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In metadata, the term date is a representation term used to specify a calendar date in the Gregorian calendar. Many data representation standards such as XML, XML Schema, Web Ontology Language specify that ISO date format ISO 8601 should be used.
Note that Date should not be confused with the DateAndTime representation term which requires that both the date and time to be supplied.
Metadata registries that use the date representation term
NIEM
ebXML
GJXDM
See also
metadata
ISO/IEC 11179
Representation term
ISO 8601
Metadata
Representation term
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20network
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Burgernet (“civil network”) is a joint collective of citizens, local government and police aiming to improve local security.
The project has been developed in 1993 by a police officer from Ridderkerk (The Netherlands) to retrieve missing children, catching (red-handed) criminals and finding lost children and elderly people with assistance of citizens.
How it works
Citizens register for Burgernet on the Burgernet website by providing their name and address. They are now able to receive Burgernet messages about their neighborhood.
Burgernet starts with an emergency call (for example mugging, burglary or missing person.)
If it is possible to compose a distinctive description of the suspect or missing person the police emergency room activates the Burgernet community by sending a text message (Sms) or spoken message.
Burgernet participants in the immediate environment of the crime receive a message with a call to action to look for the suspect/ missing person. They report to the police what they see or recently have seen.
The Burgernet system enables attentive participants to report directly to the police operator. This gives the possibility to process real time information quickly. With the information given by the participant the operator directs nearby police units to the missing or suspect person.
All participants are informed about the results of the intervention.
History
A test with Burgernet has been executed in Nieuwegein (The Netherlands) in 2004 and 2005. After an extensive inquiry, the test has been found successful and the test has been extended to 9 municipalities in 2006. In 2009 Dutch government decided Burgernet would be put into service nationwide. In 2012 Burgernet was activated in nearly all of the 400 Dutch communities.
More than 1,4 million citizens joined Burgernet (9% of Dutch population). The Burgernet app has been downloaded 240.000 times and the Burgernet messages are embedded in over 30.000 Twitter timelines (reference date November 2014).
On average Burgernet is used in 600 time-critical situations each month (January – August 2014 4.958 actions). 555 were solved thanks to information given by Burgernet participants (11%).
Source: Burgernet dashboard
Evolution
Throughout the years the Burgernet system has been constantly improved. Since 2011 the Burgernet messages are automatically transformed into short messages send by RSS feed to social media.
In 2013 the Burgernet app was launched. This application uses the location of the smartphone user to relocate the Burgernet actions which take place in the immediate environment of the user.
In 2014 Burgernet was extended with a mail service. Participants receive e-mails related to local security issues such as recently committed burglaries. The local municipality can use the service to inform their citizens about local security issues.
Remarkable
Burgernet was one of the first initiatives Dutch police has taken to actively involve citizens as fully-fledged partners in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity%20Matrix%20of%20Proteins
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Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) is a database of protein similarities created using volunteer computing. It is freely accessible for scientific purposes. SIMAP uses the FASTA algorithm to precalculate protein similarity, while another application uses hidden Markov models to search for protein domains. SIMAP is a joint project of the Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München, and the University of Vienna.
Project
The project usually got new work units at the beginning of each month. More recently, (2010), inclusion of environmental sequences into the database has required longer periods of activity, several months of continuous work for example. Typically, these updates occurred twice each year.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, the project relocated to the University of Vienna due to the failing electrical infrastructure at the Technical University of Munich. Part of this exercise involved the creation of a project specific URL requiring existing volunteers and users to detach/reattach to the project.
On May 30, 2014, it was announced by project administrators that after a 10-year history, SIMAP would be leaving BOINC by the end of 2014. SIMAP research, however, will go forward with the use of local hardware consisting of "ordinary multi-core CPUs (some hundreds), crunching a SSE-optimized version of the Smith-Waterman algorithm."
Computing platform
SIMAP used the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) distributed computing platform.
Application performance notes
Work unit CPU times varied widely, ranging between 15 minutes and 3 hours. Work units varied in size from 1.5 to 2.2 MB each, averaging around 2 MB. SIMAP provided client software optimized for SSE enabled processors and x86-64 processors. For older processors non SSE applications are provided but require manual installation steps to be taken. Operating Systems supported by SIMAP are Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Android, and other UNIX platforms. Since the database had sometimes been completed with all publicly known protein sequences and metagenomes having been precalculated by the project, the work available consisted of newly published protein sequences and metagenomes that needed to be precomputed for SIMAP.
See also
Volunteer computing
Rosetta@home
Predictor@home
Folding@home
References
External links
Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Dependable%20Systems%20and%20Networks
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The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (or DSN) is an annual conference on topics related to dependable computer systems and reliable networks. It typically features a number of coordinated tracks, including the main paper track, several workshops, tutorials, industry session, a student forum, and fast abstracts. It is sponsored by the IEEE and the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. DSN was formed in 2000 by merging the IEEE International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS) and the IFIP International Working Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications (DCCA). The instance number for DSN is taken from FTCS which was first held in 1980 and annually thereafter.
A DSN Hall of Fame ranks the researchers by the number of papers that they have published in DSN.
In 2020, the 50th DSN was to be held in Valencia, Spain and due to the Covid situation, was held virtually.
In 2021, the 51st DSN was to be held in Taipei, Taiwan and due to the Covid situation, was held virtually.
In 2022, the 52nd DSN was held in person in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
In 2023, the 53rd DSN is scheduled to be held in Porto, Portugal.
Awards
The following awards are given at DSN.
Best paper award: The winner from among three nominees is selected through audience voting
William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award in Dependability
Rising Star in Dependability Award
Test-of-Time Award: This recognizes two papers published at DSN 10 years ago
Jean-Claude Laprie Award: This recognizes outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of dependable computing
References
External links
Computer networking conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassan%20Sanei
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Sassan Sanei (born January 7, 1973) is a Canadian engineer.
An intense fascination with mathematics, physics, and computing from an early age led him eventually to attend the University of Waterloo, where he received the Bachelor of Applied Science degree with first-class honours in Electrical Engineering and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. He was also recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Entrance Scholarship and the Sandford Fleming Work Term Award. Prior to university, he attended the Toronto French School.
Since 1996, he has been employed by Research In Motion (RIM) in engineering and business capacities related to radio modems and BlackBerry devices.
He was an early proponent of the implementation of Java ME as a standard platform for wireless devices, which is in widespread use today.
He has emphasized that making efficient use of the available wireless capacity, allocating it across a large number of users, is more important to the overall user experience than implementing a small number of high-bandwidth applications. His notable contributions to the design and development of the BlackBerry have helped to make the devices so ubiquitous and addictive as to earn the nickname "CrackBerry."
He is also known within the wireless industry as the publisher of the BlackBerry Developer Journal, a technical magazine widely read by developers of wireless applications. He has also spoken extensively at industry conferences and other events related to wireless technology, software development, security, and hardware design.
External links
RIM conference showcases wireless development (CNN.com/Sci-Tech)
Building Applications for Mobile Appliances (Bell Canada)
Next-generation wireless devices (International Engineering Consortium)
References
Sanei, Sassan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAYN%20%28website%29
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WAYN (an acronym for Where Are You Now?) is a social travel network. Its stated goal is to help discover where to go and meet like-minded people. WAYN was the brain child of entrepreneurs Jerome Touze and Peter ward and was founded in 2002.
Like other social networking services, WAYN enabled its users to create a profile and upload photos. Users can search for other users and link them to their profiles as friends. The Founders part exited the business in 2006 in a $11m deal to DFJ Esprit and valuing the company at $46m. In 2015 it claims to have over 20 million users. By 2013, the site grew to 22 million registered users, growing at a daily rate of 5,000 new users and adding 25,000 new travel photos every day. In late 2016, the website was bought by Lastminute.com in an asset purchase deal at terms that were not disclosed.
The acquisition means Wayn's database of users and content will be added to The Travel People, lastminute.com's media division. The Travel People claims to reach 43 million monthly unique visitors every month across all its brands (Lastminute.com, Rumbo, Volagratis, Bravofly and Jetcost).
History
WAYN was founded in 2002 in London by Jerome Touze (Co-CEO), Peter Ward (Co-CEO) and Mike Lines (CTO), after two of them came up with the idea to connect people based on their location while having a few beers in their local pub.
WAYN initially grew through word-of-mouth and reached almost 50,000 members by the end of 2004. Following its relaunch in May 2005 it reached over 2.5 million members by the end of 2005. On 26 March 2012 the site claimed "over 19.1m members".
The business started with initial seed funding in 2003 from the original founder of Friends Reunited.
In 2006, the WAYN Founders managed to complete a part exit of the company for $11 million from DFJ Esprit and attracting famous internet entrepreneurs as investors such as Brent Hoberman (ex-founder of lastminute.com), Hugo Burge (CEO of cheapflights.co.uk), Adrian Critchlow and Andy Phillips (ex-founders of Active Hotels) and Constant Tedder (ex-CEO of Jagex, an online gaming company) and was referred to at the time as the 'Myspace of Travel'.
Services
WAYN users may post photos from their trips. Registered users send and receive messages using email, discussion forums, E-cards, SMS, and instant messages and Q&A. WAYN provides a destination browsing service to discover Where to go next and WAYN members can interact with each other and ask questions on the destinations through a Questions & Answers service. The site also provides Social Opinions which generated over 25,000 opinions daily in 2014. In 2015, WAYN has announced major strategic partnerships with Booking.com to offer hotels booking to its users as well as Viator to offer tours and activities booking.
Contact import
Like many other social media sites, WAYN encourages its users to invite their friends which in turn leads to the contacts of the members to receive an invitation to join. In 2006, some me
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20Madness
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Motor Madness was a motorsports based television show on The Nashville Network debuted in 1997. It was originally formatted as a live, 3 hour show with a studio segment and coverage of a live event. Racing events included USA Motorsports monster trucks, demolition derbies, tractor pulls, swamp buggies, and either live pacers awards or upcoming previews of CBS motorsports properties—the World of Outlaws Sprint Series, American Speed Association ACDelco Challenge Series, the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, NASCAR Busch Grand National Series, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
In the second season (1998), the studio segments were replaced with live antics involving the announcers, due to the pregnancy of one of the show's studio segment hosts, Katie Haas. Many fans were angered at the change, and the show's live format was canceled. The name lived on for a few more seasons in a change to the Monster Jam monster truck exclusive format, then was completely abandoned for the Monster Jam moniker.
References
1990s American television series
The Nashville Network original programming
Motorsport mass media in the United States
American sports television series
Monster truck television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Vitter
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Jeffrey Scott Vitter is a U.S. computer scientist and academic administrator. Born in 1955 in New Orleans, Vitter has served in several senior higher education administration posts. He is a former chancellor of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). He assumed the chancellor position on January 1, 2016. His formal investiture to the chancellorship took place on November 10, 2016, at the University of Mississippi's Oxford Campus.
Education
Vitter was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics with highest honors from the University of Notre Dame in 1977, a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University under the supervision of Donald Knuth in 1980 and a master of business administration from Duke University in 2002.
Career
From 1980 to 1992, Vitter progressed through the faculty ranks in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He was awarded tenure in 1985 at the age of 29.
At Duke University in Durham, North Carolina from 1993 to 2002, Vitter held a distinguished professorship as the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor. He chaired the Department of Computer Science for eight and a half years, increased external research funding to 250%, and
led the department to a top-20 national ranking.
From 2002 to 2008, Vitter was the Frederick Hovde Dean of the College of Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he led the development of two strategic plans, establishing a dual focus of excellence in core departments and in multidisciplinary collaborations. He oversaw net growth by roughly 60 faculty members and launched the collaborative design of an innovative outcomes-based college curriculum.
Vitter served at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas as provost and executive vice president for academics from 2008 to 2009, leading the 48,000-student university in the development of the institution's academic master plan and launching initiatives advancing faculty start-up allocations, multidisciplinary priorities and diversity. He also oversaw A&M's campus in Doha, Qatar.
From 2010 to 2015, Vitter was provost and executive vice chancellor and Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. As provost, Vitter was the chief academic and operations officer for the Lawrence and Edwards campuses. He co-chaired the development of the KU strategic plan Bold Aspirations and oversaw the creation of the first-ever university-wide KU Core curriculum, expansion of the Schools of Engineering and Business, boosting multidisciplinary research and funding around four strategic initiatives, major growth of technology commercialization and corporate partnerships, and administrative reorganization and efficiency.
Vitter spent sabbatical leaves at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA; INRIA in Rocquencourt, France; Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris; Bell Laboratories in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20and%20His%20Computerband
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Jackson Fourgeaud, known professionally as Jackson and His Computerband (earlier Jackson and His Computer Band), is a French IDM artist. He released his debut album Smash with Warp Records in 2005.
History
Jackson Fourgeaud began making music at the age of 15. After his acid house debut on Pumpking records in 1996, Sound of Barclay records released the "Sense Juice" and "Gourmet" EPs under the name Jackson & His Computer Band. In 2003 his fourth single, album opener "Utopia", was released. "Utopia" and "Fast Life" feature vocals by his mother, Paula Moore (birdpaula), a folk and blues singer. Warp Records picked up on these tracks, released on French imprint Sound Of Barclay, and signed him.
"Utopia", from the album Smash, was used in the O2 ‘bubble’ ad campaign. "Minidoux" and "Hard Tits" from the album Smash were used in the Adult Swim "Super Violence Disclaimer" and "AcTN water Tanks" bumpers respectively. "Pump", "More" and "Seal," tracks from the Glow album, were featured in Adult Swim bumps that aired during the summer of 2016.
Smash was recorded at home and in various Paris studios. Jackson's also responsible for some of the artwork, including the inside painting. As for guests, again, his mother sings on the track "Fast Life"; his four-year-old niece narrates the tale of a mad king on "Oh Boy", which Jackson wrote.
He performed at European summer festivals in Nîmes (France), Zurich (Switzerland) and Dour Festival (Belgium). His second album Glow was released on Warp Records on 2 September 2013.
On Glow, featured artists include Natas Loves You, Planningtorock and Cosmobrown. It was mastered by Mike Marsh (at The Exchange) and mixed by the late Philippe Zdar at the Motorbass studio.
Select tracks on Glow have been remixed by the likes of The Bloody Beetroots, Boys Noize, Brodinski, Hudson Mohawke and more.
Discography
Albums
Smash (2005)
Glow (2013)
EPs & Singles
1999: Sense Juice EP
1999: Gourmet EP
2003: Utopia EP
2005: Rock On
2013: G.I. Jane (Fill Me Up)
2014: Memory
Remixes
References
External links
Jackson and His Computer Band at the Warp Records website
Intelligent dance musicians
French electronic musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Warp (record label) artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20Network%20Center
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The GMA Network Center is the headquarters and broadcast complex of the GMA Network, a major radio and television network in the Philippines. It is located at EDSA corner Timog Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. It is the network's main television and radio production center, and its main transmission facility for most of Metro Manila. The building houses Super Radyo DZBB 594 AM, Barangay LS 97.1 FM, GMA-7 and GTV-27.
GMA inaugurated the facility on June 14, 2000, the birthdate of GMA Network, as part of the kick-off of its year-round celebration of its 50th golden anniversary. While the first phase of the project has already been completed with the completion of the 17-storey high-rise building, the center has an option to upgrade the older, existing facilities in the GMA compound, as originally planned.
The center is equipped with MARC (Multiple Automated Recorder Cassette) System with a D3 format digital video recorder and a Broadcast Automation System that allows the network to manage live feeds and international feeds that will be carried out to GMA Pinoy TV, GMA Life TV and, GMA News TV International subscribers around the world.
Offices
GMA Network Center serves as the corporate office of the company. Most of the core departments of the company like the human resources, finance, and marketing are located in the building. The newsroom of GMA Integrated News and GMA News Online is located on the 2nd floor. The production offices and staff offices of GMA Integrated News, GMA Public Affairs, GMA Entertainment Group, GMA Regional TV, and GMA International are also based on the building. The network's post-production unit, engineering department, program management, and talent development (Sparkle GMA Artist Center) are also located in the building.
Some of the network's subsidiaries are also based here. The GMA New Media, Inc. (NMI) and its subsidiary, Digify are located in the twelfth floor while the Worldwide division of the network is on tenth floor. Also, the management and staffs of GMA Pictures, GMA Music, and Script2010 are located here.
The Complex
The GMA Network complex has a total area of (including the 4,053 sqm Studio Annex) located in EDSA corner Timog Avenue, Barangay South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City. The complex is the main headquarters and the main radio and television production hub of the network. It contains several building, including the GMA Network Center and GMA Network Studio Annex.
The network has held office in the complex since 1957 with its television broadcasts started in 1961, having moved from the Calvo Building along Escolta in Binondo, Manila (where the network, then known as Loreto F. de Hemedes, Inc., later renamed Republic Broadcasting System, had its first studios and corporate offices since its inception in 1950).
The complex contains seven studios and various production hubs for its production arms, GMA Integrated News, GMA Public Affairs and GMA Entertainment Group. It also houses radio studios
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulawin%3A%20The%20Movie
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Mulawin: The Movie is a 2005 Filipino fantasy adventure film sequel to the Mulawin television series that was shown on GMA Network. The movie was released on December 25, 2005, and is produced by Regal Films and GMA Films and GMA Pictures the Philippines. It is also an official entry to the 31st Metro Manila Film Festival.
Synopsis
Aguiluz and Alwina's plan for a peaceful life as mortals unravels when their boat to Tierra Fuego (the realm of man) is caught in a violent storm. They wash up on separate shores, a young man and woman living without memories and living separate lives. Aguiluz is adopted by a humble farmer and Alwina becomes the surrogate daughter of a wealthy family and is engaged to be married to Gabriel.
But a new period in the Mulawin saga unfolds as "Keeper of the Jewel of Fire", Sang'gre Pirena uses the gintong binhi to bring Ravenum back to life. Ravenum summons the dragon Buwarka and raises an army of Ravenas to wreak havoc on Avila, which barely survives the initial attack. With the power of Mulawin’s Tree of Life dwindling down and the Mulawin race in peril, the Diwatas and the Tres Aves (a legendary trio of heroes with special abilities) rush to aid the Mulawin. But ultimately, the fate of Avila and the Mulawin race now hinges on the valor of two of its two greatest champions, Aguiluz and Alwina. The Tres Aves faces the dragon "Buwarka", The Mulawins and the Encantadia's Lireo soldiers led by Ybbarro/Ybrahim faces the Ravenas and Aguiluz and Alwina faces Ravenum. The fight continues as Aguiluz and Alwina goes inside Halconia. There they find Dakila and continues their journey. They continue a violent fight with the Ravenas and as they reach Ravenum, Aguiluz's mother (transformed from death) shows up with her husband, Ravenum. Ravenum then forces Aguiluz to transform into a Ravena and complete the family or else he will kill Alwina. Aguiluz agreed, to save the life of Alwina and their child. The Ravenas took away Alwina and Dakila, planning on beheading them. Aguiluz's body was too holy for the darkness because he was blessed and once again turns into a Mulawin. Dakila dies in the hands of the Ravenas and Alwina graciously cries. She returns to Aguiluz but their ugatpak's powers only works for nights. Aguiluz is stabbed by a sword behind. They make a way out of the hideout and at the end, killing Ravenum and comes also the death of Aguiluz. They return to Avila after a victory and a deadly battle. Aguiluz is seen lying in a royal bed in the kingdom of Lireo in Encantadia with Queen Amihan of Lireo putting the gintong binhi to his mouth that can get his life back. Alwina is then seen putting Dakila's ugatpak in the Mulawin's Tree of Life. The last part is Alwina and her son, Almiro flying together with Aguiluz behind them.
Cast and characters
Richard Gutierrez as Aguiluz / Daniel
Angel Locsin as Alwina
Dennis Trillo as Gabriel
Michael de Mesa as Haring Ravenum
Eddie Gutierrez as Pinunong Dakila
Carmina Villaroel as S
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20architecture
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A Unix architecture is a computer operating system system architecture that embodies the Unix philosophy. It may adhere to standards such as the Single UNIX Specification (SUS) or similar POSIX IEEE standard. No single published standard describes all Unix architecture computer operating systems — this is in part a legacy of the Unix wars.
Description
There are many systems which are Unix-like in their architecture. Notable among these are the Linux distributions. The distinctions between Unix and Unix-like systems have been the subject of heated legal battles, and the holders of the UNIX brand, The Open Group, object to "Unix-like" and similar terms.
For distinctions between SUS branded UNIX architectures and other similar architectures, see Unix-like.
Kernel
A Unix kernel — the core or key components of the operating system — consists of many kernel subsystems like process management, scheduling, file management, device management, network management, memory management, and dealing with interrupts from hardware devices.
Each of the subsystems has some features:
Concurrency: As Unix is a multiprocessing OS, many processes run concurrently to improve the performance of the system.
Virtual memory (VM): Memory management subsystem implements the virtual memory concept and users need not worry about the executable program size and the RAM size.
Paging: It is a technique to minimize the internal as well as the external fragmentation in the physical memory.
Virtual file system (VFS): A VFS is a file system used to help the user to hide the different file systems complexities. A user can use the same standard file system related calls to access different file systems.
The kernel provides these and other basic services: interrupt and trap handling, separation between user and system space, system calls, scheduling, timer and clock handling, file descriptor management.
Features
Some key features of the Unix architecture concept are:
Unix systems use a centralized operating system kernel which manages system and process activities.
All non-kernel software is organized into separate, kernel-managed processes.
Unix systems are preemptively multitasking: multiple processes can run at the same time, or within small time slices and nearly at the same time, and any process can be interrupted and moved out of execution by the kernel. This is known as thread management.
Files are stored on disk in a hierarchical file system, with a single top location throughout the system (root, or "/"), with both files and directories, subdirectories, sub-subdirectories, and so on below it.
With few exceptions, devices and some types of communications between processes are managed and visible as files or pseudo-files within the file system hierarchy. This is known as everything is a file. However, Linus Torvalds states that this is inaccurate and may be better rephrased as "everything is a stream of bytes".
The UNIX operating system supports the following fe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawk
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Mawk can refer to:
Mike's AWK, an interpreter for the AWK programming language
Mark "Mawk" Young, the former bassist for the band Hed PE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons%27%20BASIC
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Simons' BASIC is an extension to BASIC 2.0 for the Commodore 64 home computer. Written by British programmer David Simons in 1983, who was 16 years old at the time, it was distributed by Commodore as a cartridge.
It is widely, but incorrectly, called "Simon's BASIC", because of confusion between the first name "Simon" and the surname "Simons".
[[File:Simon's BASIC cartridge.jpg|thumb|Cartridge with the misspelled label contributing to the software's naming confusion.']]
Features
Simons' BASIC added an array of features to Commodore BASIC 2.0:
114 additional keywords
commands to ease the coding of sprites
commands to ease the coding of high-resolution and multicolor graphics
commands to ease the coding of sound
commands to aid in structured programming
keywords to assist in writing and editing BASIC programs, similar to those in the VIC-20 Programmer's Aid cartridge
Programs written in Simons' BASIC could employ hexadecimal numbers in assignments and calculations by including a prefix, or binary numbers by utilizing a prefix.
Because a portion of the cartridge data is mapped into memory at addresses , which overlaps part of the standard C64 BASIC RAM, the amount of available memory for BASIC programs was 8 KB less than that of a standard C64 configuration.
An extension was written by Simons and released by Commodore on floppy disk and tape as Simons' Basic Extension. This software is also known as Simons' Basic 2. It could not be released on cartridge because the original Simons' Basic cartridge had to be present in order to use the extension. Simons' Basic Extension adds another 91 commands including the much-coveted RENUMber command which renumbers the destinations of and statements.
The 114 keywords
Sprite (MOB) handling keywords
MOB SET – enables a sprite and defines its attributes
MMOB – positions a sprite on the screen
RLOCMOB – causes a sprite to smoothly move from one location to another
CMOB – sets up the two global colors for multicolor sprites
MOB OFF – disables a sprite
DETECT – initializes sprite collision detection
CHECK – checks for a sprite collision
High resolution graphics handling keywords
HIRES – initializes a high-resolution graphics mode
MULTI – initializes a multicolor graphics mode
NRM – returns to the text display
LOW COL – changes the plotting colors
HI COL – returns to the original plotting colors
PLOT – draws a pixel
LINE – draws a line
CIRCLE – draws a circle
ARC – draws an arc
ANGL – draws the radius of a circle
PAINT – performs a flood fill
REC – draws a hollow rectangle
BLOCK – draws a solid rectangle
DRAW – draws a user-defined set of lines
ROT – sets scaling factors for DRAW
CHAR – plots a text character on a high-resolution screen
TEXT – plots a text string on a high-resolution screen
TEST – determines whether a pixel is plotted or empty
Other graphics handling keywords
COLOUR – sets the background and border colors; the British spelling is used
CSET – sel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvasculature%20remodeling
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Microvasculature remodeling refers to the alterations in a blood vessel network resulting from arteriogenesis and angiogenesis. Briefly, arteriogenesis is an increase in arterial diameter while angiogenesis is an increase in the number of capillaries either by sprouting from or splitting existing capillaries. External events stimulate these two types of vessel growth through a combination of mechanical and chemical pathways (Prior et al., 2004).
Sources
Prior, B. M., Yang, H. T., & Terjung, R. L. What makes vessels grow with exercise training? J App Physiol 97: 1119–28, 2004.
Angiology
Cardiac electrophysiology
Cardiovascular physiology
Cardiovascular procedures
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest
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doctest is a module included in the Python programming language's standard library that allows the easy generation of tests based on output from the standard Python interpreter shell, cut and pasted into docstrings.
Implementation specifics
Doctest makes innovative use of the following Python capabilities:
docstrings
The Python interactive shell (both command line and the included idle application)
Python introspection
When using the Python shell, the primary prompt: >>> , is followed by new commands. The secondary prompt: ... , is used when continuing commands on multiple lines; and the result of executing the command is expected on following lines.
A blank line, or another line starting with the primary prompt is seen as the end of the output from the command.
The doctest module looks for such sequences of prompts in a docstring, re-executes the extracted command and checks the output against the output of the command given in the docstrings test example.
The default action when running doctests is for no output to be shown when tests pass. This can be modified by options to the doctest runner. In addition, doctest has been integrated with the Python unit test module allowing doctests to be run as standard unittest testcases. Unittest testcase runners allow more options when running tests such as the reporting of test statistics such as tests passed, and failed.
Literate programming and doctests
Although doctest does not allow a Python program to be embedded in narrative text, it does allow for verifiable examples to be embedded in docstrings, where the docstrings can contain other text. Docstrings can in turn be extracted from program files to generate documentation in other formats such as HTML or PDF.
A program file can be made to contain the documentation, tests, as well as the code and the tests easily verified against the code. This allows code, tests, and documentation to evolve together.
Documenting libraries by example
Doctests are well suited to provide an introduction to a library by demonstrating how the API is used.
On the basis of the output of Python's interactive interpreter, text can be mixed with tests that exercise the library, showing expected results.
Examples
Example one shows how narrative text can be interspersed with testable examples in a docstring.
In the second example, more features of doctest are shown, together with their explanation.
Example three is set up to run all doctests in a file when the file is run, but when imported as a module, the tests will not be run.
Example 1: A doctest embedded in the docstring of a function
def list_to_0_index(lst):
"""A solution to the problem given in:
https://rgrig.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-readable-code.html
'Given a list, lst, say for each element the 0-index where it appears for
the first time. So the list x = [0, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 0, 2] is
transformed into y = [0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 3]. Notice that for all
i we have x[y[i]] = x[
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFTO-DT
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CFTO-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Barrie-based CTV 2 outlet CKVR-DT, channel 3 (although the two stations maintain separate operations). CFTO-DT's studios are located at 9 Channel Nine Court in Agincourt, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in Downtown Toronto. The station shares the Agincourt studio complex with CTV's headquarters, which includes studios for the network's news programming (CTV National News and the CTV News Channel), along with most of Bell Media's specialty channels.
History
The station first signed on the air at 10:00 p.m. on December 31, 1960; its first official day of programming was on January 1, 1961. The inaugural program broadcast on CFTO was a telethon for the Ontario Association for Community Living, hosted by broadcaster Joel Aldred, complete with a fireworks ceremony.
The station was founded by Baton Aldred Rogers Broadcasting, a joint venture between Telegram Corporation (owned by the Bassett and Eaton families), Aldred-Rogers Broadcasting (owned by Joel Aldred and Ted Rogers), and Foster Hewitt Broadcasting, which owned radio station CKFH (1430 AM, now CJCL on 590 AM). The 'Baton' portion of the name was pronounced (as in Baton Rouge, Louisiana), rather than the conducting tool's traditional pronunciation.
The station's first children's show, shown on weekday afternoons, was The Professor's Hideaway, starring Stan Francis.
American television network ABC held a minority share in the partnership, which it sold to each of the partners shortly before CFTO-TV went on the air. Ted Rogers' uncle J. Elsworth Rogers was a minority (and originally primary) owner of Western Ontario Broadcasting, Ltd., owners of CKLW-TV (now CBET) in Windsor, Ontario (which was mostly owned by RKO General). The station's original studio and transmitter facilities were located at 1550 McCowan Road, later renamed 9 Channel Nine Court.
In March 1961, Aldred sold his interest in the station, and on October 1 of that year, CFTO became a charter affiliate of CTV, as well as the network's flagship station. In 1970, Ted Rogers sold his interest in CFTO and the Bassett-Eaton group sold their interest in Rogers Cable in an exchange of assets. On May 31, 1976, CFTO began transmitting its signal from the CN Tower, while its studios remained in Agincourt. CFTO began broadcasting in stereo in 1985. In 1991, the station joined with several other Ontario stations to form Ontario Network Television, which evolved into the Baton Broadcast System, a subsystem within the CTV network. In 1995, CFTO began operating rebroadcast stations at Orillia (on UHF channel 21) and Bobcaygeon (near Peterborough, on UHF channel 54).
When CTV's stations proposed to buy the network and run it as a cooperative in 1966, the Board of Broadcast Governors initially balked at the proposal. CFTO was by f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozlov%27s%20shrew
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Kozlov's shrew (Sorex kozlovi) is a red-toothed shrew found only at the Mekong River, Tibet, China. It is listed as a data deficient species.
References
Sorex
Mammals of Asia
Mammals described in 1952
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound%20%28video%20game%29
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Spellbound is a video game that was designed and programmed by David Jones with music by Rob Hubbard and released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC (also with Ed Hickman) home computers. Versions for the Commodore 64 (with Richard Darling) and the Atari 8-bit computers (with Adrian Sheppard) and an enhanced 128K Spectrum version with music and additional graphics were all released in 1986. Unlike the other Magic Knight games, Spellbound was never released for the MSX system back in 1985, but an authorized version was finally released by Tracy Lewis in 2023. It is the second game in the Magic Knight series and was published by Mastertronic as part of their Mastertronic Added Dimension label.
Plot
Magic Knight is transported to a castle with a collection of other characters and must rescue his friend Gimbal the wizard. Gimbal has become trapped by a self-inflicted "white-out" spell whilst trying to create a better-tasting rice pudding. Magic Knight must rescue Gimbal from his self-inflicted imprisonment and then ensure both he and the castle's other inhabitants are all returned to their correct time and place.
Gameplay
Unlike the previous game in the series, Finders Keepers, the game is less action-oriented and more of a graphic adventure although it still contains some platform game elements.
The player controls Magic Knight as he wanders around the castle. As well as the player character, the cast also contains various other characters who have found themselves trapped. Like Magic Knight, these characters move around (albeit off-screen, they are always static when on-screen) and can fall asleep and grow hungry. Magic Knight needs to look after and "maintain" these other characters (as well as himself) and this adds a further strategic element to gameplay.
Magic Knight interacts with his environment and other characters using a drop-down window system called "Windimation", which is full of commands such as "take object" and "talk to character". Because of this, much of the gameplay is quite similar to later graphic adventures such as The Secret of Monkey Island. Most of the game's puzzles are solved by using objects in the correct place or giving objects to the correct character and then having them assist the player. Another method of solving problems is to use Magic Knight's spellcasting abilities. Most of his spells require him to have collected certain objects first.
The castle itself consists of several floors (including a roof garden and a basement) that can be accessed via a lift. Some of these areas are only fully accessible once some puzzles are solved.
Magic Knight only has a certain amount of energy and if he runs out of this he dies and it is game over. His energy is depleted both by moving between rooms and when dangerous objects such as bouncing balls hit him. Finding a way of topping up Magic Knight's energy is one of the first puzzles the player must solve. There are also a few rooms that cause Magic Knight to die
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric%20tree
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A metric tree is any tree data structure specialized to index data in metric spaces. Metric trees exploit properties of metric spaces such as the triangle inequality to make accesses to the data more efficient. Examples include the M-tree, vp-trees, cover trees, MVP trees, and BK-trees.
Multidimensional search
Most algorithms and data structures for searching a dataset are based on the classical binary search algorithm, and generalizations such as the k-d tree or range tree work by interleaving the binary search algorithm over the separate coordinates and treating each spatial coordinate as an independent search constraint. These data structures are well-suited for range query problems asking for every point that satisfies and .
A limitation of these multidimensional search structures is that they are only defined for searching over objects that can be treated as vectors. They aren't applicable for the more general case in which the algorithm is given only a collection of objects and a function for measuring the distance or similarity between two objects. If, for example, someone were to create a function that returns a value indicating how similar one image is to another, a natural algorithmic problem would be to take a dataset of images and find the ones that are similar according to the function to a given query image.
Metric data structures
If there is no structure to the similarity measure then a brute force search requiring the comparison of the query image to every image in the dataset is the best that can be done . If, however, the similarity function satisfies the triangle inequality then it is possible to use the result of each comparison to prune the set of candidates to be examined.
The first article on metric trees, as well as the first use of the term "metric tree", published in the open literature was by Jeffrey Uhlmann in 1991. Other researchers were working independently on similar data structures. In particular, Peter Yianilos claimed to have independently discovered the same method, which he called a vantage point tree (VP-tree).
The research on metric tree data structures blossomed in the late 1990s and included an examination by Google co-founder Sergey Brin of their use for very large databases. The first textbook on metric data structures was published in 2006.
Open source implementations
Matlab: Metric trees are implemented in the metricTree class that is part of the United States Naval Research Laboratory's free Tracker Component Library.
References
Trees (data structures)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Bourne
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Stephen Bourne may refer to:
Stephen Bourne (writer) (born 1957), British writer, film and social historian
Stephen R. Bourne (born 1944), British-born computer scientist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RelayNet
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RelayNet was an e-mail exchange network used by PCBoard bulletin board systems (BBS's). By 1990, RelayNet comprised more than 200 bulletin board systems. BBS's on RelayNet communicated via a communications protocol called RIME (RelayNet International Mail Exchange).
RelayNet was similar to FidoNet in purpose and technology, although it used names for its nodes instead of Fido's numeric address pairs. Due to it being limited to PCBoard, it carried a much smaller amount of traffic than Fido. RIME was built up, starting in 1988, from a master hub owned by Bonnie Anthony, a local Psychiatrist, in Bethesda, Maryland and a subordinate hub owned by her brother, Howard Belasco, in The Bronx, New York. Kip Compton, in high-school at the time, played an important role in the software's development and evolution. Dr. Anthony died in 2015.
PCBoard, created by Clark Development Corporation (CDC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, was always a "premium" BBS system and fairly expensive. For this reason it was limited mostly to larger multi-line BBS systems, where it was particularly well liked due to its "nice" behaviour on the network when running off a common file server. However this also meant that the PCBoard market generally consisted of a small number of large systems, as opposed to a large number of small ones, hence RIME had usually only a few hundred member boards.
Thus RelayNet, which originally ran only on PCBoard, did not have the same level of infrastructure as FidoNet, and didn't build the sort of global organizational structure that FidoNet needed. Instead, RelayNet evolved as a series of smaller regional networks, including the NANET hosted by Canada Remote Systems, RoseNet hosted by their competitors Rose Media, QuebecNet, FINET, Smartnet, Intelec, ILink, U'NI-net, Friendsnet and others.
RelayNet software later appeared for a variety of other BBS systems, including RBBS, GAP, EIS, QBBS and Wildcat! BBS, but these systems also provided excellent FidoNet support and RelayNet was never popular on anything other than PCBoard and its close competitor, RBBS-PC.
On August 1, 2007, Don Barba, owner since the late 1990s of the RIME network, its software, and since the late 1980s of Moondog, its central BBS in Brooklyn, New York, announced that all would close on August 15.
See also
FidoNet
Usenet
References
Further reading
Bulletin board system software
Network protocols
BBS networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein%20distance
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In information theory and computer science, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance (named after Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir I. Levenshtein) is a string metric for measuring the edit distance between two sequences. Informally, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of operations (consisting of insertions, deletions or substitutions of a single character, or transposition of two adjacent characters) required to change one word into the other.
The Damerau–Levenshtein distance differs from the classical Levenshtein distance by including transpositions among its allowable operations in addition to the three classical single-character edit operations (insertions, deletions and substitutions).
In his seminal paper, Damerau stated that in an investigation of spelling errors for an information-retrieval system, more than 80% were a result of a single error of one of the four types. Damerau's paper considered only misspellings that could be corrected with at most one edit operation. While the original motivation was to measure distance between human misspellings to improve applications such as spell checkers, Damerau–Levenshtein distance has also seen uses in biology to measure the variation between protein sequences.
Definition
To express the Damerau–Levenshtein distance between two strings and , a function is defined, whose value is a distance between an prefix (initial substring) of string and a prefix of .
The restricted distance function is defined recursively as:
where is the indicator function equal to 0 when and equal to 1 otherwise.
Each recursive call matches one of the cases covered by the Damerau–Levenshtein distance:
corresponds to a deletion (from a to b),
corresponds to an insertion (from a to b),
corresponds to a match or mismatch, depending on whether the respective symbols are the same,
corresponds to a transposition between two successive symbols.
The Damerau–Levenshtein distance between and is then given by the function value for full strings: , where denotes the length of string , and is the length of .
Algorithm
Presented here are two algorithms: the first, simpler one, computes what is known as the optimal string alignment distance or restricted edit distance, while the second one computes the Damerau–Levenshtein distance with adjacent transpositions. Adding transpositions adds significant complexity. The difference between the two algorithms consists in that the optimal string alignment algorithm computes the number of edit operations needed to make the strings equal under the condition that no substring is edited more than once, whereas the second one presents no such restriction.
Take for example the edit distance between CA and ABC. The Damerau–Levenshtein distance LD(CA, ABC) = 2 because CA → AC → ABC, but the optimal string alignment distance OSA(CA, ABC) = 3 because if the operation CA → AC is used, it is not possible to use AC → ABC because that would require the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConcertWare
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ConcertWare is a music composition computer program made by Chad Mitchell of Great Wave Software for the classic Mac OS in 1984. Later versions were published by Jump! Software Inc. It was one of the first music programs for the Apple Macintosh, and its first version could play four voices using the Mac's build-in speakers.
ConcertWare+ was available in both a MIDI version, which supported MIDI keyboards, and a non-MIDI version, and it included three tools: Music Player and Music Writer (named MIDI Player and MIDI Writer for the MIDI version), and InstrumentMaker, which allowed users to create software instruments with by editing their "waveform, envelope, and vibrato". Later versions added an on-screen piano keyboard, harmonies generation, and support for 32 staves at a time.
The 1994 Jump! Software version of Concertware 1.5 was available for both Mac and Windows. In January 2000 Jump! Music discontinued support for all Macintosh products and by 2001 the company website was no longer in service.
Reception
In 1986, MacWorld's Stephen Levy wrote that ConcertWare "[passed] the Jaw Drop Test" for its Music Player component's visual depictions of MIDI instruments as they played. While he found that the manual "bordered on cryptic", he praised the program's multitrack support and compatibility with the Casio CZ-101.
Reviewing version 1.5, MacUser magazine's Christopher Breen called ConcertWare "one of [the] early pioneers" of music notation software, but criticized its stagnation, stating that the program would only be adequate for "entry-level musicians and hobbyists". He also criticized its clunky workflow that required users to use the Print Preview to see the combined score and text before making adjustments.
References
Scorewriters
Macintosh-only software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1602%20%28disambiguation%29
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1602 was a year of the Gregorian and Julian calendar
1602 may refer to:
1602, the number 1602
Marvel 1602, a comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics
Anno 1602, a computer game
A postal code of Vlezenbeek in Belgium
1602 standard LCD display, a 16 character, 2 row, standard LCD display
Mostly using HD44780 LCD controller
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barareh%20Nights
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Barareh Nights () is a 2005 Iranian satire television series broadcast by the IRIB network. The series ended after 92 episodes; the storyline of Barareh Nights was not complete. It aired in Iran daily at 8:00 p.m. Tehran time on Channel 3. Rebroadcast outside of the country was daily on IRIB 1 and IRIB 2. The last show episode aired Thursday 1 December 2005. It was directed by Mehran Modiri.
Barareh Nights is the prequel to Mehran Modiri's 2002 serial, Pavarchin. Whilst not taking place in Barareh, Pavarchin introduced the oddities and strange behaviours of Barareans. The series also has many of the cast members from Modiri's earlier works such as Pavarchin, Noghtechin, and Jayezeye Bozorg.
Plot outline
The show is set in the fictional village of Barareh in Iran of the 1930s, about a journalist in the name of kianoosh estegrar zade, during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi, whose picture can be seen on the set. The village people have their own Persian dialect which humorously modifies the language. In addition to this, the Barareans also have certain customs and rituals which at times are comical, such as their method of eating chick peas—by slapping individual peas from palm into mouth. The village of Barareh is believed by many be a microcosm of Iran. The town is split along the lines of Upper and Lower Barareh, which allegedly mimics the difference between the classes in modern-day Iran. Events in the village, such as football ("darbid") matches, village council elections and marriage closely mirror today's Iran.
The show stars Mehran Modiri, as Shir Farhad, the son of Lower Barareh's khan, or leader. He lives with his sister, Saharnaz(Shaghayegh Dehghan); mother, Shadoneh(Falamak Joneidi); and father, Salar Khan. The show begins when a journalist, Kiyanoosh(Siamak Ansari), from Tehran is arrested for writing an article criticizing the government, escapes capture, and then is bitten by a snake. Shir Farhad finds him collapsed and brings him to the village of Barareh, nurtures him to health, and gradually introduces him to the town and the other characters in the show, such as the families of Upper and Lower Barareh's Khans, as well as the flamboyant village poet, Bagoori, and village doctor. Later in the series, new characters such as the village gendarme and Upper Barareh's Khan's son and daughter, Keivoon (Reza Shafiei Jam) and Leiloon (Behnoosh Bakhtiari), join the cast. Davooneh doesn't appear in this.
Cast
Lower Barrareh
Mehran Modiri - Shir Farhad Barareh (the Lower Barareh Khan's son, but later he becomes the son-in-law of the Khan of Upper Barareh).
Siamak Ansari - Kiyanoosh Barareh (A journalist that is committed to jail because of political event, but he later becomes the husband of Saharnaz Barareh, which makes him the son-in-law of the Khan of Lower Barareh)
Shaghayegh Dehghan - Saharnaz Barareh (the Lower Barareh Khan's daughter)
Mohammad Shiri - Salar Khan Barareh (the Khan of Lower Barareh)
Falamak Joneidi - Shadoneh Khanou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%C2%B2
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PC² is the Programming Contest Control System developed at California State University, Sacramento in support of Computer Programming Contest activities of the ACM, and in particular the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It was used to conduct the ACM ICPC World Finals in 1990 and from 1994 through 2009. In 2010, the ACM ICPC World Finals switched to using Kattis, the KTH automated teaching tool; however, PC2 continues to be used for a large number of ICPC Regional Contests around the world.
Computer programming contests and PC²
Computer programming contest have rules and methods for judging submissions. The following describes in a general way a contest where PC2 is used.
A computer programming contest is a competition where teams submit (computer program) solutions to judges. The teams
are given a set of problems to solve in a limited amount of time (for example 8-13 problems in 5 hours).
The judges then give pass/fail judgements to the submitted solutions. Team rankings are computed based on the solutions, when the solutions were submitted and how many attempts were made to solve the problem. The judges test in a Black box testing where the teams do not have access to the judges' test data.
PC2 manages single or multi-site programming contests. It provides a team a way to log in, test solutions, submit solutions and view judgements from judges. PC2 provides judges a way to request team solutions (from a PC2 server) run/execute the solution and enter a judgment. The PC2 scoreboard module computes and creates standings and statistics web pages (HTML/XML). PC2 is easy to install on Linux/Linux-like systems and MS Windows and does not require super-user (root) access to install it or use it: this makes it an attractive choice for users who may not have super-user access.
Usage and User Experiences
PC2 was used for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals from 1994 to 2009. It has also been used in hundreds of ICPC Regional Contests around the world. It has been used continuously by the ACM Pacific Northwest Regional Contest since 1989, as well as by many other ICPC Regional Contests including the Africa and Arabia Regional Contests, numerous Regional Contests in Asia, and several Regional Contests in the U.S. It remains today the single most widely used Contest Control System for ICPC Regional Contests.
PC2 has been used by the Africa and Arabia Collegiate Programming Contest (ACPC) every year since its inception more than 25 years ago. ACPC comprises a set of Regional Contests, including the separate Saudi, Nigerian, Oman, South Africa, Togolese, Moroccan, Kuwait, Algerian, Jordanian, Palestinian, Qatar, Beninese, Egyptian, Lebanese, Ethiopian, Tunisian, Bahrain, Sudanese, Syrian, and Angolan Collegiate Programming Contests. Every one of these Regional/National Contests uses PC2; many of the Regional Contests are fed by sub-regional contests, all of which also use PC2. The winners at each Regio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Eichel
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Steve K. D. Eichel (formerly Steve Dubrow-Eichel) is a psychologist known primarily for his work on destructive cults, coercive persuasion, mind control, brainwashing, and deprogramming. He is a former president of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the 2006–07 president of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, the national membership academy comprising American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) Board-certified counseling psychologists. In 2012 he was installed as the President of the Board of the International Cultic Studies Association.
Eichel graduated with his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Pennsylvania. He has performed research with fellow psychologist Linda Dubrow in the area of procrastination. Dubrow and Eichel studied cult characteristics of the group Al-Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Eichel was an expert witness in the 2003 case of Lee Boyd Malvo, where he testified that Malvo suffered from a form of dissociative disorder caused by coercive persuasion. He has worked to expose fraudulent practices of credentialing organizations, by obtaining numerous certifications for his pet cat, Zoe, including the National Guild of Hypnotists, the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the International Medical & Dental Hypnotherapy Association. Eichel has practiced clinical psychology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Newark, Delaware. He has lectured on the subject of cults, brainwashing, and terrorism.
Early life, family and education
Eichel is the child of survivors of the Holocaust; his parents spent time in Nazi concentration camps. His parents only recounted to him, "anecdotes here and there"; Eichel explained to The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Most of what I thought I knew about their experiences was my own fantasy that filled in the enormous gaps."
Eichel received a B.A. degree from Columbia University, and M.S. from University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1989, at University of Pennsylvania. Eichel is a Board Certified Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology.
Research
In 1988, with fellow psychologist Linda Dubrow Eichel, he performed research in the area of procrastination. During the Persian Gulf war, Eichel said that images from the conflict affected his teenage clients, "Those two things really hit my teenage patients hard." He said that bad dreams about the battles were "little red lights, saying it's time to step back, think about yourself, think about your life, talk to other people, gather information, connect with people who are important to you. It is a warning sign that you should not go on with life as usual." He commented to The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2000 on the subject of the controversial religious group, the evangelical International Church of Christ; that the methodology behind the group "is that you give yourself over to the person who acts as your 'shepherd' or discipler, and they get tremendous control over you… Ev
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica%20TV
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América TV (call sign LS 86 TV) is an Argentine television station broadcasting on channel 2 in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and one of Argentina's five national television networks. It is owned by Grupo América.
América TV maintains studio facilities and offices located in Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires; its transmitter is located in the Florencio Varela Partido, Buenos Aires Province. Outside of the province, América is available on cable nationally, and its programs are rebroadcast by two broadcast stations owned by Grupo América—Channel 7 Mendoza and Channel 8 San Juan—plus two affiliates in Junín and Tucumán.
History
1966: Founding
Channel 2 in La Plata was launched on 25 June 1966 as Tevedos, under the ownership of Rivadavia Televisión S.A., whose owners also had several radio stations and the now-defunct El Mundo daily newspaper.
La Plata is close in proximity to Buenos Aires, and the two cities can receive each other's television broadcasts. This geographical reality led Tevedos to target the much larger media market of Argentina's capital. But with transmission facilities in Florencio Varela to the south, northern portions of the metropolitan area couldn't receive an adequate signal. This stood in contrast to the other four stations in Buenos Aires, which had their transmitters located in the city proper.
1970–76
In the early 1970s, trouble continually plagued the channel, stemming from its technical disadvantages. The ratings for Argentinian television were measured in Buenos Aires, and its comparatively poor signal could not offer the same coverage as its four competitors. Comedians joked about the station's small 7% market share by dubbing it "James Bond", a pun of his "007" codename. To lower costs, it began airing cheaper programs, even simulcasting Canal 13 at times.
1976–87: State ownership
In 1976, the Province of Buenos Aires expropriated the station, and in 1979, it was transferred to the provincial level Ministry of Economy. That same year, the station became known as simply Canal 2 (channel 2). Colour broadcasts, which began in 1980, the same year as national station Channel 9, made it the third station to switch to colour broadcasting and the first TV station outside Buenos Aires itself to do so.
After the fall of the dictatorship and return to democracy in 1983, a bid was hurriedly opened for companies wanting to purchase the station. Radiodifusora El Carmen S.A. won the license, but it took four years for the company to find a partner with the technical capacity to run the station. Finally, in December 1987, El Carmen partnered with Héctor Ricardo García, owner of the Crónica newspaper, and his company Estrella Producciones S.A., the former owners of Channel 11 (now Telefe) and with the new owners came a new brand: Teledos.
1987–91: Teledos, a crisis and Tevedos
Within a month, Teledos, now Argentina's second private television channel, rocketed to second place in ratings, leaving behind the st
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Calendar
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Yahoo Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds and events syndicated from sites that make use of the published Yahoo calendar programming interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo Mail account, they are required to have a Yahoo ID in order to use the software. It is one of the largest online calendar providers and serves millions of users.
Features
Yahoo Calendar has the following features:
100-year calendar
Various alarm features which allow you to send messages to numerous sources including:
Mobile devices
Yahoo Messenger
The ability to sync your calendar with those of Palm devices and Microsoft Office Outlook, CalDAV, iPhone Calendarand some SyncML enabled [http://go.yahoo.com/next/devices_syncml cellphones
Sharing of schedules between users. The mechanism allows several different methods of sharing including publicly sharing your calendar, sharing your calendar with a specific Yahoo Group, and sharing your calendar with a particular Yahoo! user.
Automatically read, integrate, and republish public and personal events syndicated from Eventful, Upcoming, Evite, Bookwhen, and other sites.
Events are stored in the cloud. Calendar sharing is also available.
The New Yahoo Calendar
In October 2008 Yahoo launched Yahoo Calendar Beta to the public.
It featured a completely redesigned interface similar to the All-New Yahoo Mail. It also includes support for open standards, support for subscriptions to any iCalendar-based public calendar, Flickr integration, drag & drop functionality and Outlook auto-sync.
It was released as a stable version in November 2010.
See also
Google Calendar
30 Boxes
Cozi Central
Eventful
Evite
iCalendar
References
External links
Calendar
Calendaring software
SyncML
Yahoo! community websites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Users%27%20group
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A users' group (also user's group or user group) is a type of club focused on the use of a particular technology, usually (but not always) computer-related.
Overview
Users' groups started in the early days of mainframe computers, as a way to share sometimes hard-won knowledge and useful software, usually written by end users independently of the vendor-supplied programming efforts. SHARE, a user group originated by aerospace industry corporate users of IBM mainframe computers, was founded in 1955 and is the oldest computer user group still active. DECUS, the DEC User's Society, was founded in 1961 and its descendant organization, Connect Worldwide, still operates. The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) was founded in 1974 by systems professionals with a common interest in (mainframe) capacity management, and continues today with a much broader mission. The first UNIX users' group organized in 1978.
Users' groups began to proliferate with the microcomputer revolution of the late 1970s and early 1980s as hobbyists united to help each other with programming and configuration and use of hardware and software. Especially prior to the emergence of the World Wide Web, obtaining technical assistance with computers was often onerous, while computer clubs would gladly provide free technical support. Users' groups today continue to provide "real life" opportunities for learning from the shared experience of the members and may provide other functions such as a newsletter, group purchasing opportunities, tours of facilities, or speakers at group meetings.
A users' group may provide its members (and sometimes the general public as well) with one or more of the following services:
periodic meetings
annual or less frequent users conferences
public lectures
a newsletter
a library of media or tools
a software archive
an online presence such as a dial-up BBS or Internet website
swap meets
technical support
social events
Code Camp
Users' groups may be organized around a particular brand of current hardware (e.g. IBM, Macintosh, AMD), or current software and operating systems (e.g. Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS), or more rarely may be dedicated to obsolescent, retro systems or historical computers (e.g. Apple II, PDP-11, Osborne). An example of an early user group is the Apple User Group Connection.
Computer user group
A computer user group (also known as a computer club) is a group of people who enjoy using microcomputers or personal computers and who meet regularly to discuss the use of computers, share knowledge and experience, hear from representatives of hardware manufacturers and software publishers, and hold other related activities. They may host special interest workgroups, often focusing on one particular aspect of computing.
Computer user groups meet both virtually and in hackerspaces. Computer user groups may consist of members who primarily use a specific operating system, such as Linux. While many hackers use free and open source software, ot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20coding
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In computing, hand coding means editing the underlying representation of a document or a computer program, when tools that allow working on a higher level representation also exist. Typically this means editing the source code, or the textual representation of a document or program, instead of using a WYSIWYG editor that always displays an approximation of the final product. It may mean translating the whole or parts of the source code into machine language manually instead of using a compiler or an automatic translator.
Most commonly, it refers to directly writing HTML documents for the web (rather than in a specialized editor), or to writing a program or portion of a program in assembly language (more rarely raw machine code) rather than in a higher level language. It can also include other markup languages, such as wikitext.
Purpose
The reasons to use hand coding include the ability to:
Use features or refinements not supported by the graphical editor or compiler
Control the semantics of a document beyond that allowed by the graphical editor
Produce more elegant source code to help maintenance and integration
Produce better performing machine code than that produced by the compiler (see optimization)
Avoid having to pay for expensive WYSIWYG Editors. Note that there are some open-source editors available on the web, however.
Develop an understanding of the methods underlying a common level of abstraction. For example, although it has become rare in real-life scenarios, computer science students may be required to write a program in an assembly language to get a notion of processor registers and other basal elements of computer architecture.
Escape abstractions and templated code. Hand coding allows more refined control of code, which may improve efficiency, or add functionality that is otherwise unavailable.
Hand coding may require more expertise and time than using automatic tools.
Hand code
Hand code is source code which does not have tools that can edit it at a more abstract level. Hand code must, by definition, be edited and maintained entirely by hand. Some code can be edited either using an editor/IDE or by hand, but hand code is differentiated from derived code in that it requires human involvement to create and maintain it over time. Projects may include both hand code and derivative code.
The automatic tools responsible for creating derivative code are themselves usually made up entirely, or at least in part, of hand code.
See also
Patch
References
Computer programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20users%27%20groups
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This is a list of notable computer users' groups, categorized by interest.
General
Chaos Computer Club
Computer Measurement Group (CMG)
ComputerTown UK
Homebrew Computer Club
Port7Alliance
Hardware platforms
Adamcon (Coleco Adam user group)
Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG)
SHARE
Macintosh User Groups in the UK
DUsers, the first Macintosh users group, based at Drexel University
IIUG International Informix Users Group
COMMON for Power Systems (IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, System i, AIX and Linux) users in North America.
Linux
Bangalore Linux User Group
Beijing GNU/Linux User Group
Carson City Linux Users Group
Linux Users' Group of Davis
ILUG-Delhi
Lanka Linux User Group
Linux Australia
Linux Users of Victoria
LinuxChix
Loco team
NYLUG
Portland Linux/Unix Group
RLUG
SEUL
Southern California Linux Expo
Programming languages
Perl Mongers
Z User Group
Markup languages
TeX Users Group
Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX
Lists of organizations
Computing-related lists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Media%20Encoder
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Windows Media Encoder (WME) is a discontinued, freeware media encoder developed by Microsoft which enables content developers to convert or capture both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats for live and on-demand delivery. It is the successor of NetShow Encoder. The download page reports that it is not supported on Windows 7. WME has been replaced by a free version of Microsoft Expression Encoder. The Media 8 Encoding Utility is still listed. WME was available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Windows Media Encoder 9 can encode video using Windows Media Video version 7, 8 or 9. Audio encoding uses a number of Windows Media Audio version 9.2 or version 10 (if the version 10 codecs are installed) profiles and a Windows Media Audio 9 Voice speech codec. Content can also be created as uncompressed audio or video.
Windows Media Encoder 9 enables two-pass encoding to optimize quality for on-demand (streamed or download-and-play) content. It also supports variable bitrate (VBR) encoding for download-and-play scenarios. True VBR can be applied over the entire duration of a high-motion sequence, ensuring the highest quality. This version also enables scripted encoding with the wmcmd.vbs VBScript file, allowing content developers to encode large numbers of prerecorded media files. Bundled with the program are the applications Windows Media File Editor, Windows Media Profile Editor, and Windows Media Stream Editor.
The GUI encoder application is actually a "wrapper" of the encoder itself. Developers can write their own applications using Visual Studio to perform the same functions found in the application. These applications can be used to automate audio and video production. An SDK is also available.
With the removal of Windows Media DRM in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Windows Media Encoder 9 is no longer compatible with the current version of Windows as of May 2017.
Versions
NetShow Encoder 3.0
NetShow Encoder 3.01 (comes with PowerPoint 2000)
Windows Media Encoder 4.0 (also as part of the Windows Media Tools) Windows Media Tools 4.1 was the last release for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.
Windows Media Encoder 7.1 (for Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows 2000)
Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility (command line) for Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows 2000
Windows Media Encoder 9
Windows Media Encoder x64 Edition (based on Windows Media 10 SDK)
Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition was a separate planned version of Windows Media Encoder 9 with support for segment encoding and multiple audio channels. After beta 1, it was eventually cancelled. Microsoft later released the commercial application, Expression Encoder as part of its Expression Studio suite.
See also
WMV HD
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Services
Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft Expression Encoder
Comparison of screencasting software
References
External links
Fix for issues with Windows Vista
Microsoft Expression Encoder
Softpedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20PET%20Users%20Group
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The Toronto PET Users Group is one of the world's oldest extant computer user groups, and was among the very largest. The non-profit group is based in Toronto but has an international membership. It supports nearly all Commodore computers, including the PET, VIC-20, C64, C128, Plus/4, C16, C65, and Amiga, including the COMAL, CP/M and GEOS environments. TPUG is noted for its ties with Commodore Canada, its extensive and widely distributed software library, and its association with prominent computing pioneers such as Jim Butterfield, Brad Templeton, Karl Hildon, and Steve Punter.
History
TPUG was founded in 1978 or 1979 by Lyman Duggan, a Toronto-area resident who had recently bought a Commodore PET 2001 but could not find an existing user group with any PET owners. At the urging of local author and programmer Jim Butterfield, Duggan organized his own PET group—then known as CLUB 2001—and advertised it by word of mouth. The first meeting was held in the party room of Duggan's condominium, with Butterfield as the invited speaker. Some 35 people showed up. Attendance at subsequent meetings grew rapidly, leading Duggan to shift them to ever-larger venues—first to the Ontario Science Centre and later to a theatre at Sheridan College.
When Duggan was unexpectedly transferred by his employer to Florida in 1980, he nominated a board of directors to replace him, and TPUG was transformed from a privately run enterprise into a members' club. By 1982 it had over 2000 members, with 40 more signing up each week, and a magazine circulation of 3000. The club reached its peak in the mid-1980s, with membership figures variously reported between 15,000 and 22,000. It thus became one of the largest and longest-running user groups in the world. The club's scope grew to include other Commodore computers, with dedicated chapters for the PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and Amiga. TPUG held over a hundred chapter meetings each year, with attendance at the largest ones reaching about 700.
Operations
In the 1980s TPUG employed a full-time staff to process memberships and to operate its software library and magazine publishing operations. The club became a central clearing house for freeware for the PET, VIC-20, C64, and other Commodore 8-bit computers. Disks and tapes were distributed by mail to a network of associated Commodore user groups across North America and around the world. Jim Butterfield authored much of the original TPUG software library and he continued to distribute new programs through the club. the software library was still maintained, and has been released in its entirety on CD-ROM, though there is little demand for titles for the very oldest machines.
TPUG's publishing arm produced a number of print periodicals for internal and external distribution, including the standalone journals TPUG Magazine (1984–1986) and TPUG Newsletter (1988–), as well as TPUG News (1987–1988) which was distributed as an insert in Karl Hildo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Butterfield
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Frank James "Jim" Butterfield (14 February 1936 – 29 June 2007), was a Toronto-based computer programmer, author, and television personality known for his work with early microcomputers. He is particularly noted for associations with Commodore Business Machines and the Toronto PET Users Group, for many books and articles on machine language programming, and for educational videos and TV programs.
Early life and career
Jim Butterfield was born on 14 February 1936 in Ponoka, Alberta, which is south of Edmonton. He was the third of four children to James and Nancy Butterfield, who had emigrated from England to farm. In 1953 he won a French scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts. He later attended the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia but dropped out due to lack of interest. One of his first jobs was radio continuity writing in Alberta.
In 1957, Butterfield began working for Canadian National/Canadian Pacific Telecommunications, at first as a microwave technician trainer in Whitehorse. In 1959 Popular Electronics Magazine published his article simplifying then new transistors for the hobbyist. In 1962 he was transferred to Toronto, and within a year was programming CN/CP's mainframe computers. Butterfield left CN/CP in 1981, allegedly for telling his boss that personal computers would wipe out the wire teleprinter business, though Butterfield stated that he quit voluntarily after the company relocated too far from central Toronto to make commuting worthwhile. He became a full-time freelance writer, programmer, and speaker.
Computing career
In May 1976, Butterfield became intensely interested in microcomputers, purchasing a MOS KIM-1 and eventually coauthoring a book about the machine. He soon published games and applications for many computers, and became a regular contributor, and in some cases a columnist or associate editor, for computer magazines such as COMPUTE!, COMPUTE!'s Gazette, The Transactor, and Printout. Several more books followed, including Machine Language Programming for the Commodore 64 and Other Commodore Computers, a leading reference on 6510 programming which went through several editions. Butterfield's writing was praised as being "informal and witty in spite of its technical content", and so endeared him to Commodore users that The Transactor once included a centrefold of a (clothed) Butterfield.
Butterfield helped found the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), and was the invited speaker at its first meeting in 1979. His reputation as a speaker and educator grew, and people would drive hundreds of kilometres to early TPUG meetings to hear him speak. Butterfield gave speeches at science conferences and computer expos around the world; in Europe he was hailed as the "Commodore Pope". Commodore contracted him to tour in support of its new VIC-20 computer and later to produce training videos for the Commodore 64. In 1983, Butterfield appeared as the resident expert in the TVOntario educational s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20Mode%20CD
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A mixed mode CD is a Compact Disc which contains both data and audio in one session. Typically the first track is a data track while the rest are audio tracks. The most common use for mixed mode CDs is to add CD-quality audio to video games on a CD.
The term "enhanced CD" is sometimes used to refer to mixed mode CDs, though it is most commonly used to refer to either a more general category of formats that mix audio and data tracks, or to the particular Enhanced Music CD format.
Overview
Mixed mode CDs are implicitly described in the original CD-ROM standard (the Yellow Book, later standardized as ISO/IEC 10149 and ECMA-130), which allows a CD-ROM to contain only data tracks, or data tracks and audio tracks. The CD-ROM standard, however, does not mention the term "mixed mode", nor does it describe any particular order of data and audio tracks on the disc. Since the original CD-ROM standard did not support multiple sessions, mixed mode CDs are created using only one session.
Some CD players manufactured prior to the mid-to-late-1990s have trouble with the mixed mode CD format because the first track, which contains data, might be "played", resulting in screeching which, at worst, might damage speakers. This is caused by the player not recognizing the "data" flag bit for the track that distinguishes it from an audio track; these players were designed for audio CDs only, with no provisions to handle CD-ROMs with both data and audio tracks. As a result, it attempts to play back the data file as an audio recording, converting the encoded data into incongruous noise that can exceed the limitations of commercial speakers. Newer audio CD players do check for data tracks and (at least) mute the track if it contains data and not audio.
Several newer formats were created to improve the usability of CDs with audio and data tracks in audio CD players; these formats include CD-i, CD-i Ready, and Enhanced CDs (both Blue Book-standard and non-standard enhanced CDs). In the case of the latter, audio tracks are placed in one session before the data tracks, which are stored in a second session. This avoids the problem with the data track for most audio players, since they will only be able to recognize the first session.
Use in video games
Most games released for the Mega-CD/Sega CD and NEC PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx CD are mixed mode CDs. Several games for the PC, Amiga, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and Dreamcast are mixed mode CDs as well. Games ported from floppy disk or cartridge media to a CD would often have the music replaced with (Red Book) audio CD tracks, using the mixed-mode format.
As an alternative, some games embed video and audio in CD-ROM data files and tend not to use CD audio tracks in the game, usually taking advantage of XA interleaving. This was the norm for and including Full-motion video (FMV) games, as the CD drive speed and system RAM size were not adequate to pre-load the video from the disc completely into RAM before playing it, so it ha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded%20Goldreich
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Oded Goldreich (; b. 1957) is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography, and computational complexity theory. He won the Knuth Prize in 2017 and was selected in 2021 to receive the Israel Prize in mathematics.
Biography
Goldreich received a DSc in computer science at Technion in 1983 under Shimon Even.
Goldreich has contributed to the development of pseudorandomness,
zero knowledge proofs, secure function evaluation, property testing,
and other areas in cryptography and computational complexity.
Goldreich has also authored several books including: Foundations of Cryptography which comes in two volumes (volume 1 in 2001 and volume 2 in 2004), Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective (2008), and Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness (1998).
Awards
Goldreich received the Knuth prize in 2017 for "fundamental and lasting contributions to theoretical computer science in many areas including cryptography, randomness, probabilistically checkable proofs, inapproximability, property testing as well as complexity theory in general. Goldreich has, in addition to his outstanding research contributions, advanced these fields through many survey articles and several first class textbooks. He has contributed eminent results, new basic definitions and pointed to new directions of research. Goldreich has been one of the driving forces for the theoretical computer science community for three decades."
Israel Prize and controversy
In 2021 he was selected by committee to win the Israel Prize in mathematics. Education Minister Yoav Gallant vetoed his selection over Goldreich's alleged support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel. One of the reasons for the decision was a letter signed by Goldreich calling German parliament not to equate BDS with Anti-Semitism. However, according to Goldreich, he did not support BDS but instead signed a petition calling for the halt of EU funding for the Israeli Ariel University on the occupied West Bank. The prize committee petitioned to the Supreme Court of Israel to ensure that Goldreich will win the prize. On 8 April 2021 Israel's Supreme Court of Justice ruled in favor of Gallant's petition so that Goldreich could receive the prize that year, giving Gallant a month to further examine the issue. On 11 April 2021, a 2004 Israeli Prize winner, Professor David Harel, decided to share his award with Goldreich in protest of the government's decision to not award the 2021 prize for Professor Goldreich. In August 2021 the Supreme Court wrote, "we found appropriate at this stage to accept the position of the Attorney General that the Education Minister should be allowed to examine new information that he received only tw
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness%20measure
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Fairness measures or metrics are used in network engineering to determine whether users or applications are receiving a fair share of system resources. There are several mathematical and conceptual definitions of fairness.
Transmission Control Protocol fairness
Congestion control mechanisms for new network transmission protocols or peer-to-peer applications must interact well with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP fairness requires that a new protocol receive a no larger share of the network than a comparable TCP flow. This is important as TCP is the dominant transport protocol on the Internet, and if new protocols acquire unfair capacity they tend to cause problems such as congestion collapse. This was the case with the first versions of RealMedia's streaming protocol: it was based on UDP and was widely blocked at organizational firewalls until a TCP-based version was developed. TCP throughput unfairness over WiFi is a critical problem and needs further investigations.
Jain's fairness index
Raj Jain's equation,
rates the fairness of a set of values where there are users, is the throughput for the th connection, and is the sample coefficient of variation . The result ranges from (worst case) to 1 (best case), and it is maximum when all users receive the same allocation. This index is when users equally share the resource, and the other users receive zero allocation.
This metric identifies underutilized channels and is not unduly sensitive to atypical network flow patterns.
To achieve a given fairness level , one approximate method is to let , where
and A is an arbitrary factor, typically used for normalization. This gives an allocation with a fairness close to F, and the allocation can then be refined to get even closer. Note this also allows for a prioritization of allocation, as the s will be sorted.
An exact method is to let , where solves
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A simple way to calculate is to use Newton's Method on , which converges consistently and fairly quickly.
Both of these methods give non-integer allocations, generally, and sometimes integer allocations are required. This can be done by using one of the above allocation methods, rounding down each allocation to the nearest integer (), and then iteratively allocating one unit to a user, with the probability that user k receives it is proportional to .
Max-min fairness
Max-min fairness is said to be achieved by an allocation if and only if the allocation is feasible and an attempt to increase the allocation of any flow necessarily results in the decrease in the allocation of some other flow with an equal or smaller allocation. A max-min fair allocation is achieved when bandwidth is allocated equally and in infinitesimal increments to all flows until one is satisfied, then amongst the remainder of the flows and so on until all flows are satisfied or the bandwidth is exhausted.
Fairly shared spectrum efficiency
In packet radio wireless networks, The fairly shared spectrum efficien
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanley%20High%20School
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Shanley High School (formerly Sacred Heart Academy), is a Catholic high school located in Fargo, North Dakota and operated by the Diocese of Fargo as part of the John Paul II Catholic Schools Network. As of 2014, it served approximately 314 students. Academics are strongly oriented towards college preparatory with approximately 99% of the student body continuing to either a 2 or 4-year degree program. In addition to standard academics courses, student complete required religious education courses during each academic semester.
History
In 1882, a group of Presentation Sisters from Ireland, immigrated to Fargo, North Dakota and opened St. Joseph's Academy, the first Catholic school in Fargo. In 1897, the school was renamed Sacred Heart Academy and moved into a new building on North Broadway. Sacred Heart originally provided primary and secondary education. After the 1950 academic year, the school moved to a new building, and was renamed Shanley High School in honor of John Shanley, the first bishop of Fargo. Less than a decade after opening, the school was severely damaged by the 1957 Fargo tornado, an F5 tornado that destroyed much of north Fargo.
Starting in 1964, the De LaSalle Christian Brothers began involvement with the school, acting as both administrators and teachers. Christian Brothers and Presentation Sisters would continue to work in the school until 1989.
In 2001, construction began on the joint Shanley High School and Sullivan Middle School building. This $13.9 million project moved the school from its original location in north Fargo to an 80-acre site in south Fargo shared with Sts. Anne & Joachim Catholic Church. The final academic year in the original building completed in May 2002.
In the fall of 2010, Shanley High School completed construction and expansion of existing activities facilities along with the creation of a multi-purpose football and soccer field named "Sid Cichy Stadium" in honor of one of the program's former coaches. The project includes plans for a baseball field as well as track and field facilities.
In 2019, a Shanley bus driver, Bruce Arnold, was arrested and given a DUI by the Fargo Police. The police were given a report of a bus being driven erratically. Police followed the bus, which was on the route from Trinity School after the school day, into the parking lot of the Shanley-Sullivan campus. The police confirmed that there were minors board and Bruce Arnold had blood alcohol content of .12.
Activities
Athletics
Throughout the 1950s to 1970s, Shanley's football team rose to prominence under head coach Sid Cichy. Throughout his tenure (1948-1977) the team won 16 state titles and completed 11 undefeated seasons. At one time the Deacons held the record for longest consecutive unbeaten streak in the country, having won 59 games in a row.
In 2009, Shanley was reclassed to "AA", the second level of North Dakota's four-class football system.
Shanley also has shown its ability to produce NFL talent as of l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU
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The Brook programming language and its implementation BrookGPU were early and influential attempts to enable general-purpose computing on graphics processing units.
Brook, developed at Stanford University graphics group, was a compiler and runtime implementation of a stream programming language targeting modern, highly parallel GPUs such as those found on ATI or Nvidia graphics cards.
BrookGPU compiled programs written using the Brook stream programming language, which is a variant of ANSI C. It could target OpenGL v1.3+, DirectX v9+ or AMD's Close to Metal for the computational backend and ran on both Microsoft Windows and Linux. For debugging, BrookGPU could also simulate a virtual graphics card on the CPU.
Status
The last major beta release (v0.4) was in October 2004 but renewed development began and stopped again in November 2007 with a v0.5 beta 1 release.
The new features of v0.5 include a much upgraded and faster OpenGL backend which uses framebuffer objects instead of PBuffers and harmonised the code around standard OpenGL interfaces instead of using proprietary vendor extensions. GLSL support was added which brings all the functionality (complex branching and loops) previously only supported by DirectX 9 to OpenGL. In particular, this means that Brook is now just as capable on Linux as Windows.
Other improvements in the v0.5 series include multi-backend usage whereby different threads can run different Brook programs concurrently (thus maximising use of a multi-GPU setup) and SSE and OpenMP support for the CPU backend (this allows near maximal usage of modern CPUs).
Performance comparison
A like for like comparison between desktop CPUs and GPGPUs is problematic because of algorithmic & structural differences.
For example, a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo can perform a maximum of 25 GFLOPs (25 billion single-precision floating-point operations per second) if optimally using SSE and streaming memory access so the prefetcher works perfectly. However, traditionally (due to shader program length limits) most GPGPU kernels tend to perform relatively small amounts of work on large amounts of data in parallel, so the big problem with directly executing GPGPU algorithms on desktop CPUs is vastly lower memory bandwidth as generally speaking the CPU spends most of its time waiting on RAM. As an example, dual-channel PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM can throughput about 11 Gbit/s which is around 1.5 GFLOPs maximum given that there is a total of 3 GFLOPs total bandwidth and one must both read and write. As a result, if memory bandwidth constrained, Brook's CPU backend won't exceed 2 GFLOPs. In practice, it's even lower than that most especially for anything other than float4 which is the only data type which can be SSE accelerated.
On an ATI HD 2900 XT (740 MHz core 1000 MHz memory), Brook can perform a maximum of 410 GFLOPs via its DirectX 9 backend. OpenGL is currently (due to driver and Cg compiler limitations) much less efficient as a GPGPU backend on that G
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-security%20regulation
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A cybersecurity regulation comprises directives that safeguard information technology and computer systems with the purpose of forcing companies and organizations to protect their systems and information from cyberattacks like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, phishing, denial of service (DOS) attacks, unauthorized access (stealing intellectual property or confidential information) and control system attacks. There are numerous measures available to prevent cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity measures include firewalls, anti-virus software, intrusion detection and prevention systems, encryption, and login passwords. There have been attempts to improve cybersecurity through regulation and collaborative efforts between the government and the private sector to encourage voluntary improvements to cybersecurity. Industry regulators, including banking regulators, have taken notice of the risk from cybersecurity and have either begun or planned to begin to include cybersecurity as an aspect of regulatory examinations.
Recent research suggests there is also a lack of cyber-security regulation and enforcement in maritime businesses, including the digital connectivity between ships and ports.
Background
In 2011 the DoD released a guidance called the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace which articulated five goals: to treat cyberspace as an operational domain, to employ new defensive concepts to protect DoD networks and systems, to partner with other agencies and the private sector in pursuit of a "whole-of-government cybersecurity Strategy", to work with international allies in support of collective cybersecurity and to support the development of a cyber workforce capable of rapid technological innovation. A March 2011 GAO report "identified protecting the federal government's information systems and the nation's cyber critical infrastructure as a governmentwide high-risk area" noting that federal information security had been designated a high-risk area since 1997. As of 2003 systems protecting critical infrastructure, called cyber critical infrastructure protection of cyber CIP has also been included.
In November 2013, the DoD put forward the new cybersecurity rule (78 Fed. Reg. 69373), which imposed certain requirements on contractors: compliance with certain NIST IT standards, mandatory reporting of cybersecurity incidents to the DoD, and a "flow-down" clause that applies the same requirements to subcontractors.
A June 2013 Congressional report found there were over 50 statutes relevant to cybersecurity compliance. The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) is one of the key statutes governing federal cybersecurity regulations.
United States
Federal government
There are few federal cybersecurity regulations and the ones that exist focus on specific industries. The three main cybersecurity regulations are the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOTO%20Talk
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MOTO Talk is a feature on some Motorola iDEN cellular phone handsets which allows users to make short-range 'push-to-talk' calls to other such handsets without being on the iDEN network. This feature goes by different names on iDEN service providers. In the US, Nextel called it 'DirectTalk' and included it as a free service on most new models of Motorola handsets. Boost Mobile disabled the function via handset software settings. SouthernLINC calls it LINCaround and ships handsets with the feature disabled. It can be enabled after paying an activation fee of $20. In Canada, TELUS calls it "Mike's Talk-Around."
It is the same system as used with Motorola's stand-alone DTR-series walkie-talkies, but DTR handsets and iDEN handsets set to MOTO Talk are not able to communicate with each other due to software settings. Motorola Solutions Inc sells DTR series two-ways radios that carry this peer to peer protocol. It can be used for voice communication, as well as SMS (short message services) between devices over more than 8 miles in flat terrain conditions.
MOTO Talk is not the same as the on-network 'DirectConnect' push-to-talk service. Signals are sent directly from one handset to another, rather than using the cellular network as DirectConnect does. MOTO Talk uses the 900 MHz ISM band rather than the frequencies allocated for iDEN cellular phone service, usually in the 800 MHz cellular band in the US and Canada.
There are ten "channels" or "hop sets" or "frequency hop groups" available in MOTO Talk, and fifteen privacy codes per channel. In addition, "private calls" can be placed using the phone number assigned to the handset being called.
The effective range can be in excess of 8 miles in flat terrain, but the frequencies used are line-of-sight and are blocked by structures and vegetation. Practical ranges are usually 1 to 2 miles.
The MOTO Talk service is slightly similar to FRS (Family Radio Service) walkie-talkies but uses digital rather than analog signals, operates on the 900 MHz ISM band rather than the 462 MHz frequencies allocated to FRS, and uses frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology rather than single fixed frequencies for each channel.
On each phone the MOTO Talk entry varies between 'MotoTalk' and 'DirecTalk' depending on the age of the phone and the branded carrier (Boost Mobile or Nextel). Otherwise, they are the identical function with a different name. Boost Mobile phones are not enabled for MOTO Talk use by default but can enabled by modifying the codeplug of the device (The Motorola i415 has the codeplug entry but not the needed transceiver hardware. As of 2011, it is the only device from Boost on the iDEN network that cannot use MOTO Talk.)
The off network feature on the iDEN phones work for up to a six-mile radius and will communicate with all other iDEN phones in the area on the same channel and code access number.
The off network walkie talkie feature has a total of 10 channels on newer phones and within
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML%20form
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A webform, web form or HTML form on a web page allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing. Forms can resemble paper or database forms because web users fill out the forms using checkboxes, radio buttons, or text fields. For example, forms can be used to enter shipping or credit card data to order a product, or can be used to retrieve search results from a search engine.
Description
Forms are enclosed in the HTML <form> element. This HTML element specifies the communication endpoint the data entered into the form should be submitted to, and the method of submitting the data, GET or POST.
Elements
Forms can be made up of standard graphical user interface elements:
<text> — a simple text box that allows input of a single line of text.
<email> - a type of <text> that requires a partially validated email address
<number> - a type of <text> that requires a number
<password> — similar to <text>, it is used for security purposes, in which the characters typed in are invisible or replaced by symbols such as *
<radio> — a radio button
<file> — a file select control for uploading a file
<reset> — a reset button that, when activated, tells the browser to restore the values of the current form, to their initial values.
<submit> — a button that tells the browser to take action on the form (typically to send it to a server)
<textarea> — much like the <text> input field except a <textarea> allows for multiple rows of data to be shown and entered
<select> — a drop-down list that displays a list of items a user can select from
The sample image on the right shows most of these elements:
a text box asking for your name
a pair of radio buttons asking you to choose between gender values
a select box giving you a list of eye colors to choose from
a pair of check boxes to click on if they apply to you
a text area to describe your athletic ability
a submit button to send current form values to the server
These basic elements provide the most common graphical user interface (GUI) elements, but not all. For example, there are no equivalents to a tree view or grid view.
A grid view, however, can be mimicked by using a standard HTML table with each cell containing a text input element. A tree view could also be mimicked through nested tables or, more semantically appropriately, nested lists. In both cases, a server-side process is responsible for processing the information, while JavaScript handles the user-interaction. Implementations of these interface elements are available through JavaScript libraries such as jQuery.
HTML 4 introduced the <label> tag, which is intended to represent a caption in a user interface, and can be associated with a specific form control by specifying the id attribute of the control in the label tag's for attribute. This allows labels to stay with their elements when a window is resized and to allow more desktop-like functionality (e.g. clicking a radio button or checkbox's label wi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother%27s%20Spaceship
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Grandmother's Spaceship the third a studio album by pioneer Christian punk band Scaterd Few. Lyrically the album is themed, referencing "aliens, the cyber-age and other extra-terrestrial things," while staying centered on the ultimate truth of renewed life in Christ. Several lyrics draw their themes directly from scripture. Musically it is more diverse than most punk albums, encompassing reggae, aggressive punk, funk, and a "slight Gothic overtone" similar to Allan's alternate band, Spy Glass Blue. While at least one critic thought the album "failed to capture the essence" that Sin Disease displayed, most reviews were positive. The album was written over two years and recorded in three weeks.
Lyrical themes
Lyrically, the album paints a cohesive picture of mankind in a technological society. According to Allan because man is separated from God and so has lost his true identity. In this unnatural state mankind tends toward pagan activities, destroying himself through his vices, in an attempt to find his true identity. This condition is exacerbated by the conditions of the 21st century - a world of information overload where "Major Tom is now an info monk." Humans are said to be a "Species filled with anti-matter." Perhaps the clearest expression of this idea is in "Bobby's Song," which tells the story of a family preparing to leave Earth by way of alien abduction. The story is similar to that of the Heaven's Gate cult; one reviewer describes this as "the story of humankind's misplaced yearning for extraordinary salvation from all sources other than the Universal King."
The album's answer is that Christ can restore man to his natural state of communion with God. Allan speaks directly to the world in pleading "Wake up, sleeper!" (echoing Ephesians 5:14, on "Lullaby") and drawing from Mark 1:17 in "Win The Fisher" ("If you follow me, I'll make you fisher's of men.") In Christ Agiurre offers "Death! Where is your sting?!" (from, "Incorruptible", 1 Corinthians 15:55) as a triumphant victory cry over the corruption world.
Grandmother's space theme has been interpreted in two related ways: that believers are "not of this world," and that the world increasingly alienates believers as unwelcome. In this vein "As The Story Grows V.2" is a continuation of the theme set forth on "As The Story Grows" (Sin Disease), and "Space Junk" is most exploratory. These songs restate both questions posed to believers by the outside world (such as "How can you believe in a God that would let small children suffer?"), and the world's angry reply back to Christians ("We love the smell of hell / How dare you try to tell us that / He died to set us free / ...Take your cross and let us be".)
The album also contains elements of praise and worship music, albeit in a punk fashion, which was, according to Aguirre, "a very conscious decision." The best of these are probably "Splendor" and "Arbitrator", which draws from Psalm 139, and was remade by Spy Glass Blue on their 2003 re
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPHY-CD
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WPHY-CD (channel 25) is a low-power, Class A television station in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, which primarily airs paid programming from Revenue Frontier. It is owned by WRNN-TV Associates alongside Princeton, New Jersey–licensed ShopHQ affiliate WMCN-TV (channel 44) and Willow Grove, Pennsylvania–licensed WTVE (channel 51). WPHY-CD and WTVE share studios on East State Street in Trenton; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WPHY-CD's spectrum from an antenna in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia (Trenton is part of the Philadelphia television market).
History
The station first broadcast in 1993 on analog channel 25, and was originally assigned the call sign W25AW, though for much of its history it branded as "WZBN TV-25." The station's tower was located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. The station's call sign became W50DZ-D in January 2012 after converting to digital broadcasting on channel 50; however, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel 25.
The station has received several awards from the Community Broadcasters Association for local service and programming.
With the creation of a statewide and regional cable news service owned by the cable companies, cable outlets threatened to pull WZBN off their systems in the late 1990s. Protests by viewers ensured the station remained on cable. WZBN has since expanded its reach with additional broadcasts on three competing cable systems (Verizon Fios, Cablevision, Comcast) in the area.
In 2012, the station's longtime owners, the Zanoni family, announced that they would sell W50DZ-D to NRJ TV LLC (a company unrelated to European broadcaster NRJ Radio), which already owned WTVE. The station's local programming was discontinued on June 8, 2012; the sale was completed a week later, on June 15, 2012.
On November 1, 2012, NRJ TV changed W50DZ-D's call sign to WPHY-CD. The WPHY call sign was previously used by two radio stations audible in the market; it was on 560 AM in Philadelphia for ten months in 1993–94, ending when that signal's heritage call sign WFIL became available and was reclaimed, and it was on 920 AM in Trenton from 2002 to 2008. In January 2014, Cablevision announced that it would drop WPHY from its Trenton-area systems on January 28 to accommodate a must-carry request from Me-TV affiliate KJWP (channel 2); WPHY's former channel 25 slot on Cablevision was taken by WCBS-TV from New York City, which lost its previous channel 2 slot on the system to KJWP. In June 2016, the station began to carry Sonlife Broadcasting Network programming; it had previously been affiliated with Youtoo America.
Sale to RNN
On December 9, 2019, it was announced that WRNN-TV Associates, owner of New York City–based WRNN-TV, secured a deal to purchase seven full-power TV stations and one Class A station (including WPHY-CD) from NRJ. The sale was approved by the FCC on January 23, and was completed on Fe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201355
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IEEE Standard 1355-1995, IEC 14575, or ISO 14575 is a data communications standard for Heterogeneous Interconnect (HIC).
IEC 14575 is a low-cost, low latency, scalable serial interconnection system, originally intended for communication between large numbers of inexpensive computers.
IEC 14575 lacks many of the complexities of other data networks. The standard defined several different types of transmission media (including wires and optic fiber), to address different applications.
Since the high-level network logic is compatible, inexpensive electronic adapters are possible. IEEE 1355 is often used in scientific laboratories. Promoters include large laboratories, such as CERN, and scientific agencies.
For example, the ESA advocates a derivative standard called SpaceWire.
Goals
The protocol was designed for a simple, low cost switched network made of point-to-point links. This network sends variable length data packets reliably at high speed. It routes the packets using wormhole routing. Unlike Token Ring or other types of local area networks (LANs) with comparable specifications, IEEE 1355 scales beyond a thousand nodes without requiring higher transmission speeds. The network is designed to carry traffic from other types of networks, notably Internet Protocol and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), but does not depend on other protocols for data transfers or switching. In this, it resembles Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
IEEE 1355 had goals like Futurebus and its derivatives Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI), and InfiniBand. The packet routing system of IEEE 1355 is also similar to VPLS, and uses a packet labeling scheme similar to MPLS.
IEEE 1355 achieves its design goals with relatively simple digital electronics and very little software. This simplicity is valued by many engineers and scientists.
Paul Walker (see links ) said that when implemented in an FPGA, the standard takes about a third the hardware resources of a UART (a standard serial port), and gives one hundred times the data transmission capacity, while implementing a full switching network and being easier to program.
Historically, IEEE 1355 derived from the asynchronous serial networks developed for the Transputer model T9000 on-chip serial data interfaces. The Transputer was a microprocessor developed to inexpensively implement parallel computation. IEEE 1355 resulted from an attempt to preserve the Transputer's unusually simple data network. This data strobe encoding scheme makes the links self-clocking, able to adapt automatically to different speeds. It was patented by Inmos under U.K. patent number 9011700.3, claim 16 (DS-Link bit-level encoding),
and in 1991 under US patent 5341371,
claim 16. The patent expired in 2011.
Use
IEEE 1355 inspired SpaceWire. It is sometimes used for digital data connections between scientific instruments, controllers and recording systems. IEEE 1355 is used in scientific instrumentation because it is easy to program an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Don%20Lane%20Show
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The Don Lane Show was an Australian television talk show which aired twice a week on the Nine Network from 1975 to 1983.
The show was created by Don Lane who co-hosted it with Bert Newton.
Channel Nine was reluctant to cast Bert Newton, who had been associated with Graham Kennedy, but Lane insisted that he wanted Newton to do the show.
The theme music of the show in its later years was "You Make It So Easy", written by Helen Reddy and Carole Bayer Sager and first recorded for Reddy's 1976 album Music, Music.
Legacy
The show became one of the most popular talks shows in Australian television history. Its broadcast time-slot varied in its early years, including a brief stint in 1980 when it ran four nights a week, but eventually settled on Mondays and Thursdays at 9:30pm on the Nine Network and many stations across Australia. Some regional and remote commercial stations would receive the program on videotape for delayed broadcast.
Alongside Blue Heelers, The Don Lane Show is the most awarded show in the history of the Logie Awards, with five wins . Lane was inducted into the Logie Awards Hall of Fame in 2003.
DVD release
In 2010, a two-disc DVD was released. In 2015, a four-disc version with new covers was released. The DVDs include episodes from 1981 to 1983, including the 1983 bushfire appeal special and the final episode.
References
Nine Network original programming
Australian television talk shows
1975 Australian television series debuts
1983 Australian television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinc
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Tinc or TINC may refer to:
Tinc (band) from Japan
Tinc (protocol) in computing
Tinc (retail), UK store chain
The (International) Noise Conspiracy, a Swedish rock band
There Is No Cabal, a Usenet catchphrase
TiNC, a coating material made by Micromy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20Maine
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Fox Sports Maine was a network of sports/talk stations owned by Blueberry Broadcasting carrying Fox Sports Radio. Located in Central Maine, it comprised WFAU (1280 AM) in Gardiner, Maine, WVOM (1450 AM) in Rockland, Maine, and WIGY (97.5 FM) in Madison, Maine. Its studios were located in Augusta, Maine. The network also carried some CBS Sports Radio programming.
Former programming
Fox Sports Radio
CBS Sports Radio
Imus in the Morning
Boston Red Sox Baseball (Part of the Red Sox Radio Network)
Westwood One NFL football
The Jim Rome Show
Boston Celtics Basketball
ACC Basketball
Select games of the Maine Black Bears
What's Brewin' Afternoon sports talk show, carried from October 2006-March 2007
MLB on ESPN Radio
Portland Sea Dogs Baseball
History
Previous to its sports trimulcast. 97.5 WQSK (then WIGY) and 1280 WFAU simulcasted the (then) sports format of WSKW and WHQO (now WFMX).
WQSK also simulcasted WGUY Dexter, Maine and WKCG in the 1990s. WFAU was an Adult Standards format and WRKD (now WVOM) was a talk station carrying Rush Limbaugh, however for a time they were affiliated with ESPN Radio. The station also has carried New York Giants football, but elected to carry Westwood One's football coverage for the 2007 NFL season.They also broadcast High School Sports for years, utilizing talent such as Don Brown, Rob Kennedy, and Matt Boutwell.
End of simulcast
In the summer of 2013 owner Blueberry Broadcasting dismantled the network, selling off WFAU (which became WJYE in 2014 and WHTP in 2020), switching WRKD (by then known as WVOM) to a simulcast of WVOM-FM/WVQM and WIGY (which would change call letters to WQSK) to a simulcast of WQSS/WKSQ.
Sports radio in the United States
Mass media in Kennebec County, Maine
Knox County, Maine
Radio stations disestablished in 2013
2013 disestablishments in Maine
Sports in Augusta, Maine
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Defunct mass media in Maine
Defunct radio stations in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20method
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In machine learning, kernel machines are a class of algorithms for pattern analysis, whose best known member is the support-vector machine (SVM). These methods involve using linear classifiers to solve nonlinear problems. The general task of pattern analysis is to find and study general types of relations (for example clusters, rankings, principal components, correlations, classifications) in datasets. For many algorithms that solve these tasks, the data in raw representation have to be explicitly transformed into feature vector representations via a user-specified feature map: in contrast, kernel methods require only a user-specified kernel, i.e., a similarity function over all pairs of data points computed using inner products. The feature map in kernel machines is infinite dimensional but only requires a finite dimensional matrix from user-input according to the Representer theorem. Kernel machines are slow to compute for datasets larger than a couple of thousand examples without parallel processing.
Kernel methods owe their name to the use of kernel functions, which enable them to operate in a high-dimensional, implicit feature space without ever computing the coordinates of the data in that space, but rather by simply computing the inner products between the images of all pairs of data in the feature space. This operation is often computationally cheaper than the explicit computation of the coordinates. This approach is called the "kernel trick". Kernel functions have been introduced for sequence data, graphs, text, images, as well as vectors.
Algorithms capable of operating with kernels include the kernel perceptron, support-vector machines (SVM), Gaussian processes, principal components analysis (PCA), canonical correlation analysis, ridge regression, spectral clustering, linear adaptive filters and many others.
Most kernel algorithms are based on convex optimization or eigenproblems and are statistically well-founded. Typically, their statistical properties are analyzed using statistical learning theory (for example, using Rademacher complexity).
Motivation and informal explanation
Kernel methods can be thought of as instance-based learners: rather than learning some fixed set of parameters corresponding to the features of their inputs, they instead "remember" the -th training example and learn for it a corresponding weight . Prediction for unlabeled inputs, i.e., those not in the training set, is treated by the application of a similarity function , called a kernel, between the unlabeled input and each of the training inputs . For instance, a kernelized binary classifier typically computes a weighted sum of similarities
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where
is the kernelized binary classifier's predicted label for the unlabeled input whose hidden true label is of interest;
is the kernel function that measures similarity between any pair of inputs ;
the sum ranges over the labeled examples in the classifier's training set, with ;
the are the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%20shaping
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In control theory, input shaping is an open-loop control technique for reducing vibrations in computer-controlled machines. The method works by creating a command signal that cancels its own vibration. That is, a vibration excited by previous parts of the command signal is cancelled by vibration excited by latter parts of the command. Input shaping is implemented by convolving a sequence of impulses, known as an input shaper, with any arbitrary command. The shaped command that results from the convolution is then used to drive the system. If the impulses in the shaper are chosen correctly, then the shaped command will excite less residual vibration than the unshaped command. The amplitudes and time locations of the impulses are obtained from the system's natural frequencies and damping ratios. Shaping can be made very robust to errors in the system parameters.
References
External links
Input shaping simulator demonstrates the filter principle on a gantry crane control problem.
Control theory
Cybernetics
Dynamics (mechanics)
Mechanical vibrations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TH1
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TH1 may refer to:
Th1 cell, a type of T helper cells
Tianhe-I (TH-1), a Chinese super computer
TH1 the scripting language for web pages in fossil (software), the Fossil SCM
Windows 10 Threshold 1
TH-1, a character in The Source (Ayreon album)
TH-1 (Phytophthora infestans), a subpopulation of the Ia mtDNA haplotype of the A2 mating type
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar-oriented%20programming
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Grammar-oriented programming (GOP) and Grammar-oriented Object Design (GOOD) are good for designing and creating a domain-specific programming language (DSL) for a specific business domain.
GOOD can be used to drive the execution of the application or it can be used to embed the declarative processing logic of a context-aware component (CAC) or context-aware service (CAS). GOOD is a method for creating and maintaining dynamically reconfigurable software architectures driven by business-process architectures. The business compiler was used to capture business processes within real-time workshops for various lines of business and create an executable simulation of the processes used.
Instead of using one DSL for the entire programming activity, GOOD suggests the combination of defining domain-specific behavioral semantics in conjunction with the use of more traditional, general purpose programming languages.
See also
Adaptive grammar
Definite clause grammar
Extensible programming
Language-oriented programming
Dialecting
Transformation language
External links
Manners Externalize Semantics for On-demand Composition of Context-aware Services
"Empowering the Business Analyst for On-demand Computing" for an example of using GOOD.
Domain-specific programming languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%27s%20axioms
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Armstrong's axioms are a set of references (or, more precisely, inference rules) used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database. They were developed by William W. Armstrong in his 1974 paper. The axioms are sound in generating only functional dependencies in the closure of a set of functional dependencies (denoted as ) when applied to that set (denoted as ). They are also complete in that repeated application of these rules will generate all functional dependencies in the closure .
More formally, let denote a relational scheme over the set of attributes with a set of functional dependencies . We say that a functional dependency is logically implied by , and denote it with if and only if for every instance of that satisfies the functional dependencies in , also satisfies . We denote by the set of all functional dependencies that are logically implied by .
Furthermore, with respect to a set of inference rules , we say that a functional dependency is derivable from the functional dependencies in by the set of inference rules , and we denote it by if and only if is obtainable by means of repeatedly applying the inference rules in to functional dependencies in . We denote by the set of all functional dependencies that are derivable from by inference rules in .
Then, a set of inference rules is sound if and only if the following holds:
that is to say, we cannot derive by means of functional dependencies that are not logically implied by .
The set of inference rules is said to be complete if the following holds:
more simply put, we are able to derive by all the functional dependencies that are logically implied by .
Axioms (primary rules)
Let be a relation scheme over the set of attributes . Henceforth we will denote by letters , , any subset of and, for short, the union of two sets of attributes and by instead of the usual ; this notation is rather standard in database theory when dealing with sets of attributes.
Axiom of reflexivity
If is a set of attributes and is a subset of , then holds . Hereby, holds [] means that functionally determines .
If then .
Axiom of augmentation
If holds and is a set of attributes, then holds . It means that attribute in dependencies does not change the basic dependencies.
If , then for any .
Axiom of transitivity
If holds and holds , then holds .
If and , then .
Additional rules (Secondary Rules)
These rules can be derived from the above axioms.
Decomposition
If then and .
Proof
Composition
If and then .
Proof
Union (Notation)
If and then .
Proof
Pseudo transitivity
If and then .
Proof
Self determination
for any . This follows directly from the axiom of reflexivity.
Extensivity
The following property is a special case of augmentation when .
If , then .
Extensivity can replace augmentation as axiom in the sense that augmentation can be proved from extensivity together with the other axioms.
Proof
Armstrong relation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Knowledge%20and%20Learning%20Network
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The Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) is an inter-governmental agency of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, responsible for developing and managing a high capacity, broadband fiber optic network called C@ribNET, connecting all CARICOM member states.
The Caribbean Knowledge Learning Network Agency was first proposed in 2002 at a meeting where the 7 Prime Ministers of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados met with the president of the World Bank. It was established in 2004 as an institution of the CARICOM, under the authority of Article 21 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
Academic computer network organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISA
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CISA or Cisa may refer to:
Computing and law
Certified Information Systems Auditor, a professional certification for information technology audit professionals sponsored by ISACA
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a U.S. law which allows sharing of Internet traffic information between the government and companies
Organizations
China Iron and Steel Association, a national, non-profit organization founded in 1999 on the basis of China Metallurgical Enterprise Management Association
Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini, an Italian manufacturer of locking and access control systems
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. federal cybersecurity agency, overseen by DHS; formed in November 2018
Education and research
Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, an academic institute based in Winnipeg and Toronto
Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Council of International Students Australia, peak representative body for international students studying in Australia
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, in Geneva
Other uses
CISA-DT, a television station in Canada
Cisa (goddess), a goddess in Germanic paganism
See also
Kisa (disambiguation)
Sisa (disambiguation)
Zisa (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITV
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CITV is a British children's morning programming block on ITV2 and was a former free-to-air channel owned by ITV plc.
CITV, then Children's ITV, launched on 3 January 1983 as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6–12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio up until 1987, when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity. Nine years later, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford.
In 2006, CITV launched as a digital channel on Freeview. The channel broadcast content from CITV's archive and acquisitions daily from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm. The CITV channel averaged around 100,000 viewers between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm daily. The CITV programming block on the ITV network airs on weekend mornings from 6:00 am to 9:25 am as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. CITV did not have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels. Additionally, the channel was only simulcast in HD on Sky online and Sky Glass.
On 22 July 2023, ITV launched a new children's hub on the ITVX streaming service, called ITVX Kids, with plans that it would be an eventual replacement for the CITV channel. At 9:00pm on 1 September 2023, the channel ceased broadcasting with a loop informing viewers of the move to ITVX.
On 2 September 2023, the children's block was moved to feature every morning on ITV2 during breakfast time, 05:00 to 09:00. Shows broadcast are from ITVX Kids, featured on the streaming service ITVX. This block retains the CITV branding after the channel's closure.
On 1 October 2023, CITV's 602 Freesat slot was removed.
History
Watch It! and Children's ITV: Early years (1980–1989)
Before being known as Children's ITV, the timeslot for children's programmes on the ITV network was briefly branded as Watch It!, which started on 29 December 1980, and was presented live by the duty continuity announcer in each ITV region.
The notion of networking children's continuity was first suggested within ITV as far back as the early 1970s, but with fierce regional identities prevalent – including scheduling, presentation, and programming – the idea stalled until the late 1970s, when the IBA began to express concern that most ITV shows for children were not consistent or fully networked. On Thursdays, the ITV regions were able to broadcast whatever programmes they wished; many non-children's programmes appeared, such as Looney Tunes. In December 1980, ITV announced its first concerted effort at a more coherent approach to children's output, with the introduction of the new Watch It! block each weekday from 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm, after the IBA continued to emphasize issues.
Watch It! was conceived by the promotions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Hearts
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Hearts, also known as Microsoft Hearts, and The Microsoft Hearts Network prior to Windows XP, is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based on a card game with the same name. It was first introduced in Windows 3.1 in 1992, and was included in every version of Windows up to Windows 7. Despite the name, the game rules correspond to those of Black Lady in which the queen of spades is a penalty card, in addition to the cards of the heart suit that are the only penalty cards in the traditional card game of Hearts. An online version, named Internet Hearts was included in Me and XP.
History
Hearts was first included in Windows with Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Microsoft's first "network-ready" version of Windows, released in 1992, which included a new networking technology that Microsoft called NetDDE. Microsoft used Hearts to showcase the new NetDDE technology by enabling multiple players to play simultaneously across a computer network. This legacy could be seen in the original title bar name for the program, "The Microsoft Hearts Network" (although network play was removed in the Windows XP version).
Hearts continued to be included in subsequent versions of Windows, but was absent in all Windows NT-based OSes prior to Windows XP including Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. From the 'Help' menu, Hearts offered a quote from Shakespeare's famous play, Julius Caesar (act III, scene ii): "I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts...". Later versions of Windows starting with Vista removed this quote.
Hearts is not included with Windows 8, 10 or 11. As part of the operating system, it is deleted upon upgrading to Windows 10 from an earlier version.
On The Microsoft Hearts Network for Windows for Workgroups 3.1, the default opponent names are Anna, Lynda, and Terri. In later versions, the three default opponent names, Pauline, Michele, and Ben, were specified by the program's developer. One is the spouse of a Microsoft employee who found a program bug, one was a Microsoft employee who resigned in 1995, and one is an employee's child who frequented the Microsoft worksite. The names are not used in the Windows Vista version of the game, instead favoring the three cardinal directions that the computer players pertain to depending on their side of the window ("West", "North", and "East"). This version of the game no longer prompts for a player name to be entered at startup, and instead uses the name of the currently logged-in user account as the player name.
Gameplay
Gameplay follows the rules of a version of the Black Lady variant of Hearts. When the game is first loaded, the user is prompted for their name, and then the game begins. The computer uses all three hands against the player. The game ends when at least one player has 100 or more points at the end of a hand. The winner is the one who has the fewest points.
Before the hand
The user is given thirteen pseudo-random playing cards, and selects any three of them to pass. For the first
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Alliance%20Against%20Traffic%20in%20Women
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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is a network of more than 80 non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world that fight against trafficking in persons. GAATW is committed to work for changes in the political, economic, social, and legal systems and structures which contribute to the persistence of trafficking in persons and other human rights violations in the context of migratory movements for diverse purposes, including security of labour and livelihood. It was founded in 1994 by several activists.
Method
GAATW applies a human rights approach to trafficking, which means:
Centering the human rights of trafficked persons, and those in vulnerable situations, in all anti-trafficking activities;
Acknowledging the equality of all persons to exercise, defend, and promote their inherent, universal, and indivisible human rights
Non-discrimination on any grounds, including ethnic descent, age, sexual orientation or preference, religion, gender, age, nationality, and occupation (including work in the informal sectors such as domestic work, sex work, etc.)
Primacy of the principles of accountability, participation, and inclusivity / non-discrimination in working methodologies, and organizational structures and procedures. In this respect, self-representation and organization of those directly affected by trafficking are strongly encouraged and supported.
Activities
GAATW's work is structured around three main strategic thematic directions:
accountability – which aims to increase the accountability of all anti-trafficking stakeholders involved in the design or implementation of anti-trafficking responses, towards the persons whose human rights they purport to protect.
access to justice – which aims to broaden spaces for trafficked persons and migrant workers to practice their human rights by improving access to justice and combating all forms of discrimination that impact women's ability to exercise their human rights, as they relate to trafficking.
power in migration and work – which centres an analysis of women's power in their labour and migration to better assess migration and labour policies' impact on women, and to work towards labour and migration processes that reflect migrants' needs, aspirations, and capabilities.
GAATW also serves its members through international advocacy, research, and strategic communications.
Publications by GAATW include:
Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour, and Slavery-like Practices (1997) - the first worldwide investigation of human trafficking in the context of prostitution, marriage, and domestic labour
Human Rights Standards for the Treatment of Trafficked Persons (1999) - a collection of human rights standards that can be used to protect trafficked persons' rights.
Collateral Damage - The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights around the World (2007) - a research in eight countries across the globe, highlighting how anti-trafficking policies are routinely use
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDX4
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HDX4 is an MPEG-4 codec developed by a German company named Jomigo Visual Technology.
Benchmark tests of c't (a renowned German computer magazine), issue 05/2005 and Doom9.org showed that it was the fastest codec among the ones tested, with the disadvantage of a slightly lesser encoding efficiency. It is, among others, compatible with DivX, Xvid and Nero Digital.
The MPEG-4 implementation in HDX4 follows the specification guidelines of ISO/IEC 14496-2, also known as Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile.
The HDX4 codec comes bundled with the "HDX4 Movie Creator" suite, which claims to be optimized especially for the creation of videos for portable devices, but which is also capable of creating professional video content in High Definition or for streaming purposes in MP4.
The codec is more widely used in commercial fields, for example at Lufthansa, a German airline, and the Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. Fraunhofer IGD employs HDX4 for its video conferencing system Communitrust. Apart from the commercial field, there are also various consumer applications that can make use of the HDX4 codec, due to its support of proprietary Microsoft Windows interfaces. By using an application such as MovieJack, the HDX4 codec can be used to convert a variety of video formats into content that is suitable for playback on mobile phones (3GPP), iPod or the PlayStation Portable.
In addition to the plain HDX4 codec, there are also several SDKs available, these encapsulate functionalities including the creation of content in MPEG-4, H.264, AAC, AMR-NB, G.726, 3GP, MP4, ASF formats and containers, as well as special functions such as dynamic upscaling and picture optimization.
Products
HDX4 Player
HDX4 Movie Creator
HDX4 SDKs
External links
hdx4 (archived 3 September 2011)
Video codecs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta%20Victoria%20Hospital
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Augusta Victoria Compound is Community hospital and Church complex on the northern side of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and one of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network. The compound was built in 1907–1914 by the Empress Augusta Victoria Foundation as a center for the German Protestant community in Ottoman Palestine, in addition to the slightly older Church of the Redeemer from Jerusalem's Old City. Apart from the hospital, today the complex also includes the German Protestant Church of the Ascension with a c. 50 metre high belltower, a meeting centre for pilgrims and tourists, an interreligious kindergarten and a café, as well as the Jerusalem branch of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology.
Throughout much of its history, the compound was used first and foremost as a hospital, either by the military (during the First and Second World Wars and during Jordanian rule), or for Palestinian refugees and general public (from 1950 until today), and at times also as a government or military headquarters (1915–1927).
Today, Augusta Victoria Hospital provides specialty care for Palestinians from across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with services including a cancer center, a dialysis unit, and a pediatric center. It is the second largest hospital in East Jerusalem, as well as the sole remaining specialized care unit located in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
History
The complex was named for Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who visited Jerusalem in 1898. The architect, Robert Leibnitz, was inspired by German palaces, such as the German Hohenzollern Castle.
The complex was photographed in detail in ca. 1910, along with the inaugural celebrations, by Khalil Raad, Palestine's first Arab photographer. Although officially inaugurated on 10 April 1910, the construction was only finalised in 1914.
After the Kaiser's 1898 visit, he commissioned the construction of a guesthouse for German pilgrims. Private donations were collected throughout Germany and donators honoured with the Cross of the Mount of Olives. Many of the building materials were imported from Germany. A 60-metre high church tower was constructed with four bells, the largest of them weighing six tons. To transport these bells from Jaffa, the road to Jerusalem had to be widened and paved. The expense was more than double the cost of transporting the bells from Hamburg to Jaffa. Augusta Victoria was the first building in the country to have electricity, provided by a diesel generator.
During World War I, the Hospital served as German military hospital. From 1915 to 1917 the compound was used as Ottoman headquarters by Djemal Pasha. From June to December 1917 the hospital was used as headquarters for the German high command of the German expeditionary corps (Asienkorps). After the British conquest, the Augusta Victoria compound served as the headquarters of General Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force and later as the headqua
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBKA-FM
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CBKA-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting the CBC Radio One network at 105.9 FM in La Ronge, Saskatchewan.
Local programming
Until 2009, CBKA had a local news bureau serving Northern Saskatchewan, and produced the regional noontime show Keewatin Country, but otherwise aired the same programming as CBK, the Radio One outlet for the more populated southern half of the province. In the CBC's service cutbacks announced in March 2009, the operation in La Ronge was eliminated, making CBKA a full rebroadcaster of CBK. All programming is now fed from CBK's studios in Regina, though the station remains separately licensed.
Rebroadcasters
CBKA-FM has the following rebroadcasters:
Community-owned rebroadcasters
Notes
On August 10, 2009, the CBC applied to add an FM transmitter at Creighton. The application was approved on October 9, 2009, and will operate on the frequency 93.3 MHz with the callsign CBKA-FM-1.
References
External links
Bka
Bka
Radio stations established in 1975
1975 establishments in Saskatchewan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swm
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swm (the Solbourne window manager) is an X Window System window manager developed by Tom LaStrange at Solbourne Computer in 1990. The most important innovation of swm was the introduction of the virtual desktop. It also introduced a primitive form of session management (restoring programs in use at the time of shutdown) to X.
References
Thomas E. LaStrange (1990) swm: An X window manager shell. USENIX Summer.
http://users.polytech.unice.fr/~buffa/cours/X11_Motif/motif-faq/part4/faq-doc-1.html
Free X window managers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Transport%20Network
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The Integrated Transport Network (ITN) is a dataset containing details of Great Britain's transport network. Produced by Ordnance Survey – the national mapping agency of Great Britain – it forms part of the OS MasterMap suite of products.
Intended to facilitate route planning and resource management, the dataset consists of three elements: Road Network (road geometry), Road Routing Information (routing information for drivers concerning mandatory and banned turns and other restrictions) and Urban Paths (man-made path geometry in urban areas).
The network is a link-and-node based network containing such details about each link as:
the class of road (A-road, B-road, etc.);
the nature of the road (single carriageway, dual carriageway, roundabout, etc.);
road names;
road routing information (RRI) (e.g. prohibited turns, one-way streets).
These data are supplied in Geography Markup Language file format.
Features
The main benefits claimed for this product are that
it accurately maps all 545,000 km of roads in Great Britain in a consistent logical link-and-node network;
it contains 1.7 million road routing and information features;
all road changes are captured within six months of their implementation;
the Urban Paths Theme complements ITN's road information by adding path networks in all urban areas;
it is designed to relate to other OS MasterMap layers.
ITN is used as the roads network by Transport Direct Portal for its car and cycle journey planning; is referenced in the CycleNetXChange schema; and forms a key element in the UK Digital National Framework (DNF).
Future developments
From 31 March 2019 the Integrated Transport Network product will be withdrawn. It is in the process of being replaced by the OS MasterMap Highways Network, launched on 31 October 2016.
References
External links
OS MasterMap
DNF
Transport Direct Portal
London's integrated public transport 'all-on-one' quickmap
Transport in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITN%20%28disambiguation%29
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ITN is Independent Television News, a British news producer.
ITN may also refer to:
Independent Television Network, a Sri Lankan broadcaster
Iran TV Network (Canada)
Science and technology
Integrated Transport Network, a British map dataset
Interplanetary Transport Network, a set of gravitational pathways
TomTom Itinerary file extension (.ITN)
Other uses
Initial Training Network, Marie Curie Actions research fellowship program
In the Nursery, a musical group, with the label ITN Corporation
Insecticide treated net, a type of mosquito net
Integrated Tactical Network, a US Army network
Internal Transaction Number
There Is Such A People (Ima takav narod), Bulgarian political party
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch56
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Nortel's Switch56 was a networking protocol built on top of the telephone cabling hardware of their Digital Multiplex System and other telephone switches.
The name comes from the fact that Switch56 carried 56 kbit/s of data on its 64 kbit/s lines, as opposed to most systems, including ISDN, where the entire 64 kbit/s bandwidth was available for data. The speed was a side effect of Nortel using a 2-wire cable to carry both voice and switching commands, as opposed to other systems where the command data was carried on a separate set of low-speed lines. Switch56 "folded" the two sources of data into one, placing a single bit from the command channel onto the end of every 7 bits of data, similar to the original T-carrier supervision scheme. This data was split out at the "far end" as 56 kbit/s and 8 kbit/s subchannels.
Switch56 was built on top of the basic Nortel hardware to allow computers to put data into the existing telephony network. Although slow compared to even contemporary systems, Switch56 allowed network traffic to flow not only within an office like other LAN systems, but between any branch offices that were connected using a Nortel PBX like the Meridian Norstar. This was a much easier option to install than ISDN for most offices, requiring nothing more than a Switch56 bridge to their existing network. For the LAN role new telephone terminals were produced with a RS-232C port on the back, which were then plugged into the user's computer and used with custom software. Although interesting in theory, it appears Switch56 saw little use in this role.
Network protocols
Telephone exchange equipment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicon
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Eicon Networks Corporation, formerly Eicon Technology Corporation, is a privately owned designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products founded on October 12, 1984 with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Eicon products are sold worldwide through a large network of distributors and resellers, and supplied to OEMs.
In October 2006, Eicon purchased the Media & Signalling Division of Intel, known as Dialogic before its purchase by Intel in 1999, which produces telephony boards for PC servers. The combined Eicon/Dialogic company changed its name to Dialogic Corporation at the time of the purchase. It is meanwhile known as Dialogic Inc.
Products
Eicon's products include the Diva Family (Diva Server and Diva Client) and Eiconcard product lines.
Diva Server
Diva Server is a range of telecoms products for voice, speech, conferencing and fax. It supports T1/E1; SS7; ISDN and conventional phone line (PSTN). As of 2008 Eicon Host Media Processing products, "software adapters" that provide VoIP capability for applications, are available.
Diva Server is used in VoiceXML speech servers; SMS gateways; fax and unified messaging and call recording and monitoring.
Diva Client
Diva products are connectivity products for remote access for the home and for remote and mobile workers. They are mostly ISDN or combined ISDN and dialup modems. In the past Eicon produced ADSL and Wi-Fi equipment, but these areas have become dominated by far-eastern manufacturers.
Eiconcard
The Eiconcard connects legacy X.25 systems for tasks such as credit card authorization, SMS, and satellite communications. The Eiconcard has been produced since the company was founded in 1984, and continues to be available.
Eicon cards with their flexible protocol stacks were also used as a flexible communications gateway to IBM's midrange and mainframe computers and for a time occupied a niche market allowing Ethernet based PC networks to utilise IBM's LU6.2 (intelligent) communications router without having to use Token Ring.
Graphics Products
Eicon has also produced graphics products alongside their core communications business.
Eiconscript
Eiconscript was a PostScript printing solution which used a laser 'print engine' connected to an intelligent adapter installed inside a PC. The adapter card ran an Eicon developed implementation of the PostScript language.
Eiconjet
Eiconjet was a laser printing solution using a design and hardware similar to Eiconscript. Rather than PostScript, it executed the Hewlett-Packard PCL5 (Printer Command Language). The Eiconjet software was also developed in-house as a Clean Room design.
See also
Dialogic Inc.
DOS Protected Mode Services for Eicon DIVA ISDN drivers
References
External links
Dialogic Communication Solutions
Telecommunications companies established in 1984
Telecommunications equipment vendors
VoIP companies
Manufacturing companies of Canada
Software companies of Canada
Networking hardware companies
Telecommunications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillclimbing%20%28disambiguation%29
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Hillclimbing is a motorsport
Hillclimbing may also refer to:
Hillclimbing (cycling)
Hillclimbing (railway)
Hill climbing, an optimization algorithm in mathematics
See also
Hillwalking
Mountaineering
Hilcrhyme, a Japanese hip-hop duo
Newport Antique Auto Hill Climb, a racing event in Newport, Indiana
Hill Climb Racing (video game), video game
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensible%20Train%20Spotting
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Sensible Train Spotting is a video game by Sensible Software for the Amiga computer. It is Sensible Software's last Amiga game and was available only on an Amiga Power cover disk from issue 53, dated September 1995. Because of this, it is not nearly as famous as some of Sensible Software's earlier releases, such as Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder.
Sensible Train Spotting is the world's first ever computerized train spotting simulator. The game takes place at a railway station, with a view looking over the train platforms. Various trains pass through, each bearing a unique ID number. At the bottom of the screen is a checklist of train ID numbers, each of which must be selected by the player as the corresponding train appears. This must be done against a time limit, and attempting to record an incorrect number will result in a penalty. When all trains in the checklist have been spotted, the game moves on to the next level.
Controversy
Eight years later in 2003, a PC games company called Demon Star released another train spotting simulator, called Train Tracking. The company claimed their game was the first ever train spotting simulator, although the gameplay is nearly identical to Sensible Train Spotting. British game journalist and former Sensible Software employee Stuart Campbell reacted to this by buying a fully registered copy of Train Tracker and making it freely downloadable from his web site, daring Demon Star to take legal action.
References
External links
Sensible Train Spotting at the Hall of Light
1995 video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Sensible Software games
Train simulation video games
Trainspotting
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Single-player video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Astronaut%20Dismantles%20HAL
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The Astronaut Dismantles HAL is an EP by Amplifier. The title references the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which astronaut David Bowman disables homicidal computer HAL.
Track listing
"Continuum" – 8:50
"Into the Space Age" – 4:58
"For Marcia" – 4:57
"The Brain Room" – 0:56
"Everyday Combat" – 5:32
"Live Human" – 14:28
(plus hidden track 'Scarecrows')
References
External links
Lyrics Contains lyrics to all Amplifier songs.
Amplifier (band) albums
2005 EPs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBoot
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NetBoot was a technology from Apple which enabled Macs with capable firmware (i.e. New World ROM) to boot from a network, rather than a local hard disk or optical disc drive. NetBoot is a derived work from the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), and is similar in concept to the Preboot Execution Environment. The technology was announced as a part of the original version of Mac OS X Server at Macworld Expo on 5 January 1999. NetBoot has continued to be a core systems management technology for Apple, and has been adapted to support modern Mac Intel machines. NetBoot, USB, and FireWire are some of the external volume options for operating system re-install. NetBoot is not supported on newer Macs with T2 security chip or Apple silicon.
Process
A disk image with a copy of macOS, macOS Server, Mac OS 9, or Mac OS 8 is created using System Image Utility and is stored on a server, typically macOS Server. Clients receive this image across a network using many popular protocols including: HTTPS, AFP, TFTP, NFS, and multicast Apple Software Restore (ASR). Server-side NetBoot image can boot entire machines, although NetBoot is more commonly used for operating system and software deployment, somewhat similar to Norton Ghost.
Client machines first request network configuration information through DHCP, then a list of boot images and servers with BSDP and then proceed to download images with protocols mentioned above.
Both Intel and PowerPC-based servers can serve images for Intel and PowerPC-based clients.
NetInstall
NetInstall is a similar feature of macOS Server which utilizes NetBoot and ASR to deliver installation images to network clients (typically on first boot). Like NetBoot, NetInstall images can be created using the System Image Utility. NetInstall performs a function for macOS similar to Windows Deployment Services for Microsoft clients, which depend on the Preboot Execution Environment.
Legacy
Mac OS 8.5 and Mac OS 9 use only BOOTP/DHCP to get IP information, followed by a TFTP transfer of the Mac OS ROM file. Next, two volumes are mounted via AppleTalk over TCP on which the client disk images reside. All in all, the Classic Mac OS uses three images; a System image which contains the operating system and may contain applications. Next a private image (or scratch disk) is mounted in an overlay over the read-only System image. Finally, an applications image is mounted. This image, however, may be empty.
See also
Remote Install Mac OS X
References
External links
Analysis of the Use of the Boot Server Discovery Protocol in NetBoot
Apple detailed Boot Server Discovery Protocol Documentation
Network booting
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiton%20pattern
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In software engineering, the multiton pattern is a design pattern which generalizes the singleton pattern. Whereas the singleton allows only one instance of a class to be created, the multiton pattern allows for the controlled creation of multiple instances, which it manages through the use of a map.
Rather than having a single instance per application (e.g. the object in the Java programming language) the multiton pattern instead ensures a single instance per key.
The multiton pattern does not explicitly appear as a pattern in the highly regarded object-oriented programming textbook Design Patterns. However, the book describes using a registry of singletons to allow subclassing of singletons, which is essentially the multiton pattern.
Description
While it may appear that the multiton is a hash table with synchronized access there are two important distinctions. First, the multiton does not allow clients to add mappings. Secondly, the multiton never returns a null or empty reference; instead, it creates and stores a multiton instance on the first request with the associated key. Subsequent requests with the same key return the original instance. A hash table is merely an implementation detail and not the only possible approach. The pattern simplifies retrieval of shared objects in an application.
Since the object pool is created only once, being a member associated with the class (instead of the instance), the multiton retains its flat behavior rather than evolving into a tree structure.
The multiton is unique in that it provides centralized access to a single directory (i.e. all keys are in the same namespace, per se) of multitons, where each multiton instance in the pool may exist having its own state. In this manner, the pattern advocates indexed storage of essential objects for the system (such as would be provided by an LDAP system, for example). However, a multiton is limited to wide use by a single system rather than a myriad of distributed systems.
Drawbacks
This pattern, like the Singleton pattern, makes unit testing far more difficult, as it introduces global state into an application.
With garbage collected languages it may become a source of memory leaks as it introduces global strong references to the objects.
Implementations
In Java, the multiton pattern can be implemented using an enumerated type, with the values of the type corresponding to the instances. In the case of an enumerated type with a single value, this gives the singleton pattern.
In C#, we can also use enums, as the following example shows:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public enum MultitonType
{
Zero,
One,
Two
}
public class Multiton
{
private static readonly Dictionary<MultitonType, Multiton> instances =
new Dictionary<MultitonType, Multiton>();
private MultitonType type;
private Multiton(MultitonType type)
{
this.type = type;
}
public static Multiton GetInstance(MultitonType
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Swan%20Network
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Black Swan Network is a musical side project of The Olivia Tremor Control. With contributions from Neutral Milk Hotel members Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster, as well as individual contributions from J. Kirk Pleasant of Calvin, Don't Jump! and fablefactory's Roxanne Martin, it was intended to be an experimental project in ambient music. After their releases, the band members became busier with their other projects, and Black Swan Network appears to be on permanent hiatus.
Releases
Black Swan Network released one full-length album on Camera Obscura and two EPs.
The full-length album, The Late Music, was born out of a small message hidden in the liner notes of The Olivia Tremor Control's Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle, requesting that people submit recordings of dream descriptions to the band. The album consisted of seven untitled pieces incorporating the submissions with different other ambient sounds and musical fragments.
Albums
The Late Music (Camera Obscura; CD; 1997)
Singles and EPs
The Olivia Tremor Control/Black Swan Network (Flydaddy; CD/12"; 1997)
Happy Happy Birthday to Me Singles Club: June (Happy Happy Birthday to Me; 7"; 2001)
External links
The Elephant 6 Recording Company artists
American experimental musical groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUUG
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UKUUG is the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group a non-profit organization and technical forum for the advocacy of open systems, particularly Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the promotion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and the advancement of open programming standards and networking protocols.
In 2010 the name has been changed to FLOSS UK, along with a change of web domain.
See also
EFF
FSF
Online Rights Canada
External links
References
Computer science in the United Kingdom
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
User groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTVJ
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WTVJ (channel 6) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Fort Lauderdale–licensed WSCV (channel 51), a flagship station of Telemundo. Both stations share studios on Southwest 27th Street in Miramar, while WTVJ's transmitter is located in Andover, Florida.
History
Florida's first television station
The station first signed on the air on March 21, 1949, at 12:00 p.m. WTVJ was the first television station to sign on in the state of Florida, and the 16th station in the United States. Originally broadcasting on VHF channel 4, the station was founded by Wometco Enterprises (founded by Mitchell Wolfson and Sidney Meyer), a national movie theater chain that was headquartered in Miami. The station's original studio facilities were located in the former Capitol Theater on North Miami Avenue in Downtown Miami, which was the first theater operated by Wometco when the company was founded in 1926. The station was a primary CBS affiliate, but also carried programming from the other three major broadcast networks of that era (ABC, NBC and DuMont). During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
WTVJ was the only commercial television station in the Miami market until Fort Lauderdale-based WFTL-TV (channel 23) signed on the air on December 24, 1954, operating as an NBC affiliate. However, WFTL had no success whatsoever in competing against WTVJ, in part because television sets were not required to have UHF tuning capability until the All-Channel Receiver Act went into effect in 1964. NBC continued to allow WTVJ to cherry-pick programs broadcast by the network until WCKT (channel 7, now Fox affiliate WSVN) signed on in July 1956 and WFTL went dark (that station's former channel 23 allocation is now occupied by Univision owned-and-operated station WLTV-DT). Channel 4 shared ABC programming with WCKT, by way of an arrangement with the network to allow both stations to cherry-pick programming. Although ABC had a full-time affiliate in WITV (channel 17), due to the aforementioned lack of UHF penetration at that time, this arrangement continued until WPST-TV (channel 10, now WPLG) signed on in August 1957. WTVJ also served as the de facto CBS affiliate for West Palm Beach, until WTVX (channel 34, now a CW affiliate) signed on in 1966.
WTVJ served as the producing station for CBS' Jackie Gleason Show after Gleason moved the program from New York City to Miami Beach in 1964.
Acquisition by KKR
Wometco founder and president Mitchell Wolfson died in 1983. Though it had been theorized that a proper succession plan had been written up, Wolfson never disclosed it to his heirs or executives, nor in any of his estate planning. The remaining Wolfson heirs had no desire to keep the company in the family, and it quickly unraveled, making it a ripe takeover target. Investment firm Kohlberg Kr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea%20%28programming%20language%29
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Tea is a high-level scripting language for the Java environment. It combines features of Scheme, Tcl, and Java.
Features
Integrated support for all major programming paradigms.
Functional programming language.
Functions are first-class objects.
Scheme-like closures are intrinsic to the language.
Support for object-oriented programming.
Modular libraries with autoloading on-demand facilities.
Large base of core functions and classes.
String and list processing.
Regular expressions.
File and network I/O.
Database access.
XML processing.
100% pure Java.
The Tea interpreter is implemented in Java.
Tea runs anywhere with a Java 1.6 JVM or higher.
Java reflection features allow the use of Java libraries directly from Tea code.
Intended to be easily extended in Java. For example, Tea supports relational database access through JDBC, regular expressions through GNU Regexp, and an XML parser through a SAX parser (XML4J for example).
Interpreter alternatives
Tea is a proprietary language. Its interpreter is subject to a non-free license. A project called "destea", which released as Language::Tea in CPAN, provides an alternative by generating Java code based on the Tea code.
TeaClipse is an open-source compiler that uses a JavaCC-generated parser to parse and then compile Tea source to the proprietary Tea bytecode.
References
External links
Tea Home Page
"destea" code converter
Scripting languages
Programming languages
High-level programming languages
Programming languages created in 1997
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20Radio%20Network
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Talk Radio Network (TRN) was an independent radio producer and syndicator of news and talk radio programming headquartered in Central Point, Oregon. TRN consists of a number of associated companies, which have launched or re-built some of the United States' highest-ranked talk radio shows, including The Savage Nation, Coast to Coast AM, and The Jerry Doyle Show. TRN was founded in 1993 and was managed by CEO Mark Masters and his brother David Masters who was senior executive producer and worked to assure the success of all the associated and syndicated hosts from 1999 thru 2017.
In 2007, Bear Stearns reported that TRN was the second-largest provider of nationally syndicated radio talk shows in the country, ahead of competitors ABC Radio and then-CBS-controlled Westwood One. The company thereafter went into decline amid contract disputes with its most successful talents and an ongoing feud with its satellite provider.
In December 2017, affiliate radio stations reported that Talk Radio Network's programming feed had ceased without notice.
History
Talk Radio Network originated from Advice Line, a syndicated program hosted by Roy Masters. TRN was established and operated by Masters's sons and carried Advice Line throughout its existence.
Among the network's earliest offerings was Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM produced by David Masters from 1994 through 1998 which had reached record station affiliates of over 500 during that time. In 1998, the original Talk Radio Network Inc. company and all of its programs was acquired by Premiere Radio Networks for the syndication rights of Coast to Coast AM. At that time, TRN's programs were broadcast nationally by more than 300 radio stations.
Actor Jerry Doyle was introduced to TRN by Mancow Muller, who at the time hosted The Mancow Experience on TRN. Before starting his own show, Doyle was invited to guest-host for Rusty Humphries' TRN-syndicated Saturday Night America, which was broadcast to over two hundred stations. Based on the broadcast, TRN offered Doyle a regular show that became The Jerry Doyle Show. Doyle hosted the show for TRN until his sudden death in 2016. TRN has been responsible for syndicating and producing other notable talk radio programs including The Sam Sorbo Show, Science Fantastic with Michio Kaku, The Laura Ingraham Show (from 2004 to 2012), The Andrea Tantaros Show, Monica Crowley, and The Phil Hendrie Show.
In June 2009, TRN partnered with The Washington Times to debut America's Morning News (AMN) with a focus on investigative reporting and live news and commentary from Washington, D.C. At its launch, AMN was hosted by Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin.
TRN rolled out America's Radio News Network (ARNN) in January 2011 as an all news network service for stations, which ran for 15 hours every weekday. TRN (permanently) suspended ARNN operations on September 6, 2013.
TRN effectively ceased regular operations on December 22, 2017 when its programming stopped being delivered via sate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Masters
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Mark Masters is an American media entrepreneur, known for being the CEO of Talk Radio Network and its four sister networks.
Early life
Mark Masters was born in 1964 in California. Masters' childhood was spent in Ventura Country, California.
Masters spent his teen years in Selma and Grants Pass, Oregon. In his late twenties, Masters studied quality control and quality management under the tutelage of W. Edwards Deming, to which Masters attributes credit for his success in building successful talk radio enterprises.
Career
Masters became the CEO of Talk Radio Network in 1998. He grew the company to become America's second-largest network syndicator of spoken word programming and launched or rebuilt eight of the country's ten largest syndicated talk shows, including The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show and Coast to Coast with Art Bell.
While continuing to build TRN, Masters collaborated with Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, between 2003 and 2005, to create Fox News Radio. This included launching The Alan Colmes Show in 2003. Ailes wrote that Masters, "is one of the few true media entrepreneurs that has proven time and again to possess both large scale creative vision with the ability to execute on that vision in ways that have brought him both success and a reputation for excellence."
Masters was named one of the "40 Most Powerful People in Radio" by Radio Ink for eight years in a row through to 2013.
See also
Talk Radio Network
References
External links
Talk Radio Network
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American entertainment industry businesspeople
American chief executives in the media industry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karita%20Bekkemellem
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Karita Bekkemellem (born 15 January 1965 in Lillehammer) is a Norwegian politician. She belongs to the Norwegian Labour Party, where she leads the women's network.
Karita Bekkemellem was the Minister of Children and Families in Jens Stoltenberg's short-lived 2000-2001 cabinet, and also Minister of Children and Equality Affairs in the second cabinet Stoltenberg from 2005 to 2007. She is in her fifth period of representing the county of Møre og Romsdal. In the period from 2001 to 2005 she served as faction leader in the committee for church, education and research affairs.
Her autobiography Mitt røde hjerte (My Red Heart) was published in 2009. In this book, Bekkemellem described the circumstances surrounding her departure from the cabinet in 2007. She also described her childhood where her father had accidentally killed a girlfriend and turned to alcohol. She also wrote about her survival of a suicide attempt in 1992. It was also revealed that she in 1983, when she was 18, had voted for the right-wing Progress Party, though this was apparently based more on her liking of the politician Lodve Solholm than the actual politics of the party.
References
External links
Official presentation
Ministers of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion of Norway
1965 births
Living people
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Women members of the Storting
Ministers for children, young people and families
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
Women government ministers of Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales%20from%20Earthsea%20%28film%29
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is a 2006 Japanese anime epic fantasy film co-written and directed by Gorō Miyazaki in his directorial debut, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Mitsubishi and Toho, and distributed by the latter company. The film is based on a combination of plot and character elements from the first four books of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu), as well as Hayao Miyazaki's manga series Shuna's Journey. The film's title is named from the collection of short stories Tales from Earthsea, published in 2001.
The film was released in Japan on July 29, 2006 and was released in the United States by Walt Disney Studios on August 13, 2010. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its animation, music and visuals, but criticized the narrative, pacing, and overall differences from the novels. Le Guin herself stated that the plot was "entirely different" to that of her books. She told director Gorō Miyazaki, "It is not my book. It is your movie. It is a good movie", but did, however, later express her disappointment with the final result. A film comic adaptation of the film has been published in Japan.
Plot
As a war galley sails through a storm, two dragons fight above the clouds, ending in one's death. In the kingdom of Enlad, the royal wizard Root proclaims the dragons to be a sign of a loss of balance in the world. The king is dealing with disease sweeping across his kingdom, and the disappearance of his son, Prince Arren. In the middle of the night, Arren kills his father, steals his father's sword, and flees the castle.
Arren travels through the desert and is rescued from wolves by the archmage Sparrowhawk. Together they travel to the city of Hort Town. When Arren explores the town alone, he rescues a young girl named Therru from slavers, but is later captured by the same slave master, Hare. His sword is dumped in the sea. Sparrowhawk rescues Arren from the slave caravan and takes him to a farm run by Sparrowhawk's oldest and greatest friend Tenar, who lives with Therru.
Sparrowhawk's intervention against Hare's slave caravan angers Lord Cob, a powerful warlock and the ruler of Hort Town, who wants the archmage brought to the castle. Meanwhile, Sparrowhawk tells Arren that he seeks a way to restore the upset balance, then resumes his search in Hort Town. While there he buys Arren's sword from a merchant's stall and manages to evade capture from Hare whilst learning about Cob's castle.
Arren confesses to Therru that he killed his father and that he feels an unknown presence following him. Because of this, Arren leaves the farm, but is met by the presence, which is a mirror image of himself. Arren falls unconscious after stumbling into a swamp while fleeing from the image. Cob takes him to the castle, where he manipulates Arren into revealing his "true name", Princ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSYX
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WSYX (channel 6) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC, MyNetworkTV and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to TBD station WTTE (channel 28, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting) and Chillicothe-licensed CW affiliate WWHO (channel 53, owned by Manhan Media) under separate local marketing agreements (LMAs). However, Sinclair effectively owns WTTE as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The stations share studios on Dublin Road in Grandview Heights (with a Columbus mailing address), while WSYX's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus.
History
The station began operations on September 29, 1949, as WTVN, Columbus' second television station. At its launch, the station was owned by Picture Waves Inc., a company controlled by Toledo-based attorney and investor Edward Lamb; Lamb also owned WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, which went on the air six months earlier. WTVN was an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network at its inception, and was one of only three primary affiliates of that network; it also carried a secondary affiliation with ABC. Channel 6 became a full-time ABC affiliate in 1955, after DuMont closed down its operations. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The station was first housed within the Lincoln-LeVeque Tower in Downtown Columbus until 1952, when it moved into a new facility on Harmon Avenue in Franklinton. Channel 6's present home, on Dublin Road near the Columbus–Grandview Heights border, has been in operation since 1977.
In March 1953, Picture Waves sold WTVN to Radio Cincinnati, Inc., the broadcasting interests of the Taft family of Cincinnati. The following year, Radio Cincinnati purchased WHKC radio (610 AM) in Columbus from the publishers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, renaming that station WTVN (AM) and subsequently adding a -TV suffix to channel 6's call sign. Radio Cincinnati would later become the Taft Broadcasting Company, and Taft would launch a second radio station in Columbus, WTVN-FM (96.3 FM, now WLVQ), in April 1960.
In the early 1970s, Taft's common ownership of WTVN-TV and WKRC-TV (channel 12) in Cincinnati was given protection under a "grandfather clause" by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from its newly enacted "one-to-a-market" rule. The ordinance prohibited television stations with overlapping signals from sharing common ownership while protecting existing instances. WKRC-TV's signal provided at least secondary coverage to much of the southern portion of the Columbus market. One of WTVN-TV's competitors, Crosley/Avco-owned WLWC (channel 4, now WCMH-TV), was given grandfathered protection through a similar situation with sister stations in Dayton and Cincinnati.
In 1987, Cincinnati financier (and future Cincinnati Reds owner) Carl Lindner acquired a majority of Taft's shares in a h
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20A%3A%20Planet%20of%20Death
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Adventure A: Planet of Death is a text adventure from Artic Computing published for the ZX81 and 4K ZX80 in 1981. Releases followed for the ZX Spectrum (1982), Commodore 64 (1984), and Amstrad CPC (1985). The game was followed by Adventures B, C, D, E, F, G, and H.
Adventure A was re-released for iOS and Android.
Plot
The player takes over the role of a spaceship pilot who is stranded on an alien planet. The aim is to escape from this planet by finding his or her captured and disabled spaceship.
Development
In 2013 a game version for iOS devices was released. An Android version followed in 2020.
Reception
Crash magazine wrote that the game was "good value", complimenting its tone as "atmospheric" and "chilling". British magazine Home Computing Weekly reported that Planet of Death followed a traditional adventure format. The magazine depicted the parser as fast but primitive. Editor Ray Elder judged that solving the game's puzzles was a very satisfying experience for him, make him "love" the game.
References
External links
1980s interactive fiction
1981 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Artic Computing games
Commodore 64 games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set on fictional planets
ZX Spectrum games
ZX81 games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemundo%20Internacional
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Telemundo Internacional is a Latin American pay television network owned by NBCUniversal. Telemundo Internacional carries a variety of programs, consisting mainly of select programs from the Telemundo national schedule.
History
Origins as Telenoticias
Telemundo Puerto Rico traces its history to June 1, 1993, when Telemundo Group (then owned by investment firm Reliance Capital) announced that it would launch a 24-hour Spanish-language cable news channel that would be distributed in Latin America, Spain and the United States. This service, christened Telenoticias, launched on December 1, 1994, becoming the second 24-hour news channel to serve Latin America that was headquartered in the region. Telenoticias – which broadcast its programming in Spanish and Portuguese – was operated out of Telemundo's headquarters in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida. In addition to distribution on cable and satellite television, some Telenoticias programming was also carried by television stations in certain U.S. markets.
From the beginning, all five of the network's owners did not maintain a smooth relationship, disagreeing on Telenoticias' management and content; ultimately, the partners opted to sell off the network. In late June 1996, the companies sold Telenoticias to CBS, marking the company's first cable television venture since it ran the short-lived arts-oriented network CBS Cable (which it eventually named its new cable division) in the early 1980s. Following the closure of the CBS purchase, the network was rebranded CBS Telenoticias on January 1, 1997. As part of the sale agreement, Telemundo entered into an agreement to outsource production responsibilities for the Telemundo network's national news program, Noticiero Telemundo. The network also began utilizing resources from CBS Newspath to provide story content to supplement the newscasts.
The network expanded its distribution into the United States in the fall of 1997, at the same time as it expanded to Brazil. The network gained a major coup early on, when it reached an agreement with Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão to produce Jornal do SBT and share its content resources, but it faced difficulties getting cable carriage and with the satellite intended to carry its feed.
During the first quarter of 1998 alone, Telenoticias and fellow CBS Cable-owned channel Eye on People lost a combined $9 million in revenue. In late 1998, CBS sold a 70% interest in the channel to Mexican-based Grupo Medcom, a concern operated by the Serna family; under the deal, CBS continued to provide news content resources through CBS Newspath. Financial problems ultimately trickled into Telenoticias' operations, and by early August 1999, the network filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
CBS sold its stake in Telenoticias to Sony Pictures Entertainment and Liberty Media in February 2000 for $2.35 million; the deal was approved in federal bankruptcy court, placing Telenoticias back under the auspices of Telemundo, which Sony an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Networking%20World
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Storage Networking World (SNW) is a conference for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW was held twice each year. Common locations include Orlando, Florida, Grapevine, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California. The event is oriented towards manufacturers and consumers of enterprise storage equipment and software, and is often the site of product launches and announcements. These events started in the fall of 1999, and the last event was held in the fall of 2013. The event dates and locations are listed below:
The corresponding conference in Europe is called SNW Europe and commonly occurs in Frankfurt, Germany. Additional conferences were held in China, Japan, and Australia.
References
External links
SNW Europe
Data storage conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Data%20Driven%20Applications%20Systems
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Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) is a new paradigm whereby the computation and instrumentation aspects of an application system are dynamically integrated in a feed-back control loop, in the sense that instrumentation data can be dynamically incorporated into the executing model of the application, and in reverse the executing model can control the instrumentation. Such approaches have been shown that can enable more accurate and faster modeling and analysis of the characteristics and behaviors of a system and can exploit data in intelligent ways to convert them to new capabilities, including decision support systems with the accuracy of full scale modeling, efficient data collection, management, and data mining. The DDDAS concept - and the term - was proposed by Frederica Darema for the National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop in March 2000.
There are several affiliated annual meetings and conferences, including:
DDDAS workshop at ICCS (since 2003)
DyDESS conference and workshop at MIT organized by Sai Ravela and Adrian Sandu
DDDAS special session at the ACC organized by Puneet Singla and Dennis Bernstein and Sai Ravela
DDDAS Special Session Information Fusion
DDDAS 2016 at Hartford, the first full-fledged conference hosted and sponsored by MIT and some support from UTRC.
DDDAS 2017 at MIT, the second conference hosted and managed by MIT.
DDDAS 2020 Online, the third conference hosted by MIT.
DDDAS 2022 at MIT, the fourth conference hosted by MIT together with CLEPS22.
As time progressed, it was suggested by Dr. Ravela that DDDAS grow into its own conference, adding workshops to special subjects. The first full-fledged but environmentally-focussed DDDAS conference was DyDESS, held at MIT, and the community has since not looked back. MIT sponsored and setup the DyDESS conference, and continues to be the host and event organizer through its Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences department.
References
F. Darema, “Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems: A New Paradigm for Application Simulations and Measurements. Computational Science.” Int’l Conf. on Computational Science (ICCS), LNCS, 3038, 662–669, 2004.
F. Darema, “Grid Computing and Beyond: The Context of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems,” Proceedings IEEE, 93(3), p. 692-697, 2005.
G. Allen, “Building a Dynamic Data Driven Application System for Hurricane Forecasting,” Int’l Conf. on Computational Science (ICCS), LNCS, vol. 4487, p. 1034–1041. Springer, Heidelberg, 2007.
M. Denham, A. Cortes, T. Margalef, E. Luque, “Applying a Dynamic Data Driven Genetic Algorithm to Improve Forest Fire Spread Prediction,” M. Bubak et al. (Eds.): ICCS 2008, LNCS 5103, pp. 36–45, 2008.
E. Blasch, Y. Al-Nashif, and S. Hariri, “Static versus Dynamic Data Information Fusion analysis using DDDAS for Cyber Trust,” Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 29, pp. 1299-1313, 2014.
X. Shi, H. Damgacioglu, N. Celik, “A Dynamic Data Driven Approach for Operation Planning of Microgrids
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20World%20Conference
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Storage World Conference (sometimes called SWC) was a conference for data storage professionals in the United States. Associated with the Association of Storage Networking Professionals, SWC was held from 2001 through 2006.
The event was oriented towards end users of data storage equipment and software, and included a professional certification program to encourage attendance at educational sessions.
Data storage conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Usenet%20newsreaders
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This is a comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
Legend:
See also
alt.* hierarchy
List of newsgroups
List of Usenet newsreaders
News server
Newsreader (Usenet)
Network News Transfer Protocol
Usenet newsgroup
References
Newsreaders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNW
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SNW may refer to:
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, TV series
Super Nintendo World, a theme park
Storage Networking World, a conference for data storage professionals
SNW1, a protein
snw, ISO 639-3 code for the Santrokofi language
SNW, ICAO code for Sun West Airlines
SNW, IATA airport code for Thandwe Airport, Myanmar
S. N. W. Hulugalle, Ceylonese colonial-era legislator and headmen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20T.%20Kirstein
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Peter Thomas Kirstein (20 June 1933 – 8 January 2020) was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He made the first internetworking connection on the ARPANET in 1973, by providing a link to British academic networks, and was instrumental in defining and implementing TCP/IP alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
Kirstein is often recognized as the "father of the European Internet".
Education and early life
Kirstein was born on 20 June 1933 in Berlin, Germany, the son of Eleanor (Jacobsohn) and Walter Kirschstein. His parents were dentists, and his father was awarded the Iron Cross during WWI. His family was Jewish and his mother had British citizenship from being born in London, so, fearing for their safety in Nazi governed-Germany the family immigrated to the UK in 1937.
He was educated at Highgate School in North London, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Cambridge in 1954, an MSc and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University (in 1955 and 1957, respectively) and a Doctor of Science (DSc) in engineering from the University of London in 1970.
Career and research
He was a member of the staff at CERN from 1959 to 1963. He did research for General Electric at Zurich from 1963 to 1967. He was a professor at the University of London Institute of Computer Science (ICS) from 1970 to 1973. After that, he joined the faculty at the University College London in 1973, serving as the first head of the computer science department from 1980 to 1994. He supervised Jon Crowcroft. Kirstein set up Queen Elizabeth's first official email account in 1976.
Internet development
Kirstein's research group at University College London was one of the two original international connections on the ARPANET in 1973, alongside Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR). UCL thereafter provided a gateway between the ARPANET and British academic networks which was the first international heterogeneous resource sharing network.
Research led by Bob Kahn at DARPA and Vint Cerf at Stanford University and later DARPA resulted in the formulation of the Transmission Control Program (TCP), with its specification written by Cerf with Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December 1974. The following year, testing began through concurrent implementations at Stanford, BBN and University College London. The ARPANET connection to UCL later grew into the trans-Atlantic SATNET. A three-way internetworking experiment linking UCL, via SATNET, with nodes in the ARPANET, and with a mobile vehicle in PRNET took place in 1977.
In 1978, early in the development of the TCP/IP, Kirstein co-authored (with Vint Cerf) one of the most significant early technical papers on the internetworking concept. His research group at UCL played a significant role in the very earliest experimental work on what became the Internet Protocol Suite. NORSAR and UCL adopted TCP/IP in 1982, a year ahead of ARPANET, becoming two of the first nodes on the Internet.
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Peter Kirstein may refer to:
Peter T. Kirstein (1933–2020), British computer scientist who played a significant role in the creation of the Internet
Petrus Kirstenius (1577–1640), German physician and orientalist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBVO
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KBVO (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Llano, Texas, United States, serving the Austin area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KXAN-TV (channel 36); Nexstar also provides certain services to KNVA (channel 54), a de facto owned-and-operated station of The CW, under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Vaughan Media. The stations share studios on West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and San Gabriel Street (between the Old West Austin section of Austin and the University of Texas at Austin campus), while KBVO's transmitter is located near the intersection of TX 71 and Llano County Road 307 in unincorporated Llano County ( southeast of Llano).
KBVO-CD (channel 31) in Austin operates as a low-power, Class A ATSC 3.0 lighthouse of KXAN-TV, KNVA, and KEYE-TV; this station's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm on Mount Larson (near Loop 360 and Westlake Drive, north of West Lake Hills).
History
As a semi-satellite of KXAN
On November 5, 1985, the Llano Broadcasting Co. (owned by Round Mountain-based judge A.W. Mousund and his wife, Mary Mousund, who later renamed the licensee Horseshoe Bay Centex Broadcasting Co.) filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license and construction permit to operate a commercial television station on UHF channel 14. On July 10, 1986, the Mousunds received approval to assign KLNO (in reference to its city of license, Llano) for use as the television station's call letters.
Although KXAN-TV (then known as KTVV) increased its transmitting power in 1973, the station found it difficult to adequately compete against CBS affiliate KTBC-TV (channel 7, now a Fox owned-and-operated station), ABC affiliate KVUE (channel 24) and, later, [the original] KBVO-TV (channel 42, now CBS affiliate KEYE-TV) largely because of the difficulties that UHF television stations experienced with signal propagation in areas of rugged terrain. The station's analog signal on UHF channel 36 provided an inadequate over-the-air signal to the western part of the Hill Country and was marginal to basically unviewable in Llano, Fredericksburg, Blanco and surrounding areas, with some parts of the region only being able to receive a clear signal from channel 36 once cable television became established in the Austin market in the late 1970s.
To solve this coverage gap problem, in 1989, KXAN rolled out plans to launch a network of UHF repeater stations to serve areas that had fair to no reception of its main signal, which was to have included five low-power television stations serving Llano, Blanco, San Marcos and Burnet as well as a fill-in translator in Austin. On May 9, 1989, LIN Broadcasting – through an indirect subsidiary, Kingstip Communications Inc., which LIN acquired as part of its 1979 purchase of channel 36 – filed an application to acquire the dormant KLNO license from Horseshoe Bay Centex Broadcasting Co. (which was unabl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBNT-CD
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KBNT-CD (channel 17) is a low-power, Class A television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KDTF-LD (channel 36); it is also sister to Milenio Televisión affiliate XHDTV-TDT (channel 49). XHDTV-TDT is owned by Mexican-based Televisora Alco, which is 40% owned by Entravision. All four stations share studios on Ruffin Road in San Diego's Kearny Mesa section, while KBNT-CD's transmitter is located on Mount Soledad in La Jolla.
The station's signal is relayed on low-power KHAX-LD (channel 25) in Vista.
History
KBNT launched on May 19, 1987, as K19BN, owned by Cabrillo Broadcasting Corporation. The station obtained the Univision affiliation from Televisa-owned XEWT in Tijuana on January 1, 1990. The station obtained its call signal, KBNT-TV. At that time, San Diegans could receive the station only through cable television, because its weak broadcast signal could not reach the city proper. The station increased its transmitting power, boosting its signal. While still not reaching San Diego proper, it could be picked up in Escondido, San Marcos, Vista and Fallbrook.
On October 29, 1987, K49BV in Vista, owned by Vista Television, was launched. It was a repeater of the TBN network. In 1995, its call sign was changed to KHAX-LP.
On December 23, 1994, K19BN reached an agreement with NBC affiliate KNSD (channel 39) to retransmit its programs on KBNT-LP (channel 62, later KNSD-LP in 1997) in La Jolla.
K19BN became KBNT-LP on August 22, 1997. That same year, ownership switched from Cabrillo to Entravision.
On June 28, 2000, major changes took place at Univision San Diego. The Univision affiliation switched from channel 19 (closed in 2001) to channel 17 (obtaining the KBNT-LP callsign and bought by Entravision), allowing Univision to reach San Diego, National City and Chula Vista over the air. This allowed then-The WB affiliate (now Fox affiliate) KSWB-TV (channel 69) to operate on digital channel 19.
The new KBNT-LP added KHAX-LP as its relay station, extending its coverage to the north. In 2002, KBNT-LP upgraded to Class A status, becoming KBNT-CA. KHAX-LP was sold to Entravision at the same time. The station's relay in La Jolla, KNSD-LP 62, was shut down in 2007. That signal was leased to Entravision by KNSD owners Station Venture Operations, L.P. (operated as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and LIN Media until LIN dropped out of the venture in February 2013).
In the fall of 2008, KBNT-CD expanded again to a three-repeater operation, when KTCD-LP switched from repeating Azteca America-affiliated sister station XHAS-TV (channel 33) to KBNT.
On March 4, 2020, analog channel 49 (KHAX-LP) was shut down and a new digital channel 25 (KHAX-LD) signed on in Vista, California.
On August 9, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission canceled the license for translator KTCD-LP (analog channel 46 in San Diego), as the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20chloride%20%28data%20page%29
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on sodium chloride.
Material safety data sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the material safety data sheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as eChemPortal, and follow its direction.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Density data of aqueous solutions
Note: ρ is density, n is refractive index at 589 nm, and η is viscosity, all at 20 °C; Teq is the equilibrium temperature between two phases: ice/liquid solution for Teq < 0–0.1 °C and NaCl/liquid solution for Teq above 0.1 °C.
Spectral data
References
External links
vapour pressure J Chem Thermod
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20with%20the%20Cop
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"The One with the Cop" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of Friends and the 113th overall. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on February 25, 1999.
Plot
In the teaser, Chandler and Monica cuddle while cooperating on a crossword puzzle, which Joey finds cute. That night, however, he dreams that he was doing the crossword puzzle with Monica, leading him to wonder if he finds her attractive. This is exacerbated when, at Central Perk the next morning, Monica is found wearing his sweatshirt as opposed to Chandler's, and later when Monica asks him to taste her cooking, leading to him confessing about his dreams. A bit of honest discussion between the three of them reveals that Joey is not really attracted to Monica, but rather to the intimacy and friendship she shares with Chandler. The two explain that this is because they were friends first before they started dating. Equipped with this new philosophy, he first tries to get on Rachel's good side, on the grounds that they are already friends, but she advises him to strike up a friendship with a woman and then pursue a relationship. Joey tries to do this, but when meeting a woman to strike up a friendship, he ends up in a threesome with her and her roommate.
While digging beneath a Central Perk chair cushion for spare change, Phoebe uncovers a policeman's badge. Though she promises to return it, she finds using it far more entertaining, exploiting her new-found power to force a smoking bystander to apologize to a tree on which she stubbed out a cigarette. When she begins threatening her friends with arrest, she realizes she has gone too far, but before she can return it, she tries to force an illegally-parked man to move his car. He turns out to be a policeman as well, and is unimpressed when she claims to be an undercover cop from the 15th district of Manhattan. This fellow, Gary, turns out to be the owner of the badge, but when he arrives at Monica's apartment to arrest her, he asks her out on a date instead.
Rachel is helping Ross shop for a new couch. After he finds one he likes, he forgoes delivery charges by having her help him carry it the three blocks to his apartment (he also fends off a condescending salesman by proclaiming that he and Rachel have had sex 298 times, leaving Rachel incredulous as to how he kept count). Getting it up a narrow stairwell proves more problematic, and after Rachel gets help from Chandler, the three attempt to manhandle the couch up the stairs, only to get it stuck between landings. The couch ends up cut in half after Rachel accidentally pulls the fire alarm and Ross’ neighbors have to walk over the couch. Ross then attempts to return it and receives store credit in the amount of four dollars.
Pivot scene
A scene in the episode where Ross, while moving his new sofa up the stairs, repeatedly screams "pivot" at Rachel and Chandler was called iconic by the magazine House Beautiful. It became a meme on the internet.
The Irish websit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/Computing
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PC/Computing (later Ziff-Davis Smart Business) was a monthly Ziff Davis publication that for most of its run focused on publishing reviews of IBM-compatible (or "Wintel") hardware and software and tips and reference information for users of such software and hardware.
History and profile
Established in 1988 under the guidance of founding publisher and columnist Michael Kolowich, the magazine was known for its irreverent style and annual "Windows Superguide" and "Notebook Torture Test" features. The latter feature involved baking, freezing, shaking, dropping, and splashing notebook computers from various manufacturers and then rating the machines based on which ones survived the "torture" and which ones failed. It also featured columns by editor-in-chief Paul Somerson (formerly of PC Magazine, another Ziff-Davis publication), John C. Dvorak, Gil Schwartz, and, for a time in its first few years, Penn Jillette. For some years, the magazine ran a regular column featuring an often-silly "debate" between Dvorak and Somerson. Michael Kolowich was the publisher and columnist until 1991. At its founding, the magazine was based in Burlington and Cambridge, Massachusetts, but relocated in 1991 to Foster City, California, near San Francisco.
The magazine changed its editorial focus from technology to Internet business in January 2000 and abandoned its original name shortly thereafter to try to capitalize on interest in the so-called "dot-com" boom of the late 1990s. When the technology bubble burst in mid-2000, the rechristened "Ziff-Davis Smart Business" in January 2000 lost its ad market. The magazine is the recipient of the National Magazine Award in the Personal Service category in 2000. It folded in 2002.
References
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1988
Magazines disestablished in 2002
Magazines published in San Francisco
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Seybold
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John Seybold may refer to:
John States Seybold (1897–1984), governor of Panama Canal Zone
John W. Seybold (1916–2004), father of computer typesetting
John Seybold (baker), proprietor of the Seybold Building in Miami, Florida.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey%20Software
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Odyssey Software was a computer game developer founded in 1987 in Eastham, Massachusetts by Art V. Cestaro III. The company produced games for the Amiga and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
History
Odyssey's earliest titles were expanded works based on arcade games popular at that time. Byteman was based on Pac-Man, Jailbreak was based on Arkanoid, Deathbots was based on Berzerk, and Space War was based on Asteroids as well as the original Spacewar! for the PDP-1.
After its early attempts at working as an independent game developer Odyssey began taking contracts from other established companies. In 1990, Moon Ranger, was produced under contract with Color Dreams for the NES. Odyssey established a relationship with American Video Entertainment, who contracted Deathbots for the NES. After Deathbots, Odyssey went on to produce Solitaire and Blackjack, which American Video Entertainment subsequently published. Three other Nintendo titles (Backgammon, Cue Stick, and Poker) were in production but American Video Entertainment went out of business before any of these titles could be published.
Odyssey was involved early in the Mad Dog McCree project, doing video cleanup by hand, but were never contracted for the final development of this title.
Odyssey Software went out of business in 1995.
Notable employees
Odyssey's original employees were programmers George C. Rucker III, Lane Waters. and Scott Lahteine, and graphic artists Soren Young, Dave Flamburis, John Silano, and Ranjeet Singhal. Around 1990, Mike Smith and Steve Tilton joined the team to work on Moon Ranger. In 1993, Jerry Normandin joined Odyssey for the Mad Dog McCree project. Other employees of Odyssey include Mike Davis, Mark Kelly, Monty Eriksin, Dennis St. Aubin, and Tomisa Starr.
Games developed by Odyssey
Byteman (1988)
Deathbots (for Amiga) (1988)
Jailbreak (1988)
Space War (1988)
Moon Ranger (1989)
Deathbots (for NES) (1990)
Solitaire (1991)
Blackjack (1992)
External links
History of the company
Concerto Software employs George C. Rucker III
Softgame was founded by Lane Waters
Thinkyhead Software was founded by Scott Lahteine
Jerry Normandin's home page
Ritual Entertainment now employs Ranjeet Singhal as Director of Art & Animation
Nascar Racing 2 was designed by Dave Flamburis working for Papyrus Design Group
NESWorld Article about American Video Entertainment was contributed to by Art and Jerry
MobyGames' entry on Tomisa Starr
Dino Wars was created by Art Cestaro, Ranjeet and Scott before Odyssey was founded
Defunct video game companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20W.%20Seybold
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John W. Seybold (March 8, 1916 – March 14, 2004) was a father of computer typesetting. His firm ROCAPPI (Research on Computer Applications in the Printing and Publishing Industries), started in 1963, was a pioneer in developing computer-based typesetting systems.
In 1971, along with his son Jonathan, he founded the Seybold Report, a newsletter that became highly influential in the publishing industry's transition to digital technologies. Their firm, Seybold Publications, later spawned a branch known as Seybold Seminars, which held conferences and trade shows focusing on the use of digital technologies in publishing (in its broadest sense as the dissemination of information, not limited to physical printing).
John's other children, Patricia and Andrew, set up their own consultancies. The Patricia Seybold Group (originally named Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Group) focuses on creating successful business strategies with the aid of technology; the Andrew Seybold Group specializes in mobile computing and wireless transmission of data.
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1916 births
2004 deaths
American typographers and type designers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Sakoman
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Steve Sakoman is an American computing executive. He retired from Apple Computer in 2005 and is now an independent consultant.
He originally worked at Hewlett-Packard as a manufacturing engineer and project manager for the industry's first battery-powered portable MS-DOS PC, the HP 110.
Sakoman moved to Apple Computer in 1984 where he would oversee the hardware groups responsible for the Apple II and the Macintosh product lines. In 1987 he formed the team behind the Apple Newton to realize his vision of the world's first PDA.
Sakoman left Apple in 1990 before the Newton shipped to set up Be Inc. with former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée. At Be, he led development of the original BeBox, personally developed BeOS's support for Brooktree video-capture devices, and eventually worked as the company's Chief Operating Officer. During this time, he ran a webcam inside Be's offices using the CodyCam application.
In 1994 he moved to Silicon Graphics as director of Consumer Products & Technologies Group. This included work on the Nintendo 64 graphics system. He then returned to Be in 1996.
PalmSource acquired Be in 2001 and Sakoman took on a role there as Chief Products Officer, where he was a key member of the team behind Palm OS 5 and Palm OS 6.
Sakoman rejoined Apple in 2003 as Vice-President of Software Technology, reporting to Avie Tevanian.
Sakoman also set up GutenTalk in 2004, a site to discuss ebooks specially formatted for PDAs and other hand-held readers.
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Steve Sakoman's GutenTalk eBook discussion site
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Apple Inc. employees
Be Inc. people
Hewlett-Packard people
Silicon Graphics people
American computer businesspeople
American chief operating officers
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