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A computer booking system is a system whereby publicly accessible computers can be reserved for a period of time. These systems are commonly used in facilities such as public libraries to ensure equitable use of limited numbers of computers. Bookings may be done over the internet or within the library itself using a separate computer set up as a booking terminal. Computer booking systems allow public service with reduced staff involvement.
Typically a computer booking system consists of both server and client software. The server software might run within the LAN or more typically is run from a publicly accessible web-server thus enabling users to book or reserve their computer time from their web-browser. There are both commercial and Open Source computer booking products on the market.
External links
Libki: a cross-platform Open Source computer reservation & time management system.
An example of a computer booking system at Birmingham Central Library, UK
An Open Source PC Reservations and Bookings system
Library resources
Personal computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Prairie%20Path
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The Illinois Prairie Path (often called the Prairie Path and abbreviated IPP) is a network of of bicycle trails, mostly in DuPage County, Illinois. Portions of the trail extend west to Kane County and east to Cook County. Most of the trail is categorized as rail-to-trail, meaning that the bicycle path is built atop a converted former railroad right of way. In the case of the Prairie Path, the vast majority of its routing runs on the former right-of-way of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad.
May Theilgaard Watts is credited for a letter written in 1963 that initiated the first project in what became a widespread rail-to-trails program of land use across the United States. In August 2008, the Illinois Prairie Path was inducted into the Rails-to-Trails hall of fame.
Routing
The Illinois Prairie Path consists of three distinct branches originating from a point just west of downtown Wheaton (). The northwest branch is called the Elgin Branch and runs approximately to Elgin, where it intersects with the Fox River Trail ). This branch is the longest of the three. The southwest branch is called the Aurora Branch and runs approximately to RiverEdge Park in Aurora, where it, too, intersects with the Fox River Trail (). The eastern branch is known as the Main Stem and runs east to Forest Park at the Forest Park CTA station, where it crosses the historic Elmhurst Great Western Prairie ).
All three branches are marked with concrete mile markers stating the name of the branch, and how many miles away from Wheaton the rider is. The frequency and character of these markers varies from county to county.
After the path's conception, spurs were added to the system extending west from the Elgin Branch to Geneva (known as the Geneva Spur) and west from the Aurora Branch to Batavia (known as the Batavia Spur). These spur branches are 6 and 5 miles (10 and 9 km) long respectively, and are also marked with mile markers.
The Prairie Path is part of a larger regional network of trails in the Chicago metropolitan area. The Elgin Branch and Main Stem are part of the long Grand Illinois Trail in north-central Illinois. On a more local level, the Prairie Path intersects with Kane County's Fox River Trail four times, and the Great Western Trail—a parallel connector between the Main Stem at Lombard and the Elgin Branch. Future connections are planned to the West Branch DuPage River Trail, the East Branch DuPage River Trail, and the Salt Creek Trail.
The DuPage County Department of Transportation maintains internal designations for the Illinois Prairie Path as a part of the county's highway system. County Highway 47 refers to the Main Stem and the Aurora Branch. County Highway 48 refers to the Elgin Branch. County Highway 49 refers to the Batavia Spur, while County Highway 57 refers to the Geneva Spur.
History
The concept of a regional trail in DuPage County was introduced in 1963 by May Theilgaard Watts, a leading figure at the Morton Arboretum. In a letter t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20Film%20Database
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Adult Film Database (AFD) is an English-language adult website database that attempts to keep records of all pornographic movies and adult film stars. This includes filmographies, partial biographies, reviews, labeled and categorized adult film stills, as well as a regularly updated adult industry blog which features the latest news about adult performers, movies, directors, studios, web site updates and sundry adult news from around the world.
Founding and synopsis
It was created in 1991 under the name Sodomite by a college student. This was an attempt to fill the void of the temporary absence of the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) and as a project in web development. In 1999 its name was changed to the AdultFilmDatabase.com. Today, the AdultFilmDatabase.com is a major competitor to the Internet Adult Film Database.
Taking inspiration from both the Internet Adult Film Database and IMDb and forging ties with industry mainstays like Vivid Entertainment, Hustler, Wicked and Digital Playground the AdultFilmDatabase.com features information on over 100,000 adult movies and 60,000 performers (updated March 2019).
Run by a husband and wife team, the Adult Film Database was the first online adult database to include both straight and gay videos and performers.
On October 1, 2007, the Adult Film Database was mentioned in an article from the online equivalent of Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.
In October 2007, the Adult Film Database debunked rumors adult film performer Tamara Lee (born 30 July 1969) had died from AIDS. The news was covered by Adult Video News (AVN) in an article on October 23, 2007.
References
External links
Erotica and pornography websites
Internet properties established in 1991
Internet properties established in 1999
Online film databases
Works about pornography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping%20for%20Love
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Shopping for Love is an Australian reality show television program. Airing on the Nine Network, it is hosted by Pete Lazer and Andi Lew and premiered on 4 December 2005.
References
2000s Australian reality television series
Nine Network original programming
2005 Australian television series debuts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfly%20%28TV%20series%29
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Blackfly is a Canadian sitcom which ran on the Global Television Network for two seasons in 2001 and 2002. Although shot single-camera like most Canadian comedies, this series was shot on videotape and contains a laugh track rather than making use of the usual live audience because most scenes take place outdoors.
Premise
The show is set in 18th-century Canada back "in days when beaver fur was good as gold" and features a twisted "Blackadder meets F Troop"-style Canadian history in which Benny "Blackfly" Broughton (Ron James), a Maritimes-born undersized but ambitious general jack-of-all-trades at the isolated Fort Simpson-Eaton on the colonial Canadian frontier, is joined by the prissy by-the-book upper class British officer Corporal Entwhistle (Colin Mochrie) whom he is usually able to talk into his latest doomed-to-failure get-rich-quick scheme.
Other characters include Blackfly's boss at the Hudson's Bay Company-style trading post, the rowdy, penny-pinching Scottish storekeeper MacTavish (James Kee); Misty Moon (Cheri Maracle), a wryly wise native barkeep who loves watching the white man blow his money on whisky at her Leg Hold Trap Bar between visits by her boisterous if distinctly anglophobic French Canadian voyageur lover Ti Jean (Marcel Jeannin); tough but good-natured local tribal leader Chief Smack-Your-Face-In (Lorne Cardinal); masochistic and desperate-to-be-martyred Jesuit priest Brother Jacques (Stephen Coats); the deranged and drunken fort commander Colonel Boyle (Richard Donat); and his buxom blond daughter Lady Hammond (Shauna Black), the hot-blooded young princess of privilege who had no idea what she was getting into when she decided to join her father in Canada after becoming a widow.
Changes to the show during the second season included the arrival of Misty's nasty little witch of a mother Mugwump Moon (Madeleine Bergeron) and the departure of Entwhistle who had inherited his twin brother's title and estate in England, although with his usual luck he found himself stuck back at the fort by the end of the series. The laugh track was removed as James was displeased with the use of it in the first season.
Production and distribution
The show was produced by Salter Street Films. A standalone pilot was produced in 1999, shot in Nova Scotia primarily at the Fortress of Louisbourg and the Port-Royal National Historic Site. The pilot was aired by Global in August 1999, and the network greenlit a full series at its 2000-01 upfronts.
The series premiered January 3, 2001. The network subsequently renewed the show for a second season, which premiered in December 2001 and ran into the winter of 2002.
The network did not renew the series for a third season.
Critical response
John Doyle of The Globe and Mail wrote that the series "is far from being a first-rate TV comedy, but it's very refreshing...The humour is broad, often childish and sometimes it's groan-inducing and flat. For all of that, the show's sheer perversity is a delight
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20winter
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In the history of artificial intelligence, an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. The field has experienced several hype cycles, followed by disappointment and criticism, followed by funding cuts, followed by renewed interest years or even decades later.
The term first appeared in 1984 as the topic of a public debate at the annual meeting of AAAI (then called the "American Association of Artificial Intelligence"). Roger Schank and Marvin Minsky—two leading AI researchers who experienced the "winter" of the 1970s—warned the business community that enthusiasm for AI had spiraled out of control in the 1980s and that disappointment would certainly follow. They described a chain reaction, similar to a "nuclear winter", that would begin with pessimism in the AI community, followed by pessimism in the press, followed by a severe cutback in funding, followed by the end of serious research. Three years later the billion-dollar AI industry began to collapse.
There were two major winters approximately 1974–1980 and 1987–2000 and several smaller episodes, including the following:
1966: failure of machine translation
1969: criticism of perceptrons (early, single-layer artificial neural networks)
1971–75: DARPA's frustration with the Speech Understanding Research program at Carnegie Mellon University
1973: large decrease in AI research in the United Kingdom in response to the Lighthill report
1973–74: DARPA's cutbacks to academic AI research in general
1987: collapse of the LISP machine market
1988: cancellation of new spending on AI by the Strategic Computing Initiative
1990s: many expert systems were abandoned
1990s: end of the Fifth Generation computer project's original goals
Enthusiasm and optimism about AI has generally increased since its low point in the early 1990s. Beginning about 2012, interest in artificial intelligence (and especially the sub-field of machine learning) from the research and corporate communities led to a dramatic increase in funding and investment, leading to the current () AI boom.
Early episodes
Machine translation and the ALPAC report of 1966
NLP research has its roots in the early 1930s and begins its existence with the work on machine translation (MT). However, significant advancements and applications began to emerge after the publication of Warren Weaver's influential memorandum in 1949. The memorandum generated great excitement within the research community. In the following years, notable events unfolded: IBM embarked on the development of the first machine, MIT appointed its first full-time professor in machine translation, and several conferences dedicated to MT took place. The culmination came with the public demonstration of the IBM-Georgetown machine, which garnered widespread attention in respected newspapers in 1954.
Just like all AI booms that have been followed by desperate AI winters, the media tended to exaggerate the significance of thes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMedicine
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eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base founded in 1996 by doctors Scott Plantz and Jonathan Adler, and computer engineer Jeffrey Berezin. The eMedicine website consists of approximately 6,800 medical topic review articles, each of which is associated with a clinical subspecialty "textbook". The knowledge base includes over 25,000 clinically multimedia files.
Each article is authored by board certified specialists in the subspecialty to which the article belongs and undergoes three levels of physician peer-review, plus review by a Doctor of Pharmacy. The article's authors are identified with their current faculty appointments. Each article is updated yearly, or more frequently as changes in practice occur, and the date is published on the article. eMedicine.com was sold to WebMD in January, 2006 and is available as the Medscape Reference.
History
Plantz, Adler and Berezin evolved the concept for eMedicine.com in 1996 and deployed the initial site via Boston Medical Publishing, Inc., a corporation in which Plantz and Adler were principals. A Group Publishing System 1 (GPS 1) was developed that allowed large numbers of contributors to collaborate simultaneously. That system was first used to create a knowledge base in emergency medicine with 600 contributing MDs creating over 630 chapters in just over a year. In 1997 eMedicine.com, Inc. was legally spun off from Boston Medical Publishing. eMedicine attracted angel-level investment from Tenet Healthcare in 1999 and a significant VC investment in 2000 (Omnicom Group, HIG Capital).
Several years were spent creating the tables of contents, recruiting expert physicians and in the creation of the additional 6,100+ medical and surgical articles. The majority of operations were based out of the Omaha, Nebraska, office.
In the early 2000s Plantz and Lorenzo also spearheaded an alliance with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to accredit eMedicine content for physician, nursing, and pharmacy continuing education.
In 2005, eMedicine entered into discussions for acquisition. The board of directors unanimously recommended approval for sale of the company to WebMD. The sale was completed in January 2006.
The site is free to use, requiring only registration. eMedicine content could also be accessed as an e-book, and could be downloaded into a palm top device.
In 2018, the founders of eMedicine began StatPearls, an international collaboration to further improve medical education, with stated goal of creating a free, comprehensive, online medical educational database and providing medical professionals with affordable continuing medical education credits.
Usage among specialists
In 2012 Volsky et al. evaluated the most frequently used internet information sources by the public, (1) identifying the three most frequently referenced Internet sources; (2) comparing the content accuracy of each of the three sources and (3) ascertaining user-friendliness of each site; and (4) infor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Professional%2C%20Executive%2C%20Clerical%20and%20Computer%20Staff
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The Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX) was a British trade union which represented clerical and administrative employees.
History
The Clerks Union was formed in 1890 and later was renamed as the National Union of Clerks. Then, following rapid growth and amalgamation with several other unions, the name was again changed to the National Union of Clerks and Administrative Workers (NUCAW) with a membership of around 40,000.
In 1940, NUCAW merged with the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries (AWCS) to form the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union (CAWU). The union organised in the white-collar sector in the City of London and across the country, and had particular success in recruiting in the engineering industry. In the 1960s its membership grew rapidly, but it was less successful in the 1970s, membership increasing by 18%, while that of its rival, the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS), nearly doubled.
The union changed its name to the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX) in 1972. It was the union at the centre of the Grunwick dispute in the 1970s.
APEX, like its predecessors, was an affiliated trade union of the British Labour Party and was a key influence on the right-wing of the Party, particularly as, until 1972, it enforced a rule preventing communists from holding positions in the union. Its relations with other unions were often difficult, as it competed not only with the ASTMS for members, but also with the National Union of Bank Employees and various general unions. In particular, a dispute over members at General Accident was referred to the Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee and the fall-out led to APEX's general secretary, Roy Grantham, failing to win re-election to the General Council of the TUC.
In 1989 APEX merged with the GMB trade union and now exists as a section within the GMB.
Election results
The union sponsored numerous Labour Party candidates, many of whom were elected:
Leadership
General Secretaries
1890: W. Moritz
1890: W. M. Sutherland
Charles Dyer
1906: Herbert Henry Elvin
1941: Fred Woods
1956: Anne Godwin
1963: Henry Chapman
1971: Roy Grantham
Presidents
1890: Wallas
1890: J. W. E. Hale
1912: G. E. O'Dell
1914: R. J. W. Scott
1915: John Lindsley
1916: Charles Latham
1918: James McKinlay
1927: Hubert Hughes
1940: William Elger
1946: Bob Scouller
1951: Helene Walker
1961: David Currie
1972: Denis Howell
1983: Ken Smith
See also
UK labour law
List of UK trade unions
References
External links
GMB webpage on its history and that of its precursor unions
Catalogue of the APEX archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
1940 establishments in the United Kingdom
Clerical trade unions
GMB (trade union) amalgamations
Trade unions established in 1940
Trade unions disestablished in 1989
Trade unions based in London
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallsend%20Metro%20station
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Wallsend is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the town of Wallsend, North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 14 November 1982, following the opening of the fourth phase of the network, between Tynemouth and St James via Wallsend.
History
The station stands on the site of the former Wallsend station, which opened in 1839, as part of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway. This later became part of the North Tyneside Loop, served by the North Eastern Railway. Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built.
Wallsend is the only station in the United Kingdom which has signage in Latin. This is a nod to the station's location, near to the Segedunum Roman Fort at the end of Hadrian's Wall.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network: ramps provide step-free access to both platforms at Wallsend. The station is equipped with ticket machines, sheltered waiting area, seating, next-train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, like all stations across the network.
There is a small free car park available at the station, with 24 spaces. There is also provision for cycle parking: eight cycle pods are available.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Bus station
Wallsend Bus Station opened in July 1982, preceding the adjacent Metro station. It is served by Go North East and Stagecoach North East's local bus services, with frequent routes serving Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside. The bus station has three departure stands (lettered A–C), each of which is fitted with a waiting shelter, seating, next-bus information displays, and timetable posters. The bus station was refurbished in 2009 at a cost of £130,000.
Art
Michael Pinsky's Pontis art project was commissioned for the station in 2003, and featured photographs of the local area, digitally altered so that words appeared in Latin. It has since been replaced by a new artwork, which consists of images of Hadrian's Wall, by photographer Graeme Peacock.
References
External links
Timetable and station information for Wallsend
Latin language
Bus stations in Tyne and Wear
Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside
1839 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1839
1982 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1982
Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line stations
Transport in Tyne and Wear
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20Intelligence%20Agency
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Higher Intelligence Agency (HIA) is the main electronic music project of Birmingham, UK-based Bobby Bird. They were featured on Warp's 1994 Artificial Intelligence II compilation.
Biography
HIA was formed by Bird in 1992 around the same time as he and a small group of collaborators began an experimental electronic music club night called Oscillate. Bird brought his drum machines and synthesisers to the club night and improvised live in-between playing records. After coming across a local label just starting up, Beyond Records, Bird produced Ketamine Entity for Ambient Dub Volume 1 followed by ‘Speedlearn' and ‘Solid Motion for an EP entitled Speedlearn. These tracks were written by Bird together with Steve Savale, an early contributor.
HIA’s debut album Colourform (1993) was written and produced by Bird in his bedroom studio in Moseley, with additional contributions by members of the Oscillate collective, Savale, Dave Wheels & Fosit Forsythe. Colourform has been described as "one of the British Ambient scene’s landmark releases" and HIA went on to become regulars on the emerging live electronic music scene, playing at The Ambient Weekend Melkweg Amsterdam ('93) Interference Festival Tresor Club Berlin, Tripping on Sunshine Festival Copenhagen, The Brixton Academy New Year's Megadog ('94), and the first ever Dance Music stage at Glastonbury ('95). With Bird at the Helm, assisted by Dave Wheels, HIA played lengthy sets that ‘unfolded oscillated calm into boundless shifting voyages, heading out to beat frenzy and beyond, into the language of dreams’
Referring in Volume Magazine to the dub element inherent in HIA material at this time Bird said "I grew up with it ..I was in Handsworth a lot when I was young - the parties had dub all the time and I wanted to be a musician years before I left school. But I never dreamed I’d be programming electronic music "
In 1994 HIA appeared on Warp Records' Artificial Intelligence II compilation with the track Selenite. Colour Reform, an EP of remixes of tracks from Colourform, by Autechre, The Irresistible Force (aka Mix Master Morris), A Positive Life and Pentatonic, was also released, becoming NME Vibes Single of the week.
A second album Freefloater followed in 1995 released, written and produced by Bird, with additional contributions on individual tracks by Dave Wheels, Fosit Forsythe and Stef Pierlejewski. Freefloater is considered to be HIA’s definitive album so far, and an excellent example of ambient electro. Writer Hari Kunzru described it as ’music in which the space in between is just as important as the notes. In a perfect world this is what NASA would play to space shuttle crews in orbit’
In 1995 Bird and Biosphere’s Geir Jenssen performed three concerts together on top of a mountain above Geir's home town of Tromso in Norway, using location recordings of the surrounding area as source material. Recordings from these concerts were subsequently released as Biosphere / Higher Intelliengece Agency
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202006
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The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2006, 40 albums topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine.
High School Musical, the soundtrack to the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name, is the best-selling album of 2006, accumulating 3.7 million unit sales by the end of the year. The album spent two non-consecutive weeks at the top of Billboard 200, the first TV soundtrack to achieve since the Miami Vice soundtrack in the 1980s. Me and My Gang by Rascal Flatts is ranked second, accumulating 3.5 million total sales by the end of the year. The album sold 722,000 copies in the United States during its debut week, becoming the band's highest first week sales. Me and My Gang is also one of the longest-running of the albums, topping the chart for three consecutive weeks. Other albums with extended chart runs include Unpredictable by Jamie Foxx and the compilation album Now 22, each spent at number one for three weeks.
Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs of the Fifties topped the chart on the strength of 156,000 unit sales, giving him the first chart-topper album in nearly 29 years of his career, and his best first-week sales since Billboard 200 incorporated data tracked by Nielsen SoundScan in 1991. The band Red Hot Chili Peppers earned their first number-one album, Stadium Arcadium, for the first time in its 22-year career. Stadium Arcadium, which debuted with sales of 442,000 copies, gave the band its career best sales in a week. Prince scored his first number-one album, 3121 since 1989's Batman, in a debut week. Johnny Cash's topped the chart with his posthumous record American V: A Hundred Highways, his first number one since 1969's At San Quentin. Evanescence's The Open Door gave the band its first number-one album, which became the 700th number one in the history of Billboard 200. Diddy's Press Play reached number one in November 2008, giving him his second chart topper in nine years. The album, however, sold 170,000 copies in its debut week, the lowest first-week sales figure for Diddy.
Rapper Jay-Z earned his ninth number-one album, Kingdom Come, tying the Rolling Stones for the third act with the most number-one albums in the United States. The album sold 680,000 copies domestically, giving Jay-Z his best sales in a week. Kingdom Come had the second highest debut sales, behind Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds, which opened at 684,000 units. The compilation series Now That's What I Call Music! produced two number ones this year: series 22 and 23. The 23rd installment gave the series its 10th number one.
Unusually, the best performing album of 2006 (Some Hearts by Carrie Underwood) did not get to number one.
Chart history
See also
2006 in music
References
2006
United States Albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami%20Wai%20Wai%20World
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, "wai wai" being a Japanese onomatopoeia for a noisy, crowded area, is a 1988 Family Computer platform video game released only in Japan by Konami. The game itself stars various Konami-created characters as well as Mikey (from The Goonies) and King Kong, who appeared in two Konami-produced, film-based games.
Gameplay
The player starts the game as Konami Man and can switch between Konami Man and Konami Lady. If two players are gaming, then one will play as Konami Man and the other as Konami Lady. Both players are not able to switch characters until they rescue at least one character from one of the six levels. The player must play through six different selectable levels that take place in different Konami games. Subsequently the player uses a key to save that game's star character, who then becomes playable. Each character has different abilities to begin with as well as ones they can eventually gain. The player ventures through these first six levels in a sort of nonlinear fashion with gameplay very similar to the original Castlevania games. After these stages are completed, the player plays through a scrolling space shooter stage and then a linear final stage.
The player can regularly visit the lab of Dr. Cinnamon (from the TwinBee series), who gives the player the game's character profiles and refills energy when needed. Through his lab, the player can talk to Saimon, Dr. Cinnamon's brother, who can resurrect any defeated characters at the cost of 100 bullets per character during the game.
Playable characters
Konami Man: The game's main protagonist who only made cameos in Konami games before this game.
Konami Lady: A female android created by Dr. Cinnamon to fight with Konami Man.
Goemon: A ninja from the Ganbare Goemon series is found in the Medieval Japan level.
Simon Belmont III: The descendant of the Vampire Killer from the Castlevania series is found in the Castle level.
Getsu Fūma: He is from the Famicom game released only in Japan, Getsu Fūma Den. He is found in the Underworld (or Hell) level.
Michael "Mikey" Walsh: The lead character in The Goonies film and the Famicom games, The Goonies (sold in retail only in Japan) and The Goonies II; he is found in the Cave level.
Moai Alexandria: Numerous Moai are usually enemies in the Gradius series and a playable character in Moai-kun; he is found in the Easter Island Temple.
King Kong: From the Japan-only Famicom game King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch which was based on the film King Kong Lives (King Kong 2 in Japan). He is found in the City level.
Upa: The baby protagonist from Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa who only appears in the mobile phone version as a replacement for Mikey. He is found in the Candy level.
Penta: The main protagonist from Antarctic Adventure and a father of Pentarou who only appears in the mobile phone version as a replacement for King Kong. He is found in the Antarctic level.
Vic Viper: The spaceship from the Gradius series. The player can only play this ship i
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Target: Renegade is a scrolling beat'em up (or flip-screen on certain versions) computer game released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum systems in the late 1980s by Ocean Software on their "Imagine" label, as well as a Nintendo Entertainment System version published by Taito. The game is a sequel to Renegade and was followed by Renegade III: The Final Chapter. When acquiring the license to convert the original arcade game Renegade to home computers, Ocean acquired the option to produce and release their own home-computer-only sequels to the game, and Target Renegade was the first of these sequels.
On most formats, the game caters for one or two players and concerns itself with the adventures of a streetfighter (or a pair of identical streetfighters) known only as "Renegade", who seek(s) revenge against a local crime kingpin named "Mr. Big" for murdering his or their brother Matt. Other versions have said Matt was not murdered, but instead held hostage by Mr. Big and the player needs to free him. The player character varies, depending on the format, but is usually represented as topless apart from a leather vest and wearing jeans. Early stages show the player outdoors and after defeating a boss character, reaching a pay phone to report on his progress.
Regardless of the format, the cover of the game and the title screen (as seen on the adjacent image) portrays a topless street fighter performing a flying kick through a window. In keeping with video game box art and advertising of the era, the character shown in this illustration bears little relation to any character in the game itself. The actual picture is based on famous martial artist Joe Lewis from the cover of his book The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You How To Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System, but has been adjusted so as to fit in with the character of Renegade.
The game comprises five levels, though details of enemies and weapons vary from one version to another (the NES version in particular is more like Double Dragon than the home computer versions). The NES and C64 versions of the game do not have a two-player co-operative mode.
Reception
The ZX Spectrum version was voted number 13 in the Your Sinclair Readers' Top 100 Games of All Time.
Legacy
Ocean Software produced a second Renegade sequel titled Renegade III: The Final Chapter. Technos Japan Corp., the developers of the original arcade version of Renegade, produced their own line of sequels and spin-offs to Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun, the Japanese version of Renegade, for the Japanese market. Target: Renegade and Renegade 3 are not related in any way to the Kunio-kun series.
In 2006 an unofficial remake of the Spectrum version was released for Windows. Expanding the multiplayer element to allow six simultaneous players, Target: 2006 received a 70% score in issue 41 of Retro Gamer.
References
External links
Target: 2006 - Windows-based remake
1988 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Beat 'em ups
Commodore 64
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Labb%C3%A9
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François Labbé (born September 23, 1928 in Thetford Mines, Quebec) is a Canadian mass media owner who started the first commercial French language radio network in Canada, the Réseau des Appalaches, in 1972.
Born in Thetford Mines in 1928, the son of former Member of Parliament and Thetford Mines mayor Tancrède Labbé, Labbé studied Commerce at Laval University. He acquired CKLD in Thetford Mines in 1959. In 1968, he founded CKFL, an AM radio station in Lac-Mégantic, and in 1970 he bought CFDA in Victoriaville.
In 1972, he founded CKTL in Plessisville and CJAN in Asbestos. The radio stations became the Réseau des Appalaches. In 1977, Labbé founded CJLP in Disraeli, which became the sixth station in the Réseau des Appalaches.
Labbé was also the owner of Publications Appalaches, which owned two newspapers, La Feuille d'Érable in Plessisville and La Mine d'Information in Thetford Mines. He was also a director of the insurance company La Solidarité and a governor of the Université Laval Foundation.
In 1989, he founded CFJO-FM which broadcast to Thetford Mines and Victoriaville with his daughter Annie. In 1990, Labbé sold CKFL, CJAN and CKTL but retains ownership of other stations.
In 1998, Labbé was named to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Broadcast Hall of Fame.
References
1928 births
Canadian radio company founders
Living people
People from Thetford Mines
Canadian radio executives
Businesspeople from Quebec
French Quebecers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chron%20X
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Chron X is an online collectible card game and a turn-based strategy game in which an individual battles an opponent over the internet in a cyberpunk setting. Players choose between an arsenal of agents, weapons, programs, and resources chosen from your deck of virtual cards.
Chron X was the first online trading card game, first released by Genetic Anomalies in May 1997. The original game designer was George Moromisato, with later sets designed by Andrea Shubert, Dan Collins, and Ian Schreiber. Pete Bodenheimer and Slava Zatchuny also contributed to set development.
The game has had several publishers since its release: Genetic Anomalies, Sony Online Entertainment, THQ, and later Blue Sky Red Design from 2003 to 2007. On May 28, 2007, the tenth anniversary of Chron X, Darkened Sky Studios acquired Chron X for an undisclosed sum. Darkened Sky had begun work on a new, web-based client in 2008, which was never released.
On October 7, 2018, Andrea Davis announced that she had acquired Chron X from Darkened Sky. Although not ruling out the possibility of a new software release, she stated that her first priority would be a Chron X board game.
Expansion sets
Expansion sets are divided into "acts", which fit into the Chron X storyline. Acts are further divided into sets. The game has had 7 expansions released to date.
Act One:
First Edition (May 1996)
Overture (December 1997)
Ascension (July 1998)
Act Two:
Defiance (February 1999)
Whiteout (February 2000)
Breakpoint (August 23, 2003)
Act Three:
Reboot (March 20, 2004)
Corruption (June 24, 2005)
Verify (After an 18-card preview set was released by BSRD, expansion was canceled by Darkened Sky in 2007)
Reception
The reviewer from the online second volume of Pyramid stated that "ChronX, the world's premiere Internet collectible card game. Here you will find that all is not as it seems. The goal is a familiar one -- "go forth and destroy thy enemy" -- however, in ChronX there is one slight problem. Before you can even think about calling an Air Cavalry strike you have to find your opponent."
References
External links
Darkened Sky Studios LLC
Blue Sky Red Design owners (2003-2007)
Review at GameSpot
Genesis, third-party forums with articles pertaining to Chron X's history
Digital collectible card games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest%20Searchlight
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Contest Searchlight is a four-episode fictional comedy television series that aired in 2002 on the Comedy Central network. It was a documentary-style parody or mockumentary of the HBO (and later Bravo) network's non-fictional series Project Greenlight.
Contest Searchlight starred Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke, playing slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, as TV producers holding a nationwide contest to select a new television series to produce for the Comedy Central network. When none of the proposed submissions prove acceptable, Leary and Clarke end up combining several of the finalist's proposals to produce a new, semi-improvised ensemble sitcom entitled "Jesus and the Gang." The new show ostensibly stars New York City theatre and television actor Peter Gallagher (again playing a fictionalized version of himself), but when Gallagher is hit by a motorist during the filming of a network promotion, the lead role is shifted to comedian Patrice O'Neal. During rehearsals for the premiere episode, the actors, crew and producers all start fighting each other (and themselves), and "Jesus and the Gang" is permanently shelved.
Contest Searchlight was shown in a pseudo-documentary style, and there was no laugh track or other obvious sign that this was a fictional series. Following Peter Gallagher's exit from the show, both he and Comedy Central received a number of panicked calls from viewers who believed that Gallagher really had been hit by a motorist.
A fully produced version of the "Jesus and the Gang" theme song appears as the eighth track on Leary's 2004 album, Merry F#%$in' Christmas.
External links
Comedy Central original programming
2002 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2000s American mockumentary television series
2000s American parody television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegade%202
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Renegade 2 may refer to
Target: Renegade, a 1988 computer game released by Ocean
Command & Conquer: Renegade 2, a computer game by Westwood Studios cancelled in 2003
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Munk
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Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. Munk worked on a wide range of topics, including surface waves, geophysical implications of variations in the Earth's rotation, tides, internal waves, deep-ocean drilling into the sea floor, acoustical measurements of ocean properties, sea level rise, and climate change. His work won awards including the National Medal of Science, the Kyoto Prize, and induction to the French Legion of Honour.
Munk's career began before the outbreak of World War II and ended nearly 80 years later with his death in 2019. The war interrupted his doctoral studies at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps), and led to his participation in U.S. military research efforts. Munk and his doctoral advisor Harald Sverdrup developed methods for forecasting wave conditions which were used in support of beach landings in all theaters of the war. He was involved with oceanographic programs during the atomic bomb tests in Bikini Atoll.
Beginning in 1975, Munk and Carl Wunsch developed ocean acoustic tomography to exploit the ease with which sound travels in the ocean and use acoustical signals for measurement of broad-scale temperature and current. In a 1991 experiment, Munk and his collaborators investigated the ability of underwater sound to propagate from the Southern Indian Ocean across all ocean basins, with the aim of measuring global ocean temperature. The experiment was criticized by environmental groups, who expected that the loud acoustic signals would adversely affect marine life. Munk continued to develop and advocate for acoustical measurements of the ocean throughout his career.
For most of his career, he was a professor of geophysics at Scripps at the University of California in La Jolla. Additionally, Munk and his wife Judy were active in developing the Scripps campus and integrating it with the new University of California, San Diego. Munk's career included being a member of the JASON think tank, and holding the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair.
Early life and education
In 1917, Munk was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. His father, Dr. Hans Munk, and his mother, Rega Brunner, divorced when he was ten years old. His maternal grandfather was Lucian Brunner (1850–1914), a prominent banker and Austrian politician. His stepfather, Dr. Rudolf Engelsberg, was head of the salt mine monopoly of the Austrian government and a member of the Austrian governments of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg.
In 1932, Munk was performing poorly in school because he was spending too much time skiing, so his family sent him from Austria to a boys' preparatory school in upper New York state. His family envisioned a career for him in finance with a New York bank connected to the family busin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20fabrication
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In scientific inquiry and academic research, data fabrication is the intentional misrepresentation of research results. As with other forms of scientific misconduct, it is the intent to deceive that marks fabrication as unethical, and thus different from scientists deceiving themselves. There are many ways data can be fabricated. Experimental data can be fabricated by reporting experiments that were never conducted, and accurate data can be manipulated or misrepresented to suit a desired outcome. One of the biggest problems with this form of scientific fraud is that "university investigations into research misconduct are often inadequate, opaque and poorly conducted. They challenge the idea that institutions can police themselves on research integrity."
Sometimes intentional fabrication can be difficult to distinguish from unintentional academic incompetence or malpractice. Examples of this include the failure to account for measurement error, or the failure to adequately control experiments for any parameters being measured.
Fabrication can also occur in the context of undergraduate or graduate studies wherein a student fabricates a laboratory or homework assignment. Such cheating, when discovered, is usually handled within the institution, and does not become a scandal within the larger academic community (as cheating by students seldom has any academic significance).
Consequences
A finding that a scientist engaged in fabrication will often mean the end to their career as a researcher. Scientific misconduct is grounds for dismissal of tenured faculty, as well as for forfeiture of research grants. Given the tight-knit nature of many academic communities, and the high stakes involved, researchers who are found to have committed fabrication are often effectively (and permanently) blacklisted from the profession, with reputable research organizations and universities refusing to hire them; funding sources refusing to sponsor them or their work, and journals refusing to consider any of their articles for publication. In some cases, however, especially if the researcher is senior and well-established, the academic community can close ranks to prevent injury to the scientist's career.
Fabricators may also have previously earned academic credentials removed. Two cases:
In 2004, Jan Hendrik Schön was stripped of his doctorate degree by the University of Konstanz after a committee formed by Bell Labs found him guilty of fabrication related to research done during his employment there. This action was undertaken even though Schön was not accused (in the matter in question) of any fabrication or other misconduct relating to his work which led to or supported the degree—the doctorate was revoked, according to University officials, solely due to Schön behaving "unworthily" in the Bell Labs affair.
In 2001, peer reviewers at the academic journal Nutrition raised suspicions about a publication draft submitted by Dr. Ranjit Chandra, a world-renowned Cana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synset
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In metadata, a synonym ring or synset, is a group of data elements that are considered semantically equivalent for the purposes of information retrieval. These data elements are frequently found in different metadata registries. Although a group of terms can be considered equivalent, metadata registries store the synonyms at a central location called the preferred data element.
According to WordNet, a synset or synonym set is defined as a set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they are embedded.
Example
The following are considered semantically equivalent and form a synonym ring:
foaf:person
gjxdm:Person
niem:Person
sumo:Human
cyc:Person
umbel:Person
Note that each data element has two components:
Namespace prefix, which is a shorthand for the name of the metadata registry
Data element name, which is the name of the object in each of the distinct metadata registry
Expressing a synonym ring
A synonym ring can be expressed by a series of statements in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) using the classEquivalence or the propertyEquivalence or instance equivalence statement – the sameAs property.
See also
Data Reference Model
Metadata
Vocabulary-based transformation
WordNet
External links
WordNet at Princeton
Metadata
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISE-TV
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WISE-TV (channel 33) is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, affiliated with The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC/NBC/MyNetworkTV affiliate WPTA (channel 21). Both stations share studios on Butler Road in Northwest Fort Wayne, where WISE-TV's transmitter is also located.
WISE-TV originally operated as an NBC affiliate from its establishment through 2016, where as the result of Quincy Media's acquisition of WPTA (which had previously been operated by WISE's former owner, Granite Broadcasting, as part of a shared services agreement), the NBC affiliation became the property of Quincy and was moved to WPTA's second digital subchannel in exchange for its CW affiliation.
History
WISE-DT1
The station was founded on November 21, 1953, with the call letters WKJG-TV. It was the first television station in Fort Wayne and affiliated with NBC. The station was owned by William Kunkel, owner of The Journal Gazette newspaper (with both entities forming the call letters), WKJG radio (AM 1380 and FM 97.3), and other television stations. On September 30, 1971, the radio stations were sold. Their call letters became WMEE and WMEF-FM respectively. Today, the FM station has the calls WMEE. The AM station went through a variety of call signs including WQHK, WHWD, and WONO. It went back to the original WKJG on November 3, 2003, and to this day, is Fort Wayne's ESPN Radio affiliate. However, both radio stations are owned by a different company and have no connection with the television station. The first person seen on television in Fort Wayne was Hilliard Gates, who served as the station's general manager and sports director until his retirement in 1990. John Siemer, a newscaster and announcer at the station, was known at that time as "Engineer John" who introduced cartoons.
For a time, WKJG-TV was owned by Terre Haute industrialist Tony Hulman, best known as the longtime owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Hulman owned other television stations in Indiana, WTHI-TV in Terre Haute and WNDY-TV in Indianapolis. When Hulman died in 1977, Joseph R. Cloutier, a longtime Hulman employee, took over the station. After Cloutier's death, a trust fund called the Corporation for General Trade was formed, with Cloutier's son Joseph A. Cloutier as majority owner with a 51% stake. That company continued to own WKJG-TV until it was sold in 2003.
On January 13, 2003, the Corporation for General Trade was sold for $20 million to New Vision Television. The station changed its call letters to the current WISE-TV on May 26 to celebrate its 50th anniversary. A new transmitter with a stronger signal and new high definition options was installed on the tower. The station was sold again in March 2005 to Granite Broadcasting for $44.2 million. Granite sold ABC affiliate WPTA to Malara Broadcast Group for $45.3 million. A local marketing agreement was established that called for Granite to provide operation services to WPTA as well as for Mala
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%20Server%20Integration%20Services
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Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a component of the Microsoft SQL Server database software that can be used to perform a broad range of data migration tasks.
SSIS is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. It features a data warehousing tool used for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL). The tool may also be used to automate maintenance of SQL Server databases and updates to multidimensional cube data.
First released with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SSIS replaced Data Transformation Services, which had been a feature of SQL Server since Version 7.0. Unlike DTS, which was included in all versions, SSIS is only available in the "Standard", "Business Intelligence" and "Enterprise" editions. With Microsoft "Visual Studio Dev Essentials" it is now possible to use SSIS with Visual Studio 2017 free of cost so long as it is for development and learning purposes only.
Features
The SSIS Import/Export Wizard lets the user create packages that move data from a single data source to a destination with no transformations. The Wizard can quickly move data from a variety of source types to a variety of destination types, including text files and other SQL Server instances.
Developers tasked with creating or maintaining SSIS packages use a visual development tool based on Microsoft Visual Studio called the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). It allows users to edit SSIS packages using a drag-and-drop user interface. A scripting environment for writing programming code is also available in the tool. A package holds a variety of elements that define a workflow. Upon package execution, the tool provides color-coded real-time monitoring. (Note: In more recent versions MS SQL Server, BIDS has been replaced with "SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence" (SSDT-BI).)
Connections A connection includes the information necessary to connect to a particular data source. Tasks can reference the connection by its name, allowing the details of the connection to be changed or configured at run time.
Event handlers A workflow can be designed for a number of events in the different scopes where they might occur. In this way, tasks may be executed in response to happenings within the package — such as cleaning up after errors.
Parameters (SQL Server 2012 Integration Services) Parameters allow you to assign values to properties within packages at the time of package execution. You can have project parameters and package parameters. In general, if you are deploying a package using the package deployment model, you should use configurations instead of parameters.
Precedence constraints Tasks are linked by precedence constraints. The precedence constraint preceding a particular task must be met before that task executes. The run time supports executing tasks in parallel, if their precedence constraints so allow. Constraints may otherwise allow different paths of execution depending on the success
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Viewing%20Hour
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The Family Viewing Hour was a policy established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States in 1975. Under the policy, each television network in the U.S. bore a responsibility to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of the prime-time lineup (8 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time). The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a 1976 ruling by a federal court that found it violative of the First Amendment. However, the concept has continued on a voluntary basis in various manifestations.
Background
In 1974, widespread public criticism had arisen regarding the amount of sex and violence depicted on American television. One example that caused a particularly strong backlash was a lesbian rape scene during the 1974 NBC television film Born Innocent that was also briefly shown in daytime promotional spots. The scene was blamed for the real-life rape of a young girl, which led to a case before the California Supreme Court.
In January 1975, FCC chairman Richard E. Wiley addressed the Senate and House Communications and Commerce Subcommittees, stating that all three networks had agreed to adopt a "family viewing hour" in response to the criticism. The National Association of Broadcasters advanced the gesture one step further, decreeing that local stations also air family-friendly programming in the 7 p.m. time slot during which the networks were forbidden from programming under the Prime Time Access Rule.
CBS president Arthur R. Taylor wished to adopt the measure but would only agree if NBC and ABC consented, citing a possible decline in ratings if CBS were the only network to try the new policy (the network had been #1 in U.S. households since the mid-1950s). By the end of 1974, each network executive agreed to endorse the Family Viewing Hour, and to implement it by the fall 1975 season.
Many television series were affected by the Family Viewing Hour mandate. All in the Family, which had been the runaway top-rated show in the U.S. since 1971, was moved to 9 p.m. on Mondays after five seasons leading the Saturday night lineup. Producer Norman Lear, citing an infringement on creative freedom and his First Amendment rights, mounted a lawsuit. With the support of varying guilds, including that of the WGA, he won the case. The show's cast responded by recording a satirical, unaired rendition of the show's theme song retitled "These Are the Days".
On November 4, 1976, United States district court Judge Warren J. Ferguson declared the Family Viewing Hour unconstitutional. Ferguson stated while the idea had merits, the FCC had overstepped its bounds by privately lobbying the three major networks to adopt the policy instead of holding public hearings on the matter. The decree issued by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1975 was also overturned, ruling that the NAB had done so under duress. The ruling allowed stations the freedom to program their pre-prime-time slots.
Modern usage
After the Family Viewing Hour was
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20Home%20Video
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WWE Home Video is a video distribution and production company that distributes WWE programming. A division of WWE formed on April 16, 1997 as WWF Home Video, it replaced a similar independent company owned by Evart Enterprises, Coliseum Video, which operated between 1985 and 1997.
On December 3, 2021, it was originally announced that WWE Home Video releases would be discontinued in the United States and Canada in early 2022 but that decision was reversed. However, releases in the United Kingdom by distributor Fremantle are slated to continue.
History
Coliseum Video
VHS and Betamax cassettes released by Coliseum generally fell into several categories:
"Best-of" volumes highlighting classic matches, both recent and from the company's earlier years. Many of these releases included title changes that had happened since production of the previous volume was completed.
Wrestler profiles, which encompassed the WWF careers of company wrestlers, both current and former.
Theme videos, which showcased match types.
Each of the WWF's three major men's titles – the Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship and Tag Team Championship – had a volume dedicated to the title as it progressed from champion to champion, along with classic matches contested for the championship.
A handful of these volumes also showcased bloopers and comedy moments, rather than strictly wrestling matches.
Pay-per-view and other live events.
Coliseum Video released videos of the two World Bodybuilding Federation events and two non-Titan videos: the music video for the New York Giants' "We're The New York Giants" and a Wayne Gretzky instructional video, Hockey My Way.
On February 5, 2018, 38 Coliseum Videos were released on the WWE Network.
WWF/WWE Home Video
Upon the folding of Coliseum Video, videos that were being or had been released by Coliseum Video were re-released with new packaging and the WWF Home Video name and logo in 1997, after its original licensing agreement ended; Coliseum Video itself went out of business with the expiry. When the WWF became WWE in 2002, the name of the home video subsidiary changed as well. Content released by WWE Home Video continues to release the same content as Coliseum did, and also releases content produced exclusively for home entertainment such as swimsuit videos and retrospective documentaries. Content from the World Wrestling Federation's "Attitude Era" (1998–2002), however, had to be edited due to the lawsuit that caused the WWF to become WWE. All WWF "scratch" logos and references to the initials WWF had to be blurred or edited out. However, the words "World Wrestling Federation" were not edited, and the old WWF logo was not blurred. In addition, the UK exclusive WWE Tagged Classics did not have any edits or censoring of the WWF initials. Some of the early WWE home video releases were also not edited (such as The Rock Just Bring It; the 2002 editions of Backlash and Insurrextion also featured the WWE digital on-scr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad-edge
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A quad-edge data structure is a computer representation of the topology of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional map, that is, a graph drawn on a (closed) surface. It was first described by Jorge Stolfi and Leonidas J. Guibas. It is a variant of the earlier winged edge data structure.
Overview
The fundamental idea behind the quad-edge structure is the recognition that a single edge, in a closed polygonal mesh topology, sits between exactly two faces and exactly two vertices.
The Quad-Edge Data Structure
The quad-edge data structure represents an edge, along with the edges it is connected to around the adjacent vertices and faces to encode the topology of the graph.
An example implementation of the quad-edge data-type is as follows
typedef struct {
quadedge_ref e[4];
} quadedge;
typedef struct {
quadedge *next;
unsigned int rot;
} quadedge_ref;
Each quad-edge contains four references to adjacent quad-edges. Each of the four references points to the next edge counter-clockwise around either a vertex or a face. Each of these references represent either the origin vertex of the edge, the right face, the destination vertex, or the left face. Each quad-edge reference points to a quad-edge and the rotation (from 0 to 3) of the 'arm' it points at.
Due to this representation, the quad-edge:
represents a graph, its dual, and its mirror image.
the dual of the graph can be obtained simply by reversing the convention on what is a vertex and what is a face; and
can represent the most general form of a map, admitting vertices and faces of degree 1 and 2.
Details
The quad-edge structure gets its name from the general mechanism by which they are stored. A single Edge structure conceptually stores references to up to two faces, two vertices, and 4 edges. The four edges stored are the edges starting with the two vertices that are attached to the two stored faces.
Uses
Much like Winged Edge, quad-edge structures are used in programs to store the topology of a 2D or 3D polygonal mesh. The mesh itself does not need to be closed in order to form a valid quad-edge structure.
Using a quad-edge structure, iterating through the topology is quite easy. Often, the interface to quad-edge topologies is through directed edges. This allows the two vertices to have explicit names (start and end), and this gives faces explicit names as well (left and right, relative to a person standing on start and looking in the direction of end). The four edges are also given names, based on the vertices and faces: start-left, start-right, end-left, and end-right. A directed edge can be reversed to generate the edge in the opposite direction.
Iterating around a particular face only requires having a single directed edge to which that face is on the left (by convention) and then walking through all of the start-left edges until the original edge is reached.
See also
Winged edge
Combinatorial maps
Doubly connected edge list
References
External links
https://www.cs.cm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formby%20railway%20station
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Formby railway station is a railway station in the town of Formby, Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. The station has a car park.
History
Formby opened in 1848 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LCSR). It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) on 14 June 1855 who took over from the LCSR. 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).
Formby is mentioned in the song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann. This is because the Beeching Report listed Formby as a station to be closed, along with the entire Liverpool to Southport route.
Facilities
The station is staffed, 15 minutes before the first train and 15 minutes after the last train, and has platform CCTV. There is a payphone, ticket machines, booking office and live departure and arrival screens for passenger information. The station has a free car park, with 126 spaces, as well as an 8-space cycle rack and secure indoor storage for 40 cycles. The platforms are fully accessible for wheelchair users with lifts available.
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
Bibliography
External links
Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
DfT Category E stations
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Formby
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaBasic
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AlphaBASIC is a computer programming language created by Alpha Microsystems in 1976. The language was written by Alpha Microsystems employees Paul Edelstein, Dick Wilcox and Bob Courier.
Features
AlphaBASIC shares much in common with other BASIC languages. It does offer some fairly unusual features such as multi-user orientation, ability to control memory layout of variables (MAP statement), calling of external assembly language subroutines (XCALL statement). The language is designed for developers of vertical market software packages. The compiler and runtime system are written in Motorola 68000 assembly language, and thus are only able to run on Alpha Microsystems hardware. The compiler emits interpreter code.
References
External links
AlphaBASIC User's Manual
Softworks Basic is a compatible superset of the AlphaBasic Language
Softworks Basic is an AlphaBASIC compatible language for Windows, Linux, Unix
Softworks Basic to VB.Net Translator translates AlphaBASIC and Softworks Basic into Microsoft VB.Net 2005
BASIC interpreters
Assembly language software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenbrock%20function
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In mathematical optimization, the Rosenbrock function is a non-convex function, introduced by Howard H. Rosenbrock in 1960, which is used as a performance test problem for optimization algorithms. It is also known as Rosenbrock's valley or Rosenbrock's banana function.
The global minimum is inside a long, narrow, parabolic shaped flat valley. To find the valley is trivial. To converge to the global minimum, however, is difficult.
The function is defined by
It has a global minimum at , where . Usually, these parameters are set such that and . Only in the trivial case where the function is symmetric and the minimum is at the origin.
Multidimensional generalizations
Two variants are commonly encountered.
One is the sum of uncoupled 2D Rosenbrock problems, and is defined only for even s:
This variant has predictably simple solutions.
A second, more involved variant is
has exactly one minimum for (at ) and exactly two minima for —the global minimum at and a local minimum near . This result is obtained by setting the gradient of the function equal to zero, noticing that the resulting equation is a rational function of . For small the polynomials can be determined exactly and Sturm's theorem can be used to determine the number of real roots, while the roots can be bounded in the region of . For larger this method breaks down due to the size of the coefficients involved.
Stationary points
Many of the stationary points of the function exhibit a regular pattern when plotted. This structure can be exploited to locate them.
Optimization examples
The Rosenbrock function can be efficiently optimized by adapting appropriate coordinate system without using any gradient information and without building local approximation models (in contrast to many derivate-free optimizers). The following figure illustrates an example of 2-dimensional Rosenbrock function optimization by
adaptive coordinate descent from starting point . The solution with the function value can be found after 325 function evaluations.
Using the Nelder–Mead method from starting point with a regular initial simplex a minimum is found with function value after 185 function evaluations. The figure below visualizes the evolution of the algorithm.
See also
Test functions for optimization
References
External links
Rosenbrock function plot in 3D
Mathematical optimization
Polynomials
Functions and mappings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Brown
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Richard H. Brown was chairman and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems Corporation from 1999 to 2003; chief executive officer of Cable & Wireless plc from 1996 to 1998; a director of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 2001 to 2015 and a director of Home Depot.
President and chief executive officer of H&R Block, Inc. and vice chairman of Ameritech Corporation. He is a member of The Business Council, and a former member of the U.S.-Japan Business Council; the French-American Business Council and the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
In 2003, BusinessWeek included Brown in its list of worst managers for 2002.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American technology chief executives
H&R Block
The Home Depot people
DuPont people
Directors of Chemours
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Feud%20%28video%20game%20series%29
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The video game series based on the game show Family Feud began with ShareData's 1987 release on the Apple II and Commodore 64 consoles. In 1990 GameTek released a version on the NES. GameTek later released four more Feud games for the Super NES, Sega Genesis, 3DO, and PC between 1993 and 1995. Hasbro Interactive, Global Star, and Ubisoft have also released versions starting in 2000.
ShareData versions
ShareData released the first video game versions of the game show in 1987 on the Apple II and Commodore 64, with two versions of the packaging: one shows a drawing of a just completed round (using the Milton Bradley home game art design), and another shows a full shot of the set from the first Richard Dawson era. The game plays like the Dawson era (with the look similar to the 1976 - 1985 era) with (2 Single rounds, 1 Double Round, and 1 Triple Round - with 300 point rules and Fast Money Win of $10,000)
Later in 1989, ShareData released "The All New Family Feud" on PC, Apple, C64 with rules, gameplay and look based on the Ray Combs era.
GameTek versions gameplay
NES
In the NES version of Family Feud, the game tried to recreate the look and feel from the original Richard Dawson-hosted series, even going as far as to include a Dawson-like host who kissed the female characters in the game. (This differed from the game's packaging, which used the set from the Ray Combs era.) One or two players could play.
Just like the show, the object was to come up with answers to survey questions posed to 100 people. Correct answers were worth money, with $200 winning the game and the right to play Fast Money for $5,000, which was played exactly the same way as on the show (at least 200 points needed to win). $5 a point was awarded for unsuccessful playings of the round.
A player entered his answers by using the controller to scroll through the alphabet, contained in a string along the bottom of the screen; the answer had to be completed within a time limit. Reasonable similes to correct answers were accepted, and slight misspellings were also recognized.
Once a player won, they were given two options. The first was to stop playing, with the other being to continue on. A champion retired after winning over $20,000 automatically unless they were defeated.
If a computer-controlled family wins the game, no Fast Money is played with an excuse given to the form of "Due to (EXCUSE), the (NAMES) will not be playing Fast Money today". Excuses used include "tax considerations" and "a birth in the family". This is a carry-over from the ShareData versions of the game.
SNES/Genesis and 3DO/PC
The versions that followed used the Combs set, with the SNES and Genesis version using a host resembling Combs and the 3DO and PC versions featuring a host resembling Dawson (as he had returned to the series by this point).
The later versions also added options to where a player could play a game without facing an opponent and whether or not they wanted to play the Bullseye Roun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy%27s%20Silly%20Sports%20Spectacular
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Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular!, known in Japan as and based on the British home computer game, Alternative World Games, is a child-oriented sports game that was released by Kemco for the Nintendo Entertainment System on September 22, 1988 (April 1990 in North America).
Summary
This video game is a collection of six events that uses various characters from the Peanuts series (Donald Duck in the Japanese version) as opponents. Events include boot throwing (similar to hammer throwing), pizza balancing, and sack racing, among others.
In the background, landmarks unique to Italy are shown (i.e., Leaning Tower of Pisa) and the structures using Roman architecture (i.e., the Colosseum) are shown while the player competes at the six events. Playing the "River Jump" event requires impeccable timing; like in the long jump event in the Track & Field video game Dewey (in the Donald Duck version), always pushes the lagging player ahead of the leader, allowing them to catch up. A majority of the game seems to be ported from the Commodore 64 video game Alternative World Games by Gremlin Interactive.
The graphics in the game tend to flicker while the color palette can be unusual for certain events in the game. For example, the Japanese version had Donald Duck developing green skin or his trademark blue hat suddenly becoming black.
Development
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular is a loose port of Alternative World Games, a 1987 title for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. Kemco had signed a deal with British developer/publisher Gremlin Graphics for the console rights to several of their computer games (such as Monty on the Run). However, this was the only title of theirs to be re-released back to the West.
Two songs in the game were previously used in the Japanese Famicom version of Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper, the most notable being the menu theme.
Licensing
After the release of the Family Computer Disk System title, Roger Rabbit, Kemco still had the rights to release Disney-based video games in Japan, while the Who Framed Roger Rabbit license expired, making them choose Donald Duck and release a video game starring him in Japan. As Japanese video game company Capcom USA held the Disney license in North America, Kemco decided to license Snoopy instead for the North American version.
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1988 video games
Donald Duck video games
Fantasy sports video games
Kemco games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Side-scrolling video games
Sports video games set in Italy
Video games based on Peanuts
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Video games about dogs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAP/4
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ICAP/4 is a family of commercial SPICE analog circuit simulation software developed and sold by Intusoft for use on personal computers. It is Intusoft's fourth generation analog and mixed signal circuit simulation package and is used in electronic design automation.
All of the ICAP/4 products incorporate the Intusoft IsSpice4 simulation engine, which is based on Berkeley SPICE 3 analog simulation with the Georgia Tech XSPICE event simulator model. The original IsSpice simulator was created in 1985, however the current version offers many distinct advantages over its Berkeley SPICE predecessor.
References
External links
Detailed description of ICAP/4 and its features
Summary of all products within the ICAP/4 family
Electronic design automation software
Electronic circuit simulators
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20data%20capture
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In databases, change data capture (CDC) is a set of software design patterns used to determine and track the data that has changed (the "deltas") so that action can be taken using the changed data. The result is a delta-driven dataset.
CDC is an approach to data integration that is based on the identification, capture and delivery of the changes made to enterprise data sources.
CDC occurs often in data-warehouse environments since capturing and preserving the state of data across time is one of the core functions of a data warehouse, but CDC can be utilized in any database or data repository system.
Methodology
System developers can set up CDC mechanisms in a number of ways and in any one or a combination of system layers from application logic down to physical storage.
In a simplified CDC context, one computer system has data believed to have changed from a previous point in time, and a second computer system needs to take action based on that changed data. The former is the source, the latter is the target. It is possible that the source and target are the same system physically, but that would not change the design pattern logically. Multiple CDC solutions can exist in a single system.
Timestamps on rows
Tables whose changes must be captured may have a column that represents the time of last change. Names such as LAST_UPDATE, LAST_MODIFIED, etc. are common. Any row in any table that has a timestamp in that column that is more recent than the last time data was captured is considered to have changed.
Timestamps on rows are also frequently used for optimistic locking so this column is often available.
Version numbers on rows
Database designers give tables whose changes must be captured a column that contains a version number. Names such as VERSION_NUMBER, etc. are common.
One technique is to mark each changed row with a version number. A current version is maintained for the table, or possibly a group of tables. This is stored in a supporting construct such as a reference table. When a change capture occurs, all data with the latest version number is considered to have changed. Once the change capture is complete, the reference table is updated with a new version number.
(Do not confuse this technique with row-level versioning used for optimistic locking. For optimistic locking each row has an independent version number, typically a sequential counter. This allows a process to atomically update a row and increment its counter only if another process has not incremented the counter. But CDC cannot use row-level versions to find all changes unless it knows the original "starting" version of every row. This is impractical to maintain.)
Status indicators on rows
This technique can either supplement or complement timestamps and versioning. It can configure an alternative if, for example, a status column is set up on a table row indicating that the row has changed (e.g., a boolean column that, when set to true, indicates that th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user%20computing
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End-user computing (EUC) refers to systems in which non-programmers can create working applications. EUC is a group of approaches to computing that aim to better integrate end users into the computing environment. These approaches attempt to realize the potential for high-end computing to perform problem-solving in a trustworthy manner.
End-user computing can range in complexity from users simply clicking a series of buttons, to citizen developers writing scripts in a controlled scripting language, to being able to modify and execute code directly.
Examples of end-user computing are systems built using fourth-generation programming languages, such as MAPPER or SQL, or one of the fifth-generation programming languages, such as ICAD.
Factors
Factors contributing to the need for further EUC research include knowledge processing, pervasive computing, issues of ontology, interactive visualization, and the like.
Some of the issues related to end-user computing concern software architecture (iconic versus language interfaces, open versus closed, and others). Other issues relate to intellectual property, configuration and maintenance. End-user computing allows more user-input into system affairs that can range from personalization to full-fledged ownership of a system.
EUC strategy
EUC applications should not be evolved by accident, but there should be a defined EUC strategy. Any Application Architecture Strategy / IT Strategy should consider the white spaces in automation (enterprise functionality not automated by ERP / Enterprise Grade Applications). These are the potential areas where EUC can play a major role. Then ASSIMPLER parameters should be applied to these white spaces to develop the EUC strategy. (ASSIMPLER stands for availability, scalability, security, interoperability, maintainability, performance, low cost of ownership, extendibility and reliability.)
In businesses, an end-user concept gives workers more flexibility, as well as more opportunities for better productivity and creativity. However, EUC will work only when leveraged correctly. That’s why it requires a full-fledged strategy. Any strategy should include all the tools users might need to carry out their tasks and work more productively.
Types of EUC
End-user computing covers a broad range of user-facing resources, including:
desktop and notebook computers;
desktop operating systems and applications;
scripting languages such as robotic desktop automation or RDA;
smartphones and wearables;
mobile, web and cloud applications;
virtual desktops and applications
EUC risk drivers
Business owners should understand that every user-controlled app needs to be monitored and supervised. Otherwise, organization risk facing a lot of problems and losses if end-users don’t follow company policy or leave their job. In functions such as finance, accounting and regulated activities, unmanaged EUC may expose the organization to regulatory compliance issues and fines.
End-user compu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracol%20Radio
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Caracol Radio (Cadena Radial Colombiana, "Colombian Radio Network") is one of the main radio networks in Colombia. Founded in Medellín in 1948 when La Voz de Antioquia station acquired the 50% of Emisoras Nuevo Mundo, based in Bogotá.
Julio Mario Santo Domingo was its main shareholder until 2003, when Spanish Grupo Prisa bought the Grupo Latino de Radio, whose 17% was Santo Domingo's.
History
In 1945 Colombian Liberal Party politicians César García, Jorge Soto del Corral, Luis Uribe Piedrahita, Alberto Arango Tavera, Carlos Sanz Santamaría, José Gómez Pinzón, Alfonso López Pumarejo, and Alfonso López Michelsen created Sociedad Radiodifusión Interamericana, which would create the Emisora Nuevo Mundo in Bogotá. On 3 September 1948, La Voz de Antioquia acquired the 50% of Emisora Nuevo Mundo. Caracol would be legally founded in 1949. Coltejer, a textile company which had invested in La Voz de Antioquia and Emisoras Nuevo Mundo, would own some shares until 1959.
In the 1950s, the network expanded when Emisoras Fuentes (Cartagena de Indias), Emisoras Unidas (Barranquilla) and RCO Radiodifusora de Occidente (Cali) became affiliates. In 1952 Caracol would create a second station, Radio Reloj, which would become the first station with an all-music format, with a time mention between songs. In 1956, Caracol owned and operated four stations: La Voz de Antioquia (Compañía Colombiana de Radiodifusión, Medellín, HJDM, currently Radio Reloj Medellín), La Voz del Río Cauca (Cali, currently Caracol Cali, HJED), Emisoras Nuevo Mundo and Radio Reloj. The first three created in 1956 the so-called Triángulo de Oro ("Gold triangle"), with 50 kW each, in order to broadcast the Vuelta a Colombia. La Voz del Río Cauca could be heard as far as Argentina. In 1960, Fernando Londoño Henao, a prominent member of the Colombian Conservative Party, became its president.
Between 1958 and 1963, Caracol would acquire several stations, such as Emisora Mil 20, Emisoras Eldorado and La Voz de Colombia (Bogotá), Radio Reloj (Panama), Sociedad Informativa de Contrapunto, La Voz del Café (Pereira), Pregones del Quindío (Armenia), Radio Comercio (Bucaramanga), and Radio Visión (Medellín), and absorb small networks as Cadena Radial Andina and Sociedad Nacional de Radiodifusión. In 2003 Caracol TV was spun off from Caracol Radio. In 1970 it would acquire exclusive broadcasting rights for the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
In 1986 Caracol Radio would rent the stations of the Núcleo Radial Bienvenida. In the same year Julio Mario Santo Domingo would acquire the 50% of both Caracol Radio and Caracol TV, with 25% belonging to Alfonso López Michelsen, and the other 25% for the family of Fernando Londoño Henao. In 1990 it would acquire Radio Sutatenza, a network of educational radio stations founded in 1947 which was having financial problems. Radio Sutatenza was the only network in Colombia with transmitters over 50 kW.
On 12 August 2010 at 05:30 (10:30 UTC), a car bomb exploded outside
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity%20Toronto
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Integrity/Toronto is the oldest Canadian chapter of Integrity, a network of support and advocacy groups for gay and lesbian members of the Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church (United States), Anglican Church of Australia, and Church of Uganda.
In 1975, Integrity/Chicago, the organization's first chapter, held a convention. The half-dozen attendees from Toronto discovered one another at the conference, and founded Integrity/Toronto.
The chapter has ties to the Church of the Redeemer, where its monthly services are held, and whose parish LGBT group overlaps heavily with Integrity/Toronto's membership.
Integrity/Toronto also holds annual retreats, operates a pamphlet ministry, appears at General Synod, and promotes parish education about GLBT Christian issues. It was engaged in a dialogue process with Fidelity before that group dissolved.
See also
LGBT-welcoming church programs
External links
Integrity/Toronto
Anglicanism
LGBT Christian organizations
LGBT organizations in Canada
LGBT culture in Toronto
Organizations based in Toronto
LGBT and Anglicanism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20representation
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In computer programming, genetic representation is a way of presenting solutions/individuals in evolutionary computation methods. The term encompasses both the concrete data structures and data types used to realize the genetic material of the candidate solutions in the form of a genome, and the relationships between search space and problem space. In the simplest case, the search space corresponds to the problem space (direct representation). The choice of problem representation is tied to the choice of genetic operators, both of which have a decisive effect on the efficiency of the optimization. Genetic representation can encode appearance, behavior, physical qualities of individuals. Difference in genetic representations is one of the major criteria drawing a line between known classes of evolutionary computation.
Terminology is often analogous with natural genetics. The block of computer memory that represents one candidate solution is called an individual. The data in that block is called a chromosome. Each chromosome consists of genes. The possible values of a particular gene are called alleles. A programmer may represent all the individuals of a population using binary encoding, permutational encoding, encoding by tree, or any one of several other representations.
Representations in some popular evolutionary algorithms
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are typically linear representations; these are often, but not always, binary. Holland's original description of GA used arrays of bits. Arrays of other types and structures can be used in essentially the same way. The main property that makes these genetic representations convenient is that their parts are easily aligned due to their fixed size. This facilitates simple crossover operation. Depending on the application, variable-length representations have also been successfully used and tested in evolutionary algorithms (EA) in general and genetic algorithms in particular, although the implementation of crossover is more complex in this case.
Evolution strategy uses linear real-valued representations, e.g., an array of real values. It uses mostly gaussian mutation and blending/averaging crossover.
Genetic programming (GP) pioneered tree-like representations and developed genetic operators suitable for such representations. Tree-like representations are used in GP to represent and evolve functional programs with desired properties.
Human-based genetic algorithm (HBGA) offers a way to avoid solving hard representation problems by outsourcing all genetic operators to outside agents, in this case, humans. The algorithm has no need for knowledge of a particular fixed genetic representation as long as there are enough external agents capable of handling those representations, allowing for free-form and evolving genetic representations.
Common genetic representations
binary array
integer or real-valued array
binary tree
natural language
parse tree
directed graph
Distinction between search spa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Fire%21
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Under Fire! is a tactical level computer game released by Avalon Hill's computer division in 1985. The game was released for Apple II, Commodore 64, and DOS systems. Initial packaging had the name of the designer, Ralph H. Bosson, over the title on the box front so as to read Ralph Bosson's UNDER FIRE!, but subsequent packaging replaced his name and read Avalon Hill's UNDER FIRE! instead. The C64 port was by Dyadic Software Associates.
The game was not billed as a computer version of Squad Leader, though it did bear some similarities in that players commanded roughly company sized forces. Only three maps were available for play. The game was unique in that for each of the nine scenarios, victory was not declared at game's end. A results screen would show losses in men and equipment, and list possession of objectives, leaving the determination of "victory" to the player.
An Extended Capabilities Disk was sold by Avalon Hill also, adding 56 more US, German and Russian assault guns and tanks to the game, as well as providing Japanese, British and Italian forces, with two additional maps and six more scenarios. A Second Extended Capabilities Disk also underwent initial development, bringing a campaign layer to the game, increasing the speed of play, and making use of 64K of additional memory (where available).
Gameplay
The player would select display options and game scale at the start of play (the map was divided into squares, which could represent a variable number of metres per square, selected by the player at the outset of the game). The display as very simple, with units represented by crude tank, halftrack, or soldier icons. The display was a four-color output for the IBM PC and 16-color for the Apple II. A scenario and map were selected (with only three choices of each, for a total of nine combinations to choose from). However, forces were randomly selected for each nationality, and the player could also choose to either attack or defend, providing even more diversity to gameplay. The player also had the option of playing either a human opponent, or against a computer opponent.
The game was "WEGO" in concept (the same concept later made famous by Combat Mission) in that both players entered their orders, and then watched the order resolution unfold simultaneously.
The computer opponent was actually a form of artificial intelligence; in the words of the designer: "I attempted to create a player that would try to win, not simply fire back. The computer has been given a knowledge of small arms tactics. It will, when possible, co-ordinate its attacks."
Reception
William Harrington of Computer Gaming World in 1985 called Under Fire! "highly playable" and predicted that the ability to construct scenarios would keep the game "on the cutting edge of computer war gaming in months and even years to come". While noting slow performance on the Apple II series, it concluded that the game was "a must for Apple computer wargamers". The magazine i
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boicho%20Kokinov
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Boicho Kokinov (, 27 December 1960 – 10 May 2013) was an associate professor in cognitive science and computer science at the New Bulgarian University and the director of the Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science.
He was the main organizer of the series of the Annual Summer Schools in Cognitive Science from 1994 until his death.
Early life and education
Kokinov received his PhD at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
Research interests
His research interests included understanding human thinking and memory: analogy-making, problem solving, decision-making, judgment, context, constructive memory, memory distortions, blending of episodes. He developed the DUAL Cognitive Architecture and a number of models based on it: AMBR (a model of analogy-making and memory) together with Alexander Petrov, Maurice Grinberg, Georgi Petkov, and Ivan Vankov; JUDGEMAP (a model of judgment) together with Georgi Petkov. Experimental data has been collected in support of these models: dissimilar episodes can be blended as result of a double analogy with a third episode (with Neda Zareva); analogical episodes are easier to blend than superficially similar ones (with Veselina Feldman); analogy helps children to do relational mapping and transitive inference (with Milena Mutafchieva); simple analogies are done automatically and without awareness (with Penka Hristova); comparing relations in analogy requires parallel mental simulations of body actions (with Ivan Vankov); anxiety restricts analogy generation (with Veselina Feldman).
Publications
Kokinov, B., Holyoak, K., Gentner, D. eds. (2009). New Frontiers in Analogy Research. Sofia: NBU Press
Kokinov, B., Richardson, D., Roth-Berghofer, Th., Vieu, L. eds. (2007) Modeling and Using Context. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), vol. 4635, Berlin: Springer Verlag
Kokinov, B. ed. (2005). Advances in Cognitive Economics. Sofia: NBU Press.
Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. eds. (2005). Modeling and Using Context. Lecture Notes in AI, vol. 3554, Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Kokinov, B., Hirst, W., eds. (2003). Constructive Memory. Sofia: NBU Press.
Gentner, D., Holyoak, K., Kokinov, B., eds. (2001). The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Holyoak, K., Gentner, D., Kokinov, B., eds., (1998). Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences. Sofia: NBU Press
References
External links
Home page
1960 births
2013 deaths
Cognitive scientists
Bulgarian scientists
Academic staff of New Bulgarian University
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUST%20School%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science
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NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (NUST-SEECS), formerly NUST Institute of Information Technology, is a constituent school in Islamabad, Pakistan. It was created on a self-financed basis in April 1999 as a constituent college of National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST). The formation of NUST was prompted by the growing need for high-caliber IT instruction in the country and the necessity for the institution to establish its own IT division.
Degree programs
The school is split into two departments offering programs in both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Department of Electrical Engineering
Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering
Master's in Communication and Computer Security
MS/Ph.D in Electrical Engineering
Department of Computing
Bachelors in Software Engineering
Bachelors in Computer Science
MS/Ph.D in Computer Science
MS in Information Security
Master's in Information Technology
Ph.D in Information Technology
Research Groups and Labs
Information Processing and Transmissions Lab (IPT)
IPT Lab focuses on the intersectional areas of communications theory, signal processing theory and applied mathematics. The current focus of the IPT lab is the design of 5G/6G Wireless communication algorithms with a variety of allied areas such as IOT, networking, statistical signal processing and estimations & detection etc.
System Analysis and Verification Lab (SAVe)
System Analysis and Verification Lab, SAVe, focuses research on using formal methods, which are based on mathematical techniques and, thus, unlike simulation, ensure complete results, for the analysis and verification of hardware, software, and embedded systems.
Data Engineering for Large-Scale Applications (DELSA)
The Data Engineering for Large-Scale Applications, DELSA, research group explores semantics, databases, and interoperable systems in scientific and business domains. The research group aims at broadening the focus of database and data management techniques beyond their traditional scope.
Smart Machines And Robotics Technology (SMART) Lab
SMART Lab is currently working on developing a training system for laparoscopic and robotic surgery together with Holy Family Hospital, Pakistan. Other areas of research include simulator design, intelligent robots and vision-based algorithms for mobile robots. Some projects include a speech controlled robotic arm, an autonomous robotic platform and a robotic soccer environment for LEGO Mindstorms.
Research laboratory for Communication, Networks & Multimedia (Connekt)
Research laboratory for Communication, Networks & Multimedia, Connekt, addresses research problems arising in three areas: Multimedia Communications, Wireless Networks and the Internet. Areas of particular interest include networking, Applied Information Theory and Network Performance Analysis. The Lab's current research interest spans the theory and design of novel algorithms and frameworks for reliable multimedia tran
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZBB-AM
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DZBB (pronounced DZ-double-B; 594 AM) Super Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network. It serves as the flagship station of the Super Radyo network and one of the assets of GMA Radio and GMA Integrated News. The station's studio is located at the 3rd floor of GMA Network Studio Annex, EDSA corner GMA Network Drive, Diliman, Quezon City, while its transmitter is located along Camia St., Brgy. Panghulo, Obando, Bulacan.
Cable company Spectrum broadcasts the audio of DZBB along with that of DWLS to the United States as part of its "Filipino Channels" package
Super Radyo DZBB is currently held its position as the #1 AM radio station in Metro Manila, according to the Nielsen Radio Audience Measurement survey conducted in the month of June 2023.
History
1950–1989: Dobol B
DZBB marked its inaugural broadcast, as the station's static-marred signal was wafted on the air for the first time on March 1, 1950, by Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart, in a small office space in Calvo Building, Escolta, Binondo, Manila, with mostly second-hand equipment and an old, surplus radio transmitter. The station was then broadcasting on the frequency of 580 kHz, with the power of 10,000 watts.
Despite the scarcity of new broadcasting facilities, the station has scored many milestones with its news, Congressional coverage, breaking news, exclusives, and blow-by-blow accounts of major national events. It was also a pioneer with trendsetting shows such as Camay Theater of the Air, Cathay Broadcasting, Lovingly Yours, Helen, Kahapon Lamang, Tawag ng Tanghalan, Newscoop, and Kwentong Kutsero. Some of these shows eventually became television shows. DZBB was also the first to air live coverage of not only news and public affairs, but also entertainment and educational programmes.
In 1957, DZBB moved to its new and current home at EDSA, Quezon City.
Due to the success of DZBB, Stewart ventured into television on October 29, 1961, as DZBB-TV Channel 7 with the branding of RBS-7 (now known as GMA-7 Manila). The station was seized and closed in September 1972 due to Martial Law pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081. Two years later, due to changes in media ownership laws, Channel 7, DZBB and their other sister provincial radio and television stations were eventually sold to the triumvirate of Gilberto Duavit Sr., Menardo Jimenez and Felipe Gozon. At the same time, DZBB returned to the airwaves — through the efforts of the station's new management — under its new branding "Dobol B", which would later be rebranded to simply DZBB 594 kHz; it became a music-personality radio station and it also covered major news stories in the 1970s and 1980s. In November 1978, DZBB moved to the present frequency of 594 kHz, in response to the adoption of the 9 kHz spacing on AM radio stations in the Philippines under the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975.
1989–1999: Bisig Bayan
The station was rebranded as "Bisig Bayan" from July 17, 1989, to January 3, 1999; and completely changed its form
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Phillpott
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A US Naval captain, Scott Phillpott came to prominence after informing the 2004 9/11 Commission that a data-mining project named Able Danger had identified hijack leader Mohamed Atta as a threat tied to al-Qaeda and living in Brooklyn as early as January 2000, many months before his attack in September 2001.
He was quoted by Fox News in August 2005 as stating I have briefed the Department of the Army, the Special Operations Command and the office of (Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence) Dr. Cambone as well as the 9/11 Commission. My story has remained consistent.
Phillpott and a civilian technician identified as "JD Smith" were the two sources for Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's claims of an intelligence failure.
Phillpott has commanded the USS Typhoon (PC 5), USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13), USS ESTOCIN (FFG-15), and USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55).
References
Living people
United States Navy officers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Hayes%20%28disambiguation%29
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Pat Hayes (born 1944) is a computer scientist.
Pat Hay(e)s may also refer to:
Pat Hays (1947–2023), American lawyer and politician
Pat Hayes (Canadian politician) (1942–2011)
Pat Hayes of American blues band, The Lamont Cranston Band (active since 1969)
Pat Hayes of Australian alternative-rock band, Falling Joys (active since 1985)
Pat Hayes (rower) (born 1951), American Olympic rower
See also
Patrick Hayes (disambiguation)
Patricia Hayes (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WITF-FM
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WITF-FM (89.5 FM) is a non-commercial, public FM radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by WITF, Inc., and broadcasts NPR talk and news programming. It is co-owned with the area's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station, WITF-TV (channel 33). Both stations are based at the Public Media Center in Swatara Township (with a Harrisburg mailing address), and broadcast from a shared tower located on Blue Mountain in Susquehanna Township.
Like most NPR member stations, WITF-FM broadcasts fundraising appeals, seeking contributions from its listeners to support the station.
History
On April 1, 1971, WITF-FM signed on the air, becoming the first station in Central Pennsylvania to broadcast a fulltime classical music radio format. It was originally licensed to Hershey (the license moved to Harrisburg in 1982). WITF-FM was founded as the sister station to WITF-TV, which signed on seven years earlier.
At first, the stations broadcast from "temporary" studios at the former Hershey Middle School, moving to Locust Lane in Harrisburg in 1982. On July 22, 2005, WITF-FM-TV began construction on their current 75,000 square foot facility in Swatara Township. Staff began moving into the facility on November 27, 2006.
After airing a mix of classical music and NPR programming for much of its history, the station dropped all classical music programming on June 25, 2012. WITF-FM began a 24 hour schedule of news and information consisting of syndicated programs from NPR and other providers, along with local news and cultural arts reporting by the WITF staff. WITF has its own Multimedia News Department. It provides local and regional news coverage for both radio and TV.
In 2012, StateImpact Pennsylvania won one of three 2013 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards for its outstanding reporting on energy issues for focusing on the fiscal, environmental and social issues of gas drilling on Pennsylvania's economy. WITF reporter Scott Detrow contributed to the report.
In 2016, WITF's reporting was honored with six regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association for excellence in broadcast and online journalism.
Following the January 6 United States Capitol attack in 2021, WITF's news department began adding language to political news reports to point out that state legislators or members of Congress mentioned in the story advocated against certifying the Pennsylvania 2020 presidential election results. The Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan highlighted this move in a May 2021 column.
Simulcast and translator
WITF-FM broadcasts at 5,900 watts, which is fairly modest for a full NPR member on the FM band. As a result, even with its transmitter located atop Blue Mountain, it only provides a grade B signal to the largest city in its service area, Lancaster. To provide a stronger signal to listeners in Lancaster, WITF-FM programming is simulcast on the following translator:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol%20spoofing
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Protocol spoofing is used in data communications to improve performance in situations where an existing protocol is inadequate, for example due to long delays or high error rates.
Spoofing techniques
In most applications of protocol spoofing, a communications device such as a modem or router simulates ("spoofs") the remote endpoint of a connection to a locally attached host, while using a more appropriate protocol to communicate with a compatible remote device that performs the equivalent spoof at the other end of the communications link.
File transfer spoofing
Error correction and file transfer protocols typically work by calculating a checksum or CRC for a block of data known as a packet, and transmitting the resulting number at the end of the packet. At the other end of the connection, the receiver re-calculates the number based on the data it received and compares that result to what was sent from the remote machine. If the two match the packet was transmitted correctly, and the receiver sends an ACK to signal that it's ready to receive the next packet.
The time to transmit the ACK back to the sender is a function of the phone lines, as opposed to the modem's speed, and is typically about of a second on short links and may be much longer on long-distance links or data networks like X.25. For a protocol using small packets, this delay can be larger than the time needed to send a packet. For instance, the UUCP "g" protocol and Kermit both use 64-byte packets, which on a 9600 bit/s link takes about of a second to send. XMODEM used a slightly larger 128-byte packet, which takes about of a second to send.
The next packet of data cannot be sent until the ACK for the previous packet is received. In the case of XMODEM, for instance, that means it takes a minimum of of a second for the entire cycle to complete for a single packet. This means that the overall speed is only half the theoretical maximum, a 50% channel efficiency.
Protocol spoofing addresses this problem by having the local modem recognize that a data transfer is underway, often by looking for packet headers. When these are seen, the modem then looks for the end of the packet, normally by knowing the number of bytes in a single packet. XMODEM, for instance, has 132 bytes in a packet due to the header and checksum being added to the 128 bytes of actual data. When the modem sees the packet has ended, it immediately sends of spoofed ACK message back to the host. This causes the local computer to immediately send another packet, avoiding the latency of waiting for an ACK from the remote machine. The data for multiple packets is held in an internal buffer while the modem is sending it to the remote machine. This allows the packets to be sent continually, greatly improving channel efficiency. However, this also requires the link between the two systems to be error-free, as the modem has already ACKed the packets even before they have been sent. This was normally addressed by using a mo
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Mark Perry McCahill (born February 7, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail.
Career
Mark McCahill received a BA in chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 1979, spent one year doing analytical environmental chemistry, and then joined the University of Minnesota Computer Center as a programmer.
Internet pioneer
In the late 1980s, McCahill led the team at the University of Minnesota that developed POPmail, one of the first popular Internet e-mail clients. At about the same time as POPmail was being developed, Steve Dorner at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed Eudora, and the user interface conventions found in these early efforts are still used in modern-day e-mail clients.
In 1991, McCahill led the original Gopher development team, which invented a simple way to navigate distributed information resources on the Internet. Gopher's menu-based hypermedia combined with full-text search engines paved the way for the popularization of the World Wide Web and was the de facto standard for Internet information systems in the early to mid 1990s.
Working with other pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Alan Emtage and Peter J. Deutsch (creators of Archie) and Jon Postel, McCahill was involved in creating and codifying the standard for Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
In the mid 90s, McCahill's team developed GopherVR, a 3D user interface for the Gopher protocol to explore how spatial metaphors could be used to organize information and create social spaces.
He is said to have coined or popularized the phrase "surfing the Internet". However, prior to McCahill's first use of the phrase in February, 1992, the analogy was used in a comic Book, The Adventures of Captain Internet and CERF Boy, published in October, 1991 by one of the early Internet Service Providers, CERFnet.
Later work
In April 2007, McCahill left the University of Minnesota to join the Office of Information Technology at Duke University as an architect of 3-D learning and collaborative systems. A major focus of his later work has been virtual worlds, and he was one of six principal architects of the Croquet Project.
Virtual worlds
In February 2010, Mark McCahill was revealed by the philosopher Peter Ludlow (also known by the pseudonym Urizenus Sklar) to be the Internet persona Pixeleen Mistral, a noted "tabloid reporter" covering virtual worlds who was the editor of Ludlow's newspaper The Alphaville Herald. In a 2016 interview with Leo Laporte, McCahill said that his involvement with developing the Croquet Project had led him into contact with Second Life and that he had become interested in the sociology of virtual worlds. As Pixeleen Mistral, he was a prominent reporter on Second Life, and a celebrity inside the game, although his real identity was not known
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The Interton Video Computer 4000 (officially abbreviated as Interton VC 4000) is an early 8-bit ROM cartridge-based second-generation home video game console that was released in Germany, England, France, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands and Australia in 1978 by German hearing aid manufacturer Interton. The console is quite obscure outside Germany, but many software-compatible systems can be found in numerous European countries (see versions of the 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System). The console is the successor of the Interton Video 3001 and was sold for 298 Deutsche Mark and discontinued in 1983.
It's unknown if Interton designed and produced the Interton VC 4000 within their own rights, or if they were sold the rights to design and produce it. This is because many other foreign brands have produced "clones" of this system in the preceding years.
The Interton VC 4000's power comes from a Signetics 2650 CPU (which is the same as an Arcadia 2001) and a Signetics 2636 gaming controller. Both controllers contain a 12-button keypad, two fire buttons, and a joystick. Inside the systems control panel, there are four different buttons. The ON/OFF switch, RESET, SELECT, and START.
Released versions
The console was produced by different companies and sold with different names. Not every console is compatible with others due to differences in the shapes and dimensions of the cartridge slots, but all of the systems are software compatible.
In the article about the 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System, there is a table with all the software-compatible consoles grouped by compatibility family (due to the slots).
Technical specifications
CPU: Signetics 2650A at 0.887 MHz
Video controller: Signetics 2636
Data memory: 37 bytes
List of games
The games for the Interton VC 4000 were released on ROM cartridges known as cassettes that were sold for 40-50 Deutsche Mark each.
Cassette - Car Races
Cassette - Blackjack
Cassette - Paddle Games
Cassette - Tank Battle
Cassette - Mathematics I
Cassette - Mathematics II
Cassette - Air/Sea Battle
Cassette - Memory/Flag Capture
Cassette - Intelligence I
Cassette - Winter Sports
Cassette - Hippodrome
Cassette - Hunting
Cassette - Chess
Cassette - Motocross
Cassette - Intelligence II
Cassette - Intelligence III
Cassette - Circus
Cassette - Boxing Match
Cassette - Outer Space Combat
Cassette - Melody/Simon
Cassette - Intelligence IV/Reversi
Cassette - Chess II
Cassette - Pinball
Cassette - Soccer
Cassette - Bowling/Ninepins
Cassette - Draughts
Cassette - Golf
Cassette - Cockpit
Cassette - Metropolis/Hangman
Cassette - Solitaire
Cassette - Casino
Cassette - Invaders
Cassette - Super Invaders
Cassette - Space Laser (Unreleased)
Cassette - Rodeo (Unreleased)
Cassette - Backgammon
Cassette - Monster Man
Cassette - Hyperspace
Cassette - Basketball (Unreleased)
Cassette - Super-Space
See also
1292 Advanced Programmable Video System, contains the software compatibility table of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord%20Miller%20%28sportscaster%29
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Gord Miller (born June 21, 1965) is a Canadian sportscaster for Bell Media's sports cable network TSN. He is the lead play-by-play announcer for TSN Hockey and coverage of international hockey, including the IIHF World Junior Championship. He also covers the annual NHL Entry Draft, provided play-by-play for Canadian Football League games, and does play-by-play for the Stanley Cup playoffs on ESPN in the United States. Miller was awarded the Paul Loicq Award by the International Ice Hockey Federation in 2013, for his contributions to international ice hockey.
Early life
Miller was born June 21, 1965, in Edmonton, Alberta. As a student at McKernan Junior High School, Miller fought in City Hall against a proposed curfew for children under 16. He collected over 3,000 names to petition the curfew and won. After graduating from McKernan Junior High School, Miller attended Strathcona High School alongside Guy Gadowsky.
After graduating from high school, Miller accepted a position as a radio reporter at an Edmonton Oilers home game where he had the opportunity to interview Wayne Gretzky.
Career
Miller began working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1984, where he covered the Edmonton Oilers. He joined TSN as a reporter in 1990 and occasionally calling NHL hockey when needed. In 1994, he began doing hockey play-by-play regularly as the lead announcer on the network's Canadian Hockey League coverage, including the Memorial Cup, as well as more frequent NHL assignments. That year also began his run as a part of TSN's annual World Junior Ice Hockey Championships coverage, first as a rinkside reporter and secondary play-by-play caller, eventually becoming the lead announcer in 2002. He also covered the IIHF World Championships and Women's World Championships.
From 1998 to 2001, he was host of That's Hockey and then returned to the broadcast booth in 2001 as the English television play-by-play voice of the Montreal Canadiens on TSN's regional feed for one season.
In 2002, Miller became TSN's lead hockey play-by-play announcer when it reacquired national broadcast rights to the NHL, teaming up with lead color commentator Pierre McGuire on the #1 team. In 2010, Miller and TSN colleague Chris Cuthbert were selected by Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium as play-by-play announcers for the men's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Since TSN lost the national contract in 2014 to rival Sportsnet and its parent Rogers Media, he now serves as the lead play-by-play for Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators regional games on TSN and international hockey coverage.
Miller called the track and field events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, including the 100m final featuring Usain Bolt.
In 2022, Miller joined the announcers of NHL on ESPN for the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Honours and awards
Miller was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2008 in the Best Sports Play-by-Pla
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20Living%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29
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Fine Living was a Canadian pay television channel owned by CW Media (a division of Canwest and GS Capital Partners), Corus Entertainment, and Scripps Networks Interactive.
Programming
Programs on Fine Living originated from five main categories: Design & Décor, Every Day, Favourite Things, Food & Drink and Travel & Adventure.
Note: This is only a partial list of programs listed as of October 2009.
History
Fine Living was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000 as The Luxe Network to Alliance Atlantis. The licence was originally set to expire on April 1, 2003 if the service was not operating by that date. The CRTC gave an extension to November 24, 2004 and by that time The E.W. Scripps Company had purchased a minority interest in the service and on September 3, 2004 the channel launched as Fine Living.
On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between Canwest and GS Capital Partners bought Alliance Atlantis including Alliance Atlantis' interest in Fine Living.
In June 2009, Canwest announced that it would be shutting down Fine Living in the fall of that year. Canwest said that it would launch a Canadian version of the DIY Network for television providers to replace Fine Living with. The channel was eventually shut down on October 19, 2009 with the launch of DIY Network. The channel will become Magnolia Network on March 28, 2022.
See also
Fine Living (Italy)
Fine Living Network
References
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
Defunct television networks in Canada
Fine Living Network
Former Corus Entertainment networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Sciences%20Research%20Office
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Life Sciences Research Organization (LSRO) is a non-profit organization based in Maryland, United States, that specializes in assembling "ad hoc" expert panels to evaluate scientific literature, data, systems, and proposals in the biomedical sciences.
Overview
LSRO was founded in 1962 as an office within the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to fulfill a US military need for independent scientific counsel. In 2000, LSRO became an independent non-profit organization. It changed its name from Life Sciences Research Office to Life Sciences Research Organization in 2010, and in that same year announced the formation of LSRO Solutions which along with LSRO provides independent, impartial scientific analysis and advice. The organization has a reputation for conducting studies on politically charged issues which are of concern to federal agencies or corporations. Some issues include the dental amalgam controversy, dietary supplement monitoring, and "reduced risk" cigarette products.
It has faced scrutiny for its private clients, particularly in relation to tobacco research.
Past and current clients
Federal government
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
NASA
National Center for Health Services Research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office of Naval Research
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States National Library of Medicine
Private sector
American Physiological Society
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Amoco BioProducts Corp
Biothera
California Walnut Commission
Calorie Control Council
ChemiNutra
Dow AgroSciences
Kellogg Company
Keller and Heckman LLP
Monsanto Company
Philip Morris
Porter Novelli
Procter & Gamble
Research-based Dietary Ingredient Association
RJR Nabisco
Sandoz Nutrition Corp
United Dairy Industry Association
Notable publications
A Study of the Biomedical Problems Related to the Requirements of Troops at Terrestrial Altitudes of 10,000 Feet or Above (1963)
A Study of the Army Radiation Preservation of Food Program (1963)
A Study of Research Methodology for Use in the Development of Anti-radiation Agents (1966)
A Study of Early Radiation-induced Biological Changes as Indicators of Radiation Injury (1969)
A Review of the Biomedical Effects of Marijuana on Man in the Military Environment (1970)
A Study of Individual Variability in Dark Adaptation and Night Vision in Man (1970)
Various reports reviewing GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) substances published between 1972 and 1982
The Nutritional Significance of Dietary Fiber (1977)
The Need for Special Foods and Sugar Substitutes by Individuals with Diabetes Mellitus (1978)
A Review of Adverse Reactions From and Hypersensitivity to P
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20color
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In computing, indexed color is a technique to manage digital images' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers. It is a form of vector quantization compression.
When an image is encoded in this way, color information is not directly carried by the image pixel data, but is stored in a separate piece of data called a color lookup table (CLUT) or palette: an array of color specifications. Every element in the array represents a color, indexed by its position within the array. Each image pixel does not contain the full specification of its color, but only its index into the palette. This technique is sometimes referred as pseudocolor or indirect color, as colors are addressed indirectly.
History
Early graphics display systems that used 8-bit indexed color with frame buffers and color lookup tables include Shoup's SuperPaint (1973) and the video frame buffer described in 1975 by Kajiya, Sutherland, and Cheadle. These supported a palette of 256 RGB colors. SuperPaint used a shift-register frame buffer, while the Kajiya et al. system used a random-access frame buffer.
A few earlier systems used 3-bit color, but typically treated the bits as independent red, green, and blue on/off bits rather than jointly as an index into a CLUT.
Palette size
The palette itself stores a limited number of distinct colors; 4, 16 or
256 are the most common cases. These limits are often imposed by the
target architecture's display adapter
hardware, so it is not a coincidence that those numbers are
exact powers of two (the binary code):
22 = 4,
24 = 16 and
28 = 256. While 256 values can
be fit into a single 8-bit byte (and then a single indexed color
pixel also occupies a single byte), pixel indices with 16 (4-bit, a
nibble) or fewer colors can be packed together into a single byte
(two nibbles per byte, if 16 colors are employed, or four 2-bit pixels
per byte if using 4 colors). Sometimes, 1-bit (2-color) values can be
used, and then up to eight pixels can be packed into a single byte; such
images are considered binary images (sometimes referred as a
bitmap or bilevel image) and not an indexed color image.
If simple video overlay is intended through a
transparent color, one
palette entry is specifically reserved for this purpose, and it is
discounted as an available color. Some machines, such as the MSX
series, had the transparent color reserved by
hardware.
Indexed color images with palette sizes beyond 256 entries are rare. The
practical limit is around 12-bit per pixel, 4,096 different indices. To
use indexed 16 bpp or more does not provide the benefits of the indexed
color images' nature, due to the color palette size in bytes being
greater than the raw image data itself. Also, useful direct RGB
Highcolor modes can be used from
15 bpp and up.
If an image has many subtle color shades, it is necessary to select a
limited repertoire of colors to approxi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OOPSTAD
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OOPSTAD was the Object Oriented Programming For Smalltalk Application Developers Association. It published the periodical HOOPLA!.
Object-oriented programming
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HOOPLA! — 'Hooray for Object Oriented Programming Languages!' — was a periodical published by OOPSTAD. It was one of the first publications entirely devoted to object-oriented programming techniques and the Smalltalk programming language. The magazine had its headquarters in Everett, Washington.
The first issue of HOOPLA! was available at OOPSLA-87; 1000 copies were printed.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines published in Washington (state)
Magazines with year of disestablishment missing
Magazines with year of establishment missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20logging
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Call logging is the collection, evaluation, and reporting of technical and statistical data about telephone calls. It does not encompass phone tapping or call recording.
Collecting data
Telephone call data, such as originating station, destination, start and ending times, and transmission characteristics, is collected from a telecommunications system or private branch exchange (PBX) in form of call detail records (CDRs). The equipment typically presents this data on older PBXs via a serial communications port, or more recently via a computer network over an Ethernet connection. From the interface, CDRs are collected on computer systems running call logging and analysis software. Some PBX manufacturers provide their own basic call logging software but many other third-party software packages are available.
Call logging software
The goal of the call logging software is to interpret the raw CDR data and produce graphical and summarizing reports. Call logging software packages differ in the sizes of PBX systems that they can support, from hundreds of extensions to hundreds of thousands of extensions. They also differ in the capability of logging specific types of events or data and support for specialized PBX features.
In general terms, call logging reports can highlight such areas as:
Cost Control – cost of calls, cost of trunk lines, costs by department or individual extension, number of unused extensions, etc. Call logging software can also discover instances of Telephone fraud.
Performance Management – looks at how long it is taking an organization to answer phone calls by operator, department or extension and demonstrates whether they meet acceptable target levels for that organization.
Capacity Management – judges whether the system is being over or under utilized. It examines trunk usage and call patterns that show where extra capacity is required or where cost savings can be achieved.
QoS Reporting – modern VoIP PBXs are able to output quality of service data in addition to standard CDRs. An up-to-date call logging package should be able to include this data along with its other reports to help monitor and improve system performance.
History
United Kingdom
During the 1970s, Post Office Telecommunications was embarking on upgrading the telephone network, with the view to modernizing the various established mechanical switching devices, consisting mostly of Strowger exchanges, employed in the UK telephone exchanges, and replacing them with an electronic system. This replacement system became known as System X. Concurrently, and as part of this network upgrade, a dedicated engineering group was formed within the division THQ (Telecoms) to design a call logging system and to establish its feasibility for integration within the various existing Strowger and electronic exchanges, prior to their eventual replacement. A mix of different telephone exchange equipment was selected for trial within Scotland, comprising Strowger pre-2000, 2000 and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP
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PDP may refer to:
Computing and technology
Packet Data Protocol in wireless GPRS/HSDPA networks
Parallel distributed processing in connectionism
Plasma display panel
Policy Decision Point in the Common Open Policy Service
Portable DVD player
Power-delay product, the product of power consumption times the input–output delay
Power delay profile, signal intensity as a function of time delay
Primary Data Point in the RRDtool
Programmed Data Processor, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) minicomputers
PDP-1, 1959
PDP-6, 1963
PDP-8
PDP-10, mainframe computer 1966-1980s
PDP-11, 16-bit minicomputers
Project Detail Page on Microsoft Project Server
XACML PDP (policy decision point)
Politics
PDP–Laban, a major political party in the Philippines rooted from the merger of the PDP and LABAN parties
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party, a political party in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir
Democratic Renewal Party (Indonesia), or in Indonesian
Islamic Party (Egypt), formerly the Peace and Development Party, Egypt
Party for Democratic Prosperity, Republic of Macedonia
Peace and Development Party, Mogadishu, Somalia
People's Democratic Party (disambiguation), any of a number of worldwide political parties
Popular Democratic Party (disambiguation), any of a number of worldwide political parties
Progressive Democratic Party (disambiguation), a number of worldwide political parties
Papua Presidium Council, a West Papuan political organization
Party of Democratic Progress, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Other
IATA code for Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport, near Punta del Este, Uruguay
Pacific Drums and Percussion, a manufacturer
Personal development plan
Plastic Disclosure Project, to reduce the environmental impact of plastic
Prescription Drug Plan in US Medicare
Walther PDP, a pistol
Post-detection policy, a Post-Detection Protocol about extraterrestrial life
Potato Diversion Program, a USDA program under which farmers are paid to divert potatoes
PewDiePie, a Swedish YouTuber
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHLAR-TDT
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XHLAR-TDT (channel 2) is a television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision and carries its Las Estrellas network. The station's studios and transmitter are located on Avenida de la República in Nuevo Laredo.
History
On March 9, 1994, Radiotelevisora de México Norte, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Televisa, was authorized to build 62 new stations, including channel 57 in Nuevo Laredo, with the call sign XHNUL-TV. XHNUL and sister XHRTA-TV in Reynosa, however, did not sign on with Mexican programming.
Instead, channel 57 signed on for the first time on September 4 of that same year as XHFTX-TV, broadcasting programming from the Fox network for Laredo, Texas. Prior to XHFTX's sign-on, Laredo viewers received their Fox programs on cable, either from the national Foxnet service or from KRRT in San Antonio.
In 2002, XHFTX, along with XHFOX in Reynosa, disaffiliated from Fox, with the station changing its call sign to XHLAR-TV; Fox programming was reportedly replaced on cable with San Antonio's KABB. It would be about five years before Laredo would get another local Fox affiliate, KXOF-CA. XHLAR then became Televisa Nuevo Laredo, carrying local programming as well as re-airs of programs from the other Televisa networks, including series from Canal 5 and live sports from Gala TV.
In February 2013, XHLAR began broadcasting in digital on channel 38.1 (virtual 57.1); it upgraded its signal to 1080i HD in March 2014.
In 2018, the concessions of all Las Estrellas stations were consolidated in the concessionaire Televimex, S.A. de C.V., as part of a corporate reorganization of Televisa's concessionaires.
Technical information
XHLAR broadcasts in 1080i HD on virtual channel 2.1. In December 2016, XHLAR was authorized to move from physical channel 38 to 29. It was allowed to begin utilizing virtual channel 2, putting the station in line with the rest of the network, in August 2018.
References
External links
Las Estrellas website
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
HLAR-TDT
Las Estrellas transmitters
Television channels and stations established in 1994
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball%20%28service%29
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Dodgeball was a location-based social networking software provider for mobile devices. Users texted their locations to the service, which then notified them of crushes, friends, friends' friends, and interesting venues nearby. Google acquired Dodgeball in 2005 and discontinued it in 2009, replacing it with Google Latitude.
Overview
Dodgeball was founded in 2000 by New York University students Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert. The company was acquired by Google in 2005. In April 2007, Crowley and Rainert left Google, with Crowley describing their experience there as "incredibly frustrating". After leaving Google, Crowley created a similar service known as Foursquare with the help of Naveen Selvadurai.
Dodgeball was available for the cities of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis–St. Paul and Denver.
In January 2009 Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering at Google, announced that the company would "discontinue Dodgeball.com in the next couple of months, after which this service will no longer be available." Dodgeball was shut down and succeeded in February 2009 by Google Latitude. Google Latitude was eventually shut down in 2013.
See also
Location-based service
Mobile dating
Geosocial networking
Foursquare
References
External links
Dodgeball (archive)
Defunct websites
Geosocial networking
Discontinued Google acquisitions
Google acquisitions
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2000
Internet properties disestablished in 2009
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP%20tracker
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The UDP tracker protocol is a high-performance low-overhead BitTorrent tracker protocol. It uses the stateless User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for data transmission instead of the HTTP protocol (over TCP) regular trackers use. The data is in a custom binary format instead of the standard bencode algorithm BitTorrent uses for most communication.
URLs for this protocol have the following format: .
Comparison with the HTTP tracker
The UDP tracker is better optimized and puts less strain on the tracking server. Neither tracker has any effect on transfer speeds.
Clients implementing the protocol
BitComet
BitLord
BitRocket
BitSpirit
Deluge
FlashGet
KTorrent
libbt
Libtorrent (Rasterbar)
qBittorrent
rtorrent (implementing libTorrent (Rakshasa))
μTorrent
Turbo Torrent
Vuze
XBT Client
MLDonkey
Transmission
Tixati
Criticisms
Limited IPv6 support (the protocol specifies a 32-bit integer for the IP address and supports pseudo-headers for 128-bit IPv6 addresses)
No mechanism for index sites to scrape an entire tracker
This can be supported by traditional TCP scrape mechanisms, as it's not a performance issue.
No mechanism for trackers to enforce client restrictions
The UDP tracker protocol has no field to represent the user agent, as the HTTP protocol has. However, the convention to encode the user agent and version inside the peer_id field still applies.
No mechanism for trackers to send warning messages
No compression, especially problematic for large announce responses.
References
External links
UDP tracker protocol specification
an UDP torrent tracker list
BitTorrent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples%20International%20Airport
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Naples-Capodichino International Airport () is the intercontinental airport serving Naples and the Southern Italian region of Campania. According to 2019 data, the airport is the fifth-busiest airport in Italy and the busiest in Southern Italy. The airport serves as a base for easyJet, Ryanair, Volotea and Wizzair. Located north-northeast of the city in the Naples, the airport is officially named Aeroporto di Napoli-Capodichino Ugo Niutta, after decorated WWI pilot Ugo Niutta. The airport covers 233 hectares (576 acres) of land and contains one runway.
History
The district of Capodichino – in the area known as "Campo di Marte" – hosted the first flight exhibitions in Naples in 1910. During the First World War, "Campo di Marte" became a military airport in order to defend the town against Austro-Hungarian and German air attacks.
During World War II, it was used as a combat airfield by the United States Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Force extensively during the Italian Campaign. The airfield was first used by RAF No. 324 Wing with its five squadrons of Supermarine Spitfires in 1943. It was then used by the US Twelfth Air Force which stationed the following units at the airport: 79th Fighter Group (January–May 1944, P-40 Warhawk/P-47 Thunderbolt); 47th Bombardment Group (March–April 1944, A-20 Havoc); 33d Fighter Group (April–May 1944, P-40 Warhawk), 332nd FG (15 Apr 44 - 28 Mar 44, P-39 Airacobra). When the combat units moved out, Air Transport Command used the airport as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel for the remainder of the war.
Commercial traffic started in 1950. In 1980, GE.S.A.C. ("Gestione Servizi Aeroporto Capodichino") was established to administer the airport; in 1982, it became "Gestione Servizi Aeroporti Campani" and participated in by the City Council, the province of Naples and Alitalia. In 1995 GE.S.A.C. drew up – with BAA assistance – a new master plan, which marked the beginning of a twenty-year development plan. After two years (1997), GE.S.A.C. was the first airport management company in Italy to be privatised: BAA acquires 70% of the share package from the City Council and Province of Naples. In 1998, the "Galleria Napoli" opened, a shopping arcade open 365 days a year inside Terminal 1. In 2002, Prince Charles inaugurated the new departure lounge.
In June 2005, Eurofly began seasonal service to New York City using Airbus A330s. This was the airport's first transatlantic flight. In 2010, the airline merged with Meridiana to form Meridiana Fly, which maintained the route. The service ceased in 2017 ahead of Meridiana Fly's rebranding as Air Italy. In May 2019, United Airlines launched seasonal flights to Newark aboard a Boeing 767.
Facilities
The airport is class 4D ICAO and has the classification of military airport opened to commercial air traffic 24 hours/day. The airport management company is fully responsible for managing the airport and coordinating and control activiti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20%26%20Movement
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Fire & Movement: The Forum of Conflict Simulation was a magazine devoted to wargames, both traditional board wargames and computer wargames. It was founded by Rodger MacGowan in 1975, and began publication the following year.
In February 1982, Fire & Movement was acquired by Steve Jackson Games. In January 1985 the magazine was sold again to Diverse Talents Inc. (DTI). In 1988, World Wide Wargames (also known as 3W) acquired Diverse Talents Inc. (DTI), publisher of Fire & Movement, Battleplan and Space Gamer, leading to a complete merger of the two companies. 3W then continued on to publish four gaming magazines simultaneously. John Vanore was the only "outsider" appointed to editorial duties, taking the reins of F&M at the time.
F&M is now published by Decision Games. In January 2010, the last "print" edition of the magazine was published. Editing and layout had been outsourced to Jon Compton to preserve the independence of the magazine content, but subscriptions and newsstand sales continued to decline. As of February 2010, Fire & Movement had been redesignated as an online magazine, and is undergoing retooling. Editorial duties have since been assigned to Eric Harvey.
F&M was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's Hall of Fame in 1999.
Beginnings
Rodger B. MacGowan started wargaming when he was in high school in the late 1960s. After a hiatus due to the Vietnam War (in his words, "girls also had a major impact"), he returned to the hobby in the 1970s with his old playing partners, who had now moved to different cities. They started to correspond with each other about gaming, and MacGowan started to detail the games in a format he referred to as "Battle Report". He included maps and analyses of his games, and his reports proved to be so popular with his friends that he expanded his concept to create his first magazine, entitled Arquebus. Many of the concepts that F&M would later make famous were included, such as game reviews, game reports, hobby news, and feedback analysis from readers. As he became more involved in the writing of Arquebus, a friend suggested "going professional". Using his background as a professional graphic designer in both advertising and magazine production, he approached Baron Publishing Company, who expressed interest in printing the magazine, as long as MacGowan did the work.
MacGowan next contacted Mark Saha, who wrote for The General and Moves magazines. Since he was playtesting the next big release from Avalon Hill — Tobruk — he was able to provide an "inside scoop" for the first issue of F&M. Another concept was born with the first edition, when a copy of the review for Tobruk was sent to the actual developer of the game for fact checking and it was decided to publish his reply word for word. The technique of having developers respond in print to reviews, in the same issue, would be repeated many times over the years.
The title "Fire & Movement" comes from a standard military expressi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Son%20Jeep
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My Son Jeep is an American situation comedy originally broadcast on the NBC Radio and Television networks in 1953 (radio: January 25-June 14; television: July 4-September 22, with a "sneak preview" on June 3). Set in Grove Fall, USA, the program starred Martin Huston (later Bobby Alford) as Jeffrey "Jeep" Allison, a mischievous ten-year-old boy reminiscent of Dennis the Menace. Jeep was the younger of two children of Dr. Robert Allison, (Donald Cook and Paul McGrath on radio, Jeffrey Lynn on television), a widower and small-town doctor.
The program was later revived as a 15-minute weeknight program on the CBS Radio Network (October 3, 1955 – November 9, 1956).
External links
American comedy radio programs
1953 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
NBC original programming
1950s American sitcoms
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20England%20Patriots%20Radio%20Network
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The New England Patriots Radio Network is a radio network which carries live game broadcasts of the New England Patriots. The network's flagship station is WBZ-FM Boston. Bob Socci, who now does the play-by-play with former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak providing the color commentary and former Patriots linebacker Matt Chatham and WBZ-TV/WSBK-TV sports reporter Steve Burton providing the sideline reports. Marc Bertrand and Boston Globe sports columnist Chris Gasper host the pregame, and the postgame show is hosted by Bertrand. Albert Breer and Patriots Football Weekly writers Paul Perillo and Andy Hart are regular guest analysts on the network's pre-game show.
Gil Santos, former WBZ 1030 sports reporter who was known as the "Voice of the New England Patriots," retired after the 2012 season and was replaced by Bob Socci. Santos called the Patriots' December win over the Dolphins that season. Part of Santos' radio call was simulcast by CBS television in recognition of his time with the team. Former hosts of the network's pre- and postgame show include Gary Tanguay, Andy Gresh, Bill Abbate, Mike Ruth, Tim Fox, Pete Brock, and Steve DeOssie.
Station list
Blue background indicates FM translator.
Gray background indicates station is a simulcast of another station.
See also
List of current NFL broadcasters
References
National Football League on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States
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The following is a list of the American radio and television networks and announcers that have broadcast the Major League Baseball All-Star Game over the years.
Television
2020s
Notes
On July 3, 2020, it was announced that the 2020 Major League Baseball All-Star Game scheduled to be held in Los Angeles would not be played due to the coronavirus pandemic. They will instead host in 2022.
The 2021 game was originally scheduled to be played at Truist Field in Atlanta, GA, home of the Atlanta Braves. However, because of a new voting bill being passed in Atlanta, Major League Baseball relocated the game, the 2021 Home Run Derby, and the 2021 MLB draft (a new addition to the All-Star festivities) to Denver.
2010s
Notes
The 2010 All-Star Game marked the first time the annual game would be shown in 3D. Kenny Albert and Mark Grace were the announcers for the 3D broadcast.
2000s
Notes
In 2008, Fox went on the air at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time with a special, one-hour "red carpet parade" show hosted by Jeanne Zelasko and Chris Rose. Also contributing to the program were reporters Mark Grace, Laura Okmin, and Charissa Thompson. This was followed by play-by-play man Joe Buck presiding over the pregame festivities (e.g. player introductions and the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner") via the public address system.
The British rights-holder for this game, five (now known as Channel 5) ended its coverage at 6 a.m. BST with the game still in the 12th inning. The network explained that it had a commitment to carry the children's show The Wiggles that it could not break. The situation is similar to the infamous "Heidi Game" on the U.S. network NBC in 1968.
1990s
Notes
The 1990 All-Star Game from Chicago's Wrigley Field was marred by an approximately 68-minute rain delay during the top of the 7th inning. In the meantime, CBS aired Rescue 911.
For CBS' coverage of the 1992 All-Star Game, they introduced Basecam, a lipstick-size camera, inside first base.
The 1992 All-Star Game on CBS was interrupted with coverage of the Democratic National Convention.
In June 1993, CBS Sports' Lesley Visser suffered a jogging accident in New York's Central Park in which she broke her hip and skidded face-first across the pavement. She required reconstructive plastic surgery on her face and in 2006, she required an artificial hip replacement. She missed the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game due to the accident. In Visser's place in the meantime, came Jim Kaat.
The 1994 All-Star Game marked NBC's first broadcast of a Major League Baseball game since Game 5 of the 1989 National League Championship Series on October 9. It also marked the inaugural broadcast of "The Baseball Network", which was a short-lived (lasting through the conclusion of the 1995 World Series), revenue-sharing joint venture between NBC, ABC, and Major League Baseball. The '94 All-Star game also was broadcast in Spanish on NBC's Secondary Audio Program. Boston Red Sox announcer Héctor Martínez and seven
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26A
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A&A may refer to:
Computing, science and technology
Astronomy and Astrophysics, a scientific journal
Anesthesia & Analgesia, a medical journal
Entertainment
Several related games within the "Axis & Allies" franchise which all deal with World War II combat:
Axis & Allies, a series of strategy board games
Axis & Allies (2004 video game)
Axis & Allies Miniatures, a miniature wargaming system
Angels & Airwaves, an alternative rock band
Austin & Ally, a Disney Channel sitcom
Other uses
A&A Records, a defunct Canadian record store chain
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28Delhi%20Metro%29
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The Blue Line (Line 3 & Line 4) is a metro rail line of the Delhi Metro, a rapid transit system in Delhi, India. It is the longest line (by total length) of the network and consists of a Main Line (Line 3) with 50 stations from Noida Electronic City to Dwarka Sector 21, with a length of and a Branch Line (Line 4) consisting of 8 stations from Vaishali to Yamuna Bank, with a length of .
The Main line (Line 3) was the longest line of the Delhi Metro network until 6 August 2021, when an unfinished section between Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 and Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake stations on the Pink Line was inaugurated and it became one 59-km-long corridor.
History
The Dwarka – Barakhamba Road section of the line was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on 31 December 2005 and opened to the public on 31 December 2005. Subsequent sections opened between Dwarka – Dwarka Sector 9 on 1 April 2006, Barakhamba Road – Indraprastha on 11 November 2006, Indraprastha – Yamuna Bank on 10 May 2009, Yamuna Bank – Noida City Centre on 12 November 2009, and Dwarka Sector 9 – Dwarka Sector 21 on 30 October 2010.
A branch of the Blue line with a length of was inaugurated on 8 January 2010 from Yamuna Bank metro station up to the Anand Vihar in East Delhi. It was further extended up to Vaishali, with it opening to public on 14 July 2011. On 9 March 2019, a 6.67 km extension of the line from Noida City Centre to Noida Electronic City was opened for public by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Stations
Karkardooma station on the Vaishali branch is the second highest station of Delhi metro with a platform height of . Rajouri Garden station on the main line is the third highest station with a height of .
Line 3 (Main Line)
Delhi Metro currently has parking facilities at 35 metro stations of the Blue line.
Line 4 (Branch Line)
Train Info
Extensions
Vaishali extension
A small extension of length was constructed and opened on 14 July 2011 connecting Anand Vihar station of the Blue Line branch with Vaishali Metro station in Ghaziabad, a satellite city near Delhi.
Najafgarh extension (Line 9) Grey Line (Dwarka - Dhansa Bus Stand)
A branch line from Dwarka station to Najafgarh was constructed under Phase III. It was designated as the Grey Line. This line has 3 new stations. Construction work on this extension started in September 2013. The Dwarka-Najafgarh stretch opened for public operations on 4 October 2019. Another extension towards Dhansa Bus Stand became operational on 18 September 2021, after delays due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Noida extension
In April 2014, the Central government approved the extension of the line eastwards from Noida City Centre to Noida Electronic City (Sector-62). The extended line has 6 new stations in a distance of , which became operational on 9 March 2019. Later, the government approved an additional line starting from Noida Sector 51 to Greater Noida, which became the Aqua Line under control of the Noida Metro Rail Corporat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20data
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Nuclear data represents measured (or evaluated) probabilities of various physical interactions involving the nuclei of atoms. It is used to understand the nature of such interactions by providing the fundamental input to many models and simulations, such as fission and fusion reactor calculations, shielding and radiation protection calculations, criticality safety, nuclear weapons, nuclear physics research, medical radiotherapy, radioisotope therapy and diagnostics, particle accelerator design and operations, geological and environmental work, radioactive waste disposal calculations, and space travel calculations.
It groups all experimental data relevant for nuclear physics and nuclear applications. It includes a large number of physical quantities, like scattering and reaction cross sections (which are generally functions of energy and angle), nuclear structure and nuclear decay parameters, etc. It can involve neutrons, protons, deuterons, alpha particles, and virtually all nuclear isotopes which can be handled in a laboratory.
There are two major reasons to need high-quality nuclear data: theoretical model development of nuclear physics, and applications involving radiation and nuclear power. There is often an interplay between these two aspects, since applications often motivate research in particular theoretical fields, and theory can be used to predict quantities or phenomena which can lead to new or improved technological concepts.
Nuclear Data Evaluations
To ensure a level of quality required to protect the public, experimental nuclear data results are occasionally evaluated by a Nuclear Data Organization to form a nuclear data library. These organizations review multiple measurements and agree upon the highest-quality measurements before publishing the libraries. For unmeasured or very complex data regimes, the parameters of nuclear models are adjusted until the resulting data matches well with critical experiments. The result of an evaluation is almost universally stored as a set of data files in Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF) format. To keep the size of these files reasonable, they contain a combination of actual data tables and resonance parameters that can be reconstructed into pointwise data with specialized tools (such as NJOY).
Nuclear Data Organizations
The International Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres (NRDC) constitutes a worldwide cooperation of nuclear data centres under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Network was established to coordinate the worldwide collection, compilation and dissemination of nuclear reaction data.
The Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) is the National Nuclear Data Organization of the United States and Canada. This is a cooperative effort of the national laboratories, industry, and universities that produces the ENDF/B file.
The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File (JEFF) organization consists of members of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun%20%281994%20video%20game%29
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Shadowrun is an action role-playing game for the Sega Genesis, released in 1994 in North America and Asia only. It was adapted from the cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun by FASA, and was developed by BlueSky Software. The game is the second video game adapted from Shadowrun, and has a more open ended style of gameplay than its 1993 Super NES counterpart, Shadowrun by Beam Software.
Gameplay
[[File:Shadowrun-Gameplay.png|thumb|left|Shadowruns battle gameplay]]
Shadowrun offers the player an open style of gameplay, where one controls the main character, Joshua, in a top-down third person perspective during both exploration and combat. Battles are real time, and although of varying difficulty, tend to be relatively short. Initially, the player is restricted to a single area of the game, but shortly gains access to almost all other areas. Access to other areas is accomplished primarily by taxi, although various restrictions and other modes of travel also exist, such as requiring a visa or bypassing the visa check with the use of a helicopter.
As in most role-playing video games, the characters' skills and attributes can be improved. However, Shadowrun uses a unique "Karma" system, which allows full character customization. Karma, roughly equivalent to experience, is earned for successfully completing a run, killing enough enemies, or advancing the game's plot. Karma is then spent on specific stats as determined by the player. To earn money and Karma, the player must participate in shadowruns, illegal jobs provided by pseudo-anonymous contractors who are, within the legal boundaries of their work, referred to simply as Mr. Johnsons. Mr. Johnsons usually are corporate liaisons who want their bosses' dirty work done without compromising them. All Mr. Johnsons work in backroom booths in different clubs and bars through the city. Depending on the Johnson, they will randomly offer different types of jobs such as raiding gang hangouts, search & retrieval, extractions, courier missions, ghoul hunting, or Matrix runs.
Each mission will vary on the specifics to meet the requirements and location such as Megacorp headquarters or even the LoneStar's main building. Different Mr. Johnsons have varying levels of difficulty and pay for their jobs, which can be influenced by the player's negotiation statistic. (Note: In this game, the term "Mr. Johnson" is used where the word "fixer" would be used in the tabletop game. In the tabletop game, the player would know the handle of his fixer but the actual client would remain anonymous, hence "Mr. Johnson". In this video game, the fixers are known both by their handles and "Mr. Johnson," while also revealing the clients’ names to the player.)
At the start of the game, the player can choose for Joshua to be either a samurai, a decker, or a gator shaman. These only determine Joshua's beginning statistics and equipment; samurai begin focused on combat, deckers on use of the Matrix and electronics, and shamans on the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20simulated%20annealing
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Adaptive simulated annealing (ASA) is a variant of simulated annealing (SA) algorithm in which the algorithm parameters that control temperature schedule and random step selection are automatically adjusted according to algorithm progress. This makes the algorithm more efficient and less sensitive to user defined parameters than canonical SA. These are in the standard variant often selected on the basis of experience and experimentation (since optimal values are problem dependent), which represents a significant deficiency in practice.
The algorithm works by representing the parameters of the function to be optimized as continuous numbers, and as dimensions of a hypercube (N dimensional space). Some SA algorithms apply Gaussian moves to the state, while others have distributions permitting faster temperature schedules. Imagine the state as a point in a box and the moves as a rugby-ball shaped cloud around it. The temperature and the step size are adjusted so that all of the search space is sampled to a coarse resolution in the early stages, whilst the state is directed to favorable areas in the late stages. Another ASA variant, thermodynamic simulated annealing, automatically adjusts the temperature at each step based on the energy difference between the two states, according to the laws of thermodynamics.
See also
Simulated annealing
Combinatorial optimization
Optimization
References
L. Ingber, ASA-CODE, ASA-REPRINTS, ASA-INFO Global optimization C-code, Caltech Alumni Association, Pasadena, CA, 1993.
L. Ingber, Very fast simulated re-annealing, Mathl. Comput. Modelling,Vol. 12 No. 8, pp. 967–973, 1989.
L. Ingber, Simulated annealing: Practice versus theory, Mathl. Comput. Modelling, Vol. 18 No. 11, pp. 29–57, 1993.
L. Ingber, Adaptive simulated annealing (ASA): Lessons learned, Control and Cybernetics,Vol. 25 No. 1,pp. 33–54, 1996.
External links
Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) Explains history and use of the ASA code, first published as Very Fast Simulated Reannealing (VFSR) in 1989, and made available to the public at no charge since 1993 under the name ASA. This ASA algorithm is not the same as the algorithm described at the top of Adaptive simulated annealing.
Optimization algorithms and methods
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouge%20Valley%20Health%20System
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Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) was a hospital network in the province of Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Centenary Health Centre in Toronto and the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital in Ajax, serving the communities of Scarborough, Pickering, Ajax and Whitby. It was part of the Central-East Local Health Integration Network as mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The two hospitals were known as th Rouge Valley Centenary and Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering respectively.
In 2016, Rouge Valley Health Network was defunct after Rouge Valley Centenary partnered with The Scarborough Hospital to form the Scarborough Health Network while Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering joined Lakeridge Health.
See also
List of hospitals in Toronto
References
Organizations based in Toronto
Health in Toronto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITSEC
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The Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria (ITSEC) is a structured set of criteria for evaluating computer security within products and systems. The ITSEC was first published in May 1990 in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom based on existing work in their respective countries. Following extensive international review, Version 1.2 was subsequently published in June 1991 by the Commission of the European Communities for operational use within evaluation and certification schemes.
Since the launch of the ITSEC in 1990, a number of other European countries have agreed to recognize the validity of ITSEC evaluations.
The ITSEC has been largely replaced by Common Criteria, which provides similarly-defined evaluation levels and implements the target of evaluation concept and the Security Target document.
Concepts
The product or system being evaluated, called the target of evaluation, is subjected to a detailed examination of its security features culminating in comprehensive and informed functional and penetration testing. The degree of examination depends upon the level of confidence desired in the target. To provide different levels of confidence, the ITSEC defines evaluation levels, denoted E0 through E6. Higher evaluation levels involve more extensive examination and testing of the target.
Unlike earlier criteria, notably the TCSEC developed by the US defense establishment, the ITSEC did not require evaluated targets to contain specific technical features in order to achieve a particular assurance level. For example, an ITSEC target might provide authentication or integrity features without providing confidentiality or availability. A given target's security features were documented in a Security Target document, whose contents had to be evaluated and approved before the target itself was evaluated. Each ITSEC evaluation was based exclusively on verifying the security features identified in the Security Target.
Use
The formal Z notation was used to prove security properties about the Mondex smart card electronic cash system, allowing it to achieve ITSEC level E6, the highest granted security-level classification.
References
Bibliography
Computer-related introductions in 1990
Computer security accreditations
Computer security standards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVLT-TV
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WVLT-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Crossville-licensed CW affiliate WBXX-TV (channel 20). Both stations share studios on Papermill Drive (near I-40/I-75) on the west side of Knoxville, while WVLT-TV's transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville.
WVLT-TV traces its history to Knoxville's second-oldest television station, which signed on in 1953 as WTSK-TV and changed its call letters to WTVK two years later. As an ultra high frequency (UHF) station, it spent most of its first three decades on the air as an also-ran against two very high frequency (VHF) competitors. At various times, it was an affiliate of all three major networks. In 1988, after the addition of channel 8 as a "VHF drop-in"—an extra channel on the VHF band—to Knoxville, WTVK's owners merged with a competing applicant for channel 8 and essentially moved there under new call letters, WKXT-TV. After years of continued struggles in the ratings, Gray Television purchased the station in 1996; the new owners changed the call sign to WVLT-TV and expanded the news operation.
History
Construction of channel 26
Harold H. Thoms and J. Horton Doughton, doing business as Television Services of Knoxville, applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on August 25, 1952, to build a new television station on Knoxville's channel 26; the application for a construction permit was granted on March 25, 1953, after W. R. Tuley—who had filed a competing bid for the channel—merged his application with the Thoms-Doughton group. The partners were out-of-town businessmen. Tuley, who took an 80 percent controlling interest in the station, had oil interests in Evansville, Indiana. Thoms owned WISE radio in Asheville, North Carolina, and Doughton was his partner in several other North Carolina television ventures. A site on Sharp's Ridge previously used by radio station WROL's shuttered FM operation was secured for use by the new channel 26.
WROL and competing channel 6 applicant WKGN merged their bids in July, and the race was suddenly on to be first to air in Knoxville. Channel 26 took the call letters WTSK-TV, after its ownership group, and secured a primary network affiliation with CBS and secondary affiliations with the DuMont Television Network, and ABC. The first test pattern went out on the night of October 1, the same evening that WROL-TV (channel 6, now WATE-TV) started up; the station also aired a film that night, though after channel 6's first broadcast. Regular programming started on October 18, and WTSK was able to claim that it produced the first live television program in the city, as WROL-TV started with entirely filmed fare.
In 1954, Television Services of Knoxville sold the station to another Evansville–based concern, South Central Broadcasting; Tuley cited the need to devote time to his other business ventures in the Midwest as a factor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20Apparel%20Network
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The Children's Apparel Network is an American company whose products include department and specialty store layette, newborn and infant apparel. In 2005, they licensed the Sesame Beginnings brand for some products. Children's Apparel Network is located in Manhattan at 31 West 34th Street, Floor 11 New York, NY 10001. As of 2007 the Children's Apparel Network began using JBCStyle as its primary fashion talent recruitment agency. JBCStyle with offices in New York and Los Angeles is the leading recruiter in the fashion, beauty, home as well as the action sports industries.
References
Children's clothing retailers
Clothing companies of the United States
Companies based in New York City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20trie
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In computer science, hash trie can refer to:
Hash tree (persistent data structure), a trie used to map hash values to keys
A space-efficient implementation of a sparse trie, in which the descendants of each node may be interleaved in memory. (The name is suggested by a similarity to a closed hash table.)
A data structure which "combines features of hash tables and LC-tries (Least Compression tries) in order to perform efficient lookups and updates"
See also
Hash array mapped trie
Hashed array tree
Merkle tree
References
Trees (data structures)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciena
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Ciena Corporation is an American telecommunications networking equipment and software services supplier based in Hanover, Maryland. The company has been described by The Baltimore Sun as the "world's biggest player in optical connectivity". The company reported revenues of $3.63 billion for 2022. Ciena had over 8,000 employees, as of October 2022. Gary Smith serves as president and chief executive officer (CEO).
Customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, KT Corporation and Verizon Communications.
History
Early history and initial public offering
Ciena was founded in 1992 under the name HydraLite by electrical engineer David R. Huber. Huber served as chief executive officer, while Optelecom, a company building optical networking products, provided "management assistance and production facilities," and co-founder Kevin Kimberlin "provided initial equity capital during the formation of the Company". Dave Huber engaged William K. Woodruff & Co. to raise $3.0 million in venture funding in September of 1993. Woodruff presented the idea to John Bayless at Sevin Rosen in November 1993 that resulted in Sevin Rosen investing $3.0 million April 10, 1994. William K. Woodruff & Co. was a co-manager of Ciena's IPO in February 1997. The company subsequently received funding from Sevin Rosen Funds as a result of a demonstration at its laboratory attended by Jon Bayless, a partner at the firm, who saw the value in applying HydraLite's fiber-optic technology to cable television. Sevin Rosen offered funding immediately, investing $1.25 million in April 1994.
Ciena received $40 million in venture capital financing, including $3.3 million from Sevin Rosen Funds. Other early investors in the company included Charles River Ventures, Japan Associated Finance Co., Star Venture, and Vanguard Venture Partners. Bayless also recruited physicist Patrick Nettles, a former colleague at the telecommunications company Optilink, to serve as Ciena's first CEO, and Lawrence P. Huang, another former colleague, to accept the sales chief role. Huber and Nettles, who changed the company's name to Ciena, began working from an office in Dallas in February 1994; Huber would remain with Ciena until 1995.
The name of the company was changed to Ciena in 1994. Its first products were introduced in May 1996, and Sprint Corporation was the company's first customer. At $195 million, the company's first-year sales were the highest ever recorded by a startup at the time. Ciena had sold $54.8 million in products to Sprint alone by November 1996. WorldCom also became an early customer. As of early 1997, Sprint and WorldCom accounted for 97 percent of Ciena's revenue. Ciena began diversifying its clientele and acquiring smaller contracts in 1997.
Ciena went public on NASDAQ in February 1997, and was the largest initial public offering of a startup company to date, with a valuation of $3.4 billion. The company's headquarters were relocated to Maryland in March 1997. Ciena earned approximately $37
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontlottyn%20railway%20station
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Pontlottyn railway station is a railway station serving the village of Pontlottyn, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Transport for Wales network.
Service
The station generally enjoys an hourly train service to & (with most services extending to ), although it has additional trains in the peak hours (approximately every half-hour).
A reduced service (every two hours each way) operates on Sundays.
External links
Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1859
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tir-Phil%20railway%20station
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Tir-Phil railway station is a railway station serving the village of Tir-Phil and the town of New Tredegar, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network. Work to extend the platform to take the proposed six car trains has now been completed.
History
Tir-Phil station was opened in 1858 by the Rhymney Railway on the line from Cardiff to Rhymney.
From 2014 (subject to rolling stock availability) the train service was due to become every 30 minutes from the current hourly frequency with the construction of a passing loop at this station and a second platform as part of the Cardiff area re-signalling scheme - the new loop & signalling were commissioned in September 2013. Arriva Trains Wales have said that they do not have the rolling stock to allow 30 minute services for the foreseeable future. The new second platform came into use on 9 September 2013, but the platform remained unfinished and no further work was done until August 2014.
The wall behind the new platform which retains the road embankment has been substantially rebuilt, and the platform has now been completed (late 2015). Work also restarted on installing a ramp on the old platform and this was first used by a mobility scooter using member of the public on the morning of 13 April 2017, some three and a half years later than originally expected.
Services
In the December 2016 timetable, the basic Mon-Sat daytime frequency is once per hour in each direction (with peak period extras, none of which are scheduled to pass in the loop here). Southbound trains run to and onwards to (except on Sundays, when is the southbound terminus).
Notes
External links
Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilfach%20Fargoed%20railway%20station
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Gilfach Fargoed railway station is a railway station serving the village of Gilfach, in Caerphilly county borough, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
The platforms are short () and can barely accommodate a British Rail Class 153 train, due to its small size it is affectionately nicknamed "Gilfach International". Passengers can only alight from the front doors of any train calling here, so the conductor on longer trains must give passengers advance notice so that they have time to move towards the front set of doors.
History
Built as a halt by the Rhymney Railway in 1908 for recently introduced steam railmotors, some 50 years after the line first opened. Although very close, the halt did not serve the Brecon and Merthyr Railway which passed behind, on its way to Bargoed south Junction.
Services
Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service between Bargoed and Penarth. Sundays there is a two-hourly service between Rhymney and .
Due to the platforms not being long enough to accommodate social distancing measures introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station was temporarily closed between 6 July 2020 and 21 August 2021.
References
External links
Video coverage and history of Gilfach Fargoed Station
Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1908
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1908 establishments in Wales
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Ystrad Mynach railway station is a railway station serving the town of Ystrad Mynach, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
The nearest bus interchange is Blackwood Interchange, away. From 2020, the rail linc bus (901) that links with the train no longer operated. It operated to Maesycwmmer, Pontllanfraith, and ended at Blackwood.
History
Ystrad Mynach railway station was on the Rhymney Railway opened in 1858. It consisted of staggered platforms on the main line, as well as a separate platform on the Dowlais line. Nearby Penallta Junction gave access to the Great Western Railway and the Aberdare Valley, opened 1 April 1871 and the Cylla branch opened on 1 August 1906 to access the new Powell Duffryn owned Penallta Colliery. The latter line closed in 1991 and has since been lifted, but the former is still in use (for freight only) as far as Cwmbargoed to serve the coal washery and associated opencast mine at Ffos-Y-Fran. Coal from there is sent to Aberthaw Power Station in bulk trainloads.
In 2014, the station underwent a £1.6 million refurbishment with new ticket machines, waiting areas and ticket office, with disabled toilet being installed in addition to major work carried out on the footbridge with lifts being installed to improve accessibility.
The northbound platform is signalled for use in both directions, to permit trains from Cardiff to terminate & start back from there.
Ystrad Mynach railway station was used as a location in the pilot episode of Porridge (Prisoner and Escort), part of the series Seven of One, starring Ronnie Barker.
Service
The station has a frequent weekday service in both directions - northbound there are four trains each hour to (one service terminates here during the autumn leaf fall period), with hourly extensions to (extras at peak times) on Mondays to Saturday daytimes, whilst southbound there are four trains per hour to and . Connections for and via the Vale of Glamorgan Line (as well as main line destinations further afield) are available at Cardiff Central.
In the evening, there is an hourly service to Rhymney & Cardiff/Penarth and on Sundays there is a two-hourly service each way, with southbound trains running to Barry Island.
References
External links
Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category E stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858
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Llanbradach railway station is a railway station serving the village of Llanbradach, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
History
The railway line through here opened in 1858. Llanbradach station was opened on 1 March 1893 by the Rhymney Railway, replacing Pwllypant (Bradshaw's spelling) a short way to the south.
Services
The station has a frequent service - currently four departures per hour each way, to northbound and to , and southbound. One northbound train each hour continues to , with extras at peak times. In the evening, the service reduces to hourly each way and on Sundays to two-hourly (when southbound trains run to rather than Penarth).
References
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Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aber%20railway%20station
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Aber railway station is a railway station serving the town of Caerphilly, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line north of Cardiff Central on the Valley Lines network.
The station is located in the Bondfield Park and Trecenydd areas of Caerphilly.
History
Opened in April 1908 by the Rhymney Railway as Beddau Halt, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923, and renamed Aber Junction Halt on 17 September 1926. The line then passed] on nationalisation in 1948. It was renamed Aber Halt on 6 May 1968, then Aber on 5 May 1969.
When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.
Another station also called Beddau Halt existed on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway and should not be confused with this station.
The 'Junction' suffix refers to the fact that until the early 1980s, there were two junctions near here – one to the south between the current line via Caerphilly (which opened in 1871) and the original route down the Big Hill via Penrhos Junction to Walnut Tree Junction near on the Taff Vale Railway route from Cardiff to and another to the north for the branch line to Senghenydd. The former opened in 1858 and provided the Rhymney company with its original access to Cardiff General and the docks. It was freight-only for most of its life, but was heavily used in post-grouping and BR days by coal trains originating from the various collieries on the Rhymney line heading to the marshalling yard at . This avoided the need for such trains to use the busy section through , even though the 3½ mile line was steeply graded (hence the nickname – the 1 in 48 ruling gradient was however favourable for loaded trains). The latter opened in 1894 and was used for both freight (to Windsor Colliery near the terminus) and passenger services.
The Senghenydd branch passenger service ended in June 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe, but it remained in use for colliery traffic until 1977 whilst the Taffs Well route closed in June 1982 – both have since been dismantled.
Services
Spring 2016
During Spring 2016 Aber railway station is served by 4 trains per hour each way, off peak, Monday to Friday:
3 per hour from Bargoed to Penarth
1 per hour from Rhymney to Penarth
3 per hour from Penarth to Bargoed
1 per hour from Penarth to Rhymney
Apart from Gilfach Fargoed, the station before Bargoed, which is served just once an hour, there is a train every 15 minutes calling at all stations between Bargoed and Penarth. In the evenings, the service drops to hourly and on Sundays to two-hourly (with southbound trains running to ).
References
Further reading
Station on navigable O.S. map
Railway stations in Caerphilly County Borough
DfT Category F2 stations
Transport in Caerphilly
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1908
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
1908 establishments in Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerphilly%20railway%20station
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Caerphilly railway station () is a railway station serving the town of Caerphilly, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network. The station is located at Station Road in the south of the town. Facilities include a small shop and a ticket kiosk. A self-service ticket machine was installed near the entrance to the station on 22 December 2008. Several advertising murals depicting holiday travel in various parts of South Wales have been placed on the northbound side of the station in order to improve the 'look' of the station.
History
The first Caerphilly station was on the now-disappeared Taffs Well to Ystrad line. It opened in 1858 and closed in 1871 when the current railway alignment and station opened. The first station was around 250 metres from the current Aber station but on a completely different alignment.
The current station was built in 1871 as part of the Rhymney Railway. It ended up as a four way junction:
To the west at Penrhos junction (on the line from Junction to Walnut Tree Junction) with the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
To the east through a tunnel to a junction with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway at Machen, and onwards to Newport Docks
As a result of traffic volume, the station was rebuilt in 1913 to four platforms and a west facing bay platform.
Caerphilly was the terminus of the Rhymney Line from Penarth from 5 September 2008 to 19 September 2008 due to a landslip that blocked the line near Llanbradach railway station due to the poor weather conditions. Replacement bus services operated the route between Caerphilly and Bargoed/Rhymney. Train services subsequently resumed as normal.
Present form
With the closure of both junctions and the simplification of the railway to a pure through service as part of the Rhymney Line, the station was rebuilt to a two platform with bus interchange in 1970. The signalling system is currently set up to allow northbound services to terminate in the southbound platform (using a facing crossover) & return directly to Cardiff if required, although this facility is only used during the evenings in the current (May 2013) timetable. The ongoing Valley Lines resignalling scheme will see a new bay platform bought into use at the station for use by terminating trains, which will allow a further increase in service frequencies to/from Cardiff in the future. Plans to develop the station as a transport hub, including a bus interchange, were announced by Caerphilly County Borough Council in October 2022.
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is a train every 15 minutes to Penarth via and every 15 minutes to Bargoed, with one in four running through to Rhymney. This decreases to hourly northbound and half-hourly southbound in the evenings, with some trains from Cardiff terminating & starting back from here.
On Sundays, there is a two-hourly service each way with southbound trains running to .
References
External links
Railway stations in Caerphilly Coun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisvane%20and%20Thornhill%20railway%20station
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Lisvane and Thornhill railway station () is a railway station serving the Lisvane and Thornhill areas of north Cardiff, Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
This station replaced Cefn Onn Halt railway station, which was closed in 1986.
Services
The current daytime service pattern is four trains an hour to , , , and , and the opposite direction towards , , and . Three trains terminate at , one train per hour continues to . The frequency drops to half-hourly in the evening and to two-hourly on Sundays.
Journey times are approximately:
10 minutes to
15 minutes to
33 minutes to
4 minutes to
17 minutes to
28 minutes to
,46 minutes to
Services are operated by Class 150 and Class 231 trains.
History
The station was officially opened on 4 November 1985 by the Chairman of South Glamorgan County Council, County Councillor Kenneth Hutchings. It was constructed at a cost of £182,000, jointly financed by South Glamorgan County Council and British Rail, with the help of a grant from the European Regional Development Fund. The station, which is situated on the northern outskirts of Cardiff, from Queen Street, was hoped to generate at least 900 passenger journeys per day, both inbound and outbound. An 80-space County Council park-and-ride car park was constructed alongside the station.
See also
List of railway stations in Cardiff
Rail transport in Cardiff
References
External links
Railway stations in Cardiff
DfT Category F2 stations
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1985
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanishen%20railway%20station
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Llanishen railway station () is a railway station serving the area of Llanishen in Cardiff, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network.
Services
The station has a basic weekday service of 4 departures each way per hour – northbound to (with hourly extensions to ) and southbound to and . This drops to half-hourly in the evenings and to two-hourly on Sundays (southbound trains run to instead of Penarth)
See also
List of railway stations in Cardiff
Notes
External links
Llanishen, Cardiff
Railway stations in Cardiff
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Rhymney Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%20Hailpern
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Brent Hailpern is a computer scientist retired from IBM Research. His research work focused on programming languages, software engineering, and concurrency.
Education
Dr. Hailpern received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in Mathematics from the University of Denver (Denver, Colorado) in 1976, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University (Stanford, California) in 1978 and 1980 respectively. His thesis was titled, "Verifying Concurrent Processes Using Temporal Logic".
Career at IBM
Dr. Hailpern joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, New York) as a Research Staff Member in 1980. He worked on and managed various projects relating to issues of concurrency and programming languages. In 1987, he founded the Programming Languages and Foundations Department as its senior manager. In 1989, he became the senior manager of Research's Software Environments Department. In 1990, Dr. Hailpern joined the Technical Strategy Development Staff in IBM Corporate Headquarters (Armonk, New York) returning to the Research Division in 1991, where he served as Senior Technical Consultant to the Research Division Vice President for Systems and Software.
In 1992, he became Program Director and Senior Manager, Operating Systems Structures Department, where he coordinated the Research Division's joint programs with IBM's AS/400 Division and Personal Software Products Division. The department he managed researched issues of operating systems principles, file systems, and multimedia servers. In 1995, he became the Department Manager for the Software Systems Department and in 1996 for the Internet Technology Department. He coordinated the Research Division relationship with Lotus Software and the IBM Pervasive Computing Division. He was responsible for a group of departments covering workflow, internet server performance, Internet software for K-12 education, electronic mail, and applications/middleware for handheld computers. He was also the client product manager for the IBM NetVista product. In 1996, he received IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product.
From 1999 to 2004, he was the associate director of Computer Science for IBM Research. In 2004, he became the Department Group Manager for Software Technology, where, as Director of Programming Models and Tools, he managed departments researching Programming Technology, Software Engineering, and Tools for Non-Programmers. He moved to the research center in San Jose in October 2011, as Director of Computer Science.
He retired from IBM at the end of 2019 and currently works as a Professor for the Silicon Valley satellite campus of Northeastern University.
Associations, Conferences, and Journals
Dr. Hailpern has authored many publications and United States patents, along with numerous conference papers and book chapters. He is a past Secretary of the ACM, a past Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Langua
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Julian Lombardi (born November 11, 1956) is an American inventor, author, educator, and computer scientist known for his work with socio-computational systems, scalable virtual world technologies, and in the design and deployment of deeply collaborative virtual learning environments.
Biography
Lombardi was born to a concert pianist and an Italian actress living in New York City. His family soon moved back to Rome, Italy, where he lived until the age of six. He went on to attend Buckley Country Day School and public schools in Great Neck, New York and elsewhere on Long Island. In 1974 Lombardi began his undergraduate studies at Dowling College and graduated cum laude in the biology major and physics minor in 1977. He attended graduate school at Clemson University, where he received his MA in 1980 and was granted a PhD in zoology in 1983.
Upon graduation, Lombardi accepted a postdoctoral appointment and lectureship in the biological sciences at the University of North Carolina which he held until 1986. In 1986, Lombardi was appointed an assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1990, he received tenure and was named director of graduate studies in biology. He served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro until 1999. Lombardi also served as director of the university's Analytical Visualization Center from 1993 to 1999. From 2002 to 2005, Lombardi managed a research and development group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that specialized in the design and development of open source virtual learning environments and digital media technologies for learning and instruction. Currently Lombardi is an assistant vice president with Duke University's Office of Information Technology. He is also a senior research scholar with Duke University's program in information science and information studies, and an adjunct professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science.
Work
Lombardi's early research program centered on the evolution of complex organismal function in vertebrates and the evolution of maternal-embryonic physiological relationships. An advocate of the use of imaging technologies and early adopter of information technology in university teaching and learning, in 1987 Lombardi began writing HyperTalk-based software applications in support of learning and instruction in anatomy and physiology. In the mid-1990s, Lombardi combined his interests in information technology, complex systems, and the phenomenon of emergence in biological systems to begin designing and developing computer-supported collaboration systems involving self-optimizing massively multiuser online 3D environments.
The Bone Box
In 1989 he developed and marketed The Bone Box, a commercial 3D auto-tutorial program for use in learning human skeletal anatomy with the early Macintosh computer.
ViOS
Lombardi eventually founded ViOS, Inc. where, during the period from 1999 to 2001, he served as the v
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Smith%20%28computer%20scientist%29
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David Alan Smith (born 1957, in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and CTO of the Croquet Corporation. He has focused on interactive 3D and using 3D as a basis for new user environments and entertainment for over twenty years.
Early career
He began his programming life as a corporate analyst at Thermo Electron Corporation, where he worked to develop an enterprise-wide multi-user multidimensional hierarchical spreadsheet program in the APL programming language. In 1982, Smith went to work for Richard Greenblatt and Lucia Vaina as a programmer for Softrobotics, an affiliate of Lisp Machines, Inc. where he worked to develop an expert system for the diagnosis of brain damage using an Apple II as the front end to a Lisp Machine. In 1984, he moved back to the Special Projects Laboratory at Thermo Electron to work for Stelianos Pezaris (Sutherland-Pezaris headmount and Pezaris Array Multiplier), where he designed a process control application and helped to design a multiprocessor distributed controller architecture for a robotic PC plating system.
Staff Scientist
Smith then moved to the Thomas Lord Research Center in 1986 as a staff scientist working on intelligent object manipulation using robotic tactile sensors, pneumo-elastic and mechanical hands. There he developed a telepresence system using stereo-optics and a dataglove controlling a Puma-560 robot equipped with the pneumo-elastic hand.
Smith has been nominated by the Lockheed Martin to be one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty Speakers who will speak about his work and career to middle and high school students in October 2010.
Interactive Games
In 1987, Smith created The Colony, the very first 3D interactive game and precursor to today's first-person shooters. The game was developed for the Apple Macintosh and soon won the "Best Adventure Game of the Year" award from MacWorld Magazine. In 1989, Smith used the technologies developed for the game to create a virtual set and virtual camera system that was used by James Cameron for the movie The Abyss. Based upon this experience, Smith founded Virtus Corporation in 1990, and developed Virtus Walkthrough, the first real-time 3D design application for personal computers. Smith also co-founded several other companies including Red Storm Entertainment with Tom Clancy, Timeline Computer Entertainment with Michael Crichton, and Neomar, a wireless enterprise infrastructure company.
Croquet Project
Smith was one of six principal architects of the Croquet Project (along with Alan Kay, Julian Lombardi, Andreas Raab, David P. Reed, and Mark P. McCahill). Development of the Croquet Project moved to the Open Cobalt project in 2009. He was co-founder Teleplace, Inc. (formerly Qwaq) which was focused on developing Croquet technology into a solution for the enterprise. Teleplace ceased operations in 2011.
In 2018, Smith founded the Croquet corporation with other engineers from the project. In
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This is the list of the national parks of Indonesia. Of the 54 national parks, 6 are World Heritage Sites, 9 are part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves and 5 are wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention. A total of 9 parks are largely marine. Around 9% of the Indonesia surface are national parks (less than the 25% of Germany or the 33% of France).
The first group of five Indonesian national parks were established in 1980. This number increased constantly reaching 41 in 2003. In a major expansion in 2004, nine more new national parks were created, raising the total number to 50. Mount Tambora was added in 2015. 3 more National Parks in Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Bangka Island were added in 2016.
Java
Kalimantan
Lesser Sunda Islands
Maluku and Papua
Sulawesi
Sumatra
See also
Protected areas of Indonesia
References
External links
Official list of Indonesian National Parks
National parks of Indonesia, List of
Indonesia
Natural history of Indonesia
Cultural Properties of Indonesia
National parks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk%20Vault
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Autodesk Vault is a data management tool integrated with Autodesk Inventor Series, Autodesk Inventor Professional, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Electrical, Autodesk Revit and Civil 3D products. It helps design teams track work in progress and maintain version control in multi-user environments. It allows them to organize and reuse designs by consolidating product information and reducing the need to re-create designs from scratch. Users can store and search both CAD data (such as Autodesk Inventor, DWG, and DWF files) and non-CAD documents (such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files).
Overview
The Vault environment functions as a client server application with the central SQL database and Autodesk Data Management Server (ADMS) applications installed on a Windows-based server with client access granted via various clients such as: Thick Client (Vault Explorer) and Application Integrations. ADMS acts as the middleware that handles client transactions with the SQL database. Vault Explorer functions as the client application and is intended to run alongside the companion CAD software. The Vault Explorer UI (User Interface) is intended to have an appearance similar to Microsoft Outlook and can display the Vault folder structure, file metadata in the form of a grid and a preview pane for more detailed information.
Autodesk Vault is a file versioning system that "records" the progression of all edits a file has undergone. All files and their associated metadata are indexed in the SQL base data management system and are searchable from the Vault client interface. Other information about the files include version history, uses (composed of a list of children), "Where Used" (a list of all parents) as well as a light weight viewable in the form of the Autodesk Design Web Format (DWF) file which is automatically published upon check-in. When users intend to edit a file the file is checked-out and edits are made. When the user is satisfied with the changes the file checked-in and new file version, containing the new changes, is then available to other users in the workgroup. In-process file changes (file saves) are hidden from other users until the changes are checked-in. As files are edited, renamed and moved in the folder structure the Vault database automatically updates any file references in related files.
Vault is intended to be the core data management strategy for Autodesk's design products and therefore has add-ins to many of Autodesk's design solutions.
ADMS also plays another role as the hosts for Autodesk Inventor's Content Center (Standard Parts Library) for use by Inventor when it's desired that they are hosted in a central location.
The Autodesk Vault Family of Products
The Autodesk Vault product family is a stack of products each offering incremental functionality over the previous product. While the base "Autodesk Vault" is included with many Autodesk design applications; additional functionality is available based on the needs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noitamina
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is a Japanese programming block on Fuji TV devoted to anime, originally broadcast every Thursday late night/Friday morning from 0:45 to 1:15 JST. It was launched with the intention of expanding the target audience beyond the typical young male demographic. The block debuted in April 2005 as a half-hour block. All anime production under the block are joint-venue by Fuji TV, Dentsu and usually Sony Music Entertainment Japan or Aniplex.
The timeslot was expanded from a half hour to a full hour in 2010, and airs Thursday nights/Friday morning on 0:45 to 1:45 JST, but returned to half an hour timeslot in 2015 due to 5 Noitamina-produced films to be shown in Japanese theaters in the same year. The only non-anime series aired on Noitamina was the live-action adaptation of Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture in 2010.
On April 15, 2010, Fuji TV and Funimation announced an agreement that allows Funimation to simulcast series from the Noitamina block in North America within an hour of their airing in Japan. The deal was transferred to Aniplex of America after Funimation acquired in 2017 by Sony, the owner of Aniplex.
From 2016 to 2018, Fuji TV signed a deal with Amazon to exclusively stream and simulcast series from the Noitamina block through their Prime Instant Video service on March 17, 2016, starting with Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, with The Promised Neverland being the first title since the deal to no longer be exclusive to Prime Video outside Japan.
Anime series
Films
See also
Other Fuji TV anime blocks
+Ultra, another anime block of Fuji TV that airs on Wednesday nights.
Blue Lynx, Fuji TV's yaoi (boys' love) anime label
Animeism, an anime block that airs on Friday nights on MBS.
Notes
References
External links
Noitamina website
Fuji Creative Corporation website
Anime television
Fuji TV
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksi
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() formerly known as : GMA Headline and is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally anchored by Mike Enriquez and Karen Davila, it premiered on October 2, 1995 on the network's evening line up replacing GMA Balita. Arnold Clavio and Pia Arcangel currently serve as the anchors.
History
Saksi: GMA Headline Balita
The early years (1995–96)
GMA Network launched the newscast, originally entitled Saksi: GMA Headline Balita, as a 15-minute early evening weekday newscast on October 2, 1995. It was then anchored by Mike Enriquez (then known as "Mr. Saksi") and Karen Davila.
Mike Enriquez, Karen Davila and Mel Tiangco (1996–98)
On July 8, 1996, Mel Tiangco joined Enriquez and Davila, after her transfer from ABS-CBN. Economist Solita "Winnie" Monsod also joined the newscast with her own opinion segment, "Mareng Winnie" (which became a moniker by which she has been since known for). Other special segments, such as Huling Hirit (light human-interest stories to cap the newscast, reported by Kara David), S na S (Showbiz sa Saksi) (a showbiz segment with Lyn Ching then she anchored with Enriquez, Davila and Tiangco) and Jessica Soho Reports were also added to the news program, as its set was reformatted and running time was expanded to 30 minutes.
Jay Sonza, Mel Tiangco and Luchi Cruz-Valdes (1998–99)
In 1998, the show was relaunched when Partners Mel and Jay and Tapatan with Jay Sonza host Jay Sonza and Luchi Cruz-Valdes joined Mel Tiangco and they replaced Enriquez and Davila, while was Enriquez appointed as an anchor of GMA Network News with Vicky Morales. Davila, on the other hand became a co-host of Extra-Extra, a magazine program featuring different human-interest and entertainment stories (which also served as pre-programming to Saksi). New segments such as, "Pulso ng Mamamayan" where the program asks to citizens to speak up and tell them what they think of what's happening in the country today.
Saksi (1999–2004)
Mike Enriquez and Vicky Morales (1999–2004)
On August 23, 1999, Tiangco was appointed as anchor of Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco, which replaced GMA Network News on the late-night weeknight slot. She, Sonza and Valdes were replaced by Enriquez and Morales, thus continuing their partnership on Network News. The original subtitle, GMA Headline Balita, was also dropped since then. The studio set also used chroma-key technology, and later on they transferred to the newly built GMA Network Center in 2000. This was also the beginning of simulcasting the newscast on the network's radio station, Super Radyo DZBB 594 kHz.
On July 15, 2002, Saksi exchanged timeslots with Frontpage. By the same day, the program is reformatted as a late night newscast. The shift to late-night also prompted the start of "Side Trip", a human-interest segment hosted by Howie Severino.
In the same year, Saksi won the Gold Medal for Best Newscast in the New York Festival, becoming one of the few news programs outside the Uni
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Printer Job Language (PJL) is a method developed by Hewlett-Packard for switching printer languages at the job level, and for status readback between the printer and the host computer. PJL adds job level controls, such as printer language switching, job separation, environment, status readback, device attendance and file system commands.
"PJL offers application programs an efficient way to remotely control Hewlett-Packard printers. Using PJL, developers can provide applications with the ability to programmatically switch printer languages, monitor printer status, request the printer model and configuration, change control panel default settings, modify control panel messages, and more."
While PJL was conceived as an extension to Printer Command Language (PCL), it is now supported by most PostScript printers.
Many printer vendors have extended PJL to include commands proprietary to their products. Not all PJL commands documented by HP are implemented in all HP or other vendor products.
PJL resides above all the other printer languages and parses commands first.
The syntax mainly uses plain English words.
References
External links
HP software
Page description languages
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Might and Magic IX is a role-playing video game, the last developed by New World Computing for Microsoft Windows and released in 2002 by The 3DO Company. It is the sequel to Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer. It is the first to feature a significant game engine overhaul since 1998's Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven. Powered by the Lithtech 1.5 engine, it was also the first game in the series to feature fully three-dimensional graphics. During production, it was known by the working title of Might and Magic IX: Writ of Fate, and it is usually referred to by that title by fans of the series.
The music soundtrack is by Paul Anthony Romero, Rob King and Steve Baca.
Gameplay
Might and Magic IX features a party of four player characters, each of whom is selected at the start of the game. Each character has six statistical attributes: might, magic, endurance, accuracy, speed, and luck, and the number of points assigned to each attribute is based upon the race of the character: three of the four available races have both a strong attribute, which reduces the cost of advancement in that area by half, and a weak attribute, which doubles the cost of advancement in that area. Dwarves are proficient in endurance, but lacking in magic; elves are proficient in accuracy, but lacking in endurance; half-orcs are proficient in strength, but lacking in speed. The final race, human, has no natural affinity for any particular attribute, but similarly suffers from no penalties in any category. In addition to the six primary statistics, there are a number of secondary statistics which cannot be adjusted manually by the player, but are instead calculated based on other factors. Examples include armor class, which is determined by combining a character's endurance with the protectiveness of whatever armor he or she may be wearing, and hit points, which are directly related to a character's endurance rating.
Promotion system
Additionally, each character is assigned a particular character class. At the start of the game, there are two classes available: the fighter (might-based) and the initiate (magic-based). At various points throughout the game, the player will have the opportunity to complete certain tasks to gain a job promotion. Each character can be promoted up to two times, and there are two possible promotion paths for each class at each level. For example, a fighter can be promoted into either the mercenary class or the crusader class. A crusader can then be promoted into either the ranger class or the paladin class. Consult the chart at left for a complete listing of all possible promotion paths and classes.
Skill system
There are a total of twenty three unique skills available in the game, divided among four distinct categories. There are six attack skills, such as blade or unarmed combat, that determine what types of weapon a character can use, and how effective that character is when using them. The three defensive skills, armor, dodgin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla%20Bommen%20%28building%29
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The Lilla Bommen named after the surrounding location of Lilla Bommen, commonly referred to as Läppstiftet (The Lipstick), is an 86m (282 ft), 22 floor building housing office, networking and restaurant spaces in Gothenburg, Sweden. The building’s distinct post-modern architectural style, popularly referred to as “The Lipstick” due to its distinctive red and white colour schematic, was erected on the banks of Göta River in 1989 by Skanska Property West AB. The 32000 sqm office space which houses over 900 office workers, is a popular tourist destination for its top-floor lookout, Götheborgs Utkiken and restaurants such as the Restuarang Läppstiftet, has contributed to the landmark status of the building in the Central Gothenburg skyline.
The waterways of the area which link to the Kattegat Strait, the North Sea and the Atlantic, which historically formed Gothenburg into a significant shipping centre as Sweden’s principal seaport. The historical boom-arms dating from the 1600s which protected the important trading routes of the area, are tied into the name Lilla Bommen, (Little Boom in English), are all aspects that tied into the Swedish-British designer Ralph Erskine’s desire to embody the history and “improve human relations” to the area through his design of the Läppstiftet.
The design of the Lilla Bommen faced early negative response by the Swedish public, contributed in large part by traditional European architectural styles that generally disincentivised multi-storey office building designs and tall skyscrapers in European cityscapes. Furthermore, additional difficulties arose in the design and construction process due to the unstable foundation and location of the structure placed alongside waterways. The use of piling construction was a prominent feature of the new project that was used to support the heavy loads to overcome the issues regarding inundation and ground settlement of the waterfront location.
Site/Location - Prior Existing Construction
The Lilla Bommen building is located in central Gothenburg and overlooks the Göta River directly at the waterfront. The direct area around the Lilla Bommen building site historically formed a key central district of Gothenburg. The construction of multi-laned thoroughfare is still present in the urban-planning of Gothenburg, with a major infrastructural focal point upon an enclosed ring road around the city square. At the centre point of this city square was the statue Poseidon by Carl Milles, which was surrounded by major residential and commercial areas including museums, theatres and the Nord Stad Parking structure. The Nord Stad parking garage continued to link with multiple buildings containing further housing, retail, hotel, and arcade areas that further contribute to the infrastructure within the Lilla Bommen area.
Further discussed within Robert Trancik’s case study in his text “Finding Lost Space”, is the infill construction that restored the large area of which the Lillla Bommen b
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Intelligent%20Network
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Wireless Intelligent Network (also referred to as a WIN) is a concept developed by the TR-45 Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards engineering committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Its objective is to transport the resources of the Intelligent Network to the wireless network, utilizing the TIA-41 set of technical standards. Basing WIN standards on this protocol allows changing to an intelligent network without making current network infrastructure obsolete.
Overview
Today's wireless subscribers are much more sophisticated telecommunications users than they were five years ago. No longer satisfied with just completing a clear call, today's subscribers demand innovative ways to use the wireless phone. They want multiple services that allow them to handle or select incoming calls in a variety of ways.
Enhanced services are very important to wireless customers. They have come to expect, for instance, services such as caller ID and voice messaging bundled in the package when they buy and activate a cellular or personal communications service (PCS) phone. Whether prepaid, voice/data messaging, Internet surfing, or location-sensitive billing, enhanced services will become an important differentiator in an already crowded, competitive service-provider market. Enhanced services will also entice potentially new subscribers to sign up for service and will drive up airtime through increased usage of PCS or cellular services. As the wireless market becomes increasingly competitive, rapid deployment of enhanced services becomes critical to a successful wireless strategy.
Intelligent Network (IN) solutions have revolutionized wireline networks. Rapid creation and deployment of services has become the hallmark of a wireline network based on IN concepts. Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) will bring those same successful strategies into the wireless networks.
The evolution of wireless networks to a WIN concept of service deployment delivers the following advantages, similar to the IN benefits reaped by wireline providers:
• Multivendor product offerings that faster competition
• Uniform services to subscribers across service areas
• Efficient network use
• Service creation and deployment
TIA-41 Standards
TIA-41 describes procedures necessary to provide certain services requiring interaction between different cellular systems to cellular radio telephone subscribers. The standards aim to address the ongoing and developing concerns of the cellular radiotelecommunications industry with regard to useful and effective services requiring standardized intersystem procedures.
References
Wireless networking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Generation%20Software
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New Generation Software was a firm best known for the computer games with innovative graphics it produced for the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers. It was conceived in the spring of 1982 shortly after the lead developer, Malcolm Evans created 3D Monster Maze (initially released by J. K. Greye Software, and later republished by New Generation Software)—one of the first 3D games for a home computer.
Company history
New Generation was started by the aforementioned Malcolm Evans, for whom the company was his first professional experience in software or games - he had previously been in computer hardware. The other core members of the team were teenagers Paul Bunn and James Day, sixteen and nineteen years old in 1984. The company released games from 1982 to 1986. By 2005, copyright to New Generation Software games was held by Titus Games.
Games released
3D Monster Maze, 1982
3D Tunnel, 1983
Amazon Warrior, 1985
Cliff Hanger, 1984
Corridors of Genon, 1983
The Custard Kid, 1985
Escape, 1982
Jonah Barrington's Squash, 1985
Knot in 3D, 1983
Trashman, 1984
Travel With Trashman, 1984
Other software
The Complete Machine Code Tutor, 1984
Light Magic, 1985
References
External links
NGS World — A tribute homepage of the New Generation Software titles, created and maintained by Malcolm's daughter Rachel
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1982
Video game companies established in 1982
Video game companies disestablished in 1986
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20Processing%20Management%20System
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Transaction Processing Management System (TPMS) is an online transaction processing superstructure software from ICL (now Fujitsu Services) that runs on their VME mainframe computers. The first versions were released in the mid-1970s and were sold worldwide.
Structure
The service runs in at least two Virtual Machines (VMs)
a Control VM (CVM), responsible for connecting, disconnecting terminals and routing messages
one or more Application VMs (AVMs), responsible for all application processing - receiving input messages and returning output messages.
International Computers Limited
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnect%20agreement
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An interconnect agreement is a business contract between telecommunications organizations for the purpose of interconnecting their networks and exchanging telecommunications traffic. Interconnect agreements are found both in the public switched telephone network and the Internet.
In the public switched telephone network, an interconnect agreement invariably involves settlement fees based on call source and destination, connection times and duration, when these fees do not cancel out between operators.
On the Internet, where the concept of a "call" is generally hard to define, settlement-free peering and Internet transit are common forms of interconnection. A contract for interconnection within the Internet is usually called a peering agreement.
Interconnect agreements are typically complex contractual agreements involving payment schemes and schedules, coordination of routing policies, acceptable use policies, traffic balancing requirements, technical standards, coordination of network operations, dispute resolution, etc. Legal and regulatory requirements are often an issue. For example, network operators may be forced by law to interconnect with their competitors. In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 mandated methods of interconnection and the compensation models for doing so.
External links
Telecommunications law
Internet architecture
Contract law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%20Today%20%28disambiguation%29
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Russia Today may refer to:
RT (TV network), a global news channel from Russia (which was known as Russia Today before its rebranding in 2009)
Rossiya Segodnya, an international news agency from Russia (the name translates to Russia Today)
Russian Federation Today, a semi-monthly magazine from Russia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Kings
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Four Kings is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 5 to March 16, 2006, as a part of winter 2006 programming, but was cancelled before the end of the season. It starred Seth Green, Josh Cooke, Shane McRae, and Todd Grinnell. The show was created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, both of whom created Will & Grace.
The show centers on four childhood friends who live in New York City. The show's theme is "Hanginaround" by Counting Crows. Four Kings was pulled from NBC's schedule after its airing on March 16, 2006, and on May 15, 2006, NBC confirmed the show's cancellation. Two of the show's stars had already signed on to new projects, which did not bode well for the show's chances of renewal. Though NBC originally announced that they would air the remaining episodes beginning May 25, 2006, they did not follow through. The unaired episodes would eventually air in syndication on the Living network in the UK, and on the Nine Network in Australia.
Cast
Seth Green as Barry Klein
Todd Grinnell as Jason
Shane McRae as Bobby
Josh Cooke as Ben Wolf
Kathryn Hahn as Sharon
Kate Micucci as Toni
Rachelle Lefevre as Lauren
Michael Des Barres as Nick Dresden
Episodes
References
External links
Four Kings at EpisodeWorld
NBC original programming
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2000s American sitcoms
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
English-language television shows
Television shows set in New York City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye%27s%20Voyage%3A%20The%20Quest%20for%20Pappy
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Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy is a 2004 computer-animated Christmas television special produced by Mainframe Entertainment for Lions Gate Entertainment and King Features Entertainment, in association with Nuance Productions. The special, created to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Popeye the Sailor comic strip character from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre, first aired on Fox on December 17, 2004, and was rebroadcast on the same network on December 30, 2005.
Plot
Popeye is on a quest to find his missing father Poopdeck Pappy. Popeye is dogged by nightmares warning him that his Pappy, who abandoned him as a child, is in danger and needs him, so he bravely sets out on the open sea to find his long-lost father and reunite with him for the Christmas holidays. Accompanied by the admiring Olive Oyl, the brawny Bluto, the hungry Wimpy, and little Swee'Pea, he heads for the Sea of Mystery, which happens to be in the evil Sea Hag's domain. Strange things begin to happen along the way, as the group encounters sirens, serpents, and menacing mists. This was clearly all of the Sea Hag's attempts to destroy Popeye for good.
Cast
Billy West as Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy
Tabitha St. Germain as Olive Oyl and Swee'Pea
Garry Chalk as Bluto
Sanders Whiting as J. Wellington Wimpy
Kathy Bates as Siren and Sea Hag
Production
Originally this special was going to be a Claymation feature by Will Vinton, but due to Vinton losing his studio due to financial reasons in 2002 the special was picked up by Mainframe Entertainment.
Billy West described the production as "the hardest job I ever did, ever" and the voice of Popeye as "like a buzzsaw in your throat."
See also
List of Christmas films
References
External links
2000s American animated films
2000s fantasy adventure films
2004 computer-animated films
2004 films
2000s Christmas films
American children's animated comedy films
American children's animated adventure films
American children's animated fantasy films
American fantasy adventure films
American fantasy comedy films
Animated Christmas films
Canadian animated fantasy films
Films set in 1939
Films scored by Mark Mothersbaugh
American computer-animated films
Canadian computer-animated films
Fox television specials
Christmas television specials
Mainframe Studios films
Lionsgate animated films
Popeye
American Christmas television specials
2000s Canadian films
2000s English-language films
English-language Canadian films
Canadian animated comedy films
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