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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20site%20survey
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A wireless site survey, sometimes called an RF (Radio Frequency) site survey or wireless survey, is the process of planning and designing a wireless network, to provide a wireless solution that will deliver the required wireless coverage, data rates, network capacity, roaming capability and quality of service (QoS). The survey usually involves a site visit to test for RF interference, and to identify optimum installation locations for access points. This requires analysis of building floor plans, inspection of the facility, and use of site survey tools. Interviews with IT management and the end users of the wireless network are also important to determine the design parameters for the wireless network.
As part of the wireless site survey, the effective range boundary is set, which defines the area over which signal levels needed support the intended application. This involves determining the minimum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) needed to support performance requirements.
Wireless site survey can also mean the walk-testing, auditing, analysis or diagnosis of an existing wireless network, particularly one which is not providing the level of service required.
Wireless site survey process
Wireless site surveys are typically conducted using computer software that collects and analyses WLAN metrics and/or RF spectrum characteristics. Before a survey, a floor plan or site map is imported into a site survey application and calibrated to set scale. During a survey, a surveyor walks the facility with a portable computer that continuously records the data. The surveyor either marks the current position on the floor plan manually, by clicking on the floor plan, or uses a GPS receiver that automatically marks the current position if the survey is conducted outdoors. After a survey, data analysis is performed and survey results are documented in site survey reports generated by the application.
All these data collection, analysis, and visualization tasks are highly automated in modern software. In the past, however, these tasks required manual data recording and processing.
Types of wireless site surveys
There are three main types of wireless site surveys: passive, active, and predictive.
During a passive survey, a site survey application passively listens to WLAN traffic to detect active access points, measure signal strength and noise level. However, the wireless adapter being used for a survey is not associated to any WLANs. For system design purposes, one or more temporary access points are deployed to identify and qualify access point locations. This used to be the most common method of pre-deployment wifi survey.
During an active survey, the wireless adapter is associated with one or several access points to measure round-trip time, throughput rates, packet loss, and retransmissions. Active surveys are used to troubleshoot wifi networks or to verify performance post-deployment.
During a predictive survey, a model of the RF environment is creat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GERAN
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GERAN is an abbreviation for GSM EDGE Radio Access Network. The standards for GERAN are maintained by the 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project). GERAN is a key part of GSM, and also of combined UMTS/GSM networks.
GERAN is the radio part of GSM/EDGE together with the network that joins the base stations (the Ater and Abis interfaces) and the base station controllers (A interfaces, etc.) The network represents the core of a GSM network, through which phone calls and packet data are routed from and to the PSTN and Internet to and from subscriber handsets. A mobile phone operator's network comprises one or more GERANs, coupled with UTRANs in the case of a UMTS/GSM network.
A GERAN without EDGE is a GRAN, but is otherwise identical in concept.
A GERAN without GSM is an ERAN.
See also
UTRAN : UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
References
External links
3GPP GERAN Plenary page
GSM standard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20authority
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A highway authority is a government organization responsible for public roads.
India
The National Highways Authority of India is the national authority for the management of a network of over 60,000 km of national highways in India. The Authority is a part of the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways.
Malaysia
Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) or Malaysian Highway Authority is a government agency under the Malaysian Ministry of Works. The agency was founded in 1980 to build the North-South Expressway, but now the main function of Malaysian Highway Authority is to monitor the works and administration of expressways in Malaysia as subject to Federal Roads Act (Private Managements) 1984.
Pakistan
The National Highway Authority is responsible for building and maintaining highways and motorways in Pakistan.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom a highway authority is an organisation that is responsible for the maintenance of public roads. The current role of a highway authority is defined in the Highways Act 1980 and the role is held by a large number of different groups.
Highway authorities in sub-national divisions
In England, Scotland, and Wales the highway authorities for trunk roads (which include most motorways) are, respectively, 'National Highways', 'Transport Scotland', and the Welsh Government.
For all other roads and public rights of way, the highway authority is usually the county council or unitary authority for a particular area. District councils may carry out some of the functions of a highway authority, but only when these have been delegated to them by their county council. Transport for London is the highway authority for all Greater London Authority roads (under the Highways Act 1980).
Duties
Duties of the highway authorities can include:
Maintaining all highways classed as being "maintainable at public expense" that fall within their area of control.
Maintaining records of all "highways maintainable at public expense" within their area of control.
Regulating the activities of developers in relation to their highways.
United States
In the U.S., a highway authority is now usually called a department of transportation, owing to the expanded responsibility for mass transport like passenger rail and even airports and ferry service. Some U.S. states also have separate highway authorities for toll roads, sometimes the responsibility of a regional government or metropolitan government rather than a state government.
For example, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is an instrumentality and administrative agency of the State of Illinois. The Authority has the power to collect and raise tolls, and is responsible for the maintenance and construction of tollway roads and related signage (including electronic message boards, used for driving-time notices, Amber Alerts, and other notifications). The Authority also supervises and manages the seven Illinois Tollway oases (rest areas). The Illinois DOT manages other
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone%20Egypt
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Vodafone Egypt (Arabic: ڤودافون مَصر, Vodafone Maṣr) is the largest mobile network operator in Egypt in terms of active subscribers. It was launched in 1998 under its former name Click GSM (Egyptian: كليك چى اس ام). It covers various voice and data exchange services, as well as 4G, 3G, ADSL and broadband Internet services.
Vodafone Egypt was initially headquartered in Maadi, Cairo since 1998 and until 2003; when Vodafone moved its headquarters to the Sixth of October City. some of the key members of the core network launch team were: Neil Marley, Ian Crawford and Peter Karney. Currently, all of Vodafone's core operations are run from Vodafone's campus at the Smart Village Technology Park.
License and establishment
On 30 November 1998, Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications announced that MisrFone Group (of which Vodafone owned a 30% share) was awarded the second license for GSM operations in Egypt (under the brand name of Click GSM). This decision was part of the move to privatize and liberalize the Egyptian market at the time. The first license had been given to the national incumbent which had launched the first mobile service in 1996 (the company is now Orange Egypt). In 2007, the telecommunications market in Egypt grew further and became more competitive when the third entrant to the market, Etisalat Misr, was awarded the third license for GSM operations.
In January 2007, Egypt's National Telecom Regulatory Agency (NTRA) awarded Vodafone Egypt a 15-year 3G licence.
On October 16, 2016, Vodafone Egypt was awarded the fourth-generation 4G mobile services license for a royalty fee of $335 million from the Egyptian National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA).
In January 2020, Saudi Telecom announced a preliminary agreement to buy Vodafone Group's 55% shareholding in Vodafone Egypt for $2.4 billion.
Market position
In 2011, Vodafone became the market leader in terms of revenue share and with the largest customer base.
Vodafone Egypt provides its services for both individuals and enterprises in Egypt focusing on telecommunication services from Voice to Data and Internet services. As part of that strategy, Vodafone Egypt initially acquired 51% of Raya Telecom in September 2006 which offered a variety of resources that would help Vodafone expand. It had a geographically dispersed network within Egypt and a solid experience in the fixed-line data communication field. As Raya Telecom's resources provided an ideal match for Vodafone's growth strategy, the remaining portion of Raya Telecom was acquired and, in June 2007 Vodafone Egypt assumed full ownership.
Subsidiaries
Vodafone International Services (_VOIS)
_VOIS (formerly known as VIS) is a Vodafone Egypt subsidiary dedicated to delivering Business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO) services for sister Vodafone operators and beyond. Vodafone International Services started to provide services to Vodafone UK with 4 IT professionals in 2002.
Sarmady
In 2008
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless%20smart%20card
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A contactless smart card is a contactless credential whose dimensions are credit card size. Its embedded integrated circuits can store (and sometimes process) data and communicate with a terminal via NFC. Commonplace uses include transit tickets, bank cards and passports.
There are two broad categories of contactless smart cards. Memory cards contain non-volatile memory storage components, and perhaps some specific security logic. Contactless smart cards contain read-only RFID called CSN (Card Serial Number) or UID, and a re-writeable smart card microchip that can be transcribed via radio waves.
Overview
A contactless smart card is characterized as follows:
Dimensions are normally credit card size. The ID-1 of ISO/IEC 7810 standard defines them as 85.60 × 53.98 × 0.76 mm (3.370 × 2.125 × 0.030 in).
Contains a security system with tamper-resistant properties (e.g. a secure cryptoprocessor, secure file system, human-readable features) and is capable of providing security services (e.g. confidentiality of information in the memory).
Assets managed by way of a central administration systems, or applications, which receive or interchange information with the card, such as card hotlisting and updates for application data.
Card data is transferred via radio waves to the central administration system through card read-write devices, such as point of sales devices, doorway access control readers, ticket readers, ATMs, USB-connected desktop readers, etc.
Benefits
Contactless smart cards can be used for identification, authentication, and data storage. They also provide a means of effecting business transactions in a flexible, secure, standard way with minimal human intervention.
History
Contactless smart cards were first used for electronic ticketing in 1995 in Seoul, South Korea.
Since then, smart cards with contactless interfaces have been increasingly popular for payment and ticketing applications such as mass transit. Globally, contactless fare collection is being employed for efficiencies in public transit. The various standards emerging are local in focus and are not compatible, though the MIFARE Classic card from Philips has a large market share in the United States and Europe.
In more recent times, Visa and MasterCard have agreed to standards for general "open loop" payments on their networks, with millions of cards deployed in the U.S., in Europe and around the world.
Smart cards are being introduced in personal identification and entitlement schemes at regional, national, and international levels. Citizen cards, drivers’ licenses, and patient card schemes are becoming more prevalent. In Malaysia, the compulsory national ID scheme MyKad includes 8 different applications and is rolled out for 18 million users. Contactless smart cards are being integrated into ICAO biometric passports to enhance security for international travel.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for and usage of contactless credit and debit cards has increased, altho
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent%20of%20Jesus%20and%20Mary%2C%20Delhi
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The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi, India, or CJM, is a girls day school in Delhi, India. Established in 1919, it is one of a network of Convents of Jesus and Mary in India and the UK.
History
The school was founded in 1919 by the order of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, a Roman Catholic congregation, in Lyon, France, in October, 1818, by Claudine Thévenet (Mary of St. Ignatius). It moved to its current building behind the Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1926.
It has 2,000 students and is the alma mater of several eminent women in or from India. Situated near the Gol Dak Khana (Round Post Office), its grounds border the St. Columba's School (for boys). As a result, these are considered "sister and brother schools" and many students have siblings in the other school.
The school's motto is , which is Latin for "Praised be forever Jesus and Mary".
In India it is categorized as a minority school and starts from nursery going up to class 12.
Notable alumni
Agatha Sangma, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Anna M.M. Vetticad, journalist and Social media consultant
Aruna Roy, activist
Arundhati Virmani, historian
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Democracy activist
Bhaswati Mukherjee, diplomat*
Divya Seth, Actor
Devika Bhagat, Bollywood screenwriter and dialogue writer
Jessica Lal, ex-model, murdered in 1999
Kavita Krishnamurthi, singer
Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
Sabrina Dhawan, Screenwriter, Monsoon Wedding and others.
Kumari Selja, Former Union Minister of State, Independent Charge, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
Sujata Madhok, journalist and activist
Sushma Seth, actress
Adita Wahi, Actress
House system
CJM follows a house system in which students are divided into four groups or houses.
Encounter (red)
Endeavor (blue)
Endurance (green)
Enterprise (yellow)
See also
Convent of Jesus and Mary
Jesus and Mary College, Delhi
References
External links
Official website
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree website
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree past pupils website
Catholic schools in India
Christian schools in Delhi
Girls' schools in Delhi
Educational institutions established in 1919
1919 establishments in India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Whitney%20%28animator%29
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John Hales Whitney Sr. (April 8, 1917September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the pioneers of computer animation.
Life
Whitney was born in Pasadena, California and attended Pomona College. He is a descendant of the Whitney family through his father's direct line. His first works in film were 8 mm movies of a lunar eclipse which he made using a home-made telescope. In 1937-38 he spent a year in Paris, studying twelve-tone composition under René Leibowitz. In 1939 he returned to America and began to collaborate with his brother James on a series of abstract films. Their work, Five Film Exercises (1940–45) was awarded a prize for sound at the First International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium in 1949. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
During the 1950s, Whitney used his mechanical animation techniques to create sequences for television programs and commercials. In 1952, he directed engineering films on guided missile projects. One of his most famous works from this period were the animated title and dream sequences from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo, which he collaborated on with the graphic designer Saul Bass.
In 1960, he founded Motion Graphics Incorporated, which used the mechanical analog computer of his own invention to create motion picture and television title sequences and commercials. The following year, he assembled a record of the visual effects he had perfected using his device, titled simply Catalog. In 1966, IBM awarded John Whitney, Sr. its first artist-in-residence position.
By the 1970s, Whitney had abandoned his analog computer in favor of faster, digital processes. He taught the first computer graphics class at UCLA in 1972. The pinnacle of his digital films is his 1975 work Arabesque, which is characterized by psychedelic, blooming color-forms and demonstrates the principle of "harmonic progression". In 1969–70, he experimented with motion graphics computer programming at California Institute of Technology. His work during the 1980s and 1990s benefited from faster computers and his invention of an audio-visual composition program called the Whitney-Reed RDTD (Radius-Differential Theta Differential). Works from this period, such as Moon Drum (1989–1995), used self-composed music and often explored mystical or Native-American themes.
All of John Whitney's sons (Michael, Mark and John Jr.) are also film-makers.
Several of the films (plus some of James Whitney's), were preserved by Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles. HD transfers from their preservation have been seen in major museum exhibitions including Visual Music at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Hirshhorn Museum (2005), Sons et Lumieres at Centre Pompidou (2004–05), The Third Mind at The Guggenheim Museum, and other shows.
Whitney's mechanical analog computer
The analog computer Whitney used to create his most famous animations was built in the late 1950s by conve
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Brand%20%28TV%20series%29
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Bill Brand is a British television drama series produced by Thames Television for the ITV network which was shown in the summer of 1976.
Written by Trevor Griffiths, the series charts the political progress of the eponymous Brand, who becomes a Labour Party member of parliament for a Lancashire constituency after retaining the seat at a by-election with a small majority. A former Liberal Studies lecturer at a local Technical college, Brand finds the demands of his career at odds with his left-wing convictions.
Produced as one series of eleven episodes, Bill Brand stars Jack Shepherd in the title role. Arthur Lowe appeared as the Prime Minister, Arthur Watson (a character loosely based on Harold Wilson). Alan Badel played a left-wing Cabinet minister, David Last (a character based on Michael Foot), connected with The Journal, a thinly disguised Tribune newspaper. The decline of the textile industry, a major employer in Brand's constituency, is a secondary theme of the series. Geoffrey Palmer and Nigel Hawthorne were cast as moderate Trade ministers; the latter meets a delegation including Brand because his superior is engaged at a "City junket". Cherie Lunghi played Alex, a young woman with whom Brand has been having an extra-marital affair. The main cast also included Lynn Farleigh, as Brand's estranged wife, Rosemary Martin, as an MP who shares the same London house with Brand and other Labour MPs, and Colin Jeavons as a local constituency activist.
Cast
Jack Shepherd as Bill Brand
Lynn Farleigh as Miriam Brand
Rosemary Martin as Winnie Scoular
Cherie Lunghi as Alex Ferguson
Allan Surtees as Alf Jowett
Clifford Kershaw as Frank Hilton
Alan Badel as David Last
Colin Jeavons as Bernard Shaw
Arthur Lowe as Arthur Watson
Geoffrey Palmer as Malcolm Frear
Nigel Hawthorne as Browning
DVD release
The series was released on DVD in the UK in 2011.
References
External links
British Film Institute Screen Online
1976 British television series debuts
1976 British television series endings
1970s British drama television series
ITV television dramas
Television shows produced by Thames Television
English-language television shows
British political drama television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20%28TV%20series%29
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Fox was a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980. Consisting of thirteen episodes, it recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections. It was notable in that it was an early work that featured the criminal as the protagonist.
The series was written by Trevor Preston, for which he received the 1981 Bafta Television Writers' Award. It was produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Jim Goddard.
Goddard noted that a dominant theme of the show was loyalty.
The show aired on Monday nights, but received fewer viewers than BBC's Yes, Minister.
Plot summary
Billy Fox is outwardly a retired Covent Garden market porter, but is involved in crime in London's East End.
Cast
The Fox family
Billy – Peter Vaughan
Connie – Elizabeth Spriggs
Kenny – Ray Winstone
Joey – Larry Lamb
Vin – Bernard Hill
Ray – Derrick O'Connor
Phil – Eamon Boland
Renie – Rosemary Martin
Andy – Richard Weinbaum
Nan – Cindy O'Callaghan
Jenny – Gail Shaw
Frank – Sidney Livingstone
List of episodes
"King Billy"
"Arched Fingers for Bach, Flat Fingers for Love"
"Pugilism Not Vandalism"
"It's All Them Psychia-Whatever-You-Call-It Books He Reads"
"Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble"
"Stick or Twist"
"The Perfect Scapegoat Syndrome"
"'If It's Good Enough for New Orleans, It's Good Enough for Clapham"
"Fox Big 'F' – Family"
"Just an Iron Monkey"
"Just Another Villain in a Cheap Suit"
"Oh Dear – Oh Dear – Oh Dear!"
"The Family ... and the Future"
Awards
1981 Bafta Television Writers' Award for Trevor Preston
References
External links
British Film Institute Screen Online
ITV television dramas
Television shows set in London
1980s British drama television series
1980 British television series debuts
1980 British television series endings
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows produced by Thames Television
English-language television shows
Television series by Euston Films
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The Cuckoo Waltz is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Television for the ITV network between 1975 and 1980. It was written by Geoffrey Lancashire, and produced and directed by Bill Gilmour.
The series, which was set in 1970s and early 1980s Manchester, dealt with the comic complications that ensue when impoverished newly-weds Chris and Fliss Hawthorne (David Roper and Diane Keen) take in lodger Gavin Rumsey (Lewis Collins) to ease their financial problems. Collins left after three series and was replaced by Ian Saynor as Adrian Lockett in the fourth series.
The series was re-screened by now defunct Satellite TV channel Granada Plus in the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s.
Cast
Diane Keen as Fliss Hawthorne
David Roper as Chris Hawthorne
Lewis Collins as Gavin Rumsey (series 1-3)
Clare Kelly as Connie Wagstaffe
John McKelvey as Austen Tweedale
Ian Saynor as Adrian Lockett (from series 4)
Episodes
Series 1 (1975)
Cuckoo in the Nest (27 October 75)
One Week Later (3 November 75)
Paying Your Way (10 November 75)
The Anniversary (17 November 75)
A Day Off (24 November 75)
Fleet Street (1 December 75)
House for Sale (8 December 75)
Series 2 (1976)
Babysitter (8 July 76)
Financial Difficulties (15 July 76)
The Armchair (22 July 76)
Connie (29 July 76)
The Model (5 August 76)
The Letter (12 August 76)
Series 3 (1977)
It's All Greek to Me (10 January 77)
The Treat (17 January 77)
The Air Hostesses (24 January 77)
The Policeman (31 January 77)
Perspectives (7 February 77)
Alterations (14 February 77)
Series 4 (1980)
The New Lodger (26 June 80)
The Neighbour (3 July 80)
Leather (10 July 80)
A Love That Does Not Dim (17 July 80)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (24 July 80)
The Press Ball (31 July 80)
An Ideal Home (7 August 80)
DVD release
All four series of The Cuckoo Waltz have been released on DVD in 2009 and 2011, and a box set with the complete series to follow.
External links
The Official Lewis Collins Fansite
1970s British sitcoms
1975 British television series debuts
1980 British television series endings
1980s British sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
Television shows set in Manchester
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAI
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RIAI may refer to:
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
Recursively-improving artificial intelligence, recursive self-improvement ability of artificial intelligence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technician%20Ted
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Technician Ted (also known as The Chip Factory: Featuring Technician Ted) is a platform game for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computers that was written by Steve Marsden and David Cooke and published in 1984 by Hewson Consultants.
Plot
Technician Ted is an enthusiastic young computer hacker who works at the chip factory. He begins his work every day at 8.30am and must complete 21 tasks before clocking off at 5.00pm. Unfortunately, his boss has not told him what the tasks are or where they are located. Ted speaks to his mate, who tells him that his first job is to get to his desk, and from there he must make his way to the "Silicon Slice Store".
Gameplay
Technician Ted is a flick-screen platform game made up of many different named screens. On many of these screens there are two boxes which must be touched in the correct order (the first one will be flashing) in order to complete the task. Some of these tasks must be completed within a time-limit making it important for the player to guide Ted from one box to the other as quickly as possible.
As well as the tasks, Ted must avoid the various monsters that lurk in the factory and make sure he completes all of his tasks within the game's time limit so he can finish his day.
The in-game music is an adaptation of the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss Sr.
The Spectrum and Amstrad versions feature a sprite-animated loading screen with a countdown timer, a significant technical achievement at the time.
Reception
When reviewed in Crash magazine the game scored an Overall 96%. When Technician Ted was reviewed by Your Sinclair magazine in 1985 it was awarded 6/10 although a review of the re-released game by the same magazine in 1989 awarded it 8/10. In 1992, it was placed at number 84 in the "Your Sinclair official top 100".
Legacy
Technician Ted was followed by a sequel, Costa Capers, in 1985.
In 1986, Hewson published a special version of the game exclusively for 128K ZX Spectrums called Technician Ted - The Megamix. As well as featuring 100 extra rooms, this version also has three-channel chip music and the tasks have been numbered in order to make the order they are to be done in easier to understand.
References
External links
1984 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Hewson Consultants games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20Query%20Language
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Object Query Language (OQL) is a query language standard for object-oriented databases modeled after SQL and developed by the Object Data Management Group (ODMG). Because of its overall complexity the complete OQL standard has not yet been fully implemented in any software. The OQL standard influenced the design of later query languages such as JDOQL and EJB QL, though none are considered to be any version of OQL.
General rules
The following rules apply to OQL statements:
All complete statements must be terminated by a semi-colon.
A list of entries in OQL is usually separated by commas but not terminated by a comma(,).
Strings of text are enclosed by matching quotation marks.
Examples
Simple query
The following example illustrates how one might retrieve the CPU-speed of all PCs with more than 64MB of RAM from a fictional PC database:
SELECT pc.cpuspeed
FROM PCs pc
WHERE pc.ram > 64;
Query with grouping and aggregation
The following example illustrates how one might retrieve the average amount of RAM on a PC, grouped by manufacturer:
SELECT manufacturer, AVG(SELECT part.pc.ram FROM partition part)
FROM PCs pc
GROUP BY manufacturer: pc.manufacturer;
Note the use of the keyword partition, as opposed to aggregation in traditional SQL.
See also
Object Data Management Group (ODMG)
Object Definition Language
Query languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Parker
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Richard A. Parker (born 29 January 1953, in Surrey) is a mathematician and freelance computer programmer in Cambridge, England. He invented many of the algorithms for computing the modular character tables of finite simple groups. He discovered the relation between Niemeier lattices and
deep holes of the Leech lattice, and constructed Parker's Moufang loop of order 213 (which was used by John Horton Conway in his construction of the monster group).
Books
Conway, J. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1999). Sphere packings, lattices and groups. (3rd ed.) With additional contributions by E. Bannai, R. E. Borcherds, John Leech, Simon P. Norton, A. M. Odlyzko, R. A. Parker, L. Queen and B. B. Venkov. Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 290. New York: Springer-Verlag. .
An Atlas of Brauer Characters (London Mathematical Society Monographs) by Christopher Jansen, Klaus Lux, Richard Parker, Robert Wilson. Oxford University Press, U.S. (October 1, 1995)
References
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
20th-century English mathematicians
21st-century English mathematicians
Group theorists
1953 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac286
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The Mac286 was an Intel 80286-based MS-DOS coprocessor expansion card for one of Apple Computer's first expandable Macintosh computers, the 1987 Macintosh II. It was developed by Phoenix Technologies under contract to Apple Computer and sold by AST Research in an effort to close the gap between the Macintosh and IBM PC computing worlds. AST also introduced the related Mac86 card for the Macintosh SE.
By 1989, AST had left the Apple market and sold the rights and technologies for the Mac286 and Mac86 cards to Orange Micro. Orange Micro would later make a successful line of coprocessor cards based on the 80x86 processor family, before leaving the coprocessor market to concentrate on USB and FireWire products.
In 1992, Orange Micro discontinued the Mac286 board. Support for the card was discontinued sometime later.
Mac86
The Mac86 was designed for the Macintosh SE PDS slot, and integrated a 10 MHz Intel 8086 CPU. The Mac86 did not include its own RAM, instead sharing up to 640 KB of the host Macintosh's RAM. A floppy drive controller was integrated, including an external bracket to connect an Apple PC 5.25 Drive.
The Mac286 hardware
There are three distinct versions of the Mac286 hardware:
The original AST version consists of a pair of full-length NuBus cards, joined by two ribbon cables. The first board consists of a CPU card while the second board acts as a disk controller and memory card.
The early Orange Micro version is similar to the AST version. It was reworked in some areas and contains additional circuitry, permitting memory upgrades.
The later Orange Micro version consists of a single board with a greater degree of VLSI chips.
Of the three versions, the AST appears to be the most common.
Details
Intel 80286 processor, operating at 8 MHz, 12MHz or 16 MHz, depending on version. (A 10 MHz version may also exist.)
Socket for an optional Intel 80287 math coprocessor
Phoenix Technologies 286 BIOS v3.00 (This is an AT BIOS.)
1 MB Non-parity RAM, organized as 4 256K SIMMs (640K visible to MS-DOS)
NEC 765-based floppy controller (NOTE: Unlike most PC floppy controller boards, the circuit in the Mac286 allows for Single Density operation. This is primarily of interest to those wishing to read older CP/M diskettes with the appropriate software.)
37-pin port for optional external floppy (Apple PC 5.25 Drive or equivalent)
The Mac286 software provides emulation of the following additional hardware:
CGA or Hercules Graphics Card (switchable)
1.44 MB Floppy drive as drive A: (if a SuperDrive is installed in the Macintosh)
20 MB Hard disk, stored as a file on the host Mac.
Access to the file system of the Mac via an emulated drive D:
0, 1, or 2 COM ports (These are mapped to the Mac's Modem and Printer ports.)
Printer port, emulating either an Epson MX80 or an Apple LaserWriter. (The latter is only available if a real LaserWriter is connected to the system.)
References
The Once and Future Mac286 Page
Compatibility cards
X86 emulat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Hiding%20Place
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No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967.
It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag (1957–1958) and Crime Sheet (1959), all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Production
No Hiding Place carried on from where the TV series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet left off. Murder Bag featured 55 episodes. 30 in Season One (16 September 1957 to 31 March 1958), all untitled (having case numbers, and were listed a Murder Bag - case One, etc) and 25 in Season Two (30 June 1958 to 1 April 1959), all titled, and all featuring the word "Lockhart" as the first word of their title. Half-hour detective series that introduced viewers to the snuff-taking as Detective Superintendent Lockhart, played by Raymond Francis. It was created by Glyn Davies, Produced by Barry Baker and written by Barry Baker and Peter Ling Backup sergeants and others changed regularly. The murder bag in the title carried 42 items which were needed in the investigation of a crime. The show was produced live in the studio. According to IMDb there were 29 episodes in series one and 40 in series two.
In Crime Sheet, Lockhart had now been promoted to Detective Chief Superintendent. The writers of the series revealed to the TV Times in 1962 that Lockhart could not be promoted above this rank, as he would no longer be expected to visit the crime scene, thus hindering the potential of the storylines. 17 episodes (23 episodes according to IMDb) of 30 minutes were produced from 8 April 1959 to 9 September 1959. Due to Raymond Francis contracting mumps, the final episode of Crime Sheet did not feature Lockhart but Chief Superintendent Carr, played by Gerald Case.
No Hiding Place continued to follow the cases of Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart at Scotland Yard, with a new longer one-hour format allowing for more story and character development. He was initially assisted by Detective Sergeant later Inspector Harry Baxter (Eric Lander), followed by Det. Sgt. Russell (Johnny Briggs) and Det. Sgt. Perryman (Michael McStay), and finally by Det. Sgt. Gregg (Sean Caffrey).
Crossover episode - One 1962 episode, broadcast on 25 September, series 4, episode 21, The Most Beautiful Room in the World, saw a guest appearance of Patrick Cargill in the guise of Top Secret (TV series) Miquel Garetta.
Still largely studio-based, the series now included more pre-filmed sequences. A decision was made to cancel the series in 1965, but there were so many protests from the public and the police that it returned for another two years. 236 episodes were made in total.
Detective Sergeant Harry Baxter was there from episode one until episode 141. Midway through the series he was transferred to E Division's Q Car Squad and promoted from Sergeant to Inspector, a rank he retained when he returned to the Yard in 1963. Bax
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20%28TV%20series%29
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Fire is an Australian television series transmitted on the Seven Network between 1995 and 1996. It was shown in the UK and Ireland on Sky One. In 1999 and 2000, the series was shown on Channel 5.
The series explored the lives of a platoon of firefighters. The leading cast members included: Andy Anderson, Georgie Parker, Peter Phelps, Shane Connor, Deborra-Lee Furness, Danny Adcock, Wayne Pygram, Tottie Goldsmith, Liddy Clark, Aaron Jeffery, Tayler Kane and Max Phipps.
Cast
Season One:
Firefighter 4th grade Morgan "Mad Dog" Cartwright ~ Georgie Parker
Station Officer Nick "The Boss" Connor ~ Peter Phelps
Senior Station Officer Quentin "Spit" Jacobsen ~ Wayne Pygram
Firefighter 1st grade John "Repo" Kennedy ~ Andy Anderson
Firefighter 1st/3rd grade Louis "Grievous" Fazio ~ Tayler Kane
Firefighter 1st grade David "Giraffe" Simpson ~ Shane Feeney-Connor
Firefighter 1st grade Richard "Banjo" Gates ~ Aaron Jeffery
Senior Firefighter Edward "Dinosaur" Spence ~ Max Phipps
Season Two
Senior Station Officer Quentin "Spit" Jacobsen ~ Wayne Pygram
Station Officer Montgomery "Seldom" Webber ~ Damian Pike
Firefighter John "Repo" Kennedy ~ Andy Anderson
Firefighter Louis "Grievous" Fazio ~ Tayler Kane
Firefighter Danny "Nugget" Hunt ~ Danny Adcock
Firefighter Marilyn "Tex" Perez ~ Tottie Goldsmith
Firefighter Greta "Garbo" Fazio ~ Fiona MacGregor
Firefighter Peter "TNT" Thompson ~ Robert Morgan
Firefighter Martin "Mary" Hawthorne ~ Damian Rice
Recurring Characters
Dolores Kennedy ~ Deborra-Lee Furness
Detective Sergeant Jean Diamond ~ Liddy Clark
Det. Sen. Sgt. Ron Chandler ~ John Heywood
Det. Henri Aldridge ~ Andrew McKaige
Det. Vlad Hadzic ~ Wayne Cull
Al ~ Norman Steiner
Dr. David Crown ~ Sean Scully
Ted Cartwright ~ Daniel Roberts
Anne Risdale ~ Anne Tenney
Sophie Harrison ~ Geneviève Picot
Jimmy Runyon ~ Kym Gyngell
Dr. Pru Eberhardt ~ Angela Punch McGregor
Season synopsis
Season 1
The series starts with new female recruit Morgan Cartwright (Georgie Parker) joining the ranks of South East Fire station in Brisbane. Morgan has to face prejudices in the male dominated profession, mainly from the icy platoon sergeant "Spit". Other characters include The Boss (Peter Phelps), Grievous, Banjo (Aaron Jeffrey), Dinosaur, Repo (Andy Anderson) and Giraffe.
The local arson squad also play a very prominent part from the beginning of season 1. Detective Sergeant Jean Diamond (Liddy Clark) has been investigating a series of fires for over a year, which she believes to actually be the work of a firefighter. Knowing that Morgan has just joined South East, Jean approaches Morgan and puts her theory to her. She asks that Morgan will be her "eyes and ears" in the fire station. This makes life complicated for Morgan.
Ultimately, Detective Diamond's theory is proved correct. It is revealed that one of the firefighters from South East has been lighting fires.
Season 1 was made with the cooperation of the Queensland Fire Service and their appliances were used during fil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-200
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CER ( – Digital Electronic Computer) model 200 is an early digital computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1966.
See also
CER Computers
Mihajlo Pupin Institute
History of computer hardware in the SFRY
One-of-a-kind computers
CER computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBXH-CD
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WBXH-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate WAFB (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge, where WBXH-CD's transmitter is also located.
Even though WBXH-CD broadcasts a digital signal of its own, the low-power broadcasting radius only covers the immediate Baton Rouge area. Therefore, it is simulcast in standard definition on WAFB's fourth digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market; this can be seen on channel 9.4 from a transmitter on River Road near the city's Riverbend section.
History
WBXH began broadcasting on September 27, 1990, and was owned by the Box LP Group who owned low-power affiliates of The Box music channel across the United States. In 2001, it became an affiliate of MTV2. The station operated on UHF channel 46 until WAFB signed-on its digital signal on the same channel in 2002. This led WBXH to change channels to 39. It was purchased by Raycom Media in 2003 and became a UPN affiliate. WBXH was the third and final station in Baton Rouge to be affiliated with the network, as UPN was originally programmed on WBTR from 1995 to 1999 and then on KZUP from 1999 to 2003. It showcased itself as "UPN the Block" and used a duo known as "Rider and the Fish" to promote programming and various locales around Baton Rouge. On January 24, 2006, Time Warner (which was the owner of The WB at that time) and CBS Corporation (which purchased UPN at the start of 2006) announced that the WB and UPN networks would be shutting down and that those two companies would combine their resources to create a new television service. The newly combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its respective corporate parents.
On February 22, News Corporation announced that it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. On March 7, WBXH was announced as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV along with sister stations WUAB in Cleveland and KFVE in Honolulu. Until the September 5 launch of the new network, the UPN branding on WBXH was removed which resulted in the station becoming one of a few non-Fox owned-and-operated UPN stations to do so. In the interim, the station called itself "WBXH the Block."
Since becoming a MyNetworkTV affiliate, the station branded itself as "My BR TV," and in 2010, it began identifying itself as "channel 16," as the station is viewed on Cox Cable channel 16 in the Baton Rouge area. In other idents, the station identifies itself by its digital channel:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Cloud
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Sun Cloud was an on-demand Cloud computing service operated by Sun Microsystems prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation. The Sun Cloud Compute Utility provided access to a substantial computing resource over the Internet for US$1 per CPU-hour. It was launched as Sun Grid in March 2006. It was based on and supported open source technologies such as Solaris 10, Sun Grid Engine, and the Java platform.
Sun Cloud delivered enterprise computing power and resources over the Internet, enabling developers, researchers, scientists and businesses to optimize performance, speed time to results, and accelerate innovation without investment in IT infrastructure.
In early 2010 Oracle announced it was discontinuing the Sun Cloud project. Since Sunday, March 7, 2010, the network.com web site has been inaccessible.
Suitable applications
A typical application that could run on the Compute Utility fit the following parameters:
must be self-contained
runs on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS)
is implemented with standard object libraries included with the Solaris 10 OS or user libraries packaged with the executable
all executable code must be available on the Compute Utility at time of execution
runs to completion under control of shell scripts (no requirement for interactive access)
has a total maximum size of applications and data that does not exceed 10 gigabytes
can be packaged for upload to Sun Cloud as one or more ZIP files of 300 megabytes or smaller
Resources, jobs, and runs
Resources are collections of files that contain the user's data and executable.
Jobs are a Compute Utility concept that define the elements of the unit of work that is
submitted to the Sun Cloud Compute Utility. The major elements of a job include the name of
the shell script controlling program execution, required arguments to the shell script, and a list of resources that must be in place for the job to run.
A run is a specific instantiation of a Job description submitted to the Sun Cloud Compute
Utility. Runs occur when the job is submitted to the Compute Utility for execution.
CPU-hour
For each job one submits and runs on the Cloud, the Sun Cloud CPU usage is aggregated and then rounded up to the nearest whole hour. For example, if a job used 1000 CPUs for one minute, it would be aggregated as 1000 CPU minutes or 16.67 CPU hours. The software rounds this up to 17 hours and the job would be billed as US$17.
Application catalog
On March 13, 2007, Sun announced the launch of Application Catalog, an online service that allows developers and ISVs to develop and publish their applications, enabling communities of scientists and academics in life sciences, education, engineering, and other fields to accelerate innovation and complete research projects quickly and less expensively.
The Network.com Application Catalog gives users immediate online access to popular ISV and open-source applications through an easy-to-use Web portal with no contractual obligation. User
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopper%20Squad
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Chopper Squad is an Australian television series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the 0-10 Network (as it was then known).
The series recounted the work of a helicopter rescue team operating on Dee Why beach in Sydney.
Production
Pilot
The original pilot was made in 1976, airing in Melbourne in November 1976 and Newcastle (NSW) in August 1977. There was quite a time lag between the pilot and the series going to air in May 1978.
As with many series there were changes between the initial pilot and the series. Three actors from the pilot did not continue into the series - Rebecca Gilling, Max Osbiston and Tony Bonner. Additionally, the surnames of characters Phil and Tim were changed.
Series
The pilot was followed by two series with a total of 26 episodes airing between 1978 and 1979. Shortly after the show began, the " rescue helicopter base" moved its operations from Dee Why Beach Surf Life Saving Club to Palm Beach Surf Lifesaving Club.
Cast
Main cast
Dennis Grosvenor as Jebbie Best
Robert Coleby as Barry Drummond
Eric Oldfield as Phil Trayle
Jeanie Drynan as Georgia Beattie
Tony Hughes as Tim Gray
The helicopters
VH-UCH
VH-UCH, a Bell 206A, only appeared in the pilot.
VH-FHF
VH-FHF was used for the main series. In real life VH-FHF a Bell 206B "Jet Ranger II" was initially used from approximately 1977 by Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service, that was established by Surf Life Saving Australia in 1973 on an initial sponsorship of $25 000 from the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac).
After serving the Wales rescue team, VH-FHF was bought by PHS, professional helicopter services. It's still in operations serving the Government of Victoria as Firebird 301 and does tourist flights at Uluru. The JetRanger VH-FHF became registered VH-PHF.
VH-FHF registration number was given to a MBB Kawasaki BK-117B-2.
The "new" VH-FHF is operated by the NSW Rural Fire Service.
Home media
As of 5 June 2019 there is no DVD Release of the series.
References
External links
Chopper Squad at Classic Australian Television
Chopper Squad at AustLit
Chopper Squad at the National Film and Sound Archive
1970s Australian drama television series
Television shows set in New South Wales
Network 10 original programming
Television series by CBS Studios
Aviation television series
1976 Australian television series debuts
1979 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOELib
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JOELib is computer software, a chemical expert system used mainly to interconvert chemical file formats. Because of its strong relationship to informatics, this program belongs more to the category cheminformatics than to molecular modelling. It is available for Windows, Unix and other operating systems supporting the programming language Java. It is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0.
History
JOELib and OpenBabel were derived from the OELib Cheminformatics library.
Logo
The project logo is just the word JOELib in the Tengwar script of J. R. R. Tolkien. The letters are grouped as JO-E-Li-b. Vowels are usually grouped together with a consonant, but two following vowels must be separated by a helper construct.
Major features
Chemical expert system
Query and substructure search (based on Simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMARTS), a SMILES extension
Clique detection
QSAR
Data mining
Molecule mining, special case of Structured Data Mining
Feature–descriptor calculation
Partition coefficient, log P
Rule-of-five
Partial charges
Fingerprint calculation
etc.
Chemical file formats
Chemical table file: MDL Molfile, SD format
SMILES
Gaussian
Chemical Markup Language
MOPAC
See also
OpenBabel - C++ version of JOELib-OELib
Jmol
Chemistry Development Kit (CDK)
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Blue Obelisk
Molecule editor
List of free and open-source software packages
References
The Blue Obelisk-Interoperability in Chemical Informatics, Rajarshi Guha, Michael T. Howard, Geoffrey R. Hutchison, Peter Murray-Rust, Henry Rzepa, Christoph Steinbeck, Jörg K. Wegner, and Egon L. Willighagen, J. Chem. Inf. Model.; 2006;
External links
at SourceForge
Algorithm dictionary
Free science software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Computational chemistry software
Science software for Linux
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20Public%20Broadcasting
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is the public broadcasting state network serving the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is owned by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television (MAET), an agency of the state government that holds the licenses for all of the PBS and NPR member stations in the state. MPB's headquarters is located on Ridgewood Road in northeast Jackson. The public broadcaster was established as Mississippi Educational Television.
History
Mississippi was a relative latecomer to public broadcasting. By the late 1960s, it was the only state east of the Mississippi River without an educational television station licensed within its borders. The only areas of the state to get a clear signal from a National Educational Television (NET) or PBS station were the northwestern counties (from Memphis' WKNO) and the counties along the Gulf Coast (from New Orleans' WYES-TV and Mobile's Alabama Educational Television outlet, WEIQ).
in 1969, the Mississippi Legislature created the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television to create a locally focused educational television service for Mississippi. After almost a year of planning, WMAA (channel 29, now WMPN-TV) in Jackson debuted on February 1, 1970 as the state's first educational television station. It immediately joined PBS. The initial broadcast was written by Jeanne Lucket and produced and co-directed by Mims Wright, then Director of Public Affairs at Jackson NBC affiliate WLBT, and Joe Root, WLBT Production Manager.
Only four months after beginning operations, WMAA received unwanted national attention when it refused to carry Sesame Street because of its racially integrated cast. That decision was reversed 22 days later after a nationwide outcry. Six other stations began operation over the next few years, and the state network became known as Mississippi Educational Television, or simply ETV.
Public radio came even later, arriving in the state in 1983. Eventually, Public Radio in Mississippi (PRM) expanded to eight stations throughout the state.
In 2005, MAET adopted "Mississippi Public Broadcasting" as an umbrella on-air brand for all television and radio operations.
Programming
Since its inception, MPB has produced many educational or instructional television programs from its Jackson studios. A partial list includes Tomes & Talismans, The Write Channel, The Clyde Frog Show, About Safety, Ticktock Minutes, Zebra Wings, Posie Paints, Project Survival, The Metric System, Media Mania, and Between the Lions.
Series include:
Artifacts
Between the Lions (2000–2010; national co-production with WGBH Boston)
Fit to Eat, a cooking show hosted by chef and restaurateur Rob Stinson
Job Bank (1970s-early 1990s)
Mississippi Roads (1983–present)
Mississippi Outdoors (1970s–present)
Quorum (1976–2012)
Southern Expressions
Tomes & Talismans (mid–1980s)
The Write Channel (1977; distributed by the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT))
Write Right (1985; aired as part of th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRS-100
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HRS-100, ХРС-100, GVS-100 or ГВС-100, (see Ref.#1, #2, #3 and #4) (, , ) was a third generation hybrid computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia, then SFR Yugoslavia) and engineers from USSR in the period from 1968 to 1971. Three systems HRS-100 were deployed in Academy of Sciences of USSR in Moscow and Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok) in 1971 and 1978. More production was contemplated for use in Czechoslovakia and German Democratic Republic (DDR), but that was not realised.
HRS-100 was invented and developed to study the dynamical systems in real and accelerated scale time and for efficient solving of wide array of scientific tasks at the institutes of the A.S. of USSR (in the fields: Aerospace-nautics, Energetics, Control engineering, Microelectronics, Telecommunications, Bio-medical investigations, Chemical industry etc.).
Overview
HRS-100 was composed of:
Digital computer:
central processor
16 kilowords of 0.9 μs 36-bit magnetic core primary memory, expandable to 64 kilowords.
secondary disk storage
peripheral devices (teleprinters, punched tape reader/punchers, parallel printers and punched card readers).
multiple Analog computer modules
Interconnection devices
multiple analog and digital Peripheral devices
Central processing unit
HRS-100 has a 32-bit TTL MSI processor with following capabilities:
four basic arithmetic operations are implemented in hardware for both fixed point and floating point operations
Addressing modes: immediate/literal, absolute/direct, relative, unlimited-depth multi-level memory indirect and relative-indirect
7 index registers and dedicated "index arithmetic" hardware
32 interrupt "channels" (10 from within the CPU, 10 from peripherals and 12 from interconnection devices and analog computer)
Primary memory
Primary memory was made up of 0.9 μs cycle time magnetic core modules. Each 36-bit word is organized as follows:
32 data bits
1 parity bit
3 program protection bits specifying which program (Operating System and up to 7 running applications) has access
Secondary storage
Secondary storage was composed of up to 8 of the CDC 9432D removable-media disk drive devices. Capacity of one set of disk platters was about 4 million 6-bit words or 768,000 words of HRS-100 computer. Total, combined, capacity of 8 drives is, therefore, 6,144,000 words. Each disk set comprised 6 platters out of which 10 surfaces are used. Data was organized into 100 cylinders and 16 1536-bit sectors (48 HRS-100 words).
Average data access time was 100 ms (max. 165 ms). Maximum seek time was 25 ms. Raw transfer sector write speed was 208,333 characters/s.
Peripherals
Peripherals communicate with the computer using interrupts and full length of HRS-100 words. Each separate unit has its own controller. Following devices were produced or planned:
5 to 8 channel Punched tape reader type PE 1001 (500-1000 characters/s)
5 to 8 channel Tape puncher type PE 4060 (150 characters/s)
IBM 735 teleprinter (88 character set,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM-100
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The TIM-100 was a PTT teller microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia) in 1985 (Ref.lit. #1). It was based on the Intel microprocessors types 80x86 and VLSI circuitry. RAM had capacity max.8MB, and the external memory were floppy disks of 5.25 or 3.50 inch. (Ref.literature #2, #3 and #4).
Multiuser, multitasking Operating system was real-time NRT and also TRANOS (developed by PTT office).
See also
Mihajlo Pupin Institute
History of computer hardware in the SFRY
Microcomputers
References
1. D.Milicevic, D.Starcevic, D.Hristovic: "Architecture and Applications of the TIM Computers", Primenjena nauka journal, No 14, pp. 23–30, Belgrade May 1988. (in Serbian)
2. Dragoljub Milicevic, Dusan Hristovic(Ed): RACUNARI TIM (TIM Computers), Naucna Knjiga,Belgrade 1990.
3. Computing Technology in Serbia, by Dusan Hristovic, Phlogiston, No 18/19, pp. 89–105, Museum MNT-SANU, Belgrade 2010/2011. (in Serbian)
4. 50 Years of Computing in Serbia- Hronika digitalnih decenija, by D.B.Vujaklija, N. Markovic-Ed, pp. 37–44 and 75–86 in this book, PC Press, Belgrade 2011. (in Serbian).
Fig.4. TIM designers from M.P.Institute-Belgrade, Wikimedia
Mihajlo Pupin Institute
IBM PC compatibles
Computing by computer model
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Henderson%20Kids
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The Henderson Kids is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.
Season one
Synopsis
The series follows teenage siblings Steve (Paul Smith) and Tamara (Nadine Garner). They are forced to leave the city and move to the country to live with their uncle Mike (Nicholas Eadie) after their mother Alice (Diane Craig) is hit by a truck and killed. Mike is a police officer in the fictional town of Haven Bay.
The Henderson kids make a new life in Haven Bay and make friends with the local gang. They were Ted Morgan (Ben Mendelsohn), Colin "Cowboy" Clarke (Mark Hennessy), Charlotte "Char" Kernow (Kylie Minogue) and Brian "Brains" Buchanan (Bradley Kilpatrick).
Steve and Tamara defend the family land, Henderson's Point, against the schemes of ruthless businessman Ashley Wheeler (Peter Whitford). To compound matters, Steve falls in love with Wheeler's daughter Sylvia (Annie Jones).
Cast
Main
Paul Smith as Steve Henderson
Nadine Garner as Tamara "Tam" Henderson
Ben Mendelsohn as Ted Morgan
Kylie Minogue as Charlatte '"Char" Kernow
Mark Hennessy as Colin "Cowboy" Clarke
Bradley Kilpatrick as Brian "Brains" Buchanan
Annie Jones as Sylvia Wheeler
Peter Whitford as Ashley Wheeler
Nicholas Eadie as Uncle Mike
Recurring & guests
Antoinette Byron as Pat Edwards
Jane Hall as Regina Powell
Tottie Goldsmith as Glynnis Wheeler
Kevin Harrington as Gazza
Peter O'Brien as Suds
Stefan Dennis as Terry
Nicholas Creed as Trevor Cathcart
Diane Craig as Alice Henderson
Reg Gorman as Kernow (4 episodes)
Minogue, Jones, O'Brien, Mendelsohn, Hall, Dennis, Kilpatrick, Harrington and Goldsmith all went on to appear in Neighbours.
Filming
The Haven Bay set footage was filmed in Birregurra, Victoria.
Season two
Synopsis
A second series (called The Henderson Kids II), set in the fictional bayside suburb of Westport followed in 1987. This had Steve and Tamara living in the city again, with their father Walter "Wal" Mullens (Michael Aitkens). They had a new gang of friends, including Vincent "Vinnie" Cerantonio (Alex Papps) as the leader of the Brown Street Boys (a gang of local high school kids on BMX bikes), twins Carol (Anita Cerdic) and Marty Summers (Nathan Croft), and Brian "Brains" Buchanan and Trevor Cathcart (Nicholas Creed), both holdovers from the original series.
Other central characters were the Henderson's next door neighbours Helen Marshall (Louise Howitt) and her 9-year-old daughter Sally (Marieke Hardy), their dad's shady business partner Harry (Ross Thompson) and his henchman Spider (John Jacobs), Sergeant Javorsky (Doug Bowles) of the Victorian police, Brown Street Boy Mick Dalton (Paul Hall) and the Westport High School 'snob' Miranda Kilsyth (Elizabeth Rule).
Cast
Main
Paul Smith as Steve Henderson
Nadine Garner as Tamara "Tam" Henderson
Alex Papps as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osseus%20Labyrint
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Osseus Labyrint is an experimental arts entity which has been working in multiple disciplines and forms of media since 1989.
The group describes its work as "a manifestation of accumulated data from billions of years of evolving and recombining of matter and energy." Founded and directed by Hannah Sim and Mark Steger, Osseus Labyrint has inhabited extreme, remote, conventional, and self-made environments. The group's work has been presented live and broadcast throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and over the World Wide Web.
The pair has found much fame through their work with the band Tool; they have appeared in Tool's music video "Schism" and live on stage at many of Tool's concerts. Osseus Labyrint has also appeared as a pair in the film Men in Black II doing the same "interpretative dance" seen in the "Schism" music video. Sim died on November 10, 2020.
References
External links
official site
International artist groups and collectives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INOC-DBA
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The INOC-DBA (Inter-Network Operations Center Dial-By-ASN) hotline phone system is a global voice telephony network that connects the network operations centers and security incident response teams of critical Internet infrastructure providers such as backbone carriers, Internet service providers, and Internet exchanges as well as critical individuals within the policy, regulatory, Internet governance, security and vendor communities. It was built by Packet Clearing House in 2001, was publicly announced at NANOG in October of 2002, and the secretariat function was transferred from PCH to the Brazilian CERT in 2015.
INOC-DBA is a closed system, ensuring secure and authenticated communications, and uses a combination of redundant directory services and direct peer-to-peer communications between stations to create a resilient, high-survivability network. It carries both routine operational traffic and emergency-response traffic. The INOC-DBA network uses IETF-standard SIP Voice over IP protocols to ensure interoperability between thousands of users across more than 2,800 NOCs and CERTs, which use dozens of different varieties of station and switch devices. It was the first production implementation of inter-carrier SIP telephony, when voice over IP had previously consisted exclusively of H.323 gateway-to-gateway call transport. INOC-DBA became the first telephone network of any kind to provide service on all seven continents when Michael Holstine of Raytheon Polar Services installed terminals at the South Pole Station in March of 2001.
References
External links
INOC-DBA directory. A directory of the subset of INOC-DBA participants who choose to be publicly listed.
Sobre INOC-DBA. A Portuguese introduction to the INOC-DBA system, maintained by NIC-BR, the Brazilian national Internet registry.
INOC-DBA technical discussion mailing list archives
INOC-DBA announcement presentation in PDF format
INOC-DBA announcement demonstration in QuickTime format
The initial press release describing the INOC-DBA system upon its debut.
NANOG 34 update by Gaurab Upadhaya
Incident management
Computer network security
Computer security organizations
Security organizations
Internet governance organizations
Telephony
Telecommunications infrastructure
Telecommunications organizations
Telecommunications systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Family%20Worldwide
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ABC Family Worldwide is a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment that is responsible for the operations of the U.S. cable network Freeform.
The company was originally formed as International Family Entertainment, a spin-off of the Christian Broadcasting Network's cable network The Family Channel.
In 1993, IFE acquired the assets of defunct British ITV broadcaster Television South, whose holdings included the library of U.S. studio MTM Enterprises. In 1996, IFE was acquired by News Corporation; the MTM library was melded into 20th Century Fox Television's library, while the remainder was melded into Fox Kids Worldwide (a merger of its Fox Kids unit with Saban Entertainment), to form Fox Family Worldwide. Fox and Saban planned to leverage the popular Fox Kids lineup to turn The Family Channel—which was re-branded as the Fox Family Channel following the purchase—into a competitor to other children's-oriented cable channels such as Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network. The subsidiary also established international Fox Kids networks in Europe and Latin America.
After facing struggling ratings and a failed attempt by Saban to buy out News Corporation's stake in the venture, Fox Family Worldwide was later sold to its current owner, The Walt Disney Company, in 2001 for $5.3 billion. The purchase gave Disney ownership of the Fox Family channel (which was subsequently rebranded as ABC Family), the international Fox Kids channels (which were later re-branded as Jetix, and then Disney XD), and rights to the Saban Entertainment library. Following then, the company would be rebranded in 2001 under the name ABC Family Worldwide until 2016. The subsidiary has since been amalgamated into the Walt Disney Television group. Saban Brands, Saban Entertainment's successor, would acquire the rights to some of the properties held by its predecessor; most of these assets have since been acquired by Hasbro.
History
International Family Entertainment
The company has its origins in Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN); the religious broadcaster had re-positioned its CBN Satellite Service, which primarily carried televangelism, as the CBN Cable Network, which carried a mixture of secular programming and religious programs. Owing to its new scope, the service was later renamed the CBN Family Channel.
By the 1990s, the network had become too profitable to remain under the ownership of the non-profit CBN without legal repercussions. In January 1990, a decision was made to spin-off the CBN Family Channel into a new, for-profit company known as International Family Entertainment, via a sale at a price of $250 million in convertible notes. The majority of IFE was owned by the network's management, with a 15% minority interest held by TCI Development Corporation, a subsidiary of cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. Special voting shares were issued to Pat Robertson and Timothy Robertson that give them control of the company. IFE continued to use CBN'
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20increasing%20subsequence
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In computer science, the longest increasing subsequence problem aims to find a subsequence of a given sequence in which the subsequence's elements are sorted in an ascending order and in which the subsequence is as long as possible. This subsequence is not necessarily contiguous or unique. The longest increasing subsequences are studied in the context of various disciplines related to mathematics, including algorithmics, random matrix theory, representation theory, and physics. The longest increasing subsequence problem is solvable in time where denotes the length of the input sequence.
Example
In the first 16 terms of the binary Van der Corput sequence
0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 10, 6, 14, 1, 9, 5, 13, 3, 11, 7, 15
one of the longest increasing subsequences is
0, 2, 6, 9, 11, 15.
This subsequence has length six; the input sequence has no seven-member increasing subsequences. The longest increasing subsequence in this example is not the only solution: for instance,
0, 4, 6, 9, 11, 15
0, 2, 6, 9, 13, 15
0, 4, 6, 9, 13, 15
are other increasing subsequences of equal length in the same input sequence.
Relations to other algorithmic problems
The longest increasing subsequence problem is closely related to the longest common subsequence problem, which has a quadratic time dynamic programming solution: the longest increasing subsequence of a sequence is the longest common subsequence of and where is the result of sorting However, for the special case in which the input is a permutation of the integers this approach can be made much more efficient, leading to time bounds of the form
The largest clique in a permutation graph corresponds to the longest decreasing subsequence of the permutation that defines the graph (assuming the original non-permuted sequence is sorted from lowest value to highest). Similarly, the maximum independent set in a permutation graph corresponds to the longest non-decreasing subsequence. Therefore, longest increasing subsequence algorithms can be used to solve the clique problem efficiently in permutation graphs.
In the Robinson–Schensted correspondence between permutations and Young tableaux, the length of the first row of the tableau corresponding to a permutation equals the length of the longest increasing subsequence of the permutation, and the length of the first column equals the length of the longest decreasing subsequence.
Efficient algorithms
The algorithm outlined below solves the longest increasing subsequence problem efficiently with arrays and binary searching.
It processes the sequence elements in order, maintaining the longest increasing subsequence found so far. Denote the sequence values as etc. Then, after processing the algorithm will have stored an integer and values in two arrays:
— stores the length of the longest increasing subsequence found so far.
— stores the index of the smallest value such that there is an increasing subsequence of length ending at in the range Explicitly, suppose that
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor-Way%20Bussekspress
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NOR-WAY Bussekspress is a Norwegian intercity coach network, with lines between Kristiansand in the south, Namsos in the north, Trysil in the east and Bergen in the west, and with Oslo as the main hub. The lines are operated by many different companies, while they are marketed through NOR-WAY Bussekspress AS, a company owned jointly by the operating companies.
The services provide a public transport alternative where there are no train services, and also compete with trains on some routes. Some of the stretches in the Norwegian countryside are really scenic and beautiful (e.g. the Sognefjord and the western counties of Rogaland, Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal), along and across fjords on ferry or bridge and on mountains. There are also international bus lines from Stavanger to Hamburg, Germany, and from Oslo to Gothenburg and Malmö in Sweden, and further on to Warsaw and Cracow in Poland.
The company does not operate routes itself, instead it is a marketing company that provides a brand for its owners to operate coach routes with. The company is owned by Finnmark Fylkesrederi, Firda Billag, Fjord1, Gauldal Billag, Hallingdal Billag, Helgelandske, JVB Eiendom, Vy Buss, Norgesbuss, Ofotens Bilruter, Ottadalen Billag, Saltens Bilruter, Setesdal Bilrute, Sporveisbussene, Sørlandsruta, Telemark Bilruter, Tide, Tinn Billag, TIRB, Torghatten Trafikkselskap, Federation of Norwegian Transport Companies, TrønderBilene, Veolia Transport Norge, Veøy Billag and Østerdal Billag.
External links
NOR-WAY.no
Travel planner
Bus companies of Norway
Norwegian brands
Bus transport brands
Bus routes in Norway
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20AOS
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Data General AOS (an abbreviation for Advanced Operating System) was the name of a family of operating systems for Data General 16-bit Eclipse C, M, and S minicomputers, followed by AOS/VS and AOS/RT32 (1980) and later AOS/VS II (1988) for the 32-bit Eclipse MV line.
Overview
AOS/VS exploited the 8-ring protection architecture of the Eclipse MV hardware with ring 7 being the least privileged and ring 0 being the most privileged. The AOS/VS kernel ran in ring 0 and used ring-1 addresses for data structures related to virtual address translations. Ring 2 was unused and reserved for future use by the kernel. The Agent, which performed much of the system call validation for the AOS/VS kernel, as well as some I/O buffering and many compatibility functions, ran in ring 3 of each process. Ring 4 was used by various D.G. products such as the INFOS II DBMS. Rings 5 and 6 were reserved for use by user programs but rarely used except for large software such as the MV/UX inner-ring emulator and Oracle which used ring 5. All user programs ran in ring 7.
The AOS software was far more advanced than competing PDP-11 operating systems. 16-bit AOS applications ran natively under AOS/VS and AOS/VS II on the 32-bit Eclipse MV line. AOS/VS (Advanced Operating System/Virtual Storage) was the most commonly used DG software product, and included a command-line interpreter (CLI) allowing for complex scripting, DUMP/LOAD, and other custom components.
The 16-bit version of the CLI is famous for including an Easter egg meant to honor Xyzzy (which was pronounced "magic"). This was the internal code name of what externally became known as the AOS/VS 32-bit operating system. A user typing in the command "xyzzy" would get back a response from the CLI of "Nothing Happens". When a 32-bit version of the CLI became available under AOS/VS II, the same command instead reported "Twice As Much Happens".
A modified version of System V.2 Unix called MV/UX hosted under AOS/VS was also available. A modified version of System V Unix called DG/UX was made for the Eclipse MV line and later the 88K and x86 AViiON machines.
The AOS and AOS/VS kernels were written entirely in assembly language. Almost all of the AOS and AOS/VS utilities included in the operating system releases were written in DG/L a variant of the ALGOL/60 programming language. Initially, AOS/VS utilities closely tracked AOS source development. As AOS/VS matured, many DG-supplied utilities were rewritten to take advantage of the 32-bit address space and reduce dependencies on assembly language, often resulting in substantial increases in functionality, performance and reliability compared with their AOS ancestors.
Session
**** Atari S/W Development HCD1 / BATCH OUTPUT FILE ****
AOS/VS 3.07 / EXEC 3.07 19-JAN-84 10:11:01
QPRI=254 SEQ=31324
INPUT FILE -- :UDD:SYSTEMS:850:?031.CLI.004.JOB (WILL BE DELETED AFTER PROCESSING)
LIST FILE -- :QUEUE:NORDIN.LIST.31324
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LAST MESSAGE CHANGE 12-JAN-84 16:06:08
A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OOL
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OOL may refer to:
Science and technology
Object-oriented language, a programming paradigm
OoL (Origins of life), Abiogenesis
Out-of-the-loop performance problem, a consequence of automation
Others
Gold Coast Airport (IATA code) in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Olivia O'Leary, Irish journalist, writer and current affairs presenter
Optimum Online, an Internet service provider in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Kincaid
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William S. Kincaid (born March 10, 1956) is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur notable for creating the MP3 player SoundJam MP with Jeff Robbin that was eventually bought by Apple and renamed iTunes.
Work
Robbin and Kincaid worked for Apple in the 1990s as system software engineers on their operating system project Copland; the project was later abandoned. Both left Apple, where Robbin created Conflict Catcher and Kincaid worked at a startup.
After listening to a show on the radio channel NPR, Kincaid created hardware and device driver support for the Diamond Rio line of digital audio players. He then enlisted Jeff Robbin to develop the front-end for an MP3-playing software they named SoundJam MP. Dave Heller completed the core team. The three chose Casady & Greene as distributor, whom Jeff had previously worked with to distribute Conflict Catcher.
The software saw early success in the Mac music player market, competing with Panic's Audion.
In early 2000 Apple was looking to purchase an MP3 player and approached both Casady & Greene (SoundJam) and Panic (Audion). Because Panic was caught up in negotiations with AOL, the meeting never took place. Turning to Casady & Greene, Apple purchased the rights to the SoundJam software in a deal covered by a two-year secrecy clause.
SoundJam MP was renamed iTunes. Jeff, Bill, and Dave became the original developers of the software. All three continue to work at Apple, with Jeff as the current lead developer of iTunes.
In his spare time, he enjoys racing. In a racing profile, he says “A buddy and I wrote Apple's iTunes software and helped develop the iPod and the Apple music store. It wouldn't have happened if I hadn't heard about MP3 on the radio on the way to a race...”
References
External links
The True Story of SoundJam
Straight Dope on the iPod's Birth
1956 births
Living people
American computer specialists
20th-century American businesspeople
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Slovenia
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The Slovenian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Slovenia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The 2018 Eurobarometer data shows 73.4% of Slovenian population identifying as Catholic that fell to 72.1% in the 2019 Eurobarometer survey. According to the Catholic Church data, the Catholic population fell from 78.04% in 2009 to 72.11% in 2019.
There are total of 1,509,986 (72.11%) Catholics in Slovenia in 2019 by official statistics published by Catholic Church of Slovenia. The country is divided into six dioceses, including two archdioceses. The diocese of Maribor was elevated to an archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. Additionally, the pope created three new sees, namely Novo Mesto, Celje and Murska Sobota.
Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich is the Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia, the Titular Archbishop of Sulci and the Apostolic Delegate to Kosovo.
Timeline
Catholics by years
Structure
Archdiocese of Ljubljana, Labacensis (1)
Diocese of Koper, (2)
Diocese of Novo Mesto (3)
Archdiocese of Maribor (4)
Diocese of Celje (5)
Diocese of Murska Sobota (6)
See also
Religion in Slovenia
Episcopal Conference of Slovenia
Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia (also covers Slovenia)
List of Slovenian cardinals
List of Slovenian Catholic bishops
References
External links
Official Website – Catholic Church in Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donabate%20railway%20station
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Donabate railway station (Irish: Stáisiún Dhomhnach Bat) serves Donabate in Fingal. It is part of the Irish Rail network and is not yet served by DART services. The nearest DART station is the previous station, Malahide.
Description
The station has two platforms, one for each of the two lines which run through the station. Built in the mid-19th century, the station has a traditional appearance. The booking office has a small waiting area. There are two ticket-issuing machines and one part-time staffed window for the purchase of tickets. The station is located in the centre of the town.
When the station was opened there was no footbridge built. When CIÉ closed Midleton station in Cork, the GS&WR iron footbridge was moved to Donabate. This footbridge was subsequently removed in 2011 and replaced by a new bridge with steps and lifts for increased accessibility. In 2013, a new building was built on the platform containing ticket barriers. Whilst Midleton has since been reopened.
Donabate is served by 22000 Class and 29000 Class diesel railcars. However 201 Class locomotives + DeDietrich rolling stock pass through on Enterprise services as do 071 Class locomotives + Tara Mines Wagons with mineral ore trains from Boliden Tara Mines near Navan.
The linespeed in Donabate is 90 mph, the highest on the Dublin-Belfast railway line and the highest permittable speed of the DeDietrich coaches.
The station has two lifts and a footbridge connecting Platforms 1 and 2.
In 2015, Irish Rail closed the toilets at the station as part of a cost-cutting measure.
Future proposals
Under Transport 21, there were plans to continue the DART from Malahide railway station, through Donabate railway station and up to Drogheda railway station by 2015. However, this was delayed due to the Great Recession and was shelved in 2015 to make way for the development of the MetroLink. Subsequent long-term expansion plans have ambitions to electrify the station by 2040.
See also
List of railway stations in Ireland
References
External links
Irish Rail Donabate Station Website
Iarnród Éireann stations in Fingal
Railway stations in Fingal
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in 1844
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR%20%28interbank%20network%29
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STAR is an American interbank network. It is the largest interbank network in United States, with 2 million ATMs, 134 million cardholders and over 5,700 participating financial institutions. The STAR Network began in 1984 and was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2003. The network is owned and operated by STAR Networks, a subsidiary company of First Data.
Mergers
The network has existed since the 1980s, and has since included several other networks, mostly in the 2000s:
Alert
BankMate
Cactus
Cash Station
Explore
HONOR
Money Access Center (MAC)
MOST
VIA
See also
ATM usage fees
References
External links
STAR Networks
Financial services companies established in 1984
Banking terms
Companies based in San Diego
Financial services companies of the United States
Interbank networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM%20Structured%20Storage
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COM Structured Storage (variously also known as COM structured storage or OLE structured storage) is a technology developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows operating system for storing hierarchical data within a single file. Strictly speaking, the term structured storage refers to a set of COM interfaces that a conforming implementation must provide, and not to a specific implementation, nor to a specific file format (in fact, a structured storage implementation need not store its data in a file at all). In addition to providing a hierarchical structure for data, structured storage may also provide a limited form of transactional support for data access. Microsoft provides an implementation that supports transactions, as well as one that does not (called simple-mode storage, the latter implementation is limited in other ways as well, although it performs better).
Structured storage is widely used in Microsoft Office applications, although newer releases (starting with Office 2007) use the XML-based Office Open XML by default. It is also an important part of both COM and the related Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies. Other notable applications of structured storage include SQL Server, the Windows shell, and many third-party CAD programs.
Motivation
Structured storage addresses some inherent difficulties of storing multiple data objects within a single file. One difficulty arises when an object persisted in the file changes in size due to an update. If the application that is reading/writing the file expects the objects in the file to remain in a certain order, everything following that object's representation in the file may need to be shifted backward to make room if the object grows, or forward to fill in the space left over if the object shrinks. If the file is large, this could result in a costly operation. Of course, there are many possible solutions to this difficulty, but often the application programmer does not want to deal with low level details such as binary file formats.
Structured storage provides an abstraction known as a stream, represented by the interface IStream. A stream is conceptually very similar to a file, and the IStream interface provides methods for reading and writing similar to file input/output. A stream could reside in memory, within a file, within another stream, etc., depending on the implementation. Another important abstraction is that of a storage, represented by the interface IStorage. A storage is conceptually very similar to a directory on a file system. Storages can contain streams, as well as other storages.
If an application wishes to persist several data objects to a file, one way to do so would be to open an IStorage that represents the contents of that file and save each of the objects within a single IStream. One way to accomplish the latter is through the standard COM interface IPersistStream. OLE depends heavily on this model to embed objects within documents.
Format
Microso
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS-TBS
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is a Japanese satellite broadcasting station headquartered in Akasaka Gochome, Minato, Tokyo. Its channel name is BS-TBS (formerly, BS-i). It is a member television station of Japan News Network.
Channels
Television: BS-TBS is assigned BS161ch - 163ch.
Radio: BS-i had been assigned 461ch, 462ch, and was closed on September 30, 2005. - TBS Radio & Communications had been produced.
Data: BS-TBS is assigned BS766ch, BS768ch, but BS768ch is not being used now.
History
November, 1998 - founded.
June, 2000 - JDC was renamed .
December 1, 2000 - BS-i started broadcasting.
July, 2004 - BS-i moved its headquarters from TBS Hoso Kaikan to TBS Broadcast Center 15th fl.
September 30, 2005 - BS-i closed satellite radio broadcasting.
April 1, 2009 - BS-i, Incorporated was renamed to its current name BS-TBS, Incorporated.
Programs
General programs
A number of programs which TBS broadcasts are also broadcast on BS-TBS.
Anime programs
Anime produced by BS-TBS are popular among anime fans because the regulation of expression on satellite broadcasting is looser than on terrestrial broadcasting.
On TBS, in order to adjust size, most 16:9 anime is cropped on the left and right. They are broadcast on BS-TBS in their original form.
These are anime programs exclusively broadcast on BS-TBS:
Air
Cyber Team in Akihabara
Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma
He Is My Master
Kanon
Little Snow Fairy Sugar
Mahoromatic
Popotan
This Ugly yet Beautiful World
Yumeria
These are anime programs broadcast on both TBS and BS-TBS:
Oh My Goddess!
Bincho-tan
BLACK CAT
Chobits
Heat Guy J
Ichigo Mashimaro
Melody of Oblivion
REC
Rozen Maiden
Rozen Maiden Traumend
Clannad
Clannad -After Story-
Tsukihime, Lunar Legend
K-On!
Sankarea
Acchi Kocchi
See also
Tokyo Broadcasting System
Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
TBS Radio & Communications
External links
BS-TBS Official Website (Japanese)
Tokyo Broadcasting System
Japan News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television in Tokyo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBAG%20Class%20423
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The Deutsche Bahn Class 423 EMU is a light-weight articulated electric railcar for S-Bahn commuter networks in Germany. The train has similar dimensions to its predecessor, the Class 420 EMU, but is significantly lighter and has one large passenger compartment, while that of the 420 is divided into three parts. The 423 additionally has six doors in each carriage (three on each side), which is down from eight on the 420 (four on each side). They are numbered from 423 001 to 423 462.
Both Munich and Frankfurt ordered Class 423s for their S-Bahn systems; they were delivered between 1999 and 2004. The 423 has spawned a family of slightly modified designs ordered for S-Bahns across Germany: the Class 422, Class 425/426 and Class 430.
Description
A Class 423 unit consists of four cars that share three jacobs bogies and can only be separated at maintenance facilities. The inner two cars are designated as Class 433. A 423 unit typically consists of the following cars, where x is the unit's number:
423 x
433 x
433 (x+500)
423 (x+500)
e.g. 423 194 + 433 194 + 433 694 + 423 694. Different consists usually occur when the remains of partially destroyed units are combined to form one intact EMU.
Two short trains form a "full train", three short trains form a "long train".
One can see through from one end to the other of the vehicle, and in the original design a lockable door was installed in the middle of the railcar to allow part of the vehicle to be left empty during periods of low demand in order to maintain greater social control through denser occupancy. The railcars have a passenger information system inside, which alternately displays the destination stop and the next stop and is supplemented by a one-time acoustic announcement of the next stop. Furthermore, an announcement is made on which side it will be possible to get off. They are also equipped with a technical check-in system, whereby the driver does not have to monitor the doors himself; this is done by light barriers. In 2007, however, this procedure was temporarily taken out of service until light grids were retrofitted over almost the entire height of the boarding area.
The three-light headlight can be switched from low beam to high beam during operation. Some railcars (423 238 and 423 268 of the Munich S-Bahn) were in operation with LED headlights instead of normal beam headlights, in which the light from green and red LEDs was mixed to achieve a more balanced spectral distribution. With the modernization, all vehicles were converted to warm white LED modules.
The openings of the twelve doors per side[2] are 1300 mm wide.
Electronic pushbuttons that signal door release with a few LEDs and respond to mechanical pressure are used to open the door. The original pushbuttons, which had a pressure surface the size of a thumb, only provided visual feedback on contact. In March 2012, new pushbuttons were installed in multiple unit 423 089 of the Munich S-Bahn for testing purposes. In contr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20telescope
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A network telescope (also known as a packet telescope, darknet, Internet motion sensor or black hole) is an Internet system that allows one to observe different large-scale events taking place on the Internet. The basic idea is to observe traffic targeting the dark (unused) address-space of the network. Since all traffic to these addresses is suspicious, one can gain information about possible network attacks (random scanning worms, and DDoS backscatter) as well as other misconfigurations by observing it.
The resolution of the Internet telescope is dependent on the number of IP addresses it monitors. For example, a large Internet telescope that monitors traffic to 16,777,216 addresses (the Internet telescope in IPv4), has a higher probability of observing a relatively small event than a smaller telescope that monitors 65,536 addresses (a Internet telescope).
The naming comes from an analogy to optical telescopes, where a larger physical size allows more photons to be observed.
A variant of a network telescope is a sparse darknet, or greynet, consisting of a region of IP address space that is sparsely populated with "darknet" addresses interspersed with active (or "lit") IP addresses. These include a greynet assembled from 210,000 unused IP addresses mainly located in Japan.
Large network telescope instances
See also
Honeypot (computing)
Internet background noise
References
Further reading
External links
CAIDA Network Telescope at University of Californian, San Diego
Darknet project at Team Cymru Darknet
Internet terminology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDE%20surface
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PDE surfaces are used in geometric modelling and computer graphics for creating smooth surfaces conforming to a given boundary configuration. PDE surfaces use partial differential equations to generate a surface which usually satisfy a mathematical boundary value problem.
PDE surfaces were first introduced into the area of geometric modelling and computer graphics by two British mathematicians, Malcolm Bloor and Michael Wilson.
Technical details
The PDE method involves generating a surface for some boundary by means of solving an elliptic partial differential equation of the form
Here is a function parameterised by the two parameters and such that where , and are the usual cartesian coordinate space. The boundary conditions on the function and its
normal derivatives
are imposed at the edges of the surface patch.
With the above formulation it is notable that the elliptic partial differential operator in the above PDE represents a smoothing process in which the value of the function at any point on the surface is, in some sense, a weighted average of the surrounding
values. In this way, a surface is obtained as a smooth transition between
the chosen set of boundary conditions. The parameter is a special design parameter which controls the relative smoothing of the surface in the and directions.
When , the PDE is the biharmonic equation: . The biharmonic equation is the equation produced by applying the Euler-Lagrange equation to the simplified thin plate energy functional . So solving the PDE with is equivalent to minimizing the thin plate energy functional subject to the same boundary conditions.
Applications
PDE surfaces can be used in many application areas. These include computer-aided design, interactive design, parametric design, computer animation, computer-aided physical analysis and design optimisation.
Related publications
M.I.G. Bloor and M.J. Wilson, Generating Blend Surfaces using Partial Differential Equations, Computer Aided Design, 21(3), 165–171, (1989).
H. Ugail, M.I.G. Bloor, and M.J. Wilson, Techniques for Interactive Design Using the PDE Method, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 18(2), 195–212, (1999).
J. Huband, W. Li and R. Smith, An Explicit Representation of Bloor-Wilson PDE Surface Model by using Canonical Basis for Hermite Interpolation, Mathematical Engineering in Industry, 7(4), 421-33 (1999).
H. Du and H. Qin, Direct Manipulation and Interactive Sculpting of PDE surfaces, Computer Graphics Forum, 19(3), C261-C270, (2000).
H. Ugail, Spine Based Shape Parameterisations for PDE surfaces, Computing, 72, 195–204, (2004).
L. You, P. Comninos, J.J. Zhang, PDE Blending Surfaces with C2 Continuity, Computers and Graphics, 28(6), 895–906, (2004).
External links
Simulation based design, DVE research (University of Bradford, UK). (A java applet demonstrating the properties of PDE surfaces)
Dept Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds details on Bloor and Wilsons work.
Surfaces
Computer graphics
Elliptic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Network
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Night Network, Night Time and Night Shift were names given to the overnight (usually between 12 and 6am) schedule of the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The first ITV company began 24-hour broadcasting in 1986, with all of the companies broadcasting through the night by the end of 1988. At first, individual companies created their own services, however before too long, many of the smaller ITV stations began simulcasting or networking services from others.
From this, numerous services began each offering their own distinct take on programmes, with regions taking one of the services on offer. As each franchise was taken over however, the services became fewer in number. Today, all of the ITV plc regions (except ITV Channel Television and UTV for legal reasons), show teleshopping, followed by repeats of daytime programming and then Unwind with ITV (previously the ITV Nightscreen service was shown until October 2021). STV broadcasts its own strand, Teleshopping and Nightvision.
History
Up until the mid-1980s, all British television stations closed down for the night at around 12:30am, sometimes up to an hour later on Friday and Saturday nights. Some of the ITV companies wanted to expand their broadcasting hours in the belief there was an untapped market for television through the night. As early as 1983, London Weekend Television (LWT) was experimenting with extra hours on Friday and Saturday nights during its Nightlife strand, which pushed back closedown until after 2am.
By 1988, Channel 4 had extended late night broadcasting hours and transmission staff for the ITV regional companies were required to play out the network's commercial breaks, even if the main ITV station had already closed down. There was also speculation of a threat from the Independent Broadcasting Authority to franchise overnight hours to a new company as had been done with breakfast television (TV-am) in 1983.
Within just over two years of ITV's first overnight experiment (at Yorkshire Television in 1986), the entire network had commenced 24-hour transmission.
Early experiments
On 9 August 1986, Yorkshire Television became the first ITV company and the first British terrestrial television station to offer 24-hour broadcasting. This was achieved by simulcasting the satellite station Music Box for a three-month trial, as permitted by the IBA. The all-night simulcasts continued until Friday 2 January 1987 – shortly before Music Box ceased operations as a broadcaster. On 13 January 1987, Yorkshire became the second region to launch a teletext-based Jobfinder service for one hour after close-down (Central had launched a Jobfinder service the previous April) with a Through Till Three strand on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights introduced in April.
On 25 April 1987, Central began extending its programming hours to 3am on weeknights and 4am at weekends, airing its own schedule of films, series and hourly Central News bulletins entitled More Central. The station's Jobfinder
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipboard%20%28computing%29
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The clipboard is a buffer that some operating systems provide for short-term storage and transfer within and between application programs. The clipboard is usually temporary and unnamed, and its contents reside in the computer's RAM.
The clipboard provides an application programming interface by which programs can specify cut, copy and paste operations. It is left to the program to define methods for the user to command these operations, which may include keybindings and menu selections. When an element is copied or cut, the clipboard must store enough information to enable a sensible result no matter where the element is pasted. Application programs may extend the clipboard functions that the operating system provides. A clipboard manager may give the user additional control over the clipboard. Specific clipboard semantics vary among operating systems, can also vary between versions of the same system, and can sometimes be changed by programs and by user preferences.
Windows, Linux and macOS support a single clipboard transaction.
History
Clipboards as buffers for small text snippets were first used by Pentti Kanerva when he used it to store deleted texts in order to restore them. Since one could delete a text in one place and restore it in another, the term "delete" wasn't what one would expect in this case. Larry Tesler renamed this in 1973 as cut, copy, and paste and coined the term "clipboard" for this buffer, since these techniques need a clipboard for temporary saving the copied or cut data.
Data formats
Applications communicate through the clipboard by providing either serialized representations of an object, or a promise (for larger objects). In some circumstances, the transfer of certain common data formats may be achieved opaquely through the use of an abstract factory; for example, Mac OS X uses a class called NSImage to provide access to image data stored on the clipboard, though the actual format of the image data backing the object is hidden. The sending and receiving application negotiate the formats which can be transferred in between them, oftentimes with the active GUI widget responsible for providing acceptable type transformations. The pasteboard allows for transfer of common items such as URLs, colors, images, strings, attributed strings (Rich text), and sounds. The operating system and GUI toolkit may provide some common conversions, for example converting from rich text to plain text and vice versa. Various type identifiers for data transfer are supported by modern operating systems, which may automatically provide acceptable mappings between type systems, such as between MIME and Uniform Type Identifier.
Computer security
Clipboard hijacking is an exploit in which a person's clipboard's content is replaced by malicious data, such as a link to a malicious web site. While some security-holes were patched, JavaScript can still be used to modify clipboard content via an attack dubbed 'pastejacking'. Dylan Ayrey who dev
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20problem
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In theoretical computer science, a computational problem is a problem that may be solved by an algorithm. For example, the problem of factoring
"Given a positive integer n, find a nontrivial prime factor of n."
is a computational problem. A computational problem can be viewed as a set of instances or cases together with a, possibly empty, set of solutions for every instance/case. For example, in the factoring problem, the instances are the integers n, and solutions are prime numbers p that are the nontrivial prime factors of n.
Computational problems are one of the main objects of study in theoretical computer science. The field of computational complexity theory attempts to determine the amount of resources (computational complexity) solving a given problem will require and explain why some problems are intractable or undecidable. Computational problems belong to complexity classes that define broadly the resources (e.g. time, space/memory, energy, circuit depth) it takes to compute (solve) them with various abstract machines. For example, the complexity classes
P, problems that consume polynomial time for deterministic classical machines
BPP, problems that consume polynomial time for probabilistic classical machines (e.g. computers with random number generators)
BQP, problems that consume polynomial time for probabilistic quantum machines.
Both instances and solutions are represented by binary strings, namely elements of {0, 1}*. For example, natural numbers are usually represented as binary strings using binary encoding. This is important since the complexity is expressed as a function of the length of the input representation.
Types
Decision problem
A decision problem is a computational problem where the answer for every instance is either yes or no. An example of a decision problem is primality testing:
"Given a positive integer n, determine if n is prime."
A decision problem is typically represented as the set of all instances for which the answer is yes. For example, primality testing can be represented as the infinite set
L = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ...}
Search problem
In a search problem, the answers can be arbitrary strings. For example, factoring is a search problem where the instances are (string representations of) positive integers and the solutions are (string representations of) collections of primes.
A search problem is represented as a relation consisting of all the instance-solution pairs, called a search relation. For example, factoring can be represented as the relation
R = {(4, 2), (6, 2), (6, 3), (8, 2), (9, 3), (10, 2), (10, 5)...}
which consist of all pairs of numbers (n, p), where p is a prime factor of n.
Counting problem
A counting problem asks for the number of solutions to a given search problem. For example, a counting problem associated with factoring is
"Given a positive integer n, count the number of nontrivial prime factors of n."
A counting problem can be represented by a function f from {0, 1}*
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton%20Food%20Network
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Carlton Food Network (later known as Taste CFN from May 2001) was a British pay television digital terrestrial channel, owned by Carlton Television. It launched at midday on 2 September 1996 and closed on 1 December 2001. It was part of a group of non-terrestrial channels operated by Carlton, which also included Carlton Select – with whom Carlton Food Network time-shared space with – Carlton World, Carlton Kids, and Carlton Cinema.
The channel was also available via the PanAmSat's PAS-4 satellite in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on the South African DStv service.
History
Carlton Food Network launched on Monday, 2 September 1996 on cable. It originally broadcast on weekday afternoons, from 12 noon until 5pm, but later it expanded its broadcasting hours to become a seven-day-a-week, all-day service, broadcasting daily from 9am until 5pm. Carlton Food Network shared space with evenings-only service SelecTV, which was subsequently bought by Carlton and renamed Carlton Select. It began broadcasting on the ONdigital (later ITV Digital) platform at its launch in November 1998, which was part owned by Carlton along with another ITV company Granada, who also operated its own group of Granada branded channels under a partnership with Sky known as Granada Sky Broadcasting. In early 2000, Carlton Select was closed down and its hours on ONdigital were given over to Carlton Food Network resulting in CFN becoming a full-time channel. However the channel remained a daytime only service on cable with Carlton Cinema airing during the evenings in place of Carlton Select.
The Taste era
In September 2000, Carlton announced it had a signed a joint venture with the supermarket chain Sainsbury's to co-brand the channel. The deal saw the announcement of interactive services for digital TV viewers that would allow them to order recipe ingredients from Sainsbury's through their set-top box. The rebranding took place the following May, with the channel becoming Taste CFN and the launch of the taste.co.uk website, merging Carlton's SimplyFood and Sainsbury's tasteforlife websites. The channel was now promoted by Sainsbury's both in-store and on its website.
However, the partnership was brief, and it was announced in August 2001 that the venture was to be disbanded on 1 September. Less than expected revenues from e-commerce and a weakened advertising market were blamed on the decision to close the venture, which saw the return of ownership of the Taste CFN channel back to Carlton and the return of the web-based recipe and wine assets to Sainsbury's, with the taste.co.uk website being shut down and its assets being reused by Sainsbury's own websites.
Although Carlton returned ownership of Taste CFN as part of the venture disbanding, Carlton decided to close the channel and it ceased broadcasting on 1 December. The final day of transmission for the channel was full of never-before-seen programming. At 23:58, Taste CFN aired a farewell montage of clips from the program
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton%20railway%20station%20%28Merseyside%29
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Moreton railway station serves the town of Moreton, in Merseyside, England. The station is on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, which is part of the Merseyrail network.
History
Moreton station opened for regular service on 2 July 1866, on the Hoylake Railway, between Hoylake and Birkenhead Docks. By 1898, the station had a small signal box towards the eastern end of the westbound platform, and a siding to the south of the station. West of the station, sidings for Moreton brickworks were added around 1903. The signal box was replaced in 1932, and moved to the north side of the tracks beyond the eastern end of the platform.
The platform buildings were replaced in 1938, rebuilt in an identical style to one at Hoylake. Through electric services to Liverpool Central commenced on 13 March 1938, when the LMS electrified the lines from Birkenhead Park to West Kirby. The service was provided by the then-new LMS electric multiple units. However, on Sunday mornings, the service was provided by the older Mersey Railway electric units which, up until that point, had only ever run from Liverpool to Birkenhead Park.
Cadbury had a private siding adjacent to the station after 1956, although their freight trains had ended by 1971. The 30-lever signal box closed on 17 September 1994, and was demolished on 13 November 1994.
Facilities
The station has a booking office and a 34-space car park, a cycle rack for 4 cycles and secure storage for 20 cycles. The station is staffed, 15 minutes before the first train and 15 minutes after the last train, has departure and arrival screens for passenger information, and platform CCTV. Each platform has open-air seating, a waiting room and a payphone.
Services
Current services are every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) to West Kirby and Liverpool. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes. These services are provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.
Gallery
References
Sources
External links
Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
DfT Category E stations
Former Wirral Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1870
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
1866 establishments in England
1870 disestablishments in England
1872 establishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meols%20railway%20station
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Meols railway station is a station serving the village of Meols, in Merseyside, England. It lies on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.
History
Meols was one of the original stations on the Hoylake Railway, opening in 1866. The Hoylake Railway became part of the Wirral Railway in 1883, which subsequently became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Through services to Liverpool began in 1938, when the line was electrified. The station was rebuilt to coincide with this.
In 1934 the signal box was closed and semaphore Intermediate Block Signals, controlled from Moreton and Hoylake boxes, were introduced, the only such signals on the Liverpool to West Kirby line. They broke the otherwise long distance between Moreton and Hoylake, the two signal boxes on either side. These semaphore signals remained until 1994 when the line was resignalled with colour-light signals. The station underwent refurbishment with work in 2010 which involved new glazing to the footbridge windows and staircase, redevelopment of existing buildings to provide enclosed passenger waiting shelters, a new passenger toilet and automatic entrance doors to the booking hall.
Work began on installing lifts for both of the platforms in 2019 and the lifts opened for use in January 2020.
Facilities
The station is staffed, 15 minutes before the first train and 15 minutes after the last train, and has platform CCTV. Each of the two platforms has a waiting room. There is a payphone, vending machine, booking office and live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information. The station has a free car park, with 62 spaces, as well as a 12-space cycle rack and secure indoor storage for 16 cycles. Lifts serve both platforms allowing for step free access from the ticket office and upper road level.
Services
Current services are every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) to West Kirby and Liverpool. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes. These services are provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.
References
Further reading
External links
Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
DfT Category E stations
Former Wirral Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1870
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
1866 establishments in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor%20Road%20railway%20station
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Manor Road railway station is a station in Merseyside, England that serves the towns of Hoylake and Meols. It is located on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.
History
The station was proposed in 1936 and opened on 15 May 1940 by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, after their electrification of the former Wirral Railway route from Birkenhead to West Kirby. This allowed for through trains to run between Liverpool and West Kirby.
Facilities
The station is fully staffed during opening hours and has CCTV cameras on the platform. Each platform has a sheltered seating area for passengers waiting for trains. There is a payphone, booking office and live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information. The station does not have a car park, but does have a secure cycle storage for 10 cycles. There is step-free access available only for the Liverpool-bound platform, for wheelchairs and prams.
Services
Trains run every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday during the day) between West Kirby and Liverpool. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.
Gallery
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
DfT Category E stations
Former London, Midland and Scottish Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1940
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoylake%20railway%20station
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Hoylake railway station serves the town of Hoylake, Merseyside, England. It lies on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.
History
The station was opened to regular service on 2 July 1866, as part of the Hoylake Railway to Birkenhead Dock railway station. The station originally had low cinder-filled platforms. An extension to West Kirby was opened on 1 April 1878, and the line from West Kirby was doubled in 1896. The station had a signal box which was originally built at the eastern end of the station and provided in 1889. The 21-lever signal box was moved, to be adjacent to the level crossing, in 1895.
From no later than 1901, there were several sidings to the east of the station. There was a carriage shed and a Wirral Railway paint shop from prior to 1912. The paint shop was closed after the LMS takeover.
1938 LMS rebuild and electrification
Prior to 1938, the station was of varying architectural styles. Built in 1938 adjoining the Up platform, the current station building, designed by the architect William Henry Hamlyn, is in the Art Deco style, with a circular clerestory over the booking hall, becoming a Grade II Listed Building in 1988. The sign currently on display in front of the station was recently restored during a renovation. The adjoining footbridge was built at the same time as the Art Deco building, and new level crossing gates were installed. The goods yard had a 5-ton crane from 1938.
Through electric services to Liverpool Central commenced on 13 March 1938, when the LMS electrified the lines from Birkenhead Park to West Kirby. The service was provided by the then-new LMS electric multiple units. However, on Sunday mornings, the service was provided by the older Mersey Railway electric units which, up until that point, had only ever run from Liverpool to Birkenhead Park.
Since WWII
The multiple sidings to the east of the station continued to be used until 1965. They were used both to store out-of-service electric trains and to serve a freight depot receiving coal for domestic distribution, and also to fuel the gasworks situated alongside the line at this point which lasted until 1954. The signal box, which had a manual gate wheel for the level crossing, was closed on 17 September 1994 and demolished a few days later.
When the Open Golf Championship was held at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club (situated between West Kirby and Hoylake) in July 2006, September 2012, July 2014 and July 2023, services terminated here during the tournament. This was to allow competitors and public to cross the tracks from the practice course on one side to the championship course on the other. This caused some controversy in West Kirby locally in 2006, especially given the increase in passengers during the championship. A rail replacement bus service was put in place between Hoylake and West Kirby.
Facilities
The station is staffed during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV. Each of the two platforms has a se
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20Union%20of%20Bank%20Employees
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The Cyprus Union of Bank Employees (ETYK) is a trade union centre in Cyprus. It is affiliated with the Union Network International.
References
External links
www.etyk.org.cy
Trade unions in Cyprus
UNI Global Union
Finance sector trade unions
Trade unions established in 1955
1955 establishments in Cyprus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20More%20You%20Know
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The More You Know is a series of public service announcements (PSAs) broadcast on the NBCUniversal family of networks in the United States and other locations, featuring educational messages. These PSAs are broadcast occasionally during NBC's network programming.
The spots feature personalities from various NBC shows, as well as other notable figures such as U.S. Presidents. Tom Brokaw was the first person to do The More You Know spot; it aired on NBC in September 1989, succeeding the One to Grow On PSAs that were used from 1983 to 1989.
El Poder de Saber (The Power of Knowledge) is The More You Know'''s sister campaign on Telemundo. While the other U.S. broadcast networks have similar campaigns, namely CBS Cares, Disney-ABC's Be Inspired, and PBS's Be More, NBC's The More You Know is likely the most well-known.
History
A senior executive at NBC, Dr. Rosalyn Weinman, developed the campaign and wrote most of the on-air PSAs after putting an advisory council together. She ran the campaign for 10 years. The first "comet trail" star logo was designed by Steve Bernstein and later produced by Paul Johnson on an animation stand using a slit-scan technique at R/Greenberg Associates (now R/GA Digital Studios) in Manhattan. They were later updated using three-dimensional computer graphics. The More You Know program won a Peabody Award in 1993 for serving as "a model national public service campaign to provide a range of useful information to its vast television audience."
The campaign has featured a range of guests over the years, including Amy Poehler, Joan Rivers, Jack McBrayer, Steve Harvey, Anjelica Huston, Questlove, and Jimmy Fallon. Several past U.S. Presidents have also participated in the campaign, including Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama, who encouraged parents to be more involved in their children's education, while then-First Lady Michelle Obama worked to promote the prevention of childhood obesity. The show has also featured Jonathan Brandis.
On February 24, 2016, NBC announced that it would launch a new Saturday morning E/I block named after the campaign, programmed by Litton Entertainment and replacing its in-house NBC Kids block.
Parodies
The campaign has been widely parodied, with references in Will & Grace, 30 Rock, American Dad!, Family Guy, Drawn Together, Scrubs, recurring parodies on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, a running segment on The Daily Show called "The Less You Know", and an April 2006 series of NBC-produced mock PSAs starring the cast of The Office. A sketch on Saturday Night Live portrayed the sometimes-fatal effects of CPR. A parody was also shown on MADtv, mentioning the "[nonexistent] danger of conga lines", and another one that spouted random obvious facts. Spliced has a parody of public-service announcements in general (and The More You Know in particular), in brief segments called "Knowing is Growing".
During the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show (which itself was broadcast by NBC), Katy Perry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20Pentium%20M%20processors
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This is a list of Intel Pentium M processors. They are all single-core 32-bit CPUs codenamed Banias and Dothan, and targeted at the consumer market of mobile computers.
Mobile processors
Pentium M
"Banias" (130 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Die size: 83 mm²
"Dothan" (90 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
PAE, XD bit (an NX bit implementation): supported by C0 stepping
Die size: 87 mm²
Steppings: B0, B1, C0
C1 stepping Pentium M's are fabbed on a 65 nm process with an actual C0 stepping
See also
List of Intel Pentium processors
List of Intel Pentium 4 processors § Mobile processors
Pentium M (microarchitecture)
References
Pentium M
Intel Pentium M
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV2Me
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TV2Me is a device that allows TV viewers to watch their home's cable or satellite television programs on their own computers, mobile phones, television sets and projector screens anywhere in the world. "This technology gives users the ability to shift space, and to watch all the cable or satellite TV channels of any place they choose - live, in full motion, with unparalleled television-quality - on any Internet connected device."
History
TV2Me was invented by Ken Schaffer, who began working on it in 2001, when he was working overseas. His goal was to watch his favorite American shows through any kind of device from wherever he was. With a team of Turkish and Russian programmers he developed circuitry that allows the MPEG-4 encoder to operate more efficiently and to generate a better picture.
Schaffer, who was known for having previously invented the Schaffer–Vega diversity system, the first practical wireless guitar and microphone system for major rock bands, and for developing satellite tracking systems that allowed U.S. agencies and universities to monitor internal television of the then Soviet Union, launched TV2Me on December, 2003. TV2Me introduced the concept of placeshifting and started an entire industry.
Operation
To set up TV2Me, the cable or satellite box and a broadband internet connection are plugged in the device. "The server requires an Internet connection with an upstream speed of 512 kb/s or higher."
On the receiving end (for example the computer), any browser can be used to view in real-time or with a 6-second delay. The delayed mode uses the extra time to produce a slightly better picture. No additional software needs to be installed. "The "target" (receiving location) can be anywhere on earth − anywhere there's wired or wireless broadband. The viewer can use virtually any PC running Windows, Mac, Linux - even Solaris."
Copyrights
No copyright infringement has been set for this placeshifting device but this technology is problematic to many copyright holders because it sidesteps what is known in legalese as proximity control, which restricts the distribution of content to specific regions and times. "It's a standard contractual stipulation for the MPAA, whose member studios license distribution rights to movies for distinct territories; the NFL, which considers geographic limits the linchpin of lucrative television deals, including its Sunday Ticket pact with DirecTV; and local television stations, which pay millions of dollars for exclusive territorial rights to all kinds of programming."
On this issue, Ken Schaffer's position has been: "The TV2Me user paid for the rights to watch these programs. What separates him from other cable subscribers is that he has a long extension cord."
Competition
Since TV2Me was launched other devices that claim similar characteristics have been introduced to the market. Slingbox, the most popular placeshifting device has a price of US$250 and attracts customers, but its poor quality image h
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama%20%28database%20engine%29
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Panorama is a database engine and development environment for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. It was one of the first applications available for Mac OS, in 1984.
Overview
Panorama is database software for the Apple Inc. Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. It is a product of ProVUE Development. According to its owner Jim Rea, ProVUE is the oldest third-party software company (apart from Microsoft) developing software for the Macintosh personal computer.
Panorama's claim to fame is that the databases it creates are RAM-based; making them extremely fast. That said, as disk speeds and OS and application memory caching have improved, this speed benefit becomes less and less evident as years go by. Panorama is not as popular as FileMaker, its main competitor, though it has outlasted many similar products. What it lacks in conforming to standard application conventions it makes up for in its potential for customisation, incorporating a powerful scripting language.
The current version of Panorama, now called PanoramaX, is 10.2.
PanoramaX was released in November 2017.
References
External links
ProVUE Development homepage
Panorama information
Database engines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank%20God%20You%27re%20Here
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Thank God You're Here is an Australian television improvised comedy program created by Working Dog Productions, which premiered on Network Ten on 5 April 2006, and aired for the first three and fifth seasons and on the Seven Network for the fourth series.
Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced. It was the most successful new show in Australia of 2006, attracting an average of 1.7 million viewers after the first few episodes.
The show was originally hosted by Shane Bourne and judged by Tom Gleisner. After a fourteen year hiatus, it was revived for a fifth series, hosted by Celia Pacquola and featuring a guest judge each episode. The format is sold for recreation in a number of countries.
The show was renewed for a sixth season at the 2023 Channel 10 upfronts.
Synopsis
Each contestant is dressed in appropriate costume, has some brief banter with the host, and is then invited to "walk through the blue door" onto a hidden set. They are greeted by the ensemble cast, in character, with the line "Thank God you're here!", and must then attempt to improvise their role in the scene. Typically they will be asked in-character questions by the ensemble cast and challenged to provide information about the scene, including the names of characters or objects.
At least twice during each episode (to cover set-up and costuming for the live audience), footage is shown of each of the four participants performing a challenge, often on location, which was filmed earlier in the week. These include a commentary booth where the contestants have to comment on an unfamiliar subject, an office where they are being interviewed or interrogated (by police, customs officials, etc.), showing customers things for sale (cars, boats, pianos, houses, etc.), or advertisements (e.g. slimming products, housing developments, etc.). The other characters in these scenes are generally played by members of the ensemble cast. The third series also introduced an additional segment in which Gleisner highlights a "real life" Thank God You're Here-style situation, such as the infamous Guy Goma BBC interview and frequently, that of politicians forced to improvise answers under pressure.
Finally, when all the contestants have played in a scene by themselves, all four enter a final scene together for the "all-in group challenge". At the end of the show, the judge declares a winner; this choice is entirely at the judge's discretion, and is largely arbitrary. Honorable and dishonorable mentions are also given, usually to contestants who do not win so that the judge can comment on their performances. The winner receives a trophy in the shape of the programme's blue door logo.
There are variations on the standard setup: occasionally the greeting will be slightly changed to better suit the setting (e.g. "
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Poduska
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John William Poduska Sr. is an American engineer and entrepreneur. He was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts, facility and also worked at Honeywell.
Poduska has been involved in a number of other high-tech startups. He also has served on the boards of Novell, Anadarko Petroleum, Anystream, Boston Ballet, Wang Center and the Boston Lyric Opera.
Poduska was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 for technical and entrepreneurial leadership in computing, including development of Prime, the first virtual memory minicomputer, and Apollo, the first distributed, co-operating workstation.
Education
Poduska was born in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Central High School in Memphis. He went on to earn a S.B. and S.M. in electrical engineering, both in 1960, from MIT. He also earned a Sc.D. in EECS from MIT in 1962.
Awards
Recipient of the McDowell Award, National Academy of Engineering, 1986
References
External links
1937 births
American computer businesspeople
American scientists
Computer hardware engineers
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Friends%20Tigger%20%26%20Pooh
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My Friends Tigger & Pooh is an American computer-animated children's television series on the Playhouse Disney block on Disney Channel. It was inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. The series was developed by Walt Disney Television Animation and executive producer Brian Hohlfeld.
The series aired from May 12, 2007, to October 9, 2010, in the United States.
Premise
The series features Winnie the Pooh and other characters from Disney adaptations of Winnie-the-Pooh. It also introduces two new characters, an imaginative 6-year-old red-headed girl named Darby and her dog Buster. Darby is the main protagonist and an amateur sleuth. Her older best friend is Christopher Robin, who has grown up and makes two appearances over the course of the series. Darby teams up with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger to form the trio of Super Sleuths, and investigate mysteries in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Episodes
Voice cast
Major
Chloë Grace Moretz as Darby
Dee Bradley Baker as Buster
Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
Recurring
Travis Oates as Piglet
Peter Cullen as Eeyore
Ken Sansom as Rabbit
Kath Soucie as Kanga
Max Burkholder as Roo
Oliver Dillon as Lumpy
Brenda Blethyn as Mama Heffalump
Guest
Tara Strong as Porcupine and Vixen
Rob Paulsen as Raccoon
James Arnold Taylor as Skunk
Mark Hamill as Turtle
Sydney Saylor as Possums
Dee Bradley Baker as Woodpecker
Struan Erlenborn as Christopher Robin
Jim Cummings as Beaver
Production
In 2005, it was announced that Disney was creating a new television series, with a new female character replacing Christopher Robin as the protagonist. My Friends Tigger & Pooh was developed by Walt Disney Television Animation, with animation from Japanese company Polygon Pictures, and was executive produced and story edited by Brian Hohlfeld. After voicing Piglet in Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie, Travis Oates reprises his role, taking over for John Fiedler, who died on June 25, 2005, two years prior to the debut of the series. It also marks the final time Peter Cullen, Ken Sansom and Kath Soucie provide the respective voices of Eeyore, Rabbit and Kanga, as all three would be recast in 2011's Winnie the Pooh. Cullen later reprises Eeyore in the 2017 Doc McStuffins special "Into the Hundred Acre Wood."
Release
Broadcast
My Friends Tigger & Pooh premiered on Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block on May 12, 2007. The series was renewed for a second season in June 2007. It was renewed for a 35-episode third season in March 2008.
In 2018, the series was released on Youku. My Friends Tigger & Pooh later became available to stream on Disney+.
Home media
Reception
Critical response
Marilyn Moss of Associated Press called My Friends Tigger & Pooh a "charming series," adding that the "animation is splendid, and, of course, the characters retain their charm." Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave My Friends Tigger & Pooh a grade of four out of five stars and complimented the presence of positive messages,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLTV-DT
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WLTV-DT (channel 23) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, serving as the local Univision outlet. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network (the other being WXTV-DT in the New York City market). WLTV-DT is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Hollywood, Florida–licensed UniMás station WAMI-DT (channel 69). The two stations share studios known as "NewsPort" (a converted studio facility that also houses Noticias Univision) on Northwest 30th Terrace in Doral; WLTV-DT's transmitter is located in Andover, Florida. The station also serves as the de facto Univision outlet for the West Palm Beach market.
History
Prior history of UHF channel 23 in South Florida
Channel 23 was initially allocated to Fort Lauderdale and was built by WFTL-TV, which went on the air on May 5, 1953, and was the first UHF station in the state of Florida. It was affiliated with NBC and owned by the Tri-County Broadcasting Company alongside WFTL (1400 AM). In 1954, it was purchased by Storer Broadcasting; in order to allow the station to move south, Storer also purchased the construction permit for WMIE-TV, an unbuilt Miami station on channel 27. Using WFTL-TV's assets and the Miami license location, channel 23 became WGBS-TV in December 1954 and moved to higher-power facilities the next year.
Channel 23 struggled in an environment where most UHF viewers needed converters to see the station and competing against a VHF outlet, WTVJ (channel 4), as well as stations that had started in West Palm Beach. Storer's attempts to obtain the ability to apply for a VHF station or change the market to all-UHF service were denied. In 1956, WCKT started on channel 7 and took the NBC affiliation; WGBS-TV limped along until April 1957, when it sold its equipment and studio site to new VHF station WPST-TV (channel 10) before shutting down April 13.
Storer retained the operating authority for channel 23 and repurchased the transmitter facility in 1964, after WPST-TV lost its license three years prior (WPST-TV's replacement, WLBW-TV, had its own studio and transmitter facilities). It announced plans to reactivate the station in 1966 but never followed through.
The return of channel 23
In May 1967, Storer reached a deal to sell the WGBS-TV construction permit and lease the tower site to Coastal Broadcasting System, owned by Al Lapin, Jr., one of the founders of IHOP, and Abe Finkel, who was a franchisee of 15 IHOP restaurants. The station returned to the air after more than a decade of inactivity on November 14, 1967, as WAJA-TV. The call sign came from Finkel's AJA Corporation.
WAJA-TV presented daily stock market reporting during the business day using The Stock Market Observer format pioneered by WCIU-TV in Chicago. Children's and sports programs were also heavily featured on the new station. Use of the transmitter site studio in Hallandale was approved in February 1968, over the protest of dozens of area homeowners. Something else wa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20Centre%20of%20Remote%20Sensing
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The Malaysian Centre of Remote Sensing (MACRES) was a Malaysian remote sensing centre. An agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Malaysia). Its role was to provide data and solutions for remote sensing applications. In 1991, it was recognised as a federal institute of research in the field of remote sensing and related technologies. The main centre was located in Kuala Lumpur and the ground receiving centre was located in Mentakab, Pahang, Malaysia.
On 15 February 2008, MACRES was upgraded as a full government department and known as Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA). In 2019, it had merging with National Space Agency (ANGKASA) bring about the establishment of Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA).
See also
Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA)
Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA)
National Space Agency (ANGKASA)
References
Satellite meteorology
Governmental meteorological agencies in Asia
Former federal ministries, departments and agencies of Malaysia
1988 establishments in Malaysia
Government agencies established in 1988
2008 disestablishments in Malaysia
Government agencies disestablished in 2008
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil%20al-Deek
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Khalil Said al-Deek (born 1957) aka Joseph Adams after 1996, was a dual US-Jordanian citizen who came to USA to study computer science.
He became a naturalized US citizen living in Los Angeles, California where he worked as computer engineer and Charity Without Borders staffer, where it is now believed that Adam Yahiye Gadahn worked around that same time in 1997. The Charity was discovered to be an al-Qaeda organization used to funnel money overseas and wasn't shut down until after September 11, 2001. Hisham Diab was running this organization at the time and it was confirmed by his ex-wife Saraah Olson that Hisham and Khalil Said al-Deek recruited Adam Yahiye Gadahn and transformed him into an American-hating fanatic. This was also confirmed by the imam Haitham Bundakji of the Islamic Society of Orange County who described Hisham and members of his cell as "disruptive troublemakers" and places blame on himself for not reaching out to Gadahn.
Carrying a US passport, he moved to Peshawar, Pakistan, where he is believed to have met several times with Osama bin Laden. He was arrested on December 17, 1999, in Peshawar and extradited to Jordan for conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks in Jordan.
CNN reports that al-Deek is described as the leader of his group.
One report claimed al-Deek and 27 others were indicted, in Jordan on March 29, 2000.
The International Counter-Terrorism blog reported that Al-Deek was indicted in absentia and had already been extradited. The San Diego Union Tribune reported that Jordan held Al-Deek for 17 months before releasing him without charge.
Judith Miller, then of the New York Times, reported that al-Deek had business ties to Abu Zubaydah.
Miller reported that al-Deek and Abu Zubaydah exported specialty honey, a traditionally high-valued product, and sent a portion of the profits to Osama bin Laden, and al-Qaeda. Miller reported that the shipment of honey was used to mask the shipment of weapons.
Tim Golden, of the New York Times, reported that an unnamed American intelligence official suspected al-Deek collaborated with Moazzam Begg on a CD-ROM version of an "Encyclopedia of Jihad". The official claimed al-Deek gave a copy of this CD-ROM to two suspected Jordanian terrorists. According to al-Qaeda, al-Deek was later killed in the Shah-i-Kot Valley in Afghanistan by a "Pakistani agent."
His wife informed his brother that he had died in April 2005. At around the same time, rumours from unnamed intelligence sources began to spread suggesting he was killed somewhere in Pakistan. The OC Weekly suggested it was also possible he had faked his own death.
References
External links
Article about Hisham Diab and Charity Without Borders
1957 births
Jordanian emigrants to the United States
American expatriates in Pakistan
American people imprisoned abroad
People extradited from Pakistan
People imprisoned on charges of terrorism
People extradited to Jordan
2005 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Academy%20of%20Songwriters
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National Academy of Songwriters was a music industry association that provided a support network for songwriters, and awarded honors in various categories. Originally founded by Helen King as Songwriters Resources and Services, she saw a need to provide an inexpensive copyright service, as well as educational services for aspiring writers in Los Angeles and around the US.
After King died, her staff kept the organization going for almost two decades. Key staff members included Gelsa Paladino, Doug Thiele, Billy James, Bruce Kaplan, Pat and Pete Luboff, Kevin Odegard, Mark Spier, Gordon Pagoda, Paul Zollo, Steve Schalchlin, Dan Kirkpatrick, Madeleine Smith, Sunny Hilden, Dan Kimple, Rik Lawrence and Kevin McCarley. Hundreds of songwriters came through to learn the craft and business of songwriting and get advice on how to market their songs. The organization also lobbied for better copyright protection, and published the magazine SongTalk, a newsprint publication with original interviews of hit songwriters.
In December 1985, the National Academy of Songwriters began their annual "Salute To The American Songwriter" concerts which over the years featured performances by artists such as Carole King, Jackson Browne, Stevie Wonder, Los Lobos, Willie Dixon, Atlantic Starr, Stephen Stills, Michael Bolton, Melissa Manchester, Stephen Bishop, Brian Wilson, Linda Ronstadt, Kim Carnes, Michael McDonald, and many others. Also performing over the years at the "Salute To The American Songwriter" concerts were songwriting legends such as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Jimmy Webb, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Robert B. Sherman, Richard Sherman, John Bettis, Diane Warren, and many others. In 1988, the National Academy of Songwriters teamed with VH-1 for the "Fourth Annual Salute To The American Songwriter" which was televised on VH-1 and Showtime in 1989.
In 1996, the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase (LASS) joined the NAS, and later, the NAS merged into the Songwriters Guild of America.
Another organization that was inspired by the goals of the LASS and came into existence in late 1998 in the vacuum that was created when LASS disappeared was the Los Angeles Songwriters Network (SongNet).
References
Music organizations based in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Villers
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Philippe Villers founded the company Computervision with Marty Allen in 1969. In 1980 he co-founded Automatix, an early robotics company, which he led until 1986. He later served as president of Cognition Corporation for 3 years. He is currently (2013) president of GrainPro, Inc., and board member of a number of high-tech startups, as well as president of Families USA Foundation, which he endowed. GrainPro makes bags and storage cocoons out of polyvinyl chloride to protect grain in third world countries, where up to 25% of harvested crops are lost to insects and rodents.
Villers was born in France and came to the United States as a child. He earned a B.A. from Harvard University and an S.M. in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1960. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
References
External links
GrainPro, Inc.
Families USA Foundation
Cognition Corporation
American computer businesspeople
Businesspeople in computing
Harvard University alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Texas%20Rangers%20%28baseball%29%20broadcasters
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The Texas Rangers Radio Network has stations in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The flagship station is 105.3 KRLD-FM The Fan in Dallas. When a Rangers game conflicts with other coverage on KRLD-FM, the baseball game moves to AM 1080 KRLD. Games have aired on Spanish radio stations KESS from 1991 to 2010, KZMP from 2011 to 2016, and KFLC since 2017. Games are also heard on other Spanish-language radio stations in Texas and Arkansas. Texas Rangers games currently air on the regional television network Bally Sports Southwest. Games also previously aired in Spanish on television station Canal de Teja.
Current radio broadcasters
Eric Nadel, play-by-play (since 1979; 1980–present on radio; 1979–1981 on TV)
Matt Hicks, secondary play-by-play (since 2012)
Jared Sandler, studio host and fill-in play-by-play (since 2015)
Eleno Ornelas, Spanish play-by-play (since 2000)
Jose Guzman, Spanish color analyst (since 2015, 2004–2009 on radio, 2010–13 on TV)
Current television broadcasters
Dave Raymond, main play-by-play (since 2017); fill-in play-by-play (2016)
C.J. Nitkowski, color analyst and fill-in play-by-play (since 2017)
David Murphy, studio analyst (since 2017); color analyst (since 2019)
John Rhadigan, studio host (since 1996); play-by-play (April 2011–May 2011)
Mark McLemore, studio analyst (since 2010); fill-in color analyst (since 2012)
Emily Jones, field reporter (since 2013)
All-time radio broadcasters
Dave Raymond (2016–present) (fill-in play-by-play)
Jared Sandler (2015–present) (studio host and fill-in play-by-play)
Mike Peasley (2013–2014) (studio host and fill-in play-by-play)
Bryan Dolgin (2011–2012) (studio host and fill-in play-by-play)
Matt Hicks (June 2012–present) (secondary play-by-play)
Steve Busby (May 2011–June 2012) (secondary play-by-play)
Dave Barnett (2009–May 2011) (secondary play-by-play)
Victor Rojas (2004–2008) (secondary play-by-play)
Vince Cotroneo (1998–2003) (secondary play-by-play)
Scott Franzke (1997–1998); (2002–2005) (studio host; fill-in play-by-play)
Brad Sham (1995–1997) (secondary play-by-play)
Mark Holtz (1982–1994) (primary play-by-play) (deceased)
Mel Proctor (1980–1981) (secondary play-by-play)
Eric Nadel (1980–present) (analyst/fill-in play-by-play (1980–81)); (secondary play-by-play) (1982-1994); (primary play-by-play) (1995–present) *Ford C. Frick Award winner, 2014
Jon Miller (1978–1979) (primary play-by-play) *Ford C. Frick Award winner, 2010
Bill Merrill (1974–1981) (secondary play-by-play)
Dick Risenhoover (1973–1977) (secondary play-by-play (1973); (primary play-by-play) (1974–77))
Don Drysdale (1972) (secondary play-by-play)
Bill Mercer (1972–1973) (primary play-by-play)
All-time TV broadcasters
David Murphy (2019–present) (color analyst)
C.J. Nitkowski (2017–present) (color analyst; fill-in-play-by-play)
Dave Raymond (2016–present) (play-by-play)
Steve Busby (2012–2016) (play-by-play); (2016) (analyst); (1997–mid-2011) (studio host/analyst); (1990–94) (primary TV play-by-play); (1982–19
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire%20and%20Staffordshire%20extension
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The Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension of the Great Northern Railway was an English railway network built by the GNR to get access to coal resources in the area to the north and west of Nottingham. The Midland Railway had obstructed the GNR in its attempts to secure a share of the lucrative business of transporting coal from the area, and in frustration the GNR built the line. The line was forked: it reached Pinxton in 1875 and a junction with the North Staffordshire Railway at Egginton, approaching Burton on Trent in 1878. The line cut through Derby, resulting in considerable demolition of housing there.
West of Derby the line was primarily agricultural; thoughts that a long-distance connection might build up using the line were over-optimistic, although a limited long-distance goods traffic did run. The GNR served holiday resorts on the East Coast of England, and a considerable excursion and holiday traffic from Derby and Nottingham was developed.
After World War I a slow decline set in, affecting both passenger and goods traffic, and the passenger service west of Derby was discontinued in 1939. The Nottingham to Derby passenger service was withdrawn in 1964. Freight business had run down gradually, and that too ceased completely in 1968. After closure to revenue traffic, part of the line was later used as an experimental test track.
Nottingham railways
The first railway in Nottingham opened in 1839 when the Midland Counties Railway inaugurated a line from Derby. In 1844 the Midland Counties Railway amalgamated with others and formed the Midland Railway. The MR built a new station at Nottingham on the present-day site, opening it in 1848, and the company expanded considerably in the following years, and for some time was the dominant railway company in the general area.
The mineral and commercial resources of Nottingham and its environs were attractive to other railways, and the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway opened an east–west line from Grantham to a junction at Colwick, east of Nottingham, in 1850. It made a junction with the Midland Railway at Colwick and relied on the MR for access to Nottingham. The Ambergate company had been conceived to connect the manufacturing districts of Manchester and Lancashire with the Eastern Counties and Boston docks, but the ambitious scheme never achieved the funding it would need, and it was cut back.
In 1852 the Great Northern Railway reached Grantham and made a junction with the Ambergate company there. A contractor had worked the Ambergate line at first, but now the GNR took over the operation. The Midland Railway went to great lengths to be obstructive to the GNR use of its line, in order to protect its near-monopoly. In 1857 the GNR opened its own station, London Road, at Nottingham, together with an independent line to the station from Colwick. In 1860 the GNR leased the Ambergate company for a term of 999 years.
Derby railways
Derby had long been dominated by the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSCN
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RSCN may refer to:
Registered Sick Children's Nurse, a medical title given to a United Kingdom nurse specialised in the care of children
Registered State Change Notification, an FC network switch function
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%40Home
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@Home or @home may refer to:
HotSpot @Home, now defunct American home telecom service
@Home Network, now defunct cable broadband provider
@home, chain of Indian retail stores
Suffix for volunteer distributed computing projects generally using BOINC
See also
At Home (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Coordinates%20Network
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The General Coordinates Network (GCN), formerly known as the Gamma-ray burst Coordinates Network, is an open-source platform created by NASA to receive and transmit alerts about astronomical transient phenomena. This includes neutrino detections by observatories such as IceCube or Super-Kamiokande, gravitational wave events from the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA interferometers, and gamma-ray bursts observed by Fermi, Swift or INTEGRAL. One of the main goals is to allow for follow-up observations of an event by other observatories, in hope to observe multi-messenger events.
GCN has its origins in the BATSE coordinates distribution network (BACODINE). The Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) was a scientific instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), and BACODINE monitored the BATSE real-time telemetry from CGRO. The first function of BACODINE was calculating the right ascension (RA) and declination (dec) locations for GRBs that it detected, and distributing those locations to sites around the world in real-time. Since the de-orbiting of the CGRO, this function of BACODINE is no longer operational. The second function of BACODINE was collecting right ascension and declination locations of GRBs detected by spacecraft other than CGRO, and then distributing that information. With this functionality, the original BACODINE name was changed to the more general name GCN. It later evolved to include alerts from non-GRB observatories and was sometimes referred to as GCN/TAN (for Transient Astronomy Network).
Design
The GCN relies on two types of alerts: notices and circulars. Notices are machine-readable alerts, which are distributed in real time; they typically include only basic information about the event. Circulars are brief human-readable alerts, which are distributed (typically by e-mail) with a low latency but not in real time; they can also contain predictions, requests for follow-up observations from other observatories, or advertise observing plans.
The current version of the GCN relies on Kafka to distribute the alerts, improving on previous versions which used three separate protocols.
The infrastructure for sending the alerts towards the GCN is managed by the respective observatories. For the historical gamma-ray burst observatories, which are based on spacecraft, this involves sending the information to a ground station; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center was the center in charge of sending the notices from GRB observatories.
Current participants
As of April 2023, 14 missions are sending alerts to the GCN :
INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), a gamma-ray telescope
Swift, a gamma-ray telescope, which provides data products not previously available from prior missions, including spectra, images, and lightcurves.
Fermi, an American gamma-ray telescope
AGILE, an Italian gamma-ray telescope
HAWC, a ground-based gamma-ray and cosmic ray observatory in Mexico
Calorimetric Electron Telescope, a Japanese elec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PsycLIT
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PsycLIT was a CD-ROM version of Psychological Abstracts. It was merged into the PsycINFO online database in 2000. PsycLIT contained citations and abstracts to journal articles, and summaries of English-language chapters and books in psychology, as well as behavioral information from sociology, linguistics, medicine, law, psychiatry, and anthropology.
It was one of a number of databases indexing psychological research papers and journals. Others included PsycINFO, Psychological Abstracts, Ulrich International Periodical Directory, PUBLIST (The Internet Directory Publications), ISSN International, PSICODOC, the ISOC database PSEDISOC, CSIC-RISO, CIRBIC-REVISTAS, COMPLUDOC Social Sciences Citation Index and the Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson-ISI).
References
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Works about psychology
American Psychological Association
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiGente.com
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MiGente.com was an online social-networking site specifically targeting the Hispanic community. It was launched in 2000. Its former parent company, Community Connect Inc., claimed that MiGente.com was the fastest growing English language site for the Hispanic community with over 3 million registered members. Members come from a variety of Hispanic backgrounds.
In February 2007, the site partnered with Si TV to launch new channels on the site. The collaboration identified and promoted emerging music artists via Si TV's monthly sweepstakes.
MiGente.com was owned by Community Connect Inc. until April 2008, when the Radio One paid $38 million for New York-based Community Connect, which operated a number of branded Web sites, including BlackPlanet, MiGente and AsianAvenue. Prior to selling of properties, Community Connect claimed about 23 million users. Community Connect Inc. pioneered urban social networks through the creation of brands such as BlackPlanet and MiGente.
MiGente.com visually resembles Facebook and has many similar features, such as friend requests, chat, and tagging. However, a key difference is that MiGente.com allows for more customization of profile pages. Also, unless customized by the user, anything posted on MiGente.com is public and users can comment on any post, without needing to be friends with the poster.
In May 2019, MiGente.com was redirected to BlackPlanet.com, which is also owned by Urban One.
See also
List of defunct social networking websites
Footnotes
Companies based in New York City
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall%20%28video%20game%29
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Nightfall is an American computer game released in 1998 by Altor Systems, Inc. Although claimed to be the first real-time 3D first person adventure game, there are earlier examples of 3D first person adventure games, however, such as Total Eclipse, released in 1988. It employs a three dimensional world and sprites for objects such as vases and rats, as well as true 3D objects such as blocks and statues. Essentially, the gameplay is a combination of 3D first-person shooters such as Doom, the gameplay found in Myst, with some additional elements.
Gameplay
The gameplay hand based interface is detailed in a Game Developers Conference paper that compares Unreal, Quake, Trespasser, Tomb Raider, Myst, and Nightfall styles of interaction. Gameplay is also described in the reviews listed in the Reception section.
Players can move and turn using arrow keys, but can also point and click via the mouse pointer (symbolized as a hand icon) to move or turn. In addition, the hand provides a means to grab 3D or sprite objects in the view, move them closer or further away, re-arranging objects on top or underneath each other, and drag/dropping them onto a user satchel icon. The objects act according to game physics – i.e. dragging an object next to another pushes the other object along if it's lightweight, or restricts the ability to move the grasped object if the other impacted object is heavy. In a novel interface behavior, if the grasped object is immobile, the user location is moved – a bit like grasping a protrusion and climbing or swinging from it.
The game can be completed by solving the puzzles, or in some cases utilizing alternative means to bypass puzzles such as climbing, throwing objects to trigger remote locations, or finding alternative routes to the objective. This solves a problem with Myst's gameplay – that some puzzles cannot be solved, so gameplay cannot proceed as the player is "stuck". In the case of Myst, a workaround is that the player obtains the solution from elsewhere – e.g. friends, hint books or websites, breaking out of the game. While playing Nightfall, alternative solutions can be found within the game itself.
The user can alternate between a first person 3D view of the world, and a top down map based view of the world. The map dynamically refreshes to show the areas the user has visited or can see, much as games like Marathon do. In addition, the map coloring changes relative to the users altitude, so they can see if rooms are above or below them, or if they are falling or rising.
A plot-line is also revealed through notes located through the levels. This reveals the experiences of another person who traversed the complex at some earlier date. The fourteenth levels also has notes revealing a hidden purpose to the complex.
Plot
The player takes the role of an archaeologist exploring an ancient Egyptian tomb for a wonderful secret. Unfortunately, an earthquake occurs, sealing the entrance with rubble. Rather than waiting to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Jones%20%28reporter%29
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Kimberly Alicia Jones (born September 7, 1969) is a New York City-based sports reporter. From 2005 to 2011, she was the clubhouse reporter for New York Yankees games on the YES Network. She currently works for the NFL Network, Newsday and WFAN radio in New York City. Jones has been a resident of Saddle Brook, New Jersey, since she started covering the New York Giants.
Early life
Jones graduated from Penn State University in the early 1990s with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and a Master of Science degree in Exercise and Sports Science and is associated with their Center for Sports Journalism. From 2005 to 2007, she made regular appearances on the Penn State radio program Let's Talk Penn State with a segment that shared its name with her former blog: "Keeping Up With the Jones".
Sportscasting career
Before joining YES, Jones was the New York Giants beat reporter and a National Football League (NFL) columnist for The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, New Jersey. In addition to her duties on YES and WFAN, she continued to write a Sunday NFL column for The Star-Ledger.
In 2005, Jones was hired by the YES Network to replace Suzyn Waldman as the clubhouse reporter for Yankees games, after Waldman moved on to be the game analyst for Yankees games on WCBS radio. Jones also kept a blog for YESNetwork.com, entitled "Keeping Up With the Jones", that provided news and insight about the Yankees and often featured interviews with current and former players.
On January 24, 2012, it was reported that Jones decided not to renew her contract with YES in order to pursue other opportunities. Jones' replacement at YES was announced in March 2012 with the signing of fellow Pennsylvania native, Meredith Marakovits.
Jones has worked as a back-up commentator for the New York Yankees radio network WCBS.
On April 12, 2012, it was reported Jones had been signed as a full-time, New York-based on-air contributor at the NFL Network.
On WFAN, Jones has been a co-host of the football talk show Monday Night Live, formerly with WFAN's Ed Coleman, and presently Carl Banks. Jones has also guest hosted on WFAN for either the Boomer and Carton radio show or Benigno and Roberts when the hosts have been on vacation or unavailable. She has partnered with Chris Carlin, Sid Rosenberg, and Marc Malusis.
While covering a Washington Redskins practice on November 15, 2018, Jones suffered an aortic dissection; she was taken to the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute in Falls Church, Virginia, where she received surgery to fix the condition.
References
External links
YES Network Biography
Kimberly's YES Blog
Major League Baseball broadcasters
College football announcers
YES Network
Living people
1969 births
People from Dallastown, Pennsylvania
People from Saddle Brook, New Jersey
Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications alumni
NFL Network people
WFAN people
Journalists from Pennsylvania
Journalists from New Jersey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup%20Manager
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Workgroup Manager is a computer program bundled as part of OS X Server for directory-based management of users, groups and computers across a network.
This is where an admin could add, delete, and modify computer, and user accounts and groups. Computer accounts allow preferences to be set for individual machines. Machines are entered with their MAC address for the interface which they connect.
See also
Group Policy
External links
Apple - Support - OS X Lion Server - Client Management
Server Admin Tools 10.4.11
Server Admin Tools 10.5.7
Server Admin Tools 10.6.8
Server Admin Tools 10.7.3
Workgroup Manager 10.8
Workgroup Manager 10.9
MacOS Server
MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exor
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Exor may refer to:
Exclusive or, the exclusive disjunction
Exor, antagonist in Super Mario RPG
ExOR (wireless network protocol), a protocol for a wireless ad-hoc networks
Exor (company), an Italian investment holding company based in the Netherlands controlled by the Agnelli family
See also
XOR (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Campinas%20Institute%20of%20Computing
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The Institute of Computing (), formerly the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, is the main unit of education and research in computer science at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). The institute is located at the Zeferino Vaz campus, in the district of Barão Geraldo in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
History
The origins of the Institute traces back to 1969 when Unicamp created a baccalaureate in Computer Science. The first one of its kind in Brazil, it served as a model for many computing courses in other universities in the country. In the same year, the Department of Computer Science (DCC) was established at the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (IMECC). In March 1996, the department was separated from IMECC and became a full institute, the 20th academic unit of Unicamp. The reorganization was completed formally when its first dean came to office in the next year (March 1997).
Courses
The institute offers two undergraduate courses: a baccalaureate in Computer Science (evening period) and another in Computer Engineering (in partnership with the School of Electric and Computer Engineering). The institute offers also graduate programs at the level of master's and doctorate in Computer Science. These courses have received top evaluations from the ministry of education, and attract students from many Latin America countries. The institute also offers many post-graduate specialization and continued education directed mainly towards the qualification and specialization of information technology professionals.
Departments
The IC is organized into three departments:
DSC - Department of Computer Systems
DSI - Department of Information Systems
DTC - Department of Computer Theory
See also
University of Campinas
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Campinas)
Jorge Stolfi
References
External links
IC Home Page
FEEC
Unicamp
University of Campinas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grono
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Grono may refer to:
Places
Grono, Switzerland, municipality in Graubünden
Mount Grono
Other uses
Grono (surname)
Grono.net, social networking website in Poland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetRomeo
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Romeo (until 2021 PlanetRomeo) is a social network for gay, bisexual, queer and transgender people. The site was started as a hobby and was called GayRomeo in October 2002 by Planetromeo GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Initially only available in German the site and later its mobile app have evolved into an international platform.
History
Initially, the site was available only in German and hence it used to have a majority of users being from German-speaking countries. The website and apps are currently available in six languages. The German-speaking community remains the largest community but not the majority. It has been operated by Planetromeo B.V. located in Amsterdam, Netherlands since September 2006. The site name was changed from GayRomeo to PlanetRomeo.
In 2021, the name was changed again—from PlanetRomeo to simply Romeo. The Romeo website, iOS app and Android app are commonly used by the male gay community to find friends, dates, love or obtain information about LGBT+ topics.
Blue Pages
In Germany, due to its high number of registered users, ROMEO is often called the "Gay Registry Office" (schwules Einwohnermeldeamt) or "The Blue pages" (Die blauen Seiten), referring to the well known telephone directories the yellow pages and the white pages. In a satirical reference to the Nazis' compilation of lists of homosexual men in the 1930s, the German newspaper "Taz" announced: "The pink lists are back".
Features
Personal profiles
To access Romeo, users (affectionately referred to as Romeos) create a profile which can include a physical description, a list of sexual preferences, personal interests and one or more photographs of themselves. Sex workers and escorts can also advertise their services by creating their own profiles on the Hunqz section of the website.
Clubs and Guide profiles
Aside from personal messaging, Romeo offers users the chance to create Club and Guide profiles as another way of connecting with gay men sharing similar interests. For example, a bar or sauna creates a Club or Guide profile, to which Romeos either can join and or link their private profiles. The administrators of the Club and Guide profiles can send direct messages to their members. Club members exchange news or discuss various subjects in the club's forum or via a newsletter. Clubs also exist for supporters of political parties, members of religious groups and employees working in particular industries; some clubs have a more playful and sexual orientation. Any user can create a club-profile.
In March 2009 the online community Guys4Men.com joined ROMEO.
Community information
In February 2007, Romeo launched a live and online health advice service in cooperation with Deutsche Aids-Hilfe, Germany's national NGO for HIV/Aids issues. Contact information for HIV/AIDS support groups and organisations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is also provided on the website. Romeos receive answers online about health and best practices for safer sex; many of the health s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20Development%20Kit
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The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is computer software, a library in the programming language Java, for chemoinformatics and bioinformatics. It is available for Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS. It is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.0.
History
The CDK was created by Christoph Steinbeck, Egon Willighagen and Dan Gezelter, then developers of Jmol and JChemPaint, to provide a common code base, on 27–29 September 2000 at the University of Notre Dame. The first source code release was made on 11 May 2011. Since then more than 100 people have contributed to the project, leading to a rich set of functions, as given below. Between 2004 and 2007, CDK News was the project's newsletter of which all articles are available from a public archive. Due to an unsteady rate of contributions, the newsletter was put on hold.
Later, unit testing, code quality checking, and Javadoc validation was introduced. Rajarshi Guha developed a nightly build system, named Nightly, which is still operating at Uppsala University. In 2012, the project became a support of the InChI Trust, to encourage continued development. The library uses JNI-InChI to generate International Chemical Identifiers (InChIs).
In April 2013, John Mayfield (né May) joined the ranks of release managers of the CDK, to handle the development branch.
Library
The CDK is a library, instead of a user program. However, it has been integrated into various environments to make its functions available. CDK is currently used in several applications, including the programming language R, CDK-Taverna (a Taverna workbench plugin), Bioclipse, PaDEL, and Cinfony. Also, CDK extensions exist for Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME) and for Excel, called LICSS ().
In 2008, bits of GPL-licensed code were removed from the library. While those code bits were independent from the main CDK library, and no copylefting was involved, to reduce confusions among users, the ChemoJava project was instantiated.
Major features
Chemoinformatics
2D molecule editor and generator
3D geometry generation
ring finding
substructure search using exact structures and Smiles arbitrary target specification (SMARTS) like query language
QSAR descriptor calculation
fingerprint calculation, including the ECFP and FCFP fingerprints
force field calculations
many input-output chemical file formats, including simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES), Chemical Markup Language (CML), and chemical table file (MDL)
structure generators
International Chemical Identifier support, via JNI-InChI
Bioinformatics
protein active site detection
cognate ligand detection
metabolite identification
pathway databases
2D and 3D protein descriptors
General
Python wrapper; see Cinfony
Ruby wrapper
active user community
See also
Bioclipse – an Eclipse–RCP based chemo-bioinformatics workbench
Blue Obelisk
JChemPaint – Java 2D molecule editor, applet and application
Jmol – Ja
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20cities%20with%20high%20transit%20ridership
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The following is a list of United States cities of 100,000+ inhabitants with the 50 highest rates of public transit commuting to work, according to data from the 2015 American Community Survey. The survey measured the percentage of commuters who take public transit, as opposed to walking, driving or riding in an automobile, bicycle, boat, or some other means.
See also
List of U.S. cities with most pedestrian commuters
List of U.S. cities with most bicycle commuters
Transportation in the United States
List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership
List of United States light rail systems by ridership
List of United States local bus agencies by ridership
List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership
Modal share
Sources
2015 American Community Survey 5-year estimates
US Census
Carfree Census Database
American Public Transportation Association Ridership Report
Cities with high transit ridership
Transportation in the United States
Public transportation in the United States
Transit ridership
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTVi%20%28Canada%29
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RTVi is a Canadian exempt Category B Russian language specialty channel owned by Ethnic Channels Group (ECG). It broadcasts programming from RTVi and local Canadian content.
RTVi is a general entertainment channel that caters to the Russian diaspora in North America & Israel. It features a programming lineup created specifically for Russian speaking audiences outside of Russia and includes movies, news, and sports, as well as coverage of local and international community events.
Logos
History
In September 2003, ECG was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a specialty channel called Russian TV One, described as "an ethnic Category 21 specialty television service... targeting the Russian-speaking community."
The channel launched on June 23, 2004, along with 3 other channels from ECG, as RTVi, through a licensing agreement with the Russian broadcaster.
A sister-channel, branded RTVi+ was launched in the Fall of 2005, however, it was discontinued in 2009.
On November 4, 2014, the CRTC approved EGC's request to convert RTVi from a licensed Category B (formerly category 2) specialty service to an exempted category B third language service.
References
External links
RTVi Canada
RTVi
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Russian-language television stations
Russian-Canadian culture
RTVI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20cities%20with%20most%20pedestrian%20commuters
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The following is a list of United States incorporated places with at least 5,000 workers with the 25 highest rates of pedestrian commuting (walking to work) (pedestrian mode share), according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey, five-year average. The Census Bureau, through the American Community Survey, measured the percentage of commuters who walk to work, as opposed to bicycling, taking public transit, driving an automobile, boat, or some other means.
See also
List of U.S. cities with most bicycle commuters
List of U.S. cities with high transit ridership
References
Cities with most pedestrian commuters
Transportation in the United States
Pedestrian commuters
Walking in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20Dirichlet%20allocation
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In natural language processing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a Bayesian network (and, therefore, a generative statistical model) that explains a set of observations through unobserved groups, and each group explains why some parts of the data are similar. The LDA is an example of a Bayesian topic model. In this, observations (e.g., words) are collected into documents, and each word's presence is attributable to one of the document's topics. Each document will contain a small number of topics.
History
In the context of population genetics, LDA was proposed by J. K. Pritchard, M. Stephens and P. Donnelly in 2000.
LDA was applied in machine learning by David Blei, Andrew Ng and Michael I. Jordan in 2003.
Overview
Evolutionary biology and bio-medicine
In evolutionary biology and bio-medicine, the model is used to detect the presence of structured genetic variation in a group of individuals. The model assumes that alleles carried by individuals under study have origin in various extant or past populations. The model and various inference algorithms allow scientists to estimate the allele frequencies in those source populations and the origin of alleles carried by individuals under study. The source populations can be interpreted ex-post in terms of various evolutionary scenarios.
In association studies, detecting the presence of genetic structure is considered a necessary preliminary step to avoid confounding.
Clinical psychology, mental health, and social science
In clinical psychology research, LDA has been used to identify common themes of self-images experienced by young people in social situations. Other social scientists have used LDA to examine large sets of topical data from discussions on social media (e.g., tweets about prescription drugs).
Musicology
In the context of computational musicology, LDA has been used to discover tonal structures in different corpora.
Machine learning
One application of LDA in machine learning - specifically, topic discovery, a subproblem in natural language processing - is to discover topics in a collection of documents, and then automatically classify any individual document within the collection in terms of how "relevant" it is to each of the discovered topics. A topic is considered to be a set of terms (i.e., individual words or phrases) that, taken together, suggest a shared theme.
For example, in a document collection related to pet animals, the terms dog, spaniel, beagle, golden retriever, puppy, bark, and woof would suggest a DOG_related theme, while the terms cat, siamese, Maine coon, tabby, manx, meow, purr, and kitten would suggest a CAT_related theme. There may be many more topics in the collection - e.g., related to diet, grooming, healthcare, behavior, etc. that we do not discuss for simplicity's sake. (Very common, so called stop words in a language - e.g., "the", "an", "that", "are", "is", etc., - would not discriminate between topics and are usually filtered out by pre-proce
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20pretesting
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Cognitive pretesting, or cognitive interviewing, is a field research method where data is collected on how the subject answers interview questions. It is the evaluation of a test or questionnaire before it's administered. It allows survey researchers to collect feedback regarding survey responses and is used in evaluating whether the question is measuring the construct the researcher intends. The data collected is then used to adjust problematic questions in the questionnaire before fielding the survey to the full sample of people.
Cognitive interviewing generally collects the following information from participants: evaluations on how the subject constructed their answers; explanations on what the subject interprets the questions to mean; reporting of any difficulties the subject had in answering the questions; and anything else that reveals the circumstances to the subject's answers.
Cognitive pretesting is considered essential in testing the validity of an interview, test, or questionnaire.
Purpose
The purpose of these pretests is to:
make sure that the test or interview is understandable
address any problems the participants may have had with the test
measure participants attention and curiosity to the questions
measure the scale of answers (Ex: is the whole scale being used, or do answers vary too much)
assess question order and other context effects
problems with the interviewers
address any technical problems with the test (Ex: glitches with any technology, or grammatical errors)
and how long it takes to take the test or interview.
Types
In general, there are many methods practiced when conducting a cognitive pretest. Including: conventional pretesting, cognitive interviewing, behavior coding, respondent debriefing, group discussion, expert review, eye tracking, and web probing.
Conventional pretesting-This is similar to a rehearsal that tries to imitate and model after what the real test or interview will be like. A simulation of real test or interview that takes place prior to the real one. Whatever method used in the actual interview or test should be used in this method of pretesting.
Cognitive pretesting (cognitive interviewing)- very similar to conventional pretesting. However, the participants are actively being asked about the questions as they take the test. It's conducted during the interview or test.
They can also be presented in multiple different ways including: written surveys, oral surveys, electronic surveys
Techniques
There are certain techniques that the interviewer implements in cognitive pretesting to extract the information needed to ensure a good interview or questionnaire.
The think-aloud technique- This occurs when the interviewer asks the interviewee to vocalize their thoughts and how they came to their answer. This can be concurrent (during) or retrospective (after) the interview.
Probing technique- This occurs when the interviewer asks the interviewee one or more follow-up questions. They
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingham%20railway%20station
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Collingham railway station is in the village of Collingham, Nottinghamshire, England, on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, which provide all services.
History
It is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line, which was engineered by George Stephenson and opened by the Midland Railway on 3 August 1846. The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham; The Grade II listed station building in aggressive Italianate style is dated ca. 1848 and is thought to be by the architect I.A. Davies.
On 2 January 1854 a mail train from Nottingham to Lincoln experienced a failure of two wheels under the brake van. The Newark Road crossing keeper saw the guard's red light signal and switched on his danger signal bringing the train to a halt before any serious damage was done. Five days later on 7 January, a train leaving Collingham for Lincoln experienced some fragmentation of some of the engine wheels. Fortunately no injuries were sustained.
On 5 August 1857 an excursion train was proceeding from Carlton to Grimsby. Shortly after passing Collingham a number of the carriages derailed. Some passengers jumped from the carriages, and a young woman 18 years of age, Miss Brewster of Stoke Bardolph, was killed.
On 18 March 1861 George Taylor, an employee of George Johnson coal merchant, was loading a cart with coal. Perceiving that the ass and cart were in danger of being run over by a truck which was being shunted from the main line into the siding, he leaped from the truck and applied the brake. He was then hit by the buffer of a loaded truck and knocked down. The wheel went over his right leg and at the hospital in Newark later that evening, it was amputated.
Stationmasters
On 6 May 1848, Meynell Huntley, station master, was charged at Nottingham Assizes with embezzling money belonging to the Midland Railway. At the trial in July held before Lord Chief Justice Denman he pleaded guilty to the theft of three cheques with a total value of £30 6s (). Despite having a wife and family he was sentenced to 12 years transportation. He was imprisoned in the Hulks at Woolwich until he was transported on the Hashemy which departed England on 19 July 1850 and arrived in Western Australia on 25 October 1850.
Meynell Huntley until 1848
George Midwinter 1848 - 1868
Samuel Theodore Bunning 1868 - 1869 (afterwards station master at Beeston)
Thomas Grundy ca. 1871 - 1876
Edward Brown 1876 - 1878
Frederick J. Bent 1878 - 1880 (afterwards station master at Barton and Walton)
William Doughty 1880 - 1884
Charles Larkin 1884 - 1890 (afterwards station master at Bentham)
Alfred Lee 1890 - 1895
J.W. Harrison 1895 - 1900
Arthur Edward Kind 1900 - 1931
H.A. Collins from 1947 (formerly station master at Bredon)
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. The station has a shelter on each platform as well modern help points and bicycle storage. The station has no ticket machines and the ful
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sord%20IS-11
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The Sord IS-11 is an A4-size, lightweight, portable Z80-based computer. The IS-11 ('IS' stands for 'Integrated Software') had no operating system, but came with built-in word processing, spreadsheet, file manager and communication software.
The machine was manufactured by Sord Computer Corporation and released in 1983. It was later followed by the IS-11B and IS-11C.
Technical description
The IS-11 had a CMOS version of the Z80A running at 3.4 MHz with 32-64 KiB NVRAM and 64 KiB ROM. The monochrome non-back-lit LCD screen allowed for 40 characters × 8 lines or 256 × 64 pixels. Data was stored on built-in microcassette recorder (128kb, 2000 baud).
See also
Sord M23P
External links
Sord IS-11 at Obsolete Technology website
Sord IS-11 at old-computers.com
Sord IS-11 at The Machine Room
Sord IS-11C
Personal computers
Portable computers
Computer-related introductions in 1983
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOSA-TV
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KOSA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Permian Basin area. It is owned by Gray Television alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KWWT (channel 30, also licensed to Odessa), Big Spring–licensed CW+ affiliate KCWO-TV (channel 4), Telemundo affiliate KTLE-LD (channel 7.5) and Antenna TV affiliate KMDF-LD (channel 22). The stations share studios inside the Music City Mall on East 42nd Street in Odessa, with a secondary studio and news bureau in downtown Midland; KOSA-TV's transmitter is located on FM 866 west of Odessa. The station is relayed on low-power translator in Big Spring.
History
KOSA-TV signed on the air on January 1, 1956, and has been a CBS affiliate since its debut. Licensed to the corporate entity Odessa Television Co., the station was part of the Trigg-Vaughn Stations group, owned and operated by Cecil L. Trigg and Jack Vaughn. KOSA-TV originally operated from studios located on North Whitaker Street in Odessa. KOSA-TV is the only Big Three station in the Permian Basin to have never changed affiliation. In 1967, Trigg-Vaughn sold both KOSA-TV and KDBC-TV in El Paso, Texas, to Doubleday Broadcasting, a subsidiary of book publisher Doubleday and Company.
On November 26, 1983, a chartered twin-engine Beechcraft B100 King Air turboprop was flying from Fort Worth back to Odessa when it fell nose first, crashed and burned on impact. It killed all eight on board, instantly, some burned beyond recognition. Six of the victims were KOSA-TV station employees who had been away filming high school football playoffs. The plane burned for about four hours before firemen could extinguish the blaze. A charred and twisted heap of metal was all that remained.
The victims were eventually identified as assistant news director Gary Hopper, 32, of Midland; sports director Jeff Shull, 25, of Odessa; chief engineer Bobby Stephens, 47, of Odessa; assistant chief engineer Edward Monette, 26, of Odessa; production assistants Bruce Dyer, 26, of Midland and Brent Roach, 24, of Odessa; pilot Keith Elkin, 29, of Midland; and Jay Alva Price, 37, of Midland, a helper for the station at football games and Hopper's brother-in-law.
Local real estate company Investment Corporation of America (ICA) purchased the station from Benedek Broadcasting in 2000. On May 20, 2015, Gray Television announced that it would acquire KOSA-TV from ICA for $33.6 million; the sale was completed on July 1. The deal reunited KOSA-TV with several of its former Benedek sister stations, as Gray acquired most of Benedek's stations following the latter's bankruptcy in 2002.
By fall 2017, the over-the-air digital signal of KOSA-DT2 had been upgraded into 720p 16:9 high definition, thus giving viewers in the Odessa–Midland market over-the-air access to MyNetworkTV's high definition feed for the first time.
On June 25, 2018, Gray announced it had reached an agreement with Montgomery, Alabama-based Raycom Media to merge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall%20plot
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Waterfall plots are often used to show how two-dimensional phenomena change over time. A three-dimensional spectral waterfall plot is a plot in which multiple curves of data, typically spectra, are displayed simultaneously. Typically the curves are staggered both across the screen and vertically, with "nearer" curves masking the ones behind. The result is a series of "mountain" shapes that appear to be side by side. The waterfall plot is often used to show how two-dimensional information changes over time or some other variable such as rotational speed. Waterfall plots are also often used to depict spectrograms or cumulative spectral decay (CSD).
Uses
The results of spectral density estimation, showing the spectrum of the signal at successive intervals of time.
The delayed response from a loudspeaker or listening room produced by impulse response testing or MLSSA.
Spectra at different engine speeds when testing engines.
See also
Loudspeaker acoustics
Loudspeaker measurement
References
External links
Typical engine vibration waterfall
Waterfall FFT Matlab script
Plots (graphics)
Audio engineering
Broadcast engineering
Sound production technology
Sound recording
Acoustics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior%20Haramaty
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Lior Haramaty (born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1966) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the inventor of the Audio Transceiver used in the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry.
VocalTec was the first company to provide commercial Internet voice technology, which in 1996 was one of the earliest successful Internet IPOs (NASDAQ: vocl).
In 2006 Haramaty was included in TMCnet's Internet Telephony magazine "Top 100 Voices of IP communications" for his contributions to the VoIP industry. In 2005 he was awarded the "VON Visionary Award" by Pulver.com .
References
1966 births
Living people
People from Tel Aviv
Israeli Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%20Series%2090
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The Univac Series 90 is an obsolete family of mainframe class computer systems from UNIVAC first introduced in 1973. The low end family members included the 90/25, 90/30 and 90/40 that ran the OS/3 operating system. The intermediate members of the family were the 90/60 and 90/70, while the 90/80, announced in 1976, was the high end system. The 90/60 through 90/80 systems all ran the Univac’s virtual memory operating system, VS/9.
The Series 90 systems were the replacement for the UNIVAC 9000 series of low end, mainframe systems marketed by Sperry Univac during the 1960s. The 9000 series systems were byte-addressable machines with an instruction set that was compatible with the IBM System/360. The family included the 9200, 9300, 9400, and 9480 systems. The 9200 and 9300 ran the Minimum Operating system. This system was loaded from cards, but thereafter also supported magnetic tape or magnetic disk for programs and data. The 9400 and 9480 ran a real memory operating system called OS/4. As Sperry moved into the 1970s, they expanded the 9000 family with the introduction of the 9700 system in 1971. They were also developing a new real memory operating system for the 9700 called OS/7.
In January 1972, Sperry officially took over the RCA customer base, offering the Spectra 70 and RCA Series computers as the UNIVAC Series 70. They redesigned the 9700, adding virtual memory, and renamed the processor the 90/70. They cancelled development of OS/7 in favor of VS/9, a renamed RCA VMOS.
A number of the RCA customers continued with Sperry, and the 90/60 and 90/70 would provide an upgrade path for the customers with 70/45, 70/46, RCA 2 and 3 systems. In 1976, Sperry added the 90/80 at the top end of the Series 90 Family, based on an RCA design, providing an upgrade path for the 70/60, 70/61, RCA 6 and 7 systems.
The RCA base was very profitable for Sperry and Sperry was able to put together a string of 40 quarters of profit. Sperry also offered their own 1100 family of systems and the 1100/60 provided an entry level system for converting the Series 90 customer base. Around 1982-83, Sperry announced they would cap the Series 90 Systems and would decommit the VS/9 operating system to concentrate on the 1100 series. After this announcement, Sperry would stumble on the revenue side ending their run of profitable quarters, resulting in some downsizing. The Series 90 Systems suffered from pressure from the IBM 4300 series systems that offered superior price performance and may have induced Sperry to concentrate on the 1100. In a short time Digital Equipment Corporation, with their flagship VAX line of midrange computers would pass Sperry in terms of total revenue to become the number two U.S. computer manufacturer after IBM.
References
External links
Datapro:UNIVAC 90/60,90/70, and 90/80 (1976)
90
Computer-related introductions in 1973
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Championship%20Wrestling%20%28Australia%29
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World Championship Wrestling was an Australian professional wrestling promotion that ran from 1964 until 1978.
History
The promotion gained publicity through television programs on the Nine Network, which were presented at noon on Saturdays and Sundays.
An average of 6,500 people attended in the first three months of the promotion's existence, a crowd of 8,000 attended a show on 7 November in Melbourne when the first title change in the new promotion took place as Dominic De Nucci defeated Killer Kowalski. WCW also promoted throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Singapore and Hong Kong.
When WCW began operations in 1964, the promotion created the International Wrestling Alliance as a sanctioning body for WCW's original championships, the IWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships. WCW joined the National Wrestling Alliance in August 1969, but they continued to recognize the IWA World championships until 1971, when they were abandoned in favor of new NWA-sanctioned titles (see below).
In 1978, the Nine Network ceased coverage of WCW; with no TV coverage, promoters were facing financial ruin, leading to the decline of professional wrestling in Australia. The "World Championship Wrestling" name was reused in 1982 by Georgia Championship Wrestling in the United States for its own TV program, which became the roots of the American promotion of the same name. At the time, the promotion's former owner, Jim Barnett, was one of the owners of Georgia Championship Wrestling.
Documentaries about the promotion were released in 2007 called Ruff, Tuff N Real and Over the Top Rope in 2017.
Roster
Abdullah the Butcher
Alex Iakovidis
Allan Pinfold
"Amazing Antonino Argentino" Rocca
André the Giant
Andreas Lambrakis
Angelo "Little Jumping Joe" Savoldi
Antonio Pugliese
Apache Bull Ramos
Art Nelson
Big Bad John
Blackjack Slade
Brute Bernard
Bugsy McGraw
Bulldog Brower
Bruiser Brody
Bruno Sammartino
Butcher Brannigan
Bobby Shane
Bob Blassie
Bob Ragan
Bob Roop
Ciclón Negro
Chief Big Heart
Chief Billy White Wolf
Clyde Steeves
Con Dandos
Con Tolios
"Cowboy" Bob Ellis
Czaya Nandor
Dale Lewis
Dennis McCord
Dennis Stamp
Dick Dunn
Dick Murdoch
Dominic De Nucci
Don Carson
Donna Christianello
Dr. Jerry Graham
Dusty Rhodes
Efride Dengler
El Greco
Evelyn Stevens
George Barnes
George Gouliovas
George Julio
George Lackey
George Trikilis
The Golden Terror
The Great Mephisto
Hans Schroeder
Harley Race
"Haystacks" Calhoun
Jack Claybourne
Jack Brisco
Jerry Brisco
Jan Jansen
Jimmy Golden
John da Silva
John Tolios
Johnny Gray
Kevin Martin
Ken Medlin
Killer Karl Kox
Killer Kowalski
King Curtis Iaukea
Larry Hennig
Larry O'Dea
Lars Anderson
Len Holt
Lenny Hayter
Les Roberts
Lorenzo Parente
Lou Liotta
Mario Milano
Mark Lewin
Max Steyne
Max Tamboola
Michael Cleary
The Missouri Mauler
Moose Morowski
Murphy the Surfie
Mr. Fuji
Mr Wrestling
Nikita Kalmikoff
Ox Baker
Pat Barrett Paddy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Vermont%20Medical%20Center
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The University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) is a five-campus academic medical facility under the corporate umbrella of the University of Vermont Health Network that is anchored by a 562-bed hospital in Burlington, Vermont. UVMMC is based in Burlington and serves as both a regional referral center (providing advanced care to approximately one million people in Vermont and northern New York) and a community hospital (for approximately 160,000 residents in the Chittenden and Grand Isle Vermont counties). The hospital was formerly known as the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and later as Fletcher Allen Health Care until getting its current name. It is affiliated with the University of Vermont's Robert Larner College of Medicine and its College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Overview
The University of Vermont Medical Center ("UVM Medical Center") consists of five major campuses:
Medical Center Campus, Burlington, a 562 licensed-bed facility that includes most inpatient services, the Vermont Children's Hospital, an emergency department, an outpatient pharmacy, and an Ambulatory Care Center for outpatient services.
1 South Prospect Street (formerly known as University Health Center), Burlington, includes outpatient services, pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology, and is near the main medical center campus and adjacent to the University of Vermont's main campus.
Fanny Allen Campus, Colchester, includes inpatient rehab, a Walk-In Care Center, radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, outpatient rehab, physical therapy, work-related rehabilitation, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology.
Tilley Drive Campus, South Burlington, includes orthopedics, cardiology, physical therapy, sports rehabilitation, and diabetes support.
The organization also includes more than 30 patient-care sites and more than 100 outreach clinics, programs and services throughout Vermont and northern New York, including 11 primary care group practices, and generates approximately one billion in annual revenue. The UVM Medical Center is also affiliated, through the University of Vermont Health Network corporate umbrella, with Central Vermont Medical Center, Porter Medical Center, and the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle, located in Vermont, as well as Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, Alice Hyde Medical Center, and Elizabethtown Community Hospital, located in northern New York.
In 2012, the medical center's nearly 7,150 employees included 500 University of Vermont Medical Group physicians (jointly employed by the medical center and the UVM College of Medicine), more than 1750 registered nurses, 160 advanced practice nurses and physician assistants, and approximately 300 residents (physicians in specialty training). The hospital offers 18 residency programs and 27 fellowship programs, and employs nearly a thousand volunteers throughout the hospital operations.
Services and highlights
The University of Vermont Children's Hospital at the UVM Med
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARSC
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ARSC may refer to:
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Athénée Royal Serge Creuz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge%20World
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Cartridge World is a business that supplies managed print services and ink and toner cartridges for domestic and commercial computer printers.
Company overview
Cartridge World's global headquarters are in Australia.
Cartridge World uses a franchise model to license stores and spaces to provide printer and printing services including supplies, repair, monitoring, leasing, and consultation. In 2023 Cartridge World reported that it had 600 locations in 30 countries.
History
The company was founded in 1992, by Bryan Stokes, as the "Australian Cartridge Company" in Adelaide, and changed its name to Cartridge World in 1999. The first store was franchised in 1997. In August 2007 private equity fund Wolseley Private Equity purchased the business. In February 2001, the first Cartridge World in the United Kingdom was opened in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
In June 2015, Cartridge World was acquired by Suzhou Goldengreen Technologies Ltd. In June 2016, Cartridge World Global CEO, Steve Weedon, announced a strategic partnership with Samsung, to offer mobile print and scanning services worldwide.
Mark Pinner was appointed as Global Chief Technical Officer and CEO of Cartridge World North America and Edwin Lui, previously General Manager Cartridge World Asia and Middle East, was appointed as Global Chief Financial Officer.
In December 2019, Cartridge World North America completed a USA License deal with USA private equity firm Blackford Capital Private Equity.
In January 2020, Edwin Lui, who had held several positions in the company, was promoted to Global Chief Executive Officer.
References
Ink brands
Retail companies established in 1992
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IZA%20Institute%20of%20Labor%20Economics
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The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (), until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused on the analysis of global labor markets and headquartered in Bonn, Germany.
History
Founded in 1998, IZA is a non-profit limited-liability organization supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation and other national and international sources.
Restructuring
On March 1, 2016, the Institute for the Study of Labor was restructured by Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of the Deutsche Post Stiftung and president of IZA. A new institute on behavior and inequality research was founded while IZA will put more emphasis on policy-relevant research. Founding director Klaus F. Zimmermann, who did not accept these developments, left IZA on the 1st of March 2016.
Work
IZA runs the world's largest research network in economic science, comprising over 1,300 international Research Fellows and Affiliates, as well as Policy Fellows from business, politics, society and the media.
, the RePEc ranks IZA second of the top worldwide economic institutions in the field of labour economics as well as second of the top worldwide think tanks. In Germany it is the number one top economic institution.
In conducting labor market research, IZA cooperates closely with the Economics Department at the University of Bonn and the department's graduate education program at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.
IZA's main focus is the economic analysis of national and international labor markets within a broad range of research areas. Furthermore, IZA provides policy advice on crucial labor market issues for national and international policy institutions.
Research
IZA's research activities currently concentrate on eleven program areas providing high-standard labor market research on a wide array of topics:
To promote research on labor markets in developing countries, IZA launched in 2006, together with the World Bank, a joint research program on "Employment and Development". In addition, in its special research area "Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries", IZA coordinates for the UK Department for International Development a substantial research program to promote growth and employment in low income countries.
Publications
IZA publishes the series Research in Labor Economics together with Emerald Group Publishing.
In addition, it publishes the IZA journal series, which consists of three open access journals that focus on different aspects of international labor markets. The journals are published on IZA's behalf by Sciendo and do not charge any author fees. They were started in 2012 as 5 journals. The three journals are:
IZA Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Journal of Labor Policy
IZA Journal of Development and Migration (formerly IZA Journal of Migration)
The two defunct journal are
IZA Journal of Labor & Development
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies
Since May 2014, IZA pu
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San Francisco is one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer released in 1984. It was designed by Susan Kare to mimic the ransom-note effect and was used in early Mac software demos and Apple company fliers. An official TrueType version was never made, and San Francisco was rendered obsolete with the arrival of System 7.
See also
Samples of display typefaces
References
Apple Inc. typefaces
Display typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1984
Typefaces designed by Susan Kare
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbut
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The word Tarbut (תרבות) means "Culture" in Hebrew.
The Tarbut movement was a network of secular, Hebrew-language schools in parts of the former Jewish Pale of Settlement, specifically in Poland, Romania and Lithuania. It operated primarily between the world wars. Some schools affiliated with the movement continue to operate today and new ones were established in the United States and other destinations of emigrants from central and eastern Europe.
History
Education activities
Tarbut was a network of Hebrew-language educational institutions established in newly independent Poland during the period between the world wars. The first Polish national Tarbut conference was held in Warsaw, in December 1921. Eventually the Tarbut network, which was supported by Zionist groups, encompassed kindergartens, elementary schools, secondary schools, teachers' seminaries, adult education courses, lending libraries and a publishing house that produced pedagogical materials, textbooks and children's periodicals.
Tarbut schools had 25,829 students in 1921; 37,000 in 1934–1935; and 45,000 students enrolled in some 270 institutions by 1939. These included about 25% of all students enrolled in Jewish schools in Poland, and 9% of Poland's entire Jewish student population. The curriculum was secular, including science, humanities, and Hebrew studies, including Jewish history.
By the time the war brought the European Tarbut schools to an end, they had long been suffering from chronic underfunding. European Jews who appealed to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for aid included poet Chaim Nachman Bialik and Zionist leaders Nahum Sokolow and Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Nonetheless, some Tarbut schools continued to operate during the war years, notably one in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, which served the large population of Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Poland. The school operated until the end of the war under the headmastership of Nachum Szochet (נחום שוחט). The graduating students took high school matriculation exams under the auspices of the Polish government-in-exile, and as a result were able to continue their higher education after the war.
Publishing Activities
Tarbut responded to the shift in Hebrew literature publishing to Palestine taking place around the time of its founding by fostering increased local Hebrew-language children's publishing. These efforts included Shibolim ("Ears of Wheat"), a Warsaw biweekly published during 1922-1923 which featured both vowelled and unvowelled text, making it suitable for children of all ages, and consisted largely of literature, entertainment, sports and crafts; and, from 1935 to 1939, the biweekly Olami, a current-events-heavy series which consisted of Olami ("My World"), for Grades 5–7; Olami Hakatan ("My Small World"), for Grades 3–4; and Olami Haktantan ("My Tiny World"), for Grades 1–2. Olami'''s material included current events in Palestine alongside information about Jewish life in Poland.
Today
The T
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Europe
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This is a list of cities and towns in Europe that have (or once had) town tramway (e.g. urban tramway) systems as part of their public transport system. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
Separate lists have been created for the following European countries to improve user-friendliness and to reduce this list article's size:
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Estonia
Isle of Man
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Slovakia
Slovenia
See also
List of town tramway systems in Africa
List of town tramway systems in Asia
List of town tramway systems in Central America
List of town tramway systems in Oceania
List of town tramway systems in South America
List of town tramway systems
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
List of trolleybus systems
List of tram systems by gauge and electrification
References
Inline citations
Bibliography
Sources, references and external links:
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tram transport in Europe
tram
Tram transport-related lists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Lorenz
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Robert "Bob" Lorenz (born October 2, 1963) is an American television anchor. He is the primary studio host on the YES Network, and hosts the New York Yankees pregame and postgame shows on YES telecasts, as well as Brooklyn Nets pregame and postgame shows for cablecasts. Lorenz also hosts other shows on YES, including Yankees Hot Stove, a show that tracks the offseason movement of the Yankees and the rest of the teams in MLB. Lorenz has done play-by-play of YES Network's coverage of NCAA football as well as Staten Island Yankees games.
Career
Early career
Lorenz worked for KIEM-TV in Eureka and WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach. He later joined CNN Sports Illustrated. Also, he worked for TBS and TNT hosting various sporting event studio shows. Lorenz hosted CNN's weekly baseball show, CNN's College Football Preview, College Basketball Preview, College Coach's Corner, and CNN's NFL Preview. He was also a back-up host on Inside the NBA on TNT.
YES Network
He hosts the New York Yankees Pre-Game Show and the New York Yankees Post-Game Show for New York Yankees telecasts on YES, as well as pregame and postgame shows for Brooklyn Nets cablecasts. Lorenz also hosts other shows on YES, including Yankees Hot Stove, a show that tracks the offseason movements of the Yankees and the rest of the teams in the major leagues. He has also done play-by-play of Staten Island Yankees games and, in 2008, began working play-by-play on Yankees spring training games, which he continued in March 2009. During the 2010 season, Lorenz worked play-by-play for the first time during the regular season, against the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners. Lorenz previously hosted Yogi and a Movie, where he watched baseball-related movies with Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra. Lorenz hosted This Week in Football, a show focusing on the New York Giants and New York Jets, as well as the rest of the NFL, for six years. He has also been a fill-in host on the interview show CenterStage.
Personal life
Lorenz briefly attended California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where he played baseball before transferring to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He holds a degree in broadcast journalism from USC.
References
External links
YES Network Bio
1963 births
Living people
National Basketball Association broadcasters
YES Network
American television sports announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
New York Yankees announcers
College football announcers
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni
Television anchors from New York City
New Jersey Nets announcers
People from Los Angeles County, California
Cal Poly Pomona Broncos baseball players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope%20%28disambiguation%29
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Rope is a length of fibers that are twisted or braided together
Rope may also refer to:
Wire rope, a length of metallic fibers twisted or braided together
Computing
Core rope memory, a ferrite read-only memory
IpTables Rope, an open-source firewall programming language
Rope (data structure), a data structure used in computer science
Film, television and theatre
Rope (play), a 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton
Rope (film), a 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock based on the play
Rope (1957 film), an Australian TV adaptation originally aired by ABC
Rope (1959 television play), an Australian TV adaptation originally aired by GTV
The Rope (miniseries), a 2021 French thriller miniseries
Roped, a 1919 silent film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey
Rudens (lit. The Rope), a 3rd-century BC play by Plautus
Music
The Rope, a 1986 album by Black Tape for a Blue Girl
"Rope" (song), by Foo Fighters, 2011
Persons with surname Rope
Bryce Rope (1923–2013), New Zealand rugby union coach
Donald Rope (1929–2009), Canadian ice-hockey player
Ellen Mary Rope (1855–1934), English sculptor
John Rope (1855 or 1863–1944), White Mountain Apache clan leader and Apache scout
Margaret Agnes Rope (1882–1953), English stained glass artist (cousin of M E Aldrich Rope)
M. E. Aldrich Rope (1891–1988), English stained glass artist (cousin of Margaret Agnes Rope)
Other uses
Colloquial for execution by hanging
Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence (ROPE), concept used by the Australian Research Council
Rope, or Corde lisse, an aerial acrobatics attribute/discipline
Rope (rhythmic gymnastics), a rhythmic gymnastics apparatus
Rope (torture), an instrument of torture used by the Huguenots
Rope (unit), any of several units of measurement
Boundary rope in cricket
Rope, Cheshire, a civil parish in Cheshire
Rope climbing, a sport
Fast-roping (or Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System), a military assault technique
See also
Ropes (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Orton%20railway%20station
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Water Orton railway station serves the village of Water Orton in Warwickshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail, and managed by West Midlands Trains. However, no West Midlands Trains stop there; it is only served by CrossCountry services.
History
It was first opened in 1842 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway on its line into Birmingham Lawley Street from .
However the Midland Railway built a cutoff line from slightly further west to a junction at between 1908 and 1909. The station was resited in August 1908. Although the distance saved was only a mile-and-a-quarter, the junctions at Water Orton and Kingsbury could be taken at a much higher speed than the original one at Whitacre. The line from Whitacre to Kingsbury is used by only a few trains a week.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and has no ticketing facilities, so passengers requiring a ticket must purchase one in advance or from the conductor on the train.
Platform layout
The station is known to be a bottleneck for many CrossCountry services, with stopping Leicester to Birmingham, all Birmingham to Leicester and services from the North east to Birmingham all using one platform. However, resolving this is not easy and proposals have been put forward to build a new station at Water Orton to relieve capacity constraints through the station.
Platform 1 is used for stopping trains to Leicester and Birmingham, whilst platform 2 is used for trains towards Derby, of which only one calls per day.
Services
CrossCountry serves the station with services every two hours off-peak westbound to and eastbound to , with 1tph in each direction in the peaks. The last train to New Street of the day departs at 16:02.
There is generally one train a day Monday-Friday evenings to Nottingham via Derby and Tamworth.
There is no Sunday service.
References
External links
Water Orton station at warwickshirerailways.com
A history of the station within a National context at History
Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Water Orton railway station
Railway stations in Warwickshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1842
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1908
Railway stations served by CrossCountry
Railway stations in Great Britain not served by their managing company
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