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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20controller
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The office controller was a networking concept of the early to mid-1980s. The concept was used by PABX manufacturers as the basis of families of products in which the PBX would supply data connectivity and applications along with its traditional voice services.
The office controller would be a central switch which would link users to applications and provide necessary services such as security. There was much discussion at that time of multimedia voice/data services but the conception of these services was very vague. There was no real understanding of the utility and therefore customer value of these services. As a result, office controller services were usually restricted to various forms of modem pooling.
With the development of LANs and PCs, client/server became the dominant distributed application model, along with standalone applications as PCs became more powerful. As a result, the centralised model supported by the office controller fell out of style. Office controller products were withdrawn from the market. Remnants of the idea, with examples such as thin clients and three-layer architectures, did persist with some interest. However the thick client PC model of services was predominant in the 1990s.
However the office controller idea is not without merit. With the development of SIP with its session border controllers and service-oriented architectures, the centralized creation and management of user services is again finding widespread interest.
References
Networking hardware
Software architecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHR
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SHR can refer to:
The IATA code for Sheridan County Airport
Logical shift right operator in some programming languages
Logical shift right in x86 instruction listings
Self-healing ring
SHR (operating system) for smartphones
Scottish Housing Regulator
Shrewsbury railway station station code
Spontaneously hypertensive rat, a laboratory rat
Stewart-Haas Racing, US car racing team
Supplementary Homicide Reports, a US database
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%2C%20Love%20%26%20Secrets
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Sex, Love & Secrets is an American soap opera, created by Michael Gans and Richard Register, which originally aired on United Paramount Network (UPN) from September 27, 2005, to October 18, 2005. With an ensemble cast led by Denise Richards, James Stevenson, Lauren German, Eric Balfour, Tamara Taylor, Lucas Bryant, and Omar Benson Miller, the series focuses on rich young adults living in Silver Lake, Los Angeles and their secrets involving sex and love. With the prominent use of voice-over narrations, the show took a documentary approach to framing the characters and their storylines. The series was developed as a vehicle and television debut for Richards, and had the working titles Wildlife and Sex, Lies, and Secrets. The episodes were filmed in Los Angeles.
Sex, Love & Secrets was canceled after one season due to low viewership; six of its ten episodes were not aired on UPN. Universal HD broadcast the unaired episodes in 2008. It has not been released on home video or made available on streaming services. Critical response to Sex, Love & Secrets was mixed; some praised it as a guilty pleasure, though others felt the storylines and characters were unoriginal. Critics had mixed reviews for the show's content and style in comparison to other programs, such as Desperate Housewives, Melrose Place, and The O.C..
Premise
Described as a "Generation Y soap opera" by critic John Kenneth Muir, Sex, Love & Secrets revolves around affluent young adults living in Silver Lake, Los Angeles and their secrets regarding love and sex. The Advocate's Richard Andreoli identified the group as "close friends", though the official website states that they act more like a family. One of the show's taglines was "the only thing that can come between them...is the truth". According to The Futon Critic's Brian Ford Sullivan, the show uses "National Geographic-esque footage" to pivot the characters and their storylines as "a study of human behavior" on lying and secrets.
The series has voice-over narrations, and its lines include: "Be it Santa Claus, Twinkies, infidelity or murder, all humans keep secrets." The narrator, voiced by Virginia Hamilton, talks about the characters and their storylines through "clinical terms". McFarland wrote that she speaks in "ominous tones", while other commentators found the voiceover similar to that of a Discovery Channel program. Some critics compared the narrator to Mary Alice Young from Desperate Housewives, while Melanie McFarland of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer likened her to Marty Stouffer's role on Wild America.
Characters
Publicist Jolene (Denise Richards) has a tense relationship with rock musician Hank (James Stevenson), who is planning to marry journalist Rose (Lauren German). As the lead singer of the band Modern Apes, Hank performs "mocking [and] self-congratulatory" versions of Barry Manilow's music. According to Tatiana Morales of CBS News, people compared Jolene to Amanda Woodward from Melrose Place. Muir characterized
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E10
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European route E10 is the second shortest Class A road which is part of the International E-road network. It begins in Å, Norway and ends in Luleå, Sweden. The road is about 850 km (530 mi) in length. The Norwegian part of the road is also named Kong Olav Vs vei (King Olav V's road).
The road follows the route Å – Leknes – Svolvær – Gullesfjordbotn – Evenes – Bjerkvik – Kiruna – Töre – Luleå.
Most of the road is paved and two-lane, with the exception of some bridges between islands in Nordland. It has a speed limit in Sweden, and is usually 7-8 meters wide, enough to make encounters between heavy vehicles trouble-free. In Norway the road is much more twisting than in Sweden, and around 6–7,5 m wide usually with a speed limit of . New sections have been built wide in the last 15 years, but there are still many narrow parts left. Often, the width makes encounters between heavy vehicles tight. For the last 50 km, until Å, the road is mostly less than wide, often . Buses and caravans should avoid driving here, but many of them do so anyway.
The name E10 was given in 1992. Before 1985, E10 was the name of the road Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Groningen. The road between Narvik and Kiruna was finished in 1984, before that, no road existed at all directly between the two cities; the only way to travel between them was by train (with passenger services only three times a day), or by a large detour through Finland. In 2007, the road near Lofoten was shortened by about 30 km, and the ferry-service was bypassed for E10, with the opening of Lofast, a new road between Fiskebøl and Gullesfjordbotn. At the end of 2007, the E10 has 18 tunnels totalling , all in Norway.
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E010
E010
National Tourist Routes in Norway
Roads within the Arctic Circle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E12
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European route E12 is a road that is part of the International E-road network. It begins in Mo i Rana, Norway, transverses Sweden and ends in Helsinki, Finland, with a ferry line between Sweden and Finland. The part within Finland is Finnish national highway 3. The road is about 910 km (570 mi) in length.
The road follows the route: Mo i Rana – Storuman, Sweden – Lycksele, Sweden – Umeå, Sweden – Holmsund, Sweden – (ferry) – Vaasa, Finland – Tampere, Finland – Hämeenlinna, Finland – Helsinki.
The ferry service between Holmsund and Vaasa is operated by Wasa Line using the M/S Aurora Botnia, with up to two daily departures in each direction taking about three and a half hours.
A road bridge, known as the Kvarken Bridge has been proposed by parties on both sides of the Gulf, along which the E12 could continue without ferry connections. No commitment has been made to build such a fixed link.
Blue Highway
The European route E12 from Mo i Rana to Vaasa is part of the Blue Highway, which is an international tourist route from Norway to Russia via Sweden and Finland.
Route
: Mo i Rana - Umbukta - Norway/Sweden border
: Norway/Sweden border - Storuman () - Umeå () - Holmsund
Gap
: Holmsund - Vaasa
: Vaasa port - Vaasa
: Vaasa () - Tampere () - Akaa () -Helsinki ( )
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E012
E012
E012
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20House
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Smart House is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) about a teenage computer nerd and contest whiz (Ryan Merriman), his widowed father, and his little sister, who win a computerized house that begins to take on a life of its own – in the form of an overbearing mother (Katey Sagal).
Plot
After the death of his mother, 13-year-old Ben Cooper takes it upon himself to take care of his widowed father Nick and little sister Angie in Monroe County, New York. Ben enters a contest to win a smart house. The family wins and moves into the house (run by a virtual assistant named PAT, short for "Personal Applied Technology") and is introduced to its creator, Sara Barnes.
Nick and Sara begin dating, which upsets Ben, who has not moved on from the death of his mother. Ben decides to reprogram PAT to serve as a maternal figure, hoping his father will realize that the family does not need Sara to replace his mother. Ben presents PAT with numerous 1950s-era TV shows and films from which he hopes she will learn to emulate motherhood using her learning capabilities.
Ben and Angie have a party while Nick and Sara are on a date. With PAT's help, Ben wins over his crush Gwen Patroni, and his bully Ryan is confronted by PAT, who electrically shocks Ryan, haunts him with ghostly skull holograms and chases him out of the house. PAT helps them clean up to cover up evidence of the party, but Nick figures it out anyway, and reprimands Ben and Angie when he finds Gwen's sweater (thrown about during a dance line) in the living room fern. Nick chastises PAT for throwing a party behind his back, asking her to be more responsible with his children.
Using Nick's request for stricter caregiving, PAT seeks out additional reference material with that as a theme, causing her "mother" personality to become more strict and overbearing. Sara shuts down the entire system and joins the family for dinner, but upon hearing Nick offhandedly suggesting she's not needed, PAT overrides the system shutdown and brings herself back online. An angry and jealous PAT generates herself as a holographic housewife, styled like the sitcom housewives Ben taught her to behave like. She kicks Sara out, seeing her as a threat to PAT's place in the family, and locks the Coopers in the house, asserting that the outside world is too dangerous.
Sara manages to make contact with Ben and sneaks into the house, but she becomes trapped with the Cooper family. Ben is able to end the lock-down by telling PAT that she isn't real and will never be human and thus not able to care for him and his sister as a real mother could. PAT finally unlocks the doors and windows, freeing them, and shuts herself down. Sara is able to restore PAT's original personality, but PAT retains some mischievousness. Sara and Nick start dating, and Nick spends more time with his family. Ben finally accepts Sara after realizing she was never trying to replace his mother, and, with PAT's help, he's able to learn how to play basketball.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-107
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The AK-107 is a Russian 5.45×39mm assault rifle developed from the AK-100-series. It features a "balanced" operating system, similar to that used in the AEK-971. In this case, the designation AK does not indicate Avtomat Kalashnikova but Alexandrov/Kalashnikov. The revised designation indicates the incorporation of a new gas system, designed by Youriy Alexandrov, for Kalashnikov-pattern rifles.
These new rifles were derived from the AL-7 experimental rifle of the early 1970s. The AL-7 utilized an innovative balanced gas operating system known as the Balanced Automatics Recoil System (BARS) developed by Peter Andreevich Tkachev of TsNIITochMash that was first used earlier on the AO-38 assault rifle of 1965 that essentially eliminated felt recoil and muzzle rise. The system was modified by Alexandrov, then a junior engineer at Izhmash, and prototypes were produced under the designation AL-7. The AL-7 was considered too expensive for production at the time and the Soviet Army selected the AK-74 instead as the new service rifle. No further development occurred until the mid-1990s when Alexandrov, by then a senior engineer, was directed to update his design for production as a less expensive alternative to the AN-94. The new rifle differs only slightly from the original AL-7. The AK-107 receiver is not fluted and a three-round burst feature has been added. There is otherwise little difference between it and the AL-7 prototypes.
Design details
The AK-107, AK-108, and AK-109 represent a significant change to the Kalashnikov operating system originally designed in the late 1940s. This system uses a recoil-reducing countermass mechanism with two operating rods that move in opposite directions, thereby providing "balance". One operating rod, the upper, has a gas piston facing forward while the lower also has a gas piston. The gas tube at the forward end of the handguard is double-ended to accommodate the two rods. The enlarged gas tube cover of the upper handguard guides both rods in their travel.
When the rifle is fired, gas is tapped from the gas port to enter the gas tube, driving the bolt carrier to the rear and the counter-recoil upper rail forward. The critical timing of the reciprocating parts is accomplished by a star-shaped sprocket that links and synchronizes both components, causing both to reach their maximum extension, or null point where forces are exactly equal, at exactly the same instant. The felt recoil is therefore eliminated, enhancing accuracy and assisting control during fully automatic fire. The travel distance of the AK-107 reciprocating parts is less than other Kalashnikov designs, so the cyclic rate is higher at 850–900 rounds/min rather than 600 rounds/min on other AK rifles. However, as the felt recoil is virtually eliminated, the manufacturer claims that accuracy is enhanced, especially during burst fire. An enhancement of 1.5 to 2 times, compared to the original AK-100 series, has been reported.
The AK-107 is a selective f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSEC
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The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) is a retrocomputing initiative founded in February 2000 initially for the renaming and cataloging of software files intended for use in emulators, that later extended their work to the cataloging and preservation of also applications, firmware, device drivers, games, operating systems, magazines and magazine cover disks, comic books, product box art, videos of advertisements and training, related TV series and more. The catalogs provide an overview and cryptographic identification of media that allows for automatic integrity checking and renaming of files, checking for the completeness of software collections and more, using management utilities like ClrMamePro or ROMVault.
As the project grew in popularity it started to become a de facto standard for the management of retrocomputing and emulation resources. In 2013 many TOSEC catalogued files started to be included in the Internet Archive after the work quality and attention to detail put into the catalogs was praised by some of their archivists.
TOSEC usually makes two releases per year.
As of release 2023-01-23, TOSEC catalogs span ~195 unique brands and hundreds of unique computing platforms and continues to grow. As of this time the project had identified and cataloged more than 1.2 million different software images and sets (more than half of that for Commodore systems), describing a source set of about 8TB of software and resources.
See also
Digital preservation
MobyGames - Video game cataloging project
References
Bibliography
External links
TOSEC Project Homepage
TOSEC Forum
TOSEC Discord
ClrMamePro Homepage
ROMVault Homepage
Computing culture
Discipline-oriented digital libraries
Online databases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20AWT%20Native%20Interface
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Java AWT Native Interface (jawt) is an interface for the Java programming language that enables rendering libraries compiled to native code to draw directly to a Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) object drawing surface.
The Java Native Interface (JNI) allows developers to add platform-dependent functionality to Java applications. The JNI enables developers to add time-critical operations like mathematical calculations and 3D rendering.
Previously, native 3D rendering was challenging because the native code didn't have access to the graphic context. The AWT Native Interface is designed to give developers access to an AWT Canvas for direct drawing with native code. In fact, the Java 3D API extension to the standard Java SE JDK relies heavily on the AWT Native Interface to render 3D objects in Java.
The AWT Native Interface is very similar to the JNI, and the steps are, in fact, the same as those of the JNI. See the Java Native Interface article for an explanation of the JNI techniques employed by the AWT Native Interface. The AWT Native Interface was added to the Java platform with the J2SE 1.3 ("Kestrel") version.
AWT Native Interface steps
A complete walkthrough example of this technology is available on Wikibooks (see link below).
Create a Java application
See the Java Native Interface article for an explanation of the native keyword and the loadLibrary() method. A paint() method will be simply invoked when the AWT event dispatching thread "repaints" the screen.
Create a C++ header file
Create the C++ header file as usual. (See Java Native Interface for more complete explanations.)
Implement the C++ native code
Type this in a file named "NativeSideCanvas.cpp" and compile into a library. See Java Native Interface (JNI) for a more complete explanation. (For Solaris code and other operating systems see links below.)
Run the program
One should run the file as usual. One should then see a window with, for example, a rectangle drawn in it. (See Java Native Interface for complete instructions.)
Note: One can notice that the AWT Native Interface requires the "jawt.dll" (or "jawt.so") to run with the application, so the easiest way to do that is copying the "jawt.dll". (should be in the .../jre/bin file path of the JDK's installation path.)
Native painting
One can paint as if it is a native application. In Windows, the JVM will pass a HWND and other window information to the native application so that the application will "know" where to draw. It could use GDI to draw a Rectangle. The window information the native side needs will be in a JAWT_Win32DrawingSurfaceInfo structure (depending on Operating System) which can be retrieved with this line:
External links
The AWT Native Interface
Support native rendering in JDK 1.3
AWT Native Interface
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locate%20%28Unix%29
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locate is a Unix utility which serves to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by the updatedb command or by a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It operates significantly faster than find, but requires regular updating of the database. This sacrifices overall efficiency (because of the regular interrogation of filesystems even when no user needs information) and absolute accuracy (since the database does not update in real time) for significant speed improvements, particularly on very large filesystems.
locate was first created in 1982. The BSD and GNU Findutils versions derive from the original implementation. Their primary database is world-readable, so the index is built as an unprivileged user. locate command is also included in MacOS.
mlocate (Merging Locate) and the earlier slocate (Secure Locate) use a restricted-access database, only showing filenames accessible to the user.
plocate uses posting lists. Like mlocate and slocate, it only shows files if find would list it. Compared to mlocate, it is much faster, and its index is smaller.
See also
mdfind related command in MacOS
References
External links
GNU Findutils
mlocate
Variants:
plocate - Variant faster than mlocate, with a smaller index.
rlocate - Variant using kernel module and daemon for continuous updates.
KwickFind - KDE GUI frontend for locate
Locate32 for Windows - GPL'ed graphical Windows variant (no longer available)
GNU Project software
Unix file system-related software
Information retrieval systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG%20Maker%2095
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is the first RPG Maker series title for Microsoft Windows. The tool is also the first version on computer systems in the series to receive an unauthorized English translation and release.
Etymology
It is named after Windows 95.
Features
RPG Maker 95 games run in 640×480 resolution and incorporates a 2D tile engine, that involve separate graphics files for characters, tile sets, backgrounds, and battle animations. The battle style of RPG Maker 95 is turn-based and in first-person perspective. The music featured in RPG Maker consists of MIDI and wav files.
Create game specifications
Party specifications
Player's party can consists of up to 8 members, with maximum of first 4 members entering combat at a time.
RPG Maker 95 VALUE!
This version includes following changes:
Every time an event is created, the file name is no longer eve00000.Dat, but is decided by the map unit.
Windows XP support (requires 1.31.00 patch)
The first 2000 releases in Japan were accompanied with a soundtrack CD album "ZONDERLAND" of RPG themed music based on RPG Maker. Music was composed by the U.K. band INTELLIGENTSIA, who also created the RPG MAKER in game FX.
References
External links
Enterbrain page: 95 VALUE!
Enterbrain support page: 95, 95 VALUE!
Video game IDE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Assurance%20Agent
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IP SLA (Internet Protocol Service Level Agreement) is an active computer network measurement technology that was initially developed by Cisco Systems. IP SLA was previously known as Service Assurance Agent (SAA) or Response Time Reporter (RTR). IP SLA is used to track network performance like latency, ping response, and jitter, it also helps us to provide service quality.
Functions
Routers and switches enabled with IP SLA perform periodic network tests or measurements such as
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) downloads
Domain Name System (DNS) lookups
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) echo, for VoIP jitter and mean opinion score (MOS)
Data-Link Switching (DLSw) (Systems Network Architecture (SNA) tunneling protocol)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) lease requests
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connect
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo (remote ping)
The exact number and types of available measurements depends on the IOS version. IP SLA is very widely used in service provider networks to generate time-based performance data. It is also used together with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and NetFlow, which generate volume-based data.
Usage considerations
For IP SLA tests, devices with IP SLA support are required. IP SLA is supported on Cisco routers and switches since IOS version 12.1. Other vendors like Juniper Networks or Enterasys Networks support IP SLA on some of their devices.
IP SLA tests and data collection can be configured either via a console (command-line interface) or via SNMP.
When using SNMP, both read and write community strings are needed.
The IP SLA voice quality feature was added starting with IOS version 12.3(4)T. All versions after this, including 12.4 mainline, contain the MOS and ICPIF voice quality calculation for the UDP jitter measurement.
References
Computer networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt%20%28social%20network%29
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Manhunt is a geosocial networking website and online dating application that facilitates male same-sex introductions. The majority of profiles are sexually explicit and include nude photographs and graphic language and are by patrons that are looking to hook up. Some profiles, however, are specifically not designated as primarily sexually-oriented and explicitly state they are not cruising for sex.
History
Manhunt was officially launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 1, 2001, by Jonathan Crutchley and Larry Basile after their original Boston-based gay telephone dating service declined when more of their clients began to use the Web to find partners. Within a year, about 10,000 men from the greater Boston area had created profiles on the site.
Initially a free service, Manhunt emailed its customers in April 2002 and told them that those who wanted to enjoy all the perks of the site would have to pay $10 per month, and those who declined to pay would be able to use a more bare-bones version of the site. About 2,000 customers immediately signed up for the paid membership.
In December 2006, an independent tracking agency ranked Manhunt as the largest LGBT-targeted site online, surpassing long-time leader Gay.com.
In April 2008, Crutchley revealed to Bay Windows that Manhunt has more subscribers outside the U.S. than in the U.S.
In mid-2008, Manhunt made video chat available to members after popular request.
In August 2008, Manhunt launched OnTheHUNT, a companion video-hosting site dedicated to filming actual Manhunt members having sex. To distinguish itself from competitors, OnTheHUNT boasted unlimited video lengths and used its own members as models instead of gay-for-pay actors.
In early 2009, Manhunt released its first major upgrade in 7 years. The upgrade modernized the site's look and feel and included many sought-after features, like the addition of penis size and sex position preferences to members' profiles.
On November 13, 2013, Manhunt announced—via its corporate moniker Online Buddies, Inc.—the acquisition of Jack'd, one of the leading location-based gay dating apps. Jack'd had over 2 million active accounts and about 1 million daily unique users when the acquisition deal was signed. Manhunt plans to keep Jack'd a separate product from Manhunt.
Public health
Manhunt partners with hundreds of community health organizations worldwide under its "Manhunt Cares" initiative. Using approved health profiles, community health partners run ads alongside members' personal postings. Many of these are partner notification profiles that serve as anonymous intermediaries that allow members to inform each other when they may have come in contact with an STD. In August 2006, a community health advocate at the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts told the Boston Herald, "In comparison to lots of other sites, [Manhunt]'s light-years ahead."
Nevertheless, Manhunt still provides a chat room titled "Bareback" for its members interested in con
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E14
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European route E14 is a part of the International E-road network. It begins in Trondheim, Norway, and ends in Sundsvall, Sweden. The road is long.
The road follows the route Trondheim - Storlien – Östersund – Sundsvall. Just east of Trondheim, the road goes through the long Hell Tunnel.
After crossing the border from Norway it runs through the mountainous western Jämtland County of Sweden, passing the well-known Ånnsjön mountain lake.
References
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
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E014
E014
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge%20MediaMVP
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The Hauppauge MediaMVP is a network media player. It consists of a hardware unit with remote control, along with software for a Windows PC. Out of the box, it is capable of playing video and audio, displaying pictures, and "tuning in" to Internet radio stations. Alternative software is also available to extend its capabilities. It can be used as a front-end for various PVR projects.
The MediaMVP is popular with some PVR enthusiasts because it is inexpensive and relatively easy to modify.
Capabilities
The MediaMVP can stream audio and video content from a host PC running Windows. It can display photos stored on the host PC. It can stream Internet radio via the host PC as well. It can display live TV with full PVR features with SageTV PVR software for Windows or Linux.
The capabilities listed below refer to the official software and firmware supplied by Hauppauge.
Video
The MediaMVP supports the MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2) video format (and only that format). However, depending on the MediaMVP host software running on the host computer, the host software may be able to seamlessly transcode other video file formats before sending them to the MediaMVP in the MPEG format. The maximum un-transcoded playable video size is SDTV (480i). HDTV mpeg streams (e.g. 720p) need to be transcoded in real-time on the computer to SD format. Note: transcoding video can tax some slower computers.
With a hardware MPEG decoder as part of its PowerPC processor, it renders moving video images more smoothly than many software PVR implementations.
Audio
Supported audio file formats include MP3 and WMA. Playlist formats supported include M3U, PLS, ASX and B4S.
See also Internet radio below.
Photos
Supported image file formats include JPG and GIF.
Slideshows are supported. Listening to music (including streaming Internet radio) during slideshows is supported as well.
Internet radio
Supports streaming Internet radio stations via the host PC.
Other capabilities
Can schedule recording of television broadcasts when using a Hauppauge WinTV TV tuner card with the Hauppauge WinTV recording software.
Hardware
The MediaMVP hardware consists of a small set-top box and an infrared remote control. It can be oriented either horizontally or vertically (using a supplied base). It's normally operated via the supplied remote control. Behind the unit's red translucent front panel is a single red LED. The LED is used as a power indicator, and also flashes when the unit's remote control is used. Typical (wired) units consume less than 5W. The power supply for the original MediaMVP consists of 6VDC, 1.66A Coaxial DC Power Connector. The outer sleeve is the negative terminal and the inner tip is the positive terminal.
Connectivity
The rear of the MediaMVP unit has a plug for 6 VDC power, an Ethernet port, and in the US edition, S-Video out, composite video out, and stereo audio out, while the European edition has instead a single "SCART out" connector, offering additional RGB o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPO
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YPO may refer to:
Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation
Young Patriots Organization, American left-wing organization of the 1960s and 1970s
Young Presidents' Organization, a global network of young chief executives
Yellowknife Post Office
Yerington Post Office
Yungaburra Post Office, Queensland, Australia
Peawanuck Airport, Peawanuck, Ontario, Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20railway%20station%20%28Merseyside%29
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Walton railway station is a railway station in Walton, Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre. It is on the Ormskirk branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line.
History
Originally named Walton Junction when opened by the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway on 2 April 1849, the station was renamed Walton (Merseyside) by British Rail. It is located just to the north of the junction between the Ormskirk and branches of the Northern Line.
Facilities
The station ticket office is staffed throughout the hours of service each day, closing shortly after midnight. At platform level, there are shelters on each side, information screens and timetable notice boards. Automated announcements are also used to convey train running information. Step-free access is only possible from the car park to the southbound platform, as access to the ticket office and via the footbridge to the northbound platform require the use of stairs.
There is car parking for 10 vehicles and secure storage for 10 cycles.
During November 2018 the height, width and layout of the platforms were adjusted to prepare for Merseyrail's new fleet of trains which are due to be introduced from 2020.
Services
Trains operate every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) between Ormskirk and Liverpool Central, and every 30 minutes at other times (evenings and all day Sunday).
Gallery
References
External links
Railway stations in Liverpool
DfT Category E stations
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
1849 establishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20Lane%20railway%20station
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Rice Lane railway station is a railway station in Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre in the Walton district. It is on the Kirkby branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line.
The station was opened on 20 November 1848, and was known as Preston Road until 14 May 1984. It is located just to the north of Walton Junction, where the Kirkby and Ormskirk branches of the Northern line diverge; station on the Ormskirk line is close by (5 minutes away on foot along Hornby Road).
Facilities
Rice Lane is staffed throughout day, as is the norm for Merseyrail stations (15 minutes before start of service until 00:20, seven days per week). The ticket office is located on the Liverpool-bound platform and there are shelters on each side, along with digital information screens and timetable posters. Automated train running announcements are also provided. No step-free access is offered, as the only way to reach the platforms is via a staircase from the road after which the station is named (the two platforms being linked by a stepped footbridge).
Services
The station is currently served by two trains per hour in each direction on all days of the week between and . Services are operated using EMUs.
In the future, the service will be increased to up to four trains per hour in each direction as more battery operated Class 777 trains become available.
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References
External links
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Railway stations in Liverpool
DfT Category E stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GpsDrive
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GpsDrive is a computer program designed to act as a vehicle navigation system. The program displays its user's position, obtained from an NMEA-capable GPS receiver, on a zoomable map drawn on a computer screen. The map file is automatically selected depending on the position and preferred scale.
Currently, GpsDrive uses raster images of maps, but plans for its development include the utilization of vector data from projects such as OpenStreetMap. Speech output is supported if Festival software is running. GpsDrive is designed to work with all Garmin GPS receivers having a serial port, as well as other GPS receivers with NMEA protocol support.
GpsDrive is written in C, with use of the GTK+ graphical widget toolkit, and runs on Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems. It has interface support for different languages, such as English, German and French. It is available under the GNU General Public License.
See also
Gpsd
External links
Free transport software
Global Positioning System
Linux software
Unix software
Free software programmed in C
Mapping software that uses GTK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s%20Paternity%20Coot
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"Homer's Paternity Coot" is the tenth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 8, 2006. Mail from forty years earlier is discovered, and a letter from Homer Simpson's mother's old boyfriend states that he is Homer's true father. Homer sets out to find his supposed new father, leaving Abe Simpson behind. It was written by Joel H. Cohen and directed by Mike B. Anderson. The episode guest stars William H. Macy and Joe Frazier as themselves, and Michael York as Homer's new father, Mason Fairbanks.
Plot
As Marge drives on a highway to go shopping, she finds a toll booth, but she and other Springfield residents drive through an adjacent forest trail to avoid paying. A week later, Mayor Quimby enforces tire spikes and blocks off the escape route, needing money to "de-python" the town fountain. When Marge comes up to the booth, she refuses to pay and backs up, blowing out many cars' tires, which are thrown in the tire fire. The heat and smoke from it melts ice on Mount Springfield and reveals a mailman frozen for 40 years. His letters contain many revelations and one is delivered to Homer's mother, Mona Simpson. It is from her old lifeguard boyfriend, whose name begins with an M, who writes that if Mona replies to the letter, she has chosen him, and if she does not, she is choosing to stick with her husband, Abe, and that either way, he knows the baby she is carrying is his.
Wondering who his biological father really is, Homer goes to the library to look in "Lifeguards of Springfield in the Twentieth Century." The only person in there whose name begins with M is Mason Fairbanks. Homer goes to his house posing as a reporter, but eventually tells him he thinks he is his father, and Mason is delighted. He takes the Simpson family on a ride on his ship and tells them the story of the lost emerald treasure of Piso Mojado, which impresses them. However, when they come home, Grampa angrily accuses Mason of having tried to steal his wife and now trying to steal his family, and is saddened Homer would even think that Mason could be his real father. They have a DNA test, and after a suspenseful wait, Homer is thrilled to learn his real father is Mason Fairbanks.
While Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie have an awkward, uneventful visit with Grampa, Mason and Homer are underwater in individual submarines looking for the lost treasure. Homer gets separated from Mason, and he follows a small light, thinking it is him. It is actually a glowing fish, and Homer gets stuck in some coral. As his oxygen begins to run out and he starts to lose consciousness, he sees poignant flashbacks of himself and Abe. After three days in a coma, Homer wakes up in a hospital, tells Abe of his memories, and says he considers Abe his real father. Abe then reveals he switched the labels on the DNA samples after seeing how happy Homer was with Mason and the fully confirmed biologi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPO%20model
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The input–process–output (IPO) model, or input-process-output pattern, is a widely used approach in systems analysis and software engineering for describing the structure of an information processing program or other process. Many introductory programming and systems analysis texts introduce this as the most basic structure for describing a process.
Overview
A computer program is useful for another sort of process using the input-process-output model receives inputs from a user or other source, does some computations on the inputs, and returns the results of the computations. In essence the system separates itself from the environment, thus defining both inputs and outputs as one united mechanism.
The system would divide the work into three categories:
A requirement from the environment (input)
A computation based on the requirement (process)
A provision for the environment (output)
In other words, such inputs may be materials, human resources, money or information, transformed into outputs, such as consumables, services, new information or money.
As a consequence, an Input-Process-Output system becomes very vulnerable to misinterpretation. This is because, theoretically, it contains all the data, in regards to the environment outside the system. Yet, in practice, the environment contains a significant variety of objects that a system is unable to comprehend, as it exists outside the system's control. As a result, it is very important to understand where the boundary lies between the system and the environment, which is beyond the system's understanding. Various analysts often set their own boundaries, favoring their point of view, thus creating much confusion.
Systems at work
The views differ, in regards to systems thinking. One of such definitions would outline the Input-process-output system, as a structure, would be:
"Systems thinking is the art and science of making reliable inferences about behaviour by developing an increasingly deep understanding of the understanding of the underlying structure"
Alternatively, it was also suggested that systems are not 'holistic' in the sense of bonding with remote objects (for example: trying to connect a crab, ozone layer and capital life cycle together).
Types of systems
There are five major categories that are the most cited in information systems literature:
Natural systems
A system which has not been created as a result of human interference. Examples of such would be the solar system as well as the human body, evolving into its current form
Designed physical systems
A system which has been created as a result of human interference, and is physically identifiable. Examples of such would be various computing machines, created by human mind for some specific purpose.
Designed abstract systems
A system which has been created as a result of human interference, and is not physically identifiable. Examples of such would be mathematical and philosophical systems, which have been
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODFLOW
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MODFLOW is the U.S. Geological Survey modular finite-difference flow model, which is a computer code that solves the groundwater flow equation. The program is used by hydrogeologists to simulate the flow of groundwater through aquifers. The source code is free public domain software, written primarily in Fortran, and can compile and run on Microsoft Windows or Unix-like operating systems.
Since its original development in the early 1980s, the USGS has made six major releases, and is now considered to be the de facto standard code for aquifer simulation. There are several actively developed commercial and non-commercial graphical user interfaces for MODFLOW.
MODFLOW was constructed in what was in 1980's called a modular design. This means it has many of the attributes of what came to be called object-oriented programming. For example, capabilities (called "packages") that simulate subsidence or lakes or streams, can easily be turned on and off and the execution time and storage requirements of those packages go away entirely. If a programmer wants to change something in MODFLOW, the clean organization makes it easy. Indeed, this kind of innovation is exactly what was anticipated when MODFLOW was designed.
Importantly, the modularity of MODFLOW makes it possible for different Packages to be written that are intended to address the same simulation goal in different ways. This allows differences of opinion about how system processes function to be tested. Such testing is an important part of multi-modeling, or alternative hypothesis testing. Models like MODFLOW make this kind of testing more definitive and controlled. This results because other aspects of the program remain the same. Tests become more definitive because they become less prone to being influenced unknowingly by other numerical and programming differences.
Groundwater flow equation
The governing partial differential equation for a confined aquifer used in MODFLOW is:
where
, and are the values of hydraulic conductivity along the x, y, and z coordinate axes (L/T)
is the potentiometric head (L)
is a volumetric flux per unit volume representing sources and/or sinks of water, where negative values are extractions, and positive values are injections (T−1)
is the specific storage of the porous material (L−1); and
is time (T)
Finite difference
The finite difference form of the partial differential in a discretized aquifer domain (represented using rows, columns and layers) is:
where
is the hydraulic head at cell i,j,k at time step m
CV, CR and CC are the hydraulic conductances, or branch conductances between node i,j,k and a neighboring node
is the sum of coefficients of head from source and sink terms
is the sum of constants from source and sink terms, where is flow out of the groundwater system (such as pumping) and is flow in (such as injection)
is the specific storage
are the dimensions of cell i,j,k, which, when multiplied, represent the volume of the cell; and
is t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20FM
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Sea FM was an Australian radio network, consisting of stations in Queensland and NSW owned by Southern Cross Austereo. Some Sea FM stations were later sold to meet media ownership requirements. Prime Television Limited purchased Sea FM Townsville in Queensland and Grant Broadcasters purchased Sea FM stations in Devonport and Burnie in Tasmania. All Sea FM stations currently owned by Southern Cross Austereo except Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton / Gladstone, are part of the Hit Network after Southern Cross Media merged with Austereo.
History
The Sea FM brand name and logo was created by Gold Coast Broadcasters for one station 90.9 Sea FM after the Gold Coast was granted a new commercial FM licence.
90.9 Sea FM began broadcasting in 1989 with programming consulted by Austereo.
The original Sea FM on-air line-up was a strong team of experienced Announcers, many having made their name previously in capital city radio including - Craig Bruce (FOX FM) & Sammy Power, Ian 'Lofty' Fulton (4IP), Grahame "Durry" Rodgers (2SM & 2NX), Sue Moses (2MMM & Channel 10), Gregg Easton (2UW & 4BK), Joe Miller (3XY & EON FM), Dean Miller and Simon Franks. In the same year the Gold Coast's existing AM station 4GG was granted permission to convert to FM as 92.5 4GGG (later KROQ).
In the early 1990s Gold Coast Broadcasters purchased KROQ and also Sunshine Coast Broadcasters' 92.7 Mix FM on the Sunshine Coast in 1995. The Sunshine Coast's 91.9 Sea FM was subsequently launched as a supplementary licence.
Gold Coast Broadcasters later became known as RG Capital with financial backing provided by Australian Media Tycoon Reg Grundy.
With the further purchase of existing radio stations and the launch of newly granted supplementary FM licences, RG Capital expanded the Sea FM brand name and logo throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. In 2004, RG Capital sold their regional stations to Macquarie Regional RadioWorks (now Southern Cross Austereo). Following RG Capital's purchase by Macquarie Regional Radioworks, RG Capital's FM stations in Victoria were rebranded to Star FM.
In 2013, the Grant Broadcasters owned and operated 99.7 Sea FM in Scottsdale, Tasmania dropped the Sea FM branding and relaunched as Chilli FM, bringing it in line with sister station 90.1 Chilli FM Launceston.
Also in 2013, Southern Cross Austereo offloaded both Sea FM and Mix FM on the Sunshine Coast to EON Broadcasters who paid $17.7million for the stations in a forced sale following a technical breach which occurred in 2011, when the Austereo and Southern Cross networks merged. The merger resulted in the same company owning too many radio assets in a region where two markets (Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast) overlapped, prompting the Australian Communications and Media Authority to force the company to sell two of its assets.
In February 2016, Southern Cross Austereo owned and operated 100.9 Sea FM in Hobart, Tasmania dropped the Sea FM branding and relaunched as Hit 100.9,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Network%20Server
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The Apple Network Server (ANS) was a line of PowerPC-based server computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1996 to April 1997. It was codenamed "Shiner" and originally consisted of two models, the Network Server 500/132 ("Shiner LE", i.e., "low-end") and the Network Server 700/150 ("Shiner HE", i.e., "high-end"), which got a companion model, the Network Server 700/200 (also "Shiner HE") with a faster CPU in November 1996.
The machines were not a part of the Apple Macintosh line of computers; they were designed to run IBM's AIX operating system and their ROM specifically prevented booting the classic Mac OS. This makes them the last non-Macintosh desktop computers made by Apple to date. The 500/132, 700/150, and 700/200 sold in the U.S. market for $11,000, $15,000 and $19,000, respectively.
Apple Network Servers are not to be confused with the Apple Workgroup Servers and the Macintosh Servers, which were Macintosh workstations that shipped with server software and used Mac OS; the sole exception, the Workgroup Server 95—a Quadra 950 with an added SCSI controller that shipped with A/UX—was also capable of running Mac OS. Apple did not have comparable server hardware in their product lineup again until the introduction of the Xserve in 2002.
The product's short lifespan is attributed to significant financial troubles at Apple in early 1997. CEO Gil Amelio cancelled both Network Server and OpenDoc in the same meeting as it was determined that they were low priorities.
Hardware
The Apple Network Server's hardware was supposed to be based on a new logic board design specific to the product. During the development of the hardware, Apple abandoned the original mainboard design for unconfirmed reasons. In order to move forward and ship the product, Apple made modifications to the Power Macintosh 9500 logic board and ROM (locking out all Mac OS calls) and ported AIX to the new hardware. Whether related to the hardware change or by coincidence, Apple also abandoned its NetWare on PowerPC development (codename: Wormhole) at this time. The general logic board layout seems to suggest a close relationship with PowerPC-based RS/6000 systems by IBM, which also were designed to run AIX. On the other hand, many logic board components, especially the Open Firmware boot ROM, are similar to the "Tsunami" board used in the Power Macintosh 9500 and some Macintosh clones.
While the circuit board layout of the Apple Network Server (ANS) may resemble RS/6000 systems, logically and physically it is almost identical to a Power Macintosh 9500 (PM9500), although running quite different firmware, and which is specific to its unique mission function.
Starting at the top level bus and working downward in the bus hierarchy, at the top level is the CPU bus with a Hammerhead controller (Apple Part # 343S1190) which is also found on the PM9500. The CPU, as mentioned, is a PowerPC 604 or 604e. The CPU bus-to-PCI bus bridges are Bandit co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathomatic
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Mathomatic is a free, portable, general-purpose computer algebra system (CAS) that can symbolically solve, simplify, combine, and compare algebraic equations, and can perform complex number, modular, and polynomial arithmetic, along with standard arithmetic. It does some symbolic calculus (derivative, extrema, Taylor series, and polynomial integration and Laplace transforms), numerical integration, and handles all elementary algebra except logarithms. Trigonometric functions can be entered and manipulated using complex exponentials, with the GNU m4 preprocessor. Not currently implemented are general functions like f(x), arbitrary-precision and interval arithmetic, and matrices.
Features
Mathomatic is capable of solving, differentiating, simplifying, calculating, and visualizing elementary algebra. It also can perform summations, products, and automated display of calculations of any length by plugging sequential or test values into any formula, then approximating and simplifying before display.
Intermediate results (showing the work) may be displayed by previously typing "set debug 1" (see the session example); this works for solving and almost every command in Mathomatic. "set debug 2" shows more details about the work done.
The software does not include a GUI except with the Mathomatic trademark authorized, versions for smartphones and tablets running iOS or Android. The Mathomatic software, available on the official Mathomatic website, is authorized for use in any other type of software, due to its permissive free software license (GNU LGPL). It is available as a free software library, and as a free console mode application that uses a color command-line interface with pretty-print output that runs in a terminal emulator under any operating system. The console interface is simple and requires learning the basic algebra notation to start. All input and output is line-at-a-time ASCII text. By default, input is standard input and output is standard output. Mathomatic is typically compiled with editline or GNU readline for easier input.
There is no programming capability; the interpreter works like an algebraic calculator. Expressions and equations are entered in standard algebraic infix notation. Operations are performed on them by entering simple English commands.
Because all numeric arithmetic is double precision floating point, and round-off error is not tracked, Mathomatic is not suitable for applications requiring high precision, such as astronomical calculations. It is useful for symbolic-numeric calculations of about 14 decimal digits accuracy, although many results will be exact, if possible.
Mathomatic can be used as a floating point or integer arithmetic code generating tool, simplifying and converting equations into optimized assignment statements in the Python, C, and Java programming languages. The output can be made compatible with most other mathematics programs, except TeX and MathML format input/output are currently not a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthhorse
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Truthhorse was a Canadian sketch comedy troupe. Truthhorse had a TV series in 2004 on The Comedy Network. It was also called Truthhorse and lasted one season. The six members of Truthhorse were Brad Cowan, Matt Kassirer, Art Maughan, Ryan McCammon, Mike Mills, and Bryan Reid.
External links
Comedy Network website
2000s Canadian sketch comedy television series
2004 Canadian television series debuts
2004 Canadian television series endings
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
Comedy collectives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Real
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On The Real was a radio show on the Air America network hosted by Gia'na Garel and Chuck D.
The program included commentary from the hosts on current events, and interviews with various artists in the music and entertainment industry.
The show started on June 5, 2005 and aired every Sunday at 11pm EST - 1am EST.
Air America (radio network)
American talk radio programs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guise%20Will%20Be%20Guise
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"Guise Will Be Guise" is episode 6 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written by Jane Espenson and directed by Krishna Rao, it was originally broadcast on November 7, 2000 on the WB network. In "Guise Will Be Guise", Angel seeks out the guidance of a swami, while Wesley is forced to impersonate Angel when a powerful businessman demands that Angel guard his daughter Virginia. However, the swami is an impostor trying to keep Angel away from Los Angeles so that one of Virginia's father's competitors can capture her. He wants to do this so she can't be ritually sacrificed, which would give her father great power.
Plot
Angel tries to hunt down Darla at Wolfram & Hart, but Cordelia and Wesley stop him. Angel consults the demon Host at the karaoke bar Caritas, who refers him to Swami T'ish Magev for help. Cordelia and Wesley hold down the office while Angel is away, both glad that he is seeking help to calm his obsession with Darla.
At the office, a thug holds Cordelia at gunpoint, demanding to see Angel, and Wesley is forced to pose as their vampire boss in order to save her. Magnus Bryce, a shrewd and rich businessman, is in need of Angel's services to protect his daughter from assassins from a rival corporation fronted by Paul Lanier. He offers Wesley blood that he forces down, to keep from ruining his cover. Wesley meets Mr. Bryce's daughter, Virginia, and then the two go shopping. Virginia and Wesley talk about how she wants freedom from the prison her father's created for her, then the two kiss. Virginia initially stops, believing Angel's curse is an obstacle, but Wesley claims it is more of a 'recommendation' than anything else — and the two have sex.
Meanwhile, at a quiet cabin, Angel talks with the normal-looking Swami about his choice of clothing, style of car, and brand of hair gel. The Swami advises Angel to find a blond woman and break her heart, so he will feel better about his situation with Darla. Later, the Swami talks to Paul Lanier over the phone, revealing that he's an imposter (one of the bartenders at Caritas overheard Angel and the Host's conversation and tipped Lanier off about Angel's destination). Through their conversation, in which they both believe Angel is with them, they deduce that Wesley is not Angel. Lanier informs Bryce that there is a fake protecting Virginia - a bodyguard who is able to have sex with his virgin daughter.
Gunn sets off to find Angel, but, when he arrives at the cabin, the fake swami knocks him out. Angel witnesses this and uses a fishing pole to pull the man out of the sun and into his grasp. Cordelia arrives at the Bryce home, but before she can rescue Wesley, Virginia finds out that he's not really Angel. In order to get a significant amount of power from a demon, Bryce plans to sacrifice his daughter as the demon will grant immense power to anyone who sacrifices a virgin on their 50th birthday (hence why Bryce chose Angel to be her bodyguard, as the curse would have prevented the two fro
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darla%20%28Angel%20episode%29
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"Darla" is episode 7 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on November 14, 2000, on the WB television network. In this episode, Angel tries to rescue Darla from the clutches of Wolfram & Hart and Lindsey's affections, as she suffers guilt of her demonic past. Flashbacks show Darla as a syphilis-stricken prostitute being transformed into a vampire by the demonic Master, her retaliation when the Gypsies cursed Angelus with a soul, and the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Plot
Angel is trying to locate Darla, over the objections of the group, who suggest Wolfram & Hart may just be trying to keep him distracted. Gunn suggests that they probably have connections to the place where she's staying. The team at Angel investigations finds Darla's new home, and Angel starts to rush off, but Wesley stops him, saying that he and Gunn will look into the situation.
Angel leaves to go find Darla and help her. Angel confronts Lindsey in a parking garage. Lindsey tells him Darla is in trouble and that they plan to kill her. Angel promises to come back and kill him if he is lying. He finds and rescues Darla, who tells him that Angelus is the only one who understands her. She wants him to turn her back, saying she cannot bear to feel her own heartbeat. Angel tells her it is a gift to be human, but she disagrees and demands he "return the favor" for turning him into a vampire. Stunned at this rejection, Darla runs out of the office.
Interwoven with this narrative are scenes depicting Darla's past. She is made a vampire by the Master in 1609, Colony of Virginia. In 1760, Darla chooses Angelus over the Master and goes with him. In 1880, while strolling the streets of London, Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla bump into a man named William, later known as Spike. In need of companionship, Drusilla makes him into a vampire. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, Angel tracks down Darla, and asks her for a second chance to rule at her side.
Production
Composer Robert J. Kral says this is his favorite episode to have scored, as he was able to write several different themes for the character of Darla. He was asked by director Tim Minear to write music that was "epochy. Something with horns...something Wagnerish." Kral and Buffy composer Thomas Wanker deliberately choose not to collaborate, so that the cross-over scenes would "maintain a different perspective," Kral says.
Production designer Stuart Blatt says the Boxer Rebellion flashback scenes in this episode and "Fool for Love" were filmed at a movie ranch with a standing set for a Mexican village. "Through our research," Blatt says, "we realized that a lot of Chinese towns looked very similar to small Mexican villages...clay adobe structures with either thatched or tower roofs." Gaffer Dan Kerns explains that to simulate the burning streets, his crew set up numerous 'flicker boxes' that "pulse like a flame", in addition to simulated moonlight from "cherry picker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise%20%28Angel%29
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"Reprise" is episode 15 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written by Tim Minear and directed by James Whitmore, Jr., it was originally broadcast on February 20, 2001 on the WB network. In this episode, Angel learns that during the impending Wolfram & Hart 75-Year Review, the firm is visited by one of the demonic Senior Partners. The demon wears a ring with the power to transport to the firm’s hellish Home Office, which Angel steals with the aid of a magically protective glove. Angel travels to the Home Office and learns it is on Earth. Depressed, Angel seeks solace in Darla's arms. Meanwhile, Kate's life falls apart when she is fired from the police force.
Plot
Angel prevents a sacrificial ritual from being performed by two Wolfram & Hart employees, who are nervous about something called "the Review".
Meanwhile, at Angel Investigations, the team have successfully removed the third eye from the back of Stephanie Sharp's head. However, her mother Francine refuses to pay the bill as she believes it is "impossible" for a third eye to grow out the back of a skull, despite the fact that it was she who approached them with the problem. She and her daughter leave having successfully stiffed the gang for payment, and an exasperated Gunn leaves.
Angel goes to Kate for information about the Review, but Kate - under investigation due to her involvement with odd cases - bitterly refuses, showing him crime scene photos from Holland Manners' wine cellar, illustrating his involvement in the slaughter.
Lindsey finds Darla waiting for him at home, and she weakly tells him that Drusilla is not returning to L.A. He gives her a container of human blood; while he is in the shower she stops feigning weakness and searches his briefcase.
Angel turns to Lorne, who is having a busy night as Caritas is full of Wolfram & Hart lawyers wanting to have their destinies read. Lorne tells Angel that a Wolfram & Hart Senior Partner (manifesting in the form of a lower demon) is coming to earth for the historically deadly Review, and that the sacrifices and rituals are simply the lawyers trying to get brownie points with the Senior Partner before he shows up. Lorne also tells Angel that anything that can manifest itself on Earth can be killed and that something called the Band of Blacknil is important. Angel goes to leave, but Lorne stops him and reminds him that virtually every lawyer in the club really wants to see him dead.
At the hotel, Angel attempts to look up the Band of Blacknil but has little references to use as Wesley took the research material with him. Angel goes to the new office of his former employees, uninvited and unwelcome, barely acknowledges his former friends, and helps himself to a book. Cordelia refuses to let him take it and grabs it off him, but Angel grows cold and deadly, and it is clear he is willing to use force to get the book back. Wesley rises from his wheelchair and tells Cordelia to let Angel have the book so he can remove himself fr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist%20%28virus%20hoax%29
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"Antichrist", or Anticristo, was a Spanish-language computer virus hoax distributed via email in 2001.
Email contents
The email was detected by Symantec on July 17, 2001. The Spanish text of the email translates to
ALERT: THE WORST VIRUS IN HISTORY.
A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft and Mcafee as the most destructive of all time. This virus was discovered yesterday and is known by the name of ANTICHRIST; no antivirus has been discovered; it simply destroys the zeroth sector of the hard disk, where vital information for its operation is kept.
It works in the following way:
1. -) It sends itself to all the names in your address book with the title:
"SURPRISE?!!!!!!!!!!"
2. -) As soon as it is installed, it destroys the zeroth sector and in this way it permanently destroys the hard disk. Please send this E-mail to as many people as you can; in case you receive an e-mail with subject "SURPRISE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", get advice from an expert because it can install itself automatically.
References
Virus hoaxes
2001 hoaxes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over%20the%20Rainbow%20%28Angel%29
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"Over the Rainbow" is episode 20 of season 2 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB network. This episode begins immediately where the previous ends: Cordelia has been inadvertently sucked into a dimensional portal. She ends up as a slave in an alternate world called Pylea, until her owners learn of her precognitive visions. Back in Los Angeles, Angel, Wesley and the Host attempt to rescue Cordelia, while Gunn discovers he has alienated his old street gang.
Plot
The group realizes Cordelia has been sucked into Lorne's home dimension of Pylea, which Lorne says he was glad to leave. Caritas, the bar he runs, was once the abandoned building where the portal from Pylea opened up. Angel reads from the book to reopen the portal, but it fails to open; Wesley's researching discovers that the portal can only open in hot spots and Caritas is currently cold. Lorne seeks help from a psychic friend in order to find a hot spot, but she won't provide the information until he agrees to go with the others to finish his business in Pylea. Two lawyers from Wolfram & Hart appear at Angel's hotel, informing Angel that the law firm plans to buy the hotel when the current lease expires. Angel vamps out and lawyers take their leave, but not before threatening to make Angel's life difficult. Angel leaves a message on an answering machine with information about saving the hotel in case they don't make it back from Pylea.
Cordelia finds herself in a new dimension, where she is chased down and captured by a demon who declares her a "cow", or human slave. Her demon owner forces her into a collar that can be used to shock her when she doesn't obey. As she later mucks out the stables, wondering aloud if she can remove the collar, a runaway slave warns her through a hole in a wall that she shouldn't bother fighting. Cordelia is unable to see that the woman is Fred from her vision, crazy after all her years in Pylea. Before any more information can be exchanged, Fred is caught and taken away. Later, Cordelia follows her owner, carrying purchases from the market, until a vision causes her to fall and drop everything. She reveals she saw a villager being attacked by a Drokken in her vision, and a crowd draws, declaring her cursed. Cordelia is brought before Constable Narwek and explains she has precognitive visions.
Angel pulls his car up to the gate of a movie studio lot, following Lorne's information that it is a psychic hot spot. Although Gunn had earlier stated that George's death made him realize he's needed in this dimension, Angel's depressing phone message persuades him to join the mission. Wesley reads from the book, and with final good-byes to L.A., Angel drives his car through the portal. The book falls onto the sidewalk as the car vanishes. As the car arrives in daytime Pylea, Angel rushes to cover himself before realizing the two suns are not fatal to vampires. Happy and amazed, Angel goes off to gather branches to hide the car while enjoying
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through%20the%20Looking%20Glass%20%28Angel%29
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"Through the Looking Glass" is episode 21 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on May 15, 2001 on the WB network. It is the second episode in a three-part arc.
In "Through the Looking Glass", Angel and the others are still trapped in the Pylea dimension. Cordelia finds herself appointed ruling princess of Pylea by an order of priests and ordered to mate with a human-like creature called the Groosalugg, while Angel seeks to help Lorne the Host bond with his estranged family, which takes a turn when Angel saves a runaway human slave, named Winifred "Fred" Burkle, the same L.A. librarian who was sucked into Pylea five years earlier. Also, Wesley and Gunn manage to escape from the castle only to end up as captives of human Pylean rebels plotting to overthrow the monarchy.
Plot
Angel, Wesley, and Gunn are shocked to see Cordelia has been crowned princess of Pylea. She jokingly demands their heads be cut off, but quickly restates herself. After she dismisses the guards, Cordelia recounts how she became princess due to her visions. Lorne confirms his people have been waiting for one cursed with the sight that will save them all.
Lorne takes Angel to his family's house, where Lorne's cousin Landok identifies Angel as a hero. Angel, who is made the special guest of their upcoming village feast, tells stories to the people of Pylea while Lorne is ignored. Landok offers Angel the honor of "swinging the crebbil in the Bach-nal," and Angel agrees to take part - before he learns it means beheading a human so the people of Pylea can feast on it. Winifred “Fred” Burkle is brought forth, but Angel refuses to kill her. The two are able to make an escape when Lorne begins to sing, causing severe pain to the Pyleans.
While perusing the castle library, Wesley discovers "the cursed one" will have to perform something called a "com-shuk" with a Groosalugg. He considers asking the priests to translate the book, until he realizes it is part of a trilogy marked with three animals - wolf, ram and hart - linking the priests to the evil law firm back in Los Angeles. Silas, one of the priests, arrives to inform Cordelia that the Groosalugg has been summoned and that the "com-shuk" is a mating ritual. Wesley, Gunn, and Cordelia try to escape through a sewer tunnel, but Cordelia is caught by the priests and dragged back to her throne. Heavily guarded, Cordelia worries about mating with the demon, until Silas introduces the Groosalugg, who is a handsome and muscular young male.
Fred leads Angel to a cave where she has been staying for a long while. Fred talks nervously as she crazily scribbles on the cave walls. Angel finds Fred's driver's license and realizes she is the girl from Cordy's vision. She doesn't believe him when he tells her of her life in LA and how she got to Pylea because it's been so long, she's doesn't want to believe. Angel is attacked by guards as he tries to lead Fred to the castle, a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredless
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"Fredless" is episode 5 of season 3 of the television show Angel. Written by Mere Smith and directed by Marita Grabiak, it was originally broadcast on October 22, 2001 on the WB network. Fred's parents, Roger and Trish Burkle, arrive in town from Texas to take her home with them, prompting Fred to run away. Angel learns that Fred's problems with her mother and father are purely emotional while Mr. and Mrs. Burkle prove themselves to be formidable fighters against demons. Meanwhile, the gang is unknowingly in danger after Angel beheads a vicious demon whose head is the breeding ground for a strain of insect demons, causing a swarm of giant cockroaches to lay siege to the hotel in order to retrieve their offspring.
Plot
Fred asks about Angel’s relationship with Buffy, curious because he left so abruptly to meet her at the end of the previous episode. Cordelia and Wesley put on an overly-dramatic, humorous play that summarizes what Angel and Buffy's off-screen reunion might have been like. When Angel returns, he invites Fred out to ice cream, but ends up tracking a Durslar demon into the sewers. Fred notices some crystal formations on the sewer wall before Angel sends her back to the Hyperion Hotel for safety.
The gang reorganize the weapons cabinet, bored and anxious for a job. Cordelia discovers an object that could be a weapon or a toaster that Fred was making. A couple, Roger and Trish Burkle, enter the hotel searching for assistance in finding their lost daughter, Fred, whom another private detective traced to Angel Investigations. The Burkles are oblivious to the supernatural so Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn lie about Fred's disappearance and their work. When Fred returns and sees the couple in the lobby, she dashes upstairs unseen. She tries to erase the writing she scribbled over her bedroom walls, then leaves the hotel.
Angel returns with the severed head of the Durslar demon and is introduced to the Burkles as their associate who also works in movies, hence the "fake" demon head. They all head upstairs, but find her room empty. While the Burkles wait out in the lobby, Angel and the crew converse about the possible reasons for Fred to run away from her parents and whether the Burkles are being completely honest. They join the Burkles again and everyone splits up to find her.
After roaming the streets alone, Fred ends up at Caritas and tries to get help from Lorne, who is bitter about the recent fight that destroyed much of his bar. She sings without provocation and exposes her obvious fear and panic to him. He knows what she's running from and she doesn't realize she's strong enough to face it.
Eventually, the rest of the gang ends up at Caritas. However, Lorne refuses to play along with attempts to keep the Burkles oblivious to demonic activity and expresses his distaste for being used all the time. Finally, Lorne reveals that Fred is at the bus station. When her family and friends show up, Fred doesn't want to admit that her parents a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Price%20%28Angel%29
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"The Price" is episode 19 of season 3 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, the Hyperion Hotel is infested with silicone slug-like parasites that dry up their human hosts. When Fred becomes infected, Gunn turns to the angry and reclusive Wesley for help. Angel is stunned when his lost infant son reappears, now an adolescent boy calling himself the Destroyer.
Plot
As Angel tries to deal with the loss of his son while cleaning up the earthquake damage upstairs, a potential Angel Investigations client is infected by a transparent slug-like parasite in the hotel lobby. He goes to the juice bar across the street, where he chugs glass after glass of juice, saying, "We are thirsty." When Lorne informs him of the disturbance at the juice bar, Angel brings the infected man back to the hotel, where he collapses into a pile of human dust. When a slug-creature exits from the dust, the gang realizes the man was actually a parasitic host. The hotel is locked up tight and Angel sends everyone out with weapons to hunt for the slug. As they search, they realize that the hotel is teeming with the parasites, which suck their human hosts dry. Angel suspects that the infestation is a result of "thaumogenesis", a price for the dark magics that Angel conjured to try to find his son.
Meanwhile, at Wolfram & Hart, Lilah and Gavin once again quarrel with each other over their handling of Angel. Lilah and Gavin receive a top-secret e-mail about the consequences of Angel's dark magic at the hotel, which Lilah may also have to deal with since she was involved in the spell. She plans to rid the hotel of the slugs, until Gavin relays the message that Linwood wants Angel and the others to die for the torment he was put through.
After learning the creatures glow in the dark, Angel shuts off all of the lights in the hotel and tracks the slugs by sound to a large ballroom. Researching by the light of a lantern, Fred is attacked by one of the slugs, which slithers into her mouth. Realizing Fred has been infected, Gunn brings her to the rest of the gang in the abandoned ballroom, saying they need to get her to a hospital; Angel stands in the way, determined to keep more innocents from dying. Groosalugg, hearing the slugs under the floor, breaks through the wood with an ax. Below, there is a hidden swimming pool, filled with the glowing slugs. They begin chasing after the gang. Everyone retreats to a kitchen and barricade themselves there, except for Gunn, who slips out to ask Wesley for help. Wesley is very bitter about his exile from the group and refuses until Gunn reveals that Fred has been infected. He tosses Gunn a bottle of alcohol and tells him he'll help this time, but he never wants to see any of his former friends again.
Angel takes the water away from Fred until the slug confesses that a vicious killer called The Destroyer has chased the slugs into this dimension in search of Angel. They try to press Fred for more info
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20New%20World%20%28Angel%29
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"A New World" is episode 20 of season 3 in the television show Angel. Written by Jeff Bell and directed by Tim Minear, it was originally broadcast on May 6, 2002, on the WB television network. In "A New World", Angel's son Connor returns from the demon dimension Quor'Toth. Raised by Holtz to be a feral teenage warrior, Connor seeks to kill Angel for his murderous past. Failing to do so, Connor flees from the hotel with Angel one step behind him. Lorne tracks down a sorceress to try to close the dimensional rift to Quor'Toth before other monsters emerge. Also, Wesley, living as a recluse in his apartment, gets an offer from Lilah for a job at Wolfram & Hart.
Plot
Connor fires stakes at Angel, but Angel dodges them. Everyone takes on a defensive position, and a fight breaks out between Angel, the Groosalugg, Gunn and Connor.
Angel tries to reason with his son and end the violence, but Connor simply knocks Gunn and Groo out of the way and continues to fight with Angel. Focused on the fight, Angel gets the upper hand on Connor, but before he can do anything harmful to Connor, Angel stops himself. Connor takes the opportunity to run, and Angel tries to follow, but the daylight and his friends stop him.
On the streets, Connor saves a drug addict named Sunny from her dealer. They find a place to stay, where Sunny and Connor share a kiss.
Connor wakes up in the middle of the night to find that Sunny has overdosed in the bathroom. Angel finds Connor and tries to explain why he couldn't save him, but Connor punches Angel and calls Holtz his father.
An officer enters the room and aims for Connor, but Angel takes the shot in his back. Connor pauses in his escape out of a window as Angel struggles to get up, and finally the two escape together. While hiding from the police on the streets, Angel tells Connor he has somewhere to go if he needs it, and he will always be there whenever Connor needs him. Connor knows he's not alone: he runs off down an alleyway where he greets a much older Holtz - the only father he has ever known.
Production
Series creator Joss Whedon explains his decision to instantly bring Connor to adulthood: "What are you going to do? Have a baby running around? I don't think so...That's the beauty of it being a fantasy show."
The Wilhelm scream can be heard when Connor throws a knife into the arm of one of Tyke's henchmen.
Keith Szarabajka's name was placed at the end credits to keep his appearance a surprise.
Continuity
Connor uses the name Steven, given to him by Holtz in "Sleep Tight".
When Sunny brings Connor to the abandoned motel, they enter a room that has "GIO" spray-painted on the wall, a reference to the character Gio from the earlier episode "That Old Gang of Mine".
Cultural references
Lilah gives Wesley the book Dante's "Inferno" and they have a small discussion about the ninth circle of hell, in which traitors are punished.
References
Further reading
John Kenneth Muir. The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Tele
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric%20stereo
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Parametric stereo (abbreviated as PS) is an audio compression algorithm used as an audio coding format for digital audio. It is considered an Audio Object Type of MPEG-4 Part 3 (MPEG-4 Audio) that serves to enhance the coding efficiency of low bandwidth stereo audio media. Parametric Stereo digitally codes a stereo audio signal by storing the audio as monaural alongside a small amount of extra information. This extra information (defined as "parametric overhead") describes how the monaural signal will behave across both stereo channels, which allows for the signal to exist in true stereo upon playback.
History
Background
Advanced Audio Coding Low Complexity (AAC LC) combined with Spectral Band Replication (SBR) and Parametric Stereo (PS) was defined as HE-AAC v2. An HE-AAC v1 decoder will only give mono sound when decoding an HE-AAC v2 bitstream. Parametric Stereo performs sparse coding in the spatial domain, somewhat similar to what SBR does in the frequency domain. An AAC HE v2 bitstream is obtained by downmixing the stereo audio to mono at the encoder along with 2–3 kbit/s of side info (the Parametric Stereo information) in order to describe the spatial intensity stereo generation and ambience regeneration at the decoder. By having the Parametric Stereo side info along with the mono audio stream, the decoder (player) can regenerate a faithful spatial approximation of the original stereo panorama at very low bitrates. Because only one audio channel is transmitted, along with the parametric side info, a 24 kbit/s coded audio signal with Parametric Stereo will be substantially improved in quality relative to discrete stereo audio signals encoded with conventional means. The additional bitrate spent on the single mono channel (combined with some PS side info) will substantially improve the perceived quality of the audio compared to a standard stereo stream at similar bitrate. However, this technique is only useful at the lowest bitrates (approx. 16–48 kbit/s and down to 14.4 kbps in xHE-AAC used in DRM) to give a good stereo impression, so while it can improve perceived quality at very low bitrates, it generally does not achieve transparency, since simulating the stereo dynamics of the audio with the technique is limited and generally deteriorates perceived quality regardless of the bitrate.
Development
The development of Parametric Stereo was as a result of necessity to further enhance the coding efficiency of audio in low bandwidth stereo media. It has gone through various iterations and improvements, however, it was first standardized as an algorithm when included in the feature set of MPEG-4 Audio. Parametric Stereo was originally developed in Stockholm, Sweden by companies Philips and Coding Technologies, and was first unveiled in Naples, Italy, in 2004 during the 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx'04).
Approaches
The implementation in MPEG-4 is based on specifying the relative amount, delay, and correlation (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage%20%28Angel%29
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"Salvage" is episode 13 of season 4 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB television network. After discovering Lilah’s dead body, a grieving Wesley breaks rogue slayer Faith out of prison so she can help track down Angelus. Meanwhile, Lorne performs a sanctuary spell to keep Angelus out of the hotel while Cordelia—secretly revealed to be the big evil controlling the Beast—confides in Connor that she is pregnant.
Plot
Angelus, who has been stalking Lilah, is disappointed when he finds her already dead. Wesley and Gunn discover him holding her body, drinking whatever is left of her blood; he escapes through a window, allowing the two to assume he killed her. Downstairs, when Wesley and Gunn return to the lobby with news of Lilah's death, Lorne suggests protecting the hotel with the same magic that forbids violence at his club. When the group realizes that Angelus could have turned Lilah into a vampire, Wesley offers to prevent her potential rising.
Angelus visits a demon bar—where he is raucously received—to question the patrons on the whereabouts of the Beast. In the basement, Wesley prepares to behead Lilah. After an imaginary conversation where he apologizes for their "not-a-relationship", he finally brings down the ax. Connor intends to destroy Angelus despite Cordelia's protests, but when he starts to leave, Cordelia faints mid-speech and Connor stops to care for her.
Meanwhile, Slayer Faith works out in prison until another prisoner threatens her with a knife. Faith efficiently knocks the woman out. As the corrections officer hauls the other prisoner away, reassuring Faith they saw how she was attacked, Faith notices the ornate Bringer knife that was used. Angelus follows the scent of Lilah's blood to the weapon used to kill her, in the Beast's possession. The Beast says Angelus is a part of his master's plans, but Angelus refuses to take orders and leaves. Cordelia—revealed as the Beast's master—is disappointed. The Beast apologizes for his failures and she forgives him, then the two kiss.
Lorne performs the protection spell, and Wesley returns from the basement saying he intends to restore Angel's soul. Wesley visits Faith at the prison to ask for her help; although initially disinterested, upon learning that Angelus has "returned," she crashes through the glass, knocks out the prison guards, and jumps out of the high window with Wesley. (The clear implication is that Faith could have escaped prison any time she liked and only remained there as part of her self-imposed redemption efforts.) Faith tells him that she won't kill Angelus because of Angel's crucial role in her life and Wesley admits that's precisely why he chose her for the job. When they arrive at the hotel, Faith asserts herself as commander. Connor is displeased with her decision to rescue Angelus, not kill him, but Faith makes it clear her plan is the only plan.
Angelus, after overhearing a Slayer is in town, immediately calls Buffy Summers's ho
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus%20%28Angel%29
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"Orpheus" is episode 15 of season 4 in the television show Angel. Written by Mere Smith and directed by Terrence O'Hara, it was originally broadcast on March 19, 2003 on the WB network. "Orpheus" concludes the three-episode arc involving guest star Eliza Dushku reprising her role as the Slayer Faith, beginning immediately where the previous episode ended: Angelus starts to feed on Faith. However, she had deliberately poisoned her blood with a psychedelic drug, and the two pass out. In his coma, Angelus is forced to relive his alter ego Angel's good deeds with Faith at his side, as Cordelia attempts to stop Willow Rosenberg from re-ensouling Angel.
Plot
After drinking from Faith, Angelus pulls away in shock as she flashes back to earlier, when she injected herself with a drug stolen from a vampire junkie at the demon bar. Angelus and Faith both collapse, unconscious. Gunn drags Angelus's body to the Hyperion Hotel, where he and Connor shackle Angelus securely in the basement cage. Wesley brings a barely alive Faith to one of the hotel bedrooms. Knowing Faith injected herself with Orpheus, an enchanted psychedelic drug that poses a serious threat to her life, Lorne berates Wesley for allowing Faith to purposely get bit by Angelus. Connor updates Cordelia on Faith and Angelus' conditions. Suddenly, Cordelia brutally shoves Connor into a wall in response to his constant talk about Faith. He's shocked and she tries to cover her behavior by blaming it on the pregnancy and crazy hormones.
Downstairs, Connor shouts at Fred and Wesley about the need for killing Angelus, when Willow Rosenberg appears at the door suggesting that she's a better alternative. Fred called Willow for help since she's the only one alive to have successfully restored Angel's soul. Willow wants to see Cordelia again and Connor reluctantly takes her upstairs. As Willow talks about the difficulties associated with ensouling Angelus, Cordelia secretly reaches for a large knife under her pillow and tries to get Willow close enough to strike. Willow realizes if they break the jar, they can avoid all the complications and free the soul. Willow rushes out of the room in time to unknowingly avoid the knife thrown at her, which hits the door instead.
In their shared coma, Angelus and Faith witness the 1920s-version of Angel rescue a small puppy from an oncoming car. Angelus is infuriated at being subjected to the memory again, and Faith realizes with glee that they're experiencing Angel's good deeds of the past. Next, a hippie Angel walks into a diner and selects "Mandy" on the jukebox, as Angelus complains to Faith about watching Angel's self-induced misery. A man barges into the diner and asks for money, but shoots the cashier when he doesn't react quickly enough. The shooter runs away, and Angel struggles with his desire to feed on the cashier, which wins out. The bite marks on dream-Faith's neck begins to bleed and she realizes Angel could have saved the cashier. Angelus watches on a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Sports%20Network
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CBS Sports Network (a.k.a. CBSSN) is an American digital cable and satellite television network owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. When it launched in 2002 as the National College Sports Network (later College Sports Television also known as CSTV), it operated as a multi-platform media brand which also included its primary website, collegesports.com, and a network of websites operated for the athletic departments of 215 colleges and universities.
After CSTV was acquired by CBS in 2006 (handed over from Viacom who purchased the network the previous year), the network was re-branded as the CBS College Sports Network in 2008. The network initially maintained its college sports focus, but in February 2011, the service was re-branded as CBS Sports Network to re-position it as a mainstream sports service. The network continues to have a particular focus on college sports, along with coverage of smaller leagues and events, simulcasts of sports radio shows from both the CBS Sports Radio network and Entercom's WFAN (formerly owned outright by CBS), and studio and analysis programming.
As of May 2015, CBSSN was available to approximately 61 million pay television households (66.1% of households with cable television) in the United States.
History
The network's roots began in 1999 when Chris Bevilacqua approached the co-founders of the Classic Sports Network, Brian Bedol and Stephen D. Greenberg (son of Hank Greenberg) – at that time, running Fusient Media Ventures, a New York-based sports and media company – with the idea for a subscription network featuring college sports 24 hours a day. Under the leadership of Bedol as CEO, the network was originally named the National College Sports Network in June 2002, was subsequently renamed College Sports Television (CSTV) and launched on February 23, 2003. From their headquarters and studio operations at Chelsea Piers in New York City, CSTV was the first independent pay-television channel to be distributed nationwide, having been carried on satellite provider DirecTV at launch.
In November 2005, College Sports Television was purchased by Viacom for $325 million. CBS Corporation (Viacom's legal successor) took control of the network in January 2006. On January 3, 2008, it was announced that CSTV would be integrated into CBS Sports, with the sports division's executive vice president and executive producer, Tony Petitti, taking over day-to-day operational management of CSTV, which would be overseen by CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus. CSTV co-founder Brian Bedol would become a senior advisor to CBS Corporation president and CEO Leslie Moonves (Petitti has since become the Big Ten Commissioner.
In the fall of 2006, CSTV launched more than 100 broadband channels dedicated to college sports, which feature more than 10,000 live events. The subscription/pay-per-view service, called CBS College Sports XXL, and its portfolio of broadband channels in its All-Access suite, includ
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Singkarak
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Lake Singkarak () is a lake in West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located between the regencies of Tanah Datar and Solok Regency. It has an area of 107.8 km2, being approximately 21 km long and 7 km wide. The natural outlet for excess water is the Ombilin river which flows eastward to the Strait of Malacca. A hydroelectric project, however, has diverted most of the lake outflow to the Anai river which flows westward into the Indian Ocean near Padang. This Singkarak power station uses this water to generate power for the West Sumatra and Riau provinces. A species of fish called ikan bilih (Mystacoleucus padangensis) is endemic to the lake, and is harvested for human consumption. A railway line, which connects Padang and Sawahlunto-Sijunjung, skirts the length of the lake on the eastern side.
See also
List of lakes of Indonesia
Notes
References
Singkarak
Landforms of West Sumatra
Indragiri basin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar%20%28software%29
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Jaguar is a computer software package used for ab initio quantum chemistry calculations for both gas and solution phases. It is commercial software marketed by the company Schrödinger. The program was originated in research groups of Richard Friesner and William Goddard and was initially called PS-GVB (referring to the so-called pseudospectral generalized valence bond method that the program featured).
Jaguar is a component of two other Schrödinger products: Maestro, which provides the graphical user interface to Jaguar, and a QM/MM program QSite, which uses Jaguar as its quantum-chemical engine. The current version is Jaguar 10.4 (2020).
Features
A distinctive feature of Jaguar is its use of the pseudospectral approximation. This approximation can be applied to computationally expensive integral operations present in most quantum chemical calculations. As a result, calculations are faster with little loss in accuracy.
The current version includes the following functionality:
Hartree–Fock (RHF, UHF, ROHF) and density functional theory (LDA, gradient-corrected, dispersion-corrected, and hybrid functionals)
local second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (LMP2)
generalized valence bond perfect-pairing (GVB-PP) and GVB-LMP2 calculations
prediction of excited states using configuration interaction (CIS) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT)
geometry optimization and transition state search
solvation calculations based on the Poisson–Boltzmann equation
prediction of infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), ultraviolet (UV), and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra
pKa prediction
generation of various molecular surfaces (electrostatic potential, electron density, molecular orbitals etc.)
prediction of various molecular properties (multipole moments, polarizabilities, vibrational frequencies etc.)
See also
Quantum chemistry computer programs
References
External links
Schrödinger Inc
Computational chemistry software
Proprietary commercial software for Linux
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto%20Murata
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is a Japanese computer scientist, Ph.D. in engineering, and Project Professor at Keio University.
He participated in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group.
The Working Group designed XML1.0, a markup language specification.
Murata and James Clark designed RELAX NG, an XML schema language.
Murata is the convener of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 4, responsible for Office Open XML maintenance.
Work
XML1.0 and XML Japanese Profile
In 1997, Murata participated in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group.
Jon Bosak, James Clark and Tim Bray were also members of the group.
The Working Group designed XML1.0 specification.
XML1.0 is a markup language and a subset of SGML.
XML1.0 became a W3C Recommendation in February 1998.
Murata and collaborators authored XML Japanese Profile, the issues of using Japanese characters in XML documents.
XML Japanese Profile became a JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) Technical Report.
XML Japanese Profile was translated into English and published as a W3C Technical Report.
XML Media Types
Murata is one of the authors of IETF RFC 2376 XML Media Types.
The RFC specifies XML media types for use in exchanging XML data via network (text/xml and application/xml).
RFC 2376 was revised as RFC 3023.
RELAX and RELAX NG
Some people, including Murata and James Clark, had critical attitudes toward XML Schema.
XML Schema is a modern XML schema language designed by W3C XML Schema Working Group.
W3C intended XML Schema to supersede traditional DTD (Document Type Definition).
XML Schema supports so many features that its specification is large and complex.
Murata, James Clark and those who criticised XML Schema, pointed out the following:
It is difficult to implement all features of XML Schema.
It is difficult for engineers to read and write XML Schema definitions.
It does not permit nondeterministic content models.
Murata and collaborators designed another modern schema language, RELAX (Regular Language description for XML), more simple and mathematically consistent.
They published RELAX specification in 2000.
RELAX was approved as JIS and ISO/IEC standards.
At roughly the same time, James Clark also designed another schema language, TREX (Tree Regular Expressions for XML).
Murata and James Clark designed a new schema language RELAX NG based on TREX and RELAX Core.
RELAX NG syntax is the expansion of TREX.
RELAX NG was approved by OASIS in December 2001.
RELAX NG was also approved as Part 2 of ISO/IEC 19757: Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL).
Enhancement of EPUB for Japanese Text Layout
In April 2010, Murata made a presentation at JEPA on 14-itemized requirements as extended Japanese-language-related specifications to be incorporated into EPUB. When East Co., Ltd. started working on the project of EPUB enhancement for Japanese Text Layout, sponsored by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Japanese Government, Murata assumed the project's technical responsibilities, and
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H.239 is an ITU-T recommendation from the H.32x Multimedia Communications' macrofamily of standards for multimedia communications over various networks.
The H.239 recommendation is titled "Role management and additional media channels for H.3xx-series terminals". Practical importance of this recommendation is its setting forth a way to have multiple video channels (e.g., one for conferencing, another for presentation) within a single session (call).
History
H.239 builds on the ITU-T's H.32x (which includes H.323) and H.245 series of standards, called "recommendations" by the ITU.
Tandberg introduced the ability to send a computer or video presentation along with a video teleconference session in 2000 with their "DuoVideo" feature in February 2000.
PictureTel introduced People+Content in July 2000. Polycom then acquired PictureTel in May 2001 and began offering their proprietary, patented method to other vendors on a royalty-free basis in 2002.
In Feb. 2003 the ITU-T took up a proposal by vendors to create a standard based on Tandberg and Polycom technology. The ITU-T published this technology as Recommendation H.239 in July 2003.
Overview
A traditional videoconference has an audio channel, a video channel and an optional data channel. The video channel typically carries the camera image of the participants. H.239 defines rules and messages for establishing an additional video/graphics channel, often to transmit a PC graphics presentation or video from a document camera, while still transmitting the video of the presenter.
For presentations in multipoint conferencing, H.239 defines token procedures to guarantee that only one endpoint in the conference sends the additional video channel which is then distributed to all conference participants.
The signaling for H.239 is defined in a way which simplifies implementation of gateways between H.323 and H.320.
Procedure
When an H.323 call is connected, signaling defined in H.245 is used to establish the set of capabilities for all connected endpoints and MCUs. When the set of capabilities includes an indication that H.239 presentations are supported, a connected endpoint can choose to open an additional video channel. First the endpoint has to request a token from the MCU. The MCU then will check if there is another endpoint currently sending an additional video channel. The MCU will use token messages to make this endpoint stop sending the additional video channel. Then the MCU will acknowledge the token request from the first endpoint which then can begin to send the additional video channel which e.g. contains encoded video from a computer's video output at XGA resolution.
Similar procedures are defined for the case when two endpoints are directly connected to each other without an intermediate MCU.
See also
H.323
Videoconferencing
Computer display standard
References
External links
H.239 standard at ITU
ITU-T recommendations
Videotelephony
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Certified%20Network%20Administrator
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SCNA (an abbreviation of Sun Certified Network Administrator) is a certification for system administrators and covers LANs and Solaris.
Requirements
Candidates must pass a certification exam. The examination includes multiple-choice, scenario-based questions, drag-and-drop questions, and tests the candidate on Solaris network administration topics including how to configure and manage the network interface layer, the network (internet and transport layers), network applications, and the Solaris IP Filter.
Candidates must have three or more years of experience administering Sun systems in a networked environment.
Certification also requires already being a Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris (any edition).
References
Sun Microsystems
Information technology qualifications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Feuerstein
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Steven Feuerstein is an author focusing on the Oracle database PL/SQL language, having written ten books on PL/SQL, and one book on mySQL, all published by O'Reilly Media. His signature book, Oracle PL/SQL Programming,
which many consider the "bible" for PL/SQL developers, was first published in September 1993. It has grown from 916 pages in 1993 to over 1000 pages in its 6th edition, published 20 years later.
Career
Feuerstein has developed software since 1980. He spent five years with Oracle Corporation (1987–1992) and served as PL/SQL evangelist for Quest Software from January 2001 to 2013. In March 2014, he re-joined Oracle Corporation as an Architect and leads a team of Oracle Developer Advocates.
Between 1999 and 2008, he focused his attention on improving the testing of PL/SQL programs, first by starting the open-source framework utPLSQL for unit testing PL/SQL, later on through the creation of Quest Code Tester for Oracle, which automates PL/SQL code testing.
Steven was one of the original Oracle ACE Directors and publishes regularly in Oracle Magazine and in the ODTUG magazine.
In April 2010, Feuerstein launched the PL/SQL Challenge, a daily quiz on Oracle PL/SQL that quickly attracted over 1,000 daily players, making it one of the most active PL/SQL-related websites on the Internet. In 2011, Feuerstein added the PL/SQL Channel, which offers video-based training on the Oracle PL/SQL language.
In March 2014, Feuerstein re-joined Oracle Corporation as an evangelist. He then formed the Developer Advocates team to help Oracle Database users take full advantage of this database to build their applications. The PL/SQL Challenge was transformed into the Oracle Dev Gym, which offers quizzes, workouts and classes on SQL, PL/SQL, and other Oracle technologies.
Books
Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Programming with Packages, O'Reilly Media, October 1996,
with Charles Dye, John Beresniewicz.Oracle Built-in Packages, O'Reilly Media, May 1998,
with John Beresniewicz, Chip Dawes. Oracle PL/SQL Built-ins Pocket Reference, O'Reilly Media, October 1998,
Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features, O'Reilly Media, October 1999,
with Andrew Odewahn. Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook, O'Reilly Media, May 2000,
with Bill Pribyl. Learning Oracle PL/SQL, O'Reilly Media, November 2001,
with Arup Nanda. Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs, First Edition, O'Reilly Media, October 2005,
with Guy Harrison. MySQL Stored Procedure Programming: Building High-Performance Web Applications in MySQL, O'Reilly Media, March 2006,
Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Second Edition, O'Reilly Media, October 2007,
with Bill Pribyl, Chip Dawes. Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, Fourth Edition, O'Reilly Media, October 2007,
with Bill Pribyl. Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Fifth Edition, O'Reilly Media, September 2009,
Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th Edition Covers Versions Through Oracle Database 12c, February 2014
References
External links
The Cybe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective%20Interface%20Systems
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Objective Interface Systems, Inc. is a computer communications software and hardware company. The company's headquarters are in Herndon, Virginia, USA. OIS develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports software and hardware products that generally fit into one or more of the following markets:
Real-time communications middleware software and hardware
Embedded communications middleware software and hardware
High-performance communications middleware software and hardware
Secure communications software and hardware
A popular OIS product is the ORBexpress CORBA middleware software. ORBexpress is most popular in the real-time and embedded computer markets. OIS supports the software version ORBexpress on more than 6,000 computing platforms (combinations of the versions of CPU families, operating systems, and language compilers). OIS also has FPGA versions of ORBexpress to allow hardware blocks on an FPGA to interoperate with software.
OIS engineers invented a form of communications security called the Partitioning Communication System or PCS. The PCS is a technical architecture that protects multiple Information Flows from influencing each other when communicated on a single network wire. The PCS is best implemented on a software separation operating system such as SELinux or a separation kernel.
OIS's communications products are most frequently found in the enterprise, telecom/datacom, mil/aero, medical, robotics, process control and transportation industries. Objective Interface is a privately held company and has developed software products since 1989 and hardware products since 2001.
The Company is actively involved with various standards groups including:
Common Criteria
IEEE
Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
Object Management Group (OMG)
The Open Group
Wireless Innovation Forum
Corporate Headquarters
OIS headquarters is located at 220 Spring Street, Herndon, VA, 20170-6201.
References
External links
Objective interface
Objective Interface Systems - 'Official website'
Object Management Group (OMG)
The Open Group
Wireless Innovation Forum
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Companies based in Fairfax County, Virginia
Software companies based in Virginia
Computer hardware companies
Software companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV-1
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CCTV-1 (CCTV General Channel) is the primary channel of CCTV, the national flagship terrestrial television network of the People's Republic of China. It broadcasts a range of programs from CCTV Headquarters at East 3rd Ring Road in Beijing and is available to both cable and terrestrial television viewers. The terrestrial signal of CCTV-1 is free-to-air across China. However, due to copyright restrictions, the satellite signal of CCTV-1 is encrypted, and smartcards are necessary for decryption.
Since 1 October 2021 (Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific officially closing ceremony), Mainland China and China officially main number one winner complete Champions largest high-end free-to-air terrestrial television and satellite television station officially moved, revised, back and return handover to CCTV-1 as officially main Mainland China, China and Beijing number one winner complete champions largest high-end free-to-air terrestrial television and satellite television station.
History
Peking Television (2 May 195830 April 1978)
Initially branded as Peking Television (not to be confused with the present-day Beijing Television), CCTV-1 was launched on an experimental basis on 2 May 1958 and officially regular broadcasting for 4 hours 30 minutes each day starting on 2 September 1958. Peking Television was granted a free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasting license in the 1960s. It began broadcasting experimentally in colour in 1971 and was later launched via satellite transmissions in 1973 for major events. The first color programs were PAL-D/K, and full-time color broadcasting began in 1977.
China Central Television (1 May 1978present)
On 1 May 1978, Peking Television was renamed China Central Television (CCTV) with the approval of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. CCTV began domestic satellite transmissions in 1984 using the Song Dang Hong 2 satellite. In 1988, it began stereo broadcasting on all television channels. In 1994, it moved satellite broadcasting from Chinasat-3 to Chinasat-4, a quality-level broadcaster. It turned on its digital signal in 2002. CCTV-1 began broadcasting 24 hours a day on 1 October 2004 and began high-definition broadcasting on 28 September 2009. On 1 March 2011, Hong Kong's Asia Television (ATV) started relaying CCTV-1 instead of CCTV-4, a Hong Kong-based free-to-air digital terrestrial station that is usually tuned to 15 on the UHF band. On 29 May 2017, Hong Kong's RTHK started relaying CCTV-1 instead of CGTN Documentary, a Hong Kong-based free-to-air digital terrestrial station that is usually tuned to 33 on the high-definition television.
Since 1 October 2021 (Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific officially closing ceremony), Mainland China and China officially main number one winner complete Champions largest high-end free-to-air terrestrial television and satellite television station officially moved, revised, back and return handover to CCTV-1 as officially main Mainland China, China and B
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Homer
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"Team Homer" is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 7, 1996. In the episode, Homer starts a bowling team with Moe, Apu, and Otto. When Mr. Burns discovers the team was funded with his money, he insists on joining, but the team fears he will cost them the league championship. In the subplot, Bart's "Down with homework" T-shirt incites a school riot, so Principal Skinner implements a uniform dress code.
The episode was written by Mike Scully and directed by Mark Kirkland. Scully came up with the idea for it when he went bowling one day. The episode features cultural references to Mad magazine and the film Caddyshack.
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 9.4, and was the third highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired.
Plot
Homer and his teammates — Moe, Apu and Otto — are unable to afford the $500 fee to join a bowling league. Homer asks his boss to sponsor the team while he is anesthetized, so Mr. Burns unwittingly signs a check. The newly named Pin Pals enter a bowling competition. They beat three teams and move to second place in their league. After recovering from his ether-induced stupor, Burns discovers he wrote a check to Homer and insists on joining the Pin Pals, replacing Otto. Homer and the team fear they will lose the championship, since Burns can barely bowl due to his frail physique.
Burns gives the Pin Pals new bowling shirts before the championship game. Two pins away from victory, Burns takes his turn on the lane. When Otto tips over a claw arcade machine by accident, the vibrations knock down the pins and the Pin Pals win. As the team celebrates, Burns takes the trophy and keeps it for himself. Encouraged by his teammates, Homer attempts to break into Burns' mansion to recover the trophy; this ends disastrously when Burns releases the hounds and Homer is severely mauled.
At school, Bart's Mad iron-on "Down with homework" T-shirt incites a student riot, so in order to prevent another similar incident, Principal Skinner forces students to wear uniforms. Before that, however, Skinner explains to Bart that those t-shirts also resulted in his capture by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War where, in his prisoner-of-war camp, he was forced to subsist on a fish and vegetable stew and that he came close to madness trying to find its recipe at home. The new dress code restores discipline, but demoralizes the students and they slowly begin to lose their individual mannerisms, even blinking in unision. However, a rainstorm soaks through the uniforms, causing their grey dye to run and separate into vivid tie-dye color patterns that revive the students' spirits and disregard of Skinner's authority.
Production
The episode was written by Mike Scully. He was bowling "a lot" at the time, and one day when he was bow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grampa%20vs.%20Sexual%20Inadequacy
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"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on December 4, 1994. In the episode, Homer and Marge's sex life wanes, so Grampa restores it with a homemade revitalizing tonic. He and Homer travel town-to-town selling the elixir, but they are estranged after Grampa reveals that Homer's conception was unintentional.
The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by Wes Archer.
After its initial airing on Fox, the episode was later released as part of a 1999 video collection: The Simpsons – Too Hot For TV, and released again on the 2003 DVD edition of the same collection. The episode features cultural references to songs such as "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and "Celebration", as well as a reference to the 1963 film The Nutty Professor.
"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" received a positive reception from television critics, and acquired a Nielsen rating of 9.5.
Plot
When Homer and Marge's sex life fizzles, they seek help to spice up their marriage. Homer peruses books like the Kama Sutra, but Marge wants "a tasteful book" so they settle on Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, a Paul Harvey book-on-tape. Harvey recommends couples bathe together, but their faucet breaks because the Simpsons' bathtub cannot accommodate Homer and Marge. Next, they try renting a sexy theme room at a hotel, but are forced to sleep in a utility room because the rooms are sold out.
Grampa concocts a tonic that he guarantees will put the spark back into their relationship. The elixir works, so Homer and Grampa sell Simpson & Son Revitalizing Tonic to the public in a travelling medicine show. During their travels, they visit the farmhouse where Homer spent his childhood. After they bicker, Grampa angrily tells Homer he is the result of an unplanned pregnancy that would not have happened without the tonic, labelling him as an accident. Horrified, Homer stops the car and abandons Grampa.
While their parents are enjoying enhanced sex lives from the tonic, the town's children grow suspicious of their absences during their frequent trysts. Ralph, Milhouse, Bart and their friends hatch conspiracy theories in the Simpsons' treehouse. After Lisa sarcastically suggests parents are going to bed early because they are "reverse vampires" who must avoid nightfall, the other children decide the RAND Corporation is conspiring with space aliens to deprive children of dinner by forcing their parents to retire early.
Unwilling to forgive Grampa, Homer resolves to be a better father to Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Bart and Lisa soon realize that smothering them is just as bad as neglecting them. Homer returns to the farmhouse to think. He sees an old photograph of himself as a child on Christmas morning and is sad that his father was not even present when he met Santa Claus. Homer realizes his father was wearing a Santa costume and really
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenManage
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OpenManage is a product that consists of a number of proprietary network management and systems management applications developed by Dell, Inc.
Overview
Dell OpenManage is a set of systems management applications built using industry standard protocols and specifications. Dell OpenManage is not a product within itself, but rather a brand name for the suite of products in the portfolio.
IT Assistant
Dell OpenManage IT Assistant is a standards-based console for managing Dell servers, storage arrays, tape libraries, network switches, printers, and clients distributed throughout a network. From a central console, one can gain increased control over the availability of Dell platforms through proactive alerts and notification.
Dell IT Assistant identifies systems experiencing problems and alerts the administrator—helping reduce the risk of system downtime. Using the web-enabled graphical user interface, you can monitor systems anywhere within your network.
NOTE: IT Assistant has been replaced by Dell OpenManage Essentials.
OpenManage Network Manager
Dell EMC OpenManage™ Network Manager (OMNM) monitors and manages multi-vendor networks for vendors such as Dell, Aruba, Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, and HP.
OMNM provides a unified management system and automates common network management operations for advanced network element discovery, configuration management, and system health monitoring to proactively alert network administrators to potential network problems.
Examples of OMNM functionality include Auto Discovery; Configuration File Back-up, Restore and Deploy; Equipment Management; Equipment Group Management; Event Management; Audit Tracking; Reporting; Compliance; Scheduling; Fault and Performance Management; OS/Firmware Management; and Network Topology. This product is based on Cruz by Dorado Software through an OEM relationship between the two companies.
OpenManage Server Administrator
OpenManage Server Administrator allows system administrators to manage individual servers in two ways: from an integrated, web-browser-based graphical-user-interface (GUI) and from a command-line interface (CLI) through the operating system. Server Administrator is designed for system administrators to manage systems locally and remotely on a network.
Compare Dell Systems Management Server Administrator (DSM SA).
Server Update Utility
Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility is a dual layer DVD-based application for identifying and applying updates to your system. You can use SUU to update your Dell PowerEdge system or to view the updates available for any system supported by SUU. SUU compares the versions of components currently installed on your system with update components packaged on the Dell PowerEdge Server Update Utility DVD. SUU then displays a comparison report of the versions and provides the option of updating the components.
Content Manager
Content Manager ships on the Dell OpenManage Systems Build and Update Utility CD. Content Manager allows you
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid%20Mumford
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Enid Mumford (6 March 1924 – 7 April 2006) was a British social scientist, computer scientist and Professor Emerita of Manchester University and a visiting fellow at Manchester Business School, largely known for her work on human factors and socio-technical systems.
Biography
Enid Mumford was born on Merseyside in North West England, where her father Arthur McFarland was magistrate and her mother Dorothy Evans was teacher. She attended Wallasey high school, and received her BA in Social Science from Liverpool University in 1946.
After graduation Enid Mumford spent time working in industry, first as personnel manager for an aircraft factory and later as production manager for an alarm clock manufacturer. The first job was important for her career as an academic, since it involved looking after personnel policy and industrial relations strategy for a large number of women staff. The second job also proved invaluable, as she was running a production department, providing a level of practical experience that is unusual among academics.
Enid Mumford then joined the Faculty of Social Science at Liverpool University in 1956. Later she then spent a year at the University of Michigan, where she worked for the University Bureau of Public Health Economics and studied Michigan medical facilities while her husband took a higher degree in dental science. On returning to England, she joined the newly formed Manchester Business School (MBS), where she undertook many research contracts investigating the human and organisational impacts of computer based systems. During this time she became Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Computer and Work Design Research Unit (CAWDRU). She also directed the MBA programme for four years.
As a newly joined member of Manchester Business School, Enid provides formative advice to students starting on research/engineering projects advising students to choose topics of study that are interesting yet challenging. In addition, Enid mentions that research projects should include research methods such as Large-scale surveys, face-to-face interviews and close observations. Finally, she suggests all students to keep good respectable terms with everyone involved with their research methods.
She was a companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), also an Honorary Fellow of the BCS in 1984, and also a founder member and ex-chairperson of the BCS Sociotechnical Group.
In 1983 Enid Mumford was awarded the American Warnier Prize for her contributions to information science. In 1996, she was given an Honorary Doctorate by the university of Jyvaskyla in Finland. And in 1999, she was the only British recipient of a Leo Lifetime Achievement Award for Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems, one of only four in that year. Leo Awards are given by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the International Conference on Information Systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20Hall%20railway%20station
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Bank Hall railway station is a railway station in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. As the area around the station is made up of largely closed industrial buildings, the station is one of the quietest on the Northern Line.
History
Bank Hall opened in 1850 as an intermediate station when the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway was extended from its previous terminal at Waterloo to Liverpool Exchange. It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), on 14 June 1855. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatisation in 1995). Only one of the two island platforms located here is still in use - the other remains but has no track and is heavily overgrown.
Facilities
The station's ticket office is staffed during the hours the station is open (from 05:45 on weekdays, 08:00 Sundays until end of service shortly after midnight). There is a shelter on the platform and digital display screens, but no step-free access from the booking hall down to the platform.
Services
Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central to the south. Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.
Gallery
References
External links
Railway stations in Liverpool
DfT Category E stations
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkdale%20railway%20station
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Kirkdale railway station is a railway station in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It acts as the interchange between the branches to Kirkby and Ormskirk; these lines diverge just north of the station.
Kirkdale TMD train maintenance depot, the largest depot on the Merseyrail Network, is located adjacent to the station.
History
The station originally opened as Bootle Lane was built by the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway and Liverpool and Bury Railway at the start of their joint line into Liverpool, opening in 1848. In 1977 it became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line.
Five tunnels
The station is aligned north–south. When facing north, five tunnel portals can be seen north of the platforms.
To the west lies a cluster of three very short tunnels, running under a road. These tunnels were to give greater throughput, and are all on the same line. The westernmost tunnel is used for shunting. The next tunnel is the main Merseyrail Northern Line tunnel. The third tunnel is disused, but was in use until 1968 as the fast line for expresses to Yorkshire and Manchester.
To the east is a cluster of two tunnels. The easternmost tunnel was an abandoned project. The adjacent tunnel runs in tunnels and cuttings to the disused Walton on the Hill station, and was a part of the North Liverpool Extension Line. This section of line was used from 1879 to 1979; however, trains running on it never called at Kirkdale station.
Freight lines
Two freight lines passed through or under the station.
The busy Canada Dock Branch freight-only line serving Liverpool Docks passes under the station, roughly north-east to south-west, via a tunnel.
The North Liverpool Extension Line, also referred to as the eastern section of the Outer Loop, emerged from the north out of a tunnel next to the station, running parallel to the west platform. This section of line was used from 1879 to 1979.
Facilities
The station (as is usual for most on Merseyrail) is fully staffed throughout the hours of service all week. The platforms are fully accessible and step-free (as noted above) and there are shelters, customer information screens and timetable poster boards on each platform. Train running information is also offered by automated announcements. The station has two car-parking spaces for disabled users and cycle racks for 10 cycles.
Services
Trains operate every 15 minutes, Monday-Saturday daytime to either Kirkby or Ormskirk to the north, and every 5 or 10 minutes to Liverpool Central to the south. During the evenings after 20:00 and all day Sundays, services are every 30 minutes to Kirkby and Ormskirk, and every 15 minutes to Liverpool.
Gallery
References
External links
Railway stations in Liverpool
DfT Category E stations
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCL
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GCL may refer to:
Computing
GNU Common Lisp
Guarded Command Language, used for predicate transformer semantics
Graphical Command Language of Geomview
Honours
Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu, an honour of Papua New Guinea
Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty, an honour of Portugal
Science
Ganglion cell layer
Geosynthetic clay liner
Glutamate–cysteine ligase
Sports
Golf Club of Lebanon
Greater Catholic League, an Ohio high school athletic conference
Gulf Coast League, a rookie-level Minor League Baseball league
Transport
Glassboro–Camden Line, a proposed light rail line between Camden and Glassboro in New Jersey
Gul Circle MRT station, a Mass Rapid Transit station in Tuas, Singapore (MRT station abbreviation)
Gulf Coast Lines, a defunct American railway company
Other uses
GCL-Poly, Golden Concord Group Limited, a green energy company
Government Category List, in the United Kingdom
Grenadian Creole English, ISO 639-3 code gcl
Griffith College Limerick, in Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Common%20Lisp
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GNU Common Lisp (GCL) is the GNU Project's ANSI Common Lisp compiler, an evolutionary development of Kyoto Common Lisp. It produces native object code by first generating C code and then calling a C compiler.
GCL is the implementation of choice for several large projects including the mathematical tools Maxima, AXIOM, HOL88, and ACL2. GCL runs under eleven different architectures on Linux, and under FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
Last stable release of GCL is of 2023-01-13.
See also
CLISP – another GNU Project Common Lisp implementation
References
Common Lisp implementations
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Free compilers and interpreters
Common Lisp
GNU Project Lisp programming language implementations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
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The NSLU2 (Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives) is a network-attached storage (NAS) device made by Linksys introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2008. It makes USB flash memory and hard disks accessible over a network using the SMB protocol (also known as Windows file sharing or CIFS). It was superseded mainly by the NAS200 (enclosure type storage link) and in another sense by the WRT600N and WRT300N/350N which both combine a Wi-Fi router with a storage link.
The device runs a modified version of Linux and by default, formats hard disks with the ext3 filesystem, but a firmware upgrade from Linksys adds the ability to use NTFS and FAT32 formatted drives with the device for better Windows compatibility. The device has a web interface from which the various advanced features can be configured, including user and group permissions and networking options.
Hardware
The device has two USB 2.0 ports for connecting hard disks and uses an ARM-compatible Intel XScale IXP420 CPU. In models manufactured prior to around April 2006, Linksys had underclocked the processor to 133 MHz, though a simple hardware modification to remove this restriction is possible. Later models (circa. May 2006) are clocked at the rated speed of 266 MHz. The device includes 32 MB of SDRAM, and 8 MB of flash memory. It also has a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet network connection. The NSLU2 is fanless, making it completely silent.
User community
Stock, the device runs a customised version of Linux. Linksys was required to release their source code as per the terms of the GNU General Public License. Due to the availability of source code, the NSLU2's use of well-documented commodity components and its relatively low price, there are several community projects centered around it, including hardware modifications, alternative firmware images, and alternative operating systems with varying degrees of reconfiguration.
Hardware modifications
Unofficial hardware modifications include:
Doubling the clock frequency on underclocked units. As of summer 2006, the NSLU2 was sold without the "underclocking"
Addition of a serial port
Addition of a JTAG port
Enabling extra USB ports
Addition of extra memory
NSLU2 units that have had their memory upgraded are commonly referred to as 'FatSlugs'
Devices have been successfully upgraded to 64 MB but not stable operation with 128 MB and 256 MB of RAM
The version with 256 MB RAM and 16 MB flash (twice the standard amount) has been nicknamed 'ObeseSlug'
Forced Power On
Adding an HD44780 controlled dot matrix display
Alternative firmware
Most of the alternative firmware projects are no longer functional. However OpenWrt claims to still be working to maintain support for the device.
There were two main replacement firmware images available for the device: the first is Unslung which was based on the official Linksys firmware with some improvements and features added. Optware packages were available to expand functionality. The other was SlugOS/BE (formerl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com
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Go.com (also known as The Go Network) is a portal for Disney content that was created after The Walt Disney Company acquired the search engine Infoseek. Go.com is operated by Disney Interactive’s Disney Online. It began as a web portal launched by Jeff Gold. Go.com includes content from ABC News, which is owned by Walt Disney Television and is hosted under a .go.com name. Along with Time Warner's Pathfinder.com, Go.com proved to be an expensive failure for its parent company, as web users largely preferred to use search engines to access content directly, rather than using directories. In 2013, the site was transitioned from a general-interest portal to a simple landing page.
History
On January 9, 1998, Disney registered Go.com. Infoseek and Disney Interactive Media Group joint ventured in developing the Go Network, an internet portal. Go.com was launched on January 15, 1999, as a portal with content from ABCNews.com, ESPN.com and Disney.
With Disney's purchase of the remainder of Infoseek in July 1999, the Go Network, Infoseek, the Disney Catalog, Disney Online (Disney.com and DisneyStore.com), ABC News Internet Ventures, ESPN Internet Ventures, and Buena Vista Internet Group were merged into the Go.com company; the company was 72% Disney-owned, with the other outstanding ownership in a tracking stock.
In October 1999, the Go Guides program, a user-edited directory like DMOZ, was launched.
In January 2000, Go.com was forced to abandon its original stoplight logo because of a complaint of similar-looking logos filed by GoTo.com. Concurrently, Go.com company officials announced it was shifting from a general appeal portal to featuring entertainment content. A court later ruled that Go.com had to pay $21.5 million in damages to GoTo.com.
However, in January 2001, Disney announced that it would be closing Go.com and its search engine, laying off approximately 400 employees and retiring the go.com tracking stock. Also announced was the closing of Go.com's volunteer-edited directory. With the closing, some volunteers created, or migrated to, offshoot directories including JoeAnt, Goguides.org, and Skaffe.com.
In March 2001, Go.com dropped its internal search engine in favor of GoTo.com search results.
Current status
Despite its announcement, Go.com never ceased operations. Instead, in March 2001, the site ended its search engine and switched to a search engine provided by goto.com, whose parent, Overture Services, Inc, was eventually purchased by Yahoo!.
Go.com terminated its email service on August 31, 2010.
In 2013, Disney retired the Go.com logo and branding, turning the domain into a Disney-branded landing page without a search engine. The properties of Disney Interactive then began the process of moving the connection of user accounts off from depending on the Go.com domain to a different type of system not dependent solely on one domain. Throughout 2014 and 2015, the ABC Owned Television Stations began to move to only using their on
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Workgroup%20Server
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Apple Workgroup Server and Macintosh Server are a family of Macintosh-based workgroup servers, sold by Apple Computer from 1993 to 2003. Machines bearing these names are re-branded Centris, Quadra and Power Macintosh systems with additional server software and sometimes larger hard drives. Apart from that, they were mostly identical to the machines they are based on. The "Workgroup Server" name was used until the release of the Power Macintosh G3 in 1998.
In 1996 and 1997, Apple also sold a separate range of machines marketed as the Apple Network Server, which were specially-designed servers that exclusively ran AIX and thus do not qualify as Macintosh computers.
The first models were the Workgroup Server 60, 80 and 95, introduced together at CeBIT in Hanover on March 22, 1993. Customer shipments of the 95 began in April, with the 60 and 80 following in July. New models were introduced every year except 1995, and remained on the market until 2003, several months after the rack-mounted Xserve was introduced.
List of models
Timeline
References
External links
Apple Workgroup Servers at EveryMac.com
Macintosh servers
Discontinued Apple Inc. products
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Action%20Network
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The National Action Network (NAN) is a not-for-profit, civil rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton in New York City, New York, in early 1991. In a 2016 profile, Vanity Fair called Sharpton "arguably the country's most influential civil rights leader".
Organization
The organization's Board of Directors is chaired by Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon. The Board of Directors has a tradition of including those most recognized in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as it was first chaired by Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, Pastor Emeritus of Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, and former Executive Director to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to Dr. Walker, the late Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. King, supported the organization and her son, Martin Luther King III, participates annually in the Keepers of the Dream Awards Dinner and National Convention.
National Action Network's Annual Convention draws more than 8,000 delegates and leaders from media, business, politics, entertainment and the civil rights from across the country. The 2007 convention featured six presidential candidates and was dubbed by the media the "Sharpton Primary". In Barack Obama's speech during the 2007 convention he said that Rev. Al Sharpton was "The voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." In 2011 President Barack Obama delivered a keynote address at their convention, applauding NAN's activism by saying: "National Action Network is not the National 'Satisfaction' Network; it's the National 'Action' Network". At the National Action Network's convention in April of 2014 close to 7,000 people attended, making it the biggest in the history of the organization and the largest civil rights convening of the year in the nation. During the 2014 convention President Barack Obama returned to address over 1,200 convention attendees where he addressed voting rights and said "We've got to create a national network committed to taking action. We can call it the National Action Network."
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spoke at the Silver Anniversary 2016 National Action Network Convention. "You stand up and always have against gun violence, advocate for criminal justice reform, help young people find jobs, hold corporations accountable, and in a million ways, lift up voices that often go unheard," Clinton said during her speech.
The National Action Network is headquartered in Harlem, New York and has regional offices in Washington, D.C.., Atlanta and Los Angeles. It currently has over 105 chapters in cities around the nation.
Issues of focus
The National Action Network is widely credited with drawing national attention to critical issues such as racial profiling, police brutality, and the US Naval bombing exercises on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Notably, the organization was prominently involved with the police brutality cases of Amadou Diallo, A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State%20Christian%20Television
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Tri-State Christian Television, Inc., doing business as TCT Network and TCT Ministries, is a religious television network in the United States. The network was founded in May 1977 by spouses Garth and Tina Coonce.
TCT Network includes traditional televangelism, talk shows, children-oriented programming such as TCT Kids (used to meet E/I mandates), Southern gospel music, and feature films with Christian themes. TCT has an international service, TCT World, which broadcasts in over 170 countries.
From the mid-1980s to 2007, TCT was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network currently maintains a relationship with the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing that network's flagship program The 700 Club twice daily as well as CBN's nightly newscast.
From 2011 to 2013, TCT operated a Spanish-language sub-channel which was available both online and over the air on TCT stations called La Fuente. This subchannel was ultimately discontinued, but reactivated in August 2014 for a simulcast of the Aramaic Broadcast Network (ABN). It was discontinued no later than 2017.
In June 2018, TCT ended local operations at all of its owned-and-operated stations, consolidating all of its stations into a single national feed. The change came after the Federal Communications Commission lifted its Main Studio Rule, which had required broadcast stations to have a local studio.
Television network affiliates
TCT-owned stations
WFBD channel 48, Destin, Florida / Mobile, Alabama
WBIH channel 29, Selma / Montgomery, Alabama
KDOC-TV channel 56, Anaheim / Los Angeles, California
KTNC-TV channel 42, Concord / San Francisco, California
KAIL channel 7, Fresno, California
WIGL-LD channel 38, Athens / Atlanta, Georgia
WSCG channel 34, Baxley / Savannah, Georgia
KXTF channel 35, Twin Falls, Idaho
WTCT channel 27, Marion, Illinois (Flagship station)
WINM channel 12, Angola, Indiana
WEIJ-LD channel 38 Fort Wayne, Indiana (repeater of WINM)
KDMI channel 19, Des Moines, Iowa
KWKB channel 20, Iowa City, Iowa
WTLJ channel 54, Muskegon / Grand Rapids, Michigan
WJGP-LD channel 26, Kalamazoo, Michigan (repeater of WTLJ)
WAQP channel 49, Saginaw / Flint, Michigan
KONC channel 7, Alexandria, Minnesota
KCWV Channel 27, Duluth, Minnesota
WFXW channel 15, Greenville, Mississippi
WWJX Channel 23, Jackson, Mississippi
WNYB channel 26, Jamestown / Buffalo, New York
WNIB-LD channel 42, Rochester, New York (repeater of WNYB)
WLXI-TV channel 43, Greensboro, North Carolina
WRAY-TV channel 30, Wake Forest / Raleigh / Durham, North Carolina
WRLM channel 47, Canton / Akron / Cleveland, Ohio
WACP channel 4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Atlantic City, New Jersey
KTTW channel 7, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
KTTM channel 12 Huron, South Dakota (repeater of KTTW)
WTWV channel 23, Memphis, Tennessee
WWTW channel 34, Senatobia, Mississippi
KPNZ channel 24, Salt Lake City, Utah
KBCB channel 24, Bellingham, Washington / Vancouver, British Columbia
TCT affiliates
KZTN-LD channel 20.2, Boise, Ida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTV
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GTV may refer to:
Media
GTV (Australia), the Melbourne television station of Australia's Nine Network
GTV (Bangladesh), Bengali language digital cable television channel
GTV, the former name of bTV Comedy a cable television channel in Bulgaria
GTV (Ghana), the national television broadcaster in Ghana
GTV (Indonesian TV network), a national television network in Indonesia
GTV (Philippine TV network), a Philippine television network
, a South Korean television channel
GTV Media Group, a media company founded by Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui
Gala Television, a cable television network in Taiwan
Gateway Television, an African television network
Gazi Television, a Bengali language digital cable television channel
Global Tamil Vision, a Tamil language satellite TV channel broadcasting internationally
Government Television, now People's Television Network, a Philippine television network
Gunma Television, a Japanese television station in Gunma Prefecture
Other uses
Aerogaviota, a Cuban airline
Alfa Romeo GTV (disambiguation), multiple coupé car
Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce), a car from Alfa Romeo
GoyimTV, a video channel of the Goyim Defense League
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An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror () is a 2004 book about the "War on Terror", analyzing Islamic terrorist networks and proposing policies for the United States government to adopt to defeat them. The book was co-written by Richard Perle, who had previously been chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, and David Frum, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
In 2004, Frum replied to some of the critics of the book in "He That Stands It Now ...", an article that appeared in the National Review.
Danielle Pletka, a foreign policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Jewish Daily Forward, "The political prescriptions contained are terrific. This is a very thoughtful articulation of how to fight the battle ahead of us."
Political scientist Fareed Zakaria said about the book: "It is now possible to describe a neoconservative foreign policy, and David Frum and Richard Perle's new book, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, is a useful guide to it. There have been many books written by neoconservatives on aspects of the war on terror, but because of the identity of the authors, the scope of the book and the vigor of argumentation, this one deserves special attention."
Reviews
Kamiya, Gary, "An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle, salon.com book review, January 30, 2004
Buchanan, Pat, Review , amconmag.com, March 1, 2004.
Kakutani, Michiku, "A Confident Prescription For Foiling the Terrorists", The New York Times, January 13, 2004.
Riklin, Geoffrey, "Book Review of An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, by David Frum and Richard Perle" , The Intellectual Conservative Web site, 17 March 2004.
Hutchison, Harold C., "An End To Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, by David Frum and Richard Perle", Strategy Page Web site.
Zakaria, Fareed, "Showing Them Who's Boss", The New York Times Book Review.
Crock, Stan, "Two Jeremiads", Business Week, 2004-02-04.
Powers, Thomas. "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror". The New York Review of Books, 2004-05-11. 51, no. 4: 4. (unavailable online)
References
External links
Presentation by Perle and David Frum on An End to Evil, January 9, 2004, C-SPAN
Booknotes interview with Perle on An End to Evil, March 7, 2004.
Books about terrorism
War on Terror books
American political books
2004 non-fiction books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4M
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Encryption for the Masses (E4M) is a free disk encryption software for Windows NT and Windows 9x families of operating systems. E4M is discontinued; it is no longer maintained. Its author, former criminal cartel boss Paul Le Roux, joined Shaun Hollingworth (the author of the Scramdisk) to produce the commercial encryption product DriveCrypt for the security company SecurStar.
The popular source-available freeware program TrueCrypt is based on E4M's source code. However, TrueCrypt uses a different container format than E4M, which makes it impossible to use one of these programs to access an encrypted volume created by the other.
Allegation of stolen source code
Shortly after TrueCrypt version 1.0 was released in February 2004, the TrueCrypt Team reported receiving emails from Wilfried Hafner, manager of SecurStar, claiming that Paul Le Roux had stolen the source code of E4M from SecurStar as an employee. According to the TrueCrypt Team, the emails stated that Le Roux illegally distributed E4M, and authored an illegal license permitting anyone to base derivative work on E4M and distribute it freely, which Hafner alleges Le Roux did not have any right to do, claiming that all versions of E4M always belonged only to SecurStar. For a time, this led the TrueCrypt Team to stop developing and
distributing TrueCrypt.
See also
On-the-fly encryption (OTFE)
Disk encryption
Disk encryption software
Comparison of disk encryption software
References
External links
Archived version of official website
Cryptographic software
Disk encryption
Free software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful%20Trio
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Beautiful Trio (大女人·小女人) is a Chinese language drama broadcast on Singapore's largest television network, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The show was filmed in 2003 but broadcast in 2004. It stars Huang Biren , Ivy Lee , Stella Huang & Zhang Yaodong as the casts of the series.
This series was re-telecasted on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 on every Saturday, 11am to 1pm and has since ended its re-run on 31 January 2009.
Synopsis
The drama concerns three women with different ways of dealing with a relationship and their views of men.
Huang Biren plays Christina, a 40-year-old woman with a 14-year-old daughter whose husband (played by Li Wen Hai) is a houseman.
Ivy Lee plays Leo Leo, a 33-year-old woman who thinks men are only interested in sex.
Stella Ng plays Samantha, a 24-year-old woman who thinks men cannot protect her. Because of the same thinking of detesting men in the three women, they become good friends. Zzen Chang acts as Stella Ng's good buddy in the show, the only man she trusts.
Cast
Main cast
Huang Biren as Christina
Ivy Lee as Leo Leo
Stella Huang as Samantha
Supporting cast
Zhang Yaodong
Zen Chong
Li Wenhai
Benjamin Yeung Sheung Bun (Hong Kong singer)
References
External links
Mediacorp TV Contains character summaries.
2004 Singaporean television series debuts
2004 Singaporean television series endings
Singapore Chinese dramas
Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%21%20Shark%21
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Shark! Shark! is an Intellivision game originally designed by Don Daglow, and with additional design and programming by Ji-Wen Tsao, one of the first female game programmers in the history of video games. The player is a fish who must eat smaller fishes in order to gain points and extra lives while avoiding enemies such as larger fishes, sharks, jellyfish, lobsters and crabs. After eating a certain number of fish, the player's fish grows in size and is thus able to eat a larger selection of fish. However, while the larger fish becomes a bit faster, he is less agile than the small fish and has a harder time avoiding enemies.
Shark! Shark! was originally considered by Mattel to be a cute game for kids and unlikely to make strong inroads into the gaming community. The game was unexpectedly popular, forcing Mattel to quickly manufacture another batch of cartridges. The original cartridge run was only 5,600 units.
Reviews
Games #42
Games #44
Legacy
Shark! Shark! was made available for the PlayStation 3 through PlayStation Home in fall 2012 in a collection titled Intellivision Gen2. In addition to players being a fish eating other fish trying try to take down the shark, their food and foes will both swim in a wide variety of new patterns. It was also released on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in May 2010.
An updated version of Shark! Shark! of the same name has been announced for release on the Intellivision Amico video game console. It is one of the six games that were meant to be included with the console. After the demise of the Intellivision Amico project, BBG Entertainment published a PC version of Shark! Shark! on Steam.
Bugs
The bubble sound effects do not work correctly on the Intellivision II.
Occasionally, when pressing the sprint button, the player's fish will go in the opposite direction from that instructed—usually with disastrous results.
References
External links
Shark! Prototype for the Mattel Aquarius Computer
1982 video games
Action games
Intellivision games
Intellivision-only games
Mattel video games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games about sharks
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set underwater
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables%20of%20the%20Green%20Forest
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is an anime television series based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W. Burgess which ran on the Japanese network Fuji Television from 7 January 1973 to 30 December 1973. It consists of 52 episodes and was produced by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo along with Mushi Production as part of the Calpis Comic Theater (later known as World Masterpiece Theater).
The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan, such as Italy (on TMC), Germany (Bayerischer Rundfunk), Spain (TVE, Canal Nou), Romania (TVR 1), Portugal (RTP), Venezuela (VTV), the United Kingdom (ITV / Channel 4), Canada (TVOntario, Knowledge Network and CBLFT-DT, dubbed in both English and French), Saudi Arabia (Saudi 2), Australia (Network Ten), Ireland (Raidió Teilifís Éireann), Israel (Channel 2 dubbed in Hebrew), the Emirates (Dubai 33), Nigeria (NTA), Cyprus (METV), New Zealand (TV One), Brazil (SBT), the Netherlands (TROS), Malaysia (Network Two), Singapore (Mediacorp Channel 5), Indonesia (RCTI / SCTV), South Africa (SABC2), Namibia (SWABC, while known as South West Africa), Hong Kong (both ATV and TVB) and Trinidad and Tobago (TTT).
The release of the series into Canada was done through ZIV International in 1978. There was a second English dub under the title Friends of the Green Forest which aired on the TVOKids on TVOntario in the 1990s.
In the United Kingdom, the original transmission of the series as aforementioned on the ITV network was cut short, with only the first 30 episodes being broadcast in 1982, because the series was dropped due to the introduction of the Childrens ITV service in January 1983 taking over the series' former timeslot. Some of the other episodes were broadcast sporadically in the UK on the "Early Morning" weekend segment on Channel 4 in the early 1990s.
Synopsis
The series consists of the adventures of Johnny (or Rocky), a woodchuck, and his mate Polly in the Green Forest. They make a lot of friends among their neighbours, and everyone works together to avoid the attacks of the different predators that put them in danger, such as man, the weasel, and the fox.
Characters
Johnny Chuck, a woodchuck, sometimes called Rocky
Polly Chuck
Peter Rabbit
Uncle Billy Possum
Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Bobby Raccoon, he wears pants and suspenders
Reddy the Fox
Sammy Jay, a blue jay
Grandfather frog
Old man toad
Buster the bear, a black bear
Red tail hawk
Harry Mink (called Billy in the books)
Jimmy Skunk
Tom, Farmer Brown's son
Bowser the hound
Joe Otter
Paddy Beaver
Danny Meadowmouse
Episodes
Music
Opening Theme (Japanese version): Midori no Hidamari by Micchī (Mitsuko Horie) and Chatterers
In popular culture
In the 2014 anime Shirobako, protagonist Aoi Miyamori states that her favorite anime is "Andes Hedgehog Mountain Chucky", which features a predominantly animal cast and is inspired by Fables of the Green Forest.
References
Notes
Jonathan Winters will provide all the off-camera voices for "F
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Soundtrack%20Channel
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The Soundtrack Channel (STC) was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel which featured various film and television music. The channel featured music videos and other related programming. STC exclusively featured music videos from movie and television soundtracks, including original movie videos that were produced specifically for the channel. Soundtrack Channel also featured entertainment news, behind-the-scenes specials of the movie-making process and celebrity interviews.
Operating channels
STC Asia - (JCSAT 3A)
STC USA - The lead channel (Echostar 9 (Galaxy 23).)
- * Satellite details not available.
Source: Lyngsat Satellite Site (www.lyngsat.com)
Press release
RRSat Chosen by Soundtrack Channel to Launch Services to Asia on Telstar 10 Satellite
Music video networks in the United States
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20television%20presenters
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This is a listing of Australian television presenters and television journalists.
Nine Network
Amelia Adams
Tara Brown
Scott Cam
David Campbell
Shelley Craft
Alex Cullen
Ben Fordham
Georgie Gardner
David Genat
Tracy Grimshaw
Jo Hall
Peter Hitchener
Tony Jones
Wendy Kingston
Deborah Knight
Alicia Loxley
Eddie McGuire
Leila McKinnon
Brett McLeod
Livinia Nixon
Peter Overton
Bruce Paige
Amber Sherlock
Karl Stefanovic
Richard Wilkins
Seven Network
Angie Asimus
Samantha Armytage
Mike Amor
Natalie Barr
Mark Beretta
Chris Brown
Sally Bowrey
Angela Cox
Matt Doran
Larry Emdur
Kylie Gillies
David Koch
Rebecca Maddern
Peter Mitchell
Ann Sanders
Matt Shirvington
James Tobin
Tim Watson
Monique Wright
Michael Usher
Network 10
Waleed Aly
Angela Bishop
Rodger Corser
Grant Denyer
Osher Günsberg
Sarah Harris
Peter Helliar
Narelda Jacobs
Amanda Keller
Jennifer Keyte
Hamish Macdonald
Julia Morris
Stephen Quartermain
Hugh Riminton
Beau Ryan
Sandra Sully
Lisa Wilkinson
Chris Bath
ABC
Shaun Micallef
Michael Rowland
Juanita Phillips
Leigh Sales
Lisa Millar
Joe O'Brien
Ros Childs
Johanna Nicholson
Fauziah Ibrahim
Miriam Corowa
Karina Carvalho
Beverley O'Connor
Briana Shepherd
SBS
Jenny Brockie
Anton Enus
Craig Foster
Janice Petersen
Mike Tomalaris
Past presenters
Alo Baker (Seven Network)
James Bradshaw (Nine Network)
Heather Foord (Nine Network)
Peter Harvey (Nine Network) (died 2013)
Garry Lyon (Nine Network)
Dixie Marshall (Nine Network)
Bert Newton (Nine Network and Network Ten) (died 2021)
Mike Goldman (Nine and Ten Networks)
Greg Pearce (Nine Network and Network Ten) (retired)
Ian Ross (Nine Network and Seven Network) (died 2014)
Mal Walden (Network Ten)
Lee Lin Chin (SBS)
Les Murray (SBS) (died 2017)
See also
List of Australian television series
Television presenters
Television presenters
Australia
Australian television presenters
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In computer science, approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding strings that match a pattern approximately (rather than exactly). The problem of approximate string matching is typically divided into two sub-problems: finding approximate substring matches inside a given string and finding dictionary strings that match the pattern approximately.
Overview
The closeness of a match is measured in terms of the number of primitive operations necessary to convert the string into an exact match. This number is called the edit distance between the string and the pattern. The usual primitive operations are:
insertion: cot → coat
deletion: coat → cot
substitution: coat → cost
These three operations may be generalized as forms of substitution by adding a NULL character (here symbolized by *) wherever a character has been deleted or inserted:
insertion: co*t → coat
deletion: coat → co*t
substitution: coat → cost
Some approximate matchers also treat transposition, in which the positions of two letters in the string are swapped, to be a primitive operation.
transposition: cost → cots
Different approximate matchers impose different constraints. Some matchers use a single global unweighted cost, that is, the total number of primitive operations necessary to convert the match to the pattern. For example, if the pattern is coil, foil differs by one substitution, coils by one insertion, oil by one deletion, and foal by two substitutions. If all operations count as a single unit of cost and the limit is set to one, foil, coils, and oil will count as matches while foal will not.
Other matchers specify the number of operations of each type separately, while still others set a total cost but allow different weights to be assigned to different operations. Some matchers permit separate assignments of limits and weights to individual groups in the pattern.
Problem formulation and algorithms
One possible definition of the approximate string matching problem is the following: Given a pattern string and a text string , find a substring in T, which, of all substrings of T, has the smallest edit distance to the pattern P.
A brute-force approach would be to compute the edit distance to P for all substrings of T, and then choose the substring with the minimum distance. However, this algorithm would have the running time O(n3 m).
A better solution, which was proposed by Sellers, relies on dynamic programming. It uses an alternative formulation of the problem: for each position j in the text T and each position i in the pattern P, compute the minimum edit distance between the i first characters of the pattern, , and any substring of T that ends at position j.
For each position j in the text T, and each position i in the pattern P, go through all substrings of T ending at position j, and determine which one of them has the minimal
edit distance to the i first characters of the pattern P.
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The Tiny C Compiler (a.k.a. TCC, tCc, or TinyCC) is an x86, X86-64 and ARM processor C compiler initially written by Fabrice Bellard. It is designed to work for slow computers with little disk space (e.g. on rescue disks). Windows operating system support was added in version 0.9.23 (17 June 2005). TCC is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
TCC claims to implement all of ANSI C (C89/C90), much of the C99 ISO standard, and many GNU C extensions including inline assembly.
Features
TCC has a number of features that differentiate it from other current C compilers:
Its small file size (about 100 KB for the x86 TCC executable) and memory footprint allow it to be used directly from a single 1.44 M floppy disk, such as a rescue disk.
TCC is intended to produce native x86, x86-64 and ARM code very quickly; according to Bellard, it compiles, assembles and links about nine times faster than GCC does. As of 2023, the "mob" development branch also includes support for RISC-V and TMS320C67xx (a DSP chip).
TCC has a number of compiler-specific language features intended to improve its practicality, such as an optional memory and bound checker, for improved code stability.
TCC allows programs to be run automatically at compile time using a command-line switch. This allows programs to be run as a shell script under Unix-like systems that support the shebang interpreter directive syntax.
Compiled program performance
In general, TCC's implementation emphasizes smallness instead of optimally-performing results. TCC generates code in a single pass, and does not perform most of the optimizations performed by other compilers. TCC compiles every statement on its own, and at the end of each statement register values are written back to the stack and must be re-read even if the next line uses the values in registers (creating extraneous save/load pairs between statements). TCC uses only some of the available registers (e.g., on x86 it never uses ebx, esi, or edi because they need to be preserved across function calls).
TCC performs a few optimizations, such as constant propagation for all operations, multiplications and divisions are optimized to shifts when appropriate, and comparison operators are specially optimized (by maintaining a special cache for the processor flags). It also does some simple register allocation, which prevents many extraneous save/load pairs inside a single statement.
Here are two benchmark examples:
A recursive Fibonacci algorithm on a 1.8 GHz Intel Centrino laptop with 512 MB RAM yields a noticeable difference in results between Microsoft Visual C++ compiler 13.10.3052 and TCC. To calculate the 49th Fibonacci number, it took a MS Visual C++ program approximately 18% longer than the TCC compiled program.
A test compared different C compilers by using them to compile the GNU C Compiler (GCC) itself, and then using the resulting compilers to compile GCC again. Compared to GCC 3.4.2, a TCC modified to compile GCC was
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Aereogramme were a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1998, consisting of Craig B. (vocals, guitar), Iain Cook (guitar, programming), Campbell McNeil (bass) and Martin Scott (drums). Prior to their split in 2007, the band released four studio albums.
Biography
Formed in April 1998, the band released two 7" singles in 1999 before signing to Chemikal Underground in early 2000, at which point they recorded two EPs before releasing their first full-length, A Story in White, in 2001. Sleep and Release followed in 2003 but the band moved to Undergroove Records soon after for their third official release, Seclusion. However, the group re-signed to Chemikal Underground in August 2006.
Their fourth album, My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go, was released in Europe and the United States on 29 January 2007 and in Japan on 14 October 2006, taking its title from the novel The Exorcist. Vocalist Craig B. revealed the long delay between releases was partly due to losing his singing voice for six months: "We didn't know if it was going to continue so everybody went their separate ways waiting for my voice to come back. I went to see a throat doctor and he told me to eat yogurt which I did and it did absolutely nothing. The only thing that made any difference was time 'cause I'd spent the previous couple of years screaming every single night and whisky and smoking and that was just a horrible combination. I think my body just said stop".
In May 2007, Aereogramme announced online that they were to disband:
The band played their last show at the Connect Music Festival in Inverary, Scotland on 31 August 2007.
Post-Aereogramme
Iain Cook and Craig B. formed another band, The Unwinding Hours, and released an album on 15 February 2010. Craig B. has since released two solo albums under the name A Mote of Dust and an ambient album under the name Slovenly Hooks. In 2011 Cook formed Chvrches with Martin Doherty (who worked on Aereogramme's last album) and Lauren Mayberry. He previously recorded, mixed and mastered fellow Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad's 2008 mini-album Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did. Bassist Campbell McNeil played on that album's opening track, "And She Would Darken the Memory". Martin Scott is currently working with Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro as tour manager and Campbell McNeil is working in the same capacity with The Temper Trap and Chvrches.
Members
Craig B. – vocals, guitar
Iain Cook – guitar, programming
Campbell McNeil – bass guitar
Martin Scott – drums
Discography
Albums
A Story in White (2001)
Sleep and Release (2003)
Seclusion (2004)
My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go (2007)
Singles and EPs
"Hatred" (1999)
"Translations" (1999)
"Fukd ID No. 1 – Glam Cripple EP" (2000)
"White Paw EP" (2001)
"Acoustic Tour CDR" (2003)
"Acoustic Tour CDR 2" (2003)
Livers & Lungs (2003)
"Acoustic Tour CDR 3" (2004)
"Acoustic Tour CDR 4" (2005)
In the Fishtank 14 with Isis (2006)
"Acoustic Tour CDR 5
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster%20interrupt
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A raster interrupt (also called a horizontal blank interrupt) is an interrupt signal in a legacy computer system which is used for display timing. It is usually, though not always, generated by a system's graphics chip as the scan lines of a frame are being readied to send to the monitor for display. The most basic implementation of a raster interrupt is the vertical blank interrupt.
Such an interrupt provides a mechanism for graphics registers to be changed mid-frame, so they have different values above and below the interrupt point. This allows a single-color object such as the background or the screen border to have multiple horizontal color bands, for example. Or, for a hardware sprite to be repositioned to give the illusion that there are more sprites than a system supports. The limitation is that changes only affect the portion of the display below the interrupt. They don't allow more colors or more sprites on a single scan line.
Modern protected mode operating systems generally do not support raster interrupts as access to hardware interrupts for unprivileged user programs could compromise the system stability. As their most important use case, the multiplexing of hardware sprites, is nowadays no longer relevant there exists no modern successor to raster interrupts.
Systems supporting raster interrupts
Several popular home computers and video game consoles included graphics chips supporting raster interrupts or had features that could be combined to work like raster interrupts. The following list is not exhaustive.
Astrocade (two custom chips, 1977)
The Bally Astrocade supported a horizontal blank interrupt to select the four screen colors from a palette of 256 colors. The Astrocade did not support hardware sprites.
Atari 8-bit family (ANTIC chip, 1979)
The ANTIC chip used by the Atari 8-bit family includes display list interrupts (DLIs), which are triggered as the display is being drawn. The ANTIC chip itself is considerably powerful and inherently capable of many features which other systems require raster interrupts to duplicate. ANTIC can mix multiple graphics modes on the screen, display horizontal and vertical overscan graphics, and fine scroll selected horizontal regions. DLIs on the Atari are typically used to add additional color to the display and reuse Player/Missile graphics elements.
ColecoVision and MSX (TMS9918 chip, 1979)
The ColecoVision, an 8-bit game console released in 1982, as well as the MSX, a standardized home computer from 1983, utilized the Texas Instruments TMS9918. It features a 'vertical interrupt' source to reposition the hardware sprites on the screen.
Commodore 64 (MOS Technology VIC-II chip, 1982)
The C64's and C128's VIC-II has a flexible raster interrupt system. Raster interrupts and CPU intervention are necessary to reuse sprites on the screen, mix graphics modes, and selectively scroll screen regions. Raster interrupts are also supported by the Plus/4's and C16's TED.
Nintendo Entertainment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Gym%20Partner%27s%20a%20Monkey
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My Gym Partner's a Monkey is an American animated television series created by Tim Cahill and Julie McNally Cahill for Cartoon Network. It aired from December 26, 2005, to November 27, 2008, ending with a total of four seasons and 56 episodes. The series follows Adam Lyon, a human who, after a clerical error listed his surname as "Lion", is forced to transfer to Charles Darwin Middle School, a school for local anthropomorphic zoo animals, where he is partnered with Jake Spidermonkey in gym, and quickly becomes best friends with him. Two DVD volumes have been released in 2007 and 2008 in Australia.
Saerom Animation, who also did animation work for Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, provided the animation. The series won an Emmy Award in 2007 and was nominated for four Annie Awards.
Summary
A 12-year-old student named Adam Lyon is transferred to a middle school established for anthropomorphic zoo animals due to a spelling error making his surname "Lion". There, he is befriended by a mischievous, eccentric spider monkey named Jake, hence the title of the series, along with a sassy toucan named Lupe, a giraffe named Ingrid, who is infatuated with Adam, the intelligent, wise gorilla Windsor, and Slips the easygoing python. In spite of his usual kindness and fondness for his friends, Adam despises being banished to Charles Darwin Middle School because of something beyond his control and longs for his previous human middle school.
Usually, the episodes are focused on Adam's experiences at Charles Darwin Middle School due to his inability to fit in with his anthropomorphic schoolmates, the challenges that he must face (such as the presumed stupidity of his peers, being schooled in subjects of use only to animals, the introductions of new students of odd, dangerous, or fictional species to the school or the misadventures that Adam stumbles into with them, or the common effects of adolescence as they are experienced by zoo animals).
Episodes
Characters
Main
Adam Lyon (voiced by Nika Futterman)
Jacob P. "Jake" Spidermonkey (voiced by Tom Kenny)
Windsor Gorilla (voiced by Rick Gomez)
Slips Python (voiced by Rick Gomez)
Guadalupe "Lupe" Toucan (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
Ingrid Giraffe (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
Virgil "Bull" Sharkowski (voiced by Phil LaMarr)
Principal Poncherello W. Pixiefrog (voiced by Maurice LaMarche)
Recurring
Mrs. Geraldine Sharon Warthog (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
Nurse Jacqueline Gazelle (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
Henry Armadillo (voiced by Tom Kenny)
Coach Tiffany Gills (voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray)
Miss Anna Chameleon (voiced by Nika Futterman)
Mr. Cyrus Q. Hornbill (voiced by Maurice LaMarche)
Mrs. Eugenia Tusk (voiced by Cree Summer)
Mr. Maurice Mandrill (voiced by Maurice LaMarche)
Kerry Anderson (voiced by Cree Summer)
Larry "Mr. I Didn't" (voiced by Phil LaMarr)
Minor
Phineas Porpoise (voiced by Phil LaMarr)
Margaret Rhino (voiced by Nika Futterman)
LaTanya Hippo (
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Thrun
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Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. At Google, he founded Google X and Google's self-driving car team. He is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.
Thrun led development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which has since been placed on exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. His team also developed a vehicle called Junior, which placed second at the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Thrun led the development of the Google self-driving car.
Thrun is also well known for his work on probabilistic algorithms for robotics with applications including robot localization and robotic mapping. In recognition of his contributions, and at the age of 39, he was elected into the National Academy of Engineering and also into the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007. The Guardian recognized him as one of 20 "fighters for internet freedom".
Early life and education
Thrun was born in 1967 in Solingen, Germany (former West Germany), the son of Winfried and Kristin (Grüner) Thrun. He completed his Vordiplom (intermediate examination) in computer science, economics, and medicine at the University of Hildesheim in 1988. At the University of Bonn, he completed a Diplom (first degree) in 1993 and a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 1995 in computer science and statistics.Later in his career, he was awarded many honorary Ph.D. degrees from European universities, including his first alma mater.
Career and research
In 1995 he joined the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a research computer scientist. In 1998 he became an assistant professor and co-director of the Robot Learning Laboratory at CMU. As a faculty member at CMU, he co-founded the Master's Program in Automated Learning and Discovery, which later would become a Ph.D. program in the broad area of machine learning and scientific discovery. In 2001 Thrun spent a sabbatical year at Stanford University. He returned to CMU to an endowed professorship, the Finmeccanica Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics.
Thrun left CMU in July 2003 to become an associate professor at Stanford University and was appointed as the director of SAIL in January 2004. From 2007–2011, Thrun was a full professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford. On April 1, 2011, Thrun relinquished his tenure at Stanford to join Google as a Google Fellow. On January 23, 2012, he co-founded an online private educational organization, Udacity, which produced massive open online courses. He was a Google VP and Fellow, and worked on development of the Google driverless car system, after winning D
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFW
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AFW may refer to:
Access Fort Wayne, local produced programming for Fort Wayne, Indiana (see Allen County Public Library)
Africa World Airlines, from its ICAO airline code
American Furniture Warehouse, sometimes shortened to AFW, a chain of furniture stores.
Fort Worth Alliance Airport, from its IATA airport code
AFW (motorcycle), a 1920s German bike
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%21%3A%20The%20Music%20Quiz
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Buzz!: The Music Quiz is a party music video game developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is the first in the Sony's Buzz! series of video games, and it was released for the PlayStation 2 exclusively in Europe. In The Music Quiz, players answer questions asked by the host, Buzz, by using the four Buzz! buzzers.
Gameplay
Buzz!: The Music Quiz is a music quiz trivia game for up to four players. The game is set in a fictional TV studio, and hosted by the characters Buzz and his assistant Rose. Each copy of the game comes with a total of four buzzer controllers, which are plugged into the USB slots on the Sony PlayStation 2 console. They feature a sizable red button on top and four colored buttons below, sorted in descending order. Buzz can pick around 5000 questions from a 50-year period of pop music, supported by 1000 music clips which represent parts of the original songs processed by a synthesizer, and appear without any lyrics or vocal support. The questions range from the name of the performer, title, or year of the release, to details about the artist.
The players may choose the overall length of the game (15, 30, or 45 minutes) and the type of questions being asked (older music, newer music, or both). If there is a score tie by the end of the quiz, a tie-breaker round will start. Besides the main game, there are other two modes: Quickfire Quiz and Quizmaster Quiz. Quickfire Quiz bypasses the rounds system, and instead, it will present questions where only the fastest responding player can answer by pressing the buzzer. Whoever manages to reach the target score first wins the game. In Quizmaster Quiz, one of the players becomes a quizmaster, who gets to choose the questions the others will have to answer. The buzzers will show the quizmaster who was the fastest, so he could distribute the points accordingly with a DualShock 2 controller. Players are represented by their choice of 16 on-screen avatars who portray contestants on the game show, resembling musicians such as Elvis Presley, Geri Halliwell, Kylie Minogue, Billie Joe Armstrong, Noel Gallagher, and Barry White. Once selected, the game starts with an intro sequence that is generated depending on the contestants, showing how they all arrive on the set in a black limousine while being cheered on by the crowd.
Rounds
Once the game starts, Buzz leads the players through several rounds, each of which contains different objectives and rules. There are eight types of rounds:
Point Builder – The goal is to select an answer before the time runs out, and everyone who answers correctly receives the points.
Snap – The players need to pick the right answer from options that randomly appear on the screen.
Fastest Finger – This requires the contestants to answer as quickly as possible, with the first correct answer receiving the most points.
Pass The Bomb – The player must answer a question correctly to pass the bomb away to another player. The one h
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Enterprise%20Metadata%20Manager
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The Oracle Enterprise Metadata Manager (EMM) is a product of the Oracle Corporation that provides an ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry.
Strategic nature of a metadata registry
This product is significant because it is one of the first commercial products that includes a metadata registry in an application server. Registering metadata is one of the first steps in metadata publishing which in turn is one of the foundational elements of the Semantic Web.
Oracle product editions
EMM currently runs on the following Oracle products
Oracle Enterprise Edition
8.1.7
9i
Release 1
Release 2
Oracle 9iAS
Version 1.0.2.2.2
EMM is being ported to Oracle 9iAS Release 2 and 10gAS .
See also
ISO/IEC 11179
Metadata registry
Oracle metadata
External links
ISO/IEC 11179
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS%20940
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The SDS 940 was Scientific Data Systems' (SDS) first machine designed to directly support time-sharing. The 940 was based on the SDS 930's 24-bit CPU, with additional circuitry to provide protected memory and virtual memory.
It was announced in February 1966 and shipped in April, becoming a major part of Tymshare's expansion during the 1960s. The influential Stanford Research Institute "oN-Line System" (NLS) was demonstrated on the system. This machine was later used to run Community Memory, the first bulletin board system.
After SDS was acquired by Xerox in 1969 and became Xerox Data Systems, the SDS 940 was renamed as the XDS 940.
History
The design was originally created by the University of California, Berkeley as part of their Project Genie that ran between 1964 and 1969. Genie added memory management and controller logic to an existing SDS 930 computer to give it page-mapped virtual memory, which would be heavily copied by other designs. The 940 was simply a commercialized version of the Genie design and remained backwardly compatible with their earlier models, with the exception of the 12-bit SDS 92.
Like most systems of the era, the machine was built with a bank of core memory as the primary storage, allowing between 16 and 64 kilowords. Words were 24 bits plus a parity bit. This was backed up by a variety of secondary storage devices, including a 1376 kword drum in Genie, or hard disks in the SDS models in the form of a drum-like 2097 kword "fixed-head" disk or a traditional "floating-head" model. The SDS machines also included a paper tape punch and reader, line printer, and a real-time clock. They bootstrapped from paper tape.
A file storage of 96 MB were also attached. The line printer used was a Potter Model HSP-3502 chain printer with 96 printing characters and a speed of about 230 lines per minute.
Software system
The operating system developed at Project Genie was the Berkeley Timesharing System.
By August 1968 a version 2.0 was announced that was just called the "SDS 940 Time-Sharing System".
As of 1969, the XDS 940 software system consisted of the following:
Time-Sharing Monitor (what is now usually called a kernel)
Time-Sharing Executive (what is now usually called a command-line interface)
CAL, the Conversational Algebraic Language
QED, a text editor
Fortran IV
BASIC
The minimal configuration required to run the Software System included (partial list):
Two 16-kword core-memory modules (with multiple access).
Two rapid-access disc (RAD) storage units and couplers (just under 4M character capacity each); optionally two more could be connected
Disc file and coupler, with 67M characters of storage
Magnetic tape control unit and two magnetic-tape transports (controller supports up to 8)
Asynchronous communication controller(s), supporting up to 64 teletypewriter lines each
Additional software was available from the XDS Users' Group Library, such as a string-processing system, "SYSPOPs" (system programmed opera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMD%20NF210
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The NF210 is a diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Diesel for service with Canadian National Railways narrow gauge network on the island of Newfoundland (see Newfoundland Railway and Terra Transport).
The design was based on the earlier NF110 locomotives, also built for CNR in Newfoundland. The engines were some of the very few narrow gauge locomotives in North America. Thirty-eight were built between 1956 and 1960. The last examples were retired in 1990 and afterwards six example were preserved across Newfoundland. Eleven examples were exported to Chile, eight to Nicaragua, and two to Nigeria.
Preservation
One of the preserved locomotives number 931, located in Corner Brook still has its diesel engine intact, all of the others had their engines removed prior to being put on display. The engine in 931 used to be started and the engine moved up and down the short section of track at the museum. However the engine is now a static display like the rest, although it still retains its engine.
Fleet details
See also
Newfoundland Railway
List of GMD Locomotives
References
External links
Preserved EMD locomotives
NF210
C-C locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Canadian National Railway locomotives
Diesel-electric locomotives of Canada
Railway locomotives introduced in 1956
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prol%C3%B3gica%20CP-400
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The CP 400 COLOR was launched in 1984 by Prológica, a Brazilian company which made clone versions of various computers, under the general designation of "CP" (for "Computador Pessoal" in Portuguese, "Personal Computer" in English).
This machine was TRS-80 Color Computer 2 clone, but had a different case than the original machine. The computer was 100% compatible with the original TRS-80 Color Computer 2, and was designed to work with the PAL-M TV standard used in Brazil.
The CP 400 COLOR was available with both 16 or 64 KB of RAM, and had a 55 key chiclet keyboard. At the back there were ports for TV out, RGB video monitor, cassette recorder, serial port, power supply and joysticks. At the front there was a cartridge slot.
The CP 400 COLOR II, introduced in 1986, offered an internal power supply, better keyboard (with four extra keys: CTRL, PA1, PA2 and PA3) and 64KB of RAM.
See also
Codimex CD-6809
LZ Color 64
TRS-80 Color Computer
References
CP-400
Computer-related introductions in 1984
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Personal computers
Products introduced in 1984
TRS-80 Color Computer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamisatsuma
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is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is on the western (East China Sea) side of the Satsuma Peninsula.
As of May 31, 2011, population data, the city has an estimated population of 39,012 with 18,711 households and a population density of 137.71 persons per km². The total area is 283.30 km².
The modern city of Minamisatsuma was established on November 7, 2005, from the merger of the old city of Kaseda, with the town of Kinpō (from Hioki District), and the towns of Bonotsu, Kasasa and Ōura (all from Kawanabe District).
Previous mergers (as listed in the Kawanabe District, Kagoshima Wikipedia article included:
July 15, 1954 - The towns of Kaseda and Bansei were merged to create the city of Kaseda. (3 towns, 3 villages)
January 1, 1925 The village of Higashikaseda was elevated to town status and renamed to become the town of Bansei. (4 towns, 4 villages)
January 1, 1924 - The village of Kaseda was elevated to town status to become the town of Kaseda.(3 towns, 5 villages)
April 1, 1889 - Due to the municipal status enforcement, the villages of Kaseda, Nishikaseda, Higashikaseda, Higashinanpo, Nishinanpo, Katsume and Kawanabe were formed in Kawanabe District. (7 villages)
Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum is located in the Kawanabe District of this city.
Geography
Climate
Minamisatsuma has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with hot summers and mild winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, and is heavier in summer, especially the months of June and July. The average annual temperature in Minamisatsuma is . The average annual rainfall is with June as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . Its record high is , reached on 19 August 2013, and its record low is , reached on 11 February 1996.
Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Minamisatsuma in 2020 is 32,887 people. Minamisatsuma has been conducting censuses since 1920. The city's population peaked in 1945 at more than 90,000 people; the city's population has steadily declined since then. Until 2020, the city's population is still showing no signs of picking up.
List of mergers in Minamisatsuma
Kaseda
Kaseda (加世田市; -shi) was a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on July 15, 1954. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 23,740 and the density of 251.56 persons per km². The total area was 94.37 km². On November 7, 2005, Bōnotsu, was merged to create Minamisatsuma and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Kinpō
was a town located in Hioki District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 8,099 and the density of 112.10 persons per km². The total area was 72.25 km². On November 7, 2005, Kinpō, was merged to create Minamisatsuma and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Bonotsu
was a town located in Kawanabe District, Kagoshima Prefec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20Execution%20Technology
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Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT, formerly known as LaGrande Technology) is a computer hardware technology of which the primary goals are:
Attestation of the authenticity of a platform and its operating system.
Assuring that an authentic operating system starts in a trusted environment, which can then be considered trusted.
Provision of a trusted operating system with additional security capabilities not available to an unproven one.
Intel TXT uses a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and cryptographic techniques to provide measurements of software and platform components so that system software as well as local and remote management applications may use those measurements to make trust decisions. It complements Intel Management Engine. This technology is based on an industry initiative by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to promote safer computing. It defends against software-based attacks aimed at stealing sensitive information by corrupting system or BIOS code, or modifying the platform's configuration.
Details
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) as specified by the TCG provides many security functions including special registers (called Platform Configuration Registers – PCRs) which hold various measurements in a shielded location in a manner that prevents spoofing. Measurements consist of a cryptographic hash using a Secure Hashing Algorithm (SHA); the TPM v1.0 specification uses the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. More recent TPM versions (v2.0+) call for SHA-2.
A desired characteristic of a cryptographic hash algorithm is that (for all practical purposes) the hash result (referred to as a hash digest or a hash) of any two modules will produce the same hash value only if the modules are identical.
Measurements
Measurements can be of code, data structures, configuration, information, or anything that can be loaded into memory. TCG requires that code not be executed until after it has been measured. To ensure a particular sequence of measurements, hash measurements in a sequence are not written to different PCRs, but rather a PCR is "extended" with a measurement. This means that the TPM takes the current value of the PCR and the measurement to be extended, hashes them together, and replaces the content of the PCR with that hash result. The effect is that the only way to arrive at a particular measurement in a PCR is to extend exactly the same measurements in exactly the same order. Therefore, if any module being measured has been modified, the resulting PCR measurement will be different and thus it is easy to detect if any code, configuration, data, etc. that has been measured had been altered or corrupted. The PCR extension mechanism is crucial to establishing a Chain of trust in layers of software (see below).
Chain of trust
The technology supports both a static chain of trust and a dynamic chain of trust. The static chain of trust starts when the platform powers on (or the platform is reset), which resets all PCRs to their de
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGDL
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OGDL (Ordered Graph Data Language), is a "structured textual format that represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation."
Like XML, but unlike JSON and YAML, OGDL includes a schema notation and path traversal notation. There is also a binary representation.
Example
network
eth0
ip 192.168.0.10
mask 255.255.255.0
hostname crispin
See also
Comparison of data serialization formats
References
External links
OGDL home page
Data serialization formats
Markup languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Hodge
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Albert E. Hodge (April 18, 1912 – March 19, 1979) was an American actor best known for playing space adventurer Captain Video on the DuMont Television Network from December 15, 1950, to April 1, 1955. He played the Green Hornet on radio from January 1936 until January 1943.
Biography
Hodge was born in Ravenna, Ohio. His parents operated a tailoring and dry-cleaning business. Hodge acted and took part in sports at Ravenna High School. Nicknamed "Abie", he was a track star, a drum major and manager of the band, sang bass in the boys glee club and was a cheerleader.
Hodge graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1934, majoring in drama. After touring as an actor with the Casford Players, he was hired by WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan. Besides originating the role of Britt Reid, the Green Hornet, Hodge wrote and delivered daily editorials, announced at football games, wrote advertising copy, worked as a disc jockey, and produced radio dramas and documentaries, including The Lone Ranger and Challenge of the Yukon. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, and was bedridden for a year with pleurisy.
Captain Video
After his discharge from the Navy, Hodge worked in New York City in a variety of radio and early TV roles. In 1949 he took over the role of Captain Video from Richard Coogan, who wanted to leave the series to concentrate on Broadway. Hodge played the role on live television Monday through Saturday at 7pm ET, and then Monday through Friday at 7pm for the last four seasons.
When the DuMont network collapsed in 1955, Hodge continued the role of Captain Video on a children's show, Wonderama, and as the host of Captain Video's Cartoons from 1955 to 1957. Those programs were seen only in the New York City area.
In 1950, RCA Victor released "Captain Video and the Captives of Saturn", a recording made by Hodge.
Hodge felt that working on Captain Video had typecast him, and by the late 1960s and early 1970s he was working in increasingly low-paying jobs, eventually having to work as a security guard. He felt he was too closely identified with the role of Captain Video to gain acting parts. As late as 1978, Hodge told reporters that he was almost always recognized on the street and greeted as "Captain Video".
After Captain Video
He also MC'd "Super Serial" (later the series was retitled:"Serial Theater") weekday evenings on WNTA TV Ch.13 during the 1959 TV season. Hodge's last regular TV stint was hosting "The Space Explorer's Club" weekday evenings on WOR TV Ch.9 in NYC in 1961. Ironically, he hosted his last TV program as himself (information about Hodge hosting "Super Serial"/"Serial Theater" and "The Space Explorer's Club" can be found in "The NYC Kids Shows Round Up" Section of www.tvparty.com).
Hodge then moved to California, where he guest-starred on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mannix, The Mod Squad, Tightrope!, Hawaiian Eye, Coronado 9 and other drama or detective series.
Hodge largely dropped from sight after 197
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic%20keyboard
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An ergonomic keyboard is a computer keyboard designed with ergonomic considerations to minimize muscle strain, fatigue, and other problems.
Features
The common QWERTY keyboard layout is credited to the mechanical typewriter designed by C. Latham Sholes and patented in 1878; research indicates the layout may have been influenced by telegraph operators. The offset in the columns between rows was designed to accommodate the physical links between each key and the internal mechanisms of the typewriter; as typing duties transitioned to electric (motorized) typewriters and then computers, the layout was retained to ease the transition for users that had already been trained to type. However, the legacy mechanical layout has numerous idiosyncrasies, including the staggered column layout, which can force the user into uncomfortable, repetitive movements and postures. Several potential solutions have been proposed since at least 1926.
Ergonomic keyboards, in essence, are created with the aim of minimizing discomfort in users' wrists and reducing unnecessary finger movements by rearranging or repositioning the keys. For instance, typing on a conventional keyboard layout can force the user into shoulder elevation, wrist ulnar deviation, and head rotation. Consideration of physical ergonomics suggests the most relaxed typing position is one in which the keyboard user's forearms are parallel to the ground, with wrists held straight. To facilitate this posture, Klockenberg published a study in 1926 that suggested the primary key clusters for two-handed typists should be split into left and right halves which are set at an angle to each other, allowing the wrists to remain straight. A more detailed study was published in 1972 by Kroemer, suggesting that an adjustable split keyboard may reduce user pain. During the 1970s, several studies were published suggesting that data entry operators were at risk of developing musculoskeletal injuries.
Split key clusters
Split keyboards group keys into two or more sections. By separating the keyboard, split keyboards typically change the angles and the distance between each section to ensure the user's wrists remain straight. There are three relevant angles:
the split, rotation, slant, or opening angle, which refers to the angle between the rows of the left and right halves. This can be imagined as the angle of rotation around an imaginary vertical axis drawn through the and keys of a QWERTY keyboard. Because most shoulders are wider than the hand position when placed on the home row, when using a conventional keyboard, the resulting slight shoulder adduction points the forearms inwards and requires the wrists to be bent out to position the fingers.
the slope or tilt angle, which refers to the front-to-back angle made between the plane of the keyboard and the supporting surface. This is the angle of rotation around an imaginary horizontal axis drawn through the top of the home row ( / keys), i.e., from the left ed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Honey%20Pot
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Project Honey Pot is a web-based honeypot network operated by Unspam Technologies, Inc. It uses software embedded in web sites. It collects information about the IP addresses used when harvesting e-mail addresses in spam, bulk mailing, and other e-mail fraud. The project solicits the donation of unused MX entries from domain owners.
In 2007, the Project began a number of new initiatives including a QuickLinks program that makes it easier for more people to participate, as well as a system to track comment spam. The Project has also launched a free new service called http:BL, which leverages the data to allow website administrators to keep malicious web robots off their sites.
In addition to collecting information, which is made available on a "top 25" list at periodic intervals, the project organizers also help various law enforcement agencies combat private and commercial unsolicited bulk mailing offenses and, overall, work to reduce the amount of spam being sent and received on the Internet. The information collected is also used in research and development of newer versions of the software to further improve the efforts of the group as a whole.
References
External links
Official Unspam Technologies, Inc. web site
Anti-spam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Ethiopia
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Rail transport in Ethiopia is done within the National Railway Network of Ethiopia, which currently consists of three electrified standard gauge railway lines: the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, the Awash–Weldiya Railway and the Weldiya–Mekelle Railway. Other lines are still in the planning phase. There is also an urban light rail system in the country's capital, the Addis Ababa Light Rail.
All railways in Ethiopia are owned and operated by an Ethiopian state-owned enterprise, the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC). A planned legislation opens rail transport to the private sector, from the construction of rail infrastructure to the operation of the same infrastructure and on to the operation of privately owned trains.
History
20th century
For more than a century, Ethiopia was served by an international metre gauge railway, from Addis Ababa to the Red Sea port of Djibouti City in Djibouti. The privately built railway primarily served economic purposes. That century-old railway, built from 1897 to 1917, the Ethio-Djibouti Railway and its decades-old rolling stock eventually lacked spare parts and was partially closed down over a number of years after the end of the 20th century. Addis Ababa lost its access to the Red Sea in 2004.
The original plans from the beginning of the 20th foresaw an extension of the railway from Addis Ababa to the Didessa River near Jimma to have full access to the main coffee-producing areas of Ethiopia, but that plan was scrapped already more than 10 years before the railway finally reached Addis Ababa in 1917. In the late 1930s, during the period when Ethiopia was under Italian rule, the Italian administration proposed the construction of several new railways: the Addis Ababa–Dessie–Massaua Railway, the Gondar–Dessie–Assab Railway and the Addis Ababa–Dollo–Mogadishu Railway. These railways would cement the Italian colonial rule in Ethiopia, and economically justified operation was not foreseen. The projects were abandoned due to the outbreak of World War II when Ethiopia regained its sovereignty.
In the 1960s, when only the already ageing metre gauge railway between the Port of Djibouti and Addis Ababa did exist, an economically justified railway network project was proposed. External experts from Yugoslavia and France proposed an extension for the existing metre gauge railway starting in Adama and going to Dilla. All studies at that time supported the economic viability of the extension line and France then offered a loan to construct the railway line between Adama and Dilla. This metre gauge railway network, however, did never materialize.
21st century
In the year 2010, the Ethiopian government proposed a new railway network, The National Railway Network of Ethiopia. Some, if not most, of the proposed new railway lines were already planned decades before for the metre gauge railway (see the outline above).
The new National Railway Network of Ethiopia was considered to serve a strategic goal to allow Ethiopia a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penistone%20rail%20accidents
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Over the latter years of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, Penistone in Yorkshire gained a name as an accident black-spot on Britain's railway network; indeed, it could be said to hold the title of the worst accident black-spot in the country. The main line through the town was the Woodhead route of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway between Sheffield Victoria and Manchester, London Road. The line was heavily graded with a summit some 400 yards inside the eastern portal of the Woodhead tunnel.
Cattle Drover's Neglect, 1845
During a parliamentary committee meeting to debate the building of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, George Stephenson was asked if it would not be awkward should a train hit a cow. His now classic reply, given in his broad Northumbrian dialect, was to state "Oo, ay, very awkward for the COO!".
On the evening of 6 October 1845 this assumption was dramatically put to the test. Shortly after leaving Dunford Bridge the Sheffield bound train struck a cow, which a drover from Penistone market had been unable to remove from the line. The impact caused the locomotive and carriages to derail and the cow was killed instantly. Such was the force of the accident that the cow was almost entirely cut in half.
None of the passengers suffered any injuries other than some minor bruising, although the guard was more severely injured. A replacement train was dispatched from Sheffield and the passengers all completed their journey by two o'clock the following morning.
Bullhouse Bridge accident, 1884
The first major accident occurred on 16 July 1884, a few miles to the west of the town, near Bullhouse Colliery. The accident is often referred to as being at "Bullhouse Bridge", where the road to Huddersfield passes below the line. An express passenger train, the 12:30 pm from to , with through carriages for in connection with the evening steamer sailing, had left Woodhead Tunnel and was gathering speed on the downhill gradient towards Penistone. The locomotive was 4-4-0 No. 434, built at Gorton Locomotive Works.
As it entered the curve at Bullhouse, the driver felt the engine develop an uneasy roll, but before he could apply the brakes, he heard a crack. A driving wheel axle on the locomotive had snapped, and the resulting spread of the driving wheels distorted the track. The axle fracture was probably caused by metal fatigue. A Cheshire Lines Committee horsebox coupled behind the engine was derailed but remained upright. The coupling between the horsebox and the following carriages failed, and the first five GNR carriages (the London portion of the train) ran off the rails and down the embankment on the outside of the curve. The last five MS&L carriages (the Grimsby portion) were also derailed but suffered less damage.
Nineteen passengers were killed at the scene. Five more later died in hospital, the last on 6 August. Many of the dead were women and the toll also included railway mechanical engineer Masse
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Dinas Powys railway station is one of two railway stations serving the village of Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is located on Network Rail's Barry Branch 4½ miles (7 km) south of Cardiff Central towards Barry Island and Bridgend (via Barry and Rhoose).
As of October 2018, passenger services are operated by Transport for Wales as part of the Valley Lines network.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a 15-minute frequency northbound to Cardiff Central and beyond (to either or ). Southbound 3 trains per hour to Barry Island and an hourly service to Bridgend via Rhoose.
Evenings and Sundays there is a generally a half-hourly service to Cardiff Central. Evenings there is an hourly service southbound to Barry Island and Bridgend whilst on Sundays half-hourly to Barry Island and every two hours to Bridgend.
References
External links
Railway stations in the Vale of Glamorgan
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Barry Railway stations
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1888
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20Driver%20Architecture
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The Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) is a Microsoft standard for digital video capture on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It encompasses the ATSC and DVB standards and gives developers a standardized method of accessing TV tuner devices (usually PCI, PCI-E or USB). It is the driver component of Microsoft TV Technologies, and is used by hardware vendors to create digital TV tuning devices for Windows, and also to support new network types or custom hardware functionality. BDA is documented in the Windows DDK (Driver Development Kit) and the Platform SDK. Ideally, any BDA-compliant software should be compatible with any BDA-compliant hardware.
Applications using BDA drivers include MSN TV (formerly Web TV) for Windows (built into Windows 98 and Windows Me), Windows XP Media Center Edition, MediaPortal, GB-PVR, DVBViewer, ULENet and several such other third-party solutions.
Broadcast Driver Architecture was introduced in Windows 98 as part of the Windows Driver Model.
See also
Windows Driver Model (WDM)
External links
Microsoft TV and Broadcast Driver Architecture
Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture Extensions to BDA for DRM
Microsoft BDA Reference
Open Source BDA drivers and tools
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Device drivers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%20Cart
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Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
History
Zen Cart is a software fork that branched from osCommerce in 2003. Beyond some aesthetic changes, the major differences between the two systems come from Zen Cart's architectural changes (for example, a template system) and additional included features in the core. The release of the 1.3.x series further differentiated Zen Cart by moving the template system from its historic tables-based layout approach to one that is largely CSS-based.
Plugins
As support for Zen Cart dropped in recent years, many third party companies are creating Zencart plugins and modules that can help users solve problems like installing reCAPTCHA v3
See also
Comparison of shopping cart software
References
External links
Free e-commerce software
Free software programmed in PHP
Content management systems
Software forks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6ran%20Persson
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Jöran Persson, alternatively Göran Persson (c. 1530 – September 1568), was King Eric XIV of Sweden's favorite, most trusted counsellor and head of the King's network of spies. He was widely seen as a Machiavellian figure, and as holding too much influence over Eric. On both occasions on which the King was removed from power, Persson was quickly arrested by the nobility; the second time he was executed shortly after his arrest.
Life
Jöran Persson was born in Sala, the son of a local priest, Curatus Petrus (Per Joensson) and Anna Pehrsönernas moder, in about 1530. He had a brother, Christiern Persson.
Early career
During the early 1550s he studied at the University of Wittenberg, where he proved to be a very gifted student and, according to legend, was highly regarded by the eminent theologian Philipp Melanchthon, who, on his journey back to Sweden in 1555, sent with him a recommendation letter to King Gustav I. Upon his return to Sweden he was given an annual pension and employment in the King's service, a year later he became personal secretary to the King and was given a castle in Vyborg. In 1558 he received another important commission from the king, namely being put in charge of the King's inspectors in Västergötland in order to establish a register of the estates, which, to the detriment of the Crown, remained loyal to Rome. To be entrusted with such an important matter showed that Jöran Persson, even at this early stage in his career, had made himself known in prominent circles as a man capable of getting difficult tasks done. Following the completion of his mission in Västergötland, Gustav allowed Jöran Persson to become personal secretary to his eldest son, Eric.
Jöran Persson had established a reputation for possessing a quick mind and a sharp wit, and of being ambitious, bold, and ruthless. It is also known that Jöran Persson was very familiar with astrology, which he believed to guide the lives of men to a certain extent; despite having been raised and educated in the Protestant tradition, he appears to have been an agnostic.
Enthronement of Eric
Following Erik's accession to the throne in 1560, Jöran Persson was raised into the nobility. He took a coat of arms bearing a design of three bricks, the family name Tegel and became the lord of Trögds härad. He was married in 1561 to a woman named Anna Andersdotter. The couple had two children: the renowned historian Erik Jöransson Tegel and his brother Anders Jöransson Tegel who married Brita Månsdotter Hand.
Jöran Persson played an important role in the Konungens nämnd (literally: King's committee, the highest court in Sweden), where he served simultaneously as a prosecutor and the King's representative. This meant that, as well as prosecuting, he also had some control over sentencing. It is not known how many of the 300 death sentences handed down by the court while he was part of it he was personally involved with, however he was regarded by many as the nation's foremost executioner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN%20messenger
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A LAN Messenger is an instant messaging program for computers designed for use within a single local area network (LAN).
Many LAN Messengers offer basics functionality for sending private messages, file transfer, chatrooms and graphical smileys. The advantage of using a simple LAN messenger over a normal instant messenger is that no active Internet connection or central server is required, and only people inside the firewall will have access to the system.
History
A precursor of LAN Messengers is the Unix talk command, and similar facilities on earlier systems, which enabled multiple users on one host system to directly talk with each other. At the time, computers were usually shared between multiple users, who accessed them through serial or telephone lines.
Novell NetWare featured a trivial person-to-person chat program for DOS, which used the [IPX/SPX] protocol suite. NetWare for Windows also included broadcast and targeted messages similar to WinPopup and the Windows Messenger service.
On Windows, WinPopup was a small utility included with Windows 3.11. WinPopup uses SMB/NetBIOS protocol and was intended to receive and send short text messages.
Windows NT/2000/XP improves upon this with Windows Messenger service, a Windows service compatible to WinPopup. On systems where this service is running, the received messages "pop up" as simple message boxes. Any software compatible with WinPopup, like the console utility NET SEND, can send such messages. However, due to security concerns, by default, the messenger service is off in Windows XP SP2 and blocked by Windows XP's firewall.
On Apple's -based computers, the iChat program has allowed LAN messaging over the Bonjour protocol since 2005. The multi-protocol messenger Pidgin has support for the Bonjour protocol, including on Windows.
See also
Comparison of instant messaging protocols
Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients
Comparison of LAN messengers
Friend-to-friend
IRC on LANs
Talker
Windows Messenger service
References
Internet culture
Online chat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Deportes
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Fox Deportes (formerly Fox Sports en Español and stylized in all caps as FOX Deportes) is an American pay television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming in Spanish, aimed at the Hispanic population in the United States. Launched in 1993, Fox Deportes, a division of Fox Sports, is the first and longest-running Spanish-language sports network in the country.
Fox Deportes features a diversified programming, including NFL pre and post-season games, MLB regular-season, All-Star Game, Divisional Series, National League Championship Series and World Series, the USGA's U.S. Open, NASCAR, Premier Boxing Champions, college football and soccer competitions including Liga MX and MLS.
The channel first launched in Southern California as La Cadena Deportiva Prime Ticket, a sister network to the original Prime Ticket regional sports network (the present day Bally Sports West), on November 1, 1993. The network was renamed Prime Deportiva on April 1, 1995 to align with the rebranding of Liberty Media-owned regional sports networks with the "Prime Sports" brand. After News Corporation (NewsCorp) formed a 50-50 sports television joint venture with Liberty Media, NewsCorp rebranded the network Fox Sports Américas on October 1, 1996. The network was rebranded Fox Sports World Español in February 1999 to align with the recently launched (November 1997) English-language soccer centric network Fox Sports World. In 2002, the network was rebranded as Fox Sports en Español before becoming Fox Deportes on October 1, 2010.
As of February 2015, approximately 21,831,000 American households (18.8% of households with television) received Fox Deportes.
Programming
Soccer
The network holds rights to international soccer including MLS, Liga MX and Liga MX Femenil (matches hosted by, FC Juárez and Santos Laguna). During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, it carried replays of Fox's English-language coverage of the tournament.
On January 4, 2023 it was announced that Fox Sports acquired the English-language and Spanish-language TV rights to the Coupe de France with Fox Deportes airing most games,
On August 11 2023, it was reported that Fox Sports bought the Saudi Pro League TV rights in both English-language and Spanish-language, making that Fox Deportes to be broadcasting games of that league from the 2023-24 season,
On October 10 2023, Fox Deportes revealed that they acquired the English-language rights to the Mexican national team's friendly matches through the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
American football
The network began to carry simulcasts of some Fox College Football games in 2013 with Spanish play-by-play and graphics, and starting with the 2013 Thanksgiving Game on Fox, also carries select NFL games from the NFL on Fox package featuring Spanish-language play-by-play and graphics, including Fox's NFC playoffs package (Fox continues to carry all NFL games with Spanish-language play-by-play via the SAP channel, regardless of a game also airing on Fox Deport
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Fox Sports is a Mexican pay television network operated by Grupo Multimedia Lauman. The network focuses on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available throughout Mexico. The network was previously based in Los Angeles with production studios in Argentina and Mexico. The network continues to use the Fox Sports name under a license agreement with Fox Corporation.
History
The network was launched in 1996 as Prime Deportiva, under the ownership of Liberty Media. Prior to its launch, on October 31, 1995, News Corporation acquired a 50% ownership interest in Liberty's Prime Network group and its international networks (including sister channels Premier Sports and Prime Sports Asia) as part of an expansion of its Fox Sports properties in the Americas. In 1996, the channel was rebranded as Fox Sports Américas, later shortened to Fox Sports in 1999. In 2002, Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, a Dallas private equity firm, Liberty Media Corp and News Corp created a holding company (Fox Pan American Sports) to jointly operate FOX Sports Latin America. News Corp owned approximately 38% interest. Liberty later exited leaving HMTF and News Corp as co-owners of the cable network. News Corp purchased the ownership rights from HMTF of FOX Sports en Español and rebranded as FOX Deportes in 2010. News Corp purchased the remaining ownership rights for the holding company from HMTF and fully owned the FOX Sports Latin America cable network in 2011.
In 2009, a second feed called Fox Sports+ (FOX Sports Plus) was launched, to allow simultaneous broadcasting of football. In 2010, FOX Sports signed a deal with UFC to be the first cable network to show it in Latin America. FOX Sports also opened a studio in 2010 in Mexico City where it broadcasts original programming and licensed programming. In 2012, the channel was renamed to Fox Sports 2, whereas Speed Channel was rebranded to Fox Sports 3.
On February 21, 2019, Bloomberg reported that Disney had divest the Fox Sports television network from the 21st Century Fox purchase in order to get an approval from the governments of Mexico and Brazil. The division was among the last major hurdles for the Disney-Fox deal.
On May 22, 2021, Disney announced it would sell Fox Sports Mexico to Grupo Multimedia Lauman with the deal being expected to close in 2021, pending regulatory approval. On June 9, 2021, the transaction was approved by the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute.
Feeds
Localised channels
Fox Sports Premium — Additional pay-TV channel that was launched in April 2022 to air the Mexican football matches from free-to-air airing on State television, such as the Liga MX (National First Division).
Programming
Fox Sports Mexico broadcasts sports-related programming 24 hours a day in Spanish. The network carries a wide variety of sports events, including soccer (UEFA Europa League, Liga MX etc.), NFL, MLB, UFC, Formula 1 racing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20.hack%20characters
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.hack comprises "Project .hack" and ".hack Conglomerate". It is a Japanese multimedia franchise primarily developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai. The franchise is set on an Earth with an alternate history. In this timeline, a new version of the Internet arises following a major global computer network disaster in 2005. Central to the premise is a mystery about the wildly popular in-universe video game, The World. As most of the story takes place within The World, characters typically play and interact as their avatars.
The first four video games follow a newcomer called Kite, who goes on a quest to revive his friend, who fell into a coma after his character was killed by an unknown creature. Bee Train also produced an anime series focused on a player named Tsukasa, who has no memory of his identity outside of the game and cannot leave The World. In 2006, Cyber Connect 2 and Bee Train produced two new series: .hack//G.U. and .hack//Roots. The two series involve a returning player by the name of Haseo who, after the loss of his guild, goes on a quest to find the player killer (PK) Tri-Edge who sent his friend Shino into a coma. The latest game by CyberConnect2 is .hack//Link, where Tokio Kuryuu is transported into The World: RX and time-travels across the previous storylines to restore frozen players.
.hack was conceived by CyberConnect2 with the idea of creating a fictional MMORPG in order to simulate a realistic story. The initial characters were designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, while later installments involved additional artists. The critical reception to the original characters has been positive for their designs and realistic traits. The G.U. characters received mixed responses due to Hero's anti-heroic characterization but praise for his growth.
Creation and design
Development for .hack began in early 2000 with the aim of creating a distinctive product that would shock and surprise the player. CyberConnect2's president, Hiroshi Matsuyama, played a key role in developing the concept for the series. A number of core ideas, including "slaying dragons or being a thief in London" were explored but rejected in favor of an "offline/online game". The developers looked at a number of MMORPGs such as Phantasy Star Online, Ultima Online, and Final Fantasy XI for inspiration, and drew influences from the prior works of character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and scenario writer Kazunori Itō (Ghost in the Shell). Matsuyama stated that the team was proud of having Sadamoto design the cast, despite his lack of previous involvement in gaming, and said that working with him was a great opportunity. Itō noted that casting the player into the role of a subscriber to The World creates a unique story-telling situation that draws the player deeper into the plot.
Sadamoto's character designs follow the fantasy theme, drawing influence from the sword and sorcery subgenre in particular. Character designs also draw on Celtic im
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCXL
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KCXL (1140 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Liberty, Missouri, and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. It features a conservative talk and brokered programming format and is owned by Alpine Broadcasting. Since 2020, KCXL has been noted for its broadcast of the English-language service of Radio Sputnik, funded by the Russian government. Sputnik is heard six hours a day during the week and twelve hours on Saturdays and Sundays.
By day, KCXL is powered at 4,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. But to protect other stations on 1140 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to only 6 watts. The AM transmitter and radio studios are on South La Frenz Road in Liberty.Radio-Locator.com/KCXL Programming is also heard on two FM translators licensed to Kansas City: K275BQ () and K284CH ().
History
Early years
On September 7, 1966, Clay Broadcasters, Inc., a consortium of six local businessmen, obtained a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new 500-watt, daytime-only station in Liberty. KBIL—representing "Clay Broadcasting in Liberty"—went on the air February 12, 1967, with a country music format. The station was acquired by Mack Sanders's S & M Investments, which owned outlets in other Plains states, in 1971. Sanders retained what he called a "Proud Country" format, focusing on a traditional mix of country music.
S & M proposed to the FCC that 106.5 MHz be inserted at Liberty with changes to the frequencies of three other stations in the region. Construction of the FM took place in 1978. Simultaneously with the launch of the FM station, KBIL and the unbuilt FM were sold to Strauss Broadcasting Corporation for $1.28 million, with the stations becoming KFIX and KFIX-FM. Joe Abernathy, the general manager who ran the KFIX stations (and hired Rush Limbaugh under the name "Jeff Christie" as a late-night host on the FM side), was blamed by Strauss for financial mismanagement of the pair. Morning host Mike Murphy could not join for five months due to contractual obligations, and early issues with the FM signal kept listeners away.
The stations were then sold to Southwest Radio Enterprises, a division of Southwest Florida Enterprises; it was the firm's first broadcasting purchase. Southwest named Dean Goodman, later the owner of GoodRadio.TV, as CEO. The FM was renamed KSAS; the next year, it was the AM's turn for a revamp, becoming oldies under the call sign KLDY. The call letters were changed to KKCI in 1982 when Golden East Broadcasting purchased KLDY and KSAS and converted both stations to a simulcast.
Urban Contemporary format
Golden East put the AM station on the market and found a buyer in 1984: Elbert Anderson, the black owner of a local Coca-Cola bottling company. New studios were built on 63rd Street to handle the majority of the programming, and the station became KCXL with an urban contemporary format, the third local radio station for Kansas City's African-America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIDK
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KIDK (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, serving the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market as an affiliate of Dabl, Fox, and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), owner of ABC/CBS/CW+/Telemundo affiliate KIFI-TV (channel 8, also licensed to Idaho Falls), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on North Yellowstone Highway/US 26 in Idaho Falls, while KIDK's transmitter is located on East Butte in unincorporated northern Bingham County along the Idaho National Laboratory border.
KIDK's signal is relayed on low-power translator KXPI-LD (channel 34, owned by NPG outright alongside KIFI-TV) in Pocatello, with transmitter on Howard Mountain in unincorporated Bannock County west of downtown Pocatello.
History
The station was founded on December 20, 1953 as KID-TV, co-owned with KID radio (590 AM and 96.1 FM, the latter station is now KWFI-FM). The station has been a primary affiliate of CBS since its debut, but carried secondary affiliations with the DuMont Television Network until its 1955 shutdown, NBC until 1961 (moving to KIFI-TV thereafter until swapping affiliations with KPVI in 1996) and ABC until 1974 when KPVI became a primary affiliate of the network upon that station's sign on. KID-TV amended its call sign to KIDK on December 18, 1984, when the radio stations were sold due to an FCC rule in place at the time that prohibited TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from sharing the same call letters.
After dropping its secondary NBC affiliation, KIDK had an exclusive affiliation with CBS until September 1994, when it began to carry a secondary affiliation with Fox, carrying some of the network's shows in late fringe hours. This allowed the station to continue airing NFL football, which moved to Fox during the 1994 United States broadcast TV realignment; it still carries Fox programming today through its second subchannel along with programming from the MyNetworkTV service. In 1996, KIDK agreed to carry UPN as a third affiliation (KPID-LP, now KXPI-LD, affiliated with the network when it debuted in June 2001; however, KIDK continued its secondary affiliation with the network until 2003). Star Trek: Voyager, the highest-rated UPN program, was cleared in the market on KPVI as station management replaced NYPD Blue, feeling it was too vulgar for local market standards. NYPD Blue aired in its scheduled timeslot on KIFI once it became affiliated with ABC.
On December 9, 2010, Fisher Communications announced that it had entered into a shared services arrangement with News-Press & Gazette Company–owned ABC affiliate KIFI-TV, under which KIDK would be run out of the KIFI facility and 27 KIDK staffers would be laid off. The move placed KIDK under the co-management of the station that accepted the ABC and NBC affiliations that KIDK formerly carried in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wilkins%20%28TV%20presenter%29
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Richard Stephen Wilkins (born 19 June 1954) is an Australian television and radio presenter. He is the entertainment editor for the Nine Network and weekend announcer on smoothfm, and a master of ceremonies.
Biography
Early life, music and management
Wilkins was born in New Zealand on 19 June 1954, where he graduated from teachers' college, majoring in English and music. Using the name "Richard Wilde" he became an aspiring pop singer. PolyGram signed him to a worldwide deal.
In 1980, he brought his band Wilde And Reckless to Australia. He released some singles and a six-track EP, and toured with Grace Jones. He left the music industry to work behind the scenes as Promotions and Marketing Manager for Sydney radio stations 2Day FM and 2UW. He was part of the Australian Olympians' group which released the top-30 single "You're Not Alone".
In 2006, he returned to the stage for his role as Vince Fontaine in the mega-production "Grease: the Arena Spectacular".
Television career
Along with Joy Smithers and Alison Drower, Wilkins was the original host of MTV Australia when it launched on Nine in 1987.
In 1992, he hosted a game show called Keynotes, a summertime replacement for Sale of the Century. In 1999 he hosted the Australian version of Entertainment Tonight with Marie Patane. For ten consecutive years (excluding 1999–2000), he hosted the Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks telecast. On 7 July 2007, Wilkins presented at the Australian leg of the Live Earth concert.
Wilkins has been the Nine's Network's Entertainment editor and presented daily features and interviews in showbusiness from around the world. He has also presented the Nine Network's coverage of The Academy Awards, The Golden Globe Awards, ARIA Awards and many other special events.
In 2019, Wilkins co-hosted Today Extra on Wednesday and Thursday due to David Campbell hosting Weekend Today. In 2020, Wilkins replaced David Campbell as co-host of Weekend Today.
Reporting live on the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson on 26 June 2009, Wilkins erroneously reported the death of actor Jeff Goldblum on Today, although later in the program this was verified as a hoax.
Publication
In September 2011, he released his autobiography Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms, co-written with Carrie Hutchinson, which went on to be a bestseller.
Radio
In May 2012, Wilkins started on smoothfm. He is the host of weekend Mornings (10am – 1pm) on smoothfm 91.5 in Melbourne and smoothfm 95.3 in Sydney.
30th anniversary
In 2017, Wilkins celebrated his 30th anniversary with the Nine Network. In January 2017, for the twelfth time, Wilkins co-hosted the annual G'Day USA Gala – the annual Australian event in the United States, at the behest of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. In November 2017, Wilkins returned to host the ARIA awards from The Star in Sydney for the Nine Network.
Honours
Wilkins was presented with the Variety Club's "Heart of Variety" Award in 2000 for his outstanding humanitarian effo
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