password would generate a valid score report for submission to Academic Hallmarks. Team size was left to each individual school's discretion.
All questions were multiple-choice, with a maximum value of 10 points each. Each question and its category were displayed on screen, with five choices and a 60-second timer. A correct answer on the first try awarded five points, with up to five bonus points depending on the response time. If time expired or an incorrect response was given, the timer was reset to 60 seconds and the team was given a second chance to answer. Two points were awarded for a correct second-chance response, with no bonus.
Bonus points were awarded for correct first-try answers as follows:
The maximum potential score was 1,000 points (5th/6th grade) or 2,000 points (middle school and up), attainable by answering every question correctly on the first try and in less than 7 seconds each.
Teams could take up to three 5-minute breaks during the contest. They could use pencil and paper, but no other resources such as calculators or reference books, and assistance from coaches or spectators was not allowed.
Once a particular contest was over, the participating schools could use a second password to unlock the questions for unlimited use in practice sessions.
See also
Knowledge Bowl
References
GreatAuk.com, the official Academic Hallmarks website.
Educational games
Student quiz competitions
Semiannual events
Education competitions in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYSERNet
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NYSERNet (New York State Education and Research Network) is a non-profit Internet Service Provider in New York State. It mainly provides Internet access to universities, colleges, museums, health care facilities, primary and secondary schools, and research institutions.
History
NYSERNet was founded in 1986 in Troy, New York. Its founders compared NYSERNet's network with the Erie Canal and considered it the next step in two centuries to draw the country together. NYSERNet's network reaches from Buffalo to New York City. Completed in 1987, it was the first statewide regional IP network in the United States. Initial speed of 56 kbps was upgraded to T1 in 1989 and T3 in 1994.
It was the original assignee of AS174 according to RFC1117. This ASN is used today by Cogent Communications for their global network.
References
External links
NYSERNet homepage
Computer networks
1987 establishments in New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons%20Christmas%20Stories
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"Simpsons Christmas Stories" is the ninth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 18, 2005.
Plot
The First D'oh-El
When Reverend Lovejoy cannot attend the Christmas sermon due to a horrible train wreck on his train set, Ned Flanders immediately takes over. However, when he gets a paper cut and faints, Homer decides to lead the sermon and tells the story of the first Christmas.
Mary (Marge) tells Joseph (Homer) that she is pregnant, even though she is a virgin. The angel Gabriel (Lisa) appears to them and explains that Mary is going to give birth to the Son of God. The three wise men (Dr. Hibbert, Principal Skinner, and Professor Frink) tell King Herod (Mr. Burns) that they are going to give gold, frankincense, and myrrh (which Frink is re-gifting) to the King of the Jews. When Herod assumes the gifts are for him, the men explain to him that they are for the infant. Herod becomes angry and plots to kill the baby.
At the Bethlehem Inn, the innkeeper (Moe) tells Mary and Joseph that he has plenty of rooms available with brand new carpeting. However, when Mary's water breaks, he forces them to stay in the barn. Mary successfully gives birth to baby Jesus (Bart), and the three wise men, along with the two shepherds (Lenny and Carl) come to see the baby. Joseph is upset because he is not Jesus's father, and when he drinks some wine, the baby turns it into water.
When the infant keeps crying, Mary gives him to Joseph. He entertains him by hurting himself and one of the wise men (Skinner). When baby Jesus finally falls asleep, Herod and his troops find the manger that they are staying in. They escape and trick the soldiers by putting Jesus' halo on a duck. On top of the hill, Joseph cuts down a spruce tree, and as it rolls down, the soldiers get caught in it. The soldiers, along with Herod, are arranged like ornaments on the tree, and the duck, still wearing the halo, stands on top of the tree. Mary calls it a Christmas tree, and Homer concludes his service.
I Saw Grampa Cussing Santa Claus
When Bart and Lisa find Grampa trying to stick a bear trap on top of the chimney, Grampa tells them that he is trying to get his revenge on Santa Claus. When Bart asks why, Grampa recalls how, back in World War II, he and his brother Cyrus (not mentioned before or since this episode aired) were fighting off Japanese planes, accompanied by Mr. Burns, when Cyrus got shot down. Shortly after, Grampa and Burns have their plane's wings shot off and are stranded on an island. After a few months, they see a plane in the sky, and Burns shoots it down. However, when they go over to investigate, they see that it is actually Santa Claus. They build him a new sleigh and gather up all the presents. When Santa is about to leave, Burns knocks him unconscious with a coconut and flies away in the sleigh, intent on keeping all the presents for himself.
Gramp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Networks%20Association
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Energy Networks Association may refer to:
Energy Networks Association (Australia), the national body in Australia for companies that maintain energy networks
Energy Networks Association (United Kingdom), the trade association in the United Kingdom for companies that maintain electricity transmission and distribution networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%2064%20peripherals
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The Commodore 64 home computer used various external peripherals. Due to the backwards compatibility of the Commodore 128, most peripherals would also work on that system. There is also some compatibility with the VIC-20 and Commodore PET.
Storage
Tape drives
In the United States, the 1541 floppy disk drive was widespread. By contrast, in Europe, the C64 was often used with cassette tape drives (Datasette), which were much cheaper, but also much slower than floppy drives. The Datasette plugged into a proprietary edge connector on the Commodore 64's motherboard. Standard blank audio cassettes could be used in this drive. Data tapes could be write-protected in the same way as audio cassettes, by punching out a tab on the cassette's top edge. An adapter for the proprietary connector was available from CARDCO
It was assigned as device 1 (default).
The Datasette's speed was very slow (about 300 baud). Loading a large program at normal speed could take up to in extreme cases. Many European software developers wrote their own fast tape-loaders which replaced the internal KERNAL code in the C64 and offered loading times more comparable to disk drive speeds. Novaload was perhaps the most popular tape-loader used by British and American software developers. Early versions of Novaload had the ability to play music while a program loaded into memory, and was easily recognizable by its black border and digital bleeping sounds on loading. Other fast-loaders included load screens, displaying computer artwork while the program loaded. More advanced fast-loaders included minigames for the user to play while the program loaded from cassette. One such minigame fastloader is Invade-a-Load.
Users also had to contend with interference from magnetic fields. Also, not too dissimilar to floppy drive users, the Datasette's read head could become dirty or slip out of alignment. A small screwdriver could be used to align the tape heads, and a few companies capitalized by selling various commercial kits for Datasette head-alignment tuning.
As the Datasette lacked any random read-write access, users had to either wait while the tape ran its length, while the computer printed messages like "SEARCHING FOR ALIEN BOXING... FOUND AFO... FOUND SPACE INVADERS... FOUND PAC-MAN... FOUND ALIEN BOXING... LOADING..." or else rely on a tape counter number to find the starting location of programs on cassette. Tape counter speeds varied over different datasette units making recorded counter numbers unreliable on different hardware.
An optional streaming tape drive, based upon the QIC-02 format, was available for the Xetec Lt. Kernal hard drive subsystem (see below). They were expensive and few were ever sold.
A similar concept to the ZX Microdrive was the extremely fast "Phonemark 8500 Quick Data Drive" which has capacity using a micro-cassette storage unit and used the C2N Datasette. The concept eventually succumbed to floppy drives. The Quick Data Drive (QDD) connected to t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWHB-CD
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WWHB-CD (channel 48) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Stuart, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area with programming from the digital multicast network TBD. It is owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate WPEC (channel 12), CW affiliate WTVX (channel 34), and Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WTCN-CD (channel 43). The stations share studios on Fairfield Drive in Mangonia Park, Florida (with a West Palm Beach postal address), while WWHB-CD's transmitter is located southwest of Hobe Sound, Florida.
WWHB-CD is the ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) transmitter for West Palm Beach, hosting its main subchannel and the four major network stations. In exchange, its subchannels are broadcast on four full-power stations in the market.
History
WWHB began broadcasting on January 11, 1991, as an independent with the call sign W16AR. It was located on UHF channel 16 and was licensed to Stuart. Retired businessman August Gabriel began the station with $200,000 and three employees. It changed its call sign to WTCN-LP in 1995. From October 1996 until February 1997, it briefly produced a local morning show known as Good Morning Treasure Coast that was hosted by Tom Teter. Ed Birchfield also briefly hosted a 7 p.m. Treasure Coast News program from February to July 1997.
The station moved to UHF channel 15 in 2001 (when it converted to Class A and changed its calls to WTCN-CA in February of that year) and then to UHF channel 14 in 2002. It added a translator on UHF channel 53 in order to reach West Palm Beach. On January 15, 2003, the station changed its calls to the current WWHB-CA and switched to UHF channel 48. This aired from a transmitter at the western boundary of Johnathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County southwest of Jupiter Island.
Martin County businessman Bill Brothers purchased the station in 2001. It was Brothers who revitalized the station creating the first Hispanic language local television service for the West Palm Beach market. Rebuilding the broadcasting facilities together with his sister station WTCN, WWHB served the Treasure Coast's rapidly growing Hispanic population. In 2005, Viacom bought WWHB and sister station WTCN (channel 43) from Brothers for $7.7 million. Viacom moved the studios back to West Palm Beach and improved the station's signal.
On February 7, 2007, CBS agreed to sell seven of its smaller-market stations to Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., for $185 million. Cerberus then formed a new holding company for the stations, Four Points Media Group, which took over the operation of the stations through local marketing agreements in late-June 2007. The deal closed on January 10, 2008. Although the URL for the WWHB website has not changed since the sale to Four Points, it now redirects to a separate section of WTVX's website. As of February 25, 2008, the station is now being operated out of Four Points' hub station KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah.
On September 8, 2011, Sin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR%20Chandler
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Adam "JR" Chandler Jr. is a fictional character from the ABC and The Online Network daytime drama All My Children. He was portrayed by Jacob Young from 2003 to 2011, prior to Ryan Bittle taking over the role in 2013. Bittle was cast as the new JR on Prospect Park's continuation of All My Children.
Background
The character was introduced on July 3, 1989, as the son of Dixie Cooney and her estranged ex-husband, Adam Chandler. In March 2004, the character's birth year was revised to July 3, 1983.
He is a member of both the powerful and wealthy Chandler and Cooney families, being the son of Adam Chandler and great-nephew of Palmer Cortlandt.
The writers characterized JR as caring, but ruthless if betrayed, explaining the latter by way of his difficult upbringing. The character's softer personality has been attributed to his mother, Dixie Cooney, as well as to his son, AJ, and true love Babe Carey (who was killed off by the series in 2008). Credited as significantly complex, he has been cited as a television anti-hero, and "bad boy," and his struggles with family, romantic partners, and alcohol addiction have been documented in literature.
Character creation
Actor Jacob Young, who had been on The Bold and the Beautiful (Rick Forrester) and General Hospital (Lucky Spencer) prior to joining All My Children, debuted as JR on October 2, 2003. Young stated that JR had good instincts, but that he "was young and kind of doe-eyed to the world" then. It was not until the actor stepped into the All My Children role of JR Chandler that his acting range became more focused. He started to use tools he learned in classes and felt that his acting became more refined because of it. With his portrayal of JR, he explained how this factored in: "They twisted JR in a completely different direction," he stated. "They started off with JR not respecting his father and having a lot of elements of his mother in him. He was much softer. Then they started toying with it and couldn't believe what was coming out of me. I'd always been the nice, honorable guy; I'd never been the character who was stirring the pot."
JR's rich lifestyle was something that Young noted not being familiar with, stating that the JR persona did not come to him until he would put on the suit. "They put me in these nice designer suits, and I suddenly feel like a million bucks. Then I take that million-buck feeling and go a little sinister with it."
One aspect of JR's personality is "devious tones" sometimes present in his dialogue. "When the character is in a good mood and has the upper hand, he has all these one-liners," Young relayed. When working with former All My Children co-star Alexa Havins (ex-Babe Carey), Young would often shock Havins with the character's words. To make sure she was unaware of how he was going to deliver a crass line, he would keep it hidden [during rehearsal]. "You can break the wording down and make it a little more offensive," he cited. "And I try to nail that because
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The programming language APL is distinctive in being symbolic rather than lexical: its primitives are denoted by symbols, not words. These symbols were originally devised as a mathematical notation to describe algorithms. APL programmers often assign informal names when discussing functions and operators (for example, "product" for ×/) but the core functions and operators provided by the language are denoted by non-textual symbols.
Monadic and dyadic functions
Most symbols denote functions or operators. A monadic function takes as its argument the result of evaluating everything to its right. (Moderated in the usual way by parentheses.) A dyadic function has another argument, the first item of data on its left. Many symbols denote both monadic and dyadic functions, interpreted according to use. For example, ⌊3.2 gives 3, the largest integer not above the argument, and 3⌊2 gives 2, the lower of the two arguments.
Functions and operators
APL uses the term operator in Heaviside’s sense as a moderator of a function as opposed to some other programming language's use of the same term as something that operates on data, ref. relational operator and operators generally. Other programming languages also sometimes use this term interchangeably with function, however both terms are used in APL more precisely. Early definitions of APL symbols were very specific about how symbols were categorized. For example, the operator reduce is denoted by a forward slash and reduces an array along one axis by interposing its function operand. An example of reduce:
In the above case, the reduce or slash operator moderates the multiply function. The expression ×/2 3 4 evaluates to a scalar (1 element only) result through reducing an array by multiplication. The above case is simplified, imagine multiplying (adding, subtracting or dividing) more than just a few numbers together. (From a vector, ×/ returns the product of all its elements.)
The above dyadic functions examples [left and right examples] (using the same / symbol, right example) demonstrate how boolean values (0s and 1s) can be used as left arguments for the \ expand and / replicate functions to produce exactly opposite results. On the left side, the 2-element vector {45 67} is expanded where boolean 0s occur to result in a 3-element vector {45 0 67} — note how APL inserted a 0 into the vector. Conversely, the exact opposite occurs on the right side — where a 3-element vector becomes just 2-elements; boolean 0s delete items using the dyadic / slash function. APL symbols also operate on lists (vector) of items using data types other than just numeric, for example a 2-element vector of character strings {"Apples" "Oranges"} could be substituted for numeric vector {45 67} above.
Syntax rules
In APL the precedence hierarchy for functions or operators is strictly positional: expressions are evaluated right-to-left. APL does not follow the usual operator precedence of other programming languages; for example
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Programming languages are used for controlling the behavior of a machine (often a computer). Like natural languages, programming languages follow rules for syntax and semantics.
There are thousands of programming languages and new ones are created every year. Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people, but professional programmers may use dozens of languages in a career.
Most programming languages are not standardized by an international (or national) standard, even widely used ones, such as Perl or Standard ML (despite the name). Notable standardized programming languages include ALGOL, C, C++, JavaScript (under the name ECMAScript), Smalltalk, Prolog, Common Lisp, Scheme (IEEE standard), ISLISP, Ada, Fortran, COBOL, SQL, and XQuery.
General comparison
The following table compares general and technical information for a selection of commonly used programming languages. See the individual languages' articles for further information.
Type systems
Failsafe I/O and system calls
Most programming languages will print an error message or throw an exception if an input/output operation or other system call (e.g., chmod, kill) fails, unless the programmer has explicitly arranged for different handling of these events. Thus, these languages fail safely in this regard.
Some (mostly older) languages require that programmers explicitly add checks for these kinds of errors. Psychologically, different cognitive biases (e.g., optimism bias) may affect novices and experts alike and lead them to skip these checks. This can lead to erroneous behavior.
Failsafe I/O is a feature of 1C:Enterprise, Ada (exceptions), ALGOL (exceptions or return value depending on function), Ballerina, C#, Common Lisp ("conditions and restarts" system), Curry, D (throwing on failure), Erlang, Fortran, Go (unless result explicitly ignored), Gosu, Harbour, Haskell, ISLISP, Java, Julia, Kotlin, LabVIEW, Mathematica, Objective-C (exceptions), OCaml (exceptions), OpenLisp, PHP, Python, Raku, Rebol, Rexx (with optional signal on... trap handling), Ring, Ruby, Rust (unless result explicitly ignored), Scala, Smalltalk, Standard ML , Swift ≥ 2.0 (exceptions), Tcl, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Prolog, Wolfram Language, Xojo, XPath/XQuery (exceptions), and Zeek.
No Failsafe I/O:
AutoHotkey (global ErrorLevel must be explicitly checked), C, COBOL, Eiffel (it actually depends on the library and it is not defined by the language), GLBasic (will generally cause program to crash), RPG, Lua (some functions do not warn or throw exceptions), and Perl.
Some I/O checking is built in C++ (STL iostreams throw on failure but C APIs like stdio or POSIX do not) and Object Pascal, in Bash it is optional.
Expressiveness
The literature on programming languages contains an abundance of informal claims about their relative expressive power, but there is no framework for formalizing such statements nor for deriving interesting consequences. This
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E road may refer to:
a road of the International E-road network in Europe
E roads in Cyprus are secondary roads
Malaysian Expressway System
E roads in Zimbabwe are expressways
Corridor E, a road from Morgantown, West Virginia, at Interstate 79 to Hancock, Maryland
an electric road which provides electric power to vehicles on it, through trolley wires or conductor rails embedded in its surface.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Pipeline%20Agency
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British Pipeline Agency Ltd (BPA) is a joint venture, established in 1969, between BP Oil UK and Shell UK. The company operates the UK oil pipeline network of oil pipelines which transport petroleum products around the UK.
Operations
BPA replaced the pipeline operations group of Shell Mex & BP in the late 1960s and took over the role as the majority operator on the Government Pipeline and Storage System (GPSS).
As originally conceived the pipeline system comprised 1,600 miles of pipelines carrying 7.25 million tons a year of light oils, or 470 million ton miles annually.
GPA continued as the major operator of the GPSS under reimbursable and fully indemnified contracts until the 1990s when those contracts were ended and the GPSS was instead operated by a number of companies under competitively tendered term contracts.
The pipelines currently operated by BPA are:
The company
The BPA Board comprises five Directors, although the Articles of Association allows for up to ten. One director acts as the Chairman and one is the General Manager. There is also a company secretary. The registered office is 5-7 Alexandra Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP2 5BS.
In 2020 the company made a pre-tax profit of £1,490,000.
BPA has nearly 200 staff.
See also
UK Oil Pipeline Network
Oil and Pipelines Agency
References
External links
BPA website
Linewatch Map including BPA Network
Oil and gas companies of the United Kingdom
Oil pipeline companies
Petroleum infrastructure in the United Kingdom
BP subsidiaries
Shell plc subsidiaries
Joint ventures
1969 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1969
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Netwerk (Network) was a Dutch 'behind the news' television show on Nederland 2, aired between 1996 and 2010. It received in 2005 an International Emmy Award for the continuing news coverage Return to Beslan.
References
Dutch television news shows
1996 Dutch television series debuts
2010 Dutch television series endings
1990s Dutch television series
2000s Dutch television series
2010s Dutch television series
NPO 1 original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20memory
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Out of memory (OOM) is an often undesired state of computer operation where no additional memory can be allocated for use by programs or the operating system. Such a system will be unable to load any additional programs, and since many programs may load additional data into memory during execution, these will cease to function correctly. This usually occurs because all available memory, including disk swap space, has been allocated.
History
Historically, the out of memory condition was more common than it is now, since early computers and operating systems were limited to small amounts of physical random-access memory (RAM) due to the inability of early processors to address large amounts of memory, as well as cost considerations. Since the advent of virtual memory opened the door for the usage of swap space, the condition is less frequent. Almost all modern programs expect to be able to allocate and deallocate memory freely at run-time, and tend to fail in uncontrolled ways (crash) when that expectation is not met; older ones often allocated memory only once, checked whether they got enough to do all their work, and then expected no more to be forthcoming. Therefore, they would either fail immediately with an "out of memory" error (OOME) message, or work as expected.
Early operating systems such as MS-DOS lacked support for multitasking. Programs were allocated physical memory that they could use as they needed. Physical memory was often a scarce resource, and when it was exhausted by applications such as those with terminate-and-stay-resident functionality, no further applications could be started until running applications were closed.
Modern operating systems provide virtual memory, in which processes are given a range of memory, but where the memory does not directly correspond to actual physical RAM. Virtual memory can be backed by physical RAM, a disk file via mmap (on Unix-derivatives) or MapViewOfFile (on Windows), or swap space, and the operating system can move virtual memory pages around as it needs. Because virtual memory does not need to be backed by physical memory, exhaustion of it is rare, and usually there are other limits imposed by the operating system on resource consumption.
As predicted by Moore's law, the amount of physical memory in all computers has grown almost exponentially, although this is offset to some degree by programs and files themselves becoming larger. In some cases, a computer with virtual memory support where the majority of the loaded data resides on the hard disk may run out of physical memory but not virtual memory, thus causing excessive paging. This condition, known as thrashing, usually renders the computer unusable until some programs are closed or the machine is rebooted. Due to these reasons, an out-of-memory message is rarely encountered by applications with modern computers.
It is, however, still possible to encounter an OOM condition with a modern computer. The typical OOM case in modern
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIPR
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VIPR can refer to:
Volumetric Imaging and Processing of Integrated Radar
Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR), a publicly available database and analysis resource for viral pathogens in the U.S
Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team (TSA program in the US)
VIPR1, a G protein-coupled receptor
EMC ViPR, a software-defined storage offering
Vastly undersampled Isotropic Projection Reconstruction of Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging
Vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20program
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The term mathematical program can refer to:
A computer algebra system which is a computer program that manipulates mathematical entities symbolically
Computer programs that manipulate numerical entities numerically, which are the subject of numerical analysis
A problem formulation of an optimization problem in terms of an objective function and constraint (mathematics) (in this sense, a mathematical program is a specialized and now possibly misleading term that predates the invention of computer programming)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestia%20%28disambiguation%29
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Celestia is a free astronomy computer program.
Celestia may also refer to:
Games
Mount Celestia, a fictional place in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
Celestia, a planet in Eternia in Tales of Eternia, a Namco video game
Celestia, a world in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Other
Celestia (name), a person's given name
Celestia (band), a black metal band from Avignon, France
1252 Celestia, a Main-belt asteroid
Nation of Celestial Space aka Celestia, a micronation created by James Thomas Mangan
Celestia, an Adventist Christian commune established near Laporte, Pennsylvania in the mid-19th century
Princess Celestia (voiced by Nicole Oliver), a character in the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
See also
Celesta
Celestial (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe%20Gozon
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Felipe Enrique "Henry" Lapuz Gozon (born December 8, 1939), is a Filipino lawyer, business executive, and the current chairman and CEO of GMA Network Inc., one of the largest media networks in the Philippines.
A lawyer by profession, the Yale-educated Gozon is seen as the network executive who has successfully turned-around GMA from its state as one of the leading television networks in the Philippines to its current stature, at some point toppling the long-dominant ABS-CBN in 1997 and 2004 from their nationwide stronghold until today in the Mega Manila ratings. Under his watch, the network has also experienced stability in terms of revenues, mostly from advertising and other revenue sources.
Career
Atty. Felipe L. Gozon obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines in 1962. He placed 13th during the 1963 Philippine Bar Examination. He obtained his Masters of Laws degree from Yale University in 1965. He is a senior partner in the law firm of Belo Gozon Elma Parel Asuncion & Lucila.
As a distinguished aviation lawyer, he was a member of the Philippine Air Negotiating Panel and is cited in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 as a leading expert in this field.
His business experience includes acting as a director of the International Corporate Bank and as chairman of Marcopper Mining Corporation. Atty. Gozon has been the chairman of the board of directors of the company since 1975. He currently holds the positions of chairman, president and chief executive officer. Since assuming leadership of the company in October 2000, the company's ratings have improved greatly, surpassing its nearest competitor in 2003. Atty. Gozon was named CEO of the Year by UNO Magazine in 2004 and Master Entrepreneur of the Year (Philippines) 2004 by SGV & Co./Ernst & Young in 2005. People Asia Magazine included him in the list of People of the Year 2005. He is also currently chairman, vice-chairman or director of several other institutions such as the Malayan Bank Savings & Mortgage Bank, the Children's Museum and Library, Inc., Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication and the Nova Foundation for Differently Abled Persons, Inc. He is also a director and/or chairman of some of the subsidiaries and affiliates of the company, such as GMA New Media, GMA Films, Alta Productions, Citynet, GMA Marketing and Productions, Inc., Scenarios, Inc., EMC Network, Inc., GMA Kapuso Foundation, INQ7 Interactive, Inc., GMA Records, Mont-Aire and Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko.
Gozon was among the 61 awardees that included Reynato Puno, who were honored as UP's distinguished alumni by the UP Alumni Association (UPAA) at the Araneta Coliseum on June 21, 2008. Gozon received an award for the Lapuz-Gozon family whose members up to the third generation studied in UP.
Awards
2015
Global Leadership Award for Excellence in Media Sector (The first Filipino recipient of this international award), The Leaders International together with the American Leadership Development Associatio
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The Cochran–Armitage test for trend, named for William Cochran and Peter Armitage, is used in categorical data analysis when the aim is to assess for the presence of an association between a variable with two categories and an ordinal variable with k categories. It modifies the Pearson chi-squared test to incorporate a suspected ordering in the effects of the k categories of the second variable. For example, doses of a treatment can be ordered as 'low', 'medium', and 'high', and we may suspect that the treatment benefit cannot become smaller as the dose increases. The trend test is often used as a genotype-based test for case-control genetic association studies.
Introduction
The trend test is applied when the data take the form of a 2 × k contingency table. For example, if k = 3 we have
This table can be completed with the marginal totals of the two variables
where R1 = N11 + N12 + N13, and
C1 = N11 + N21, etc.
The trend test statistic is
where the ti are weights, and the difference N1iR2 −N2iR1 can be seen as the difference between N1i and N2i after reweighting the rows to have the same total.
The hypothesis of no association (the null hypothesis) can be expressed as:
Assuming this holds, then, using iterated expectation,
The variance can be computed by decomposition, yielding
and as a large sample approximation,
The weights ti can be chosen such that the trend test becomes locally most powerful for detecting particular types of associations. For example, if k = 3 and we suspect that B = 1 and B = 2 have similar frequencies (within each row), but that B = 3 has a different frequency, then the weights t = (1,1,0) should be used. If we suspect a linear trend in the frequencies, then the weights t = (0,1,2) should be used. These weights are also often used when the frequencies are suspected to change monotonically with B, even if the trend is not necessarily linear.
Interpretation and role
The trend test will have higher power than the chi-squared test when the suspected trend is correct, but the ability to detect unsuspected trends is sacrificed. This is an example of a general technique of directing hypothesis tests toward narrow alternatives. The trend test exploits the suspected effect direction to increase power, but this does not affect the sampling distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis. Thus, the suspected trend in effects is not an assumption that must hold in order for the test results to be meaningful.
Application to genetics
Suppose that there are three possible genotypes at some locus, and we refer to these as aa, Aa and AA. The distribution of genotype counts can be put in a 2 × 3 contingency table. For example, consider the following data, in which the genotype frequencies vary linearly in the cases and are constant in the controls:
In genetics applications, the weights are selected according to the suspected mode of inheritance. For example, in order to test whether allele a is domin
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Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration is an animated Christmas television special originally broadcast on the American CBS TV network on December 21, 1987. The special featured stop motion clay animation and was produced and directed by Will Vinton. The special debuted alongside A Garfield Christmas and the two continued to be aired back to back in subsequent years.
Synopsis
The special is co-hosted by Rex (Johnny Counterfit), an erudite Tyrannosaurus rex, and Herb (Tim Conner), a dimwitted and bespectacled Styracosaurus with a gluttonous appetite. The two appeared in previous Will Vinton videos dating back to 1980 including Dinosaur, but this Christmas special is the first in which they have dialogue and contemporary personalities, vaguely parodying Siskel and Ebert respectively.
Situated in a facsimile of London's Christmas Square, Rex and Herb introduce several stand-alone videos of Christmas carols and holiday standards and discuss the origins of each song relating to different holiday traditions around the world.
Among the musical performances:
The Biblical magi sing the verses of "We Three Kings" traditionally, while their camels sing the chorus in the style of doo-wop.
At Notre Dame Cathedral, The Paris Bell-Harmonic, a group of anthropomorphic church bells who strike their own heads with chime hammers to achieve their respective notes, performs "Carol of the Bells." The low C bell (the tonic) constantly dawdles and chimes out of tune, enraging the maestro, Quasimodo, who uses a slingshot on the bell to get the proper tone at the end.
A children's choir sings "O Christmas Tree", with the video depicting various scenes taking place inside of Christmas ornaments
"Angels We Have Heard On High" is set to a walrus couple doing an interpretive ice ballet while several luckless penguins watch.
At a black church in the countryside, a soul/jazz hybrid rendition of "Joy to the World" plays out in colorful scenes. (This segment, using stylized, flat animation resembling paintings and stained glass windows, is the only segment not rendered in Vinton's trademark Claymation.)
The California Raisins perform a cover of the Temptations' version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,".
Throughout the program, Rex futilely attempts to clarify the true pronunciation and meaning of the term "wassail', featured in the Christmas carol "Here We Come A-Wassailing". As the show progresses, Rex is accosted by different groups, all singing parodies of the song.
"Here We Come A-Waffling", by a kennel of dogs selling waffles from a vendor's wagon.
"Here We Come A-Waddling", by a gaggle of straggling geese carrying baskets of goodies.
"Here We Come A-Wallowing", by a herd of slovenly pigs on a John Deere-style field wagon gorging themselves on an abundance of assorted fruits.
Rex is convinced that his own pronunciation is correct, but he is continually questioned by the others including Herb when he is not busy excessively partaking of the variou
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Memory bound refers to a situation in which the time to complete a given computational problem is decided primarily by the amount of free memory required to hold the working data. This is in contrast to algorithms that are compute-bound, where the number of elementary computation steps is the deciding factor.
Memory and computation boundaries can sometimes be traded against each other, e.g. by saving and reusing preliminary results or using lookup tables.
Memory-bound functions and memory functions
Memory-bound functions and memory functions are related in that both involve extensive memory access, but a distinction exists between the two.
Memory functions use a dynamic programming technique called memoization in order to relieve the inefficiency of recursion that might occur. It is based on the simple idea of calculating and storing solutions to subproblems so that the solutions can be reused later without recalculating the subproblems again. The best known example that takes advantage of memoization is an algorithm that computes the Fibonacci numbers. The following pseudocode uses recursion and memoization, and runs in linear CPU time:
Fibonacci (n)
{
for i = 0 to n-1
results[i] = -1 // -1 means undefined
return Fibonacci_Results (results, n);
}
Fibonacci_Results (results, n)
{
if (results[n] != -1) // If it has been solved before,
return results[n] // look it up.
if (n == 0)
val = 0
else if (n == 1)
val = 1
else
val = Fibonacci_Results(results, n-2 ) + Fibonacci_Results(results, n-1)
results[n] = val // Save this result for re-use.
return val
}
Compare the above to an algorithm that uses only recursion, and runs in exponential CPU time:
Recursive_Fibonacci (n)
{
if (n == 0)
return 0
if (n == 1)
return 1
return Recursive_Fibonacci (n-1) + Recursive_Fibonacci (n-2)
}
While the recursive-only algorithm is simpler and more elegant than the algorithm that uses recursion and memoization, the latter has a significantly lower time complexity than the former.
The term "memory-bound function" has surfaced only recently and is used principally to describe a function that uses XOR and consists of a series of computations in which each computation depends on the previous computation. Whereas memory functions have long been an important actor in improving time complexity, memory-bound functions have seen far fewer applications. Recently, however, scientists have proposed a method using memory-bound functions as a means to discourage spammers from abusing resources, which could be a major breakthrough in that area.
Using memory-bound functions to prevent spam
Memory-bound functions might be useful in a proof-of-work system that could deter spam, which has become a problem of epidemic proportions on the Internet.
In 1992, IBM research scientists Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor published a paper at CRYPTO 1992 titled Pricing
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Metabolic network modelling, also known as metabolic network reconstruction or metabolic pathway analysis, allows for an in-depth insight into the molecular mechanisms of a particular organism. In particular, these models correlate the genome with molecular physiology. A reconstruction breaks down metabolic pathways (such as glycolysis and the citric acid cycle) into their respective reactions and enzymes, and analyzes them within the perspective of the entire network. In simplified terms, a reconstruction collects all of the relevant metabolic information of an organism and compiles it in a mathematical model. Validation and analysis of reconstructions can allow identification of key features of metabolism such as growth yield, resource distribution, network robustness, and gene essentiality. This knowledge can then be applied to create novel biotechnology.
In general, the process to build a reconstruction is as follows:
Draft a reconstruction
Refine the model
Convert model into a mathematical/computational representation
Evaluate and debug model through experimentation
The related method of flux balance analysis seeks to mathematically simulate metabolism in genome-scale reconstructions of metabolic networks.
Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction
A metabolic reconstruction provides a highly mathematical, structured platform on which to understand the systems biology of metabolic pathways within an organism. The integration of biochemical metabolic pathways with rapidly available, annotated genome sequences has developed what are called genome-scale metabolic models. Simply put, these models correlate metabolic genes with metabolic pathways. In general, the more information about physiology, biochemistry and genetics is available for the target organism, the better the predictive capacity of the reconstructed models. Mechanically speaking, the process of reconstructing prokaryotic and eukaryotic metabolic networks is essentially the same. Having said this, eukaryote reconstructions are typically more challenging because of the size of genomes, coverage of knowledge, and the multitude of cellular compartments. The first genome-scale metabolic model was generated in 1995 for Haemophilus influenzae. The first multicellular organism, C. elegans, was reconstructed in 1998. Since then, many reconstructions have been formed. For a list of reconstructions that have been converted into a model and experimentally validated, see http://sbrg.ucsd.edu/InSilicoOrganisms/OtherOrganisms.
Drafting a reconstruction
Resources
Because the timescale for the development of reconstructions is so recent, most reconstructions have been built manually. However, now, there are quite a few resources that allow for the semi-automatic assembly of these reconstructions that are utilized due to the time and effort necessary for a reconstruction. An initial fast reconstruction can be developed automatically using resources like PathoLogic or ERGO in combination wit
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Paris Métro Line 5 is one of the 16 Metro lines built in Paris, France. It crosses the east of Paris from Bobigny – Pablo Picasso to Place d'Italie. It is the eighth-busiest line on the network.
History
On 15 June 2011 the MF 01 began entering revenue service onto Line 5, gradually replacing the aging MF 67 stock. The initial announcement was made in 2006 and trains began to be tested during the course of late 2010 and early 2011. As of June 2013, only three to five MF 67 trains remain in service. There is also one MF 01 train for Line 9 (#096) that is in revenue service along Line 5. None of the Line 9 trains will enter revenue service on Line 9 until sometime in September 2013.
Chronology
6 June 1906: Line 5 was inaugurated with a section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (now known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
14 July 1906: The line was temporarily extended to Gare de Lyon.
17 December 1906: The line was extended to Lancry (now known as Jacques Bonsergent).
14 October 1907: Line 2 Sud from Étoile to Place d'Italie was incorporated to the line 5.
15 November 1907: The line was extended from Lancry to Gare du Nord.
15 November 1936: Gare du Nord station was rebuilt so that the line could be extended later.
2 September 1939: Services to Arsenal station ceased at the start of World War II and was eventually closed permanently.
12 October 1942: The Étoile–Place d'Italie portion of the line was transferred to line 6 (Place d'Italie–Nation). Line 5 was extended from Gare du Nord to Église de Pantin.
25 April 1985: The line was extended from Église de Pantin to Bobigny–Pablo Picasso.
15 June 2011: Cascading of MF 67 to MF 01 rolling stock began.
Future
An extension south from Place d'Italie to Place de Rungis has been put forward and may be built between 2020 and 2030.
An intermediate station, Bobigny–la Folie, could be built in between Bobigny–Pablo Picasso and Bobigny–Pantin–Raymond Queneau stations. The current stretch of track between the two is one of the longest between adjacent stations on the Métro network (excluding RER lines).
Stations renamed
15 October 1907: Place Mazas renamed as Pont d'Austerlitz.
1 June 1916: Pont d'Austerlitz renamed Quai de la Rapée.
15 October 1930: Gare d'Orléans renamed Gare d'Orléans-Austerlitz.
10 February 1946: Lancry renamed Jacques Bonsergent.
1979: Gare d'Orléans-Austerlitz renamed Gare d'Austerlitz.
Tourism
Métro line 5 passes near several places of interest :
The Place d'Italie and the area of the Butte aux Cailles
The Place de la République
place de la Bastille and the Opera Bastille.
The 19th century railway stations of Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est and Gare d'Austerlitz.
The Parc de la Villette and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie.
Connections
Other Métro lines and RER lines
Eurostar to St. Pancras Station, London
See also
References
External links
RATP official website
RATP english language website
Interactive Map of the RER (from RATP's website)
Interactive Map of the Paris
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrugBank
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The DrugBank database is a comprehensive, freely accessible, online database containing information on drugs and drug targets created and maintained by the University of Alberta and The Metabolomics Innovation Centre located in Alberta, Canada. As both a bioinformatics and a cheminformatics resource, DrugBank combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. DrugBank has used content from Wikipedia; Wikipedia also often links to Drugbank, posing potential circular reporting issues.
The DrugBank Online website is available to the public as a free-to-access resource. However, use and re-distribution of content from DrugBank Online or the underlying DrugBank Data, in whole or part, and for any purpose requires a license. Academic users can apply for a free license for certain use cases while all other users require a paid license.
The latest release of the database (version 5.0) contains 9591 drug entries including 2037 FDA-approved small molecule drugs, 241 FDA-approved biotech (protein/peptide) drugs, 96 nutraceuticals and over 6000 experimental drugs. Additionally, 4270 non-redundant protein (i.e. drug target/enzyme/transporter/carrier) sequences are linked to these drug entries. Each DrugCard entry (Fig. 1) contains more than 200 data fields with half of the information being devoted to drug/chemical data and the other half devoted to drug target or protein data.
Four additional databases, HMDB, T3DB, SMPDB and FooDB are also part of a general suite of metabolomic/cheminformatic databases. HMDB contains equivalent information on more than 40,000 human metabolites, T3DB contains information on 3100 common toxins and environmental pollutants, SMPDB contains pathway diagrams for nearly 700 human metabolic pathways and disease pathways, while FooDB contains equivalent information on ~28,000 food components and food additives.
Version history
The first version of DrugBank was released in 2006. This early release contained relatively modest information about 841 FDA-approved small molecule drugs and 113 biotech drugs. It also included information on 2133 drug targets. The second version of DrugBank was released in 2009. This greatly expanded and improved version of the database included 1344 approved small molecule drugs and 123 biotech drugs as well as 3037 unique drug targets. Version 2.0 also included, for the first time, withdrawn drugs and illicit drugs, extensive food-drug and drug-drug interactions as well as ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) parameters. Version 3.0 was released in 2011. This version contained 1424 approved small molecule drugs and 132 biotech drugs as well as >4000 unique drug targets. Version 3.0 also included drug transporter data, drug pathway data, drug pricing, patent and manufacturing data as well as data on >5000 experimental drugs. Version 4.0 was released in 20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS
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NRS may refer to:
Name Registration Scheme, naming scheme by JANET used on British academic and research networks in the 1980
National Readership Survey, a joint venture company in the UK providing audience research for print advertising
NRS social grade, a system of demographic classification and a standard for market research
National Records of Scotland, the Scottish government department responsible for civil registration, the census in Scotland, demography and statistics, family history and the national archives and historical records.
National Relay Service, an Australian government initiative for people who are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment
National Reporter System, a set of case law reporters in the United States
National Retail Systems Inc., a global logistics and trucking company
National Runaway Switchboard, a national US hotline for youth in crisis
Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij, a former Dutch railway company (1845-1890)
NetherRealm Studios, an American video game developer known for the Mortal Kombat series
Nevada Revised Statutes, Nevada laws
New Regeneration System, a process used for sugar thin-juice decalcification in beet sugar factories
Non-rocket spacelaunch, concepts for spacelaunch speed and altitude are provided by something other than rockets
Norman-Roberts syndrome, a brain disorder
Norwegian Air UK, airline with ICAO designator NRS
Numerical Rating Scale, a scale for pain
Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, a renowned public medical school and hospital in Kolkata, India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJWA
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WJWA (91.5 FM) is a radio station in Evansville, Indiana. It is a noncommercial station owned and operated by Hope Media Group, broadcasting their WAY-FM Network programming. The station was previously 91.5 WUEV, known as the "Students Radio Station" and also "Evansville's Radio Station," which the University of Evansville sold in a controversial decision protested by students, alumni, and community in 2018-2019.
History
Occupying Room 301 in Olmsted Administration Building for its entire run, WJWA was first known as WEVC when it was built in 1950. Before that time, Evansville College maintained a radio broadcasting program through an agreement with 1280 WGBF, a local radio station. On March 31, 1951, WEVC went onto the air for the first time at 10 watts, monaural, at 91.5 MHz. It ran programming two hours a day, five days a week. By 1975, stereo equipment was purchased by a benefit held at Mesker Amphitheatre in Evansville featuring Ted Nugent.
On January 1, 1977, WEVC became WUEV to reflect the new University of Evansville name (The Buzzard (aka) "Skipper T." Spence, along with, then, director; Dr. Gil Clarity announced the change at midnight). By 1984, WUEV had increased power from 3000 to 6100 watts and was renovated in 1988. Programming shifted over the years to reflect a more progressive format, and the station continued to serve the needs of the Evansville community and UE students.
Through the help of an Ameritech Innovations grant in the winter of 1996, Len Clark and Phil Bailey, then the General Manager and Chief Engineer at WUEV respectively, established the Internet Center at WUEV to stream the terrestrial signal heard in Evansville to the world. A Xing Streamworks encoder and server were procured and installed, and the audio lines from the control studio were run into a little-used back corner of the WUEV newsroom. WUEV simulcasted for the first time on January 16, 1996.
On July 30, 1997, WUEV opened the Harlaxton Bureau at Harlaxton College, Lincolnshire, England. Shortly thereafter, Harlaxton Bureau correspondents covered the death of Princess Diana and were subsequently recognized by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists.
The bureau also made the University of Evansville the first American university project with a student-run news bureau on a foreign campus.
By the fall of 1998, WUEV had purchased and installed additional streaming equipment and started research into branding and educational uses for streaming media technology. On hand in the fall of 1998 were:
A Windows NT server, "RealAudio", to encode and stream the RealAudio stream.
A Windows NT server, "Xing", formerly used for the Streamworks encoding, then used to stream the Microsoft Netshow (now Windows Media Technologies) stream.
A Telos Audioactive encoder for the Microsoft stream.
An Oak server loaded with UNIX for serving the Xing Streamworks stream, used for dead storage and experimentation with Linux/UNIX streaming protocols.
A DR-10 telephone switc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMDR
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The Extended Metadata Registry (XMDR) is a project proposing and testing a set of extensions to the ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry specifications that deal with the development of improved standards and technology for storing and retrieving the semantics of data elements, terminologies, and concept structures in metadata registries.
External links
XMDR web site
See also
metadata
Metadata registry
ISO/IEC 11179
XML
Metadata registry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20fission%20and%20fusion
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In computer science, loop fission (or loop distribution) is a compiler optimization in which a loop is broken into multiple loops over the same index range with each taking only a part of the original loop's body. The goal is to break down a large loop body into smaller ones to achieve better utilization of locality of reference. This optimization is most efficient in multi-core processors that can split a task into multiple tasks for each processor.
Conversely, loop fusion (or loop jamming) is a compiler optimization and loop transformation which replaces multiple loops with a single one. Loop fusion does not always improve run-time speed. On some architectures, two loops may actually perform better than one loop because, for example, there is increased data locality within each loop. One of the main benefits of loop fusion is that it allows temporary allocations to be avoided, which can lead to huge performance gains in numerical computing languages such as Julia when doing elementwise operations on arrays (however, Julia's loop fusion is not technically a compiler optimization, but a syntactic guarantee of the language).
Other benefits of loop fusion are that it avoids the overhead of the loop control structures, and also that it allows the loop body to be parallelized by the processor by taking advantage of instruction-level parallelism. This is possible when there are no data dependencies between the bodies of the two loops (this is in stark contrast to the other main benefit of loop fusion described above, which only presents itself when there are data dependencies that require an intermediate allocation to store the results). If loop fusion is able to remove redundant allocations, performance increases can be large. Otherwise, there is a more complex trade-off between data locality, instruction-level parallelism, and loop overhead (branching, incrementing, etc.) that may make loop fusion, loop fission, or neither, the preferable optimization.
Fission
Example in C
int i, a[100], b[100];
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
a[i] = 1;
b[i] = 2;
}
is equivalent to:
int i, a[100], b[100];
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
a[i] = 1;
}
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
b[i] = 2;
}
Fusion
Example in C++ and MATLAB
Consider the following MATLAB code:x = 0:999; % Create an array of numbers from 0 to 999 (range is inclusive)
y = sin(x) + 4; % Take the sine of x (element-wise) and add 4 to each elementYou could achieve the same syntax in C++ by using function and operator overloading:#include <cmath>
#include <cassert>
#include <memory>
#include <iostream>
class Array {
size_t length;
std::unique_ptr<float[]> data;
// Internal constructor that produces an uninitialized array
Array(size_t n) : length(n), data(new float[n]) { }
public:
// Factory method to produce an array over an integer range (the upper
// bound is exclusive, unlike MATLAB's ranges).
static Array Range(size_t start, size_t end) {
a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Planet
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Black Planet may refer to:
BlackPlanet, a social networking website geared towards African-Americans
Black Planet, a song by The Sisters of Mercy
a Carbon planet, a proposed planetary type that is actually black.
A band that is mentioned in Hunter X Hunter.
The Black Planet, science fiction film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator%20%28metadata%29
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In metadata, an indicator is a Boolean value that may contain only the values true or false. The definition of an Indicator must include the meaning of a true value and should also include the meaning if the value is false.
If a data element may take another value to represent e.g. unknown or not applicable, then a Code should be used instead of an Indicator, and the meanings of all possible values should be clearly defined.
The suffix Indicator is used in ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry standard as a representation term.
Example of Use of Indicator in XML
An example use of the Indicator suffix is if an XML document was required to contain the passing status of a Student in a statewide assessment. The data element would be:
Standards that use the indicator representation term
The following metadata registry standards use the term indicator
ebXML
NIEM
GJXDM
See also
Metadata
ISO/IEC 11179
Representation term
Code
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20110927233605/https://www.niem.gov/documentsdb/Documents/Technical/NIEM-NDR-1-3.pdf page 65
Metadata
Representation term
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